Veterans Day ’21: Honor to Whom Honor is Due







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Veterans Day ’21: Honor to Whom Honor is Due

By: Jim Daly


General Douglas MacArthur was quoting an old British ballad during his 1951 farewell address before Congress when he said: “

Old soldiers never die – they just fade away.”

Sadly, both old and young soldiers die every day. Each death diminishes us all, with each man or woman taking with them a reservoir of history and unique experience. We stand on their shoulders, enjoying relative peace and freedom today because so many gave their lives in times of war – and worked to keep the peace after the fighting stopped.

According to recent data, there are approximately 19 million veterans in the United States today – a steep decline from past years. While 18% of the population had served in the military back in 1980, that number hovers at just 7% today.

The consequences of that shift are felt in numerous ways – from a waning of selflessness, sacrifice and patriotic fervor to a diminished appreciation and empathy for those currently tasked with defending our nation.


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Navy SEALs Sue Biden Admin for Denying Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate



By: Zachary Mettler





The U.S. military has mandated that all members of the Armed Forces, both those on active duty and in the reserves, be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The different military branches can grant exemptions, both medical and religious, to the mandate. But so far, despite multiple members requesting a waiver to the mandate, the U.S. Navy has granted zero requests for religious accommodation.

In fact, when one Navy SEAL informed his command that he would request a religious exemption, he was immediately ordered to remove his special warfare device pin from his uniform.

In response, 35 Navy SEALs “whose careers and livelihoods are being threatened with punishment, involuntary separation or even court-martial” because of the vaccine mandate are suing the Biden administration and the Department of Defense (DoD) over their refusal to grant religious exemptions.

The SEALs are represented by First Liberty Institute and the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

The lawsuit notes that each plaintiff objects to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine “based on their sincerely held religious beliefs.”






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Jesus Wasn’t Woke – But He Did Wake Up a Desperate World



By: Paul Batura





Matthew Dowd, one-time ABC News analyst and former advisor to President George W. Bush, ignited a firestorm on Sunday with a provocative Tweet:

“As I sat in church today I was thinking that if Jesus were here today he would be accused of being woke,” he wrote. “How about we just say it is human decency to treat all with respect and dignity and that it is constitutional to say all men and women are equal.”

In mainstream vernacular, the term “woke” has taken on a life of its own, generally used these days to describe a far-left perspective. In a political context, it was once intended to communicate being “aware” of racial injustice.

No longer.

It’s now being used as an all-encompassing term to describe radical activism – everything from the distorted understanding of gender to support of abortion and open borders. If you’re not “woke” you run the risk of being “cancelled” – a modern-day manifestation of intolerance – especially for people who hold to the historic teachings of the Christian faith.

It might be something of a new phenomenon to call Jesus “woke,” but it’s an old and tired habit of leftists (especially those who identify as Christian progressives) to call Jesus a liberal.






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New University Gives Great Hope to Future of Higher Education




By: The Daily Citizen





We certainly live in very interesting times.

A few short years ago, it would not necessarily have been good news that leading conservative and Christian thinkers were joining leading liberals and atheists to found a new kind of university. But in 2021, this is precisely what is happening with a brand-new university model – The University of Austin – and this is very good news indeed.

The curiosity of such a statement is a leading indication of how desperately so much of higher education today has lost its way. So much of the Academy is no longer about true education, the pursuit of truth wherever it leads, but has become fundamentalist liberal indoctrination. Honest questioning and independent thinking are no longer allowed. Rather than the classically liberal ideal of openly and honestly exploring the world of ideas and truth, far too much of higher education has become about controlling what “truth” is into very narrow and anti-scientific dogma centered in radical politics. It is no longer about the possibilities of learning and exploring, but enforcing what can and cannot be said, or even thought, in the public square.





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Mom Banned from School Library after Confronting School Board Over Pornographic Books



By: Bruce Hausknecht






The recent election may have brought out the “mama bears” in droves in places like Virginia over controversial school board policies, but recent evidence suggests that the problems haven’t gone away.

In Fairfax, Virginia, for example, Stacy Langton, a mother of six, made news in September by reading aloud portions of books available in the high school library, at a school board meeting. The books, including Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe include explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, as well as graphic descriptions of sex between men and children.

The Fairfax school board was apparently so embarrassed at the meeting by the books’ contents that they ordered Langton to stop reading the books aloud and promised that the two books would be suspended immediately pending a review.

If the story stopped there, you might be tempted to conclude that Langton was successful in acting as a watchdog for her children, and perhaps deserving of the school board’s gratitude. After all, the school board did remove the objectionable books, at least temporarily.







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