AMERICANS FED UP WITH PRIDE LIES: Major corporations like IBM and Coke are abandoning their support for Pride Month activities. A recent poll finds a 14 point decline in support for such activities among Republican voters. So little public support appeared that a Boise Pride Festival was cancelled.

Is something significant happening? Looks like it, according to Family Research Council (FRC) Senior Fellow Joseph Backholm, who writing in World Magazine further suggests the reason why:

“We were told redefining marriage was a matter of fairness and decency, and a lot of people fell for it. People with moral objections to same-sex marriage supported it because they thought it was the kind and fair thing to do.

“But the sexual revolutionaries did not offer the tolerance they demanded. The moment they felt a sense of cultural dominance, they responded with speech codes, lawsuits against churches, and attempts to ruin the lives and businesses of anyone who expressed a contrary view.”

THE WAY WE STILL ARE: Remember that 1973 classic flick starring Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand? They were total opposites, but somehow managed to find love, get married, ignore their irreconcilable differences for a stretch of years, but it all ended when her Marxist “principles” were more important than love, companionship, loyalty, etc.

There is a vitally important lesson in that movie, one that the conventional wisdom of the Left will never acknowledge, as I explain in my latest Substack column.

ABOUT THE AURORAS: Regardless your view of their origin, the Northern and Southern lights are amazing, and awesomely beautiful, as this short Illustra Media video on HillFaith this morning masterfully illustrates.  You know where I am on the God question, but don’t let that prevent from you enjoying a calmly elegant pause for your Sunday.

STOP BRO-FEUDING, TELL US HOW BAD SOCIAL SECURITY REALLY IS: Remember all those headlines earlier this year about millions of Social Security recipients on the rolls despite being 120, 130, even 150 years old? President Donald Trump and former DOGE driver Elon Musk appeared to be pushing differing data.

But a new analysis by OpenTheBooks points to an obvious reconciliation — of the conflicting data, not the conflicting super egos. Even so, as I explain in my latest PJMedia column, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) laughable response to OpenTheBooks’ FOIA request suggests things are far more seriously wrong in America’s oldest entitlement benefits program than even the most extreme DOGE deductions.

WHAT PORN TOOK FROM US: For Gen Z and, especially, Gen Alpha, the harm inflicted by the porn explosion in American society is so much worse than is commonly assumed. Freya India of the Free Press has the stark facts.

MEET THE COMPANIES HELPING TRANS YOUR KIDS AND HIDE IT FROM YOU: The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey digs into the Trevor Group and its corporate backers and finds a sink pit of ugly:

“And while The Trevor Project claims to be harmlessly dedicated to ‘advocacy, education, and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people,’ it’s the nature of that advocacy and education that should disturb Americans.

“For starters, this is a group that, just three years ago, was exposed for stealthily grooming children online. A suspicious mom, whose daughter struggled with gender dysphoria, logged onto the organization’s TrevorSpace chat room to see what kind of advice she was getting — and was horrified at the graphic and disturbing nature of the site.”

FORGET 3D CHESS: What if Trump and Musk are playing 5D chess? Has your head exploded yet?

MRNA AND LEUKEMIA: More evidence of COVID’s man-made lethalities.

DO WE HAVE THIS KIND OF COURAGE TODAY?  This passage written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson in the “Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms” was published a year before Declaration of Independence.

THE LEFT’S WORST NIGHTMARE: America is on the mend, economy is growing, business investment is headed upward, things are getting better — unless you are an illegal immigrant with a criminal record, an illegal immigrant intent on murdering Jews, a player in the biggest coverup in American history, etc. etc. That’s the worst possible result of Americans sending Donald Trump back to the White House, according to Issues & Insights. No disagreement from this corner.

CBO HEADED FOR A DOGE AUDIT? – Won’t literally be done by the DOGE corps of waste and fraud killers in the executive branch, but there is a movement that is gaining some traction on the Hill for a DOGE-like top-to-bottom audit of the Congressional Budget Office. My exclusive report is on The Washington Stand this morning.

ANOTHER HIDEOUS HERO FROM HELL: Elias Rodriquez, murderer in cold blood in public of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgren, is not somebody who deserves a one-way trip to the electric chair.

No, according to an obviously astroturfed response to Rodriquez’ arrest, the man is a hero and a sign of worse things to come in America. As Richard Pollock explains in his latest Substack column, the hero movement’s origins are suspect:

“The Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network, an obscure Middle Eastern-based group created the ‘Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee’ and sought American and international co-sponsors. Twenty-nine groups publicly signed onto its manifesto.

“Tariq El-Tahrir hails Elias Rodriguez as a ‘resistance’ fighter. And they warn of more killings to come. The ‘student’ group clearly is a creation of Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and sold to America as a homegrown organization. There is no actual physical address listed for the group.

“But that didn’t deter 29 groups, a number of them American, who enthusiastically signed on to the shameful manifesto. One of the most prominent signatories was the Maoist wing of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Forty-six unnamed individuals also allegedly signed onto the document, according to their site. Quite a few of the signatories were from the Middle East.”

IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE TODAY: I strongly encourage you to read Rod Martin’s The Counterrevolution, which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book on what must be done and who must do it to save the Republic. Here’s a sample:

“This is the moment when FDR’s long counterrevolution reaches its own reckoning. The Deep State is rotting. Its courts have become legislatures, its agencies have become sovereigns, its laws unread, its processes unknowable. Its schools no longer educate, its currency no longer holds value, its borders no longer exist. It cannot win wars, balance budgets, or tell a man from a woman. The revolution is eating itself. And its answer, in typical Marxist fashion, is to demand ever-increasing control.”

And next steps?

“It is the road of decentralization and rebirth: of a people taking back responsibility from the state, of institutions rooted once more in families, churches, communities, covenants, and crucially, elections. It is the digital reformation of a constitutional republic: where blockchain and AI are used to limit power, not entrench it; where space and energy abundance free man from the Malthusian lies of managed scarcity; where education is reclaimed from indoctrinators and returned to disciplers of truth. (emphasis added)

“And it is theological. All revolutions are religious. The American Revolution certainly was, its theological convictions the foundation of our liberty. The left’s deifies the state for the benefit of those who rule it, and abides no other God before it.

“The tide is turning. The façade of inevitability is cracking. Courts are rediscovering the separation of powers and the nondelegation doctrine. States are reclaiming their constitutional jurisdiction. Parents are standing. Young men and women, born into the ruins of postmodernity, are looking not for self-expression, but for meaning, duty, and roots. They are beginning again to build.”

Saddle up, folks.

EXPOSING THE LEFT’S MEDICAID CUTS LIES: If you’ve heard it once, you heard a million times in the Mainstream Media how Orange Man Bad and those evil congressional Republicans are cutting more than $800 billion out of Medicaid spending, which will leave millions of starving, suffering women and children wandering the streets.

As usual, there is more to the story, thanks to the smart folks at the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) and it demonstrates just how the claim has little connection to reality. And I lay it all out in straight-forward, common-sense language on The Washington Stand.

MURDERED ISRAELI EMBASSY COUPLE WERE CHRISTIANS: Richard Pollock notes that the accused killer of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn at a Washington, D.C. American Jewish Committee function likely thought he was killing practicing Jews. Nope.

MORE ON STOP ‘CENSORSHIP WITHOUT DUE PROCESS’: Here’s what it’s all about, as I explain in my latest PJ Media column:

“It doesn’t take a medical science genius or ace demographer to figure out that a one-third reduction in the human birth rate around the world could be catastrophic for all of us. And if that’s the case, shouldn’t everybody be able to read the studies and reach their own conclusions about their credibility?

“Not according to LinkedIn, which censored that post as ‘false or misleading.’ I was told I could appeal the decision of the LinkedIn censors. I did so and specifically requested that the particular offending passage in the post be identified to me and an explanation provided in writing for why it was deemed so offensive to justify censoring it.”

Any bets on the odds Linkedin stays mum? Happy Memorial Day!

TIME TO STOP ‘CENSORSHIP WITHOUT DUE PROCESS:’ Like the old news anchor said in that movie, I am mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. Find out why here in my latest Substack column.

SHOULD DOJ BE ABLE TO SPY ON CONGRESS? Let’s do an experiment here. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is pushing legislation requiring that senators be informed whenever the Department of Justice (DOJ) asks a judge to approve listening to telephone calls by senators and staffers. This happens with Democratic and Republican Chief Executives.

As things presently stand, according to Daniel Schuman, editor of First Branch Forecast, there is essentially no limit on how much DOJ can spy on Members and staff of both chambers of Congress. Do you approve of this reality or would you support efforts by Wyden or others on the Hill to limit the ability of the executive branch to spy on legislators and staffers?

ABOUT THOSE MEDICAID ‘CUTS:’ We’ve all heard a thousand times in the media in recent weeks all about how those evil House Republicans are going to destroy Medicaid by slashing $625 billion. As usual with the mainstream media when it comes to reporting on proposals to limit federal spending in any way, there’s a whole lot more to this story than is being reported, according to Issues & Insights (I&I).

“First, let’s dispense with the claim of ‘devastating’ cuts to Medicaid. The House reconciliation bill would reduce Medicaid spending by $625 billion. That might sound like a lot, but it’s stretched out over 10 years, at a time when Medicaid is on track to spend $8.6 trillion. Medicaid spending will still go up every year under the House bill, just a tiny bit more slowly,” according to I&I.

Second, there is a tax-and-spending scam whereby state governments can shift much of the costs of their official share of Medicaid spending back on to the shoulders of federal taxpayers. It’s such a scam that even Joe Biden called it that way back in 2011. Just fixing this regulatory scheme would save virtually of the money on which GOPers are focused.

But there’s more, much more. Go here for the rest of this story.

TODAY’S LEFT IS NO MORE NEW THAN THE 60’S ‘NEW LEFT:’ In fact, according Richard Pollock, a veteran organizer of demonstrations like the anti-Vietnam protests of 1971 that sought to shut down D.C., those three House Dems at the Newark ICE detention were using the same old tired techniques. Richard tells all in my latest for The Washington Stand. 

SENATE JUDICIARY DEMS BLAST BONDI, SILENT ON OBAMA MEDIA ABUSES: Attorney-General Pam Bondi’s recent announcement of new rules making it easier for Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to subpoena journalists drew a blistering letter from the 10 Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

All the usual stuff  about “threatens press freedom” are in the letter, but it was crickets when The Washington Stand asked spokesmen for the 10 what their bosses said back in the day when issuing subpoenas was far from the worst media abuses of the Obama administration.

Maybe they just forgot since that was “old news,” right?

WHAT’S REALLY AT STAKE IN TRUMP’S CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS: Dr. Donald Devine was “Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword” back in the 1980s and he accomplished more to make government work more efficiently in five years as Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director than all the rest of the individuals who ever held the position.

All of which is a round-about way of saying Devine gets what President Donald Trump’s federal civil service reforms are all about. As Devine explains in this American Spectator piece, Trump is not at “war” with the federal bureaucracy (as incessantly claimed by the Left media, especially the Washington Post), he’s working to make it much more responsive and accountable to the American people.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I was privileged to work with Devine as Assistant Director of OPM for Public Affairs for three great years (1982-1985), so I may be just a teeny, tiny bit biased.

HOW OUT-OF-TOUCH ARE DEMS? So far out they might as well be on another planet, according to the results of the latest Cygnal National Voting Trends poll. Turns out that 43 percent of swing voters want Congress to make inflation, spending and waste its top priorities, compared to only eight percent who see “threats to democracy” as the number one issue. And that’s just for starters!

SUPERB BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP PRO/CON: There’s a huge amount of foggy  misunderstanding of the issues involved in the issue of Birthright Citizenship under the 14th Amendment following its adoption after the Civil War.

But along comes tech entrepreneur Rod Martin and Yale Law Professor Christina Rodriguez to cut through the fog and provide a much-needed demonstration of the priceless value of civil, informed discourse on great issues. They do so on “The Disagreement,” a Substack based program devoted to advancing the restoration of such discourse and ably hosted by Catherine Cushenberry.

Even if you think you know this controversy backwards and forward, give yourself an hour to listen to Rodriguez and Martin as they sort through the arguments and history of an issue that has come to intense prominence

LIB POLLSTER WARNS DEMS NOT TO FOCUS SO MUCH ON TRUMP, MUSK: Here and there on the Left are faint signs that sanity and at least a distant connection with reality are still there.

Impact Research, which boasts of having knocked off more marginal GOP representatives than anybody else, provides Exhibit A, as reported in my latest at The Washington Stand.