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Islam is the Enemy of Freedom
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani A great irony of the age is that the seemingly most diehard proponents of freedom— the useful idiots of our time—are the most dangerous unwitting accomplices of liberty’s enemy—Islam. Keep in mind that the very name “Islam” is a derivation of “taslim,” the Arabic word for “surrender,” surrender to the will and […]
Real Men are Irreplaceable
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Elizabeth A. Mitchell: The role of real men on the front lines of the culture war is irreplaceable because the battle is for the soul of humanity. My father was a boy during the London Blitz. My grandfather recounts how one day he drove into London to find his office building in […]
To Future Generations of Americans
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer This commentary aims to address the future generation. The time to keep silent has passed and the time to speak the truth […]
The Rise Of The Islamocrats
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani Muslims are embraced by the left as a natural ally, as illegal aliens and blacks have been for decades. More than 90 Muslims, nearly all of them Democrats, are running for public office across the country this year. Many are young and politically inexperienced, and most are long shots. According to the Pew report, fully two […]
Personal Statement: I have merged with the Center for the Study of Political Islam International
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Bill Warner This column is different than ones I have published before in that it is a personal statement. I have been on the frontlines of the defense against Political Islam for almost 20 years. It has been my pleasure during this time to meet, to know and to work with some of the most […]
New York Had 72 Antisemitic Assaults, Florida Had 1
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch New York had 580 antisemitic incidents making it the highest in the country. In news from the Florida Sun-Sentinel. Antisemitic incidents surge in Florida, growing more than nationwide. – Sun Sentinel Those South Florida incidents, from the early weeks of 2022, were at the beginning of a surge that produced the highest annual […]
VIDEO: Ex-Jesuit ‘Alberto Rivera’ Discusses The Infiltration Of The Jesuits by Communists
/in DrRichSwier.com, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier BACKGROUND: Alberto Magno Romero Rivera (1935 – 1997). Alberto was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick’s stories about the Vatican. Chick promised to promote Alberto’s claims even after he died. Rivera claimed to have been a Jesuit before becoming a Fundamentalist […]
The Missing Moderate Muslims
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani I keep hoping that the purported peace-loving moderate Muslims are indeed the great majority who would prove me right by demonstrating their peacefulness and moderation in action. Thus far, only a faint murmur of equivocation is all that I hear from these people. “I am already against the next war”, read the […]
3 Questions to Shape a Biblical Perspective on the Nashville Shooting
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council On Sunday, March 26, Reverend Chad Scruggs faithfully preached God’s Word from John 12:36-50 to Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, extolling 1) God’s plan in the Jews’ rejection of Jesus and 2) Jesus’s subsequent glory. On Monday, March 27, his nine-year-old daughter Hallie was one of six people shot dead at the church’s Christian […]
How a Truly Catholic President Would Speak
/in DrRichSwier.com, Gun Rights, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Michael Pakaluk: All Americans must take responsibility for the common good, which is our nation’s culture. You cannot change the world. But you can change your own life. Off the record – before his speech begins – to the press corps: “I would ordinarily be enjoying an ice cream cone right now […]
The Real State of The Union
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics, Regulation, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report “In a very brief time, we all but have destroyed the downtowns of our major cities—which will increasingly become vacant in a manner like the 6th-century A.D. Roman forum.” — Victor Davis Hanson, quote from Life Among the Ruins. A must read from American’s great political philosopher, Victor Davis Hanson. By Victor […]
Scotland Gets It’s First Muslim Leader Who Delivered Tirade Against ‘Too Many Whites’ in Scottish Government
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Back In 2021, thanks to the newly elected Scottish leader Humza Yousaf (then Justice Minister) legislation was put in place that would allow citizens to be arrested for dinner conversations that had in their our own homes, if anyone feels there is “hate” involved. The bill is nothing more than a […]
Giving New Heart to the Wounded
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Note: The following text is a slightly edited version of remarks that the author gave recently at the Catholic Information Center in Washington D.C. to mark the publication of her book Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited, with an introduction by the late Cardinal George Pell. – Robert Royal Mary Eberstadt: As pressure mounts on […]
Islam: From the Delusional to the Dangerous
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani “We are our beliefs,” it is said. Beliefs steer people in life. Some beliefs are harmless, some are the motive force for good, and yet others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous. Every version of the belief called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous. Islam is a Grand Delusion, […]
ZOA Accuses Biden’s Handlers of Planning to Train, Equip and Deploy Palestinian Terrorists in Judea and Samaria
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch The Biden administration is either dangerously naïve or worse. It is presenting this plan under the pretext of helping to curb terrorism in Judea and Samaria, yet ZOA says this “unconscionable and illegal plan” would aid Palestinian jihadists. Meanwhile, another report has exposed the U.S. State Department’s funding of an anti-Netanyahu Leftist […]
TRUE ISRAELI HERO: Wounded Shooting Victim (and former U.S Marine) Fires Back at Terrorist, Saves Family
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier It’s a downright miracle that this hero lived. The Biden Administration resumed American tax-dollar funded aid to the terrorist Palestinian Authority. Since then, Israelis have been under siege by Palestinian terrorists. Call your member of Congress and demand that all U.S aid to the Palestinian Authority is stopped. The aid is used to […]
A Walking Miracle
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Recently I met a man who is a “walking miracle.” A survivor of a horrible accident, 55-year-old Danny Yamashiro, a pastor’s son and native of Hawaii, is grateful for every day of life. Danny’s website tells what happened: “At 18, he survived a deadly 400 foot fall from the famed Pali […]
But, What If…?
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Bud Hancock All my life I have considered myself to be a ‘problem-solver’. I have always enjoyed finding something, especially a power tool or other useful object, that is broken or has stopped working and is in need of repair. It really gets my juices flowing and my mental faculties focused on finding a […]
NY: Muslim told cops ‘I will crucify Yonkers cops and their bosses. It will be a horror scene…Allahu Ekberr’
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch He also called for “jihad” and “war against non-Muslims.” Why haven’t the multitudes of moderate Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. gone to Yonkers to explain to Ridon Kola how he is misunderstanding the Religion of Peace? Meanwhile, where did Kola get this crucifixion idea? Could it have been from here? “The only […]
Imagining a Heretical President
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing John Horvat II: Calling a Catholic president heretical clears the air around debate by dispelling the theatrics surrounding “Catholic” figures who betray Church teaching. Bishop Thomas Paprocki recently pointed to a crisis in the Church with his article “Imagining a Heretical Cardinal.” The learned canon lawyer masterfully laid out his case by quoting the […]
New Gallup Poll: Majority of Democrats’ Side With ‘Palestinians’, Support Hits Record Highs, Israel Support Plummets
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Democrat party of Jew hatred. The Democrats have had a problem with antisemitism for some time. The left hates the Jews. The power of propaganda. “Palestinianism” is a genocidal Jew hating movement. Democrats’ Sympathies in Middle East Shift to Palestinians By Lydia Saad Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis for […]
Saint Patrick from Irish Slave to Irish Saint
/in DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption.” — Stephen Gwynn On Saint Patrick’s Day 2023 it is only fitting and proper to understand the true story […]
MICHIGAN: Guess Who is Detroit’s Bloomfield Hills High School Diversity Expert?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy W.O. Williams The diversity expert is Huwaida Arraf 47 year-old Democrat born in Detroit to Palestinian Christian parents. She is US citizen but caries also an Israeli passport. As a Palestinian American activist and lawyer co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), “a Radical Palestinian-led organization suggests using non-violent protests and international pressure to support […]
Jesus Revolution Producer: ‘I’ve Never Seen Such a Profound Response to a Movie’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Jon Erwin happened to be doing research for another movie when he stumbled on the iconic cover of Time Magazine from June 21, 1971. A copy in good condition goes for about $2,000 on eBay today, but Jon managed to snatch one up in 2015 — years before his movie made […]
Is the Church Committing Perjury?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Bud Hancock 2 Timothy 3:5, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of […]
Two Commentaries on the McElroy Controversies
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Note: Two articles by Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego have caused a major stir in the American Church, even leading another American bishop, Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, to “imagine a heretical cardinal” quoting from, without naming, McElroy. Much further commentary has occurred, and much more is needed, which is […]
The Francis Effect, Ten Years On
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Robert Royal: It’s painful for a Catholic to have to say it, but needs saying out of fidelity to the truth: the Francis Effect has resulted in a Church that has not, as hoped, attracted people from outside and has left those within even more confused and divided. Exactly ten years ago […]
Pope Francis Declares ‘Gender Ideology’ As ‘Dangerous’ To Civilization
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Pope Francis said in an interview published Friday that “gender ideology” is among the “most dangerous ideological colonizations” today, according to a recent interview with La Nacion, an Argentinian media outlet. The pope has made waves recently with some of his comments on LGBTQ issues, most recently saying that homosexuality, while […]
UK Punishes ‘Thought Crime’ of Praying Silently at Abortion Facilities
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council British police will continue to arrest Christians for the crime of praying within hundreds of feet of an abortion facility, after the U.K. Parliament voted down an amendment that would have legalized “silent prayer” — a situation Christians have described as a “dystopian” ban on pro-life “thoughtcrime.” On Tuesday, Members of […]
U.S. State Department Funds Leftist Group Behind Chaotic Protests in Israel Against Netanyahu
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch A disturbing revelation exposes that “the State Department has granted tens of thousands of dollars to a left-wing group,” the Movement for Quality Government (MQG), which is “behind protests in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” The Washington Examiner reports: During the years 2020, 2021, and 2022, MQG pocketed roughly $10,000 to $15,000 […]