“Take Out” the competition?

Posted on June 5, 2018

Updated 6-6-18:
Added: Scalise Returns to Baseball Field One Year After Shooting That Nearly Took His Life ~

This year’s charity Congressional Baseball Game, pitting Republicans against Democrats, takes place next Thursday, June 14 — exactly one year after the assassination attempt. We don’t know who will win the game, but we do know Steve Scalise has already been victorious.

 

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Next week will mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting spree by Bernie Sanders’ supporter James T. Hodgkinson, which left five Republicans injured; Rep. Steve Scalise critically. The victims were deliberately targeted for their politics while at an early morning congressional softball practice.
 
Immediately after the shooting Scalise’s initial status was grave ~

(He) was in critical condition and at imminent risk of death after the shooting. The bullet that struck him entered his left hip and caused injuries to numerous internal organs. He was released from the hospital in late July after several surgeries and then went through intensive inpatient rehabilitation.

Scalise was finally able to return to work more than three months after the attack, but has yet to fully recover from his injuries.
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As I discussed last summer, had the political parties been reversed, we never would have heard the end of this assault. By now the mainstreams would have been screeching for Trump’s impeachment for instigating violence.
 

Instead, not only did the Left refuse to acknowledge the motivation behind the shooting, we have a rabid progressive PAC appropriately named “Mad Dog” which is urging donors to “‘Take Out’ Republican Who Survived Shooting” ~

A liberal group is raising money to put up a billboard to “take out” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), who survived being shot while practicing at a baseball field in Alexandria last June.
 
The homepage of Mad Dog PAC’s website has a photo of the proposed billboard with a link asking site-goers for donations. The liberal group is the same organization behind a billboard with the message “IMPEACHMENT NOW” along the motorcade route to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

 
A visit to Mad Dog’s website reveals an amended version of the Scalise billboard; “VOTE HIM OUT.” They must have realized it was over the top – even for Leftists. But their attitude is still pretty militant, as The Federalist reports ~

Mad Dog PAC chairman Claude Taylor told The Ledger that his group was planning to “toss mortars” at the other side.
 
“People know that President Trump is a crook, and we’re going to do something about it,” Taylor said. “We are tossing mortars at the other side. We’re not offering policy prescriptions. We’re attack dogs; that’s what we’re here for.”

 
Incendiary language? Provocative? Nah, not if you’re a Lefist.

 
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Related:
As midterms heat up, still-recovering Steve Scalise hits campaign trail hard for House Republicans

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Freedom of Religion survives – barely

Posted on June 4, 2018

Thank God!
Masterpiece Decision: Supreme Court Pushes Back Against the Rising Tide of Anti-Religious Animus!
The alternative would have pretty much rendered the First Amendment moot.
 
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The case before the court, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, was not – as the deceitful, leftist media is trying to spin it – a matter of not serving gays. It was a dispute over whether or not the state has the right to force a business owner to provide a service that violates their deeply-held religious convictions.
 
Dr. Michael Brown shared his thoughts on the decision at The Stream ~

In a 7-2 decision, the court specifically rebuked the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which had ruled against Phillips when he refused to design a wedding cake for a same-sex “marriage.” As expressed in the majority opinion of Anthony Kennedy, “The Commission’s hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion” […]
 
Today, the Supreme Court took an important step in recognizing that the First Amendment remains in force. It also confirmed what I have said for years, namely, that LGBT activism is the principle threat to freedoms of religion, speech, and conscience in America. May the pushback against this extremism continue.

 

We definitely do need to continue the pushback (You can help by supporting Alliance Defending Freedom – the organization that represented Masterpiece Cakeshop – and similar non-profits; American Center for Law and Justice, First Liberty, Liberty Counsel and Thomas More Society).
 
Usually when progressives are faced with something they perceive as a setback to their radical ideological agenda – like this SCOTUS decision – they double-down on the vitriol, hate and deceit. So we should brace for renewed attacks. And let’s keep praying!

 
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Related:
In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Justice Kennedy Strikes a Blow for the Dignity of the Faithful

Media, Celebs Slam SCOTUS’ Cake Ruling: ‘Abolish the Supreme Court’ ~ Ah yes, the oh-so-tolerant Left. Imagine the liberty we’d be losing if Hillary were president ~

Progressives in the media have no respect for the traditions and structure of the branches of the government. As soon as one issues a decision based on anything but liberal ideology, the world is over.
 
After the Supreme Court released their decision in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD. vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in favor of the baker, Jack Phillips, the media went on a rampage.

Stop Misrepresenting Masterpiece Cakeshop ~ David French at National Review, last November ~

In the run-up to the oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission on December 5, we’re seeing a lot of table-pounding from the Left. In fact, I’ve never seen a case more mischaracterized in my entire legal career.
 
The actual facts of the case are crystal clear. Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to custom-design a cake to help celebrate a gay wedding. As a Christian, he finds same-sex unions to be unbiblical and immoral, and he wasn’t willing to use his artistic talents to advance a message he holds to be wrong. In fact, he’d frequently declined to design cakes that advanced messages he found to be offensive. But he never, ever — not once — discriminated against any customers on the basis of their identity. He baked cakes for people of all races, creeds, colors, and sexual orientations.

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Starbucks’ new employee

Posted on June 4, 2018

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Saturday Shorts (Sunday Edition) – 6-2-18

Posted on June 3, 2018

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Fallen Marine’s mom teaches powerful Memorial Day lesson ~ Pittsburgh suburb has to be reminded of the significance of Memorial Day. A reminder that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
 
Rep. Black Introduces Bill Allowing Border Wall Crowdfunding ~ Hey, it’s worth a shot ~

Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) introduced H.R. 5876, which would enable Americans to make donations for building President Trump’s border wall. In a statement, Rep. Black said, “Americans know that President Trump is committed to protecting our nation for future generations, and we are ready to stand with him to build the wall.”

 
Trans People Urged to Become Priests in Church of England Drive ‘to Honour LGBT+ People’ ~ Sure. Let’s not help them. Let’s pathologize the whole church ~

Claiming young people are put off by “the perception that the Church is homophobic and transphobic”, church leaders said it is vital to challenge this with celebration of the “great contribution” sexual minorities have made to church life, and for outreach “within the LGBT+ community more broadly”.

Don’t let reality invade your rainbow-colored utopia ~

The belief that churches must promote homosexuality, “alternative” sexual lifestyles, and a liberal political agenda in order to engage people, especially the young, does not seem to be borne out by data on church attendance.
 
Study after study looking at thousands of churches across the U.S. and globally, show that so-called ‘progressive’ churches are in steep decline, while those which hold to conservative sexual ethics and traditional church teachings and Scripture are growing and thriving.

 

Never Drink Another Starbucks Coffee Again, It Funds Planned Parenthood ~ Apparently their recent corporate sensitivity training didn’t include the unborn (aka – future customers). And are they aware of PP’s racist roots? ~

“Through its corporate donations, Starbucks contributes one of the most racist organizations in our nation’s history. Planned Parenthood, the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S., performs more than 300,000 terminations each year. Planned Parenthood operates the nation’s largest chain of abortion facilities, and almost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods. About 13 percent of American women are black, but they have more than 35 percent of the abortions.” ~ Alveda King (MLK’s niece)

 

Muhammad and Medicine: We Need To Talk About Devout Muslim Doctors ~ There does seem to a bit of a conflict of interest here (Remember Muslim Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan?) ~

Last year, a Christian in Pakistan died because three Muslim doctors refused to touch him. It was Ramadan, and the patient, being Christian, was “unclean.” Yes, doctors are supposed to be above such considerations. Hippocratic Oath and all that. “First do no harm.” But for devout Muslims, other doctrines take precedence. The Koran instructs them not to heal the infidel but to slay him. What does a pious Muslim physician think when confronted with a critically ill patient who is not only an infidel but a critic of Islam?

 
Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says ~ Gun-controllers in the UK are a couple steps ahead of those in the U.S., oblivious to the fact that Evil will find a way ~

A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.
 
Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives. 😯

[This reminds me of that incident a few years’ back at a Swedish IKEA]

 
Gowdy Never Saw Subpoenaed Records Before Exonerating FBI Spy Use ~ He’s the mainstreams’ latest Republican darling (See Jeff Flake, and John McCain). Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has been posing as a conservative for years. But now that he’s announced he won’t seek reelection in the fall he’s let the mask drop and exposed the swamp creature within. Must be angling for a job on MSNBC ~

Although Gowdy intimated that the information he received in a briefing last week made clear the FBI did nothing wrong, numerous reports from multiple news outlets indicated that the lawmakers DOJ invited to the briefing were not given access to all of the records HPSCI subpoenaed. Other comments Gowdy made during recent television interviews raise questions about how firm a grasp he has on the investigation and concerns the investigation has raised.

 
Not really a surprise: Science again shows that fracking doesn’t pollute groundwater ~ More than two dozen scientific studies published since 2010 have concluded that fracking is not a major threat to groundwater ~

(E)ven though the claim that fracking contaminates groundwater continues to be a cornerstone of the “Keep It in the Ground” movement’s unrelenting campaign to undermine American energy production, there is simply no credible scientific evidence to support that claim.

 
Bob Menendez Is Severely Under Water In NJ Senate Race ~ Even New Jersey has had enough of this Democrat senator’s corruption ~

While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the state with 14 percent more of the vote than President Donald Trump in 2016, voters are becoming increasingly iffy about Menendez, a man who has been at the center of one of the biggest political scandals since the 2016 election.

 
“Right to try” somehow makes it into law ~ Like most good news about President Trump, this story was quickly disappeared by the mainstreams ~

It’s a rare day we get to say this, but congratulations to Congress and the White House for getting this done. You’ve managed to pass a law which might actually make a difference to people facing life and death decisions.

 
The Forgotten True Story of Alan Bean’s Unlikely Journey to the Moon ~ Interesting bit of history from Popular Mechanics ~

The fourth person to walk on the Moon, astronaut Alan Bean, died over the weekend. This is the wild true story of Apollo 12, and how a little creativity and ingenuity saved the day.
 
Bean’s advice: “Never come to the moon without a hammer.”

 
Burgess Owens: NFL would have stopped playing national anthem if Clinton was president ~ (Video) Former NFL player talks to Fox Business News about the kneelers.
 

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The right-to-kill comes with consequences

Posted on June 1, 2018

promiscuous-abortionWell, it was a landslide. Almost 70% of the voters in Ireland voted to repeal their 8th Amendment which had protected the life of an unborn child, and so disallowed abortion – except where the mother’s life was threatened. Parliament will now be responsible for writing new abortion legislation.
 
Apparently, like the majority of westerners these days, the Irish want their sex to be consequence-free. But reality doesn’t work that way. They’ll soon discover that abortion comes with lots of ugly consequences ~

 

We are not having enough babies to maintain current population ~

 
This story was just reported in the Independent-Irish News. Maybe they should have published it before the repeal referendum ~

Ireland is not producing enough children to maintain the population as it currently stands, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) says.
 
Women aged 15-49 are having an average of 1.8 children each, which is the second-highest birth rate in Europe after France, but 2.1 is considered the level at which the population would replace itself in the longer term.

 

Abortion and Breast Cancer: The Stubborn Link Returns ~

 
This is from a March 11, 2015 post. I wrote this: “The pro-choice crowd have for years tried to pretend there is no real correlation between the two, despite studies showing otherwise. New statistics are increasingly difficult to ignore.”
 
My second sentence was overly optimistic. The statistics are easy to ignore when the mainstreams refuse to report them. Nevertheless, facts are stubborn things ~

(T)he ABC (abortion-breast cancer) link is showing up, conspicuously, as millions of women worldwide who have had abortions over the past several decades are coming down with breast cancer at alarmingly increased rates. Dozens of papers are being published that show the trend.

 

Texas Lt. Gov: Abortion is part of ‘devaluing life’ that leads to school shootings ~

 
Pro-aborts will no doubt ruthlessly mock this Judeo-Christian view of the sanctity of life and abortion’s corrosive impact, but they can’t mock the numbers ~

On Sunday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick appeared on ABC News’ “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the case. The two debated a number of topics, including the availability of guns and school security procedures, but Patrick’s central thesis was that the problem is rooted in America’s “culture of violence.”
“We have devalued life, whether it’s through abortion, whether it’s the breakup of families, through violent movies, and particularly violent video games,” Patrick said […]
 
“If we have created a culture, in the words of one Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra, where human life is treated like trash, what do we expect here?” The American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord has asked. He notes that “Wikipedia lists eight years of mass shootings in the United States between 1929 and 1972. That is a span of 43 years. Roe v. Wade was issued in 1973. Between 1973 and 2017 — a span of 44 years — the site lists 39 years of mass killings in the United States.”

 

Women Who Abort Face 81-Percent Increase in Risk for Mental Health Problems, Study Shows ~

 
Grace Carr at The Stream recently shared this story which will never make it the network news ~

Women who have abortions are much more likely to suffer mental health issues when compared to their peers who have carried their pregnancies to term, the British Journal of Psychiatry study showed.
 
Substance use and suicidal behavior were the most common mental health illnesses that arose after abortions, according to the study. Women who aborted were twice as likely to commit suicide as women who carried their pregnancies to term.

 

Sadly, the Irish will now have to live with the tragic fallout from their misguided choice to repeal their abortion ban.

 
As Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action tweeted, “Tragic beyond words. This is how a civilization destroys itself.”
 
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Up-dated: 6-2-18 ~ Added ➡
5 Sad Predictions For Ireland In The Wake Of Its New Abortion Laws ~

1. More Moms Will Experience Mental and Emotional Pain
2. An Increase in Unintended Pregnancies
3. Medical Advancement and Care May Decrease
4. More Babies Will Die, Of Course
5. Ireland’s Culture Will Degrade Its Respect for Life
 
Devaluing life in all its stages, particularly that of the youngest and most defenseless among us, is not moral or joyful. As this act trickles down to other kinds of demoralizing laws, Ireland will soon discover, like the United States did long ago, it’s very hard to go back.

The Druids Return to Ireland
Irish People Take to the Streets to Celebrate a World With Fewer Irish People
Ireland: An Obituary ~

In his book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill writes that “the Irish, who were just learning to read and write, took up the great labor of copying all of western literature,” thus becoming the “conduits through which the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian cultures were transmitted to the tribes of Europe, newly settled amid the rubble and ruined vineyards of the civilisation they had overwhelmed.” He praises the monks “who single-handedly re-founded European civilisation.”
 
Today’s generation has decided that civilization isn’t worth saving.

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Most divisive POTUS in history still loves to denigrate Americans

Posted on May 31, 2018

So the fabulist, Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s former advisor, is releasing his memoirs next week; “The World as It Is.” (Quite an ironic title considering the man admits to deliberately deceiving Americans about the Iranian nuclear deal. He should have called it “The World as Ben Rhodes Sees It” – since that particular view bears little resemblance to reality.) ~

Set to be published next week by Random House, Mr. Rhodes’s memoir, “The World as It Is,” offers a peek into Mr. Obama’s tightly sealed inner sanctum from the perspective of one of the few people who saw him up close through all eight years of his presidency. Few moments shook Mr. Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth.

 
Shortly after the election Rhodes describes the former president struggling to understand Trump’s victory ~

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

 
BarryGoesTribalSaid the man who said and did everything he could to divide Americans in every which way possible! Lets count the “tribes” he helped form during eight long years ~
 

• The Occupy Tribe
• The Black-Lives-Matter Tribe
• The LGBTQ Tribe
• The Pussy Hat Tribe
• The anti-American NFL Kneeler Tribe
 
Seriously? “Tribes?” (Barry’s Kenyan heritage coming out?) There haven’t been “tribes” in America since the Native American ones (who incidentally spent a lot of time warring with one another).
 
However imperfect we may be, since our founding, America has been united in shared beliefs as stated in the Declaration of Independence ~
 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

 
American “nationalism” – such as it is – is not social, racial or ethnic, it is ideological. That is, based on ideas that transcend those superficial qualities. Our commonality is that we all embrace – or used to embrace – those timeless principles.
 
James Woods actually put it quite nicely ~

 
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Related:
Racist-in-Chief: “Maybe People Just Want to Fall Back Into Their Tribe” ~

Obama’s idea of post-tribalism was Black Lives Matter, relentless identity politics and defending a racist.
 
When you pal around with Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton, you don’t get to lecture anyone else on racism.

 
When racism was on the wane ~

I’m not sure what their motive is, but since we’re not really allowed to discuss the importance of values and personal choices over skin color, I don’t think the Left will ever let America move beyond racism. We seem to have lost our last best chance in the 70’s…

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Following Jesus, whatever the cost

Posted on May 29, 2018

For me, one of the most convincing proofs of the truth of Christianity has always been the stunning transformation of Jesus’ apostles after His resurrection. While Christ was being arrested, tried and crucified his disciples denied knowing Him, fled and went into hiding, desperately frightened that they would share their Master’s fate. Yet little more than a month later these very same men were suddenly fearless evangelists, holding their own lives in little regard, on fire for the gospel. Who else but the risen Lord – and the Holy Spirit – could have inspired them so?
 
This courage, fearlessness – in the face of harsh persecution that none of us in western nations can even imagine – is truly the hallmark of a faithful Christian.
Open Doors shares the story of one such believer in North Korea ~

 


 

“But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself,
so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received
from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
~ the Apostle Paul, Acts 20:24

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Memorial Day Reflections

Posted on May 27, 2018

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
 
~ John Stuart Mill, 19th-century libertarian philosopher

 

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For those of us who are eternally grateful for the unselfish sacrifice of our warriors ~
 

[Hat-tip: JKat]

 
 
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Saturday Shorts – 5-26-18

Posted on May 26, 2018

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
A Shocking Call For Diversity at Harvard ~ Wow. Ideological diversity at an Ivy League univerity? Wouldn’t that be refreshing?

Much more work is needed to make this important element of diversity a priority. We believe the University must emphasize hiring professors with diverse beliefs and backgrounds who can challenge prevailing campus ideas through tough ideological conversations.

 
Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis Says Rap And Hip Hop Are ‘More Damaging’ To Culture Than A Confederate Statue ~ I agree ~

Marsalis said that he believes the African American community has suffered for embracing music that degrades individuals, particularly women, and encourages poor lifestyle choices.
 
“My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have a music talking about n*****s and bitches and hoes. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it. To me that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.”

[Unfortunately, it’s a damn shame Marsalis doesn’t know much about history since he was instrumental in getting statues of General Lee removed in New Orleans.]

 
Cheesecake Factory Employees Attack Black Man For Wearing MAGA Hat, Witnesses Say ~ Whether you happened to catch this story or not it certainly received far less coverage than the manufactured “racist” incident at the Philadelphia Starbucks ~

On Mother’s Day, employees at a Cheesecake Factory in Miami, Florida, verbally attacked and made threatening gestures toward a black man who dined with his girlfriend’s family simply because he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, according to multiple witnesses […]
 
(One) witness told The Daily Wire that the group of employees looked like a lynch mob and they couldn’t stand to see a black man wearing a hat that showed support for the president.

Who needs sensitivity training now?

 
Ultra-clean homes could trigger childhood leukaemia, major review suggests ~ My mother feels totally vindicated 😀 ~

A major new analysis by Britain’s leading leukaemia expert has concluded a deadly chain of events is set in motion when susceptible children are not exposed to enough bugs to prime their immune system at an early age.
 
Without sufficient immunity, if vulnerable youngsters catch even a relatively harmless virus like flu, the immune system malfunctions creating far more infection-fighting white blood cells than needed, causing leukaemia.

 
California Judge Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Bake a Cake for Same-Sex Wedding ~ Halleluiah! There’s at least one judge in California who’s not a radical progressive leftist ~

A Superior Court Judge has issued a final judgment in the case of a Bakersfield, California baker who would not make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple […]
 
(In his opinion, Judge David Lampe) stated that to force Miller to bake the cake would “do violence to the essentials of Free Speech guaranteed under the First Amendment.”

 
Intact Starch Granules in “Ancient” Plant Fossil ~ Fossil discoveries continue to weaken the millions-of-years dogma ~

(B)iomolecules (molecules and ions that are present in all living organisms) should be completely deteriorated and disintegrated if they are millions of years old. Scientists have just discovered intact starch granules in plant tissues alleged to be 280 million years old.

 
Fmr NY Boxing Commissioner: Boxing Fan Trump Righted the Injustice Against Jack Johnson When Other Presidents Refused ~ 100 years later. Apparently this black boxer was no choirboy, but that doesn’t excuse the shoddy treatment he received from the legal system ~

While a pardon doesn’t excuse all the mistakes Jack Johnson made in life, President Trump’s action does remove the stain of a great racial injustice — perpetrated by our government — against one of the greatest fighters who ever lived.

 
Gut Check Time: It Isn’t A Wedding Because She Is Already Married To Someone Else ~ Ann Barnhardt’s take on last weekend’s royal nuptials. I think I agree, especially after listening to this guy’s opinion of Ms. Markle ~

Prince Harry is going to ape the Sacrament of Marriage today – a grave mortal sin – by publicly pretending to marry another man’s wife – in view of the entire planet, a circumstance which certainly aggravates that already-infinite offense against God, His Church, and all of humanity. This will happen just yards from the grave of Henry VIII, and apparently Mrs. Engelson will be walked down the aisle by Prince Charles, who is also scandalously involved in a faux-marriage to his longtime concubine, Mrs. Andrew Parker-Bowles. The only thing that could have made this charade more deplorable is if Mrs. Engelson’s husband himself had given his own wife away.

 
Trump White House axes NASA research into greenhouse gas cuts ~ Excellent. Although the BBC doesn’t seem to approve ~

With repeated talks of a space force and sending astronauts back to the moon, Mr Trump appears to favour space missions over earth science. (Yes, because that’s what NASA is supposed to do.)
 
Leadership in the field of carbon monitoring will likely pass to Europe, which has one carbon-monitoring satellite of its own and more to come. (Wonderful!)

 
Boy Scouts to make condoms ‘readily and easily accessible’ at upcoming global gathering ~ Well that didn’t take long. First the gays, then the girls – now the Safe Sex badge?
 

Donald Trump Spends 90 Minutes Shaking Hands with Hundreds of Naval Academy Grads (After giving the commencement speech) ~ Hope I have this kind of stamina when I’m almost 72!
 

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This is 21st century “justice” in the United Kingdom?

Posted on May 25, 2018

Well, tragically, Ireland voted for the right to kill their unborn children (even though all they had to do was sail over to Wales for a quickie abortion).
Heaven weeps. Although given the fact that the country voted for gay marriage three years ago, the moral slide wasn’t entirely unexpected.
 
But here’s a story from the other side of the pond that’s much more shocking – frightening even – for those of us who love freedom.
 

Tommy Robinson is the pseudonym for Stephen Christopher Lennon, a sometimes volatile journalist/activist who’s considered “far right;” he focuses primarily on British nationalism and frequently on the Islamification of the U.K.. Today, Robinson was in Birmingham outside outside the Leeds Crown Court, covering the trial of a Muslim child-grooming gang (ten men are being tried for offenses including child rape, trafficking, and supplying of Class A drugs to children) – when law enforcement decided to arrest, try and sentence him to 13 months in jail (in a matter of hours!), for “causing a disturbance.”
 
Ezra Levant of The Rebel Media (Robinson used to work for the news site) explains what happened ~

 

“Tommy got a longer sentence for reporting on rape gangs
than rape gangs get for rape.”
 

 
Even scarier than the blatant miscarriage of justice is the subsequent gag-order imposed on the British media against reporting on this story. Is this the new U.K. Socialist Republic?
 
Robert Spencer at JihadWatch had this to say about this unsettling episode: “Britain is finished, and its death as a free society is by its own hand.”
Hyperbole? Time will tell.

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Ireland, please “Save the 8th”

Posted on May 24, 2018

Ireland is facing a referendum vote of huge import tomorrow, one that may alter the very soul of that nation. They’ll be deciding whether or not to legalize abortion.
 
savethe8thOne of just a handful of countries in Europe to protect the unborn, Ireland’s 8th constitutional amendment acknowledges that a human embryo is a unique individual with a right to life ~

“The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.”

 
National Review explains the implications of a repeal ~

Ireland’s government, most of its media class, and a number of NGOs are campaigning to erase the Eighth and allow the Dail to legislate to make abortion available. The law they are proposing to enact afterward is modeled on legislation found in the United Kingdom. It includes an unlimited right to terminate a pregnancy in the first twelve weeks of gestation, and then an expansive health exception that would effectively allow the termination of any pregnancy at any time.
 
The choice before the Irish people is not just to make abortion legal in Ireland, but to make it common there.

 

Standing in opposition to most of the world on the issue of abortion, and embracing the natural rights of the unborn, is a good thing. The Irish should be proud. Their pro-life stance is a residual effect of their once predominate Catholicism. This lingering culture of life sets Ireland apart from other western nations – in a positive way – as National Review points out ~

Ireland’s law against abortion has not produced the dystopia that pro-abortion activists conjure to gain consent. Ireland has one of the lowest gender-income gaps on earth, and it has outstanding statistics in maternal health. Although some Irish women who are determined to get an abortion do cross the Irish Sea to get one, the Eighth Amendment clearly lowers the rate of abortion overall, and Ireland stands in contrast to the rest of Western Europe, having consistently maintained a higher-than-replacement fertility rate. Irish people meet and interact with people whose lives were saved by the Eighth Amendment every single day.
 
Repeal of the Eighth will not end Ireland’s own version of the culture wars. In fact, it will come with a nasty backwash of secularism, as activists inevitably pressure religious health institutions to make the procedure more widely accessible, and demand that religious schools defend it as a social good. It will not exorcise the ghosts of Ireland’s sometimes unhappy past. It will not solve the problems of Irish society, as abortion is the most parsimonious and nasty thing a society can offer a woman as its all-purpose solution to a difficult pregnancy. Repealing the Eighth is a step backward on human rights.

 

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Because there are really no good excuses for the indiscriminate termination of a pregnancy, the Left has been forced to resort to deception and subterfuge to promote abortion across the globe. One of their original and most potent lies – it’s just a blob of tissue – was exposed years ago thanks to ultrasound technology and other medical advances. We now know the heart of an embryo begins to beat at 3 weeks.
 
But how many Americans realize that the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the U.S. was based on a pack of lies? From Planned Parenthood – ironically-named, and founded by a libertine eugenicist – to using false statistics to sway public opinion, to the manipulation of Jane Roe (a penniless high school dropout named Norma Jane McCorvey who later became an ardent pro-life advocate) – the entire push for abortion was an unholy sham.

 
The pro-aborts in Ireland have been advancing a false narrative about the death of a pregnant Indian woman to garner support for their side ~ Ireland’s abortion lobby is lying about this pregnant woman’s death to push their cause ~

Critics say Savita Halappanavar’s 2012 death has been exploited by abortion activists to influence this week’s referendum that could impose abortion-on-demand on a historically pro-life country. Critics say Ireland’s abortion laws had nothing to do with Savita’s death.
 
Three official investigations found that Savita, 31, died of sepsis – a blood infection – caused by “extremely virulent bacteria,” E. coli ESBL. Under Ireland’s abortion laws, the woman would have been permitted an abortion had doctors realized how sick she was when she came to the hospital.
 
“First and foremost, this was a subsequent medical negligence case,” Ireland’s Lawyers for Life stated in a Facebook post last week. “This was well reported in the media at the time of the medical negligence court case.”

 

Even Google is helping promote the misinformation campaign. The tech giant, suddenly one of the self-appointed social arbiters of our Brave New World Order, is not only a huge proponent of abortion, apparently that’s the only position they’ll permit on their platform. As the Daily Signal reports ➡ How Google Put Pro-Lifers at Disadvantage in Ireland’s Upcoming Referendum. Subversive, without the obvious appearance of being so ~

Google shut down its platform to all campaigns despite knowing it would disproportionately harm the No (those opposed to repealing the 8th) campaign. Google had access to all the analytics from the advertisements on both sides. It knew exactly where each side would devote its resources and that the No side was stronger online.
 
To put all this into an American perspective, this is basically as if Google, two weeks from the midterm elections, decided it was going to ban all election ads after having been lobbied furiously to do so by one of the parties because that party suddenly realized it was losing the digital fight; announced it was doing so because it had concerns the mid-terms might be compromised; and then refused to answer any questions when people rightfully asked, “What do you mean our elections are compromised?”

 

John Sweeney at the Federalist rightly surmises what a repeal would mean ~

Repealing the Eighth Amendment will likely be the final nail in the coffin of the once deeply Catholic culture in Ireland. If the Irish people choose to sacrifice the rights of the unborn to the libertinism of the sexual revolution, they will have no more right to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day than the average American who chooses to honor the great saint by spending March 17 drinking green Miller Lite.

 

Please pray that Ireland makes the righteous decision for the right to life of the unborn tomorrow.
 
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Related:
Irish mothers accuse govt of exploiting them for abortion referendum ~ Exploiting the pain of parents whose children were born with disabilities/genetic abnormalities. Nothing is sacred to the secular progressives when they’ve got an agenda to advance ~

(P)arents of babies with life-limiting conditions or other disabilities have also been speaking out against legalising abortion in their name. Liz McDermott of One Day More made a powerful intervention during RTE’s last televised debate on the referendum last night, saying that abortion in these cases left no hope, just a dead child.
 
Niamh Ui Bhriain, from the Save the 8th campaign, said that the Yes Campaign are also exploiting other difficult cases to legalise abortion on demand. For example, the case of “Ms C” a 13 year old rape victim who was taken to England for an abortion, is often cited as a reason abortion is needed. Ms C has said that she was given the abortion, which she regrets every day, without her consent, and is calling for a No vote.

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Clapper’s “falsehood of the tongue”

Posted on May 23, 2018

founders-quote-TJefferson“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.”
 
–Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 19 August 1785)
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Speaking of liars… what a pathetic disgrace Obama’s national intelligence director is ~ Lying Liar James Clapper Just Lied Again About His Previous Lies About NSA Spying; exhibiting precisely the behavior that Jefferson was warning about.
 
jamesClapperIt would be bad enough if Clapper’s dishonesty were confined to the sphere of his personal life (perhaps cheating on his wife or taxes), at least it wouldn’t have national security implications. Instead he – and his cohorts (James Comey, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Robert Mueller, etc., etc.)- have severely undermined we-the-people‘s trust in our government. They’ve told so many falsehoods over the course of RussiaGate they’re now tripping over themselves trying to keep them all straight.
 
And any further embellishment from these lying liars – i.e., We only spied on him for his own good, because hey, you know those sneaky Russians – simply strains credulity to the breaking point. (After all, if anyone needed to be spied on to prevent Russian collusion during the campaign it was Hillary, considering her shady uranium peddling.)
 
For the sake of the Republic let’s just hope the damage they’ve done to the integrity of our intelligence agencies can one day be restored.

 
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Related:
Michelle Malkin SLAMS James Clapper: ‘Liar,’ ‘leaker,’ and ‘crapweasel’ ~ On “Fox & Friends” this morning ~

Malkin criticized the Obama administration for turning American intelligence agencies into what she considers “a massive voter disenfranchisement program.” She said “Spygate” could “turn out to be the most scandalous thing that has happened in Washington in American history.”
 
“This was not about ‘protecting the Trump campaign,’ as James Clapper obnoxiously tries to argue on TV and everywhere else. This was about upending a presidential candidate and trying to delegitimize him, which is what they’ve been doing ever since he took office,” Malkin said.
 
She called out the Left for “looking the other way” on potential government spying abuses. She also slammed Clapper, who previously lied to Congress about government data collection.
 
“He’s a liar, he’s a leaker, and he’s a crapweasel — textbook definition of it,” Malkin said.

 
Although I’m pretty sure Thomas Jefferson never heard the term “crapweasel,” there’s no doubt he would agree with Michelle. 🙂

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