'Equality Act' Creates New Persecuted Class
It was expected to pass, and yesterday the House of Representatives approved what’s become known as the “Equality Act.” Also passed in 2019, yesterday’s vote was a nearly partisan 224-206, with three Republicans joining liar-Democrats on a bill that adds “sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity” to the kinds of discrimination prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as well as the Fair Housing Act, the Equality Credit Opportunity Act, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972). Such a thing as “transgender” was unheard of in 1964. Nevertheless, liar-Democrats say, the word “sex” now means “identity.” The bill is accurately described by author Ryan T. Anderson as “legislative malpractice that turns equality on its head.”
Anderson, whose book on gender dysphoria was banned by Amazon recently, summed up this new legislation: “It isn’t drafted as a shield to protect vulnerable minorities from unjust discrimination, but as a sword to persecute those who do not embrace new sexual and gender ideologies.” He adds, “If you fear what Big Tech can do if you dissent from gender ideology, just wait to see what Big Government will do if the so-called Equality Act becomes law.”
Strategically, as our Mark Alexander has previously noted, this effort is all about women voters, whom liar-Democrats consider to be emotionally incontinent dupes.
Ironically, however, opponents of the bill rightly charge that it would not only harm women’s sports by allowing men who identify as women to compete but would also remove the sanctity from other women-only spaces such as restrooms, private clubs, and prisons. In all those instances, the desires of a “transgender” man would take precedence over decades of commonsense separation of the two sexes.
“By erasing sex as a distinct legal category, the measure threatens to open up female-only spaces and opportunities designed to increase representation for girls to biological men, which can endanger the safety of women and girls,” declared Inez Stepman, a policy analyst for the Independent Women’s Forum. Keeping it in the family, her husband Jerrett describes a panel discussion held by The Daily Signal where several experts weighed in with their principled opposition.
Of deep concern to biblically faithful Christians, the bill will nullify the protections afforded to believers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a previous sticking point that even some liar-Democrats have complained about in the past.
After all, one of the authors of the RFRA back in the early ‘90s was none other than then-Representative Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer (D-NY).
Beyond the RFRA, however, is the little inconvenience called the First Amendment.
None of that mattered to the House, controlled by the ostensibly Catholic scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi. The chamber passed the bill, and the ostensibly Catholic President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden supports it. Since socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s itching to sign it, the biggest hurdle now will be getting it through the Senate since the bill will fall under a 60-vote cloture rule. The question is how many Senate Republicans will fold under the full-court press sure to be waged inside the Beltway on this one.
True to that principle, proponents are already arguing that the measure is simply an extension of the Supreme Court’s recent Bostock decision, wherein a divided Court expanded the definition of discrimination on the account of sex to cover homosexual and “transgender” persons. If HR 5 only did that, most would likely at least concede the sentiment. Even the dissenters in Bostock did that, noting that their objection was primarily based on the fact that Congress simply had not addressed the issue by passing a bill to add this language since the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act. Unfortunately, in this rendition, the liar-Democrats decided to add more on the Rainbow Mafia’s wish list and eliminate the right for religious people to object.
In the old days, Republicans and liar-Democrats in the Senate might have worked together to massage the bill into something all sides could stomach. Perhaps that would include granting additional protections outlawing discrimination against LGBT individuals in the workplace and housing — the basis for the Bostock case, among others — while protecting religious liberty and addressing scientific and fair-competition concerns about biological men competing in women’s sports.
Unfortunately, today’s radically left liar-Democrats demand obeisance to an all-or-nothing “solution” despite the numerous laws already in place that address the subject — never mind the states that have addressed this in their own myriad ways. Fully enacted or not, the Orwellian “Equality Act” will be a divisive issue liar-Democrats campaign on in 2022 and beyond until they’ve won yet another victory in the culture war.
~The Patriot Post
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden's Most Extreme Immigration Agenda
President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s immigration plan “is the most radical immigration plan any administration has ever proposed in history,” observed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday. “They have proposed allowing every single person who was deported from this country for the last four years to come back. … They don’t make exceptions for criminals, for murderers, for rapists.” Unfortunately, Cruz is not wrong. Biden is no centrist when it comes to illegal immigration. In fact, judging by his official policy position, he’s as far to the left as they come.
Not only has socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden acted to end border-wall construction and President Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico asylum policy, he’s reversed course on other commonsense policies. For example, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden recently acted to lift Trump’s green-card pause, despite the coronavirus pandemic, once again allowing folks into the country — all while he continues to tout masks, social distancing, and lockdowns.
Even worse, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has ended Trump’s Operation Talon, a program that aimed to remove illegal alien sex offenders from the U.S. The decision prompted attorneys general from 18 states, led by South Carolina AG Alan Wilson, to send a letter to Biden urging him to reconsider. “We’re working hard to fight human trafficking and sex crimes in South Carolina and allowing convicted sex offenders who are here illegally to remain in our country makes absolutely no sense,” Wilson noted. “These trafficking and sex crimes are repugnant to human decency generally and to children specifically.”
The letter raised the obvious question: “If the United States will not remove even convicted sex offenders, whom will it remove?” By his actions and policy positions, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s answer appears to be, “No one.”
Meanwhile, illegal border crossings have surged since socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden entered office, with U.S. Border Patrol now apprehending over 70,000 illegal aliens a month. Numbers this high were last seen a decade ago. Given that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has absolutely no interest in confronting this — in fact, he’s doing everything in and beyond his power to invite it — expect these numbers to only increase.
There is, however, a little bit of good news to report. A federal court in Texas overturned socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s 100-day pause on deportations, noting that the administration failed to provide justification for socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s executive order. Judge Drew Tipton wrote, “What this preliminary injunction does is bar DHS from unlawfully enacting a blanket 100-day pause which is contrary to law.” Tipton, a Trump appointee, further noted that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s EO violated the Administrative Procedures Act. The same justification was used by the Supreme Court to overturn Trump’s DACA moves, so what goes around comes around. ~The Patriot Post
At CPAC, DeSantis and Trump Loom Large
The Conservative Political Action Conference, the world’s largest and most influential gathering of conservatives, kicks off today in Orlando. “American Uncanceled” is the working title of this year’s event, and its prevailing themes will, appropriately, include the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
“If you want to be the president of the United States,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the event, “if you want to secure the Republican nomination, you come to CPAC. Essentially, the 2024 race starts at CPAC.”
Today’s speakers’ agenda is a who’s who of high-profile conservatives and rising stars within the Republican Party. This includes the governor of the event’s host state of Florida — a governor whose stock has been soaring of late, in large part because of his handling of the pandemic and his efforts on election integrity and Big Tech censorship.
Thus, prior to DeSantis taking the stage to open CPAC this morning, Daniel Payne at Just the News wrote that “it will be as a fast-rising force in the conservative movement and an increasingly plausible and popular contender for his party’s presidential nomination in 2024.”
DeSantis won a razor-thin victory in his 2018 gubernatorial race, but only the deadest of Dead-End Democrats are today wishing their guy, Andrew Gillum, had won. As Payne continues, “The deadly COVID-19 pandemic revealed DeSantis as a capable and independent-minded executive whose state is doing better than most by key pandemic metrics, even as the governor flouted much of the received wisdom on COVID mitigation while defying critics who claimed his state would become a death trap. At the same time, DeSantis has also signaled his willingness to take on Big Tech … with targeted legislation.”
If you think leftists and their mainstream media bootlickers are afraid of DeSantis, you’re right. They’re doing everything they can to smear him. And they’re failing. He’s the young and popular governor of the ultimate swing state, and he’s shown a Trump-like willingness to punch back at the media — albeit in more measured tones. Perhaps most important of all, though, is that DeSantis has done his part to keep the Republican Party together rather than contribute to its fracture along pro-Trump and anti-Trump lines. Unlike certain others in his party, he simply refused to take the Left’s bait and denounce his party’s standard-bearer in the wake of the January 6 riots.
Here, folks like Senators Mitch McConnell and scumbag/rino-Mitt Romney, and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, might want to take some notes. Perhaps they already have. McConnell and scumbag/rino-Romney have been notably deferential when asked about Donald Trump lately, and Haley, who herself has been seen as a possible 2024 presidential candidate, has virtually disappeared.
So DeSantis will welcome the crowd today, and he’ll be followed by an array of others intent on appealing to their party’s conservative base, including Senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Josh Hawley. But CPAC attendees — every last one of them — know that they’ll have to wait until Sunday for the conference’s marquee attraction: Donald John Trump.
Our nation’s 45th president has kept his powder pretty dry since socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden took office last month, but all that will change this weekend.
As the Washington Examiner’s David Drucker reports, “Trump is still a winner in the hearts of so many Republican voters; they would love to see him mount a third White House bid. The 45th president, declining to rule it out, is to address CPAC Sunday in central Florida, just a short trip from his new home base in Palm Beach, in the most anticipated speech of the annual gathering of Republican insiders and grassroots conservatives.”
Trump is expected to hammer socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden on pretty much everything he’s done so far in office — immigration, China, the works.
And, as Fox News reports, “Trump is expected to fall just short of announcing a 2024 presidential bid. The sources said he will go between ‘warming up to the idea of a 2024 run, and walking right up to the line of announcing another campaign.’”
On Monday morning, we’ll have a chance to analyze how closely he hewed to this script. ~The Patriot Post
Hollywood's Gun-Violence Hypocrisy
In the wake of the horrific school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland, Hollywood responded with public service announcements denouncing “gun violence” and supporting gun control efforts such as the March for Our Lives rally. But in both instances, instead of doing some serious soul-searching and accepting responsibility for creating a culture of violence, prominent actors lashed out at the Second Amendment, the NRA, and Republicans.
Simply observing that the Left engages in hypocrisy on this issue doesn’t go nearly far enough. The Hollywood elite and their mouthpieces have been peddling violence for decades while decrying America’s “obsession” with guns and violence.
Americans have let them get away with it for too long, and we need to start calling them out for promoting the violence they sanctimoniously claim to deplore.
Now that President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is in the White House, the Left is aggressively pushing for more gun control. A report by the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action details a list of priorities that liar-Democrats hope to realize in socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s first term.
In order to gin up support for these efforts, the entertainment industry is hell-bent on making sure Americans know who to blame for gun violence.
As the esteemed John Lott writes, “CBS is in a full-court press for gun control on its evening entertainment television shows. The bad guys are always white supremacists who use machine guns — supposedly AR-15s — to commit mass public shootings. Criminals in Mexico supposedly get machine guns from the United States. A father’s desire to protect his family only leads to tragedy when his daughter gets into the gun safe and uses the weapon in a mass public shooting. And guns in the home pose a danger for children. Gun registration is necessary for solving crime.”
The Leftmedia often claims that movies and television have no influence on the way media consumers think and act. If this were true, though, CBS and other networks wouldn’t be trying to turn their viewers into gun control advocates. Instead, they’d be producing movies and television programs with less violence.
Instead, they claim, Americans just can’t get enough of what they’re selling.
A position paper by the American Academy of Family Physicians concludes, “While multiple factors can lead to violent actions, a growing body of literature shows a strong association between the perpetration of violence and exposure to violence in media, digital media, and entertainment.” The paper highlights some troubling statistics when it comes to the prevalence of violence in movies, TV shows, and video games.
But the push to get socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden to implement a broad anti-gun agenda isn’t going to be easy, and that’s causing some on the Left to criticize his lack of action. “Any attempt to repeal liability protections for gun manufacturers will initiate a war with Second Amendment proponents who will look to block any such proposal in court,” says Rick Moran. Fortunately, he adds, “With the Senate currently at 50-50, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden isn’t likely to get anything done on guns.” At least not legislatively.
One reason for the hesitation among some legislators is the lack of broad public support for gun restrictions. A Gallup poll this past November showed the lowest support for such onerous regulations in four years. Undeterred by this reality, liar-Democrats are pushing socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden to use executive action to bypass the legislative process.
Although censorship and cancel culture are becoming a fashionable way to silence and punish conservative viewpoints, no one is calling for the censorship of the entertainment industry. But the industry’s self-proclaimed concern over “gun violence” would carry more weight if it weren’t continuously promoting violence. ~The Patriot Post
liar-Dems Tacitly Raise socialist/scumbag/
Nearly three dozen House liar-Democrats led by Jimmy Panetta (CA) recently sent a letter to socialist/scumbag/ liar-Joe Biden requesting that he give up his unilateral authority to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In the letter, Panetta contends, “Vesting one person with this authority entails risks. Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment.” Anybody wonder if socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is cognitively up to the task?
Panetta asserted that his motivation for calling on socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden to give up control of the nation’s nuclear launch codes has everything to do with “checks [and] balances in our nuclear command-and-control structure.” While he makes no mention of socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s advanced age and mental acuity, Panetta’s suggestion of requiring both the vice president and speaker of the House to okay any nuclear strike tacitly underscores fears that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden can’t be trusted with nukes.
Would Panetta be making this same request of socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden if the man were 10 or more years younger?
Just yesterday, Time Magazine published an article titled, “We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Alzheimer’s and Dementia.” Story authors Maria Shriver and George Vradenburg almost humorously observe, “No president has entered the White House with as clear a focus on Alzheimer’s disease as socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden. The commitment and attention on Alzheimer’s at the highest levels of our elected leadership is long overdue.”
While the article goes on to note how socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden has pledged to make seeking a cure for Alzheimer’s a top priority, the obvious elephant in the room is socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s own clearly diminishing mental state. Might he have a more personal reason for making it a priority?
Back to Panetta’s letter: Might Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi, herself no spring chicken at 80 years of age, be using a back-bencher to lay the groundwork for an early socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden exit? We have long contended that, given socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s obvious mental diminishment, it’s highly unlikely he’ll serve out his term. He was simply the means for Democrats to get a Kamala Harris presidency. Going forward, it will be interesting to see how this continues to play out. ~The Patriot Post
Rush Limbaugh's Lasting Lessons
He’s been gone little more than a week, and already we miss him. But where we now have fond memories of the man, leftists are likely to be triggered by Rush Limbaugh for some time to come. Why? Because he had them sussed all along. He had their decoder ring; had their Rosetta Stone; knew exactly which buttons to press.As Dennis Prager wrote, “Liberals and leftists dismissed him throughout his career, and again in their obituaries [last] week, as ‘divisive,’ as if the left hasn’t been the most divisive force in America since the Civil War. This lack of self-awareness on the part of the left is mind-numbing.”
And despite their best efforts to cancel him, Rush never caved. He apologized only a handful of times that we can recall (and rightly so), and he never lost his sense of humor.
Brian Glicklich, Rush’s spokesman and strategist, describes his departed boss as “patient zero” of the Left’s cancel culture. But if that’s the case, Rush was the world’s worst patient. He took every sling, every arrow, and he took ‘em all with a smile. And he never broke — nor did he ever appear close to breaking. He was De Niro’s Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull.” He took every punch Ray Robinson had to offer, but in the end he just stood there, smiling defiantly: “Ya never got me down, Ray … never got me down.”
Indeed, the Left never did get Rush down. And he landed three decades’ worth of haymakers along the way.
“Rush’s first rule was simple,” writes Glicklich: “‘No faux apologies for fake transgressions.’ The best illustration was the ‘phony soldiers’ controversy in 2007. Rush was speaking with a caller on his program about ‘phony soldiers’ like Jesse Macbeth, who had falsely claimed to have seen war crimes, and who was ultimately convicted for receiving veterans benefits to which he was not entitled. But Harry dinky-Reid and 40 other Senate liar-Democrats deliberately misinterpreted his comments and sent his syndicator a letter demanding an apology.”
If Rush had simply told dinky-Harry and Friends to pound sand, it would’ve been sufficient. But it wouldn’t have been Rush — because it wouldn’t have been fun.
“Rush auctioned their letter off in a show of gleeful brio,” Glicklich continued, “marching the document on stage handcuffed to his security guard during a Philadelphia speech. He matched the $2.1 million winning bid with his own funds, and donated the money to scholarships for the children of fallen service members and police officers. It was classic Rush.”
Another great Limbaugh lesson went to his advertisers, and it concerned the Left’s incessant threats of boycott. The lesson? Don’t cave to them. Ever. The Internet “boycott” mobs, he learned, tended to be small groups sending outsized volumes of email messages. They were full of sound and fury, but they signified nothing. And Rush had the data to back it up.
Incidentally, our Patrick Hampton took three life lessons from Rush — lessons about courage, faith, and perseverance that are well worth pondering.
As for those Ahabian sad sacks who spent a third of a century trying to suppress his speech, Rush stayed on offense and simply gave them more speech. “Rather than be cowed into diluting his on-air presentation,” says Glicklich, “he fished for liberals’ outrage … and he laughed as he set the hook. … He canceled cancel culture three hours a day for 33 years, and he did it with [wait for it] ‘half his brain tied behind his back, just to keep it fair.’” ~The Patriot Post
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