Chicago's plunge into the depths of lawlessness can be attributed to the liberal policies and inept governance of its politicians. They have allowed the city to go ultra-liberal on virtually every front, from criminal justice reform to social welfare programs, without considering the consequences. In their misguided attempt to appease the radical left, they have abandoned the very principles that keep our society safe and secure.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Defund the police movement wrecks America's third-largest city | Fox News
Defund the police movement wrecks America's third-largest city | Fox News:
Michael Smith - I initially created this Substack post behind the...
Michael Smith - I initially created this Substack post behind the... | Facebook
There are graphics over there that don't come across here, so please go have a look.
If you ever doubted the soulless media has become the enemy of the people, their reaction to the movie, The Sound of Freedom, should remove all doubt...
- "I initially created this Substack post behind the paywall for a few days but after watching, listening and reading how these outlets think they are "owning the cons" by disparaging "The Sound of Freedom" by calling it a QAnon conspiracy movie and that child trafficking is not such a big deal - after reporting for years that it is, I decided to make it free to all and post the text here.
There are graphics over there that don't come across here, so please go have a look.
If you ever doubted the soulless media has become the enemy of the people, their reaction to the movie, The Sound of Freedom, should remove all doubt...
- A while back secession was all the rage.
Maybe that is the answer - or maybe the answer is just to create massive city-states where progressives can pursue their Utopian dreams and leave the rest of us alone.
Or maybe the answer is the worst possible choice - another civil war.
A moral split may only be rectified by destroying one side or the other.
Or maybe the answer is the worst possible choice - another civil war.
A moral split may only be rectified by destroying one side or the other.
- Sooner or later, something must give.
Perhaps the biggest problem with the “average global temperature” hysteria is...
Perhaps the biggest problem with the “average global temperature” hysteria is...
"...Perhaps the biggest problem with the “average global temperature” hysteria is that the entire system put in place by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been corrupted. The Heartland Institute alerted the media to this fact a year ago.
The report, published by The Heartland Institute, was compiled via satellite and in-person survey visits to NOAA weather stations that contribute to the “official” land temperature data in the United States. The research shows that 96% of these stations are corrupted by localized effects of urbanization – producing heat-bias because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects. Placing temperature stations in such locations violates NOAA’s own published standards (see section 3.1 at this link), and strongly undermines the legitimacy and the magnitude of the official consensus on long-term climate warming trends in the United States...
Do Not Let China Attack America from America :: Gatestone Institute
Do Not Let China Attack America from America :: Gatestone Institute - by Gordon G. Chang 
American presidents for decades have known that China's diplomats and agents were violating American sovereignty and did either nothing or virtually nothing to stop these activities. Therefore, China's Communists naturally thought they could get away with even more blatant conduct.
Americans may think they are at peace, but the Communist Party believes it is locked in an existential struggle with America. People's Daily, speaking for the Party, declared a "people's war" on the United States in May 2019. The Chinese regime has been conducting "unrestricted warfare" against America for decades.
"While it is fair to say that the CCP prefers to win this war without fighting, it is more accurate to say that the CCP intends to win without us fighting back. Through political warfare, the CCP disarms us intellectually and psychologically as it co-opts, corrupts, and ultimately controls key American elites, particularly political and foreign policy decision makers." — Kerry Gershaneck, NATO fellow for Hybrid Threats, to Gatestone Institute, July 11, 2023.
Beijing has almost certainly purchased most of the Biden family. In March, a spokesperson for Hunter Biden's legal team admitted that Hunter had received "good faith seed funds" from an energy company in China. That was essentially an admission of bribery... no Chinese business in these circumstances would pay seed money...
Georgia Democrat defects to GOP after she says Dems 'crucified,' 'abandoned' her | Fox News
Georgia Democrat defects to GOP after she says Dems 'crucified,' 'abandoned' her | Fox News:
"For far too long, the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community," she added. "For decades, the Democrat Party has received the support of more than 90% of the black community. And what do we have to show for it? I represent a solidly blue district in the city of Atlanta. This isn’t a political decision for me. It’s a moral one."
Media ignores disgusting "DARK MONEY NETWORK", cuz democrats.-----Top Democratic Operatives Were Quietly Pulling the Strings at a Voting Rights Group. Lawyers Say They May Have Broken the Law.
Top Democratic Operatives Were Quietly Pulling the Strings at a Voting Rights Group. Lawyers Say They May Have Broken the Law. - Andrew Kerr and Joseph Simonson"The shady scheme implicates the Left’s largest dark money network, Arabella Advisors...
They embarked on a project to take control of a 501(c)4 nonprofit, Secure Democracy, and lobby Republican lawmakers—and run ads against them—on voting rights issues from behind the veil of an ostensibly nonpartisan group...
For a time, they gained traction.
They embarked on a project to take control of a 501(c)4 nonprofit, Secure Democracy, and lobby Republican lawmakers—and run ads against them—on voting rights issues from behind the veil of an ostensibly nonpartisan group...
For a time, they gained traction.
In 2020 and 2021, Secure Democracy pushed lawmakers in over 20 states to expand mail-in balloting and other liberal voting initiatives.
Those lawmakers were seemingly unaware that they were being influenced by political operatives working at the highest levels of the Democratic Party...
History for July 13
History for July 13 - On-This-Day.com 
Edward J. Flanagan 1886 - Founder of Boys Town in Nebraska.
- 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
- 1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
- 1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
- 1836 - John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous patents were not numbered.
- 1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Republicans roll out new national voting law, warn Americans to watch out for Democrat deception | Fox News
Republicans roll out new national voting law, warn Americans to watch out for Democrat deception | Fox News:
ATLANTA – House Republicans have introduced a bill aimed at securing election integrity across the country while also issuing a stark warning to Americans to watch out for possible Democrat deception surrounding the legislation.
Hunter Biden probe shows corruptness in America’s two-tier justice system
Hunter Biden probe shows corruptness in America’s two-tier justice system - Glenn Harlan Reynolds
But Hunter isn’t most Americans.
He’s the president’s son, and, allegedly, bagman as well.
And our Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, is out to spare him the consequences of his actions...
It’s been obvious for a while that there’s a two-tier justice system in America.
It doesn’t seem to be working very well, does it?"
- America’s two-tier justice system keeps rolling along.
But Hunter isn’t most Americans.
He’s the president’s son, and, allegedly, bagman as well.
And our Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, is out to spare him the consequences of his actions...
It’s been obvious for a while that there’s a two-tier justice system in America.
- If you’re a Jan. 6 protester who just wandered around the Capitol, you can expect solitary confinement before trial, and prosecutors who’ll throw the book at you.
- But if you’re the son of a (Democratic) president, you can expect to be handled with kid gloves.
It doesn’t seem to be working very well, does it?"
Electric vehicle repair costs revealed versus ICE equivalent | Electric fleet news
Electric vehicle repair costs revealed versus ICE equivalent | Electric fleet news"The cost differences between repairing an electric vehicle (EV) versus an internal combustion engine (ICE) equivalent have been highlighted in a new report.
- Due to the nascent nature of the industry, BEV incident claims are currently 25.5% more expensive than their ICE equivalents and can take 14% longer to repair, suggests Thatcham...
'Insulting': Disney invents person's homosexuality in famous true story
'Insulting': Disney invents person's homosexuality in famous true story:
The Hollywood couple takes "artistic license" to a whole new dimension by turning Gies' adoptive older brother, identified as Casmir ("Cas") Nieuwenburg, into a homosexual so they could highlight a Dutch gay man's role in the country's anti-Hitler resistance. Phelan then expanded on the deception in an interview by rationalizing that since Miep Gies had five adoptive siblings, "statistically, one of them had to be gay" – an assertion that is both historically and statistically reckless.
Free speech for transgender people means that they can, if they wish...
"At a Trans Pride march, a speaker openly called for women to be attacked.
The police did nothing, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023...
Leftists Argue Government Censorship is the Highest Form of Speech | Frontpage Mag
Leftists Argue Government Censorship is the Highest Form of Speech | Frontpage Mag - Daniel Greenfield
Even though it’s the height of summer, chilling effects on censorship were on display.
Liberals who might have once worried about free speech now fret that the government will be inhibited from censoring free speech.
- The Left will fight to the death for the right of the government to silence you.
Even though it’s the height of summer, chilling effects on censorship were on display.
Liberals who might have once worried about free speech now fret that the government will be inhibited from censoring free speech.
According to CNN, “Legal experts say that the order is overly broad and scholars on online misinformation warned that it could have a chilling effect on the government’s efforts to curtail lies about public health emergencies and elections.”...
Biden vow to crack down on disrespectful workplace behavior resurfaces amid reported F-bombs directed at staff | Fox News
Biden vow to crack down on disrespectful workplace behavior resurfaces amid reported F-bombs directed at staff | Fox News:
Biden's own treatment of White House staff members is now making headlines following a report from Axios, wherein officials and aides outlined the president's alleged short temper and profanity-laden rants.
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors | Fox News
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors | Fox News
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors
It's shocking and depressing to me that major media figures are defending government censorship
By Jonathan Turley | Fox News
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Editor's note: This essay first appeared on the author's blog Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.
As a long-standing free speech advocate, the last few years have been alarming and, frankly, depressing.
The censorship efforts of the government are, unfortunately, not new. However, what is new is the support of the media and the Democratic Party in such censorship. That was on display on various channels after the recent opinion finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment in "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history."
However, the New York Times immediately warned that the outbreak of free speech could "curtail efforts to combat disinformation." Yet, no one expressed it more simply and chillingly than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly who stated that it "makes sense" for tech companies to go along with government censorship demands.
BIDEN LIKELY VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS
Mattingly admitted that social media platforms "more often than not" gave in to the censorship demands by the Biden administration. However, he insisted that it "makes sense," and is "probably what we should do on public health grounds."
"[T]he Biden administration would regularly reach out to Twitter and Facebook and other companies in kind of the early stages of their COVID response and say, this person is spreading lies about vaccines, this account is spreading misinformation that is inhibiting — not just our efforts, the administration’s efforts to address COVID — but also public health, do something about it. And often, I think more often than not, the companies would respond and say, okay. And there are emails that came out during the course of this case that that was something that I think — when it was explained to me at the time, I thought, alright, that makes sense, that’s probably what we should do on public health grounds."
What is striking is not just the blind acceptance that the government should be protecting us from harmless thoughts. It is also the failure to recognize that the government was wrong on many of these points while experts were being banned and blacklisted.
Many people were routinely censored on Twitter and other platforms for daring to challenge the official position on masks.
Video
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially rejected the use of a mask mandate. However, the issue became a political weapon as politicians and the press claimed that questioning masks was anti-science and even unhinged. In April 2020, the CDC reversed its position and called for the masking of the entire population, including children as young as 2 years old. The mask mandate and other pandemic measures like the closing of schools are now cited as fueling emotional and developmental problems in children.
The closing of schools and businesses was also challenged by some critics as unnecessary. Many of those critics were also censored. It now appears that they may have been right. Many countries did not close schools and did not experience increases in COVID. However, we are now facing alarming drops in testing scores and alarming rises in medical illness among the young.
BIDEN TO APPEAL BIG TECH COLLUSION RULING BANNING ADMIN OFFICIALS MEETING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA FIRMS: REPORT
Masks became a major social and political dividing line in politics and the media. Maskless people were chased from stores and denounced in Congress. Then-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing that "face masks are the most important powerful health tool we have."
Video
However, there are now ample studies stating that "a new scientific review suggests that widespread masking may have done little to nothing to curb the transmission of COVID." It added that "wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people)."
JUDGE PRAISED FOR ‘STUNNING’ JULY 4 REBUKE OF BIDEN ADMIN ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP: ‘FINALLY’
It also found little evidence of a difference from wearing better masks and that "wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (five studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (five studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (three studies; 7799 people)."
Again, I expect that these studies will be debated for years. That is a good thing. There are questions raised over the types of studies used and whether randomized studies are sufficient. The point is only that there were countervailing indicators on mask efficacy and a basis to question the mandates. Yet, there was no real debate because of the censorship supported by many Democratic leaders in social media. To question such mandates was declared a public health threat.
The head of the World Health Organization even supported censorship to combat what he called an "infodemic."
CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER
Bhattacharya previously objected to the suspension of Dr. Clare Craig after she raised concerns about Pfizer trial documents. Those doctors were the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a more focused COVID response that targeted the most vulnerable population rather than widespread lockdowns and mandates. Many are now questioning the efficacy and cost of the massive lockdown as well as the real value of masks or the rejection of natural immunities as an alternative to vaccination. Yet, these experts and others were attacked for such views just a year ago. Some found themselves censored on social media for challenging claims of Dr. Anthony Fauci and others.
Video
The media has quietly acknowledged the science questioning mask efficacy and school closures without addressing its own role in attacking those who raised these objections. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of COVID-19 (a theory now treated as plausible) was denounced as a conspiracy theory. The science and health reporter for the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli, even denounced the theory as "racist."
Yet, Mattingly and others are now defending censorship by repeating a tautology: the government must seek the censorship of ideas because some ideas must be censored. Governments have always claimed that censorship of critics and dissenters is for the public’s best interest. They have always defined certain views as harmful or false.
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Now, however, major media figures are shrugging off free speech concerns and supporting censorship as what former CNN media host and correspondent Brian Stelter called a "harm reduction model." While once fiercely opposed to censorship and government-supported blacklisting, many in the media are echoing Mattingly's view that the natural default should be to obey the government and its directions on permitted speech.
After all, this is all for our own protection. Censorship just "makes sense."
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JONATHAN TURLEY
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors
It's shocking and depressing to me that major media figures are defending government censorship
By Jonathan Turley | Fox News
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley explains why Democrats’ criticisms of the Supreme Court are ‘ironic.'
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
Listen to this article
0:00 / 6:07
1XBeyondWords
Editor's note: This essay first appeared on the author's blog Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.
As a long-standing free speech advocate, the last few years have been alarming and, frankly, depressing.
The censorship efforts of the government are, unfortunately, not new. However, what is new is the support of the media and the Democratic Party in such censorship. That was on display on various channels after the recent opinion finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment in "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history."
However, the New York Times immediately warned that the outbreak of free speech could "curtail efforts to combat disinformation." Yet, no one expressed it more simply and chillingly than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly who stated that it "makes sense" for tech companies to go along with government censorship demands.
BIDEN LIKELY VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS
Mattingly admitted that social media platforms "more often than not" gave in to the censorship demands by the Biden administration. However, he insisted that it "makes sense," and is "probably what we should do on public health grounds."
"[T]he Biden administration would regularly reach out to Twitter and Facebook and other companies in kind of the early stages of their COVID response and say, this person is spreading lies about vaccines, this account is spreading misinformation that is inhibiting — not just our efforts, the administration’s efforts to address COVID — but also public health, do something about it. And often, I think more often than not, the companies would respond and say, okay. And there are emails that came out during the course of this case that that was something that I think — when it was explained to me at the time, I thought, alright, that makes sense, that’s probably what we should do on public health grounds."
What is striking is not just the blind acceptance that the government should be protecting us from harmless thoughts. It is also the failure to recognize that the government was wrong on many of these points while experts were being banned and blacklisted.
Many people were routinely censored on Twitter and other platforms for daring to challenge the official position on masks.
VideoThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially rejected the use of a mask mandate. However, the issue became a political weapon as politicians and the press claimed that questioning masks was anti-science and even unhinged. In April 2020, the CDC reversed its position and called for the masking of the entire population, including children as young as 2 years old. The mask mandate and other pandemic measures like the closing of schools are now cited as fueling emotional and developmental problems in children.
The closing of schools and businesses was also challenged by some critics as unnecessary. Many of those critics were also censored. It now appears that they may have been right. Many countries did not close schools and did not experience increases in COVID. However, we are now facing alarming drops in testing scores and alarming rises in medical illness among the young.
BIDEN TO APPEAL BIG TECH COLLUSION RULING BANNING ADMIN OFFICIALS MEETING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA FIRMS: REPORT
Masks became a major social and political dividing line in politics and the media. Maskless people were chased from stores and denounced in Congress. Then-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing that "face masks are the most important powerful health tool we have."
VideoHowever, there are now ample studies stating that "a new scientific review suggests that widespread masking may have done little to nothing to curb the transmission of COVID." It added that "wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people)."
JUDGE PRAISED FOR ‘STUNNING’ JULY 4 REBUKE OF BIDEN ADMIN ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP: ‘FINALLY’
It also found little evidence of a difference from wearing better masks and that "wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (five studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (five studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (three studies; 7799 people)."
Again, I expect that these studies will be debated for years. That is a good thing. There are questions raised over the types of studies used and whether randomized studies are sufficient. The point is only that there were countervailing indicators on mask efficacy and a basis to question the mandates. Yet, there was no real debate because of the censorship supported by many Democratic leaders in social media. To question such mandates was declared a public health threat.
The head of the World Health Organization even supported censorship to combat what he called an "infodemic."
CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER
Bhattacharya previously objected to the suspension of Dr. Clare Craig after she raised concerns about Pfizer trial documents. Those doctors were the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a more focused COVID response that targeted the most vulnerable population rather than widespread lockdowns and mandates. Many are now questioning the efficacy and cost of the massive lockdown as well as the real value of masks or the rejection of natural immunities as an alternative to vaccination. Yet, these experts and others were attacked for such views just a year ago. Some found themselves censored on social media for challenging claims of Dr. Anthony Fauci and others.
VideoThe media has quietly acknowledged the science questioning mask efficacy and school closures without addressing its own role in attacking those who raised these objections. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of COVID-19 (a theory now treated as plausible) was denounced as a conspiracy theory. The science and health reporter for the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli, even denounced the theory as "racist."
Yet, Mattingly and others are now defending censorship by repeating a tautology: the government must seek the censorship of ideas because some ideas must be censored. Governments have always claimed that censorship of critics and dissenters is for the public’s best interest. They have always defined certain views as harmful or false.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Now, however, major media figures are shrugging off free speech concerns and supporting censorship as what former CNN media host and correspondent Brian Stelter called a "harm reduction model." While once fiercely opposed to censorship and government-supported blacklisting, many in the media are echoing Mattingly's view that the natural default should be to obey the government and its directions on permitted speech.
After all, this is all for our own protection. Censorship just "makes sense."
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JONATHAN TURLEY
Unmasking the DEI Paradox - Minding The Campus
Unmasking the DEI Paradox - Minding The Campus"...A recent Boston Globe editorial titled “DEI Denial is the modern day lynching” by Ya’Ke Smith engages in this kind of sophistry....
But in the same article, Smith slips in the claim that any disagreement with DEI policies is an act of violence, writing that “modern day attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies in higher education institutions are the equivalent of the tightened rope, and just as suffocating.”...
Indeed, obfuscation is often the point.
Indeed, obfuscation is often the point.
- This can be introduced by using words that are so ambiguous or abstract that they fail to describe anything we can even recognize. By replacing words like ‘torture’ with ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ by calling someone in prison “a person experiencing the criminal-justice system,” or by changing ‘sex changes for children’ to ‘gender-affirming care for minors,’ proponents of these tactics often obsess over semantics.
- Such abstractions might even be embedded in a vaguely worded slogan, such as ‘Protect Trans Kids.’ Does that mean allowing eight-year-old boys who self-identify as female to have surgery and start taking puberty blockers, or does it mean making sure they are protected from these often irreversible decisions until they are older? As usual, the devil is in the details.
Orwell wrote that “The worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them,” and none of this verbal gymnastics makes torture, prison, or surgical mutilation less brutal...
Indeed, many view reality itself as nothing more than a language game...
Indeed, many view reality itself as nothing more than a language game...
The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision | Power Line
The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision | Power Line - STEVEN HAYWARD 
"Harvey Mansfield once quipped that the Democratic Party is a coalition of college professors and morons, which prompted “Lucretia” to remark on a podcast that it is impossible to tell the difference.
- But if higher education wasn’t an adjunct of the Democratic Party, surely the left would be charging the industry with consumer fraud and price gouging...
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