Pandering to the Ethanol Lobby Hurts America

 Perhaps more importantly, RFS has not reduced carbon emissions—one of the primary objectives of the policy.

The “corn boom” RFS [Renewable Fuel Standard law] created has impacted over 5 million acres of land once set aside for conservation. Landowners have filled in wetlands and have sprayed billions of pounds of fertilizer to facilitate the demand for corn to fulfill gas ethanol requirements. As a result, rivers have been contaminated and the habitat of waterfowl and other wildlife has been damaged.

Perhaps more importantly, RFS has not reduced carbon emissions—one of the primary objectives of the policy. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin found that the corn boom has released as much carbon dioxide as 34 coal power plants in one year. It turns out ethanol is not carbon-neutral, as promised, and it actually worsens gas mileage, making cars less fuel-efficient and worse for the environment.

Aside from the environmental impact, less fuel-efficient vehicles means spending more on gasoline. Ethanol delivers 25 percent fewer miles per gallon than gasoline, and ethanol-induced higher gas prices increase the impact of the RFS. Last year, the Congressional Budget Office reported that if the RFS is not repealed, gas prices could increase 13 to 26 cents per gallon by 2017. While a small group of corn farmers may benefit from the RFS, everyone is impacted by higher gas prices and less fuel-efficient gasoline.

Erik Telford, “How Pandering To Iowa’s Ethanol Lobby Hurts America”

Ethanol: A Rip-off

Ethanol increases the demand for corn, which means corn prices go up. This causes prices for farmland to rise. It also raises the prices for animal feed, which makes food prices go up. Not just on meat -- prices have gone up on poultry and dairy products, as well as foodstuffs containing cornstarch, cornmeal, corn syrup and other corn products. Meanwhile, the U.S., which as recently as 2007 supplied two-thirds of the world's corn with its exports, now supplies only a little over one-third. And the amount of corn used to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV's gas tank could feed one person for one year.

Larry Elder, Ethanol: The GOP-Supported Rip-Off

Gender Ideology is "Mental Illness"

A man who has had pharmacological or surgical alterations to mimic some aspects of womanhood is not a woman -- he is a pharmacologically altered or surgically mutilated man. …. Please note that these radical medical treatments and surgical procedures are performed on mentally ill children and adults.  These patients are mentally ill by definition -- if they were not ill, they would not be in need of medical treatment, and their illness is not physical (their sexual organs are healthy). Their illness is mental, and for that they are subjected to radical medical intervention (including hormones of the type administered to sex offenders) and mutilating surgery.

Michael Egnor, M.D., “Gender Ideology and the Paganization of Western Culture”

With or Without a Christian Foundation

That the post-Christian age has been the bloodiest in history, that the French and Russian Revolutions, both fiercely anti-religious, produced bloody despotic regimes, while the pro-religion, God-based American Revolution produced the freest country in the world -- both these facts are unknown to most young Americans. So, too, young people don't know that religious Americans are happier, commit less suicide, give more charity and volunteer more time than irreligious Americans.

Dennis Prager, Why Are So Many Young Americans Irreligious? The Secular Brainwash Is the First Reason

Liberty vs Security

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

H. L. Mencken

Secular Brainwash

Anyone who derives his moral values from the Bible is essentially forbidden from using those values to shape societal norms. You can cite Ibram X. Kendi or "White Fragility" or your heart as the source of your social values, but if you cite a biblical book, you are told that violates the alleged "separation of church and state."

Dennis Prager, Why Are So Many Young Americans Irreligious? The Secular Brainwash Is the First Reason

Why the Welfare State

 

When Does Life Begin?

Life begins at conception, for we contend that the soul also begins at conception. Life takes it commencement at the same place and time that the soul does.

Tertullian (ca.219), 3.207, Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg. 172

The Reality of Male and Female Humans

Since there seems to be a lot of confusion around definitions lately, let me spell it out in a way that avoids all confusion: human females have the biological plumbing that is associated with producing eggs, incubating babies, and nursing babies. Human males have the biological plumbing that is associated with producing and implanting sperm.  Some females are very masculine in outlook and affect; some males are very feminine in outlook and affect.  No matter what, though, they remain biologically identifiable as men or women, male or female.  And that's no joke.

Andrea Widburg, “The transgender crowd smacks down a funny little lesbian joke”

More Than One Kind of Slavery

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

Henry David Thoreau (American essayist, poet, and naturalist)

American Culture: An Immoral Man-Centered System

Our nation's morality is changing into an immoral man-centered system devoid of the divine. Through political correctness and tolerance doctrine, Americans are bullied into accepting perversity as normal and healthy, violating norms and mores that historically maintained social decency from Moses' time. Political correctness is a strategy developed by Marxists to undermine biblical values and culture to transform the West into a Marxist paradigm. It is a hammer, an instrument of destruction. Economic Marxism proved inefficient in and of itself to alter the power and influence of Christian values.

Pastor Stephen E. Broden, “The Rise of Black Girly Men”

A Problem With Public Education

Education is about everything except basic skills and competencies. A college degree is a mark of cultural affiliation, a badge of political allegiance and a warning sign of basic illiteracy. The institutions of higher education are employment agencies for political activists, think tanks for leftist sand castle wonks, and community organizing centers for the next generation of rioters.

Daniel Greenfield, A Trillion Dollar Bailout For the Idiot Machine

The Government Without Morality

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the U.S. [1945-1953]; May 8, 1878-1972)

Professional Politicians

Politicians and Their Ilk

 

Destruction by Teachers

 

The LEFT’s Ideology Kills

When it comes to killing off people, fascists have a track record upon which they may strive to improve. Think about the Planned Parenthood organization that was established to eradicate “lesser races” from American society. Think about our education system that has been overtaken by demented, sick perverts who want to confuse our children about such things as gender and sex. They also want to shame our children into thinking that America is evil, racist and greedy. Yeah, that is why millions of people want to come here, legally or otherwise.

Sam Clovis, “Impact,” 9/15/22

Ethanol is Harmful to Our Environment

Since ethanol is primarily derived from corn in the Midwest (47 percent of the crop), the amount of fossil fuel needed to plant, harvest and transport the corn to places like ADM, the net carbon savings is less than 25 percent. This doesn’t even factor in the hazardous chemicals that affect the soil, air and water, considering that over half our rivers and streams are polluted so much that they are not fit for human consumption or use.

Factor in the reduced MPG that vehicles get with ethanol, the 10 gallons of water needed to process one gallon of the product and the fact that we make so much that we are exporting it, please help me understand how the economic benefits are sufficient to offset the harm.

We aren’t feeding the world with our corn; we’re feeding our SUVs.

If it wasn’t for the excessive amount of government subsidies for the growing of the GMO corn, you wouldn’t be writing an editorial supporting this product that is causing irreversible harm to our environment (“Work to keep Renewable Fuel Standards high,” Dec. 3).

Leo Salat, Letter to the Editor, Ceder Rapids, IA, Gazette, 1/3/16

The Psychologists Are Naked

When psychologists don the cloak of expert in areas where they have no more authority than the average man—that is, when they invade religion, ethics, and politics—they will often be found upon a closer look to be wearing very little, and sometimes nothing at all.

William Kirk Kilpatrick, The Emperor’s New Clothes: the naked truth about the new psychology, pg.16

Psychology’s Destruction of the Culture

Many ideas which had their start in the psychological community (or received a big boost from it) have now worked their way into the heart of society. I think it fair to say that many of them have wreaked havoc. The subjectivism and relativism of psychological thinking, the confusion about free will, the overemphasis on autonomy and self-acceptance, the denial of guilt, the neglect of and even hostility toward traditional and religious values, the lack of any meaning system to replace these, the transmutation of virtues into hang-ups and perversions into preferences, the undermining of all forms of authority except psychiatric and bureaucratic—all have helped to bring our society to a crisis of catastrophic proportion.

William Kirk Kilpatrick, The Emperor’s New Clothes: the naked truth about the new psychology, pg.15.

Be Careful With Friendships

 

Results of College Indoctrination vs Education

[A]t the very time that waves of new baby-boomer students were swarming into institutions of higher learning, they were greeted with a torrent of money and a liberal—if not radical—faculty that challenged traditional norms of patriotism, religion, and family. Reinforcing the message of the student radicals, the faculty provided social and intellectual cover for the disruptions that soon occurred, justifying the mayhem as necessary for education and social reform. Under such circumstances, the surprise was not that violent campus revolutions ensued, but that they took so long, especially in light of the Vietnam War, which provided a focal point for anti-American hostility and revolutionary rhetoric.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.728

Lies About the Vietnam War

Virtually every aspect of the [Vietnam] war and military service associated with it was miscast and then etched into bad history. Two thirds of the troops who fought in Vietnam were volunteers, not draftees; blacks in Vietnam only comprised about 12 percent of the troops, equivalent to their percentage of the population as a whole; and college graduates were more likely to be killed or wounded than non-college grads (a reasonable conclusion, considering all the pilots and almost all officers were college graduates).

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.723

What Destroyed Many Baby-Boomers From the Beginning

In addition to growing up in abundance, the boom generation also was raised on the theories of the best-selling book of all time, Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946). Spock, thoroughly steeped in psychoanalysis and Freudianism, had been a Coolidge Republican in early adulthood, but along with his wife had moved steadily leftward, advocating positions that would have made Coolidge quiver. He advised parents to refrain from disciplining their children and to let children determine when and where everything took place, from bathroom habits to education. American homes overnight became child-centered, whereas spanking and other physical discipline was viewed as psychologically unhealthy. The dangerous combination of material comfort and loose control made for a generation that lacked toughness, one that literally fell apart under the pressures of civil rights, the Vietnam War, and economic stagnation. Not surprisingly, boomers turned to drugs and sex in record numbers, and divorce among the generation skyrocketed.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.682-683

I Will Not Yield

Truth vs Propaganda

 

The Start of Sexual Anarchy

The entire concept of Ruth Handler’s Barbie doll (introduced in 1959) revolutionized toys by allowing a “much needed play pattern that had never before been offered by the doll industry to little girls,” namely role-playing outside of motherhood. Despite significant opposition—not the least of which was to the fact that the doll had breasts—forty years later the Economist would write, “Of all the forces against which resistance is futile, Barbie ranks near the top.” Barbie only reflected the prominence of sexy female movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Brigitte Bardot. Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which appeared in 1953, indicated that women were having sex before marriage in large numbers, perhaps—if Kinsey’s statistics were to be believed—up to half of the six thousand women he had interviewed. Certainly men thought about sex all the time, or at least that was the premise behind the launch of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in 1953, wherein photos of nude women were legitimized for viewing by middle-class men by packaging with interviews, fiction, and “serious reporting.”… As if to follow Hefner’s lead, in 1957 the Searle pharmaceutical company brought out the birth-control pill, which proved instrumental in delinking sexual intercourse from childbearing or, put another way, in separating consequences from actions.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.681-682

Einstein Was Right

 

What Should Still Be the Desire of Women!

What is amazing about all this [history of the late 1940s through the 1950s] is that the 1950s still had plenty of structure. Marriage and motherhood were considered the main destiny of young women—with teaching and nursing considered their only “acceptable” careers—and magazines such as Seventeen or Mademoiselle or popular books such as Mary McGee Williams’s On Becoming a Woman all operated under this assumption. “It’s Not Too Soon to Dream of Marriage” ran a typical chapter title in Williams’s book.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.681

The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same

 

Sound Familiar In Today’s Political Culture?

The new Dutch broadcasting network [after the German invasion in 1940] then set to the task of providing a steady stream of information from the Allies to the occupied people of the Netherlands. The German had anticipated the establishment of such a communication tool by the Allies and issued the “Measure for the Protection of the Dutch Population Against Untrue Information.” With this act, the occupied people would be kept away from “false news” and given information they could trust from officially sanctioned pro-Nazi stations broadcasting from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Anyone caught listening to a unsanctioned station, particularly the BBC and Radio Oranje, would be severely punished.

Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl:  Audrey Hepburn and World War II, pg.50

LEFTISM Destroys the Minds of Children

 Leftism requires that children get indoctrinated before their internal truth detectors form. This is best done in early childhood, while the child is vulnerable to authority figures’ influence. This is the reason for pushing LGBTQ grooming in K-3rd grades. Programming young subconscious minds with ideas that identify formerly deviant practices as “normal,” means educators are complicit in corrupting both our kids and our society (and they’re opening the door for pedophiles, with the left pushing for the normalization). This is a key element in collapsing the family in the next generation, because these children, when they’re adults, will have no filters.

The family structure is foundational to society’s continuance because it transmits societal norms, beliefs, civility, and morality—i.e. our American culture—to the next generation through parental nurturing. Disrupting this parental guidance for only one generation makes the collapse probable.

Lewis Dovland, Family Matters

Credit Belongs to the Man In the Arena

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic” speech, Paris, France, 23 April 1910

America Was NOT Founded on Imperialism

It is...meaningless to employ terms like ecological imperialism to describe the interaction of the Europeans and the Indians. People of different races and ethnic backgrounds had come into contact with each other globally for centuries, from the Chinese in Southeast Asia to the Mongols in Europe to the Arabs in Africa. Seeds, germs, animals, viruses—all have interacted incessantly around the world for eons. (Even the European honeybee had settled as far west as St. Louis by the early 1700s.) To invoke such language is an attempt to reattach blame to Columbus and capitalism after anthropologists and historians have discovered than North American Indians had choices in how their world was shaped, and made no greater share of right—or wrong—choices than the new arrivals from Europe.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg. 421

The 2nd Amendment Is An Individual Right

The Second Amendment addressed Whig fears of a professional standing army by guaranteeing the right of citizens to arm themselves and join militias. Over the years, the militia preface has become thoroughly (and often, deliberately) misinterpreted to imply that the framers intended citizens to be armed only in the context of an army under the authority of the state. In fact, militias were the exact opposite of a state-controlled army: the state militias taken together were expected to serve as a counterweight to the federal army, and the further implication was that citizens were to be as well armed as the government itself. (Supreme Court decisions in the early twenty-first century reaffirmed the individual right to possess firearms.)

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg. 134.

How to Get Good Education

 

“Southern” America’s View of Slavery

Rather than viewing Africa as a source of unlimited labor, English colonists preferred European indentured servants well into the 1670s, even when they came from the ranks of criminals from English jails. But by the 1660s, the southern colonists had slowly altered their attitudes toward Africans. Increasingly, the southerners viewed them as permanent servants, and in 1664 some southern colonies declared slavery hereditary, as it had been in ancient Athens and still was throughout the Muslim world.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg. 21

Environmentalism and “Safety” Rules Violate Liberty and Virtue

The most recent [2013] serious threats to both liberty and public virtue (abuse of the latter damages both) have come in the form of modern environmental and consumer safety improvements. Attempts to sue gun makers, paint manufacturers, tobacco companies, and even Microsoft “for the public good” have made distressingly steady advances, encroaching on Americans’ freedoms to eat fast foods, smoke, or modify their automobiles, not to mention start businesses or invest in existing firms without fear of retribution. By the early twenty-first century, a New York mayor had attempted to ban soft drinks over a certain size; San Francisco had waged a war on plastic bags; and elementary schools across the nation had prohibited everything from soccer balls to doing cartwheels—all in the name of “public safety.” Many, particularly foreigners and especially America’s enemies, came to view this as weakness and “sissification.”

The Founders—each and every one of them—would have been horrified at such intrusions on liberty, regardless of the virtue of the cause, not because they were elite white men, but because such actions in the name of the public good were simply wrong. It all goes back to character: the best way to ensure virtuous institutions (whether government, business, schools, or churches) was to populate them with people of virtue.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg. xviii.

Character Counts

Throughout much of the twentieth century, there was a subtle and, at times, obvious campaign to separate virtue from talent, to divide character from success. The latest in this line of attack is the emphasis on diversity—that some how merely having different skin shades or national origins makes America special. But it was not the color of the skin of people who came here that made them special, it was the content of their character. America remains a beacon of liberty, not merely because its institutions have generally remained strong, its citizens free, and its attitudes tolerant, but because it, among most of the developed world, still cries out as a nation, “Character counts.”

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg. xviii.

Wisdom From Teddy Roosevelt

 

Why Academics Miss Real History

The reason so many academics miss the real history of America is that they assume that ideas don’t matter and that there is no such thing as virtue. They could not be more wrong.

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.xvi.

Government Nannies Cause Harm

Our Disastrous Culture

 

I Don't Know Its Origin, But It is TRUE!

 

Be Prepared

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Thomas Sowell

The Demise of the United States Marines

Earth’s manliest fighting force surrendered the demands of life’s most brutal profession to the cartoonish frivolities of leftist politics.  This is military suicide.  You don’t need a study, or a poll, and some egg-headed expert to tell you that.  It’s common sense.  

Rank-and-file Marines are being asked – no, forced – to suspend common sense, ignore human nature, and justify a lifestyle (especially when it comes to transgenderism) that’s trying to create loopholes in divine law.  Most importantly for the military, Marines are being asked to pretend that being indoctrinated into the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, queen agenda has no effect on them.

Will Alexander, “Pure Politics Is Feminizing the Marine Corps”

Sexualizing Children

Rainbow Mafia thugs claim there is an anti-LGBTQ+ movement in the U.S. that they feel is especially important to stand against. One way they will make sure that their deviant lifestyle is promoted and spread is by “educating” children. But sexual perversion is not something children should be forced to accept. Dragooning them to think about, talk about, or explore sex and sexual peculiarities is grooming both in a political and predatory sense. Set aside the desire to be seen as morally “good” or “trendy” and you are left with parents destroying the innocence of their children. It’s making them more vulnerable and accepting of things that aren’t good for them. There is a reason some content is considered “adult” and obscene. Children do not have the faculties to properly assimilate what they are seeing and come out okay on the other side.

Emily Griffin, “The Rainbow Mafia Hates Kids”

The Need for Wisdom

One must study wisdom to know how to do good, just as much as one must study physics to know how to do physics. If you are taught wisdom, there's a good chance you will become wise. If not, there's a good chance you will be a fool. And fools do a great deal of harm. 

But wisdom is no longer taught by most parents and nearly all schools.

Until the early decades of the 20th century, American students were expected to know the greatest sources of wisdom -- the ancient Greek and Roman writers, Shakespeare and, most important of all, the Bible.

But about 100 years ago, America embarked on the road to hell when it stopped teaching wisdom -- and what wisdom is all about, moral virtue -- when it secularized all education. First the universities and then the lower grades decided that knowledge could substitute for wisdom. Now American young people get no wisdom and, for that matter, little knowledge.

It is not a coincidence that the most foolish institutions in America and the rest of the West are the universities. They are the most radically secular.

You don't have to be religious to realize that the most secular institutions are also the most foolish institutions. You just need not to be a fool.

Dennis Prager, “If the Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, With What Do We Pave the Road to Heaven?”

Good, Ethical Role Models Needed

What society really needs more of is good, trustworthy, ethical role models in leadership positions. Not needed are untrustworthy woke role models who are graduating from a failing, increasingly dogmatic, ideological, and misguided public educational system which now includes public colleges and universities. Education is failing miserably on many counts. Only time will tell whether individualized, interactive, audio-visual computer instruction will rescue education from its deterioration, especially in poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods.

Uldis Sprogis, “What should be taught in public schools”

Abortion Was NEVER Constitutional

The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Alito, writing for the majority in the Dobbs v. Jackson decision.

Principles Are Needed to Guide One's Life

Not having strict ethical principles to guide your life means for many a hedonistic lifestyle that can’t distinguish which behavior is good or bad, and what addictions to avoid as much as possible. The do your own thing or do what feels good philosophy often results in mental illness caused by addictions to lying, laziness, selfish behavior, promiscuity, pornography, alcohol, drugs, gambling, video games, social media, excessive shopping, and even crime. The net result is a disorganized dysfunctional brain and lifestyle filled with misery, stress, confusion, and yes, mental illness for many.

Uldis Sprogis, “What should be taught in public schools”

The Purpose of Education

The purpose of education is twofold: To teach students useful skills needed in life, but just as important, to teach students how to live which is what good character is all about.

Public education is failing miserably on both counts. Too many graduate without basic reading and math skills and far too many graduate without knowing the value of punctuality, dependability, orderliness, truthfulness, competence, curiosity, sharing, compromise, hard work, and family values in general. Critical race theory, which teaches kids to resent their neighbors, and sexual education, which encourages promiscuity, is definitely not something that should be taught in elementary public school.

Uldis Sprogis, “What should be taught in public schools”

America's Moral Compass is Broken

Modesty and Celibacy Good

Modesty makes your body more alluring. Celibacy makes sex more intimate.  We choose to protect those things, not because they are shameful, but because they are precious.

@LibertyAnders

H/T: John Shuck Made Me Do This

Cultural Nonsense

Men and Abortion

The hookup culture only benefited men. And men have benefited from abortion becoming a form of birth control. Abortion on demand meant that men impregnating women to whom they were not married came with no consequences. Abortion meant that men didn’t have to marry the woman they impregnated. Abortion meant that men didn’t have to raise the child they conceived. And abortion meant that men didn’t have to pay child support. Turns out that abortion is many men’s best friend.

Dennis Prager, “Supreme Court Decision May Force Young Women to Confront Sexual Reality”

The Lies of Abortion

Pregnant women today are alive because their mothers chose life. And they still have plenty of freedom to choose — to choose when and with whom to have sex, and whether to use birth control. For those who point to rape or to teens who are victims of incest, every one of those women have to deal with severe trauma, and all of us should have tremendous compassion on them. But it is a lie from the pit of hell that killing the resulting child — who had nothing to do with the circumstances of his or her conception, and who is innocent, defenseless, and alive — will heal the wounds suffered by the mother. It will only compound them.

Nate Jackson, "On Roe: The Unbridled Hypocrisy of 'Good Catholics' Biden and Pelosi"

The Moral Idiocy of Gun Control

Gun control isn’t about stopping gun violence, but disavowing moral responsibility for preventing it, passing the buck to the cops, to society, and to some force outside our control. Gun control rallies are the virtue signaling of moral cowards seeking to blame someone else for horrors that they cannot cope with and that they do not intend to take any personal action to prevent.

Disarmament, national or personal, is not a moral stance, but the abandonment of morality.

Daniel Greenfield, “The Moral Idiocy of Gun Control”

Real Women Needed

The female body is a powerful thing. Anyone in advertising knows this. The mere sight of Bathsheba coupled with David’s failure to walk away and control his thoughts changed the course not only of King David’s life but the lives of countless others. Young women are shown early and often how to harness their sexuality, but too few are told to guard their body and their heart. Too few are told the truth about the physical and emotional toll of casual sex.

Our daughters deserve a mother and a father in their home and a host of adults in their life who tell them and show them women are to be treated with respect. Women who do not treat themselves with respect do not demand others do so; women have been told for decades they can and should have casual sex and they can and should fear no consequences, even and especially if a child is a consequence. Countering this damaging rhetoric is incredibly difficult for the increasingly rare parent who is swimming against the cultural tide.

Anna Ziegler, “The Party That Wants To Pay For Moms To Put Their Babies In Daycare Now Supports Breastfeeding.”

Think About It

The Evil of the Democrat Party

No one can speak of evil without mentioning its attraction to the Democrat Party, which is now the party of official racism in America.  Political evil is a contagion of psychological immaturity, self-delusion, and counterfeit justification, and its virus has spread throughout America's liberal ruling class.  Its influence has scoured our nation of its fundamental values, and leftists are intent on creating a state apparatus that facilitates the separation of children from their parents, criminals from justice, and citizens from the Bill of Rights.  This is a call to Marxist socialism that has no past and no possibility of a future.  This is evil come to do business with the Democrat Party, and it is evil on a national scale.  Civilization must protect the weakest, but leftist ideology targets and crushes those who are unable to resist the powerful forces of state coercion.  There is no civilization on the far side of Marxism.

Phillip Ahlrich, “Liberalism and the Problem of Evil”

How Are Progressives Made?

How are progressives made? By cooking them in a public school six hours a day, five days a week where they are seemingly indoctrinated with an ideology that contradicts the values and beliefs of many of their parents.

Cal Thomas, “How Children Become Progressives”

The Design vs Use For Sex

The design for sex, ordained by the Creator Himself since the dawn of Earth in Eden, is that it belongs in marriage alone in a covenant between one man and one woman until death. Only in that context can sex be what God intended: a mutual self-sacrificing that is complete, unconditional, faithful, and ultimately fruitful. Although subduing the ground and bringing children into the world became painful with man’s rebellion, the aim of marriage and sex remained: “Be fruitful and multiply.” But oh, how we’ve strayed.

It’s easy to trace the degeneracy of America’s sexual mores. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s is a good place to start, with the advent of the pill, the second wave of feminism, and the so-called golden age of porn. All of these paved the way for the gay rights movement, Roe v. Wade, and the brave new world of sex without children.

Kylee Zempel, Sex Is Never Trivial, It’s a Life and Death Act.

Are You Enslaved?

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German poet and playwright; 1749-1832)

Why the USA Is Degenerating

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

James Monroe, 5th President of the U.S A. (1756-1831)

Pornography is Immoral

Porn is immoral because porn treats persons as a means to an end, one’s own self-centered gratification. But at what undesirable cost? Porn isn’t simply “satisfying” lustful desires. It also shapes our view of sex taken into the marriage bed (if marriage is ever consummated) and objectifies women, among other things. Indeed, it is also linked not only to rape but to sex trafficking as its metaphorical “gateway drug.” When we watch, we inspire the demand. While not every pornographer (anyone addicted to porn) is a sex trafficker, every sex trafficker is a pornographer. Porn is the gateway to the sex trade industry. We supply its demand, and the providers cater to our “need.” Yet, the need is insatiable as it continues to grow and take on a life of its own to include and normalize Freud’s polymorphous perversity: sex with animals, sex with multiples, sex with kids, sex with robots, and so on and so forth to include increasingly violent sex.

Sexuality itself becomes identity. It becomes associated if not identified with who or what I am. Ultimately, it’s not all about sex. It’s much deeper. The sexual revolution on steroids with which we’re now seeing and was predicted is a symptom of the search for human identity, meaning, and significance, i.e., the quest for what it means to be human. This quest is orphaned when we kill God, and anything goes in His place. The existential quest is always a quest for “God,” but the “God” many seek is one made in man’s image.

Cory Miller, Is it Really All About Sex?

Last Chance?

We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advance in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2,000 years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, radio broadcast to Americans from the site of the 9/2/45 surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay, Japan.

"Pride" Month?

Maybe we should start a Dignity Month, 30 days in which we encourage people to have some. Couple that with Accomplishment Month and all the rest of them can go the way of Joe Biden’s functioning brain. That’s not really fair, Joe Biden never had a fully functioning brain, but you get the idea.

Derek Hunter, “Screw ‘Pride’ And Every Other Month”

How Do You Define Yourself?

If you’re defined by your genitals or which type you prefer, and nothing else matters more, you’re a pathetic human being. No one should celebrate you, even on your birth day. 

Derek Hunter, “Screw ‘Pride’ And Every Other Month”

Assault Weapons?

Now, let’s define a couple of terms yet again. “Assault weapon” is a bogus term deployed by the Left (and adopted by too many on the Right) to describe semiautomatic rifles that look scary because of certain cosmetic features. They are not machine guns. They do not spray bullets the way they’re sometimes depicted in movies and television. Sporting rifles like the AR-15 function in exactly the same way as many other (more powerful) hunting rifles and the vast majority of handguns — one trigger pull fires one bullet.

“High-capacity magazines” are, in fact, standard-capacity mags. Democrats want a limit of 10 rounds, even though virtually every normal size pistol magazine holds more than that. AR-15s come standard with 30-round magazines. If you’re in one of the millions of annual self-defense situations in America, especially if you’re facing a home invasion by more than one attacker, you’d probably be grateful to have more than 10 rounds. Labeling these magazines as “high-capacity” is nothing more than an effort to scare people who know nothing about guns.

Nate Jackson, What Part of ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’ Does Biden Not Understand?