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Zendo Deb
Safety as the Bedrock of Civilization
Reihan Salam is a native of Brooklyn, New York. His parents are from what is now Bangladesh. He never thought of himself as a conservative growing up, or in high school, but the way Democrats are running NYC, and the rest of the Blue Cities, that changed.
When you have violence people retreat; they look on their neighbors with suspicion. They don’t look on them as potential friends or business partners. That’s the terrible irony of this. If you care about civic harmony, if you care about integration, if care about people building relationships, if you care about diversity and inclusion, the bedrock of that has to be people feeling safe.
This is the PragerU video Reihan Salam: The Issue of Crime Made Me a Conservative.
American Conservative
Flesh of My Flesh-Eating Flesh
A new form of birth control would teach the female body to attack itself, in pursuit of egalitarianism.
“Let me be a woman.” The famed words of Elisabeth Elliot became the title of a book of essays she offered her only daughter, Valerie, on the day of the daughter’s marriage. Elisabeth, wife of the evangelical missionary Jim Elliot, used the phrase and stories of women in the Bible to respond to a growing sect of Christian egalitarians in the American mid-century, arguing that this movement made a “caricature” of womanhood. Egalitarianism, she advised her daughter, is not a thing to be desired but “a dehumanizing distortion.”
Elliot’s ideas have been echoed by numerous writers since then, but the dehumanizing distortions have continued apace. One recent distortion is the pursuit of a new form of birth control, which would work by attacking the female body itself, teaching it to produce antibodies to fight its own pregnancy-supporting processes. You read that right: The tech optimists are pursuing a birth control vaccine.
American Greatness
Weaponizing Death
Recently there has been a spate of horrific murders.
The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single homicides, are hard to stereotype.
They can be clearly either mentally ill or simply innately evil. They can kill for revenge, for ideological purposes, out of hatred, for notoriety—or for no known reason at all.
They are probably left-wing and right-wing, white, black, and brown, young, and old. While their weapons of choice are semiautomatic rifles, there are plenty of killers who favor handguns and even knives.
Unfortunately, these tragedies increasingly have become politicized.
Yet our media and politicians do not apply a common standard of reporting about either the victims, the killers, or the apparent motives and circumstances of the violence.
Instead, each horror is quickly analyzed for its political usefulness. Then its details are electively downplayed or emphasized, depending upon the political agenda at work.
American Thinker
Ready for leftists to wreck your neighborhood?
As we sit comfortably in our homes, having dinner with our families, crime rates are going up all around us. That is to say that criminals are no longer relegated to the inner cities; they’ve evolved to suburbs and rural areas as they seek new and more vulnerable targets. The Biden administration is fostering the decline of those outer areas by using the Housing and Urban Development agency to force suburbs to accept high-density “affordable housing.”
For several decades, one of the major dreams of the middle class has been to own a home in the suburbs. Now, under the guise of prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, sex, etc., Democrats have proposed regulations that would force jurisdictions that accept HUD funding to “promote equity in their communities, decrease segregation, and increase access to opportunity and community assets for people of color and other underserved communities.”
Daniel Greenfield
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS’ DO STOP MASS SHOOTINGS
The issue is not, as Democrats, leftists and their media insist, “gun culture”. America had far more of a gun culture in the 1950s than it does today. A visceral hatred of gun ownership pervades the entertainment industry even as it glorifies all sorts of physical violence. Cultural elites decry the existence of firearms as a senseless evil and dream of a world without them.
And thus far there’s been a record number of mass shootings in 2023.
The perpetrators of these mass shootings are often politically inconvenient. Even beyond the urban minority gangs responsible for the vast majority of shooting deaths so far this year there have been transgender mass shooters like Audrey Hale, illegal alien mass shooters like Francisco Oropeza, and black mass shooters like Anthony Dwayne McRae, who opened fire at Michigan State University in a story that would have otherwise dominated the headlines.
Media coverage of mass shootings instantly seizes on the similarity of the weapon to an AR-15 before cutting to an interview with one of a legion of gun control advocates demanding that the government do what it had been trying to do since the 1930s with no success whatsoever.
But why should a mere century of failure discredit a leftist policy when socialism is still a fad?
