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Christian reporter joins Playboy correspondent in protest of Biden’s press policies

A diverse group of journalists — from a Christian reporter to a writer for a pornographic magazine — have expressed concerns over the Biden administration’s press policies that they say limit access to independent and foreign journalists and show favoritism to mainstream outlets. 

In an interview with The Christian Post, Matthew Anthony Harper, a White House investigative journalist who writes for the conservative Idaho-based InterMountain Christian News and has covered presidential administrations dating back to the Obama administration, said his access to the White House has been substantially reduced compared to the previous administration. 

Harper told CP he had access to the White House grounds seven days a week during the Trump administration, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. But now, he only has access to the complex one day a week.

Harper characterized the Biden administration’s new policy of allowing only 80 reporters into the complex at a time — purportedly due to the pandemic — in addition to a new policy requiring certain journalists to pay for their own coronavirus testing as a “gross injustice putting a wall up for press access directly affecting our freedom of the press.”  

In January, Harper, along with several other journalists, signed a letter sent to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki concerning the administration’s press policies in light of the pandemic. 

He maintained that “he brought up this issue with the letter” in a meeting with Psaki last week.

“She stated that she was aware of the letter and had read it and that she had responded to Brian Karem,” he recounted, referring to Playboy’s White House correspondent who wrote the letter. 

Karem shared the contents of Psaki’s emailed response with CP. 

“Thanks again for your letter,” she wrote. “I hope you know … our objective is to ensure we have as many people in the White House as possible.”

Karem characterized Psaki’s response as “generic.”

The Christian Post reached out to the White House for comment on this story. A response was not received by press time. 

Harper, who reports on religious freedom violations and anti-Semitism, seconded Karem’s displeasure with the new policy enacted in February that requires journalists to pay for COVID-19 testing.

“Our nonprofit news organization and many other news outlets don’t have funds to be paying this,” Harper asserted. 

In a Feb. 26 email obtained by CP, White House Correspondents’ Association Executive Director Steven Thomma said: “The White House has informed us that it has determined that budgetary constraints limit the government’s ability to provide the daily COVID-19 testing that the White House requires for journalists on campus.”

The costs of the tests are reported to be about $170 each. 

The memorandum also stated that “Only 80 members of the press … can be physically on campus at any time, and a lottery program has been instituted to ensure fair access for news organizations that are not in the daily pool.” 

The policy of limiting the number of reporters on White House grounds dates back to the beginning of the administration when Karem addressed the letter to Psaki expressing concern about restricting press access to the White House.

The letter concluded by suggesting that the Biden administration “limit the access in the fashion the Trump administration did” and occasionally move briefings to a venue “where larger numbers of reporters can attend and social distancing can be more easily maintained.”

While the new policy will enable “members of the press who are part of any pools (in-town pool, travel pool, VP pool, supplemental pool, etc.)” and “press who have assigned seats in the briefing room” to continue to have their COVID-19 testing paid for by the White House, “press who choose to enter the daily lottery and report to campus will continue to need a daily COVID-19 test, but they will need to pay for their own testing.”

In addition to Karem and Harper, journalists Hugo Lovell, Jake Turx, Christian Datoc [of the Daily Caller], Andrew Feinberg, Tejinder Singh, Ksenija Pavlovic and Bricio Segovia are also signatories, according to a copy of the letter shared with CP.

Karem, who won the National Press Club’s Freedom of the Press Award in 2015, told CP that he emailed Psaki on Feb. 26 to argue that “it’s dangerous and wrong to charge reporters for testing.” 

Karem elaborated on his concerns in a March 4 article, arguing that “independent reporters are being penalized by the Biden administration’s new White House entry policies that favor wealthy corporate outlets.” 

According to Karem, “These restrictions punish independent reporters, foreign bureaus and freelancers, myself included. It is favoritism for the rich.”

Karem’s Jan. 22 letter, obtained by CP, contends that the 80-person limit “solves a problem that doesn’t exist.” He called the limit “arbitrary.” 

“Crews rotate in and out,” he asserted. “Some people come to the White House simply to shoot a standup or to type up a story, or meet a source and then leave. The actual number who stay all day is nowhere near 80 these days.” 

Segovia, a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, voiced his displeasure with the policies on Twitter. 

“In the briefing room, there is only one shared seat assigned to foreign press,” he wrote. “Not all foreign journalists have access to this seat. Basically, the Biden Administration is preventing foreign journalists from taking part in the White House press briefings.”

Karem expressed particular concern about the White House’s decision to use the White House Correspondents’ Association as a “gatekeeper” for “determining which journalists can access the White House on a daily basis.”

“The WHCA is made up of White House correspondents — journalists who cover the White House and the government generally,” he said. “Journalists should never act as government agents — deciding who actually has access to the White House complex and when.”

Karem, who established a reputation as a staunch critic of the Trump administration, praised the previous administration’s policy with regard to coronavirus testing and press access, where “the protective pool got tested” and “the rest of us came and went — wearing masks and limiting our time on campus as needed.”

WATCH: Biden calls Kamala ‘President Harris’

Joe Biden referred to Kamala Harris as “President Harris” on Thursday while discussing vaccinations, in his latest verbal slip-up.

“This is really important,” Biden said of US immunization efforts. “Because we believe in speed and efficiency must be matched with fairness and equity.”

Then the 78-year-old referred to his second-in-command as commander in chief.

“Now when President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that, on that tour injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope.”

Here’s another angle:

You will remember in December of last year Biden had referred to Harris as the “president-elect”:

“I hope the president will clearly and unambiguously urge all Americans to take the vaccine once it’s available,” Biden said, adding “I took it to instill public confidence in the vaccine. President-elect Harris took hers today for the same reason.”

Come on, man!

Suggested reading: “Biden is crumbling before our eyes”

CNN’s Don Lemon instructs Christians to put a picture of “a black Jesus or a brown Jesus in your home”

CNN Donny is here to tell us how to be “realistic about God and the Bible.”

I love the fact that gay Don Lemon fancies himself a Bible scholar now.

I hate to break it to Dr. Lemon, M.Div., but as the tweeter said, Jesus was a Jew. I mean I thought everyone knew that. Right?

What the heck is going on.

Putin Humiliated Biden In Moscow Meeting, Reveals Obama-Era White House Stenographer

Joe Biden is lying about his 2011 dealings with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and the Russian president isn’t putting up with it. I know this because I was an eyewitness to the events of that day. Events that Washington, D.C.’s media have failed to press Biden on – and that give an extraordinary insight into how our now-president was humiliated by his Russian counterparts.

Vladimir Putin and his staff sought the almost ritualistic humiliation of then-Vice President Joe Biden, who commanded very little respect on the world stage during his tenure as veep. If it can be believed, he commands even less, now. Ever since that moment I witnessed, Joe Biden and his staffers – with the help of Washington’s press corps – have been spinning the story 180 degrees away from how it actually happened.

After Biden lied about his prowess with Putin in a sickly sweet interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Putin pulled his ambassador out of Washington. It’s a pretty big move from Putin out of the blocks. Usually, if you fear a nation and its leader, you don’t start by pulling your ambassador. This is Putin’s telling the Biden regime: “We don’t need you, and we don’t fear you.”

It’s quite a stark difference from the Trump administration, which sanctioned Russia while engaging in diplomacy. The media chastised Trump for attempting to avoid a pointless conflict with Russia. That’s the same press that is now fawning over Joe Biden’s kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party.

As an aside, Stephanopoulos never pressed Biden on how his son Hunter Biden was compromised by a Putin-friendly Moscow woman’s $3.5 million money transfer, as reported by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last September.

I documented what happened at Joe Biden’s one and only meeting with Vladimir Putin in my book Joe Biden Unauthorized. I can attest that the title of my chapter on the incident – Bitch Slapped in Moscow – is the actual truth.

Biden got bitch slapped, and he’s pretending he didn’t.

Putin knows what happened. He was there. He knows he compromised Joe Biden, who appeared unprepared to deal with the ruthless, former-KGB agent. Regardless, Joe continues to perpetuate his “I was the tough guy” lie.

As Joe Biden’s White House stenographer, I stood directly behind Putin at a distance of five feet. Biden, seated across from Putin at an elegant conference table, was about 12 feet from me.

About 10 minutes into the meeting, Vice President Biden attempted to start lecturing about his decades-old part in U.S.-Russian negotiations with the dreaded phrase, “I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here…”

And… cut.

Joe Biden got about one sentence further into that spiel when off went his microphone, off went the lights for the TV cameras, and stern Russian voices were commanding the press to leave. And leave they did.

They went out quickly and efficiently, with videocameras popping off of tripods. Equipment snapping shut. Portable lights clattering down retractable poles. No one spoke, and no one dared lingered.

This was Putin in all his KGB ruthlessness. Whether by some prearranged signal or simply an undisclosed time limit, he had pulled the plug and done the unthinkable: he’d stolen Joe Biden’s audience and rendered him speechless. Shut him down in mid-sentence with the flick of an invisible switch.

Across the table, I could see Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, in the now dimly lit room, looking as duped as an exhausted fish in the bottom of a boat. No protest, no complaint. No, hey, I wasn’t finished. Nothing. He was humiliated.

To me, the revelation was the premeditated precision of the snub. Putin or his team had likely plotted this all out. They knew exactly what bait to use, exactly how Joe Biden would take it, and then when he did, they reeled him helplessly in.

The Russian President and his delegation sat calmly and coldly as their American counterparts realized their blustery leader’s big moment had been stolen right out from under him. The most powerful man in Russia had neither fear nor respect for Joe Biden. He had just played with him for sport.

Here’s a link to the transcript I prepared for the Obama White House Press Office. You can see that it ends with Biden in mid-sentence.

So what are we to make of Joe Biden’s “you have no soul” line to Vladimir Putin, which is how he attempts to reclaim the upper hand?

Only in his 2017 book Promise Me, Dad did [then-Vice President Biden] describe that meeting as “contentious”. At least he finally came clean about what I saw, though it took him six years.

His self-promotional version always centered on his momentary appraisal of Putin. Maybe you’ve heard it before. He has certainly repeated it often enough.

After praising Putin’s magnificent office, which Biden teasingly attributed to Russia’s growing acceptance of capitalism, he looked Putin in the eye and said something to the effect of: “I don’t think you have a soul,” to which he said Putin replied in English: “Good, then we have an understanding.”

With no press in attendance, we’re asked to take the Vice President at his word. But what are the chances – given what we already know about the exchanges between the two leaders – that this actually happened?

Think about it. Biden has spent his whole career boasting about his diplomatic capabilities. Just at the end of the aborted press conference, he was talking about his meetings with Brezhnev. But suddenly he decided to call Putin – apropos of nothing – soulless?

The reality is Biden is accidentally giving away one of two things: he either blurted something out having been humiliated in the presser. Or he was abandoning his decades of foreign policy experience for a “gotcha” moment in an empty room with no press. Seems a weird time to do it.

Putin’s actions over the entire course of the Obama-Biden administration were always belligerent. Now, with the return of bitch slapped Biden, he’s going right back to that strategy with his version of a Russian “reset”.

This doesn’t sound like the genius “diplomat” Joe Biden has portrayed himself as for decades, nor the master strategist the media mindlessly report he is.

In fact, Biden new posturing on Russia appears to be luring the U.S. into yet another foreign policy distraction while he gives the Chinese Communist Party just about whatever they want (as long as there’s 10 percent for the “big guy” on the back end).

Dow Tests New High, But Tech Stocks Sink Again As Treasury Yields Spike Further

TOPLINE

The booming technology trade that helped lift the market to new highs during the pandemic continues to unwind Thursday as Treasury yields spike further on dovish comments from the Federal Reserve, which experts believe could be fueling concerns over rising inflation and lower stock-market valuations.

KEY FACTS

  • Shortly after the market open, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which closed above 33,000 points for the first time Wednesday, ticked up 65 points, or 0.2%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.7% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged 1.7%.
  • Yields on the 10-year Treasury–a bellwether of investor sentiment in equity markets that moves inversely to stocks–surged 10 basis points Thursday morning to roughly 1.75%, their highest level since January 2020.
  • Big tech stocks–which have fallen as much as 10% from their mid-pandemic highs last year–are still catching a lot of the heat from rising yields, with Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook and Apple all down roughly 1%, while Tesla sinks 2.5%.
  • On the other hand, cyclical stocks that tanked at the height of pandemic uncertainty continue to outperform the market: energy company PPL, cruiseliner Carnival and insurance firm Lincoln National are all up between 2% and 3% Thursday morning.
  • On the earnings front, shares of Dollar General, which surged more than 40% to a record high last year, are falling 5% after the retailer posted lower-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter and warned that a post-Covid return to normal would tank the firm’s sales more than it previously thought.
  • Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported that there were 770,000 new jobless claims last week–climbing sharply from the week prior and coming in worse than economists feared as layoffs continue to hit service industries particularly hard.

CRUCIAL QUOTE 

“Yields are surging this morning as the Fed threw caution to the wind and kept policy at max accommodation despite the markedly improved macro backdrop,” Vital Knowledge Media Founder Adam Crisafulli said in a note Thursday. “The market’s reaction with regards to the Fed is evolving–a dovish, or accommodative, stance being positive has defined the equity relationship to monetary policy for years, but that no longer may be appropriate as accommodation fuels inflation expectations and drives yields higher, thus undercutting the S&P’s multiple.”

KEY BACKGROUND

Yields on the 10-year Treasury have soared more than 125 basis points since their pandemic low in July. Higher returns on the risk-free asset class have heightened concerns over sky-high tech valuations and pushed the Nasdaq down about 5% from a February high. Over the same period, the S&P is up about 0.5%, and the Dow has soared more than 5%. The Fed on Wednesday said it expects the economy to run hot this year, with projected GDP growth of 6.5% (compared to a 3.5% decline last year) and year-end unemployment of 4.5% (compared to 6.2% last month). To help bolster that growth, the central bank says it will leave the Federal Funds rate near 0%. 

Here’s How the Obama Admin’s Incompetence Led to Big Tech Dominance

The New York Times once called former President Barack Obama the “Regulator in Chief,” so why would his administration pass up the chance to regulate Big Tech a decade ago?

“Once a presidential candidate with deep misgivings about executive power, Mr. Obama will leave the White House as one of the most prolific authors of major regulations in presidential history,” The Times said about him in August 2016, citing his “560 major regulations” passed in his first seven years in office.

But despite those hundreds of regulations in Obama’s legacy, the administration let Google amass unchecked power by committing key errors in its investigation and letting the company off the hook, a 312-page cache of confidential internal Federal Trade Commission documents published Tuesday by Politico revealed.

After opening an antitrust probe and spending 19 months investigating, the FTC commissioners voted 5-0 to close the case without further action in January 2013.

Notably, four out of five of those were Obama appointees.

Investigators discounted the potential of revenue from targeted ads and miscalculated the role smartphones would play both in Google’s ability to dominate the market with its Android operating system and customers’ preference for using their smartphones that unfairly advantaged its search engine.

In fact, the customer review company Yelp testified that 92 percent of its traffic came from Google, and shopping sites like eBay and TheFind similarly reported that more than two-thirds of their referrals came from the search engine, exemplifying how these companies relied too heavily on one search engine for the majority of their business.

The FTC also failed to penalize Google for its intentional algorithmic change that funneled traffic away from competitors to its own sites in a decision that later prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to file an antitrust lawsuit in October.

Jon Leibowitz, then the FTC chair, told reporters at the time of the probe there was “some evidence” Google had done this, but that ultimately “on balance we did not believe that the evidence supported an FTC challenge to this aspect of Google’s business under American law.”

The memos also revealed that the FTC attorneys were in favor of regulation, but that ultimately the commission decided to leave Google alone based on the economists’ recommendations — with only a “voluntary commitment” from Google to make their algorithm fairer.

It appeared that investigators understood that Google was moving toward a monopoly on the ad, search engine and smartphone fronts, but either didn’t understand or didn’t care that the company would be free to gobble up market share with so few impediments.

To date, Google is now embroiled in three massive antitrust lawsuits that would have been avoided if the FTC had clipped its wings back in 2013, according to The Times.

Google responded to Politico’s revelations, calling it “old news” in a statement to the news outlet.

“A bipartisan FTC voted unanimously to close its investigation into Google nearly a decade ago — supported by recommendations by all of the FTC divisions including the Bureau of Competition, the Bureau of Economics and the Office of General Counsel,” Google spokesman Peter Schottenfels said.

“In closing its investigation, the FTC stated that our changes to Google Search were procompetitive and benefited consumers,” he added.

“And in the eight years since, competition in search has only increased as people have more ways than ever to access information online, including through an array of dedicated mobile apps.”

These recent revelations have lawmakers calling for action, including Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, the highest-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel.

“The Obama/Biden Administration let Google off the hook and allowed them to continue to expand until they became a monopoly,” he tweeted.

“Congress must act now to rein in the power of Google and Big Tech.”

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri called for an overhaul to the FTC, saying in a statement the FTC “lacks teeth” and expressed support for closing the “revolving door” between the commission and the companies it investigates.

That revolving door is a big problem, as The Intercept reported that nearly 250 people moved back and forth between the White House and the tech giant during the Obama administration, including one of the commissioners who now works for a law firm that has represented Google.

It’s possible that it was regulators’ lack of foresight that allowed Google to escape the probe unscathed, but the closeness between the Democratic administration and the company may have something to do with it.

In addition, it’s probable that the lovefest will continue since employees at tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple and others donated more than $15.1 million to President Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, Twitter and Facebook have blocked news articles unfriendly to Democrats and even silenced former President Donald Trump while he was still a sitting president.

The Obama administration missed this opportunity, and either by commission or omission allowed Google’s parent company to grow unchecked into the $1 trillion powerhouse it is today.

The symbiotic relationship between Big Tech and government is hard to ignore and dismiss in light of the information revealed this week. Whether it continues this way is still unknown.

Inventor of PCR Test Said Fauci ‘Doesn’t Know Anything’ And Is Willing To Lie On Television

Kary Mullis, who won a 1993 Nobel Prize for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing process later used to diagnose Coronavirus cases, said that Dr. Anthony Fauci lacks knowledge of medicine and is willing to lie on television. Mullis also admitted in another set of videotaped remarks that a PCR test “doesn’t tell you that you’re sick.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 and is currently the highest-paid United States federal government employee. Fauci has run point on the federal government’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak as the national small business economy has suffered massive damage due to oppressive government lockdowns. Mullis, who died in 2019, was on to Fauci’s duplicity years ago.

Kary Mullis stated in a resurfaced video interview: “Guys like Fauci get up there and start talking, you know, he doesn’t know anything really about anything and I’d say that to his face. Nothing. The man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there you’ll know it. He doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine and he should not be in a position like he’s in. Most of those guys up there on the top are just total administrative people and they don’t know anything about what’s going on in the body. You know, those guys have got an agenda, which is not what we would like them to have being that we pay for them to take care of our health in some way. They’ve got a personal kind of agenda. They make up their own rules as they go. They change them when they want to. And they smugly, like Tony Fauci does not mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera,” Kary Mullis said.

Kary Mullis admitted in separate remarks that with a PCR test “you can find almost anything in anybody” and “It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick.”

In an obscure video resurfaced during the Coronavirus meltdown, Mullis said that “with PCR if you do it well you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else, right? Because if you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there’s just very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of them in your body.”

“PCR is separate from that, it’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something. That’s what it is. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that,” Mullis said.

Read the full article here.

CNN Forced to Admit Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Refusal to Lockdown Florida is “Paying Off”

CNN was forced to admit that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ refusal to impose strict lockdown measures and mask mandates is “paying off,” with the state recording fewer COVID-19 deaths per capita while the economy is booming.

Unlike states run by Democrat politicians, DeSantis consistently refused to impose harsh pandemic restrictions and has been pilloried for it by the media for the best part of a year.

However, compared to those states, which have recorded higher COVID deaths and face massive economic turmoil, Florida is in such a better position that even CNN has been forced to acknowledge it.

“A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit,” writes CNN’s Jeff Zeleny.

“As many parts of the country embark on an uneasy march toward normalcy, Florida is not only back in business — it’s been in business for the better part of the past year. DeSantis’ gamble to take a laissez faire approach appears to be paying off — at least politically, at least for now, as other governors capturing attention in the opening phase of the pandemic now face steeper challenges.”

“Despite far fewer rules and restrictions, Florida lands nearly in the middle of all states on a variety of coronavirus metrics. The state has had about 3% more Covid-19 cases per capita than the US overall, but about 8% fewer deaths per capita.”

Drew Holden pointed out on Twitter how, as recently as December, CNN was amplifying claims that DeSantis was putting politics in front of lives.

Now they’re having to eat those words.

Florida’s unemployment rate stands at just 4.8% compared to 6.8% in Texas, 8.8% in New York and 9% in California.

“DeSantis suddenly appears to be in a position of strength compared to some of his fellow governors, including many of whom took far more restrictive approaches to the fight against coronavirus that caused a trickle-down effect on the economy,” admits CNN.

West Point ‘Wokeness’: Critical Theory Invades United States Military Academy

West Point is requiring students to read textbooks with titles such as Critical Race Theory: An Introduction and A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory.

‘Critical Theory’ is a philosophy rooted in Marxism, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Critical Theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences. “Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School.

The Wall Street Journal estimates Marxism has led to the deaths of 100 million people, making Marxist communism “the greatest catastrophe in human history.”

American philosopher and theologian Norman Geisler puts Marxism’s death toll at a staggering 1 billion. “The implementation of Marx’s ideas and spirit has killed more people than the bubonic plague, the imperialism of Genghis Khan, European colonialism, and both world wars combined,” says Geisler.

But this hasn’t stopped West Point from teaching Critical Theory—the newest strain of Marx’s deadly ideology—to its students.

The Discovery Institute’s Chris Rufo tweeted that Critical Theory is in fact part of the United States Military Academy’s leadership curriculum:

Image posted at notthebee.com.

Rod Dreher at The American Conservative received the following email from a West Point alumnus, whose identity is being protected:

I hate to pile on to the theme of academics at prominent universities attempting to shut down intellectual inquiry in the name of anti racism, but this is another example of the trend that needs some wider exposure.  The Left wing mob is coming for the service academies, and by extension, our nation’s very ability to defend itself from external enemies.  As a West Point graduate (class of 2017) and a longtime reader of your blog, I thought I should bring this to your attention as yet another example of the madness that is afflicting our country’s elite classes.

This letter needs some background explanation.  It’s not like the Princeton Putsch that you described.  The faculty at West Point are probably the most conservative of any public university in the country. I can attest to the academic openness and respect for free debate during my time at the school (2013-2017).  The student body is (or was) generally conservative in an institutional sense.  They are not right-wing fire-breathers.  Cadets were pretty evenly divided about Donald Trump’s election.  From what I could observe, so were the faculty.  The Academy’s response to the unrest that has torn the United States apart in the last few months–spearheaded, I might add, by Lieutenant General Darryl Williams, the Academy’s first black Superintendent–was measured and appropriate for the amount of division in our country.  This is not an attempt by people currently in power to shut down debate by other academics.

It is quite the opposite.  It is an effort by young leaders in the United States Army to force the Academy to bow to the Woke Cult and make the Anti-Racism the central feature of the Academy’s curriculum. This policy statement was apparently drafted by a group of recent Academy graduates (classes of 2018 and 2019).   These graduates all came from the top tier of the ranks of the Academy’s cadet leaders.  Two recent valedictorians and First Captains signed this manifesto.  (Other past First Captains include Douglas MacArthur, John J. Pershing, and William C. Westmoreland.)  The other cadets all held high-ranking positions within the Corps of Cadets.  They are the cream of the crop of the Army’s future leaders, the guys and gals that will become generals one day and will be expected to lead America’s sons and daughters in combat.

Their actions are akin to those of the Red Guards in Maoist China.  They are agitating to tear the Academy apart from the ground up and reorient its mission around Anti-Racism.  The fact that our country’s future leaders believe in this nonsense is a sign that our military is in trouble, and cannot be relied upon either to defend our country or to safeguard the interests of all Americans in the performance of their duties.I don’t expect you to read this entire document or understand completely what’s going on here, but the plain English of it is easy enough for everyone to understand.  Even so, I’ll add in a few notes for context on this document.

I knew some of these cadets personally and professionally in the performance of my duties, but not well enough to be able to speculate about their motives.  The document is filled with concrete policy proposals to address what its authors see as a major problem at West Point.  The effect of these policy proposals is to cede control of the Academy’s entire curriculum from the ground up to black cadets in the name of Anti-Racism.  It is replete with so-called ‘examples’ of racism at the Academy, but most fall apart on close inspection.  Minimally they do not substantiate the charge that West Point needs to be fundamentally reformed to address it.  I interpret most of these anecdotes as pure innuendo and hearsay, totally devoid of context, and not indicative of an institutional problem (they were nearly all sourced from an online anonymous survey).  They would not pass muster for any journalist attempting to investigate them.  It is filled with buzzwords about ‘heteronormativity’, ‘Protestants’, ‘imperialism’, ‘Christianity,’ ‘white supremacy’, ‘Black bodies,’ and the like. I doubt that the writers of this document know anything at all about any of these things, but of course that will not abate their righteousness in pursuit of their holy cause.

This document as a whole constitutes wholesale moral blackmail of the Academy, its graduates, and its present-day leadership.  It consists almost entirely of a recitation of black grievances against whites, with a few token gestures to ‘Latinx’ and ‘Asian’ minorities, but nothing more, probably because it didn’t occur to the writers of this document that there might be more to American history than their single-minded focus on racism.  I should note that the Academy is currently led by a black man (LTG Williams, himself a graduate with many years of honorable service) and that the Corps of Cadets itself has been led by black people (Simone Askew in 2018 and EJ Coleman in 2016) twice in the last five years.  Black cadets are represented at the Academy in greater numbers than their proportion of the population.  Of course, none of this is enough for the Woke Mob.

Do not take comfort in the security which has hitherto been afforded to our nation by our armed forces. We have not been tested against a real enemy in many generations.  When we are, leaders like this will not be able to stand in the field of battle.  You have been warned.

Suggested reading: ‘West Point & Critical Race Theory’

White House Secy. Jen Psaki Calls Issues At Border A ‘Crisis’ Before Claiming She Meant ‘Challenges’

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki got a slip of the tongue after she called the situation at the border a “crisis.” On Thursday, Psaki used the term when she responded to a question about whether Mexico has any expectations on the Biden administration’s handling of the migrant surge at the border.

“There have been expectations set outside of — unrelated to — any vaccine doses or requests for them that would be partners in dealing with the crisis at the border,” Psaki stated.

The administration has downplayed the problems at the southern border, including the massive migrant influx since Joe Biden took office. When called out for dubbing it a crisis, Psaki claimed she meant to say “challenges” at the border.

“When you were talking a moment ago, about diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Mexico you said ‘crisis on the border’ was that…?” a reporter questioned.

Psaki attempted to quickly recover by stating “challenges on the border” in response. In the meantime, the Biden administration has repeatedly promised to implement a more humane immigration policy despite growing concerns about the conditions unaccompanied migrant children have faced in border facilities.

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