A restaurant has been hosting "drag queen brunches" for children ages 12 and under—kids as young as 3 participated in these shows. But authorities in Florida are fighting back and recommending the bar lose its beverage license. My latest op-ed for The Washington Times: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/1/floridas-fight-for-decency-against-moral-depravity/
The Washington Times
Florida’s fight for decency against moral depravity
A nearly nude, possibly transgender stripper-dressed drag queen with dollar bills stuffed into gaudy lingerie struts across the neon-lit room, leading around a little girl by the hand.
The future of America belongs to the side that most effectively wields power to advance its vision of what the country should look like from household to nation. Drawing some lessons from Trump and DeSantis in my latest column for Chronicles. https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/desantis-trump-and-a-new-right-comfortable-with-power/
Chronicles
DeSantis, Trump, and a New Right Comfortable With Power
Unlike many on the right, Governor Ron DeSantis is not afraid to use political power.
Transgenderism is one of the greatest challenges to the family in the US, threatening to permanently ruin the minds and bodies of children and turn them against parents.
Here is my contribution to the "Top 25 Threats to the American Family" report by the American Principles Project. https://familythreats.com/corporations/abbvie/
Here is my contribution to the "Top 25 Threats to the American Family" report by the American Principles Project. https://familythreats.com/corporations/abbvie/
American Principles Project
AbbVie
Last year, a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggested that the rate of transgender identification among America’s youth may be as high as 9 in 100....
"The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom was an incisive critique of the academic left that impressed conservatives and became a key text in that regard. But Claes G. Ryn was one of the few people who understood Bloom's Jacobinism, and what it could mean for America. https://contra.substack.com/p/keeping-out-the-jacobins
Contra
Keeping Out the Jacobins
The real problem with gatekeeping is that the right doesn’t do it enough and to the right people.
Ezekiel Kelly entered a guilty plea to aggravated assault in 2021 as an adult after initially being charged with attempted first-degree murder. He had a warrant out for his arrest for first-degree murder before he began his live-streamed shooting spree.
It follows the gruesome death and abduction of Eliza Fletcher in Memphis.
https://contra.substack.com/p/pathological-softness
It follows the gruesome death and abduction of Eliza Fletcher in Memphis.
https://contra.substack.com/p/pathological-softness
Contra
Pathological Softness
Death and tragedy in Memphis.
Cleotha Abston-Henderson abducted and robbed Kemper Durand two weeks after his release from the juvenile system in 2000; he abducted and murdered Eliza Fletcher two years after his early release from state prison in 2020. America tolerates the intolerable.
My latest column. https://contra.substack.com/p/tragedy-is-a-flat-circle
My latest column. https://contra.substack.com/p/tragedy-is-a-flat-circle
Substack
Tragedy Is a Flat Circle
Race, crime, and America's tolerance of the intolerable.
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at “Defeating the Great Reset,” a Turning Point USA event.
The bottom line: America's greatest enemies aren’t in Davos but in D.C. https://contra.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-america-first
The bottom line: America's greatest enemies aren’t in Davos but in D.C. https://contra.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-america-first
Contra
The Meaning of 'America First'
Our worst enemies are domestic.
Biden's UN address made it clear that in the mouths of liberal elites, "democracy" merely means everything they like while "undemocratic" means everything they don't. Fortunately, faith in "democracy" is slipping across the West.
My latest Newsweek op-ed. https://www.newsweek.com/democracy-biden-whatever-benefits-global-elite-opinion-1745162
My latest Newsweek op-ed. https://www.newsweek.com/democracy-biden-whatever-benefits-global-elite-opinion-1745162
Newsweek
'Democracy' for Biden is whatever benefits the global elite | Opinion
"Democracy" is whatever the elites of the U.S.-led West do and desire, and everything they don't is "undemocratic." Why? Because Humpty Dumpty says so.
Newsletter: Keeping out the Jacobins, right-wing power hour, "America First" In Name Only, South Africa as America's future, the real globalists are in Washington. https://contra.substack.com/p/contra-review-4
Contra
Contra Review #4
Keeping out the Jacobins, right-wing power hour, "America First" In Name Only, South Africa as America's future, the real globalists are in Washington.
Giorgia Meloni’s victory is seen as a symbolic rejection of Western liberalism. Whether she lives up to that potential is yet to be determined. But the electricity of the moment is palpable: the Italians have voted against the times. My latest for Chronicles. https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/meloni-contra-mundum/
Chronicles
Meloni Contra Mundum
The election of Italy’s new right-wing nationalist prime minister, Giorgina Meloni, is a rebuke to the woke liberal democratic system and its political-theological nerve center in Washington, D.C.
What has been and will continue to be the most important part of the Elon Musk saga is what it reveals about power—who has it and how they use it to control everything from the discourse to elections. https://contra.substack.com/p/losing-control-of-twitter
Readcontra
Losing Control of Twitter
NBC News reporter Ben Collins says the quiet part out loud about Elon Musk’s bid.
The US isn’t becoming more secular. It’s giving rise to new religions, like anti-whiteism, which conditions people to worship criminals based on their diversity points, to favor a perverse form of forgiveness over justice and righteous punishment. https://contra.substack.com/p/anti-whiteism-the-new-american-religion
Check out my latest column!
Check out my latest column!
Readcontra
Anti-Whiteism: The New American Religion and Totalitarianism
It wears the skin of Christianity but perverts its virtues and ensnares and disarms believers.
The US alliance system is plagued by “Trojan Alliances,” in which smaller states (like Ukraine) collude with the US foreign policy establishment to goad America into never-ending and open-ended commitments abroad. The tail, in other words, can and often does wag the dog.
Arta Moeini, research director at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, and David Polansky, a research fellow at the institute, join me to discuss this and more on the latest episode of Discourses. https://contra.substack.com/p/rethinking-the-us-alliance-system
Arta Moeini, research director at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, and David Polansky, a research fellow at the institute, join me to discuss this and more on the latest episode of Discourses. https://contra.substack.com/p/rethinking-the-us-alliance-system
Readcontra
Rethinking the U.S. Alliance System
Watch now (70 min) | A talk with two scholars from the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.
In March 2018, Trump floated the death penalty for drug dealers while talking about the opioid crisis. Three months later, he commuted the sentence of a woman who ran cocaine from Texas to Tennessee produced by a Colombian cartel. He said he did it for Kanye West. https://contra.substack.com/p/the-drug-dealer-pardoned-by-the-president
Readcontra
The Drug Dealer Pardoned by the President to Please the Rapper
Alice Marie Johnson, Donald Trump, and Ye.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, condemned Biden last night on “Hannity” for the border crisis. But Judd is at the center of an amnesty push that could apply to approximately two million people and now his union is attacking immigration hawks. https://contra.substack.com/p/border-patrol-union-president-pushes
CONTRA
Border Patrol Union President Pushes Amnesty for Millions
Brandon Judd styles himself as an immigration hawk. But he has a history of selling out on the issue.