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"I never let my schooling interfere with my education."  - Mark Twain

I feel like a commentator on cultural decline. Let’s talk “hate.”

Infamous today for its far-left bias, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) originally gained its notoriety by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy. Eventually it compiled a “hate” map to monitor groups it speciously claimed were racist and white supremacist. Their “hate map” now includes many mainstream conservative and Christian groups that have nothing to do with “hate.” Think of the SPLC as the armed wing of the Democrat Party in the same way legacy media is the Party propaganda arm.

Enter the New Tolerance Campaign (NTC), a nonprofit group dedicated to balancing the Left’s cancel culture with its own “hate” monitoring map countering the SPLC narrative. The NTC states, “All of the organizations and individuals listed have promoted, inspired, or directly engaged in physical violence against those with whom they disagree. This list was compiled through an extensive review of extremist group publications and materials, and reports by the public, law enforcement, field sources and the news media.” The NTC Hate Map may be found at https://newtolerance.org/hatemap/ and includes 192 leftist organizations and individuals. Some organizations and individuals are listed below. Consult NTC Hate Map for a complete list, their offenses, and discussion of why they are included.

The many challenges of running a campaign.

A Book Review by Lynn Bergman

Nature vs Nurture (Heredity vs Environment)

The author’s goal in writing this book was not to argue that “genes (heredity) are everything and culture (environment) is nothing” (no one believes that), but to explore why the extreme position (that culture is everything and genes are nothing) is so often seen as “moderate” and the moderate position (that genes are everything and culture is nothing) is seen as extreme.

Why is it important to sort this all out? Because acknowledging human nature does not have the political implications so many fear. The author does not try to advocate policies or to advance the agenda of the political left or right.

Imaging is important.

School days, school days, good old golden rule days. Ahhh, such memories. Good memories. Unfortunately, those days are long gone, not to be experienced by our younger generations.

Parents enter the new school year with their eyes wide open. Those who can afford it have pulled their children from government schools in search of quality education in a wholesome environment. Alternative schools include home school, private school, and on-line school. Much to their chagrin parents still pay taxes to fund public schools. A few government schools may still offer opportunity. Nevertheless, as they are tied to federal dollars, so must schools abide by federal policy. So much for local control of schools.

At the end of the day, even Tucker Carlson sounded different.  His unscripted message to the audience seemed real at the time—I quote: “After Butler, everything was different.  Trump was different.   We were different…”

For a few moments, Republicans seemed more willing to enlist Reagan’s 80-20 rule—we didn’t have to agree on everything to be a united front against the opposition.  

While the democrats appear to be in the midst of their own revival; time will tell if it is as real as the Republicans.  

I believe this is the most significant and consequential election of my lifetime.  I may have said this before, but this time I really mean it.

Unburdened.

Where everything is just "perfect".

Ronald Reagan called this "Rafshoonery".

If you are wondering why support for Capitalism is waning in these four modern countries, look no further than Argentina and Venezuela, where “democratic socialists” and their “communists within” have been elected promising “Heaven on Earth” to destroy we “Eternalists” who understand that all gifts, including the gift of birth, are from Almighty God.

With elections upon us, the potential for fraud reigns supreme.

Judicial Watch (JW), a non-partisan educational foundation promoting transparency, accountability, and integrity in government, politics, and the law has its hands full. Its past efforts and successes give hope to the weary.

JW practices its motto: “Because no one is above the law.” Accordingly, it uses freedom of information (FOIA) laws and other tools to investigate and uncover government wrongdoing. They also litigate to hold accountable politicians and public officials who engage in corruption.

The glass ceiling is real.

The glass ceiling is real.

One thing riots, such as the ones currently roiling Britain, are good for is serving as a distraction. For example, consider what we know — and are not being told — about what sparked the unrest: the murders of three little girls and injuring of 10 others at a Southport, U.K., dance class last Monday.

We’ve seen much hand wringing over misinformation about the killer, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, about how he was incorrectly identified on social media as a Muslim asylum seeker. In reality, authorities told us, he was born in Britain to Christian Rwandan immigrants. Alright, fair enough. But all the focus on the Right-wing™, Racist™ riots has distracted us from an elephant in the room: Where’s the rest of the information about Rudakubana?

In particular, why no news about his motive?

It speaks for itself.

“Those who claim to support the Palestinians ought to put up or shut up. Instead of constantly attacking Israel for its imperfections, they ought to be urging Arab and Muslim nations to help the Palestinians in material ways. These would include demanding the end of incitement to violence and the end of the Palestinians’ murder-for-hire ‘pay-for-slay’ program, which incentivizes terrorism by paying the terrorists’ families for life if they murder Jews.”

Dershowitz succinctly articulates a defense for Israel’s actions. Unfortunately, the legacy media long ago betrayed America’s trust by not telling us both sides of the story.

Election integrity is in far better hands with citizens like Lydia Gissele than with members of Congress.  If you doubt this, read on.

Since the ouster of Joe Biden, a lot of people are asking "who is really in charge"?

You just never know . . . .

The cost of living is going UP!

The Olympics has been something of a shambles so far.  Perhaps the most disgusting feature has been putting women in a boxing ring with men.

We all love a Venn diagram.

Given our penchant for political correctness rot, we Americans have sugarcoated and whitewashed the threat of Islamic imperialism. Am I a racist for even broaching the subject? In the eyes of the DEI crowd, of course I am. After all, I was born Caucasian. In their view, what else matters?

But seriously. Our issue is not about race. It is about culture. It is about demographic decline and the unsustainability of the Western democratic system.

Consider the gradual conquering of the West by Islam through reverse assimilation, gutless multiculturalism, and the exploding Muslim baby boom. If 100 percent of the population believes in pluralistic democracy, what difference does it make if 50 percent are “white”, and 45 percent are “brown?” But it makes a huge difference if part of the population believes in pluralistic democracy and the other part does not. When the mullahs take over, my “conservatism” may remain, and I’ll keep my head down (and on). But it will be the feminists, gays, and transgenders who will suffer. For example, with a Muslim majority on any state supreme court, what are the chances of that court consenting to “gay marriage” or any behavior outside their belief system?

The motto of the United States Secret Service:  "worthy of trust and confidence".  

The wrong questions are being asked.  Are we going to see a Warren Commission type of “investigation”, where the people behind this make the rules of the investigation?  Because a lot of people won’t accept this. 

July and the celebration of America’s Independence would not be complete without a bit of authentication from the halls of history about the Father of our Country. A little-known narrative about George Washington should not go unnoticed.

I first came across the following account in Peter Marshall’s book “The Light and the Glory,” Revell Company, 1977. Marshall, as some will recognize, was the son of the late US Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, Sr. His mother was Catherine Marshall. Peter Marshall (son) graduated from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He co-authored his book with David Manuel, formerly an editor at Doubleday and executive editor of Logos. He was also a graduate of Yale. These authors were not too shabby.

Our legal system is not meant for use as a club to beat people into submission or to blackmail them - just as our banking system is not meant for use to crush our freedom.  These issues are distractions. 

The fix seems to be in now.  The way we can tell is that anyone who asks a normal kind of question is immediately labeled a “conspiracy theorist”, which is to say, some sort of lunatic.  And yet these questions are quite normal ones to ask, and, in fact, are constructive - that is, if the goal is to find the truth about the events of July 13. 

The story of the week - indeed of the summer - is not the Republican National Convention’s coronation of Donald Trump as its nominee once more for President, but rather the dramatic and shocking incident immediately preceding the Convention.  The following are my impressions as of the Tuesday following the event, so it’s still early, but that said, it’s not too early to ask some pertinent questions.