op ed review 8/1
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Biden raises eyebrows with claim he 'used to drive' 18-wheeler truck. ??
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-claims-driven-18-wheeler
Biden's Latest Burst of Gibberish Sounds Like He Revealed Some Gross Personal Information
How long can this go on? Most disturbing sign of Biden’s senility yet. “This sort of behavior is straight out of the dayroom of a mental hospital..”
Montana Senator’s Niece Says Joe Biden Fondled Her When She Was 8-Years-Old But Is AFRAID To Speak Out
560,000 prisoners got more than $780 Million in stimulus money through Biden’s “American Rescue Plan”
https://policetribune.com/prisoners-got-more-than-780-million-payday-through-american-rescue-plan/
Biden Department of Justice Directly Targets Trump, Directs IRS to Give His Tax Returns to Pelosi
Biden Admin Sues Texas, Gov. Abbott Over Executive Order Restricting The Transportation Of Migrants
https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/30/biden-doj-sues-texas-greg-abbott-migrant-transportation/
Biden to force vaccines on federal workforce -- blacks, minorities hardest hit.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/biden_goes_to_war_with_his_own_base.html
“Biden admin and Democrats insist he won fair and square but they are also clinging to election law exceptions ostensibly put in place due to the pandemic — and presenting them as the norm for the future. Even though no one is really buying their “Jim Crow 2.0” narrative, they continue to charge ahead.”
Biden Hiding Classified Report on Rep. Swalwell and Chinese spy Fang Fang
Report: 1.8 Million Americans Have Turned Down Jobs To Stay On Unemployment
Hunter Biden responds to critics of his lucrative art sales: ‘F*** ‘Em’
https://news.yahoo.com/hunter-biden-responds-critics-art-174541061.html
Every Dem senator votes to advance eco-terrorist-linked nominee who endorsed population control
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tracy-stone-manning-senate-vote-nomination
Dems' Amnesty Prospects Fade with Sinema Opposition to $3.5T Budget
Democrats are worried about winning the 2022 midterm elections after Republican state legislatures reformed 30 election integrity laws in 18 states and additional legislation may come. CEO of the New Georgia Project, was surprisingly candid: “If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/26/democrats-fed-election-integrity-laws-18-states/
NYT reporter faces backlash for tweet urging Trump supporters be called 'enemies of the state'
Larry Elder explodes into the lead in California
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/larry_elder_explodes_into_the_lead_in_california.html
Alaska GOP gives Murkowski a thumbs down. Mitch McConnell and National Republican Senatorial Committee to the rescue, sending her money and support.
More dirty tricks from Mitch McConnell: Now Targeting Hershel Walker in GA Senate race. McConnell wants another establishment member like former Senator Kelly Loeffler. It is not accidental that Loeffler’s husband owns the New York stock exchange; yup, the GOP establishment wing….loves their Wall Street candidates.
Biden spending over $2B to HALT border wall construction amid migrant crisis
50,000 migrants released into U.S. without court date
Whistleblowers Accuse Biden HHS: 'Every Effort' Used To Downplay COVID Spread In Migrant Children Facilities
Immigration Judges Forbidden to Use the Word ‘Alien’
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Judges-Forbidden-Use-Word-Alien
They don’t even try to hide it anymore: The United States ought to allow foreign nationals in the U.S. to vote in local, state, and federal elections, with Democrats as the “biggest beneficiaries,” a New York Times op-ed argues.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/29/ny-times-op-ed-noncitizens-voting/
Now even Fox Censors: MyPillow CEO pulls ads from Fox News after network refused to run ad linked to voter fraud claims
Seattle mayor begs for more cops after six weekend shootings, 250 officers gone in 17 months.
Out-of-town visitor chased, stabbed in Portland
Denver Police Chief Attributes Rise In Violent Crime To Felons Released On Low Or No Bonds
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/07/28/denver-police-chief-paul-pazen-violent-crime-low-no-bond/
Poll shows 90% of Detroit residents want MORE cops
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9824767/Poll-shows-90-Detroit-residents-want-cops.html
Circuit court favors Washington state church in case against abortion coverage mandate
After Biden says he wants to ban at least some handguns, Politifact says it's 'false' that Biden wants to 'ban handguns'
Country star Lee Greenwood to help build home for Alabama disabled veteran
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Critical Witchcraft Theory
Peter Wood 7/23
It was good enough for William Stoughton in 1692. Stoughton was the chief justice who presided over the Salem witchcraft trials that sent 20 people to their deaths. What was good enough for Stoughton was “spectral evidence,” which referred to the testimony of witnesses as to what they had seen in their dreams. If a witness said that he dreamed of a neighbor engaging in witchcraft, Stoughton’s court admitted that as evidence against the neighbor…. It took the royal governor, William Phips, to outlaw spectral evidence altogether in legal proceedings.
Contemporary Americans tend to scoff at the credulousness of those Puritans in Salem who leveled deadly accusations based on the phantoms of their own imaginations. But here we are, in the age of critical race theory, still doing it.
CRT is based on the claim that an insidious, pervasive, but invisible force inhabits all Americans and American institutions. This invisible force exists outside the conscious experience of those who harbor it. Those purveyors of systemic racism are its hapless servants who believe in their own innocence as much as poor Sarah Good did when she got her chance to testify at the Salem trials….Denying one’s complicity in witchcraft, of course, was expected of witches….
In some ways the courts in Salem were less inclined to impetuous judgments than many of the advocates of today’s critical race theory……Ibram X. Kendi views systemic racism: “one of the fastest-spreading and most fatal cancers humanity has ever known . . . There is nothing I see in the world today, in our history, giving me hope that one day antiracists will win the fight, that one day the flag of antiracism will fly over the world of equity.” Kendi’s perspective, consistent with Puritan theology, is that this world has been given over to the corruptions of the infernal powers.
No doubt enough ink has been spilled and pixels deployed by critics of Kendian “antiracism” to establish the circularity of his reasoning. Failure to endorse his edicts, in Kendi’s views, is itself racist. His message has been redoubled by Robin DiAngelo (UW), and a host of others who seem to believe that they have been handed a profound insight into how our world works. Superficially this is a sociological insight, but to the extent that sociology is a real discipline dependent upon careful and critical analysis of empirical evidence, “systemic racism” is not a sociological theory. It is theology, or more precisely it is a demonology: a theory of witchcraft. It has no proof that “systemic racism” exists in modern American society. All it has is a Salem-esque panic based on the pseudo-authoritative declaration that it exists..
Systemic racism serves perfectly well as a realistic description of some societies, such as the antebellum states in which slavery was permitted. But today’s theorists of antiracism are faced with the difficulty that real systemic racism has disappeared from America. Individual racists can be spotted, i.e. people who loathe or at least dislike other people on the basis of race and behave towards those people with prejudice. But “systemic racism,” involving the complicity of law, the approval of society, the power of economics, and the reinforcement of culture is just gone. It was officially undone generations ago and we have since vigorously cleaned out its vestiges.
That leaves the proponents of systemic racism chasing after spectral evidence. They may not be able to see systemic racism with ordinary human eyes, but they “know” it is there and they have special magical eyes to see through its myriad disguises to the ugly truth beneath. William Stoughton and Cotton Mather would be proud of them.
The rise and widespread acceptance within elite institutions of the theory of systemic racism may surprise many Americans who pride themselves on their secular rationality. We are past the age of credulous enthusiasms, or so we like to think. This is a time when we give highest authority to views that we elevate to the status of “science.” It is an amusing conceit, especially considering the ease with which ideologies that have very weak scientific foundations—or none at all—manage to appropriate the name of science for whatever collection of suppositions and spurious inferences they wish to sell. ..
Folks like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are tapping into something very old and very human: our seemingly limitless capacity to project our fears onto monsters in the dark—monsters that wear the faces of our family members, friends, and neighbors—and worst of all, our own faces in the mirror…To say that the conceit of systemic racism is a recrudescence of an ancient and broadly human kind of myth-making is not to excuse it. We should know our vulnerabilities and temptations, and we should draw on our civilized capacity to resist very bad but alluring ideas. Systemic racism allures because it grants an all-purpose excuse for the failures, disappointments, and unhappiness of American blacks, and it allures whites who long for the rewards of contriteness and penitence, which are no less real. Nor should we forget the opportunists of all races who see the chances of financial gain, social status, and political influence that come from indulging the new cult.
Witchcraft crazes never end well—not for the accused, seldom for the accusers, and certainly not for the society that has permitted this temporary descent into madness. Where today is our William Phips, the governor who had the sense to put a stop to the orgy of hangings in a 17th-century New England village when the leading intellectual authorities would not? He has not stepped forward yet, but we can be confident he will.
From the shape of things before us now, I don’t expect he will come from the church or the university. Both have absorbed the poison of imaginary guilt too deeply to provide the needed leadership. The business community is even more tainted. From where, then, should we look for our Phips? I don’t know, but I expect he will be someone who can call us back to our abiding ideals without spending too much time reminding us how foolish we have been in indulging these collective recriminations.
(Peter Wood is President of the National Association of Scholars)
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/23/critical-witchcraft-theory/
“That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is” “Gaslighting getting you down? Feel like the regime has dialed the Megaphone up to, and past, eleven? You’re not crazy. It’s definitely happening and likely to get worse as our masters’ ability to cope with reality further worsens—or worse, they gain the complete and absolute control they seek…. to help you navigate the twitstorm, I present a guide to seven of the regime’s most common, oft-deployed lies. Example: The Law of Merited Impossibility, “That will never happen, and when it does, boy will you [homophobes, transphobes, racists, sexists, whatever] deserve it.”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/
If Democrats have their way, America will eventually form a Civilian Climate Corps that will hire and train people to save Earth from overheating….Simply put, the Democrats are looking to equip 1.5 million shock troops to enforce the Green New Deal.
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TUCKER
Tucker rips power-hungry, safety-fetishizing Democrats using COVID for political gain
Tucker Mocks RINO Kinzinger, Adam Schiff for Faux Crying, Theatrics at Hearing
Watch Kinzinger Go From Laughing to Crying in Under 60 Seconds During January 6 Hearings
After Confrontation with Tucker in Montana Fly Fishing Shop, Man's Real Identity Comes Out
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
ACLU declares 2nd Amendment is not just wrong, but racist.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colion-noir-aclu-second-amendment-racist
CNN’s Jake Tapper Claims Election “Lies” Are Comparable To Denying The Holocaust
https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/30/jake-tapper-claims-election-lies-comparable-denying-holocaust/
Karma: Former California senator Barbara Boxer, 80, assaulted and robbed by thief in Oakland
George Soros hands $1 million to group attempting to defund police as violent crime skyrockets nationwide
Mayor of Burien, WA Claims He Was Victim of 'Hate Crime' Because of Lightning Bolts on Yard Sign
Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological
Meet the CDC-Backed Groups That Want To Teach Trans Ideology to Kindergartners
https://freebeacon.com/?p=1499316
Minnesota fourth graders told to hide ‘equity survey’ questions from parents
https://www.foxnews.com/media/students-told-to-hide-equity-survey-questions-from-parents
Democratic Strategists Acknowledge Grim Reality: Kamala Harris May 'Do More Harm Than Good'
Despite efforts to defund police, these Democrat-led cities spent millions on private security for mayors
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/democratic-led-cities-spend-private-security-defund-police
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JAN 6
“David Hume once wrote, “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” …Joseph Hackett, confronted with Hume’s observation, would express doubt. I would ask Hackett myself, but he is inaccessible. If the ironically titled “Department of Justice” has its way, he will be inaccessible for a long, long time. Perhaps as long as 20 years. Joseph Hackett, you see, is a 51-year-old Trump supporter and member of an organization called the “Oath Keepers,” a group whose members have pledged to “defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.” Hackett came from his home in Florida to join the Trump “Stop the Steal” rally that took place on January 6. According to court documents, he entered the Capitol at 2:45 that afternoon. He left some ten minutes later, at 2:54. The next day, he went home. On May 28, he was apprehended by the FBI and indicted on a long list of charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and illegally entering a restricted building.”
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/24/losing-our-liberty-all-at-once/
DOJ Hiding Videos That Could Exonerate 1/6 Detainees, Reports Of Torture
GOP Reps Try to Check on well-being of Jan. 6 Detainees, Get Locked Out
National Police Association slams Jan. 6 probe as ‘dog and pony show,' calls for investigation of Floyd riots.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-police-association-slams-jan-6-probe
Questions that Won't be Asked by the January 6 Commission
Poll: More Americans Want ‘Black Lives Matter Riots’ Investigated Than January 6 Riot
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COVID
The World Has Had It With China Flu Lockdowns: Protests Rock Cities All Over the Globe
'Liberty! Liberty!' – 160,000 March Against Vaccine Passes in France
Omaha doctor touts use of Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment. Treated over 200 COVID patients, none have died, none have been put on ventilator, only one to hospital. But “experts” say “not proven yet!”.
https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-doctor-touts-use-of-ivermectin-for-covid-19-treatment/37148651
Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?
“Dr. Fauci and NIAID created SARS at UNC Chapel Hill in 2002…..specifically targeted to human lung epithelium.” Patented in April 19, 2002. Intended as a vector for an AIDS vaccine. Whoops. If you don’t have 2 hrs, watch from 7:00 to 12:00.
Fauci defends U.S. funding research at Wuhan lab, says it would have been 'negligent' not to do so
Democrats trying to stoke COVID fear again, even though coronavirus death rate is still roughly at a pandemic-low.
Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Order Barring TX Cities from Implementing Mask, Vaccine Requirements
Anti-mask: A winning GOP message for 2022 & beyond
https://nypost.com/2021/07/29/anti-mask-a-winning-gop-message-for-2022-beyond/
Nope, I Won’t Mask Up Again
https://spectator.org/nope-i-wont-mask-up-again/
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ARTICLES
1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched back to gas because charging their cars is a hassle, research shows
https://news.yahoo.com/1-5-electric-vehicle-owners-164149467.html
Why Democrats Don’t Care About Crime: “Make no mistake, anti-American Democrats would rather our cities be burned and looted than perpetuate the system of white systematic racism and oppression supposedly at the heart of “law and order.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/why_democrats_dont_care_about_crime.html
Archbishop Viganò: The West is on the verge of ruin due to ‘apostasy,’ ‘cancel culture’
Let's talk defunding — for the FBI
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/lets_talk_defunding__for_the_fbi.html
Stephen Moore: How the Left Has Used COVID-19 to Bankrupt the United States”
Widburg: America had its first show trial on Tuesday and it was loathsome
How Parents Should Talk About ‘White Privilege’ “When dispelling the lie of white privilege for our children we must first break down the layers of false ideology which support this concept.”
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/25/how-parents-should-talk-about-white-privilege/
Mark Alexander: BSA — The Bankrupt Scouts of America. Thank the “progressive” leadership from corporate types like Rex Tillerson.
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/81226-bsa-the-bankrupt-scouts-of-america-2021-07-09
Why Are We Selling Farmland to China?
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/07/26/why-are-we-selling-farmland-to-china-n416549
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DEFEAT WASHINGTON RINOS WHO VOTED TO IMPEACH TRUMP
Running against Rep. Newhouse
Brad Klippert
https://klippertforcongress.net/
Jerrad Sessler
https://www.jerrodforcongress.com/
Loren Culp
Running against Rep. Herrera-Beutler
Joe Kent
https://www.joekentforcongress.com/
Heidi St. John
http://heidistjohnforcongress.com/
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SATIRE
Top 10 Reasons You Should Just Turn Your Guns Over To The Government TODAY
https://babylonbee.com/news/top-10-reasons-to-turn-your-guns-over-to-the-government-immediately
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OTHER STUFF
35+ H.L. Mencken Quotes That Will Make Anyone into a Cynic
https://blog.libertasbella.com/hl-mencken-quotes/
Biden’s ‘Accomplishments’ So Far: A Troubling Tale In 8 Charts
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/07/30/bidens-accomplishments-so-far-a-tale-in-7-charts/
LAA Voter Integrity Project: 157,229+ Illegal Ballots Cast in Wisconsin
https://lookaheadamerica.org/wisconsinreport/
Inside Hunter Biden's $20k-a-month Malibu home with art studio, four bedrooms and ocean views
Former Drudge Report Editor Launches New Conservative Aggregator
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