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The vulnerability of political freedom and popular sovereignty to tyranny has been a constant theme in political philosophy for 2500 years. It profoundly influenced the creators of the Constitution, an important purpose of which is to forestall the tyranny that destroys political freedom and citizen rule. In the writings of Classical philosophers and historians the Founders could see the blueprint for such a tyranny––one we have seen unfolding in the last few decades, and accelerating in the policies of the current administration. The Greek historian Polybius in the second century B.C. laid out how a democracy degenerates into tyranny:So when...

The Case for More Guns, Learn to Think Like The Sheep Who Chose to Be UnarmedAmmoland Inc. Posted on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 by Dean WeingartenCourtesy Dean Weingarten People in the gun culture often express amazement about people who want them disarmed. They ascribe the desire to hostility and malice. It may be true for a minority of those who actively wish for a disarmed population. A significant number, likely a majority, have made a voluntary decision to be unarmed.It is important to know your opponent and to understand their motives.Three years ago, this correspondent wrote an essay on...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 56Psalm 56[a] For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam.[b] When the Philistines had seized him in Gath. 1 Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack. 2 My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me. 3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. 4 In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj.-Gen. Hossein Salami said that Israel “security” has been eroded, and its safety “bubble” burst in the last few months in a wide-ranging television interview. He bragged at length about how the “Zionist regime” is supposedly in the midst of security, political and social disintegration. He then claimed that Israel has suffered strikes against its maritime interests, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and other security setbacks, including mysterious explosions and a rocket that flew over Dimona. Salami pointed to a string of incidents over the last several months, appearing to take credit for them. He said that...

Catholic Churches in California are receiving systematic "black paint" desecrations to defile statues of Christ our Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Meanwhile churches on fire in France. Dr. Taylor Marshall proposes the First 5 Saturday Devotion, the 3 stages of persecution, and how to respond.

I spent late Saturday afternoon in what has become, for me, a rite of spring. I watched the Kentucky Derby. I am no afficionado of horse racing and will not betray my ignorance of the sport's desiderata in this column. At most, I watch three horse races a year. After the Kentucky Derby, I watch the remainder of the races hoping to round off the Triple Crown. The Derby is a spectacle, from the enormously beautiful thoroughbreds to the women's glamorous hats. It is like the World Series and the Super Bowl; all are a piece of American culture. I...

It’s just the flu, bro. I want a strong USA. A strong USA has significant population growth. Any strong society does more than replenish its population; it actually expands. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/health/pandemic-births/index.html Births are down (see above) due to the Coronahoax. This is devastating. There are about 4 million babies born every year in the USA. If the 8% hoaxdemic drop is accurate then that is 320 thousand babies per year who were not born because of the Coronahoax. There are around 500k deaths attributed to Coronavirus. Most are lies due to false attribution. Most are 70+ years old. The loss of...

A British-Australian model has become ELLE UK's first non-binary cover star - and has opened up about finally discovering an 'in-between place' after years of 'despising' their body. Olly Eley, who is agender, meaning they are devoid of any gender altogether, said they did not have the language to understand how they felt when they were younger. The model, who was born female, said they wished they had known when they were growing up that it was 'OK to exist in this 'in-between place''.

Hidden away in some half-forgotten chambers in the heart of New Delhi, there are two blocks of white sandstone — relics of India's long years under the yoke of the British Raj. Laid down in 1911 by King George V and Queen Mary, who later reclined on thrones of solid gold, shaded from the blazing sun by golden umbrellas, they are the foundations of the nation's vast and splendiferous seat of government. It took legions of workers a further 16 years to complete this great acropolis, designed by Surrey-born architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the centre-piece of which is a circular...

Miami International Airport has been hit by a violent fight over a face mask just a week after seven passengers were filmed fighting over seats at the Florida airport. The violence began when two women got into a verbal altercation on a plane, according to a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday. It was titled 'Annoying loud mouths from Chicago start a fight with people on the airplane and end up in a fight in the airport.' In the video, one of the women off-screen can be heard telling another passenger, 'I'm not even in my regular seat, so I...

Jonathan Koeppel, a Louisiana high school teacher that went viral last month after objecting to his school’s gender theory curriculum, spoke with the Daily Caller about his experience protesting the radical lessons. Koeppel spoke out against gender identity education during an April school board meeting. Koeppel criticized an application used in school by students called “Brain Pop” for teaching about gender identity and personal pronouns. “Who gave permission to talk about this? There’s two genders,” said Koeppel during the meeting. “I’m not going to work in a district that’s okay with that.” Koeppel played for the board a lesson from...

Scalps continued growing hair after being grafted onto rodents. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal health agency run for decades by celebrated White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, has spent over $400,000 funding a series of experiments that grafted the scalps of aborted fetuses onto living mice, studies that were meant to investigate the human skin's propensity for developing infections. The research, published last fall in the journal Nature, was performed by a dozen scientists out of the University of Pittsburgh. The experiments involved developing rat and mouse "models" using, in part, "full-thickness fetal skin"...

A dairy farmer in Wisconsin who is physically disabled has sued the Biden administration over a COVID relief program that excludes white farmers, arguing the program is racist. Adam Faust, who runs a herd of 140 Holsteins on his family farm in Chilton, joined other plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed last week in Green Bay, alleging the loan forgiveness program illegally discriminates against them. At issue is a $4 billion program tucked into the Biden administration's COVID-19 stimulus plan that forgives loans for farmers and ranchers who are black, native American, Hispanic, or Asian -- but not those who are...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that reported annual cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States continued to rise in 2019, reaching an all-time high for the sixth year in a row. Gay and bisexual men, African-American people and young people had disproportionately high rates. And the latest figures don’t reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2019, the federal agency received more than 2.5 million reports of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, the three most common notifiable STIs (also know as sexually transmitted...

As Trump wrote, "The People of our Country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price...." Proving their irrelevance, proving their weakness, Facebook's Oversight Board voted yesterday morning that: Facebook was justified in banning then-President Donald Trump from its platform the day after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, but it needs to reassess how long the ban will remain in effect, the social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board said Wednesday. Is Donald Trump (R) worried "how long the ban will remain in effect"? Hmmmm. Understanding that in so many ways Facebook...

The article concludes: "ivermectin should be globally and systematically deployed in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19." Unlike the vaccines, it is not an experimental drug and is known to be safe for all but a few with other conditions. I expect the corporate media will ignore as much as possible the findings of a peer-reviewed study just published in the American Journal of Therapeutics that concludes the readily-available, inexpensive (off-patent) drug ivermectin is effective in treating existing cases of Covid-19 and in preventing coming down with the illness. Unlike the experimental vaccines that we are being ceaselessly urged to...

The fire between the Linux kernel community and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is being put out. Thanks to an ill-thought-out Linux security project, two UMN graduate students tried to insert deliberately buggy patches into Linux. Greg Kroah-Hartman, the well-respected Linux kernel maintainer for the Linux stable branch, responded by banning not only them but any UMN-connected developers from contributing to the Linux kernel. Now, UMN has addressed the Linux kernel developer's community's concerns. And, in a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and volunteer senior Linux kernel maintainers and developers...

Caitlyn Jenner may be ambivalent about Donald Trump, but is decisive when it comes to his successor. “Biden, I don’t think I’ve agreed with on anything.....since he’s been in there, he hasnt done anything for the American worker, maybe others. So, it is a 180-degree turn in our country, and it scares me.” Jenner endorsed Trump in 2016, but later disavowed her support after his ban on transgenders serving in the military.....in an op-ed in The Washington Post she accused Trump of showing “no regard for an already marginalized and struggling community.” “What I liked about Donald Trump is, he...

Despite its flaws, the United States is the greatest country the world has ever known. We don’t need fences to keep people in America and there are no flotillas of refugees escaping to Cuba. Its greatness stems from its foundation of freedom and liberty for everyone. But in recent years we’re seeing the convergence of some very dangerous societal trends which threaten America. Intersectionality is encouraging divisiveness. The rule of law is transforming into mob rule. Finally, a growing grievance industry is pitting citizen against citizen. Throughout much of human history, people have organized into tribes. Tribal membership provided a...

I recently came across the term "white-savior movies." According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often clueless Black person and, as one Black critic puts it, "swoops in" to turn his or her life around. In an article called "Top 5 Most Cringeworthy White Savior Films," a critic named OnlyBlackGirl offered this definition: "If you're not familiar with the 'white savior complex' it's basically is when there's a person or community of color facing some hardship and some white figure swoops in on their...