Liberal Democrat Governor Maura Healey signs bill allowing babies to be aborted all the way up to birth.

Fox News says, “Democratic Gov. Maura Healey was met with applause and smiles as she signed away Massachusetts’ gestational limits on abortion, making the deep-blue state the 10th to permit the procedure up to birth.

Under the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, health care workers will have greater discretion in determining whether to perform an abortion later in pregnancy, without facing legal penalties under the state’s previous restrictions. Massachusetts is now the tenth state to allow this kind of de-humanizing law.”

Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts rather than having to travel out of state. Those complications can include maternal health complications and fatal diagnoses”

Like most progressive women, Healey equates abortion with healthcare and safety rather than cruelty and murder.

What Does the Giver of Life Say to those who Disregard the Life of the Innocent?

So much has been written on this subject that it hardly matters if we add just another whole article. Perhaps all we need is one single simple verse of scripture that implores the hearer to wise up, get human, have a heart, stop lying to yourself.

See it for yourself.

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Mt. 18:6

We Just Don’t Want To Talk About It

One of America’s most outspoken and powerful anti-abortion sites, LifeSiteNews, reveals the outcome of a recent poll that concluded that only one-third of all Americans care to even raise the issue of abortion.

Life Site says, “A new quarterly poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) revealed a troubling climate for free expression in the United States, with only 32% of Americans saying they feel “very comfortable” sharing their views on abortion rights without fear of reprimand.”

It may be the fear of getting fired from work, kicked off social media, or just general disdain among peers, but some of the free and the brave do not want to make waves.

A Place to Speak Up for Those Who Cannot Remain Silent

It turns out that LifeSiteNews not only keeps up a good fight against abortion, but it provides a place for those who want their voices to be heard. The site recently posted a news item entitled “Sign the Petition: Governor Must be Excommunicated for Approving Abortion Until Birth.”

They have created a petition urging the Archbishop of Boston to declare the excommunication of Governor Maura Healey.

Sign the petition.

Would The Pilgrims Still Be Prideful?

This author has had the pleasure of roaming through the former Plymouth Plantations, now referred to as Plymouth Patuxent Museums. As a boy, I spent a great deal of time in and around the famous Plymouth Rock and the beaches of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

When I heard what Governor Healey had signed into law, I cringed, remembering not just the village and how it indicated the willingness of people to undergo great hardship to produce a new nation. They were proud of every advancement they made in spite of hardship and difficulty to create a land of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

According to author Samuel Francis Smith editor of the Baptist Missionary Union, it is why he referred to the pilgrims as having pride.

My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!

How would Samuel Smith pen this famous line today? Perhaps thusly.

Land where our unborn died,
Land of the loss of pride

“So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.” Dt 21:9

Michael Bresciani

NewAmericanProphet.org

It’s not what AOC wants you to think it is.

Readers familiar with Dr. Seuss’s classic, The Cat in the Hat, will remember the twin chaos agents Thing 1 and Thing 2. “‘These Things are good Things,’” the Cat reassures the children whose mother has inexplicably left them under the supervision of a fish. “‘They are tame. Oh, so tame! / They have come here to play.’” The Things briefly feign innocence, then quickly reveal themselves to be marauding imps, knocking over nightstands and ruining the linens. “I do not like the way that they play!” says the son of the house.

Now here comes Woke 1 and Woke 2. “Woke 1 was crazy,” said U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, quoting an unnamed city councilman in a viral interview for ABC. The congresswoman sheepishly acknowledged that Americans did not like the way Woke 1 played out, while also implicitly announcing that there will soon be, or already is, a Woke 2. And it will be tame. Oh, so tame!

There is, in fact, a new version of wokeness in the making. But just as Thing 2 was fundamentally identical to Thing 1, Woke 2 will not be any different in essence from Woke 1. They are both here to upend the furniture. Wokeness in all its forms is grievance politics. Its central idea is that an injustice lies at the heart of America and must be corrected to atone for the historical misery inflicted on groups of innocents.

What is changing in Woke 2 is the account of who those innocents are, and how they have been wronged. Woke 1 was founded on the notion that black women are the most oppressed, and therefore most righteous, of all people. “I’m thinking,” said Kamala Harris in her vice presidential victory speech, “about the generations of women—black women.” She mentioned many other kinds of women, of course, but the list began and ended with “the black women—who are too often overlooked, but so often prove that they are the backbone of this country.”

This approach had rhetorical power, up to a point. It traded on the successes of second-wave feminism and the reality of black slavery in America’s past. But it ran into some problems. Third-wave feminism, as worked out by theorists like Judith Butler, made it basically impossible not to affix the prefix “trans-” wherever the word “woman” appeared. So the flag of Woke 1 became the complicated and confusing progress pride flag—a gay rainbow with black and trans colors intruding from the left.

To make matters worse, the legacy of slavery did not actually touch all the racial minorities that Democrats wanted to bring into their fold. Most Nigerians, for example, had not experienced segregation in the United States. Nor had the millions of unvetted South and Central Americans streaming across the border. They were certainly “people of color.” But so were Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Americans, whose typically enviable life outcomes fit awkwardly into the narrative that the country was built on a ruthless caste system.

The contradictions heightened as Woke 1 faced a series of embarrassments such as Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the 2023 Supreme Court case in which Asian students complained that admissions officers were discriminating against them in favor of black applicants. Then there were the notorious Trump ’24 ads that pinned Harris to her previous support of taxpayer-funded gender surgeries for federal prison inmates. Placing black women at the center of the moral universe created an unexpected and electorally unworkable set of obligations to illegal immigrants and queer felons.

Clearly, the coalition needed shuffling. And so rearranging the order of priorities in the grievance hierarchy is what the reinvention of woke has actually been about. In place of the black trans woman who defined Woke 1, Woke 2 has chosen as its ideal victim the dispossessed Palestinian liberationist, fighting with Hamas against Israel. This has a number of interesting strategic advantages.

First, the racial argument has been neatly streamlined. Rather than implausibly analogizing every racial group in America to the victims of Jim Crow, Woke 2 presents the black American story as just one instance of a global fight for justice carried out by minorities everywhere and epitomized in the intifada.

In 2023, on a panel for the Democratic Socialists of America, future New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed that “when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.” He was outlining the blueprint for Woke 2, which takes its cues not from Judith Butler but from post-colonialist Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961). “Between colonial violence and the insidious violence in which the modern world is steeped,” wrote Fanon, “there is a kind of complicit correlation, a homogeneity.” Therefore, “The colonized, underdeveloped man is today a political creature in the most global sense of the term.”

Recently, in an intriguing interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick, Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed put forward an argument that connects Fanon’s global struggle to America’s domestic economy. He claimed that pro-Israel politicians are allowing “the money that should be spent taking care of our kids to be sent to a military that has done a genocide.”

In other words, Woke 2’s new order of priorities allows its proponents to suggest that white or white-coded (read: Jewish) oppressors are funneling money away from America’s working poor to fund a worldwide campaign of mass slaughter. Distant as this account is from reality, it is much more ruthlessly focused as a line of woke reasoning. It emphasizes foreign policy and the economy, where the public’s real anger lies, and deftly mutes the discredited claims of LGBTQ extremists.

In practice, any woke administration of any variety will end up imposing pretty much the same bizarre sexual priorities on the country once elected. But for purposes of advertisement, Woke 2 will try to keep its trans members less conspicuous than Woke 1 did, for at least as long as it takes to re-establish national power. Replacing the progress pride flag with the Palestinian flag will distract from the ravages of queer excess while infusing socialist revolution with the moral self-righteousness of anti-white resentment.

Whether this tactic succeeds with voters is another matter. If it does, though, Americans will discover that both Woke 1 and Woke 2, like Thing 1 and Thing 2, only play nice until they can start pitching over tables. If we want to avoid a rerun of the early 2020s, then—to paraphrase Seuss—we will have to get rid of Woke 1 and Woke 2.

Spencer Klavan, American Mind

US officials investigating suspected covert Chinese support for Code Pink and its activities in the UK and links to groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests.

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The British Telegraph reported that US officials are investigating suspicions that funds originating from a network linked to China reached organizations involved in pro-Palestinian protests in the UK.

According to the report, American lawmakers investigating allegations of covert Chinese support for the left-wing organization Code Pink are examining the group’s activities in the UK as part of a broader inquiry into foreign interference. Code Pink has encouraged activists to participate in large pro-Palestinian marches and organized demonstrations outside the British Ministry of Defence and at the London offices of a weapons manufacturer.

The investigation is focusing on businessman Neville Roy Singham, a US millionaire who lives in Shanghai and is married to Jodie Evans, one of Code Pink’s founders. A US congressional committee has alleged that the organization appeared to be “funded and influenced” by Singham and the Chinese Communist government. At this stage, however, the claims remain allegations and suspicions under investigation and do not establish that the Chinese government directly financed the protests.

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The British Telegraph reported that US officials are investigating suspicions that funds originating from a network linked to China reached organizations involved in pro-Palestinian protests in the UK.

According to the report, American lawmakers investigating allegations of covert Chinese support for the left-wing organization Code Pink are examining the group’s activities in the UK as part of a broader inquiry into foreign interference. Code Pink has encouraged activists to participate in large pro-Palestinian marches and organized demonstrations outside the British Ministry of Defence and at the London offices of a weapons manufacturer.

The investigation is focusing on businessman Neville Roy Singham, a US millionaire who lives in Shanghai and is married to Jodie Evans, one of Code Pink’s founders. A US congressional committee has alleged that the organization appeared to be “funded and influenced” by Singham and the Chinese Communist government. At this stage, however, the claims remain allegations and suspicions under investigation and do not establish that the Chinese government directly financed the protests.

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According to The Telegraph, a British company with ties to Code Pink received more than $250,000 in 2020 and 2021 from entities suspected of belonging to Singham’s network. In 2024, the same company received an additional $94,950 from a fund that, according to the report, is also suspected of being part of the network. The payment was reportedly made for “consulting services.”

The suspicions surrounding Singham are not new. In July, CBS News reported that a federal grand jury in New York was conducting a criminal investigation into him. According to the report, the investigation initially focused on allegations of violations of the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act before expanding to include tax issues and the transfer of funds through nonprofits under his control.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton has also previously called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Code Pink. In a November 2025 letter, Cotton alleged that the organization had received more than $1.4 million since 2017 from sources linked to Singham. He said the amount represented roughly one-quarter of the organization’s total funding during the period under review.

The Telegraph also noted that Code Pink’s position on China has changed over the years. While senior figures in the organization previously criticized China’s human rights record, in recent years Code Pink has warned against a U.S. confrontation with Beijing and sharply criticized Washington’s China policy.

Singham has previously denied acting on behalf of China. He has said that he is not a member of any political party, does not act on behalf of any government, and that his views are based on his personal beliefs. Code Pink has likewise rejected allegations that it receives Chinese government funding. Co-founder Medea Benjamin has said that the organization does not receive money from the Chinese Communist Party.

The investigation comes amid broader concerns in the West over efforts by foreign powers to exploit political and social divisions and deepen polarization within Western democracies. According to The Telegraph, there are growing calls in the UK for a thorough examination of possible foreign funding or influence involving protest movements operating in the country.

What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans?

This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime.

“The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat, liberal activists that have been supporting Democrat candidates for 10-plus years,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital.

The Talarico campaign distanced itself from these folks after their cover was blown. But everything about Talarico is as fake, from his Christianity to his barbecue photo op.

Around the same time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, last seen trying out a fake southern accent at an event in Memphis, was trying to pretend that she’s not a crazy leftist despite being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which wants to defund the military, close prisons, open the borders, eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, and nationalize various industries.

When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked about her past statements, she laughed that “woke 1 was crazy,” and blamed COVID because “I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

When asked in July by Fox News specifically about the DSA’s call to abolish the Senate, she responded with a word salad for the ages.

Even the DSA’s “workers deserve more” pitch is a ruse. As the New York Times was forced to admit, the DSA’s leadership and voting base is made up almost entirely of well-educated, entitled, white elitists. (Only 4% of its members hold a blue-collar job.)

The list goes on.

Zohran Mamdani – whose mother is a Bollywood film director and father a tenured Columbia professor — pretended to be a child of a poor immigrant family.

“Dr.” Abdul El-Sayed calls himself a physician but has never held a medical license, completed a medical residency, or sat for board exams to practice clinical medicine.

When Graham Platner was acting as if he knew nothing about his Nazi tattoo, he was playing the role of an oyster farmer — it was described as “a key part of the 41-year-old candidate’s biography” — until it came to light that his mother was his only customer.

“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lied about serving in the war, his National Guard retirement rank, using IVF in the conception of his children, his 1995 DUI conviction, the length of time he kept children out of school pursuant to COVID-19, ad infinitum,” wrote David Catron in AMAC.

Walz also exaggerated his coaching credentials (which were easily debunked) and his experience with firearms (undermined by his comic mishandling of a shotgun).

Kamala Harris pretended to have worked at McDonald’s to grant herself working-class cred and faked accents depending on her audience. And who can forget Hillary Clinton’s cringeworthy attempts to fit in? She once told churchgoers in Selma, Alabama, that “I ain’t no ways tired.”

Are there Republicans who’ve doctored their resumes? Sure. But faking your past, or your views, or the sound of your voice seems to be a job requirement for Democratic politicians these days.

Our best guess is that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to do this because for most Democrats, their only interest is getting and keeping government power. They love government and want to control its every lever. And if that means pretending to be a normie for the rube voters, so be it.

But, shucks, whadda we know? We’re just a buncha gosh-darn banjo-pickin’ hillbillies from yonder flyover country.

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the top US priority in the Iran war was keeping oil and gasoline prices low for Americans, with preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon ranking second.

The remarks contrasted with President Donald Trump’s repeated framing of the fight: that entering the war had the sole objective of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, even if that meant short-term economic sacrifices for Americans.

Vance’s comments also underscored the growing reality that the war now centers on control of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has forced to the top of the negotiating agenda.

“I know that oil is down today and it’s way down from the highs in the early days of the conflict,” Vance said on Fox News. “That’s goal number one – keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country.”

“And then obviously goal number two is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon,” he added.

The vice president has been among the members of the administration most skeptical of the offensive launched against Iran in late February.

His latest remarks, however, appear to confirm the more cautious approach now favored by the US president, which involves maintaining strong economic pressure on Iran while a military standoff in the Strait of Hormuz persists.

“Sometimes we’re focused on the energy piece of it because we want Americans to be able to afford the price of oil and gas. Sometimes we’re obviously focused on the military… on the nuclear program,” Vance also said.

Vance added that Trump was “at the height of his authority with a lot of tools — diplomatic, military and economic.”

The decision to focus on economic pressure comes as the diplomatic path appears blocked, with both Washington and Tehran sticking to their conditions for reopening the strait.

Regarding his military options, U.S. media report that Trump must contend with rapid depletion of stocks of certain missiles and drones.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” on Thursday that President Donald Trump inherited an economic “mess” but has engineered an economic turnaround that’s “working.”

Bessent told host Rob Schmitt that Trump’s policies are already delivering lower inflation and improving purchasing power for American workers — a recovery he portrayed as remarkable given the damage he said the administration inherited.

Bessent’s interview came as new federal data showed prescription drug costs saw their biggest decline in 60 years after Trump made lowering prices a national priority.

Bessent said Americans have legitimate reasons to remain frustrated after years of elevated prices.

“People should be upset,” Bessent said, arguing the Biden years left households facing a substantial loss of purchasing power, with working Americans hit especially hard by higher costs for automobiles, insurance, and rent.

But Bessent said Trump’s policies are working.

“We’ve applied the right medicine, and things are getting better slowly,” he said, comparing the economy the administration inherited to an emergency-room patient who had been “backed over by a truck.”

Bessent pointed to inflation as evidence of the turn.

The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed core inflation — excluding volatile food and energy costs — was 2.5%, moving closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.

When Trump left office, core inflation was 1.4%. Bessent argued that Biden administration spending policies drove it higher, reaching 6.6% in September 2022.

The latest report also showed grocery prices declined 0.1% in July, prescription drug prices fell 0.8%, and motor vehicle insurance dropped 0.3%. Energy prices fell 1.5% for the month, although they remained 14.7% higher than a year earlier.

“I’m very confident we are going to get to a good place,” Bessent said.

The broader growth picture has remained positive under Trump.

Real gross domestic product grew 2.1% in 2025, driven primarily by consumer spending and investment, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

GDP then expanded at a 2.1% annual rate in the first quarter of 2026 and 1.5% in the second quarter.

The Congressional Budget Office expects full-year real GDP growth to accelerate from 1.9% in 2025 to 2.2% in 2026, in part because of increased consumer spending and private investment stemming from the 2025 reconciliation law.

CBO, however, has also warned that tariffs and lower immigration could restrain longer-term growth.

Bessent said the administration is also confronting the federal deficit, telling Schmitt it inherited a deficit approaching 7% of GDP and wants to bring the figure below 4% before Trump leaves office.

Independent CBO figures put the fiscal 2025 deficit at roughly $1.8 trillion, or 5.8% of GDP, and project a $1.9 trillion deficit — also 5.8% of GDP — for fiscal 2026.

Bessent said combating fraud could produce hundreds of billions of dollars in additional savings.

That assertion has backing from the Government Accountability Office, which estimates federal fraud losses at between $233 billion and $521 billion annually based on 2018-2022 data.

Still, Bessent said Americans should increasingly “feel the turn” as inflation moderates and administration policies work through the economy.

“There is light at the tunnel.”

The decoy effort to get President Donald Trump out of Turkey last month occurred after the threat of a surface-to-air missile against Air Force One was deemed sufficiently credible.

Iran also knew remarkably specific details about Trump’s stay in Ankara during the NATO summit, including where he was staying and even which floor of the building he was on, according to two U.S. officials cited by The New York Times.

U.S. intelligence picked up multiple streams of information as Trump headed into the summit’s final day on July 8, including a specific threat against whichever aircraft was carrying the president and a report that someone near the summit had been spotted with a shoulder-fired missile.

The intelligence triggered an extraordinary security operation designed to conceal Trump’s movements.

Trump publicly boarded the older Air Force One before he was secretly taken off the aircraft, concealed in an airport catering truck, and transported to a smaller military jet that flew him out of Turkey. [Source: Newsmax 8-12-26]

I keep thinking how America is on the precipice after Trump leaves office in 2 years. This latest threat to the President’s life reminds us of how on the precipice we are RIGHT NOW. Communists and terrorists taking office across the nation; RINOs on the take, longing for approval by the New York Times as if it were 1998 again; decent chaps like Marco Rubio who must be prepared to put their loved ones (including any young children) at physical risk because the people we are granting power to in 2026 will (mark my words) make Hitler and Stalin blush.

I am not trying to be negative. I am simply stating the objective truth based on facts everywhere you turn. We have to stop being complacent and gullible. All our rights, our property and our very lives are in as much danger as President Trump’s life on Air Force One.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Longtime Clinton ally Julian Epstein urged Republicans to take action within the university system to ‘save’ the country.

Partial transcript- I’m Julian Epstein. Uh, I’m a longtime Democrat. Uh, I was formerly the chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and the staff director of the House Oversight Committee for the Democrats.

In terms of the question as to what the Democrats can do right now to reverse course and, um, and shift back towards the center, the first thing is to recognize why the party is going off the deep end here. It’s first a question of incompetence. The party infrastructure is crumbling. That’s why it can’t keep out or fence out the lunatic candidates. The second is cowardice. People like Senator Schumer, who would have never embraced somebody like Syed. I worked with Schumer for years when he was in the House. He always used to tell me you have to say no to the far left. Um, he was very much in the political center. He was for mandatory minimums. He was for, you know, very strict policies on crime and immigration…

They have become cowards. They have become scared to stand up for what’s right. They have lost their moral core. And I think until the Democrats stop putting their finger to the wing to the wind with respect to this fervor that’s going on with the professional lunatic…extremists. Um, they’re not gonna be able to to do anything. But most importantly, I think this is an expression of the failure of postmodern liberalism. Postmodern liberalism has two tenets. One is grow the welfare state, and the other is identity politics. There’s plenty of evidence that…these ideas are not ideas that are building the country or building agency. And these morons on the left, who are completely illiterate on economics and history, um, say, well, let’s just do more of that. Um, so that’s the first thing. The first thing is to reject the idea that we need a growing welfare state. Um, uh, what we need to do is go back to building. This country has always…done what miraculous things and has been a force of liberation in the world.

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Did you know that the Bible has more to say on laziness than drunkenness? Yet, how often are we quick to judge someone when they’ve had a bit too much to drink, but neglect to chastise another person who sits around all day and does nothing? Laziness is a pervasive, insidious disease in our society, one that seems to be growing in leaps and bounds. No one seems to want to work hard anymore. They want the easy life, the easy job that doesn’t require much of them, the cushy couch and big screen TV and fancy vacations, but work?? Don’t make me work too hard!! It’s not fair! We need to remember the wisdom given to us by Solomon.The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
Proverb 13:4 (NKJV)I’m reminded of the story out of Florida some years back, where those excursions would take tourists out to the ocean to see the dolphins. It was great to see God’s animals frolicking in the water, the tourists would even feed the dolphins tuna and sardines when the friendly mammals came to the boats. However, the government forced the excursions to stop allowing the tourists to feed the dolphins, because the dolphins got lazy and stopped hunting for food. They even began teaching their offspring how to wait for boatloads of tourists bearing buckets of chum instead of how to hunt for wild fish in the ocean. The dolphins were getting lazier and lazier with every generation and forgot how to work for their food. Sound familiar? Interesting how the government noticed that free handouts without any requirements of work can devastate generations of dolphins, but not notice the destruction it does to human societies.

This is what happened in 1623 when William Bradford, the Governor  of the Plymouth Colony, wrote in his memoirs, “Of Plymouth Plantation.” Bradford was a wise man who noticed that the results of forcing settlers into a communal system was destructive to the colony. He noted that when land and crops were shared equally, it caused widespread discontent. The colony was suffering from food as many, especially the younger men, had become they expected others to work, while they became lazy, which led to food shortages that wrecked havoc on the early settlement. This is why Bradford wrote in 1623, that he decided to abandon  the collective arrangement which today we recognize as Socialism/Communism. So he assigned private land plots to each family, which greatly increased productivity and food supplies. By installing Capitalism, an economic resurgence began that saved the colony.  

Men never learn from the past, and today after 60 years, we are seeing the results of our government moving into an economic system that rewards laziness. In order to keep in power, politicians continually use the concept of redistribution to supply everything a citizen needs to survive from cradle to grave. As time went on the whole segments of our society has gotten lazier and lazier from generation to generation. Like the men of Plymouth Colony decided, so too are men doing today. Why should you work if you can just walk up to the trough and eat as you will without ever breaking a sweat? 

The number of citizens in the United States receiving some sort of assistance from the government today is over 170 million, or 50% of the population. Do some of these people need help to survive at times? Absolutely. I’m not against food stamps. I know their are those who truly need help, but we need to remember the wisdom offered by the Scriptures, and top allowing the lazy to be grouped with those truly in need. Like it was in 1623, those feeding off others’ sweat is killing the society we live in as a whole. Laziness is the biggest problem in America, not poverty.

The Bible tells us that if you wont work you should not eat. Was Paul referring to those truly in need? NO! He was writing about those able to work, who refused to work and instead they leaned on others for their sustenance. I guess what I’m trying to say is that humans are inherently lazy and when you offer them free stuff to survive, they become just as lazy as the dolphins off Florida became, and the Bears in Yellowstone Park who also became lazy from being fed by tourists. Humans and animals alike will become lazy and count on others to care for them if they are not forced to learn to work for their survival.

God warns us of the consequences of being lazy, it’s right there in the Scriptures. God bless you all, and have a great day.

Chuck Ness

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AOC: ‘Woke’ Movement May Have Gone Too Far

‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ says progressive congresswoman, quoting a political friend

By John Johnson withNewser.AI

Posted Aug 12, 2026 8:22 AM CDT

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying to draw a line between today’s left and its pandemic-era “woke” politics. In an appearance on ABC’s This Week over the weekend, the New York City congresswoman said controversial positions embraced around 2020—defunding the police, for example— were “a product of the time.” She quoted a political acquaintance as saying, “Woke 1 was crazy,” before laughing. Voters, she argued, should judge candidates on what they’re running on now. The comments continue to resonate:

• big attempt: AOC “is trying to pull off a political feat for the ages: bury a chapter of left-wing politics that seemed like a good idea to many liberals at the time—but not so much anymore,” writes Mike Zapler at Axios. The “ultimate test” of whether she can do so might come in 2028 if she runs for Senate or president.
• A critique: In the Atlantic, Idrees Kahool provides a critical take headlined, “The Democrats Can’t Just Laugh Off ‘Woke 1.'” One big problem is that Republicans will not let voters forget, writes Kahool, as Kamala Harris learned in the 2024 race when her 2020-era positions such as decriminalizing border crossings came back to haunt her.
• Critique, II: At CNN, Aaron Blake also dislikes AOC’s new stance. “This might be a politically deft explanation for Ocasio-Cortez and her ilk,” he writes. “But it’s a bad one for the body politic. It continues a troubling trend of major politicians asking Americans not to take the things they say—or more specifically, that they once said—at face value.”
• New progressives: Matt Bennett of the centrist Democratic group Third Way calls AOC savvy for recognizing “that positions she and others took on police in 2020 were bad substantively, and really bad politically.” But, he adds to Axios, “The problem is that some people running now are running on ideas that are even worse.” The reference is to the rise of the party’s left flank and self-described democratic socialist candidates. (A prominent one lost a gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday.)
• A defense of woke: But at the New Republic, Perry Bacon writes that the first woke movement did a lot of good in the country and objects to AOC trying to dismiss it as a “fever dream,” adding: “Woke 1.0 had its successes and failures, just as the congresswoman did in her earlier days on Capitol Hill. She wasn’t crazy then, and neither were the activists who were trying to change America, then and now.”