The
Democrat Party, as every survey shows, is the party of secularists, some
of whom are Christian bashers.
Tagged with being anything but religion-friendly,
Democrats have resorted to "God talk" to woo voters. The latest to do
so is Kamala Harris.
After the presidential debate, Harris was interviewed by Jake Tapper of CNN. After Tapper lied
about President Trump—saying he refused to denounce white supremacists
(when Chris Wallace asked Trump if he was
prepared to condemn them, Trump answered, "sure, I'm prepared to do
it")—Harris was asked to share her thoughts:
"The president of the United States in
the year of our Lord, 2020, refuses to condemn white supremacists."
Forget that Harris also misrepresented what
Trump said (the president told Wallace "I'm willing to do anything—I want
to see peace"), the issue for the Catholic League is her "God
talk." Is there anything wrong with such language? Not if it is
sincere.
There is no record of Harris ever using such
language before she became a senator and a presidential hopeful a few years
ago. For example, in her seven years as district
attorney in San Francisco (2004-2011), and her six years as attorney general of
California (2011-2017), there is not a single media report of her saying
"in the year of our Lord" when talking to reporters.
The first time she used that line was in June
2017. Harris was asked about the
speculation surrounding her run for the White House. "Listen, 2020 is in
how many years? We are in the year of our Lord 2017."
Her next invocation of this line was reported by the New
York Times on Sept. 9, 2019. When asked to comment on criminal
reform, she said, "But hey, if you've got, in the year of our Lord 2019,
all the major candidates running for president of the United States"
pushing for these reforms, that is a good thing.
On Nov. 20, 2019, Harris appeared on MSNBC to discuss equal pay for
women. "We passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, but fast forward to the year
of our Lord 2019...." On June 8, at a news conference on crime, Harris said "just last
week in the year of our Lord 2020...."
How can we be sure that this is a game and
not a sincere expression of her religiosity? On the 4th of July, 2019, when the
issue of racial integration came up, Harris was criticized by former Obama
operative David Axelrod for changing her position. Harris' Here is what Axelrod
was told. "The debate
[Democratic primary debate] was about opposing busing in 1970. It is now 40
years later in the year of our Lord 2019."
It was not Harris who said that. It was her
communications director, Lily Adams. She is lily white, the granddaughter of Texas
Democrat Ann Richards. This certainly suggests that in the year of our Lord is
a line right out of the Harris campaign's playbook.
Harris' father is Christian and her mother is
Hindu. Her husband is Jewish. When they got married, only Harris' mother's religion was acknowledged:
her husband wore a floral garland around his neck honoring her Hindu
upbringing.
More important are Harris' positions on religious
liberty. She opposed the Hobby Lobby high court ruling affirming the religious
liberty of Christian-owned businessmen not to pay for birth control in their
healthcare plans. She objected to the Supreme
Court ruling allowing the Little Sisters of the Poor to abstain from paying for
abortion-inducing drugs in their healthcare plan. She backs legislation that
would weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Harris is no friend of religious liberty. Her
recent decision to exclaim in the year of our Lord, which has been conveniently
picked up by her staff, is a ploy designed to appeal to unassuming Christian
voters impressed by "God talk." As the old adage says, actions speak
louder than words, and on this score, Harris fails to convince.
Bill Donohue is president and CEO
of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest
Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from
New York University and is the author of eight books and many articles.
It is the handmaidens working for Planned
Parenthood who have joked about selling aborted baby body parts. And
it was Kamala
Harris, when she was A.G. of California, who
viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal, after she had
received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
Handmaid's Tale? Leftist handmaidens destroyed the USA
By Diana Mary Sitek
Many
rational people who attempted to read Margaret Atwood's dystopian The
Handmaid's Tale (1985) found it a big yawn. But the left
loved it. So Hulu (a Disney company partly owned by Comcast),
naturally made a mini-series of it.
Now
we have the left opining, on September 21, that
people like Amy Barrett were the inspiration for that totalitarian
nightmare. "Amy Coney Barrett, a favorite to be President
Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is
affiliated with a type of Christian religious group that served as inspiration
for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale."
I
suggest that the boot is on the other foot! It has been the women of
the left who are first and foremost the handmaidens responsible for the
appalling state of the nation and its totalitarian, "woke" culture —
and their narcissist soy boys like former President Obama, Trudeau of Canada,
Newsom of California, et al. Looked at in this light, Joe Biden is
the perfect Democrat candidate! As a white, ineffectual, imbecilic
male, ready to drop off the perch, he is exactly what Democrat women love — and
why they detest his opposite, Donald Trump.
Women now have enormous political power through sheer
numbers. Although there has been no female president as yet, women are
heavily represented at all levels of the political, legal, bureaucratic,
educational, health, H.R., and local county sectors. Women are a
determinative voting segment, and younger women have been educated to identify
with the left. Therefore, it is their policies,
and their values alone, that have been enacted, including
claiming the murder of their unborn children as their natural right.
It
is the handmaiden founders of Black Lives Matter who have denigrated women's traditional
role (part of the "oppressive patriarchy") and who have encouraged
street violence.
It
is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling
aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of
California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal,
after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
So
what area of the dystopian, censored "woke" society we now find
ourselves in are women not responsible for? The Deep
State? Oh, no! We have the corruption of HRC — and
scandal after scandal involving female politicians and officeholders, day after
day. The latest is handmaid Ilhan Omar's treacherous
ballot-harvesting in Minneapolis.
Professor
Janice Fiamengo's YouTube "Fiamengo Files" (now very heavily
censored) give witness to the diabolical hatred of men that characterizes these
feminist handmaidens. And we have Jane Fonda telling us why women
are at the forefront of the unscientific climate change hoax, where men are
accused of raping Gaia! Nancy
Pelosi, in an attempt to distract attention from her hairdo hissy fit and the
left's mismanagement of forest areas, has told us Mother Nature is angry. Nor can we
overlook that handmaiden of Gaia, the squinty-eyed Greta Thunberg. As for
globalism, the U.N. says women are key to that supra-nationalist organization's
sustainable development goals. Translate: New World Order.
Teenage
handmaidens are at the forefront of the LGBT+ gender revolution, as revealed by
Abigail Shrier in her book Irreversible Damage: The
Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. The health industry is on
board and immediately affirms the young handmaidens' self-diagnosis, frequently
entailing drastic surgery and hormonal intervention.
One
can only ask what else remains for these handmaidens to
destroy. Virtually nothing. Traditional hearth and home
demolished. Constitutional law shredded. Civil war
lit. Gender confusion. A.I.-human interface
planned. They have, with the help of their male enablers and those
who do not see themselves as the beneficiaries of dead, white males, chopped
out, erased, expunged, and revoked the Western heritage, root and
branch. Yet, having accomplished all of this, they are
unhappy. It's not enough. There are still those who dare
to protest against them, like the illustrious signatories of the recent Philadelphia Statement, courteously requesting a return to freedom of
speech in the cause of liberal democracy. They will be canceled out
because the Amazon handmaids have debauched the language as well, using the
terminology of liberal democracy to mean its opposite (exactly as their
buddies, the Chinese, do).
But
there is hope. We know from history that moral decay eventually
leads to societal collapse — and the opportunity to rebuild anew. I
believe we may be witnessing not the beginning of a new nightmare, but the
final death agonies of the feminist dystopia, paralleled in the fate of Joe Biden.
Intrinsic
to the human psyche is a foundational desire to adore the Eternal Good — which
many call "God." When that is replaced by the lust for
power, as Faust testified, hell enters. In making that Faustian
bargain, by exchanging womanly graces for vengeful power, the handmaids sowed
the seeds of their own destruction. That is the chaos we now behold.
Why is Kamala Harris getting the kid-glove press treatment?
By Jack Hellner
The media endlessly attacked Sarah Palin when she was a
much-talked about female vice presidential candidate in 2008, but they treat
Kamala Harris with kid gloves.
Most of the questions for her from the press amount
to puppets asking Harris to trash President Trump. Rarely do they ask
Harris, or Biden for that matter, about their policies or what they have said
or done in the past.
Here is a sample of meaningful questions that real journalists
could ask Harris:
You have said you want to ban fracking. Biden has gone back and
forth saying he would ban fracking and sometimes he wouldn’t. Which one is it?
You sought to destroy Kavanaugh with unverified stories of what
he did as a teenager, yet you give Biden a pass for a credible accusation of a
woman he attacked when he was a senator. Why?
Was it O.K. that Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid
to Ukraine if they didn’t fire a prosecutor investigating a corrupt company
that paid his son Hunter Biden millions for doing nothing?
Isn’t it pure corruption when the Bidens and the Clintons get
massive kickbacks from foreign parties while sucking off the public trough?
Is it O.K. that sanctuary cities and states pick and choose
which federal laws they are going to enforce, or should they follow their oath
to enforce the laws on the books?
Was it constitutional for President Obama to dictatorially and
unilaterally implement DACA? Is the president allowed to make
laws? Is it proper for judges to act like it is the law?
How come you wouldn’t prosecute Catholic priests for
sexual and child abuse? Where was your empathy?
Bombshell
report: Kamala Harris refused to pursue criminal cases against Catholic Priest
sex offenders
As
most people know, prior to her being a Senator, she served as the chief
prosecutor for the city of San Francisco. Now, complaints are coming
forward that she flat out refused to pursue criminal cases against Catholic priests
who allegedly sexually battered children.
People
who say they were victims of childhood sexual abuse call out Harris for not
doing all that she could to prosecute their cases.
Joey
Piscitelli, who himself is a survivor of sex abuse, says that the DA before
Harris, Terence Hallinan, worked hard at getting he and his fellow victims
justice.
However,
after Harris beat Hallinan in the election, the progress they were making to
prosecute the cases seemed to stop altogether.
And here is a sample of questions that should be asked of Biden,
Harris and all the journalists who are openly campaigning for them:
Which policies are you proposing that would help poor people and
people of all races move up the economic ladder vs. making more people
dependent on government?
Won’t raising the minimum wage to a universal $15 greatly harm
the young, the elderly. The poor and the less educated as they lose
opportunities? Do you realize how much harm that does to small and
medium sized cities and especially rural areas which struggle to provide
jobs? Do you realize that most areas of the United States are
cheaper than San Francisco, New York, LA and Chicago? So why should there be a
uniform wage?
Can you please provide any scientific data to show that oil use
has a direct correlation with temperatures, sea levels and storm activity
before you intentionally destroy millions of jobs and move the country
backwards. Why is it so warm this year and why do we have so much storm
activity since oil use is substantially lower? Do you realize that there have
been many lengthy warming periods in the Earth’s history before man and oil
could have had anything to do with it?
Why do you believe you should block poor
children’s opportunities to attend charter and private schools?
Do you think biological males should be able to compete with
women in sports?
Why is it O.K. for the government to require photo IDs to set up
a bank account and get medical care but not to vote?
Isn’t one of the most idiotic deadly decisions on COVID-19 when
Cuomo and other governors forced nursing homes to take in sick people to kill
vulnerable elderly residents?
Why were the experts wrong when they predicted a super spread of
the virus for in person voting in Wisconsin, the Memorial Day gathering in the
Ozarks, Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Trump’s rally at Mt Rushmore, Trump’s July
4th gathering in DC and the huge gathering at Sturgis? Shouldn’t the
public be told the truth instead of continuing to scare them and keep the
economy down?
Shouldn’t the public be told that CDC says that only 9% of the deaths
were caused by COVID-19 alone and that medical experts say that 90% of the
people that tested positive weren’t really contagious? Doesn’t the truth matter
more than the agenda of putting radical leftists in power?
What do you think of the souls of people who will let unwanted
babies die on a table without providing health care? Where is the empathy for
the most vulnerable? Why would we trust people who would withhold health care
from newborn babies to provide health care for the rest of us.
Here is a suggestion for Democrat campaign workers posing as
journalists. Don’t ever ask a politician what they think of someone else’s
soul. Very few people are experts on other people’s souls. Certainly not
journalists or politicians.
45
Questions the Media Should Ask Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) will appear in their first joint media interview on
Sunday after accepting their party’s nominations this week.
However, unlike President Trump, Biden and Harris have thus
far declined to take questions from the media in an open joint press conference where no
questions or topics are off-limits.
In the event that such a press availability arises, here are 45
questions the media should ask them. This list is by no means exhaustive.
QUESTIONS FOR JOE BIDEN:
1. Why did members of your family keep
getting lucrative business opportunities overseas while you were vice
president?
2. How did your brother,
Frank, secure $45,000,000
in taxpayer loans from the Obama administration for his Caribbean projects?
3. How did a newly-minted
firm employing your other
brother, James, receive a $1.5 billion contract to build homes in Iraq despite
having no experience in construction or international development?
4. Why did your son Hunter accompany you on your
official trip to Beijing in December 2013? What did he do on that trip? Who did
he meet with? What should the American public make of the fact that just 10
days after this trip, your son’s boutique private equity firm secured a $1 billion
investment deal from the state-owned bank of China (later expanded to $1.5
billion) despite having no prior experience in China, and with this deal, the
Chinese government granted your son’s firm a first-of-its-kind arrangement to
operate in the the recently formed Shanghai Free-Trade Zone—a perk not granted
to any of the large established financial institutions?
5. Should the American public be
concerned that your son’s private equity firm partnered with a Chinese
government-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate to facilitate the purchase of an
American company that produced strategically sensitive dual-use military
technology that the Chinese government wanted?
6. Does your “Build Back Better”
proposal contain any provisions to ensure that American taxpayer-funded
technology is not bought off by Chinese state-backed enterprises working with
private equity firms like your son’s?
7. Back in 2000, you voted in
favor of giving permanent Normal Trade Relations (NTR) to China. At the time,
you said that this would not lead
to “the collapse of the American manufacturing economy” because China is “about
the size of the Netherlands” and could not possibly become “our major economic
competitor.” Furthermore, you predicted that free trade with China would
establish “a path toward ever greater political and economic freedom” for the
people of China. Do you still stand by these statements today after 3.4 million American jobs have been lost to China
and millions of China’s citizens have
been imprisoned, surveilled, disappeared, and used as slave labor by an
increasingly authoritarian regime
enriched by 20 years of record trade imbalances from
flagrant trade violations?
8. The People’s Republic of
China has a bold plan called “Made in China 2025” to dominate the key
technologies of the future in order to overtake the United
States militarily and economically. Do you still contend that China is
“not competition for us”?
9. Why did you promote the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to financial special
interest groups when research was clear that the deal would make it easier for
corporations to move U.S. jobs overseas?
10. Do you believe Xi Jinping kept
his promise to Barack
Obama to end cyber-espionage against the United States? If not, what are you
prepared to do about it?
11. Do you accept that the
coronavirus originated in China? Do
you think China was honest with the
world in its handling of the coronavirus? Are you satisfied with China’s
explanations for how it spread? Do you believe their claims about the
number of cases and fatalities in China?
12. Do you think China should
be held responsible in any
way for its handling of the coronavirus? If not, why not? What, if any,
repercussions should there be for China in its handling of the coronavirus?
13. Did you suggest investigating
Michael Flynn under the Logan Act, as Peter Strzok’s notes suggest?
14. You said in your DNC acceptance
speech that America is ready to “do the hard work of rooting out our systemic
racism.” What did you do in your 36 years as a U.S. senator and 8 years as vice
president to root out systemic racism? Why didn’t it work?
15. You have called for
“revolutionary institutional changes.” What does that mean in practice?
16. You have vowed to rescind the
Trump tax cuts. Can you think of a single example of a country that recovered
from a recession by raising taxes?
QUESTIONS FOR KAMALA HARRIS:
17. Why did you refuse to prosecute
even one sexual abuse case involving the Catholic Church in San Francisco
when you were attorney general, despite the pleas of victims’ groups?
18. Also, why did your attorney
general’s office refuse to release
the documents obtained from the San Francisco archdiocese with all
the information about priests accused of sexual abuse? Victims’
rights groups have criticized your office for deliberately burying
these documents and thereby covering up the crimes and leaving the public
unprotected. Why did you do this? The San Francisco district
attorney’s office claimed in 2019 that they no longer have these documents
in their possession. What happened to them? How can you claim to be a
defender of children when you declined to prosecute the abusers of
children?
19. Why did your office decline to investigate
the health supplement fraud cases involving companies your husband’s law firm
represented? Did you, as California’s attorney general, ever purposefully
decline investigating or prosecuting clients of your husband’s law firm?
20. You said you believed the women
accusing Joe Biden of inappropriate touching. Do you believe Tara Reade? If not, why not?
If so, how do you justify supporting him now?
21. You once attacked a judicial
nominee on the basis of his membership in the Catholic fraternal
organization the Knights of Columbus, which
is the largest fraternal organization in the world and includes among
its past and present members many prominent Americans like President John
F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV),
Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA), and Vince Lombardi. Do you believe that
being a member of the Knights of Columbus disqualifies a person from
holding public office? Would you refuse to hire someone on the
basis of their membership in the Knights of Columbus or any other Catholic
organization? In your questioning of this Catholic judicial nominee, you singled out the issue
of the Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life. Would you disqualify a job
applicant on the basis of their Catholic beliefs, including their beliefs
about abortion? Do you believe that being pro-life disqualifies
someone from employment?
22. Why did you single out journalist
David Daleiden for prosecution for undercover journalism that others do without
penalty?
23. Your chief-of-staff, Karine
Jean-Pierre, wrote an op-ed last year
attacking the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Americans
who associate with it, stating “You cannot call yourself a progressive while
continuing to associate yourself with an organization like AIPAC that has often
been the antithesis of what it means to be progressive.” Do you believe that
pro-Israel activism is incompatible with progressive values?
24. The Biden campaign has adopted
a version of the Green New Deal that calls for 100 percent renewable
electricity generation by 2035. California has adopted similar “green” goals,
but now it can’t keep the lights on due to the state’s reliance on wind and
solar energy. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newson admitted this week
that the Golden State needs a “backup” plan for energy because the current
blackouts caused by lack of wind and overcast skies have shown the danger of
relying solely on “green” energy. Why would the nation fare any better than
sunny breezy California in keeping the lights on if we adopt 100 percent
renewable energy?
25. You said in the past that we “need
to hold China accountable” for trade violations, but you are against the use of
tariffs. How do you intend to hold China accountable? You also said that “we
need to export American products, not American jobs.” How do you intend to make
sure we don’t export more American jobs to China? How would your policy differ
significantly from the same policies that led to the loss of 3.4 million jobs to China?
QUESTIONS FOR BIDEN OR HARRIS:
26. You both supported the George
Floyd protests, which you claimed were
peaceful. Have you spoken to any victims of the riots — people who lost loved ones or businesses?
27. Do you believe that the
looting of the Magnificent Mile in Chicago was a “form of reparations,” as one
Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer claimed? Is looting an appropriate form of
protest as a means of reparations?
28. Seattle Black Lives Matter
protesters stormed a
neighborhood last week, demanding that residents “get the f*** out” and “give
black people back their homes” as reparations. Do you support that style of
protest?
29. If elected, would you object
if protesters decided to tear down the statue of
Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square across from the White House? What about
statues to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington? Would you be willing to sign
a written pledge to protect
our national monuments and statues?
30. What is the maximum number of
illegal immigrants you would allow into the country before securing the border
to stop more from entering?
31. The Obama administration deported an estimated
3 million illegal aliens. Was that a bad thing?
32. With 30 million
Americans unemployed due to the
coronavirus, would you support a halt on work visas for foreign workers
competing with Americans for jobs?
33. Do you still support a ban on
fracking? If so, what do you say to the estimated 7.5 million American jobs
that will be lost due to such a
ban, which includes an estimated 550,000 jobs lost in Pennsylvania, 500,000
jobs lost in Ohio, 363,000 jobs lost in North Carolina, 353,000 jobs lost in
Colorado, and 233,000 jobs lost in Michigan?
34. Wall Street has praised the choice of
Kamala Harris as VP. Why do you think financial special interests support her
so much?
35. Will you be following the
advice of your Wall Street and Silicon Valley donors in negotiating with
China? If not, whose advice would you seek out in negotiating with China?
36. Do you support China’s actions in Hong Kong?
37. Do you support China’s actions
in Xinjiang province where an estimated 3 million predominantly Uyghur Muslims
are imprisoned in what the
Pentagon has described as
“concentration camps”? Are you concerned about the fact that Hunter Biden’s
China-backed private equity firm invested heavily in
the surveillance technology used to spy on the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang
province?
38. Do you disagree with how the
Trump administration is handling Huawei? Do you think Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
should be extradited to the United
States for trial?
39. Do you believe China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a form of colonialism or is it a good program that
Third World nations should sign up for?
40. What are you prepared to do if
China invades Taiwan or
uses military force to assert its claims in the South China Sea?
41. Do you believe the U.S.
should return to the Iran
nuclear deal? Would you make further concessions to Iran to secure that? Do you
believe the Iranian regime should be allowed to buy weapons again?
42. Are you pleased with the results of the Obama
administration’s intervention in Libya?
43. Why did the Islamic
State fold up so much more
quickly under Trump than the Obama administration predicted?
44. Would you advise Arab nations
to follow the UAE’s lead and make
peace with Israel, or should they hold out for big concessions to the
Palestinians?
45. Should the United States
apologize for demanding NATO partners
meet their financial commitments? If not, why didn’t the Obama administration
ever do that?
Rebecca Mansour is a Senior Editor-at-Large for Breitbart News.
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