Good Friday, Then And Now

 

A photo showing several New York City skyscrapers emblazoned with bright crosses, formed by lights in each building being turned on to form the holy Christian symbol outlined against the darkness of unlit rooms and the night sky surrounding them, has recently resurfaced on social media. The three crosses measured roughly 150 feet in height.

The year was 1956. The date was April 5^th. Good Friday.

How times have changed.

Sixty-seven years later, an Oregon woman was (allegedly) denied permission to adopt a child because she is a Christian. (In days of yore, when a child needed to be adopted, a common thought was that he or she would be best off if put “in a nice Christian family.” We’ve come full circle in just two or three generations.)

And Walter Reed National Military Medical Center issued a “cease and desist order” to Holy Name College, a community of Franciscan Catholic priests and brothers, who have provided pastoral care to service members and veterans at Walter Reed for nearly two decades. Entering Easter Holy Week. Walter Reed dispensed with the Catholic priests in favor of a secular defense contracting firm.

Moreover, “On Easter Sunday (April 9^th),” according to an Eventbrite post, “the Los Angeles LGBT Center” was scheduled to host “the all-ages Drag March LA—mobilizing against the oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ tidal wave in America.” Say what? There is an oppressive anti-Christian tidal wave-- being launched in part by transgenders in this country-- but the LGBTQ Community is sacrosanct, while transgenderism is the hottest fad and coolest religion going today.

Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently repealed the state’s near-total abortion ban, dating back to a 1931 statute, guaranteeing that abortion-on-demand will remain legal for the foreseeable future.

She proudly stated: “Today, we’re going to take action to make sure that our statutes and our laws reflect our values and our constitution.” She added that ongoing efforts to ban abortion in other states were “un-American, anti-free and, frankly, sickening.”

Preventing the wholesale slaughter of the very innocents you’ve created is sickening? Actually, I can’t think of a more sickening statement than that, but, what-the-hell, Whitmer was allegedly re-elected by a majority of 54%-44% about five months ago, so most voters in the Wolverine State must be pro-baby-slaughter.    

And Democratic governors in states such as Oregon, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, California, and Minnesota proudly preside over their fiefdoms and often trumpet their liberal abortion laws.

Anti-Christian bigotry— and outright hatred—is rapidly rising across the fruited plain. Marxist/Fascist beliefs and policies are aiding and abetting the assault.

All of this has-- not coincidentally—occurred simultaneously with a collapse in Americans intelligence, at least as measured by IQ scores. The finding of a rapid decline in intelligence should not be a shock to anyone, given that many now profess to believe that men can become women and vice-versa. (The dumbing down of America was presaged by the public education system opting for indoctrination over education and edification and the mainstream media trading objectivity for agenda-driven “reporting.”)

I have never been a proselytizer, but when Christians are confronted by aggressive, intolerant idealogues who mock our belief in a “sky daddy,” we need to push back and set the record straight.

As believers, we may be challenged to explain the existence of God.

Those who don’t believe, however, have to explain the existence of absolutely everything else.

New York City Ponders Asylum Seeker Blueprint For Illegal Aliens

 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has a plan to deal with the massive influx of illegal immigrants. He should have a plan, one would think, because the Big Apple is a “Sanctuary City.”  So, what is his plan? Adams wants to send them elsewhere—anywhere else—by bribing them with the promise of free college and housing.

His plan, the “Asylum Seeker Blueprint,” would involve a partnership between the State University of New York and the nonprofit Center for Discovery. If put into place, the plan would “offer asylum seekers the opportunity to relocate to Sullivan County, attend SUNY Sullivan Community College, live in college residence halls and earn a post-secondary credential or degree.” Sullivan Community College is more than 100 miles away from New York City-- and Mayor Adams.

 

The city is also working on additional plans to “resettle” the illegal immigrants in other municipalities, yet officials stress that these are just plans for now, and that they may be altered—or never actually implemented.

 

Some Sanctuary City for illegals. Typically empty woke virtue-signaling.

“If you will just get the hell out of town, we will give you free tuition to a college anywhere at least 100 miles from here. Have a good education! Love you guys!” 

 

News Stories Three You Otherwise Might Not See

News Stories Three You Otherwise Might Not See

 

*Jessica Bates, a single mother of five, recently filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services for allegedly denying her adoption application due to her Christian religious beliefs, according to a press release from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The press release stated that Bates attempted to apply with the department to adopt children in 2022. It added that her application was (allegedly) denied because her Christian beliefs would not allow her to “respect, accept, and support … the sexual orientation, gender identity, [and] gender expression” of the children in her care as the department’s adoption regulations require. It was not that long ago that it was considered a very good thing if parents wishing to adopt children possessed Christian values. Placing kids with a “good, loving, Christian family” was a thing. No longer, apparently. Progress?

*As it does annually at this time of year, the Returning to the Mount movement announced that it was offering rewards of tens of thousands of shekels for anyone who attempts or succeeds to sacrifice a Paschal lamb on the Temple Mount. Rafael Morris, the head of the Returning to the Mount movement, was recently detained by police on suspicion of doing just that. The officers who detained Morris informed him that they were going to search his home as well. If America’s Democrats had their druthers, they would set the lambs free and gleefully sacrifice Trump and his supporters, and traditional Christians in general.

 

*The “Associated Students of the University of Nevada at Reno” (ASUN), the university's student government, recently hosted a “Wolf Pack Drag Show” featuring drag show performer “Monique Heart.” An Instagram post advertising the annual event encouraged students and community members to attend the affair and experience "empowering performances" and to "bring one-dollar bills" to "tip & support" the performers. Yes, and encourage kids to bring their lunch money. Wieners or tuna tacos, kids? Or both! Yum! Maybe children who’ve lost a tooth could place it in a drag queen’s g-string. That would give new meaning to the term “tooth fairy!” Even better, perhaps the kids could get more than, say, a dollar for their lost tooth. Maybe the fairy could bring them a new crotch! Yay!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Bias Reaching Preposterous Levels

 

Donald Trump’s post-indictment speech from Mar-a-Lago was broadcast nationwide, but ABC decided to blur out Trump’s podium, which gave the audience a number to text so they could receive official campaign notifications. It is sadly typical of the mainstream American media to try to erase reality. It would simply be pathetic if such a large percentage of the populace weren’t utterly ignorant of history and current affairs. But that is just the way Democrats like them. Need them to be, in fact. If the vast majority of people had a clue, Democrats would rarely ascend to power. (This explains the public school system.)

Fake news is all too real. No one in the legacy media has blurred out a message on a podium at which a Democrat was speaking. Yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if an unofficially state-affiliated outlet blurred out Trump’s face or utilized a computer-generated image (CGI) to add a chin wart and devil horns to his head when next he speaks before a national audience. Conversely, it is entirely plausible that one will enlarge and enhance any message on a podium at which a Democrat is speaking, while placing a CGI of a halo over his or her head.

The Fourth Estate abandoned its supposed objectivity and picked sides long ago. Its bias has quickly grown and metastasized in the past few years…to the point that it is a clear and present danger to the republic.

California Bill Proposes To Provide Free Condoms To Students

 

A bill proposed in the state of California would require public schools to make condoms available to students for free. Naturally, the proposal characterizes the provision of free condoms to students as an enlightened way to significantly decrease the number of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies. (Of course, the kiddies’ condoms aren’t actually free, as their taxpayer parents—and all other taxpayers-- must pay for them.)

The measure declares, “Each public school serving any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, shall allow the distribution of condoms during the course of, or in connection to, educational or public health programs and initiatives.” Perhaps we should just have a provider walk through algebra and English classes, ala a peanut vendor at a ballpark, shouting: “Get your condoms here! Free prophylactics! Ribbed Trojans for your partner’s pleasure! Extra-large semen reservoir at the tip! Free condoms here! Get your free condoms here!”

Democratic state Sen. Caroline Menjivar might well be in favor of that idea. She stated, by way of a press release: “By requiring free condoms in all California high schools, we are empowering the youth who decide to become sexually active to protect themselves and their partners from STIs, while also removing barriers that potentially shame them and lead to unsafe sex.” (The senator might want to consider dropping “Men” from her last name and going simply by Caroline Jivar…or maybe changing her last name to “Theyjivar” in the interest of inclusivity. And, let’s see, not having a condom could potentially shame students? Well, perhaps in California.)

Why is it that the public educational system now seems more concerned with discussing, depicting, and tutoring kids in the ways of sex-- the kinkier the better-- than it is with teaching them about, well, anything else? It seems that when teachers aren’t asking their young students about their kinkiest desires or fantasies, they are trying to find out what they are in person by sleeping with them. Overtly sexual— as well as inappropriate and unrelated to reading, writing, and arithmetic —material is even used to determine a part of students’ grades via quizzes and tests.

Not too many decades ago, middle and high school students were trading baseball cards and chewing bubble gum…for which they could be sent to the principal’s office or be otherwise disciplined. Now they are being given condoms and dental dams. (Back in the day, Prom Queens were revered. Today, drag queens are. And Prom Queens are sometimes boys.)

Sure, we should want to protect our offspring from sexually transmitted diseases. But we could help do this—and more—by protecting them from the socially transmitted diseases of progressivism and wokeism…and the irrationality and mental illness that are their hallmarks.

 

 

 

Today's Top News Stories?

Today’s Top News Stories?

 

*When only the police are “allowed” to have firearms, you live in a police state. Definitionally. Period. If the police, too, are disarmed, as some leftists demand, only criminals will have guns…and the result of that should be too obvious to require elaboration.

*The North Star State is now a sanctuary for abortion, illegal aliens, and transgenders. “Minnesota: come for the cold, stay for the high taxes! Bonus: we’re now a Sanctuary State for Satan!”

*A freight train recently derailed in Paradise, Montana, according to authorities. CNN reported that at least 25 train cars went off the track near Highway 135, leaking beer into the Clark Fork River approximately 200 miles northwest of Bozeman. To say there is trouble in Paradise is an understatement. In the past few months, trains have been derailing across the United States at an unprecedented rate. (Calling Pete Buttigieg.) The U.S. itself has gone tragically off track since, oh, about January 20, 2021.

*Some leftist protesters at the Tennessee State Capitol were captured on video holding up an extra finger during a moment of silence to mourn the recent killing of six people, including three 9-year-old children, at the hands of a crazed transgender shooter in a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school. Ironically, the protesters who swarmed the Volunteer State’s Capitol were ostensibly protesting gun violence. Yet, in a video of the moment of silence, some protesters held up seven fingers instead of six, in a “tribute” to the transgender shooter. One protester hollered, "Every death is a tragedy, y'all! Seven lives!" No, the death of a crazed mass murderer before he/she can kill more innocent people is a blessing, asshole. I am holding up a middle finger to the protesters right now.

*Democrat state Rep. Anne Allen (!) Westbrook, during a recent legislative debate on SB 233, A.K.A. the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, stated, “The question that came to my mind is: Who is my child?”  She replied to herself: “Every single child in Georgia. Every single one. Without exception. Not just my own. Not just the ones that I gave birth to.” Incredibly, she made this statement attacking school choice. “Progressives” in government literally think they know better how to educate and raise your kids than you do. “Progressives” oppose others’ choice to remain unvaccinated or purchase a firearm. They don’t believe in your choice to avail yourself of your free speech rights-- or even to own and operate a gas stove. A person’s “right” to choose to kill their own babies is the only choice in which they appear to believe.

*Washed-up pop star “Madonna” has announced that she will perform a concert in Nashville, Tennessee, to benefit “trans rights” groups-- while completely ignoring the families of the six victims who were killed by a “trans” shooter in last week’s Christian school massacre. That Madonna Louise Ciccone, American singer, songwriter, and actress, chose to be known simply as “Madonna” seems to me to be the height of appropriation. Especially in the wake of the slaughter at the Christian school, and her announcement-- during Easter Week—that she will be touting trans and dissing Christians. This modern Madonna is no virgin. And no lady.

 

 

 

 

Biden Tweets A Bald-Faced Lie, MSM Pounces...Just Kidding

 

On March 25^th, President Biden unleashed this spectacularly  outrageous tweet, obviously aimed at Idiot-Americans: “MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country. We need more resources to secure the border. Not less.”

In reality, a place progressives are loathe to go, Biden shut down construction of the Trump border wall on Day One of his presidency, thereby giving the green light to millions of illegal aliens to enter the country. And to the cartels to step up shipments of fentanyl. The Biden administration-- and border czar Kamala Harris—have given our southern border less attention than Michael Moore and Jerry Nadler pay to their weight loss plans.

In the wake of such a truly preposterous statement, where are all the mainstream media articles/stories on Biden? Ones using terms like “misinformation,” “The Big Lie,” “debunked,” and “baseless?” The MSM has no shame whatsoever, and is a clear and present danger to the Republic for which some of us still stand. Many Democrats now just routinely state the exact opposite of the truth. (And make no mistake, this is a deliberate tactic. They know their media lapdogs will never seriously question them; will, in fact, cover for them virtually all of the time.)

“Republicans defunded the police-- and funded Antifa and the BLM movement! Republicans want to destroy our military! They are for open borders! They demanded lockdowns and vaccine mandates! Republicans want to destroy our democracy! They hate the Constitution, baseball, mothers, and apple pie!”

And, sadly, a large minority of the U.S. population believes this crap, especially as it’s repeated ad nauseum with little or no correction by the Fourth Estate. The Drive-by media will (figuratively) come flying down the road in a convertible Ford, spraying bullets at anything Trump-like or MAGA red, not caring about collateral damage, and then race off into the sunset…to prepare to do it all over again tomorrow. (Fake film at 11!) Yet, when it comes to holding Biden or his administration responsible or accountable? Cue the crickets. And worse. They will hide, obfuscate…and flat out lie to cover for him…and any other radically “progressive” Democrat. (But I repeat myself.) 

One might think that some “journalist” (if not an entire network or outlet) might one day look in the mirror and think: “God, what a fraud I am. I am embarrassed to be a part of this vast left-wing conspiracy. The Big Hoax. The Endless Sham. The Great Sunset Reset. It’s time to come clean.”

But one would be wrong.

The statements and assertions become ever more outrageous, tetched, detached from reality. Democrats are highly skilled in the dark arts of gaslighting and projection. They should be. They employ them incessantly.

As always, they are brilliant at being evil.

 

 

Democrats Moving In For The Kill

 

I have always been a believer in limited government. I have always been aware that most men are not inherently good, let alone perfectible. Yet, I have, until recently, never believed in conspiracies, and was anything but a conspiracy theorist. Events of the past few years have, sadly, further opened my eyes to the extreme lengths some will go to attain, enhance, and sustain power over others.

I now believe the indictment and possible conviction of former President Donald Trump, along with a potential gag order, is a preplanned attempt to engender a broad and potentially violent response among his supporters. Subsequent to which, Democrats and their various “intelligence” services, federal departments, deep staters, security personnel, and various legal and civic “experts” and “scholars”—eagerly (yet so soberly) cheered on by their sycophants in the media, will call for and impose a sort of martial law. Oppositional conservative voices will be silenced and/or arrested, bills will be passed to neuter or shut down conservative websites and media outlets like Fox News, Newsmax, The New York Post, and American Thinker, as well as certain talk radio programs, and selected blogs and podcasts…in a desperate, last-ditch effort “to save our beloved democracy.” (And therefore yet another Babylon Bee headline will come true: “Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism.”)

But it is worse than that. Democrats know that either of the two nearly certain outcomes of their actions will allow them to consolidate and perpetuate their power, until the sun expires, which is their only real goal. If there is no widespread outcry or protest of this banana republic-esque action, they will know they have already won…and can do whatever the hell they want from here on out, openly and with impunity. And extreme prejudice.

Either outcome would be the end of the republic formerly known as the United States of America.

How did we get here?

The plandemic afforded the elite globalist authoritarians in power a glorious opportunity to not let a crisis go to waste. (Noted leftist “Hanoi” Jane Fonda actually publicly stated, “COVID is God’s gift to the left.”) They ran with it, telling many people their jobs were not critical, making them wear facial masks and accept an experimental vaccine into their bodies, forcing them to stay inside their homes for months at a time, and preventing them from attending the weddings-- or even funerals—of their loved ones. Surprised—and buoyed—by the extraordinary compliance of their constituents, they turned to implementing The Great Reset.

And, in America, to setting up the “Jan. 6” protesters—and subsequently incarcerating many of them for months on end…without charge. And raiding the residence of a former president for the first time, for no valid reason, even as they gave the current president and his family a complete pass on a litany of alleged egregious crimes.

And now they have, also for the first time ever, indicted a former president, for alleged process crimes… for which the statute of limitations has already run out.

Today’s Democrats are brilliant at being evil.

Is there a third possible outcome? Is there still a way to save and rehabilitate the republic that the most brilliant and courageous group of men who have ever trod the earth bequeathed to us in America?

Beseech the Almighty. And then read Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis” and “Common Sense.” Read The Federalist Papers, especially those penned by James Madison, the author of The Constitution. And read the Declaration of Independence.

And decide for yourselves.

A freedom leftist tyrants (like today’s Democrats) seek to deprive you of.

 

 

 

 

Birth Rates Falling With The Rise Of Progressivism

The birth rate in the West in general—and the U.S. in specific-- has been falling for years. There has been much speculation as to why this is the case. “Experts” offer up some possibilities, but never with great conviction. And they are, as usual, often wrong.

Why might birth rates be falling?

Gee, let’s see. Oddly enough, fertility rates are falling in conjunction with rates of church attendance and the number of people who profess belief in God. They are falling as folks—men in particular— are becoming infantilized and feminized…and as their testosterone levels and sperm counts are consequently dropping. Birth rates are plummeting as is the percentage of people who believe that the United States is a great and good nation. Add in the incessant and ubiquitous bleating from the climate change alarmists that the Earth is going to spontaneously combust soon, the skyrocketing inflation rate, the warnings of overpopulation and subsequent mass starvation, and the threat of endless pandemics and government overreach, and it shouldn’t be a big surprise that most people aren’t keen on bringing many children into the world at the moment.

And that’s even before factoring in the stunning increase in the number of people identifying as members of the LGBTQ community in recent years.

Or the fact that it appears increasingly likely that the self-same left-wing beliefs, mantras, agendas, and policies that have robbed the West of its history, confidence, manhood, and virility will-- via perpetual one-party governance-- be a bleak and permanent fixture of life in the Land of the Formerly Free, and the Home of the Formerly Brave.

If people believe there is no truth, no chance for an eternal reward, no reason for pride in country or belief in anything…except the imminent demise of the planet-- due to their own actions—they will not opt to reproduce.

Leftism ruins everything…absolutely everything…with which it comes in contact. Cultures. Economies. Entertainment. Sports. The arts. Gender and sexual relations. Science and engineering. Religion. Everything. No exceptions. There is no upside. It leaves only depravity, devastation, and hopelessness in its wake. And, in the last century alone, well over 100 million dead.

Marxism/Leninism/Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried. It is, without historical exception, the end of freedom for individuals. And it—not “climate change” or a former/future President Trump-- is literally a threat to the survival of human life.

 

 

 

 

Belief In Traditional American Values Plummeting, Wall Street Journal Poll Shows

 

According to a depressing new poll from The Wall Street Journal, belief in the importance of traditional American values has plummeted in the United States in recent decades.

The recent Monday poll queried U.S. respondents about the importance of patriotism, religious faith, having children-- and other traditionally American values in their lives. Only 39% of Americans surveyed said their religious faith is very important to them, and just 38% said patriotism is very important.

The Journal compared those numbers to the results from the first time it ran the poll in 1998……when 62% of Americans said religion was very important to them, and 70% said patriotism was. And that was during the Clinton administration!

So, apparently, a majority of Americans no longer believe either religion or patriotism is important.

If that is the case, Democrats will never be out of power again. They never tire of dissing the country, its founders…and the concept of objective truth, morality…and God. (“Male and female He made them? Screw that, I decide if I am male or female…or any other gender, including ones I make up out of whole cloth!”)

Remarkably, the survey also purported to find that a plurality of Americans believe the U.S. has not gone far enough in promoting equality between men and women, accepting people who are gay, lesbian or bisexual, or in promoting racial and ethnic diversity in business and universities. If we go any further down that road, no one but members of the BIPOC LGBTQ Community will ever again be allowed to head a company or attend college.

The results of this poll, if they are reasonably accurate depictions of Americans’ values, or lack thereof, are disheartening to say the least. If, essentially, 23% of Americans lost their belief in a higher power, and 32% lost their belief in the goodness of their country in just the past 25 years…it is time to turn out the lights, as the party is unquestionably over.

The founders knew this was a distinct possibility at some point. John Adams famously observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” This is one reason “progressives” disdain them so. They disdain the very concepts of morality and religion, as they tend to put boundaries on people’s behavior. A God would be competition for them, and that they cannot countenance. (Again, “Male and female He made them? Screw that, I decide if I am male or female…or any other gender, including ones I make up out of whole cloth!”)

Conservatives, on the other hand, wish to conserve the best of the past, and pass on the accrued wisdom and best practices of Millennia past. (We are not reflexively against change, such as voting Democrats out of office, potentially eliminating the National Education Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, defunding National Public Radio, proposing school choice and voucher initiatives, or re-funding the police.)

It is no coincidence that testosterone and sperm levels have fallen during this same period. Or that IQs have declined, too. It all ties together. As Andrew Breitbart averred, it is true that politics is downstream from culture. And the current cultural cesspool feeds the stream that flows through—and poisons—our political class.

Objectively, this leads to one inescapable conclusion: sickeningly, the incessant lies that “progressive” Democrats—and their sycophantic lapdogs in the mainstream media—have told the American people…have been effective. Bullshit is viable.

Indoctrination works.