November 10, 2025
How the radical left plans on using Momdani.
Leaked Documents Exposed Democratic Socialist (sic) Plans to Control Zohran Momdani
Democratic socialism is a euphemistic term for socialism with a happy face. But in the end the iron boot mustfall to implenent any kind of socialism, which is state control of the eeconomy. I never use the term; all ds is is radical socialism in transition. Eventually they stop bothering with the phrase "democratic".
At any rate they already are demanding Momdani bend to their will. And don't think he won't do so eagerly.
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Well, well, well...
Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say…
More and more it looks like the Capitol Police was used as a black ops organization to foment trouble to frame the President. At least they did if what this Blaze story suggests actually is accurate.
The program found Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% -98% match with videos of the J6 pipe bomber. Karkhoff was a female former Capitol cop who left the force mid 2021 for a job at the, drumroll please, CIA!
How much do you want to bet she was already working for the CIA on J6, they just didn't tell anyone?
The article states:
"The FBI put us one door away from the pipe bomber within days of January 6, and we were deliberately pulled away for no logical or logically investigative reason,” Seraphin told Blaze News Friday. "And everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one.
This thing stinks and it gets riper the more we learn.
On the other hand this "gait analysis" could be pure rubbish, junk science run amok. And the core facts of this are in doubt.
We'll wait and see.
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Here is an interesting essay on the war of the sexes. The newest thing among leftist women is to not have a heterosexual relationship, or rather to hide the fact. The author of this piece explains that women do this because of other women, not their own actual wants.
The piece is titled "the death of men and the women who killed them" and that is fitting. It's definitely worth a read.
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November 08, 2025
How is this? In fact we keep hearing all sorts of bad news about how the public is upset about the economy yet by most metrics the economy is doing extremely well; inflation is down, unemployment is only slightly up (and that because people who weren't working anyway are now actually looking for work), gas prices are down, and investments in America are way up. Oh, and we are reducing the national debt. And many jobs are opening up that were previously stolen by illegal aliens.
But still....
Consumer confidence is down.
There is only one reason and that's the government shutdown.
This is no time for panic yet I see so many Republicans doing precisely that. It is ridiculous how a temporary bump is sending the GOP scurrying.
Do not fear; the trends are all upward. That is why the Democrats have shut the government down for so long in the first place; they are trying to strangle any recovery so Trump can't get credit.
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A huge crowd of Muslims gathered in New York City to claim the city for Islam. The same city that was once home to American Jewry.
This is what happens when you throw out your beliefs; new, alien ones come in and displace you.
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How could it not? There is no way a court can simply order Trump to fund something when the money is unavailable and he needs approval from Congress to divert funds.
Supreme Court pauses ruling on food stamps.
If this judge thinks it's a matter of law, why didn't he include Congress in his ruling? After all, it is the Senate that has stopped the funding. What is Trump supposed to do? And if Trump did divert the funds the Democrats would try to charge him with a crime, or at leat trash him for doing so. It was an intentional catch-22.
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The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that prevented President Trump from appealing his New York conviction to a Federal Court.
Trump appealed the lower court ruline which rejected Mr. Trump's appeal because of Trump v. United States, where the Supreme Court ruled the President enjoys immunity for official acts. Many of the charges brought against Mr. Trump were predicated on things that involved official acts.
As you may remember a kangaroo court found Trump guilty of 34 felonies for what was not even a misdemeanor. He was charged, tried, and convicted in the most Democratic area in the country and prosecuted by a man who promised to "get Trump".
So now Trump can have his case reheard and can appeal all the way up the Federal ladder. I suspect he'll eventually be aquitted.
The charges - and convictions - were always just a way to keep Trump from winning the election.
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Bet he is a Democrat.
Top Iowa judge allegedly passed out drunk while driving, veered into oncoming traffic
I guess this judge imbibed at both the party of the first part AND the party of the second part. High times!
But really, does a judge being drunk matter much? Most judicial rulings are just like what some guy who is three sheets to the wind would put out anyway. Maybe it would be better if we HAD more drunk judges; they might actually rule with some sense.
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With friends like these...
GOP Rep. Lashes Out at Her Own Party as the 'MAMDANI Act' is Introduced in Congress
The only Republican to represent any part of New York City is angry because the GOP wants to cut federal funding to the Gulag on the Hudson.
From Western Journal:
"These attempts by those within my party to score cheap political points by going after New York City are not going to be met lightly. We’re going to fight back,” Malliotakis said.
"These attempts by those within my party to score cheap political points by going after New York City are not going to be met lightly. We’re going to fight back,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told Fox News Digital on Friday.https://t.co/zmNGbeJ4Y8
— Rep. Nicole Malliotakis Office (@RepNicole) November 7, 2025
So she's willing to fight her own party to keep the gravy train flowing to the city that just rejected America and American values and put not just a communist in office but a Muslim in the largest Jewish city on Earth. (BTW Momdani would not have won without rank choice voting.)
Has she fought this hard for Donald Trump's policies? I didn't think so.
She calls it an attempt to "score cheap political points" but why should Americans be forced to fund a Bolshevik? How is not taking taxpayer dollars and giving it to New York a "cheap political point"?
She continues:
What did they do to stop this? I'm sorry but people get punished as a group all the time. It's why being engaged and active is so important. The fact is they weren't able to even convince their own neighbors that this was a terrible idea - most probably didn't try.
That's the way it works; everyone suffers for the mistakes and sins of the few in this life. And this isn't punishment, it's the use of economic power to restrict and restrain Momdani, something done all the time. In this instance they are being open about it rather than doing it from a hiding hole in the shadows as, say, Joe Biden would do.
Frankly I think old Nichole is the one who should be punished. Mike Johnson should take her off her committee assignments and put her on committees she has no interest in, for instance. If she isn't going to be on board with her party she needs to either shape up or ship out. The time for the "herding cats" approach in the GOP is over, or should be. We all need to sail in the same direction now.
No Democrat would publicly come out against her own party this way.
The Ronan Republican continues:
Malliotakis also noted the money issue, including both the taxes the city pays to Washington and the campaign dollars that flow from New York City to races across the country.
"Anyone who signs onto that bill, including Buddy, should not come to New York City to raise a dollar for their campaign,” she said. "If they’re going to sponsor a hostile bill toward our city, then they shouldn’t be coming to raise money from our residents.
So she would deny the citizens of New York their right to voluntarily contribute to Republicans just because Congress won't give taxpayer money to New York then. Who is being hurt by this plan of hers to retaliate? Her own constituents, who are voluntarily contributing to stopping a guy like Momdani.
Why is she doing this? She's no doubt afraid of losing her seat if Democrats come out hard in her district against her. In other words she's a self-seeking coward.
After attacking the plan she tosses this in to keep her street cred with her Republican voters:
I rather doubt she's actually polled her Republican voters and asked them what they want. But that's the way it works with these RINO types.
She's also pulling a fast one here; the bill clearly states New York will get no UNOBLIGATED funding from the Federal government, not that necessary services will be cut. She has to know this.
This is how leftism wins; too many on our own side restrain those who would resist the radicals out of self-interest or a desire for good press. No doubt this Nichole chick will be invited to all the right parties and give the right interviews and be treated with respect for a time after selling out her constituents and her country.
I hope she enjoys her ill-gotten fame; it will eventually pass and she'll have the rest of her life (if not eternity) to consider how she sold her integrity for it.
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She writes "It’s okay to feel grief. To mourn the loss of your feeling of safety in your city. To feel the edges of anxiety pressing in. This is not the time for fake optimism.
"This is a moment for sober honesty without illusion. Mamdani’s victory means something. He will have real power, and it’s naïve to pretend otherwise.
"What worries me even more is what his election portends: the shifting political winds in the country I love, the normalization of anti-Zionism as a moral stance, the slow turning of America’s heart away from Jews who believe in Jewish peoplehood.
"So yes, mourn. But only briefly. Because wallowing is a luxury we Jews don’t have.
"We don’t have the luxury of not learning from this — or of sitting the next four years on the sidelines. And we certainly don’t have the luxury of imagining that if things get bad enough, we’ll just move away from NYC and be fine.
"We are Jews. We don’t run from history. We face it. And right now, history is calling us to become something different — to become a resistance.
Please read the rest here https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nyc-jews-welcome-to-the-resistance-abraham-and-us/ar-AA1PZOks?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=690e2af0217e40eea4bcca380e682a18&ei=30And reflect that, if you are a Christian, you also have a target on your back, just as Jews in New York will have again. Because historically, Muslims have made a practice of laying low until they gain enough numbers in an area to take over -- as they are doing already in various parts of Europe and America
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November 07, 2025
This is a serious charge. If True Comey can face some hard time for witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
Deep State exposed: James Comey’s prosecutor daughter offered Epstein freedom — if he implicated Trump in sex crimes…
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Bioterrorism? Chemical weapons?
Evacuation Initiated at Join Base Andrews After Suspicious Package Causes Personnel to Fall Ill
Did Hunter Biden visit Andrews and forget something?
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So what will Momdani do now that the election is over? He's going to Disneyland, or at least taking a luxury tropical vacation.
Like Clockwork: Hours After Winning Mayor's Race, Mamdani Abandons NYC for 'Working' Luxury Tropical Getaway
This is the Man of the People doing what such do all the time - treat themselves while those they allegedly represent suffer. I thought Momdani was going to get right to work! I thought the city was in such dreadful shape because of capitalism and too few cross-dressers that he had to roll up his sleeves and get right down to it. Strange how he can find time to tae a sweet vacation, the kind most Americans dream about. And it's not to visit expats in Florida.
What reason does the Mayor Elect of New York City have for abandoning his constituents and sunning himself in a tropical paradise? How does that help the average New Yorker, the little guys Momdani claims to represent?
No, he is accompanying Kathy Hochum Holier than thou Hochel to the sunny shores of Puerto Rico for the annual Somos conference where tehy will sip fine rum drinks and enjoy the good life.
I suppose it makes sense; Momdani and Hochul want Puerto Rico to attain statehood, something the Puerto Ricans have rejected in bygone days. They want two more Democrat senators and a number of Democrat congresscabaleros.
BTW Moobatami told New York exactly who is going to represent - it ain't native-born Americans:
Not a peep from him about Jewish bakers, or Irish dock workers, Italian produce vendors, or any of the other ethnic groups that don't comport with the approved classes. And certainly no mention of representing WASP New Yorkers; they may as well leave now because they are going to be fleeced to lay out the banquet for these Senegalese, these Yemeni, thes Ethiopians and Trinidadians, etc.
And if it's so terrible in New York City for immigrants why do they all go there?
(BTW when did the Irish and Italians and Jews become "privileged white men"? They suffered as much and actually more discrimination than did these new immigrant groups. How, if America is so racist and there is no upward mobility for non-WASP ethnic groups, did these people work their way into the majority class and thus face discrimination now for not being "brown enough"?)
This is so very communist of Mondami; living well and paying lip-service to the rest of the public, which subside on scraps handed out by the regime.
BTW the fact Momdani wants government-owned grocers is proof he's a communist and not a democratic socialist; communists own the businesses while socialists just tell them how to run them. As has been said on the matter, communists own your cow while socialists let you own it but just take all the milk. The former is Momdani.
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November 06, 2025
The U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops has gone crazy, calling "Islamophobia" a sin on the eve of efforts to potect Christians in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world, ignoring the many mass murders, the hacking to death of children, the rapes of women and little girls (and probably boys as well), that has been ongoing in the last twenty years and indeed since Islam was first birthed of a jackall. It is an evil religion, even if many adherents are decent people. It requires it's believers to murder, to rape, to terrorize, to lie and break oaths, and to do anything possible to conquer the whole world. And since it's great to be a dude in Islam (you get four wives and as many hookups as you want, and while alcohol is technically forbidden it's always winked at, much like sex is winked at by most everyday Christians in our modern Novus Ordo Catholicism.) Oddly enough it seems even more attractive to women in our culture. That is, I believe, because they see it as an "oppressed" religion, and they think the Muslims are on their side. Oh, and some women must admit it is what they always wanted; a masculine culture with real men, even if they do like to have sex with little boys, as in Afghanistan and the "dancing boys". Feminists are more revolted by the beta males here, the ones they themselves created, than of the macho dudes with the turbans.
Islam was and is a collection of heresies that were purged from the Orthodox Church by the Byzantines. Most of these people went to Arabia or to India and their beliefs were incorporated into Muhammed's new religion. Manicheanism, Mithraism, Nestorianism, Arianism were all banned, but were adopted to a large degree in the new faith. And it's a warrior cult. It is the quintessential antichrist.
And America is coming to embrace it, including the people who are suppsed to be leading America to Christ. Muslims rarely tolerate Christians, and if they do they are second class citizens.
I don't know if these Catholic Bishops are just fools or if they are somehow the footsoldiers of el diablo. But they are working to destroy the Church of Christ to curry favor with the world. That will lead to suffering and damnation. They'll have to answer for that.
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Here is the rundown on the fake intelligence assessment that was used to justify going after Donald Trump. This is yeoman work, as to be expected from Conservative Treehouse.
I won't excerpt it; just read the darned thing!
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One of the Twin Cities has rejected the Mondani of Minneapolis in one of the rare bright spots in an otherwise disappointing off-year election.
Mayor Jacob Frey was elected to a third term as the boss hog of the city, soundly beating Omar Fateh (who is no doubt a Somali Muslim), a man who wanted a city income tax, rent control, and to defund the police. Comparisons between Fateh and Momdani are apt.
A coaliton of communists/radicals seized control of the city council and Frey has been at odds with them since, vetoing multiple crazy proposals from them, such as a carbon emissions fee, and a high minimum waqe for Uber and Lyft drivers.
They all backed Fateh but failed to oust the more sensible mayor.
DeWayne Davis and azz Hampton also ran in the race, but they formed an entente' with Fateh to push him over the finish line in the ranked choice election.
Dana Mathewson, have you any thoughts on this?
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I call B.S.
Food Banks All Over The U.S. Are Being Overwhelmed By A Tsunami Of Hungry People
This is just like the sudden appearance of homeless standing at intersections with "Will work for food" signs, homeless who suddenly appeared out of thin air after four years of Biden despite the fact the economy is doing better than at any time during the Biden era.
One wonders if the Left isn't cleaning out these food banks themselves to make it appear we have a hunger crisis.
Look, unemployment is not rising in any real way; while the numbers have gone up slightly that was explained by the Federal Reserve of St. Louis to be an artifact of how the unemployed are counted. People who weren't looking for work during the Biden Depression are now in search of jobs and that makes the numbers rise.
Also, there has been no slump in the sale of such items as I-phones or even luxury items like boats. This economy is doing quite well.
Yes, it is possible that those laid off by the government shutdown are going to food banks temporarily to get over the hump. But there is no economic reason to see people all lining up for the dole.
I ask you, how is it we've kicked out millions of illegal aliens and yet the employment outlook is poor? It doesn't work that way.
Now it may be the illegals who came in during Biden are now out of work and going to food banks. But that's a good thing; it means they will eventually self-deport.
The article states:
Eric Cooper, president and CEO of San Antonio Food Bank, which serves 29 counties in southwest Texas, said the number of families seeking help has increased since it was first announced that there would be a disruption in SNAP benefits should the government shutdown continue.
Cooper said San Antonio Food Bank, which is part of the nonprofit organization Feeding America, typically feeds 105,000 to 120,000 people per week but is now seeing close to 170,000 people per week.
Who are these 120,000 people? They are likely illegal aliens. And one must also wonder about how it is we have so many folks here utilizing these services when businesses all complain they can't find good help. There are plenty of jobs available.
Many of these, of course, are the folks who live their lives on government assistance. They can see no other way than to be succoured by Auntie Samantha and her massive mammaries.
The article continues:
About 100 cars lined up along H Street near Weld Food Bank in Greeley on Monday morning before the organization opened its doors, their drivers and passengers waiting to pick up food on the third day of a lapse in funding for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
So they are driving up in their shiny 2024 SUV's to get free food, are they? If they were really poor they'd walk, or take the bus.
Yes, demand no doubt has been going up and that was a function of Biden's horrible economic policies (and Obama's before him) but it's also a coefficient of the change in American thinking since the pandemic. Why, with the pandemic over for years now, have so many people been unemployed and not even looking for work? It's because we built a hammock instead of a safety net in recent years. People are now desperately trying to find a way to continue to enjoy the good life. Taking food intended for the poor is one way to do that.
Notice too the places the author mentions: Portland, San Antonio, Dayton, Detroit, etc. All are Democrat strongholds. Why aren't we seeing this in Dallas, or in the few Red cities around the country? Hmm?
That is where most illegal aliens settled. And it's where most of America's Schnorers go for freebies. (Schnorer is a Yiddish name for freeloader.)
You can't import millions of penniless people into the country and not expect food banks to be overwhelmed.
I agree; food prices have shot up too high and we need to get them down. That will happen as the economy grows and government takes it's boot off the farmers and we stop playing with Green energy policies and the other stupidity that drives the cost of producing food up too high. Oh, and if we get rid of the methanol mandates so food can actually be sold as food again.
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November 05, 2025
You’d be crazy to buy a car based on its shiny
exterior, dazzling instruments and gorgeous leather interior – but
without examining the engine or taking a test drive.
And yet
that’s how America has handled the metals and minerals that are vital
to our defense, medical, communication, automotive, aerospace, lasers,
computer/AI/data centers and every other sector of our economy. They’re
worth multi-trillions of dollars and are the foundation for jobs,
living standards, national security, "green” energy and more.
Today, we need almost every element in the Periodic Table, plus countless non-metallic minerals
In the Stone Age, humans relied on flint and obsidian. The Bronze
Age utilized copper, tin and lead, plus gold and silver. The Iron Age
prioritized iron and carbon. Today, we need almost every element in the
Periodic Table, plus countless non-metallic minerals.
However,
without any attempt to determine what deposits might lie beneath,
decisionmakers have made hundreds of millions of acres of America’s
"public lands” off limits to exploration and mining, primarily in
Alaska and the eleven states west of the Dakotas. They’re managed by
federal agencies for nearly every activity and value except potential
subsurface treasures.
In fact, well over two-thirdsof those lands have been effectively placed under lock and key: an area
larger than Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
combined!
Of course, some places are so unique, magnificent or
ecologically priceless that they should be off limits to resource
extraction – from Arches to Zion National Park. But America cannot
afford wide buffer zones around them, much less buffer zones around the
buffer zones.
Moreover, countless other areas have also been
closed off – some by acts of Congress, others by presidential or
bureaucratic decree, or unending wilderness and wildlife studies. All
with virtually no consideration of subsurface values. Sometimes federal
officials even refuse to follow the law, because they "don’t think Congress should have enacted laws allowing exploration.”
Many
are in regions that in past eons were the most geologically active in
North America. Processes unleashed by plate tectonic, volcanic and
other forces all but ensure that these lands contain highly mineralized
zones, many with world-class deposits of gold, silver, platinum,
molybdenum, chromium, antimony, titanium, copper, cobalt, lithium, graphite and other critically needed metals and minerals.
The Comstock Lode and other magnificent discoveries in past centuries further attest to their potential.
Current policies leave the United States vulnerable to political, economic and military pressure
Today, the United States is dangerously dependent on foreign nationsfor 50 to 99% of 34 vital metals and minerals … and 100% of 15 others.
China is our primary supplier for 24 of them; Russia for 6. In fact,
China controls some 80% of global mining and more than 90% of refining
and processing for all 17 rare earth metals. Virtually all graphite, natural and synthetic, is processed in China for export to EV, Powerwall and other lithium-ion battery makers worldwide.
Current
policies leave the United States vulnerable to political, economic and
military pressure. Revising them and properly evaluating our public
lands resource base will take decades, but the process must begin now –
for rare earth elements (REEs) and other critical and strategic materials.
Exploratory
work has virtually no noticeable impacts on lands or wildlife. Remote
sensing technologies on satellites, airplanes and drones will collect
data on gravitational, magnetic, electromagnetic and other anomalies
and trends across large regions, enabling geologists to zero in on
mineralized areas.
Aerial and ground-based mapping of outcrops,
rock samples and soil tests, combined with reviews of historical mining
and exploration, then pinpoint locations where small drilling rigs
collect rock cores and downhole instrumental data, to evaluate mineral
content in multiple locations throughout a prospect. All of this helps
geologists create 3-D computerized profiles of possible subsurface ore
bodies.
Eventually, they learn enough to determine whether a
prospect warrants entering the years-long planning, permitting and
financing process.
The Trump Administration is advancing multiple strategies to address this national security craziness
Any open pit or underground mining may change land contours, perhaps dramatically, from what we see today, but this is for major metal ore bodies that are vitally important to America; occur very rarely; and average 3-5 square milesWashington, DC is 61 sq mi) for open pit mines, including the mine, processing plants, waste dumps (overburden and tailings), settling ponds, access roads and inactive areas.
All US operations are conducted under strict environmental protection, pollution prevention, waste rock disposal, workplace safety and land reclamation regulations.
However, anti-mining activists want no mining and use
hypothetical land disturbance, pollution and endangered species claims
to justify delaying, blocking and bankrupting all these activities,
even initial exploration, even for materials required for wind, solar
and battery technologies. They absurdly claim even a single mine will
forever destroy the purity and sanctity of a designated wilderness or other wild area literally the size of Rhode Island, Delaware or Vermont.
Hypocritically,
they express few concerns about wind, solar and transmission line
projects that blanket, disrupt and destroy tens or hundreds of square
miles of scenic and habitat lands, and kill countless birds, bats and
terrestrial wildlife – or grid-scale battery installations that
threaten human lives.
The Trump Administration is advancing multiple strategies to address this national security craziness.
To ensure near-term replacements for REEsand other materials that China has strategically monopolized, President
Trump last week announced US investment deals with Australia, which
already has 89 active rare earth exploration projects and will also
work with the US to build less-polluting processing plants and improve supply chains Down Under. He is pursuing similar details with other friendly nations.
America can no longer let environmental values and ideologies trump or override vital national defense, economic and security needs
Other plans include strategic mineral "price floors” that will let governments support domestic mining operations facing sudden threats of collapsing prices and bankruptcy, due to major producers flooding global markets with materials extracted and processed cheaply because their countries have no or minimal environmental and workplace safety rules.
This week, Mr. Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year easing of controls China had placed on rare earth mineral exports. Beijing had planned to impose stringent export controls on "every element of production’ associated with REEs. If "even a single gram” of any rare earth mined, processed or refined in China was in a US medical, military or other product, Beijing could veto its sale worldwide.The Trump Administration is also reexamining US land use and withdrawal policies, streamlining the construction and operating permit process, issuing permits that have sat in bureaucratic limbo for years, seeking ways to limit or resolve environmentalist lawsuits against world-class deposits, reducing or removing excessive and unnecessary permitting obstacles, and spurring research into systems for processing and refining REEs and other metals and minerals that result in fewer toxic effluents.
America can no longer let environmental values and ideologies trump or override vital national defense, economic and security needs. The United States has long sacrificed access to vital mining prospects in favor of ecological values.
Now we must begin temporarily impacting some pristine areas to locate, evaluate and extract strategic materials – and end our dangerous and needless dependence on unfriendly and unreliable sources, before returning the lands to near-pristine conditions once mining is completed.
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The story of George Franklin Grant, a dentist, academic and recreational golfer, is interesting. This isn’t just because he, a Harvard professor, invented a wood-composite golf tee in 1899. It’s that under many Americans’ conception of history, he shouldn’t even have existed. You see, Grant was a successful black man in the U.S. almost 100 years before the civil-rights era or affirmative action’s birth.
Grant wasn’t alone, either (except in his golf-invention exploits). By 1920, there were 3,560 black physicians in America, a figure including 65 black women. While this didn’t represent "proportionality” — blacks were 10 percent of the U.S. at the time — it did constitute 2.5 percent of the total number of American physicians. Not bad in a country supposedly so "white supremacist” that blacks were surely relegated at the time to cotton-fields toil. (Black youths may want to ponder this, too, when believing they "just can’t make it” in 2025 because the "man” is keeping them down.)
Many wouldn’t guess black Americans enjoyed such success a century or more ago, indoctrinated as they are with Howard Zinn-esque revisionist history. In fact, while I was hardly a politically correct youth (we didn’t use the word "woke” back then), I myself was surprised when getting a glimpse into actual American history.
My experience occurred when I was about 19 and, curious about dear ol’ dad, started perusing his old NYC podiatry school yearbook. What most struck me was not how young my father looked at the time, the late ’40s to early- to mid-’50s, but all the black faces gracing the pages. In fact, inspired to do a count, I determined that the black graduates were approximately 12 percent of the class. This was greater than black Americans’ share of that time’s national population (10 percent) or their proportion of NY state’s population (7.5); it also was about exactly the same as blacks’ share of the Big Apple’s population: 12.5 percent.
None of this would surprise Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND). Now 76, Peterson grew up black on a plantation in Jim Crow-era Alabama. He not only bemoans our "woke” revisionist history, but also has no kind words for the civil-rights era.
In fact, while he’s most colorful and can be a master troll, he’s not kidding when claiming that this period destroyed the black community. Referencing his own life and experiences, he asserts that blacks were doing better prior to it. They lived more moral lives, he says; they took care of their families and community. Many opened businesses, Peterson further states, and if they wished to attend college, they could do so. Leftists, though, don’t appreciate hearing his "lived experience” (a truly dumb term).
But Peterson isn’t alone. Consider Professor Thomas Sowell, a black economist, commentator and true intellectual giant of our time. Now 95, Sowell says that when he grew up in Harlem, N.Y. (in the 1930s and ’40s), he never heard a gunshot. He has also stated that on hot summer nights he and others would sleep out on their fire escapes to stay cool (not uncommon in the days before air conditioning). When he relates these realities to young blacks, however, Sowell says they look at him as if he’s from another planet.
Of course, none of this is to say there wasn’t prejudice and discrimination a century ago. Everytime and place has its characteristic bigotry and discrimination; today, for example, whites, Christians and men are often the victims. (Hence did a survey some years ago find that more than a thirdof white students claimed to be non-white on college applications.) It’s also true that Peterson’s and Sowell’s experiences are anecdotal.
Moreover, black Americans’ civil-rights-era decline is a correlation involving multiple factors. For one thing, it also corresponds with the advent of the television age, which itself correlates with increased crime in every population exposed to TV. (Read my piece "Why the NRA is Right About Hollywood” for more insight.) Thus have white Americans also experienced moral and social decline.
This said, blacks’ post-Jim Crow degradation has been inordinately
steep. Furthermore, statistics tell the same story the aforementioned
anecdotes do: In many respects, blacks were doing better during those
"racist” times closer to slavery days.
For example, approximately 78-85 percent of black children were raised in two-parent households in the early 1900s; today the figure is ~40 percent, with about 73 percent of black kids born outside of wedlock.
In the early 1900s, the black unemployment rate was generally lower than that for whites; today it’s about 67 percent greater (5.5 vs. 3.3). As to the black poverty rate, it declined from 87 percent to 47 percent during just the 20 years between 1940 and 1960. This was the sharpest two-decade black poverty drop in history, almost halving the rate and lifting ~3-4 million people from destitution.
Note that this all occurred prior to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "Great Society” anti-poverty programs and the welfare state’s birth. In fact, the subsequent black-community economic gains paled in comparison, at least partially because the welfare state contributed to the elimination of incentive, erosion of virtue and decline of the family. It all underlines, too, why President Ronald Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
As for crime, approximately 200-350 black Americans were murdered every year in the early 1900s; today about 12,000 are. This amounts to about 44 times as many despite the U.S.’ black population being, approximately, only eight times as great. Ninety-three percent of these victims are killed by other blacks, too. In fact, homicide is the number one cause of death among black children ages 1–14 (never mind the older "kids”).
"But what of the Ku Klux Klan!” the Howard Zinn-history types will ask. "Weren’t they raping and pillaging mercilessly in the 1920s?” The group was at its peak back then, after all. Well, it’s not that simple.
Now, I’ll preface what follows by emphasizing that I’m not at all saying the KKK isn’t a bad group. I am saying, however, that too many Americans have a comic-book conception of history. It’s often a Manichean historical sense—odd, too, given that most today are moral relativists—that places past groups strictly into good or evil categories. But the reality is the opposite: The Truth is black and white. People are shades of gray.
Now, as to the lightest of grays, the late Judge Lee Dryer, host of the Conservative Law and Politics Showin Tennessee and once an assistant prosecutor, was a friend of mine. I was often on his program, until his untimely death from pancreatic cancer, at age 55, in 2019. He was one of best men I’ve ever known, too. I mention this partially because I should have eulogized him long ago, but also because I want to make clear that he was beyond reproach. And he once told me a striking story.
While in a discussion with a black fellow, in Tennessee presumably, the subject of the KKK arose. The black man said he didn’t mindthe KKK. Lee’s eyebrows were raised, and the man elaborated. "As long as you didn’t do anything stupid,” he explained, "they didn’t bother you.”
Then I once heard a story related by an older woman. In her youth, a man in her neighborhood was cheating on his wife. Well, the KKK burned a cross on his lawn as a warning. They apparently considered it part of their mandate regarding protection of womanhood.
Again, this isn’t to sanitize the KKK, but simply to emphasize the folly of the comic-book-history narrative. Not every white American was a flaming racist prior to ____ (people sometimes enter a date around the time they were born; call it chronological chauvinism). Nor was every black American back then forced to hide in the shadows in terror. People were people, good, bad and ugly and complex, trying to negotiate this fallen world as people always do.
Of course, there was far more poverty generally a century ago, and lifestyles and life expectancy have increased markedly for all races. But the reality is that if you were a black person at the time, you were safer from crime; more likely to be raised in a loving, intact family; more likely to be taught responsibility; and had to fear other black people far less than you would today—all in the "racist,” pre-WWII United States.
It all explains, too, why boxing manager Dick Sadler made a certain famous statement (incorrectly attributed to Muhammad Ali) after witnessing the conditions in Zaire, Africa. Now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire was where he found himself in 1974 with his charge, George Foreman, for the "Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight title fight. Alluding to the ultimate silver lining in a cloud, he said of the slave days:
"Thank God our grandpappies caught that boat!”
Yes, they caught the boat and, ultimately, their ship came in. It’s just a shame so many of their descendants have caught something else: the hate-America-first virus.
This article appeared first at Canada Free Press
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