In 1987, Allan Bloom, then a professor at the University of Chicago, published The Closing of the American Mind. The book was hailed by conservatives and liberals alike. The New York Times wrote that it “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy.” The Washington Post called it, “Rich and absorbing… A grand tour of the American mind.” 

Bloom showed how the relativism taught at universities leads to closed minds. He lamented “parents’ loss of control over the children’s moral education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it.” The book was influential, but I wish its influence had been even greater. The Closing of the American Mind was like a sandcastle trying to hold back a rising tide.

Over time, the entertainment, political, media, and religious establishments joined the educational establishment in pushing the deadly ideas Bloom warned against. Today in America, the establishment has imprisoned the nation’s young within walls of closedmindedness, superstition, and paganism. The results have been devastating.

According to a new study released by the CDC, one in three high school girls admits to considering suicide in the last year. 57% of high school girls and 29% of high school boys say they experience persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness. Almost half of LGBTQ+ students have considered suicide and 37 percent of them have formed a suicide plan.

These numbers are staggering. What’s going on? Relativism, though a huge problem, is really the symptom of a bigger problem. You’ll find the real problem laid out in Romans 1:1832. Those verses speak of human beings “who suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (vs 18, NASB). It says, “Professing to be wise, they became fools” (vs 22). “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie” (vs 25).

God’s judgment is to allow his repudiators to have what they desire. “God gave them over to degrading passions” (vs 26). In Greek, the words translated “gave over to” carry the connotation of “surrender.” In a sense, God simply lets go. Romans 1:28 is one of the saddest verses in the Bible. “Just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind.” God surrenders them to the consequences of their own choices and desires.

Romans 1:29-31 gives us a taste of how depravity of mind manifests itself into the world. It leads people to “unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice.” It goes on to say, “They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful.”

We now live in that world. And we see the pain, sadness, loneliness, misery, and mental illnesses it causes. God remains all-powerful, but He allows us to choose whether we will push Him away or invite Him in. Americans as a whole have actively pushed God away for generations. We now see the sad, ugly results.

We should pray for a spiritual awakening in America and the world. But most of, let us pray for revival within ourselves and among our fellow Christians, so that we may effectively share God’s light in a darkening world.

Hal Lindsey

Biden Admin Negotiates Deal to Give WHO [World Health Organization] Authority Over US Pandemic Policies” [headline from theepochtimes.com]

This is the equivalent of giving the Chinese Communist Party–which is what WHO is–control over all 50 states. Not just New York and California, already run by Communists; but Texas, Florida, South Dakota, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas too.

Unless election fraud is magically fixed very soon, this is everyone’s future. Now do you understand why we need the decentralization of secession?

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A Rasmussen Reports poll found that only 45 percent of voters under 40 say capitalism is better than socialism, while strong majorities of every other age group support capitalism. More than a third (34 percent) of voters under 40 think socialism is better, compared to 11 percent of voters ages 40-64 and 7 percent of voters 65 and above.

In the next couple of decades, America as we know it will be gone. The snowflakes will get their socialism, and my, how they’ll scream.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

In the 1960s Europe was European. Germany was German. France was French. Italy was Italian. The Netherlands were Dutch. Sweden was Swedish. Spain was Spanish. The distinct ethnic nationalities gave Europe a lot of diversity. Today all of these countries are towers of babel like the US and Canada. Even as recent as the beginning of the 21st century, immigrant-invaders accounted for only 1.6% of the Spanish population. Twenty years later immigrant-invaders are 15% of the population. Immigrant-invaders make up 26% of the German population ( https://www.dw.com/en/german-population-of-migrant-background-rises-to-21-million/a-54356773 ).

The immigrant-invaders concentrate in cities. According to this report — https://qz.com/337508/london-has-more-people-than-ever-and-44-are-ethnic-minorities — in 2015 “44% of London’s population consisted of black and ethnic minorities,” up from 29% in 2001. By 2020 the percentage had grown to 55% immigrant-invaders. The capital of Great Britain no longer has a British ethnic majority population.

A report from migrationwatchuk.org reports that the foreign born population of Britain doubled between 2001 and 2020. “A majority of inhabitants of London (55%), Slough (69%), Leicester (58%) and Luton (57%) are of ethnic minority (EM) background. The EM share in inner London was 60% in 2016, 48% in Birmingham,, and 42% in Manchester.”

Many other formerly British cities have experienced major demographic transformations ( https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/493/immigration-and-population-change-in-the-uks-towns-and-cities ).

The demographic change in formerly ethnic European countries has had a dramatic effect. The English now have Sadiq Aman Khan of Pakistani descent as Mayor of London. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is of Indian descent. Both men might be more British than the ethnic British themselves, but nevertheless the highest positions are ceasing to be held by ethnic British.

The real changes come at the neighborhood and city level. For example, Rotherham, population 265,000, formerly a prosperous British industrial powerhouse, has been overrun by Pakistani immigrant-invaders.

Theodore Dalrymple reports in the City Journal (Winter 2023) and the BBC reports here — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089 — that during the 21st century a minimum of 1,400 young white ethnic British girls as young as 11 were lured, abducted, held in captivity, and gang-raped by gangs of Pakistani men. The children were beaten, doused with gasoline and threatened to be set on fire, and trafficked to other towns and cities. Some were murdered and others died from heroin overdose. One 16 year old girl, pregnant from her multiple rapes, was stabbed 40 times and thrown into a canal by two young Pakistanis. One was acquitted of the killing. The other received a 17.5 year prison sentence. Julian Assange, convicted of no crimes has been imprisoned in Britain for a decade. British justice treats truth-tellers harsher than murderers of children.

As the years rolled by nothing was done by the police or authorities. Dalrymple says “the real problem for the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, it turns out, was how to cover up the situation.” Authorities were afraid that if word got out it would discredit the government’s immigration policy. The police were afraid of being charged with racism for protecting white girls from people of color. Like white women in Sweden, Rotherham’s white British population live in terror in their own country. The Camp of the Saints foretold the story of Rotherham.

It is the same in many European and American cities. There are areas into which no white people will go. As fear of racist charges hampers law enforcement, even upper class white neighborhoods, such as Buckhead in Atlanta, are plagued with home break-ins. The horror and the terror are papered over by white liberals and commercial advertisements as joyous diversity and multiculturalism. Governments in diminishingly white countries are no longer capable of realism. White people everywhere are too intimated to organize and protect themselves. They realize that the governments of their countries are against them and that any attempt by white people to organize will be branded a “white supremacist insurrectionist group” and its leaders and members will be arrested. Today demonized and unprotected white people are in the same position as Jews were in Nazi Germany. The fact that whites are still a majority of the overall populations of the countries doesn’t matter as they are prevented from organizing. They cannot even protest their plight without being labeled “racist.” In fact, many white people are incapable of recognizing their predicament. Social Darwinism is real after all, and whites have proven that they are not the fittests to survive.

Paul Craig Roberts

My questions to the millions of conservatives with their heads in the sand:

1) What makes you think that 2024, with continued mail-in voting in swing states, will result in a different outcome for Trump, DeSantis or any other Republican candidate for President?

2) If the Republicans again lose in 2024, under questionable circumstances, what strategy will you reccomend then?

3) If you don’t think secession by red states/red cities/red portions of blue states from the Democratic-RINO regime/machine is feasible or desirable, then how do propose enforcement of individual rights as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?

4) Do you think once Democrats and RINOs once again have control of the Supreme Court (once Clarence Thomas is gone), as well as the federal courts (once Biden appointments outnumber Trump’s), do you think Democrats in power will begin to act according to the principles of the Constitution in ways they do not now? What will cause them to improve when they have even more power?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

“Easily the most frequently asked question put to any writer of science fiction stories is, ‘Where do you get your ideas?’”

I imagine the person who asks the question is sure that there is some mysterious kind of inspiration that can only be produced by odd and possibly illicit means, or that the writer goes through an eldritch ritual that may even involve calling up the devil.

But the answer is only, ‘You can get an idea from anything if you are willing to think hard enough and long enough.’

That long-and-hard bit seems to disillusion people. Their admiration for you drops precipitously and you get the feeling you have exposed yourself as an imposter. After all, if long-and-hard is all it takes, ANYONE can do it.

Strange, then, that so few do.

— ISAAC ASIMOV

Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate…Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”  

~ H. L. Mencken

We are in the midst of one perceived fake threat after another claimed by the state, and each day seems to bring more and more events best described as fantasy; or to a greater extent, purposely produced and directed theatre. Hollywood could not manage these false flags any better, or maybe the movie design of all these staged events and government are fully coordinated and choreographed.

Regardless of where we begin, all of this could easily be placed under the heading, “You just can’t make this s**t up!” It appears that each and every ‘event’ is meant for one or another purpose, but lies and cover-ups by this corrupt government and its bought and paid for media, are certainly beyond obvious.

It is interesting to look at time lines to find out the sequence of events, so as to find if one is being used to cover another. The East Palestine train ‘derailment’ actually happened on February 3rd, which was two weeks ago. This is one of the most devastating toxic releases of deadly poison ever to occur, and was intentionally detonated under the guise of protecting the residents from a possible explosion. In other words, this train full of incredibly deadly chemicals, was intentionally blown up (exploded) to ‘protect’ the citizens from a possible explosion. Very little if anything was reported about his life-changing event by any major news outlet, and did not become well known until many days later when the uproar reached high levels. The White House and government did not comment for a week. In the meantime, the first so-called Chinese balloon that was recognized on February 3rd, (the same day of the toxic release in Ohio) was shot down over the Atlantic the next day, and the balloon fiasco became the most major story in the mainstream media, while thousands of people’s lives were threatened, fish and animals were dying, and lethal poisons were traveling across the country. Coincidence? Not hardly.

Since that time, and still, any number of planted objects have continually been shot down; these stories inundating the mainstream news. As an aside, in 2022, a movie called “White Noise,” (I am not linking this) was released, which portrayed  a train derailment in a small town in Ohio, that allowed a toxic release of deadly chemical poisons. In addition, the train that derailed recently, was filmed by security cameras 20 miles before it reached East Palestine, and showed the rail car that supposedly caused the derailment was on fire, but the train was not stopped. Why?

But do not worry, as this evil government has vowed to investigate this tragedy, well after it happened, and only due to exposure, which in effect is like investigating itself; this after the White House and FEMA turned down disaster relief for East Palestine while spending tens of millions to shoot down balloons. This tragedy and environmental disaster has been described by many as the same as a chemical nuclear bomb being dropped on the area.

It just so happens that the two largest shareholders of Norfolk Southern, the rail company in question, and said to not be carrying toxic and deadly chemicals before derailing in East Palestine, are Vanguard and Blackrock. Worry not however, as Norfolk Southern has said it is ‘making plans’ to create a $1 million dollar charitable fund to support all the residents of East Palestine. For those with weak math skills, this equates to about $200 per person. Of course, the millions who will likely be very adversely affected by this across a large swath of this country are just out of luck, as they will not receive their $200. This is akin to shutting down businesses across the country, many closed for an undetermined amount of time, and many going bankrupt, all for a fake ‘pandemic,’ and receiving a check from the same government that shut them down, for $1,200 for their misery.

To add insult to injury, the very evil EPA has announced that all the air and water after this intentional release of deadly toxins in East Palestine, is safe. Of course their track record does not bring confidence, as the toxic waste and poisons in the air in New York after the state-sponsored terror attack of 9/11, was given the same “safe” to breathe label. These past few years have brought much in the area of safe, or “safe and effective.” How has that worked out so far?

How many negative events, especially any that could be harmful to government, are covered up? How many cover stories or plotted secondary ’emergencies’ are used as cover for government terror, government policy, or mandates that caused great harm? Think of the Ukraine plot, continuous false flag events, the recent U.S. terror campaign and blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines, fake pandemics, the made-up China and Russia threat, the bioweapon injection meant to harm hundreds of millions here and billions worldwide, the new and ridiculous current UFO scare, and killer balloons. What about fake cyber threats and cyber false flag scares, what about the slaughter of chickens and farm animals, what about manufactured food shortages, what about energy plant destruction, what about money expansion and debt, and brutal price increases meant to harm all? What about all the state complicity and questions concerning so-called school shootings, and then the inevitable new gun laws enacted immediately after each event?

Consider also that any event that paints an undesirable picture of the state or government, or that indicates state involvement or lies, or that is a coverup meant to cloud the minds of the sheep so that they remain blind to the obvious truth, are hidden due to false media coverage of staged events, just as is now happening with this balloon nonsense. Consider the killer ‘earthquakes’ in Turkey that are possibly manmade, all at the same time once again happening during the massive balloon threat. It is rarely mentioned in the mainstream, but the Pentagon has been releasing advanced surveillance balloons domestically and internationally for very many years, but this goes unnoticed and unreported in the midst of the current balloon invasion.

Once again, everything in politics and government is planned in advance, is not accidental, any coincidence, natural, or organic, as all is staged in one way or another to either affect a certain outcome, or cover up another. Believe nothing in the mainstream or government,  trust nothing, question everything, and never accept any reports unless you can verify the real facts in order to find the truth.

“All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”

Gary D. Barnett

Accept people as they are, but place them where they belong.

You are the CEO of your life.

Hire, fire and promote accordingly.

(Author unknown)

Today telling the truth has largely disappeared from public discourse.  Let’s use basic history as an example.  Learning history in school was the norm during the period 1952-1969, the formative years up through my graduation from college.  I received a detailed education in public schools of our founding and principles, American history, and world history dating back to antiquity.  As part of a Navy family, I went to school all over the country: Virginia, Maryland twice, California, Illinois, and Nebraska.  History teaching was consistent everywhere, including hard truths about slavery here and around the world.  After college, I continued studying history in depth, including the Revolutionary period up to our founding, the Civil War period and Lincoln, and the major world wars in the 20^th century, especially WWII. 

Studying the Founders was particularly insightful and important in terms of really understanding the true nature of America.  The Founders were highly educated and acutely aware of man’s checkered history.  They excelled in extraordinarily challenging circumstances in establishing a new nation based on principles of liberty and opportunity.  Was our Founding flawed by slavery and other pre-modern holdovers from a more primitive era?  It was.  But abolishing slavery at that time was impossible considering the South’s dependence on it as an essential element of its economy.  So, evil as it was, had it not been accommodated, America would not have been created at all and we would likely still be English. 

Still, America’s Founding was and is one of the most extraordinary events in the history of the human race.  It simultaneously threw off monarchy and created a new form of government with the best elements of all the old forms, a unique new governmental system that had never been tried before.  And it worked.  America at 247 years is the longest-lived democracy in the world. 

A broad knowledge of history and our Founding was the expected norm back then for anyone growing up in America.  What passes for history today?  The execrable 1619 project, a complete fiction that attempts to paint the picture that our nation was founded on racism.  Even its author admits it is not history, yet it is being passed off as history to millions of vulnerable young children today, a travesty and a tragedy to deprive the young of today of the truth about our miraculous founding against the longest odds.  It is true that slavery survived the founding.  But the founders’ core principles as outlined boldly in the Declaration itself that “all men are created equal,” created the very foundation for the end of slavery later and the end of racism in 1964 with the passage of the Equal Rights Act.  Readers can learn about the lies of the 1619 project in Peter Woods’ 1620, A Critical Response to the 1619 Project or Mary Grabar’s Debunking the 1619 Project. 

How could such false history have gained such traction in our society?  It is because liars are promoting false history for a political agenda to fundamentally change America into a totalitarian socialist state.  Lying about our history is the key to overthrowing America.  If the majority can be convinced that they are living in an evil country, worse than others and with a system that systematically harms Blacks and others, it will be easier to convince them to throw off our Constitution and replace it with socialism.  Socialism has been tried and the result is always death, killing over 200 million people to date.  Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  We must not go down that path.

Lying about our history is just the start.  Whether it is the mainstream media, the social media giants, academia, Hollywood, or corporate America, these institutions lie about everything.  They lie that climate change is a mortal threat to civilization.  It’s not.  In fact, there has been zero warming for the last eight years.  Has the media reported that? They lie that gun violence is out of control.  It is not.  Americans are safer from guns 2023 more so than at any time in our history.  Your chances of being killed by a gun is lower by orders of magnitude less than your chances of getting hit by lightning.  They lie about abortion involving women’s health when it is really the murder of children in the womb.  They lie that the nation has secure borders as millions illegally enter our country including terrorists and drug runners.  They lie that the rich pay no taxes despite the U.S. having the most regressive tax regime in the world where our richest citizens pay a disproportionate percentage of the nation’s taxes.  They even lie about basic biology, exploiting the sad plight of victims of gender dysphoria.  In recent years there has been a 4000% increase in young females claiming to be the opposite sex.  Is no one in our vaunted institutions — academia or the media — interested in how this could be happening?  They lie about the police being murderous brutes when the truth is that overwhelmingly the police are honest, brave, and fair public servants doing a thankless job to keep our citizenry safe from criminals.

Americans need to demand truth from all our institutions.  If a person, a company, or an institution is dishonest, they must be challenged by the way you relate to them.  How you behave, what you choose to spend money on, the way you consume, what you watch, listen to or support is everything!  If they lie, avoid them.  Do not consume their products.  Money and interest drive the marketplace.  Disney just announced massive layoffs because Americans are staying away in droves from their woke ideology.  The power of the purse can restore truth to the public square.  Each American must seek truth and use the power of his own pocketbook to lift up those institutions, companies and people that tell the truth and to deny attention and money to those who won’t tell. the truth.

Brent Ramsey

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Here’s the problem with running for President as a Republican — other than the fact you cannot win, and you will not win, not so long as we have the kind of voting process that manufactured 81 million votes for JOE BIDEN.

Running for President demystifies you. A President, in most people’s minds, is supposed to be kind of an FDR, a Truman, a Lincoln or a JFK. In today’s media, even those men (whatever you think of them) could not be who they are in most people’s minds today. The ever-present camera, the Internet, the tweets and everything else would make mystification (even in a rational sense) impossible.

When you’re a Republican today, the media (99.99 percent opposed to ALL Republicans, even RINOs when running for President) is incredibly skillful at demystifying the Republican candidate. You’ll hear only the negatives and none of the positives. You won’t be permitted to see anything positive. Just what happens to poor Nikki Haley. It’s so predictable that it’s tiring. When a woman runs for president on the Democratic side, it’s cool. When a woman runs for president on the Republican side — forget it. It’s over before it starts. You’ll hear nothing but the negatives. And then watch what happens to Ron DeSantis, if he runs. Trump won’t have to smash or smear him. The media will do it, especially if they think he has a chance. It’s not just that they’ll criticize him — they will demystify him. He will suddenly be the guy who cannot win.

Democrats have rigged the Electoral College to their benefit. They’ve done it with mail-in voting, which shows no signs of ever going away. That’s enough right there, but they’re sophisticated in other methods of ballot fraud too, ways we certainly don’t yet know about. But my point is that they don’t even need election fraud. Democrats can write the narrative any way they wish. And for whatever reason, no matter how many Americans claim in polls they “don’t trust the media”, whatever the media tells them seems to have almost mystical (translation: psychological) power over them.

That’s how we ended up with “President Biden.” And that’s how, incredibly enough, we will end up with him again. Unless we end up with something perhaps even more horrifying to contemplate.

The media has wrapped it all up with a grip on people’s psyches. The election fraud hardly even matters. Good luck, Nikki Haley. You seem like a good woman. They’re going to trash you. Unless you fight back like Donald Trump — whose brash style seems to be passe now, even with many Republicans — you won’t stand a chance.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason