"Leftism is both a way of understanding the world and a value system.  It is, in fact, a form of religion, albeit a secular one.  Many of its adherents believe in it with the same passion as religious Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in their respective religions."  -Dennis Prager

A Muslim has beheaded a woman in France and killed two others for Allah.  For decades now, the West has received a deluge of migration, much of it from Muslim countries (which differentiates it from earlier migrations).  Bigotedly thinking beheading is worse than whatever the left calls "xenophobia" or "Islamaphobia," I oppose this.

Glenn Greenwald has been censored at the publication he co-founded.  He has resigned.  Why has he been censored?  He criticized Joe Biden.  The new left simply wants to shut people up.

"Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution."  -Donald Trump

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

The media only wants to talk about what doesn't matter -- or, more precisely, what matters to Manhattanites.  Those of us outside NYC don't vote, surprisingly, for the KKK or white supremacy.  What do we vote for?

By cheers at the rally, the Second Amendment.  Black and hispanic and asian unemployment being low.

If plumbers were as bad at their jobs as journalists are we'd still be dumping bedpans out of windows.

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”  -Ayn Rand

"If you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

President Trump did well in the debate, seeming far mentally younger than his (barely) senior opponent.  One question which confronts the American voter is:  Are we ready to go back?  Back to cardboard politicians and fake responses and contrived emotions.

Joe Biden said impenetrable nonsense when asked if now was the right time to raise minimum wages since businesses were struggling already.

The President did not blame Joe for Covid, though the same was not true in reverse.  It's very strange to hear Joe blaming the President for the deaths period, considering just about every country on Earth had deaths.  Why doesn't the left blame Trump for 5%, or 50%?  I'm puzzled as to why they go whole hog.

"Portland, Oregon, protestors took over the city for most of a week, blocking highways, delaying buses, vandalizing businesses and cars. One anarchist justified the violence to The Oregonian by explaining that no one should expect “black youth” to be “peaceful” when “Nazis are going to kill them.” Twitter was besieged with hashtags: #nevermypresident; #notmypresident; #StillWithHer. Cornell students gathered for a “cry-in.” The University of Kansas urged students to make use of therapy dogs. The University of Michigan comforted distraught students with coloring books and Play-Doh."  -Kimberly Strassel

A French Teacher is beheaded by a Muslim.  I'd rather have free expression than Islamic immigration.

The left re-defined both "court packing" and "sexual preference" to mean what they'd like them to mean, in the latter case one dictionary being updated the next day.

Bad news for Limbaugh's health:  His cancer is progressing.  The left on Twitter celebrated in a disgusting display.  How do we reconcile this left with the one that gets weepy over a bad word or temporary family separation?  Very simple:  Can they use the victim as ammunition to shoot at the right?

The left fights the right.  It does not fight evil, misery, slavery, or any kind of hardship.  It fights the right.

"We are often told it’s foolish to bite the hand that feeds you. I say it’s just as foolish to feed the hand that bites you."  Marji Ross

Twitter prohibited a story from the New York Post, one of our nation's largest news publications.  As a result, people who are not flame throwers are throwing flames.

I'm against subpoenaing Jack.

Regulation will immortalize Facebook/Twitter, not kill them.

If we have the wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail  –George Washington

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Biden blames Trump's rhetoric for the Whitmer kidnapping effort (or does he?  You'll never get a straight answer from a crooked man).  Lo and behold, the plot was conceived before Trump tweeted the offending "inspiration."  Talk about being anti-science -- Biden evidently believes in time travel!

North America was more murderous before Columbus than after.  Does that count for nothing?  Why does the left celebrate the more murderous indigenous but tear down statues of the less murderous Europeans?

Another Trump supporter was apparently murdered in Denver.  Why do we all know the name of the woman killed in 2017 in Charlottesville, yet we don't know the name of this man nor the Trump supporter murdered by Antifa just six weeks ago in Portland?

"...when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“all he did was to remember

Like the old and be honest like children.”  -WH Auden, on Freud

MI governor Gretchen Whitmer blames Trump for a kidnapping plot.  The left blame not those who are guilty for crimes, but whoever they have to in order to gain power.

Mike Pence dominated in his debate, but polling shows a split.  This might indicate half the country likes emasculation, half likes quiet confidence.

"There is one other surefire way to get the crowd on your side. And that is for a woman on the stage to express concern, nervousness or a sense of ‘imposter syndrome’. One impressive, smart and striking young woman involved in a start-up business begins her contribution by saying all of these things. She is nervous and feels almost as if she shouldn’t be there, with all these amazing women in the room who have achieved so much. They applaud heartily and congratulate her on her bravery in saying this. Women need to be confident. But it seems that one good strategy for getting other women onside is to present yourself as not being at all confident."  -Douglas Murray

"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."  Mark Twain

Avoiding catastrophe is my main hope in this election.  And not just in the usual, long-term sense.  I hope we avoid civil war in the near future.  A chilling poll says 30+ percent of both political affiliations support political violence.

Heather Mac Donald has a good point:  President Trump used leftwing tactics in the debate to both smear strict law enforcement and Joe Biden.  That aspect of his debate sucked.  But the President is a package and wishing for different components is silly.

Victor Davis Hanson said, "The new-old leftist aim is not to operate within either the existing parameters of the Constitution as written or the customs and traditions of America—a 150-year-long nine-justice Supreme Court, the Electoral College, a 50-state nation, a Senate filibuster, two senators per state, and a secure border. All are obstructions to the drive for power."  And how.

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”  -Thomas Jefferson

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/01/political-violence-424157

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/why-trumps-bad-behavior-matters-biden-debate

https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/27/the-progressive-medusa/

*I recorded this just prior to Trump's positive Covid test.*

Conduct that was once attributed to the devil will be attributed by successive generations to a deficient or excessive phrenological bump, to an unresolved Oedipus complex, to bad conditioning, to faulty brain chemistry, to unfortunate genes, or to a part of the brain that fails to light up on fMRI scans when appropriately provoked.  The illusion of understanding is like the grin of the Cheshire Cat:  it is what remains when all else has disappeared.”  -Theodore Dalrymple

Chris Wallace did not do well, even rephrasing the President's Critical Theory ban to make it sound silly.  The truth is critical race theory teaches 1) All people of the same race think the same and 2) America is terribly flawed.

The most significant moment of the night is that Biden wouldn't agree to not pack the Supreme Court.  If he does so, the American experiment ends and something else -- something darker -- begins.

"Perhaps it requires someone who is gay to say this, but there are times when such ‘news’ reporting doesn’t feel like news reporting at all. Rather it seems that some type of message is being sent out either to the public or to people whom the media believe to be in positions of power. This goes beyond ‘This will be good for you’ and nearer to the realm of ‘See how you like this, bigot.’"  –Douglas Murray

If we are embarrassed about something, we are likely to change it.  So for those trying to make us embarrassed about our country's history, what do they want us to change to?

Professor Jeff Fynn-Paul has challenged leftist lies as they relate to American Indian - European contact.

“If multiculturalism means I have to accept your ways without comment, it also means you have to accept mine without comment.  Like love, multiculturalism means never having to say sorry.”

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-myth-of-the-stolen-country