https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/19/americans-know-what-time-it-is/
Americans Know What Time It Is
There are many signs, including the announcement of the 1776 Commission, that the conscience of the country is awakening.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-ted-cruz-cites-contested-presidential-election-rapid/story?id=73121715
Sen. Ted Cruz cites possible contested presidential election in urgent push to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat
By Roger Kimball • September 19, 2020
Friday’s news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died after her long battle with cancer has briefly pushed most other topics off the great chyron running along the country’s metaphysical information highway. Still, there are lingering echoes of some ancient happenings.
For example, a couple of weeks ago, President Trump brokered a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (soon to be joined by Bahrain and other Arab states). This was a world-historical event that not even the silence and distortion of the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other Democratic Party mouthpieces could totally obscure.
And then there was the president’s announcement on Thursday that he was establishing a “1776 Commission” to “promote patriotic education.” The announcement came in the context of a White House-sponsored conference on American history, how it has been distorted, and how it might be rescued.
I single out these two items because they underscore things that the Left and the directionless but power-hungry tergiversations of the Left’s NeverTrump enablers have been warning us about since before Trump took office: first, that he is a madman whose blusterings would precipitate numerous wars and, second, he is a crude simpleton who lacks the sophistication demanded by his great office.
How do those charges look now? Every week it seems there is more good news from the Mideast. The last time I checked, Donald Trump had been nominated not once but twice for the Nobel Peace Prize (which led The Atlantic to declare that it’s time to end the 119-year-old award).
As for the crude simpleton wheeze, how about this from the president’s remarks following that conference on American history:
Our mission is to defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of the American character. We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.
Boilerplate? Maybe, but forthright boilerplate as the bit about the “twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms” shows.
Maybe there is precedent for a president wading into the murky waters of left-wing academic rhetoric, but I cannot think of one as explicit and as accurate as this. Adducing the doctrine of critical race theory and some of its operational offshoots like the New York Times-sponsored “1619 Project,” Trump said:
This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed. Critical race theory is being forced into our children’s schools, it’s being imposed into workplace trainings, and it’s being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors, and families.
The journalist Christopher Rufo has exposed the astonishing inroads this doctrine has made into major institutions of the federal government—including the Department of the Treasury, Homeland Security, the FBI, and even the laboratories manufacturing the country’s nuclear arsenal.
Take a peek: you’ll find a cadre of highly paid consultants running consciousness-raising workshops whose constant theme is the perfidiousness of American society, especially its free-market orientation and, most particularly, the white, male actors who have dominated its history.
The president mentioned another example, one recently published by the Smithsonian Institution. “This document,” he noted, “alleged that concepts such as hard work, rational thinking, the nuclear family, and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans, but were instead aspects of ‘whiteness.’” Don’t believe it? Take a look.
The president is right that such racialist left-wing agitprop is “offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity, and it is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted, not disparaged.” He is also right that “[t]eaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words,” for it seeks to rob them of a just appreciation of who they are and the nature of the country of which they are a part.
The gravamen of the president’s observations came towards the end. “For many years now,” he said, “the radicals have mistaken Americans’ silence for weakness.” The flagrant and malevolent nonsense of anti-American proselytizing in our schools, in the country’s corporate culture, even in major government institutions on the federal as well as the state and local level has been growing for years.
But there are many signs, including the announcement of the 1776 Commission, that the conscience of the country is awakening.
What was the response to the president’s initiative? Well, Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s national security advisor, hated it. She said Trump’s address was “was one of the most astonishing speeches I’ve heard him give. He talks about patriotic education. I thought I was listening to Mao Zedong running Communist China.”
Did she though? According to Rice, “We open students’ minds. [Please stop giggling.] We give them facts. We teach them how to analyze. We teach them civics and the foundations of the Constitution.” Really? Then she said this, which rather gave away the show: “When you study the Constitution, which it appears Donald Trump hasn’t, you understand it is a living document that has evolved.” Thanks, Woodrow, for that civics lesson.
At least we know where we stand.
Meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg weighed in on Twitter with a prediction: “A national debate between 1619’s version of history and Trump’s is going to leave a lot of people on the sidelines.”
Here’s my prediction. The president’s 1776 Commission will represent not Trump’s “version of history” but history’s own transcript. That was evident by the authoritative voices represented at the conference on American history that preceded and set the stage for the president’s remarks. It included such eminent scholars as Wilfred McClay, author of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (which Susan Rice would probably regard as Maoist because it is patriotic), Allen Guelzo, the great Civil War historian, Peter Wood, director of the National Association of Scholars, and Larry Arnn, the Churchill scholar and president of Hillsdale College.
Doubtless, though, the debate between the 1619ers and those supporting the president’s call to resuscitate patriotic education rightly understood will leave quite a few people on the sidelines. People who write for such left-wing funded outlets like The Bulwark, for example, or Goldberg’s new puppy, The Dispatch. I can already see Jennifer Rubin on the sidelines, right next to Max Boot. And isn’t that David Frum over yonder? Yes, I think so. Quite a little crowd in fact.
That’s the trouble with condescension. You have first to make certain that the people you wish to condescend to are not in fact towering over you, oblivious to your contempt. I’m afraid that Jonah Goldberg neglected to take this precaution.
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Here’s my prediction. The president’s 1776 Commission will represent not Trump’s “version of history” but history’s own transcript. That was evident by the authoritative voices represented at the conference on American history that preceded and set the stage for the president’s remarks. It included such eminent scholars as Wilfred McClay, author of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (which Susan Rice would probably regard as Maoist because it is patriotic), Allen Guelzo, the great Civil War historian, Peter Wood, director of the National Association of Scholars, and Larry Arnn, the Churchill scholar and president of Hillsdale College.
Doubtless, though, the debate between the 1619ers and those supporting the president’s call to resuscitate patriotic education rightly understood will leave quite a few people on the sidelines. People who write for such left-wing funded outlets like The Bulwark, for example, or Goldberg’s new puppy, The Dispatch. I can already see Jennifer Rubin on the sidelines, right next to Max Boot. And isn’t that David Frum over yonder? Yes, I think so. Quite a little crowd in fact.
That’s the trouble with condescension. You have first to make certain that the people you wish to condescend to are not in fact towering over you, oblivious to your contempt. I’m afraid that Jonah Goldberg neglected to take this precaution.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/20/pelosi-house-supreme-court-nomination-418773
Pelosi: House has 'arrows in our quiver' to delay SCOTUS nomination
“We’ve taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” she said.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/20/bill-clinton-mcconnell-trump-hypocritical-their-first-value-is-power/
Bill Clinton: McConnell, Trump ‘Hypocritical’ — ‘Their First Value Is Power’
https://nypost.com/2020/09/20/lebron-james-cant-believe-lori-loughlin-gets-to-pick-her-prison/
LeBron James can’t believe Lori Loughlin gets to pick her prison
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/back-2016-biden-said-president-constitutional-responsibility-fill-vacant-scotus-seat/
Back In 2016, Biden Said President Had ‘Constitutional Responsibility’ To Fill Vacant SCOTUS Seat
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/right-worship-not-given-by1st-amendment-protected-1st-amendment-san-francisco-archbishop-speaks-says-throw-bums-mentality-growing-video/
“Right to Worship Is not Given by 1st Amendment, It’s Protected by 1st Amendment” — San Francisco Archbishop Speaks Out, Says ‘Throw the Bums Out’ Mentality Growing (VIDEO)
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/09/20/letter-sent-to-trump-containing-ricin-originated-in-canada-n946145
Letter Sent to Trump Containing Ricin Originated in Canada
This isn’t the first time Trump has been targeted with a ricin attack. It happened in 2018.
https://twitter.com/FBIWFO/status/1307397341343813686
Letter Sent to Trump Containing Ricin Originated in Canada
BY RICK MORAN SEP 20, 2020 11:14 AM EST
A letter addressed to Donald Trump at the White House and containing the deadly poison ricin was mailed from Canada, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
NBC News is reporting that several other letters containing ricin were also intercepted at different facilities. It appears some of the letters were addressed to a Texas detention facility and sheriff’s office. Only one was addressed to a political figure.
Business Insider reports that the FBI has identified a female suspect. The FBI did not elaborate further.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington is taking charge of the investigation with help from New York and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
No links have been found between the poisonous letter and any international terrorist organizations, investigators said. They declined to elaborate on what evidence they had that pointed them to the female suspect.
However, officials have said that the investigation is still in its early stages, and nothing has yet been ruled out.
This isn’t the first time Trump has been targeted with a ricin attack. It happened in 2018.
A Navy veteran was charged for attempting to send envelopes with ricin to multiple US officials in 2018. William Clyde Allen’s case is still pending because officials found he had sent castor beans instead of ricin powder.
Former President Barack Obama was also the target of a ricin attack.
In 2013, actor Shannon Richardson was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for mailing letter laced with ricin to Obama and Michael Bloomberg, then the mayor of New York.
Ricin is relatively easy to make — if you know what you’re doing. There are many websites that purport to show you how to make the poison but experts say it’s a lot harder than that.
The question has arisen as to whether a person could learn to make ricin from information freely available on the internet. I’m not going to give you a definitive ‘no’ since I didn’t follow every single link on the subject, but I will say the top links that supposedly tell you how to purify ricin using lye and acetone contain many factual errors. Probably the only good advice given in the instructions is to remove the coat from the seeds. Also, any website that tells you ricin can be obtained from castor oil is wrong. Castor oil is essentially free [of] the toxin. If you are a terrorist or looking to purify the toxin for other purposes, you’re a stupid terrorist if you think instructions posted on the web by an anonymous source are reliable or that duplicating erroneous instructions across multiple websites magically makes the instructions correct.
We don’t know if the ricin sent to the president was of the homemade variety or something more deadly. That someone went to all the trouble of making it and then mailing it is worrying, but the safeguards put in place after the 2001 mail attacks on congress and the White House appear to be working.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/09/20/abc-proposes-impeachment-block-scotus-action-court-packing
ABC Proposes Impeachment to Block SCOTUS Action, Court-Packing as 'Retaliation'
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/20/murkowski-opposes-moving-forward-with-supreme-court-nomination-418910
Murkowski opposes moving forward with Supreme Court nomination
https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1307739674065203203
MoValley conference volleyball coaches are meeting this week to decide on playing. I’m one rather insignificant fan who pray u all use common sense and play. Surely we are as important as big 12
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one ofd lady is one thing wonder how the pressure of the world watching is going for her?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/billionaire-charity-retirement-fortune/2020/09/20/id/987804/
Billionaire Gives Away Entire $8 Billion Fortune
Chuck Feeney, 89
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1307750645500313600
The party that verifiably, falsely slandered and labeled Kavanaugh a “gang rapist” in front of his family and the whole world no longer gets to lecture us on decorum. Now, we make it sting.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisville-federal-buildings-close-week-city-awaits-state-findings-breonna-n1240553
Louisville federal buildings close for week as city awaits state findings on Breonna Taylor
Federal officials have not announced why at least two buildings are closing to the public, but there is anticipation of a possible announcement on the Breonna Taylor investigation.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/20/six-accused-of-starting-oregon-blazes-amid-wildfire-season/
Six accused of starting Oregon blazes amid devastating wildfire season
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Six accused of starting Oregon blazes amid devastating wildfire season
By Jackie SaloSeptember 20, 2020 | 1:21pm | Update
At least six men in Oregon have been accused of intentionally setting blazes during the state’s devastating wildfire season, according to a report.
There is no evidence that the suspects were motivated by politics, despite conspiracies that such an animus has fueled the fires that have burned more than a million acres, OregonLive reported.
Instead, some of the blazes were attributed to petty beef, relationship troubles and enjoying the “smell of smoke,” officials said.
One of the alleged arsonists, Jedediah Ezekiel Fulton, 39, was discovered setting fires July 28 in the woods outside Glide after he became upset with a member of a local forest protection organization, the outlet reported.
“Jedediah was mad because the guy from (the Douglas Forest Protection Association) would not help him and not give him a ride to town,” authorities wrote in a probable cause affidavit.
Then, Elias Newton Pendergrass, 44, was busted in connection with the Sweet Creek Fires on Aug. 30 after threatening to burn down the town of Mapletown if his girlfriend broke up with him, the outlet reported.
Others appear to have troubled backgrounds.
Jonathan Wayne Maas, 44, was busted for starting a blaze Sept. 9 near a disc golf course in Dexter, about 20 miles from the Holiday Farm fire that has spread to 170,000 acres.
Maas — whose rap sheet includes convictions for forgery, burglary and firearm possession – confessed to authorities that he tossed a flare into a forested area in the hopes of starting a fire, the outlet reported.
Then two days later, 53-year-old Samuel Piatt, who is homeless, told officers that he “likes the smell of smoke” when he was busted for lighting a large pile of leaves in Oregon City, the report said.
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Another homeless man, Domingo Lopez Jr., 45, was accused of going on a 12-hour spree that began Sept. 13 in which he set multiple brush fires along Interstate 2015 in Portland, the outlet reported.
He admitted to the fires and was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, authorities said.
Glenn Corbett, a professor of fire science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said the wildfire coverage could be motivating those with incendiary tendencies to commit the crimes.
“All that people are talking about right now is these fires, it’s on TV and in the newspapers,” Glenn told the outlet. “I would imagine this could be sort of a motivator for people who had those types of tendencies to begin with. It can certainly move them to becoming a participant.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/09/20/arrests-made-at-mitch-mcconnells-kentucky-home-after-hostile-protesters-defy-police-974735
Arrests made at Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky home after hostile protesters defy police
According to reports, the protesters plan to return to McConnell’s home every day until the conclusion of this year’s presidential election: