A BLM Supporter Tried to Kill a Police Officer: That's the Terrorist Threat We're Not Discussing

by Daniel Greenfield : Briana Sykes spent over a year broadcasting the racist hate of the Black Lives Matter movement. Last year, she reposted a message from Senator Bernie Sanders, promoted by BLM activist Shaun King, stirring up anger over false claims about Breonna Taylor, who was killed when her drug dealer boyfriend opened fire on police.

“Our criminal justice system is racist,” the Sanders smear of the police falsely claimed.

Shortly afterward she posted an anti-police cartoon distributed by the Black Berner Coalition.

Briana promoted a Black Lives Matter "economic boycott" and the claim that BLM rioters were "compelled to burn s___ down" because they're an "oppressed group".

Over the summer, the same account linked to Briana Sykes spread disinformation that the Trump administration had "literally killed hundreds of protesters in front of the White House". The #DCBlackout hoax was spread by pro-BLM accounts. It was not clear who was behind a seeming attempt at inciting violence, but researchers suspect it was an enemy government.

And then after over a year of hate and Bernie Sanders memes, Briana Sykes tried to murder a police officer at a Juneteenth parade in Flint, Michigan.

According to authorities, Briana drove up to a police officer and opened fire on him. The officer shot back, wounding the 19-year-old woman. While the officer wasn’t hit, according to a black eyewitness, he “fell to the ground crying because… he didn’t want to do whatever he had to do.”

A fellow officer, black, is seen assisting him on the video.

Cell phone video appears to show that the unnamed white officer was still trying to give her a chance to surrender, shouting, “Show me your hands!”

Risking his life to avoid another police shooting didn’t pay off. It happened anyway.

The local BLM chapter’s social media responded to the shooting with hate and incitement.

“We have been inculcated to accept Native Black people being MURDERED at the hands of “PROTECT AND SERVE”!“ one poster shrieked. “WE ARE NOT IGNORANT! We also call for first degree murder charges and that this killer cop’s pension be forfeited!”

Briana Sykes died at the hospital and now authorities are trying to figure out her motive.

But the motive is all over her social media which is littered with BLM anti-police hate. Some of that hate intersects with Bernie Sanders material. The two vectors of radicalization are clear and outside the new domestic terrorism guidelines drawn up by the Biden Administration.

Senate Democrats, led by Senator Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, had already pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups.“So, you no longer use the term Black Identity Extremism,” Booker had grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray. “That's great news.”

It was terrible news for local police and the Jewish community in Jersey City which came under attack by two black nationalist terrorists. But the new Biden domestic terrorism guidelines compound the problem that may have led to the mass shooting at a Jewish supermarket by separating out white nationalists while classifying black nationalists as “anti-government”.

The Biden terrorism guidelines describe Micah X. Johnson, the black nationalist activist who murdered 5 white Dallas police officers, as an anti-government extremist. Johnson was one of a number of BLM supporters who killed or tried to kill police officers. Briana Sykes is just the latest. And while Democrat House members have celebrated Capitol Police personnel, they’ve shown no interest in the hundreds of police officers wounded in their BLM race riots.

That’s because the Democrat establishment is deeply entangled with the racist hate group.

In Flint, the scene of the latest BLM terrorist attack, Mayor Sheldon Neeley had created a Black Lives Matter Advisory Council for the local police and had joined the hate group's local rallies. Chief Phil Hart had forced Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation training on the police.

Pandering to the black nationalist pro-crime hate group backfired in Flint, as it did everywhere else, with a 32% increase in murders while non-fatal shootings doubled. By the time the Juneteenth parade arrived there wasn’t much to celebrate in Flint. Just more killing.

What role did the promotion of Black Lives Matter by Flint Democrats play in the radicalization of Briana Sykes? And what impact did the Bernie Sanders fanbase, who have become notorious for promoting disinformation and extremist material, have on her state of mind?

In 2017, James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter, opened fire on Republicans at a charity baseball game in D.C. The FBI covered up the terrorist attack by falsely claiming that Hodgkinson had been trying to commit suicide and had not been targeting anyone despite his possession of a target list and a conversation in which he specifically sought out Republicans.

Hodgkinson, like Briana Sykes, had spent a lot of time spreading hate on Facebook. He had even belonged to a group named, “Terminate the Republican Party”.

It’s likely that this latest shooting by a radicalized Bernie Sanders supporter will be treated the same way. But even while the Biden administration defines Trump supporters as terrorists, the Bernie Sanders base and Black Lives Matter remind us who the real terrorists are.

What made Briana Sykes open fire on a police officer? The answer is right in front of us.

Democrats and their media are inciting violence against the police. It can’t come as a surprise when someone takes their big lie that police officers are racist killers and acts on it.

Briana Sykes was an ordinary product of her environment. She spent her time online listening to music celebrating violence and imbibing political propaganda demonizing the police. We don’t know exactly what went through her mind, but after being told for years that police officers plot to kill black people, she might have decided that any officer she saw was coming to kill her.

While the media has demanded that Facebook and other social media platforms censor conservatives, it has shown no interest in shutting down the kind of leftist disinformation that may have radicalized Hodgkinson and Sykes. That’s because it’s their disinformation.

Briana’s death will only feed the cycle of extremism as BLM supporters use her death to transform her into a martyr to their racist cause. Like any terrorist organization, the death of its own people fuels the BLM momentum. Every black person killed in a confrontation with a police officer incites more violence and more payouts. The ugly reality of Briana’s death is that she died trying to murder a police officer so that the Democrats who ruined her city and state can rig more elections, and so that BLM leaders can buy more mansions.
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Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

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The Fear of and Reverence for the “Hoop Snake” Part Two:

Victor Davis Hanson

by Victor Davis Hanson:  For the next week after that warning about hoop snakes on the prowl as veritable animal unicyclists, I looked hourly for hoop snakes—shovel in hand—but never found a single one or even their bike-tire like trails. Yet Joe Caron said he had grown up on the reservation and saw them hooping in packs a lot.

(I have a confession to make: Until 21, I remember this childhood incident as just folk ignorance—or maybe a wild pun on us? But one day in graduate school while reading about the Gnostics, I came across the ouroboros or “mouth biter,” a mythical Greek snake creature (borrowed from the Egyptians) that alchemists and Gnostic philosophers adopted as iconic, likely because of its transcendent “circle of life” message of the tail ending at and consumed by the head, or a reminder of death and rebirth. And I silently apologized to the long-dead Joe the moment I saw that his mythologies were one with the ancients).

So, Joe taught me a lot of things, although he rarely said more than a few phrases at a time—and that made his advice all the more listened to. “Wear long sleeves, boys, in the heat. It will cool you down when you think it makes you hotter.” And “Wear a scarf for the sweat. You never know when you need it.” Once he got the mail as we worked the vineyard near his mailbox, and he put the letters inside his hat and continued down the row without a thought.

As I wrote, we had another worker from the Azores, a master tractor driver and mechanic who lived next to us too, Carlos Silva. Carlos went often on a mean drunk. As a philosopher of sorts, he was occasionally cruel in his assessments. And every time I saw Carlos, I said to him “Well, Joe said.” And he would belly laugh and would say, “Well, Joe’s a simple, stupid man, a fool that Joe Caron is.”

And he chuckled at the effect of his slanders of our hero Joe. Snitch that I was, I would always tell my grandfather on Carlos. But he’d say only, “Well, Carlos’s a master tractor driver and he can take apart the old Oliver tractor blindfolded. And Joe’s a saint but can’t do that. So, they’re different, just different.”

Joe warned us about eagles and even hawks that snatch people (as I wrote earlier of our childhood fears). He warned me not to enter the eucalyptus wilds nearby (as I wrote as well), and said, “If you ever get lost in there, yell out and I’ll hear you from home.”

Joe told me of contests under the vines between black widows and mud daubers. I told him black widows were the most dangerous things in the world and would kill us all with one brief bite (we saw dozens as we picked each row). And I remember he said, “Well, listen, Mr. Vic. A good blue mud wasp will kill ‘em every time. They just drag them widows into their mud holes on the stumps. Pile-em in. When they’re done eating them up, just a bunch of legs, all’s left.” After that on Joe’s advice, I never smashed another mud dauber but did open up their mud holes looking for spider legs.

His uniform was khaki pants, khaki long sleeve shirt, straw hat, a blue or red scarf around his neck, and ankle-high thick leather boots. As I grew older, Joe slowed down and we got stronger. So, then he trailed rather than led us down the row. When I told my mom about working with Joe, she seemed somehow redeemed about the occasional putdowns from college friends that she had graduated from Stanford law school and yet gone right back into genteel poverty in a tiny house with three kids and my dad. I think what she saw on the coast had worried her, and she wanted us to grow up as she had, not just with empathy for, but with friendship as equals with, the hard men of the earth.

I think it was in my last year in high school, the county came out, inspected Joe’s house, declared it “substandard” and then told my grandfather to move Joe and his elderly and infirm wife out. Joe had lived there rent-free as part of the job. We later remodeled it, and my dad lived there until he died.

Odd thing is that Joe’s house was far better than the current ramshackle trailers, the tents, and the shacks that in the dozens mark the same avenue today. These shacks are mostly rented to illegal aliens, who, along with their landlords, are strangely exempt from the sort of rules and regulations that 50 years ago shut down Joe’s house. Ah, progress!

Anytime, I have faced real adversity, I think I can somehow get through because at 5, 6, and onto 16, I worked with Joe Caron and thought him a model, and even learned to take the good in men like Carlos Silva and ignore the bad.

The 1950s and 1960s are now fading shadows of memories, or as Hesiod would say, thoughts only of “work on work on top of work” from sunrise to sunset. My grandfather would say “Meet Joe with your weed shovels in the old vineyard between the ponds at 7 AM.”

We would lag out at 7:30 and Joe was already covered with sweat from starting at 6 AM. He’d say only with a smile, “Now with you boys out here, we will get done before the heat and then we can all house up in the afternoon.”

I can remember his smile that day. He was missing two teeth on one side and three on the bottom. I still think we were blessed that my mother and grandfather made sure we were raised amid the likes of Joe Caron, Carlos Silva, and the childhood gardens of hoop-snakes and the epic fights between black widows and mud daubers that all taught me in so many strange ways that it was what a man, any man of any color or of age or of education, could do, and not what he said or others said or thought he could do, that mattered.

And we came to see later on that Joe Caron alone, with nothing but his ethos, was a saint, and so many others we met along the way with everything but an ethos were sinners.
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Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) is a senior fellow, classicist and historian and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where many of his articles are found; his focus is classics and military history. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush.

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Left Tries a Veteran Move on Abortion Pills

by Tony Perkins: In a House where Republicans are in the slimmest of minorities, conservatives are accomplishing a lot more than the media's giving them credit for. Some of the victories are moral ones, standing up against bad bills -- or trying to change them behind the scenes in conversations that will never make a bit of news. But this week, what might have been a blip on the media's screen became a full-scale public debate -- all because FRC blew the whistle.

It's a piece of legislation that passed last year without a peep of opposition: the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act. At the time, most Republicans didn't know that the proposal would have forced taxpayers to fund abortifacients. This time around, in 2021, our legislative team wasn't fooled. When the text of the bill came out, the Democrats banked on it being uncontroversial. And maybe it would have been if the alarm weren't sounded that the Veterans Administration was going to force Americans to pay for drugs that might end an innocent life.

Expecting no opposition, the Left tried to fast-track the bill, rushing it through on what's called suspension -- where there'd be very little debate. Together with Freshman Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), FRC started raising the issue in Republican offices, explaining that the legislation would offer pills like Plan B and ella to our female veterans -- drugs that, by the FDA's own admission, can and do end pregnancies.

Suddenly, other pro-life members started engaging -- stopping the bill in its tracks. So many Republicans got involved that a debate started raging on the House floor. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) called FRC out by name, blaming us for slamming on the brakes. "Last week, this bill was defeated on suspension calendar, when the Family Research Council mobilized efforts with my colleagues in the Freedom Caucus who suggested that the bill pushed a 'harmful ideology.'"

Undeterred, Democrats brought it up again -- only this time through the regular process. FRC threatened to score the bill and began educating Members about what the Left was trying to do. Rep Chip Roy (R-Texas) started tweeting about the bill, urging his colleagues to get educated about what the legislation would actually do. "Momentarily, even as Republicans are rightly pounding the lectern about protecting the Hyde Amendment and stopping taxpayer funding for abortions, some will inexplicably vote in favor of taxpayer funding for Plan B through the VA. It's unconscionable on the merits -- and politically even more absurd -- to hide behind the fact Obamacare set the terms for funding potential abortifacients in the name of birth control. I oppose it," he insisted, "as should all those who champion the pro-life cause."

By the end of the Thursday, H.R. 239 -- which would had almost unanimous support in 2020 -- lost the backing of a whopping 188 Republicans. Newspapers like the Hill were amazed at how many members peeled off the bill, leaving "only 26 Republicans voting with all Democrats in support." Because of the pro-life commitment in the House, a proposal that would have normally passed with a yawn became a focal point of contention -- helping to expose the Left's plan to slip its extreme abortion agenda into almost every piece of legislation. The bill may have passed, but more Republicans will be on guard for these sneak attacks in the future.

That same day, Thursday, conservatives also put the Democrats on their toes over a bill that would have pushed the envelope on gender politics. The LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act passed the House by a vote of 252 to 176, a margin which almost certainly would have been greater if real conservatives like Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) hadn't stood up to the Left's attempts to pass radical legislation under procedures usually reserved for "noncontroversial" bills. As FRC pointed out before the vote, this bill redefines "sex" to include "sexual orientation and gender identity" and ignores the biological realities of men and women. This type of transgender activism will lead to the diminishment of programs like the Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership that helps women entrepreneurs and is undermined by men who want to identify as women. While the 33 Republicans who voted for this is 33 too many, there are still a number who are willing to stand up to the Left, and we salute them.

Not every loss is a defeat. We should all be grateful for the growing number of proud pro-life, pro-family conservatives representing our values every day. They don't always win, but they're laying the groundwork for a day when the unborn will.
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Tony Perkins writes for Family Research Council.

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Deal Or No Deal, Harris Hits The Border, A Better CRT

by Gary Bauer: Deal Or No Deal
"Creepy Joe" was trending yesterday after President Biden inexplicably started whispering in an exaggerated manner in the middle of a press conference. See it here. As I've noted multiple times now, something's clearly not right.

But the bigger news was that a bipartisan group of ten so-called "centrist" senators, including Senators Cassidy (R-LA), Collins (R-ME), Murkowski (R-AK), Portman (R-OH) and Romney (R-UT), emerged from the White House yesterday saying they had reached an agreement in principle with President Biden on an infrastructure bill.

The cost is somewhere around $1 trillion – a lot less than the $4, $5 or even $6 trillion Biden initially demanded, and most of it would go to actual infrastructure – roads, bridges, etc. Many Americans probably applauded because they want the parties in Washington to work together.

I've been uneasy from the very beginning of these negotiations. I've been here a long time, and too many times I've seen Republicans leave the negotiating table without their pants, totally clueless that they've been robbed. (Senator Lindsey Graham put it a bit more bluntly.)

Sure enough, less than two hours later, Biden said that he wouldn't sign the bipartisan infrastructure deal without the other $5 trillion. In other words, Biden is refusing to give up anything, meaning Republican negotiators didn't actually gain anything.

A second bill with trillions in spending and tax hikes will be rammed through using the reconciliation process, meaning the Democrats only need 50 votes, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said what happened yesterday was "best described as a tale of two press conferences," going from optimism to pessimism in a short period of time. McConnell said that Biden was demanding Republicans do what they will not do, which is raise taxes on the American people.

By the way, some progressives weren't happy either with this "compromise." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned it as – wait for it – racist. Her delusional attack on this bipartisan infrastructure deal is a perfect example of critical race theory in operation. It demands that EVERYTHING, including roads and bridges, be seen through the lens of race.

Harris Hits The Border
"Border Czar" Kamala Harris arrived in El Paso this morning for her first trip to the border as vice president. It got off to a rough start.

Harris may have thought she was going to a politically safe space, but she was greeted by Americans fed up with the open southern border. She also snapped at a Fox News reporter who asked why she waited so long to make her first trip to the border. Harris insisted, "It's not my first trip, I've been to the border many times."

Apparently, Harris still hasn't learned anything from her disastrous interview with Lester Holt.

Every Republican has been screaming about the failure of the Biden/Harris Administration to secure the border. Every Republican and even some Democrats have been demanding that "Border Czar" Harris visit the border and see the crisis she and Joe Biden created. They've been demanding that the effective Trump policies be kept in place so that this chaos can be controlled.

But the unfortunate truth is that Biden and Harris have ignored the border, and they will continue to ignore it. Massive illegal immigration isn't a crisis to them. It's a strategy. The left is all in on open borders.

The only reason she is going to the border today is because Donald Trump will be there next week, and because the polling on immigration is becoming a crisis for the Democrat Party.

For all the left's mockery of Trump, and for all the handwringing by the GOP consulting class, there is only one 2024 presidential possibility as of now who scares the left, and that's Donald J. Trump.

With all the problems Trump had in 2020, he still received 11 million more votes than he did four years before. Whoever the GOP nominates, they must start out with every vote Trump got and then some. While I like several possible contenders, I'm not convinced that any of them can turn out Trump's base. And if we can't do that, the left wins.

A Better CRT
We've been hearing a lot about critical race theory, or CRT as it is known. CRT is Marxist and it's destructive. Karl Marx was the founder of communism. He was an atheist who rejected Christianity. Everywhere Marxism has been adopted, mass death and destruction has followed.

Critical race theory has been nurtured in the Marxist hothouses of our university campuses for years. But now it's taking root in our public elementary, middle and high schools. It has nothing to do with racial reconciliation and tolerance. It must be stopped before it does any more damage to our children.

But there's another CRT that I can guarantee will bring racial reconciliation and true tolerance. Let's call it Christian race theory or CRT.

Christian race theory wasn't created by man. It begins in Genesis when God made man and woman in His image. Regardless of race, we all have dignity, value and worth precisely because we're made in the image of God.

The Christian pastor, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., said that race should be insignificant. He wasn't for black power or white power. He was for human power. He wanted everyone to be judged by the moral content of their character, not the color of their skin. His niece, Dr. Alveda King, has said to me many times, "There's no race but the human race."

So, the answer to racial bigotry is in our Bible. Unfortunately, Christianity was kicked out of our schools. And as we're finding out, anti-Christian Marxist theories have filled the void after the Bible and prayer were eliminated.

Let's get Marxist race theory out of our schools, and put Christian race theory in the hearts of our children.

Election Interference
The Biden Justice Department announced today that it is suing the state of Georgia over its newly-enacted election integrity laws. Today's action is undoubtedly a direct consequence of left-wing extremist Kristen Clarke's confirmation to lead the department's Civil Right Division.

Clarke, perhaps Joe Biden's most extreme appointment, previously led the legal fight against Georgia's commonsense election laws. Now she's continuing that fight at her new and far more powerful perch at the Justice Department.

Good News

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed three bills taking aim at the left's ideological stranglehold over our schools. The first bill requires students to be taught the "evils of communism and totalitarian ideologies." The second bill mandates civic literacy as a college graduation requirement. The third bill requires colleges to undergo annual "intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity" assessments to ensure free speech rights on campus.
• Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced that he is sending law enforcement officers to Texas to help secure the southern border.
• The Randolph Township school board, which recently voted to remove all holiday names from the school calendar, reversed its decision in an 8-to-1 vote after massive backlash from parents.
• When the mayor of Silverton, Colorado, tried to suspend the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at town meetings, two board members and local citizens stood and recited the Pledge over the mayor's objections. The "resistance" grows!
• House Republicans, with no support from Democrats, are continuing to press for answers on the origins of COVID-19, and demanding that communist China be held accountable.
• Fourteen Republican attorneys general filed a brief in federal court supporting the First Amendment rights of a Christian photographer who is facing severe penalties, including the loss of her business license and jail time, for violating New York's outrageous "public accommodation law."

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Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age

A generation doesn’t remember life before the crises he created.
by Daniel Greenfield: Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away.

Once the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.

The average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet.

The gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she’s been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall. The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60. The even bigger reservoirs of cash flowing into the leftist machine are coming from the foundations of men who were born in the 19th century like Henry Ford, John D. MacArthur, and John D. Rockefeller.

That’s about right for a 19th century ideology whose followers keep trying to make it look young.

Youthful leftism is anarchic. It’s CHAZ, BLM, and Antifa. It’s open air heroin markets, smashed store windows, and political assassinations. Turning that anarchy into collectivism requires hysterical propaganda and rallies that appear anarchic, but are actually tightly controlled, ideas that seem edgy, but are actually the work of men who were born during the age of the steam.

If you think Bernie’s old, Karl Marx celebrated his 203rd birthday in May.

Obama’s policies have aged as badly as Marx, Biden, or their front man. But instead of moderating as they grow older, they only grow more radical. Obama equivocated on gay marriage, while Biden entirely erases the existence of women by calling them “birthing people”. Obama covertly weaponized the government against conservatives, while Biden is doing it openly. Everything from election rigging through H.R.1 to indoctrinating every government employee with critical race theory is happening more openly and blatantly under Biden.

Youthful leftist revolutions break the system while leftist gerentocrats impose the tyranny.

Making tyranny look like freedom requires hefty doses of chaos and outrage that make it appear that the system is being broken when it’s actually being built up. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The revolution is the thing it’s revolting against.

The end of history keeps arriving only to vanish like a mirage when the youth reach for it.

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," Obama told his followers. Two years later, he privately snapped, "What does he think I'm supposed to do? Put on my f------ Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?"

Thirteen years have passed and if the planet has begun to heal, Democrats won’t admit it.

The moment of epochal change can never be allowed to arrive because it would interrupt the permanent crisis. Salvation is always here and also always out of reach. But there’s always a new generation available to be fooled again because they know the past doesn’t matter.

History is radically revised every generation not just for what it teaches, but for what it doesn’t.

A revisionist history work like the 1619 Project doesn’t just impose a radical new racist history, it displaces the past. Another revisionist history will come along to displace the 1619 Project because manufacturing history churn is vital to destroying any continuity with the past. All the academic lenses being swapped one for the other like a mad ophthalmologist leaves a new generation with a lot of theories, but no clue that they’re being indoctrinated into a lost cause.

The Left has no new ideas. Like Hollywood, it makes old ideas seem new by rebooting them, by making them appear hip and trendy, and by destroying a meaningful connection with the past. And that way audiences don’t realize they’re just seeing the same movie remade over again. What might be creative bankruptcy in a movie theater is a more seriously sisyphean problem described by Churchill as, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

But how does a new generation learn from a past that isn’t allowed to exist on its own terms?

Demonizing the past is a convenient way of obscuring it. The only thing students are taught about the past is that it was a horrible time, its people backward, its customs savage, its learning wicked, its institutions racist, and its ideas horrifying. In postmodern history, the past exists only as a cautionary tale gleaned for historical struggles that fit into the new narrative.

History is an incomplete present whose revolutions were never fully fulfilled. It’s a revolutionary story of a world ruled by villains until they were overthrown by the forces of good. And this revolution against history must continue until all of the past is negated by the present.

The destruction of statues and burning of books forces ‘presentism’ for the past to conform to the dogmas of the moment. The biggest problem with the past isn’t that it’s politically incorrect, but that it’s repeating itself. The Black Lives Matter movement transparently harkens back to the 70s. So do most of the radical social impulses in which the Left cloaks its real power agenda.

The revolutionary chaos is doomed to fail again, but each oscillation breaks the country more.

The social activism is window dressing. A proper Marxist regime has little use for militant minorities, feminism, gay rights, police defunding, transgender bathrooms, pipeline protests, abortion, or any of the other issues the radicals have been using to waste our time. If you doubt that, go look at how many of any of the above you can find in China, Cuba, or North Korea.

The Russian Futurists vowed to throw the art and literature of the past overboard from the “steamship of modernity”. But the Bolsheviks were not looking for disruptive art and when the revolution arrived, modern art was tossed overboard and the former revolutionaries settled down to producing socialist realism and recreating the art of the past for the Soviet Union.

After a brief permissive period, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality and insisted on traditional marriages and roles for women. Those feminists who resisted were soon shown their place with one of the more notorious free love figures being forcibly married off by Lenin.

The dictatorship had eclipsed the revolution and the past was quickly rewritten all over again.

As Obama approaches his sixtieth birthday, the age at which Khrushchev struggled for control of the USSR and Mao launched his Great Leap Forward, two events that would require a good deal of historical editing, our American past is already being rewritten. Only those who are at least in their thirties will remember that there wasn’t a racial crisis before Barack Obama.

And there hadn’t been such a crisis for a generation before he took power.

Our racial crisis is not a legacy of 1619, but of 2008. Obama’s victory was not a revolution against a crisis, but the revolution that created the crisis. To a new generation, the racial crisis is a permanent feature of life. They have always lived under the crisis and expect to always live under it. That is why critical race theory and white privilege rants have become so pervasive.

Without a generation coming of age in a world shaped by the toxic idea that all white people are evil and all minorities are victims, no one outside academic circles would have willingly accepted them. And if that generation seems all too easy to radicalize into supporting the most insane policies, that’s because it grew up in a world defined by the hysteria of manufactured crises.

The world as they know it is doomed by melting ice caps, the rich getting richer, and the genocide of black people at the hands of the police. Every radical program is backed by a sense of urgent crisis which is killing people and destroying the future. They can’t imagine a present without the crisis and don’t remember ever living in a world not defined by crisis.

As Obama gets closer to his AARP cover, a generation lives in the world that he made.

Like Obama, his radical political movement speaks endlessly about the past, but has no actual past. Its past is always being reinvented and retold through new narratives, but with no facts.

The Obama revolution has come and gone. We have skipped past it to the Soviet Union of Chernenko and Andropov, of gerontocrats building the tyranny with the beams of revolution. The decline is everywhere as the theories fail, the factories close, and the stores stand empty.

The youth are being rallied to cheer for the revolutionary tyranny of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer who are promising a new era in history no one believes in anymore. Since the election their cause is no longer free college, it’s federalizing elections through H.R.1.

Federalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Supreme Court are compelling issues in Washington D.C., but the regime plotting new coups has little to say to the ordinary people facing high prices for gas and bread. Land, Bread, and Peace has given way to a race for total power over the country as the revolution of Hope, Crisis and Change comes of age.

There’s no change without crisis, and without hope, there’s only hate.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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Dying To Vote

Democrats fail to pass their “Fool the People Act” that would have federalized elections nationally.
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Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice

by Michael Barone: Give Charles Murray, longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, credit for courage. Again and again, despite outrageously unfair attacks, he has returned to the public arena and persisted in telling unwelcome truths. In his meticulous prose, with charts and tables so elegant as to betray an aesthetic bent, he makes his points with precision and clarity.

Murray's 1994 book "The Bell Curve," co-authored with Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, evoked furious and undeserved denunciation. It will be interesting to see whether there is a similar reaction to his latest and much shorter book, "Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America."

His first truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different means and distributions of cognitive abilities." Murray makes mincemeat of arguments against IQ tests and shows that they're highly correlated with achievement in schools and in later life. Asians have the highest average scores, followed by Whites, Latinos and Blacks.

Murray's second truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different rates of violent crime." Murray deftly extrapolates from the best available crime rates and shows that average violent crime rates are far above average among Blacks, somewhat above average among Latinos, somewhat below average among Whites and almost negligible among Asians.

For many Americans, these are uncomfortable (I have often used the word "unhappy") truths. Blacks are about eight times more likely than Whites (I use Murray's capitalization practice) to commit violent crimes. And I feel a twinge of discomfort in the below-average cognitive ability scores of some of my ancestral ethnicities.

Conventional media and academic elites routinely suppress these truths, apparently for fear that ordinary Americans would take them as a warrant for racial discrimination against individuals. To that argument, I reply, as I did in National Review in 1994 and in a Washington Examiner blog post in 2013, that ordinary Americans know better.

"They have learned, from school, from work, from everyday life, that there is wider variation within each measured group than between measured groups." They understand that averages don't reliably describe individuals, "that it is irrational to discriminate according to race or religion or ethnic group, and that it is rational to judge individuals on their own merits."

Voters who knew that Blacks on average score lower on tests had no difficulty seeing that Barack Obama had the above-average intelligence required for the presidency.

Group differences don't undermine the case against racial discrimination. They undermine the case for racial quotas and preferences made by advocates of identity politics, who make the absurd argument that in a fair society, all groups would be represented in all categories in exactly identical proportions.

Those in need of facing the reality of Charles Murray's two truths are not ordinary Americans, but elites -- the corporate leaders, gentry liberal voters and human resources department lifers who cling desperately to the identity politics of Black Lives Matter organizers and the critical race theory hucksters.

They see individuals as inescapably defined by the groups in which they're born, and they argue that any statistical disparity is evidence of a systemic racism that can never be eradicated but must constantly be denounced. The result is the replacement of merit by racial quotas and preferences and the de-policing of high-crime areas and the nonprosecution of crimes until statistical differences disappear.

We're seeing these processes in operation already. The sharp rise in violent crime since George Floyd's death in May 2020 has ended about 2,000 additional Black lives. And the unprecedented increase in violent crime results in many more disadvantaged Black and Latino neighborhoods where, as Murray points out, high crime has made "many policy solutions inherently unrealistic."

Murray' own solutions may seem similarly unrealistic: Eliminate all racial quotas and preferences and their odious enforcement apparatuses, and reverse the increasingly unpopular de-policing policies imposed in so many cities during the past 13 months.

But as Murray warns the elites and others who resist facing reality and acknowledging his two truths about race in America, the alternative could be more fearsome: the spread of identity politics to the 60% of Americans defined as White. "If working-class and middle-class Whites adopt identity politics, disaster follows."

To prevent that, he urges liberals to embrace explicitly, and conservatives not claim a monopoly of, what he calls "the American creed" -- the idea that people are "the equals of anyone else -- equal before the law and possessing the same inherent dignity as anyone else," to be "judged on who they were as individuals, not by what social class they came from or how they worshipped God."

Not bad advice.
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The Return of 'Law and Order'

by Patrick J. Buchanan: On Tuesday, Brooklyn Borough President and former police captain Eric Adams took the lead in the New York mayoral race with 32% of the Democratic primary vote, 10 points more than progressive Maya Wiley, who had the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

How did Adams beat the elite? Said The New York Times:

Adams built "an old-school political coalition that united Black and Latino voters," and was "able to persuade working-class people, largely outside Manhattan, that he was the best candidate to make the city safe from crime."

Adams' anti-crime and pro-cop campaign carried four of New York City's five boroughs, including Ocasio-Cortez's congressional district in Queens. He lost only Manhattan, though, under the ranked-voting system New York uses, his victory may not be confirmed for a week.

Wednesday, President Joe Biden went before a White House podium to outline his program for dealing with the plague of shootings, killings and murders that have marked and marred the five months of his presidency.

What does all this tell us?

"Law and order," the issue that arose in the '60s to tear apart President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition, is back. And the emotional anti-cop wave after the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis a year ago, manifest in the "Defund the Police!" demand of Black Lives Matter, has receded.

America is saying: We don't want rogue cops, but we do want more cops in our neighborhoods and our communities to stop the shootings that are terrorizing, wounding, maiming and killing us.

Driven by the publicized surge in shootings and killings in America's cities, the issue is gaining the ascendancy it had in the mid-1960s.

A "mass shooting" is a term used for a crime where four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter. By that definition, mass shootings have become a common occurrence in America, with a count of some 300 thus far in 2021.

Before the 1960s, perhaps the most notorious mass shooting was still the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, where seven enemies of Al Capone were lined up against a wall in a Chicago garage and executed in cold blood.

Last weekend, 52 people were shot in Chicago, seven fatally. Monday produced seven more shooting deaths.

Biden recognizes the political danger. He is old enough to recall what the law-and-order issue did to his party in 1968.

That year, George Wallace, running as a third-party candidate, took 13% of the presidential vote. Four years later, in 1972, the year Biden was elected senator, the Alabama governor was the front-runner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination when he was shot by a would-be assassin in a Laurel, Maryland, shopping center.

The Democratic nominee that year, Sen. George McGovern, a man of the progressive left, lost 49 states to President Richard Nixon.

Sen. Joe Biden helped to write the crime bill of 1994, which many liberals now fault for contributing to a massive increase in incarcerations. But, today, as president, Biden is facing a similar and serious crime crisis and cannot be unaware of its political potency.

The Democratic Party's dilemma: Its progressive wing believes defunding and re-imagining police work to protect people of color from abuse by rogue cops is the first priority.

Eric Adams' vote in liberal New York, however, suggests that a higher priority for Blacks and Hispanics is public safety and the disarming and removal of the armed thugs and the street gangs who imperil it.

In the shooting galleries that some inner-city neighborhoods have become, "Defunding the Police!" amounts to social insanity.

"Nowhere," says Bill Bratton, former New York police commissioner, "do you see recognition that there are some people who cause incredible harm to the community and who unfortunately need to be in jail."

To secure the safety of poor communities, several elements have always been needed: police to prevent crimes and arrest the criminals who commit them, prosecutors who will put them away, and prison cells to house them.

This was the formula that broke the back of the long crime wave that began in the 1960s -- and ended in the anti-crime movement that produced Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York.

In the early 1960s, like today, the elite and our major media declared "law and order" to be a "code word" for racism.

But the departure of millions of working-class voters from the Democratic Party of Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, and its move to the party of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, testified that Middle Americans believed in safe streets and would reward leaders who would keep them safe -- with more cops.

Biden spoke Wednesday as though the inner-city menace was the guns with which people are being shot, not the criminals using them.

But some of the folks helping to produce record gun sales today are Black folks who know who and what the threats to their families really are. Gun control is not crime control, and it is crime that is the enemy.
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Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever." Shared by Rasmussen Reports.

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American Anti-Semitism, Israeli Paralysis

by Caroline Glick: It seems that a day doesn’t go by without another report of yet another outrageous attack by leftists against Jews in America.

This week, a food truck in Philadelphia was barred from participating in an ethnic street food festival in Philadelphia because it sells Israeli street food and is owned by an Israeli Jew.

The lesbian parade in Chicago published an advertisement of the event that showed a woman standing on a car burning the American and Israeli flags.

According to community data, during last month’s mini-war, Operation Guardian of the Walls, American Jews suffered 193 violent attacks. Another 17,000 verbal online assaults were tallied by the Anti-Defamation League. The violent attacks didn’t end when Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire.

Normally, the government of Israel would have something useful to say or do about these devastating developments. But tragically, all signs indicate that the new Lapid-Bennett government is constitutionally incapable of contending with the problem of Jew hatred in America.

On the surface, the opposite should be the case. Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds practical control over all aspects of the government due to his leadership of the leftist bloc which constitutes 75 percent of the coalition. And Lapid should be a natural partner for US Jewry. Like most American Jews, Lapid has long identified with the Democrats and liberal streams of Judaism. On his first day in office, Lapid said that rebuilding Israel’s ties with the Democrats and American Jews were his top goals. With those priorities, Lapid ostensibly ought to be well positioned for the fight.

But there are two immovable obstacles that will prevent him from achieving anything useful. The first obstacle is the Democrat Party, and the second is Lapid’s coalition.

The way to understand the problem with the Democrat Party is to look at the organization that was founded two years ago to stem the rise of the Red-Green alliance of progressives within the party. That organization, the Democratic Majority for Israel was founded by Lapid’s pollster and political guru Mark Melman. Melman founded the DMFI in response to the election of the so-called “squad” of hard leftists to Congress in 2018 and in the face of the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders position as the frontrunner in the Democrat presidential primaries ahead of the 2020 elections. The DMFI’s first political effort was an ad campaign against Sanders during the Iowa presidential caucuses.

Given his intimate ties to Melman, unsurprisingly, Lapid’s first meeting with American Jews as Foreign Minister was a was a video conference with the DMFI on Monday. And on the face of things, given his goals, Lapid’s choice was reasonable.

The problem is that the DMFI is incapable of delivering the goods.

Melman claims rightly that the majority of Democrats still support Israel. Unfortunately, the minority of Israel haters – and barely disguised Jew haters – are the dominant force in the party. And the majority that opposes them are unwilling to confront them in any significant way. Melman and the DMFI for their part, while willing to fight a little, are also unwilling to take the gloves off in their efforts to rein in the anti-Israel, (and increasingly anti-Jewish) forces in their party.

This bleak state of affairs was driven home earlier this month when Cong. Ilhan Omar compared Israel and the US to Hamas and the Taliban. Despite the outcry her outrageous statement provoked, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to condemn or censure Omar. Instead, Pelosi praised Omar for issuing a clarification – not an apology – for her remarks.

The storm of protest against Omar’s obscene remarks included a letter of condemnation signed by twelve Jewish Democrat lawmakers. Rather than side with their Jewish colleagues, Omar’s supporters and fellow Israel haters led by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez attacked the Jewish lawmakers and their supporters as racists for criticizing Omar, a “Muslim woman of color.”

And big boss Pelosi sided with Omar and her comrades in the Red-Green alliance against the Jews.

As Politico summarized the responses to the latest Omar outrage, “Democrats are showing they’re increasingly comfortable backing her up, particularly as she hammers the Israeli government in ways that buck long-held bipartisan traditions in Washington. That friendlier posture toward Omar indicates that her party’s shift on America’s role in the Middle East was more than just a short-term fixture of the recent 11-day conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.”

In other words, Melman is right that the problem is the rise of the Red-Green alliance in the Democrat Party. But he doesn’t have the power – or frankly the means – to defeat them. Lapid is right that it is important for Israel to have good ties to the Democrats and the American Jews. But Israel doesn’t have the ability to change political reality.

Lapid’s strategy for securing and strengthening Israel-US ties cannot work because it is predicated on an untrue assumption – that the problems with the Democrats owe to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s identification with the Republicans. Netanyahu was castigated as a “Republican” because the Democrats wanted a justification for their unwillingness to stand up to the likes of Omar and Ocasio Cortez – and Barack Obama before them.

Now that Netanyahu is out of office and Lapid the “Democrat” is in charge, the Democrats are still unwilling to stand up to them. And so, as Politico noted, their power continues to grow.

Netanyahu found that the best way to secure and expand US support for Israel was to work with people who are actually capable of achieving the goal. The man who has done the most in this area is Pastor John Hagee. Hagee founded and leads Christians United For Israel, the largest, and most politically powerful pro-Israel organization in the US But in the same speech where Lapid made rebuilding ties with Democrats and the liberal Jewish establishment in the US his top goals in office, he also made outreach to the Evangelicals a second-tier priority. In his words, “The fact that we are supported by Evangelical groups and others in the US is important and a heartwarming. But world Jewry are more than our allies. They are our family.”

And this brings us to the second obstacle that will block the Lapid-Bennett government from acting effectively against the growing anti-Semitism in the US emanating from the Red-Green alliance. While 12 Jewish Democrat lawmakers were willing to sign a letter condemning Omar, other Jewish Democrat lawmakers supported Omar against their Jewish colleagues. Just as former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn had Jewish groups that were dedicated to acting as fig leaves to cover his anti-Semitism, so progressive Jewish groups and leaders serve as fig leaves for Omar, Sanders and their comrades. Some, like Bending the Arc and IfNotNow do so by joining them in their delegitimization of Israel’s right to exist. Others, like Anti-Defamation League leader Jonathan Greenblatt, do so by refusing to call them out by name for their anti-Semitism and by going to great lengths to underreport and hide the breadth and depth and danger of leftist anti-Semitism and its direct relation to the demonization of Israel.

The Lapid-Bennett government has a bare majority in the Knesset of just 61 seats. If any of its coalition members jump ship, the government falls. As a consequence, the anti-Zionist, Islamist Ra’am Party exercises effective veto power over all government activities. Likewise, the post-Zionist Meretz Party that does not support maintaining Israel’s Jewish identity can undermine any effort that Lapid seeks to undertake to fight leftist anti-Semitism in the US.

Tuesday, Meretz MK Mossi Raz co-sponsored a conference at the Knesset with Joint Arab List MK Aida Toma Sliman. The conference ran under the headline, “Between Occupation and Apartheid.”

Among the harsh condemnations that members of Knesset from various parties issued against the conference, one lawmaker noted that holding a conference of this sort at the Knesset gives aid and comfort to the anti-Semitic BDS operatives in the US who work to silence Jewish American Israel supporters on college campuses and throughout the public life.

The allegation that Israel is an apartheid state is a deliberate anti-Semitic blood libel. Its purpose is to deny the moral justification for Jewish self-determination by castigating the very concept of Jewish nationhood as a form of racist oppression and Jews as racist oppressors. It was invented by the Soviets and made its first appearance at a UN conference in 1965. The high-water mark for the allegation in its first iteration came in 1975 with the passage of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 which defined Zionism as a form of racism. Then US ambassador, former Democrat senator Daniel Moynihan gave an extraordinary speech attacking the resolution and so set the stage for its bipartisan rejection and eventual abrogation 15 years later through the efforts of the Bush administration. Israel’s UN ambassador Chaim Herzog famously tore up the resolution in a dramatic speech that entered the pantheon of great moments in Israeli diplomatic history.

For nine years, the concept of Zionism as racism wasted away in the dustbin of history. It was exhumed by members of the Red-Green alliance in 2000. Since then, it made a slow but steady comeback and today it is far more powerful than it was in 1975.

During last month’s war, Democrat lawmakers took to the podium in the House gallery and one by one castigated Israel as an Apartheid state. And no Jewish lawmakers dared to condemn any of the slanderers by name. Pelosi certainly didn’t.

And this week, a member of the Lapid-Bennett coalition co-sponsored a conference at the Knesset that supported the anti-Semitic slander. Lapid, (and of course, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett) is completely powerless before this affront to the country and the Jewish people. As is the case with Ra’am, if either takes action against Raz their government will fall.

Many Jewish Americans report living in a state of shell shock. For the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, their organizational and intellectual leaders fed them a steady diet of Trump hate. They were told that all of the anti-Semitism emanated from Trump’s supporters and that Trump – the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House, and the grandfather of Jewish grandchildren was a Jew hater.

Even though the vast majority of anti-Semitic activity on campuses emanated from the left and a large portion of anti-Semitic violence was carried out by black and Arab Americans, the Jewish leaders told American Jews that the danger emanated from the political right and would dissipate once the Democrats were back in power.

And here, Trump is gone, the “good guys” are back in power and the good guys are backing anti-Semites in Congress and doing nothing against the anti-Semites on the streets attacking Jews because the anti-Semites are Democrats.

And now, rather than stand with these Jews, under the Lapid-Bennett Democrat-friendly government, Israel is just as incapable of helping as Melman is. Then again, at least Melman doesn’t need to J-Street or Jewish Voice for Peace to support him. Lapid and Bennett cannot rule without Mossi Raz.
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Crime Surges, Another Big Problem, Kids & Covid

Gary Bauer

by Gary Bauer: Crime Surges & Biden Wants Your Gun
Everyone in Washington, D.C., knows why President Biden made a big speech on crime yesterday: The polling the White House is getting is abysmal. Yesterday's speech was damage control, but it didn't work.

Biden's central message is that crime is up because of guns. That's odd. When a police officer discharges his gun and kills a criminal, it's always the fault of a "racist cop." But when a thug kills a police officer or another person, it's the gun's fault.

The problem with Biden's analysis is that crime is up across the board. Robberies, arsons, assaults, car jackings, looting, hate crimes, etc. Most of those crimes do not involve guns.

So, in the middle of this crime wave, Biden's big idea is to make it harder for law-abiding Americans to protect themselves with firearms. He vowed yesterday that his policy is "zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations."

Fine. Prosecute anyone who breaks the law. But why is he so focused on gun dealers? Where's the zero tolerance for the criminals illegally using guns? Biden's speech should have come with a laugh track if it wasn't so serious.

The timing couldn't be worse. Because there's a crime wave, many Americans who have never owned a gun are trying to get one now. Yet in this atmosphere, Biden just announced policies that criminals won't follow, but will make it harder for you to protect your family.

This is insanity! Like so much of the left's agenda, it's completely backwards!

The Left Owns This
A major reason crime is up is because Joe Biden, his party and the liberal media have demonized law enforcement. They have called police officers "racists," compared them to Nazis and demanded that we defund the police. Meanwhile, liberal prosecutors are letting criminals out of jail as quickly as they are arrested.

It is almost universally Democrat mayors in Democrat cities with Democrat prosecutors who have created the conditions responsible for the anarchy and mayhem we are seeing on the streets of our major cities, whether it's Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland or Seattle.

The other excuse Biden offered for the crime wave is a lack of summer jobs. That's absurd. There's a record 9.3 million job openings. Any young person in America who wants a job can find one.

Another Big Problem
I want to touch on something else. Policy disagreements aside, there is something cognitively wrong with the president. His speech was slurred yesterday. He couldn't follow the teleprompter. He told the same joke twice, and at times seemed incapable of articulating complete sentences and thoughts.

Here's just one example. Yesterday, Biden attempted and failed to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson in order to mock supporters of the Second Amendment. Eventually, Biden said, "If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons." WHAT?!

This president has been telling us for months that unarmed demonstrators who entered the Capitol Building amounted to an "insurrection" and "the worst attack since the Civil War." Now he's suggesting that people need nuclear weapons to threaten the government. Well, if that's the case, the "insurrection" clearly wasn't such a threat.

America is facing huge challenges at home and abroad, and there are growing concerns about the president's health. Obviously, I'm not a fan of Joe Biden. But I don't take any pleasure in watching his health and mental capabilities fail.

If Donald Trump gave a rambling speech like that, there would be deafening calls for the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him.

Kids & COVID
There's growing pressure from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the same bureaucrats at the CDC, who made all the mistakes during the early days of the pandemic, to force all children to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Many universities are mandating vaccines for students to return to campus.

At the same time, more than 1,200 people, mostly young men, who have gotten the vaccine have been stricken with heart inflammation.

Just as social media censored any suggestion that the virus came from the Wuhan lab, Big Tech is censoring scientists who say we need more information before children get these vaccines.

I fully expect the same left-wing educational establishment that is teaching our children to hate America will use the vaccine issue to once again insist that the schools do not open in the fall.

Dr. Fauci says there is no medical reason not to vaccinate kids. But he has also said that the bad advice he gave in the past was based on the bad information he had at the time. Well, if we're lacking information now and if he's wrong about the vaccine being safe for children, "Whoops" won't repair the damage.

The risk of children getting seriously ill from COVID-19 is similar to that of the seasonal flu. As David Leonhardt of the New York Times has noted, a child is at much greater risk from suicide or riding in a car than she is from COVID-19.

Yet because of our fear of COVID-19, we deprived millions of kids of a year's education, and likely caused many more suicides and growing psychological problems.

The fact is no one in the scientific community can say with 100% certainty that a vaccine using new technology won't cause issues in children. Children and adults are different.

To be clear: I'm not urging you to not vaccinate your children. To be accurate, the risk of heart inflammation from the COVID-19 vaccines is also very low, and is reportedly less than the risk of heart inflammation caused by a COVID-19 infection.

But the COVID-19 vaccines are still authorized only on an emergency basis, and children are the least vulnerable group. Parents should have the right to make their own decisions without Big Brother punishing them or their children.

Just A Bit Off
Yesterday we told you that "Border Czar" Kamala Harris was finally going to visit the southern border to see for herself the crisis she and Joe Biden created. Well, we have since learned that Harris is going to El Paso, Texas.

While El Paso is technically on the border, it's nowhere near the area that is experiencing the worst of the crisis. In fact, it's 800 miles away from the Rio Grande Valley and McAllen, Texas, which is the "epicenter" of the illegal immigration crisis.

For perspective, Harris's border visit is like giving a speech on Chicago's crime problem to an audience in Oklahoma City!

Even some Democrats are grumbling about this staged photo-op for Harris. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said, "You're not going to get a true picture of what's happening" by visiting El Paso. "I'm sure her planners told her that if you're going to go down to the border, go to something that's . . . politically safer."

But Harris is going to the border for the same reason Biden gave his speech last night – damage control.


President Trump is back on the stump! For all of our supporters in Ohio, click here to learn more about Saturday's Trump rally in Wellington.

And our Florida friends can click here to learn more about the July 3rd rally in Sarasota.
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Gary Bauer (@GaryLBauer) is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families.

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The Left's Myth Interpretation of Critical Theory

by Tony Perkins: Like a lot of parents, Marlene didn't plan to drive halfway across town and wade through crowds ten-people deep just to speak her mind. But when her seventh-grade daughter came home and told her she "didn't want to be white," something inside her snapped. "This is an immutable characteristic that I cannot change. She cannot change," the Missouri mom . "This is culturally-sanctioned discrimination…" she argued. "[It's] child abuse." But if you ask the Left, critical race theory is none of those things. It isn't even real.

A "right-wing conspiracy" was what Democrat Terry McAuliffe called it. A "dark money astroturf campaign," NBC claims, funded by conservatives. Or, in the words of the same network's Chuck Todd, "a faux controversy," a "so-called controversy," or a "manufactured controversy," depending on the day. On major news networks like CBS, the news desk outright lies. When people wonder, "Is critical race theory being taught to my fifth grader," anchor Tanya Rivero insisted, "the answer is no. Critical race theory is an advanced topic that pretty much takes place at the graduate level."

Tell that to the thousands of parents streaming into local school board meetings -- every one of them with an eerily similar story about a school that's teaching their children to hate their country, judge others by their skin, and join their woke, social justice army. These are real people from real communities, who are now fully aware of what has been happening in public school classrooms: leftist indoctrination. Indoctrination, Republicans like Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) point out, funded by your tax dollars. Under a new Department of Education's proposed rule, any projects that "peddle critical race theory," she warns, "will be prioritized for specialized grant funding from the federal government."

Biden's bribe says: promote our toxic view of America, and you can jump to the head of the line whenever money's on the table. Not that Democrats seem to care, but that's against the law. The federal government cannot tamper with or meddle in local curriculum. And besides that, Rep. Foxx says, we should be trying to get Washington out of our schools -- not coaxing them back in. "We got rid of Common Core," she pointed out. "We're going to have to do something about this… It's just such an insult to the American people," the former school board veteran said. "What we should be instilling in our youth is: it doesn't matter what your background is, there's always room for you to succeed in America."

Instead, a handful of woke leaders are driving a Marxist agenda that's tearing apart American schools. Teachers like Dana Stangel-Plowe are walking away from classrooms full of children that need her, just because she can't stomach the extremism that's destroying her students' education. "Today, I am resigning from a job I love," she said in a video that alarmed parents everywhere. "Last fall, administrators told [the faculty] we were not allowed to question the school's ideological programming." If it were possible, the headmaster said, he would fire the staff "and replace them with people of color."

If teachers aren't resigning, they're being forced out -- like Tanner Cross. Or silenced, like Fairfax County's Julie Perry. "I've been retaliated against as a conservative teacher. I've been bullied before -- and it's not fun. It's [not] fair that far-Left teachers can express their views, but conservative teachers like myself [get targeted]. We've got to end this." Parents are trying -- and not just the conservative ones. As Loudoun County's Fight for Schools PAC head Ian Pryor warns, Democrats are making a real mistake if they think pushing this agenda -- or denying it -- helps them. "[This is] really lighting a fire under parents. And it's not just Republicans. It's Republicans, it's Independents, it's Democrats… I have talked to so many Democrats. We have Democrats in our leadership structure. And I really think when the history of this whole movement is written, you're going to have a coalition of parents that put their political differences aside to assure educational excellence in America for the future."

Apparently, the same party that didn't bother asking Americans how they felt about transgender sports or voter ID laws didn't run radical race theory by them either. It's just another example of how wildly out-of-touch the Democrats are with real people. The same real people, incidentally, who are launching recall efforts in a record-high 50 school boards this year. The Left can call this a manufactured controversy all they want. But we'll see how phony it feels next election day.
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Tony Perkins Addresses The Left's Myth Interpretation of Critical Theory

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Why Are They Woke?

The systemic con behind wokeism.
by Victor Davis Hanson: There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020.

Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own concrete prejudices onto others in order to alleviate or mask them.

So should we laugh or cry that Black Lives Matter’s self-described Marxist co-founder turns out to be a corporate grifter? Patrisse Cullors has accumulated several upscale homes and is under investigation by the IRS for allegations of the misuse of funds from one of her foundations.

Is it the case that the more Cullors professes Marxist ideology and damns toxic whiteness, so all the more she feels at home living in a $1.4 million Topanga Canyon home, in an almost exclusively ritzy white neighborhood?

Consider outspoken liberal icon Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). He’s one of the Senate’s most woke. Yet Whitehouse turns out to be a mostly unapologetic member of a de facto all-white prestigious “beach club” of elites in Newport, Rhode Island. Is Whitehouse committed in the abstract to rooting out white privilege so he can concretely relax amid it with fellow bluebloods?

Barack and Michelle Obama occasionally venture out of either their multimillion-dollar Washington, D.C. mansion or their Martha’s Vineyard estate to lecture the country on its systemic racism. They express worry over the dangers that apparently white people pose to the very safety of their own daughters.

Does such sermonizing square the circle that the Obamas have no desire to return to their Chicago home—a city where nearly 700 African-American males were murdered in 2020, the vast majority by other black men? So far, Chicago in 2021 is on a trajectory to suffer over 30 percent more murder victims than last year.

Joe Biden lectures America on its racism about every two weeks. And he unleashed the bureaucracies of the federal government to root out mythical white supremacist conspiracies.

Does Medieval penance explain Biden’s fixation on systemic racism? After all, when he condemns anonymous white racists, does his outrage mitigate his son Hunter’s habitual use of the N-word and anti-Asian riffs?

No Washington politico has compiled a longer record of racialist put-downs than Joe Biden. So apparently, the more Biden hunts for a white racist under every bed, the less necessary it becomes to look in the mirror or at least to beg his son Hunter to knock off his racist slurs.

The second catalyst of wokeism is the distraction it provides from scary problems that threaten the very existence of American civilization. While the country consumes itself in demanding more than 12 percent representation of black actors in television commercials, it is nearing $30 trillion in national debt. Eventually, the astounding red ink will require recessionary belt-tightening, more inflationary money printing, or both.

The woke Biden Administration cannot stop 2 million immigrants this year from crossing illegally and with exemption into the United States. Almost all are in need of free American health care, housing, food, and legal subsidies. Violent crime is spiking at an astonishing rate. Yet few dare say why that is—or how to stop it.

America also cannot face the likely truth that Chinese researchers engineered a gain-of-function virus—with oversight from the Communist Chinese military and subsidies from Drs. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak.

So, instead of offering real solutions to these crises, we war with each other whether the deceased children’s book author Dr. Seuss or the plastic toy Mr. Potato Head was racist or otherwise exclusionary.

When our elites are clueless about the national debt, inflation, illegal immigration, crime, soaring gas prices, and a global pandemic, they reassure themselves that at least they can cancel out Father Junípero Serra or knockdown another statue of Robert E. Lee.

Finally, the hysterias of wokism are being channeled for profit—if they do not already reflect the reality of many of our most woke being the richest among us.

One reason why Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle, and LeBron James hype charges of white racism is that their oppression reminds America that one can become rich as Croesus yet remain sympathetic victims.

For next-generation grifters, like Ibram Xolani Kendi (a.k.a. Ibram Henry Rogers) and Robin DiAngelo, to claim that America was, is, and always will be racist, means more than just speaking gigs and book sales.

The solutions for the pseudo-crises they invent are mass reeducation of self-confessional whites—with lucrative consulting fees for both, and tens of thousands of others.

America is systematically being conned by those who disguise their hypocrisy, who manipulate the guilt-ridden, who have no interest in solving America’s most dangerous problems, and who get or stay richer by hyping an America in need of massive rebooting—and with it their own careerist remedies.
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Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) is a senior fellow, classicist and historian and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where many of his articles are found; his focus is classics and military history. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. American Greatness.

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