A Foolish Charge by Liberal Quixote’s

By William L. Garvin

For some time, media has enabled the Democrat party to lob the social grenade that Republicans hate women and in fact have a “war on women.”  The latest contrived chapter in this fantasy tale is the “equal pay for equal work” canard being foisted upon the American public.  It’s quite disconcerting to watch intelligent people mount liberal steeds and tilt at this fantasy windmill.  Naturally, their trusty Sancho Panza of mainstream media never deigns to correct this deceitful charge. 

You undoubtedly heard that the feminist movement dubbed April 14^th as “Equal Pay Day.”   This is based on the erroneous premise that women make only 77% of what men make and they have to work that far into 2015 to “catch up” with what men made in 2014.  Even the American Association of University Women joined in with a mass mailing perpetuating these falsehoods.  So let’s drill down on these outdated numbers and false premises.

First of all, the 77% number was derived from comparing the median income of all full-time working women and the median income of all full-time working men.  This percentage is not only outdated, it’s virtually useless.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that in 2012 “women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $691.00.  On average in 2012, women made about 81% of the median earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers ($854).”  Using current and accurate figures, “Equal Pay Day” was a month late and should have been March 10th!

A second factor that liberals ignore (for whatever reason) is the amount of time actually worked.  The Department of Labor’s Time Use Survey finds that the average full-time working woman works 7.75 hours per day while the average full-time working man works 8.14 hours per day.  That alone could account for one-quarter of the purported wage gap.  If men work 5% longer, is it surprising that they would make 5% more?  According to economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, when you compare men and women who both work 40 hours weekly, the gap is even closer at 88%.

Another variable seldom considered is vocational choice.  Men will often pursue more dangerous positions when the money is better.  Men dominate fields such as iron workers, loggers, fishers, policing, manufacturing, mining, and construction which are high-risk, high-reward occupations.  As a result, 92% of work-related deaths in 2012 were men. 

It is also important to look at education.  In 2012 (the latest data available), the Department of Education shows that women earned 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 60% of master’s degrees, 51% of doctorates and nearly half the doctor of medicine and law degrees!  Significantly, a Georgetown University study of academic majors that lead to the greatest compensation found that women were the majority in only one discipline:  petroleum engineering (87% male); pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences (48% male); mathematics and computer sciences (67% male); aerospace engineering (88% male); and chemical engineering (72% male).  In contrast, women chose and dominated four of the five least remunerative majors:  counseling/psychology (74% female); early childhood education (97% female); theology and religious vocations (34% female); human services and community organizations (81% female); and social work (88% female).

Finally, many studies such as those by former Congressional Budget Office director Professor June O’Neill and Professor Marianne Bertrand of the University of Chicago show that when women work at the same jobs as men, with the same accumulated lifetime work experience, they earn essentially the same salaries.  If you compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, the equal pay myth quickly goes up in smoke.  So the question is why this myth continues and why is it so readily accepted? 

There are already laws on the books such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963 that requires equal pay for equal work and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that allows compensation disputes due to discrimination to be filed (with no statute of limitations!).  It is factually clear that there is no nationwide collusion to keep wages of women down.  There is no evil corporate conspiracy.  What more do feminists want?  Why do Barack Obama, Andrew Cuomo and Patricia Arquette continue to purposely mislead?  Is it ignorance or is it malevolence?  Why do liberal Quixote’s continue to tilt at an imaginary windmill when there are real problems that need to be addressed?  Is it a political conspiracy designed to subordinate truth in pursuit of victory?  Just as Harry Reid is unapologetic about his lies regarding Mitt Romney, so are those who perpetuate the “war on women” and the “equal pay” falsehoods…and that includes the puppet media who fail the American people on a daily basis.  

   

Uncivil Liberties

By William L. Garvin

Apparently many on the fringe left never had mommas that told them "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."  Then again, many of those same persons seem to have little interest other than forcing their agendas down the throats of everyone else.  Unfortunately, their indiscriminate use of freedom without a concomitant exercise of responsibility does nothing to further rational discussion and only serves to further polarize the nation.

For instance, the left is screaming about the police waging a war against black men.  Then, true to "confirmation bias," they select the few examples of white officers shooting black men all the while ignoring black officers shooting either black or white suspects or police officers ambushed and murdered by blacks.  They complain about the "lack of trust" between the police and minority communities but only focus on law enforcement responsibilities.  There is nothing advocated in regard to changes the minority community itself should be making.  Then you have the "Black Brunch" bunch that thinks it's perfectly acceptable to march into eating establishments and target white people and make them "uncomfortable" with their antics.  They chant the names of their "victims" like Trayvon Martin and Eric Brown perpetuating the "hands up, don't shoot" mythology and shout "for shame."  Since their "minds" are made up, don't confuse them with facts about their cause célèbre.

Another example is occurring on university campuses which kowtow to leftist demands that the movie AMERICAN SNIPER not be shown.  That is, until the backlash occurs.  On one Michigan campus, "protestors" jumped on stage and refused to leave while the movie was being shown.  It's not enough to simply avoid the screening; no, they had to try to prevent others from seeing it as well.  The left continues to pursue its tyranny of the minority.  These delicate souls could just as easily have retreated to their "safe space," a recent college innovation that allows them to be protected from any thoughts or ideas that might conflict with their liberal dogma or actually require logical discussion.

William F. Buckley once noted that "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."  Ironically, leftists seem oblivious to the heinous offenses they perpetrate on others while raising "being offended" to an art form.  Take the Memories Pizza Parlor case in Indiana.  An obscure reporter sought out this Christian business (they never seek out Muslim businesses!) and posed the hypothetical improbable "would you cater a gay wedding?"  The odds of this ever occurring are astronomical so the question itself is absurd.  Nonetheless, the owner said she had no problem serving gays in her establishment but she could not participate in a gay wedding ceremony because of her Christian faith.

As soon as her answer was published the wrath of the LGBT community came thundering down.  Hundreds of negative reviews immediately showed up on YELP; the phone lines were constantly ringing and phony orders couldn't be distinguished from legitimate orders; and then came the threats of arson and death.  The pizza parlor had to shut down.

If someone didn't want to cater your wedding, why would you force them to?  If someone didn't want to photograph your wedding, or provide flowers, or make your wedding cake, why would you force them to?  A reasonable person would simply find an alternate source of service for their affair.  A reasonable person would remember the signs that said "no shirt, no shoes, no service," and "management reserves the right to refuse service to anyone."  A reasonable person would understand there is a delicate balance between freedom of religion and non-discrimination that must be sorted out.  An informed person would know that the Indiana law did not give anyone the right to discriminate--it only allowed religious conviction to be raised as a defense should there be a conflict.  Unfortunately, the leftist agenda is not satisfied with just accepting gay marriage, you must support gay marriage.  In fact, the leader of Wyoming Equality posted that "churches that lobby to have freedoms and rights taken away from ANYONE should absolutely have their 501(c) 3 status revoked!"  In other words, if you believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, your church should be punished!

A GoFundMe page was set up for Memories and in a little over a week, nearly 30,000 people (including non-heterosexuals) contributed $842,000.  Memories will make some improvements, has reopened, and will share their new fortune with "disabled children, a woman's help group, firefighters, police trusts, Christian churches, and Washington florist, Barronelle Stutzman, 70, who was fined ($1,000) after declaring she would not serve a gay wedding."  Just as with Chick-fil-A, Memories reopened to a full house.  Most Americans do not like obnoxious bullies of any persuasion.

Points to Ponder

By William L. Garvin

“An interesting aspect of the rumored treaty with Iran is that, at the very least, they will be able to pursue nuclear energy to their heart’s content, which is more than the liberals, taking their marching orders from environmental zealots, will allow us to do.  How is it we’re not insisting that Iran start relying on solar panels and windmills for its energy needs?  Although nuclear energy is cheap, available and safe, and would make us energy independent for the foreseeable future, we haven’t built a nuclear plant since the 1970’s.  Perhaps if America could go to Switzerland and negotiate with John Kerry, we too could start building centrifuges for peaceful purposes.”  Burt Prelutsky

Iran has an abundant supply of oil and it only costs about $4.00 for them to produce each barrel   As a result, gasoline is about $.25 per gallon so from a purely practical perspective, why is there such a need for nuclear energy?  Also why isn’t their production of intercontinental ballistic missiles being addressed at the negotiating table?  They already have rockets that will reach Israel and indeed, “wipe it off the map” if armed with nuclear warheads.  But pay no attention to all those “Death to America’ chants—they don’t really mean it.

Everyone should be very concerned about this “deal” which may not even be confirmed in writing!  Remember, the Obama-Hillary-Kerry administration has hardly left a track record of successful negotiations.  They couldn’t even successfully negotiate a “status of forces” agreement with Iraq.  Kerry’s mediation in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was a miserable failure.  The missile defense system for Poland and Czechoslovakia was thrown under the bus.  Hillary couldn’t even spell her “reset button’ for Russia correctly let alone protect Crimea and the Ukraine.  Uncle Sam not only got his pocket picked in the START treaty but the Russian bear also ate his lunch!  The “deadlines” and “red lines” in Syria became and international joke.  And lest we forget, they recently traded five top Taliban terrorist commanders for a soldier now facing charges of desertion and misbehavior (which carries a life sentence).

Given that Israel’s very existence may be at stake, she is making use of every avenue available for survival.  Not too surprisingly, Mossad (the Israeli CIA) is monitoring every word and every action of the countries that are determining her future.  The Obama administration, increasingly hostile to Israel in general and her prime minister in particular, appear exceedingly vexed that Israel is looking out for her own self-interest.  Why they are even spying on the USA!  And how did the USA find that out?  By spying on Israel of course!  Oops!

On the national political front, the left is now doubling down on double standards.  Since Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for president, there is now much liberal hue and cry about a first term senator being qualified.  They even have a “birther” movement challenging his eligibility.  The media immediately branded him as “uppity, divisive, a flamethrower, a demagogue, rigid and uncompromising.”  When he said he grew fond of country music after 9/11 because of its patriotic themes, MSNBC’s Jamilah Lemieux idiotically brayed “Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music….”  Haters gotta hate even if their viewers dissipate and ratings tank.

Meanwhile, just as there were “Jordan Rules” in the NBA, there now appear to be “Clinton Rules” in presidential politics.  Somehow it is perfectly acceptable for Hillary’s foundation to rake in millions of dollars from foreign countries while she was Secretary of State.  It’s perfectly acceptable for her to continue to accept untold buckets of money from individuals and countries that won’t allow women to drive, will stone them for adultery, require four witnesses to a rape and allow husbands to beat their wives.  It’s perfectly acceptable for her to conduct our nation’s most sensitive business on her own private email accounts with her own private server.  It’s perfectly acceptable for her to destroy all the emails she chooses and to wipe her server clean even though congress has requested those documents for months.

But if you criticize her or point out the recent CBS News poll shows that only 26% view her favorably while 37% view her unfavorably, beware the wrath of the Clinton “Super Volunteers,” who notified the New York Times that they will carefully track the media for “sexist code words.”  So don’t you ever say that she is “polarizing, calculating, disingenuous, insincere, ambitious, inevitable, entitled, over-confident, secretive, will do anything to win, represents the past, or out of touch.”  Never dare to blaspheme their saint!  Prepare for the thought police and their cyber-bully tactics.  You must never dissent.  You will kiss your freedom of speech goodbye…or else!

IRAN AND HEZBOLLAH NO LONGER THREATS?

The following is from a Newsweek story written by Jack Moore today, March 16:  "An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from its list of terror threats to U.S. interests, despite both being consistently included as threats in previous years.

The unclassified report, issued by Clapper on February 26 and entitled the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Communities, was published by the Times of Israel amid Israeli concerns that Iran was omitted simply because of Tehran’s efforts to combat ISIS.

In a previous report from January 2014, Clapper included Iran and Hezbollah in the ‘Terrorism’ section, writing that both “continue to directly threaten the interests of U.S. allies. Hizballah [sic] has increased its global terrorist activity in recent years to a level that we have not seen since the 1990s”. Iran was also given its own sub-heading in the ‘Terrorism’ section of such assessments in 2011, 2012 and 2013."

So let's all get together and learn how to love the Iranian bomb now that we're not negotiating with terrorists!  If you believe this is a good move, then Bo Bergdahl, Bradley/Chelsea Manning, and Nidal Hassan are all patriots.

Bill Garvin

Double Troubling Inconsistencies

By William L. Garvin

This world is teeming with blatant double standards and glaring inconsistencies yet many in the general population are only selectively outraged.  The first examples must be an anathema to the veterans of the UC Berkeley Free Speech movement in the sixties.  It would be appalling for them to see swastikas painted on a Jewish fraternity at a sister campus.  It would be incomprehensible for them to hear Jewish students shouted down with cries of “allahu Akbar” as they attempted to speak against a resolution to divest all campus investments in Israel.  Their puzzlement would be compounded by another campus voting to remove all United States flags because they might be “offensive” to some.  They would also equally abhor and vigorously debate the foolish frat boy rap of the Oklahoma University fraternity.  Somewhere along the line, “freedom” and “responsibility” have been irrevocably rendered asunder.  Having the right to do it doesn’t always equate to it being the right thing to do.  Burning flags, misogynistic rap lyrics, and profane and offensive “art” abound in these times.

An offshoot of this theme is the irresponsible promulgation of the “hands up, don’t shoot” mythology.  Where are the apologies now that even activist Attorney General had to totally exonerate Officer Darren Wilson in the Ferguson shooting?  Let’s hear the NBA and NFL players apologize for helping ruin the life of Officer Wilson.  Let’s hear an apology from Hakeem Jeffries, Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green, and Yvette Clarke, all Democrat members of the Congressional Black Caucus, for “acting stupidly” by holding their hands up on the House floor.  Let’s hear President Obama apologize for listening to the foolish race-baiting polemics of Al Sharpton.  Let’s hear the media apologize for perpetuating the “gentle giant” fraud and doctoring tapes and using prepubescent cherubic photographs of Trayvon Martin all the while giving comparatively scant attention to the assassination of two New York officers, to the shooting of two officers in Ferguson, to black on black crime, and horror of horrors, black on white crime.

Then there’s the “smartest woman in the world” attempting to gender morph from the perpetually dissatisfied Madame Bovary into President Ovary.  Even though she brags about having an iPhone, a Blackberry, a mini and an iPad, apparently she couldn’t figure out how to have two email addresses on a single device or use two devices.  Also, how does her State Department generate a billion emails but preserve only 61,000?  This makes the eighteen and a half missing minutes on the Nixon tapes look like a warm-up act.  If all those deleted emails had to do with yoga poses, prom dresses, funeral and wedding plans, there were far too many government employees doing personal business on official time.  Maybe if they had actually been doing their jobs, four Americans would be alive in Benghazi today!

Nonetheless, the Dems will rally around Hillary if no other reason than they don’t have anybody else.  They will continue to characterize her as a champion of women although even her most ardent supporters are hard pressed to list any concrete accomplishments (other than miraculously making a small fortune in cattle futures).  Given the sorry state of affairs in international relations, her only successful operation was the “nuts and sluts” character assassinations to cover up her husband’s bimbo eruptions.  (By the way, why are multiple complaints against Bill Cosby indicative of his guilt but multiple complaints against Bill Clinton so easily dismissed?)  And if a Republican candidate ever paid his or her female staffers at a lower rate compared to male staffers just as Hillary does, they would be pilloried.  That’s as bad as Clint Eastwood using non-union crews…oh wait—that was Michael Moore!

Speaking of acting, look at all the faux outrage Democrats exhibited regarding the speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.  Nancy Pelosi said she was “nearly moved to tears” by his presentation which she deemed insulting to her president.  Her childish pantomimes of displeasure (until she and the Black Caucus stormed out) was the epitome of disrespect to what she once called “our staunchest ally.”  With friends like that….  She and John Kerry continued their manufactured outrage by castigating a letter that 47 senators sent to Iran.  She had no such qualms about personally visiting Bashar al-Assad in Syria against President Bush’s wishes but of course, that was then and this is now.

Thanks to a lack of principles and utter disregard for the truth, inconsistency and double standards are the mother’s milk of today’s politics.  For those who continue to foolishly foment racial discord, division and discontent, here’s your new slogan:  “Bloody hands up; don’t drip!”  

Saying What You Mean

By William L. Garvin

‘Intelligence is derived from two words, inter and leger, inter meaning ‘between’ and leger meaning ‘to choose between.’  An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned ‘to choose between.’  He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”  J. Martin Klotsche

In their search for independence, generations sometimes differentiate from their elders by their use of language.  Sometimes they invent new words such as “Daddio,” “gremmie,” “homies,” “brah,” “bling,” and “selfie.”  Sometimes they develop generational “cool” by changing spelling such as “phat,” “dat,” and “def.”  Another differentiation is to change the traditional meaning of a word as has happened with “boss,” “hot,” “lame,” “bad,” “gay,” “gnarly,” and “booty.”  Most of these are merely cultural phases, harmless and ephemeral.  There is a much more serious issue when the press, government, or societal transmogrification obscures reality and the truth.

The Obama administration promised that its cornerstones would be the “rule of law” and “transparency.”  Those were its words but hardly its actions.  Throughout its scandal-plagued six years, the public has been inundated with obfuscation, stonewalling, “misremembering,” and blatant hypocrisy.  Anyone opposing the progressive transformation has been subjected to the full force of government retribution much as Tea Party and conservative groups have had to endure.  There is a campaign of “eradication of opposition” that has been aided and abetted by establishment Republicans with their “go along to get along” policy of appeasement and a complacent, compliant media that willingly follows White House marching orders.  Therefore, just as in a Brian Williams or Dan Rather newscast, you will never get the full truth.

When American soldiers were slaughtered at Ft. Hood by a Muslim shouting praises to Allah, Islamic terrorism became “workplace violence.”  The Jews slaughtered in a Jewish deli in Paris became “folks” who were killed at “random” even though the murderer said he was after Jews.  Now we have 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya who are identified as “Egyptian citizens” and “innocent victims.”  However, when Craig Hicks executes three Muslim students, they are immediately identified as victims of their faith and manner of worship.  In genuflecting support of this knee jerk reaction, liberal media has tried to paint Hicks as representative of the “white, right wing extremist.”  They deliberately ignore the fact that he is an ardent atheist, a fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center (an extremist group that calls out others as extremists!), the Huffington Post, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, many anti-Tea Party and anti-conservative Facebook pages, and of course, MSNBC’s resident White House apologist—Rachel Maddow.  Some blame the movie AMERICAN SNIPER for these murders.

Even though the police have reported the murders to be the result of an ongoing dispute over a parking space, the confluence of a “perpetual grievance mentality” with the “perpetual liberal guilt mentality” has resulted in a new hashtag campaign of “Muslim lives matter.”  Of course they do along with Black lives matter, White lives matter, Christian lives matter, Hindu lives matter, Buddhist lives matter, atheist lives matter, etc., (unless they are in a liberal womb!).  This was epitomized by MSNBC’s peripatetic Chris Hayes who anointed it a “Trayvon Martin moment,” “a Michael Brown moment,” typifying the “routine stereotyping and marginalization of Muslims.”  He went on to say “It takes place in a context where subtle, persistent, anti-Muslim bias is a part of American life and this feels like a wake-up call.”  What a crock of horse manure!  First of all, there is no similarity at all between a couple of street punks and these young students.  Secondly, there is no wave of Islamophobia in this country even though the President and Muslim leaders think there is.  Thirdly, who cares what it “feels like” to you?  Where are your facts?  Reality check--you don’t have any.

Meanwhile, swastikas are painted on a Jewish fraternity in California, Jewish and Christian cemeteries are desecrated in Europe, American marines are forced to destroy their weapons before abandoning our embassy in Yemen, a Christian genocide is occurring throughout the Middle East, 300 marines are about to be surrounded in Iraq, the embassy in Kabul is now within reach of the Taliban terrorists (rather the “armed insurgents who resort to terrorist activities,” and another estimated 20,000 “boots on the ground” have joined ISIS.  Still President Obama fantasizes that “ISIS is on the defensive” and “morale is low” because of his “smart diplomacy” and “strategic patience.”  This is all Obama-speak for “dithering” and “I don’t have a clue.”  That is truly “cray cray” and since SNAFU, YOYO, and GLTA!

High Horse, Hobby Horse, or Stalking Horse?

By William L. Garvin

“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.  In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”  President Barack Obama

Seasoned citizens were often queried as whether it was “live or Memorex.”  Today it’s a question of whether it’s April Fools or whether someone’s getting punked or whether it’s just a “Saturday Night Live” spoof.  In any event, nearly everyone who is paying attention is channeling their inner John McEnroe and screaming “you can’t possibly be serious!”  Even die-hard democrats are bowing their heads, not in reverence but in shame and chagrin, because of the president’s perplexing performance at the National Prayer Breakfast.  It was devastatingly wrong on so many levels.  Furthermore, this event raises significant concern as to whether or not there have been “high crimes” against logic, “misdemeanors” against optics and common decency, and “treason” against historical accuracy, all committed by President Obama.  As a result, anyone other than low information voters must be disturbed as to why our Commander-in-Chief has morphed into the Islamapoligist-in-Chief.  Elections do indeed have consequences that are “coming home to roost!”

As Lou Dobbs noted: “… the president seems to constantly be mounting his high horse.  It’s a wonder that he doesn’t suffer chronic nose bleeds.”  It is usually this president who sits astride the “high horse” with nothing more than a hobby horse foundation.  He’s quick to condemn police for “acting stupidly” without gathering necessary facts but equally quick to caution others not to “rush to judgment” when Nidal Hasan is shouting “allahu Akbar” and slaughtering American soldiers.  He’s quick to perpetuate the Ferguson myth of “hands up, don’t shoot” before the United Nations general assembly but slow to retract or correct his error.  He’s quick to establish red lines and deadlines but they are all sound and fury, signifying nothing as they impotently fade into memory.  He’s slow to defend but quick to condemn the country he was chosen to lead.

 “Crusades’ was not a term that was used until the seventeenth century though the Christian military actions against Muslims started in the late eleventh century.  Muslim military actions, incursions and conquests into Christendom started four centuries before that.   Indeed, Muslims had subjugated nearly two-thirds of the Christian world at the time the Pope initiated the first crusade.  Another significant observation about Islam and Christianity is that Mohammed personally led military actions whereas Jesus the Christ did not.  The early sections of the Quran read more peacefully but the later verses became more aggressive corresponding to the faith’s growth in numbers and strength.  Quran (8:12)—“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.  Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”  There is no similar verse in the New Testament of the Bible.  Nor are there any Christian equivalents for “fatwas” or “jihads.”

Christians do not burn people alive, behead babies, bury people alive, shoot children for watching soccer matches, stone women, keep women from school or driving cars, throw homosexuals off rooftops, or kidnap and rape young girls as a matter of contemporary faith or culture.  Anyone doing so would become an instant pariah and would be vehemently repudiated by the entire Christian community.  Christianity has embraced reform.  Such is not the case in countries under Islamic rule.  We are told that 99.9% of Muslims are moderate.  Where did that number come from?  If so, why are they powerless to eliminate the one-tenth of one percent of violent extremists that is “perverting” their faith?  It’s up to them to clean up their own act.

As for Jim Crow and slavery, the abolitionist movement was fueled from Christian ranks, not from the worlds of academia or government.  Christian leaders such as John Wesley, William Wilberforce, Charles Finney, and Theodore Weld through Martin Luther King labored tirelessly and spearheaded slavery’s demise often at great personal risk.  In his labored invocation of Jim Crow laws, note that those activities and those of the Ku Klux Klan stemmed from his own Democrat party!

This president seems to like to wade into waters even though his knowledge has no depth.  He thinks climate change is more dangerous than terrorism.  He thinks Islamaphobia is more dangerous than Muslim extremism.  He refuses to even say the words “Islamic terrorist!”  He would rather fabricate moral equivalencies from a thousand years ago than effectively challenge the evil of global Islamic extremism.  Sins of yore deserve more condemnation than the barbaric savagery of today.  Until his world view changes, it will represent an “existential threat” to this country.