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by | December 3, 2025 · 6:49 am

Fourth Day of Advent

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us each the graces we need to perform the unique tasks You assign us. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BIDEN: Just a little (cringe) flashback to what Jill did when she was the FLOTUS in charge of Christmas at the White House.

EVERYDAY HEROES: “Your body might break at times, but as long as your spirit doesn’t break, you’ll get through it, and get creative and find a way.” [25:12] – Amy Purdy lost both her lower legs when she was 19 years old. She went on to become a champion snowboarder and, in 2014, competed on Dancing with the Stars. Five years later, she suffered a massive blood clot in one leg that made it impossible for her to use a prosthetic.

“She lived for 20 years with her biological legs, another 20 years with prosthetic legs, and now she’s staring down the next two decades knowing new challenges lie ahead. ‘How do I want to live the next 20 years of my life?’ she asks. “I want to make sure that I’m fully taking care of myself and I’m thinking more of sustainability and longevity and health and wellness versus just accomplishing everything I can.’”

HOLIDAY SHOPPING: CLICK https://x.com/llandoniffirg/status/1994420487808549098 to see a giant inflatable Grinch. I am very sorry that I was not able to source this for your shopping pleasure.

HYPOCRISY: CLICK https://x.com/Kevin__McMahon/status/1995649546479960538 [2:13] to hear a reminder of a drone strike Democrats had no problem with … when Biden ordered it.

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: [11:19] – More winning! Biden lost more than 50% of his SCOTUS cases; Trump has been winning more than 90%.

LIFE: Last year, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued 11 pro-life pregnancy centers for allegedly spreading false and misleading information in violation of state business fraud laws. The Alliance Defending Freedom represented the centers’ right to inform women about abortion pill reversal.

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled in favor of the pro-life centers, saying the First Amendment clearly protects their right to speak and their clients’ right to hear about this potentially life-saving option.

MIRACLE MINUTE: [7:40] – I was privileged to hear the testimony of an elderly lady in our parish who had kept her Lourdes miracle a secret for 13 years, lest the cancer return. It never did.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Keep our eyes on the Real Reason for the Season! In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

SCIENCE: FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says that Pfizer’s experimental mRNA influenza vaccine will not receive approval because it showed “zero benefit” in trials.

“We’re not just going to rubber stamp new products that don’t work, that fail in a clinical trial. It makes a mockery of science.”

SECRET SANTA: [3:52] – Imagine the relief!

TRANSPORTATION: The Transportation Department has removed 3,000 commercial driver license training providers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Training Provider Registry government licensure requirements. An additional 4,500 training providers have been put on notice for possible noncompliance.

GRAMMY NOTES: [3:37] – Mama Buzz sent this video to me with the following, which I do not recall ever hearing about before! “Reminds me of the independent first grader I was on the first day… yup, an old veteran at the busses, got on the wrong bus because they had CHANGED THE ORDER from the year before! It wasn’t just me. One of the kids who also went to Bonnie’s and was a year ahead of me also got on that bus. Rather than being some of the first kids off like we normally would, we had to ride the entire bus route and then got dropped off .”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-cWQ48YSa2k to see Norway’s bicycle elevator.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-cWQ48YSa2k to see how “sinking” wells are constructed.

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by | November 14, 2025 · 4:50 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Hail Mary, Full of grace, The Lord is with Thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

CATHOLIC HOSPITALS: On Wednesday, U.S. Bishops officially banned gender transition treatment at Catholic hospitals. Bishops will have autonomy in putting the new directives into law for their dioceses. More than one in seven patients in the U.S. are treated each day at Catholic hospitals. In some areas, Catholic hospitals are the only medical centers available.

CROCKETT: One of the Left’s Trump-hating darlings has just been outed for the elitist fraud she is. Federal Election Commission filings show that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-39) has spent nearly $75,000 on luxury hotels, transportation and security this year. While “representing” her Dallas constituents, she found it necessary to stay at luxury hotels and use limousine services to visit Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

EVERYDAY HEROES: “Am I gonna be alone?” Amy said to me the first night I took her. I grew up with little money and a loud house. When my mama passed, I helped raise my cousins. I learned early—family means staying. Years later, I started volunteering at a youth center. That’s where I met Amy, quiet and careful with her twin brothers, Micah and Miles. When I finished my foster classes, Amy was the first to move in. One night, she told me about their baby sister, Laila, placed in another foster home, almost adopted. The next morning, I called the agency. A week later, I met the couple and asked them to let the kids stay together. They agreed. Four beds. Four toothbrushes. One house is finally whole. At court, Amy looked up and said, “We don’t gotta pack anymore.”

HISTORY: During the Great Depression, widespread layoffs hit nearly every profession, including journalism. Women reporters were especially vulnerable, often the first to be dismissed when newsrooms downsized. Eleanor Roosevelt, recognizing this imbalance, took an extraordinary step: she began hosting her own press conferences, but with one condition, only female journalists could attend.

This wasn’t just symbolic. By creating a space where women had exclusive access to the First Lady’s insights and announcements, Roosevelt made their presence essential to news coverage. Editors were forced to keep women on staff if they wanted access to her briefings, effectively shielding dozens from unemployment and elevating their professional standing.

Beyond economic survival, Roosevelt’s move reshaped the role of women in media. Her press conferences became a platform for discussing social justice, civil rights, and women’s issues, topics often sidelined in mainstream coverage. In doing so, she didn’t just protect jobs; she expanded the scope and influence of women’s voices in American journalism.

ICE: On November 4 in Los Angeles, CA, ICE officers arrested Victoria Sorocean, an illegal alien wanted in her home country for premeditated murder committed with exceptional cruelty. Sorocean and an accomplice beat the victim with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window. In 2013, she fled to the U.S. to avoid prison.

ICE had her in custody during the Biden administration, yet despite her murder conviction, they released her to roam free in American neighborhoods, as they did so many other criminals. Not this time. She will remain in ICE custody until she can be returned to Moldova.

KAMALA: CLICK https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1988043850640941139 [:58] to hear her talk about how savvy she was during the campaign.

Comment by @ugly_cowboy – “Trump was playing 4D chess while she was playing Candy Land.”

PLASTIC: [2:25] – Nzambi Matee is a materials engineer in Kenya who has figured out how to turn plastic waste into strong, lightweight paving bricks.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Father, pour out Your Spirit on America. Let revival break out in homes, churches, and workplaces. Amen.

SHUTDOWN: In case you hadn’t heard, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over.

SIGH: ::sigh:: my hometown. We call it “The Berkley of the East” and “The Soviet Socialist Republic of Ithaca.”

SMH: Then-Rep. Duffy resigned from his position after his ninth child was born with health complications requiring open-heart surgery. By resigning rather than taking leave, he sacrificed his salary, opened up the position for someone else to take over and actually do the work, and had to find a new line of work that allowed him to spend more time with his family.

Then-TransSec Buttigieg took maternity leave after delivery of the surrogate twins he and his husband had purchased. During his time at home, he continued to draw a salary while nobody was doing his job. At the end of his leave, he returned to his job at full pay.

SOCIALISM: I saw this on Facebook – “The Left’s favorite catchphrase is ‘Tax the rich’ not ‘help the poor’ because their ideology is based on envy and resentment.”

TRANSPO: On Nov. 10, Biden’s TransSec, Pete Buttigieg, posted to X – “Why is Trump going after America’s air traffic controllers, today of all days? It’s one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums.” CLICK https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1988447535996760492 [:44] to hear Trump’s TransSec, Sean Duffy, respond.

Posted on the thread by @xLEGUS – “South Bend resident here! When Pete was mayor, there were literally potholes large enough to plant trees in, but I agree, none exist large enough to hide all of his failures. It was great for South Bend when Pete left, unfortunately, very bad for the country!”

CLICK https://x.com/DGrayTexas45/status/1885489600589664646 [:37] to see then-TransSec Pete pretend to ride his bike to work.

Posted on the thread by @iamchrisbryant – “I actually was an air traffic controller- Pete shut down towers and centers during the pandemic and tried to make Western NC a no-fly zone. Hardly commendable performance.”

GRAMMY NOTES: This week, my 75-year-old husband got to climb two ladders to put storm windows back in the two windows we use for a/c. We’re looking into getting a couple of mini splits when/if Trump sends us that tariff bonus.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Psk_geG141A and watch to the end!

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by | October 16, 2025 · 4:13 pm

Democrats

Last fall, Oprah Winfrey said that, if Trump won, women could very well lose the right to vote.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4k5M8E_1uOk [:21] to hear it.

I asked Grok, “What would it take for women in the USA to lose the right to vote?” The extensive answer is below.

For women in the USA to lose the right to vote, a constitutional amendment would be required to repeal or modify the 19th Amendment, which grants women suffrage. This process is deliberately difficult and involves the following steps:

  1. Proposal: A constitutional amendment must be proposed either by a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures (34 out of 50 states). The convention method has never been used.
  2. Ratification: The proposed amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 out of 50), either through state legislatures or state ratifying conventions, as specified by Congress.

Key Considerations:

  • Legal and Political Barriers: The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, is entrenched in U.S. law. Any attempt to repeal it would face significant opposition, as voting rights are a cornerstone of democratic principles. Courts, including the Supreme Court, would likely scrutinize any legislation or actions restricting voting rights under existing constitutional protections, such as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
  • Practical Challenges: Public opinion strongly supports universal suffrage. Mobilizing the required supermajorities in Congress or among states to propose and ratify such a change would be nearly impossible given current political and cultural norms. Women make up roughly half the electorate, and their voting power would influence lawmakers against supporting such a measure.
  • Historical Precedent: No constitutional amendment granting rights has ever been repealed. The closest example is the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition (18th Amendment), but that addressed a policy issue, not a fundamental right.

Hypothetical Scenarios:

  • Extreme Political Shift: A drastic change in political ideology, such as the rise of an authoritarian regime or a supermajority of lawmakers opposed to women’s suffrage, would be necessary. This would require a level of political upheaval unprecedented in modern U.S. history.
  • State-Level Restrictions: States could attempt to restrict voting access through laws (e.g., voter ID requirements, felony disenfranchisement, or gerrymandering), but these would not explicitly target women’s right to vote and would likely face legal challenges under federal law, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • Judicial Overreach: A Supreme Court ruling reinterpreting the 19th Amendment in a way that undermines its protections could theoretically occur, but this is highly unlikely given precedent and the amendment’s clear language.

Conclusion: Repealing women’s right to vote would require an extraordinary and improbable combination of legislative, judicial, and societal changes. It would face massive resistance, legal challenges, and public backlash, making it effectively unattainable under current conditions.

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by | August 28, 2025 · 8:40 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Bless our children with all the graces they need to become truly holy. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

1A: CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1960495188352045143 [:23] to see a man who claims to be a veteran “challenge” Trump’s recent executive order by burning a flag near the White House. He shouted into his bullhorn, “Burning this flag as a protest to that illegal fascist president that sits in that house. … There’s a First Amendment right to burn the American flag. No president can make a law, period.”

He was arrested, not for peaceful protest by flag burning, but because he set a fire in a public park outside a designated area. As for making a law, Trump did no such thing. He merely encouraged prosecutors to apply to flag burning the SCOTUS ruling that speech intended to incite violence is not protected under the First Amendment.

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recent rulin in Moncada v. Blinken could strengthen Trump’s efforts to stop illegals from dropping their so-called “anchor babies” on U.S. soil.

The case involved the son of a Nicaraguan diplomat who had assumed he was a citizen, because he was born here. When he applied for a passport, they told him he wasn’t eligible, because his father had had full diplomatic immunity. The court ruled that he is not a U.S. citizen, because IOW, he and his family had not been “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States at the time of his birth.

Being “subject to the jurisdiction” means being under the complete legal authority of the U.S. government, including its laws, courts, and regulations. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S.-born child of parents who were legal residents, though not citizens, was himself a citizen.

The question remains if those who are here illegally qualify as “subject to the jurisdiction” or not. IRS, anyone?

BOLTON: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1960419272955486471 [1:41] to hear a then-and-now from Cenk Uygur.

CABINET CLIPS: [5:05] – I asked Grok to explain Rubio’s joke about having four jobs. “The remark highlights Rubio’s unprecedented accumulation of high-level roles in the Trump administration, stemming from a series of appointments and interim assignments since his confirmation as Secretary of State in January 2025.The four jobs Rubio referenced are:

  1. Secretary of State: Rubio’s primary Cabinet position, confirmed unanimously by the Senate (99-0) on January 20, 2025. He leads the U.S. Department of State, overseeing foreign policy, diplomacy, and international relations.
  2. Interim (Acting) National Security Adviser: Appointed in May 2025 after President Trump removed Mike Waltz from the role amid a scandal involving unsecured communications (known as “Signalgate”). This position involves advising the president on national security matters and coordinating the National Security Council.
  3. Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Assumed in February 2025 as part of efforts to restructure and reduce the agency’s operations, including a freeze on foreign aid and significant staff cuts. USAID handles U.S. foreign aid and development assistance programs.
  4. Acting Archivist of the United States (National Archives and Records Administration – NARA): Also taken on in February 2025 following the dismissal of the previous archivist, Colleen Shogan, in what was described as an act of retribution related to past investigations into Trump’s handling of classified documents. This role oversees the preservation and management of federal records.

CRACKER BARREL: If you’ve been following the brouhaha about the logo, here’s the latest. The new logo is kaputski. After the corporation lost over $143 million in market value, the bigwigs decided the old guy and his barrel should return.

D.C.: [4:48] – CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fNqGAU4xSsE to hear a journalist thank Trump for making her city safer.

FBI: Operation Take Back America/Operation Summer Heat is targeting cartels and criminal organizations threatening our communities. On Tuesday, the FBI-Athens Middle Georgia Safe Streets Gang Task Force charged seventeen alleged gang members trafficking in violence and drugs. LEOs seized a grenade launcher, 26 firearms (including 12 rifles), $900K+ in drugs & cash, 26 kg of cocaine, 1.7 kg fentanyl, meth, crack, and more. A grenade launcher?!

HHS: CLICK https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1960404607248818654 [:47] to hear Bobby Kennedy Jr. explain how he is working to keep rural hospitals open.

MAHA: CLICK https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1960685199605280796 [3:18] to hear him talk about reforming medical training to correct the woeful lack of nutrition education.

NIMBY: Bethel, CT, is a wealthy community that voted for Harris in 2024. Its residents are fighting tooth and nail to keep affordable housing out of their neighborhoods.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GzRrPUCErXw to see a random act of kindness.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kfAnYca12hY for good parenting and sweet outcome.

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by | August 23, 2025 · 8:20 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Confuse every enemy attack and send it back to sender. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BIDEN: [5:27] – Did you ever notice how often KJP et al. spoke of “the president” or “this president” with such sincerity? It makes me wonder if they were really talking to Obama and genuinely believed he was THE president.

BOLTON: [8:01] – On August 22, 2025, at about 7 a.m., FBI agents raided John Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland. The word on the street is they had a warrant to search for classified documents. The Epoch Times said, “The FBI did not provide a substantive reply in response to an inquiry”, but noted FBI Director Kash Patel had posted on X, “NO ONE is above the law … @FBI agents on mission” and that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, had shared this, writing, “Public corruption will not be tolerated.” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X, “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”

CALIFORNICATION: In the 2024 presidential election, nearly 40% of California voters chose Trump; fewer than 20% of California’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are filled by Republicans. But never mind all that! Democrats rule California and they want more! On August 21, Gov. Newsom on Aug. 21 signed a legislative package to put a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would redraw the state’s congressional map to redraw the boundaries for five of those nine seats, to give each of them a greater share of Democrat voters.

FLORIDA: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1958583144636195231 [1:24] to see Harjinder Singh, the illegal trucker who killed 3 people on August 13, get extradited from California. Florida did not issue an arrest warrant until August 15. Singh flew from Florida to California on the 14th and was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on August 16 without incident. He agreed to be transferred back to Florida to face charges. CLICK https://x.com/SplitMethod/status/1958628510169538841 [:22] to see video filmed by someone who drove by the accident Singh caused.

MAHA: [13:49] – Bobby Kennedy is not planning to run for president. He wants to put his efforts into fixing the vaccine court.

MEDIA: [3:23] – The White House Bureau Chief for the Washington Post reveals their agenda is not informing voters. Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization (which includes Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen) from 1996 to 2015.

PARTY DEMOGRAPHICS: Between the 2020 and 2024 elections, in the 30 states (and D.C.) that allow voter registrations by party, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters while Republicans gained about 2.4 million.

CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1958191652243198082 [1:18] to hear what Joe Scarborough’s guest, Molly Jong-Fast, says is the reason. As Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

PEACE TALKS: I remember when Democrats cheered because Obama said he would talk to ANY world leader without preconditions. But Trump talks to Putin and they yell, “Russia is our enemy!! How DARE he talk to Putin?!“

RUSSIA vs UKRAINE: Not long after Putin met with Trump in Alaska, the Russian army launched one of its largest overnight strikes since the war began. More than six hundred drones, ballistic and cruise missiles landed on Ukraine, killing one, injuring dozens and destroying an American-owned electronics company less than an hour from two NATO borders.

SCOTUS: The Supremes voted 5–4 on Aug. 21 to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The Trump administration argued that National Institutes of Health grants conflict with the president’s policy goals.

TRANS: OMG interview with Vanessa Savidge [1:34:20] – Vanessa Sivadge thought she’d found her dream job as a pediatric nurse at the nation’s top children’s hospital. Instead, she says she watched doctors steer healthy kids into gender transitions, prescribing powerful drugs, billing taxpayers, and hiding it from the public.

Out of her concern for the kids, she spoke anonymously in 2023 with journalist Christopher Rufo about the hospital having publicly claimed to have shut down the transgender medicine program, yet said it was continuing. Approximately two months after that interview, two FBI agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, came to her home, identifying her as a “person of interest” in an investigation related to a whistleblower who had exposed the program, alleging a violation of federal privacy laws (HIPAA).

She claimed the agents intimidated her, stating they would “make life difficult” for her if she was protecting the leaker and suggested she was “not safe” at work, implying someone at her workplace had given her name to the FBI. Doorbell camera footage shared by Rufo captured the agents at her door, asking to speak with her about “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately.”

I am gobsmacked that those two FBI agents showed up on official business wearing jeans and casual shirts.

GRAMMY NOTES: Aidan Perry, a young Florida man, survived being shot in the chest because a cross pendant his dad gave him last Christmas deflected the bullet. [4:35] – When my brother was in Vietnam, he was shot in the torso by a sniper. The bullet did massive damage, his recovery was long, and he has had some lifelong health issues as a result. But what the bullet did not do was kill him. The surgeon who removed the bullet said that, based on its trajectory, it should have gone straight through his heart. The surgeon said it had not hit anything that could have deflected it. It just altered course inside my brother’s chest and went around his heart!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o9ikQJVBSHQ to see what actors eating “raw meat” are really ingesting.

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by | August 19, 2025 · 2:01 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for saving me! Amen.

D.C.: Democrat leadership is on the wrong side of this one. [4:53] – Since the National Guard went to D.C., 48 homeless encampments have also been removed and 465 criminals have been arrested for parole violation, assault with a deadly weapon, assault on federal law enforcement officer, stabbing, robbery, attempted murder, and murder. At least one of those arrested is a member of MS-13.

EVERYDAY HERO: [2:03] – Very proactive 6-year-old!

HEALTH: Recreational water users should assume that Naegleria fowleri is present in warm freshwater across the United States. While infection remains very rare, cases recently have occurred in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, Maryland. I’m guessing the uptick is due to the extremely hot weather we’ve been having. More people swimming in warmer than usual water.

MARRIAGE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i9PQty40N2Q to hear why Candace Cameron Bure stopped taking romance roles.

SCOTUS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QhzCL5x010w to hear about yet another win.

TAXES: A new economic analysis that estimates taxpayers will see an average $3,752 tax cut in 2026, due to provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

TEXAS: Democrats have finally come back to work. The vote on redistricting is due to happen tomorrow.

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz sent this to me. The ladies chit chat about being moms to adults who are dating for the first 9:45. The meaty stuff about “What if I don’t like my body?” begins there and it’s well worth your time.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1954276658694983715 and grab a tissue.

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by | August 5, 2025 · 10:54 am

The Roots of the Issue

The current political divide is not Donald Trump’s fault; indeed, he only ran for president because of the dangers he saw it posed to our nation’s survival. In some ways, the roots of this issue actually go back to the Garden of Eden. But more recently, we can trace them to specific people and ideas. Below is a brief run down of what I have learned over the years. I’m sure there’s more and would welcome anyone who can add to our knowledge and wisdom on this (and any other) topic.

In the early 1990s, Michael Minnicino wrote an article entitled The Frankfurt School and “Political Correctness” (link below) in which he traced the roots of what he called “the new Dark Age.” He wrote that our current state was “consciously fostered and organized.” He posited that “either we create a Renaissance—a rebirth of the fundamental principles upon which civilization originated—or, our civilization dies.”

Minnicino identified the “single, most important organizational component of this conspiracy” as having been a Communist thinktank known as the Frankfurt School whose members were desperately disappointed that the glorious Bolshevik Revolution in Russia had not inspired the proletariat of other European countries to rise up and overthrow their own governments.

One of the members – Georg Lukacs (photo above) – wrote, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” A hundred years ago, Lukacs promoted sex education in the schools, easy access to contraception, and loose divorce laws. So did Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. So do the majority of the leaders and members of today’s Democratic Party.

Lukacs believed that what kept the West from embracing Communism was their Judeo-Christian belief in the uniqueness and sacredness of the individual and in the possibility of enjoying an unmediated relationship with the Divine. From Lukascz’ (and Satan’s) point of view, no society infused with such beliefs could ever “reach the state of hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary prerequisite for socialist revolution.”

Lukacs and the other denizens of the Frankfurt School sought to identify the means by which the Judaeo-Christian cultural matrix could be replaced with a demonic world view. They sought cultural forms that would alienate people from truth and goodness. In modern art, literature, and music, they promoted ugliness, pessimism, and discord. Brecht, for example attempted to write his plays so as to make the audience leave the theater demoralized and aimlessly angry.

The Frankfurt School saw the new technologies of radio, film, and recorded music as golden opportunities to exert control over society’s cultural matrix. They sought to do this, in part, by substituting art with entertainment. In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation (a supporter of the Frankfurt School) began funding research into the social effects of new forms of mass media, particularly radio, basing its headquarters at Princeton University. The director of the “Radio Project” was a Marxist named Paul Lazersfeld.

Under Lazersfeld was Frank Stanton, who one day would become president of the CBS News Division, and ultimately president of CBS. Stanton also became Chairman of the Board of the RAND Corporation and a member of President Lyndon Johnson’s “kitchen cabinet.” Another member of the Rockefeller Foundations’ radio research was Herta Herzog, who married Lazersfeld and became the first director of research for the Voice of America, which functioned from 1942 until Trump shut them down in March of this year.

The efforts of the Radio Project conspirators to manipulate the population spawned the modern pseudoscience of public opinion polling. Another member of the Radio Project was Hazel Gaudet, who became one of the nation’s leading political pollsters. In 1966, Gaudet organized the first meetings of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Nevada in her own living room. In 1970, she was elected Nevada’s representative on ACLU’s national board.

The major pollsters of today—A.C. Neilsen, George Gallup, Elmo Roper—started in the mid-1930’s and, by 1936, had become sufficiently widespread to justify a trade association, the American Academy of Public Opinion Research, which was located at Princeton and headed by Paul Lazersfeld. In 1940, the Office of Radio Research was turned into the Bureau of Applied Social Research, a division of Columbia University, also headed by Paul Lazersfeld. In fact, the entire development of television and advertising in the 1950’s and 1960’s was pioneered by men and women who were trained in the Frankfurt School’s techniques of mass alienation. Their techniques would eventually control American political campaigning.

The Frankfurt School also made major inroads in American academia. In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of baby boomers were exposed to the Frankfurt School’s poison, either directly or indirectly, when they attended college. It is no coincidence that this is also when student rebellions, widespread drug use, and the sexual revolution began.

By the 1990s, the ideas hatched at the Frankfurt School dominated the universities where students were taught to replace reason with political correctness. More recently, the cancel culture’s tolerance for all things left and intolerance for all things right have permeated our entire society. It is worth noting that Saul Alinsky and his protegé, Barack Obama, are both acolytes of the Frankfurt School.

Thirty-three years ago, Minnicino wrote that our only way out was “to discard the evil, and inhuman, and just plain stupid, and to go back, hundreds or thousands of years, to the ideas which allow humanity to grow in freedom and goodness.” I think it is clear that we are not embroiled in some new and different socio-political battle; rather, we are in the midst of what is likely the end of the ages old spiritual battle that began in the Garden of Eden. Obviously, the only way out is found in the Bible.

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by | August 2, 2025 · 7:16 am

The White House Ballroom

Construction is due to start next month on a new 90,000-square-foot White House State Ballroom to host major functions, eliminating the need for temporary tents on the South Lawn. The ballroom will have a seated capacity of 650 people, significantly larger than the largest current event space, the East Room, which has a 200-person capacity. CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1951393572894191707 to hear Trump say he’ll pay for the whole thing himself if private donors don’t contribute. Estimated cost is $200 million.

The last time a president oversaw a major renovation to the White House was the Truman Reconstruction (1948 to 1952). The White House, originally built in 1800 and rebuilt after the War of 1812, was in dire need of renovation. The interior wooden beams and floors were sagging and at risk of collapse and the plumbing, electricity, and heating systems were antiquated, posing fire hazards and inefficiencies.

With congressional approval, Truman initiated a comprehensive reconstruction to both preserve and modernize the White House. The interiors were gutted down to the foundation so a new steel and concrete framework was installed to replace the weakened wooden structure, ensuring long-term stability. Moldings, fireplaces, and paneling were carefully removed beforehand and reinstalled after to preserve the White House’s historical character.

A deeper, stronger foundation was dug to support the building and a two-story basement was added, including a bomb shelter (in response to Cold War nuclear fears) and mechanical rooms. New electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems were installed to meet modern standards. The Grand Staircase was rebuilt, and new elevators were installed for accessibility.

Truman added a balcony on the second floor of the South Portico, providing a private outdoor space for the First Family. This was controversial at the time, as critics argued it altered the White House’s iconic facade, but it’s now a beloved feature. The same thing happened in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was built. So, while I saw a lot of griping on X about Trump’s ballroom, I’m sure that one day it will be a cherished and praised feature of the White House.

The new ballroom will maintain the same neoclassical architectural style and will be located in part where the East Wing currently stands. The East Wing, built in 1902 and expanded in 1942, currently houses offices for the First Lady, the White House Military Office, and visitor offices, all of which will be temporarily relocated during construction. It isn’t clear where those functions will be moved to after construction is finished. Part of the ballroom will jut onto the South Lawn, connected via the East Colonnade, with a Palladian facade and columns on its eastern wall.

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by | July 6, 2025 · 1:29 pm

Fake News Hoax List – Part 2

SEVEN-HOUR GAP HOAX: In April 2022, the Left Stream Media pushed out a story that, between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. on January 6, 2021, documented communication with allies occurred between then-President Trump and allies, including a call to Vice President Mike Pence. Yet, during this seven hours and 37 minutes period, the White House switchboard logs showed no activity presidential activity. This led to speculation of a cover-up, with suggestions that Trump used burner phones and/or had suppressed records.

However, CNN later reported that the six pages of White House switchboard logs for January 6 were complete, and the gap was likely due to Trump’s typical phone habits. He rarely used the switchboard when in the Oval Office, relying instead on staff-placed calls via landlines or cell phones, which were not logged by the switchboard. This was consistent with practices during other administrations, including Obama’s.

RUSSIAN BOUNTIES HOAX: In June 2020, The New York Times published a story claiming that Russian spooks had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan to kill U.S. and coalition troops.

The story further alleged that U.S. intelligence knew about it and had briefed Trump in early 2019. President Donald Trump denied being informed and called the story a “hoax” and “fake news,” arguing it was meant to damage him and the Republican Party during the 2020 election.

The Left Stream Media continued to push the narrative until April 2021, when the Biden administration admitted that the tale was based on sketchy sources, which forced Democrats and their shills to drop their narrative.

TRUMP TRASHES TROOPS HOAX: In September 2020 – i.e., the final weeks of Trump’s re-election campaign – The Atlantic published a smear story written by a well-known Trump basher and based entirely on anonymous sources.

In it, the author claimed Trump had canceled a 2018 visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, citing concerns about his hair in the rain and dismissing the importance of honoring war dead, reportedly saying, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” The story also alleged he had questioned the value of military service during a 2017 Memorial Day visit to Arlington Cemetery, asking then-Chief of Staff John Kelly, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” The story also claimed Trump had called Marines who died at Belleau Wood in World War I “suckers.”

CLICK https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1303030811755716611 [3:13] to hear Trump talk about the allegations. Despite the lack of audio, video, or documented evidence, reliance on anonymous sources, and the timing during the 2020 campaign, Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, used the story during the 2024 campaign to argue that Trump was unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.

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  • The Bluebird of Bitterness – aka, Bob, aka, my best researcher – sent me this link @ https://scifiwright.com/2024/02/hoax-list/. It’s just a long list of the Breitbart links that I am explicating and illustrating for you, bit by bit. I included some additional links, but most of what I’ve used is from asking Grok for a rundown on each of the hoaxes.

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by | June 28, 2025 · 12:05 pm

Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for another day, Lord. May we each use it to Your glory. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CBP: Good riddance.

CONVICTED: On Friday, Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzalez-Ortega were fined $250 ,000 each and sentenced to die in prison for their roles in stuffing 66 wannabe illegals into a tractor trailer without air conditioning. Fifty-three of their “clients” died inside the sweltering hot box. The dead included six children and a pregnant woman, so make that 54 who died.

DEMOCRATS: H.R. 6976, aka, the “Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act”, has been passed by the House; 160 Democrats voted NAY.

The roll call vote is recorded @ https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025183. I’m pleased to see my representative, who is a Democrat, voted YEA.

The full text of the bill is @ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/875. Unlike many bills that have nice-sounding titles while being filled with pork, this one simply means what it says. That is, any illegal alien who drives while impaired is deportable. Whatcha wanna bet that “illegals who drive drunk vote Democrat” is the real motivation behind those NAY votes?

CLICK https://x.com/RepBarryMoore/status/1938277424221065333 [1:02] to hear from a congressman who knew two of the victims.

DEPORTATIONS: In the five months since Trump took office, 2,711 members of Tren de Aragua have been removed from our communities. TdA is one of the most violent criminal organizations in the world.

EDUCATION: Maybe the NEA has been wrong all these years that throwing more money at the problem will solve the problem.

FAIR SHARE: President Trump has convinced NATO nations to each spend 5% of their GDP on their own military defense by 2035.

FBI: Since Trump took office, the agency has arrested 4,000 violent criminals, a 62% increase from the same period last year, including three of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted, an unnamed number of cartel leaders, 825 violent child predators, and 140 human traffickers. These arrests have helped bring the murder rate in our country to its lowest level ever recorded. Fibbies have also assisted other LEOs in apprehending 18,000 illegal aliens and arresting more than 700 rioters.

SCOTUS: There is a lot of chatter on the ‘net today about the Supremes’ 6-3 vote to stop activist judges from interfering with POTUS’ executive powers.

CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1938740969651818697 [2:11] to hear Stephen Miller highlight how this decision addresses judicial overreach.

CLICK https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1938734598768541982 [:38] to hear Sen. Ted Cruz opine on the Barrett (pro) vs. Brown (con) decisions.

GRAMMY NOTES: I’ve been sewing for 69 years. I learned a lot of stuff I never knew from this excellent video. [19:28] – Because I am hypersensitive to chemicals, I have to prewash everything, sometimes more than once, before I can sew. Even after pre-washing, I often can not use flannels. I don’t know why, but they still give me a rash.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/9515357971895622 for a chuckle.

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