Karl Marx's Family 

     According to Mark Levin (one of my few, favorite authors and TV hosts), in his book about Democrats, Marx's relationship with his children does not seem at all consistent with a desire to communally raise children. 

     "He (Marx) greatly enjoyed playing and romping with them and was extremely solicitous for their welfare. Part of the reason for his financial problems was his alacrity to spend beyond his income to provide various amenities for his children, including private tutoring in languages, music and drama. He asked Engles to take over fatherly responsibilities toward his children after he died."

     "Sometimes Marx intervened in his daughters' lives in ways that seem to contradict his role as revolutionary abolisher of families and liberator of children. When Paul Lafargue was courting his daughter, Laura, Marx warned him to keep his distance and demanded he prove he could financially support a wife. He blocked another daughter's relationship and refused to recognize their engagement." 

     "Marx's unashamed hypocrisy is consistent with autocrats of all stripes. They cannot and will not live the life they brutally impose on others. For example, the Obamas who live like royalty, surrounded by luxury and fame, sent their daughters to an expensive, tony, private school, yet still preach contempt for America and spew Marxist propaganda."

     "John Kerry, Biden's so-called U.S. Special Envoy for Climate, flies private, military and commercial flights endlessly around the world preaching the gospel of green energy and economic degrowth." Levin notes how "the Squad preaches defunding of the police," while protecting themselves with private security. 

     "The Democratic Party benefits politically from the breakup of the nuclear family. Its war on the family, the economy, the culture and society is purposeful and malignant."

Just a few lines from THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HATES AMERICA

 Social Justice Fables 

     Economist Thomas Sowell, a fellow at Stanford, dispatches the left's favorite "fallacies" in the book, SOCIAL JUSTICE. 

     "The world does not work as the liberals wish because everyday Americans are rational actors who respond to incentives. Both history and economics show that people are not chess pieces. Yet politicians so often act that way, as though an increase in tax rates will guarantee a corresponding increase in tax revenue... 

     "This 'exaltation of desirability and neglect of feasibility' is one of the 'fundamental fallacies of the social justice vision.' As Christians, we might say policy must be rooted in reality, which includes the nature of Creation and the fallenness of man. This creates problems for the utopians in our midst. 

     "Racialist fallacies are found and refuted throughout the book, a subtle reminder of how central race is to the modern liberal project. 

     "Sowell's writing is Spartan. There is no narrative, or introduction. 

     "Instead, Sowell's style is to pick a topic, a proposition - a social justice fallacy. Recite the typical liberal assertion, and then deconstruct it in two pages of logic, history, academic studies, and facts. Then move on to the next one. It's not meant to be entertaining, though it's hard not to smile occasionally when he lands his best punches. 

     "His style has its audience: those craving the intellectual vindication of things they already believe to be true and right about the world."

 by Daniel R. Suhr

 Solution to Suffering?   

     "We all experience life as suffering," writes Andree Seu Peterson. There are moments of happiness, but they are only moments, preceded by suffering and followed by suffering, she says. 

     She describes her "sixth age" as a time of problems with her nose, side, teeth, eyes, taste...everything." Her children wonder at her happiness. 

     The Buddha's approach was a state of mind of detachment. "Buddha was right up to a point when he talked about cultivating a mindset," she says. "But the mindset that gives freedom is not detachment from reality; it is the embrace of more reality. It is truth that sets free, the whole truth."

     "What my children do not see is that I set my sights beyond this present world and therefore do not grieve as those who have no hope."

WORLD magazine

Who Owns the Land?

     Israel? Palestinians and Hamas? Or...? 

     Activists around the world argue that Israel doesn't belong. Can that many opinions be wrong? Iran threatens a nuclear wipeout. Andree Seu Peterson settles the question in WORLD magazine.

* The UN voted Israel a state in 1947. 

* The old League of Nations mandated a "national home" for Jews. 

* Jews have the oldest and most documented claim to the land of any people regarding any land of any time - the Torah. 

* There is no "Palestinian people." There never was a Palestinian nation. "Palestine" designates a region, not an ethnic group. The Romans renamed the province of Judea 'Syria Palestina' to erase connection with rebellious Jews. No land ownership during the Ottoman Empire. The British used the term "Palestine" to denote a distinct political unit. 

* Jews immigrated in three waves starting in the 1880s. They found hygiene unknown. The land, deplorable. Dirty streets. Regions deforested; plateaus stripped of fertile soil. Jews moved in and made it a garden. 

* "Palestinians" now in Gaza and the West Bank are actually ethnic Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians and other Arabs. 

* There are 22 Arab nations in the neighborhood in which Arab people may live. 

* Arab citizens enjoy the blessings of Israel's freedom, civic participation and prosperity side by side with Jews. Remove Jews and...?

* Jews have had presence while empires came and went: Assyria, Egyptians, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Muslims, Crusaders, Ottomans and British. 

* Israel does not insist on the mandate bequeathed by the League of Nations, which included large areas east of the Jordan. Israel has even given back portions of winnings in exchange for peace, such as the Sinai after the Six-Day War of 1967. Who does that? 

     Israel will have a state of its own because God made a promise to Abraham regarding territory "from the river of Egypt to the River Euphrates." God called it "an everlasting possession" (Genesis 17:8). 

     "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it" (Psalm 132:13-14).

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The Money Trap

     Some nations that benefited from China's lending program now face staggering bills.

     The value of grants and loans made to developing countries is around $1.34 trillion. While China poured money into infrastructure projects around the world, poor nations are struggling to repay debts. China is leveraging the program to expand its influence.

     The number of rail, harbor, highway and other infrastructure projects is about 20,985. 

     165 nations have participated.

     44 countries have debt to China accounting for more than 10 percent of their gross domestic product. 55 percent of the loans have entered the principal repayment period, with interest rates up to 8.7 percent if nations fall behind.

WORLD magazine

 

The First Amendment 

   Excerpts from Andrew Walker

     "The authors of 'Agreeing to Disagree' argue that the original purpose of the establishment and free exercise clauses was not to create an impregnable wall between church and state, wherein the government can have no interaction with religion."

     "It was instead to limit the ability of the government to forge formal relations with religious bodies and to allow individuals of minority religions to live freely."  

     "The Establishment Clause was not to secularize society any more than it was to Christianize it, they write. 'Its purpose was to prevent the government from using its power to mold the society into any particular religious shape; it was to leave the degree and nature of religious practice to the free choice of the people, as nearly as it possible.'"

     "The goal was to make way for an organic religious republicanism whose freedom to operate without the watchful gaze of government would help it thrive." 

     "The Americans United for Separation of Church and State actually opposes the original purpose of the First Amendment."

Truth is incontrovertible.

Panic may resent it.

Ignorance may deride it.

Malice may distort it.

But there it is.

Winston Churchill