IN JUST THE LAST WEEK: Crime Up 60% in NYC

By The Geller Report

When Democrats rule. G-d help us.

Crime up 60 percent citywide in the past week, NYPD stats show

By Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, NY Post, February 7, 2022:

Crime in the Big Apple continues to spike, with a nearly 60 percent hike in the past week alone compared to the same period last year — even amid frigid temps, according to NYPD figures released Monday.

“Near-zero temperatures can’t keep the criminals away,” a Bronx cop told The Post. “It will only get worse as it gets warmer.”

The biggest jump for the week ending Sunday came in reported car thefts, with 255 for the week compared to 118 in 2021 — an increase of more than 116 percent, the stats show.

Grand larceny soared by more than 93 percent, with 908 reports compared to 470 for the same week last year, and reported rapes jumped by nearly 67 percent, to 35 from 21 last year.

Transit crimes have also gone up over the past week, with 34 this year compared to 18 for the same period in 2021, a nearly 89 percent leap.

Since the start of the year, overall crime has gone up by nearly 42 percent in the five boroughs, according to the numbers.

Car thefts have gone up by more than 96 percent, grand larceny by nearly 62 percent, rapes by more than 35 percent, and robberies by nearly 35 percent over the same period last year, the statistics show.

The year-to-date numbers also show that transit crimes have increased to 227 compared to 130 over this time last year, a spike of nearly 75 percent.

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University of Michigan Professor Claims ‘Islamophobia’ Bigger Threat Than Islamic Terrorism

By Jihad Watch

My latest in PJ Media:

Juan Cole, a professor at the University of Michigan, proved once again Thursday something that everyone who has been paying attention knows by now: you don’t go to an American university to get an education but to be indoctrinated into Leftist dogma and recruited for Antifa. Cole, who has written a hagiographical and whitewashed biography of Muhammad and is a Leftist go-to authority on Islamic issues, published an article in Foreign Policy In Focus entitled “Islam Wasn’t the Threat — Islamophobia Was.” If this sounds like nonsense, that’s only because it is, but that’s what sells on the Left these days.

Concern for Islamic terrorism, in Cole’s view, has been greatly exaggerated, in part for “racist” reasons (of course), while the rampant terror threat of “white supremacy” has been downplayed or ignored outright. Those who have suffered the most from this lack of focus, he insists, have been Muslims in America, who have borne the brunt of “Islamophobia” in America’s misguided quest to protect itself from a largely nonexistent threat of jihad terrorism.

All this is designed to inculcate the hatred and contempt for the United States that the Left is working to instill everywhere these days, and of course, Cole’s chief targets are conservatives. He begins his ridiculous piece by whining that “Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson excused one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the January 6th insurrection by describing him as ‘a devout Christian.’ It’s safe to surmise that he wouldn’t have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American.” Aside from denigrating Tucker Carlson, Cole’s point here is that the Jan. 6 “insurrection” was a manifestation of “Christian terrorism,” equivalent to the Islamic terrorism we saw on 9/11.

To drive this point home, Cole has to ignore numerous inconvenient facts, including these: that no one has been charged with insurrection in connection with Jan. 6, the protestors were unarmed, the police opened the doors of the Capitol and invited them in, and no one was killed except one of the protestors, by a rogue cop who has faced no punishment, since he is safely anti-Trump.

Cole also has to ignore the fact that nearly 3,000 people were murdered by Islamic jihad terrorists on 9/11 and that those attacks were just one day’s worth, with 40,000 more jihad attacks coming worldwide since then. He sees 9/11 solely as the impetus for the victimization of Muslims in the United States: “Since September 11th, and even before that ominous date, Muslim Americans have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate crimes in this country, while their religion has been demonized. During the first year of the Trump administration, about half of Muslim Americans polled said that they had personally experienced some type of discrimination.”

There is more. Read the rest here.

COLUMN BY

ROBERT SPENCER

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VIDEO: ESPN Whistleblower Exposes ‘Blatantly Racist’ Workplace Environment

By Project Veritas

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Project Veritas released a new undercover video today recorded within ESPN that revealed what appears to be a workplace environment full of toxic racist tension.

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

  • Whistleblower-recorded audio and video show numerous ESPN employees discussing what they see as a toxic, racist workplace environment which directly contradicts the image that ESPN tries to project.
  • In one clip, a black studio operator discusses, “the racial shit that happens in here all the time.” In another clip, a black woman working as an audio communications specialist says “that’s not how it is” when addressing the difference between ESPN’s workplace environment and social justice image.
  • On-air talent Alyson Lang, who covers the SEC for ESPN: “I know the comments that have been made to me at work and the conversations that have been had in front of me at work, like, I mean just blatantly racist sh*t. Just blatantly, like, complaining to me that we have three white hosts, and I’m like, ‘What do you want me- do you want me to leave?’”
  • On-air talent Matt Schick, who’s been with ESPN since 2012, said, “It has different connotations now,” when talking about what it’s like to tell people he works for ESPN. In the next soundbite, he calls ESPN, “a global entity of forced thought.”
  • The whistleblower, ESPN Studio Operator Trevor Adams, sent a company-wide email outlining these concerns and was subsequently identified by the company as a “threat” which resulted in law enforcement being sent to his home. He was terminated soon after an attempt from Project Veritas to obtain a comment from Human Resources.

You can watch the full video HERE.

 What is going on inside ESPN?

With just days until the Super Bowl, sports fans should get answers from the Disney-owned network. Better yet, ALL Americans deserve answers on this.


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Abrams Required Schoolkids to Mask Up So She Could Go Maskless

By Discover The Networks

President-wannabe and voter fraud enthusiast Stacey Abrams, who sparked controversy by appearing maskless among dozens of masked-up children during a recent visit to a Georgia elementary school, did so “on the condition that everyone around her” wore a face covering — including the children, her campaign said.

Over the weekend, a photo surfaced showing the failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate grinning amid dozens of children at Glennwood Elementary School in Decatur. City Schools of Decatur mandate masks for students and employees. Nationwide outrage ensued.

“Her campaign said she wore a mask to the event and only removed it so she could be heard by students watching remotely and for a handful of photos on the condition that everyone around her was wearing face-coverings,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Georgia gubernatorial candidate, former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), slammed Abrams and other Democrats in an “Unmask Our Kids” digital ad, and changing his Twitter header to the now-infamous image of the unmasked Abrams surrounding by masked-up elementary school children. The photo includes the caption, “Unmask Our Kids.”

“In so many ways,” tweeted former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, “this picture embodies the elitism, arrogance, cruelty, science denial, and glib authoritarianism of Joe Biden’s Democrat Party.

He left out “blatant hypocrisy,” but otherwise, Miller’s message was spot on.


Stacey Abrams

32 Known Connections

Condemning America’s “Systemic Racism”

In July 2020, Abrams told The Washington Post:

“[W]rit large, our challenge in America is that justice does not get meted out equally. In fact, it doesn’t even humanize many blacks who are killed, particularly by those who are sworn to protect them. And so I think this racial moment we are having begins with this conversation of extrajudicial killings, but it cannot be divorced from the disproportionate number of deaths by black Americans based on COVID-19, the disproportionate effect of infection rates, and the economic collapse that is hurting black and brown communities at higher rates than anyone else, and the lack of attention being paid to the disproportionate number of people of color who also face voter suppression. The systemic racism that we see in our society is wrapped into everything from our environment to criminal justice to the application of justice, and the moment we try to say that these things are separate, we set ourselves up once again for the kind of protest and demonstrations we see now. But the extent to which we acknowledge that these are interwoven, through systemic racism, systemic inequities, and systemic injustice, then we can begin to start to address them.”

To learn more about Stacey Abrams, click here.

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Over Half Of Americans Don’t Think Schools Need To Teach About The Ongoing Impact Of Slavery And Racism

By The Daily Caller

This is what’s happening in public schools!


  • Over half of Americans don’t think schools have a responsibility to teach students about the ongoing impact of slavery and racism, according to according to a poll released Monday by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University in partnership with APM Research Lab.
  • Two-thirds of Republican respondents and almost half of Independents said educators should only teach the history of slavery, according to the “Mood of the Nation” poll. Only one-fifth of Democratic respondents said exclusively the history of slavery should be taught.
  • Most respondents said they didn’t think governors and state legislators should have a “great deal of influence” over how concepts such as racism, slavery, creationism and sex education are taught in public schools and responded in favor of parents having the greatest influence on those topics.

Over half of Americans don’t think schools have a responsibility to teach students about the ongoing impact of slavery and racism, according to according to a poll released Monday by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University in partnership with APM Research Lab.

Two-thirds of Republican respondents and almost half of Independents said educators should only teach the history of slavery, according to the “Mood of the Nation” poll. Only one-fifth of Democratic respondents said exclusively the history of slavery should be taught.

The survey polled 1,200 people over the age of 18 starting in late November 2021, and the results generally varied depending on political affiliation. That said, the poll showed that 90% of respondents believed schools have a responsibility to teach about the history of slavery and scientific evolution.

NEW MOOD OF THE NATION POLL RESULTS:

HOW AMERICANS THINK SCHOOLS SHOULD TEACH ABOUT RACE, EVOLUTION AND SEX

By @egawthrop & @c_helmstetter

A collaboration between @McCourtneyInst & @APMResearch https://t.co/Qd02AMeV62

— APM Research Lab (@APMResearch) February 7, 2022

Most respondents said they didn’t think governors and state legislators should have a “great deal of influence” over how concepts such as racism, slavery, creationism and sex education are taught in public schools and responded in favor of parents having the greatest influence on those topics.

Almost half of respondents said that the biblical stance on creation should be taught alongside scientific evidence of evolution, according to the poll. Respondents with a bachelor’s degree, higher incomes and Democrats were the most likely to take the position that exclusively the scientific evidence of creation should be taught.

Respondents 45 and older were the most supportive of parents having the greatest influence in how evolution is taught.

“It depends on a person’s religious belief,” a 61-year-old Black Democratic woman from Florida who identifies as a born-again Christian said in the survey. “If they believe, as I do, that man was created by God, then I think they should decide what and how their children should be taught concerning evolution.”

Of those polled, 51% of respondents said parents should have “a great deal of influence” over the subject of sex education, the poll showed. Three-fourths of respondents said students should learn about contraception and the dangers of diseases during sex education, while nearly one-fourth said the dangers of diseases and abstinence until marriage should be taught.

Republicans, born-again Christians and respondents 65 and older were the most likely to say parents should have the greatest influence on their children’s sex education, according to the poll results. Additionally, forty percent of respondents said health teachers should also have “a great deal of influence” in sex education.

“Because government departments of education don’t care about students. Parents should be teaching them about safety along with health teachers and professionals,” a 28-year-old Democratic Hispanic man from New York said, according to survey.

Over the course of the pandemic, as school boards have fielded complaints from parents over topics like COVID-19 policies and Critical Race Theory (CRT), multiple state legislatures and governors have proposed legislation and put forth executive orders that would give parents more say and provide more transparency about what their children are taught in public schools. Critics, including many educators and progressives, argue that GOP-proposed legislation censors teachers and restricts how they teach.

The maximum margin of error for the “Mood of the Nation” survey is 3.7 points.

COLUMN BY

KENDALL TIETZ

Education reporter.

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COVID Nazi Parallels Too Close for Comfort

By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US

There’s a growing disconnect between the easing of the COVID pandemic and the fervent determination of COVID Nazis to make the rest of us miserable.  The pandemic is easing, but the COVID Nazis are going full Trudeau.

statistic I’ve used consistently from the beginning of the pandemic is the percentage of emergency room visits for COVID-19 in the U.S.  That figure peaked at 14.2 percent on January 9th, and has fallen to 4.8 percent and was still falling as of a few days ago, the latest numbers show.  Previous peaks were around 8 percent and the percentage between previous spikes was below 2 percent.  So hospitalizations were relatively high during the omicron round, but not as bad as may first appear.  This is because the average hospital stay for omicron is shorter than for previous variants.  Another indication the pandemic is easing is the sharp decline in the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations.  They’re off more than half from their peak on January 15th, according to CDC numbers for February 2nd.

But don’t expect the COVID Nazis to follow the science.  They’d rather follow pseudo-science, just like Hitler’s gang followed the pseudo-science of racialism before them.

The staff at a California high school barricaded students protesting a mask mandate in the gym and turned down the thermostat to freeze them out.  The students were questioning why they should have to wear masks after Governor Gavin Göring was caught not wearing a mask again in public.

A doctor in Maine was suspended from practice after prescribing Ivermectin for patients, a drug shown to be safe and effective against COVID.  To add insult to injury, the COVID Nazis there ordered her to undergo a psych exam for daring to speak out against the official party line on COVID.  Medical boards in 12 states have disciplined doctors for COVID ‘misinformation’, although the ‘misinformation’ is never defined.  It’s enough, just like Hitler’s criminal code, to allege the doctors criticized the regime. History will not remember these medical boards any more kindly than it remembers Joseph Mengele.

The Virginia State Senate Democrat SS blocked a bill that would have allowed doctors and hospitals to prescribe Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, another safe and effective drug, to patients.  The Democrats shut down public comments and ordered the police to throw citizens out of the room.

The Oregon Health Authority issued a permanent school mask mandate in all K-12 schools.  State public health officials can lift the mandate if they feel like it, but there are no metrics.

newspaper in Salt Lake City called on the Governor to use storm troopers to keep unvaccinated people from going outside their homes.  That doesn’t go nearly far enough, a lawmaker in Washington state evidently believes.  A bill introduced there would allow state health authorities at their discretion to take unvaccinated people – including children as young as 5 years old – to concentration camps for refusing to get vaccinated.

Store employees ordered a man to leave after he lowered his mask to smell a scented candle.

A bill has been introduced in Congress to have the federal government track the COVID vaccination status of all Americans.

 Which brings us to the book How Do You Kill 11 Million People? about Nazi Germany.  You do it by lying to them.  The Nazis told the Jews they needed to be moved to a safer place as the Allies approached in order to get the Jews to board the trains to the death camps voluntarily.  Public health authorities have told us all kinds of lies about COVID, as I have documented in previous commentaries, including the lie that the vaccines are safe.  COVID vaccines are now associated with the deaths of more than 23,000 Americans.   But before the Nazis could kill all the Jews, they had to tabulate and track them with IBM Hollerith machines.  Am I saying the lawmaker who introduced the COVID tracking bill in Congress is a Nazi who wants to kill 11 million people?  No, but I am saying there are enough parallels to Nazi Germany here not to ever want to go down that road.

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Should we pay reparations to the families of the 3.5 million men who fought in the Civil War?

By Dr. Rich Swier

Reparations: Compensation for historical crimes and wrongdoings with the aim of remedying injustices and helping specific groups of people or populations to prosper. 


We read with interest a February 2nd, 2022 USA TODAY article by Orlando Mayorquin titled, “Will California become the first state to pay Black people reparations?” Mayorquin wrote:

Supporters of a federal effort to study reparations for Black Americans are closely watching an ongoing debate in California over how to address the wrongs of history and dismantle racist structures.

California is the first state in the nation to seriously consider some form of reparations for Black Americans. The California Reparations Task Force is made up of academics, lawyers, civil rights leaders, lawmakers and other experts convened by Gov. Gavin Newsom and is tasked with studying the state’s role in perpetuating the legacy of slavery. The task force is expected to recommend proposals to the Legislature by next year.

California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850 and lost 500 men during to the Civil War.

Are the descendants of these 500 men being considered by the task force?

QUESTION: Why aren’t we studying paying reparations to the families of the 3.5 million men who fought in the Civil War?

The Civil War Battlefield 

World Population Review reports:

According to the American Battlefield Trust, of the 3.5 million men who fought in the war, there were 1.5 million casualties, 620,000 of which were deaths, making the Civil War the bloodiest in American history. More men’s lives were lost in the Civil War than World War I and World War II combined. The Battle of Gettysburg alone had 51,000 casualties. Additionally, there were 476,000 wounded and 400,000 captured or missing.

Of the Confederate states, Virginia and North Carolina had the highest number of military deaths, with approximately 31,000 each. Alabama had the second-highest with about 27,000 deaths. Of the Union states, New York has the highest number of military deaths of approximately 39,000, followed by Ohio and Illinois with about 31,000 each. California and Colorado had the lowest number of deaths of any state, given their location to the war’s battles. Military deaths were a combination of both combat deaths and disease deaths. In the table below are the estimated deaths for each state.

Here are the 10 states with the highest Civil War casualties:

  1. New York (39,000)
  2. Illinois (31,000)
  3. North Carolina (31,000)
  4. Ohio (31,000)
  5. Virginia (31,000)
  6. Alabama (27,000)
  7. Pennsylvania (27,000)
  8. Indiana (24,000)
  9. South Carolina (18,000)
  10. Michigan (13,000)
State Estimated Casualties 
New York 39,000
Virginia 31,000
Ohio 31,000
North Carolina 31,000
Illinois 31,000
Pennsylvania 27,000
Alabama 27,000
Indiana 24,000
South Carolina 18,000
Missouri 13,000
Michigan 13,000
Iowa 12,000
Wisconsin 11,000
Kentucky 9,000
Mississippi 8,000
Maine 8,000
Georgia 7,000
Arkansas 7,000
New Jersey 5,000
Vermont 4,000
New Hampshire 4,000
Louisiana 4,000
West Virginia 3,000
Texas 3,000
Tennessee 3,000
Minnesota 3,000
Kansas 3,000
Maryland 2,000
Rhode Island 1,000
Florida 1,000
Delaware 1,000
Colorado 500
California 500
Wyoming
Washington
Utah
South Dakota
Oregon
Oklahoma
North Dakota
New Mexico
Nevada
Nebraska
Montana
Massachusetts
Idaho
Hawaii
Connecticut
Arizona
Alaska

The Bottom Line

Men fought and died fighting the Civil War. Men of all races, creeds and colors. Don’t forget that 40,000 black soldiers, out of 178,000 who participated in the Civil War, died. Don’t their families deserve reparations too?

War isn’t a black or white issue. War is a national policy issue. In the case of the Civil War the issue was to reunite a divided nation. Yes, the issue at hand was in part slavery but in the greater part it was about an armed insurrection.

Perhaps we need to rethink this myth of reparations.

Those who fought in the Civil War set the stage for the end of slavery in America.

It is time to stop this push for reigniting another racial divide.

It has been 157 years since the end of the Civil War.

Isn’t it time to move on and begin with the most important social issue: that we judge people by the content of their characters rather than the color of their skins?

And this ends this lesson on equal justice under the law.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

IRS Decides It Won’t Make You Take A Selfie To Access Your Taxes After Fierce Backlash

By The Daily Caller

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will no longer force taxpayers to submit a scan of their face to access their taxes online.

The agency had previously announced plans to require users to sign into the IRS website through third-party identity verification firm ID.me and provide a government identification document alongside a selfie. The IRS said the move would provide users with greater security and accessibility to their tax information.

However, the agency announced Monday it would be scrapping its plans to implement the verification system.

“The IRS takes taxpayer privacy and security seriously, and we understand the concerns that have been raised,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in the statement. “Everyone should feel comfortable with how their personal information is secured, and we are quickly pursuing short-term options that do not involve facial recognition.”

This is big: The IRS has notified my office it plans to transition away from using facial recognition verification, as I requested earlier today. While this transition may take time, the administration recognizes that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive. https://t.co/jw7OR7dNo0

— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) February 7, 2022

The decision to transition away from facial recognition technology follows fierce criticism from voices across the political spectrum as well as privacy advocates. Republican Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker sent a letter to Rettig on Friday asking how the agency arrived at the decision to compel taxpayers to submit selfies, while The Washington Post editorial board slammed the move as posing “serious concerns about privacy.”

Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden called on the IRS to abandon its plans to implement facial recognition technology on Monday morning, just hours before the agency’s announcement.

“The Treasury Department has made the smart decision to direct the IRS to transition away from using the controversial ID.me verification service, as I requested earlier today” Wyden said in a statement. “I understand the transition process may take time, but I appreciate that the administration recognizes that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive and no one should be forced to submit to facial recognition to access critical government services.”

COLUMN BY

AILAN EVANS

Tech reporter. Follow Ailan on Twitter @AilanHEvans

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Biden Effect: Oil Tops $90, 7-Year high

By The Geller Report

We were energy independent under Trump until the Democrat party of treason stole the election.

Gas was $1.89 a gallon under Trump.

The national average for gas prices is $3.41: AAA

Gas prices in spring and summer will be ‘painful’: Energy expert

Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose to $91 per barrel.

By: FOX News, February 7, 2022:

Nationally, the average gas price reached $3.41 per gallon, a 7-year high, and energy experts, including GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan, say prices have a good chance of hitting $4 at the pumps.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MAP WITH STATE RETAIL GASOLINE PRICES.

The move comes one day after OPEC again snubbed requests from the United States to increase production to help quell inflation. The cartel determined at its January meeting it would continue along its path of a 400,000 barrel-a-day production increase.

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Biden’s Constitutional Civil War: Do we have one or two U.S. Constitutions?

By Dr. Rich Swier

Recently Biden, in a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “The Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights.”

BIDEN: “The Constitution is always evolving slightly” pic.twitter.com/zOpiTL9sh5

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 1, 2022

QUESTION: What exactly does this mean?

ANSWER: We are in a Constitutional civil war.

A Constitutional Civil War

America is currently in a Constitutional Civil War. There are two views of the U.S. Constitution:

  1. The meaning of the Constitution is fixed and can only be changed by amending it. To amend the Constitution requires the Amendment to be approved by a 2/3rds majority of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Then the proposed Amendment is sent to the states where, again, 2/3rds of the states must ratify it. Therefore, the whole point of a written Constitution is that it doesn’t “evolve” except under the arduous procedures for amending it.
  2. The meaning of the Constitution is malleable and open to broad interpretation. Because the times have changed we must interpret the Constitution with what some people believe, not what is actually says. Hence, Biden’s statement, “The Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights.” This view is held by progressives going back to President Woodrow Wilson have always hated the actual Constitution, as it limits their agenda.

This statement by Biden has set up a Constitutional Civil war.

The winner of this war will determine if we remain a Constitutional Republic or devolve into a democracy.

Constitutional scholar, senior fellow with the Claremont Institute and distinguished professor of government at Claremont McKenna College Charles Kesler said this about the Constitution Civil War:

“Underlying this cold civil war is the fact that increasingly America is torn between two Constitutions. Where it ends up then is some form of crisis, a crisis of the two Constitutions, a crisis towards which we are approaching if not yet hurtling, but which has no very good end available to us.”

We are currently in a Constitutional Civil War because Biden’s Build Back Better agenda isn’t moving forward and therefore Biden, his administration and the Democrat Party want to change how we think about our Constitution.

How Do We Solve this Constitutional Civil War?

Kesler outlined five possible ways to resolve this Constitutional civil war:

  1. One is to change the subject.
  2. Another is to change minds through persuasion, until one side wins.
  3. A third is a “reinvigorated federalism” that allows blue states and red states to address issues differently and coexist with minimal interference from the U.S. government.
  4. Secession.
  5. The fifth and final possibility—war.

Kesler warned,

The living Constitution implies that the other Constitution is a dead Constitution, or at least is on life support, and that it must be transformed, it must be infused with new meaning, new ends and to some degree new means and institutions, to be kept alive in order to be a vital part of our politics.

Are we headed toward a war?

The Bottom Line

President Woodrow Wilson was one of the first to use the term “living Constitution” to suggest it changes with the times.

According to Kesler the “Constitutional civil war” erupted when conservatives fought back:

The conservatives who began an epic campaign against the inevitable emergency of the living Constitution had in common the desire, the duty to oppose the gradual disappearance of limited government from American political life. When it became clear in the ’50s and especially in the ’60s that the surrender was off, the cold civil war was on.

Christopher DeMuth, a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute said:

The Trump administration has been a return to normalcy, at least [to] the situation before Obama or late Bush administration, and then some. Not only has the Trump administration withdrawn many of the Obama administration’s most brazen extrastatutory ventures such as the Clean Power Plan, but in two critical cases, President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals decree and his expenditure of billions of dollars for Obamacare cost-sharing expenditures without any congressional appropriation whatsoever, in these two cases, he has withdrawn them and sent them back to Congress.

It it time, like it was in the 1960s to fight and stop this idea of a living constitution than “is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights.”

This idea of a living constitution is a myth. A very dangerous myth that can and will lead to a civil war.

Mark our words, it’s coming. It’s a war between we the people and them the government. Just like during the American revolution!

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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The Biden presidency is crashing and burning.https://t.co/yQ7Pf1ep61

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) February 7, 2022

DeSantis, Republican Attorneys General To Launch Probe Into GoFundMe Over Freedom Convoy’s Fundraiser

By The Geller Report

One immediate action is revoke GoFundMe’s charitable foundation status. Clearly they are a political organization.

If you have a GoFundMe account – delete it.

Any AG not doing the same is an accessory to this crime https://t.co/WbU9n1LeFK

— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) February 6, 2022

DeSantis, Republican Attorneys General To Launch Probe Into GoFundMe Over Freedom Convoy’s Fundraiser

By Shakhzod Yuldoshboev, The Daily caller, February 05, 2022 5:13 PM ET

Top GOP officials, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and West Virginia and Louisiana attorneys general, vowed to investigate GoFundMe’s decision to refuse distribution of fundraiser donations to “Freedom Convoy 2022.”

“It is a fraud for @gofundme to commandeer $9M in donations sent to support truckers and give it to causes of their own choosing,” DeSantis tweeted Saturday, referring to the crowdfunding website’s initial plans to “send all remaining funds to credible and established charities.”

DeSantis promised to “investigate these deceptive practices,” stating that those who donated to the protests against the Canadian government’s COVID-19 mandate had to receive their money back.

It is a fraud for @gofundme to commandeer $9M in donations sent to support truckers and give it to causes of their own choosing.

I will work with @AGAshleyMoody to investigate these deceptive practices — these donors should be given a refund.

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 5, 2022

Republican Louisiana and West Virginia attorneys general have also called their constituents who donated to the Freedom Convoy to reach out to them, as the officials investigated the legality of the crowdfunding company’s actions.

“My office will be looking into whether or not #GoFundMe violated our state law. If you are a Louisiana donor to the #FreedomConvoy, please contact my #ConsumerProtection Section!” Jeff Landry, attorney general in Louisiana, said in a Saturday tweet.

“In WV, organizations must not deceive donors and engage in deceptive advertising practices. If you’ve been victimized by a deceptive act or practice, let us know!” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said.

GoFundMe announced Saturday a change of course, vowing to send the entire sum of remaining donations back to the donors “within 7-10 business days,” as opposed to the previous plans to redirect the funds to other charities.

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WATCH! Schools across America implement BLM Week of Action, calls for ‘disruption of Western nuclear family’

By The Geller Report

Sending your children to government schools is child abuse.

A school in DC forced kindergarteners to march around with BLM signs and chant “Black Lives Matter” pic.twitter.com/wGiuBY13Yg

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 4, 2022

Schools across America implement BLM Week of Action that calls for ‘disruption of Western nuclear family’

Week of action curriculum centers itself around 13 ‘Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles’

By Houston Keene | Fox News February 2, 2022:

Schools across America are implementing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action curriculum that calls for the “disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics.”

The week of action started on Monday in several schools from Washington state to Massachusetts, bringing to classrooms the activist-based curriculum that preaches controversial ideas.

According to the week of action “starter kit” published on the Black Lives Matter at School website, the group has a list of four “national demands” that include funding “counselors not cops” and mandating “Black History and Ethnic Studies” in classrooms.

Additionally, the week of action curriculum centers itself on the 13 “Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles,” which include concepts such as “Black Villages” and “Globalism.”

“Black Villages is the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other,” the starter kit reads. “Globalism is our ability to see how we are impacted or privileged within the Black global family that exists across the world in different regions.”

“Most rational thinkers agree that public schools should not be home to political activism, from any side of the political divide, but public schools across America, from Boston to Seattle, have opened their doors for activist teachings from the divisive Black Lives Matter political organization,” Parents Defending Education vice president of investigations Asra Nomani said in a statement.

“Under the cover of a week of action, called ‘Black Lives Matter at School,’ children as young as five years old are being trained how to be political activists,” Nomani continued. “What we are witnessing is state-sponsored political indoctrination, using coloring books, downloadable slide shows and contests to teach a next generation ‘social justice activism,’ in the program’s own words.”

“We need radicalization out of schools, especially as children struggle with learning loss from the pandemic, and reading, writing and arithmetic back in schools,” Nomani added.

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Biden’s Bolshevik Agenda

By Dr. Rich Swier

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill.


Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform” America. Obama, after passage of the Affordable Care Act, failed to turn America into a truly Bolshevik (a.k.a. socialist) country.

Biden, however, has fundamentally transformed America into a Bolshevik style government.

How do we know this?

In an August 17th, 2020 VOX article titled “This is the future Joe Biden wantsDylan Matthews wrote:

When I asked Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, what the former vice president’s plan for his first 100 days in office was, her response was blunt.

“Wouldn’t everybody like to know?”

Sanders was also being coy — in fact, she had just finished walking me through Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, an umbrella term that the campaign has been using for policies meant to aid the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.

Well Symone we all now know Biden’s plan.

We are now in the second year of the Biden administration and the second year of flattening the Covid-19 curve. Covid has mutated, no pun intended, from a curve to a crisis under Biden.

The fall is coming and we don’t know if we can stop Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

  • Food shortages are here.
  • Medical supplies shortages are here.
  • Water, electricity, gas are being shut randomly and for unknown periods of time, e.g. California.
  • The government has run out of money and we the people are being left to fend for ourselves.

QUESTIONS:

  • Have you seen any economic recovery or solution to the Covid crisis?
  • Have you seen Americans growing and prospering. Are you seeing your income go up and your taxes going down.
  • Have you seen your job secured and company expanding?
  • Have your been threatened if you don’t get jabbed you will lose your job?
  • Have you been told that to go to a restaurant you need proof that you have been vaccinated, e.g. a vaccine passport?
  • Are you fearful that globally tensions are rising and there’s a potential for war between Russian and Ukraine, China and Taiwan or between Iran and the West Bank and Israel?

What I have seen since the inauguration of Biden is ever expanding intrusions of government into my life, my family’s lives, our community, our state and our nation.

Biden’s advisers were telling New York magazine’s Gabriel Debenedetti that Biden wanted an “FDR-sized” administration. This means more centralized power in Washington, D.C., more regulation, more spending and the potential of getting into another World War.

Building Bolsheviks Agenda

As Mark J. Perry wrote:

As we’ve learned from countless examples throughout history, including now Venezuela, the main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: capitalism works.

Biden is anti-Capitalist. Biden has built, funded and expanded the powers of Bolsheviks in the government. Biden is going after the capitalists using the mantra of taxing the rich.

Bolsheviks were a radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin. Biden has surrounded himself with radical, far-left revolutionaries.

Biden is the new Lenin and his party, his administration and is cabinet are filled with radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist Bolsheviks bent on expanding government using the myths of: climate change, a Covid crisis, political opponents are insurrectionists and our enemies are now our friends.

If you don’t believe me then see how Biden’s Bolsheviks are treating our enemies like Iran, China, North Korea, Russia and the Palestinian Authority. Contrast that with what the previous administration did to keep or enemies at bay with sanctions, tariffs and policies that put Americans and America first.

The Bottom Line

Biden’s Bolsheviks are anti-Capitalism. Biden wants more government control over you, me, businesses, the media and the independent states of America.

Remember what Ayn Rand wrote about America’s abundance:

America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to “the common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance—and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

Under Biden America’s abundance is waning and in jeopardy. 

While Biden’s poll numbers are in the toilet, he and his administration is still flushing our economy, national security, healthcare system down the drain.

This will not change unless Republicans take back the House and Senate on November 8th, 2022. This is the last best hope to stop Biden’s Bolsheviks in Congress and at the local, county and state levels.

Conservative Republicans can and must fundamentally undo everything that Biden’s Bolsheviks have done.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

WATCH: Cowboys Join Truckers Freedom Convoy

By The Geller Report

How perfect! The cavalry has arrived.

BREAKING: A hundred Canadian cowboys just showed up to the blockade in Alberta pic.twitter.com/ZL4IxnMO6h

— Truckistan Amb. Poso 🏁 (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2022

More cowboys have arrived!

Confession – I am terribly afraid of horses. But I will still be getting up close to get a comment about the rodeo coming to Coutts!

Help our independent journalism at https://t.co/NxAr5V5Iko pic.twitter.com/nGgZZphA1j

— K2 (@kiansimone44) February 5, 2022

we have the best cowboys dont we folks https://t.co/zOR4xbGghv

— Truckistan Amb. Poso 🏁 (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2022

Wow! https://t.co/FN9IbcvQHZ

— Truckistan Amb. Poso 🏁 (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2022

Supporters of the truckers convoy joining the protest on horseback in Ottawa. The city is electric right now. #TruckersForFreedom2020 https://t.co/8hpC710hZK pic.twitter.com/YL3Hy8KdSG

— Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) February 5, 2022

Politics aside, the simple truth is this: if a nation of truckers were to strike for just two weeks, it would be a stunning catastrophe. Most people have no idea how essential these hard-working people are to our survival.

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 5, 2022

RELATED TWEET: Canada has now officially become a totalitarian police state.

NEW: Ottawa Police Chief Provides Update On How Law Enforcement Is Identifying & Targeting Protestors & Supporters of Protestors Who Fund Them For Prosecution… pic.twitter.com/kl4x9Rxfti

— Covid-1984 (@Orwells_Ghost_) February 4, 2022

RELATED VIDEO: Florida’s Ron DeSantis supports the Canadian Freedom Trucker’s Protest!

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Tell Your Family, Friends and Church Leaders about the Religious Liberty Coalition!

By Dr. Rich Swier

“Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.” – John Adams, Letter to Benjamin Rush

“To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.” – Ronald Reagan, Address to Alabama State Legislature


Those who believe in the God of Abraham are under assault in America. In 2021 there was a record-breaking 360 million Christians persecuted globally.

John Cody from Remix News reported:

In 2021, almost 6,000 Christians were killed due to their religion. The number increased by 24 percent compared to the previous year, when less than 5,000 cases were recorded. Eight out of ten Christians killed were from Nigeria.

The number of closed, attacked, or destroyed churches has also increased by more than 600 cases. According to the organization, the number of detained Christians for religious reasons increased by 44%.

Today, Islam and Islamists are more protected in America than Christians and Jews. Anyone criticizing Islam is labeled Islamophobic, yet no one who criticizes Christianity is a labeled Chritianphobic. Why is that?

Does the First Amendment only pertain to non-Christians? Is not freedom of religious beliefs only apply to Muslims but not to Jews and Christian?

Why are so many Christians and Jews persecuted in Muslim majority countries?

Who is helping protect our religious liberties?

The Religious Liberty Coalition

The Religious Liberty Coalition is one organization that is doing more to protect religious liberties than the Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Evangelical and other Christian denomination churches in America.

The Religious Liberty Coalition  website asks you to:

Join a robust coalition of like-minded ministry leaders from all around the United States who are standing for religious liberty and freedom.

It is time that ministry leaders take a stand from their pulpits to defend religious liberty. Ask your church leader is they have joined the Religious Liberty Coalition. If they have not ask them to do so. Tell your fellow Christians and Jewish leaders to do the same.

Ronald Reagan, Remarks at Conference on Religious Liberty said:

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.

If our religious liberties are lost then everything is lost. Destroy the First Amendment then all other amendments of the U.S. Constitution become null and voided by government.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

South Africa – A Commie Disgrace

By Save America Foundation

Foreword by Fred Brownbill. Being an African born and bred and having lived in South Africa, and in fact finished my education there, I have amazing memories about a totally civilized country, well run and extremely wealthy, in fact the powerhouse of Africa. Unfortunately, since handing it to the ANC, the country has gone to hell and is looking for a place deeper than that. The communist run government is corrupt and filled with evil doers, not many of whom give a thought to the poor people they govern with a rod of iron even as their economy tanks. As usual the leadership is rolling in money while the population gets poorer daily.

When I read the article below it kinda epitomized everything bad in the world today. Not just in SA but here as well where we have a leadership intent on destroying our country and our economy, all while the upper leadership get obscenely wealthier as the middle class is destroyed.


‘Forced by law’: former South African chief justice apologizes for pro-Israel comments

Former South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has apologized regarding his comments defending Israel, despite having said repeatedly that he would never do so.

“I, Mogoeng Mogoeng, the former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, hereby apologize unconditionally for becoming involved in political controversy through my utterances at the online seminar (webinar) hosted by the Jerusalem Post on 23 June 2020, in which I participated,” he said Thursday in a statement.

“I am now forced by the law — the order of the lawfully constituted appeal panel of the judicial conduct committee — to apologize unconditionally in terms of the prescribed apology. And because I am not above the law, I hereby apologize as ordered.”

During the June 2020 webinar, however, in discussion with South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Mogoeng said:

“I’m under an obligation as a Christian to love Israel, to pray for [the] peace of Jerusalem, which actually means the peace of Israel, and I cannot, as I Christian, do anything other than love and pray for Israel, because I know, hatred for Israel by me and for my nation, can only attract unprecedented curses upon our nation.”

The anti-Israel group Africa4Palestine, the South African branch of the BDS movement, filed a complaint over the chief justice’s comments, accusing him of breaching the judicial code of conduct.

Last month, South Africa’s Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee gave Mogoeng 10 days to make an “unconditional apology for becoming involved in political controversy.”

“I respect the law. I will not defy the law. But if it does come to the point where I am forced to do the abominable, or I am forced to reject God, then I would rather be without money, be without any position. I will never refuse to obey the Lord,” Mogoeng, who served as chief justice until his retirement from the position in October 2021, said.

“If I get to the point where there is a judgment that says, ‘You must say you hate Israel and the Jews’, I would rather cease to be Chief Justice.

“If I get to the point where they say, ‘Mogoeng, you must say you hate the Palestinians and Palestine,’ I would rather cease to be Chief Justice than to do it…

“I will not apologize for anything. There is nothing to apologize for…I can’t apologize for loving. I can’t apologize for not harboring hatred and bitterness.”

©Fred Brownbill. All rights reserved.

European Nations Are Dismantling the COVID State Before Our Eyes. Will the U.S. Follow?

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

Denmark took the lead in Europe this week, scrapping virtually all pandemic restrictions as the Scandinavian country of 5 million announced it no longer considers COVID-19 “a socially critical disease.”

Denmark’s move came the same week that health ministers in the United Kingdom announced plans to terminate an order forcing all NHS staff to get vaccinated against COVID, a move The Guardian said is designed to “prevent an exodus of thousands of frontline health workers.” The move came days after the UK scrapped its school mask mandate.

Not to be outdone, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin recently told reporters the country would be retiring COVID passports and, according to Reuters, aims “to remove all restrictions at the start of next month.”

Meanwhile, public health officials in Norway also said the country would be lifting nearly all of its COVID restrictions, including COVID tests at the border. Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told reporters that even though COVID infections remain high, hospitalizations have stabilized and most citizens have some protection from the virus because of previous infections and vaccination.

“Even if many more people are becoming infected, there are fewer who are hospitalised,” Stoere explained. “We’re well protected by vaccines. This means that we can relax many measures even as infections are rising rapidly.”

The Czech Republic, meanwhile, recently scrapped its vaccine mandate, while several provinces in Spain also ditched virtually all COVID restrictions after a study conducted by the Public Health Observatory of Cantabria found vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals transmit the virus at similar rates.

IT’S HAPPENING!

Finland has announced they will be REMOVING all restrictions later this month.

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) February 1, 2022

Not all European nations have scrapped their COVID policies, however. In fact, some appear intent to move in the opposite direction.

Austria, for example, is becoming the first European country to make COVID vaccination compulsory for all adults. Greece, meanwhile, has announced it will fine adults over 60 who do not comply with vaccination; and Germany’s incoming chancellor, Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, has indicated he will support a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

In Belgium, authorities have only grudgingly begun to rollback COVID restrictions, despite protests in Brussels of some 50,000 who gathered to oppose the state’s mandates.

“I’m angry about the blackmail that the government is doing,” protester Caroline van Landuyt told Reuters.

The rally in Brussels ended with police using tear gas and a water cannon to disperse those who’d assembled in protest, culminating in 60 people being arrested and 12 protesters being taken to hospital (as well as three police officers).

Why are many European nations dismantling their COVID restrictions while others are ramping up new mandates? While many are loath to admit it, it’s becoming increasingly clear that state attempts to control the virus have failed miserably.

A new Johns Hopkins metaanalysis, for instance, found that the lockdowns many countries embraced were a massive failure, resulting in “little to no effect” on COVID mortality, even though they came with immense collateral damage. A United Nations report published last year noted that COVID disruptions resulted in some 239,000 “maternal and child deaths” in South Asia alone, while the US saw a record number of drug overdoses, a surge in youth suicide, and an unprecedented drop in cancer screenings that will be felt for years to come.

While the vaccines have helped reduce COVID deaths and hospitalizations, they have done little to slow the spread of COVID, in large part because of the nature of Omicron, which is highly transmissible.

A committee of scientists who advised the regional government of Catalonia pointed out that Omicron, which has a high rate of transmission even before carriers experience an onset of symptoms, has rendered vaccine passports largely ineffective at reducing transmission because vaccinated individuals spread the virus at similar rates to unvaccinated ones.

“The effectiveness of the compulsory use of the Covid certificate is reduced as an extra level of security,” the scientists noted.

In other words, vaccines can protect individuals because they can reduce the likelihood of hospitalization or death from COVID, but they do little to slow or stop transmission. This makes vaccines primarily a matter of personal health, not public health.

BREAKING : Sweden is expected to announce tomorrow that they will be REMOVING all restrictions on the 9th of February.

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) February 2, 2022

It takes incredible arrogance for lawmakers and bureaucrats to assume they know what is best for individuals. But that quality—arrogance—is precisely what we’ve seen since the very beginning of this pandemic.

“To think one can [suppress] a very contagious respiratory virus is stupid and arrogant,” Harvard epidemologist Martin Kulldorff recently noted on Twitter. “We need leaders that are smart and humble.”

To think one can supress a very contagious respiratory virus is stupid and arrogant. We need leaders that are smart and humble.

— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) February 2, 2022

The last word there—humble—is important.

In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize entitled The Pretense of Knowledge, the economist F.A. Hayek warned that a lack of humility could lead modern man “to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order.” With the power of the state at his fingertips, combined with his command of the sciences, Hayek feared modern man would fail to realize that there are limits to his knowledge and to his ability to shape society effectively.

“There is danger in the exuberant feeling of ever growing power which the advance of the physical sciences has engendered and which tempts man to try, ‘dizzy with success’, to use a characteristic phrase of early communism, to subject not only our natural but also our human environment to the control of a human will,” Hayek noted.

Hayek concluded his remarks with a warning. The student of society should learn “a lesson of humility” by recognizing “the insuperable limits to his knowledge.” If he failed this test of humility, the fatal striving to control society stood to make man “a tyrant over his fellows…[and] the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.”

Hayek’s fear, one presumes, was of socialism. The COVID state, however, was born of the same hubris—the belief that central planners could use the power of the state to suppress and vanquish a highly contagious respiratory virus, something never tried before in human history.

Regrettably, yet predictably, the COVID state failed, and its mad experiment caused grave damage to society and science. Many European countries are finally accepting this reality, at least tacitly. But as for the Biden administration, it’s still unclear whether they understand the crux of the problem.

On Wednesday, the US Army announced soldiers who refuse vaccination for COVID-19 will be discharged—regardless of whether they’ve already had COVID (which the CDC admits offers powerful protection from the virus).

Many US Army soldiers will be left with a bitter choice, just like Katharina Teufel-Lieli, an Austrian musician who is one of tens of thousands in that country who have joined demonstrations to resist making the COVID vaccine compulsory.

Austrians face fines up to $4,100 if they don’t comply with the government’s order, but Teufel-Lieli says she’ll not bow to the pressure.

“I have the right to decide over my body… to simply say ‘no,’” the harpist recently told Agence France-Presse at her home near Salzburg.

Fortunately, more and more people in Europe and beyond are beginning to agree with her.

COLUMN BY

Jon Miltimore

Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.

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Billboards Call Out Cuellar for Refusing to Sign Term Limits Pledge

By U.S. Term Limits

SAN ANTONIO, TX /PRNewswire/ — U.S. Term Limits is calling out Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) for refusing to sign the U.S. Term Limits pledge that promises to co-sponsor the U.S. Term Limits amendment for congressional term limits in a series of billboards in his district. The introduced amendment calls for 6 years total in the U.S. House of Representatives and 12 years maximum in the U.S. Senate. The billboards are meant to educate the voters of the district about Cuellar’s adamant refusal to support congressional term limits. Recent polling by RMG Research shows 84% of likely Democratic voters in his district favor congressional term limits. Cuellar’s Democratic opponent in the primary, Jessica Cisneros has signed the pledge. The polling also shows that when Democratic primary voters are made aware that Cisneros supports congressional term limits and Cuellar does not, she surges to a lead over Cuellar who has consistently refused to sign the term limits pledge.

House Joint Resolution 12 (HJR12) has 77 House members on board. Support is expected to exceed 100 members in the next session of Congress. The U.S. Term Limits amendment has been introduced in Congress calling for six years total in the U.S. House of Representatives and twelve years maximum in the U.S. Senate. Senate Joint Resolution 3 (SJR3) has 16 sponsors and cosponsors.

“Since entering office in 2005, Henry Cuellar has refused to sign the term limits pledge despite the fact that his constituents favor congressional term limits,” said Nicolas Tomboulides, Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits. “These billboards are meant to educate voters of the 28th District that Representative Cuellar does not support congressional term limits.

“Congressional term limits is not a Democratic or Republican issue, it is an American issue,” concluded Tomboulides. “In this polarized political environment, the need for congressional term limits is the one issue all Americans agree on except for Henry Cuellar.”

©U.S. Term Limits. All rights reserved.

SISSY WATCH USA: NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Harvard’s Institute of Politics

By Dr. Rich Swier

SISSY: an effeminate man or boy also : a timid, weak, or cowardly person.


The culture warrior’s favorite weapon is a myth called “social justice.”

This is not equal justice under the law, but is an effort to give justice to a few at the expense of the many.

Social justice takes many forms: from the Black Lives Matter riots, to the police targeting one race, to defunding the police activists, to the branding of one group as “racists” to the teaching of social justice programs in our colleges and universities.

This edition of Sissy Watch USA is dedicated to two individuals and one university who are complicit in creating and atmosphere of “justice for me but not for thee.”

Both of our sissies are black. That’s a fact not a racial slur.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams

Newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer bragged about targeting White people when he was a police officer. Adams clearly stated, “Every day in the police department I kicked those crackers ass.”

Watch:

#NYC Mayor Eric Adams brags about targeting White people when he was a police officer: “Every day in the police department I kicked those crackers ass” pic.twitter.com/k76790LxAd

— ELMER⚔️FUDD ⚔️✝️pureblood✝️⚔️ (@Elmr_Fudd_again) February 4, 2022

Now New York has a mayor who hates whites and crackers asses, and he doesn’t mean those Saltines crackers asses made by Nabisco, no pun intended.

Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Brittany Packnett Cunningham is a social justice activist, an MSNBC legal analyst and the co-founder of Campaign Zero. Cunningham was a member of President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and was Executive Director for Teach for America in St. Louis, Missouri.

Teach for America lists it’s challenge as:

Potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, but in America today, opportunity is not. Teach For America is working to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, grow, influence, and lead.

Teach for America clearly wants equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. What we do now is that black children suffer more because they are highly likely to come from a broken family than not. This simple fact greatly impacts both their potential and opportunities to succeed.

Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing had the following mission:

The mission of the Executive Order was clear: The Task Force shall, consistent with applicable law, identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to the President on how policing practices can promote effective crime reduction while building public trust.

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The task force generated 59 recommendations with 92 action items.

Read the full Task Force on 21st Century Policing report.

Underlying themes of the Task Force were:

  1. Change the culture of policing.
  2. Embrace community policing.
  3. Ensure fair and impartial policing.
  4. Build community capital.
  5. Pay attention to officer wellness and safety.
  6. Technology.

The Task Force also had recommendations. For example, Recommendation 1.2 Law enforcement agencies should acknowledge the role of policing in past and present injustice and discrimination and how it is a hurdle to the promotion of community trust.

Recently MSNBC legal analyst Brittany Packnett Cunningham said on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022, on “The ReidOut” that the slogan Make America Great Again reflected a desire to return to “days when you could lynch or murder black folks.”

So, Cunningham has fully embraces injustice and discrimination against anyone and everyone who supports making America great, again.

Clearly Cunningham was indeed trained by Michele Obama, as it says on her t-shirt.

Harvard University’s Institute of Politics

Why did we included Harvard’s Institute of Politics in this edition of Sissy Watch USA?

On September 22nd, 2020 Harvard’s Institute of Politics hosted a virtual study group with IOP Fellow Brittany Packnett Cunningham.

According to the study group “Radical Imagination at the Grassroots” overview:

We know the phrase, “all politics is local.” Still, we rarely interrogate the trajectory of local politics and the grassroots organizing that transforms it. As the struggle for racial justice expands across the world, new hotspots of protest and focus have emerged, while cities that were ground zeroes in previous years have engaged in long term fights against police violence and the carceral state. In this session, we will first explore this concept of the radical imagination that will guide our series, and then continue on to explore the wins-and the wins that became losses-that cities like Ferguson and Los Angeles have experienced that have informed the seemingly quick transformations of cities like Minneapolis. If abolition is possible-how can it come to be?

According to the book The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity by Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish:

The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change.

This sounds very much like Obama’s fundamentally transforming America mantra. It also reflects Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

The Bottom Line

What we are seeing in politics, in our law enforcement, in our public schools and in such prestigious institutions as Harvard University are concerted efforts to fundamentally produce a new world order and a generation built upon the goal of fundamentally transforming mankind into a dystopian mythical radical imagined world.

WATCH: ‘Our Schools Are Being Turned Into Indoctrination Camps’:

They are fanning the flames of the discontent of their own making in order to light the spark which has burned U.S. cities like Ferguson, Missouri and Los Angeles, California to the ground.

Gird your loins we’re in for a rocky racist ride ahead.

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Why My Pillow’s Headache Could Become Your Nightmare

By Martin Mawyer

Here’s this week’s Shout Out Patriots Show:

Snowflake Nazis are here. And their motto is: No Coin for You!

When two banks last month told My Pillow guy, Mike Lindell, to take his accounts elsewhere, it made national news. Of course, the media loves to gloat when bad things happen to American-loving Patriots.

For many Americans, this news shocked them. Can a bank really close an account based on the customer’s political point of view or activities?

Who could blame Moms and Pops if they rightfully started to worry, “Do I risk my bank account being closed because I posted something on Facebook?”

Well, the fear should run much deeper than that!

It’s not just a person’s bank account that could be closed due to their political views, but credit cards could be canceled, insurance companies dropped, and much more.

Remember the Soup Nazi on the Jerry Seinfeld show? He would famously disparage unruly customers by shouting, “No soup for YOU!”

Now enters the Snowflake Nazis, who have a hatefully similar slogan if you’re a conservative, “No coin for YOU!” Their goal is to bankrupt Patriots.

And they mean business.

How do I know?

Because at Christian Action Network, we’ve been the victim of these ‘Take your business and shove it’ efforts many times over!

Throughout the past several years, we’ve been booted out the door by Global Payment Systems (a credit card merchant service), QuickBooks, Discover Card, and an insurance company — all because they woke up one day and found our religious views objectionable.

Last summer, we were notified by BB&T Bank, which we’ve done business with for over 20 years, that they closed our account.

Who are these Snowflake Nazis? I hope you want to know.

We have the answers and expose them on our recent episode of Shout Out Patriots.

Here’s why you need to take a look:

When Discover Card tells Christian Action Network that it cannot receive donations from cardholders, they are also telling the customer who they can donate to…and even what they can buy, based on their religious, political, or constitutional views.

What happens when Discover Card (or any other credit card company, for that matter) doesn’t want you to buy a gun?

It’s easy to see where all this is going.

Suppose the Snowflake Nazis target YOUR house of worship because they object to your pastor’s religious views on gay marriage or abortion. Will they convince Discover Card to deny donations to your church? Will they convince the church’s bank to kick them out?

We have a lot to say about this and a lot to expose.

Take a watch or listen on this episode of Shout Out Patriots.

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