Our Racist National Archives
Trigger warning: The United States of America was founded by white men, and no amount of wokeism, critical race theorizing, or armchair quarterbacking from two and a half centuries hence can ever undo that inconvenient truth.
Nor can they undo the truth that one of those men, Thomas Jefferson, the tall guy in the middle of the picture above, was the author of our Declaration of Independence and perhaps the most brilliant and talented American who ever lived — yes, even more brilliant and talented than Colin Kaepernick, scumbag-LeBron James, or Ibram X. Kendi.
And, yes, Jefferson was a slaveholder — an enigmatic man who wrote that “all men are created equal” while he himself enslaved more than 600 people during his life. But an accurate rendering of history will also note the following:
Throughout his entire life, Thomas Jefferson was publicly a consistent opponent of slavery. Calling it a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot,” he believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. Jefferson also thought that slavery was contrary to the laws of nature, which decreed that everyone had a right to personal liberty. These views were radical in a world where unfree labor was the norm.
This last sentence is critical. Jefferson lived in a world where slavery was the rule rather than the exception. He understood the evil nature of the institution, though, and he and his fellow Founders laid the rhetorical groundwork for successive generations to abolish the practice on the North American continent — even while it continued to flourish in Africa and elsewhere around the globe.
The pallor of our Founding Fathers, though, was apparently too much for a taxpayer-funded National Archives and Records Administration task force on racism, which recently released a 105-page report on the subject.
As The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman writes, “The report, which was critical of the Founding Fathers, claimed that the Rotunda — which houses the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — is an example of ‘structural racism’ because it ‘lauds wealthy White men in the nation’s founding while marginalizing BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Color], women, and other communities.’”
The report goes on to highlight such leftist mainstays as “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” and “equity,” and it cites the New York Times’ dubious and debunked 1619 Project, as well as the aforementioned Ibram X. Kendi, the notorious antiracist racist who infamously wrote, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
Apparently, two wrongs make a right on the Left.
House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, slammed the report as “radical” and “nothing more than progressive propaganda seeking to erase our nations’ history.”
Comer continued: “America should be celebrated, not reviled — especially by our own federal government. This report is a prime example of government waste. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund a woke agenda seeking to revise America’s history.”
Indeed. The Left seems hell-bent on wrecking the story of our nation’s founding and on teaching our children to be ashamed of their country.
“Is it even possible,” Stepman wonders, “to simply acknowledge both the flaws and accomplishments of the heroes of our past without treating them as villains at this point? Apparently, they must be torn down and their achievements portrayed as no more than a conspiracy to oppress others.”
The National Archives Museum is a beautiful structure, and the artifacts within it are awe-inspiring. It’s a just a low-down dirty shame that a bunch of America-loathing leftists are running the place. ~The Patriot Post
California’s Rainbow Civil War
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced this week that five more states have been added to the state’s list of banned destinations for official travel. “When states discriminate against LGBTQ+ Americans, California law requires our office to take action,” Bonta said, highlighting Assembly Bill 1887, passed by California’s Democrat legislature in 2016. “These new additions to the state-funded travel restrictions list are about exactly that.”
How very “inclusive” of California’s leftist officials to shun those who don’t agree with their political agenda. That they don’t see the blatant hypocrisy may explain why they also deny scientific reality — that biological males are not really female just because they identify as such.
The states added to California’s expanding list include Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, raising the total number to 17 states. We’re beginning to think California doesn’t like much of the rest of the country.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey forcefully criticized the ban. “The economic coercion demonstrated by California is an affront to the dignity of other co-sovereign states and amounts to legislating across state borders in an effort to force the radical worldview of large states onto those living elsewhere,” the Republican AG explained. “Federalism works best when individual states can pursue policies supported by their own constituents, and in West Virginia our office will defend the state’s efforts to protect the integrity of women’s sports.”
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who is running for governor, responded similarly via social media: “California’s ‘woke’ law prohibits state-funded travel to Arkansas. Our state is on the forefront of the fight for American values & just as I have done for over 6 years as AG, I will always protect our traditional American & Arkansas values as Governor.”
The clear issue here is one of protecting women’s sports, which numerous recent examples demonstrate are under direct assault. Irrespective of how California officials dubiously paint the issue, none of these states prevent individuals from identifying as they chose; rather, they protect the rights and spaces of actual biological women from being subordinated and subjected to the declared desires of gender dysphoric men and boys. To turn a popular leftist phrase, California is simply and clearly on the wrong side of history with this issue, and no amount of browbeating and self-righteous declarations will change that reality.
But there might be a silver lining. California officials banning state-funded travel to red states will at least keep these science-denying leftists from officially promulgating their twisted identity ideology in person. ~The Patriot Post
The Pandemic Moratorium on Private Property
Whatever happened to that 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority? The one that was supposed to sweep in and restore the Rule of Law? As with all things in Chief Justice John Roberts’s Court, it’s not that simple.
“The court on Tuesday rejected a plea by landlords to end the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium on evicting millions of tenants who aren’t paying rent during the coronavirus pandemic,” reports the Associated Press. “Last week, the bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden administration extended the moratorium by a month, until the end of July. It said then it did not expect another extension.”
Some seven million households are not caught up on rent, and the plaintiffs in this case allege $13 billion in unpaid rent per month, which is causing serious economic damage to many of the nation’s 10 million landlords.
U.S. Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington had previously struck down the CDC’s power grab, though she issued a stay while appeals were filed. The DC Circuit Court upheld the moratorium. Five of the nine justices did likewise.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion, and while he said he agreed with Friedrich, he ruled the opposite way “because the CDC plans to end the moratorium in only a few weeks,” and the additional time will allow more taxpayer rental assistance to be distributed.
Perhaps, one might argue, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and the Court’s three leftists were displaying judicial restraint. They were merely allowing the political branches leeway in addressing a once-in-a-century pandemic the best way they saw fit.
But this was a critical opportunity for the Court to declare that exceeding authority is not acceptable. As a simple matter of law, either the CDC has this authority, or it does not. Even Kavanaugh acknowledges it does not, yet he still deferred for … reasons.
Elected officials and faceless bureaucrats alike have used the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse for all manner of tyrannical diktats. “Just another month,” they say. And then what happens next month when the CDC decides to repeat that refrain because of “new variants” in the virus or whatever the excuse might be?
The moratorium was supposed to end in December. And then January. And then June. Now it's July. Kavanaugh insists “specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary” to extend it further. We’ll see.
Judge Friedrich was exactly right: “Under its reading, so long as the Secretary [of Health and Human Services] can make a determination that a given measure is ‘necessary’ to combat the interstate or international spread of disease, there is no limit to the reach of his authority.”
The pandemic isn’t fully in the rearview mirror, but nearly two-thirds of American adults have had at least one shot, and confirmed cases of COVID are down a whopping 96% from January. This is not the emergency the CDC says it is.
Regardless, does the CDC really have the constitutional authority to order landlords to host tenants for free? Whatever happened to property rights? Or does Congress have the constitutional authority to pay the rent bill — effectively with a landlord’s own tax dollars? Is this really the Republic our Founders bequeathed to us?
Millions of Americans found themselves suddenly unemployed last spring because of the emergency diktats of government officials. No one wants to see tenants turned out onto the streets, or left to congregate in shelters when a highly contagious communicable virus is on the loose. But one-size-fits-all orders from a federal bureaucracy in Washington, DC, are not how such things should be addressed. State law should determine this, and while there may be an argument for government money to pay for the cost of government lockdowns, churches and other civic organizations should be providing aid. Instead, everyone’s content to outsource such difficult decisions to the Beltway, and Liberty suffers as a result.
~The Patriot Post
Is bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s
In the least surprising revelation of the week, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson said Monday night that Joe bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s intelligence services are spying on him. He said he’d been told by a whistleblower that the National Security Agency had accessed his personal email and text messages. Why? To get him off the air. He’s the Democrats’ bête noire, after all — the hard-hitting, high-profile conservative critic for whom they have no answer.
“The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is spying on us,” Carlson asserted. “We have confirmed that.”
Tucker Carlson says a whistleblower told him that he is being spied on by the NSA and that he filed a FOIA request for information:
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 29, 2021
“The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that.” pic.twitter.com/LY2vmDLFTK
We say Carlson’s claim is unsurprising simply because we wouldn’t put anything past a Democrat administration. Their party and their principles are rotten to the core, as they made clear when the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and its intelligence services spied on the Trump campaign before and after he became president, while lying to obtain FISA warrants and concocting a fantastical “Russian collusion” ruse to enable it.
National Review’s David Harsanyi isn’t surprised either, though he’s more measured in his condemnation: “My initial instinct should be to dismiss conspiratorial claims about domestic espionage,” he says. “As it happens, though, I’ve been alive for the past two decades. And history tells us it is wholly conceivable that intelligence and law-enforcement agencies would spy on a television personality. They spy all the time. They do it illegally. They do it for partisan reasons. They do it to lawmakers. They do it to journalists.”
It’s unsettling, isn’t it? That a forceful critic of the current administration could be targeted and ultimately silenced? Harsanyi notes that scumbag/liar-James Clapper, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s director of national intelligence, lied to us all under oath when Democrat Senator Ron Wyden asked him, point blank, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
“No, sir,” scumbag/liar-Clapper said — a lie that was later exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
As Carlson reminded his viewers: “Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy. If they are doing it to us — and again, they are definitely doing it to us — they are almost certainly doing it to others. This is scary, and we need to stop it right away.”
It is scary and it needs to stop. Carlson’s claims compelled the NSA to tweet out a remarkable denial. For what it’s worth, it reads in part:
Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air. NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s paid liar, White House Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki, also denied Carlson’s charges — again, for what it’s worth.
Last night, Carson provided an update on his claims. He called the NSA’s statement of denial “an infuriatingly dishonest formal statement — an entire paragraph of lies written purely for the benefit of the intel community’s lackeys at CNN and MSNBC.”
Carlson said that his staff had tried to contact NSA Director Paul Nakasone yesterday, but to no avail. He said Nakasone is “a highly political left-wing four-star general” and that an NSA receptionist had refused to connect his team to the director.
“Did the bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration read my emails?” Carlson asked. “NSA officials refuse to say. In a very heated follow-up conversation 20 minutes ago, they refused even to explain why they wouldn't answer that simple question.”
Last night, a guest on Carlson’s show, civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon, said she was “not surprised” by the NSA’s response. “In the last 20 years since 9/11,” Dhillon said, “I and other civil libertarians have been screaming about the Patriot Act and other laws. But dating back to 1947, the law said spying may only be on foreign and not on American citizens, and our government regularly flouts that.”
She, too, pointed to the Snowden revelations as proof that the agency “has been gathering and storing American telephone calling records for years.”
Carlson believes the message the NSA is sending him is this: “We can do whatever we want. We can read your personal texts and emails. We can send veiled threats your way to brush you back if we don’t like your politics. … Orwellian doesn’t begin to describe the experience.”
~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
The Left’s Big Lie
The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden White House and congressional Democrats are engaged in a massive lie, attempting to “gaslight” the whole nation. They’re claiming that Republicans are really the ones defunding the police. It’s beyond absurd, but Big Media is echoing the claim as if it were fact.
It’s one of the most bald-face lies I have ever heard. But it shows exactly what the left thinks it can get away with because it knows the media are on their “team.” Clearly, we do not have a free and fair press in this country. It also shows just how stupid the left thinks the American people really are.
It all started when White House adviser Cedric Richmond went on Fox News Sunday. He said that Republicans were “defunding the police” when they opposed the massive blue state budget bailout that Democrats tried to force into last year’s COVID relief bill.
Richmond’s remarks were so laughable, I didn’t think they were worth commenting on yesterday.
But White House Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki continued the gaslighting at her Monday press briefing. She said that Republicans “defunded the police” when they opposed the $350 billion state and local bailout included in bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “rescue plan.”
Okay. If Democrats want to have this fight, bring it on! Let’s recall the history here.
The Democrat Party has been smearing law enforcement for years. It wasn’t mobs of Republicans marching through the streets calling cops “pigs” and “Nazis.”
The refrain of the Democrat Party is that law enforcement is infected with “systemic racism.” This has resulted in mass demoralization and resignations in police departments across the country, accompanied by a massive spike in violent crime.
This whole debate started with socalist/commie/liar-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other extremists demanding that we defund ICE. It wasn’t long before she upped the ante and demanded that we “defund the police.”
I don’t have enough space to list all the Democrat-run cities from New York City to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to Seattle, Austin to Oakland, that proudly slashed the budgets of their police departments. They were responding to socalist/commie/liar-AOC and the progressive wing of the Democrat Party, or the “Progs” as I call them. Nothing they want is “progress.”
It’s Democrat mayors and city councils who are handcuffing the police. It’s Democrat prosecutors who refuse to charge criminals. It’s Democrat politicians who have declared their communities “sanctuary cities” so law enforcement can’t expel criminal illegal aliens.
One final point: It’s a safe bet that the police know who’s on their side and who isn’t. bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden said he “absolutely” supported massive cuts to police budgets. Not surprisingly, the police unions endorsed Donald Trump in 2020.
Criminal Sanctuaries
As you know, the left and the media have been in high dudgeon lately about a spike in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Ironically, this comes as the left is trying to deny Asian Americans certain educational opportunities. In spite of the left’s feeble narrative, the spike in anti-Asian hate crimes has nothing to do with Donald Trump or “white rage.”
The latest example comes from the city of San Francisco, America’s best known “sanctuary city.” Earlier this year, Carlos Claros attempted to rob an Asian family visiting from Wisconsin. He pulled a gun, spit at them, and said, “Ugh, you Asians.”
I’m sure it won’t surprise you to learn that Claros has an extensive arrest record. In fact, the Trump Administration issued detainers for Claros four times so they could deport him. But four times the sanctuary city of San Francisco refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
So, because of left-wing policies implemented in the name of diversity, this thug was free to commit a hate crime against an Asian American family.
Unfortunately, the problem isn’t just San Francisco. The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration has turned the entire country into a “sanctuary nation,” guaranteeing that what happened in San Francisco will be happening in your city.
By the way, just as the link between illegal immigration and crime is obvious, it’s no coincidence that Democrats are pushing open borders and a ban on voter ID laws at the same time.
Defund The Deep State
I’m a proud law-and-order conservative, and very supportive of the men and women in uniform who protect us on the frontlines and those behind the scenes in our intelligence agencies. But if there is any agency that needs to be seriously reformed, if not defunded, it’s any Deep State agency that is abusing its power for political purposes.
Monday night, Tucker Carlson said that a whistleblower from the National Security Agency told him that the NSA is monitoring Carlson’s communications and those of his staff. Naturally, Carlson was suspicious.
But the whistleblower provided details of a story Carlson’s staff is working on, details that Tucker said “could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There’s no other possible source of that information.”
It’s deeply disturbing, but not hard to believe. Just consider what we already know:
We know our intelligence agencies were used by the left to spy on the Trump campaign.
Sen. Rand Paul has alleged that he and other leading Republicans were spied on.
We know that the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration spied on pro-Israel groups and members of Congress.
We know that former CIA Director scumbag/commie/liar-John Brennan had to apologize for spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
We know someone hacked investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s computers.
This is totalitarianism. When the intelligence agencies responsible for protecting the American people from foreign enemies become tools of the government to monitor and harass domestic political opponents, we’re fast going down the road of Nazi Germany, the old Soviet Union and today’s communist China.
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden & Berry
During the White House press briefing Monday, liar-Jen Psaki was asked about the controversy surrounding Olympic athlete Gwen Berry. She said that President bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden supports the right of peaceful protest and believes “there are moments where we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals.”
In other words, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is perfectly fine with members of the U.S. Olympic team using their platform on foreign soil to disrespect the United States and our most cherished customs. And this is the guy who is supposed to unite us?!
Sen. Tom Cotton said that if Berry is going to wear the uniform of the U.S. team and represent us overseas, then she needs to respect our flag and national anthem or be removed from the team now!
About That Deal…
We told you last week how bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden sabotaged a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. The White House spent the weekend trying to salvage the deal, eventually releasing a lengthy explanation attempting to walk back bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s veto threat of a deal he supposedly wanted.
Incredibly, some Republicans are still willing to go along with this charade. Senator scumbag/rino-Mitt Romney said he trusts bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and “takes the president at his word.”
But one person isn’t budging at all — Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi. She’s still demanding that Democrats get everything they want.
Sen. Thom Tillis said he was “profoundly disappointed” that scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi was holding the infrastructure bill hostage to other demands. Really?
What did he think she was going to do? scumbag/liar-Pelosi held up COVID relief for months last year for political gain while small businesses went bankrupt.
I am so sick and tired of presumably intelligent GOP RINOs who are continually “surprised” and “disappointed” when the political left does what it always does!
Senators Cassidy (R-LA), Collins (R-ME), rino-Murkowski (R-AK) and Portman (R-OH), were you all born yesterday?! Wake up!
~The Patriot Post
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