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Instability in The Middle East always raises issues for Israel and particularly if Jordan is involved:

https://www.jns.org/instability-in-neighboring-jordan-is-bad-news-for-israel/?ct=t%28Daily+Syndicate+4-4-21+%28new%29_COPY_01%29

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My friend, Star Parker, sounds off and I could not agree more. For those who may not know, Star is a star. She picked herself up and made something of herself and I am proud to say I know her, respect her and from time to time support her organization with a modest contribution. Go Star!

A Message To Delta CEO Bastian From A Delta Diamond Flyer

By Star Parker

The controversy surrounding the new voting law in the state of Georgia raises important issues regarding the governance of our country and the role of corporations.

Corporations are big and have a lot of economic clout, so there is justified concern about them abusing this economic power.

It’s why there are such strict lobbying laws in Washington. We want to make sure that corporations don’t step over the line of representing their legitimate interests in legitimate ways.

Corporations such as Atlanta-based Delta are now falling over themselves to see who can be the most zealously out front and condemn Georgia’s new voting law.

After President Biden, who called the new Georgia law “Jim Crow on steroids,” suggested that Major League Baseball pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wasted little time to announce plans to do just that.

But isn’t the key issue about the “democracy” of the voting law? And wasn’t Georgia’s law passed by a democratically elected state legislature and signed into law by a democratically elected governor? Who are these multinational businesses to condemn what Georgians passed into law by their own state democracy? Who is Major League Baseball to use its economic clout to punish Georgians for a voting law that was passed legitimately and legally through the machinery of their own democracy?

According to Statista, 32% of Major League Baseball fans are Republicans, 38% are Democrats, and 30% are independents. Manfred reportedly earns $11 million in compensation to serve this diverse group of fans what they want — great baseball. One widely quoted businessman now claims Atlanta will lose $100 million in tourist revenue as a result of pulling the game. Who is hurt here, and why?

When CEOs speak out in the name of their company, they are not speaking as private citizens but as an employee of their company. They are paid to serve customers and produce value for owners — shareholders.

I happen to have Delta Million Miler Status and Diamond Medallion Status. I make considerable effort to adjust my flight plans so I can maintain this status.

It does not please me at all to discover that Delta CEO Ed Bastian does not spend every waking minute of his time on the job making sure customers like me get the best service possible.

Somehow, Bastian and other corporate CEOs have mistakenly concluded that they are being paid tens of millions for their opinions on voting law and matters concerning black Americans. As a black American and Delta Diamond traveler, I disagree with everything I have heard from Bastian on both these matters, and I urge him to spend his time on what he is paid to do.

Here’s what famed economist Milton Friedman had to say on the subject in his classic text “Capitalism and Freedom”: “The view has been gaining widespread acceptance that corporate officials … have a ‘social responsibility’ that goes beyond serving the interest of their stockholders …”

He continues: “Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.”

In 2019, Delta had 91,000 employees worldwide and around 30,000 in Atlanta. As private citizens, the 30,000 who live in Georgia can exercise their political proclivities as they choose. In this way, Delta influences local politics. However, the common interest of all Delta employees worldwide is the economic welfare, the business, of the firm that pays them.

No doubt it is the left-wing activism of groups like Black Lives Matter, and the Democrats with this agenda who now control the White House and Congress, that has motivated CEOs to step out on Georgia’s voting law.

In doing so, they are abusing the economic power of their firms and, as a result, damaging the economy and the political integrity of our nation.

Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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I received this from a dear "white" friend and fellow memo reader. I am most unlikely to read devotionals so would never have come by this article had she not sent it to me.

I find the person who wrote it repulsive but she is entitled to say what she wants and I have the right to expose her. The fact that Chanequa Walker-Barnes claims to have a PHD simply proves education is not always the answer.

You decide.

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Best-Selling Devotional Has Prayer to 'Help Me to Hate White People'

BY MATT MARGOLIS

How far have we come since Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech?

Sometimes, I’m not so sure. While our society has made tremendous progress toward the idea that all men are created equal, anti-whiteness seems to be all the rage these days. And that is no less racist than hating anyone of any other color.

Yet, in the book, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, there is a prayer called “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman” that asks God to “help me to hate white people.”

Dear God,

Please help me to hate white people. Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist.

The book, published in February, was a New York Times bestseller.

The offending prayer was written by Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Ph.D. According to her bio, she is a “theologian and psychologist” and “her mission is to serve as a catalyst for healing, justice, and reconciliation.”

So, wanting to hate white people serves that mission? Really?

As you can see in the above screenshots, the whole prayer is a hateful screed against white people, and even specifically calls out “Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters.”

My prayer is that you would help me to hate the other white people—you know, the nice ones. The Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who “don’t see color” but who make thinly veiled racist comments about “those people.” The people who are happy to have me over for dinner but alert the neighborhood watch anytime an unrecognized person of color passes their house.

Lord, if you can’t make me hate them, at least spare me from their perennial gaslighting, whitemansplaining, and white woman tears.

How is this not racist? She basically claims that if you’re white and watch Fox News and voted for Trump, you’re a racist.

How does something like this get published and make the New York Times bestsellers list? Imagine if there was a daily prayer in there that began “Dear God, Please help me to hate black people.” There would be outrage—and justifiably so.

The editor of the book, Sarah Bessey, says recent outrage about the book, and Chanequa Walker-Barnes’s prayer in particular, is not justified, and points to the line in the prayer that says, “I’m not talking about the white antiracist allies who have taken up this struggle against racism with their whole lives…”

But then there’s this passage:

Lord, if it be your will, harden my heart. Stop me from striving to see the best in people. Stop me from being hopeful that white people can do and be better. Let me imagine them instead as white-hooded robes standing in front of burning crosses.

Can you honestly read through the whole prayer and conclude it’s not racist? Again, you can read the whole prayer in the above screenshots.

But hating white people is in vogue, especially amongst privileged left-wing white Americans desperate to prove how tolerant they are by virtue-signaling their manufactured disgust for their own race.

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Biden's Blandness Helps Him Govern From the Left Janan Ganesh, Financial Times

Media Corruption Is at the Heart of Our National Conflict Emily Jashinsky, Federalist

The Democrats Are Stuck in 1964

Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal

The 60 Minutes Smear of DeSantis Keeps Getting Worse

Katie Pavlich, Townhall

Why America's Elites Want to End the Middle Class

Edward Ring, American Greatness

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Biden's pooch more active than his master but what they are doing is quite similar:

Bad Dog! Joe Biden’s Dog Has Another Incident, But This Time It Was Inside The White House

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Justice Thomas shows us how:

Justice Thomas shows how we can end Big Tech censorship for good

By Betsy McCaughey

On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas announced that the Supreme Court soon will have to put an end to Big Tech tyranny. Amen. If the high court fails to act, it could mean the end of free speech in the 21st century and the shriveling of our constitutional rights to mere “paper rights” — still there on paper but functionally hollowed out.

Thomas cited the crisis problem of social-media platforms like Facebook and Google wielding unlimited power to censor users whose views they don’t like. His opinion offers hope at a time when Democrats controlling Congress are demanding that tech giants censor more. On March 25, Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce ordered tech CEOs to silence views that “undermine social-justice movements.”

Thomas’ announcement came in the context of a case involving former President Donald Trump. In office, Trump occasionally blocked his Twitter critics, and some of those critics sued, claiming the president’s Twitter account is a public forum. The high court ruled the case is now moot, because Trump is out of office. Thomas concurred — and agreed with a lower court holding that Trump had violated his critics’ First Amendment right to be heard.

But Thomas said “the more glaring concern” isn’t what Trump did to a few critics, but rather the power of tech giants to censor or ban users entirely, even the leader of the Free World. The justice expressed astonishment that Facebook and Google could remove Trump’s account “at any time for any or no reason.”

Wrote Thomas: “One person controls Facebook . . . and just two control Google.” Three people, in other words, have the power to disappear any of us from the digital public square, even a commander in chief. The Supremes, Thomas concluded, must rein in this unaccountable tyranny.

Big Tech apologists argue that private companies are free to censor as they please. And it’s true that the First Amendment prohibits only government from silencing viewpoints. But private ownership is never the beginning and end of constitutional analysis, not when there is so much at stake.

As Thomas showed, these companies are more like common carriers or public utilities than private companies. And they must be regulated as such: AT&T can’t refuse to open a phone account for you or limit your conversations based on your worldview. Likewise, Southwest Airlines can’t pick and choose who rides its aircraft based on their opinions about transgenderism or #Russiagate. Yet the tech giants get to do exactly that. Why?

Thomas also likened Big Tech to “public accommodations,” such as hotels and baseball stadiums, which are legally required to serve everyone and not discriminate.

Nor did Thomas buy free-market absolutists’ argument about competition limiting Big Tech tyranny. He pointed to the “substantial barriers to entry” facing newcomers. The fate of Parler proves the justice’s point. When the Twitter alternative offered a censorship-free platform, Big Tech colluded to crush it.

We’re facing a new form of censorship, in some ways far more sinister than the state-directed variety. Democrats and their media allies are happy to deputize Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to censor the deplorables; there is no recourse or appeal, because the people doing the censoring are nameless, faceless Silicon Valley operatives.

And don’t count on President Joe Biden. A staggering 14 of his picks to serve in the transition or in his new government are Big Tech alumni, according to a Daily Caller tally. Indeed, Biden probably owes his presidency in part to Big Tech — which rushed to censor this newspaper’s reporting on the Hunter Files, on the patently false pretext that The Post had peddled “disinformation” or “hacked material.”

It’s salutary, then, that Thomas believes the high court can apply his reasoning without waiting for Congress. Until then, the public will hear only what Silicon Valley wants, and the place is awash with wokesters more dangerous than any college campuses — because these people control the levers of information.

Last week, Lara Trump posted an interview with the former president on Facebook. Immediately, Facebook took it down, explaining that “further content posted in the voice of Donald Trump will be removed.”

Only the high court will restore uncensored discourse, an American ideal. Thomas’ opinion illumines the way.

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.

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Stacey Abrams is the black equivalent of AOC, the infamous Puerto Rican bartender. Both are radical, lying peas in the same pod. Furthermore, a vituperative AOC cost her constituents thousands of good paying jobs and benefits when she caused Amazon to move a facility from her district. In the case of Abrams' lying , a feckless MBL Commissioner moved The All Star game from Atlanta to Denver costing her state and city a guestimate of $100 million.

There are always consequences and radicalism does not come cheap.

Meanwhile:

If Republicans want to defeat Stacey they need to settle, now, on a top flight candidate who needs to go into black churches and neighborhoods and tell them what they need to hear:

a) Democrats have played them for fools for decades.

b) Democrats have demeaned them by suggesting they are incapable of functioning as normal beings.

c) Ask them, are they better off today after trillions of dollars have been spent on them?

d) Are they less dependent on "the man" having enslaved themselves to The Democrat Party?

e) Remind them what Trump did for them in several years by way of wage increases, more job opportunities, better prospective housing opportunities, reducing competition for jobs from illegal immigration, important law revisions, etc.

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The GOP Needs to Understand That Corporations Are Its Enemy

Kurt Schlichter

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Manchin needs to chuck the radical Democrat Party and become what he is, a moderate Republican.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manchin-filibuster-biden/2021/04/07/03635ab2-97fd-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html?itid=hp-top-table-main

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These are ominous and revealing comments: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56671638

And:

U.S. Loses Military Edge Over China, Experts Say

Here's What We Know >>

Are we actually this nuts?

Subject: Fw: Russian Vs US Recruiting Ads!

https://rumble.com/veynzj-us-military-pushes-inclusion-effeminacy-while-russian-recruitment-ads-empha.html

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Listen and be fair to FAIR.

It takes time for counter articles, forces and efforts to form, to build, to respond. It is as if America has returned to the days when witches were burned at the stake and people were placed in stocks for speaking out etc. America is becoming what we have fought against and if allowed to continue we will become what we have fought against, lawlessness, intolerance, a dictatorial and socialist led society, a dispirited country where government rules "We The People," etc. A nation of dispirited, uneducated and non-competitive citizens.

Cancel Culture: What you shouldn't apologize for.

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FAIR News

Neo-Racism in Government

And Critical Race Theory in the News

Vermont Establishes a Vaccine Rollout Plan On

Racial Lines

In an alarming move, Vermont has established a vaccine rollout plan based on race. Chris

Rufo, a member of the FAIR Board of Advisors, has regarded this as "a flagrant violation of

the Fourteenth Amendment." This policy risks further inflaming racial divisions and sets a

precedent for advancing policies that grant preferential treatment on racial lines. Issac Shorr

has published a piece regarding this issue in National Review.

"America still has a ways to go if it is to become a land of perfectly equal opportunity. Few

would contend that we’re already there. But Vermont’s racial-preference scheme for vaccine

prioritization is plainly a step backward in this regard — one that should leave Americans

wondering who exactly these people governing us are, and how their moral compasses could

be this broken."

Read the full article here:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/vermont-endorses-racial-preferences-in-medicine/

Parents Rally to Defend Merit-Based Admissions

Rong Xiaoqing penned an intriguing article for City Journal in which she shares the struggle

of parents to maintain merit-based admissions policies for gifted students in New York. The

movement against Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s proposal to remove the Specialized High School

Admissions Test has devolved into a larger discussion regarding diversity and segregation in

public schools. Much of the anti-merit sentiment in local governments, such as New York,

can be linked to the use of critical race theory.

"'Even when I was in China, I was enchanted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a nation

where people are not 'judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.'

But now what they are doing is the opposite.'"

Read the full article here:

https://www.city-journal.org/asian-american-activists-fighting-ncy-school-reform

Critical Race Theory in the News

Conor Friedersdorf published an eye-opening article in The Atlantic in which a concerned

mother expresses her alarm over what is being taught in her children’s school. Ndona

Muboyayi became disillusioned with the critical race theory-inspired "Black Lives Matter at

School" curriculum. The interview underscores the harmful impact the curriculum has had on

her children’s motivation. She is now running for school board in the 65th District to

challenge the disempowering curriculum.

"'My son has wanted to be a lawyer since he was 11. Then one day he came home and told

me, 'But Mommy, there are these systems put in place that prevent Black people from

accomplishing anything.' That’s what they’re teaching Black kids: that all of this time for the

past 400 years, this is what [white people have] done to you and your people. The narrative

is, 'You can’t get ahead.'"

Read the full article here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/black-lives-matter-curriculum-has-

unintended-lesson/618501/

A recent piece published in Reason by Jesse Singal describes what a newly tenured

professor at Lake Washington Institute of Technology faced after speaking up during a

critical theory-inspired training. Professor Elisa Parrett was placed on administrative leave

for speaking out, and the school opened a nine-month investigation into Parrett’s actions

that included private investigators. "The victims of these inquisitions are often accused

of having perpetrated a level of harm that would strike a reasonable observer as a profound

exaggeration of what occurred."

Read the full article here:

https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the

-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/

A column by Joanna Williams in Spiked explores the implications of imposing

critical race theory on toddlers in British nurseries. This underscores the fact that neo-

racism is a pressing phenomenon across the globe. "Perhaps worst of all, every child is

taught to see and judge their classmates according to skin colour. Racial thinking is

rehabilitated."

Read the full article here:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/07/critical-race-theory-is-invading-the-nursery/

FAIR Board of Advisors member John McWhorter published a piece in The Atlantic

on the loss of common meaning around words in American political discourse -

particularly "racism."

As a linguist, McWhorter describes his disillusionment with the increasingly polarized

linguistic landscape in America. "Terms we use daily mean such different things to different

people that communication is often blunted considerably, and sometimes even thwarted

entirely. The gap between how the initiated express their ideological beliefs and how

everyone else does seems larger than ever."

Read the full article here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/nation-divided-language/618461/

FAIR Board of Advisors member Bari Weiss recently appeared on the podcast

GoodFellows at the Hoover Institution to discuss the future of institutions in the

age of cancel culture and illiberalism. Bari discusses her departure from The

New York Times and warns of the potential for a society in which "curiosity is a

liability."

Listen to the podcast here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bz5gKxHlv0&t=2s&ab_channel=HooverInstitution
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