The Spirit of CJack, Sentinel On The Gulf

 I send you my warmest brotherly embrace and wishes for health, peace, and prosperity in the New Year and beyond.

The Democrats are attempting a new tactic since they cannot take away candidate Trump’s right to be on the national ballots and our right to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution. In 2020 they committed fraud to steal the elections because they can only win by the crooked ballots. And they are trying this time to take away our right to choose by the ballot our preferred candidates in every State of the Union. Now in 2024, since evidence of voter fraud continues to be found, George Soros will continue to use his enormous fortune to bribe corrupt judicial officials, corrupt party officials, corrupt state party officials, and corrupt and ignorant useful fools; as the phony [hope and change] messiah Barack Obama, having failed the black community in his eight years in office, attempts to convince black voters of their duty to vote for the Democrat presidential nominee no matter who that may be. We have had enough of this man’s and his self-serving political partisan’s corruption and empty promises.

Whereas Trump delivered good fruit to all in the nation, regardless of race, color, or gender! He only saw Americans hurting and yearning for a better day. Still, that evil coalition of the neo-Nazi George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary & Bill Clinton, the shameless Democratic National Committee Party, the anti-Constitution media, the supranational corporate giants, and our corrupt judiciary are now bent on completely destroying this good man. But they are not only after him, they intend to suppress ‘we the people’ from casting our vote for the candidate ‘we the people’ prefer.

The American nation has had to bear the shame of the Democrat party’s incompetent and corrupt frauds in the White House. Joe Biden and his laughing-fool Vice President Kamala Harris have been abject failures at home and abroad. As of last, our ‘sniffer-in-command’ finally met with the Mexican [cartels] president [better known as “AMLO”] to ‘beg’ to no avail, for help to contain the destructive hordes of illegals and illicit drugs breaking across our southern border. After that, he again went on vacation; this time was in the Caribbean [possibly] setting up bogus accounts to hide his dirty money as he asked for quid pro quo donations from ‘slippery’ wealthy ‘friends.’ Here is a man who, they say, has to travel with concealed special items for incontinent emergencies. Yeah, right! The leader of the vanishing free world.

Well, on November 5, 2024, if we allow the enemy to again derail our Constitution, we’ll have another electoral fraud. And we will sulk until the real Messiah comes. Until then, we must fight for our Constitutional rights in 2024 and beyond. Freedom has never been free. Avanti Valente Soldati!

Now, I must begin preparations to receive the Shabbat. Blessed are those who do the Lord’s work as He walks with them on their journey to the Promised Land. Let us pray for our Jewish and Christian brethren in Israel and elsewhere round the world.

I pray for your safety and contentment in our precious Lord.

Cjack…Sentinel on the Gulf!

The Evil Of Profligate Spending!

 JANUARY 11, 2024 BY JOHN HINDERAKER at Power Line:

WE ARE BROKE

When I was young, there was a lot of concern and debate about the federal deficit and the national debt. Legitimate budget hawks ran for office, and often won. Even Democrats, like William Proxmire, ran as guardians of the public treasury.

But at some point, as deficits continued to mount and the feared crisis failed to materialize, politicians unapologetically began to print money. Thus, the entire federal debt at the end of the 1960s was $354 billion. That is less than the deficit the federal government ran in the first quarter of 2024, i.e. between October and December 2023–$510 billion. Sure, the dollar was worth a lot more in the 1960s. But we are comparing a single quarter with the history of the U.S. through 1969.

At Healthy Skeptic, Kevin Roche expresses some righteous indignation:

New data from December on federal spending and revenue make the federal fiscal picture look even more disastrous than I previously believed it was. The epidemic is over, the economy is supposedly in fine shape, but somehow the federal deficit doubled from 2022 to 2023, to over $2 trillion. But the real problem is that although the economy is supposedly great, tax collections have dropped. In December the feds spent $559 billion and collected only $449 billion. Although the economy is reported to be growing, tax receipts were lower than in December 2022 and even further lower than those in December 2021. Not a good trend. In fact, during most of 2023, tax receipts have declined, making the GDP numbers seem suspiciously high.

We are actually in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, October through December 2023, and the deficit is at a record level other than the first CV-19 year, and is far above original estimates, $130 billion compared to an $88 billion projection. The Bidementia administration is clueless about either the depth of the problem or how to address it.
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This level of deficit pressures the Treasury to have to sell massive amounts of debt, at higher interest rates. The Federal Reserve can do nothing about this; it has lost control of interest rates–supply and demand factors will control those now and it isn’t pretty. The higher interest rates add even more to the deficit.

Obviously, we need to cut federal spending drastically. But what politician is running on that platform? Certainly not Donald Trump. Almost unnoticed in the current news cycle/clown show is the negotiation going on in Washington over the Biden administration’s budget. House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to drive the numbers down, and Steve Moore thinks he should be commended:

New House Speaker Mike Johnson has negotiated the shrewdest budget deal he could get with Joe Biden in the White House and Chucky Schumer reigning over the Senate. Johnson was outnumbered and outgunned, but he managed to get some modest cuts in spending. Congratulations.
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Biden has nearly single-handedly added $6 trillion to the debt in just three years. This wasn’t a bipartisan spending spree. It was all the unholy trinity of Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer. His plan for the future is for the debt to top $50 trillion over the next decade. That’s not a solution, but the act of a psychopathic big spender. To solve the problem he wants bone-crushing taxes that will sink the economy.

Moore offers this bar chart to show the numbers, but I don’t know what the scale of the Y-axis is:

Of all the crises we currently face, I think our profligate spending, compounded by ruinous follies like “green” energy, has the most potential to destroy the republic.

Thomas Sowell: An Aged Man IN GOOD SHAPE

JANUARY 1, 2024 BY LLOYD BILLINGSLEY:

SOWELL STRIKES BACK

Thomas Sowell, recently profiled here by Scott Johnson, was born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1930 and raised in Harlem. Sowell earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a master’s from Columbia, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. That was all achieved without any government affirmative-action scheme. The high achiever was bound to draw fire from supporters of such schemes.

One of them was Lani Guinier, the first black woman to hold a tenured position at Harvard Law School. In all fairness, it may have helped that Ewart Guinier, Lani’s father, was chairman of Harvard’s Department of Afro-American Studies. Lani Guinier was Bill Clinton’s pick to head the civil rights department of the DOJ. She supported racial preferences in college admissions and questioned Sowell’s blackness. The Harvard alum wasn’t going to take it.

“I don’t need some half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black,” responded the economist, a longtime fellow at the Hoover Institution. That was in 1996, when California voters passed the California Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209), eliminating racial preferences in state education, employment and contracting. The disaster the preference forces predicted never came about.

As Sowell noted in his 2013  Intellectuals and Race, declines in minority enrollment at UCLA and UC Berkeley had been offset by increases at other UC campuses. More important, the number of African-American and Hispanic students graduating from the UC system went up, including a 55 percent increase in those graduating in four years with a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Lani Guinier was unmoved.

In 2015, Guinier authored The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America, supporting a change from “testocratic merit” to “democratic merit.” The former Clinton pick denounced the SAT as a “proxy for wealth,” and “normed to white upper-middle-class performance.” Guinier opposed “competition and individualistic merit” and touted a “culture of collaboration rather than competition.” And so on.

Lani Guinier passed away in early 2022. Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss her views in this video. At this writing, Thomas Sowell is still going strong at 93. He didn’t need racial preferences to succeed and he didn’t need a half-white woman living in Martha’s Vineyard to tell him about being black. In 2024, Americans of all shades don’t need a half-white former president living in Martha’s Vineyard to tell them about anything.

As David Garrow showed in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, the 1995 Dreams from My Father was a novel and the author a composite character. As Tablet’s David Samuels explained in “The Obama Factor,” the composite character is still running the country and responsible for “the disaster that we are living through now.”

“The Smartest Man IN THE WORLD?”

January 2, 2024

Elon Musk is Right

By Alicia Colon at American Thinker:

Elon Musk is presently the richest man in the world.

He may also be the smartest.

In an interview with the British prime minister, Musk warned about the dangers of AI (artificial intelligence).

He said,  “There will come a point when no job is needed – you can have a job if you want for personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything.”

Breitbart.com has added a new category to its menu: AI danger.

Here you can read some of what Musk has concluded:

• Google has replaced its ad sales employees with AI
• An L.A.-based company, Channel 1, claims it will become the first news network to utilize AI-generated news anchors starting next year
• H&R Block launches AI Tax Filing assistant
• Wendy’s is implementing AI powered by Google to take customers’ drive-thru orders- (actually , this may be a good thing, based on my disappointing experience.)

Elon Musk may be a technological genius and he understands the dire consequences of a world consumed with how easily artificial creations can duplicate human labor.

But AI can be even more devastating to our lives right now due to our ignorance of its potential to create a world of fake images.

The images of celebrities are presently being used to perpetrate fraudulent advertising that will allow access to customers’ data and bank accounts. Video ads showing Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Garner giving away cookware and deluxe mixers free of charge except for a small shipping fee are all fake. In addition, internet ads show Elon Musk inventing all kinds of devices such as small heaters, electrical plugins and mosquito killers and offering them for only that same small shipping charge. Yesterday, I saw one with Musk promoting a weight loss product)

I admit to being just as ignorant and one time even falling for these scams because I hadn’t yet known that AI had been implemented with realistic videos. I had become good at recognizing when a picture had been manipulated by Adobe’s Photoshop program but this was quite different. At this very moment, it is obvious that one can no longer trust one’s eyes even when looking at a site that one has been visiting without any previous problems in the past, such as Instagram and Facebook. AI can replace any face on a subject with one of a celebrity and completely change the expression on their faces.

Naturally, the Trump-deranged Democrats will be using AI to plant negative fake images of Trump and others to influence the 2024 presidential election. It appears this is already happening. I’ve just watched such image that was an attack on our former president. Several real videos that I saw were distorted and showed the persons, including Melania Trump, standing next to Trump making weird faces as if they smelled something awful. After all the fake videos aired, the narrator intoned seriously, “Is this who we want for president?” But I watched his inauguration and Melania certainly did not have anything but an adoring and proud expression as she watched her husband assume the presidency. Now Trump fart compilation videos are all over YouTube, and “Trump stinks” has been trending on Twitter for days.

How sophomoric. But it’s typical of the classless leftist agenda.

I wonder if the Generation Z people residing on the pages of TikTok know that once their images are online, their voices, mannerisms, faces and gestures can be inserted into situations that might be considered illegal.  They are also now owned by China. This situation has been included in the Breitbart AI danger page:

“Crooks and scammers are having a field day thanks to the advent of AI technologies used for cloning voices and extracting personal information from social media platforms. Cybercriminals are using AI to create convincing copies of young people’s voices, which are used to power “grandparent scams” targeting elderly relatives….This development is particularly alarming in the context of the notorious “grandparent scam.” In its original form, this scam involved fraudsters calling elderly individuals, impersonating their grandchildren, and making urgent requests for money to cover emergencies like bail or car repairs. The scam’s effectiveness was often limited by the scammer’s ability to convincingly impersonate a family member. Scammers often resort to claiming to have a cold to account for the difference in their voice.”

What I’ve concluded from what I’ve learned of AI’s capabilities is that nothing can be trusted unless it’s on a live feed. AI can make false words come out of one’s mouth. It can add the head of a celebrity to any moving image. It can create fake humans and have them say anything it’s programmed to. We haven’t reached the level of the Hollywood disaster films starring rogue robots and cyborgs, but it is now a possibility.

More than 50 years ago, I visited Disneyland in Anaheim, and one of the amazing features was watching an animatronic Abraham Lincoln walk onto the stage to say the Gettysburg address and other speeches. This amazing faux Lincoln sat down on a chair and gestured perfectly as any human would. Naturally, Hollywood came up with the film, Stepford Wives, which was about wealthy men trading in their human wives for submissive and perfect cyborgs. Farfetched then, but not so unbelievable now. Asian manufacturers have made a fortune selling realistic sex dolls that eliminate the need for real women. Considering that so many men are turned off by the screaming Karens and harpies masquerading as real women, it’s no wonder that sales for these substitutes are booming.

We now live in an age of total deceit, dishonesty and hypocrisy, and while escaping to a world outside the grid is an option, the other choice is to understand how we got here in the first place.

We really need to pay attention to who’s behind this corruption. Its no longer wise to have the attitude of, “I don’t want to get involved in politics,” because who gets put in Congress is spearheading and funding most of these progressive changes.

Elon Musk, an independent voter, recommended on Twitter last year, for his readers to vote Republican, because Democrats “have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them.” 

As I mentioned in my headline, Elon Musk is right.  

“The presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity,”

 BY JOHN HINDERAKER at Power Line

“ANTI-RACISM” IS RACIST

That is obvious from the “anti-racists’” explicit precepts, which call for race discrimination extending indefinitely into the future. If most people had any idea what the anti-racists say, they would be horrified.

But here is a more specific instance of anti-racist bigotry:

A US anti-racism campaigner has triggered outrage after she claimed “Zionist” doctors were giving worse care to black and Muslim patients.

Saira Rao, a former Democrat congressional candidate, said she was “genuinely terrified for Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, South Asian and black patients” because of the number of “Zionists” among American doctors and nurses.

This is not some random lunatic on the internet: Saira Rao is a graduate of NYU Law School and the co-author of a “New York Times bestseller” called Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better. She ran, albeit unsuccessfully, for the Democratic nomination to Congress in Colorado’s 1st District in 2018.

Jews are, of course, prominent in medicine as in all other fields exemplifying high achievement. It would be hard to find any group of people who have done more for humanity than Jewish doctors, scientists and medical researchers. So you might think that no one in the health care industry would go along with Rao’s blatant anti-Semitism. But no:

Ms Rao was supported by Rupa Marya, professor of hospital medicine at the University of California San Francisco.

“The presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity,” she said.

“Zionism is a supremacist; racist ideology and we see Zionist doctors justifying the genocide of Palestinians. How does their outlook/position impact priorities in US medicine?”

She continued: “Zionism in US medicine — coupled with the Israeli government’s operations to discredit and destroy the careers of any critics, funded by the large donors who support US academic medicine — is why US medical institutions have said nothing while Gaza’s hospitals are bombed.”

This is all insane, but Saira Rao has since doubled down on her anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. What is odd about this is that the linked article is in London’s Telegraph. American news outlets have observed a discreet silence, as they so often do when prominent Democrats engage in rank racism and anti-Semitism.

Cjack’s Warmest Wishes Continue!

“The Democrats knew Biden was an intellectually and morally bankrupt politician, but they were all in on the scam to deceive the nation, just to defeat the successful political outsider, President Trump. Now they’re ashamed to admit it. So where do we go from here? On November 5, 2024, vote the Democrats out of office in such numbers, which may result in a national clamor to delegitimize them as an ethical political party. The Democrats have done too much damage to the nation. Their history confirms it.

My warmest wishes to our dear Minuteman in the Tundra, Ghr. May the Lord’s blessings be always at his door.

Shabbat, Shalom…”

Cjack…Sentinel on the Gulf…Friday. 

A NOTE FROM GLENN:

(May God Bless you my friend to keep up your drive to help eliminate the ugly struggles we have these days in our troubled gangster lefty America! Aiding our peoples’ return to Church or Synagogue could become a blessing for us to say “hello” or “good morning” among our neighbors, friends, and families again!) 

Horror At Gaza!

DECEMBER 28, 2023 BY JOHN HINDERAKER at Power Line:

WHAT HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 7

I am generally contemptuous of the New York Times, but it deserves credit for this article on the violence against Israeli women and girls that was perpetrated by Gaza on October 7. The article is long and chilling. Organized gang rape, mutilation and murder were obviously features of the Gazans’ strategy. The evidence described by the Times is sickening; I credit a left-wing outlet for being willing to describe unflinchingly what Hamas’s supporters did.

For example:

The Times viewed photographs of one woman’s corpse that emergency responders discovered in the rubble of a besieged kibbutz with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin.

An eyewitness description:

The first victim she said she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back.

She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast.

“One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” Sapir said.

She said the men sliced her face and then the woman fell out of view. Around the same time, she said, she saw three other women raped and terrorists carrying the severed heads of three more women.

A description from another eyewitness:

Maybe 40 yards in front of him, he recalled, a white van pulled up and its doors flew open.

He said he then saw five men, wearing civilian clothes, all carrying knives and one carrying a hammer, dragging a woman across the ground. She was young, naked and screaming.

“They all gather around her,” Mr. Cohen said. “She’s standing up. They start raping her. I saw the men standing in a half circle around her. One penetrates her. She screams. I still remember her voice, screams without words.”

“Then one of them raises a knife,” he said, “and they just slaughtered her.”

Near the highway, he said, he found the body of a young woman, on her stomach, no pants or underwear, legs spread apart. He said her vagina area appeared to have been sliced open, “as if someone tore her apart.”

Testimony from a dentist:

Captain Maayan asked to be identified only by her rank and surname because of the sensitivity of the subject. She said she had seen several bodies with cuts in their vaginas and underwear soaked in blood and one whose fingernails had been pulled out.

This is what American college students have demonstrated in support of. More:

There are at least three women and one man who were sexually assaulted and survived, according to Gil Horev, a spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs. “None of them has been willing to come physically for treatment,” he said. Two therapists said they were working with a woman who was gang raped at the rave and was in no condition to talk to investigators or reporters.

What accounts for this savagery? The sick culture that prevails among the so-called Palestinians, and that especially dominates Gaza. The Gazans are lost in hate and have been trained to do evil from childhood. It is that culture that must be destroyed, not the political organization of Hamas, which is a symptom not a cause.

A number of commentators have written that the Israelis must not seek revenge for the atrocities of October 7. I don’t understand that. They absolutely should wreak vengeance on the Gazans. (“Everyone over there is a terrorist,” as one retrieved hostage says.) In my opinion, Israelis have a moral duty to avenge the Gazans’ atrocities. Happily, they seem to be well on their way to doing so.

Mindless TODAY’S DEM-HUMPHREY MINNESOTA

 DECEMBER 21, 2023 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN CONSERVATISM, ECONOMY, LIBERALS

AMERICANS VOTE RED WITH THEIR FEET

It has been obvious for quite a while that Americans are deserting blue states in favor of red states. Thus, after the last census states like California and New York lost seats in the House, while states like Florida and Texas gained seats. Just-released census data show that migration from blue to red continues. The New York Post focuses, naturally, on New York:

New York’s population plunged more than any other state in the country over the past year, according to sobering new statistics – as fed-up lawmakers and ex-New Yorkers blame crime and the sky-high cost of living.

Almost 102,000 people fled the Empire State from July 2022 to July 2023, the United States Census Bureau revealed in a Tuesday report.

It was one of eight states to face a net-decline in residents over the period, while red states, including Texas and Florida, saw the largest growth in population.

These maps, reflecting the last two years of Census Bureau data, show the pattern:

Blue states seem to be mostly in denial about what is happening:

When reached for comment, Hochul’s office referred The Post to a statement she made about “migration trends” as part of a Nov. 30 speech at a real estate conference.

“When you study out migration trends, like I do all the time, I’m looking at the states that people are going to,” she said last month. “OK, Florida. A little nicer weather. You got that, but that’s all you’ve got. That’s all you’ve got. But we’ve lost some people to Florida.”

The idea that Florida–a state with no income tax and much less crime than New York–has nothing to commend it but weather, is delusional. But you don’t see Gavin Newsom talking about cutting taxes, either.

Then there is Minnesota. California and New York get most of the press, but Minnesota is another blue state, like Illinois, that has been bleeding population to other states for quite a while. John Phelan writes about the Census Bureau’s most recent Minnesota numbers here.

But the census numbers don’t tell the whole story. There are two relevant data sets: one is generated by the Census Bureau, the other by the Internal Revenue Service. They use different methodology to measure slightly different things, but the main difference is that the IRS database includes demographic information about the people who move from state to state. So we know how old they are and, most relevantly, what their incomes are. Because the question isn’t just how many people are moving from place to place, it is also who is moving from place to place. Or equally important, who is not moving to blue states in the first place because that is not where the good jobs are.

The IRS data lag the Census Bureau numbers and aren’t produced every year, so they don’t get as much attention. But American Experiment has been analyzing them, as to Minnesota, since 2016. I don’t know whether policy organizations in other states have been doing the same thing. If so, I haven’t seen it. But the Minnesota IRS numbers are highly relevant, I think, to the broader picture of red/blue migration.

The IRS data consistently show that Minnesota, a high tax, high regulation state, gains residents from other states in just one income category: those earning between zero and $25,000 per year. Minnesota essentially breaks even from $25,000 to $50,000, and consistently loses residents, on a net basis, in every income category over $50,000. So we aren’t talking about “the rich.” This chart is similar to others we have produced over the years:

I suspect that if someone did this analysis for California, New York or Illinois, the result would be the same: Census data actually understate the depth of the economic and fiscal problems blue states are facing as a result of migration to more favorable jurisdictions. In the raw numbers, in-migration of people with essentially no income offsets, to some degree, out-migration of residents with good jobs. But in fact, gaining more residents with little or no income makes the economic position of blue states worse, not better.

As I said, these trends have been obvious for a while. When will blue states catch on? Not until the voters demand change. We have seen that Democratic office holders consistently try to deny the obvious, rather than doing anything about it. Liberal politicians will cling to power as long as voters let them get away with it.

Our Fascist Dems Begin Their DRIVE? Their THREAT?

DECEMBER 19, 2023 BY JOHN HINDERAKER at Power Line:

COLORADO BARS TRUMP FROM THE BALLOT

In a shocking decision, the Colorado Supreme Court held today, in a Per Curiam opinion, with three justices dissenting, that Donald Trump is an “insurrectionist” who is barred by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from running for the presidency. So, absent some action by the U.S. Supreme Court, which is extremely unlikely, Trump will not be on the Republican primary ballot or, if it comes to that, the general election ballot in Colorado.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment precluded those who were federal officials before the Civil War, and then served in the Confederacy or its army, from again holding federal office after 1865. I have written that the theory that this provision somehow applies to Donald Trump is idiotic and ahistorical. The January 6 protest, which certainly did get out of hand, was not an “insurrection”–insurrectionists would have remembered to bring at least one firearm–and Trump urged those who were present in Washington that day to go forward and protest peaceably and legally. Not exactly Fort Sumter.

But the Colorado Supreme Court has struck its blow for the Democratic Party:

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• The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting portions of Congress’s January 6 Report into evidence at trial.

• The district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, constituted an “insurrection.”

• The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump “engaged in” that insurrection through his personal actions.

• President Trump’s speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not protected by the First Amendment.

¶5 The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three; because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.

These findings started with the district court judge. I haven’t researched his or her provenance, but that will no doubt emerge soon. He or she made the critical findings which the Colorado Supreme Court now holds to be properly with that court’s discretion. In my opinion, they were obviously wrong.

So, where do we go from here? We are in uncharted waters. Never before have we confronted a situation when one political party, that controls a particular state or its highest court, has tried to prevent a candidate of the opposing party from running for president. One cannot overstate what a watershed moment this is. The Democratic Party has staked a claim to permanent control of our federal government, regardless of the will of the American people. This has never happened before in our nation’s history.

Sadly, I think today’s Colorado Supreme Court decision increases the likelihood of violence in connection with the 2024 presidential election. We are rapidly descending to the status of a third world country, and partisan decisions like this one will accelerate that descent. Liberals hate democracy, and this is their latest assault on it. How Americans will respond to this attack on democracy remains to be seen.

It’s Important To Know Our Yesterdays!

 DECEMBER 9, 2023 BY LLOYD BILLINGSLEY at Power Line:

WHEN EDWARD MET MUHAMMAD

In his massive Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon was bound to encounter the Muslims and their prophet. Published in 1776, the great historian’s work proves relevant for current events in the Middle East.

The sword, says Muhammad, is the key of heaven and hell. A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer.

In the early going Muhammad favored the Jews, who did not recognize him as their Messiah

Their obstinacy converted his friendship into implacable hatred, with which he pursued that unfortunate people to the end of his life, and in the double character of an apostle and a conqueror, his persecution was extended to both worlds.

They [Muslims] could not be ignorant that fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

The chief of the tribe was tortured in the presence of Muhammad to force a confession of hidden treasure.

Those of the synagogue of Satan: be sure you cleave their skulls, and give them no quarter until they either turn Mohammedan or pay tribute.

 Muhammad commanded or approved the assassination of the Jews and idolaters who had escaped from the field of battle.

In his private conduct, Muhammad indulged the appetites of a man and abused the claims of a prophet. A special revelation dispensed him from the laws which he had imposed on his nation. The female sex, without reserve, was abandoned to his desires.

Muhammad had 17 male slaves and 11 women.

Christians condemned to ride on asses, live in smaller buildings, bow down to Muslims

Punishment of death is inflicted for those who have professed and deserted the law of Muhammad.

The Arabs enjoyed the satisfaction of believing that not a Christian of either sex escaped the edge of their scimitars.

The birth of Muhammad was fortunately placed in the most degenerate and disorderly period of the Persians, the Romans and the barbarians of Europe. The empires of Trajan, or even of Constantine or Charlemagne, would have repelled the assault of the naked Saracens, and the torrent of fanaticism might have been obscurely lost in the sands of Arabia.

It wasn’t, and the rest is history as in Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS. The atrocities of the Islamic state parallel, or exceed, what Hamas inflicted on Israel 10/7. The targets were women, children, infants and the elderly. When Muslims paraded a captive woman in the bed of a truck, they chanted “Allahu akbar!” not “Three Cheers for Palestine.”

Allahu Akbar means that Islam is superior to all other religions. By torturing, killing and capturing Jewish men, women and children, Muslims gain favor with Allah. That’s why a Muslim bragged that he killed ten Jews, and his parents approved. On the other hand, it’s not just about Jews.

On September 11, 2001, in the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor, Muslims killed 3,000 people, most of them Americans. Days later, President George W. Bush said. “That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.”

Edward Gibbon reported. You decide.