Other than a well-fought win over rival Navy, the United States Air Force Academy had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
First, came the story that the Academy gave diversity training to cadets encouraging them to stop using such patently offensive words as mom and dad. This was followed up closely by a story that the Academy was promoting a fellowship that was open to just about everyone, but straight white men need not apply. Finally, the school that used to be underpinned by its notable lack of tolerance for lying, cheating or stealing was put on two-years probation by the NCAA, complete with a rather long list of punishments, for apparently cheating at recruiting.
What ties these three stories together is the complete breakdown of values at the school, which are reflective of the breakdown in values across the military.
#AmericanThinker #Military #AirForceAcademy #Woke #Values
Recently, a Connecticut teen, reportedly a gang member with an extensive rap sheet, was arrested in connection with 18 shootings. For years this young man has been out on the streets, committing crimes, getting arrested, and repeatedly being released. It's time to crack down on crime, but in many leftist districts, politicians and prosecutors are having none of it.
There is an abnormal amount of crime in the U.S., though progressives continue to deny it. The most convincing proof is the murder rate: there are 2.6 as many homicides in the U.S. as in Canada (2019 figures), five times as many as in Germany, more than sixteen times more than in Japan. Violent crime in the U.S. is very real, and it is out of control.
Politicians like Biden and Harris talk about bail reform, over-representation of minorities in prison, and "root causes" of everything. But the plain truth is that there are violent criminals out there who are entirely lacking in conscience and feeling. The only solution is to apprehend these criminals and send them to prison for a long time — and to make prison a place where they will not want to return after they are released.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/on_this_important_metric_america_is_a_failure.html
It’s been my lifelong observation that liberals are a mostly conflicted, tormented group suffering from mass psychosis. They wrap themselves up in do-good, virtue-signaling knots and then attempt to rationalize positions even they know are indefensible by putting forth the most tortured, illogical explanations imaginable. Merely calling those positions “lies” doesn’t go anywhere near far enough. Liberals have mastered the art of wanting to believe in a false reality, constructing a Bizarro Universe, while at the same time, excusing themselves for committing the very same transgressions against society and nature that they accuse others of doing.
Let’s look at a few examples. Some of these are constants across the decades, while other situations are more transitory in character, driven by the events of the day. But the factor that remains the same in each circumstance is the liberal approach to twisting facts and reality, excusing their own bad behavior while ascribing to others the very “crimes” they are, in fact, guilty of committing.
#AmericanThinker #Liberals #MentalHealth #Psychosis
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/the_mass_psychosis_of_liberals.html
Ben Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 in a speech to his fellow members of the convention said of the newly drafted Constitution and the government it created:
…and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and [I] believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it…
Ben Franklin’s prescient forewarning has come to pass. Over the past thirty-years, a plurality of ill-educated and malleable citizens have allowed the self-serving, decadent and nescient ruling class, in alliance with the radical left, to establish near-permanent despotism in the United States. They have deliberately and inexorably widened the gulf between the people and the government and effectively split the nation into two de facto countries that are at ideological and societal loggerheads.