Thanks to the war on masculinity, there are no more men left to pair up with women. It’s no wonder couples are putting off marriage and having children later and later these days. The administration had already decided not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, even before the U.S. Supreme Court struck much of the law down. Now Holder’s Justice Department is advancing the cause further. The DoJ released a memo instructing federal government lawyers to give “full and equal recognition, to the greatest extent possible under the law” to same-sex marriages. Like heterosexual married couples, gay married people can file jointly for bankruptcy, are excused from testifying against their “spouses” in legal cases, and when their spouses are in prison, they have the same right to visit them as heterosexual couples have. Holder explained that same-sex marriage “stabilized families and expanded individual liberty.”30
I want to see what Holder says when the gay divorces start piling up. I’m announcing right now, I have dibs on the reality television show.
Let me simplify things: If it’s illegal, Democrats are for it. Period. They support prisoners’ right to vote, and they’re actively enrolling prisoners in Obamacare. They run guns across the border to Mexican drug lords and other criminals with impunity. They turn a blind eye as illegal aliens and drug dealers cross our southern border in droves, jeopardizing American citizens and defying U.S. laws and those who try to enforce them.
The cultural elite fawn over Miley Cyrus’s disgusting “twerking” displays and watch as Justin Bieber receives no more than a slap on the wrist for racing his sports car through a residential neighborhood. We live in a society in which our civil rights are being eliminated, even as we must make our way through a leftist-dominated culture that has become even more hedonistic, amoral, and degenerate than that of Germany’s Weimar Republic of the 1920s.
Planned Parenthood, which is responsible for killing millions of babies since legalized abortion was forced on Americans by the Supreme Court, has taken its immorality to an inconceivable level: It’s now promoting bondage and sadomasochistic sex to teenagers. The agency received nearly $3 million in federal grant money that it used to promote these sexual practices while recommending that teenagers who engage in them follow the “rules” outlined in a video titled Getting Kinky (BDSM 101). The video calls October “National Kink Month” and says that Halloween and kink are both about adventure and fun and exploring roles and dynamics that are maybe a little bit different from everyday life. Their justification for spreading this filth? Bondage and sadomasochism “relies upon and creates trust,” according to video host Laci Green.31
And don’t for a second think this filth isn’t approved and sanctioned by the White House. The administration’s grip on the media is so tight, their knuckles are white. Even though the mainstream press and television news corps turn a blind eye toward the excesses and corruption of this administration, they’re not satisfied. They monitor and censor even their strongest supporters in the media. This even extends to the George Soros–funded Center for American Progress (CAP).
As I’ve said elsewhere, George Soros may be the most dangerous anti-American pro-socialist power monger in the world. Soros played an important part in manipulating the 2008 presidential election in order to put Barack Obama in office. How did the president thank him? He turned the tables on Soros, ordering his thugs to make sure CAP adhered to the Obama party line in the articles it published.
Zaid Jilani is a blogger who began working at Think-Progress, one of the adjuncts of CAP. When Jilani began writing in opposition to the continuation of the war in Afghanistan, the administration leapt on her. “Phone calls from the White House started pouring in,” she said, “berating my bosses for being critical of Obama on this policy.” The administration was acting more like the Kremlin than like the leaders of the world’s freest nation. Jilani described the pressure she received from publishers and sponsors (i.e., the White House) as “suffocating.”32
Reporters Without Borders, a group that monitors freedom of the press around the world, took notice of the Obama administration’s stifling of the press. The self-described “most transparent” administration in American history has caused America’s rank in the index of freedom of the press around the world to drop from 32nd to 46th among the 180 countries measured. Among the criteria used to measure freedom of the press were the things Jilani complained about: official abuse and lack of media independence.33
In maybe the most outrageous transgression against our freedom of the press, the administration planned to place government operatives in the nation’s newsrooms through the Federal Communications Commission. The project was titled “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs” (CIN), and these FCC “researchers,” as they called themselves, would question everyone from reporters to editors to owners on how they decided which stories they would run.
Though the FCC said their motive for being in the newsrooms was research, it was apparent to nearly everyone that the real reason they were there was to police the newsrooms and eventually dictate which stories they could cover.
The people involved in assisting the FCC are the real indicator of how dangerous and subversive this project is. The FCC commissioner directly involved in trying to set up this incursion on the freedom of the press was Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of longtime representative James Clyburn, a former head of the Congressional Black Caucus and a man who has supported Obama’s policies blindly. Mignon Clyburn is a committed leftist ideologue who described her mission with the FCC’s proposed invasion of our news organizations as a way to “chart a course… to a more effective delivery of necessary information to all citizens… be they native born, immigrant, disabled, non-English speaking, low income, or other.”34
As you can see, Clyburn named just about every interest group this administration caters to in its destruction of our borders, language, and culture. The “study” she was planning to conduct included topics such as emergencies and risks, health and welfare, the environment, education, transportation, economic opportunities, civic information, and political information. As I see it, they’re all leftist code words for entitlements and dependency. My take is that Clyburn’s intent was nothing less than to find out if America’s newsrooms were meeting the criteria of the left. In other words, the FCC had an overtly political function.
Obama lieutenant John Podesta stomped on suggestions the project was a lightly veiled attempt at controlling the news, insisting that “any suggestion that the FCC intends to regulate the speech of news media or plans to put monitors in America’s newsrooms is false.” What Podesta failed to mention was that in 2007 he was running the Center for American Progress, and under his leadership the group produced a report that explained how the FCC could weaken conservative talk radio and replace it with progressive talk show hosts. Here’s what he proposed:
Ownership diversity is perhaps the single most important variable contributing to the structural imbalance based on the data. Quantitative analysis conducted by Free Press of all 10,506 licensed commercial radio stations reveals that stations owned by women, minorities, or local owners are statistically less likely to air conservative hosts or shows.35
Mignon Clyburn’s FCC research project was the first step in bringing Podesta’s vision of a shackled press into reality.
The Constitution specifically forbids anyone or any agency from “abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,” but I see that was precisely what Clyburn and the FCC intended to do with this project. Was it all to be done in the interest of “fairness”?
Here’s what “fairness” means to the administration when it comes to our religious beliefs: Just as he is intent on denying Christians and Christianity the freedom of their religious beliefs when they’re serving in our country’s armed forces, the president looks the other way as Islamist rebels in Syria kill Christians, wantonly torture women and children to death, and destroy Christian churches.
My question is this: Does this administrat
ion look the other way because it is jihadists who are committing these atrocities? In Syria, Bashar Assad—dictator that he may be—has always protected Christians; the “rebels”—who this administration appears to be supporting—are perpetrating the slaughter of Christians.36
The same thing happened in Egypt. When the military rose up to overthrow Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, they were getting rid of a Muslim Brotherhood ruler who supported the murder of Christians.37 The president sided with Morsi. In the events that led up to Morsi’s election and subsequent removal, the administration had joined forces against a longtime American ally and defender of Christians’ rights, Hosni Mubarak.
Political leftist leaders are waging war against Christians in places you wouldn’t have suspected. New York governor Andrew Cuomo has declared that extreme conservatives “have no place in the state of New York.”38 At the same time, Pope Francis declared that liberation theology—the same doctrine espoused by Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—can no longer “remain in the shadows to which it has been relegated for some years.” Of the principles and practices of capitalism, the Pope says, “A new tyranny is thus born.”39 The new tyranny, though, is not the tyranny of capitalism, under which Christianity has flourished; it’s the tyranny of the leftists the Pope is aligning himself with, people for whom Christianity is anathema.
The Pope’s words came as the Obama administration was persecuting the Little Sisters of the Poor for not being willing to give up their religious principles against birth control and abortion. Across the United States, the Little Sisters of the Poor run some thirty hospitals, which provide medical services for the elderly poor. The financial penalties this organization faces if they are forced to comply with Obamacare’s mandates would put the nuns out of business in a matter of months.40
The United States is overwhelmingly a Christian nation. The editor in chief of the Gallup polling organization estimates that “about three-quarters—75, maybe up to 77 percent of Americans—identify with the Christian religion.” Another 17 percent of Americans profess no religious affiliation, so the percentage of U.S. citizens with a religious practice other than Christianity is very small, likely as low as 5 or 6 percent.41
The president appears to be committed to the destruction of the majority religion of the country over which he presides.
Will English Become America’s Second Language?
I’ve mentioned Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial that featured “America the Beautiful” being sung in eight different languages. Ray Charles, who recorded the most moving version of that song I’ve ever heard, must be turning over in his grave. There was a day when immigrants took pride in learning the language of their adoptive home. Everyone knows that today you can’t make a phone call to a government agency or business without being asked to press 1 if you want to speak English or 2 if you want Spanish. Somehow we managed to avoid “Press 3 for Ebonics.” Healthcare.gov offers people who access the website a choice of forty-six different languages to buy their health care in. Forty-six!
Don’t believe there’s a war against the English language being waged in this country? In Texas, a grade-school principal was fired for requiring students to speak English in the classroom. More than half the students in the school district are Hispanic, and her critics said, “When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity, it sends the message that the child is not wanted: ‘We don’t want your color. We don’t want your kind.’ They then tend to drop out early.”42
In fact, it should send exactly the opposite message. Teaching Spanish-speaking kids the English language says to them that this country wants them to succeed, wants them to become American citizens and to be able to succeed in this country. Learning English is the one fundamental skill that guarantees they’ll have a good chance to better themselves.
English is the standard language of international communications. Virtually every head of every Western nation speaks English. Every champion of every international athletic tournament I’ve ever watched—from soccer to tennis to the Olympics—has conducted his or her postgame interview in English, no matter what their native country is. But here in the United States, we’re allowing the left to dictate which language we’re required to speak, because politicians are too weak-kneed to make English the official language of the United States. It’s the official language of the world, but we’re not willing to acknowledge that here.
And that’s by design.
It’s possible that this administration’s most remembered accomplishment will be the degeneration of our language and communication.
Nothing less than the very preservation of our borders, language, and culture is at stake right now. What makes us Americans is being taken from us. The survival of our beloved country has entered its most critical stage.
CHAPTER 4
The War on the U.S. Military
The insidiousness of Obama’s military evisceration plan, one that has already seen hundreds of high-ranking officers dismissed, is that it not only removes our best and most dedicated soldiers, it destroys morale across our armed services. When capable young soldiers who once thought of making a career in the armed forces see what’s happening to their superior officers, they decide to leave military service. Those who stay have to navigate a minefield of Obama’s operatives just to do their job.
Let me start this chapter by giving you a quick history lesson. In early September 1901, then-vice president Theodore Roosevelt stood on a stage at the Minnesota State Fair and quoted an old proverb that would be from that moment on and forever his. Just two weeks later, he’d begin his tenure as one of our strongest presidents. And although an assassin’s bullet—which ripped through President William McKinley’s stomach—put Roosevelt in the Oval Office, the phrase he spoke to the Minnesota fairgoers is the foundation on which his presidential legend began: “Speak softly but carry a big stick.”
I tell you this for one reason, so you can make a comparison with what we have in the White House right now. I don’t think anybody since Teddy Roosevelt has put together a sentence that better captures how the president of the United States should act.
For this president, it’s “Speak loudly and carry a limp stick.”
What has been happening to veterans in our VA hospitals is a telltale sign of this administration’s attitude toward the military.
Americans are beginning to wake up to the travesty that a federal government that controls our medical care has become. Everyone is finally realizing that what’s happening in veterans’ hospitals now will happen across our entire medical system under the Affordable Care Act. Many are now saying that what we see going on in our VA medical system—double sets of books, people dying because of delayed or unavailable treatment—is likely to be what’s coming to the American medical industry.
The Veterans Affairs scandal finally surfaced in the spring of 2014, and we’re all justifiably outraged as case after case comes to light in which our veterans are forced to wait, often for years, in order to even be seen by a VA doctor, let alone receive medical treatment.
Hundreds of veterans have died for lack of care, and thousands more have seen their health deteriorate to the point where they may not be able to recover. All this as the bureaucrats who fail to manage their care cover up their incompetence by creating phony wait lists and publishing outright lies in the form of reports.
Do you realize how bad the VA situation has become?
Do you realize that the current administration seems to care more about the health of illegal aliens in this country than it does about our veterans?
Let me give you a few examples.
The VA canceled some forty thousand tests and treatments that our veterans with cancer and other diseases and conditions needed. They did that so they could hide a backlog of treating our veterans that spanned more than a decade.1
At the same time, in one major city, upward of 40 percent of the patients receiving dialysis for kidney failure are i
llegal aliens. In Arizona alone, $700 million was spent providing medical treatment for illegal aliens, this while more than three dozen veterans died waiting for treatment in Phoenix VA facilities.2
More than two dozen VA facilities are now revealing that the veterans they’re responsible for treating are backlogged, while the federal government that’s responsible for treating them provides services for noncitizens in this country illegally.
The VA medical system is the same system that one commentator has said was a model for the entire U.S. health-care system to follow.3
The administration’s military decisions are equally as questionable as their treatment of the soldiers who risk their lives in carrying out those decisions.
Think back to the president’s making the case for a “targeted” military strike in Syria. We witnessed a mass of contradictory assertions and yet another “red line” drawn in the Middle Eastern sand that quickly disappeared as events there escalated.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that the president should have ordered a military strike on Syria. If you listen to my show at all, you know I’m an anti-war conservative in the best sense of that term. We’re not the world’s policeman. We should go to war only when our national interests are at stake. But that doesn’t mean I’m against a strong military. The very definition of “anti-war conservatism” is having a “big stick.” A nation with a muscular military is a nation whose borders are safe and whose ideals are intact.
The evidence indicates that our president is committed to the exact opposite. His goal appears to be to weaken our military until it can no longer defend our national interests. His military agenda, as you’ll read in this chapter, is now becoming so obvious that even some of his once loyal following have begun to question it. He is sabotaging our proud military culture as he fires our most patriotic and competent commanders.
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