And my Georgia-born mother began telling us about the coming of the Nazi beast, the cattle cars, the gas chambers, and the murder of six million Jews, including babies and children and the lovely Anne Frank.

I will always honor my mother when I think of the words she spoke next: “Carol Ann and Pat, listen to me. I want to raise a family that will hide Jews.”

— from “The Death of Santini,” by Pat Conroy, author of “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides”

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I’m a huge fan of Ayn Rand. In her famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, she showed what happened if the “men of the mind” — the innovators, the capitalists, the ones who take all the risks and build our prosperity — went on strike. Everything would falter and collapse, gradually. She argued that the men of the mind too often feel guilty for their talent and their strength, which makes them vulnerable to the socialists and all the other moral leeches who impair or even destroy business and civilization. They do it primarily through trying to make productive, competent people feel guilty for their capabilities.

Even Ayn Rand, brilliant as she was, did not appear to anticipate the precise situation we have today. The capitalists who made billions under the system of (more or less) economic freedom — and then who turn on it, using their billions to destroy it. The most horrifying example: Bill Gates innovated in the tech market, and made billions — and now he’s openly, proudly buying up farms and financing mandatory “vaccines” in order to reduce the population. From innovation on the scale of a Randian hero — to true genocide, all within a decade or two. The same can be said of Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros and others, people who made a mega-fortune under the system of free enterprise they now use that money to destroy. Hollywood actors, musicians and other wealthy celebrities cheer them on, in essence saying: “Hey, I made millions and feel guilty for it. So now you will never do the same, because we’re going to become a Communist country.”

Rand called the moral capitulation of wealth creators to the statists and socialists “the sanction of the victim.” But today’s capitalists-turned-Communists (and they are EVERYWHERE) are not victims. They are victimizers. It’s a tragic sight to see, and it would be fascinating to get Ayn Rand’s take on it all, if she were still alive.

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In the 24 hours after the unexpected death of the Islamic Republic’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, the following things happened: the BBC published a headline about his “mixed legacy,” the UN flew its flag at half-staff to honor him, and the U.S. Senate chaplain offered a prayer for him on the Senate floor.

Such morally bankrupt responses would shock Iranians who launched fireworks in cities across the country after his death, took to social media to celebrate it, and handed out candy in the street.

The question is whether the people celebrating on social media, and the ones keeping their disgust for the regime out of the limelight, can convulse the theocracy’s political system. In 50 days, according to Iranian law, the government must hold a presidential election. Will Iranians take to the streets in great numbers?

Never underestimate the Iranian people, who have consistently risen up over the last decade. The last regime-shaking protests were sparked by a young Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, who died while she was in the custody of the morality police in 2022 for not wearing a headscarf.

Given Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s success last year in violently suppressing those protests—at least 516 people were killed, almost 900 injured, and 20,000 jailed—the 85-year-old won’t be squeamish in crushing rallies that again challenge the theocracy’s legitimacy.

But Khamenei must be wary because beneath the surface, Iran is essentially a volcano—a large magma pool of discontent always pressing against the security services, hunting for a weak point, a provocation, that will crack the fear that keeps back an eruption. Raisi’s death won’t likely produce a tremor, but whenever the regime’s security services confront the Iranian people, a fissure might happen.

One thing that won’t change is the Biden administration’s approach to Iran.

Although Raisi wasn’t the worst mullah that Khamenei could have advanced to the presidency in 2021 (there were a few even more brutal and religiously twisted), he was among those whose evil was clearly documented. Raisi earned the sobriquet “The Butcher of Tehran” when he served as the prosecutor general of the city between 1989 and 1994. He participated in a so-called death commission that ordered the executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988. And yet, after his “election,” the Biden administration didn’t hesitate to try to reestablish another nuclear deal and some kind of peaceful regional modus vivendi with the Islamic Republic.

Our strategic reality is this: Iran could have Jack the Ripper as president and Joe Biden and his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, would still choose to continue Barack Obama’s policy of engagement.

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Today’s left in America–the ones who run and dominate everything–are, in practice, committed to Palestine, militant Islam, Iran and antisemitism. Verbally, they try to have it both ways. But look at what they do, not at what they say. What they DO: give money to Iran, tie Israel’s hands in trying to defend itself, and continue to fund and support open advocates of Israeli and Jewish genocide at America’s shockingly undeserving, prestigious colleges. Not Muslim genocide; with the left in charge, Muslims are just fine.

Biden regime # 2 Kamala Harris even implied support for the use of military force by America against Israel, a few weeks back. I think she’d be just fine with concentration camps, and not just for Jews.

If you support leftists (which means any Democrat or a growing number of RINOs), then you are actively supporting the destruction of Jews, the advancement of Muslim militancy and just one more means of destroying civilization. If you are Jewish and support leftists, then I cannot help you, and do not wish to try.

Michael J. Hurd

Do you love America more than the Constitution? Or do you love America BECAUSE of the Constitution, especially its Bill of Rights?

Speaking for myself, it’s the latter. I love America because individual rights flourished here, both in principle and practice, for a very long time. America was, and always will be, the first country that explicitly based itself on the rights of the individual. This led to innovation, prosperity, meritocracy, a work ethic, the independent American spirit, the elimination of slavery (the first society in human history to fight a civil war over ending slavery), and all the rest we now take for granted as millions of us embrace the glowering despair of Communism, fascism and collectivism instead (thinking we’re being virtuous by doing so).

You don’t fight for freedom because it’s the American way. You fight for America because freedom is what it stands for — or at least did, at its peak. Where it goes from here is largely up to the good guys left in this society. And we are at a turning point, I promise you.

A nationalist loves his country because it’s his country. By that definition, nationalism is a terrible mistake. Nationalism leads to Nazi Germany. It puts the state — the collective — above the individual, and for that reason nationalism is the polar opposite of what made America great. What made America great was its emphasis on individual rights, including the right to free speech, the right to private property, the right to bear arms and — at the root of it all — the sovereignty of the individual over his own life. The end.

Two things sum up the spirit of America, to me. One, the phrase, “Don’t tread on me.” Two, the phrase, “My body — my mind — my choice.” If nationalism means upholding these two things in the spirit of our original Bill of Rights, then I’m all for it; though I wouldn’t call it nationalism. I’d simply call it freedom.

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We’re always told that under capitalism–i.e., economic freedom–the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It was never true. Under economic freedom, everyone gets richer, so long as they make rational decisions and are willing to think and work. But it IS true now. Under elite Communism (America’s present system), the connected get richer and the middle class shrinks into varying degrees of relative poverty.

The Bidens and other politically connected criminals get richer while the disconnected get poor, or at least fail to grow. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the world’s first libertarian president is breaking hyperinflation. It’s a transformative development, and the best news in many years.

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Reading the headlines and the first few lines of MSN, MSNBC or CNN articles is revealing and astonishing. If you don’t ever view corporate-state media, I am here to tell you that it’s FAR worse than you assume. One headline, for example, expressed outrage that Trump is “attacking” Biden in all caps on his social media tweets. Democrats everywhere are outraged! Outraged, I tell you! From the tone and content of the article, you’d think that posting in all caps is the equivalent of homicide. I even know RINOs who would say, “Well, that’s just not presidential.” And yet these same RINOs seem to have no problem with abridging due process, obliterating the First and Second Amendments, ruining the military, outlawing civilization by banning fossil fuels, spying on law-abiding, private citizens and raising taxes to 40 percent rates and higher. Anything to avoid those ALL-CAP tweets.

“Election deniers” and “climate deniers” are routinely disparaged and written about the same way serial killers are discussed. We’re all told that it’s a sin and a felony to “hate”; but hatred is the defining essence of literally everything I find in the media that presumably most Americans are seeing, and whose headlines they are routinely reading. They hate, loathe, despise all things that ARE NOT THEMSELVES.

We’re told, over and over, that we have a “democracy,” which means that people who read and are influenced by this trash get to decide everything about our lives — at least if they’re in the majority, and even if they’re not. If we’re really a democracy, and the majority rules over the individual, then what’s to stop a majority from having their government, egged on by their media, from rounding up people who say and think things the government does not wish them to say?

I don’t know how long it will take for this inevitable disaster to play itself out. But I am certain it will, unless mass numbers of people reject everything they’re taught and reverse course culturally, politically and economically with urgent immediacy. This would mean boycotting all things statist, totalitarian and particularly leftist, since leftism rules and leftism is unblinkingly totalitarian: Starbucks, Nike, Disney, Facebook, Google, the NFL, ABC, CBS, NBC, Neflix, on and on, just to name a few.

To those of us 60 and above, if we’re lucky, we’ll escape the worst of it. But on our present course, those under 30 will not be living in anything remotely like the America many of us have known and loved, not 10 or 20 years down the line. I wonder if they’ll know what they’re missing.

“Based on recent events, we have to conclude that today’s college students are the commandants of tomorrow’s concentration camps.”
— David Harriman, a philosopher of science, writing on Facebook.

ABSOLUTELY correct. Or something else just as horrible. These leftists, with their unlimited power, unlimited authority and absolutely ZERO accountability for anything they say or do are capable of unlimited evil. Until the infuriated come together, all at the same time, and stop them.

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