Saturday, July 20, 2024

The Top 5 (July 20)

* "Republicans Need Better Abortion Messaging To Beat Democrats’ Money And Marketing" (Joseph Arlinghaus, Federalist)

From the article -- While we pro-life people have mostly lobbied our friends in legislatures, Democrats have marketed their pro-abortion ideas. Democrats are great at marketing. Us? Not so much. And marketing thrives on big budgets. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street donors have offered almost unlimited amounts for abortion propaganda, and they want to see the official Democrat Party spend even more.

But Republicans have remained scared of abortion, and Republican donors have been told abortion is a loser so many times that they simply refuse to consider there might be a way to beat Democrats at this game. But there is a way to win with pro-life messages...

* "Xi Jinping and China: Running Out of Time, Ready to Strike" (Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute) 

From the article -- I believe that Xi wants war — or at least a ramping up of tensions — to prevent senior Chinese leaders from moving against him. He is not looking to rally the Chinese people with provocative actions or even an attack; he wants to defang political opponents in the Communist Party. Xi may not yet have made the decision to go to war, but he has clearly made the decision to risk war. That means he can strike when we least expect it.

* "The war against the Jews: In Britain, France and America, the left is on the wrong side." (Melanie Phillips,Jewish News Service)

From the article -- We have to face without flinching what is now undeniable: There is a war across the globe raging against the Jewish people. It’s a war not just to destroy their national homeland but to drive them out of people’s heads, their conscience and their world. Led by Muslims and the left, with its base in the universities, this war has extended much further than these circles into professional and commercial life...

Like the Biden administration in America, left-wing parties in Britain and France are displaying hostility to Israel and indifference to Jewish security when Israel is under existential attack, global Jew-hatred has reached stratospheric levels and tyrants everywhere are on a roll because of the West’s refusal to defend itself or even understand the priceless values that it needs to defend. Diaspora Jews ask where they can be safe. The answer is nowhere.

* "Media Cover Up the Jihad on French Churches" (Raymond Ibrahim, The Stream)

From the article is this map and and these comments: Bahl tried to discredit the map any way she could, including through barefaced ad hominem attacks: She described the Observatory of Christianophobia’s publication director as a “far right Catholic activist” (as if that tells us anything about the map’s veracity).

But because it is accurate, the best Bahl could do was to repeatedly and dismissively stress that it’s “outdated,” and therefore in no way representative of the current situation in France.

This is a ludicrous defense: If anything, the age of the map indicates that the situation in France is much worse now than it was five years ago. As Bahl herself stressed, it shows where churches were attacked in just 2018. Although only one year’s worth of church attacks is documented, the map is almost entirely red. How would it look if it showed all the church attacks that took place over the last six years? It would probably be pure red — a bloody war zone.

Churches are under attack all throughout France (once known, rather ironically, as the “Eldest Daughter of the Church”). This is an indisputable fact, irrespective of France 24’s sorry attempts at damage control.

* "Girl, 7, 'Too Young' for First Amendment Rights, Punished for 'Racist' BLM Drawing" (Kevin Downey Jr., PJ Media)

From the article -- The judge agreed that the artist's intentions were innocent, but woke is a joke and commies will gladly punish and humiliate anyone who doesn't fall in line, especially kids as they are easy to brainwash. U.S. Central District Court Judge David Carter ruled the punishment was just and righteous because the pint-sized Mosleyite was "too young to have First Amendment rights." 

'I was immediately angry, I didn't know what had happened, I knew it was wrong fundamentally," B.B.'s mon, Chelsea Boyle, told Fox News. "My daughter's rights were taken away, and I just started reaching out to find out what compelled speech was. I didn't know what it was until I spoke to attorneys." The case, now roughly three years old, will go to an Appeals Court. 

B.B.'s mom had no idea the punishment had taken place until another parent told her roughly a year after the woke nonsense took place. "As a child with ADHD, art is Ms. Boyle's daughter's main emotional outlet," Boyle family lawyer Alexander Haberbush told the press after launching the lawsuit. "The school has deprived her of that, and for what? For having the audacity to draw kids of all races getting along with the words ‘black lives matter,’ ‘any life’ matters."