Wednesday • December 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
Trump tried to Make America Great Again, and he was succeeding. Employment, our economy, and world standing all dramatically improved from the Obama years, and even our enemies were put on notice.
Democrats have undone all of that, and the fallout has global consequences to the long-term detriment of Americans.
To summarize what that looks like in just one week, we have a tweet that runs down just how far Biden and the Democrats have dragged our reputation and value in just two short years. This list of actions is alleged to have occurred or been announced over the course of a single week.
Talk about a failure cascade.
Who was it again that was going to crash the economy and start world war III. Joe Biden, right?
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I recently wrote about NH Rep. Mike Bordes of Laconia and his vote for HB224, which would remove all penalties from the Fetal Life Protection Act, which would make it risk-free for doctors to perform abortions on babies past 24 weeks gestation.
Related: Rep Mike Bordes Wants to Protect Cats but Not Babies
Bordes is also the prime sponsor of a bill to ban the declawing of cats. His social media is filled with impassioned posts about the harms of declawing cats. Responding to a tweet by Union Leader reporter Kevin Landrigan about HB224, Bordes tweeted:
Misinformation! HB 224 did NOT return abortion to on demand at any time, rather it eliminated the penalties. It absolutely does not mean abortions can be provided after 24 weeks. The FLPA is in the same Chapter of the law as the board of medicine disciplinary proceedings section.
His defense is total fiction.
I was in the public hearing for HB224 when the prime sponsor, Rep. Dan Wolf admitted that there wouldn’t be a single penalty left in the law for performing an abortion in the last three months of pregnancy if HB224 is passed. There would be no black mark on the doctor’s license, no disciplinary hearings, nothing.
Bordes ignored the admonitions from the NHGOP House leadership to vote against HB224, the pleas from his constituents to defend life, and his own party’s pro-life platform.
Bordes continues to tweet about the horrors of declawing cats but makes no mention of the horrors of ripping babies limb from limb a few weeks from their due date.
Contact your state senator and ask him or her to oppose HB224. Sign-in in opposition to HB224 and consider coming to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the bill on Thursday, April 6 at 1 pm.
Get more information about the bill and how to oppose it at Leaven for the Loaf.
Imagine the blood & gore from a late-term abortion. Your vote to remove penalties could allow those gruesome procedures to continue in NH. It's not just fingertips removed. It's a baby's arms & legs pulled off, the head & chest crushed & no anesthesia. #NHPolitics @nhcornerstone https://t.co/gZIMSplXnz
— Beth (@BethRS62) April 1, 2023
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So, Moses took advantage of “technology” back in the day, too?
And just like in modern times, Moses’s tablets crashed as well (Exodus 32:19) and had to have a factory reset (Exodus 34:4).
(H/T: Powerline)
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan, 4 milligrams (mg) naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for over-the-counter (OTC), non-prescription use. Making Narcan readily available to all will save lives from Fentanyl and opioid poisoning and overdose, but it should not be seen as a solution to the Fentanyl crisis. Making this pharmaceutical spray available without a prescription may ease people’s minds that they are protecting themselves and their families, but it is putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. We cannot let this action take our eye off the massive problem of China and Mexico conspiring to kill 100,000 Americans yearly with illegal Fentanyl.
Many facets of this story need to be looked at before we begin to celebrate the release of Narcan to the public. Narcan is to Opioid and Fentanyl overdoses, as the Epi-Pen is to severe allergic reactions, also known as anaphylaxis. These reactions can include food allergies like a peanut allergy, allergic reactions to insect stings and bites, and allergies to medications. These two situations are very different. The Epi-pen is a quick solution to a health condition. The Narcan spray is possibly first aid for someone exposed to illegal drugs. To me, we should be thankful for both but not celebrate the mass availability of Narcan.
Narcan is a wonderful creation that will save thousands of lives but it does not solve why we need such a remedy. People who suffer from anaphylaxis are innocent victims of a breakdown in their body that makes them susceptible to a severe allergic reaction. People who benefit from a blast of Narcan are using illegal or poorly sourced tainted drugs.
In talks with police who have administered Narcan, it is not an easy procedure. The victim is usually restrained for everyone’s protection as the recovery brings about an involuntary violent reaction. It often takes multiple doses before the victim recovers fully. The ordinary person is not trained to administer the Narcan spray. It is not a quick fix.
The government is taking credit for this development, but they are fooling themselves and anyone unfamiliar with Narcan. This will grab some attention away from the Fentanyl epidemic and attack from the Mexicans and Chinese. That distraction will be short-lived. Narcan will not hit the shelves until late summer, and the Fentanyl deaths will continue.
My concern with the FDA’s decision is that it will create a false sense of safety and security. People who use illegal drugs, or buy prescription drugs on the street, will think that if they get into a bad situation, Narcan will be available to save their lives—foolish, deadly thinking.
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman created a rowdy scene this week, calling the GOP cowards for not adopting Democrat gun-control policies. There are far more young people dying from drug overdoses or poisonings. The noise you hear is American parents yelling back at the Congressman, asking what he and the Democrats are doing to seal the border and stop the flow of Fentanyl. Narcan is not the solution. Ending the flow of Fentanyl into our country is.
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More to unstack and I have to be honest – more keeps coming in faster than I can keep up! First up shows how badly schools are willing to go in sexualizing your children. I believe the title speaks for itself – and why is this pervert teacher still employed? As always, reformatting and emphasis mine (unless otherwise noted):
…But a video posted on Friday doesn’t feature a loony lefty. It features an every day dad in Oregon standing up for his right as a parent to know what his daughter is being taught in school—and promises that those who were responsible for a particularly disturbing assignment be held to account. .
For those students who were absent, you will write a short story of a paragraph or two. This story is a sexual fantasy that will have NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI). You will choose 3 items (romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather, feather boa, flavored syrup, etc) to use in your story. Your story should show that you can show and receive loving physical affection without having sex.
He continues that his daughter told him that “the teacher put up a wheel on the class board, and it stated ‘anal penetration, oral sex, licking of the ear, kissing,’ and he wanted them to write down the initials of a boy or girl that they would do these activities with. Now, I don’t know what’s worse: wanting to know my child’s sexual fantasy or who they’re going to have anal penetration and oral sex with.”
A parent DESTROYS @4Jschools board after a teacher gave students an assignment which asked them to describe their sexual fantasies in detailpic.twitter.com/WhHAyfjutO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2023
and the assignment:
High School Teacher assigning this? And did he expect to get away with it?
Unfortunately, there seems to be no reaction at all from this school board as if this Dad was asking about a permission slip to allow his daughter to go on a field trip…
Well, with assignments like that, what high schooler would be ready for higher education? Probably not many but when high schools are turning out such a cruddy product (ill-educated young’uns), instead of having to do the remedial work that government schools SHOULD be doing, colleges used to.
Until now – and there’s that stupid word again!:
Ayup – applying the bigotry of low expectations and coddling students who have learned NOTHING
In the ongoing pursuit by the Social Justice left of elusive and fictitious “equity,” universities across the United States are increasingly dropping grades altogether in favor of equity.
Emphasis not mine:
Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college.
“I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” The hardest part about being a new college student, Malak said, “is not the coursework. It’s learning how to be an adult.”
That took a toll on her grades. “I didn’t do well,” said Malak, who powered through and is now in her sophomore year as a neuroscience and literature double major at the University of California, Santa Cruz, or UCSC. “It took a while for me to detangle my sense of self-worth from the grades that I was getting. It made me consider switching out of my major a handful of times.”
Experiences like these are among the reasons behind a growing movement to stop assigning conventional A through F letter grades to first-year college students and, sometimes, upperclassmen.
Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it.
Colleges and and universities are lowering their standards to be able to sing that old rock standard “Take the money and run”. Sorry, that’s the end result – the kid isn’t ready, can’t handle the material. And it seems that all of this feel-good, participation trophy, social promotion, and those government school teachers not caring enough lead to that. However, the operative statement for me was this: It’s learning how to be an adult.”
Where were Mom and Dad in all this? And if you’re going to throw shade with excuses, well, been there so I will pick on the single Mom I had, the Mom and Dad divorced I had. But they had the [loving] meanness about them to make sure that being an adult was a necessary item and not an “experience”. There’s too many willing to give out too many excuses.
And if you can’t get your act together and study hard, go get the academic help you need, and spend ALL YOUR TIME on this, I don’t want you designing the plane I’m in, the bridge I’m crossing, or the guy cutting into me for surgery.
And like many, I’m also tired of the Left ASSUMING that because of your skin color, you’re always on their political plantation that requires everyone be identified by their group, not you as an individual, so you are a Race TRAITOR!
Black Republican Missouri state Rep. Justin Hicks was yelled at this week by black Democrat state Rep. Marlene Terry over his opposition to the state government funding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. On Thursday, House Bill 6, an appropriations bill for Missouri’s departments of agriculture, natural resources, and conservation, was sent to the state Senate by the Republican-controlled state House by a vote of 105-46.
…During debate on the bill, Hicks, a Republican elected to represent part of St. Charles County in 2022, was grilled over his opposition to state funds going toward DEI programs by Terry, who has been in office since 2021. “You said you were OK with the DEI [measure], and that there is an equal playing field. Did you say that?” she asked Hicks, who said that he does support banning government funds from going towards DEI.
…Terry then asked how the freshman representative ethnically identified. “I identify as an American,” he replied, which led to applause from some of the lawmakers present. After Hicks told Terry that she had been given the same opportunity to be elected to state government as everyone else, Terry said that Hicks was “delusional.”
DIE is the “academic” version of affirmative action in the corporate world, IMHO, but worse, as it is a blatant attempt to bring Critical Race Theory to fruition but in a way that more stealthy and under the radar.
And I get taken to task for using the phrase “Trans-Authoritarianism”. This next clip, while Not Safe For Work because of what the Transgender “woman” is saying and THEN attacking a guy that is just standing there, shows what happens when you won’t bow down and “affirm” their delusion. And and the second shows what the Politically Correct police go with:
Yep, the man who believes he can be a woman shows his male instincts (and growing your hair and getting a boob job can’t hide that for many) and clocks the guy in the sandwich board protesting the transgender movement:
Another angle of the assault on me today. Police did nothing.
The investigating officer says I instigated, and she told me it was a mutual fight. pic.twitter.com/rCQZyntjSY
— Billboard Chris (@BillboardChris) April 1, 2023
Helpful police? To serve and protect all who?
After my first assault, which occurred within seconds of my arrival, I called 911 for police.
This officer arrived quickly but stayed in her car, so I walked over.
She told me maybe I cut my own nose!
More farcical policing ensued. pic.twitter.com/v6mORvgAjd
— Billboard Chris (@BillboardChris) April 1, 2023
GroomING, GROOMing, all the way into schools…and Parents want it stopped. But then the question of “whose kid IS IT?” pops into play
Maryland parents are on the warpath against gender ideology, which they believe is steering their children onto the wrong track. And so the mothers and fathers of Frederick County have petitioned the County Superintendent of Schools to notify a parent when his or her child signals a desire to change gender. On March 23, a public forum in Eldersburg, Maryland, heard from a panel of experts that public schools are grooming vulnerable students to transition away from their sex at birth. The gathering was sponsored by Moms for Liberty and co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the Leadership Institute.
“One is grooming a child for sex,” he said, “but there is also ideological grooming that gets a child in a total new thought world. “That’s why the word ‘grooming’ is important even when the teacher is not a pedophile,” Richards added.
“Introducing children to these concepts in gender ideology whereby you can have a gender identity that is totally contrary to your biological sex is the worst toxic ideology you could teach to a kid because you are teaching a child that he or she is born into the wrong body.”
“What the schools are doing is definitely grooming,” said Utah-based advocate Dr. Erin Brewer, co-founder of Advocates Protecting Children and Compassion Coalition, at the gathering. Brewer added: “It allows teachers to talk to small children about their genitals, breaking down barriers, and teaches the kids to deceive their parents, telling them ‘what goes on in this classroom, don’t go tell your parents!’”
And I’m just going to leave this next one here:
Well, I’ll leave it here but will add that those that advocate that others can be something they never can should be charged with abuse.
And talk about a REAL Insurrection?
Activists for so-called trans rights have invaded yet another state Capitol to protest legislative efforts to protect children and public spaces from the trans agenda.
On Friday, hundreds of leftist activists stormed the Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee, outraged that state legislators had dared to consider the New WindowSafety in Private Spaces Act, which would prevent people from using restrooms and other “changing facilities” such as locker rooms that do not correspond to their biological sex. Rather than accept that, as then President Obama once said, “Elections have consequences,” the trans activists, most of whom appear young, occupied the Florida Capitol to express their outrage. Florida’s Voice, a news outlet which purports to bring “honest political reporting to Florida, minus the mainstream talking points,” shared a one-minute video of the protestors in action.
https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1641861622678315010https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1641861622678315010
And I think this is good advice:
Southern Wesleyan University President Bill Barker says that the school will not hire people who support critical race theory.
“I made it very clear where SWU stands on critical race theory, and we made it very clear in our hiring processes,” Barker told tNew Windowhe College Fix. “We’re not hiring people – and I’ve been clear since I came here and the Board of Trustees has supported this – who endorse critical race theory. We will have the courage to let faculty or staff go if they are teaching critical race theory.”
Christianity sees people as individuals and not just as part of a larger collective. DEI does not see individuals, only groups based on shallow attributes – antithetical to Christianity. So why SHOULD Christian organizations go against their beliefs?
And as Steve pointed out recently, companies are not hiring people who list their pronouns. THey rightly see that these folks generally mean trouble and divisiveness – the last things a company wants to have to deal with.
And Transgenders are willing to kill someone that refuses to go along with their delusion:
On Tuesday, my peers and I at William & Mary university hosted a table on behalf of our Tribe for Life campus club that took on what we consider some of the lies that pro-choicers tell. We set up a big sign, handed out brochures, and had conversations with students about those lies, which we argue are that: men can have babies, Planned Parenthood cares about women, chemical abortions are safe, and women need abortions to succeed.
Some of them I expected, such as the ironic “Skylar is a threat to humanity” post. But the one that sounded alarm bells was: “tribe for life makes me want to commit suicide and also mass murder.”
The threat of violence was enough for me to alert the local authorities, and I have been working with campus leaders as well to ensure the safety of not only fellow students and the community but even for this troubled individual…With the death threats, the doxxing, the vitriol thrown at us, it’s tough. Such is life for a conservative on campus these days.
There can NOT be any heresy against us!
March 8th was International Women’s Day, and Long Island University student organization LIU Freedom Fighters celebrated. On Instagram, the group honored “all transgender women and femmes, who are facing the threat of transfemicide across these United States, and beyond.”
The school’s American Club — comprised of Turning Point USA, Young America’s Foundation, Young Americans for Liberty, and Students for Life — responded with posts of its own.
Quotes from a collection of four Instagram entries:
- “On International Women’s Day, the ‘LIU Freedom Fighters’ Honors Men.”
- “On International Women’s Day, we honor real womanhood.”
- “Men can’t be women, women can’t be men. How many times must it be said?”
- (As part of a meme) “When men pretending to be women celebrate International Women’s Day.”
- “‘You are either a man or a woman. You do not get to switch from one category to another.’ — Matt Walsh”
HATE SPEECH! The “Freedom Fighters” started the process to get them punished. And did.
On March 13th, the American Club…was notified via email that it had been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation being conducted by the University.
Campus Reform obtained access to this notice, which was addressed to LIU American Club President Matthew Cairo, who is also a Campus Reform Correspondent.
The notice begins, “It has come to our…attention that at least four Instagram stories connected to International Women’s Day were shared from the LIU American Club account on or around March 8, 2023,” claiming that the stories constitute “potential violations of the LIU Student Code of Conduct and LIU Internet and Social Media Policy.” The notice goes on to cite the school’s “verbal or physical harassment” policy.
So much for Freedom of Speech and acknowledgment that biology is biology.
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Bruce Jenner brought great joy and glory to the United States of America as an Olympic Decathlon Champion in 1976. We should be grateful that Caitlyn Jenner attempts to bring sanity to the conversation about Transgenderism.
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Caitlyn, as reported in an article in Breitbart, explains that the “ Radical Rainbow Mafia” engages in grooming children and advocates and uses political violence. Jenner says, “We live in a beautiful country called America, where we are free to be whomever we want. The “Radical Rainbow Mafia” has hijacked LGBT ppl (population) and is the worst thing that has ever happened to LGBT ppl! They are DOMESTIC TERRORIST.”
We live in a beautiful country called America, where we are free to be whomever we want. The Radical Rainbow Mafia has hijacked LGBT ppl and is the worst thing that has ever happened to LGBT ppl! They are DOMESTIC TERRORISTS!
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) March 30, 2023
Her words, not mine; I just thought readers should know.
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Perhaps the worst take I’ve seen on the Bragg indictment was on this site: Alvin Bragg Just Elected Donald Trump. Take off the rose-colored glasses and look around you … half the voters in this country, the Blue half, want their political opponents put in jail.
The Bragg indictment is just the beginning. Georgia is going to indict Trump … you know the grand jury headed by that woke forewoman who told the regime-media that she fantasizes about personally serving a subpoena on Trump … on bogus charges too.
And the Biden-regime’s totally corrupt DOJ is going to indict Trump on bogus charges too.
And if somehow Trump … despite all these political prosecutions, and despite elections in the crucial swing-States: AZ, GA, NV, PA being rigged … manages to win the general election, the Left will ASSASSINATE him. They will kill him rather than allow him to become President again.
And if you don’t think the permanent government in Washington DC would assassinate Trump if that is what it takes to keep him out of power, then you are willfully blind to what America has become.
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Should we adhere to the original Constitution of 1789 or the Constitution of 1868? You might be asking, “What is the difference?” Last year, I talked about the rise of the “Progressive Originalists,” those who buttress their loose construction on a distorted reading of the 14th Amendment.
That is the Constitution of 1868, and there is no louder supporter of this position than Professor Randy Barnett.
Barnett is a “conservative/libertarian” who claims to be a “14th Amendment Originalist.”
Though Barnett does not explicitly say so, he designed his recent book on the topic to be a thorough takedown of Raoul Berger’s Government of Judiciary and subsequent The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
Leftist legal scholars hate both with a passion and let Berger know it throughout the 1980s. Why? Because if Berger was correct, and he was, then the entire basis of the modern civil rights movement was built on a house of cards.
In other words, these lefties don’t want to believe it because it was slaying their sacred cow. Barnett rides to the rescue, sort of.
Barnett unconvincingly argues that those who insist that the author of the Fourteenth Amendment, John Bingham of Ohio, really intended the amendment to incorporate the Bill of Rights and, in the process, provide the intellectual firepower for the expansive civil rights programs of the general government.
Bingham’s reputation has been revived in the last twenty years by people like Eric Foner, James Oakes, and others who insist that he was a “second Founding Father” who crafted an amendment that would transform the United States.
They are partially correct, but not because that is what the Fourteenth Amendment intended to do. It is only because that is how the federal courts have interpreted the Amendment.
Barnett calls this the correct position.
As a result, he urges “originalists” to reject the “original Constitution” in favor of the Constitution as altered by the Republican Party and the Fourteenth Amendment.
I get why. This takes the “racist” sting off the table, but it also creates its own fairy tale of interpretation.
Barnett wrote a long essay on this position and the “proslavery” or “antislavery” origins of the Constitution. It deserved a thorough review, so I will tackle it on THREE episodes of The Brion McClanahan Show.
Part 1, Episode 772:
Were the Founding Fathers Proslavery?
People have a hard time separating slavery from racism.
The two terms have become synonymous in American society because of the history of the slavery in America.
This description lacks complexity, as white Europeans were also enslaved, albeit at a different rate and manner, as white indentured servitude disappeared long before African slavery in the United States.
But that does not mean it didn’t exist, as did black slaveowners, most of whom owned slaves for profit over humanitarian concern.
Regardless, Americans eventually associated slavery with Africans and no other racial group.
Yet, you could be anti-slavery and believe in “white supremacy” in the 18h and 19th centuries. The vast majority of Americans would not have known any other explanation for a stable society. Western civilization was, after all, crafted by Europeans.
And most emancipationists and later abolitionists were indeed “racists” under a modern definition of term.
The notable exceptions would be the several leading American black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and some white radicals like the Grimke sisters of South Carolina. But these were the exceptions in the antebellum United States.
Modern historians, who dabble in the business of “systemic white supremacy” never can answer one simple question: what was the alternative for 18th or 19th-century people living in the 18th or 19th centuries?
Many dreamed of a world without slavery, Southerners like Jefferson included, but most could not figure out how to reconcile abolition with a multi-racial society, not even in New England where African-Americans made up less than one percent of the population and yet faced severe restrictions on their lives and property.
They did not think Africans were capable of self-government, not even after the War, as Connecticut among other Northern States prohibited blacks from voting. That only changed with the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Antebellum Americans did not hold our modern views on race, and to insist that they did and that their actions should have matched our own is the very definition of presentism.
This is why I argue that Lincoln’s “proposition nation” was indeed a myth, not because Jefferson didn’t write it or some people–even many members of the founding generation–didn’t rhetorically use it, but because actions spoke louder than words. American commitment to racial egalitarianism, or any egalitarianism for that matter, was suspect at best and mostly non-existent.
They didn’t believe it beyond political rights for citizens, and citizenship had restrictions.
Even Jefferson’s proposed revisions to the Virginia Constitution limited voting rights and citizenship.
So much for Jefferson’s belief in “all men are created equal.”
So what?
Does it change the fact that these men drafted two constitutions for the United States and several State constitutions or that they won two wars against the British, a naval war against France, and were, in my opinion, the greatest generation in American history?
No other generation comes close.
That’s why “conservatives” who run around championing Lincoln and the 1850s Republican Party aren’t really conserving anything except a nineteenth-century leftist dream based on a real myth, the myth of the proposition nation and the righteous cause.
Is that “conservative”? Randy Barnett seems to think so, which is why I spent three episodes of The Brion McClanahan Show this week on Barnett’s piece.
You aren’t going to win an argument with a leftist by relying on leftist talking points. You’ve already conceded the field.
Part 2, Episode 773:
The Original Constitution vs the 14th Amendment
Should we follow the original Constitution or the Constitution of 1868?
If you suggest the former, then according to many “conservatives” and libertarians, you are walking into a minefield.
You see, many Americans see the original Constitution as “pro-slavery.” This stance comes from the arguments of nineteenth-century abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, who considered the document to be a “covenant with death.”
On the other hand, some abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Lysander Spooner thought the Constitution was explicitly anti-slavery. Douglass, in fact, came to this position after reading Spooner.
Neither are correct. The Garrisonian position is more popular among those on the left because it works well with their political positions. If the Constitution “enshrined slavery,” and if the document was nothing more than a “covenant with death”, then scrapping it makes logical sense.
Who says the 1850s are dead? It’s not the right that’s living in the 1850s, its the progressive left who constantly dust off early Republican Party talking points.
The right likes to use the Douglass narrative because it buttresses their Lincolnian myth and theoretically helps them ward off charges of racism.
We know that doesn’t really work.
The reality is that the Constitution was neither proslavery nor antislavery. It was neutral. The word “slave” never appears in the document, and while Americans could make the case that the United States government was the government of the “white man”–and what else would it have been in the 1840s?–race was not specified in any article of the Constitution.
It did not “enshrine slavery.” It allowed for States to use federalism to either maintain or abolish the institution. It continued the international slave trade for 20 years, but gave the power to Congress to abolish it at that point. It mandated that fugitives from the law face justice. It did not give Congress any power over the institution either pro or con. It did protect property rights, and as slaves were property in the nineteenth century, the United States government had a legal obligation to protect that property in federal territory, hence the rub with the common property of the United States, but again, that does not make the document “proslavery.”
Barnett and I, whom I have sharply criticized over the last three days, agree on this point.
Just because the left wants to make stupid arguments doesn’t mean we should come up with our own stupid arguments to push back, like abandoning real originalism for “14th Amendment originalism.”
You know who wins in that scenario?
The progressive left and the progressive right.
Not you or I.
I wrap up my three episodes on Barnett’s piece with Episode 774 of The Brion McClanahan Show.
Brion McClanahan | The Tenth Amendment Center
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Hampton Falls, NH — On Wednesday, Hampton Falls Selectman Lou Gargiulo and his Attorneys will present findings to the NH Ballot Law Commission from the 2022 New Hampshire State Senate District 24 Election between Lou Gargiulo and Debra Altschiller.
PRESS AND PUBLIC ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Time: 10 AM
Location:
STATE ARCHIVES BUILDING
9 Ratification Way
Concord, NH 03301
For Further Information Contact:
Lou Gargiulo
603-436-4100 x6540
Corey MacDonald, Esq.
corey@macdonaldlaw.us
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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.
Originally published March 2011
“I am already against the next war,” read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe, and the “moderate Muslims” are either actively supporting them, placing the blame on the West, or simply looking the other way. This war aims to wipe out everything that free people cherish, including the right of expressing their sentiments. Banishing war has been the perennial dream of mankind’s best, while its worst has been frustrating its realization. To renounce war unilaterally and unconditionally is surrender and death.
Humanity has suffered horrific wars in the past. Yet, the present multi-form and multi-front war waged by Islamists has the potential of inflicting more suffering and destroying more lives than any before it. Ruthless Islamic forces are advancing rapidly in their conquests while those of freedom are acquiescing and retreating. Before long, Islamism is poised to achieve its Allah-mandated goal of cleansing the earth of all non-Muslims. Any and all means and weapons are to be enlisted in the service of this final holy war that aims to establish the Islamic Ummah.
But Islam is a religion of peace and the great majority of Muslims are not a party to any plans and actions of the radicals, so claim academic pundits, leftist journalists, and hired Islamic apologists. The incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts the people into a sleep of complacency. For an average free human busy with all manners of demands on his time and resources, would hardly want to worry about the threat of Islamism when those he believes are “in the know” emphatically claim that there is nothing to worry about. Some of these advocates of Islam go further by accusing those who sound the alarm as racists, bigots, hatemongers, and much more.
But where are all the peace-loving moderate Muslims that supposedly are in the great majority? The Muslims who are neither jihadists themselves, nor do they support them? I and others, time and again, have been calling upon them to stand up and show the world that they oppose the fanatical Islamists. It is small comfort even if the vast majority of Muslims are not fanatic radicals when they do nothing to demonstrate their position. It is instructive to recall that it is invariably a minority, and more often than not a very small minority, that launches a campaign of death and destruction.
Perhaps it is wishful thinking on the part of the non-Muslims to believe that one can be a Muslim moderate, given that Islam is radical at its very core. To be moderate Muslim demands that the person explicitly renounce much of the violent, exclusionary, and radical teachings of the Quran. By so doing, the individual who issues his own death warrant in Islamic countries is condemned as apostate if he lives in a non-Islamic land and may even earn a fatwa on his head.
It is deadly, in any confrontation, to assess the adversary through one’s own mental template, because the two templates can be vastly different from each other. People in the West are accustomed to relativistic rather than absolutistic thinking. To Westerners, just about all matters range from black to white with an array of gray shades between the two poles. To Muslims, by contrast, nearly everything is in black and white and with virtually no shades of gray. The former type of thinking is typical of more mature minds, while the latter is that of young children and the less enlightened.
This absolutist thinking is enshrined in the Quran itself. When the starting point for a Muslim is the explicit fanatical words of Allah in the Quran, then the faithful are left with no choice other than literally obeying its dictates or even taking it to the next level of fanaticism. Good Muslims, for instance, do not shake hands with women, even though the Quran does not explicitly forbid it. Although the Quran stipulates that men are rulers over women, good Muslim men take it upon themselves to rule women not much better than they treat their domesticated animals.
All extreme systems operate outside of the constraints of checks and balances and according to the principle of a negative feedback loop. That is, once it starts, the extreme becomes more and more extreme until self-destructs and takes the larger system down with it. Cancer is a case in point. It begins with only a few cells. Left unchecked, the few cells continue expanding and stop only with the death of the host.
Fanatical Islam may indeed be a minority. Yet it is deadly cancer that has metastasized throughout the body of the world. Urgent confrontation of this advancing disease is imperative to stave it off.
Dozens of Islamist shooting wars of lesser and greater bloodletting are presently raging in the world, aided and abetted by the “moderate Muslim” majority. The so-called moderate Muslims, even if they exist, are complicit in the crimes of the radicals either by providing them with funds, logistics, and new recruits or by simply failing to actively confront and unequivocally renounce them.
As is the case with cancer cells, it is the malignant minority that is death-bearing.
In Germany in the 1930s, for instance, very few people were Nazis and most Germans dismissed them as a bunch of hot-headed fools. Before long, the hot-headed few cowed in the dismissive masses and as a result, millions lost their lives.
The tentacles of the Islamist hydra have deeply penetrated the world. The Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood poses a clear threat in Egypt with its large block of representatives in the parliament, but also wages its deadly campaign through its hundreds of well-established and functioning branches all over the world.
The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot soldiers for the Petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.
The end-of-the-world believers of the bomb-aspiring Iran’s Khomeinism are busy establishing the Shia hegemony in an arc extending from the Gulf of Oman to the Mediterranean Sea.
Al Qaeda and dozens of its like-minded jihadists relentlessly carry their barbaric campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, the Philippines, the former Soviet Union republics, the Russian Federation, Somalia, North Africa, and parts of Europe, as well as other lands.
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.
Are “moderate Muslims” an illusion? The only viable alternative for peaceful people of Islamic background, therefore, is to leave the bondage of violent Islam altogether and join ranks with humanity’s free.
The selected puppet president Ahmadinejad boasts that Iran’s mullahs’ nuclear train has no reverse gear and lacks brakes. He should harbor no illusions. The non-Islamist masses of Iranians will not docilely submit to the mullahs’ maniacal plans. It is the unmatched force of freedom that has no reverse gear and it is the force fully capable and determined to bring the mullahs’ train to a screeching halt before it is armed with the Armageddon nuclear weapons they so doggedly pursue.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin. Still somewhat pressed for time but a full post today.
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He seems nice.
Not.
Remember, these are the same ilk who said:
And who now say things like this:
“Cristcucks”. Dehumanization of the enemy. You think you can coexist with these people? Make plans. They are.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man’s ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Plato
Interesting timing. My son is studying martial arts, in the same art where I got up to my brown belt before I wrecked my knees. He asked “What happens if I get to black belt – will you be mad that I passed you”? I told him no. A sign of a great parent is that they hope their children exceed them.
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Yeah, we’ll get them in 2024. Uh huh.
TINVOWOOT.
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Pick of the post:
Excellent point. And it brings back this classic question:
I simply do not grasp how my fellow Jews fall onto the gun-control side of this. But JPFO does have an interesting take on that, and it rings true:
The Shtetl Mentality (jpfo.org)
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Palate Cleansers:
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Well, last week I said, “this is going to be a slog – slow and steady for both of us”. Well, for me, yeah, for sure – slow and steady. But Tom, as you can see below, had a great week compared to the earlier three. If he keeps this up, I’m in trouble. After all, it’s the old 80/20 Rule for me (or so it seems). Eighty percent to get done only needs 20% of the effort. It’s that last 20% that takes that 80% of the effort, blood, sweat, and in this case, hunger. My “2nd” easy weight, I think, is now gone. Tom, however, seems to be getting on a roll!
I’ve had a mantra for years: “everything in moderation including moderation”. Unfortunately for me, and great for Tom, is that after a long absence, I had an urge for a chili dog. Hey, what can just one chili dog do, right (think the old Pringles’ jingle)? Kayem Ballpark hot dog (very mild), diced Vidalia onion, a thin line of French’s mustard, and a great hot do roll. Toast the bun with a slight schmear of butter on each side, medium grilling, and pan fry the hot dog until it gets a really crispy brownish skin on it. And D.L. Jardine’s Texas Chili mix
(“Try one teaspoon [red pepper] for chili that is ‘hotter than a two dollar pistol on Saturday night. If you want your Texas Chili even hotter, keep pouring and may the good Lord help you. Watch for the smoke and fallout”)
Yeah, more than a couple this week. And I have 3 more bowls of chili in the freezer. Pray for me that I can overcome this temptation (the recipe for the chile need two pounds of hamburg so there’s too much sitting there, just chortling at me. When Tom reads this, he’s going to laugh at me!
this is going to be a slog – slow and steady for both of us
sadf
asdf
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The history of Democrats violating campaign finance laws is long and heady and includes paying off women to keep quiet about illicit liaisons. Trump’s problem is that he is not a Democrat, so requesting the charges be dismissed will be on the table Tuesday for his arrest and arraignment.
But imagine if all he had to do was to say he was switching parties. Democrats rarely get more than a fine for illegal electioneering or campaign finance indiscretions. And while whatever they’ve charged Trump with may be too old to be actionable (he didn’t spend millions on a fake dossier to undermine a candidate or a presidency illegally), if he was on Team Blue, you have to wonder. Would dismissal be a foregone conclusion?
Is it anyway?
Democrats hold so much anger and resentment that there is little The Donald could do to please them except perhaps kill himself. And while setting him up for a perp walk in Manhattan reeks of opportunity for would-be assassins, he’ll have secret service protection (assuming we can still trust them to do their jobs, which we can’t). Will the Judge make this go away on day one, or did they (the left) get the Judge they wanted?
A book deal, cable news show, or is it – we’ll kill your family if you don’t do what we say, or maybe, here’s a beautiful Dacaha in Ukraine for after the war. Comrade Volinskyy says he will perform some comedy for your entertainment.
Is any of that beyond the pale at this point?
We are witnessing another full-on political persecution with the blessing of the folks tasked with ensuring justice in an increasingly two-tiered system.
Theirs and yours. It’s sad but also embarrassing, which got me thinking. Given how ridiculous this is, I wondered what the sealed Alvin Bragg indictment looks like.
Something a toddler crafted on manilla construction paper with oversized crayons.
Or maybe a blank piece of paper Bragg can fill in as his mood suits.
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When colleges and universities start offering courses like this, it isn’t about academic rigor, the striving for newer (and useful) knowledge. This is pandering in a pale (and useless) effort under the rubric of “transforming the world.”
Sorry, this is just out-and-out lame for the weak-minded that can’t do the math. Organic Chemistry would be like climbing Mt. Everest backwards for these underachievers that still want a “degree.”
You know what? These are the types of skulls full of nothing (quoting Rush with “skulls full of mush” would be too kind) wanting a diploma that Mom and Dad’s money is making a diploma worthless (emphasis mine)
University of Maryland Now Offering Minor in ‘Protest Art’
“Students in this interdisciplinary minor learn how artists and designers can play a vital role in advancing public dialogue”Students can now minor in “Creative Placemaking” starting this next semester at the University of Maryland.
“Students in this interdisciplinary minor learn how artists and designers can play a vital role in advancing public dialogue,” and will “[explore] our shared humanity and [while] addressing some of our major challenges,” according to the art department’s website. The new minor will help enrollees spark “conversations about racial injustice, inequitable development, climate change or celebrating the diverse communities and cultures around us.”
Starting to sound like a theological school of Woke to me. Swap out the Bible (heck, many Protestant mainline denominations have already done that), change the traditional sacraments and rituals, come up with new “hymnals” for protesting choirs, and there you go. The way it’s going, I would not be surprised to see a M.S. | Ph.D in Woke Divinity (where divinity is now redefined that WE are the god we worship anew) coming out of this.
To ask the question is to know the answer: and can you determine which Bible will be in use? “Traditional Values” or the “Progressive Obama Transformation of America” one?
Think Constitutional Conservatives would be welcome in the pews of this Church?
…“Coined by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2010, ‘creative placemaking’ is the collaboration of artists and designers with local residents and stakeholders to address community challenges and opportunities,” the media team wrote in its email. “Navigating the process with students allows them to practice the essential relationship-building, dialogue and collaborative decision-making involved in addressing a community’s needs and aspirations.”
Students in the program “will learn how to employ techniques like mural design, storytelling, pop-up installations, public events and performance to advance a community’s vision and nurture vibrant place” and “will engage in place-based art and design projects in partnership with local organizations, knowledge keepers, and artists in select areas of Maryland, including the Purple Line Corridor.”
No, someone like me (lack of artistic capability aside) would never be welcome there. In fact, I would be labeled a heathen, a heretic, or someone to be burnt at the stake immediately. But I will say, keeping in mind the words of Andrew Breitbart, “politics is downstream of culture,” that the Right had better come up with a better offering as this is just yet another effort by the Left to solidify its grasp on the Culture that now surrounds us.
The phrase used to be “The dumbing down of America.” This is the next illogical step: consider this part of the “Un-education of America”. Afterall,
(H/T: Legal Insurrection)
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The Truth Ministers at the Comrade Broadcasting System (CBS) have issued a media fatwa. Thou shalt not use the word ‘transgender’ when reporting on the carbon-based life form that shuffled off the mortal coils of six (including three children) at a Christian School.
Call Aiden (Audrey) Hale what you like, just not transgender. It makes no difference that Audrey was proud to be trans or that this may be relevant to the shooting (as in, it’s one of those hate crime things).
Hale left behind a “manifesto” and had studied the school and its entrance points, according to police. Hale was getting treatment for an unspecified “emotional disorder,” said Metro Police Chief John Drake. The shooter’s parents thought Hale had recently sold his only gun, but Hale had in fact legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun shops, Drake said.
Was Hale a bit unhinged? Is this where the red flag folks say, “see, protective orders!”? Except that the same lot would probably call it a hate crime to request one on a guy who thinks he’s a woman. Discrimination! Bigot!
I’m not sure if CBS has any thoughts on that, but according to the NY Post, staffers had unhappy thoughts about the Fatwa passed down by their Media Mullahs.
“This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender,” a CBS insider said. “If the cops didn’t address it, maybe you could avoid it, but withholding information is not journalism.” …
The Tuesday call with the CBS News execs left the network’s roughly 150 staffers stunned into awkward silence, according to a source who was on the call.
The source noted that the two CBS News execs appeared to be “twisting themselves in knots” by censoring the reporting over their own “liberal bias,” which is ultimately a “disservice” to the network’s audience.
Well, that opens up some possibilities.
Don’t get me wrong. I like the idea that there are staffers barfed out of progressive modern J Schools inside CBS that think omitting “Transgender” from the reporting on “Audrey’s” mass murder is unethical. I don’t buy it.
There’s also this unpleasant fact. Transgenders and their political and media advocates get winded complaining about how the trans community needs to be accepted by the culture. Disregarding that we are talking about people incapable of accepting themselves for who they are, where’s the pride? These brave trendsetting glass-ceiling breakers get a special mention until one of them shoots up a Christian School. Then they are just a shooter.
Does anyone recall the attempted mass shooting by Floyd Corkins II?
And – most importantly – do they plan to apply this new policy to adjectives that would have described other shooters or just those that might lean left politically?
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After finding out that the Raymond school district was tracking children with digital badges, it appears as if they are going to go forward with this PBIS program. This time it looks like they will at least follow the law. They’ve been using the digital badges for a while now, but the administrators did not follow state regulations on digital tracking devices. You can read more about that here.
As I reported, this is government surveillance that includes the sharing of personal information with a 3rd party vendor.
There are no real privacy protections in place to secure the data because in December 2011, the U.S. Department of Education changed the regulations governing the release of student data to the private sector. President Obama did this without Congressional authorization.
Ed Tech vendors have profited since then by keeping parents in the dark when they mine their child’s data. Administrators have been too lazy or unwilling to protect the privacy of your children too. School administrators could be notifying parents about the potential to data-mine your child’s personal information without a law in place. Prior to 2011, school officials would have had to notify and receive consent by parents and guardians in order to use these kinds of software programs in the school.
All of this data mining by vendors and other outside sources, violate the The New Hampshire Constitution:
An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent. It may take someone willing to sue the schools to settle this in court.
The privacy policies tech vendors use, do not protect your child’s data. Instead they exploit the loophole in the federal student privacy law (FERPA). If you read the privacy policies that are supposed to protect your child’s data, because they follow the FERPA law, you assume that the tech vendor protects the student’s privacy. But there are now exceptions to which schools and vendors can share your child’s personal data without your knowledge or consent. The privacy policies are not private.
New Hampshire law RSA 189:68-II requires school districts to do the following when using digital badges in schools:II. No school shall require a student to use an identification device that uses radio frequency identification, or similar technology, to identify the student, transmit information regarding the student, or monitor or track the student without approval of the school board, after a public hearing, and without the written consent of a parent of legal guardian of an affected student which may be withheld without consequence.
Why wouldn’t parents want this type of digital tracking devices on their children? There are many reasons including the data mining of information on their children by the tech vendor. In addition to their right to live free from government intrusion, this type of device grooms children into thinking that they should be monitored at all times.
Since this is a positive rewards system, I asked some teachers and school counselors what they thought of this approach to addressing behavior. Here are some of the problems they saw with it:
1) This can be demoralizing to many children, especially children with special needs
2) Contrary to what counselors believes helps children
3) This rewards behavior that they should already be doing
4) The screen shown in class includes their face and behavior points
5) Whoever has the right number of points gets the toy.
6) Violates the counselor ethics when children are demoralized
7) Data collected in the teacher’s cell phones
What should be provided to all school board members and parents?
The whole contract, and look at the encryption, and security protections to see if they match the individual district security requirements.
What about security breaches? Have there been any? Would parents be immediately notified?
Has data from the PBIS system been shared with Keene State BHII? If so, were parents notified and did they consent?
Are parents given the right to opt out of this project? Why or why not? Where are schools using the digital badges with PBIS? Which schools? Did they let parents know their kids can opt out? Were kids forced to wear the digital badges?
There will be a school board hearing on April 5th. This is when parents can object to this tracking device. Parents also have the ability to not consent.
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For years I’ve been using that phrase to describe most school boards both here in NH and around the nation. They run to be elected to represent us in managing the education systems in our local areas on our behalf but once seated, they deign not to speak to us again.
Especially during the pandemic, I watched people go up to the mic to address their school boards only to get an icy, silent response to their concerns. I can’t tell you how many times single Moms, doing everything they can to keep their families working, address those SBers about their disabled kids only to start crying and turn around in shame because none of their representatives were listening and certainly not addressing their concerns.
I’ll be honest, I grew to just taunt mine of this to make them see the pain they were creating for others simply because once being elected, they collectively believed that they didn’t have to respond to the public.
I sent the following to another education activist because you take the wins that you can when you can them – it looks like the EISFMSs, at least here in Gilford, are starting to realize what is expected of them:
Persistence pays off – but it took 2.5 years to get it done. Was just perusing the new and revised policies for SAU73 for Monday night’s School Board meeting. School Board members will now answer questions from interested people during Public Input:
BEDH – PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT BOARD MEETINGS
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT BOARD MEETINGS The Board encourages citizens of the district to attend its sessions so that they may become better acquainted with the operation and programs of the schools and that the Board may have the opportunity to hear the comments and suggestions of the public…
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Members of the Board are without authority to act independently as individuals in official matters. With the approval of the chairperson, a question may be answered by an individual Board member or administrator
Heh! – “They know not what they do” – or have done or about to do”. Maybe. As I said during my first term on the Budget Committee, when the Town Administrator and Finance Director (Evans Juris and Debbie Shackett) tried to force a “Code of Ethics” upon us as elected officials, the attempt was really to shut up myself and another person. My response was “I didn’t hang up my First Amendment Rights once I got elected, AND I sit in my BudComm chair” – I wasn’t going to sign it.
Sidenote: Years later, I now know that neither of those dunderheads had the Power to do that, as there is no RSA (NH Law) that allowed them to do so. Didn’t hurt that I caught them plagiarizing that CoE even as they boasted it was their work, so they dropped it.
Finally, “interested people” will not only be able to speak to have ” …the Board may have the opportunity to hear the comments and suggestions of the public”, the public is going to have the chance to figure out what school board members know and are thinking as well.
This should be interesting Monday night.
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So Sun-King Sununu brought his look-at-me, look-at-me, everybody-look-at-me, quixotic Presidential campaign to Bill Maher … and, of course, went along with Maher’s and the Left’s J6 was an insurrection LIE:
This reveals who Sun-King Sununu is … a creature of the Left who cares more … much more … about being liked by Leftists like Bill Maher and Kevin Landrigan than about the truth or about what matters to actual Republican voters.
And have you heard Sun-King say anything about the insurrection in Tennessee? Me neither. But that’s to be expected … as a creature of the Left he believes in different rules for different people. Such as it’s okay for BLM to parade through working and middle-class New Hampshire neighborhoods, but don’t you dare … DON’T YOU DARE … protest in front of Sun-King’s palace.
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What a parade of hypocrites we had to listen to as the news of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. These people meant no Republican is above the law, and let every Democrat skate free! These Democrat blowhards obviously never heard of let he who has not sinned throw the first stone.
The person who pushed me over the edge was California Congressman Adam Schiff, who is hoping to replace the retiring Diane Feinstein as Senator from California. Schiff spent the four years of the Trump administration impeaching the President. He was on the Sunday talk shows every week, building up the lie of Russian collusion. Schiff probably should have had his Congressional salary subsidized by MSNBC or CNN. He lied to the American public that he had proof of the conspiracy but could not produce it. His failure was because the Russian Collusion between Trump and Putin never existed. He lied to Congress and the American people, but apparently, he was above the law.
Hillary and Obama were found guilty of campaign finance violations, similar to what they indicted Trump for. Clinton and Barack paid fines, and all was good. They were not indicted, fingerprinted, or mug-shot. Guess they are above the law, too. Hilary paid for the bogus Russian Dosier with campaign funds and destroyed thousands of emails designated as evidence. Nothing to see here. All Democrats are above the law.
Diane Feinstein had a Chinese spy driving for her for years, and Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy. Swalwell helped Fang Fang escape the country before the FBI could question her. Did anything happen to either of these Dems from California? Of course not, because they are held to a different level of the law.
Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib were all found to have used campaign money for personal expenses. Please remind me what happened to these three. Oh, nothing. Nobody would touch these three corrupt women of color for fear of being canceled as racist.
And then we have Joe Biden. As Vice-President, he transported his alcoholic, drug-addicted son, Hunter on Air Force II to Ukraine, China, and probably Russia. The purpose of these trips was so the young Biden could shake down individuals and governments alike for millions of dollars to be funneled back to the Biden family. We have the laptops, pictures, emails, and pictures documenting the embezzlement of foreign entities and the bank receipts for the Biden deposits of this money. Do you see any action being taken against the Bidens. Of course not, but you knew the answer before I asked.
We also have five different stashes of Confidential, Top-Secret documents in possession of Joe Biden and “Blow-Art” pieces done by Hunter with one of his cocaine straws selling to Chinese individuals for hundreds of thousands of dollars. No story here. Just look away.
These are just a sampling. We have insider trading by Pelosi and billions going to Ukraine, with proof of some of that coming back to this country but to the Democrat National Campaign Committee. I guess George Soros must have run out of checks. But that’s okay. Nothing to see here, right?
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Electronic voting systems results have often been scrutinized (ask Democrats after Trump won in 2016), but not like they did after the 2020 elections. Mathematical improbability amplified common irregularities as election integrity came under intense scrutiny.
The issue persists, and efforts have been made at the local level across the increasingly less fruited plain to shore up voter confidence. In my state of New Hampshire, a handful of towns have had measures brought forward to drop the Dominion electronic machine counted ballots to switch to paper. None of them (to my knowledge) has survived turn out to oppose them. But one county in California has managed it.
The county supervisors ultimately voted 3-2 in favor of switching to paper ballots. The vote came after the county terminated its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, which had been providing the county’s electronic voting machines. The termination of the contract left the county without any replacement for their current system, making it necessary for them to find an alternative solution.
Trend-setters, way-pavers, trailblazers, forerunners, pathfinders, torchbearers, and breakers of glass ceilings. No, not ditching Dominion for hand counting, but how they did it. They canceled the contract. Absent that agreement, there had to be a way to count ballots, and the best and only immediate solution was to do it the way it had been done before technology nosed its way in, along with all the uncertainty that followed.
If you can’t get enough citizens to come out and support hand-counting, cancel the Dominion Contract. That forces a debate on what you will do in its absence, the immediate answer to which is hand counting.
It is a crude and Leftist(ish) tactic, and it might be your last term as an elected official, but it has a lot of backbone.
And true, you could end up with another contract with Dominion or someone similar. Still, the journey from hand-counting back is an opportunity to negotiate more protection for election integrity and to debate the problems and concerns of the electorate. A conversation that might light up a few dim bulbs.
We could only hope.
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