It is astonishing that not one of all those pseudo conservative pundits and legislators who piled on Donald Trump has shown any contrition. On the contrary, over at National Review they crow with self-importance:
“The pandemic coincided with a mainstream-media embrace of anti-journalism that obscured the truth. NR never bought into it.”
What they did buy into was unrelenting and vicious and anti-journalism attacks on Donald Trump.
Bruce Thornton sums it up: rsk
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/goldberg-variant-trump-derangement-virus-bruce-thornton/
“It’s also peculiar that those “many on the right” were not concerned about Biden’s obvious cognitive impairment and endorsement of every lunatic progressive idea, like the Green New Deal that he has spent the last nine months trying to turn into law. All that evidence from last summer of his mental confusion and current radicalism apparently was dropped down the same memory hole as Trump’s many achievements.”
On October 12, 2000, jihadists exploded a boat alongside the USS Cole—a Navy Destroyer—as it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden.
The blast ripped a 40-foot-wide hole near the waterline of the Cole, killing 17 American sailors and injuring many more.
President Clinton called the perpetrators “hate filled cowards” and vowed that the incident would not deter his efforts to seek peace between Israel and Yasser Arafat…..rsk
Much is written below on Attorney Genital Merrick Garland’s gratuitous and insulting decision to have the FBI investigate parents who protest against indoctrination, woke policies and Critical Race Theory disguised as education, likening them to ‘domestic terrorists.”
Like other efforts which led to political victories, dissident parents should coalesce behind a new movement named My Child, My Choice!
Has a nice ring to it……rsk
I have a young neighbor- a student at a prestigious college who is really sweet and friendly and voluble. She described her classes on American policies: “like, capitalism, like instituted, like racism and like slavery, for like, a million years.”
She told me that she was hoping to spend a semester abroad and like, she would like learn another language.
I think a semester abroad should be mandatory in Venezuela or Cuba for woke students. And they could add Spanish to their rather pathetic knowledge of English syntax and vocabulary. Wouldn’t that be like really cool? rsk
When the established government does not recognize dissidents and calls them “domestic terrorists” and limits their speech, controls the media, alters the language, denies legitimate history, trashes tradition and culture, erases national borders, blurs the role of the military, destroys the canons of education, science and medicine, and uses the powers of government to spy on its citizens- that is an insurrection. rsk
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s speech to the Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., May 12, 1962:
“And through all this welter of change and development your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable. It is to win our wars. Everything else in your professional career is but corollary to this vital dedication. All other public purposes, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment;º but you are the ones who are trained to fight. Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country.
Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men’s minds. But serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation’s war guardians, as its lifeguards from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiators in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as firm and complete as they should be; these great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country.”
“If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. “Psalm 137
There was once a political power house known by both advocates and antagonists as “the Jewish vote and lobby.” It was respected and courted by legislators and politicians of both parties. How did their agenda get derailed into supporting only left-wing causes? Why has their right hand lost its cunning? Why do their tongues cleave to the roofs of their mouths instead of loudly denouncing a growing State Department push to roll back the American Embassy move to Jerusalem and reduce American presence there to consular status?
There is an old saw that states “silence is golden.” It is so when speaking offends and hurts. But silence is immoral when it fails to confront growing and increasingly violent anti-Semitism even when it is disguised as “tough love” on Israel.
RSK
Tonight begins a new year 5782 for the Jewish people. It is observed with reflection on a tragic history, pride in survival and achievements, and, of course delicious and savory food. This year there is also foreboding occasioned by the steep rise in overt antisemitism in America, the best and brightest corner of the diaspora.
It is demonstrated in the libels against Israel and actual violence against American Jews, particularly those in Orthodox garb. It is prevalent in the media, the academies and in the corridors of power, specifically in the Democrat party, whose grandees ignore and paper over the overt bias.
I am an optimist by nature so I will hope for a better year that restores patriotism and pride in America’s exceptionalism and legacy, and for the safety of Israel and people of good will all over the world. As we always abbreviated in the Bronx: “A happy and healthy……” rsk
Brian Jeffery Mast (R-FL-District 18)
Before entering politics Rep. Mast served in the U.S. Army for more than 12 years, earning The Bronze Star Medal, The Army Commendation Medal for Valor, The Purple Heart Medal, and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal. While deployed in Afghanistan, he worked as a bomb disposal expert under the Joint Special Operations Command. The last improvised explosive device that he found resulted in the loss of both of his legs.
After his recovery Brian subsequently received a degree from Harvard University and volunteered to serve alongside the Israel Defense Forces to show support for the freedom Israel represents throughout the Middle East and the world.
Yesterday on Fox News, Maria Bartiromo referred to his injuries.
His response-the finest example of American exceptionalism, courage, and patriotism.
“Oh that’s just a scratch compared to the sacrifice of others.” rsk
I am not an anti-vaxer but I will listen to contrary opinion. However, I cannot abide columns that compare government mandates, however excessive, to Holocaust metaphor. The Holocaust deliberately singled out one of every three Jews in the world for extermination. To compare vaccine passports or mandated masks and vaccinations to that epic horror is egregious and insulting to the memory of the victims. rsk
