Warning goes out: ‘After We Laugh, We Must Treat DSA Program As Deadly Serious’; Trump officially changes name of Lake Ontario to Lake America; Alberta premier warns Carney’s threats against US are ‘suicide’ for Canadian economy; James O’Keefe is sticking it to Lisa Murkowski once again; Department of Education finally confronts sex-abuse epidemic in government schools; Ceuta residents successfully block Red Cross trucks bringing food for migrant invaders; Cardinal Pizzaballa warns the West Bank has become a ‘lawless land’; Catholics celebrate the Feast of the great saint who bridged classical philosophy with Christian theology, a contribution that shaped Western civilization, he said to Our Father: ‘You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You’; and lots more —
After We Laugh, We Must Treat DSA Program As Deadly Serious by Michael Paranzino
The latest platform makes ‘Woke 1’ look less like ancient history than a warm-up act.
Back in college, faced with peers who admitted they were communists, I simply laughed and then went about my day. It was among my bigger mistakes.
Those clowns went on to take over our K-12 schools and universities, our medical and law schools, the Smithsonian, the media, and other important institutions
Now we have a new goofy movement, the Democratic Socialists of America, taking over one of our two political parties. While satire can be one method of delegitimizing them in the eyes of young or desperate Americans, the danger they pose is deadly serious.
Their “Workers Deserve More” program deserves a wide audience. And then it must be aggressively countered, and every Democrat candidate in America must be held accountable for the hearty welcome Democrats have given the DSA.
You may have heard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempt to deflect her past by saying “Woke 1 was crazy.” But …
Read more at The American Spectator
From Troll to Executive Order: Lake Ontario to Lake America
Watch @WhiteHouse
Alberta Canada Premier Danielle Smith Speaks Out – Explains Why PM Carney’s Threats Against US is Suicide for Canadian Economy
Globalist leader and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from a trade deal with the United States after negotiations reportedly broke apart on Friday night.
The Trump Administration is working to gain a more favorable trade deal with our northern neighbor after decades of Canada due to the fact that the current arrangement as one-sided and insufficiently beneficial to the United States. …
Yesterday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a province that is voting to leave Canada, explained why this is such a bad idea for Canada. …
[A]lthough I understand the need to respond strongly to these tariffs, I cannot think of a more disastrous policy decision than cutting off or taxing Alberta’s oil to the United States. Doing so would absolutely devastate the Canadian economy. It would not only extinguish the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Albertans, it would economically hobble our friends and neighbors in other provinces to the east. …
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Canadian Broadcasting Corp Tells Staff Not to Refer to 9/11 as ‘Terrorist Attack’
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) sent a memo to its reporters and editors this week instructing them not to refer to the September 11, 2001, attack on America as a “terrorist attack.”
The memo, first reported by an astonished Warren Kinsella at the Toronto Sun, used boldface type to emphasize the directive to CBC employees.
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” the memo said bluntly.
“The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed,” the memo continued, by way of explaining why the atrocity seen by most of the world as the textbook example of a “terrorist attack” should not be described as such.
According to Kinsella, the memo originated with Basem Boshra, the Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.
Read more at Breitbart
Education Department Finally Confronts Sex-Abuse Epidemic in Government Schools
After decades of cover-ups, union protection rackets, and official indifference, the U.S. Department of Education is finally admitting that government schools are infested with sexual predators preying on captive children.
In some of the strongest official comments to date, U.S. Secretary Linda McMahon vowed a nationwide crackdown on teachers, staff, and other adults in positions of authority who sexually abuse and harass students.
Speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McMahon made clear that the horrors documented by The Newman Report and others for years cannot continue. “This epidemic of nationwide sexual abuse in our schools must end,” she said….
McMahon cited the Department of Education’s own 2004 literature review — the so-called Shakeshaft Report — finding that about one in ten students in grades 8 through 11 reported sexual misconduct by an educator.
“This stat will probably blow your mind. It did mine,” she told host Dana Bash. “Statistics show 1 in 10 children before they finish high school will have been sexually molested in school.”
Read more at The Liberty Sentinel
US Embassy to the Holy See meets up with Trump, Vance and Rubio, brings present from Pope Leo
See @USinHolySee
The Big Murkowski Savoonga Betrayal
Watch @JamesOKeefeIII
Two former NBA stars challenge the WNBA to define ‘Woman’
See @dcexaminer; Read ‘Define the W: Two professional basketball veterans challenge the WNBA to decide who is a woman’ at the Washington Examiner (behind a partial paywall)
Josh Shapiro called out for falsely claiming measles death at presser
‘Five days before the presser, a Democrat dark money group advised hitting Republicans on Trump’s vaccine policy.’ – Reporter Emily Kopp, Daily Caller
See @emilyakopp
A picture’s worth a thousand words
See @TStig822
American Leftist Catholic journal under scrutiny – again
‘[National Catholic Reporter] is an independent publication that tries to subvert Catholicism/push far-left culture war issues that Catholic teaching is already decided on.’ – Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan at The Daily Wire
See @MaryMargOlohan
Locals Block Red Cross Aid, Storm Migrant Camps Again as Ceuta [Spain] Resistance Grows
Ceuta’s unrest continued on Thursday as hundreds of residents blocked Red Cross food deliveries, pushed through police cordons and tore down migrant encampments, setting belongings on fire. Hours earlier, dozens of illegal migrants had attacked a vehicle carrying Spanish soldiers with stones, forcing the troops to flee on foot.
Hundreds of Ceuta residents blocked Red Cross vehicles carrying food to illegal migrants on Thursday, 27 August, before pushing through police lines, dismantling makeshift settlements and setting migrant encampments on fire, as anger over the thousands who remain in the Spanish enclave after July’s mass invasion spilled into a third consecutive day of unrest.
The confrontation began near Benítez beach, where residents sat across the road for more than two hours to prevent Red Cross vehicles from reaching El Trampolín, one of the principal improvised migrant camps. Protesters carrying Spanish and Ceuta flags demanded the illegal migrants’ removal, chanting ‘Ceuta no se vende, Ceuta se defiende’ (‘Ceuta is not for sale; Ceuta must be defended’), one of the main slogans of the current protests. Footage on social media also show group of illegal migrants throwing rocks at protestors.
The crowd then moved towards the settlements carrying a giant Spanish flag, breached the police cordon and entered the beach area. The illegal migrants fled as their makeshift shelters were torn apart and thrown into the sea, similarly to what had happened overnight. Angry locals also set fire to belongings left behind, as well as two beach parasols.
Police ultimately charged the crowd of residents, preventing direct clashes between the two groups.
Read more at the Hungarian Conservative
Ceuta [Spain] residents successfully block Red Cross trucks carrying food for migrant invaders
Watch @AdalLuch; watch also ‘Ceuta men tearing down migrant shelters on their beaches’ @RadioGenoa
WEST BANK ALERTS: Cardinal Pizzaballa Warns the West Bank Has Become a “Lawless Land”
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, warned at the conclusion of the Rimini Meeting in Italy that the West Bank has become a “lawless land,” as attacks by Israeli settlers continue to escalate. He said Palestinians are “very tired” and can no longer endure the situation they are living under.
Speaking about Gaza, Pizzaballa expressed particular concern for children and their deprivation of education, stressing the need for continued international attention to the suffering of civilians.
Pizzaballa also spoke about Taybeh, the only entirely Christian Palestinian town in the West Bank, describing it as “a kind of symbol” because of its Christian identity. He said what is happening in Taybeh reflects pressures faced by other Palestinian villages in the area. …
He said that prayer provides a place where people can surrender their sense of helplessness to God, pointing to the cross as a source of salvation even in moments that appear to represent complete human failure.
Read more at VPP News; read also ‘Taybeh Christians seek action after Israeli envoy downplays severity of attacks’ at EWTN NEWS
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem calls for investment in education and work, so Christian families can remain in the Holy Land
See @cnalive
The Anti-Mother: A woman of ‘dubious principles’
See @Knesix; Cam Higby’s video referenced in the post can be found here
The Ancient miraculous icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa is making the rounds in Poland
The pilgrimage of the Image of Our Lady of Częstochowa in the Diocese of Świdnica has begun. Over the next eight months, Mary will visit all parishes and religious communities of the diocese.
Fr. Marcin Gęsikowski, pastor of Świdnica Cathedral sais: ‘I welcome you, Mary, in the sign of your wonderful, Jasna Góra painting. You come to us today as a Mother who is always close to her children. … We want these moments of visitation to become a time of grace, a time of repentance, reconciliation, a time of healing’.
See @RadioMaryja; read ‘THE PILGREMATION OF THE IMAGE OF OUR LADY OF CZĘSTOCHOWA HAS STARTED’ at RadioMaryja (translation available)
Gregorian Chant: Ancient Solution to Modern Crisis
Much modern music reaches us by stimulating desire: it excites, arouses, consoles, energises, or invites us to identify our own emotions with those of the performer. Gregorian chant does something subtler. It awakens longing without telling us what to long for. It moves us without making us the centre of what is happening.
See @gavinashenden; read more at Dr Gavin Ashenden Substack
Today is the Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo
See @FriarMario; Volume One of Augustine’s The City of God here; Augustine’s Confessions here (both compliments of Project Gutenburg)
A Life of Heroic Sanctity: Augustine of Hippo
Friends, on this feast day of St. Augustine—one of the most influential figures in Church history—I invite you to watch the “Pivotal Players” episode on his life and work. As a theologian and philosopher, he has almost no rivals, and the story of his conversion is a vivid reminder that our hearts are restless till they rest in God.
Watch at Bishop Robert Barron
