The United Nations, an institute built on ideals of fairness and equality, has become a breeding ground for relentless, one-sided attacks on Israel—a democratic state in the Middle East. Let’s call it what it is: institutionalized antisemitism. While Israel is held to impossible standards and vilified in hundreds of resolutions, some of the world’s most oppressive regimes walk away unscathed.
O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.75
The so-called “Palestinian national identity” is a modern construct, engineered for political exploitation and weaponized as a strategic tool against Israel. Unlike most nations that emerge from shared history, culture, or language, the Palestinian identity was cobbled together in the mid-20th century, not out of genuine heritage but as a calculated move by Arab powers to foster opposition to the Jewish State. It was an artificial project, devoid of organic roots, and aimed squarely at delegitimizing Israel’s existence.
O. Isaac, "The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths," pg.59
Without traditional reverence for the past, an ungrateful nation not only suffers a loss of knowledge but is plagued by hubris—so often the twin of ignorance—believing that it alone has discovered ideas and behaviors unique to itself and its own era, when they are in fact ancient. This closed mindset seeks a kind of perfection, a heaven on earth, instead of the good—and it ends up obtaining neither.
Imprimis, Victor Davis Hanson, American Virtues – 2025 Commencement Address.
Much of our society’s current crisis derives from this personal refusal or inability to respect the property of others, to tell the truth, to stand up to the bully, to protect the weaker, and to end each day in contemplation that you were more a moral force for the common good than either a neutral observer or on the wrong side of the ethical ledger. When individual behavior and decorum falter, so does a country, which is, after all, only the common reflection of millions of its individuals.
Imprimis, Victor Davis Hanson, American Virtues – 2025 Commencement Address.
It’s also important to highlight that Palestinian Arabs weren’t passive bystanders in 1948. They actively fought against Palestinian Jews, both before and during the war. The Arab Liberation Army and local militias coordinated attacks on Jewish towns and settlements. Even before the war officially began, there was a civil conflict starting in November 1947. Palestinian Arab fighters imposed brutal sieges on Jewish cities, such as Jerusalem, cutting off food and supplies. Groups like the “Army of the Holy War” led heavy assaults and controlled critical routes, including the main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
But Arab hostility didn’t start 1947. Violence against Jews in Palestine has a long and bloody history. The infamous chant “Itbah Al Yahoo” (“Slaughter the Jews”) predates the establishment of Israel by centuries. Let’s not forget the 1517 massacres by the Ottoman Empire or the 1834 Safed pogrom, where hundreds of Jews were raped and murdered. The 20th century saw a string of atrocities, from the 1920 Nebi Musa riots to the 1929 Hebron massacre and the anti-Jewish violence of the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.
O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56
In some of the ancient nations, parents literally had the legal authority of life and death over their children. They could sell their children into slavery or even kill them! In ancient Rome this was codified into law and was called Patria Potestas. How barbaric this seems, but if the unborn child in the womb is a person, then laws that legalize abortion today are not that much different from Patria Potestas. Virtually the entire debate over abortion would be concluded if we answered that one question: "Is the fetus in the womb a person or not?" It is my prayer that those struggling with this question would consider what God has said about this issue in the Holy Scriptures: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you... " - Jeremiah 1:5
Brad Sherman. Pastor, former State Legislator, and candidate to be the next governor of the State of Iowa.
Where beliefs are not checked against facts, but instead facts must meet the test of consonance with the prevailing vision, we are in the process of sealing ourselves off from feedback from reality. Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.291
Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted. Such ideas were common among intellectuals who considered themselves “progressive” at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.193
Whether it is the dearth of marriages and families among contemporary blacks or their lower labor force participation than whites, or their high crime rates, slavery has often been invoked as an explanation. Yet the fact is that in the late nineteenth century, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery, there was nothing like today’s levels of unwed births or failure to participate in the labor force. It has been from the 1960s onward that these social pathologies have escalated. Whatever the cause, it has arisen long after slaver had ended.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.161
[The book], Biology, by Harvey D. Goodman, et al., used by thousands of American high school biology teachers, begins by subtly discussing the theory of evolution. Not one page later the all-star cast of scientist authors proclaims this evolved from that.
Throughout this Goodman high school textbook not one single fact that supports the theory of evolution is noted. The predisposition of its authors, scientists bent on a metaphysic and uninterested in truth, becomes readily apparent. This patent bias is then impressed upon the nation’s youth. The agenda of deception is clear once you read what your child’s science textbook teaches.
Duane Arthur Schmidt, And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution, pg.83
In the U.S., the Left wants to impose its ideas and worldview on everyone. Most Christian churches still adhere to the precepts of the Bible and believe that abortion is wrong, that homosexuality is a sin, and that there are only two genders. For the “crime” of having common sense and following the teachings of our Creator, our churches are labeled by some secularists as “hateful,” and some are even put on the SPLC’s so-called hate map. The funny thing about the Left, particularly the woke Left, is that people of other faiths like Islam — which also labels LGBTQism an abomination — are fellow travelers. It seems only Christians are being attacked in this manner.
Emmy Griffin, The American Christian Church Is Under Attack — Literally
[Regarding evolution]: When fables turn into facts and receive accreditations from educators and scientists, one must fear for the future of science and for our children.
Duane Arthur Schmidt, And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution, pg.79
Since slaves had no voice whatever in the selection of Southern Congressman, counting the slave population at full strength would only have give white Southerners a stronger pro-slavery contingent in Congress. Scoring points today and being serious are two very different things. It should also be noted that the Constitution’s distinction in counting people for representation in Congress was between slave and free, not black and white. Free blacks were counted the same as whites—and free blacks existed before the Constitution existed.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.155
Contrary to the “myths to live by” created by Alex Haley and others, Africans were by no means the innocents portrayed in Roots, baffled as to why white men were coming in and taking their people away in chains. On the contrary, the region of West Africa from which Kunte Kinte supposedly came was one of the great slave-trading regions of the continent—before, during, and after the white man arrived. It was the Africans who enslaved their fellow Africans, selling some of these slaves to Europeans or to Arabs and keeping others for themselves. Even at the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg. 120
Nowhere was the effect of the white liberalism of the 1960s on the social evolution of black culture more devastating than in the disintegration of the black family. The raw facts are these: As of 1960, 51 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were married and living with their husbands, another 20 percent were divorced, widowed, or separated, and only 28 percent had never been married. Twenty years later, only 31 percent of black women in these ages were married and living with their husbands, while 48 percent had never married. By 1994, an absolute majority—56 percent—of black women in these ages brackets were never married and only 25 percent were married and living with their husbands. Accordingly, while two-thirds of black children were living with both parents in 1960, only one-third were by 1994. While only 22 percent of black children were born to unmarried women in 1960, 70 percent were by 1994.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.34
A crucial fact about white liberals must be kept in mind: They are not simply in favor of blacks in general. Their solicitude is poured out for blacks as victims, blacks as welfare mothers, criminals, political activists against the larger society, as well as those blacks who serve as general counter-cultural symbols against the larger society. White liberals have nothing approaching the same interest in blacks as the principal victims of black criminals or as people advancing themselves within the existing framework of American society, including many who have risen within the military, nor do they get particularly worked up over blacks who build up their own human capital or business capital. None of the many reports of black schools that excel academically seems to arouse any great interest among white liberals.
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg. 57
A good reading guideline [regarding evolution], if you are compelled to read the likes of [Steve] Jones, [Richard] Lewontin, [Richard] Dawkins, [Stephen Jay] Gould, and [Charles] Darwin, is to keep your scalpel handy and perform mental liposuction as you go. Suction out the invalidated, irrelevant, uncorroborated, unauthenticated, unsubstantiated, unverified (and unverifiable), unproven (and unprovable), plus the unwarranted statements and unbridled assumptions. You will be shocked at how little is left of evolution literature.
Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg. 64
Thought control, in the form of a sketchy theory of evolution taught as fact, already has wormed its way into schools, even if gun control has not. In many respects, that form of control is more dangerous than uncontrolled weaponry.
Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg.56
As president of the American Humanist Association, [Isaac] Asimov defined humanism as a non-theistic religion. Not a philosophy, a credo, or a pleasant aphorism, but a religion. This is the religion of evolution that trades under the pseudonym of the science of evolution. Asimov had a right to worship the altar of his choice, just as do evolutionists today; but we must be aware that, when religion masquerades as science, both suffer.
Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution, pg.53
Human reason is a wonderful instrument if grounded in reality, but the instrument is just as good for rationalizing as it is for reason.
Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth. Cited by Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg. 42.
First cell has a host of questions it must answer: How did it learn to eat? To know that it must eat to survive? To repair its defects? Even to recognize what a defect might be? To move? And why it might want to move? How did it learn it might need a defense mechanism? To defend itself from what? And what might have been the first marauder? How did first cell learn the unfathomable process of replicating itself?
Since we know that a plan requires a planner, how did first cell create all these defense, repair, excretory, nutritional and replication systems by accident, out of the blue, by magic, without help, without past knowledge, with no guide? If creation involves a single miracle, first cell, according to any theory, evolution or creation, requires a billion miracles.
This is not the entire gamut of questions we must ask of first cell; but for starters. Failing to answer these questions shows the flimsy fabric of the evolutionary theorem, a theory that cannot even get out of first slime. If evolutionists cannot answer these questions about first cell, why can anyone believe that we even have anything sensible to talk about downstream?
Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg.38
Whether it is a committed belief or an uninformed consent, the atheist/secularist viewpoint starts with teaching the theory of evolution as fact. Why? Because, if evolution is true, God cannot be. … If all life accidentally sprang from a soup of chemicals, then evolved into a billion species, what room is left for God?
Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg.ix
If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg. 387
Today universities are the battleground for intense conflict between people demanding power. What some call political correctness includes speech code and sensitivity training for people considered to be unenlightened. For example, a woman who opposes abortion is cast as one trying to strip other women of power and dignity and masking her power grab in the language of “protecting babies.” To the forces of political correctness, this person needs to undergo reeducation to adjust her antiquated view. Similarly, people who think homosexual practice is wrong are said to be using the language of morality to strip homosexuals of their humanity, and this must be corrected at the earliest age before bigotry takes hold.
Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.377
What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.366
If there was one thing the sexual revolution was supposed to deliver, it was lots of great sex. Yet it is failing to do so, in part because the casual sexual encounters it encourages are not conducive to satisfying sex. Hookups are a bad sexual teacher. They provide little opportunity or incentive to become a good lover, in large part because strangers don’t know how to please each other and aren’t going to stick around long enough to learn. And pornography is training people, especially young men, to be bad in bed.
Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All
Sexual liberalism produces unhappiness because it is inimical to relationships and practices that offer us profound meaning and joy in life. Deep relationships require deep commitments, but sexual liberation requires that every romantic relationship (and therefore also every parental relationship) be severable. Thus, the sexual revolution doubly cheats its disciples. Not only does its ethos of pursuing immediate pleasure injure the commitment that is needed for lasting and fulfilling relationships, but it also provides far less sexual gratification than promised.
Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All
Here’s the hard truth: The world has largely ignored the Jewish refugees because their story doesn’t fit the convenient narrative of Israel as the villain. This is especially glaring in the global context of World War II, when 30-40 million people were displaced or expelled across Europe and Asia. While the international community worked to resettle these refugees, it became obsessed with the Palestinian refugee issue.
Palestinian refugees were place in camps in Jordan Lebanon, and Syria and denied citizenship by Arab countries—a policy designed to keep the conflict alive. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees were welcomed and absorbed by Israel, where they rebuilt their lives and contributed to the nation’s success.
O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56
There is something grotesque about people living thousands of miles away, in safety and comfort, loftily second-guessing and trying to micro-manage what the Israelis are doing in a matter of life and death.
Thomas Sowell
In America today, to object to sexually immoral activity and lifestyles is, culturally speaking, to engage in evil. Failure to affirm sexual immorality, such as homosexuality or “transgenderism,” as legitimate and wholly appropriate expressions of human sexuality is seen as “hate.”
Making matters even more convoluted was the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling redefining marriage to include homosexual relationships. This fundamental redefining of what constitutes a nuclear family has only fueled social confusion and moral rot. Now, even recognizing the basic binary nature of sex is controversial.
Thomas Gallatin, The Moral Erosion of the Nuclear Family.
One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. I verily believe that Christianity is necessary to the support of civil society.
Joseph Story
The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.
Erasmus, 1509
Many Americans have come to see in recent years that the LGBT agenda was never about love and tolerance, but about forcing every imaginable type of perversity and debauchery in our faces.
Even children have not been exempt from this. In fact, a strong argument could be made that they were the ultimate target of that perversity and debauchery.
After the LGBT movement gained cultural acceptance and even dominance, it redoubled its efforts to evangelize children. Paul Lynde’s Uncle Arthur from “Bewitched” might have been a modest early attempt to win innocent youth, but as time passed the movement got more creative and aggressive, eventually booting up events specifically targeting the family.
Josh Manning, Graphic: Pro-Family Org Infiltrates 'All Ages' 'Pride' Event, Captures Sick Things Really Going on Inside
Read the whole article if you have courage enough to see the example. Disgusting is too weak of a word for this.
It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.
Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing "compassion" for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.
Thomas Sowell
There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitude.
Thomas Sowell
Much of what are called “social problems” consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing.
Thomas Sowell
Consent to evil a little, and a great evil will overwhelm us, till no tongue crying out against it will be heard any more. That of which we should have been master will be the master of us. No shame or remorse will save us then. Therefore consent not to this evil at all.
Alan Paton, cited by Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Two: 1933-1951, pg.772
When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side, and you will not get me on your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to me already. A people lives forever. What are you? You will pass on. You descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
Adolf Hitler, 11/6/33, Elbing, East Prussia.
Doesn’t this sound like LEFTISTS and Democrats today? Public schools and colleges have been indoctrinating our children to their side.
Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet nurturing needs."
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant
What started out decades ago as the statement, “What we do in our bedrooms is our own business,” has now morphed into, “Celebrate the many ways we indoctrinate and transform your children into our own image and devious lifestyle.”
Albin Sadar, Can the ‘Pride’ flag celebrate other ‘deadly sins,’ as well?
The abnormal is not the normal just because it is prevalent. For example, the mutilation of children is not “gender-affirming care.” Anti-white racism is not “anti-racism.” Illegal migrants are not “undocumented ‘new neighbors.’” A bisected cow in a tank of formaldehyde is not an important work of art.
Restoring American Culture
Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College
Is it common sense to open the borders of your country and then to spend truckloads of taxpayer dollars to feed, house, and nurture the millions of illegal migrants who have poured in? Is it common sense to sacrifice competence on the altar of so-called diversity? To allow politicians to bankrupt the country by incontinent overspending? That’s the start of a list one could easily enlarge.
In the cultural realm, is it common sense to celebrate art that is indistinguishable from pornography or some other form of psychopathology? Is it common sense to rewrite history in an effort to soothe the wounded feelings of people who crave victimhood? Is it common sense to transform higher education from an institution dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the highest values of our civilization into a wrecking ball aimed at destroying that civilization?
Restoring American Culture
Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College
