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June 21, 2021
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Critical Race Theory Is ‘A Religion Without Grace’ . . . Dr. Voddie Bauchum is the dean of theology at African Christian University in Zambia, but he regularly returns to his native home in America in particular to fight against Critical Race Theory. In his new book, Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe, he explores the reasons for what he calls the modern spiritual war. "Things were
shifting quickly and deteriorating quickly. And I’m watching families be divided, churches be divided, institutions and schools and denominations be divided over this thing. Arguably, the thing that most makes CRT incompatible with Christianity is that CRT is what Bauchman calls “a religion without grace.” Grace is, of course, the central component of Christianity. Patriot Post
Trump on Critical Race Theory in Schools: ‘A Program for National Suicide’ . . . Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the national debate over the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, urging lawmakers and parents across the nation to act against what he called “toxic” and “anti-American” indoctrination. In the op-ed that he wrote on RealClearPolitics, on Friday, Trump called CRT a "twisted doctrine" that
is "rooted in the Marxist theory of class struggle, but with a particular focus on race. Trump condemned the proponents of CRT who seek to dismantle American institutions—such as the Constitution and legal system—which they deem to be inherently and irredeemably racist.
“Instead of helping young people discover that America is the greatest, most tolerant, and most generous nation in history, it teaches them that America is systemically evil and that the hearts of our people are full of hatred and malice,” Trump wrote. “Teaching even one child these divisive messages would verge on psychological abuse.” Epoch Times
The former President is 100% correct, CRT is psychological abuse. I was raised in the totalitarian socialist USSR where the communist government indoctrinated us, since kindergarten, in the Marxist- Leninist ideology. They taught us to worship Lenin, whose portrait was on the very first book, Bukvar,' that a child gets when learning to read.
Psychological confusion sets in around high school years, when you begin to suspect that 'Grandfather' Lenin and those bushy eye-browed party leaders you constantly see on TV, may not be such nice people they pretend to be. As you become a teen, your confusion intensifies, especially when your parents instruct you not to believe anything that you hear on TV and at school. But as a teenager, of course, you think that your parents are wrong and you tell
on them to your school teachers. The rest of the story varies for everyone, depending on whose influence prevailed on the child, the parents' (assuming they were not Communists themselves) or the school's, which was backed-up by ferocious TV and radio propaganda.
My parents did not believe in the Soviet system. It is why they encouraged me and my sister, since young age, to learn English, so we could go to America one day. Both my sister and I, thank God every day that we are here. We are terrified that the destructive ideologies that we fled, socialism and Marxism, are spreading like fire in America now. Our mother was not so lucky. She died in the old country, courtesy of the 'free'
Soviet socialist healthcare.
Biden risks break with progressives on infrastructure . . . President Biden's relationship with his party's liberal base is being tested by a bipartisan framework on infrastructure spending, which has sparked a revolt from progressives such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The big question is whether Biden will endorse the bipartisan plan, even though many Democrats
are disappointed it leaves out many of their priorities. If Biden throws his weight behind the $974 billion, five-year plan, Democratic strategists predict the party will quickly unify behind him, even if they do so reluctantly. But doing so would scar Biden’s relationship with progressives, who worry the president might fall short on his pledge to deliver big and bold change. The Hill
Dark Money Groups Fund Liberal Push To Pass Infrastructure Without Republicans . . . A trove of dark money is behind a liberal campaign to push President Joe Biden to abandon negotiations with Republicans and pass a sweeping infrastructure package filled with partisan priorities. Two liberal advocacy groups that spearheaded a June letter calling on Biden to sidestep Republicans and secure a "big, bold infrastructure bill" are backed
heavily by dark money. One of the letter's organizers, Invest in America Action, is part of an umbrella organization sponsored by the Hopewell Fund, a dark money behemoth that raked in $84.2 million in anonymous contributions for left-wing causes in 2019. Real Recovery Now!—a coalition of progressive organizations designed to urge Biden to invest big in alternative energy—also organized the letter and has ties to dark money. Washington Free Beacon
Graham on lowering filibuster threshold: ‘Not going to be extorted’ . . . Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, is not changing his stance on Democrats’ voting bill over threats that Democrats would diminish the Senate filibuster if Republicans do not relent to liberals’ agenda. The filibuster rule requiring 60 votes to pass bills has obstructed liberals’ policy agenda in a Senate divided 50-50 between Republicans and
Democrats. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Mr. Graham if Republicans intent on rejecting the voting bill were risking Democrats responding by lowering the number of votes needed to overcome the filibuster’s barrier from 60 to 55. Washington Times
56 House Republicans Call On Biden To Fire Harris From Border Crisis Role . . . Fifty-six House Republicans are urging President Joe Biden Thursday to remove Vice President Kamala Harris from her role in handling the border crisis. Republican Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman is leading the charge, noted on Twitter that Harris has yet to visit the border. Harris was tapped by Biden to lead the administration’s response to the border crisis in
March, and has faced bipartisan criticism for avoiding the border. The administration in turn has declared that her job is solely to focus on the “root causes of migration.” The Republicans, which include Reps. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Jody Hice of Georgia, express “serious concerns regarding” Harris’s “appointment as” the administration’s leader in solving the crisis. Daily Caller
‘Tip of the spear’: Texas governor leads revolt against Biden . . . In the span of a week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed bills restricting the teaching of critical race theory and allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license. He’s preparing to order state lawmakers back into a special session to pass legislation restricting voting access, a GOP priority. And in the most pugilistic affront to President Joe Biden’s White House yet, he
announced Texas will build its own border wall. Less than six months into Biden’s presidency, Texas conservatives are in revolt against the new administration. And Abbott, the often overshadowed governor of the nation’s biggest red state, is emerging as an unlikely leader of the Biden resistance. Politico
How Zuckerberg Money Could Have Led to Biden Victory in Texas . . . Texas lawmakers passed a law restricting use of private money for election administration almost two months after research showed that at least $36 million in grants financed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had the potential to alter the state’s political landscape dramatically. Though prompted by the Zuckerberg grants, the new Texas law likely will prevent a flood
of private money from multiple sources to pay for running future elections, the sponsor of the measure told The Daily Signal. “Unless we get it stopped, I think we would have seen money coming in from many sources,” state Rep. Phil King, a Republican, said in a phone interview. “Uncontrolled, dark money of this nature is just very, very ripe for corruption.” Daily Signal
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Iran’s New Hard-Line President Poised for Pivotal Role in Nuclear Talks . . . When Iranian diplomats resume talks with Western officials to revive a battered nuclear deal, one name will stand out on the list of individuals Tehran wants removed from the U.S. sanctions list: Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president-elect. The 60-year-old hard-line judge, who won Friday’s presidential election in Iran, was sanctioned two years ago
by the Trump administration for his close ties to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. As Iran’s president-elect, Mr. Raisi has emerged in a pivotal role that could determine the fate of the 2015 multination accord. While Mr. Raisi is expected to agree to reimposing constraints on Iran’s nuclear program, he is seen as a more confrontational adversary to the West than his predecessor, current President Hassan Rouhani. Analysts anticipate Mr. Raisi will be even more resistant to American
efforts to curtail Iran’s military activities in the Middle East. Wall Street Journal
Israeli PM Naftali Bennett warns US to ‘wake up’ before rejoining Iran nuclear deal . . . Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned the US and other nations seeking to rekindle the nuclear agreement with Iran to “wake up” following the election of a hardline judge as the country’s president. Speaking at a televised cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Bennett said Ebrahim Raisi, a protege of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
would establish a “regime of brutal hangmen”. “Raisi’s election is, I would say, the last chance for world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement, and understand who they are doing business with,” said Bennett, who replaced Benjamin Netanyahu last week after the former prime minister failed to form a new government. “A regime of brutal hangmen must never be allowed to have weapons of mass-destruction,” Bennett said. “Israel’s position will not change on this.” New York Post
Western powers reignite Beijing’s anger after G7 and Nato warnings . . . For more than six weeks, Taiwanese military officers wondered where the Chinese fighter jets had gone. During May, only four entered the island’s air defence identification zone. In the first half of this month, there were incursions on only four days and a stretch of nine days without any activity at all. This compared to a previous pattern of as many as 20
incursions a month. But on June 15, a day after US president Joe Biden and other Nato leaders issued a statement condemning China’s “stated ambitions and assertive behaviour”, 20 People’s Liberation Army fighter jets, four nuclear-capable bombers and four additional military aircraft entered Taiwan’s ADIZ. It was the largest number of planes ever dispatched by the PLA into the zone, with some of them also skirting around the southern tip and east coast of the island before turning back. Financial Times
Newt Gingrich: Biden-Putin summit – what Russian leader's Soviet-KGB mindset means for relations with US . . . After President Biden’s face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva last week, I couldn’t help but think of my trip to Russia in 1993. I was on a congressional delegation visiting Moscow when Boris Yeltsin was president and the West had great hopes for a more open, democratic Russia. I went to see the then-vice president,
who was an air force general, in his office. One entire wall of the room was a map of the Soviet Union. Being cheerfully ignorant, I said to him, "Gosh, that’s a map of the Soviet Union." He looked at me and he responded, "Yes, and that’s what it’ll look like again." Putin himself has expressed similar sentiments, calling the collapse of the Soviet empire the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century. Fox News
Newt gets it.
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Tokyo Olympics to Allow Spectators at Summer Games . . . The Summer Olympics in Tokyo will include up to 10,000 Japanese spectators at each event, organizers said, despite advice by leading doctors that the Games would be safer without crowds. Monday’s decision clears up the final major uncertainty about the Games ahead of the opening ceremony on July 23. Officials said in March that foreign spectators wouldn’t be
permitted to travel to Japan to attend the Olympics. Guidelines released by the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers said venues could be filled up to 50% capacity, with a maximum of 10,000 spectators at each event. Plans could change if infections in Japan rise sharply, they said. “If the situation becomes very dire, we would have to hold the Games without spectators,” Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto said. Wall Street Journal
Taliban says they are committed to Afghanistan peace talks . . . The Taliban on Sunday said they are committed to peace talks, and want a "genuine Islamic system" in Afghanistan. "We understand that the world and Afghans have queries and questions about the form of the system to be established following withdrawal of foreign troops," Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Taliban in Afghanistan said in a statement. "A genuine
Islamic system is the best means for solution of all issues of the Afghans," he added. "Our very participation in the negotiations and its support on our part indicates openly that we believe in resolving issues through (mutual) understanding." Officials have said the Taliban has not yet submitted a peace proposal upon which talks could be started. The Hill
And of course, when Taliban says something, they mean it.
Sullivan says US preparing more Russia sanctions over Navalny . . . National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said the U.S. is preparing to impose additional sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. On CNN "State of the Union," Sullivan told Dana Bash that the Biden Administration has sanctioned Russia for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. “We rallied European allies in a joint effort to
impose costs on Russia for the use of a chemical agent against one of their citizens on Russian soil. And we are preparing another package of sanctions to apply in this case as well.” Sullivan also noted President Biden had already signed an executive order that would give him even more leeway to impose penalties against Russia if they continued to engage in similar activities. The Hill
This time, sanctions will work on Putin. Promise.
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Fauci denies scientists 'deliberately suppressed' lab theory . . . Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed Wednesday on "CBS This Morning" that scientists did not "deliberately" suppress information regarding theories that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory. "If you go back then, even though you lean towards feeling this is more likely a natural occurrence, we always felt that you gotta keep an open mind — all of us. We
didn’t get up and start announcing it, but what we said, ‘Keep an open mind and continue to look.’ So I think it’s a bit of a distortion to say that we deliberately suppressed that," Fauci said. Fox News
Can't believe this clown is still allowed on TV.
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Biden's tax proposal means that 60% of Americans could pay more . . . President Biden repeatedly pledged during the 2020 campaign to not raise taxes for Americans earning less than $400,000, but a new analysis suggests that nearly 60% of taxpayers would pay more under his proposals. Findings from the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, show that while most of Biden's proposed tax
increases would be paid by those earning more than $800,000 annually, a small burden would also be borne by some middle-income families. Three-quarters of households earning between $75,000 and $100,000 annually would face pay an additional $440 per year in taxes under Biden's tax hikes, according to the data. Fox Business
IRS denies tax-exempt status to Christian nonprofit group because 'Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican Party' . . . The Internal Revenue Service denied a Christian nonprofit group tax-exempt status because the Bible's "teachings are typically affiliated with" the GOP and its candidates.
“Specifically, you educate Christians on what the Bible says in areas where they can be instrumental including the areas of sanctity of life, the definition of marriage, biblical justice, freedom of speech, defense, and borders and immigration, U.S. and Israel relations,” read a letter from IRS Exempt Organizations Director Stephen Martin to Christians Engaged, a nonprofit group seeking tax-exempt status. “The Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the [Republican Party] and
candidates. This disqualifies you from exemption under IRC Section 501(c)(3).” Washington Examiner
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After Being Forced To Forfeit Their Guns, The McCloskeys Show Off A New AR-15 . . . Mark McCloskey posted a picture Sunday showing he and his wife Patricia aren’t giving up their guns quite easily. McCloskey debuted the new AR-15 with the caption, “Check out my new AR.” The McCloskeys pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges. They agreed to forfeit the specific guns they brandished on their property in June 2020 after a group of
Black Lives Matter protesters marched past their homes. Mark pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and received a $750 fine, while his wife, Patricia, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and received a $2,000 fine. Daily Caller
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Nation's Libertarians Renew Push For 365 Federal Holidays A Year . . . After the passing of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, the libertarians of the nation are renewing their push for 365 federal holidays a year. "We're glad the federal government will not be working one more day -- but it's not enough," said local libertarian man Jake Fluglehorn of Idaho. "We will not rest until the federal government has a holiday every single day of
the year." Kinda-libertarian Rand Paul formally introduced the bill into Congress today, proposing a day off every day of the year for everyone working in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as well as anyone working for any of the hundreds of unconstitutional bureaucracies. In order to pass their agenda, libertarians have had to come up with more holiday ideas, proposing, among others, the following:
Dank Kush Day
Bitcoin Day
Shoot Your Firearms Up Into The Air Day
Punch A Grizzly Bear Day
End the Fed Day
Throw Commies Out Of Helicopters Day
The whole month of August will be taken off for Ron Paul's birthday
Should the measure pass, the federal government will have to get everything done on the only non-federal holiday every four years: February 29. Babylon Bee
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