Fighting For Faith, Family & Freedom

Thursday, April 13, 2023

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Alleged Leaker Arrested

Law enforcement officials arrested Jack Teixeira today, a 21 year-old Air National Guardsman in North Dighton, Massachusetts, as the alleged source of leaks that exposed a massive trove of military and national security secrets on social media sites. Teixeira reportedly worked as a full-time member of the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

We will keep you posted as the story develops.

Biden’s Double Standard

The Biden Administration is doing many outrageous things that make headlines almost every day. But, believe it or not, there are even more troubling and dangerous things that get virtually no attention at all. 

For example, the Biden Justice Department just cut a plea deal with a transgendered pro-abortion radical who attacked a Catholic church and one of the church’s employees. This happened after Roe v. Wade was overturned, which led to a surge of hateful, violent attacks against churches and pregnancy resource centers. 

This deranged individual destroyed statues of the Virgin Mary and other artifacts in the church. He spray-painted vulgar comments all over the church, and caused thousands of dollars of damage. 

When a church employee confronted him, he attacked the employee. When the police arrived, he attacked them and resisted arrest.

Now here’s the really shocking part: The Justice Department plea deal does not require this hateful radical to spend even a single day in jail. Not one!

This deal comes as attacks against churches in the first 90 days of the year have skyrocketed. As the left’s hostility to faith is increasing, it almost looks as if the Biden Administration is actually encouraging more attacks on churches.

Meanwhile, a pro-life father who protected his son on a public sidewalk outside of an abortion clinic was arrested by a heavily-armed FBI SWAT team. The Biden Justice Department wanted to put him in prison for 11 years!

Trash a church, assault a Christian and attack cops, no jail time. 

Shove a pro-abortion “escort” who is threatening your son, 11 years behind bars.

Create a fake dossier to implicate a conservative president as a traitor causing years of political turmoil, an insignificant fine. 

A conservative businessman makes a bookkeeping error, 136 years behind bars.

This is what passes for “equal justice” in Joe Biden’s neo-Marxist America. 

And just like the riots of 2020 and Antifa’s viciousness against conservatives before that, it’s another example of the left’s tolerance for violence as long as it advances their radical agenda.

Biden’s Assault On Freedom

Our focus is on issues impacting faith, family and freedom, and this item falls clearly in the freedom category. 

The authoritarian Biden Administration just imposed sweeping new environmental regulations on the auto industry. But this is much bigger than the debate over global warming or clean air standards. 

There is absolutely no doubt that these new EPA demands are impossible to meet without car companies making gasoline-powered vehicles too expensive for most Americans to buy. And that’s the whole point. 

Once again, the left is using the brute force of Big Government to control you and how you live by limiting your freedom. 

They are trying to force Americans into electric cars, which cost nearly three times more and have about half the range of the typical gas-powered car. But the only way they can do that is to make combustion engines even more expensive, thus, the new regulations.

Yet, even with all the radical green policies and tax subsidies, just 7% of vehicles on U.S. roads today are electric. Biden wants that figure to be 67% in the next nine years. So, his default position is to take away your freedom to buy the vehicle you want. 

But I think there’s a more sinister reason behind all of this than just “saving the planet,” which they really aren’t.

The neo-Marxist left wants to restrict your freedom of movement. And it is willing to take the American auto fleet that relies on the American energy industry and turn it into an electric fleet that relies on communist China. 

Because without communist China, which controls the necessary minerals for electric batteries, there’s no electric vehicle industry. Just another example of Biden putting America last.

There are serious questions about whether our electric grid can handle such a massive increase in demand. The American people do not have faith in these vehicles, partly because it can cost between $10,000 and $25,000 just to replace the electric batteries.

This won’t impact urban populations where folks don’t drive very far, and have access to public transit. But it will be a serious burden on rural and Middle America, for farmers, for truckers and people who have significant commutes to work every day. 

I don’t see how such sweeping and far-reaching regulations can be constitutional. In the past, courts generally deferred to the administrative state. But this new Supreme Court majority is scaling back the bureaucracy’s undelegated authority. 

Joe Biden and his neo-Marxist allies want to “fundamentally transform” the Supreme Court, too. If Biden is reelected, the odds are overwhelming that he will succeed.

First, the left came for your gas stoves and incandescent lightbulbs. Now it’s coming for your gasoline-powered cars and trucks.

Left-wing Anti-Semitism

For years now, I’ve been sounding the alarm about growing anti-Semitism in America, especially anti-Semitism on the left. It’s back in the news this week and the problem may be far worse than we realized.

Some of our readers may recognize the name Leonard Jeffries. He’s a radical black studies professor who was widely condemned back in the 1990s for espousing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. 

He also happens to be the uncle of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the man who replaced Nancy Pelosi as the leader of House Democrats.

When he entered New York politics, Rep. Jeffries distanced himself from his radical uncle and denied knowing about his extreme, anti-Semitic views. Well, he lied.

Several weeks ago, Mark Paoletta, a conservative legal activist, did what few journalists are willing to do these days – actual journalism. 

He discovered that as a member of the Black Student Union at Binghamton University, Hakeem Jeffries defended his uncle as a “renowned historian” and a “well-versed intellectual.”  Professor Jeffries went on to deliver another bile-filled, anti-Semitic diatribe on the campus of Binghamton University at the invitation of the Black Student Union. 

In fact, it was Hakeem Jeffries who invited his uncle to speak on the campus. Clearly, Jeffries was well-aware of his uncle’s crazy views. Worse, he seemed to defend them.

Now, CNN has picked up on Paoletta’s reporting and other “mainstream” media outlets can no longer ignore the truth. CNN also discovered that Hakeem Jeffries even defended notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

It’s bad enough that junior progressive politicians like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have brought their anti-Semitism into the halls of Congress. But the idea that such reprehensible views might be shared by the House Democrat leader is truly disturbing.

Defending Faith, Family and Freedom

As many of you know, in addition to my work at American Values and Campaign for Working Families, I also serve as Senior Vice President of Public Policy for the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute (JDFI).

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been producing a weekly podcast for JDFI called “Defending Faith, Family and Freedom.” There are currently ten episodes broadly outlining the big picture of what’s happening in America’s ongoing culture war. 

Starting next week, I’ll be focusing on more urgent and specific issues, with timely action items for you to take to help us turn the tide.

If you haven’t already done so, I hope you’ll check out my “Defending Faith, Family and Freedom” podcasts at the JDFI site, and let me know what you think!