News of the Week for June 11th, 2023
- Abortion
- Gun Rights
- Hide the Decline
- Obamacare
- War & Terror
- National News
- Economy & Taxes
- International News
- Opinion
Abortion
Dobbs Decision
Biden administration ‘hijacking’ George Bush AIDS program to push abortion in Africa: GOP congressman
The PEPFAR program was created in 2003 under President George W. Bush
Gun Rights
Armed employee shoots woman who was pistol-whipping coworker
It was a sleepy Tuesday morning at a Rent-a-Center in Alton, Illinois, at least until a woman armed with a gun walked inside. According to authorities, the woman was looking to confront a relative who worked at the store despite the fact that an active order of protection prohibited her from having contact with the relative or wandering on to the premises.
Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for constitutional amendment to curb gun access
The California Democrat wants to raise the minimum age to buy a firearm to 21, mandate universal background checks, impose a waiting period on buyers and ban the civilian purchase of assault weapons.
Supreme Court Asked to Weigh Second Amendment Against Interests of Domestic Violence Victims
Defendant: disarming individuals subject to a protective order conflicts “with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” and exceeds Congress’s Commerce Clause power.
Supreme Court Asked to Weigh Second Amendment Against Interests of Domestic Violence Victims
Defendant: disarming individuals subject to a protective order conflicts “with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” and exceeds Congress’s Commerce Clause power.
Hide the Decline
Environment &“Green Energy”
Europe’s top eco-zealots are plotting a huge ‘civil disobedience campaign’ of highway blockages and disruption at ‘federal properties’ in America’s first summer of chaos
European climate activists have brought whole cities to a standstill
Heads up: Important climate change “Save That Date” in 17 days
We’re all done for. Bet you forgot.
The totalitarian roots of the anti-human environmentalist cult
The modern environmentalist movement is often compared to a pantheistic religion. It certainly contains a vision of sin and repentance – damnation and salvation.
New Salary Rules Jeopardize California’s Wildfire-Preventing Goat Herding Industry
Meanwhile, Allstate is withdrawing from California because of wildfires.
The War against Cows
A new front in the war against beef has been opened: the war against where beef comes from — cows. The Dutch government (and the EU) want to see fewer cattle in the country’s farms (and they also want to see fewer farmers), something that is leading to political pushback.
Ireland: Slaughter the Cows, Save the World
There’ve been a lot of headlines about a leaked plan from Ireland’s Department of Agriculture that urged the culling of 200,000 cows to help the country meet its climate targets.
Only one sausage per month for everyone!’ German Nutrition Society recommends over 90% reduction in daily meat eating– to combat global warming
German daily newspaper Bild: Only one sausage per month for everyone! – “Less meat consumption = better climate? The Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture has calculated that even halving meat consumption would bring Germany one percentage point closer to its climate goals.” … “No one wants to ban people from their occasional currywurst. But overall meat consumption in the population is too high for health and sustainability reasons, it’s a scientific fact”, indicates the DGE to the German newspaper.
Shocker: 96% of U.S. climate data is corrupted
This seems like an appropriate time for a story like this to pop up since it involves both smoke clouds and climate change. You probably heard how AOC was quick to blame the clouds of smoke wafting down from the Canadian wildfires last week on climate change. As you likely expected without even needing to check, that turns out to be nonsense. But the underlying facts that prove its nonsensical nature turn out to be well rooted in science. And researching this question turns up something even more interesting, which we’ll get to in a moment.
Obamacare
Government in Healthcare
When Sterilization Was Dogma: Why the Eugenics Movement is Relevant Today
Ted Balaker interviews Robert Graboyes on groupthink in public health
Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo Vetoes Assisted Suicide
The Nevada legislature narrowly passed assisted-suicide legalization, but Governor Joe Lombardo has vetoed the bill.
Lawsuit: “Inclusive” COVID-Relief Program Excluded Straight White Male
“The government’s exclusion of Mr. Dalton due to his race, sex, and sexual orientation is unconstitutional. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbids the government from discriminating against individuals on such bases.”
War & Terror
Collapse of major dam in southern Ukraine triggers emergency as Moscow and Kyiv trade blame
A major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering crops in the country’s breadbasket and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war scrambled to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the destruction.
Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.
Beijing agrees to pay Havana several billion dollars for eavesdropping facility
Wagner mercenaries tortured me and stole tanks from the Russian army, captured lieutenant says
Explosive outburst escalates rift between regular army and private militias fighting in Ukraine
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell
He was arrested in 1996 after a nearly 20-year bombing spree.
National
Target Says: Tear Down Mount Rushmore!
Target keeps digging the hole deeper. Fox News has a report on the Target Foundation, which funds the extreme Left. One of the beneficiaries of Target’s largesse is the NDN Collective, a South Dakota nonprofit that hauls in $50 million or more in annual revenue. It must be nice to be on the Left! That is where the money is.
A Weird Hill to Die On
For reasons I can’t explain, the Left, including the Democratic Party, has made sex change operations on minors its signature issue. It has become a litmus test: in order to be considered progressive, one must now advocate the mutilation of children’s genitals. If there is a Democratic Party politician who dissents from this orthodoxy, I am not aware of it.
Okla. Catholic school set to become nation’s first religious charter
An Oklahoma board approved the nation’s first religious charter school on Monday, agreeing to publicly fund a school where Catholic teachings will be incorporated into lessons throughout the day — and testing the constitutional bounds of taxpayer funding for religious education.
‘Night Fury’: Documents Detail DHS Project to Give ‘Risk Scores’ to Social Media Users
Internal DHS documents reviewed by Motherboard provide more detail on a DHS plan to monitor social media for content related to terrorists, the illegal opioid trade, and foreign interference bots.
CDC Already Reporting More Monkeypox Cases and Warns of Summer Resurgence
It’s back!
We are continuing to pursue Missouri State U discrimination: “It’s not enough, when caught, to say ‘oops, sorry.'”
In response to prior challenge by Equal Protection Project, Missouri State U promised to open its business boot camp to all, but its president also was quoted as saying “Frankly, I still don’t think we did anything wrong.” So EPP now has filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Cal-Tech Scientists Transmit Space-Based Solar Power to Earth For First Time
Meanwhile, the Japanese are working on similar technology that will make an attempt to beam solar energy from space in 2025.
Washingtons State’s ‘Equity’ Director Pink-Slipped Over Allegations of Racism
Some days the jokes write themselves. The term “Karen” has long been used to refer to a woman who is an entitled, thoughtless busybody who makes the lives of everyone around her miserable. The people who Iive on the internet would like you to believe that in most cases the woman in question is a white conservative woman. Well today, sports fans, we bring you a story from Washington state about a progressive Karen who was fired from her job because of her attitude. And she couldn’t even ask to speak with the manager because she was the manager.
Sen. Tim Scott takes on Sunny Hostin over systemic racism
A couple weeks ago, Joy Behar went on a little rant about Sen. Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas, saying that neither one of them understand systemic racism in America. She was backed up by Sunny Hostin who agreed with Behar’s view.
Gender madness in IDAHO
Last year I drove through Idaho and left with a very positive impression.
Female Athletes Make Their Case at the Second Circuit
It is only a matter of time before the transgender-sports question comes before the Supreme Court. In April, when a SCOTUS majority declined to intervene in an ongoing case involving West Virginia’s law banning males from participating in female sports, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. Alito, joined by Thomas, wrote that the dispute “concerns an important issue that this Court is likely to be required to address in the near future.”
NYC Democrats Unveil Crack Pipe Vending Machine
New York City Democrats are deploying vending machines to dispense crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia.
1619 Project curriculum teaches mad #mathskillz by working reparations problems
This is an interesting and certainly unique educational concept.
Kids subjected to bizarre nude performance at ‘all ages’ Oregon State drag event
The event included a demonstration of ‘t*tty weight lifting.’
Former police officer claims he was fired for holding conservative views
Moravits denies wrongdoing and alleges he is being terminated for expressing conservative views in the classroom.
Brawl breaks out at Glendale school board meeting
For those not familiar with southern California geography, Glendale is a medium-sized city (about 200,000) just north of Los Angeles and directly between Hollywood and Pasadena. Yesterday the Glendale school board held a meeting and two opposing groups of people showed up for it. On one side was a group who’d come to protest the recognition of Pride month, though this seems to have been just a tipping point for other gender identity related issues. Some of them were wearing white t-shirts that read “Leave our kids alone.”
It takes only 22 minutes to get approved for castration
Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire is one of the top 2 or 3 activists fighting gender ideology and “gender-affirming care” for children.
Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters in unexpected defense of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law.
Trump Campaign, Influencers Keep Getting ‘Community Noted’ on Twitter for Posting Falsehoods
“In May alone, Team Trump and their surrogates were slapped with community notes on at least seven occasions — and were often cited for posting flat-out lies.”
University of Buffalo Sued for Revoking Recognition of Young Americans for Freedom
“Defendants’ national-affiliation ban violates Young Americans for Freedom and its members’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution”
Pitt College Republicans Allege First Amendment Violation
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) sent a letter Monday to administrators at the University of Pittsburgh alleging that the university violated the First Amendment rights of its College Republicans. (Disclosure: I am president of the Harvard Republican Club, which is not formally affiliated with Pitt’s CRs or those on other campuses.) According to the letter, Pitt charged the student organization and its co-sponsor, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a security fee of $18,734 for an April 18 debate on transgenderism between Michael Knowles and Brad Polumbo.
Is an RFK Jr.-Tucker Carlson 2024 Ticket Possible?
Indulge my populist fantasy momentarily. I don’t want to believe Santa Claus doesn’t exist. Maybe pigs can fly. The Easter Bunny is real. Just ask Joe Biden; he wouldn’t know where to walk without him (or her; I don’t know the Easter Bunny’s preferred pronouns).
Trump Is Being Charged with Willfully Retaining National-Defense Information
Reporting from the Washington Post and New York Times indicates that former president Donald Trump has been indicted on seven felony counts. The indictment obtained by special counsel Jack Smith from a federal grand jury in Miami is still under seal, so the reports are based on leaks from people said to be knowledgeable.
Federal Railroad Agency Will Conduct Safety Review of All Major Railroads
Meanwhile, Norfolk Southern (owner of the derailed train involved in February’s toxic chemical release) asserts East Palestine residents’ class action lawsuit is barred by US law.
Mayo Clinic medical college to doctor: Sit down and shut up
Censorship infects Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science when administrators impose gag order on professor for speaking to journalists
California Is Waging an Ever-More-Aggressive LGBT Culture War
Two bills currently moving through the California Legislature reveal how committed the state’s progressive political leaders are to imposing legal hegemony favoring LGBT social agendas.
Medical Journal’s False Consensus on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Springer has decided to retract a paper, that received activist blowback, on a technicality.
How one woman grifted the public school system—and set American literacy back decades
The latest example of why giving kids a choice in education is so needed.
So much for the First Amendment! Christian preacher is ARRESTED for quoting Bible verses at crowd gathered for Pennsylvania Pride event – only for DA to drop case after agreeing cops violated Constitution
Damon Atkins, 41, was holding a sign saying ‘Jesus said go and sin no more’
Trump Supporters’ Violent Rhetoric in His Defense Disturbs Experts
The federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has unleashed a wave of calls by his supporters for violence and an uprising to defend him, disturbing observers and raising concerns of a warlike atmosphere ahead of his court appearance in Miami on Tuesday.
Kari Lake Warns Biden, DOJ Will Have to Go Through ‘Card-Carrying Members of the NRA’ to Get to Trump
Republican politician and commentator Kari Lake said on Friday that those seeking to prosecute former President Donald Trump would have to go through her and 75 million other Americans, before warning that many of them were “card-carrying members” of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
“you’re seeing the destruction of our standards because we are using so-called equity instead of equality”
A “short” clip from my appearance on Fox Businesss to discuss the challenge by our Equal Protection Project to a Missouri State U business bootcamp which excluded white males.
When the New York Times Legitimized Castro’s Cuba
Cuba is in the news for once again offering material and proximal aid to our adversaries. Our Caribbean neighbor, once a missile base for the Soviets, is now a snooping post for the Chinese.
Proposed California bill would brand parents abusive if they refuse to affirm their transgender children’s identity – and let social workers take youngsters into care
Assembly Bill 957 would classify not affirming a child’s gender as ‘abuse’
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Fake Instagram accounts, offensive Facebook comments, and pro se parents.
California moves to provide surrogates to gay male couples in the name of ‘fertility equality’
Co-author of the bill Senator Caroline Menjivar (D) said the bill “will ensure that queer couples no longer have to pay more out of pocket to start families than non-queer families.”
Economy & Taxes
Bud Light doubles down, donates $200k to LGBT activist group amid collapsing sales
Bud Light sales are down nearly 30% compared to this time last year, but the woke beer brand isn’t backing down on LGBT activism.
International
Stunned nurse: I caught ‘witches holding a carcass-eating ritual’ on my security camera
A Canadian nature lover’s attempt to capture wildlife on camera backfired terrifyingly after she inadvertently documented what appeared to be “naked witches eating a carcass” at night right by her house.
Nicaragua’s socialist dictator surrounding himself with Cuban ‘advisers’
Like Venezuelan dictators Chavez and Maduro before him, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega’s inner circle is becoming dominated by “advisers” sent by the communist Castro dictatorship, well versed in the art of oppression. It is a scenario that has played out in Latin America numerous times, with the Cuban regime spreading the cancer of socialism all over the region.
Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’
University aims to ‘dismantle the myths’ around British and English identities as it seeks to make its teaching more ‘anti-racist’
Frodo, is that you? Face of a ‘real-life HOBBIT’ who lived in Indonesia 60,000 years ago is revealed for the first time
Homo floresiensis is an extinct species of human nicknamed the ‘Hobbit’
Sex education…or normalizing pedophilia? You decide
This is the second article I have written today that has its origins in content provided by Reduxx, so I want to make sure you follow them on Twitter. It’s important to support content providers!
Edmonton school distances itself from recording of teacher lecturing student for skipping Pride-themed activities
Londonderry school teacher was recorded reprimanding Muslim student for skipping class to avoid attending pride events
National Health Service in Great Britain bans puberty blockers
The backlash against “gender-affirming care” is in full swing in Europe, with Great Britain utterly reversing course on using hormones and puberty blockers on minors.
More lost Doctor Who episodes uncovered in global hunt by ‘film world’s Indiana Jones’
Archive TV hunter Philip Morris has revealed he knows of four missing episodes which exist in private hands in the UK, plus another two which he’s tracked down overseas
Opinion
Why We Need Men, and How to Make Them
“Men, at their best, are protectors.”
Why We Need the Liberal Arts
John Agresto’s new book reminds us of an essential truth.
Blasphemy Then and Now
When I was growing up in England in the seventies and eighties, Monty Python infused my childhood and youth. The TV series decisively shaped my sense of humor. At age fourteen, I attended a talk by Monty Python creator Terry Jones on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. His display of wit, broad learning, and love of engaging big ideas left me with a lasting desire to teach and to write. And Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life was the only movie I ever sneaked in to see while underage. Python defined a certain generation of English schoolboys, of which I am one.
The Toy Department
Success in politics and government is measured by activity rather than achievement
Reflections on the News
“But Hillary” doesn’t cut it here. Trump chose not to pursue an investigation into her conduct. Trump chose not to indict her. If you want to say Hillary is a crook who should be in jail, Trump is the one you must ask — why didn’t his Justice Department and his FBI pursue an investigation? Why didn’t he appoint a special counsel?
When Government Uses Private Companies to Regulate Speech
Federal courts must up their game to handle the new symbiosis of government power and private businesses.
