What could possibly be a reason for refusing to have church services but still meeting in mass gatherings for Wokeness? There is only one plausible answer. They have converted from Christianity in the embrace of the Popularity Gospel.

The Religion of Wokeness is not compatible with Christianity. It has its own doctrines, own worship, own ordinances (chiefly, protest and virtue-signaling), and own messiah-figures. It has its own, competing version of confession, repentance, and atonement.

True Christians need to reject Wokeness – and the high priests of Wokeness – as fierce opposition to the Lordship of Christ and true Christian religion.

Socialism is un-Christian and un-American, and needs to be rejected.  We have a president who professes to be Catholic, while endorsing with his lips, a Socialism agenda which is non-Christian.  I am, thankfully, hearing of more and more Christians who have had enough of this rubbish and are standing up for what is morally and ethically right. 

We need to pray for our current situation in America, that has been created by those who are Socialist leaders.  We now have members of Congress who are avowed anti-Christian.  We need to pray for a tidal wave of change and revival in our country.

Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other…(Matthew 6:24).

Our nation’s schools are struggling. Academic underperformance has been an issue for decades. And now there is the very real sense that America’s schoolchildren are being taught to hate their country, their parents, and even themselves.

If you have children, there is one school in your neighborhood to which they are automatically assigned, which feeds into one middle school and then into one high school. Your witness in those spaces is desperately needed. While church attendance is in decline, school attendance remains mandatory. You probably realize that many families in your community build their social lives and networks around their public schools the way Christians build our lives around our church communities.

We know what kind of values our churches offer. Are you aware of the values offered by your local public school? This publication offers an overview of the issues and influences facing our public schools and suggests the only and best remedy is the constructive engagement of concerned citizens and parents. We live in the greatest nation on earth, the beacon of hope for the world. We can make America’s school systems as exceptional as our nation. Our children, entrusted to us by God, deserve our very best.

(Source: The Family Research Council)

Here is a free guidebook to help parents:

The new religion of woke anti-racism

by Michael Barone

June 10, 2020

It’s all about religion, isn’t it? “We have a cult of social justice on the left,” Andrew Sullivan wrote in New York magazine, “a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical.”

The linguist John McWhorter elaborated on that theme in the Atlantic. “Anti-racism,” he wrote, “ïs a profoundly religious movement in everything but terminology.”

McWhorter likened the notion of “white privilege” to original sin, argued that the hope that Americans will “come to terms with race” is as vague as hopes for Judgment Day, and observed that the faithful on the lookout for “that which may be blasphemous” resort to social media shaming tantamount to “the excommunication of the heretic.”

You could be pardoned for supposing that Sullivan and McWhorter were reflecting on the past week’s events — the epidemiologists piously proclaiming that participating in crowded protests of police racism was more important than the otherwise sacred duty of social distancing, the chastened suburbanites in Bethesda, Maryland, kneeling before and asking forgiveness of black fellow citizens.

But actually, their quoted comments both appeared in magazines dated December 2018. They nevertheless proved apt as commentary on events no one then imagined.

Sullivan and McWhorter understood that we have been living for two decades in a political era in which the demographic factor most highly correlated with voting behavior is religion, or within each sectarian group the degree of religiosity.

And they observed that that produced, for the first time in American history, a partisan division between the largest metropolitan areas and rural and small-town areas outside metropolitan boundaries. Our coastal metropolises voted 3-1 for Hillary Clinton while rural areas north and south, except for Vermont and the Berkshires, voted 3-1 for Donald Trump.

While non-metropolitan voters, as President Barack Obama noted in 2008, still tend to cling to traditional religion, articulate white metropolitanists are increasingly comfortable defining themselves as “atheists” and characterizing their religion as “none.”

They believe instead in Science, with a capital S. Science, they claimed, justified the two-month lockdowns and the need, until the protests of the police misconduct that resulted in the death of George Floyd, to maintain them.

Actually, scientific advice kept changing — understandably, since evolving evidence refuted epidemiological models of a novel virus. And epidemiology has an understandable bias toward pessimism since society wants warnings against unlikely but disastrous downside risks.

Science, moreover, provides no convenient formula for weighing the predicted benefits of lockdowns against their high and incommensurate costs. That requires judgments based on your values — which is to say, in many cases, on your religion.

So urban liberals insisted on strict limits on traditional religious services, symbolized by the vexed tone of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s denunciation of an Orthodox Jewish funeral. But they quickly bent themselves into logical pretzels by endorsing crowded, mass anti-racism protests. My (tolerant, modern, liberal) religion is better than your (parochial, antiquated, traditional) religion.

Is this conflict really necessary? Overwhelming majorities of Americans believe the Minneapolis police officers acted wrongly and support peaceful protests. Traditional Christianity preaches the moral equality of every individual — a position consistent with believers in secularized anti-racism.

And large majorities believe that violent rioting is wrong—and support sending in the National Guard and, if necessary, even the military, to end it. But here there’s a collision with believers in the woke religion of anti-racism, at least if young staffers in the New York Times newsroom are indicative. For they demanded, and got, the firing of the editorial page editor for running an opinion article by a Republican senator urging deploying the military when necessary to stop rioting.

Absent from the catechism of woke anti-racism religion is any acknowledgment of the facts, cited repeatedly by the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, that police shootings of blacks have become exceedingly rare. Christianity asserts that original sin will always be with us, but racism in America has been in long-term deep decline.

Protests have featured confessions of sin and demands for reforms. Some, such as “defunding the police," are so lunatic that Democratic politicians have been skittering away and explaining that “defunding” doesn’t mean defunding. Others, such as requiring police cameras, are already widely in use or not particularly controversial. Some are not familiar but bear serious consideration: police officers’ “qualified immunity” from federal civil rights lawsuits, instituted by Chief Justice Earl Warren and a unanimous Supreme Court in 1967, could be abolished or altered by the court or Congress.

Unfortunately, neither historical perspective nor statistical literacy nor any need for consistency are of much importance to practitioners of the religion of anti-racism.

Sky News host Gary Hardgrave says the 21st century is "so filled with red tape processes and bureaucratic oversight" after Virginia's governor called for the removal of a historic statue. It comes as the statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee has been removed. "The Virginia Governor, Ralph Northam, has said, 'let's tear down the statues because history must reflect the 21st century'," Mr Hardgrave said.

"Now if that's the case then I want every statue around the world, particularly around Australia, redesigned so they're to have a clipboard on it. "Because seriously, the 21st century is so filled with red tape processes and bureaucratic oversight that we possibly can't be celebrating any of our heroes of the past without actually acknowledging the clipboard of the 21st century. "They want to rewrite history, they want to devalue our values, they don't want to know where we've come, from how we've got here, and whether we can do better is only off the back of all the mistakes we've made in the past."

‘A Private Matter’: Joe Biden’s Very Public Clash With His Own Church

Biden brings Woke to the

White House

Meghan McCain's husband Ben Domench says Biden's first prime-time address was a 'garbage speech full of lies from a senile person who thinks he is running America''

• Domench, publisher of the conservative online political magazine The Federalist, appeared on Fox Business to critique Biden's speech
• 'This is another garbage speech full of lies from a senile person who thinks they're charge of America but actually isn't running anything,' Domenech said
• He was not the only one who targeted Biden for alleged lying during the speech 
• In an op-ed for CNN, conservative commentator Scott Jennings said: 'Biden didn't really tell the "truth" about his COVID relief bill' 
• Biden said the 'goal' was to have Americans enjoy July 4th with their loved ones
• McCain, the daughter of late Sen. John McCain and co-host of The View, responded to Biden's pledge that US will be 'close to normal' by July 4
• She tweeted: ''If this virus is over by the Fourth of July - there won't be a firework left in this entire country because I will have bought them all'

Joe Biden has made a series of false claims about the vaccine rollout but the media is failing to hold the new president to account, according to Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton. President Biden described the vaccine plan produced by the Trump Administration as a “dismal failure”, even though America was on track for a million doses a day before Biden took office.

However, Mr Biden’s comments were repeated unchallenged by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “Back here in Australia, our ABC Newsradio ran Biden’s false claims completely un-challenged,” Mr Houghton said. “If Donald Trump had entered office making such claims he would have been quite rightly blasted by the left-wing media both here in Australia and the United States. “But it appears the ABC has no problems airing false claims when the great Joe Biden is responsible.”

The Morning Briefing: Joe Biden Is the Worst 5-Day President Ever

President Joe Biden was filmed seemingly ignoring the direction of a Secret Service agent tried to direct him to a path leading to the White House.

In Biden's latest bizarre gaffe, the president was filmed returning to the White House after spending time in Wilmington, Delaware when the agent points for him to follow the sidewalk path into the White House.

Instead, Biden is seen following the agent up the lawn and through the garden into the presidential estate.

The video has left shocked critics of the 78 year-old president once again surmising whether Biden is suffering the effects of cognitive decline.

President Threatens Americans, Twists History to Push Antigun Agenda

By Larry Keane, June 30, 2021

President Joe Biden is at it again. The Commander-in-Chief quite literally threatened Americans with unprecedented military action in an attempt to justify the most radical antigun agenda ever thrust on the nation.

History, facts and even the U.S. Constitution don’t matter when it comes to his nouveau interpretation of the Second Amendment. The more President Biden speaks on guns, the more he’s turning out to be the least trusted man to understand them and their place in America.

President Biden’s remarks from The White House, with the U.S. Attorney General standing by his side, completely missed the purpose of the Second Amendment. The president attempted to justify banning modern sporting rifles (MSRs) and standard capacity magazines by reinterpreting the Second Amendment as a Constitutional clause to protect hunting in America.

Rights, Not Needs

He said, “…no one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, even up to 100 rounds unless you think the deer are wearing Kevlar vests or something.”

That’s not what the Second Amendment is about. It’s a Bill of Rights, not needs and anytime anyone in the government attempts to dictate to Americans what their needs are, be worried. The president wasn’t done, however.

“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” President Biden said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon.”

Actually, Americans could own cannons then and still can. In fact, America relied on private citizens and their cannons for military success. The Austin American-Stateman reported this when President Biden attempted to peddle this same falsehood during the presidential campaign.

“Privateers were privately owned and operated ships that in wartime captured enemy ships for profit,” the newspaper reported. “While privateers received a license from the government that allowed them to avoid being prosecuted for piracy, they were not a part of the official navy. So any cannons they set sail with (or that they seized from the enemy) would be private property, not the property of the government or the regular military.”

Washington Post fact-checked the president’s preposterous claim not once, but twice, and gave him Four Pinocchios, the most that can be given. Politifact rated the statement as “False.”

Did He Just Threaten Nukes?

If that wasn’t bad enough, President Biden went so far as to threaten the use of unprecedented military force against American citizens to make the case to ban guns.

“Those who say the blood of lib- — ‘the blood of patriots,’ you know, and all the stuff about how we’re going to have to move against the government,” President Biden explained. “Well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots. What’s happened is that there have never been — if you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”

“The point is that there has always been the ability to limit — rationally limit the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it,” he added.

Setting aside the fact that this wasn’t the first time President Biden threatened military force against American citizens, he actually justified why the Framers had the foresight to ensure the American citizens were never left without the means to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.

The only part of what the president claimed that came close to the truth was restrictions on who could possess a firearm. The federal government placed no restrictions, but states did. They banned black slaves and indigenous Americans from the right to keep and bear arms. That’s hardly a historical point to make a case for disarming Americans today. As we have noted before, the origins of gun control are rooted in racism.

Set the Record Straight

David Harsanyi, writing for National Review, pointed out that President Biden not only edited history to fit his antigun narrative, he also edited quotes. The quote referenced by the president is derived from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to William Stephen Smith, son-in-law of John Adams.  The full quote reads: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

A government that would threaten the lives and liberty of its own citizens is exactly the reason the Founding Fathers included the Second Amendment in the list of things the government couldn’t do. When it comes to guns, it’s clear – shall not be infringed.

President Biden is the last person who should be dictating gun policy to America. Time and again he speaks about a subject of which he has no practical understanding of, at best, or totally ignorant of, at worst.

President Biden infamously told his own wife to blindly fire two blasts of a shotgun if there was ever an intruder. This advice was actually invoked in a court case, where the accused, Jeffrey Barton, was charged with aggravated assault. Prosecutors ended up dropping those charges and instead charged him with police obstruction, of which he was convicted.

President Biden once argued to ban 9mm Glocks, claiming in an interview with Charlie Rose that he could kill more people with a .38-caliber revolver. He also oddly told police they should shoot “unarmed” attacking criminals wielding knives “in the leg.” Police ripped that suggestion. Fox News reported the Fraternal Order of Police said it was “completely ridiculous,” “unrealistic” and a “pandering talking point.”

President Biden is the last person America should be looking to for firearm policy. His ideas are beyond ignorant. They’re dangerous.

Biden Needs to See a Dementia Specialist Right Now if the Mayo Clinic Is Right

Michael Austin

June 24, 2021

(The Western Journal)

Does Joe Biden suffer from dementia?

The answer to that question remains unclear. However, it is undeniably true that the president is currently exhibiting many symptoms of someone with a deteriorating brain disease.

Remarkably, the list of symptoms for dementia provided by the Mayo Clinic could alternatively be used as a checklist of odd behaviors exhibited by Biden.

Those symptoms are a number of cognitive and psychological changes, including:

·      “Memory loss, which is usually noticed by someone else”

·      “Difficulty communicating or finding words”

·      “Difficulty reasoning or problem-solving”

·      “Difficulty with coordination and motor functions”

·      “Confusion and disorientation”

·      “Inappropriate behavior”

·      “Agitation”

“See a doctor if you or a loved one has memory problems or other dementia symptoms,” the Mayo Clinic also noted.

All of these above symptoms have been on display by Biden on numerous occasions.

For instance, during a recent appearance at the G-7 summit, Biden repeatedly mixed up the names of Syria and Libya.

    This is horrible. At some point his cognitive disfunction has to be considered a natl security threat if only because of the confidence it must give our enemies “President confuses Syria with Libya three times”

    pic.twitter.com/R7is0yl2MR

    — Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) June 13, 2021

Later on during that very same trip, following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden failed at an attempt to recite the Declaration of Independence during a briefing.

    Biden once again misquotes the Declaration of Independence before forgetting the rest:

    “We hold these truths self-evident that all men and women.” pic.twitter.com/ID5dtQ1Ifs

    — Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 16, 2021

The gaffe was reminiscent of one of Biden’s most famous blunders when he failed to recite the Declaration, instead saying “you know the thing.”

    TBH “etc” from Joe Biden is an upgrade from March 2020 when he said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by the you know, you know the thing.” https://t.co/WrRcMCOj2f pic.twitter.com/044bgqIbd6

    — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 28, 2021

When it comes to “difficulty with coordination and motor functions,” there is perhaps no better example than when, on March 19, the president slipped and fell three times while climbing the stairs to Air Force One.

    Another angle pic.twitter.com/BQkfn9eRcQ

    — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 19, 2021

“Agitation” has certainly been displayed by the president as well. Only just last week, Biden lashed out at a reporter for asking him a completely fair question about his meeting with Putin.

    “If you don’t understand that,” Biden tells a reporter pushing him to explain how it was a constructive meeting with Putin if he still denies human rights abuses and cyber attacks, “you’re in the wrong business.”

    pic.twitter.com/M4QmK7hKYd

    — Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) June 16, 2021

“Inappropriate behavior” has certainly been a hallmark of Biden’s career. There are multiple videos of him touching, sniffing and even kissing young girls during his time as vice president.

    If that wasn’t disturbing enough, in this clip, Biden not only touches a young woman but smells her hair, kisses her, whispering something into her ear, only to tell her “see you back home, I hope” after visibly creeping out her and who I assume is her mother. pic.twitter.com/WrFLWmAPFJ

    — RAM (Richard Armande Mills) (@RAMRANTS) November 13, 2017

    In this clip, Biden swears-in (R) Senator Jim Risch. During photographs, Biden touches Risch’s daughter, specifically asking to take a photo alone with her. You can hear Risch say “Dad’s going to stand pretty close.” (I wonder why?) Biden even jokes and says, “If I was young…” pic.twitter.com/LLqJ4guU0q

    — RAM (Richard Armande Mills) (@RAMRANTS) November 13, 2017

Concerns over Biden’s mental faculties have also been expressed by a former White House physician.

Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas, who served as White House physician for former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, sent Biden a letter on June 17 asking him to take a cognitive test.

“The American people should have absolute confidence in their President,” the letter said.

“They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties of Head of State and Commander in Chief.

“They deserve full transparency on the mental capabilities of their highest elected leader. To achieve this, we urge you to submit to a cognitive test immediately."

Why the American People Have Turned Against Biden

Biden draws derision after claiming he used to drive a massive truck

By Chris Jewers For Mailonline 29 Jul 2021

President has been questioned over his claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck, with evidence only suggesting he once rode in one for a night in 1973.

Here's the story in detail about Biden's lying to the public, again:

Biden confuses job titles of South Korean president and Netanyahu

This has happened so often, we can no longer call Biden's blunders "gaffes."  They are evidence of his dementia cognitive decline, which is getting worse.

When President Biden, 78, presented 94-year-old Korean War veteran Ralph Puckett with the Medal of Honor on Friday, he said, 'The people in the Republic of Korea haven't forgotten, as evidenced by the fact that the prime minister of Korea is here for this ceremony,'

Less than 24 hours earlier, Biden referred to Netanyahu as 'President Netanyahu' during his speech celebrating an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, according to The Post.

The mix-ups are the latest in a string of dementia gaffes that have provided Biden's critics with punchlines about the oldest president in the United States' history.

Joe Biden mistakenly called Korean President Moon Jae-in a 'prime minister' a day after he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 'president.'"

Joe Biden Facing Ridicule After Revealing He “Sits On The Toilet Backwards”

By

Today’s Team Five

November 21, 2020

At the end of a press conference that can only be described as nothing less than bizarre, presidential candidate Joe Biden wrapped up his speech with a personal anecdote involving his morning routine. The story definitely did not seem necessary. It did not seem relevant and I’m sure Biden had intended this story to be a lighthearted end before leaving the stage. However, it was anything but that.

“We all have 24 hours in a day. Sure there are things you need to do. Each morning after I finish my cereal, like every other American, I go to the bathroom. But I don’t just do that, I’m hunched over writing ideas, my notepad on the toilet top.” Biden continued, “(laughing) that’s the great thing about the toilet really, why do you think they designed it like a desk? So when you sit doing your business, you can also take care of business.”

It could have been the intimate setting of the press conference that caused Biden to open up so personally I had never seen less reporter hands go up in a press conference. After the first part he could have played it off as someone who just likes to take notes on the john. Weird but whatever. But then he went on to clarify. “Why do you think they designed it like a desk?”

I was speechless.

And to remove any and all doubt, he later confirmed that he does in fact sit on the toilet backwards. What’s worse? He didn’t know he was sitting on it backwards… for 77 YEARS this man thought sitting on the toilet backwards was the correct way.

“Yeah that wasn’t – my staffer brought it up to me.” Biden explained in a follow up interview with MSNBC, “Apparently not everyone sits on the toilet like that. Apparently I sit on it backwards. I think it was – I don’t know it made sense to me it’s a good place to eat your cereal. Efficient. I guess. (Laughter).” – MSNBC

Poor Joe…

Joe Biden continues to shoot himself in the foot but now I’m starting to think he is doing it on purpose.

This man literally just said on MSNBC that he eats cereal on his toilet. Like, he sits on it backwards and uses the top of the toilet to eat his cereal of off. This is who the DNC wants to push through as the candidate for the National Election.

When this all first came out I thought fine whatever, the man sits on the toilet backwards. The worst part about it was the fact that I had just envisioned Joe Biden on a toilet. But then he doubles down. It’s not his fault that he sits on it backwards. That’s how it looks like it’s supposed to work. I mean come on it looks like a desk. And look, you can eat cereal off it while you drop a deuce!

Add this to the other allegations….

Whatever, it’s not like this is the worst thing Ol’ Joe has done.

Biden's first 100 days as

bait-and-switch:

He's governed as a socialist.

Senator Tim Scott felt the full wrath of the left-wing media, academia and political class who resorted to “racial slurs” in their desperation to prove the African American politician wrong, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. Mr Scott delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress and argued that instances of racism do not amount to systematic racism or make the country racist. In the aftermath of his speech “Uncle Tim” trended for hours on Twitter, and CNN, MSNBC and CBS went into “attack mode”, Ms Panahi said. “If you're a conservative woman or conservative minority you will be attacked often with sexist and racist language to bully you into silence,” she said. “In 2021 the only systematic racism is from the left who push critical race theory, a poisonous, intellectually bankrupt doctrine that amounts to state-enforced racism. “The very people who claim the west is institutionally racist are trying to institute racism into schools and workplaces.” According to Ms Panahi, mockery of Mr Scott is about sending a message to other African American people to expect similar treatment if they “deviate from the leftist groupthink”.

While the invasion was a success and can be argued to be the turning point in World War II against fascism and authoritarianism, the Allies and America suffered a hefty casualty total, numbering in the thousands.

Every year, Americans of all political opinions acknowledge this day as an important and special one, especially given those who gave their lives so that Americans at home may continue to enjoy their liberties and freedoms in peace.

Joe Biden broke that trend.

On Sunday, there were no statements or social media posts from Joe Biden or The White House regarding D-Day.

Critics of the White House’s silence on Sunday point out that it confirms the idea that Democratic leadership shows little care for America’s servicemen and women and have no real concern for protecting the liberties of Americans.

Effectively, showing no care for America’s triumph on the shores of Normandy and the lives she sacrificed to fight fascism, Biden is furthering a Democrat habit of complacency against legitimate fascism and authoritarianism.

Biden’s attitude can be seen in modern America with his complacency and indifference towards the fascist group known as “Antifa.”

During the Presidential debate with President Trump in late-2020, while Trump called out Antifa’s far-left violence and tactics, Biden brushed them aside as merely an “idea, not an organization,” and said that white supremacy is a greater threat.

Antifa spawned years ago from groups utilizing “black-bloc tactics.” These refer to dressing in all black, covering themselves up, and using violence and intimidation tactics to achieve political goals with lower odds of being identified and arrested. They are typically carried out in legitimate, peaceful protests, using regular civilians as shields for violence. Because groups like antifa usually have the same or similar political views as those they use as shields, they are grouped with peaceful demonstrations in the media and escape accountability.

The name “antifa” comes from the term “anti-fascist.” The name is a propaganda tactic to cause those who are ill informed about the group’s views and tactics to assume they are merely fighting against fascism, a seemingly good thing. Generally, American voters oppose fascism.

Their tactics are not antifascist; they are fascist. Suppressing speech of conservatives and Trump supporters with violence and intimidation is a prime instance of antifa’s black bloc tactics in action that run contrary to a group promulgated as being “anti-fascist.”

Biden and the media succumb to and promote this propaganda technique, merely brushing off antifa as an “idea” that is “anti-fascist.”

Biden’s complacency with the Antifa organizations across the country further demonstrates his indifference to the same kind of fascism America bravely fought off during World War II.

A social media post or statement takes a small amount of time and effort. If Biden and The White House remotely cared about the victorious but tragic events that took place on D-Day in 1944, sending out a tweet is the least they could have done.

Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.

-Eric Daugherty

What is the New ‘Woke’ Military Really Preparing Us For?

As a U.S. Army medic in the early 1970s, my father worked with wounded veterans who were suffering from what we would now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. At the time, so my dad told me, many of these PTSD victims were heavily medicated, their rational and physical capacities greatly impaired. The result was both depressing and comical. My father recounted to me stories of trying to play basketball with these wounded warriors, passing the ball to vets so drugged up that it would slam into their faces to little effect. On other occasions, the men would sit in a circle to talk about their feelings. Battle-hardened vets would announce, slowly and articulately, with smiles on their faces, “I feel like shit.”

These anecdotes recently came to mind when reading James Hasson’s Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors are Sabotaging America’s Military. As Hasson’s account make startling clear, progressive activists, especially during the Obama administration, have sought to radically remake the U.S. armed forces, “even over the explicit objections of the most seasoned military leaders.” And as I learned from my father, the United States military has been the object of social experimentation for generations. All the same, as with most progressive projects, data suggests that whenever social engineers are given a long leash, they’ll pull as far as they can. That’s all the more reason to express concern and outrage over Hasson’s reporting.

Every organization, be it a corporation, publication, or even a sports team, needs a clear, easily perceptible mission statement. The United States military, since the founding of our nation, has had a pretty obvious one. Its objective, as Hasson notes, is to be prepared for wars, and when necessary to win them. As my World War II veteran grandfather liked to jokingly observe, the military during America’s more isolationist days was once subject to the Department of War. As Washington has become embroiled in decades-long conflicts far from home, it was renamed, in an Orwellian twist, the Department of Defense. Yet however we term it, the military is charged with maximizing combat readiness for future conflicts.

As Hasson explains, social experimentation is directly undermining this readiness. This comes at a time when the military is already understaffed and overstretched, with fewer squadrons and active soldiers than defense experts—both inside and outside the government—recommend. The fitness of Navy ships and Navy readiness are also on the decline, as evidenced by the 2017 collision off the coast of Japan between a U.S. destroyer and a container ship. Presidents have deployed the military for all manner of objectives, which can only with great imagination be justified as defending national security, such as the 2012 hunt for Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony in the jungles of Uganda.

Hasson is at his best when decrying the inanity of social justice initiatives imposed upon the armed forces. Our military academies, like secular academia writ-large, offer courses that attack America’s history and identity as backwards and corrupt, while promoting identity politics, the transgender agenda, and anti-religious sentiments. It fosters living arrangements that put people of all sexes and sexual identities together, a recipe for trouble. Hasson rightly argues:

The credo of intersectionality is entirely incompatible with traditional military culture, with its hierarchy of command, its focus on duties rather than rights, and its emphasis on the merit, disciplined conduct, and professional competence of its members rather than their assumed victimhood.

The military cannot afford to be a “safe space,” because it will never execute its mission in safe spaces. It cannot endure complaints about micro-aggressions, because the very nature of combat necessitates enduring acts of aggression. It cannot cater to all the unique variations of individual soldiers, because it is, in Hasson’s words, a “great equalizer” of men and women, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or economic status.

The military now accepts transgender soldiers and even allows soldiers to “change” genders while in military service; it pays the bill for these treatments and accepts that those who undergo them will be unavailable for months. Not to mention that those who identify as transgender have much higher rates of psychological problems, including depression and suicide, than others. What is the military supposed to do when soldiers have these issues while deployed to places where they are consistently in combat? “These intensive medical procedures are simply incompatible with wartime service,” says Hasson. Unsurprisingly, a 2016 Military Times poll found that only 12 percent of active-duty troops thought the new Obama administration’s policy would improve readiness.

Apart from this, according to Hasson’s documentation, there is also the lowering of standards in U.S. Army Ranger school, one of the most elite programs in the entire military. This allowed underperforming women to graduate. Women have also been allowed into combat units, despite mounting evidence compiled by the Marine Corps that co-ed units perform less well than their all-male counterparts. The harsh reality that men and women are physiologically different must be ignored to meet the demands of identity politics.

Alternatively, Hasson is at his worst when censuring the Obama administration and other liberals and Democrats for not listening to the military’s advice. The real problem is that the armed forces have the same negative tendencies as other parts of the federal government. The military will always ask for more money and resources. It will always want to show off its prowess and capabilities, even if their execution has little connection to its mission and may actually undermine American security. It will always be susceptible to groupthink and inertia over against innovation. Students of U.S. military history will remember that Lincoln, a civilian, clashed with numerous incompetent generals until he finally found one whose winning strategy aligned with his own. Often one needs to get outside the system—and certainly one as large as the military—to understand and effectively change it.

This weakness aside, Hasson’s book has raised the alarm regarding this crisis, one that is slated only to get worse. Terrifyingly, 71 percent of Millennials are not even eligible for the military because they are obese, have criminal records, or lack high school diplomas or GEDs. The military is already granting waivers to many applicants to make up for their shortfalls. Meanwhile, our soldiers are being told that evangelical Christianity and Catholicism are forms of “religious extremism.” There needs to be a course correction, and it needs to happen soon, lest we find out, the hard way, that we are sorely unprepared for conflict.

Casey Chalk covers religion and other issues for The American Conservative and is a senior writer for Crisis Magazine. He has degrees in history and teaching from the University of Virginia, and a masters in theology from Christendom College.

The Conservative Clergy of Color, a group of Black ministers and pastors, announced Monday it published a full-page ad in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to address the “lies” being told by President Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams (D) about the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021.

The advertisement, which features a photo of both of the prominent Democrats, specifically calls out Biden and Abrams for their messaging about the new law, describing their agenda as “devastating” to minority-owned small businesses in Atlanta, amid Major League Baseball’s decision to pull out of the city due to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s signing the election integrity bill into law.

“Biden and Abrams keep saying the Election Integrity Act is worse than Jim Crow, which is an insult to the millions of Black Americans,” Bishop Aubrey Shines, founder of Glory to God Ministries and a founding member of Conservative Clergy of Color, said.

“The truth is that this law actually expands access to the ballot box, while also taking common-sense steps to protect the sanctity of every legal vote,” Shines added. “We believe that it should be easy to vote and hard to cheat and the Georgia Integrity Act makes that possible for all voters.”

The advertisement features two columns, one of “lies” and one of “truth,” with the truth column dispelling Biden and Abrams’ claims:

•          LIE: The new law restricts early voting. TRUTH: The law expands early voting hours and additional weekend voting opportunities, including Sundays.

•          LIE: Voter ID requirements are racially discriminatory. TRUTH: IDs are necessary for numerous everyday activities, and the law even lets voters use documents like utility bills instead of state-issued IDs.

•          LIE: Restrictions on distributing food and water to voters are intended to make voting more uncomfortable for minority voters. TRUTH: The law only prohibits using free food and beverages as a form of electioneering.

•          LIE: The new law eliminates absentee ballot drop boxes. TRUTH: Drop boxes never existed before the pandemic. The new law creates rules to keep them—and the ballots inside—secure.

•          LIE: The new law allows “takeovers” of local election administration. TRUTH: The law protects voters when local officials fail to prevent excessive lines or struggle to process absentee ballots.

“There’s nothing ‘racist’ about the Election Integrity Act, and it’s certainly not ‘Jim Crow 2.0,'” the ad stated. “Your lies are now devastating minority small businesses in Atlanta following the MLB’s decision to move its All-Star Game to Denver, resulting in a loss of $100 million in business. Enough is enough.”

“Easy to vote. Hard to cheat,” the ad read boldly along the bottom.

“As our ad points out, the lies that Biden and Abrams are telling about this law aren’t just another example of political theater,” said Shines. “Like elections, lies have consequences.”

“The MLB’s decision to relocate the All-Star Game in response to the left’s irresponsible and baseless assertions will deprive hard working Georgians – including countless Black-owned businesses and their employees – of a much-needed economic boost that would have helped them recover from the pandemic-induced economic downturn,” Shines added.

Biden’s Bombastic Rhetoric Dishonors Victims of Civil Rights Struggle

Joe Biden stated: 'Parts of our country are backsliding [to] the days of Jim Crow ... when black people were made to guess how many beans---how many jelly beans in a jar...'

By Assistant Editor Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor, a contributing editor with National Review Online, and a senior fellow with the London Center for Policy Research. Bucknell University’s Michael Malarkey contributed research to this opinion piece.

April 17, 202

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA)

In his latest bid to unite America, President Joe Biden has called Georgia’s new election-integrity law “Jim Crow for the 21st Century” and “Jim Crow on steroids.”

“Parts of our country are backsliding,” Biden moaned Wednesday. “The days of Jim Crow, passing laws that hearken back to the era of poll taxes, when black people were made to guess how many beans—how many jelly beans in a jar—or count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap before they could cast their ballot.”

Biden said this via satellite to the National Action Network. Its founder, Al Sharpton, is a museum-quality racial arsonist who has called Jews “diamond merchants.”

Sharpton’s anti-Semitic slurs may even be to blame for a 1995 massacre. He referred to Harlem store owner Fred Harari, who is Jewish, as a “white interloper.” That may have inspired Roland Smith, a crazed protester, to shoot up and ignite Freddie’s Fashion Mart. The ensuing inferno killed seven. Smith fatally shot himself.

Rather than bring Americans together, Biden’s inflammatory rhetoric pits citizens against each other. His needlessly incendiary language is like complaining that a supermarket that lacks kosher food hearkens back to Kristallnacht.

While Biden bashes the Peach State’s new statute, why didn’t he help loosen Delaware’s much tighter vote rules?

•       Days of in-person early voting? Georgia: 17. Delaware: Zero

•       Ballot drop boxes? Georgia: at least 159 (no fewer than one per county). Delaware: Zero

•       No-excuse absentee ballots? Georgia: Yes. Delaware: No.

•       Voter ID required? Georgia: Yes. Delaware: Yes.

Biden also trivializes the pain of Jim Crow’s genuine victims while diluting the cruelty of these mandates and their 76-year-long, “separate-but-equal” reign of terror.

“This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” Biden told journalists at his March 25 press conference. “I mean, this is gigantic what they’re trying to do, and it cannot be sustained.”

Male bald eagles typically weigh 10 times as much as an average one-pound crow. Does Biden truly believe that Georgia’s “Jim Eagle” law is 10 times worse than Jim Crow’s multifaceted, anti-black voter suppression?

Poll taxes once made voting too expensive for poor citizens, many black. Georgia’s new law imposed no poll tax.

Before 1965, Alabama’s literacy test asked prospective voters 68 questions, including: “If a state is a party to a case, the Constitution provides that original jurisdiction shall be in ________.”

By refusing to hear Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s anti-vote-fraud case last December and citing a lack of standing as its justification, today’s Supreme Court forgot that it should be the correct answer.

Also, “The Constitution limits the size of the District of Columbia to ________.”

Answer: 10 square miles.

Despite the urgent, nationwide need for improved civics education, today’s Georgia kept literacy tests buried.

Michigan’s Jim Crow Museum observes that in many a lynching, “The victim was an example of what happened to a black man who tried to vote.”

Yet, Georgia did not reinstate lynching.

Northern Freedom Riders headed South to register black voters in 1961. They endured beatings and fire-bombings. Georgia has resurrected neither.

FBI missing poster for Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Three young Congress of Racial Equality activists named James Chaney (a black man), Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner (both white) registered black Mississippians in June 1964.

On Goodman’s first evening on duty, local Klansmen murdered them and hid their bodies in an earthen dam.

Elsewhere, investigators found the bodies of black Freedom Summer college students Henry Dee and Charles Moore, a cadaver in a CORE T-shirt, and five other corpses.

That was Jim Crow, not merely requiring voters—black and otherwise—to show ID, as do 36 states (including Biden’s blessed Delaware). Blacks routinely present ID at airports, banks, libraries, hotels and millions of other venues daily.

For Biden to compare Georgia’s vote-expansion bill with the Jim Crow that slaughtered Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, Dee and Moore is morally grotesque, über-divisive, and a profound insult to those who were killed while crushing Jim Crow and securing black voting rights.

And, remember: The Jim Crow laws were passed, signed and brutally enforced by Democrats, not Republicans.

Perhaps that’s why Biden cannot shut up about Jim Crow. Those racist rules were his party’s handiwork.

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