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World-renowned violinist Isaac Stern arrived in Shanghai to give a recital shortly after Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution ended in 1976.He could not find a playable piano in all of the city. All 500 pianos at the city's conservatory had been smashed by frenzied Maoist revolutionists determined to eradicate the influence of Western music.Those familiar with the excesses of Maoist China should note with growing alarm that ideas similar to those foundational to Mao's Cultural Revolution have found their way into the music department of Oxford University. Oxford music professors, encouraged by BLM representatives to repudiate what is deemed white supremacism...

Of course, everyone knows that the official party line out of Washington and the state-run media is that there was no election fraud in 2020. That’s fine. People can believe whatever they want, but when they try to prevent their opponents from exercising their sovereign will through legislative action, that cannot be tolerated. *snip* The Georgia legislature reasserted its authority last month and established rules for how to assure fair elections going forward. That should be the concern of the voters in that state, who elected the legislators who passed the law and the governor who signed it, voters who...

The National Guard has been called out to control rioting in the wake of a police shooting in the northern Minneapolis lower-middle-class suburb of Brooklyn Center (whose Caucasian population is 44.5% according to Census Bureau estimates). Rioters behaved with a hair trigger response, with at least one shot fired into the police station, and looting reported locally and many miles distant, on Lake Street in Minneapolis, which received the brunt of the riot, looting, and arson damage following the drug overdose death of George Floyd while in police custody.KARE TV 11 reports:A curfew is in place for the city of...

President Biden will tap Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus as nominee to head the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday, when he is slated to announce nominations for several top immigration and Department of Homeland Security roles, a White House official confirmed to Fox News.Magnus currently serves as the police chief for the City of Tucson and previously spent time at the helm of police departments in Fargo, North Dakota and Richmond, California. Magnus has been described as having "extensive experience in addressing immigration issues," because of Tucson’s close proximity to the border, according to information obtained by...

The Wall Street Journal is a rarity in 21st-century media: a newspaper that makes money. A lot of money. But at a time when the U.S. population is growing more racially diverse, older white men still make up the largest chunk of its readership, with retirees a close second. ...The project ran into trouble once Mr. Murray saw the copy, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. He line-edited stories himself, rare for a top Journal editor. An article about a college campus movement to abolish sororities and fraternities in an effort to combat racism and homophobia was...

Angry utility customers in places like Grand Valley and Grand Mesa pen poison letters: “It’s a monopoly! Reduce obscene CEO pay!”. When Grand Valley Power CEO Tom Walch gets worked up explaining what he sees as the avarice and ignorance of Xcel Energy and worries he is not conveying his rage, he pulls out a letter from an angry co-op customer and starts reading. “They shouldn’t unload this blunder on customers who happen to be on their electrical grid,” Walch recites. “This is going to hurt a lot of businesses here and elsewhere that are already hurting due to the...

(Lansing, MI.) A source close to Governor Whitmer of Michigan has confirmed the Governor is privately blaming Florida for the Covid outbreak in her state. “I simply can't believe Florida would open up and grant their citizens the freedom to move about without masks or social distancing, leaving those decisions to the people. That is irresponsible leadership”. “Michigan had hundred of thousands, possibly millions of spring breakers who went to Florida to participate in spring break activities in Daytona Beach, Miami, Destin, Pensacola Beach and other locations without the Florida state government demanding masks and social distancing. We had things...

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A reader who requests anonymity because he is very much in a position to know what he is talking about, and would be punished for saying so, writes: I hope this finds you well and just wanted to offer some thoughts on the pending purge of DOD on explicitly ideological lines: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/us/politics/military-race-capitol-riots-extremism.html https://www.stripes.com/news/us/austin-launching-panel-to-address-extremism-in-the-ranks-as-military-completes-stand-downs-1.669182 Here is a passage from the NYT story the reader highlights above:

Minneapolis erupted in looting and riots late Sunday after an officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop. The Minnesota National Guard was activated to quell what devolved into violent demonstrations over the fatal officer-involved shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright earlier Sunday in the city of Brooklyn Center, located in Hennepin County, on the border of Minneapolis. A citywide curfew was issued by Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott until 6 a.m. CT Monday. About 500 people had gathered overnight outside of a police precinct in the city and clashed with officers. Shocking images from Minneapolis where BLM rioters destroyed...

Over 100 "woke" corporate leaders have met to plot their opposition to new laws designed to tighten election security and bolster voter integrity, according to reports. The heads of dozens of corporations got together over the weekend at a major event seeking to fight voter integrity laws across the United States.

Correcting the record is important since assigning the wrong reasons for Texas’s electric blackouts will lead to the wrong solutions.hen the lights went out in Texas earlier this year, corporate media and the left swiftly developed a narrative and stuck to it: Texas failed because it didn’t regulate enough and it wasn’t part of the national grid.This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed almost 60 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power—natural gas, coal, and nuclear—due to a reluctance to spend...

Pastors who bully parishioners over masks appear to have forgotten the soul-saving mission of the church, and are instead tyrannizing those they should serve.Despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s repeal of the state mask mandate, a pregnant Catholic mother was kicked out of Mass in the Diocese of Dallas for failing to wear a mask.Father Milton Ryan, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, is alleged to have called the police while the service was underway and have the young mother threatened with arrest for trespass. Deidre Hairston returned to her pew after receiving communion, with her one-year-old baby in her arms,...

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a COVID vaccine that will work on all variants and has developed an implantable microchip that it says will continuously monitor the human body for signs of the virus. Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician heading up DARPA’s response to the pandemic, appeared on 60 Minutes to demonstrate the technology. Holding up a vial of green tissue-like gel, which contains the chip, Hepburn proclaimed “You put it underneath your skin and what that tells you is that there are chemical reactions going on inside the body,...

Sporting events are not generally known as places where you can find a good deal on food. For the most part, going to a a major league sporting event involves paying far more for a sandwich or slice of pizza than you would nearly everywhere else. One exception to this is The Masters, where you can purchase a pimento cheese sandwich for $1.50. A recent article in The New York Times dubbed the Amen Corner concession stand at Augusta National Golf Club “one of the great bargains in sports.” But even something as delicious as a pimento cheese sandwich isn’t...

While the tragedy and trauma I experienced does shape me, like many other survivors of gun violence, it is not even close to who I am fully and I am looking forward to using this time to grow myself as an organizer, friend, son, and brother.

CHARLESTON, Wednesday, April 10. The Floating Battery is now in position, commanding the barbette guns of Fort Sumpter. It carries two thirty-four-pounders, two fortytwo-pounders, and sixty-four men. The Federal steamers are expected to-night. The city is filled with troops. CHARLESTON, Thursday, April 11. An officer has just arrived from Sullivan's Island, and informs me that three steamers were seen hovering off the coast yesterday for a considerable time. Major ANDERSON fired a signal gun at 10 o'clock A.M. An opening on Fort Sumpter by the batteries is expected every moment. The Battery is crowded with people who wait in anxious...

Aldo Maria Valli Interviews Archbishop ViganòRemaining Christ-centered in the march toward a new world orderAbp. Carlo Maria Viganò, the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, has been a vocal opponent to globalists' plans for a Great Reset — the world elite's plans for a godless, one-world government, whose changes, he says, are being ushered in using COVID-19 as pretext. In this Holy Thursday interview with Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli, the Vatican whistleblower puts these changes in context with Scripture and explains what the faithful can and should do to remain Christ-centered.Aldo Maria Valli: Your Excellency, through your repeated...

As we lurch into pandemic year two, I find myself strangely reluctant to leave my pandemic cocoon. Not a week goes by without someone asking if I’ve gotten my “Get Out of Jail Free” card — the vaccine — but until recently, I’ve told almost no one that I got the shots last month. How could it be that now, with my escape route in sight, I shrink from the exit

'Recall Gavin' is about much more than signatures on a page. I hear people talk about the recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom almost casually, as if talking about the weather or the price of gas. Scars from the recent election, "stolen" in the eyes of 80 million or so great Americans, are still fresh and understandably many expect House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her band of half-wits to find a way around the recall itself, subverting democracy once again. Others have one eye on the horizon, looking over the shoulder of the recall itself to the possible replacements that...