It was five years today, on August 30, 2021, that the U.S.’s disgraceful exit from Afghanistan, dictated and overseen by former President Jell-O Joe Biden, occurred. It’s important to remember how we must never again put in power the kind of individuals who engineered such a disastrous and disgraceful pattern of actions. In retrospective, here …
I initially posted this piece on July 8, 2020, when the insanity, anarchy, and cultural repression of that summer was running high in the country. I think it’s time to re-post it given the notable turn in many parts of the country toward leftism — Marxism or Communism masked under the seemingly gentler term of “democratic socialism” — and the threat it poses to our very way of life. Let us not forget the logical conclusion that results wherever this deadly ideology has been applied throughout history.
Two of the Apollo 17 astronauts, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, were the last humans to walk on the lunar surface, while their mission mate Ronald Evans orbited the moon in the command module. At least part of that history is to be added to now as the four crew members of the Artemis II mission hurtle toward the moon, escaping the grasp of earth’s gravity for the first time since the flight of Apollo 17.
Tomorrow’s inauguration encourages many, myself included, to hope that the abuses and degradation of the past four years can be undone and things moved in a more promising direction. But there will be tremendous opposition, already begun, from the side that doesn’t realize it lost, and many things will take Congressional action, never an easy thing.
The characters Tweedledee and Tweedledum came out of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Later, in 1871, they were transformed into Tweedledee and Sweedledum by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, to parody the corrupt Democratic Tammany Hall politicians, headed by William “Boss” Tweed and Peter “Brains” Sweeny, who ran New York as their personal …