From the article -- The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal indictment handed down Tuesday. The SPLC claims it was funding informants inside the extremist groups.
While the SPLC “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”
Blanche highlighted one example from the indictment, where the SPLC paid a member of the leadership group that planned the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. “The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertise to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups … however, the SPLC used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups,” FBI Director Kash Patel explained at the press conference.
The indictment charges the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, aiming to “obtain money via donations through materially false representations and omissions about what the donated funds would be used for.” It charges the SPLC with four counts of false statements to a federally insured bank by creating accounts for fictitious entities to funnel the money. Finally, it charges the SPLC with one count of conspiracy to commit concealment of money laundering.
Related articles: “SPLC Accused of Secretly Funding White Supremacist, Extremist Groups in DOJ Indictment” (Debra Heine, American Greatness)...“DOJ Charges Far-Left SPLC with Fraud, Money Laundering, ‘Manufacturing Racism to Justify Its Existence’” (Elizabeth Weibel, Breitbart)...“‘Fine People’ Hoax Uncovered in SPLC Fraud Scam” (Sasha Stone, Substack)...“A look back at the SPLC” (Scott Johnson , Power Line)...“DOJ: The SPLC Was ‘Paying Sources to Stoke Racial Hatred’” (John Sexton, Hot Air)
2) “A Catholic’s letter to an Israeli soldier: An appeal to the I.D.F. soldier who smashed a statue of Christ in southern Lebanon.” (Stephen Daisley)
From the article -- You have handed Israel’s enemies a piece of propaganda the likes of which they could never have dreamed. You have created for the Jew-haters a masterpiece of deicide, an antisemitic artwork for the ages. You have conspired to offend and disgust Israel’s millions of Christian Zionist admirers, in the United States and elsewhere, and for at least some of them this will mark a breaking point.
You have severely damaged your country’s reputation and, in alienating her friends, especially in America, you could be responsible for developments that reduce U.S. backing for Israel and therefore weaken her security. You have hurt Israel more than Peace Now, Breaking the Silence, and B’Tselem put together. I hope it was worth it, bro.
I guess I ended up adding to all the condemnation, after all. I didn’t mean to. I’m writing this, though I know you’ll never read it, because I am a supporter of Israel and I am also a Catholic. Not a terribly common combination. If you want to verify my Zionism, which is political and not religious, just check my back catalogue. I must have written hundreds of articles defending, consoling, and extolling Israel over the years. If you want to verify the Catholic part: I forgive you.
Personally, that is, for desecrating the holiest symbol in my faith. I’m afraid I can’t forgive you on anyone else’s behalf, but while seeing the image of you smashing a statue of my lord and saviour with a sledgehammer appalled and angered me, I forgive you.
I don’t hate you, I don’t think you’re a bad person; I think you did a cruel, obnoxious, sacrilegious thing, possibly because you thought it would be funny. I don’t think you intended to wound the world’s billion Christians, and even if you did, this wounded Christian wishes you only the best in return.
3) “Who Owns American History?” (John Fonte, American Mind)
From the article -- The President’s House, with an overwhelming emphasis on slavery, opened in December 2010. It was immediately attacked by cultural critic Edward Rothstein, then with the New York Times. Rothstein rejected the argument of the site’s adherents that the new interpretation was based on history previously not examined. In a rebuttal, the Times writer argued it was far more beholden to identity politics advocacy than nuanced historical analysis: “It is not really a reinterpretation of history; it overturns the idea of history, making it subservient to the claims of contemporary identity politics.”
He continued: After $10.5 million and more than eight years; after tugs of war between the city and the National Park Service and black community organizations; after the establishment of a contentious oversight committee and street demonstrations, overturned concepts and racial debates, it bears all the scars of its creation, lacking both intellectual coherence and emotional power.
Most importantly, Rothstein contended in a follow-up piece that the new ideological interpretation ignored what was significant for American history in the President’s House: the fact that the Washington and Adams administrations were influential in creating a new nation, a constitutional republic. Rothstein writes, “In the upstairs world of Washington and Adams, so blatantly ignored in the Philadelphia site, was the beginning of a national experiment: the faltering and difficult task of shaping a new society in which equality and liberty would indeed be governing principles, ultimately weakening the institution of slavery.”
4) “We Must Resist The Left’s War On Religious Freedom” (Mike Pompeo, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article -- The collusion between the Justice Department – an arm of the Executive branch tasked with the fair and impartial administration of justice to all Americans – with pro-abortion activists against their ideological foes flies in the face of the DOJ’s mission, and the animating spirit of our Constitution. This doesn’t just compromise the rights of pro-life Americans – it opens the door for future abuses by government officials of all political and ideological stripes.
As a person of faith and as an American, I am grateful to the current Administration for doing the necessary to defend the First Amendment liberties of pro-life Americans. We cannot have a country in which the government treats our constitutional rights as conditional, or as favors to be granted to preferred political constituencies rather than God-given liberties.
But the fight doesn’t stop here. While we can hope that the legal remedies being pursued by the Trump DOJ will chill future efforts to engage in this type of behavior, there can be little doubt that pro-abortion activists will continue to use their power within the increasingly radical far-Left base to push for these tactics to continue. I give thanks every day for organizations like the ACLJ, which are truly doing the Lord’s work to ensure that these anti-constitutional, anti-faith zealots do not prevail.
5) “A Justice in Full: Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has served on the US Supreme Court for 20 years, but has never gotten the attention (or credit) he deserves.” (Mark Pulliam, Law & Liberty)
From the article -- In addition to the extensive interviews, Hemingway consulted with legal scholars, pored over the Court’s decisions, and reviewed the essays presented at a symposium on Justice Alito’s jurisprudence held in March 2022, which were published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
What emerges is the portrait of an earnest, even-tempered, hard-working, highly intelligent, resolute, modest, self-effacing champion of the Constitution. Acquaintances use the same adjectives to describe Alito: quiet, calm, brilliant, polite, unassuming, courageous. Hemingway puts Alito’s 20 years of service as a justice in the context of the Court’s evolution from a hotbed of judicial activism under Chief Justice Earl Warren to its current alignment—a historic 6-to-3 conservative majority—and explains how Alito has played a key role in that shift.
Hemingway also digresses surefootedly into profiles of and anecdotes about the leading figures in political and legal circles during the Reagan-to-Trump epoch. As I said about Hemingway’s co-authored book on the Kavanaugh confirmation process, Justice on Trial, due to her extensive interviews, “the reader feels like a fly on the wall, behind the scenes, as the events dramatically unfold.” Alito delivers the same insider scoop.
Other Outstanding Articles from this Week:
* “Living In A Culture That Silences Biblical Truth” (Skip Heitzig, Harbinger’s Daily)
* “We’re No Better Today Than Pagan Nations… And The Numbers At Planned Parenthood Prove It” (Ken Ham, Harbinger’s Daily)
* “’Study’ Claiming Mail-Order Abortions Are ‘Almost Exclusively’ Legal Is Fake News” (Jamie Bryan Hall, Federalist)
* “Hawley Hunts Down the Secrets of America’s Shady Abortion Drug Maker” (Suzanne Bowdey, Washington Stand)
* “Hey, Tucker: Christianity and Islam Have a Long and Very Bitter History” (Josh Hammer, Jewish World Review)
