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Cover Story
GREEN ENERGY
10 An Open Letter to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
by Ed Hiserodt — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is advocating a switch
to 100-percent renewable energy. Here are some “back of the
matchbook” calculations on the plan for her consideration.

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17 The Renewable Energy Scam
by Ed Hiserodt — Entities are claiming to be powered by 100-percent
renewable energy, but they don’t have their own energy sources.

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Features
ENVIRONMENT
21 Extreme Winter Used to Sell Global Warming
by James Murphy — Across the Midwest and Northeast, the
recent intrusion of a polar vortex has shattered records for cold
temperatures, yet this cold blast is being blamed on global warming. 21

POLITICS
25 Policing Police
by C. Mitchell Shaw — Anti-police sentiments have been steadily

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BOOK REVIEW
29 How the Diversity Crusade
Is Destroying Our Culture
by Steve Byas — The claim that the strength of our country rests on
its diversity is usually accepted without comment, but is untrue.

HISTORY — PAST AND PERSPECTIVE 25

33 The Continuing Scourge of Anti-Semitism
by Steve Byas — Though anti-Semitism — like all hatred aimed at
groups — is an irrational hatred, it has a very long history.
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In a recent issue is an article by Rebecca Ter-
rell entitled “The Truth About the Catholic
Clergy Abuse Scandal” (December 10, 2018
issue). A clarification is needed in an other-
wise interesting article.
After referring to church history, she
writes, “What a striking contrast to the cur-
rent pontiff’s response when queried about
sodomitical priests in 2013. ‘Who am I to
judge?’ he shrugged.”
What the pope actually said was, “Who
am I to judge him?” He had been speaking
about a single case of a man who, despite
his homosexual proclivities, was sincerely
trying to extricate himself from it all. Unfor-
tunately, the man would occasionally lapse
into sin, much against his own desire. So the
pope was saying that he would be slow to
condemn such a man, and would be slow to
pass judgment on the state of that man’s soul.
Unfortunately so many media refused to
print the last word of the pope, and so they
have given the impression that the pope has
no opinion on homosexuality!
Pope Francis faces enough troubles with-
out also having to put up with media mis-
quotations.
Father David Wechter
Houston, Minnesota
Fighting Climate Change?
Fourteen thousand years ago, we had the
Laurentide Ice Sheet. Then 4,000 years ago,
it finished melting, and we had the Great
Lakes. To the best of my knowledge, during
those 10,000 years, we did not have indus-
try, automobiles, or other forms of pollu-
tion or man-made carbon-dioxide emitting
activities other than a few campfires and
some cooking stoves for the relatively sparse
human population.  schools several years ago. Our new work-
Shouldn’t we reconsider anthropogenic
global warming in the presence of thousands
of years of climate change occurring natu-
rally as the normal activity of our planet?  written in cursive) controlled. I am so sur-
Climate change occurs over many thou-
sands of years, not a degree or two over a
few years. And due to faulty documentation
and records, we are not even certain what
temperature changes occurred during the in-
dustrial age. It’s all guesswork and assump-
tions. Climate change is a part of our planet’s
ecology.
Here’s an idea: Let’s listen to science. Sci-
ence has already shown that most climate
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
legislation will produce minimal results,
with a disproportionate cost. Too, modern
developed nations are cleaner and less pol-
luting than the primitive nations. And gas-
and electricity-fueled devices are much
cleaner than campfires, wood-burning cook
stoves, and horse-drawn vehicles. Progress
will continue in the lowering of pollution;
we get better at it every year.
 Does anyone really know what natural
changes are in store for us during the next
10,000 years? 
A bigger problem may be the solid wastes
we produce, such as paper and plastic. We
seem to be having a bigger impact on our
oceans than our atmosphere. So why have
we not placed most of our effort and laws
into this area? Could it be that climate
change is really about political control?
William F. Hineser, DPM
Arvada, Colorado
Getting Schooled
A couple of days ago I was reconciling
my checkbook. There was a discrepancy.
For one of the check numbers, I had writ-
ten down $30, and the bank had $36. Sure
enough, when I finished reconciling, I was
six dollars off.
I called the 800 number for my bank and
asked if the image of that check could be
brought up. The gentleman did bring it up,
and he said that the zero after the three wasn’t
quite closed, so the employee thought it was a
six. I asked what the written part for the check
amount said. It said 30, spelled out.
He did admit that the check actually was
for $30. Then he said something interesting:
“Some of our people don’t read cursive, so
they don’t look at that part.” (The teaching
of cursive writing was dropped from our
force is now handicapped with that loss.) I
was stunned. When I worked in a bank, we
were told that the written number (usually
prised that that change has already made its
way to the workplace!
Roberta Sutton
Evergreen, Colorado
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 Inside Track
White Electorate Dying; Hispanics Set to Outnumber Blacks in 2020
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Reflecting America’s low white birthrate and how statists man-
age to import voters via immigration, whites’ percentage of the
electorate is consistently shrinking while the share of blacks,
Hispanics, and Asians is growing. In fact, the latest projections
show that whites will constitute a historic low of only 66.7 per-
cent of 2020-election voters, despite their traditionally being
more likely to cast ballots than other groups. Another historic
first is that Hispanics will outnumber blacks among voters, al-
beit by a tiny margin, according to a January 30 report by Pew
Research Center.
Hispanics should constitute 13.3 percent of the voters, 32 mil-
Boy Scouts Now Welcome Girls and Even All-girls Troops
As of February 1, the Boy Scouts has rebranded itself as “Scouts
BSA,” reflecting the fact that the organization is no longer ex-
clusively male and that girls are now welcome to join. Since last
year, more than 77,000 girls have joined the Cub Scouts, BSA’s
program for children from kindergarten through fifth grade, or
five to 10 years of age.
Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America Michael
B. Surbaugh said in a February 1 statement, “I could not be more
excited for what this means for the next generation of leaders in
our nation.”
“Through Scouts BSA, more young people than ever before
— young women and men — will get to experience the benefits
of camaraderie, confidence, resilience, trustworthiness, courage
and kindness through a time-tested program that has been proven
to build character and leadership.”
Many parents interviewed by the media said the change will
give their daughters the opportunity to take part in outdoor scout-
ing activities. Elizabeth Neal, the mother of two girls who are
among the founding members of Troop 248, a newly formed all-
girls Scouts BSA troop in the District of Columbia, told the Wash-
ington Times February 2: “[My daughters] did Girl Scouts when
they were small. But they’re excited about camping and outdoor
skills. That’s what drew them to Boy Scouts, and they’re excited
about the potential to be an eagle scout.”
The Times also quoted Craig Burkhardt, Troop 248’s scout-
6 THE NEW AMERICAN  •  MARCH 4, 2019
lion in raw numbers, while blacks’ projected 30-million number
should put them at 12.5 percent of the electorate.
Pew also reports that this “increase is at least partially linked
to immigration and naturalization patterns: One-in-ten eligible
voters in the 2020 election will have been born outside the U.S.,
the highest share since at least 1970.”
This is one reason why Republicans find winning national
elections increasingly difficult. Note that the GOP derives 90
percent of its votes from whites. Also know that while many
commentators like to trumpet the “walk away” (from Demo-
crats) movement among blacks and others, the statistics belie
this phenomenon. In the 2018 midterms, for example, 90, 77, and
69 percent, respectively, of blacks, Asians, and Hispanics voted
Democrat. Add to this that 77 percent of Jews and 59 percent
of women also voted Democrat, and that party’s seizure of the
House is not entirely surprising.
Additionally, (im)migration helps explain why California,
once the land of Reagan, is now a deep-blue Democrat bastion;
and why once-red states such as Virginia, North Carolina, and
Arizona range from purple to light blue. As is so often said, de-
mography is destiny.
This by-design demographic upheaval — along with extra Dem-
ocrat-district congressional seats due to counting illegals in the cen-
sus, vote fraud, and ballot harvesting — means that President Trump
and other Republicans will have their work cut out for them in 2020.
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master, who said: “The Boy Scouts, BSA, has used the outdoors
as the classroom in an effective way, and these girls are interested
in being in the outdoors.”
Haven’t the Girl Scouts always done the same thing? The new
all-girls Scouts BSA troops do not provide any unique opportuni-
ties that could not be provided in Girl Scout troops, so why admit
girls into the Boy Scouts, except to engage in a politically correct
social experiment?
 Poll: “Climate Change” Is Top Security Threat in World
As Pew Research Center reported on February 10, respondents to
a 26-nation poll claimed that so-called man-made climate change
is the most serious threat to the peace and stability of the world.
Thirteen of the 26 countries polled listed the specter of global
climate change as their top security concern in the world of 2018.
The poll queried more than 27,000 respondents in 26 countries
between May and August of 2018. This means that it was con-
ducted prior to the October release of the UN IPCC’s report sug-
gesting that the world’s citizens have only 12 years to completely
alter their lifestyles or face dire consequences in connection with
climate change.
In many places, particularly in Europe, the UN’s propaganda
seems to be working. In Greece, 90 percent of respondents listed
climate change as a top security threat. In France, 83 percent
believed that climate change was a security issue. In the United
States, climate change was considered only the third most serious
threat, with 59 percent listing it as a concern.
The poll also showed that the power and influence of the Unit-
ed States worries the people of many countries. Sixty-seven per-
cent of South Koreans and 66 percent of Japanese see U.S. power
and influence as significant threat to their security. Sixty-four
percent of Mexicans believe that U.S. power is a threat. In Israel,
only 15 percent listed U.S. power and influence as a security
threat. Only 17 percent of Hungarians saw the United States as
a threat, and in Poland, only 18 percent feared the United States.
Pope Francis: Show Respect and Loyalty to the Communist Regime
According to a February 3 article in the Vatican newspaper L’
Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis has urged Chinese Catholic
leaders “to renew their total adherence to Christ and the Church,”
but added, “as members of the Chinese people, they are obliged
to show respect and loyalty to civil authorities.”
As noted by the Global Times February 3, Wang Meixu, a re-
search fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, com-
mented, “The announcement shows that the Vatican is calling on
all the clergy and the faithful, including those who regard them-
selves as from the ‘underground churches,’ to be in solidarity and
to support the bishops’ pastoral duties.”
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Neither of the world’s two most-populous nations, China and
India, was polled. So, 2.7 billion of the world’s people aren’t
represented.
As with any poll, it seems that security concerns vary greatly
depending on who is asked and where they reside, which makes
sense. Still, it’s interesting to look at perceptions from around the
world. In Israel, Hungary, and Poland, America is popular, or, at
least not feared.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former bishop of Hong Kong, has
expressed concern about the announcement as much of the pre-
cise details are “secret.” Zen explained, “Government officials
are trying to pressure all Catholics to join the Patriotic Associa-
tion [the institutional church in China that is recognized by the
Chinese government].”
In the case of China, the communist dictatorship wishes to
control the community of Christians, simply because they believe
all elements of society should support the communist dictator-
ship. The pope’s remarks have led to some confusion, and “the
communists are taking advantage of the confusion to try to force
Catholics to join” the Patriotic Association, said Zen.
“We need to study our history,” Zen said. “Why are there two
Catholic communities in the first place? There was a reason. The
Catholic Patriotic Association teaches against Catholic doctrine
and this has not changed.” It certainly should not be surprising
that an association under the thumb of atheistic communists does
not follow Catholic doctrine.
Exactly how a devout Catholic is supposed to show “loyalty”
to a regime that has tried to exterminate the Christian faith has
not been adequately explained. Considering that Catholics con-
tend that Peter was the first pope, perhaps his response to the
authorities of his day that he would not stop preaching in the
name of Jesus is a good guide for this pope and the Catholic
Church in China today.
7
Extended Inside Track
Three Polls Reflect Support for “Soak the Rich” Tax Schemes
T hree recent polls reflect increasing
acceptance of New York Democrat
Congressman’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(AOC)’s economic worldview: The rich
aren’t paying their fair share.
First, the new POLITICO/Morning Con-
sult poll released February 4 found that
“76 percent of registered voters believe
the wealthiest Americans should pay more
in taxes.” A recent Fox News survey con-
ducted January 20-22 showed essentially
the same thing: 70 percent favored raising
taxes on those earning over $10 million a
year, including 54 percent of Republicans.
A Hill/HarrisX survey conducted Janu-

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ary 12-13 showed 59 percent of those
polled support AOC’s plan to slap a 70-per-
cent marginal rate on income earned over
$10 million a year.
And the “wealth tax” proposed by Sena-
tor Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is favored
by 61 percent of those surveyed for the PO-
LITICO/Morning Consult poll, while just
20 percent opposed it.
Such views reflect the politics of envy, revenge, and ig-
norance. It reflects what Senator Russell Long (who served
for 15 years as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,
from 1966 to 1981) said about most people’s thinking about
such proposals: “Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax that fellow
behind the tree.”
That fellow behind the tree making $10 million or more a
year is so far beyond the experience of the average taxpayer
(who makes an estimated $50,000 a year) that it’s easy to blame
ignorance for these polls’ results.
Chris Edwards, director of tax policy at Cato, told Fox Busi-
ness that raising taxes in the United States would go against
the current flow of world economic history: “Every industrial
country has figured that out, and their policy decisions refute
the soak the rich tax dreaming of Ocasio-Cortez. Top income
tax rates have plunged around the world since 1980 under gov-
ernments of both the political left and right.”
Ocasio-Cortez was born 27 years after another Democrat,
President John F. Kennedy, told the Economic Club of New
York that lower, not higher, taxes was “the soundest way to raise
revenues in the long run.” And so she doesn’t remember that
Kennedy’s tax cuts between 1963 and 1965 lowered the top rate
from 91 percent to 70 percent, which increased government’s
revenues more than 16 percent.
She doesn’t remember that in the 1920s the top rate was low-
ered from 73 percent to 25 percent, which increased govern-
ment’s revenues by over 60 percent. She doesn’t remember that
the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s from 70 percent to 28 percent
resulted in the country’s GDP surging by 32 percent and govern-
ment revenues growing by nearly 40 percent.
And she certainly doesn’t remember how entrepreneurs re-
acted when President Roosevelt’s income and estate taxes were
increased in the mid-1930s. She most certainly has never read
or even heard of economic scholar Benjamin Anderson, who
told the story of one of those entrepreneurs, whom he called
typical:
Reasonably typical is the case of one rich man who, at the
age of 25, had inherited an estate of about 12 million dol-
lars — some thirty years before these 1935 taxes came. He
had nursed his 12 million dollars into an estate of about 30
million dollars during those thirty years…. In the case of
the individual above referred to, a vigorous man 55 years
old, the effects of the new taxes were paralyzing. More
than three-fourths of any profits which he might have from
a new venture would be taken away from him by income
taxes…. But further, if he should die, his estate would have
to pay to the federal government and to the State of New
York (but chiefly to the federal government) $19,602,500,
or 65.243 percent of his estate.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez labors under a disadvantage that
most voters know nothing about: She graduated cum laude from
Boston University in 2011 with a degree in economics. So her
ignorance can be explained by not having been exposed to any-
thing like Anderson’s entrepreneur.
But what about the others surveyed who are buying into the
class warfare “soak the rich” schemes offered by AOC and Eliz-
abeth Warren? Will they fall victim to their own ignorance as
expressed by Edmund Burke: “Those who don’t know history
are doomed to repeat it”? n

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 QuickQuotes

Community Cancels Wind Turbines, Faces Financial Loss

“The town was warned. The damage can never be reversed for many of us wind turbine victims. Some
of my friends have serious health issues now.”
Nine years after erecting the first of two wind turbines, the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, has con-
cluded that the project was a costly mistake. Local resident Dave Moriarty fought against the project
from its inception, moved to a new residence to get away from the noise, and now finds friends with
health issues brought on by the turbines. The town spent $10 million to build the turbines and now must
find $2 million more to remove them.

Soviet Spy Admitted Guilt After Denying It for 60 Years

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, call it that. I never thought of it in those terms.”
Convicted in a 1940s trial for supplying the Soviet Union with atomic

German Federal Archives

weaponry secrets, Morton Sobell spent 18 years in prison, while his
partners in the sensational crime, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were
executed. He regularly insisted he was innocent of collaborating with
the Rosenbergs. But in 2008, he reversed his claim while insisting
Morton
that his activity wasn’t treasonous. Death conquered him at age 101, Sobell
in December 2018.

Sexual Assaults at U.S. Military Academies Occur Regularly

“Our cadets and midshipmen must be role models if they’re to lead
the world’s finest fighting force. This year’s report demonstrates
that there is more work to be done to meet this goal.”
A Defense Department survey of three military academies re-
ported 747 assaults during the 2017-2018 academic year. Un-
dersecretary of Defense James Stewart noted that the number
Department of Defense

of assaults had risen by 50 percent from the total noted in the

previous year.
James
Stewart Teens Propagandized About Global Warming
“To us, it is so self-evident that we can’t keep on going in this direc-
tion. We come here with the right intentions to protest in peace and to raise awareness about climate
change because we want to be on the right side of history.”
Tens of thousands of young people skipped school in Belgium in order to protest government inaction
regarding the supposed environmental threat facing mankind. Teenage sisters Axelle and Elisa Kiambi
spoke for thousands in Brussels while similar youth-led demonstrations were held in several Western
European nations.

Socialism Brought Venezuela to Its Knees

“Conspicuous by its absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela’s political crisis
is the word ‘socialism.’ Yes, every sensible observer agrees that Latin America’s once-richest country,
sitting atop the world’s largest proven oil reserves, is an economic basket case, and a dictatorship
whose demise cannot come soon enough. Just don’t mention
the S-word.”
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens rightly blames social-
ism for Venezuela’s economic and political catastrophe.

Pelosi’s Guest at State of Union Speech Is

a Leading Abortion Provider
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“As an immigrant, a mother, a doctor and the President of Planned

Parenthood Federation of America, I am honored to attend the
State of the Union address as the guest of Speaker Pelosi.”
Dr. Leana Wen leads the organization that performs more abor-
tions than any other group in the United States. The grisly work
she oversees receives more than half a million dollars annually
from the federal government. n Leana
Wen
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Letter to
An Open
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i o C o r t e z
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is advocating a switch to 100-percent renewable energy. Here
are some “back of the matchbook” calculations on the plan for her consideration.

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 by Ed Hiserodt
D
ear Congressman Ocasio-Cortez,
Congratulations on winning
your seat in the 14th Congression­
al District of New York. You certainly made
a name for yourself even before the House
was turned over to the Democrats, with your
activist demonstration against fossil fuels at
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office prior
to being sworn in. As a Democratic Social-
ist, we’re aware you support single-payer
health insurance, free college tuition, de-
funding ICE, and several other issues of
consequence. But our concern here is your
proposal to transition the country, including
the electrical grid, to run on 100-percent re-
newable sources of energy. We would like
to take a look at what this would entail. Ex-
cuse us for being “numbery,” but the scope
of this project of the Democratic Socialists
is not a matter of good feelings, but cold
hard numbers.
You back a “Green New Deal” that
would, according to the U.K. Guardian,
“eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from
electricity, transportation, manufacturing,
agriculture and other sectors within 10
years. It would also aim for 100% renew-
able energy.”
Since you have an educational back-
ground in International Relations and
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Deal are shown admonishing Congress to promote her proposal — one that Greenpeace co-
founder Patrick Moore termed a “recipe for mass suicide.”
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Economics, perhaps you would appreci-
ate a brush-up on electrical terminology
and what it would take to accomplish your
proposal. First, let’s define which energy
sources the environmentalist Left says
qualify as “renewable sources of energy.”
They are:
• Solar (thermal and photovoltaic)
• Wind power
• Small-scale hydroelectric
• Biomass (including ethanol)
• Hydrogen and fuel cells
• Geothermal
Of those power-generating sources list-
ed above, wind-power generation, at 6.3
percent of U.S. electrical energy, currently
leads the way as a percentage of our coun-
try’s electric supply. Solar (both utility
scale and small-scale) is in second place
at 1.9 percent. Biomass is at 1.6 percent,
but is not expected to have the potential of
wind and solar. So for our purposes here,
we will limit the discussion to the top two.
What Is a Watt?
The first bits of essential terminology you
need to know have to do with rating elec-
tricity generation. Knowing these terms
would put you head and shoulders above
most of your colleagues, many of whom
have law or political-science degrees and
don’t know a kilowatt from a kumquat.
Your first lesson here is that power and
energy are not the same thing.
Power is the ability to do work. Even
though it’s not necessary to own a car in the
Bronx, you are surely familiar with “step-
ping on the gas,” the action that increases
the power of the engine up to its maximum
to go faster, go up steeper hills, and get to
those Green New Deal rallies on time.
Electricity generation and usage are
measured in watts. For us the watt is a
measurement of power available to do
work. While physicists would likely say a
watt is a joule per second, we fortunately
don’t need to dig that deeply for our pur-
poses. The watt (W) is a tiny amount of
power, like that of a flashlight. We more
often work with kilowatts (kW) — thou-
sands of watts — or megawatts (MW) —
millions of watts.
Though in the United States we measure
automotive power in “horsepower, (hp)”
we could just as well express it in watts,
or in this case kilowatts. A 100 hp engine
is also a 74.6 kW engine. Our power grid,
wind turbines, and power plants are usu-
ally rated in megawatts, though some coal
and nuclear plants are rated in gigawatts
(GW), billions of watts.
Now here’s where you need to be care-
ful to use the correct units lest you lose
credibility — at least with the few con-
gressmen who are engineers or physicists.
Energy is always expressed in terms of
power over a time period, or if you want
to get fancy, “the integral of power over
a specified time.” So we might say that
the power of one watt produced or used
over one second is one watt-second. Ten
100-watt bulbs operating over one hour
consume one kilowatt-hour (1 kWh) of
energy. The average residential customer
uses 10,300 kWh of electrical energy per
year, and a 1,000 MW nuclear plant pro-
duces about 8,322,000 MWh of electrical
energy per year.
For the nuclear plant calculation above,
it is assumed that the plant actually pro-
duced 95 percent of the energy it would
have produced while running continu-
ously at full capacity, because for about
five percent of the time it would be being
refueled, so the nuclear plant has a capac-
ity factor of 95 percent.
The capacity factor is a vital number to
understand, particularly when dealing with
the energy produced by a wind or solar
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newable energy of 3.673 billion MWh.

Note that currently we are 91.9 percent
non-renewable and 8.1 percent renewable.
If we assume that any new renewable
energy to power the country will be de-
rived mainly via wind power (we’ll ad-
dress solar later), some relatively easy
math will allow us to calculate how many
turbines we’ll need, after ascertaining how
much energy each wind turbine creates.
In addition to wind speed and blade
size, the output of a wind generator is a
function of the rating of the turbine and
the capacity factor. The rating for a typical
onshore, modern machine ranges from 1.5
to 3 MW output power. Capacity factors
are largely determined by where the tur-
bine is sited, with the plains of the Mid-
west being one of the optimum locations.
Most other locations are only marginally
viable. In flying over the Eastern United
States, one notices that a large percentage
inakiantonana/Getty Images Plus of the area is wooded. For wind-turbine
Wind wonders: Wind turbines are being rejected by people who live near them because sites, the forests must be cut back to allow
they crowd the skyline and make noise all night — if the wind is blowing. Note the quaint wind to flow well, something environ-
neighborhood electrical substation in the lower right. mentalists (and even normal people who
don’t align themselves with the radical
source. It is the output energy divided by it. There is a disc that spins and a number environmental agenda) are against.
the energy if operating at full nameplate ca- below it. The speed of the spin tells you As an important side note, beware that
pacity over a year. For example, if a wind the power (kW) you are using at that in- there has been a backlash from the public
generator has a nameplate rating of 2 MW, stant. The numerical value is the kWh — against wind turbines, owing to decreased
it is capable of producing 17,520 MWh the energy you’re being billed for. property values and to the many claims
per year. Suppose the wind turbine actu- from nearby residents of ailments asso-
ally produced 5,256 MWh, slightly below Converting the U.S. Electrical Grid ciated with the low-frequency noise the
a third of its total capability. It would have a to 100-percent Renewables blades create. But if it means “Saving the
capacity factor of 30 percent — about nor- OK, Miss Ocasio-Cortez, we now have Planet,” we’re sure you can sell the popu-
mal for a well-sited wind turbine. Except the tools and nomenclature to calculate lation to put up with these inconveniences.
for a few nuclear plants that produce more what it’s going to take to go to 100-per- To calculate a turbine’s yearly wind en-
than their designed output, all generators cent renewable electrical generation. To ergy, let’s use a 2 MW machine. This is no
produce less energy than their “nameplate” determine the number of wind turbines, or midget, with its 171-foot blades reaching
rating. So to calculate the expected output solar arrays, that the country would require 259 feet above the ground, about the same
of a wind machine or solar array — or for to “go green,” we first need to determine height as a 25-story building.
that matter any electrical generator — you the amount of energy that green energy As noted previously, a 2 MW turbine
need both its nameplate rating and its an- sources need to provide by deducting the generates about 5,256 MWh per year. So
ticipated capacity factor. current approximately 0.361 billion MWh how many wind turbines would the coun-
Alexandria, if you were able to afford generated by renewables from the 4.034 try require to make the 3.673 billion MWh
an apartment, though you said you were billion MWh total U.S. generating capac- (or 91.1 percent) energy generation cur-
having financial trouble in doing so, you ity for the year 2017 (the latest U.S. Energy rently not provided by renewable power?
would likely have a kilowatt-hour meter Information Administration data available). Hold onto your hat, Miss Ocasio-Cortez!
somewhere where the meter reader can see We learn that the country requires new re- And now, the envelope please. To convert
the total non-renewable energy sector to
wind power would require an additional
It is true that the wind is always blowing somewhere, 698,000 2 MW wind turbines.
but that somewhere might not be in this country — at But wait; we’re assuming that energy is
used at a constant rate throughout the day.
least not at the 10 mph needed for our wind turbines. It’s not. The utilities realize this doesn’t
happen in the real world, so they figure

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their generating needs based on “peak
power,” the time of greatest energy de-
mand. In New York, the peak is about 175
percent of the average demand. So using
that figure as our base, the country actu-
ally needs 1,221,000 new wind genera-
tors, not 698,000. These turbines can’t be
stacked together lest their airflow “cover”
the downwind turbines and the turbulence
caused by the upwind blades then wreak
destruction on the downwind machines. So
for omnidirectional wind farms, the recom-
mendation is 10 to 15 diameters of space
between the turbines. Using an average
value, we need an open area of 2,000 feet
by 2,000 feet, or about 92 acres, for each
turbine. (Coming from a less-agricultural
part of the country, you may not be familiar
with acres. An NFL football field is about
1.32 acres — including end zones.)
The total area covered with new wind
farms would be 1,221,000 times 92, or
112,332,000 acres. Or 175,518 square
miles. This would equal an area greater in
size than New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Maryland
— along with another 77 Districts of Co-
lumbia thrown in. (Perish the thought.) Of
course, in reality, much more space would
be needed than that: Remember we are
talking about an area where, unlike the geo-
physical region specified above, there aren’t
houses, roads, trees, buildings, parks, or
airports — just wall-to-wall wind turbines.
Nor does it even include space needed for
power lines, transformers, or other switch
gear necessary to serve the customers.
What If the Wind Doesn’t Blow?
Problem is, Alexandria, after we spend tril-
lions for the wind turbines for the Green
New Deal — the nation would be power-
less if the wind isn’t blowing. No wind.
No electricity. Wonder what the death toll
in the recent record-cold temperatures
would have been had there been insuffi-
cient energy for heating, lighting, hospi-
tals — because of iced turbine blades?
It is true that the wind is always blow-
ing somewhere, but that somewhere might
not be in this country — at least not at the
10 mph needed for our wind turbines. In
the summer months a “dome of high pres-
sure” often settles in over the middle of
the country. Probably gets pretty sticky
in New York, and more so in D.C. — es-
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Wind Energy Production During February 2018
Output in megawatts (MW)
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
Sat Mon Wed Fri Sun Tue Thu Sat Mon Wed Fri Sun Tue
Wind worries: Wind electrical generation is variable and problematic. Shown here is the
combined output of 60 wind farms in Australia. In this case, when the output is below 1,500
MW, fossil-fueled generators are called on to provide energy to make up for the loss of wind
generation. When output is over 1,500 MW, the reliable generators must stop supplying (paid)
energy to the grid and go into a “spinning reserve” mode during which they must keep their
boilers or turbines on ready, burning fuel with no compensation.
pecially when Congress is in session and age, one’s mind jumps immediately to re-
certain members are contributing large chargeable batteries that give us starting
amounts of hot air. power for our autos, laptops, toothbrushes
Since there is little atmospheric pressure — all manner of things. So why not util-
differential under this dome (the isobars ity power? You may already know this, but
are far apart), there is nothing to create when dealing with wind and solar you must
wind — hence no wind energy generation. determine the period of autonomy when the
Our mates in Australia have found out a batteries must carry the entire load. This is a
similar lesson the hard way, as we can see function determined not only by the capac-
on the graph above. ity of the batteries, but also by the size of
The graph shows the combined output the power source that is required to charge
of 60 wind farms in an area just smaller the batteries while taking care of its normal
than the United States, clearly showing pe- loads. By some estimates it would take 30
riods of insufficient wind to maintain the to 40 percent additional wind generation
power to run the electrical network. to have the capacity to provide energy for
Maybe if we go to worldwide socialism, immediate use and simultaneously charge
we can persuade the people in windy places backup batteries. But let us generously as-
to give up their energy to make us cool and sume that only a 25-percent reserve charg-
comfortable or warm and cozy. Oh, we for- ing capacity is needed. To provide that ca-
got: With socialism, the government can pacity, we’d now need to add an additional
tell everyone what to do. Problem solved. 283,000 wind turbines, pushing the total up
to around 1,504,000. And of course another
Energy Storage state or two.
We know what you’re probably thinking: Battery Storage: Batteries themselves
“If we don’t have wind power and it is a are another problem. A typical car battery
cold night, we’ll just have to store electric- stores about 1.2 kWh of usable energy at
ity and use it when we need it. Haven’t 12 volts. It has a volume of about one cubic
you people at TNA heard about batteries?” foot. A city of 700,000 requires an average
Yes, when considering energy stor- of 1,000 MWh of energy every hour. So
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Olympic swimming pools. For 2017, it

generated 935,000 MWh of energy.
Engineers love it as it is very efficient,
but there is one problem. The topography
of the United States has very few sites suit-
able for this storage technique. This is evi-
denced by the Bath County plant having 14
percent of the total U.S. pumped storage.
Sorry, Miss Ocasio-Cortez, you are
going to have to carry the water on this
one; we don’t have a solution. You might
consider this though: Even devout Dem-
ocratic Socialists are not happy when the
lights go out.

Outside the Grid

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Even presuming the country finds the
will and the wherewithal to commit to
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creating huge banks of lead or lithium
High-pressure dome: Every summer in the United States, a high-pressure system stays in place batteries to take over the load for the
for weeks or months. The distance between the isobars indicates there is no appreciable wind turbines for the entire country when the
over most of the country. New England has tight isobars and is having heavy winds. As indicated, turbines stop spinning — possibly for
this condition can extend into the winter months also. days — we’re still not finished yet, sorry.
We still need to eliminate non-electrical
how many 1.2 kWh batteries are required Alexandria, you probably shouldn’t energy generation, which may be even
to store one single MWh? About 833. How hang your hat on some new battery tech- more problematic than changing the en-
about for one hour of autonomy? About nology to come up with a miracle battery. ergy grid over to renewables. Consider
833,000. And for a day? — 20 million. Some of the world’s best chemists and natural gas: Only 34 percent is used for
Stacked 10 high, without space for cool- physicists have been attempting to im- grid electricity generation. Eliminating
ing and maintenance, the batteries would prove batteries for over 100 years. Those natural gas would greatly negatively im-
cover more than 46 acres. Again for a non- chemists might use some exotic rare-earth pact many millions of consumers — even
farm girl, that’s some 35 football fields, elements to improve hearing-aid batteries, Democratic Socialists.
including end zones. but as far as major storage — it’s just not Natural gas is usually measured in Tcf
Lithium batteries are better in several going to happen. — trillion cubic feet. This can be convert-
respects than lead-acid cells, but they are Pumped Storage: With pumped storage, ed to Quads, which is short for quadrillion
costly, even for someone not planning to water is pumped, usually from a lake or BTUs. In turn, this can be converted to
be stingy with taxpayers’ money. Lead river, to an elevated reservoir some 500 MWh. You might be able to wow them in
ore sells for about $400 per ton, lithium or more feet above the intake during a pe- congressional debates by mentioning that
for $20,000. Tesla’s Elon Musk aided riod when there is excess power available. the United States uses about 28 Quads
thousands of South Australians who had Then it is released, spinning water turbine of natural gas per year, the equivalent of
been suffering from the vagaries of wind generators, providing additional energy 8.205 billion MWh.
power by delivering to a South Australia during high-demand periods. Industrial and commercial usage of
authority lithium batteries with storage The largest of these in the world is not natural gas dwarfs that used for the elec-
capacity of 129 MWh. And he did it for far from your Washington office, in Bath trical grid. It represents 49 percent of total
$50,000,000. It appears Musk hooked to- County, Virginia. It is described as the usage and goes toward heating and as a
gether some 400 of Tesla’s power packs “largest battery in the world.” The sta- feedstock to produce hydrogen, fertilizers,
each the size of a refrigerator. (Musk’s tion is capable of generating 3,003 MW pharmaceuticals, plastics, and many other
banks of batteries were not designed for of power for 11 hours. The upper reser- products. No doubt you would want to do
autonomy, but to add capacity when the voir that stores the water until power is away with plastic anyway, especially soda
wind drops momentarily.) required holds the equivalent of 17,500 straws. And we would just have to find
some other way to compound pharmaceu-
Problem is, Alexandria, after we spend trillions for the tical drugs, or just do without as them as
was the case in 1800.
wind turbines for the Green New Deal — the nation Since most industrial-gas usage is for
would be powerless if the wind isn’t blowing. No heating, we can assign 4.205 billion MWh
to obtain the equivalent from electric heat,
wind. No electricity. which means we need yet more wind

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generation. Holy moly, Batman! That is
nearly as much wind energy as we had to Retail Cost of Electricity
add for converting the U.S. electrical grid
to all renewables. Using our 5,256 MWh
per wind turbine, we find we need to add
another 800,000 wind energy sources
— and hope Florida and North Carolina
don’t mind ripping up all their roads, raz-
ing their houses and buildings, and cut-
ting down their forests to make way for
the turbines and the open space they need.
As a word of warning, Alexandria, you
might want to ask your neighbors about
what they think about converting all their
gas heating systems, hot water heaters,
ovens, clothes dryers, and other gas ap-
pliances to electricity. I’ll bet even Demo-
cratic Socialists would be annoyed at cart-
ing all their appliances to the street and
getting new electric ones. But hey, such
a move is necessary to get rid of the 4.76
Quads of natural gas used for residential
purposes. And the transition would only
require another 251,000 additional wind
turbines. Solar-powered chainsaws com-
ing to Indiana.
Retail cost of electricity in selected countries: Observe that countries with the highest
What does that bring us to? About
“renewables penetration” just happen to have the highest electrical rates.
2,555,000 new wind generators — and a
sizable portion of the United States.
Yet we still need to tackle the petro- eration at this time is unknown, but we day are out) and unless the solar array is
leum problems. Since we’re both prob- can look at the characteristics of a solar pointed directly at the sun and the array is
ably getting tired of the numbers, Al- installation — in this case one that would immaculately clean — lots of upkeep and
exandria, let’s take a shortcut and only be the equivalent of a 2 MW wind turbine equipment costs. We forgot. You are creat-
consider the percentage of oil products at a capacity factor of 30 percent — to see ing lots of cleaning jobs.
powering cars and trucks while ignor- if there is a sun-shiny lining in our envi- Moreover, where the sun shines most
ing the non-motor-fuel usages of petro- ronmentalist clouds. regularly and intensely is in America’s
leum. To figure the power needed by our The average insolation (solar energy) southwestern deserts, while the industri-
new electric vehicles, we again do some striking the continental United States is 5 al Northeast is where the energy is most
simple math. We drive here in the United kWh per square meter per day. When we needed. Even assuming scores of high-
States some 3.22 trillion miles per year. do the math, we find that it takes about voltage power lines could be built to trans-
The “Leaf” electric vehicle claims to 11 acres of photovoltaic cells to replace fer the energy from one side of the coun-
consume 0.34 kWh per mile. A little very one 2 MW wind turbine. Quite a reduc- try to the other, one might still remember
long division yields 1.09 billion MWh tion in area from 92 acres needed for each that when the rising sun starts generating
of energy. Again using our 2 MW tur- wind turbine. And solar has the advantage power in the West, the folks in the Bronx
bine gives an increase in their number by of doing well during the day when the are at lunch. Perhaps you can convince
207,400 machines. Adios West Virginia. load on the energy grid is the greatest. But northeasterners to shorten their workdays
The cost of all these wind turbines (at whereas most of those 92 acres are open — that is a goal of socialism, right?
$2.8 million per turbine) is in excess of ground — grass maybe — all 11 acres of Of course, under socialist rule there
$7.7 trillion — hardly a trifle. solar would be unusable for other purpos- would be no need for environmental im-
es. And there are some other major scary pact statements or preservation of property
Solar Panels to the Rescue? bogeymen with solar. Not only are solar rights, so there’s a bonus. On the other
No doubt, with your sunny personality, you arrays not so good at night (there’s that hand, a drawback would be the huge banks
and your Green Energy coalition would battery thing again), they don’t even often of batteries needed to store all the energy
want to consider a combination of solar and work well during the day in the Northeast that would be needed for when the sun is
wind to offset the loss of non-renewable United States or on rainy days, and they not shining.
power. Let’s see how this plays out. don’t work very well at all unless the sun Backing up either of our renewable en-
The mix between solar and wind gen- is high in the sky (early morning and late ergy sources for only one day — and only

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kWh Produced per Acre
3,000
2,500 2,386
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
6.5
0 0
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Land utilization and power density for nuclear (or coal), wind power, and solar voltaic sources.
for the 4.034 billion MWh of electricity
that goes toward energizing the nation’s
power grid — would take something on the
order of 3.36 trillion car batteries, which,
similar to car batteries, would likely have
to be replaced every three to five years.
At a cut-rate price of $5 each, the battery
backup necessary would still cost the coun-
try $16.8 trillion each time the batteries are
replaced. Sounds expensive — even for
government. In the final analysis, going
totally “green energy” is not a bright idea.
Let’s Get Real
Congressman Ocasio-Cortez, as a student
of economics, you must realize that the
conversion to 100-percent renewables is
totally out of the realm of possibility. It
would take many trillions of dollars and
destroy the industrial economy that has
brought us the highest standard of living
in human history.
We are asked to give up our standard
of living for the unproven theory that an
insignificant increase in carbon dioxide
from its current 0.04 percent of our at-
mosphere would cause Earth’s tempera-
ture to rise to a deadly level. Meanwhile,
all of the computer models relied on by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change have predicted temperature in-
creases much higher than satellite and
ocean buoys have shown, which indicate
a pause in temperature rise.
Moreover, a new peer-reviewed paper
by Dr. Bjørn Lomborg published in the
Global Policy journal shows that reduc-
ing CO2 production would make little to
no difference in Earth’s temperatures.
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Acres for 1,000 MW (1 GW)
180,000
160,000
140,000
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
10,000
26.4
SOLAR NUCLEAR
The online summary of Dr. Lomborg’s
research reveals:
The climate impact of all Paris INDC
[Intended Nationally Determined
Contributions] promises is minus-
cule: if we measure the impact of
every nation fulfilling every promise
by 2030, the total temperature re-
duction will be 0.048°C (0.086°F)
by 2100.
Even if we assume that these prom-
ises would be extended for another
70 years, there is still little impact:
if every nation fulfills every promise
by 2030, and continues to fulfill these
promises faithfully until the end of the
century, and there is no ‘CO2 leakage’
to non-committed nations, the entire-
ty of the Paris promises will reduce
temperature rises by just 0.17°C
(0.306°F) by 2100.  then you are on the right track — just like
And even if Americans did stop producing
CO2, Earth’s CO2 levels would continue to
rise because China, India, and other coun-
tries are building coal-fired power plants
by the dozen, which will likely more than
offset any reductions Americans make.
If your objective is a reduction in car-
bon dioxide, maybe
you should consider
untying government
regulations restrict-
ing nuclear genera-
tion. Nuclear power
plants produce no
carbon dioxide, and
no U.S. citizen has
154,000
37,900
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WIND SOLAR
ever been harmed in any nuclear power
incident. The same cannot be said for wind
farm accidents, as is documented by the
Caithness Windfarm Information Forum
and the number of amateur solar panel
installers who have taken fatal falls from
their roofs.
As you’ve just learned (we hope), en-
ergy from the wind or sun is far from free
— and far from reliable. In the case of nu-
clear power, the amount of uranium fuel to
power a residence for a year is about one
gram, equal to one-fourth of a teaspoon
of salt — or a paper clip. Without costly
government-encouraged lawsuits, nuclear
power is one of the most inexpensive and
reliable sources of electricity on Earth.
And no need for batteries.
Miss Ocasio-Cortez, if your objective is
to destroy our economy to abolish capi-
talism so socialism can rise on its ashes,
socialists managed in starving Venezuela.
And you will surely have plenty of support
not only from other Democratic Socialists
but from the leadership of the Democrat
Party, the mainstream media, and aca-
demia. But if your objective is to help the
environment while helping the poor in our
country, you’re on a dead-end street. n
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The Renewable Energy Scam

Many communities and businesses are claiming to be powered by 100-percent
renewable energy, but they don’t have their own energy sources. What’s going on?
by Ed Hiserodt

A
number of U.S. municipalities and
businesses have been bragging that
they are 100-percent powered by
renewable energy. Notable among these is
the city of Georgetown, Texas, where in
August 2016 the guru of global warming,
Al Gore, participated in a ceremony where
he spoke of the town as a “trailblazer.” His
appearance with the town fathers, includ-
ing Mayor Dale Ross, was featured in Go-
re’s 2017 An Inconvenient Sequel.
According to the Sierra Club, “More
than 80 municipalities, five counties,
and two states — Hawaii and California
— have a 100 percent renewable goal.”
Driving this move toward energy sources
that are expensive and unreliable is the
widespread but errant belief that “green
power” is a viable alternative to conven-
tional power sources, as well as political
pandering to the environmentalist Left
and plain old-fashioned greed.
But even the good intentions of those
seeking to be environmental protectors
can’t protect from the consequences of bad
energy decisions. Interestingly, a prime
example of the results of misguided pan-
dering is the aforementioned trailblazer
Georgetown. As was reported in a Decem-
ber 18, 2018 article in the Daily Caller,
Georgetown is buckling under the loss of
$7 million per year from malinvestment in
contracts with the Buckthorn solar plant
and Spinning Spur 3 wind farm.
Georgetown, like other places said to be
100-percent reliant on “renewable energy,”
doesn’t actually have its own wind tur-
bines, solar panels, and biomass resources
powering it. It simply pays an upcharge
for electricity that is said to come from
renewable sources. If the green commu-
nities and businesses actually did use all
renewables, it would likely be very easy
to tell: On calm nights the lights would
go out. A very few locales in the nation
might have the geological features neces-
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California State House: By requiring utilities to provide more renewable energy than they would
do otherwise, lawmakers are transferring wealth from ratepayers to “Green Energy” promoters.
sary to keep the lights on when renewables
fade — such as hills and water that allow
a sizeable hydroelectric dam — but most
don’t. (See article on page 10.)
In fact, the 100-percent renewable
claims are a scam. Since the electricity
from renewables plants — wind, solar,
biomass — can’t be separated in the U.S.
electric grid from that produced by con-
ventional power plants, and is indistin-
guishable from it, much of the energy the
communities use is, in fact, coming from
conventional power plants.
Of course, the 100-percenters have fig-
ured out a slick way to get around these
physics truths: They pretend. When a
renewable energy source puts one mega-
watt-hour (1 MWh) on the electrical grid,
it writes itself a certificate or credit saying
it has done so. (There are precautions to
ensure this is the case.) These certificates
are transferable and can be sold to a broker
who sells them to a utility or “100-percent
renewable” municipality. Unspoken is the
fact that the town often would be without
power when there was darkness or a lull
in the wind. Then thank God for conven-
tional power plants.
Shrouded in Mystery
The 100-percent renewables scam is being
sold to us by the government, the utility
companies, and the towns and businesses
that participate. The “scam” buys goodwill
with the duped public and is not only good
public relations, it’s also an easy route for
them. But as with most governmental in-
terference in the free market, the public
ends up taking it in the pocketbook.
Today’s injustice to consumers origi-
nally began with a subsidy to the wind-
generation industry called the Production
Tax Credit (PTC), passed by Congress in
1992. Each day there is a bidding war for
the energy to go on the electrical grid that
in turn is supplied to a network of public-
and investor-owned utilities. Renewables
compete with coal, nuclear, natural gas,
and other generators. The PTC gave the
renewable operators a credit of one-and-a-
half cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of gen-
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sources. This allowed renewable to make
money even when the price of electricity
was zero — not unusual during periods
of low demand. In many states there were
also laws giving renewables other advan-
tages, even laws that have given priority
to generators with the lowest fuel cost.
Wonder who’s going to win that one?
While a boon to renewable operators,
the PTC penalized reliable, conventional
electric utilities (which are indispensable,
since they must always be running in case
the wind dies or it gets cloudy and they
are needed to take over from renewables
in providing energy) faced the choice of
shutting down or losing money.
Congress sensibly has been getting rid
of the PTC in stages, and now for wind fa-
cilities commencing construction in 2019,
the PTC is reduced by 60 percent. But the
PTC’s follow-on, the Renewable Energy
Credit (or Certificate), may be even worse.
An REC is defined as a “tradeable,
non-tangible energy commodity in the
United States that represents proof that 1
megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was
generated from an eligible renewable en-
ergy resource like biomass, [small scale]
hydro, or wind.”
The EPA says about the RECs:
Because the physical electricity we
receive through the utility grid says
nothing of its origin or how it was
generated, RECs play an important
role in accounting, tracking, and as-
signing ownership to renewable
electricity generation and use. On a
shared grid, whether from on-site or
off-site resources, RECs are the in-
strument that electricity consumers
must use to substantiate renewable
electricity use claims.
As mentioned, RECs are created out of
thin air by approved renewable electricity
generators each time the generators put
one megawatt-hour (MWh) of energy on
the electrical grid. The generator, em-
ploying a government-approved list of
renewable sources such as wind, solar,
or biomass, creates an electronic record
representing each MWh of electricity it
produces. It can then sell these RECs to
consumers, such as towns or businesses,
so that the consumers can “prove” they
bought green energy. As noted, a third-
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Solar picture: Solar energy systems, both photovoltaic and thermal as shown, earn Special
Renewable Energy Credits for generating renewable energy, even though if it gets very cloudy,
they don’t work.
party verifier keeps the generator honest.
Brokers who have market knowledge
often buy from the lowest-priced supplier,
and sell to the highest willing buyer. Nei-
ther the generator nor the broker must have
the REC in hand, just an agreement to pro-
vide it when it is available. The seller can
even issue the RECs before there is a wind
farm, and thereby use the revenue to build
his farm. (Some people believe American
farmers are unfairly favored with govern-
ment subsidies. The wind farmers have
taken this to an art form.)
If buying RECs were completely volun-
tary, the RECs could be looked at simply as
donations by consumers to renewables pro-
ducers to help them succeed; however, the
hand of government, in all its wisdom, has
been making them mandatory and gouging
consumers, in a case of corporate cronyism
driven mainly by liberal politicians.
Though there is such a thing as a Volun-
tary Market, whereby towns and compa-
nies may choose to, or choose not to, buy
RECs, there is also the Compliance Mar-
ket, which unequivocally makes things
worse for the consumer and the country.
Voluntary Market: As you might imag-
ine, “voluntary” means that 100-percent
renewable towns and businesses, such as
Walmart, voluntarily pay a premium for
energy because it is supposedly sourced
from a renewable supplier. This market
is only accessed by entities that want to
pander to the green movement. For busi-
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nesses, buying RECs is probably part of
the advertising budget, and for towns it’s
likely the consequence of election prom-
ises or true believers in a human-caused
global-warming catastrophe.
Walmart’s participation is particularly
disappointing to me as it is headquartered
in the state where your correspondent re-
sides. Why would a company, with prac-
tices in place to keep its slogan of “Low
Prices,” pay more for energy than required
and pander to the green lobby, when that
group is made up of the same leftists who
denigrate the company and the capitalist
system that allowed Walmart to flourish?
Heretofore, in my limited dealings with
Walmart, I was impressed by the discipline
of their buyers. One of them didn’t have a
pen, so I offered him one of mine. At first
he took it, but then he gave it back like it
was a rattlesnake. It turns out he couldn’t
take anything that might be considered
a gift, i.e., a bribe — a 20-cent pen. The
company is also known for its amazing
distribution system. My favorite story is
of a pilot who picked up a load of purses in
Bangladesh, went home to Huntsville, Al-
abama, and found them in the local store
the next morning via the distribution cen-
ter in Cullman, Alabama. The company’s
due diligence and efficiency, so often in
focus, seem to have wandered in this case.
What is the cost of an REC in the volun-
tary market? Very low. You can purchase
one REC for $8.00 online. That’s less than
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a one-cent increase in the kWh rate that
averages 10.48 cents for U.S. residential
customers. On the other hand, we have the
Compliance Market.
Compliance Market: The Compliance
Market could rightly be called the involun-
tary market — purchases mandated by gov-
ernment. The legislatures of 29 states and
the District of Columbia have adopted Re-
newable Portfolio Standards (RPS). Using
their undoubtedly vast knowledge of power
generation, politicians have required utility
companies to generate a certain percentage
of their energy from renewable sources.
The most egregious requirements, as might
be expected, emanate from California, New
York, and New Jersey, which require utili-
ties to furnish 50 percent of electricity from
renewable sources by 2030.
The renewable-usage requirements will
lead to high prices for consumers, and it
appears this is already taking place. Of the
12 states with the lowest rates, only Wash-
ington — with its enormous hydroelectric
resources — has a mandated Renewable
Portfolio Standard. On the expensive end
of the scale, all 21 of the highest-priced
energy states have an RPS.
Of course, major utilities companies
such as PG&E don’t really care. They pass
their costs along to consumers — and can
correctly blame politicians for making
them do so, or claim to be saving the Earth.
With billions of RECs in the market,
one would think that their market price
would be a matter of some importance.
That seems not to be the case. Renew-
able sellers and buyers play it close to the
chest. Reported rates have ranged up to
$40.00 each, which would raise the con-
sumer’s bill by four cents a kWh — basi-
cally a 40-percent increase.
Bridge Out Ahead
We have seen a rodeo similar to this in
Germany and Denmark, and to a lesser
extent in other countries. In Germany, the
renewables were given preferential treat-
ment, thereby making reliable, conven-
tional energy sources lose their regular
business — often being limited to sell-
ing electricity when no renewables were
available. And this led to massive govern-
ment subsidies.
Not only has the German government
had to subsidize renewable energy pro-
ducers (because they are so inefficient
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and costly that they can’t compete on their
own), but to keep the reliable, convention-
al generators in business, the government
is having to subsidize them also.
The price of electricity under Ener-
giewende did just what you would expect
it to do under such circumstances: The
residential price rose 35 percent between
2008 and 2017, during the period when re-
newables increased by 21.4 percent. The
average German residential customer pays
29 cents per kWh, almost three times the
U.S. average of 10.48 cents for the same
amount of energy.
Without any sophisticated knowledge
of the market, we can only speculate on
the exact results of mandating renewables
usage. First, there will definitely be an
incentive for more wind farms and solar
installations. Second, it’s likely that an
initial burst of new renewables generation
will temporarily result in lower prices for
RECs, thus giving incentive for the utili-
ties to continue the practice of relying on
RECs to fulfill their Renewable Portfolio
Standards, as it is likely the most profitable
way to go compared to building renewable
generation. Third, as the percentages of re-
newables that is required by politicians go
up from politicians vying to out-green each
other, the cost of RECs will rise once again
and the intermittent and unreliable nature
of renewables will make the energy grid
highly unstable. Fourth, the grid instabil-
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Wind power: The greater the percent of renewables (which vary in output), the less stable the
electrical grid. At some point (around nine or 10 percent of supply), the dispatch operators
become unable to hold voltage and frequency on the network, causing brownouts and blackouts.
ity will mean even minor interruptions of
generation will bring about massive dis-
ruptions of power to industrial customers
(first) — as it has already done in Germany
and Australia, among others. At some point
the entire house of cards must fall.
What happens going forward depends
on the makeup of our government. If the
conservative/libertarian coalition prevails,
the renewable portfolio standards and sub-
sidies will be eliminated, allowing the free
market to stabilize the energy production
and pricing. On the other hand, if the left-
wing, “progressive” side of the spectrum
and the media/academic socialists take
the reins of government, then the situation
will worsen dramatically.
Stepping Back
If we step back to view the issue broadly,
we can see that this is another case of
corporate-political cronyism. “Following
the money” shows us that liberal politi-
cians are accepting money and influence
not only from those Americans fooled
into supporting “green energy,” but from
every businessman who profits from the
government-mandated spending — from
wind farmers, to turbine makers, to solar
companies, to REC brokers and more.
The biggest gainers are banks and foreign
conglomerates, such as CitiBank, Bar-
clays, and Credit Suisse, which are big
participants along with BP (British Petro-
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leum) Wind Energy. Since the scam likely
runs into the billions of dollars each year,
the political “candidate support” that
takes place is also massive. And those
who pay for it all are the taxpayers who
pay the green subsidies through taxes,
and the consumers who pay higher en-
ergy bills and the workers who lose their
jobs as high energy costs make us uncom-
petitive with countries such as China and
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Renewable Portfolio Standards: Twenty-nine
states and Washington, D.C., have Renewable
Portfolio Standards, requiring a certain
percentage of electricity to be supplied by
renewables. The top 21 states in terms of high
electric rates all have the standards.
India (the latter of which has opened 52
new coal mines since 2014).
Is involvement by government the key
to low energy prices? Hardly. In Germany,
62.7 percent of a residential energy bill is
for items decreed by the government.
All of this morass has been created by
laws that impede or destroy the concept of
a free market. It follows that all of it could
be reversed, even though it might take a
generation. We are presently following a
road map to high energy prices and low
reliability, shown to us by the countries
that have used that map in recent years,
much to their dismay. We must learn from
the mistakes of others to avoid the destruc-
tion of our efficient, reliable fossil-fuel
and nuclear plants — the backbone of our
electric grid — and of the prosperity and
health they engender. n

EXTREME WINTER
Cold Used to Sell Global Warming
Across the Midwest and Northeast, the recent intrusion of a polar vortex has shattered
records for cold temperatures, yet this cold blast is being blamed on global warming.
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by James Murphy
T
he recent cold snap that sent bru-
tal Arctic temperatures across the
American Midwest and North-
east was brought to us by an atmospheric
condition known as the polar vortex, a
cyclonic flow in Earth’s troposphere and
stratosphere, which normally hovers over
the Arctic and northern reaches of Canada
and Asia.
The National Weather Service described
the conditions on January 30, 2019 thusly:
“One of the coldest Arctic air masses in
recent memory is surging south into the
Upper Midwest before spreading across
much of the eastern two-thirds of the
country. Through late week, expect frigid
temperatures, bitterly cold and life-threat-
ening wind chills, likely leading to wide-
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spread record lows and low maximum
temperatures from the Upper Midwest to
the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.”
And if you listen to some climatolo-
gists, the polar vortex was brought to us
courtesy of humanity’s media-hyped nem-
esis, global warming.
Global warming or not, the polar vortex
sure did bring cold weather. On January 31,
the coldest temperature of this visit by the
polar vortex was recorded as 56 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit at Cotton, Minne-
sota. That’s an ambient air temperature, by
the way, not a wind-chill temperature. Also,
on January 31, ambient air temperatures
dropped to 43 below zero northwest of
Mather, Wisconsin, 32 below zero in Grand
Forks, North Dakota, and 33 below zero in
Moline, Illinois. At least 340 daily record
lows were broken in the Midwest alone.
ENVIRONMENT
“This symptom of global warming
is counterintuitive for those in the cross
hairs of these extreme cold spells,” said
climate scientist Jennifer Francis of the
Woods Hole Research Center. Francis is
one of the scientists promoting the theory
that the cold brought to America is due to
global warming. “But these events provide
an excellent opportunity to help the public
understand some of the ‘interesting’ ways
that climate change will unfold.”
“Counterintuitive” is one word for the
claim. Others include crazy, irrational, and
ridiculous.
The theory of how global warming can
cause extreme cold goes something like
this. Global warming is causing Arctic ice
to melt. That ice melt may be causing a
phenomenon known as Arctic amplifica-
tion. As the sea ice diminishes, solar energy
which would normally be reflected away
by the ice and snow is, instead, being ab-
sorbed by the Arctic Ocean. The increased
warmth of the Arctic Ocean is supposedly
causing the Arctic to warm at roughly twice
the rate that the rest of the planet is.
Warmer and moister air over the Arctic
reduces temperature differences between
the Arctic and mid-latitude regions, such
as the Midwest and eastern portions of
the United States. The reduced tempera-
ture variation then weakens both the polar
vortex and its atmospheric cousin the jet
stream, which allows the polar vortex to
split much more easily and head south.
Voilà! Global warming causes extreme
cold.
A 2018 study led by Dr. Marlene Kretch-
mer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research (PIK) attempted to con-
firm the polar vortex theory. According to
the study, periods of a weak polar vortex
have increased over the past four decades.
The study claims that 60 percent of cold
extremes in mid-latitude Eurasia could be
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explained “by the increased In his piece, Mann, the cre-

frequency of weak strato- ator of the widely discredited
spheric polar vortex.” “hockey stick graph,” which
President Trump, for one, featured so prominently in
isn’t buying it. As he is wont ­Gore’s 2006 science-fiction
to do, the president took film An Inconvenient Truth,
to Twitter to troll climate even thought to blame (cue
alarmists. “In the beautiful evil music) the Russians and
Midwest, windchill tem- their alleged influence on
peratures are reaching minus President Trump for his “de-
60 degrees, the coldest ever nial” of settled science.
recorded. In coming days, “What is responsible for
expected to get even colder. Trump’s continued climate
People can’t last outside even change denial?” Mann wrote.
for minutes. What the hell is “Could it be the same thing re-
going on with global warm- sponsible for him outsourcing
ing? Please come back fast, his energy and environmental
we need you!” policy to fossil fuel interests?
University of Colorado- Could it have something to do
Boulder atmospheric scien- with the Russian influence that
tist Dr. Roger Pielke, Sr. also some have suggested helped
blasted the hypothesis that get him elected?”
global warming is causing Mann went on to suggest
extreme cold in the United that the Mueller investigation
States. “These southward may have the final answer on
movements of part of the vor- AP Images that. “We may have some an-
tex have always occurred,” Climatologist Michael Mann — the creator of the discredited “hockey swers on these questions when
Pielke said. “With respect to stick graph” — is among those who believe that the polar vortex “might special counsel Robert Muel-
climate, a strong polar vortex even be symptomatic” of global warming. ler completes his investigation
occurs when it is particularly into Russian meddling in the
cold at higher latitudes. The colder the tro- cold snaps are actually less frequent now 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
posphere at the higher latitudes, the stron- than they were throughout the 20th cen- So in true climate-alarmist and leftist
ger is the polar jet stream. So, if anything, tury. “The trend is markedly downward fashion, Mann has linked the president’s
these extreme Arctic outbreaks suggest in the most recent 40 years (since 1979) supposed “climate change denial” with
global warming has little effect on them.” which is the earliest we have reliable mea- the Mueller investigation and Trump’s al-
But such common sense doesn’t sell cli- surements of Arctic sea ice from satellite leged ties to the Russians. And I thought
mate change to the masses, which is what microwave radiometers (my specialty).” that conservatives were supposed to be the
all of this is about. It’s in the interests of Spencer and Christy’s chart shows no conspiracy theorists.
globalists to say that any extreme weather increase whatsoever in the frequency of Even among climate alarmists, the the-
event — be it hurricane, bomb cyclone, these Arctic temperature blasts. Interest- ory that Arctic warming causes a weaken-
or brutal Arctic cold — is evidence of cli- ingly, the chart also shows no significant ing of the polar vortex and the jet stream
mate change, which is brought about by decrease in such events. It’s almost as if is controversial. “Frankly, it’s a stretch to
man-made global warming. these weather events have a cycle to them. make that link,” said Dr. Kevin Trenberth,
Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer, the Every few years, the Arctic winds blow a highly acclaimed proponent of man-
principal research scientist at the Uni- just to remind us they’re there. made climate-change theory and a mem-
versity of Alabama in Huntsville and a In an op-ed penned for The Guardian, ber of the National Center for Atmospher-
climate-change heretic according to many Penn State climatologist and acolyte of ic Research. Trenberth was the lead author
of his climatology peers, also took to task carbon-credit salesman Al Gore Dr. Mi- of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental
the claims that global warming is causing chael Mann took President Trump and Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) re-
cold weather, writing in his blog on Janu- other climate skeptics on. “So, we’re see- ports of 1995, 2001, and 2007.
ary 31, “In other words, as the theory goes, ing a trend toward more record heat, not “There is always cold air over the Arctic
global warming sometimes causes colder record cold,” Mann wrote. “And even if in the polar night and the question is wheth-
winters. That’s what makes the global we are seeing an increase in cold weather er it sits there, or it breaks out,” Trenberth
warming theory so marvelously adaptable outbreaks in certain parts of the U.S. and told the Daily Caller. “So, all this is in the
— it can explain anything.” Europe, it wouldn’t necessarily contradict realm of weather. Not climate.”
Spencer and fellow climatologist Dr. the case for climate change — it might Dr. Jonathon Martin of the University
John Christy also cited evidence that such even be symptomatic of it.” of Wisconsin’s Department of Atmospher-

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 ic and Ocean Sciences agrees that it’s a
big leap to connect the activity of the polar
vortex to global warming. “I think that the
jump between saying that by slackening
that temperature contrast from the mid-
latitudes to the pole, that doesn’t neces-
sarily mean that the jet stream’s going to
become wavier.”
Clearly, the worldwide community of cli-
matologists hasn’t come to any consensus
that the recent visit by the polar vortex was
caused by man-made climate change, yet
the idea somehow makes its way out to the
public via the mainstream media, which is
quick to attempt to pin any unusual weather
on man-made climate change.
The media hype surrounding the polar
vortex’s recent visit seemed to suggest
that this was some new type of phenom-
enon, thus implying that it was connected
to anthropogenic, catastrophic, man-made
climate change. But actually, we’ve heard
all about the danger of the polar vortex be-
fore. Back in the 1970s, it was called the
circumpolar vortex, and the media warned
us that it was certain evidence of “climate
change,” which would occur because of
global cooling.
A Time magazine story (June 24,
1974 issue) described the coming ice
­apocalypse:
Telltale signs are everywhere —
from the unexpected persistence and
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This frozen water fountain in New York City is emblematic of just how cold the polar vortex
was. On January 31, the ambient air temperature (not wind chill) in Cotton, Minnesota, reached
56 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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thickness of pack ice in the waters
around Iceland to the southward mi-
gration of a warmth loving creature
like armadillo from the Midwest.
Since the 1940s the mean global
temperature has dropped about 2.7
degrees Fahrenheit.
A question springs to mind. The above ex-
cerpt suggests that the global mean tem-
perature actually dropped by 2.7 degrees
Fahrenheit from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Today, climatologists tell us that, since the
end of the Little Ice Age, around 1860, the
world has been steadily and abnormally
warming. Was the data wrong in the ’70s
or is it wrong now?
The answer is, probably both. We know
that the National Oceanic and Atmospher-
ic Administration (NOAA) has felt the
need to go back into historical temperature
records and adjust temperature data, pre-
sumably because of many factors, includ-
ing poor station siting and urbanization,
which led to incorrect data. And we also
know that these data adjustments have
shown a bias toward the global-warming
hypothesis.
In fact, the actual historical temperature
data has been so corrupted that a 2010
paper by Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watt
suggested that the historical data isn’t use-
ful as evidence for or against global warm-
ing. “Instrumental temperature data for the
pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so
widely, systematically and unidirection-
ally tampered with that it cannot be cred-
ibly asserted there has been any significant
‘global warming’ in the 20th century.”
And the data situation hasn’t improved
much since 2010. Last year, climate-data
researcher Dr. John McLean — a climate-
change believer — audited the IPCC’s pri-
mary global temperature data set, which
is known as HadCRUT4. It was the first
known audit of the IPCC’s data and it
showed numerous flaws. McLean noted
more than 70 problems with the data,
including “obviously erroneous data,
glossed-over sparsity of data, significant
but questionable assumptions and temper-
ature data that has been incorrectly adjust-
ed in a way that exaggerates warming.”
So it seems that all the temperature
data pre-1980 is suspect. Isn’t that kind of
a big thing? Doesn’t good science require
good data? This alone should end all de-
bate on climate change. Without accurate
temperature data, there’s no way we can
truly know how much, if any, warming has
occurred.
Unfortunately, because climate science
has become so enmeshed in politics and
globalism, it has become impossible to
study the science without taking a side.
And the climate-alarmist side has most of
the big guns in its corner. The media, the
United Nations, and globalist elites are all
heavily invested in “proving” that man is
changing the world for the worse with our
carbon-dioxide emissions.
It’s amazing and maddening that many
of the same climatologists who shake their
heads in sad condescension and accuse us
laymen of misunderstanding the differ-
ence between weather and climate, consis-
tently point to weather events such as the
polar vortex (or hurricanes, droughts, heat
waves, etc.) as evidence of man-made cli-
mate change.
Climate alarmists can get away with
these types of unfounded claims because,
as Spencer points out, “Falsification re-
quires a lot of data over a long period of
time, something we don’t usually have in
climate research.” In other words, it’s a
lot easier to come up with a theory than to
prove or disprove it. And that’s all that the
climate alarmists are looking to do — sow
doubt in the minds of the public. And a
little fear never hurts either. n
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Policing
Anti-police sentiments have been steadily gathering steam, gaining new followers, and
leading to calls for Civilian Review Boards. But such boards are counterproductive.
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Not in vain: Chicagoans were rightly incensed after seeing the video of Officer Jason Van Dyke
killing Laquan McDonald, though McDonald was not threatening anyone. But justice was served
when Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder.
by C. Mitchell Shaw
O
n October 20, 2014, Chicago
Police Officer Jason Van Dyke
— along with at least eight other
officers — responded to a call of a young
black man breaking into cars. When Van
Dyke arrived on the scene, that young
man, Laquan McDonald, who was carrying
a small folding knife, was walking down
the street away from officers who had him
mostly surrounded. Though no other offi-
cer on the scene felt the need to use lethal
force, Van Dyke drew his weapon as soon
as he exited his vehicle and began walking
toward McDonald. Seconds later, he began
firing at McDonald, who was walking away
from him and was more than a road lane’s
width away. By the time Van Dyke had
been on the scene 30 seconds, he had fired
16 rounds into McDonald — the last 14 of
those as McDonald lay dead or dying on
the asphalt.
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Because of the evidence, including an
autopsy and a dash-cam video — which
both conflicted with accounts offered by
Van Dyke and some of the other officers
in their official reports — Van Dyke was
indicted by a grand jury on December 16,
2015. The charges were first-degree mur-
der and official misconduct. When the
case went to trial in September 2018, the
charges were first-degree murder, official
misconduct, and 16 counts of aggravated
battery, one for each shot Van Dyke fired
into McDonald.
On October 5, 2018, the jury found Van
Dyke guilty of second-degree murder and
16 counts of aggravated battery with a fire-
arm, but not guilty of official misconduct.
They deliberated for less than eight hours
and said the verdict only took as long as
it did because they debated between first-
degree murder and second-degree murder.
Van Dyke was sentenced to almost
seven years in prison.
POLITICS
The murder of McDonald happened just
two and a half months after the justifiable
shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri, which sparked riots around the
nation and led to increased interest in the
Black Lives Matter movement and other
anti-police campaigns. It also gave rise to
the false “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative.
That anti-police sentiment has only in-
creased in the months and years since then.
Part of the anti-police climate that holds
America in its grip is the narrative that all
police officers and departments are corrupt
and have free rein to run roughshod over
the life, liberty, and property of citizens
— especially minority citizens — because
there is a lack of oversight. Enter, from
stage left, the Civilian Review Boards
(CRBs) being formed across the nation.
Only they can provide that much-needed
and sorely lacking oversight, according to
those who reiterate the narrative.
That narrative is based on several false
assumptions. While the space allowed to
this article does not allow a complete re-
sponse to all of those, the most egregious
of them should suffice to make the point.
First, while there are certainly police of-
ficers who violate both departmental poli-
cies and the law (as the example of Van
Dyke shows), the assumption that all police
officers are corrupt rests on an irreconcil-
able dichotomy — while it is understood
by almost everyone that it is wrong to paint
any group of people with a broad brush,
that understanding is jettisoned if the group
in question happens to be made up of men
and women from various classes, races, and
socio-economic backgrounds who all have
in common only the simple fact that they
wear a police uniform.
That broad brush ignores the salient fact
— shown time and again — that the vast
majority of police officers are dedicated
professionals who stay within the bound-
aries of both departmental policy and the
law in the performance of their duties.
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A forum for discontent: At this meeting for a proposed Civilian Review Board, emotions ruled the
day. The same usually happens in the operation of such boards, making police the scapegoats.
Second, the “solution” of creating
CRBs to provide oversight assumes —
wrongly — that such oversight is not al-
ready in place.
It is correct that those entrusted with
power need to be held accountable and
kept in check — as Lord Acton said,
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely” — but the
reality is that there are already multiple
layers of oversight in place to hold police
accountable. Checks and balances abound.
For instance: Police departments have
internal review boards; police chiefs in-
vestigate their own officers’ conduct; state
police investigate criminal complaints
against police officers; elected officials
— including county commissions, city
councils, mayors, and county sheriffs —
have authority to hold police officers and
departments accountable; state and county
grand juries are able to hear cases and de-
liver indictments; and district attorneys
can bring charges.
All of these can and do happen as a mat-
ter of routine. Again, the example of Van
Dyke illustrates this point. Even with what
appears to be an attempted coverup (includ-
ing police refusing to release the video until
a court order compelled the release), Van
Dyke was indicted by a grand jury, prose-
cuted by a district attorney, judged by a jury
of his peers, and found guilty. The system
— comprised of those layers of oversight
and other elements — worked.
Furthermore, the idea that CRBs are
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needed to provide oversight for police
departments is itself a faulty idea. When
a doctor is suspected of having acted im-
properly, he or she can be brought before
a medical review board to determine the
facts of the case. Those review boards are
made up of doctors. Lawyers suspected
of improper actions are brought before
the Bar Association, made up of lawyers.
Other professions have similar review
boards made up of men and women in
those professions.
When it comes to police, though, the
plan for CRBs ignores the basic principle
that review boards are best when they are
made up of those who understand the re-
quirements of the job. They know what the
standards are and can recognize when they
are and are not being met. Instead, CRBs
are made up of a panel of civilians who
have never worn a badge or had to make
life-and-death decisions in a fraction of a
second, but are empowered to judge that
which they know not. While juries in t­rials
are likewise comprised of civilians who
are not police officers, the differences are
important: Juries are made up of randomly
chosen peers while CRBs are made up of
people who — usually for political reasons
— volunteer for the position; juries hear
all of the available evidence, for both the
prosecution and the defense (including ex-
pert testimony), while CRBs routinely only
consider “evidence” indicating the guilt of
officers; and jury trials are presided over by
a judge, whose job is to keep the trial on
track and inform the jury of what can and
cannot be considered “evidence,” while
CRBs are given free rein to make up their
own rules and define their own powers. In a
jury trial, the power is divided between the
prosecutor, the defense, the judge, and the
jury. A CRB acts as prosecutor, judge, and
jury while the “defense” is usually non-
existent. Fortunately, its power stops short
of that of executioner.
To make matters worse, since the nar-
rative is that all police officers and de-
partments are corrupt and untrustworthy,
CRBs undoubtedly attract those who ac-
cept that false premise. In other words, an
anti-police element is given authority over
local police departments.
This is proving to be a bridge too far for
many police officers. Case in point: Char-
lottesville, Virginia. Having withstood the
constant barrage of anti-police sentiment
from major media and within their own
communities in the wake of the Unite the
Right Rally that thrust their city and their
department into the national spotlight in
August 2017, officers are leaving the de-
partment over the newly formed CRB.
Police Chief RaShall Brackney told
Charlottesville’s Daily Progress that her
department is experiencing a “mass exo-
dus.” “It seems like, I think, on average,
one to two officers a week are leaving the
department,” said Brackney, who took over
the department in June 2018. She replaced
Al Thomas, who “retired” in December
2017 due to criticism over the way his de-
partment handled the violence that broke
out during the Unite the Right Rally.
Chief Brackney — the department’s
first black female chief — has more than
30 years’ experience in law enforcement.
She served as a member of the Pittsburgh
Police Bureau command staff before serv-
ing as police chief for the George Wash-
ington University Police Department for
three years. From Pittsburgh to D.C.,
Chief Brackney has served in some of
America’s toughest cities. Her experience
in serving those communities means that
she likely understands the divisive issues
facing Charlottesville.
She was hired after the city council had
already voted to form a CRB. At the city
council meeting where she was introduced
to the community, it was immediately ap-
parent that she was inheriting a hornet’s
nest. Comments from citizens were domi-
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nated by discussion of the August 2017
rally and violence. Brackney was chal-
lenged by pro-CRB activists. As the Daily
Progress reported:
In her brief remarks after she was in-
troduced, Brackney asked the public
to be patient during her transition to
the police department, “and remember
there are human beings behind each
and every one of the statements we
make toward and about each other.”
One activist, Rosia Parker, addressed the
council, saying that she no longer has
any patience for police and city officials.
Then, she addressed Brackney directly,
saying, “I appreciate you coming, but are
you truly ready?”
This is the climate in which CRBs are
created: distrust, frustration, and anger
based on the false narrative that all police
are corrupt and city officials will not hold
them accountable. Evidence of this is seen
in the fact that when CRBs are impaneled,
they are populated by the very people who
see the police as enemies, as we will show
later in this article.
To make matters worse, the first order
of business for the new CRB is to write its
own bylaws and choose a model for how
much authority it will have.
Matthew Murphy at the Charlottesville
Clerk of Council’s Office told The New
American that the CRB there is still for-
mulating its bylaws, which will spell out
the authority of the CRB. He said that
those bylaws will be submitted to the
council for approval once they are final-
ized. The council will have the final say
as to the approval of those bylaws and the
CRB’s authority.
In explaining the “mass exodus” in her
department, Chief Brackney addressed
what she calls a “toxic” environment for
police officers. “Officers in our communi-
ty are routinely verbally assaulted, they’re
cursed at. There’s a lot of not feeling as
though they’re appreciated,” she said. “We
have it on video where people are cursing
our officers, calling them names for no
other reason than walking down the street.”
That “toxic” environment has found a
home in the newly formed CRB. Brackney
said board members have been “vocal and
biased” against officers on radio and tele-
vision, saying officers’ days are numbered
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Not staying where they are not wanted: New head of the Charlottesville police RaShall Brackney
has seen officers leave her department weekly because they feel that a new Civilian Review Board
is not there for justice, but to punish them unjustly.
and that the CRB is coming after them.
“The officers do not believe that there’s
going to be any fair, impartial oversight,”
Brackney said. “It’s well-documented how
some of them have treated our officers, in-
cluding me.”
In fact, the Charlottesville CRB is made
up largely of the usual suspects: anti-po-
lice activists.
Board member Katrina Turner, for in-
stance, has made a name for herself as
such. She was an active participant at the
“counter-protest” during the Unite the
Right Rally in August 2017. She has said,
“No matter if we almost lost our life that
day we’re going to continue this fight —
for as long as we can.” Setting aside the
overdone hyperbole of almost losing her
life (there is no indication that Turner was
the victim of any violence at the rally), one
thing is clear: Turner is an activist with
strong views about what it means to “con-
tinue this fight.” And strong views about
who the enemy is. Days after the rally, she
addressed a group of activists while wear-
ing a Black Lives Matter shirt. “About the
police,” she said, “We didn’t trust the po-
lice before the rallies got here.”
Carrying the “fight” onward, Turner has
filed a complaint against Chief Brackney
for approaching her outside a city council
meeting in November 2018 while Turner
was “helping a sick child.” She claims
Brackney attempted to intimidate her. She
also claims that her son was pulled over for
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being black. Police stopped him and issued
a warning for running a stop sign. Turner
claims he got off with a warning “because
... I came out there and let them know I was
with the CRB.” Apparently, she does not
understand the finer points of a conflict of
interest. Or perhaps that conflict is her rea-
son for being on the board.
Other board members, including Gloria
Beard, Guillermo Ubilla, and Don Gathers
(who recently resigned from the board due
to health concerns) are leftist activists who
have made similar anti-police statements.
So rather than stay in a community that
is hostile toward them and their families
while a CRB is preparing to stack the deck
against them, officers are leaving to take
positions in other communities. Predict-
ably, replacing those officers is proving
difficult. Recruitment is down for the
same reasons attrition is up.
“We talk about that we want a diverse
force, but if a person feels like they’re
not going to be welcomed in that com-
munity, that they’re coming into a com-
munity where it’s actively hostile towards
them, it makes it a challenge to recruit,”
Chief Brackney said. “I think there’s this
assumption that these kinds of things are
going to be heaped on our officers and that
they’re never going to say anything. They
have family, they have friends and things
of that nature.”
The net result is that with a declining
police force, the communities most in
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need of police will have fewer police. If
the trend continues, crime — especially
violent crime — will likely increase in
those communities. If the trend does
not continue, it will be due entirely to
the leadership of people such as Chief
Brackney and the sacrificial dedication
of those willing to weather the storm of
a “toxic” environment. In other words,
it will be in spite of — not because of
— the CRB.
Law-enforcement agencies in commu-
nities are taking Charlottesville’s experi-
ence with its newly formed and not-quite-
empowered CRB as a cautionary tale. On
November 6, 2018, Nashville, Tennessee,
approved the creation of a CRB for that
city. The next day, the Nashville Fraternal
Order of Police (FOP) issued a statement,
e-mailed by President James Smallwood,
that “the FOP … believes that an expen-
sive oversight board is an unnecessary re-
dundancy that we simply cannot afford,”
and, “While it is our intention to respect
the rule of law and work with the admin-
istration as they implement this new leg-
islation, we fully intend to stand alongside
our members and ensure that their rights
are preserved. They deserve nothing less.”
When the creation of the board was still
in the works and awaiting approval, the
FOP voiced concerns. Former FOP Presi-
dent Robert Weaver said, “It appears this
board is not set up for fact finding and
truth finding. It appears this board is set
up for some means of retaliation and ret-
ribution for a problem that doesn’t seem
to exist.” Weaver’s claim of “a problem
that doesn’t seem to exist” is a reference
to what this writer pointed out earlier in
this article: Layers of accountability and
oversight already exist. As Weaver ex-
plained, “You already have the ability to
file a complaint with an officer’s supervi-
sor. You have the ability to file with the
district attorney’s office, the US attorney’s
office, or the TBI and the FBI. There is
even recourse through civil courts if you
believe you have been wronged.”
Weaver’s logical and correct argument
was ignored by the powers that be. The
CRB was approved and is moving for-
ward. And that is causing concern for
some in Nashville.
The Tennessee Star recently reported to
its readers about the experience of Char-
lottesville and drew a comparison to what
Nashville could expect once its CRB is im-
paneled and officially operating. The article
pointed in particular to the “mass exodus”
of police officers in Charlottesville.
And Metro Nashville Council mem-
ber Steve Glover told the Tennessee Star,
“They (the officers) will leave us. They will
say bye. They already have a hard-enough
job.” He added, “I’m not just talking about
police. I am talking about first responders.
Everyone. They will say bye because we
apparently don’t appreciate them. I do ap-
preciate them, but if we keep pushing and
pushing and pushing as we are doing now
then this is a dangerous place to go.”
Glover is correct in that the job police
officers do is hard enough already. To add
to that already difficult job the danger of
being raked over the coals by unelected,
unaccountable, anti-police activists is to
ask too much. Of course, the anti-police
activists that make up too-large a percent-
age of CRBs don’t care what police have
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How
the DIVERSITY
After years of liberal propagandizing, the claim that the strength of our country rests on its
diversity is usually accepted without comment. But this book shows that the opposite is true.
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and
Gender Pandering Corrupt the Univer-
sity and Undermine Our Culture, by
Heather Mac Donald, New York: St. Mar-
tin’s Press, 2018, 247 pages, hardcover.
by Steve Byas
W
e often see the car sticker that
proclaims, “Celebrate Diver-
sity.” In one way, we who sup-
port the concepts of individual liberty and
limited government can nod in agreement.
Whatever is meant by those who display
that message on their automobiles, the
push for “diversity” in academia, in the
workplace, and in the popular culture is
more about enforcing conformity — con-
formity to progressive ideology.
Heather Mac Donald, familiar to many
of our readers for her authorship of The
War on Cops, has taken exception to
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Our Culture
the use of this effort to advance a radi-
cal worldview in the name of diversity.
In the view of these social-justice war-
riors, any standard based on merit and
even Western Civilization itself is de-
nounced as discriminatory. The negative
consequence of this diversity craze that
permeates America’s colleges and uni-
versities, and even the corporate world,
is that a nation of narrowed minds, who
see themselves as perpetual victims, is
being created. “Ultimately, we are put-
ting our competitive edge at risk,” Mac
Donald argues.
Mac Donald organizes her book into
four parts: Race, Gender, the Bureaucracy,
and the Purpose of the University.
According to Mac Donald, many stu-
dents now equate nonconforming ideas as
“hate speech.” Anything then classified
as “hate speech” (and the diversity crowd
does the classifying) is considered some-
thing that should be punished, censored,
and repelled with force if necessary. She
offers the example of a mob keeping so-
cial scientist Charles Murray from speak-
ing at Middlebury College in March 2017.
Two months later, a professor at Evergreen
State College — who was a progressive
— was eventually pushed to resign after
he refused to obey an edict from the direc-
tor of First Peoples Multicultural Advising
Services that all white faculty cancel their
courses for the day to show solidarity with
the supposed struggles of the college’s mi-
nority students.
Rather than building bridges and broad-
ening people’s experiences, as diversity
proponents claim, Mac Donald argues,
“It has had the opposite effect: dividing
society, reducing learning, and creating
an oppositional mind-set that prevents in-
dividuals from seizing the opportunities
available to them.”
Mac Donald herself has been on the
receiving end of censorship in the name
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of diversity. At Claremont College, where
she was going to speak about the impor-
tance of local police, her appearance was
opposed by students arguing that she was
a “fascist, a white supremacist, a war
hawk,” among other things. Of course,
the fascist and white supremacist accusa-
tions are typical libels progressives use
to advance their leftist goals. In regard to
the war hawk accusation, she wrote in her
book that she was “an early and document-
ed opponent of the Iraq War and all such
efforts at regime change.”
The Attack Upon Western Civilization
Many conservatives, in an attempt to
ridicule this movement, have dismissed
students desirous of being protected from
speech that they don’t like, calling them
“snowflakes.” But Mac Donald does not
agree. “Campus intolerance is at root not
a psychological phenomenon but an ideo-
logical one. At its center is a world view
that sees Western culture as endemically
racist and sexist.”
A Facebook post in November 2015
by a sophomore at Columbia University
sums up the animosity toward Western
Civilization, arguing that his “health and
life” were threatened by a core curriculum
course taught by a white professor. Other
students chimed in, with one arguing
against being forced to read “racist” texts
by Plato and Aristotle.
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly,
this diversity dogma is affecting life off
the campus, as well. Mac Donald offers
as an example the firing of Google engi-
neer James Damore in August 2017 for
questioning the company’s diversity ide-
ology. Damore charged that Google prac-
ticed discrimination against white men.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai lamented that
Damore — who had written a memo argu-
ing against such discriminatory practices
— had “clearly impacted our co-work-
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ers, some of whom are hurting and feel
judged based on their gender.” Damore
later asserted in his discrimination lawsuit
against Google that the company even had
a black-list of right-wing commentators.
But it is the campus where many of
these ideas originate. Mac Donald cited
a Wall Street Journal article documenting
many of the discriminatory practices of
the universities, all in the name of “diver-
sity.” One example cited was that UCLA
had admitted a Hispanic girl with SATs of
940, while rejecting a Korean student who
scored in the 1500s. As Mac Donald ex-
plained, “The Korean student hardly lived
in the lap of luxury: He tutored children to
pay the rent for his divorced mother, who
had developed breast cancer. But he went
on to a highly competitive school with a
high Asian population in Irvine, while the
Hispanic girl came from a school filled
with failing students.” In another instance,
an engineer’s son with near-perfect SATs
from University High in Irvine was re-
jected by both Cal-Berkeley and UCLA.
Sadly, such discrimination often fails
to accomplish its purpose, anyway. In a
study of the effects of affirmative action
in law schools, Richard Sander found that
law schools that admit black students with
lower GPAs and LSAT scores than their
nonblack peers actually lowered their stu-
dents’ chances of passing the bar. Stanford
law professor Michele Landis Dauber not
only rejected Sander’s academic study,
she said it was “a piece of crap that never
should have been published and has no
merit of any sort.” This is typical for those
on the Left — in academia they use the
“peer-reviewed process” to keep articles
that do not conform to progressive ideol-
ogy from even being published. Although
hardly an academic titan, Al Gore under-
stands the tactic very well — witness his
view that “the debate is over,” and no views
other than his should even be allowed on
the topic of so-called climate change.
Microaggression Farce
Another area in which the push for “di-
versity” inhibits learning is the charge
that Mac Donald calls “the microaggres-
sion farce.” This is when, as Mac Donald
explains it, students assert that they have
been “victimized … by racial microag-
gression — the hottest concept on campus
today, used to call out racism otherwise
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invisible to the naked eye.” A longtime
scholar at UCLA fell victim to this charge
of microaggression in 2013. Val Rust had
a dissertation-prep class in which he at-
tempted to direct the students to use proper
punctuation. When he changed a student’s
capitalization of the word “indigenous” in
her dissertation proposal to the lowercase,
he was accused of showing disrespect for
the student’s ideological point of view.
After other such supposed acts of “mi-
croaggression,” three militant “students
of color” brought in a score of other stu-
dents of color who were not in the class,
a reporter and a photographer from the
campus newspaper, and entered Rust’s
class. Forming a circle around the mild-
mannered professor, they read aloud a Day
of Action statement filled with invective.
“The silence of the repeated assailment of
our work by white female colleagues, our
professor’s failure to acknowledge and as-
suage the escalating hostility directed at
the only Male of Color in this cohort” had
produced a “hostile and unsafe climate for
Scholars of Color.”
A teaching assistant later remarked,
“Asking for better grammar is inflamma-
tory in the school. You have to give an A
or you’re a racist.”
“This melodramatic ‘safety’ rhetoric,
deployed so promiscuously during the
Rust incident lies at the heart of academic
victimology,” Mac Donald wrote. “Any
college bureaucrat who uses it has cast his
lot with the fiction that his college is dan-
gerous for minority and female students
outside a few places of sanctuary.”
Closely related to the “microaggres-
sion” charges is “implicit bias,” which
was embraced by President Barack Obama
and the 2016 Democratic presidential
candidate, Hillary Clinton. “Implicit bias
purports to answer the question: Why do
Heather
Mac Donald
racial disparities persist in household in-
come, job status, and incarceration rates,
when explicit racism has, by all measures,
greatly diminished over the last half-cen-
tury,” Mac Donald wrote by way of ex-
plaining what is meant by “implicit bias.”
The reason, according to its proponents,
“lies deep in our brains, outside the reach
of conscious thought. We may consciously
embrace racial equality, but almost all of
us harbor unconscious biases favoring
whites over blacks.”
Any other explanations are considered
“taboo” in the universities and in main-
stream society. Explanations such as in-
tergroup differences in interests, abilities,
cultural values, or family structures are
rejected, without consideration.
Once this theory becomes accepted,
it will then become “legally actionable,”
Mac Donald warns. “Every personnel de-
cision can be challenged as the product of
implicit bias.” Then, the only way to guar-
antee equality of opportunity would be to
mandate equality of results through quo-
tas, lamented Philip Tetlock, a critic of the
theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Other topics examined under the um-
brella of “diversity” include the “campus
rape myth,” the explosion of campus bu-
reaucracy to deal with diversity claims,
and the damage that this diversity climate
is causing to our competitive edge in sci-
ence and math.
Underpinning all of this, is, of course,
an attack upon the foundations of Western
Civilization, which gave rise to concepts
present at the founding of the nation: lim-
ited government, individual liberty, and
freedom of expression.
Mac Donald has sounded the warning
with her well-researched and entertaining-
ly written book. We ignore what is going
on in the universities at our own peril. n
THE NEW AMERICAN  •  MARCH 4, 2019

Stranger’s Quiet Good Deed
Small acts of kindness often have a big
impact.
In the pouring rain, Jefferson County
Deputy Sheriff Tiffany Dial of Birming-
ham, Alabama, stood in a salute during
the funeral procession of a fallen offi-
cer, Sergeant Wytasha Carter, who was
killed in the line of duty on January 13.
But Deputy Dial was not exposed to the
elements for long. Unbeknownst to her,
a man whom she did not know stood be-
hind her and held an umbrella over her
head.
The moment was witnessed by Meghan
Blankenship, who was moved to tears by
the man’s act of courtesy. He stood there
for well over 30 minutes in order to hold
the umbrella over Dial.
“It brought tears to my eyes,” Blan-
kenship said, for him “to show that much
respect and love for another individual.”
The stranger did not do it for acco-
lades. In fact, Deputy Dial said she had
no idea he was even there.
“I didn’t know he was there. My pe-
ripheral vision was cut off with my hat, so
I didn’t know anything was there. I was in
my moment,” Dial said.
Dial and the stranger did not have the
opportunity to interact with one another.
He did not say a word to her, did not want
to interrupt her show of respect for the
funeral procession, and by the time she
turned around, he was gone.
The man would have remained anony-
mous were it not for Blankenship’s photo
that went viral on Facebook.
The local news station learned that the
man is Shawn Allen, an attorney who was
at work on January 26 and decided to go
outside to watch the procession and pay
his respects.
“When it was going by my building at
work, I wanted to go outside and pay my
respect,” Allen said.
When he spotted Dial standing in the
rain, he did not think twice to approach
her with his umbrella.
“It was raining and I had an umbrella
and she didn’t,” Allen said. “It was just a
nice thing to do.”
But despite Allen’s modesty, Dial as-
serts that Allen’s good deed meant a lot.
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“It meant a lot, in ways you can’t even
put into words,” Dial told WBMA. “It
wasn’t just about keeping the rain off of
me for that little bit, it meant a lot more
than that.”
Man Gives Car
to Woman in Need
Witchita businessman Chris Ellis has a
big personality, which became evident to
Vicki Anderson the first time Ellis ordered
at her McDonald’s drive-thru window. The
two struck up a friendship, and Ellis told
the Wichita Eagle that he always looked
forward to seeing her during his McDon-
ald’s visits. Still, Anderson would never
have expected the generosity Ellis showed
her when she was in need of a new car.
On January 14, Ellis came through An-
derson’s drive-thru window, and Anderson
asked him if he knew anyone who might
be selling a cheap vehicle. Her car just
died and the $500 cost to fix it was simply
more than the car was worth.
Ellis really wanted to help. As it turned
out, his son had just purchased a new ve-
hicle and was selling his old one — a 2009
Pontiac GS. Ellis spoke with his son, Josh,
about Anderson, and Josh offered to sell
the vehicle at a significantly discounted
rate knowing it was for a good cause.
Ellis paid his son for the vehicle, and
Josh got an oil change, had the tires rotated
on the car, and had it cleaned. They wanted
the car to be in tip-top shape before they
presented it to its new owner. The two then
went to McDonald’s on January 15 to sur-
prise Anderson.
A McDonald’s manager filmed the mo-
ment the men presented the vehicle to An-
derson. She immediately burst into tears
and exchanged heartfelt hugs and kind
words with the men.
Anderson asked how she could repay
Ellis for his kindness, and his response
was simply, “Just pay it forward when
you can.”
Ellis explained his motivation behind
the kindness he showed Anderson. “Fate
looked me in the eye when she told me that
story,” Ellis said. “I couldn’t stop thinking
about it. I said, ‘I have to do something.’”
Ellis told the Witchita Eagle that the ex-
perience of helping Anderson gave him a
natural “high.” “It was amazing. It’s still
amazing. I watched the video today and
cried twice.”
Teen Girl Assists
Disabled Diner
Nineteen-year-old Ashley Guzman
works at the Chick-fil-A at Palmera Mall
in Corpus Christi, Texas. Guzman’s su-
pervisor says she has a big heart and en-
joys coming to work each day. A photo
secretly snapped of Guzman interacting
with one of the restaurant’s patrons is
testimony to that.
A diner named Jessica Gomez at the
mall’s food court witnessed a lovely
scene on January 5 in which Guzman sat
with a disabled customer, cut up his food,
and fed it to him. Gomez captured a photo
and posted it to her Facebook page.
“While eating at the mall with my fam-
ily I saw this lovely girl help this man
out,” Gomez wrote on Facebook. “I’ve
seen this man several times here by him-
self. This employee sat with him and
fed him his food. She went above and
beyond. The times I’ve been here every-
one just leaves him. She cut his food into
pieces and went back several times to get
him whatever he needed. May God bless
this woman.”
The photo received thousands of
“likes” and was shared hundreds of times.
Facebook users were moved by the girl’s
kindness.
Guzman said she was surprised when
she saw the photo and didn’t think any-
thing of sitting down with the man and
helping him eat.
Operations Director Melissa Tamez
said that Chick-fil-A encourages its em-
ployees to help those in need, but Guz-
man’s kindness goes beyond what the
restaurant expects of its workers.
“It tells us a lot about her,” Tamez told
KIII-TV.
And when the brother of the disabled
customer learned of Guzman’s actions, he
told KIII-TV that he was grateful. n
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The Continuing Scourge of Anti-Semitism
Though anti-Semitism — like all hatred aimed at groups — is an irrational hatred, it has a
very long history. And the causes and consequences of this hatred are objectionable.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Estelle Bechoefer
Left, not Right: Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party (i.e., Nazi Party) was
notoriously anti-Jewish, emphasizing racial collectivism over the economic, political, and social
collectivism common to the various brands of socialism.
by Steve Byas
A
s pertaining to hatred of the Jews,
Adolph Hitler is universally rec-
ognized as history’s champion
without equal. The Nazi dictator did not
invent anti-Semitism, but he did take it
to new level. While some have theorized
that Hitler’s public hatred of the Jews was
driven more by politics than any personal
animosity, it appears that he had harbored
such vitriol from his youth. His teenage
friend August Kubizek recalled that one
day as the two adolescents were walking
around their home town of Linz, Austria,
Hitler pointed to a Jewish synagogue and
said that the building “doesn’t belong in
Linz.”
As Hitler rose to power in Germany,
his anti-Jewish tirades were not consid-
ered all that unusual to the Jews in Ger-
many. After all, they had experienced
such vicious anti-Semitic prejudice for
centuries.
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Origins of Anti-Semitism
Attempting to understand the irrational is
a difficult task, but the irrational hatred of
the Jews has a long history. In the early
days of Christianity, most Christians were
Jews, who faced persecution more from
fellow Jews than Roman authorities, at
least initially. Family members disowned
them, their businesses were shunned, em-
ployment was difficult, and those who
continued to attend the synagogues were
soon expelled. In short, the Jews came to
be seen as the most serious enemies of the
Christian religion.
Early Christians, whether they came
to the faith directly from a Jewish back-
ground or were Gentiles, found it difficult
to understand why Jews did not accept
their own Messiah. Their contention was
that a true Jew should readily adopt the
new faith. After the destruction of the Jew-
ish temple in A.D. 70 by Roman legions,
most Jews left Jerusalem and the sur-
rounding region, and Christianity became
increasingly Gentile. When the Emperor
Constantine legalized Christianity, he also
forbade the non-Christian Jews from seek-
ing converts, calling them “a nefarious
and perverse sect.”
Not surprisingly, Jews who fled to Eu-
rope faced persistent persecution, vary-
ing in intensity depending on where they
resided as well as the century in which
they lived. At times, they were forced to
wear special clothes and “hats of humili-
ation,” and made to live in segregated
areas called ghettos. With the coming of
the Crusades their lot tended to worsen,
as their reluctance to become Christians
was unfairly conflated with the aggres-
sive Islamic religion of the Turks in the
Middle East. More and more, Jews were
seen as suspiciously separate from Euro-
pean society — they ate different foods
(even referring to pork, a leading meat
of the Medieval European, as “unclean”),
they practiced a different religion, and
they were regarded as “Christ-killers.”
Massacres of Jews swept across Eu-
rope. In many cases, Roman Catholic
bishops made efforts to restrain the at-
tacks in cities such as Mainz, Speyer,
Lorraine, and Worms. Pope Calixtus
(1194-1224) issued a bull (a papal order)
that said the Jews would suffer no new
deprivation of rights.
During the Third Crusade, some local
nobles in York who were in debt to some
Jewish moneylenders took advantage of
the opportunity presented by the crusad-
ing zeal, and many Jews in the town were
slaughtered. As a result of the severe
persecutions in Western Europe, many
Jews began to migrate eastward. Others
returned to their ancient homeland in the
Middle East.
Sometime in the 12th century, Jews
were even accused of plotting against
Christendom itself, in what has been
called “the blood-libel.” This is the ac-
cusation that Jews murder Christians in
order to obtain blood for the Passover.
In 1144 in England, a boy named Wil-
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against the Jews — they are not even

More and more, Jews were seen as suspiciously separate from
European society — they ate different foods (even referring to pork, a
leading meat of the Medieval European, as “unclean”), they practiced a
different religion, and they were regarded as “Christ-killers.”
liam disappeared at Easter time, and was
later found dead. The rumor spread that
Jews had captured William on Good Fri-
day and subjected him to crucifixion, in
an apparent mockery of Jesus’ own cru-
cifixion. This story eventually led to the
expulsion of the Jews from England, and
similar blood-libel stories across Europe
led to increased persecution.
Then came the bubonic plague. Lasting
from 1347 to 1351, this “Black Death”
wiped out as much as one-half the popu-
lation of Europe. As the death toll mount-
ed, men searched for answers as to what
was causing this nightmare. It did not
take long before some suggested that it
was being caused by the Jews, because
it was noticed that Jews were not dying
at the same high rate as Christians. This
was probably due to Jewish laws dictat-
ing handwashing and hygienic food han-
dling, but many feared that Jews, intent
on eliminating the Christian world, were
systematically poisoning drinking wells
“real Jews,” but rather descendants of the
Khazars of Khazaria, a people found in
the area from the Volga steppes to eastern
Crimea and the northern Caucasus. Kha­
zaria was a vibrant trading region, which
served as an excellent “buffer zone” be-
tween the expansionist Muslims of the
Middle East and the Christian Byzantine
throughout Europe. According to histo- Empire.
rian Jackson Spielvogel, more than 60 The Khazar state was eventually de-
major Jewish communities were exter- stroyed by the Kievan Rus ruler Sviato-
minated by 1351. slav I, between 965 and 969. Before that
In 1349, as many as 2,000 Jews were happened, Khazar royalty and much of
burned to death on a wooden platform the aristocracy had converted to Judaism,
in their cemetery in Strasbourg. Their while much of the general population re-
wealth was redistributed. A contempo- mained pagan, Christian, or Muslim, to go
rary chronicler, Jacob von Konigshofen, along with a good-sized number of Jew-
said bluntly, “The money was indeed the ish converts in the general population. Be-
thing that killed the Jews.” Coveting the cause these Khazars were the only Jewish
wealth of those who have more wealth state to rise between the fall of the Second
even works as a political tactic today, al- Temple in the Roman-Jewish War of A.D.
though no one is advocating murder of 66-70 and the establishment of modern Is-
“the rich,” at least not yet. rael in 1948, we now have a widely held
Pope Clement VI, to his credit, issued belief that the Ashkenazi Jews are largely
a bull in Avignon denouncing the at- descendants of these Khazars.
tacks upon the Jews, calling it “a horrible But Harry Ostrer, a medical doctor and
thing.” professor of genetics at Albert Einstein
And more Jews moved east. College of Medicine and director of ge-
netic and genome testing at Montefiore
Are Today’s Jews Real Jews? Medical Center, conducted studies of his
This eastward migration has contributed own and, combined with those of others,
greatly to a more recent charge leveled has demonstrated that the Jews from the
various groups of the Jewish diaspora are
linked by genetics and biology.
Ostrer notes that the Roman Emperor
Titus brought many Jews to Rome fol-
lowing the Roman-Jewish War. Spanish
Jews later migrated to Rome to escape the
Spanish Inquisition, where those “Sep-
hardic” Jews mixed with the “Roman”
Jews. Because Roman Jews had a low
frequency of disease mutations that were
found in both Ashkenazi and Sephardic
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populations, he speculated that they were

the principal ancestors of the Ashkenazi
Jews.
In his book DNA & Tradition: The Ge-
netic Link to the Ancient Hebrews, Yaakov
Kleiman wrote, “Haplotypes have also
helped the identity seekers to retrace the
path of the wandering Ashkenazi Jews.
We who hail from East Europe most like-
Not a religious or right-wing thing: Many try to portray anti-Semitism as a “right-wing” ly migrated there from Alsace and Rhine-
affliction, but this ignores the vicious anti-Jewish rantings of many on the Left. Karl Marx, land, as confirmed by Yiddish, a form of
the author of the Communist Manifesto, was strongly anti-Semitic, even authoring one of the Low German.” Ostrer concluded from his
strongest anti-Jewish writings of all time, A World Without Jews. study of Roman Jews that the Ashkenazi

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Widely hated: Sam Bowers, the leader of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a former
communist, told a Klan front group that the “Jew” was their biggest problem. Some Klan
literature uncovered by a congressional committee denies that today’s Jews have an ethnic
connection to the Jews of the Bible.
lived in Italy for a thousand years before
they migrated into Alsace and Rhineland.
Both the biblical Book of Acts and
the Roman historian Suetonius allude to
the presence of Jews in Rome in the first
­century.
Anti-Semitism Since the Middle Ages
As Europe emerged from the Middle
Ages, one might think that increased secu-
larization would have led to a decline in
anti-Semitism. But the resurgence of ha-
tred of Jews in more modern times among
peoples of various nationalities and reli-
gions — or no religion — indicates that
other factors besides Christian animus and
vengeance drive anti-Semitism.
While leftists can be counted on to
blame anti-Semitism on Christianity and
“right-wing” ideology, the truth is that
secularism, even atheism, and left-wing
ideology are more likely to produce vitriol
against the Jews. One need look no further
than to the anti-Semitic rantings of Karl
Marx, the author of The Communist Mani-
festo, who, ironically, was Jewish in his
ethnicity but not his religion. For Marx,
religion was “the opiate of the people.” By
this, he meant that it kept the people se-
dated so they would not rise up and change
their condition. In his atheism, Marx hated
not only Christianity, but the Jewish reli-
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gion as well. In fact, he believed the Jews
had corrupted Christianity.
“What is the worldly cult of the Jews?
Huckstering. What is his world god?
Money,” Marx wrote of the Jews. He even
penned an anti-Semitic tract that rivals
the worst ever published, A World Without
Jews. “The bill of exchange is the Jew’s
real God.” In another writing, Marx said
one town he had visited was “full of Jews
and fleas.” This sounds quite similar to
the anti-Semitic rantings of Louis Farra-
khan’s comparison of the Jews to termites
— something any homeowner wants ex-
terminated.
When confronted about his strident
anti-Semitism, Marx wrote, “It is now
perfectly clear to me, that, as the shape of
his head and the growth of his hair indi-
cates, he [the Jew] is descended from the
Negroes who joined in Moses’ flight from
Egypt.”
By the late 1930s, Soviet dictator Jo-
seph Stalin had purged practically all Jews
from the top echelons of the communist
dictatorship. He even made use of anti-
Semitic bigotry in his successful power
struggle with Leon Trotsky, who was of
Jewish ancestry.
Hitler is clearly history’s most famous
anti-Semite, and it should be noted that his
political party was the National Socialist
Party — and socialist is the opposite of
right-wing and conservative. Similarly,
there were very few Jews in the Fabian
Socialist movement in England.
A major reason for this could be that
virtually all of the most notable leaders
of the Fabian Society — George Bernard
Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Robert
Blatchford, to name a few — were notori-
ous anti-Semites. In the early part of the
20th century, the Fabians were among the
most celebrated “liberals,” and advocates
for every form of collectivism: fascism,
socialism, communism.
George Bernard Shaw not only was a
superstar playwright, dramatist, and es-
sayist, but also one of the most influential
public intellectuals of his day, not only in
England, but worldwide. In 1925, he was
awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for
his play Saint Joan. His 1912 play Pyg-
malion was made into a film in 1938, for
which he won an Academy Award Oscar.
He was thus the first person to have been
awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
In 1956, Pygmalion was adapted as the
Lerner & Lowe musical classic My Fair
Lady. After enjoying phenomenal success
on stage, it transitioned to film, winning
eight Academy Awards in 1964, and cata-
pulting Shaw to even greater posthumous
acclaim. Throughout his long life, Shaw
channeled all of his fame and influence into
his role as socialist propagandist. He was an
especially avid supporter of the Bolshevik
Revolution in Russia and the mass-murder-
ing Soviet Communist leaders Lenin and
Stalin. During his 1931 tour of the Soviet
Union, he enjoyed a long, friendly meeting
with Stalin, and returned to England to sing
the praises of both Stalin and the Soviet
paradise. Less well known (because his so-
cialist friends have covered it up) is Shaw’s
enthusiastic support for Benito Mussolini
and Adolf Hitler.
In a June 1933 interview with The Sun-
day Dispatch, Shaw declared: “The Nazi
movement is in many respects one which
has my warm sympathy; in fact, I might
fairly claim that Herr Hitler has repudi-
ated Karl Marx to enlist under the ban-
ner of Bernard Shaw.” In a 1935 letter to
Siegfried Trebitsch, Shaw asked that his
warm greeting be extended to Nazi leader
Hermann Göring: “Tell Colonel Goring
with my compliments that I have backed
his regime in England to the point of
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But Hitler is clearly history’s most famous anti-Semite, and it should
be noted that his political party was the National Socialist Party —
and socialist is the opposite of right-wing and conservative.
making myself unpopular, and still con-
tinue to do so on all matters on which he
and Hitler stand for permanent truths and
genuine Realpolitik.” It is not surprising,
then, that Shaw the militant atheist, like
Hitler the militant atheist, was an avid eu-
genicist as well. In fact Shaw’s obsession
with eugenics predated Hitler’s. “I think
we ought to tackle the Jewish Question,”
Shaw wrote in his 1902 drama Man and
Superman, “by admitting the right of the
State to make eugenic experiments by
weeding out any strains they think unde-
sirable.”
Shaw viewed Jews as the “real enemy,”
calling them “the invader from the East,
the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental para-
site; in a word, the Jew.”
H.G. Wells was no less famous than
Bernard Shaw, though his anti-Semitism
was less strident and more nuanced. The
renowned social commentator, historian
(The Outline of History), and novelist (The
Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The
Island of Dr. Moreau) was nominated for
the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. His
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Oh-so “progressive”: Fabian Socialist icon George Bernard Shaw, literary giant and intellectual
guru of the Left, publicly praised Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, and Stalin — and was a virulent anti-
Semite, viewing Jews as the “real enemy.”
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books have sold millions of copies, and his
novels have reached many millions more
in the form of movies and plays. He was
a leader in the Fabian Society, and as was
common among his fellow Fabians, favored
state control of virtually everything, includ-
ing procreation. This was clearly apparent
as far back as 1901 in his nonfiction work
Anticipations, which put forward Wells’ vi-
sion for a “New Republic.” This idealized
state, he said, would be “a Republic that
must ultimately become a World State.”
Here is a glimpse of his vision:
And how will the New Republic treat
the inferior races? How will it deal
with the black? how will it deal with
the yellow man? how will it tackle
that alleged termite in the civilized
woodwork, the Jew? …
If the Jew has a certain incurable
tendency to social parasitism, and
we make social parasitism impos-
sible, we shall abolish the Jew, and if
he has not, there is no need to abol-
ish the Jew.
Like Shaw and other Fabian “progres-
sives,” Wells advocated a eugenics pro-
gram worthy of Hitler. His World State
would “be shaped primarily to favour the
procreation of what is fine and efficient
and beautiful in humanity — beautiful
and strong bodies, clear and powerful
minds, and a growing body of knowl-
edge — and to check the procreation of
base and servile types, of fear-driven and
cowardly souls, of all that is mean and
ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or
habits of men.”
Still, in spite of the evidence to the
contrary, there are those who insist that
the Jews are the instigators of commu-
nism, and the founders of a dark con-
spiracy to rule the world. Robert Welch,
the founder of the anti-communist John
Birch Society (the parent organization
of The New American magazine), had
little patience with this viewpoint. In a
speech in 1969 entitled “If You Want It
Straight,” Welch said, “There is one key
to this whole situation which the mis-
guided bigots who want to blame every-
thing on the Jews should try to grasp. It
is that the Jews, because of their experi-
ence with persecution in the past, have
acquired, over the centuries, a feeling
of closely-knit clannishness in the face
of possible further persecution which
has made them very susceptible to the
wiles of the demagogues who want to
capitalize on that fear. And as a result,
no people in history have ever been so
betrayed, or so easily betrayed, by pow-
er-seeking scoundrels within their own
ranks as have the Jews.”
Welch added, “The historical, geo-
graphical, and statistical absurdities of
this concept that the whole [Communist]
Conspiracy is simply a Jewish plot, or is
run by Jews, can be demonstrated by over-
whelming evidence.” He blamed planted
falsehoods and distortions “superimposed
on basic emotions and prejudices” that
have convinced some “that the Jews are
behind it all.” These “dupes,” as Welch
called them, then spend most of their time
“trying to convince everybody else that
they are right in their sophomoric inter-
pretation of the problem and in reviling
those who disagree with them.”
It is common to blame the world’s
problems on the Jews because they make
good scapegoats: They tend not only to
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He condemns and should be condemned: Among the most prominent of anti-Semites alive
today is Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan has actually compared Jews
to termites — a pest that property owners fear and would like to exterminate.
seem different but be successful, intelli-
gent, and more wealthy than other groups,
leading to being singled out for abuse. In
fact, anti-Semitic views are nearly ubiq-
uitous among ambitious socio-political
groups, which use anti-Jewish prejudice
to advance their agendas. Along with its
hatred of blacks, the Ku Klux Klan also
had a strong dislike of the Jews. A good
example of this was uncovered by Del-
mar Dennis, a Methodist minister who in-
filtrated the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
for the FBI in the 1960s. Dennis’ story
is documented in Klandestine, written by
the late William H. McIlhany, II. Den-
nis was able to get close to Sam Bowers,
the imperial wizard of the White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan, and heard Bow-
ers explain his motivations in attacking
blacks; according to Dennis, Bowers said
such activity would advance communist
objectives. Dennis was stunned to learn
that Bowers was a “former” member of
the Communist Party, U.S.A. When Den-
nis expressed concern at this admission,
Bowers assured him that he was no lon-
ger a Communist Party member.
In a Bowers-written internal Klan doc-
ument that was eventually revealed by the
House Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities in December 1967, Bowers’ Klan
front group, WASP, Inc., told its mem-
bers that the “Jew” was the problem. “To
begin with,” the document stated, “we
must first understand the word ‘Jew’ be-
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fore we can understand the problem. The
word, Jew, is correctly used only in con-
nection with those who were members
of a monotheistic sect which existed in
Palestine prior to, and only shortly after
the first coming of the Christ, Jesus some
two thousand years ago.”
The document further asserted, “The
modern, world-wide, international cartel
which uses the name, ‘Jew,’ attempts to
cloak itself in the garb of this ancient,
long dead, theological system.” And
therefore, today, “There is no such thing
as a real Jew.”
In other words, Bowers was asserting
that today’s Jews are the descendants of
the Khazars, and are a “mongrelized and
vicious aggregation of those who call
themselves ‘Jews,’ and are not, but are
of the synagogue of Satan.… The people
who compose this brotherhood of sin are,
in general, a curious admixture of East and
West.… The racial background of these
people is not primarily Semetic [sic] as is
commonly advertised.”
As a result of his assistance in exposing
the KKK, Dennis lost his church pastorate,
his wife and children left him, and friends
abandoned him. He survived an assassi-
nation attempt, after which he went on a
national speaking tour for The John Birch
Society. This led the avowedly racist and
viciously anti-Semitic Thunderbolt news-
paper to attack both Dennis and the leader
of the JBS, Robert Welch, charging that
Welch worked “hand in glove” with “cer-
tain powerful Jews.”
The Protocols of Zion Fraud
The persistent theory that “certain power-
ful Jews” are behind a massive conspiracy
to rule the world has been around in some
form for centuries, but is best summarized
in more recent times by the belief in a spu-
rious document known as The Protocols
of the Learned Elders of Zion.
The exact origin of the Protocols is
unknown, but it claims to be the work
of a conspiracy of Jews aiming to rule
the world. In its 24 chapters (or proto-
cols), supposedly secret minutes of Jew-
ish leaders, it details an evil Jewish cabal
intent on ruling the world by controlling
the economy of the world, causing reli-
gious conflict, and running the media.
There was a version of the Protocols se-
rialized in The Banner, a Russian news-
paper, in 1903. But the version that has
received the most attention was part of a
larger work, The Great in the Small: The
Coming of the Anti-Christ and the Rule
of Satan on Earth, by Russian author Ser-
gei Nilus. The Protocols was only an ap-
pendix to Nilus’ book, leaving the exact
author still a mystery.
Robert Welch believed that the Proto-
cols “was both planned and used by [Vlad-
imir] Lenin and the Communists, to serve
Communist purposes.” A charge by some
historians that the work was created by the
czar’s secret police has little evidence to
support it, and was probably communist
propaganda.
In 1921, the Times of London theorized
that the Protocols was “clumsy plagia-
rism,” copied in large part from a French
political satire — Maurice Joly’s Dialogue
in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montes-
quieu, published in 1864, that never even
mentioned Jews.
Regardless of the exact origin of the
Protocols, it is widely believed that since
many Jews have been involved in social-
ism and communism, international bank-
ing, and globalist schemes, they are the
driving force behind the modern open
movement toward a global government.
Some even contend that the hand of Jews
can be traced back to the secret societies in
the 18th century, such as the Illuminati and
the Jacobins, that many believe brought
on the violent French Revolution. This
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charge is directly refuted by Arthur R.
Thompson, in his book In the Shadows of
the Deep State: “The Illuminati was not a
Jewish organization. There is a great deal
of misinformation presented as ‘fact’ that
the Conspiracy is Jewish. Jews were not
even allowed to be members of the Illumi-
nati until well after the organization was
established, since they were not trusted to
put their loyalty to the organization before
their religion.”
While there have been Jews who could
be named as leaders in the push for a one-
world socialist government, there have
also been plenty of Gentiles involved in
this globalist agenda. In fact, one must
consider that a person who is a sincere
Christian or Jew could hardly be part of
any effort to dethrone God in favor of a
secular and totalitarian world government.
John D. Rockefeller was officially a Bap-
tist, as are Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and
Al Gore — all strong globalists — but it
would be grossly unfair to blame all Bap-
tists for their misdeeds.
“It is worth noting,” Welch wrote in
his 1963 pamphlet The Neutralizers, “that
when a Jew or a Catholic or a Protestant be-
comes a Communist, he is no longer a Jew
or a Catholic or a Protestant. He may now
give more lip service to his former religion
than ever before, in order to serve his Com-
munist purposes. But it is one hundred per-
cent fraud, because the Communists allow
absolutely no other loyalty, to God or na-
tion or family, but only to themselves.”
As Gary Allen wrote in his 1971 best-
seller, None Dare Call It Conspiracy,
some will allow their racial or religious
bigotry to mistakenly conclude that this
conspiracy to craft a one-world totalitarian
government is totally Jewish, or Catholic,
or Masonic. “These people,” Allen wrote,
“sadly play into the hands of those who
want the public to believe that all conspir-
atorialists are screwballs.”
Allen’s thesis was that the Communist
Conspiracy — the irrefutable communist
effort to spread their ideology to control
all the world — was simply a part of a
larger conspiracy to merge all nations into
a one-world socialist state. For more in-
formation on this thesis, one is advised to
read Allen’s book, or perhaps the above-
noted In the Shadows of the Deep State.
No doubt the role allegedly played in
advancing this globalist conspiracy by the
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Course correction: Robert Welch, the founder of the patriotic John Birch Society, strongly
condemned anti-Semitism as irrational. He noted that it often sidetracks many in the fight to stop the
advance of totalitarianism. “Anti-Semitism is worse than a tangent,” Welch said. “It is a trap from
which few escape.” The Birch Society has never had any tolerance for anti-Semitism in its ranks.
European Rothschild banking house run Robert Welch described this continued
by the nominally Jewish Rothschilds has anti-Semitism as one of the “tangents” that
contributed greatly in leading some into sidetracks many in the fight to stop the
this line of thinking. As Allen said, “Anti- advance of totalitarianism. Writing in the
Semites have played into the hands of the November 1966 John Birch Society Bul-
conspiracy by trying to portray the entire letin, Welch explained, “Anti-Semitism
conspiracy as Jewish. Nothing could be thrives on hatred and makes a mockery of
farther from the truth. The traditionally man’s God-given rights to life, liberty, and
Anglo-Saxon J.P. Morgan and Rockefell- the pursuit of happiness.… Anti-Semitism
er international banking institutions have is particularly harmful in the battle for
played a key role in the conspiracy.” freedom because bad feelings toward Jews
While the Rothschilds emerged as very tend to preoccupy and warp the thinking of
important in international politics in the otherwise capable people.”
early years of the 19th century, they simply Welch concluded, “Anti-Semitism is
played no role in the French Revolution, worse than a tangent — it is a trap from
considered the first great victory to estab- which few escape — once they become
lish atheistic global socialism, although obsessed with bad feelings toward the
they did provide great assistance in the Jewish people.”
eventual overthrow of Napoleon Bonapar- For the cause of liberty, and just basic
te. The Rothschilds did not begin their as- morality, patriotic Americans must
cent into international banking until 1795, avoid this trap, and focus on the real en-
19 years after the Illuminati was founded, emies of our freedom — those who do
and six years after the onset of the French their best to pit all people of good will
Revolution. As the editorial introduction to against each other in order to advance
Count Egon Ceasar Corti’s The Rise of the their nefarious plans. Instead of playing
House of Rothschild argues, “The errone- the hate game of blacks versus whites,
ous syllogism of some that the Rothschilds men versus women, young versus old,
are the major force behind the Conspiracy, rich versus poor, and Christians versus
the Rothschilds are Jewish, therefore the Jews, we need to unite to stop those who
Conspiracy is Jewish, actually has been a would place us all under the heel of a
great help to the Conspiracy.” global dictatorship. n
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 “... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“Hood Politician”
Killed Burglarizing Home
A story out of Boone County, Missouri,
in the Columbia Daily Tribune for Janu-
ary 23 about a shooting of a burglar has
several unusual aspects.
First, after 26-year-old Ahmonta Harris
illegally entered a house in November for
the purpose of stealing money from its oc-
cupants and was shot and killed by a man
staying at the house, it came out that Har-
ris, was a well-known community activist
who was popularly referred to as a “hood
politician.”
Second, Harris, who was also an aspir-
ing rapper and went by the name of “mon-
nie man,” was most well known for or-
chestrating an event known as “Firework
Wars,” where people in the community
engaged in a competitive display of set-
ting off fireworks, mostly with the inten-
tion of shooting the fireworks at other
participants. Harris told the Columbia
Daily Tribune that in July of last year,
“Everybody out here just has a good time
and gets along…. The community gets
together, puts their differences aside and
just has fun shooting fireworks. Don’t get
me wrong, they do shoot at each other, but
that’s the point of the war.”
Making the Firework Wars more nota-
ble is the fact that despite their illegality,
since fireworks are illegal within Colum-
bus city limits, it had grown so big that
city police simply accepted they couldn’t
stop it. Columbia Police Sergeant Michael
Hestir told the Columbia Daily Tribune
police attempts to stop the “Wars” were
ultimately futile. “Imagine pulling onto a
street and there being a hundred people out
there breaking the law, and they all run….
Which one do you chase?”
Third, owing to all the publicity sur-
rounding the shooting, Prosecutor Dan
Knight released a statement that said
20-year-old Deonte Gainwell, who was
the man in the home who shot Harris,
acted lawfully in defending himself, going
so far as to explain the evidence.
Knight stated in his letter that evidence
taken at the scene was consistent with
Gainwell’s explanation of what occurred.
Police investigators discovered wet shoe
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prints on the side of the home which in-
dicated that a person had climbed the side
of the house. There was also a bent gutter
on the roof which could have been where
Harris grabbed it to pull himself onto the
roof to gain access to a the window that
was open. The blood splatter from the
shooting was also consistent with the win-
dow being opened and corroborated Gain-
well’s statements. Witnesses in the area
never saw Harris enter the home through
the main entrance, either.
Knight wrote that the evidence “that
Harris entered the residence through
Gainwell’s bedroom window is highly
probative of Harris’s intent to rob Gain-
well.” Knight also pointed out that Harris’
vehicle was parked 235 feet away from
the home and out of sight, which means a
“very strong inference can be drawn that
Harris parked the vehicle he was using in
a manner to avoid detection…. Harris’s
choice of this parking spot is highly pro-
bative of Harris’s intent to rob Gainwell.”
Gainwell denied having any prior relation-
ship with Harris and the police investiga-
tion into the contents of both Gainwell and
Harris’ phones and social media did not
reveal any communication between the
two men.
And the most damning evidence that
Knight noted might have been that Harris
was wearing a mask and gloves at the time
of the shooting.
Fourth, after Harris’ family and friends
disputed the findings of the investigations
— although some friends did admit that
Harris was “no saint” — Gainwell was
found shot to death on January 17. The
murder is currently unsolved, and police
are investigating whether Gainwell’s kill-
ing was in retaliation for the death of Har-
ris. Retaliation is likely because friends
and family were adamant about Harris’
innocence, and shots were fired at the me-
morial service for Harris: John K. Cosey
was arrested by Columbus police for dis-
charging his firearm outside the church
during Harris’ funeral.
Without a Shot
Fox8 reported out of Asheboro, North
Carolina, on February 4 about one home-
EXERCISING THE RIGHT
owner’s brave actions to stop burglars. The
story involved Stephen Routh, who regu-
larly checks in on his parents’ house for
them. The house is located in a neigh-
borhood that is experiencing a drastic
increase in crime. Neither Routh nor his
parents were at the residence at the time
suspects targeted it for a burglary, but he
was notified by neighbors, who told him
strange men were on the property.
The burglars rummaged through the
house, smashing things as they looked for
any valuables. Routh grabbed his pistol
and rushed to the scene, just in time to wit-
ness the men leaving the house through a
back door. He pulled out his handgun and
aimed it at the men, and verbally ordered
them to the ground.
Routh said the men did not resist once
they realized he was armed, and he was
able to call 911. “I had the gun and they
were coming out, and as soon as they saw
the big gun pointed at them, their hands
went up,” he told Fox8. Authorities soon
arrived and took the three suspects into
custody. Routh surveyed his parents’
home as criminal investigators reviewed
the crime scene. Routh expressed anger at
what the men had done to the house of his
elderly parents. “It is a terrible mess — all
the drawers are screwed, cabinets drawers
have been open, stuff thrown out, papers
everywhere.”
He talked about how the men had ran-
domly chosen the house and appeared to
have no regard for the property of others
as they ransacked it looking for anything
they could. “They know this is not their
home. They know they had no business
in here, and they mentioned they just
thought they would just go in there and
look around.”
Routh was grateful both that he got
there when he did and that, since he was
armed, the criminals complied with his
lawful commands, and deadly force was
not required. “There have been too many
instances lately of home invasions and
these like this where they get caught. And
some people have been shot and killed es-
pecially those home invasions.… People
are not taking this mess anymore,” Routh
explained to Fox8. n
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What Regulators
Really Need: A
Constitutional Diet
Item: A new analysis of Environmental
Protection Agency data, according to the
Washington Post for January 24, 2019,
reveals “that civil penalties for pollut-
ers dropped dramatically during the first
two years of President Trump’s adminis-
tration.” This analysis was made, as the
Post acknowledged later in the story, by
the woman “who headed EPA’s enforce-
ment office under Obama.”
“EPA watchers within the federal gov-
ernment” are said to be “concerned”
that there is less attention being paid to
levying charges or imposing fines by the
Trump EPA.
Item: A “special report” in the “liberal”
establishment New York Times for De-
cember 27, 2018, taking up a complete
section of 12 pages of the paper, blasted in
large, bold type how “President Trump’s
retreat on the environment is unfolding in
extraordinary consequential ways for the
health and safety of Americans.” In “just
two years, Mr. Trump has unleashed a reg-
ulatory rollback, lobbied for and cheered
on by industry, with little parallel in the
past century.”
Trump’s “approach on the environ-
ment,” the paper stressed at the top of its
condemnation, “has been to neutralize
the most rigorous Obama-era restrictions,
nearly 80 of which have been blocked, de-
layed or targeted for repeal,” according
to the paper’s analysis. In tiny print on the
12th page that few will read, there is a list
headlined: “78 Environmental Rules on
the Way Out Under Trump.”
Item: The BBC News website for Decem-
ber 6 was headlined: “Trump’s environ-
mental rollback rolls on,” with this lede:
“The Trump administration has dealt a
double blow to Obama-era environmental
policies in an ongoing rollback that has
targeted scores of rules.”
Item: Time magazine, in its print version
of a double issue dated February 4/Febru-
ary 11, features an article called “A Gov-
ernment by Too Few.” The article states
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Don’t make a lake from a puddle: Here President Trump signs the Waters of the United States
executive order, which directs the EPA to withdraw the expansion of the number of waterways
that are federally protected under the Clean Water Act, stopping rules on puddles and ditches.
the number of federal employees hasn’t
kept up with the growing population, even
as “budgets and programs have expand-
ed.” There are, we are told, “far more
citizens for civil servants to serve, assist
and protect.” The piece, written by three
former government officials, complains
that, among other charges, each congres-
sional appropriation staffer is responsible
for more federal dollars than in the recent
past. It bemoans the “failure to adequately
staff the federal government.”
Correction: There appears to be little
danger that our government will be over-
thrown — because there is too much of it.
Yet, if one is to trust the wisdom of the
ersatz intelligentsia, as reflected by the ex-
cerpts above, the central government is still
too small and does not interfere sufficiently
in the lives of its serfs or impose enough
heavy fines on domestic businesses.
During the recent government shut-
down, they cried foul. Yet for some rea-
son, there were few media and “green”
tears shed for workers when President
Obama, as he was leaving office, battered
an entire, already beleaguered coal indus-
try with more crippling regulations. The
tears appeared when the Trump EPA pro-
posed some relief.
Here are a few of the rules under scrutiny
by the Trump administration (expediently,
AP Images
in minute print in the New York Times). The
Interior Department has — if you can be-
lieve it! — overturned a ban of using parts
of migratory birds in handicrafts made by
Alaskan Natives. Stunning, eh?
Then there is an executive order an-
nouncing Trump’s intent to stop payments
to the Green Climate Fund. And what
amazing programs have U.S. taxpayers
been funding? Well, it is an international
welfare scheme with an innocuous name
or, as the New York Times says, a “United
Nations program to help poorer countries
reduce carbon emissions.” (Even collect-
ing, no doubt, while burning coal.)
And here’s a bit more on one horren-
dous “blow” inflicted, as referred to above
by the BBC News: Trump’s EPA has un-
veiled plans that would allow oil drilling
on millions of acres that have been off-
limits, ostensibly to protect the habitat of
the greater sage grouse. The bird, we are
told by the NYT, has an “elaborate mating
dance.” Positively charming, we’re sure.
There are also hundreds of thousands of
them, at least, living in parts of 10 states.
Never mind that Interior intends to protect
the bird in question “while also ensuring
that conservation efforts do not impede
local economic opportunities.”
The Times, the BBC, and all others flaunt-
ing green hearts on their sleeves are also dis-
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traught that the Trump EPA would dare to
propose eliminating Obama-era restrictions
aimed at requiring newly built coal power
plants to capture carbon dioxide emissions.
If you can stand the shock, consider the
admission of current EPA Acting Adminis-
trator Andrew Wheeler, who explains: “We
are rescinding unfair burdens, levelling the
playing field.” How deplorable.
Nevertheless, Competitive Enterprise
Institute senior fellow Marlo Lewis in
December applauded the EPA’s
proposal to rescind the prior admin-
istration’s carbon dioxide emission
standards for new coal power plants.
Those standards are based on the
fiction that prohibitively-expensive,
geographically-limited carbon cap-
ture and storage (CCS) is an ad-
equately demonstrated “best system
of emission reduction.” The stan-
dards effectively ban the construc-
tion of new coal power plants — a
policy Congress never approved and
would not pass if put to a vote. By
lifting the ban, EPA’s proposal will
help restore the separation of powers
and safeguard affordable energy for
American consumers.
Though oh-so-tolerant “liberals” would
prefer to keelhaul certain company offi-
cials for running afoul of federal rules, the
EPA under Trump is now trying another
tack — compliance. Top agency official
Susan Bodine, for example, has described
how the “EPA intends to evolve the Na-
tional Enforcement Initiatives program into
a National Compliance Initiatives.” Daren
Bakst, a senior research fellow at the Heri-
tage Foundation, supports this approach:
“It is better to prevent environmental vio-
lations from occurring in the first place than
to act after the fact when environmental vi-
olations have already occurred. This is why
improving compliance is so important.”
The political Left prefers persistent
meddling, seasoned with excessive tax-
ing and spending. That view is held by the
gaggle of candidates running for president
on the Democrat side, who echo one an-
other while boasting of their national goals
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Smart, not smothering: Though there are myriad rules regulating offshore drilling, the Obama
administration greatly restricted it after the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010. The Trump administration plans
to allow such drilling, while assuring compliance with the laws.
of socialism and beyond.
Investor’s Business Daily, among other
wary viewers, sees it differently, aghast at
the proposals replete with regulations —
such as “Medicare for all,” “universal Pre-
K,” “universal free college,” “guaranteed
jobs,” “paid family leave,” expanded So-
cial Security benefits, and a federal mini-
mum wage of $15 an hour. Their costs are
staggering, points out IBD:
“Medicare for all,” for example,
would cost, conservatively, $32 tril-
lion in its first 10 years. The “guaran-
teed jobs” price tag is about $7 tril-
lion over a decade. Universal Pre-K:
$150 billion. Free college: $750 bil-
lion. The “Green New Deal” — un-
told billions.
When the Manhattan Institute
added up the cost of this expansive
agenda, the price tag totaled $42.5
trillion over 10 years, or roughly
$4.2 trillion a year. And that’s likely
a lowball estimate, since government
programs almost always end up cost-
ing far more than expected.
Exactly how big is this tab? Well,
consider that in 2018, the federal
government spent a grand total of
$4.1 trillion.
So, we are talking about more than
AP Images
doubling the size of the federal gov-
ernment. [Emphasis in original.]
It would result in the federal gov-
ernment controlling more than 40%
of the nation’s GDP. When you add
in state and local spending, the result
would be that government would
control 58% of the nation’s economy.
In our commentary, we have focused
largely on the EPA and the partial federal
shutdown, but the regulatory state is im-
mense. Many of those furloughed in the
agencies involved had one paycheck de-
layed (and guaranteed to be paid).
Still, a goodly number of bureaucrats are
overpaid (in tax dollars) and work less than
those in the private sector. In January, the
Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards noted that
the feds employ 2.1 million civilian work-
ers in hundreds of agencies. Wages and
benefits for executive branch civilian work-
ers, in 2018, cost an estimated $279 billion.
Here are some other relevant figures:
Since the 1990s, federal workers have
enjoyed faster compensation growth
than private-sector workers. In 2017
federal workers earned 79 percent
more, on average, than private-sector
workers. And federal workers earned
43 percent more, on average, than state
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Number of Regulatory Actions Costing $100 Million or More
(Actions during first 22 months in office)
647
465
G.W. Bush Obama
Based on DailySignal.com chart; data from The Federal Register
and local government workers….
In 2017 federal civilian workers
had an average wage of $90,794, ac-
cording to data from the U.S. Bureau
of Economic Analysis (BEA). By
comparison, the average wage for the
nation’s 116 million private-sector
workers was $61,311.
Moreover, as Edwards observed, “When
benefits such as health care and pensions
are included, the federal compensation
advantage over private workers is even
larger, according to the BEA data. In
2017 total federal compensation averaged
$130,429 or 79 percent more than the pri-
vate-sector average of $72,992.”
At the same time, it is notoriously dif-
ficult to fire a federal employee (just about
0.5 percent a year, around one-sixth the
rate of the private sector). And relatively
few quit (the federal quit rate is around
one-fourth that of the private sector).
While averages and different populations
are not perfect for comparisons, the differ-
ing benefits of those in generally similar
positions in federal employment and the
private sector tend to hold. According to a
Congressional Budget Office study in 2017,
the cost of employee benefits was 47 per-
cent higher for federal civilian employees
than for similar private-sector employees.
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Trump
We are paying dearly for their ben-
efits even while hoping these regulators
might cut us a break if we stumble over
a rule. Accordingly, we don’t usually get
distressed when a particular bureaucratic
rule gets trimmed or modified. There are
more than enough to go around. Recent
accounting reveals that since the quarter
century or so since the start of the Clinton
administration, there have been 101,380
rules instituted. While the total in 2017
was 3,281 new rules — that contrasts to
the 97 laws enacted by Congress.
Also we should recognize that the left-
wing, green-leaning media — the New
York Times’ incessant railing against “pol-
luters” being a prime example — tend to
be selective with their venom.
Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the
Manhattan Institute, has pointed out that
many large “environmental” groups and
their political allies pushing “all-renew-
able schemes” aren’t telling the whole
story. They refuse, as Bryce wrote in Janu-
ary, to acknowledge
the simple truth that deploying renew-
able energy at the scale required to
fuel the U.S. economy would require
covering state-sized territories with
nothing but wind turbines and solar
panels. It would also require string-
ing tens of thousands of miles of new
high-voltage transmission lines.
Deregulation is a long task, and largely
thankless. The elimination of rules has its
own rules. This phenomenon has been de-
scribed by Clyde Wayne Crews of the Com-
petitive Enterprise Institute (who had to use
somewhat different figures this year, as it
happens, because of the partial shutdown).
In a year-end summary, Crews took
a look at Trump’s goal to eliminate two
significant rules for every one that was
adopted. (The total of Federal Register
pages in 2017 was 61,308, the lowest
since the Clinton administration in 1993,
and a big improvement from the 95,894-
page record set by the Obama administra-
tion in 2016. The Register page count was
up 10 percent in 2018.) Trump’s agencies,
said Crews, had to write a new one to get
rid of an old one:
So in a perverse sense, he can’t shrink
the Federal Register page count and
the number of rules, but has managed
to do it anyway by writing fewer new
regulatory rather than deregulatory
ones. Meeting the two for one direc-
tive is getting tougher without con-
gressional action as the low-hanging
fruit is picked.
There is truth to the claim that governmen-
tal institutions have grown too dependent
on federal funding and oversight by the
regulatory state. The answer, however, is
not more of the same.
It will take a courageous Congress to
slash, permanently, the power of the regu-
lators. And without lasting measures, ex-
ecutive orders can be reversed by a new
occupant of the White House. The durable
solution isn’t furloughing bureaucrats, but
reforming a government to be bound by
what Jefferson called the “chains of the
Constitution.”
Until then, we will continue to pay, in
sundry ways, for those who are burdening
us with endless regulations — giving us
far too much overhead in an exceedingly
underhanded fashion. n
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 THE LAST WORD
by William F. Jasper
Mueller’s Rampage Against Law and Liberty
F
or more than two
years, the adminis-
tration of President
Trump has been held hos-
tage by the unsubstantiated
charges that he “colluded”
with Russia against Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 elections.
The sensational claims trum-
peted by the New York Times,
Washington Post, CNN,
NBC, CBS, and the rest of the
bleating, braying Fake News
choir were officially taken up
with the appointment of for-
mer FBI chief Robert Muel-
ler as “special counsel” in
May 2017. That appointment
called for him to “ensure a
full and thorough investigation of the Russian government’s ef-
forts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.”
As a result, President Trump has been forced to expend con-
siderable time and energy defending himself against a relentless
lynch mob of media attack-goons and their Democratic Party
allies — both of whom have been fed a steady stream of leaks
from the Mueller investigation. Many, if not all, of these leaks
are themselves felony offenses. And presumably many, if not all,
of the leaks are coming from Mueller’s own team. Which would
mean that Saint Robert Mueller — whom media hagiographers
paint as a straight-arrow, by-the-book, incorruptible public ser-
vant — should himself be investigated, and not only for the con-
tinuous cavalcade of felonious leaks to the anti-Trump forces.
As famed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has
pointed out, Mueller has a very checkered background involv-
ing the Boston Mafia, dating back to when he was head of
the criminal division at the Department of Justice, and then
head of the FBI. It concerns the FBI’s infamous protection of
mass-murdering gangsters Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi,
and their mob, which we have written about in some detail in
these pages.
Professor Dershowitz is certainly no conservative and is not a
Trump supporter. He is a lifelong liberal Democrat who endorsed
and voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He supports,
among other things, a woman’s “right” to abort her child, as well
as strong gun-control laws. He also disagrees with much of Presi-
dent Trump’s agenda, but denounces the underhanded, illegal, and
unconstitutional means that are being employed by many of his
erstwhile liberal-left allies to remove Trump from office.
“I don’t see any crimes,” Dershowitz told Fox News host
Tucker Carlson in an interview on December 7, 2018. “Col-
lusion itself is not a crime. Using information given by Rus-
sia to WikiLeaks would not be a crime unless the campaign
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participated with WikiLeaks
in the hacking itself. There’s
no evidence to support that.”
“So what I’m afraid is
going to happen is this spe-
cial counsel whose job it is
only to find crimes, not sins,
only crimes, will blur the
line between crimes and sins
and write a report designed
to put the president in a bad
light,” Dershowitz contin-
ued. “But in the end, they
won’t be able to find any
specific violations of federal
criminal statutes unless they
stretch these vague laws like
obstruction of justice beyond
any recognition.”
Other legal experts have similarly decried the Mueller
probe, which President Trump has repeatedly (and accurately)
denounced as a witch hunt. Ahh, but what about all the indict-
ments and guilty pleas that Mueller has produced? Yes, we
are repeatedly reminded by the commentariat that Mueller has
issued 37 indictments. Thirty-four of the indictments are for
individuals, the vast majority of whom are Russian nationals,
and three Russian companies. These are indictments for politi-
cal show, not for substance. But the media talking heads have
lapped it up.
“Make no mistake: This is nakedly politicized law enforce-
ment,” wrote former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy,
when Mueller’s indictment of Russian intelligence officers was
announced last July 13. “There is absolutely no chance any of
the Russian officials charged will ever see the inside of an Amer-
ican courtroom. The indictment is a strictly political document
by which the special counsel seeks to justify the existence of his
superfluous investigation.”
McCarthy, who was part of the “Never Trump” neoconserva-
tive chorus at National Review, has nevertheless cogently dis-
mantled the fraudulent arguments used to justify the Mueller
attack on President Trump and America’s constitutional order
in many of his columns.
“As we’ve observed countless times, there was no basis for
a criminal investigation of President Trump or the Trump cam-
paign,” McCarthy has said. “There is no known evidence that
Trump-campaign officials had any involvement in hacking by
the Russian intelligence services.”
The Mueller “Russia investigation” has never been about jus-
tice or protecting America’s electoral process. It has been from
the start a coordinated Deep State effort to overthrow a duly
elected president of the United States who presents a threat to
their New World Order. n
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