Does BLM Matter More Than America? Hillsdale Matters. Will Israeli Palestinians Re-elect Bibi? Trump Piñata For 20 More Years.

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For America to survive must blacks go first and their demands be met? Gains achieved through intimidation eventually build resentment and could prove ephemeral.

What blacks have also achieved is to prove how fickle and weak corporate America, like Coca Cola, is and they also were able to prove, as did Obama, white guilt can be manipulated.

It took America some 245  years to achieve what it has and in less than 20 years it has been brought to its knee's in many ways. Success like anything fragile must be nurtured and cared for. Franklin warned us but we did not heed.

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Friend of Liberty,

 

I have a special gift for you—a set of unique notecards featuring pictures of the “Liberty Walk” statues found on the Hillsdale College campus. (edited.)

 

These beautiful cards include George Washington and Thomas Jefferson … Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass … Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan.  

 

All of these statues stand proudly on Hillsdale’s Michigan campus—one of the only institutions of higher learning that refuses EVERY PENNY of government funding, even indirectly in the form of federal or state student grants and loans.

 

You can view the cards at this secure link: 

https://secured.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale/get-your-liberty-walk-notecards

 

Let the cards serve as a reminder to you of the vigilance and commitment needed to defend liberty—especially right now, a critical time for our country. 

 

Sadly, several recent polls and events around the country show that increasing numbers of young Americans are being drawn to socialism and other ideas destructive of liberty. 

 

And the unrest in communities nationwide, where statues of our Founding Fathers are being vandalized or torn down, is another symptom of this underlying disease. 

 

What explains this development? As an educator and president of Hillsdale, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. Here’s one primary reason…

 

For decades, the “progressive” leftist academics who became dominant in most of America’s colleges and universities after the 1960s have been teaching a biased and distorted view of American history. 

 

The New York Times’ recent “1619 Project” is a prime example. 

 

According to the “1619 Project,” the key to understanding America is not freedom, but slavery—and the Project’s main goal is to inject this false teaching into the curricula of America’s K–12 schools.

 

Imagine young minds in classrooms all over American learning this. Does it make you as concerned as it does me?

 

And given this trend in American education, is it any wonder that our young people feel less of a patriotic attachment to our nation and are increasingly attracted—out of ignorance—to failed ideas such as socialism, ideas that are destructive of liberty?

 

Another sign of the “progressive” Left’s influence is the continuing attempt to erase our American heritage by destroying monuments, renaming schools and streets, and censoring works of literature in the name of “political correctness.”

 

The Left knows that it cannot remake society according to its ever-evolving idea of “progress” until it has “canceled” patriotism and hallowed out the idea that we should be grateful for our blessings to the great men and women of the past—many of whom are depicted on the cards I’d like to send you. 

 

This is why we are engaging the Left on the battlefield of education … and why your generous support is needed right away. 

 

After all, those on the Left are extremely well-funded, thanks to liberal billionaires like George Soros and his ilk.

 

With the support of citizens like you—citizens who understand the importance of education to liberty—we are ramping up its outreach efforts on behalf of liberty, especially to our nation’s youth.   

 

It is even more urgent that we do so in the face of efforts such as The New York Times’ “1619 Project” that undermine patriotism and lead to an increased pull toward socialism.

 

Hillsdale is the only educational institution in America that is reaching and teaching millions of citizens of all ages, from coast to coast, about America’s great heritage of liberty.  

 

Your generous support today will...  

 

• Expand the circulation of Imprimis, Hillsdale’s digest of liberty, to reach millions more Americans (you can also receive a free subscription of Imprimis…for life). 
• Send millions of pocket-size copies of America’s founding documents to schools across America, and to members of our armed forces, who have sworn to defend the Constitution.
• Increase the number of citizens (especially younger Americans) enrolling in Hillsdale’s free online courses such as “Constitution 101” and “The Great American Story: A Land of Hope.”
• Launch and support more and more Hillsdale-affiliated classical K-12 charter schools nationwide, returning excellence to American K-12 education and impacting thousands of our youngest citizens.  

One other thing you should be aware of… 

 

As I mentioned, to maintain our independence, we do all of this liberty-defending work while refusing EVERY PENNY of government funding—even indirectly in the form of federal or state student grants and loans. NOT. ONE. PENNY.

 

So, your support is even more crucial to ensuring that future generations of Americans will be educated in American civics and prepared to defend freedom.

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Heat Seeking Missile

By: Judd Garrett

Objectivity is the Objective

March 14, 2021

 

Have you ever seen a heat-seeking missile in-flight as it flies toward its target? The nose of the missile shifts back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth; slightly moving to the right, recalibrating to move slightly to the left, recalibrating to move slightly back to the right, recalibrating to move slightly back to the left. It continues this back-and-forth, this right and left dance until it finally locks in on the target, and strikes. Through all the subtle movements left and right, the missile is always progressing toward its target. It may move slightly off the course at times, but it always recovers, and never loses sight of the ultimate goal.

 

Our country used to be like a heat-seeking missile. There was a philosophical, political, societal target out there in the distance, in the form of ideals like freedom, justice, equality, civil rights, and our country, like the missile, was always progressing toward that target.

 

We would have an election, and our country would move slightly to the right. And then we would have another election, re-calibrate and move slightly to the left; we would have another election, re-calibrate and move slightly back to the right. We would continue these subtle philosophical, political, societal adjustments right to left, right to left, always with both eyes, right and left, on the agreed-upon target, progressing toward freedom, justice, equality, civil rights.

 

This left-right battle worked effectively for our country for hundreds of years. The United States made great progress toward the goals set forth by our founders, in our founding documents, striving each day to create that more perfect Union. Even through our failures in this regard, we have led the world in the advancement of freedom, justice, equality, and civil rights.

 

And through our trajectory through time, and the back-and-forth struggle that played itself out on a daily basis, the left needed the right, and the right needed the left. We kept each other on the correct path. There was tension and bad blood at times, but both sides needed the other. There’s a reason why people have two eyes. You cannot see an object with the proper depth and perspective without a fully functioning left and right eye. If you only see out of one eye, you’re myopic. If you only govern through one ideological lens, you’re politically myopic.

 

Every heat-seeking missile utilizes all of its sensors. That’s what it’s doing on the path to its target; it is allowing all of its sensors to be engaged, to have input in determining its course to its goal. What would happen if one of the sensors shut down, or one sensor over-powered the others? The missile would lurch drastically off course, fly in the wrong direction, and completely miss its target. All the sensors must be firing at all times on all sides of the missile. And the back-and-forth dance must be synchronized, not antagonistic.

 

This is why free-flowing debate is vital for the growth of our country, the broadening of our souls. And shutting down debate is so damaging to our country and ourselves, stunting our collective and individual development. The censoring of speech, the canceling of individuals, the shutting down of debate is like shutting down sensors on the missile; it will fly drastically off course. It can’t not because there is no counterbalance to keep it in line, to help it fly straight. Many times, your fiercest enemy is your greatest ally. He brings the best out of you while shining a mirror on the worst parts of you.

 

If the heat-seeking missile suddenly stopped in midflight and took a hard turn away from its target, we would conclude that something went terribly wrong. One of the key sensors must have been shut down because the missile is flying in the wrong direction.

 

America has suddenly taken a sharp left-hand turn, flying way off target, no longer moving in the direction of freedom, justice, equality, civil rights, but towards the false promises of censorship, social justice, equity, group rights. And whether the people leading us are working under a misguided sense of benevolence, or a clear purpose of malevolence is immaterial. We are no longer progressing toward the vision of our founders, but the visions of Marx, Mao, Stalin, and others who propagated an ideology that has promulgated totalitarianism and oppression worldwide, tearing dozens of countries to shreds, and murdering hundreds of millions of people.

 

That is the end result of myopia created when one side is shut down, canceled, censored. There is no counter-balance, no way to correct the course. That’s why totalitarianism, whether in the guise of fascism or communism, always ends with body bags stacked a mile high. There is no counterforce to knock them off their deadly path.

 

We have started down that path. And slowly but surely the levers needed to right the course are being shut down, dismantled, invalidated by those blindly intent on continuing down this course like a driver stubbornly refusing to stop and ask directions while his car hurtles toward the edge of a cliff. We are being led by fanatical myopia that has only one destination, destruction. We must do everything in our power to knock our country back on the right course, aiming for the right target because once we head over that cliff, all that is left for us is a fiery grave.

Illinois city prepares first round of reparations to black residents, but activists say it's not enough

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Will BIBI be re-elected by Israeli Palestinians?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/1-in-3-arab-israeli-voters-want-netanyahu-to-remain-pm-poll-finds/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-03-14&utm_medium=email

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Bennett, Sa’ar and Israel’s legal tyrants

The Yamina and New Hope party leaders are hoping the attorney general will remove the leader they cannot defeat at the polls, but refuse to see that if he succeeds, all future elections will be irrelevant.

By Caroline Glick

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC) on Sept. 3, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

In a week and a half, Israel’s polling stations will open and Israelis will elect their representatives to the Knesset for the fourth time in two years. As was the case in the last three elections, the upcoming elections revolve around one issue—Israel’s legal fraternity.

All aspects of public life in Israel today are dictated by the attorney general and the Supreme Court, which have devoured the powers of the Knesset and the government. Over the years, the legal fraternity has acted through judicial and bureaucratic fiat to cancel the checks and balances on its power. Today, the attorney general and the court justices determine their own powers. Not surprisingly, as far as both are concerned, their powers are unlimited.

Whether the issue is deciding who is a Jew, public funding of cultural institutions, public health policy, land use, economic priorities, military rules of engagement, immigration policy, counter-terror policies, or other questions from the mundane to the existential, the only decision makers in Israel are the attorney general and the Supreme Court justices. Elected leaders are at best advisers.

To preserve and protect their powers, the attorney general and the justices have the state prosecution. The attorney general’s role as head of the state prosecution gives him the power to strike terror in the hearts of Israel’s elected leaders. They know that he holds the power to open criminal probes against them whenever he wishes. The very existence of this threat generally suffices to convince a majority of politicians to keep their heads down and loudly extol the “rule of law”—that is, the unlimited power of state lawyers—as the guardian of Israeli democracy. Politicians who have spoken out against the legal supremacists have invariably paid the price.

This brings us to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although substantively, every election since April 2019 has revolved around the unchecked powers of the legal fraternity, the media have presented the elections as referendums on Netanyahu. While the pronouncement is a distortion of reality, it isn’t entirely ungrounded.

It is not Netanyahu’s record that is being judged; as far as the anti-Netanyahu media are concerned, the less his record of achievement is discussed, the better. Rather, the media is able to cast Netanyahu as the central issue of the elections because he is the current target of the legal fraternity’s continued efforts to seize all governing powers from Israel’s elected leaders.

Every pathology of the legal fraternity’s unchecked powers is present in the campaign it is waging against Netanyahu. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is waging an unlimited war against Netanyahu because he recognizes that Netanyahu’s political fortunes will determine the legal fraternity’s future. If Netanyahu prevails, the legal fraternity will be stripped of its unchecked power. If he is defeated, the fraternity’s control over the country will be institutionalized.

Netanyahu’s opponents on the right don’t see things this way. Both Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett and New Hope Party chairman Gideon Sa’ar insist there is no connection between the legal fraternity and its war against the premier. Both men claim to support comprehensive legal reform and both say that such reform can happen without reference to the fraternity’s war against the prime minister.

Sa’ar underlined this point this week by announcing that he is “considering” supporting a law that would give the attorney general the power to fire the prime minister by compelling a prime minister to resign if the attorney general indicts him. Bennett says he supports proposed legislation that would give criminal immunity to serving prime ministers, but would not apply the law to Netanyahu.

Bennett and Sa’ar start each discussion of legal reform by insisting Netanyahu has no credibility on the issue. For decades, they note, Netanyahu blocked efforts to rein in the legal fraternity. And they are right.

Not only did Netanyahu sit on the sidelines as the unelected lawyers seized ever wider powers from the Knesset and the government. He also did nothing as successive attorneys general targeted politicians for destruction through frivolous criminal probes. Netanyahu voiced no objection as now-President Reuven Rivlin, now-Attorney General Mandelblit and then-ministers Avigdor Liberman, Avigdor Kahalani, Raphael Eitan, Yaakov Neeman, Haim Ramon and Tzahi Hanegbi were brought before prosecutorial star chambers.

Only now, when the legal fraternity Netanyahu protected has come after him, has he suddenly become a champion of the reforms he blocked for years.

Sa’ar and Bennett are right to say that Netanyahu’s sudden desire for legal reform is based on his personal interest. If Mandelblit weren’t seeking to destroy him, he would have continued to block all reform efforts.

But the fact that Netanyahu is an opportunist doesn’t make Bennett’s and Sa’ar’s substantive claim—that you can separate legal reform from Netanyahu’s legal woes—correct. To the contrary, they are entirely wrong. You cannot separate the two.

To be clear, there is nothing reasonable about Mandelblit’s prosecution of Netanyahu. In stark violation of Israel’s Basic Law, the criminal probes of Netanyahu were initiated without Mandelblit’s written authorization. And it was all downhill from there. The central charge in the indictment, “bribery,” relates to non-criminal actions that Netanyahu undertook. Specifically, Mandelblit claims that Netanyahu’s efforts to receive positive coverage from a media outlet owned by a personal friend of his was solicitation of a bribe. And when his friend’s media outlet published a couple of supportive stories, Mandelblit maintains, his friend paid a bribe to Netanyahu.

In other words, Mendelblit invented a new form of bribery, not mentioned in Israel’s criminal code or the criminal codes of any other democracy. The implication of Mandelblit’s determination is not simply that Netanyahu is being railroaded. It is far broader than that. His invention of this new form of bribery transforms the professions of journalism and politics into criminal enterprises. To pursue Netanyahu, Mandelblit has turned criminal law and criminal procedure on their heads.

Mandelblit’s predatory obsession with Israel’s elected leader has served not merely to put the fear of God into Israel’s politicians. He has used his outrageous campaign against Netanyahu as justification to expand his own powers beyond anything imagined in law. Citing Netanyahu’s scurrilous indictment, he seized the government’s power to appoint the chief prosecutor and barred the prime minister from being involved in the selection of the police commissioner.

He has similarly used his legally groundless indictments to take over Israel’s political life. Among other things, Mandelblit held a primetime press conference to campaign against Netanyahu and announced his indictment while the premier was meeting with the U.S. president in the White House. Mandelblit has even used his prosecution of the premier to seize the power to decide if Netanyahu may form a government.

Mandelblit’s behavior is the reason for Israel’s now two-year political deadlock. After his illegally initiated probes of Netanyahu destabilized the government and the political world, Mandelblit used the instability he caused to expand his powers.

The only way politicians will dare to take action to restrain the powers of the legal fraternity is if the fraternity’s power to retaliate by opening criminal probes against them is revoked. So the first step the next Knesset must take is to restore the substantive criminal immunity of Knesset members.

In 2005, the Knesset stood the immunity law on its head. Until then, the law provided automatic substantive criminal immunity to all lawmakers for actions they took while serving in elected office. Under the amended statute, lawmakers have no immunity unless the Knesset Ethics Committee grants it. Obviously, the only lawmakers who will ask for immunity are those facing indictment. In other words, the changed law empowered the attorney general to open criminal probes against lawmakers at will.

The lawmakers amended the law because together with the justices, the then-attorney general waged a massive campaign, enthusiastically supported by the media, to force them to do so—in the name of the “fighting corruption.”

Shortly after the amendment passed, the floodgates opened. Successive attorneys general massively expanded their criminal investigations and indictments of lawmakers and ministers. Almost every politician who tried to limit the powers of the legal fraternity found himself under investigation. Since the 1990s, every sitting prime minister has been placed under criminal investigation. Four justice ministers have been indicted.

If the next Knesset adopts Bennett’s and Sa’ar’s position and tries to advance legal reform without regard to Netanyahu’s trial, their efforts will quickly come to naught.

With or without Netanyahu, they will still need to begin their efforts by restoring the Immunity Law to its original wording. The only way to deny Netanyahu the protection of a restored immunity law would be to determine that the law doesn’t apply to actions taken before the amendment comes into force. But if the lawmakers so determine, then their amendment will be rendered irrelevant from the outset. After all, the attorney general will be able to simply open investigations regarding actions all the lawmakers undertook before the amendment. Once this becomes apparent, all thought of legal reform will disappear faster than you can say “subpoena.”

But assuming that lawmakers figure out a way to give themselves immunity while leaving Netanyahu’s head on the chopping block, what impact will that have on the governing powers Mandelblit has seized? Will he no longer be empowered to haul journalists and editors into police interrogation rooms for publishing nice stories about politicians involved in clipping his wings? Will Mandelblit retain the power to appoint the state prosecutor?

Moreover, if they leave Netanyahu hanging, why would his supporters support their efforts at legal reform? How can they get a majority of Knesset members to support legal reform without Netanyahu’s loyalists on board?

Bennett and Sa’ar are right that the only reason Netanyahu wishes to reform the legal system is because his survival depends on such reform. But they are just as cynical as he, if not more so. They are hoping that Mandelblit’s war against Netanyahu will remove the leader they cannot defeat at the polls and so clear the road for them to rise to power. What they refuse to see is that if Mandelblit succeeds, all future elections will be irrelevant.

Netanyahu’s self-serving position provides the Knesset with an unprecedented opportunity. Thanks to Mandelblit, there is solid majority support among members of Knesset for comprehensive legal reform. The job of lawmakers committed to such reforms—including Sa’ar and Bennett—is to join forces with the lawmakers who want to stop Mandelblit’s railroading of Netanyahu.

Together they can do what lawmakers have been afraid to do since the outset of the so-called “judicial revolution” in the mid-1990s. They can restore the powers of the Knesset and the government by passing and amending laws to restore checks and balances on the judiciary and subordinate the attorney general and the state prosecution to Israel’s elected leaders.

Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.”

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

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And why not?

Democrats Will Blame Trump for Every Problem They Create for the Next 20 Years

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Poor Herbert Hoover. The Republican president had the misfortune of being in office when the Great Depression hit. While some of his policies contributed to the severity of the downturn, the depression was the inevitable outcome of ruinous tariffs and overproduction.

But from 1930 to the 1960s, Democrats made the word “Hoover” synonymous with “disaster.” Hoover became a whipping boy for every Democratic president up to and including John Kennedy.

Now, with a disaster at the border entirely of their own making, Democrats are casting about for someone to blame for the crisis. Naturally, they didn’t have to look very far.

Washington Examiner:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the number of migrant children and teenagers currently held in custody at the southern border a “humanitarian challenge,” blaming the Trump administration’s handling of immigration for the uptick.

“This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us,” Pelosi told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. “What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the childrens’ interest.”

The media has prepared the battleground for Democrats superbly. Trump has become a villain in every morality play the Democrats are staging. And that probably won’t change for decades.

Due to more hospitable shelters already being at 94% capacity, many detained minors have been staying an average of 107 hours in the facilities, longer than the legally allotted time of 72 hours, according to NPR.

On Saturday, the Biden administration announced it would deploy the Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid the situation at the border over the next three months.

Pelosi praised the move, calling it a step to manage border issues better than the Trump administration.

It’s all for show, of course. FEMA is just putting more useless boots on the ground. Their mission is to show that Joe Biden is “doing something about the problem.” Beyond that, their uniforms photograph well.

However, Biden administration officials say it’s been a challenge to keep up with the demand of children needing services at the border, most of whom are under U.S. care for an average of 37 days.

“We are not in a place where we’re going to be able to meet the demand that we are seeing,” an official close to Biden said. “Every day, we are bringing new beds online, but it takes a lot of time, unfortunately, in terms of our licensed care-provider network. We are aggressively adding hundreds of beds by the week to our care-provider network.”

It takes a lot of moxie to blame a president who tried very hard to prevent what’s happening at the border now. But it won’t only be the border crisis. Any problems Biden has will magically end up being blamed on Donald Trump.

Republicans better get used to it.

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