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General Douglas MacArthur in a speech to West Point cadets, May 1962: “The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image … No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.”

Jeffrey Folks contributor to American Thinker: It’s not enough just to have a few in politics and the media oppose the woke ideology. What is necessary is a widespread rejection of practices and ideas that we consider wrong. Americans need to decide, once and for all, whether they want the future of our country to be in the hands of decent, hardworking citizens with traditional values or in the hands of those who, by their own admission, wish to “transform” America into a country defined by extreme and antagonistic ideologies. All that is necessary is for ordinary Americans to regain their belief in the rightness and worth of their identity and to speak out whenever that identity is derided or dismissed. It is late in the day, but it is not too late to restore a nation with shared values of goodness, decency, and order. That is the prescription for health, prosperity, and security.

John Daniel Davidson contributor to The Federalist: . . . rest assured that every person in America is going to have to pick a side. If you don’t pick a side then your side will by default be that of the Machine, which dominates the heights of our post-Christian culture and economy. Whatever your opinion of transgenderism or identity politics, the Machine will suck you in and ensnare you unless you make a conscious choice to stand against it. So choose, and choose wisely. Your country — and, more importantly, your soul — depends on it.

Jeffrey Ludwig contributor to American Thinker: Just as the Israelites were held in a socio-economic bondage and needed a miraculous intervention to save them, we in the USA need more than personal resolve and more than what Christians sometimes call “a revival” to save us from the vice that penetrates our culture. Will such a miraculous event come? What will it look like? How will it manifest?

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

MacDonald: Pride Month is Still a Week Away But Monkey Pox Season Started Three Weeks Ago

The Gran Canarian Pride festival was a few weeks ago. It marks the beginning of Monkey Pox Season. It was ground zero for the 2022 Mpox pandemic, followed by several consecutive days of Pride celebrations in Belgium the week after. From there, it traveled the world. […] The 2023 Monkey Pox season is in full swing and not a word about it in the press that I have seen. Not yet. Perhaps not ever. And maybe that’s good news. It’s not fatal, but it’s still a pox, and while I’ve not heard much about it, why would I, as I don’t travel in circles with behaviors that might court an infection? But if last year’s epidemic were spread by attending church (Prayer Pox), it would have been the lead. […] Still, I did expect some cautionary news about safe sex or getting vaccinated or something. Anything but abstinence, which is that ten-letter word the hyper-sexual-left abhors. Did you say … Gasp! – Abstinence? This is why the WHO and the CDC had to wait through four months of infections before suggesting last year. Abstinence. Asking a gay man to keep it in his pants is a sensitive subject, like reminding liberals that Trump never colluded with Russia, that the FBI is a domestic terrorist operation, or that John Fetterman is a walking mushroom. But ask they did.

Something worked. The World Health Organization still has a page on the Pox but nothing new to add since the 2022 invasion of sacred Pride Ground.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Fischler: U.S. Supreme Court rejects Biden wetlands regulation, ruling for Idaho couple

The U.S. Supreme Court in a major environmental decision on Thursday overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s definition of wetlands that fall under the agency’s jurisdiction, siding with an Idaho couple who’d said they should not be required to obtain federal permits to build on their property that lacked any navigable water. All nine justices agreed to overturn the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that endorsed the Biden administration’s broad definition of waters of the United States, or WOTUS, the term for what falls under federal enforcement of the Clean Water Act. But they published four separate opinions that showed a 5-4 split in how far they would allow federal jurisdiction to extend, with the conservative majority ruling to significantly narrow federal agency power. […] Conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberals concurred with the ruling in favor of Idaho landowners Michael and Chantell Sackett, but objected to the majority’s narrow new standard, which they said introduced more uncertainty and would hurt water quality. […] Writing for the court’s majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the Clean Water Act applies only to wetlands with a “continuous surface connection” to the navigable waters like streams, lakes, oceans and rivers that are indisputably covered by the law.

THE CORRUPT U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Sundance: FBI Asst Director, “It just doesn’t add up” – that the FBI Doesn’t Know Who the J6 Pipe Bomber Is

Within the letter from congress [pdf HERE] you might note this line, “One former FBI assistant director observed, “[i]t just doesn’t add up . . . [t]here’s just too much to work with to not know who this guy is.” What they are talking about is the J6 “pipe bomber,” the person who planted the phony pipe bombs in Washington DC, presumably to enhance a domestic terrorism narrative.

Wehner: Second Oath Keeper sentenced to 12 years in prison for Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Oath Keepers Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. This is the second sentence to be handed down to a defendant found guilty of seditious conspiracy with relation to the Jan. 6 riot, with the first being handed to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison. Rhodes received the longest sentence, to date, related to the attack on the Capitol.

THE LEGAL CARTEL IS ABANDONING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

Christian Adams: Harvard Law Exposed: Courses Encourage Ape Behavior

What you are about to read about Harvard Law School is real. This is not The Babylon Bee. Harvard Law gives course credit for studying what a troop of monkeys can teach humans “for creating a society free of male sexual coercion.” It gets worse from there. This is part five of PJ Media’s jaunt through the courses taught at the nation’s top ten law schools: Do They Teach Law Anymore? Hans von Spakovsky and I are marching through the top ten ranked law schools by U.S. News and World Report and sharing with you what is being taught to future lawyers. The militancy and uselessness of the curriculum will astound you.

[…] Strap in. Let’s peruse courses being taught at Harvard Law School. No elite law school would be complete without the obligatory course in . . . […] That’s the problem with what is happening at elite law schools. They are no longer about graduating lawyers with the basic skills to help clients. Instead, they are deliberately graduating bad lawyers who are good at fundamentally transforming our country toward progressive policies. […] This is one of many cases dedicated not to teaching what the law is, but rather what the professors wish the law would be. Call it the utopian pedagogy that infests the elite law schools. It is built on arrogance and selfishness. Their model is not to graduate lawyers who can help clients with real problems, but rather graduate lawyers with the theoretical grounding to upend the law. More examples from Harvard: . . .

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Carney: House GOP floats blocking FBI’s new HQ

House Republicans have privately discussed blocking a new FBI headquarters by hitting the project’s funding — a potential escalation in the party’s increasingly antagonistic relationship with the bureau. It’s far from clear that such a move would unite House Republicans, much less pass muster with the Senate or White House. But as Republicans increasingly view the FBI with suspicion over investigations into Donald Trump and other political issues — and look for ways to cut spending — the party’s appropriators are under pressure to use spending bills to place new limits on the bureau, with the new headquarters being an early target.

THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY

Mahoney: Catastrophic “Loss of Control” Data Breach in NY Elections

A peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Information Warfare (JIW) confirms a “Loss of Control” breach has occurred in the NYSVoter Database. A peer-reviewed paper of their results in a respected journal is a hard-won and “significant milestone,” according to Marly Hornik, Executive Director of the NY Citizens Audit.

[…] To be absolutely clear, there is no known innocent purpose or explanation for why these algorithms exist. I am told by cyber-intelligence experts they indicate a ‘Total Loss of Control’ data breach, the most severe kind of data breach recognized by our federal government. The law says it renders the affected NYSVoter database completely untrustworthy.”

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY

(H/T PC) CDR Salamander: Speaking of the Russian Navy of the 1990’s

Because of its high profile and extended operations with alliance nations, the ships we assign to SNMG2 don’t just represent the USA as any warship that “shows the flag” does, but it imprints on the mind of military and civilian leaders in Europe the quality of the US Navy and by extension, the nation it serves.

Our opponents in the world will also see it as an indication of our general health, morale, and the respect we show our friends. I had an interesting seat as a junior officer. A little more than a month after reporting to my first sea duty command, I found myself with a front row seat to not just Desert Shield/Storm, but to the last year or so of the Soviet Union. I then watched from the Mediterranean and Atlantic the slow decay of the now Russian naval forces through the 1990s. A common refrain was as we got a close look at them was, “Did you see the condition they’re in?” Looks matter. With ships, even more than people, the external manifestations of poor condition are a warning of significant problems inside the skin of the ship Now, look up at the picture at the top of the post we got yesterday (thank you to the 1,324 readers who sent me the link) from WarshipCam. Hell, I’ll save you the trouble, let’s look at it again. That my friends is the Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG 95) as it was leaving Toulon, France yesterday, May 22, 2023.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Wilson: Biden Admin Funds Program Linking Republican Party to Neo-Nazis

The Biden administration is channeling funds to a university program that lumps Christian and conservative groups into the same category as Nazis.

Through a grant initiative meant to fight terrorism, called the Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, the Department of Homeland Security is directing money to a program at the University of Dayton called PREVENTS-OH. The program received more than $350,000 to fight “domestic violence extremism and hate movements.”

Greenfield: DHS: First You Watch FOX News, Then PragerU, Then You Become a Nazi

Disinformation and counter-extremism programs have become little more than tools for suppressing the political opposition. With DHS handing out grants to study extremism, the Media Research Center has information on what may be the single most explicit attempt at using counter-extremism funding to go after the opposition. […] The pyramid of extremism speaks for itself. First you watch FOX News, then some PragerU videos and then you become a Nazi. Also, “The seminar also compared former President Donald Trump to Pol Pot and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might wish to start a second Holocaust.”

[…] Among the organizations and movements displayed on the pyramid were the Republican Party, the . . . […] This is about criminalizing political dissent. Plain and simple.

Gillespie: No debt ceiling agreement as White House, Republicans eye specific cuts, including IRS funding: Reports

A source familiar with the ongoing talks between the White House and lawmakers from Capitol Hill told Fox News Digital the two sides had “not agreed” on any of the top line items or a one or two year extension of the debt limit as talks continued into Thursday night. According to the source, the two sides could not agree on any components until there was an agreement on defense and non-defense discretionary spending. Other reports said the negotiating parties were nearing a deal on raising the debt limit and cutting spending as the talks continued. The New York Times reported that the potential deal would provide a two-year increase in the debt limit and cap on all non-defense and veteran-related federal spending. Spending on the military and some veteran related care would increase next year, while non-defense spending would either fall or stay the same, the report said.

WOKE CORPORATIONS DOUBLE DOWN: CELEBRATE THE ALPHABET MAFIA IN JUNE

Davidson: Corporate America Has Launched A Religious War. It’s Time To Choose Your Side

Bud Light enlists a trans ladyface minstrel to sell beer. Target hires a trans Satanist to design LGBT clothes for kids and starts selling “binding” and “tucking” swimwear. North Face launches a marketing campaign featuring a creepy drag performer hocking LGBT gear to children ages 2 to 7. The Los Angeles Dodgers gives an award to a demonic hate group whose sole purpose is to blaspheme and profane the Catholic faith. All this, and June “pride month” hasn’t even begun. What’s happening? Why did so many major corporate brands decide to go all-in on promoting an aggressive, radical LGBT agenda that just a few years ago would have been considered totally unacceptable in civil society? Is this a psy-op? Is it real? What happens next? The short answer to these questions is that we’ve entered a new phase of the culture war, and in some ways have transcended “the culture war” completely. What we’re in now is better described as a religious war — one that’s been launched by corporate America against all of us, and therefore demands we all choose sides. Choosing sides in a religious war means you have to choose your religion. And in this particular religious war, there are only two sides. On one side is what C.S. Lewis called the Tao, which was his ecumenical shorthand for objective moral truth. […] On the other side is what the writer Paul Kingsnorth, among others, has called the Machine, which at its root is a Nietzschean rebellion against God that turns out also to be “a rebellion against everything: roots, culture, community, families, biology itself.” Like the Tao, the religion of the Machine, of progress and technology and will to power, has a very long pedigree. It goes back to the Garden of Eden, where the serpent assured Eve, “You will not surely die,” that if she ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she would become like God.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PROMOTE & GLORIFY GENDER DYSPHORIA A MENTAL ILLNESS

Miller: Fly the Woke Skies: United Airlines Rolls out Spiffy New Uniforms — With Pronoun Name Tags

So this guy’s sitting on a United Airlines flight, decked out in Nike gear and drinking a Bud Light, as he watches the latest LGBTQ offering from Disney — after almost missing his flight because he hit the new “Pride” sale at Target on his way to the airport. Just kidding, of course, but yeah — it could happen.

As reported by CrewRoom, United Airlines provided a “sneak peak” of its spiffy new upcoming uniforms, after the intended release was postponed for three years, due to the COVID pandemic. A United spokesperson told CrewRoom that the extended timeframe allowed the airline to “enhance the existing pieces and adapt them to the evolving requirements of the airline.” So what “evolving requirements” are we talking about, here?

Mangiaracina: Catholic bishops, lay groups universally condemn LA Dodgers for re-inviting blasphemous drag ‘nuns’

Local Catholic bishops and lay Catholic figureheads across the U.S. have resoundingly condemned the Los Angeles Dodgers re-invitation to the blasphemous anti-Catholic drag “nuns” to receive a “Community Hero Award” during the team’s LGBTQ+ Pride Night. […] Following the re-invitation, Bishop Robert Barron, former Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Senator Rubio highlighted the group’s deeply blasphemous and offensive reenactment of Christ’s crucifixion, with a man “pole dancing” on the cross around the “Christ” figure. “It’s hard to imagine anything more offensive than that,” remarked Barron, describing the “sisters” as an “anti-Catholic hate group” and noting that “Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice in America.” […] “If the hate group “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” was anti-Islam instead of anti-Catholic there is zero chance the @Dodgers would be honoring them with a “Community Hero Award” next month,” tweeted Rubio. ]…] To make your views respectfully known, readers can contact the LA Dodgers Executive/Administrative Offices at 1-866-363-4377 ext. 9

IN DEFENSE OF MASCULINITY

TheAmericanSon.com: In Defense of Ontogenetic Masculinity

(Part 1: My Mettle & Our Underdog Status)

Now to business. Men of character are under attack the most, but all men are under attack in some way, whether they want to admit it or not. The powers ‘that-should-not-be’ see such males as the only viable resistance to oppose their totalitarianism. These corruptors of men fear good men as Livy tells us from the past: Hence tyrants are always fond of bad men, because they love to be flattered, but no man who has the spirit of a freeman in him will lower himself by flattery; good men love others, or at any rate do not flatter them. Moreover, the bad are useful for bad purposes; ‘nail knocks out nail,’ as the proverb says. It is characteristic of a tyrant to dislike everyone who has dignity or independence; he wants to be alone in his glory, but anyone who claims a like dignity or asserts his independence encroaches upon his prerogative, and is hated by him as an enemy to his power. Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him .I will cover all the best traits of men in later material of this multipart article, but for today the single starting point is to cover the fact that Wokism is simply a camouflage effort to mask the fact of the chemical, hormonal and biological attacks, with bodily influences, including, but not limited to, estrogen mimickers. This should be the real focus of why we suffer from effeminate males most of all. All other aspects come second, and so we must alert our supporters, and use our energies, to bare down and bring attention to emotional males that their NWO antagonists have made them thus. Measuring dicks and letting others divide and conquer men into even small groups, as we argue that someone has chosen to be gay, bi or any other alphabetic soup is of lesser importance as to this fact. In the past there were homosexual men, but they were not as often the effete type, which arouse in urban areas and when female culture took over weaker societies.

BOOK RECOMMENDATION FOR CHILDREN AGES 4 TO 12: PRIDE COMES BEFORE THE FALL BY KIRK CAMERON

Griswold: Kirk Cameron Releases New Kind Of ‘Pride’ Book Just In Time For LGBT Narcissism Month

“Pride Comes Before the Fall” is the latest children’s book from Brave Books and actor and author Kirk Cameron, who has drawn some ire from LGBT activists himself after the same taxpayer-funded libraries that had hosted Drag Queen Story Hour then resisted giving the Christian writer a slot to read his previous book to kids. His new picture book is part of the publisher’s “Freedom Island Book Club” and features the same illustrated animal characters that little fans of Brave Books have come to know and love. Although the conservative book is being released during so-called “pride” month, it’s not an anti-LGBT book. Instead, it’s the first of several books from Brave that will cover the seven deadly sins, starting with pride not only because it’s at the top of the list but because, as Cameron told The Federalist, “It’s the deadliest.” Yet with corporate America, radical book publishers, public schools, and media cheerleaders coming out in full force for rainbow month — which now includes way more than the celebration of same-sex adult relationships — the book couldn’t come at a better time.

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Ibrahim: City Council bedlam: Somali ‘culture’ takes Minneapolis by storm

In a May 11, 2023 article, we explored the axiom that all cultures are created equal — or, in Pope Francis’s words, “Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others.” Two days later, that claim was put to test right here in the USA, when all bedlam broke lose in Minneapolis. On May 13, 2023: A riot erupted in Minnesota during Democrat nominations for Minneapolis City Council on Saturday, which led to no candidate being chosen in Ward 10 after officials were forced to shut down the event over safety concerns. Somalian supporters of city council candidate Nasri Warsame turned to political violence and reportedly assaulted Minneapolis city council member Aisha Chughtai and her supporters when she took the stage to speak at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s endorsing convention, the Star Tribune reports. […] At any rate, here is what America is not only importing, but implicitly approving of in the name of “multiculturalism.” After all, and despite the videotaped evidence of violence and the fact that some people were hurt and hospitalized, “no arrests were made.”