op ed review 6/20
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
High Court rules 9-0 for religious liberty.
https://www.catholicleague.org/high-court-rules-9-0-for-religious-liberty/
Leftie backlash: “Democrats not pleased with the liberal justices after Thursday's decision.” Rep. Jayapal (D-WA) “Such a disappointing ruling…”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-decision-religious-freedom-backlash-left
The NYT Tried To Intimidate U.S. Catholic Bishops With A False Headline “Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops: Don’t Deny Biden Communion Over Abortion.”
Russian President Putin embarrassed a visibly cognitively impaired Joe Biden today in Geneva, Switzerland. To be fair, Putin didn’t have to do much other than stand there and let the world see a mumbling fool with note cards try to remember his rehearsed lines on the international stage.
Shaking finger National Embarrassment - Photos Of Macron Scolding Joe Biden Behind Closed Doors Receive No Media Attention
GOP reps, led by ex-White House doc, ask Biden to take cognitive test
https://nypost.com/2021/06/17/gop-reps-led-by-ex-white-house-doc-ask-biden-to-take-cognitive-test/
A former Obama ethics chief has accused Joe Biden of thumbing his nose at government ethics with the prevalence of family ties among his administration's hires.
Parents' disgust with Biden's 'death tax' plan that would cripple their kids with bills.
Biden Dept of Justice says laws banning trans athletes from sports are unconstitutional
https://nypost.com/2021/06/18/law-banning-trans-athletes-from-sports-unconstitutional-doj/
Joe Biden Just Did What the Democrats Impeached Donald Trump For
'I've never seen a president so protected by his aides': CNN's Jeff Zeleny slams Biden handlers
Hunter Biden referred to Asians with a slur in 2019 texts
Hunter's Lucrative Dip into the Art World Connected to Lingerie Entrepreneur Zoe Kestan, paintings will sell for “$75,000 for works on paper to $500,000 for large-scale paintings.”
Entire Portland Police riot squad resigns to protest indictment of fellow officer
Seattle Cops Threatened With Termination
DC Elects Incarcerated Murderer To Office In Nation's Capital
https://policetribune.com/dc-elects-incarcerated-murderer-to-office-in-nations-capital/
Hate crime racial attack, no media coverage: Off-Duty Jersey City Officer Brutally Beaten By 10 Men
Colorado court says Masterpiece Cakeshop has to bake the damn cake after all.
Nickelodeon Ratings Crash Amid LGBTQ Push
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-ratings-crash-amid-lgbtq-push
LGBTQ Writers Demand More Hollywood Jobs, Punishment of 'Anti-Trans' States
Democrats Hope to Slip Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Infrastructure Deal
Biden Shuts Trump's Office for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime, Opens Illegal Alien Support Office Instead
Illegal Immigrants Intentionally Damaging Property, Says Texas Sheriff
Texas Governor Greg Abbott uses $250 million state funds to build his OWN border wall
First shot: 141 House Republicans challenge BATF tax, registration of AR pistols
Republicans introduce bills to strip federal funds from schools that teach the '1619 Project'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/14/republicans-introduce-bills-strip-federal-funds-sc/
State university demands students get vaccine, then governor reminds them who's really in charge.
Sounds like China: Alberta Pastor Jailed Again After Police Helicopter Finds Secret Church Gathering
More China emulation: Canadian political leader arrested for attending anti-lockdown protest.
Catholic bishops approve Communion document aimed at possible rebuke of Biden, Pelosi
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/catholic-bishops-communion-rebuke-biden
Swiss reject law to help country meet Paris carbon emissions goal.
Former President Trump to join Bo Snerdley on his hot new NYC radio show.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Leftists are a minority...so why do they keep winning?
Robert J. Hutchinson 6/19
As Americans approach a post-COVID celebration of the Fourth of July, it's an appropriate time to consider why the most extreme elements of the far Left have been able to take control of American institutions so quickly — despite polls showing that the overwhelming majority of citizens oppose the "woke" agenda almost in its entirety. During the Fourth of July, the root cause of this national nightmare will be on display for all to see. I'm speaking of the backyard barbecue.
The barbecue is the hermeneutical key to understanding the gradual breakdown of western society — not just in the U.S., but also in Australia, Canada, and many other countries. It explains why normal citizens watch helplessly as blue-haired men in dresses take control of key government departments, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, intelligence services, virtually all universities, many corporations, and much of the judicial system. It all comes down to influence.
The truth is, normal, happy, well-adjusted people don't really care about politics — or care only when they are forced to by rioting mobs of looters in their cities. Normal people of any and all colors don't want to tell you their pronouns, chemically castrate their sons with puberty-blocking drugs, or defund the police. They're neither oppressors nor oppressed. They just want to live their lives in peace, attend their kids' soccer or baseball games, and enjoy summer afternoons grilling.
Therein lies the problem: it turns out that, with a very few exceptions, the absolute worst people on the planet — the kind of people who were hall monitors in high school and enjoy creating and enforcing petty regulations on their fellows — go into politics. These are the entitled few who believe that rules and regulations are for other people, never for themselves — the grifters, tax cheats, and adulterers who run for office instead of working for a living. These are the Bill Clintons and Gavin Newsoms of the world. Now we have scientific data to back up this commonsense intuition. In a fascinating article on Substack, political scientist Richard Hanania provides a mountain of evidence for why, as he puts it, "everything is so liberal" — despite the fact that, statistically speaking, there are relatively few liberals and fewer still "woke" progressives.
The most basic reason is the barbecue — the fact that normal people would rather grill than protest, rather throw water balloons than Molotov cocktails. It turns out that protesting — screaming, yelling, burning down buildings — gets attention. It gives the tiny handful of fanatics influence wildly disproportionate to their numbers. One example: The cowardly executives at the Target Corporation removed from their stores all copies of a book critical of "gender-affirming" treatments for minor children, particularly young girls, when a single anonymous person tweeted in protest. One tweet was all it took — and all the copies were removed.
What Hanania shows is that the lunatic left is full of screaming fanatics who desperately want to "change the world" and will do anything it takes to achieve their goals. "Democracy does not reflect the will of the citizenry, it reflects the will of the activist class, which is not representative of the general population," he explains.
Statistically, this is seen, Hanania says, in the greater number of leftists who donate to political causes and show up at political marches, protests, and demonstrations. They simply care more. Hanania points out that while 74.2 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, only 3.7 million donated to his campaign — compared to 5.9 million for Joe Biden. This divide is even more dramatic when it comes to demonstrations.
If a university forces its freshman women to share showers with senior men, as Joe Biden's executive order apparently does, it doesn't have to worry about armies of angry parents occupying the administration building. Yet if it dares to maintain its century-old "trans-exclusionary" policies, that is precisely what it can expect from phalanxes of blue-haired men in dresses, egged on the likes of CNN's Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon.
Which group gets its way? As Yeats put it: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst…are full of passionate intensity."
"Conservatives may tell themselves that they are the normal people party, too satisfied and content to expend much time or energy on changing the world," Hanania writes. "But in the end, the world they live in will ultimately reflect the preferences and values of their enemies."
All is not entirely lost. As the far-left pushes more and more of its totalitarian policies on the general population, normie Americans and MAGA boomers are slowly beginning to awaken to the reality of what is happening to their country. The recent explosion in protests at school board meetings — led by parents angry at the "anti-racism" equity curricula being forced on children in schools — shows that conservative activism can make a difference.
Yet that also that explains why America's oligarchy is pulling out all the stops against the January 6 protesters and Trump-supporters generally, desperate to send a message to half the country that it will not tolerate normal Americans acting the same way leftists do — causing a ruckus, vandalizing government buildings, wrestling with police, and so on. If ordinary Americans start making as much noise as leftists, then the oligarchs' political agenda may be threatened. And that simply cannot be tolerated.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/leftists_are_a_minorityso_why_do_they_keep_winning.html
More good reads this week:
“The damage done by probability blindness….The coronavirus has generated more blind fear than perhaps any other event in recorded history. That fear is blind because it ignores easily calculated probabilities.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/the_damage_done_by_probability_blindness.html
“An Explanation of Tactics to Fundamentally Transform America”
“Sometimes a Coincidence isn’t a Coincidence: In the past year and a half, we have witnessed a remarkable string of apparent coincidences.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/06/sometimes_a_coincidence_isnt_a_coincidence.html
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TUCKER
Tucker keeps hitting it out of the park: “The Primary Threat to Our Nation, The Corrupt Intelligence Apparatus Which Includes The FBI”
Just as the FBI has subverted justice in order to "get Trump," it has gone out of its way to provide the Democratic Party and all its "intersectional" tribes general immunity…….The FBI's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol fracas is absolutely disgusting.
Tucker Carlson says Capitol riot is being weaponized to punish Biden's political enemies
Tucker interviews Joe Kent, veteran, father, and Gold Star husband, primary challenging RINO. Rep Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington State. “My wife would be alive today if President Trump’s orders had been followed.”
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6259542616001#sp=show-clips
Send him money, I did:
https://www.joekentforcongress.com/
(Republicans who voted for impeachment face barrage of pro-Trump primary challengers)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-impeachment-pro-trump-primary-challengers
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Some progressives want to cancel Old Glory, calling for a new American “Juneteenth” flag that “all of us can honor”
Navy Chief Dodges Questions on Ibram Kendi's Extremism After Recommending His Book to Sailors.
NYC Psychiatrist who said she fantasized about shooting white people doubles down, says they are 'psychopathic'
Washington Post reporter troubled by 'racist legacy' of some birds. National Audubon Society also problematic because namesake was slave owner.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-report-racist-legacy-different-birds
Most NYC Riot, Looting Cases From Last Year Dropped by Soros elected district attorneys
New Book Claims Texas Alamo Heroes Were Cowardly Fools Fighting for Slavery.
Former Bernie Advisor: There will be 'Civil Unrest' Unless Biden Halts Another Pipeline
North Korean defector says 'even North Korea was not this nuts' after attending Ivy League school
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts
How Radical Are the Teachers’ Unions?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/06/how-radical-are-the-teachers-unions.php
Virginia school board member encourages kids to remember 'jihad' in graduation speech.
Bill Maher Torches Liberals For Refusing To Acknowledge How Far America Has Come
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/12/bill-maher-liberals-refuse-acknowledge-how-far-america-has-come/
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COVID
Scientist who signed letter supporting lab-leak theory: We didn't speak out sooner because we didn't want to ally with Trump.
COVID shutdowns championed by U.S. governors and D.C. bureaucrats are responsible for destroying nearly 40% of small businesses since the virus was unleashed on the world—and we know now that it was for little to no damned good reason. A study by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences revealed recently that shutdown orders made little to no difference in COVID’s impact.
Indian Bar Assoc. moves against WHO scientist: ‘Deliberately suppressed’ ivermectin data –
Dr. Peter McCullough, an American professor of Medicine and Vice Chief of Internal Medicine at Baylor University, declared that the world has been subjected to a form of bioterrorism, and that the suppression of early treatments for COVID-19—such as hydroxychloroquine— “was tightly linked to the development of a vaccine.”
Yuck! Parents send kids' masks to lab for analysis
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/yuck-parents-send-kids-masks-lab-analysis/
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ARTICLES
Larry Elder: My Personal History Shows That Fathers Matter
What If the Media Had Told the Truth? Five MSM Lies for Which Trump Has Been Vindicated, and the Damage They Caused
Andrea Widburg is frequently a must read: “High-level Chinese defector's 'embarrassing and damaging information about our intelligence community'”
"Appalling to Watch": Australian Media Tears American Media Apart Over Its Fawning Over Biden
Quote mid and end Will Republicans Step Up to Challenge on Values? by Star Parker
CIA-developed “influence strategies” keep showing up, used by mainstream media.
Cashill: Why Flag Day 'Disturbs' Obama and the Dems
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/why-flag-day-disturbs-obama-and-dems-jack-cashill/
Media Alarmism Is the Real Threat to Democracy
https://spectator.org/media-threat-to-democracy/
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SATIRE
Five Troubling Signs That Your Baby Might Be A White Supremacist
https://babylonbee.com/video/70
Progressive Church Announces New Drag Queen Bible Story Hour
https://babylonbee.com/news/progressive-church-announces-new-drag-queen-bible-hour
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OTHER STUFF
Here Are Eight Fake News Narratives About Trump the Media Has Admitted Were Always Wrong
Top ten media lies
https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/my-top-10-media-lies-goodwin/
Must-see TV: Watch this parent absolutely obliterate Critical Race Theory at an Illinois school board meeting: “How do I have two medical degrees if I’m sitting here oppressed?”
John Kennedy Goes Full John Kennedy in Hilarious Takedown of China
VIDEO: School Board Meetings Gone Wild
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