From the article -- “Terrible masters” have been elected the mayors of New York City, Seattle, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Los Angeles will elect another one this fall, either the Castro-ite incumbent will get another four years to torment the citizenry, or her challenger, a council member who could drag the city of angels back to a demonic “Marxist 19th century” existence, will get her chance to ruin the town that had long been the envy of many but has become an oozing sore on the nation.
As we noted Tuesday, there could be 10 socialist mayors in the U.S. by the end of this year. If only that were the extent of it. Congress has a pair of prominent socialists in Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the radical, the lazy, the ignorant, and the useful idiots in her Bronx-Queens district. Joining them might be Graham Platner of Maine, who has no interest in civil service and would rather be the raging fire that burned our connections to our past so that his tribe of political savages can take more ground for the far left.
We should expect, and even fear, more will come, because, as our poll shows, nearly half (46%) of Democrats hold a favorable view of socialism. No surprise there, though. Democrats have been trending toward socialism for decades, and this is who they are now: Terrible masters who are the irresponsible actors Washington cautioned us about. Their policies encumber rather than liberate. Their objective is to rule rather than respect constitutional boundaries. They can’t tolerate dissent, patriotism, or challenges to their power-hungry agenda.
They thrive on lies, promise Heaven but deliver hell, sow division at every opportunity in hopes of creating chaos that only they can straighten out with the boot of the state, and traffic in political violence both directly and indirectly. The evil twin Cs, as they see it, are Christianity and capitalism, both of which must be stamped out. The virtuous C in their twisted minds stands for censorship.
2) “It Doesn’t Take A Brain Surgeon To See Through Iran’s Strategy In Lebanon… So Why Is America Putting Up With It?” (Erick Stakelbeck, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article -- Israel has pounded Hezbollah and left it in tatters. Iran knows that Hezbollah is in very big trouble and badly wants to save the crown jewel of its proxy network. The regime not only demanded to have Lebanon included in the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed by President Trump last week, but also ordered Hezbollah to continue attacking Israel. The Jewish State gets the blame when it responds, and the U.S. then calls for Israeli restraint. Do you see how this works?
Even though our leaders would obviously never tolerate a terror group on America’s borders launching rockets from Canada or Mexico, Israel, as usual, is held to a different standard. Israel is being asked very openly to not respond to Hezbollah attacks. It’s an impossible situation for the world’s one and only Jewish state. For some reason, US negotiators have allowed Iran to create this status quo. And it’s not good.
Related articles: “JD Vance Is Wrong: Israel Is Not Just Another Ally” (Ahmed Charai, Gatestone Institute)...“Iran: Did Trump Cave In?” (Amir Taheri, Gatestone Institute)...“Did Trump Snooker Iran? Trump may have given Iran everything it wanted on paper -- but the real question is whether Tehran fell for a deal that gives America the leverage to walk away.” (Ken Timmerman, American Greatness)
3) “Study Shows Christianity’s Role in U.S. Founding Excluded By Publishers” (Decision Magazine Staff)
From the article -- A study, which assessed more than 300 books curated by children’s publishers for America’s 250th anniversary, found that public libraries and publishers are ignoring Christianity’s role in the U.S. founding, focusing instead on progressive history. “No books about the Pilgrims as religious refugees,” the report reiterated. “No books about the Great Awakening. No books about religious liberty as a founding principle. No books about the faith lives of the founders. No books about the Black church's role in American history, even on lists heavy with Black history content. No books about faith-motivated abolitionists, even on lists featuring abolitionist narratives. No titles from any faith-based publisher.”
Franklin Graham responded to the report’s release on social media, stating it is “up to us” to ensure “our children and grandchildren learn about the role that faith in God has played in the founding and history of our nation.” “As we approach our nation’s 250th birthday, a new study found that public libraries and publishers are censoring faith OUT of the American story—and actively pushing progressive, revisionist history,” Franklin said. “When they analyzed more than 300 books across 25 reading lists curated by children’s publishers, libraries, and other institutions, guess how many books the study found included faith, religious liberty, or Christianity’s role in the founding of the U.S.? Zero! Exactly none!”
Ben Carson and Riley Gaines, authors at Brave Books, the publisher that released the study titled “The America 250 Faith Gap,” both criticized the exclusion of Christianity’s influence in U.S. history. “Dr. Ben Carson is right—'A generation that does not know where their freedoms come from will not know why those freedoms are worth fighting for,’” Franklin said. “I agree with Riley Gaines that ‘kids deserve more than a story of what is wrong with America!’”
The study discovered that among the 300 books found within 25 reading lists, there were no titles that directly acknowledged or centered on faith, religious liberty or Christianity's role in the nation's founding. Among the books, the most common themes were minority perspectives, the American Revolution, black history, civil rights and women’s history while books on the American Founders, civics, the classics and other American symbols were minority recommendations. Other titles centered on LGBTQ history, including the 1969 Stonewall Riots, an event considered by homosexual and transgender activists as pivotal to their movement.
4) “Embracing Masculinity: Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month: Men built, protected, and sustained civilization. If we want stronger families and communities, we must stop dismissing masculinity and start supporting men.” (White Papers Policy Institute and Cyan Quinn, American Greatness
From the article -- We pathologize masculinity, yet masculinity is the very quality that leads men to put their lives on the line for perfect strangers every day. Likewise, 93 percent of garbage truck drivers are men. Yet we don’t hear demands to diversify this section of the workforce.
Our men are in trouble. In America, White males, who make up 31 percent of the population, account for almost 70 percent of suicides in America—nearly four times the rate of women. In the UK, 74 percent of suicides are men. Whites made up 95 percent of those suicide deaths. Most of these men are between 40 and 50 and have difficulty with employment or are separated or divorced.
Also in the UK, 77 percent of men have suffered from symptoms of common mental health conditions such as anxiety, stress, or depression, yet 40 percent of men have never talked about their mental health to anyone.
These don’t have to be simple grim statistics. We can actively create a policy environment that encourages male happiness by celebrating healthy masculinity and family formation.
5) “’Kill Your Parents’ at the Obama Presidential Center (Daniel Greenfield, Trajectories)
From the article -- Media reporting spent a good deal of time spotting celebrities in the VIP section. There was a sprightly Tom Hanks in sunglasses, there was Oprah, on her fortieth diet, and girlfriend Gayle King, and LA Mayor Karen Bass who had to return home after Los Angeles burned again which seems to happen every time she leaves town. And then again there were the people who actually mattered, who had made Obama and the era of radicalism he brought into national politics, happen.
“Dig it!” the old woman in the third row of the Obama Presidential Center, had once gloated over the brutal murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson Family. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” “Kill all the rich people,” the old man wearing the Communist ‘red star’ had defined his radical movement. “Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.”
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the former terrorist leaders of the Weathermen and the Chicago power couple who spotted Obama and moved him up the political ladder getting third row seats to the opening of the Obama Presidential Center spoke more eloquently about what Obama represented than any of the hollow political speeches and media press releases.
“We want to find a way to turn toward each other again,” Barack Obama claimed, insisting that he stood for the traditional American values of “fairness and common sense and mutual respect.” But what he actually stood for was sitting in the third row and wearing the Communist star. The media didn’t even believe that Obama’s mentor getting a front row seat to the opening of his presidential center while wearing the symbol of a movement responsible for the mass murder of millions mattered.
Related article: “Obama’s Hideous Monument to Hubris: It is the perfect symbol for a sociopathic solipsist and a failed presidency.” (David Catron, American Spectator)
Other Excellent Reads from the Week
* “Air Conditioning? It’s Illegal!” (John Hinderaker, Power Line)
* “Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Questions That Won’t Go Away.” The public doesn’t seem to care about the former president’s close relationship with the convicted pedophile. (Ellie Gardey Holmes, American Spectator)
* “Why the EU is so much worse than when we left -- Ten years on from the Brexit vote, Brussels is more meddlesome, authoritarian and anti-democratic than ever.” (Fraser Myers, spiked!)
* “The Next Gutenberg Moment: Why Christians Should Lead the AI Storytelling Revolution” (Robert Maginnis, Washington Stand)
* “New Research Points to iPhone as Significant Factor in Plunging Birth Rate” (Dan Hart, Washington Stand)
