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Ten Commandments out, Pride banners inIf conservatives want to live in a country where the Ten Commandments are less controversial than puberty blockers for 10-year-olds, they must abandon the modern fantasy of institutional neutrality.The ACLU and several other civil rights groups are supporting a federal lawsuit to strike down a new Louisiana law that mandates the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms. These civil rights groups claim they are protecting “separation of church and state” and that public schools are no place for religious indoctrination.The lawsuit arrives during Pride Month, when hundreds of government organizations, including educational institutions,...

The Court Green-Lights CensorshipIn 1919, the Supreme Court used the pretext of crisis to overhaul the First Amendment as it jailed critics of the Great War. Over a century later, the Court has again fallen victim to the Beltway’s prevailing zeitgeist in today’s regrettable decision in Murthy v. Missouri. The Court’s opinion, written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, rejects the lower court’s injunction against many government agencies to stop leaning on social media companies to curate content, and does so on grounds that the plaintiffs lack standing. The opinion rests on omitted facts, skewed perceptions, and absurd conclusory statements. The...

SCOTUS Green-Lights Feds’ Big Tech Censorship Scheme Ahead Of 2024 Election‘We therefore reverse the judgment of the Fifth Circuit and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.’The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s injunction prohibiting the federal government from colluding with Big Tech companies to censor posts it doesn’t like, effectively green-lighting the Biden administration’s ability to carry out such operations during the 2024 election. “To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a Government defendant and redressable by the...

Are There Vaccines in our Food Supply?In my previous articles, we looked at the global war on farmers, the organizations pushing for the Great Food Reset, the tactics used to foist these changes on the public, and the projects underway to remove your access to healthy, farm-fresh foods. Today we will delve into the contentious issue of vaccines in the food supply.Accurate information on this topic is not easy to find. The USDA and drug developers aren’t required to release any information on veterinary drugs in the development pipeline, so independent detectives are left searching through peer-reviewed papers, university publications,...

You Keep Using the Term ‘Authoritarian’You know the term “authoritarian.” You think you know what it means. An authoritarian dad, boss, or government says: my way or the highway. They are forever barking orders and see compliance as the answer to all human problems. There is no room for uncertainty, adaptation to time and place, or negotiation. It’s ruling by personal dictate while tolerating no dissent. To be authoritarian is to be inhumane, to rule with arbitrary and capricious imposition. It can also mean to be ruled impersonally by a machine regardless of the cost. Sounds like a conventional government...

Hell Is Empty and All the Bots Are HereArtificial intelligence is a new pagan god.Editors’ NoteThe following excerpt is from John Daniel Davidson’s new book, Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come (Regnery, 2024).No recent development better illustrates the return of paganism in our time than the arrival of artificial intelligence, or AI. That might seem counterintuitive, since AI is a powerful new technology made possible by complex computer algorithms working at unprecedented speeds—a creation of the new digital era that seems to belong to the future, not some distant pagan past.But to assume that...

War on a Thousand FrontsWe are a nation divided over a hundred issues, bristling over a thousand fronts, erupting on countless great and small battlefields among us, as we are becoming a nation of diametric opposites.Early in his political career, Abraham Lincoln made a very observant comment on America’s unique geo-political circumstances in the world when he noted: “All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. … If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be...

15 Times 2024 Was Orwell’s 1984“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.”The novel 1984 is author George Orwell’s cautionary tale of a future totalitarian government that uses mass surveillance to redefine truth and tyrannize citizens. Once a work of fiction, it now reads like a disturbingly accurate picture of the present day. From the left’s rejection of objective truths to the media’s manipulation of language, 2024 is looking increasingly like 1984....

Is Social Justice Ideology Bad for You?In their universally acclaimed 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff show that the youth mental health crisis has its origins in bad thinking on school campuses.For example, schools and universities often encourage students to see life as a struggle between good and bad people. As a result, young people are unprepared to cope with the many tragedies that arise when people with good intentions make the world worse. Anxiety is a natural response to a world that does not make sense to you.In the years since the...

What Trump and His People Need to Know About January 6With the media currently in quiet retreat, Trump supporters have the opportunity to take the offensive. To do so, they need to know some basic facts about January 6.If Republicans are too timid to talk about January 6, former president Donald Trump is not. “They are victims of what happened. All they were doing is protesting a rigged election,” said former president Donald Trump of the J6ers on Sunday before adding, “There has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages.”Quick to accuse Trump of dissembling, the major media...

Food Corruption: Fake Meat, GMOs, and BeyondIn my last three articles, we examined the global war on farmers, the culprits behind the agenda, and the tactics used to prepare the public for the destruction of our food freedom. Today we will cover some of the projects and products that will be used to take away your right to access healthy foods.Most readers are likely familiar with GMOs and how genetically modified organisms have been shown to cause significant health problems, how they have ruined the lives of independent farmers who are sued after their land is involuntarily contaminated by Monsanto...

The End Of The Petrodollar Is The End Of America’s Global DominanceEvery nation has had to convert its currency to the U.S. dollar, making it the de facto global currency. Thanks to Joe Biden, it’s all gone.The petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia began in 1974, two years into Joe Biden’s first term as a United States senator. It ended this week, a half-century later, during Biden’s first term as U.S. president. Among all the news stories that matter, few rank higher than this. It’s bigger than President Trump and Hunter Biden’s convictions, bigger than jobs reports and inflation numbers, and...

The Biggest ‘Revisionist History’ About Jan. 6, 2021 Comes From Democrats Like Nancy PelosiUsing the same tactics as the Jan. 6 Committee, Pelosi is quick to bury any evidence exonerating Trump from any claims of ‘insurrection.’Questions about the National Guard at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are once again making headlines this week after new footage recorded by Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter shows the former speaker of the House blaming herself for not doing more that day. “Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” Pelosi asks in a fury. “They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility...

How Did a Small Group Do This?A very interesting study appeared last week by two researchers looking into the pandemic policy response around the world. They are Drs. Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel of Stanford and Harvard, respectively. Their ambition was straightforward. They wanted to examine the effects of government policy on the virus. In this ambition, after all, researchers have access to an unprecedented amount of information. We have global data on strategies and stringencies. We have global data on infections and mortality. We can look at it all according to the timeline. We have precise dating of stay-at-home...

Time for the Truth About the PandemicA group of Dutch medical researchers are igniting a firestorm by calling for an investigation of the deaths caused by vaccine mandates and lockdowns imposed on the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with that?Everything, if you're part of the global public health mafia and want to avoid questions about the mistakes you made and the lies you told.We all saw Dr. Anthony Fauci squirming last week when he was forced to admit to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that the social distancing rules — like standing 6 feet apart — on...

The Enemies of Food FreedomIn every war, there is necessarily an enemy force, and the war on our food supply is no exception. My previous article addressed the ongoing attacks on farmers across the globe. In today’s article, we will look at some of the culprits behind this agenda. For anyone who delved into the entities behind the tyrannical Covid policies, many names on the list below will seem quite familiar.Bayer/MonsantoBayer merged with Monsanto in 2018, combining the companies responsible for Agent Orange and pioneering chemical warfare. In 1999, Monsanto’s CEO Robert Shapiro bragged that the company planned to control...

Biden’s Problems Are the Real ThreatsDemocratic analysts don’t seem to understand why the all-out legal assault on President Donald Trump isn’t working. It’s because they keep talking among themselves and not with the American people.The American people don’t live and work in the New York-Washington political-media-government bubble. If reporters and analysts listened to Americans, as we do at America's New Majority Project, they would learn how decisive the choice between President Joe Biden or President Trump is. They would also see how difficult, if not impossible, it will be for President Biden to get easily re-elected.The propaganda media is trying...

Merrick Garland Thinks His Justice Department Is Above CriticismThe attorney general’s complaint about criticism comes with an implicit threat: stop attacking the DOJ—or else.Attorney General Merrick Garland published an op-ed in the Washington Post Tuesday, declaring that unfounded attacks on the Justice Department “must end.” It’s strange and unsettling for the chief law enforcement officer of the United States to write such a thing. Whatever the merits of his argument, it doesn’t come off as an argument. It comes off as a threat.Garland opens with the case of a man recently convicted for threatening to bomb an FBI field office....

Unequal Application Of The Law In America Today Isn’t Hypocrisy, It’s HierarchyInstitutional power in America today is concentrated on the left. They want you to know it and act accordingly.Over the weekend, thousands of pro-Hamas protesters, many of them masked and some wearing green Hamas headbands, descended on Washington, D.C., surrounding the White House amid chants calling for a victory of “jihad or martyrdom.” At one point, protesters with tents set up an encampment on the Ellipse, while others defaced and vandalized historic statues, including the Andrew Jackson and Marquis de Lafayette statues in Lafayette Square.At one point, protesters screaming...

Pelosi declared in video shot by daughter 'I take responsibility' for Jan. 6 security failuresHouse Republicans said the footage undercut three years of Democrat-led narrative that Jan. 6 and its failures were the sole responsibility of former President Donald Trump and his followers.Moments after being whisked away from the U.S. Capitol after it was breached on Jan. 6, 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was captured on videotape declaring "I take responsibility" for failing to have a better security plan for the complex that fateful day, according to footage released Monday by House GOP investigators.“We have responsibility, Terri," Pelosi is heard...