Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Biden launches presidential campaign with lies ~ Star Parker points out that the tired Charlottesville delusion to which Biden is clinging has been thoroughly debunked ~

Far less convenient for Biden would have been quoting accurately Trump’s initial remarks on Charlottesville: “Above all else, we must remember this truth: No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all Americans first. We love our country. We love our God. And we love our flag. … we must love each other, respect each other and cherish our history and our future together. … We have to respect each other. Ideally, we have to love each other.”
 
The partisan left will be pleased with Biden’s lies. But decent Americans of all ethnicities understand that President Trump is restoring America’s freedom, tolerance, prosperity – and soul.

 
James Woods Releases New Statement About Twitter Suspending Him ~ James Woods has been banished to the Twitter Gulag. He says he’s not coming back until Jack Dorsey actually allows free speech on the platform.

Free Loomer ~ Laura Loomer is another outspoken conservative who’s been virtually erased from social media. She’s requesting donations to help finance her legal battle. But why should she have to pay to speak freely in America?!

“The tweet that Twitter decided to ban me for was a tweet full of facts about Sharia law. It was a tweet directed at Ilhan Omar, a newly elected Congresswoman, a politician, a public figure, which pointed out that her support of Sharia law does not make her an ally for gay people, women, or Jews, as Twitter would like you to believe.
 
“Sure enough, it was eventually discovered that CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) was behind my banning, specifically lobbying Twitter to remove me from the platform.”

More from the Thought Police ~ Google Censors the Claremont Institute ~ Apparently the tech leviathan disproves of their mission: to restore the constitutional design envisioned by our nation’s founders. How ironic ~

The Claremont Institute has launched a campaign to engage our fellow citizens in discussion and debate about what it means to be an American.
 
As part of that effort, we have begun to point out the increasingly existential danger of identity politics and political correctness to our republic. As if to prove our point, Google has judged our argument as wrongthink that should be forbidden.
 
They are now punishing us for our political thought by refusing to let us advertise to our own readers.

 
Soon conservatives may even be denied credit cards Mastercard to Vote on Banning the Far Right ~ Submit or be banned ~

Activist group “SumOfUs” wants “human rights committee” to oversee who uses Mastercard.

 
Colorado students walk out and chant ‘mental health’ in protest at calls for gun control during shooting vigil ~ If you were watching the network news coverage of the latest school shooting you probably missed this addendum; it didn’t fit the script.

 
Eleven-year-old ‘Drag Kid’ now a spokeschild for Converse shoes ~ Embracing perversity ~

An 11-year-old drag performer known as Desmond-is-Amazing is now a model for a shoe company.
 
The Converse footwear company, once known for its fashionable high top basketball shoes, has announced a new “partnership” with Desmond Napoles and five other “individuals connected with the LGBTQ+ community” to market its new “Pride collection.”
 
The announcement accompanied a photograph of Desmond dressed in a colorful shoulder-baring outfit and heavy makeup, posing suggestively before the five other models, including a man dressed as a woman and two women dressed as boys.

 
And here’s the next level of derangenment I guess ~ CNN promotes adults who ‘transition’ from human species to identify as mermaids ~

CNN recently published a profile on the global trend of “mermaiding,” through which one wears custom mermaid tails over his legs for gatherings, photography, swimming, and even conventions […]
 
(W)hile many mermaiding enthusiasts see it as nothing more than a hobby, others speak of it using rhetoric similar to that of gender activists who believe that self-perception should trump one’s physical reality.
 
“It’s my thing, it’s unique, it’s who I am,” said Udi Frige, who compared his mermaiding to a homosexual or gender-confused person coming out of the closet. “It requires lots of difficult explanation, especially if people don’t know me.”

 
William Barr & Eric Holder: When to Hold an Attorney General in Contempt ~ In case you need another example of leftist double-standards… Holder was held in contempt for failing to provide information on Fast & Furious (the ATF gun-running operation that got Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killed). Barr is held in contempt for not doing something he’s not legally permitted to do! The Democrats themselves are contemptible.
 
Homeless and lost in SF — until a Chronicle photo led his brother to him ~ Moving story of a brother who wouldn’t give up hoping. The future’s still uncertain, but it looks a lot brighter ~

Baron Feilzer hadn’t seen his only sibling for years. Then a homeless man’s picture appeared in The Chronicle.

 
Point of Connection: How A Small Town Ministry Is Transforming Lives Despite City Official’s Efforts To Shut It Down ~ Point of Connection Ministries in Joseph, Oregon have been working to provide transformational assistance and help to homeless members of their community struggling to recover from drug and alcohol addictions, but now the local zoning board has shut them down ~
 

 
You can support First Liberty and their important efforts in defense of our religious freedom HERE.

Because western civilization is grounded in Christianity, the Golden Rule used to be something that most everyone in our culture accepted as the norm and automatically practiced in everyday interactions with one another. Even if it weren’t God’s Word, it’s a common sense guideline for simply getting along with our fellow human beings. Treat people the way you want to be treated – presumably with courtesy, respect and kindness.
 

But now that our society is essentially post-Christian, it’s no real surprise that civility is in rapid decline. Look no further than social media where profanity-laced insults and invectives are constantly hurled about with no consideration whatsoever of the individual on the receiving end of the attack. More and more, this mindless anger is spilling over into direct face-to-face contact as well.
 
And now we’re witnessing this breakdown in civility from those we rather hoped would be above such disrespectful behavior, those in leadership positions; our elected officials. (Maxine Waters anyone?) The latest in a growing list of uncivil civic leaders is a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania who apparently gets off on screaming at little old Christian ladies ~ Dem state lawmaker records himself harassing pro-life woman outside Planned Parenthood ~

A Pennsylvania Democratic state representative went on an eight-minute rant, verbally harassing an elderly woman protesting outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.
 
 
Brian Sims recorded a woman outside Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which is in his district, telling her to pray at home, calling her an “old white lady” and lecturing her about her Christian beliefs on the Periscope app.
 
“Push back against Planned Parenthood protestors, PLEASE!” Sims wrote on Twitter Thursday. “They prey on young women, they use white privilege, & shame. They’re racist, classist, bigots who NEED & DESERVE our righteous opposition. Push back, please!”

 
Here’s Tucker Carlson’s take on this class act ~ Rep. Brian Sims is a frothing extremist — and a totally mainstream figure in today’s Democratic party ~

Despite the video you have seen — and despite all appearances — state Rep. Brian Sims, D-Pa., is not a mentally-ill panhandler or a vagrant with a drug problem screaming at strangers. It looks like it. But he is not.
 
He is an elected lawmaker. He represents central Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. And he is a star, by the way, in the Democratic Party.
 
He has hung out with Pete Buttigieg. He has a robust social media following. In 2014, NARAL Pro-Choice America — that’s the abortion clinic lobby — gave him a top award. He posed for a picture with NARAL President Ilyse Hogue […]
 
In the modern Democratic Party, Brian Sims is a totally and completely mainstream figure. He is also, as you have seen in recent videos, a frothing extremist, who is willing to threaten teenagers and attack them for their skin color, simply because they disagree with him […]
 
Sims calls other people racist because they want fewer black women to abort their children. The whole thing is totally deranged. But it’s entirely okay with Democrats. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party has not even commented on Brian Sims berating and threatening teenage girls for praying outside of an abortion clinic.

So do most Americans really want their elected officials to be such hateful, vicious thugs who callously treat other people like garbage? Apparently enough voters in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania do approve of his vile behavior. Perhaps they no longer see any value in following the Golden Rule either.

 
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Related:
Backlash to PA Lawmaker for Verbally Assaulting Elderly Catholic

Don’t Make a Martyr Out of Rep. Brian Sims ~

The same demons that drove (the Bolsheviks and Nazis) drive Brian Sims. Again, I’m speaking not figuratively but literally. Unless he’s a eugenicist or white supremacist, there is no rational reason why a white male homosexual should be so eager to make sure that black women kill their babies. Abortion access affects his sterile, private proclivities not one whit. No matter how many times he and his partner engage in the “sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance,” it won’t produce a child he’ll need to kill for convenience. He’s off the hook.
 
Yet he hates, how he hates, the women and kids who rally for Life. He cannot even climb down, not a single inch, from that. It goads and grips and drives him. This is the kind of man, who, given a chance, would flatten them with truncheons, march them onto trucks, and drive them off to camps. It’s the kind of man the left wants to put into power, in 50 states.
 
And that (beyond the moral reasons) is precisely why nobody should touch him. Don’t lay the lightest finger on his exquisitely oiled beard. No pelting him with eggs. Don’t vandalize his house or send him threatening letters. All of those things play into the left’s master strategy, which is to bask in luxuriant victimhood.

 
Pro-Life Rally in Response to Brian Sims’ Bullying (May 10th)

Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
‘The View’ Claims White Republican Men Want to Bring Back Measles ~ Don’t forget they also want to kill granny, “erase” trans-people, and keep all women barefoot and pregnant ~

Liberal cohosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on ABC’s The View said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other white Republican men, along with conservative judges, want to bring back measles, black lung and pollute the water.
 
In a segment praising Joe Biden’s launch into the Democratic 2020 presidential primary, Goldberg and Behar gave a laundry list of negative things that they now blame on conservatives and said that they want to bring them all back.

 
The eco-gospel according to Saint Greta ~ Swedish, 16 year-old eco-evangelist Greta Thunberg is quite the precocious phenomenon in Europe ~

Environmentalism is fast becoming a religion, and there is even more religious resonance in the responses of the Great and Good, standing agape at Ms Thunberg’s uncompromising message and asking each other ‘where did she get all this wisdom?’

 
And yet there is no mystery about that, since the Swedish youngster has been exposed to their own message – fed the environmentalist doomsday gospel or, to be more precise, the ‘bad news’ – at school, when she was too young to assimilate it and put it into context, a problem made more acute by her Asperger’s syndrome.

 
Yellowstone volcano: Earthquake swarm hits deadly caldera which could be sign of ERUPTION ~ This is the UK Express’ annual Yellowstone is fixin to blow scare ~

YELLOWSTONE volcano could be about to erupt and challenge humanity’s existence as a spate of mini-quakes have been felt around the fearsome caldera.
 
During the month of April, a total of 63 earthquakes struck around the Wyoming based supervolcano. All of the tremors were relatively small, with the largest registering at 2.6 on the Richter scale, hitting on April 29. But experts have warned that it is not necessarily about the strength of an earthquake around a volcano, but more the quantity of them.

Pretty sure there’s no need to panic just yet ~ The Declining Power of Post-Flood Volcanoes ~ (A)ncient explosive volcanoes have erupted with hundreds to thousands of times the energy and power as their modern counterparts.
 

China Building 300 New Coal Power Plants Around The World ~ But we’re supposed to bankrupt ourselves over phony climate change while their carbon emissions go up tenfold? Seriously? ~

Edward Cunningham, a specialist on China and its energy markets at Harvard University, tells NPR that China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines.

 
Trump Fed Nominee Stephen Moore Withdraws Bid ~ Moore was an excellent pick. How tragic that leftists have gotten so vicious they’re driving good, decent people out of public service ~

In a letter Thursday to Trump, Moore, 59, wrote that he wished to withdraw from consideration.
 
“Your confidence in me makes what I am about to say much harder. I am respectfully asking that you withdraw my name from consideration,” Moore wrote to the president. “The unrelenting attacks on my character have become untenable for me and my family and 3 more months of this would be too hard on us.”

 
Transgender Admissions To All-Male, Historically Black College Undermine What It Means To Be A Black Man ~ Justin McClinton at The Federalist laments the reality-free zone that his alma mater, Morehouse College, is becoming ~

(The school’s new admission policy) states, “Morehouse will consider for undergraduate admission those applicants who live and self-identify as men, regardless of the sex assigned to them at birth.” This makes it clear the agenda of its Ivy League-educated president is to make Morehouse just like the liberal, white campuses that he is accustomed to. The “who live” part of the policy is the most troubling.

 
Nagasaki’s Christian Hero ~ The life of Paul Takashi Nagai, a scientist, professor, convert and poet, is a moving example of selfless Christian charity, service and love for one’s fellow man ~

(T)here was no one to console them, no one to help them except us. We must stand and come to their aid. I stood there unsteadily on my tottering legs. And then the whole group stood up beside me. Our courage came back. The determination to continue our work gave us strength and joy.”
 
― Paul Takashi Nagai, The Bells of Nagasaki

 
Seattle man arrested for threatening to kill Jared Kushner for being a Jew ~ The mainstreams missed this one (To fully appreciate their duplicity, imagine this was eight years ago and the target was one of Obama’s daughters…) ~

A Seattle man was arrested this week and charged with making interstate threats after he said he planned to execute White House senior adviser Jared Kushner for being Jewish and threatened to kill other members of President Trump’s family.
 
According to The Washington Post, the man, Chase Bliss Colasurdo, shared an image on Instagram in February showing a gun being pointed at a photograph of Kushner. Colasurdo later posted image of Donald Trump Jr. in early March and reportedly wrote that he “would just like to let the secret service know” he plans to kill him.

 
Weapons of mass deception: The inflatable munitions that fooled Hitler ~ Some little-known but fascinating World War II history about the Ghost Army ~

The army recruited 1,100 actors and men from art school to partake in a covert mission; their goal was to deceive enemy forces with decoy tanks and airplanes.
 
They staged 21 battlefield deceptions, while actual infantry units were deployed elsewhere, their goal was to confuse and befuddle the Germans.

 
Toppling Ten Fake Facts That Prop Evolution ~ Most people who believe in evolution only do so because that’s been the default position of public school science courses for decades. Taking a closer, objective look at the actual evidence may surprise them ~

Evolution runs on rhetoric and not reality. ICR offers many in-depth resources that evaluate evolutionary assertions and arguments.8 Sometimes it takes just one thought-provoking question to plant a seed of doubt in someone’s belief that nature created all things.

 
Ministry Fuels Miracles of Mobility ~ What an inspiring story! For the last 25 years, Mobility Worldwide has built and delivered more than 70,000 carts for those with impaired mobility around the world ~

The volunteers and partners of Mobility Worldwide are devoted to bringing the gift of mobility and dignity to each of those 70 million individuals, as a direct and tangible reflection of God’s love.
 
“We don’t necessarily evangelize with words out in the field, but through our deeds, by providing a very sturdy mobility cart, we are changing peoples’ lives in the far reaches of the world,” said Walters. “And the people that we help are, for lack of a better term, ‘the least of these’ that the Bible speaks of” (Matthew 25:40).