The 1st Amendment in an Increasingly Authoritarian 21st Century Society

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Legislation targeting transgender persons and ideologies are on the rise. …

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Evil By Invitation Only

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The Satanic Temple’s Baphomet Statue – is displayed in front of the Arkansas Capitol – They’re after our children. Pure and unspeakable evil has entered our country.  And no wonder, it was invited. It can be petitioned by word or deed. But, in our case it was both. This brace of evil can be found …

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Community Leaders Indignant Over Walmart’s Decision to Shutter 4 Chicago Stores

Citing losses of “tens of millions of dollars a year,” Walmart announced they will be closing four stores in Chicago. Four other Walmart stores will remain open in the city. The company issued a statement on Tuesday which said: The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened …

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If You’re Scared, Say You’re Scared. But Don’t Be Afraid of Stupid Stuff.

That things get stupid following a mass shooting, such as the one in Louisville, or school shooting like the one in Nashville, is expected. But there’s a point at which stupidity gets squared. From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Parents say Bala Cynwyd fifth graders texted about who should be shot in the next school shooting “Everyday …

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How to humiliate a liberal in 10 seconds or less

At a private Manhattan fundraiser in 2016, then-candidate Hillary Clinton famously described Trump supporters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.” This was Clinton’s updated version of former President Barack Obama’s 2008 remarks about the people living in small-town Pennsylvania, whom he depicted as bitter folks who “cling to guns or religion …

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Target Customer Demands Reparations, Gets Punched by Security Guard

The New York Post reviewed the police report of an incident that occurred at a Blue Ash, Ohio, Target store in October. Upon hearing that her bill totaled over $1,000, customer Karen Ivery became irate and demanded that it be paid by reparations. Ivery became so aggressive during her encounter with the manager, the store’s loss …

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Transmania: Why are Democrats tying themselves into knots to please < 1% of the population?

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One New Year’s Eve in the 1990s, I was seated on a train waiting to leave Grand Central Station when a huge man dressed as a woman moved through the car. Although he appeared oblivious to the stares and smirks from my fellow passengers, his presence had created quite a stir. As he settled down …

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Communists Seize Control of Chicago

It shouldn’t surprise anybody that a communist who wants to defund the police and introduce a bundle of new taxes aimed at the city’s dwindling business community just won the mayoral run-off election in Chicago. After all, Chicago is the city where the Communist Party of America was founded in 1919 by Socialist Party members …

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The Age of Upside Down

“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?” ~Simon and Garfunkel 1967. Seems appropriate in this age of upside down. Where are the heroes? Where are the adults? Where are the sheepdogs that protect the flocks? Are they gone or just uncaring? Who stands for the values that made us? I’m in my 70s and, by the …

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Helen Gym Flaherty Apparently Thinks That Money Grows On Trees

And she wants to do everything she can to improve public safety except the most obvious: actually enforce the law! As Robert Stacy McCain noted in “Chicago Votes for More Crime,” when the Windy City Democrats nominated police-hating Brandon Johnson to become their next Mayor, the bad things that happened under Mayor Lori Lightfoot would …

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