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Bill Donohue on CHRISTIANITY IN THE CROSSHAIRS

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Robert Knight on Don Lemon, Cities Church, Minnesota, and his book THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA'S SOUL

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My Interview with Catholic League President Bill Donohue about the Minneapolis Catholic School Attack

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My Interview with Washington Times Columnist Robert Knight about the Legacy of Charlie Kirk

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David Joel Horowitz, R.I.P.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:48:00 +0000

David Horowitz in his Simi Valley study, 2017. (Laurence Jarvik photo)

I learned of the death of David Horowitz in Colorado at age 86 a few days after it happened on April 29th, 2025.

A college friend of mine warned me that he didn't like reading obituaries that were about the person doing the writing instead of the person who died, and I worried would happen which kept me from writing about David immediately. But now I don't care about that. So here goes: my attempt to give one person's perspective on David's passing. Others might have other points-of-view.

It has taken me a while to write about it because so many different thoughts and feelings occurred since. I was conflicted because David was a complicated person to work for, something I did from 1992 to 1996. After I left his employ, he was nice to me in his autobiography, for which I am grateful.

David was ill for years fighting cancer that had spread, but since he seemed a born fighter, I never thought that it would lick him. I guess it didn't occur that he was mortal, since he seemed like a force of nature, or even a supernatural being possessed of extra-terrestrial energy sources. I had never known someone with such energy and determination. While I was fighting writer's block, David was always writing on his laptop, even in the doctor's waiting room where I ran into him when taking my father for a checkup. He wrote on planes, in lobbies, everywhere and anywhere. David once told me his secret was that he published everything he wrote at least three times in different versions, that way the same material went a lot farther and reached more people. He could also get paid three times for it. In addition to his own writing, David simultaneously ran a publishing and activism empire, maintained a grueling schedule of public speaking and fundraising, and somehow had enough time left over to get married four times and father four children. When he died, it was reported that he had written fifty books. He had lived the lives of two, three, maybe even four men...

I read David's Destructive Generation (co-authored with Peter Collier) after it came out and was affected by what he had written. I still think it is his best book. His description of Leftist nihilism is something obviously true but that I hadn't noticed until David pointed it out.

Destruction is the aim of the enterprise. All the rest is just window dressing. Not only is the issue never the issue for the Left, as David repeatedly declared, The Revolution isn't really the issue either--the issue is just destruction of all that exists, to return to a Year Zero...in other words the goal is nothingness.

I visited David in 2017 at his home in Simi Valley in order to congratulate him on the election of Donald Trump as President, since he had worked hard to make it happen. When I arrived, David handed me a signed copy of Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America, his blueprint for the Trump administration. At the time, David was recovering from an operation and was walking with a limp. He seemed frail, but full of energy and determination.

David told me he was working on several projects simultaneously and handed me a copy of the latest volume of his 7-volume series, The Black Book of the American Left detailing the horrors of the communists in America. But that wasn't all.

He spoke at length about his wife April's charity work with injured horses, for which he was proud to have help establish a charity foundation. He then took me outside, on a tour of their corral to introduced me to their horses.

That was a side of David that I hadn't seen much during the years I worked for him--gentle, compassionate, and seemingly at peace. I had no idea that he was an animal lover. He also talked about his ex-wife and children, of who he was also extremely fond. Again, I hadn't seen the paterfamilias side of David before, only the crusader side. It was not long before David moved to Colorado.

We talked on the phone a couple of times after that, and exchanged a few emails, but I never saw David again.

I did think about him a lot over the years, and came to the conclusion that his conversion to anti-communism was sincere. He was a best-selling author whose establishment career ended when he announced his support for President Reagan. His departure from the Left cost him not only friends, but also career opportunities. David told me that he never got a good review in the New York Times after publication of "Lefties for Reagan" in the Washington Post in 1985. His political heresy cost him millions in royalties, I'm sure.

And I have no doubt that the murder of his friend Betty Van Patter by the Black Panthers, and David's guilt for playing a part in that tragedy, launched him on the political trajectory which changed his life. He was obviously surprised that his old comrades and liberal friends sided with the Panthers, and excused the murder of his bookkeeper for political reasons.

In microcosm, David had personally experienced the history of Liberals, Socialists and Communists making excuses for murderous Communism since the October Revolution in Russia. No crime has been too horrible to be excused by those who remain devoted to the shining future promised by scientific socialists. Of course, David had been one of those Leftists himself, a "New Leftist" raised by "Old Leftist" parents. Old wine in a new bottle. As he wrote in his autobiography, he thought nothing of his parents hiding an East German spy in their family home. How different was that from families who hid members of the Weather Underground in the 1960s? Not very.

Although murder had been well-established as a feature of communist regimes by the 1960s, it was only when such a murder struck close to home, to someone he knew, that David realized the nature of the forces he had been aiding as editor of Ramparts and fund-raiser for the Black Panthers.

Nevertheless, despite his political heterodoxy, David was loyal to his friends. His collaborator Peter Collier was like a brother, perhaps even a twin separated at birth. After Collier died, ending their writing partnership, David became more of an organization man, building up The David Horowitz Freedom Center into an institution which he planned to outlive him.

His relationship with liberal Democrat Ron Radosh was also quite tight, at least when I knew him. When I worked for David on the public broadcasting issue, he wouldn't allow a word of criticism of Radosh--even when I complained he was doing nothing to help us in our efforts to defund PBS and NPR. David said I couldn't expect anything because Radosh was a professor and I had to understand the constraints he was under. I didn't then, and don't now. But I did see that David was loyal to his childhood leftist friend from New York City. (Later, his loyalty to Radosh caused a breach between David and fellow anti-communist Diana West, after he published Radosh's negative review of her 2013 expose: American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character. The review accused her of promoting John Birch Society-like conspiracy theories about communists in the US government.)

However, David's loyalty to Radosh was in the end betrayed, when in 2021 Radosh (with co-author Sol Stern) denounced David -- in the same way he had earlier denounced West -- in a 2021 New Republic article titled "Our Friend David Horowitz, The Trump Propagandist:"

In the arc of David Horowitz’s life as a writer and political activist, there is a recurring cycle: an attraction to the most extreme, pugilistic flank of an ideology, a period of reckoning and second thoughts, and then a relentless drive toward the violent fringes of another radical crusade. The stakes seem to increase with every fitful change of heart. With his Freedom Center battle tank, his Restoration Weekends, and his recent bestsellers, Horowitz has become one of the most effective propagandists for a destructive mass movement of millions of middle- and working-class Americans. Such a movement threatens our democracy far more than the campus-based radicalism Horowitz championed during his Berkeley and Ramparts period.

In that earlier era, he celebrated the burning of a bank by a student mob. Today he’s an intellectual pyromaniac who honors the MAGA mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Horowitz’s provocations are calculated to destabilize the electoral process. Perhaps most despicably, he has compared Democrats’ response to the Capitol insurrection with Hitler’s response to the 1933 Reichstag Fire, which the Führer used as an excuse to unleash his horrors on Germany: “The difference was that for Hitler,” Horowitz wrote, “the phantom enemy that justified his depredations was the Jews, while for the fascist Democrats it is ‘white supremacists,’ whose actual numbers are fewer even than the Jews.” But the only political tactic reminiscent of the rise of the Nazis is Horowitz’s (and Trump’s) big lie of a stolen election. It’s the historical equivalent of the Nazi’s claim that the Weimar liberals “stabbed Germany in the back” and lost World War I. Such rhetoric makes Horowitz an enemy of the open society and beyond the pale of rational political discourse.

Our old friend must be defeated on every political front on which he operates, a counteroffensive that should begin by investigating and exposing the Horowitz center’s fundraising scams and the potential abuse of its tax-exempt status. Horowitz will surely protest loudly that the leftist Democrats and traitorous Republicans are canceling his speech. (He already complains of that.) Of course, his free-speech rights should be protected, just as every other American’s are. But you don’t get to ignite warfare and take pride in “fighting fire with fire” and then cry foul when the other side fires back.

In other words, Radosh had declared his "old friend" David Horowitz an enemy to be eliminated.

Some friend.

Too late, David finally recognized Radosh for the enforcer he appeared to be:

The real agenda of Radosh and Stern is to mobilize the IRS to investigate me and deprive me of the resources to criticize and oppose the tyranny descending on us from Washington. Like a pair of commissar wannabes they issue a call to war: “Our old friend must be defeated on every political front on which he operates, a counter-offensive that should begin by investigating and exposing the Horowitz Center’s fundraising scams and the potential abuse of its tax-exempt status.”

In the view of Daniel Greenfield, author of the article in which the above quote appears, and David's successor as CEO of The David Horowitz Freedom Center, Radosh was a totalitarian who had despicably denounced David to government authorities for the purposes of prosecution. "New Left" and "Old Left" and "Liberal" were revealed to have been semantic distinctions without a difference.

Luckily for David's legacy, President Trump was re-elected in 2024. David had lived long enough to see vindication.

In conclusion, David Horowitz was a human being. Like any man, he had his flaws, and he made mistakes. Once he realized the errors of his youth, caused both by a communist upbringing and the trends of the 1960s, David fought the good fight. Not perfectly, but doggedly, with determination and persistence. With his last ounce of dying strength, he was writing until the end. And he lived long enough to see Donald Trump return to the Oval Office.

He finished the race. He kept the faith.

30 Years After Publication, It's Time For This To Finally Happen...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:03:00 +0000

Link to full text of "After the NEA" by Laurence Jarvik from the Summer, 1995 issue on Archive.org:

AFTER THE NEA (Summer, 1995)

View full text:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393472091_After_the_National_Endowment_for_the_Arts#fullTextFileContent

We're Back.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:23:00 +0000

A meme seen on X

When I stopped posting to this blog on January 16th, 2021, it seemed to me that it might never be possible to speak freely again in the United States of America.

The atmosphere of repression was thick. People who stated the obvious, that Biden had come to power in a putsch based on election fraud, backed by repression, were censored.

My own posts were flagged by Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube to name just three social media companies. I did not want to play whack-a-mole with internet censors, so decided to just stop posting, figuring that the censors would not go back in time to delete old stuff while they had to focus on suppressing new information.

That turned out to be pretty much the case, although sometime after Biden's inauguration Blogger took down a old guest post by a late friend, Dr. Terry Hinch, which discussed his conception of "Three Types of Faith" in the light of Mormonism.

But they left this blog pretty much untouched.

It was a bizarre period, to say the least.

We had moved from Washington, DC to Florida in June, 2020 due to insane COVID regulations and BLM/Antifa riots that trashed our shopping centers and smashed windows on cars parked in the street. Our neighbors behaved like zombies from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," decorating their homes with "In this house we believe..." and "Hate has no home here..." signs to show their loyalty (and fear), holding evening vigils in a traffic circle in memory of George Floyd, the neighborhood plastered with threatening flyers about "white privilege", and the DC city government clearly not interested in protecting the property or lives of its citizens. We were more upset with our liberal neighbors than the rioters or government.

We couldn't bear to drive through vandalized downtown DC on our drive south, so took the Beltway to avoid seeing the destruction to Washington's statues, monuments and buildings wrought by the coup--they had been sprayed with Antifa/BLM graffiti. The mayor had also painted BLM slogans on the street around Lafayette square and renamed the area BLM plaza, to let you know who was in charge, contemptuous of Supreme Court rulings preventing governments from endorsing political movements as a First Amendment violation.

It was squalid and depressing. The National Capital had been seized by putschists and the purported liberals went along as willingly--if not more so--than the "good Germans" who allowed Hitler to destroy Germany.

Florida was much better. Governor De Santis was doing a good job preserving as much liberty as possible, and his Covid restrictions were less draconian. We saw Trump stickers on cars and enjoyed Trump boat parades. I even had coffee at a local place decorated with a reproduction of President Trump's Oval Office. Free at last, in what De Santis called "the Free State of Florida."

I concentrated on publishing books through two hobby imprints, "Penny-a-Page Press" and "Washington Books." The thinking was that books might stand the test of time better than ephemeral internet postings.

I also set up a philosophical substack called Philosophical Investigations as an homage to Wittgenstein, but in the end there are some current events, artistic and literary works, and issues that don't rise to the level of philosophy that I wanted to discuss again.

I should mention that in the meantime I had also posted on X and Gab, as well as videos on YouTube and Rumble (and GabTV and Bitchute). Censorship there ended after President Trump was re-elected, or so I thought. However, a recent post of mine was banned by X, I was forced to remove a recommendation that Israel use nuclear weapons in its current fight against Hamas and Iran, which X censors claimed violated policy. How anyone could hope to discuss military strategy without discussion of weapons systems still stumps me, but in any case I deleted my post the other day. Subsequently, I was denounced as a "terrorist" by an unverified account which posted my ID picture. I reported the post because I thought it might incite violence against my person--yet X community standards judges found nothing wrong with it. So I then "protected" my account against non-followers and unverified members, with the result that only a tiny fraction of the people who used to see my posts continue to see them...and also the protection keeps my comments from being seen by people who don't follow me. I preferred the previous system where one could choose to reach only verified users, but for some mysterious unexplained reason, X dropped that. My thinking then and now is that verified users might be more careful about what they post, since they can eventually be found. Yes, I had indeed paid to be verified myself...

Well that was another incentive to start blogging again. At least on my own blog I could say what I like, and then forward it to others, and edit comments myself.

So here goes, we'll see how long this iteration of the blog continues.

I am grateful to President Trump for standing up for true free speech, and just hope this time he can make it stick...

My thoughts will follow in subsequent posts.

Dan Scavino Just Shared This Video On Twitter...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 21:23:00 +0000

Rudyard Kipling's "If" illustrated with pictures of President Trump:

Ann Corcoran: Antifa Gunman Arrested in Florida Plot

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:10:00 +0000

He surely is not a lone wolf, but is the first evidence of Antifa’s evil plans to lure angry Trump patriots to state capitals in the coming days so they can begin the revolution.
Remember Antifa/BLM/Insurgence USA are all revolutionaries. They don’t give a rat’s you-know-what about Biden or Harris, it is revolution they want.
As I said last night, stay away! The events at the US Capitol were a trap, don’t be so dumb and let them do it again.

Read all about it here: https://fraudscrookscriminals.com/2021/01/16/antifa-revolutionary-arrested-planned-attack-on-patriots-at-floridas-capitol/

AT: The Cult of Trump?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:08:00 +0000

What's the story behind our fervent support of Donald J. Trump? Answer: Trump is nothing more than an avatar, an embodiment of a large segment of the American people who have been marginalized and abused. That is why he is so "loved" by so many. That’s also why he’s "hated" by so many others.
Notice that the people who love him now didn’t necessarily care for him prior to 2015 and some are still uncomfortable with his lifestyle and personality. On the other side, the people who hate him now were once his biggest supporters; he embodied a successful life to them. He was king of the New York tabloids and had a monster TV show on NBC, hardly conservative bastions.
Why the sudden and dramatic turnaround? Because when Donald Trump rode down that escalator and began promoting "normal" ideas without equivocation (Don't call them "conservative" because at this point it's not about liberalism vs. conservatism, it's about normal vs. crazy), he ceased to be Donald Trump and became us. Me. You. All of us who have seen the decline of this country accelerate exponentially these past ten years and are worried sick about it. Donald Trump the person is not the target. Donald Trump the symbol is.

Read all about it here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/the_cult_of_trump.html

AT: Amazon Goes Mad

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:06:00 +0000

The dubious legality of Amazon's action raises two possibilities about the role of Amazon's lawyers in this affair, both of which are disturbing.
The first is that the censors did not ask the lawyers, but simply did it or overrode legal cautions. This would mean that the company's employees are out of control and indifferent to the welfare of the company itself, answerable only to the demands of their woke religion. Note, in particular, that cutting off Parler was of no benefit to Amazon, which bore no responsibility for Parler's supposed failure to police its users.
The second is that the lawyers gave them the go-ahead on the grounds that the legal profession is now so corrupted that no court would dare to find for Parler, however meritorious its case. (The courts' refusal to hear about election fraud supports this theory.) Also, just as lawyers who tried to represent Trump were bullied and intimidated, Amazon might feel certain of its ability to prevent Parler from obtaining adequate representation.
Take your pick of these possibilities, but either creates big business risks for Amazon.

Read all about it here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/amazon_goes_mad.html

AT: Our Mounting Orwellian Nightmare

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:04:00 +0000

President Trump clearly stated his own beliefs on a thousand occasions — President Biden should do so as well, but he won't. He uses the Orwellian tactic of disguising his beliefs in gibberish, and this is not because he's going daft, as he well may be. He'll speak of "expanding Obamacare" rather than socialized medicine. He'll talk of "defense partnerships" rather than abandoning control of our military. And on the environment, it's not even possible to tell what he wants, but he wants $400 billion to do it. Once again, "the defence of the indefensible."

The coordinated effort to impeach and convict the president is nothing less than a propaganda campaign, and the associated suppression of free speech on social media and elsewhere is the beginning of a dangerous national decline. It's not possible to say where it will end, but we must be entirely clear about what is happening. A progressive government will attempt to further limit free speech, assembly, religious expression, gun rights, access to employment, and other basic liberties. Progressives have already threatened conservatives with prosecution and imprisonment for the "crime" of denying anthropogenic global warming and for questioning the result of the 2020 election. What's next? The persecution of every American conservative in the same way that Gen. Flynn was persecuted?

It's a fine line between federal prison here in America and Dachau in Germany, and one can transform into the other in a matter of weeks. It did so in Germany in 1933, just five weeks after Hitler became chancellor. Don't think it can't happen here. It begins with "the defence of the indefensible" — and that is already well underway.

Read all about it here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/our_mounting_orwellian_nightmare.html

This Inauguration Is Not A Peaceful Transfer Of Power...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:37:00 +0000

Because the 2020 Election was not a free and fair election.

Because Congress failed to certify electors honestly, and because the Supreme Court denied President Trump judicial review of the 2020 Election, he has every right to claim that the American People reelected him by a landslide in 2020.

Which, given manifestly suspicious actions of the Biden camp subsequently, one may reasonably infer he did.

Congressional certification of electors was obviously intended by the Framers to serve as a final check on fraud in the Electoral College, and to balance the power of the states--not to rubber-stamp whatever electors the states send.

Certification is clearly designed to insure that results are bona fide.

By certifying disputed results without additional verification, in this case Congress has failed in its obligation to preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution.

It is the failure of Congress and the Supreme Court to do their duty in good faith--not President Trump's rhetoric--that led to violence.

Due process was denied. Equal protection was denied. The right to vote of American citizens was denied.

By the US Congress--not President Trump--that is, the Legislative Branch.

By the US Supreme Court--not President Trump--that is, the Judicial Branch.

President Trump heads the Executive Branch.

Under the Constitution, all three branches of government are co-equal.

As Chief Magistrate, a sitting President has as much claim to say he the US Government as Congress or the Supreme Court.

A President by definition cannot overthrow himself or his administration.

So, even if one stipulates the Capitol protest turned violent, it was still obviously NOT an attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States.

Instead it resulted from a conflict between the Legislative and Executive Branches for an honest determination of the will of the American People.

If Congress made a fraudulent certification, then that act of Congress was both illegitimate and unconstitutional.

For as any graduate of a traditional High School Civics class knows, the United States Constitution says that power belongs to the American People.

Not to the President--who is merely a hired executive heading an administration working for the American People.

Not to Congress--who are just hired representatives of the will of the American People.

Not to the Supreme Court--who are only judging laws in order to ensure they reflect the intentions of the American People as passed by their representatives in accordance with the Constitution.

Which means there is no such thing as "peaceful transfer of power" on Inauguration Day.

There is only a change of administration.

Power remains with the American People at all times.

And is divided equally between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches under the US Constitution.

Not transferred by an inauguration.

Epoch Times Timeline of Capitol Protest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:11:00 +0000

TIME LINE

12 p.m.

President Donald Trump starts his speech. A sizable group of protesters has already gathered at the Capitol’s outer perimeter, at 1st Street.

JENNY JING/THE EPOCH TIMES

12:37 p.m.

A stream of people leaving Trump’s speech early slowly make their way down Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol. The 1.2-mile stretch is about a 25-minute walk.

12:45 p.m.

A suspicious package, later revealed to be a pipe bomb, is found at the Republican National Committee headquarters, just south of the Capitol.

SHAO LIN/THE EPOCH TIMES

12:53 p.m.

Vice President Mike Pence releases a statement saying he lacks the authority to reject electoral votes.

12:57 p.m.

Several people jump fencing at 1st Street, behind the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial.

MEGAN VARNER/GETTY IMAGES

12:58 p.m.

A crowd breaks through temporary fencing near the Peace Monument.

1:01 p.m.

The first police line breaks on the west side of the Capitol.

1:02 p.m.

Low fencing at the Capitol steps is breached. Scuffles break out. The police use pepper spray.

1:03 p.m.

Another police line forms at the Capitol’s double staircase. Riot police arrive.

LEO SHI/THE EPOCH TIMES

1:06 p.m.

The joint session of Congress convenes to count the electoral votes.

1:12 p.m.

President Donald Trump finishes his speech at the Ellipse in The President’s Park.

SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

1:14 p.m.

More scuffles break out between rioters and police. The line holds.

1:15 p.m.

A suspicious package, later revealed to be a pipe bomb, is found at the Democratic National Committee headquarters just south of the Capitol.

ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

1:20 p.m.

A temporary fencing perimeter is reestablished in the Inauguration platform area at the bottom of the double staircase.

1:25 p.m.

People are spotted on the metal structure of the Inauguration platform around the northern staircase.

1:35 p.m.

Police fire irritants into the crowd, likely from the upper level of the Capitol, above the double staircase.

JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

2:02 p.m.

The temporary fencing and police line set up about 250 feet from the central east Capitol entrance is breached.

2:07 p.m.

The temporary fencing and police line set up at the steps of the central east Capitol entrance is breached. The crowd climbs the stairs and spreads through the upper level.

2:08 p.m.

The Capitol is placed under lockdown.

TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES

2:10 p.m.

A crowd breaks through temporary fencing at the top of the northern staircase. Several officers guarding it retreat.

2:11 p.m.

The central east Capitol entrance door is opened. It’s unclear how.

2:15 p.m.

TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES

A crowd breaks into the building through a window and a secondary entrance north of the main entrance on the upper level. Some people are driven back out by police, but more pour in.

2:16 p.m.

Another crowd reaches the entrance to the northern wing, which houses the Senate chamber.

JON CHERRY/GETTY IMAGES

2:18 p.m.

The House calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.

2:24 p.m.

Trump says in a tweet: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”

2:25 p.m.

Capitol Police report shots fired.

2:26 p.m.

The Senate calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.

2:28 p.m.

The crowd that entered from the west reaches the entrance to the southern wing, where the House chamber is located. The corridor is blocked by about half a dozen officers. Some in the crowd try to negotiate passage with them.

SCREENSHOT VIA SENATE.GOV

2:30 p.m.

Lawmakers and staff are evacuated through underground tunnels.

2:31 p.m.

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser announces a curfew to begin at 6 p.m.

2:35 p.m.

ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES

The crowd at the southern wing pushes its way past the outmanned police with minimal resistance. The crowd reaches the House chamber entrance. Later images from inside show the entrance is at some point barricaded, with police guarding it with guns drawn.

2:38 p.m.

DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES

Trump says in a tweet: “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

2:41 p.m.

At the House chamber, the crowd, now about 200 strong, is unable to get through the door. Most of the intruders give up on that entrance and head east down the corridor and around two corners to the entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby, situated behind the House chamber.

2:42 p.m.

The crowd reaches the glass-paneled door to the Speaker’s Lobby, which is barricaded with furniture from the other side. Three officers are standing in front of the door.

2:43 p.m.

The officers abandon the door upon shouts from the rioters and persuasion from John Sullivan, a videographer and “racial justice” activist. Several rioters immediately start breaking through the glass. Sullivan spots a man with a gun drawn on the other side of the door. He alerts the crowd, but some rioters continue to break through the glass.

2:44 p.m.

Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt climbs into an empty frame left after a window is broken. She is immediately shot by a plainclothes policeman on the other side. At the same time, four officers in tactical gear and rifles reach the scene from a lower level through a staircase to the north.

2:45 p.m.

TWITTER/ASHLI BABBITT

A crowd is seen inside the Senate chamber.

WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES

2:47 p.m.

Intruders are on the Senate floor.

3:33 p.m.

A stream of people is seen 
leaving the protest.

WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES

3:35 p.m.

Pence writes on Twitter: “The violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol Must Stop and it Must Stop Now. Anyone involved must respect Law Enforcement officers and immediately leave the building. Peaceful protest is the right of every American but this attack on our Capitol will not be tolerated and those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

3:35 p.m.

The Department of Homeland Security says it’s sending in agents to aid Capitol Police.

3:36 p.m.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany writes in a tweet: “At President [Donald Trump]’s direction, the National Guard is on the way along with other federal protective services. We reiterate President Trump’s call against violence and to remain peaceful.”

SAMIRA BOUAOU/THE EPOCH TIMES

3:55 p.m.

Congressional Democratic leaders demand that Trump order his supporters to leave the Capitol.

4 p.m.

The National Guard mobilizes 1,100 troops. As per KSTP News, Pentagon officials say the D.C. request for troops wasn’t rejected earlier in the day, but troops can’t be used in a law enforcement role. They need to be deployed to replace police in different roles. The freed up officers can then join the law enforcement action.

4:10 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden condemns the storming of the Capitol and calls on Trump to give a televised address.

4:17 p.m.

Trump posts a video on Twitter reiterating to his supporters that the election was stolen, but that there must be peace and they “have to go home now.” Shortly after, Twitter deletes the video.

JIM WATSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

5 p.m.

A steady stream of people leave the Capitol premises. Some cite the curfew as the reason.

5:10 p.m.

Police use tear gas to drive people from the Capitol’s upper level.

5:40 p.m.

National Guard troops arrive 
at the Capitol.

6 p.m.

Eleven glass jars suspected of being improvised bombs are found in a cooler in a vehicle near the Republican National Committee building.

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6:01 p.m.

Trump says in a tweet: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”

8:06 p.m.

The Senate resumes proceedings.

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Raheem Kassam's Eyewitness Account Of Capitol Protest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:10:00 +0000

Watch it here: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/raheem-kassam-details-first-hand-account-of-capitol-siege/

Diplomad: Boycott Biden Inaguration

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:04:00 +0000

In normal times, in sane times, the inauguration of a new US President makes for an exciting, colorful, and interesting event. Whether or not our guy won, we traditionally viewed the event as a reaffirmation of our long history as a democratic republic, of our tradition of peaceful transfers of power, and of our willingness to give the new guy a chance to prove himself.
We, however, do not live in normal times, in sane times. We will have January 20, 2021, a break in that long tradition. The "progs" who rejected President Trump have taken control of the levers of power via massive electoral fraud, and, of course, thanks to their near total control of the means of communication. On January 20, we will have a corrupt, gaga, pervert nominally sworn in as President. He will, in fact, prove no such thing; he will be the puppet of the destructive forces of "progdom." They plan to keep him around a bit, and then toss him overboard.
I propose one little act of rebellion for those of us who still believe in the idea of America: ignore, actively ignore, the ludicrous event on the 20th. Do not watch the thing on any media or network. No ratings. No attention. Let DC become a ghost town, patrolled by the 25,000 National Guards the DNC reportedly wants called up. Do not mount any public protest anywhere. Above all, ignore the fake, false flag calls on the internet for an "armed protest" at Capitol Hill: clearly a trap, and a crude one, at that.

Read all about it here: https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2021/01/boycott-january-20-charade.html

American Thinker: Joe Biden & "The Big Lie"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:02:00 +0000

James S. Corum writes:

It’s interesting to watch the Democrats constantly making historical analogies to Naziism because, at every attempt, they display their astounding ignorance of history. From the historical context, a Big Lie is a demand by political leaders that the public believe something highly improbable. This belief is repeated by a government-controlled media and its public acceptance is coerced by government agencies and a co-opted judicial system. Ted Cruz and a handful of minority senators and congressmen publicly contesting corrupt and illegal actions of state and local governments does not fit the historical definition of the Big Lie. For Biden’s charge to work we must accept, as an article of faith, that election fraud is virtually nonexistent, that one-party Democrat machine cities in the swing states are devoted to serving the public, and that the humble and devoted leaders and civil servants of these cities would never, ever break the law for political and personal gain.
The Big Lie of 2020 is that it was a clean and honest election. Like the Big Lie of Hamburg raids, the Big Lie will fail. Like Hamburg in 1943, there are simply too many witnesses. There are the videos of election observers being blocked in several cities and videos in Atlanta of observers sent away, and in their absence election workers piling ballots into the counting machines. There is sworn testimony from hundreds of election workers detailing illegal actions. There are the Dominion machines in Michigan that were set up to create ballot errors which were “adjudicated” (flipped) in favor of Democrats. There is hard documentary evidence of the dead voting by mail, or of (supposedly) living voters receiving and returning their ballots by the postal service within a day. There are thousands of Georgia voters who illegally provided post office box numbers as their place of residence. There is the analysis of highly respected IT experts and statisticians who have spotted statistically implausible vote spikes, unusual local turnout, and voting patterns not seen in previous elections. The evidence presented at state legislative hearings (I watched some on One America News) is thorough, well-documented and plausible.

Read all about it here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/joe_bidens_weird_version_of_goebbels_big_lie.html

Sarah Hoyt Suspended By Facebook For Criticizing Totalitarianism

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:59:00 +0000

OF EVERYTHING I’VE WRITTEN: How To Read The News In Totalitarianism. this post, which I thought was somewhat bland, and just informative, got my facebook page invaded by an army of trolls and people I’d never interacted with before calling me crazy and acting like idiots. They also obviously hadn’t read any of the posts they were responding to, and fanned back three days. They also, after I started responding, denounced me for “bullying” and got me suspended for 24 hours.
According to one of the commenters on my blog, who is also in the science fiction community:

That was really disturbing. I go on FB this morning and see several entries on my f-list urgently warning people to defriend and block you.

Now, guys, I’ve written posts in which I called them names; blog posts in which I denounced the working of their cliques; blog posts in which I excoriated them in the most blunt terms. But this is the post they go militant on?
Could it be because I mention in passing the obvious false flag action planned for this weekend? The one to prepare for which this poster was distributed and local police forces warned to expect “insurrection” or a “coup”? Sort of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Read all about it here: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/426162/

The Federalist: I Saw Provocateurs At US Capitol

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:55:00 +0000

J. Michael Waller writes:

A small number of cadre appeared to use the cover of a huge rally to stage its attack. Before it began, I saw from my vantage point on the West Front of the Capitol what appeared to be four separate cells or units:

Plainclothes militants. Militant, aggressive men in Donald Trump and MAGA gear at a front police line at the base of the temporary presidential inaugural platform;
Agents-provocateurs. Scattered groups of men exhorting the marchers to gather closely and tightly toward the center of the outside of the Capitol building and prevent them from leaving;
Fake Trump protesters. A few young men wearing Trump or MAGA hats backwards and who did not fit in with the rest of the crowd in terms of their actions and demeanor, whom I presumed to be Antifa or other leftist agitators; and
Disciplined, uniformed column of attackers. A column of organized, disciplined men, wearing similar but not identical camouflage uniforms and black gear, some with helmets and GoPro cameras or wearing subdued Punisher skull patches.

Read all about it here: https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/i-saw-provocateurs-at-the-capitol-riot-on-jan-6/

UPDATE: Michael Yon told The Epoch Times that he also saw agent provocateurs: https://www.theepochtimes.com/michael-yon-agent-provocateur-tactics-were-seen-at-jan-6-capitol-protest_3654556.html

Today's Required Reading...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:26:00 +0000

The Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin: https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/C01-Foundations-of-Leninism.pdf

Sarah Hoyt: How To Read The News Under Totalitarianism

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:22:00 +0000

From According to Hoyt: Daughter-in-Law of Liberty:

One of the first memories I have of news and people discussing news is of my parents trying to figure out whether the president was dead.
This is because in Portugal in the early sixties, the news of course couldn’t publish anything that the regime disapproved of. When they announced Salazar was dead, and who his successor was, mom’s answer was “he’s been dead for x months” (aka since he’d disappeared form in public/or they’d noticed a shift in governance) “they just finished the behind the scenes power struggle and can announce it now.” Also much was made of the way he was said to have died, which was to fall backwards in his chair and hit his head. Well, I’d also have my doubts, right?
I guess this set me up for the way I read news. Particularly because after the regime changed from national to international socialism, I was at several news worthy events which were completely misreported in the press.
Much like the participants in the rally in DC probably are rather puzzled at the idea that they “really” wanted to kill black people, particularly those marchers who were black, or that their goal in life was to kill Pelosi, or whatever the crazy ass thing the occupiers of our capital say.
At one point, for instance, I became an entire band of armed reactionary conterrevolutionaries, though the most lethal thing in my possession at the time was The Oxford Dictionary For Foreign Learners, which frankly wasn’t even that big. And no, I didn’t do anything even vaguely violent. I just showed I wasn’t afraid to walk away from a compelled demonstration of support, and when a petite teen in school uniform walks away with an expression of disgust and something like “this is boring” the grown *ss adults find they’re brave enough to do the same.
So I learned to read all newspapers with a jaundiced eye, and was completely puzzled Americans didn’t do that, and that my host parents often thought I was off my rocker when I said “what really happened was.” Well, what really happened was indeed what I suspected, though often you don’t figure it out till years and years later.
Now that our newspapers are mostly just making up bullshit, it is very important to know how to read the newspaper.
The first step is easy:
Assume nothing you read is true. This is regardless of whether you’d like it to be true or not. This is why I never believed that Trump was going to declare emergency, blah, blah blah. For one, because if he had the army would at best be divided and start an internal fight. I wanted it. Or at least I wanted it more than what we’re facing head on, but I know the signs of hysterical hope over reality.

Read all about it here: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/01/14/how-to-read-the-news-in-totalitarianism/

Do Democrats Want To Drive President Trump Into Exile?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:03:00 +0000

Looks like they may want to turn him into a refugee fleeing political persecution.

Earlier, former US Defense Secretary Mattis said Donald Trump would become a "man without a country."

Now this:

President Trump potentially faces a torrent of criminal charges when he leaves office, including charges linked to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, making prosecutors worry that he is a flight risk.
Mr. Trump’s real estate empire extends to multiple luxury properties in countries that don’t have extradition treaties with the United States. And Mr. Trump himself publicly mused in October that he’d leave the country if he lost to Democrat Joseph R. Biden.
Douglas McNabb, a private attorney with expertise in international extradition defense, said that if criminal charges are brought, Mr. Trump fits the bill for becoming a fugitive from justice.

Read all about it here: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/13/donald-trump-flight-risk-if-criminal-charges-filed/

Peter Navarro: Yes, President Trump Won

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:51:00 +0000

Volume 3 of the Navarro Report is designed to serve as a capstone to what has been a comprehensive analysis of the question: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen from Donald J. Trump? In this report, we provide the most up-to-date statistical “receipts” with respect to the potential number of illegal votes in each battleground state.

The broader goal of this final installment of the Navarro Report is to provide investigators with a well-documented tally of potentially illegal votes on a state-by-state and category-by-category basis. This tally is presented in Figure One on the next page of this report. Note that each number in this figure has a corresponding endnote identifying the source of the number. Note further that we have taken a conservative approach to the count of potentially illegal ballots.
As with previous volumes of the Navarro Report, you can see clearly in Figure One that the number of potentially illegal votes dwarfs the very thin alleged Biden “victory” margins. In the face of this evidence, no reasonable person would conclude that the 2020 presidential election was, beyond any shadow of doubt, a fair election. Rather, anyone who reads this report should feel compelled to seek greater clarity about whether, in fact, this election may have been stolen from Donald J. Trump.
While it is now politically correct in progressive circles and the mainstream media to demand that all Americans submit and confess to the “truth” of what may well be the fiction of a free and fair election for the sake of “unity” and “harmony,” such a Kafkaesque demand in the face of the evidence in this report will likely have the opposite effect.
To wit: almost half the country now believes that there were significant irregularities in the 2020 presidential race; and the failure to fully investigate these irregularities will only increase the number of Americans who have such doubts. This will be particularly true if the suppression of what necessarily must be a search for truth is facilitated by the authoritarian – nay fascist – behavior of a small group of social media oligarchs who have taken it upon themselves to de-platform and censor tens of millions of pro-Trump Americans who now find themselves victims, rather than consumers, of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
In considering these truths, let us never forget two things: (1) The Democrat Party and its operatives stole the 1960 Presidential Election – it happened then and it can happen again; and (2) it took decades for historians to finally acknowledge the 1960 version of the Immaculate Deception in the face of the same kind of virtue-signaling and cancel culture pressures we are witnessing today.
Despite a similar quest to silence Republican and conservative voices today, 74 million Americans who voted for President Donald J. Trump have the right to a full investigation and bipartisan search for truth. If, however, the Democrat Party, RINO elements of the Republican Party, the anti-Trump mainstream media, and the out-of-control censoring social media oligarchs do not cease and desist from their efforts to suppress the search for truth about the 2020 election, history will judge all of these people, corporations, and institutions in the harshest possible manner.
At this point, we have moved dangerously in what seems like a nanosecond from a full and vibrant American Democracy to a Communist Chinese-style, Cancel Culture, Police State guarded by a collusive social media oligopoly that is beyond out of control.
In the remainder of this report, we will simply present the statistical “receipts” on a state-by-state and subcategory-by-subcategory basis what may well be the worst theft in American political history. If the U.S. Congress and State Legislatures across the six battleground states ignore this evidence, they will do so not just at their own peril but also at the peril of America’s faith in our elections and the sanctity of our Republic...

Read all about it here: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/be36dc6d-0df4-4c20-addf-fca72be46150/The%20Navarro%20Report%20Volume%20III%20Final%201.13.21-0001.pdf

Western Journal: Were Capitol Protest Deaths Because "FBI Lied, People Died?"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:44:00 +0000

A new report claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew one day prior that extremists were planning to infiltrate the Jan. 6 protests in Washington, D.C., that ended in rioting at the U.S. Capitol.
According to The Washington Post, a report from the FBI office in Norfolk, Virginia, contradicts claims that there had been no warnings of the violence that seemed to take Capitol police by surprise.
The FBI warning was reportedly contained in an “internal document” that was issued out the day before the Capitol incursion.

Read all about it here: https://www.westernjournal.com/fbi-reverses-told-america-confirms-agency-knew-people-coming-capitol-ready-fight-cause-trouble/

Daniel Greenfield: The establishment would like to talk about anything and everything except its own power...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:37:00 +0000

When the Black Lives Matter riots raged in cities around the country a spectrum of the leftist oligarchy, from the New York Times to the ACLU to the leadership of Washington State University justified them with Martin Luther King’s quote, “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
It was a strange claim to make about a movement that had the backing of the Democrat Party, the entire media, Coca Cola, IBM, and American Express. There was hardly a Fortune 500 company, university, or major organization of some sort that didn’t issue a statement of support for the race rioters rioting, looting, and killing their way across America.
Come read about our oppression in these press releases from Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Plazas were renamed after the black supremacist movement and streets were painted with its racist slogan. Drivers who drove over those slogans became the subject of police investigations.
BLM was very definitely ‘heard’.
Rioting mobs can be subjective in a system where law and morality have become relative. A mob of rioters can be seen as a threatening mass of the ‘other’ or a heroic group of crusaders. The mobs of rioters that the establishment unleashes and identifies with are heard and cheered.
And then there are the bad kind of mobs. The mobs of the unheard.
In the weeks leading up to the Capitol Hill protest, claims of election fraud weren’t just ‘unheard’, they were actively suppressed with the media refusing to even air remarks by President Trump and administration officials on the subject. Tech companies censored any questions about the election. Elected officials took to describing such conversations as ‘sedition’ and the media deemed them ‘disinformation’ and called for even heavier censorship of the internet.
The oligarchy had spent the years since President Trump was elected laboring to silence the political opposition even while its own cultural messaging machine dispensed with everything from journalism to comedy to academic freedom in favor of political haranguing. A monolithic cultural environment in which there was no journalism, entertainment, or education, whose political messages were broadcast by Fortune 500 companies, did not create a new utopia.
Internet culture instead went down a digital rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, racism, identity politics, social media mobs, and trolling. The official culture was met with a counterculture of a thousand subcultures whose sole unifying element was contempt for whatever the culture was. That counter-culture was a visionary, brilliant, insane, horrifying and evil fragmented vision of America reflected through the shards of a culture that had lost its mind, its hope, and its faith.
Caught in between them were the actual ‘unheard’...

Read all about it here: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/language-unheard-daniel-greenfield/