Today’s Poser

Why is it that most political violence is almost always the left directed against the right (MAGA hats, Don’t Tread on Me flags, the Pledge of Allegiance, Trump yard signs, etc.) ... and not the other way around? (Do these people really believe that this changes minds?)

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Headlines

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Dr. Birx says it’ll be safe to vote in-person in November

Trump: Democrats at DNC removed ‘God’ from pledge of allegience ‘on purpose’

Trump calls out FDA Chief, suggests agency is slow-walking Covid clinical trials

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John Brennan says he isn’t under criminal investigation after 8-hour interview with attorney Durham

School Act would assure education money ‘follows the child, not the system’

Biden says he’d lock down country if spread of coronavirus warranted it

New York City May take a decade to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, says developer Don Peebles

WH National Security Advisor calls the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Novalny “extraordinarily concerning”

California wildfires some of the largest in state history

Headlines

Largest earthquake in decades shakes Southern California

Trump tweet raises concerns that the US may raise tariffs on Europe

Rouhani says Iran will enrich uranium to ‘any amount we want’ ...

Warren: Trump’s July 4th event ‘a campaign event’ that taxpayers shouldn’t pay for

Artificial intelligence more transformative than the Internet

Fire destroys Jim Beam warehouse with 45,000 bourbon barrels

Gibraltar detains supertanker with Iranian oil ...

Kamala top choice of Hispanic Dems after criticizing Obama on deportations

Producer-in-chief puts on a 4th of July show — with a military emphasis

Kamala Harris says busing should be considered, not mandated

Russian sub that caught fire linked to underwater drone program ...

Pew: Only 1-in-3 Democrats say knowing pledge of allegiance is important

Norman Rockwell Had It Right

For now, the Brookline, Massachusetts Town Meeting has kept the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom.  But 76 chuckleheads in this meeting voted to ban this patriotic statement from sullying the lips of their children ... and 9 wimped out ... afraid to take a stand lest they be ostracized by their Marxist neighbors in this uber-liberal Boston suburb.  See: Small Win.  What is it that compels such lamebrains to campaign against such a simple oath?  One strained rationale put forward is that the children of non-citizens may be forced to pledge loyalty to a foreign country.  Such children (if and where they exist) can simply opt out of this recitation.  But my guess is that these tykes may be even more fervent in their love of their adopted country.  It is those 76 disaffected nihilists in Brookline who have inculcated their children with their spittle-sprayed hatred of this country ... and want to insure that their skulls-full-of-tofu keep their toes to the party line. 

It was not to happen this year. but eventually these poltroons will win ... and Norman Rockwell's vision of what patriotism means will be banished from one community after another in Massachusetts ... and then possibly in other states ... all in the name of respecting the diversity of ideas.  Can we instead call this the entropy of  devotion?  Then this country will no longer be a melting pot ... but, to use an appropriate metaphor ... it will be instead a fruitcake.  How sad it is!