We’ve seen the headlines about the crisis in Sri Lanka, with furious protestors storming the palace in Colombo. The imposition of green policies and regulations that reduced Sri Lanka's agricultural output is a prime example of Green New Deal idiocy. Or perhaps idiocy is not the best word. BookwormRoom published another meme the other day on another Green New Deal priority - one that is of consequence in America:
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Donald Trump will be endorsing US House candidate Sarah Palin at today’s rally in Anchorage. He is scheduled to speak at 4pm Alaska time or 8PM Eastern time. Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) / Rumble livestream link is here.
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Michelle Malkin traces the corruption of one
sounds-good-on-paper educational institution to demonstrate how American institutions and societies are collapsing. And our tax dollars are funding failure and . . . lots and lots of illegal immigrants. She starts off:
Our once-sovereign nation has
become nothing more than a morbidly obese cash cow for what the Biden
administration now openly calls the “liberal world order.”
Higher gas prices are just the tip
of the sacrifice iceberg. It’s our posterity paying the globalist pipers. In
the new “liberal world order” (which is really just the same old Bush family
“New World Order” of more than three decades ago), homegrown children’s needs
are subjugated to the hopes and dreams of the children of the rest of the
world.
Stick with me and follow an
open-borders bouncing ball that demonstrates how multinational elites exploit
America Last — with the brazen complicity of our own U.S. government,
nonprofits and corporations. As always, we must follow the money to find the
truth. Let’s dig deeper behind this headline:
Former
American Hebrew Academy
will house unaccompanied immigrant children.
And dig she does.
Read her entire analysis here.
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The Tall Ships are returning to Cleveland, with the grand
parade coming into the harbor around 4pm tomorrow, Thurs., July 7. The Tall Ships website is here. And here are some images of past parades
taken by CTP roving photographer Pat Dooley.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure, and his recent
column at American Greatness begins:
For 120 days in summer 2020,
violent protesters destroyed some $2 billion in property and injured 1,500
police officers in riots that led to over 35 deaths.
Because blue-state mayors and
governors saw BLM and Antifa instigators as useful street soldiers, most of
those arrested were never tried in court. Street thugs paid no price for
declaring themselves de facto owners of downtown areas of Seattle,
which police themselves conceded were no-go zones. Why did public officials in
blue states ignore the violence? They were certain that it enjoyed majority
support among their leftwing constituencies.
Indeed, some leftist icons cheered
on the violence. Well after the failed attempt to storm the White House
grounds, in June 2020, the Democratic candidate for vice president Kamala
Harris warned us that protestors were “not going to let up, and they should
not.” What did Harris mean by “should not?”—when she knew numerous protests
that summer had ended in terrible violence? Was she reckless in the manner
Trump was said to be by encouraging a demonstration on January 6?
The architect of the “1619 Project”
Nikole Hannah-Jones assured the nation that vast destruction of (someone else’s
property) was not a real crime. CNN’s Chris Cuomo gushed that violent
demonstrations and riots were American traditions. Were these national voices
urging calm during weeks of violent rioting and looting?
There were no investigations, no
congressional committees, and no voices of outrage from the left-wing
establishment over months of such carnage. Indeed, much of the organization of
the violent protests was facilitated by social media that was apparently
unbothered that the medium under their stewardship was used to torch and
loot.
VDH chronicles the incitements to violence, the threats, and
actual violence, all coming from the progressive left. Full article is here.
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The great Mark Steyn has a regular feature on his website, Steyn's Song of the Week, and his column over this weekend offers the wonderful backstory to the song America The Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates and Samuel A Ward. Here is most of the column:
. . . And to round out this
Glorious Fourth in not so glorious times, at a time when we dwell mostly on
what is ugly in our society, here is a hymn to beauty. This much requested essay
is adapted from Mark's book A Song For The Season:
In 1893, a Massachusetts professor
called Katharine Lee Bates was giving a series of summer lectures on English
literature at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. "One day," she
recalled, "some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to
14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave
the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw
the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed
there."
Professor Bates had not previously
traveled in the Rockies or seen much of her country at all beyond New England,
and the unbounded beauty of the land awed her - and inspired her. It was
"the most glorious scenery I ever beheld, and I had seen the Alps and the
Pyrenees," she said.
"My memory of that supreme day
of our Colorado sojourn is fairly distinct even across the stretch of 35
crowded years," Miss Bates wrote a year before her death in 1929. "We
stood at last on that Gate-of-Heaven summit, hallowed by the worship of
perished races, and gazed in wordless rapture over the far expanse."
Though she insisted "the
sublimity of the Rockies smote my pencil with despair", she was not
"wordless" for long. "It was then and there, as I was looking
out over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under
those ample skies, that the opening lines of the hymn floated into my
mind":
Oh beautiful for
spacious skies
For amber waves of
grain
For purple mountain
majesties
Above the fruited plain!
She put them down on paper that
evening in her room at the Antlers Hotel. Today you'd be hard put to find a
quatrain known to more Americans. Whether it's Gary Larson's "Far
Side" cartoon of Columbus approaching land and saying, "Look! Purple
mountains! Spacious skies! ...Is someone writing this down?" or Rush
Limbaugh at noon eastern welcoming listeners "across the fruited
plain" to his daily radio show, every anchorman, cartoonist, comedian or
advertising copywriter who evokes those words is assured that they're as
instantly familiar to his audience as any lines ever written in American
English.
Though they were born that day on
Pikes Peak, they were not given to the world until the Fourth of July 1895,
when they appeared in a weekly church publication in Boston called The Congregationalist. Whether or not
Katharine Lee Bates could see actual amber waves or purple mountains in that
thin air, she captured precisely the scale of America as no-one had done
before: As the anonymous author of a long-ago booklet on patriotic music
published by the John Hancock Insurance Company wrote: "Among our American
songs, none surpasses in nationalistic idealism 'America, the Beautiful.' In it
Katharine Lee Bates has caught the beauty, majesty, and immensity of this
country of ours." The words have a humility before that beauty and majesty
and immensity, yet they rise to the task and do them justice. In The Congregationalist, the editor's
introductory note read:
Miss Bates's poem has the true patriotic ring pertinent to Fourth of
July.
And over 125 Fourths later, those words are not just the accompaniment
to the celebration but part of the fabric and foundation of it.
Mark’s full column is here.
Happy Independence Day to everyone across the fruited plain.
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