Why the FBI (and the pope!) fear traditional Catholics
Pope Benedict XVI championed the Latin Mass. Francis and the FBI fear it.
As was revealed this week by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, the Richmond FBI office used at least one undercover agent to infiltrate a traditional Catholic Church.
In January of this year, a bizarrely hateful memo was issued by that same office warning of “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic [communities].”
The memo, right out of the Mao playbook, also called for reaching out to diocesan leadership “to sensitize these congregations to the warning signs of radicalization and to enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.”
The woke justice era the Trayvon case launched led to Trump
The real girlfriend on the left. The false witness on the right.
Scarily few people spotted the paradigm shift that inverted justice in 2012. This was the year the liberal left ceded control of the American media and the judicial system to woke activists.
If liberals saw themselves as Atticus Finch, sitting in front of the jailhouse, protecting the falsely accused Tom Robinson, the shrewdly woke saw themselves in the mob out front clamoring for Robinson’s head. Today that’s where the power is.
For nearly a century, leftists satisfied themselves with insisting on the innocence of the obviously guilty. This trend started in the 1920s with the Soviet-led lionization of Italian anarchists Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both ultimately executed for the murder of an Italian-American payroll clerk.
Intimidation of Matt Taibbi right out of IRS playbook
Quelle coincidence! On the very day media apostate Matt Taibbi was testifying before Congress on the weaponization of
intelligence, an IRS agent visited his New Jersey home and left a note telling him to contact the agency.
Who knew the IRS made house calls? Reportedly, the IRS rejected Taibbi’s 2018 and 2021 tax filings due to identity theft issues, but the home visit was the first Taibbi had heard of the problem.
Protested House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, “In light of the hostile reaction to Mr. Taibbi’s reporting among left-wing activists, and the IRS’s history as a tool of government abuse, the IRS’s action could be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate a witness before Congress.”
Reflections on Watching Your #1 Seed Fall to a #16
My wife Joan and I had our first date at a Purdue basketball game many moons ago, and we have watched just about every game we could in the years since. Our respective approaches to a game are so different that we watch in separate rooms. She berates. I encourage. At the end of the game, Joan looks for someone to blame. I look for someone to console.
Until Friday night, when #1 seed Purdue fell to #16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), there was little need for consoling or blaming. Purdue had enjoyed a storybook season. Picked sixth in the 14-team Big 10 in the pre-season, and not ranked at all among the nation’s top 25, Purdue won 22 of its first 23 games and held the #1 spot in AP polls for weeks on end. Among their wins was a three-game sweep of West Virginia, Gonzaga, and Duke in the Phil Knight Legacy Tournament in November.
More amazing still, Purdue beat each of these teams — the latter two ranked in top 10 — by a dozen or more points. Although the Boilermakers stumbled a bit toward season’s end, they won the Big Ten title by a whopping three-game margin; swept the Big 10 post-season tournament; and earned a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament before, alas, falling to Fairleigh Dickinson.
Will January 6th one day become a U.S. ‘Bastille Day’?
Why was the most conspicuous J-6 “insurrectionist” not arrested?
On Jan. 10, 2021, I submitted an article to another publication titled “President Trump Takes a Hit for the Team.” The article appeared on Jan. 12 of that year minus only the last sentence.
It read as follows, “If we the people refuse to apologize, refuse to back down, refuse to submit, January 6 may one day be celebrated as a mid-winter 4th of July.”
I understood the publisher’s prudence. At the time we all labored under the belief that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick had been struck dead by a fire extinguisher-wielding “insurrectionist.”
…Unlike their betters in polite America, the J6 patriots had sussed out the rot of the ancien regime and saw it as their civic duty to speak out against it. At least four died so doing.
The Democrats excite themselves by comparing January 6 to Sept. 11, 2001, or even Dec. 7, 1941, but a more apt point of comparison might be July 14, 1789.
How LBJ’s ‘Box 13’ foretold America’s future of stolen elections
It is not often I “go” to the movies these days, but the trip to see the recently released “Turn Every Page” proved to be worth
it. The movie documents the 50-year working relationship between writer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb. Trust me, it is better than it sounds.
Caro, now 86, is working to complete the fifth and final volume of his classic series on Lyndon Baines Johnson. Gottlieb, now 91, is helping him polish it. I have read the previous four volumes as well as Caro’s debut book about legendary developer Robert Moses, “The Power Broker.” Among his contemporaries, Caro has no peer.
