We have long discussed how educators are instilling viewpoint intolerance in students from the earliest grades. The latest example is the cancellation of a visit to McKinley Elementary School in Fairfield, Connecticut, by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. The students had the opportunity to speak and interact with a cabinet member, but the school cancelled the event due to political opposition from parents.
Reports indicated that the visit, part of McMahon’s “History Rocks” tour in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, was cancelled due to a campaign by parents.
The parents rose up after McKinley Principal Christine Booth wrote them saying that the school was
“proud to offer this unique opportunity and… unforgettable experience for our McKinley students. Students will enjoy a dynamic, interactive assembly that brings American history and civic learning to life through fun, game show style activities, hands-on participation, and even prizes. This high energy experience is designed to spark curiosity, celebrate our country’s story, and make learning memorable for our students.”
Fairfield Superintendent of Schools Michael Testani folded immediately under the political pressure rather than stand firm that the school is a place for different ideas and voices:
“Following this evening’s announcement about the Secretary of Education’s planned visit to McKinley on Friday, we heard from many families who expressed concerns and shared that they were considering keeping their children home. Due to these circumstances, the Secretary of Education’s visit to Fairfield has been canceled.”
Those “circumstances” were the combination of political pressure from parents and a lack of principle by school officials.
These parents and officials have taught these students a terrible lesson: they should not be exposed to opposing views or speakers. They are raising a generation of speech-phobics that reflects their own intolerance and bias.
Cancellation expresses apprehensive fear.
Engagement expresses confident strength.
Lin, really? Cancellation also expresses disapproval, not fear. Isn’t that what those who called for the cancellation of bud light did? Or was it fear about a trans individual promoting beer?
Parents don’t approve the Trump administration and Secretary of Education is not really popular either. Parents can demand their tax paid school cancel the event.
I guess DEI would have been handy in this instance. But we all know DEI, where different points of view are encouraged is bad according to conservatives. Perhaps professor Turley should re-examine his approach so it’s not so hypocritical.
Typically silly comment by X. Bud Light was a commercial boycott, it had nothing to do with cancelling a speaker. Yes, parents can demand that their public school district miseducate their children by only training them in left-wing propaganda, but the topic of the article is that that’s bad for children – which it clearly is – not that it’s illegal.
And on DEI – what a complete bald-faced lie. DEI is the opposite of encouraging different viewpoints: it is all for censoring every viewpoint other than the most left-wing one. As a typical example, when a federal appellate judge was invited to speak at Stanford law school, the DEI dean sided with the students who by their conduct censored the event because the judge was known to be conservative. DEI on campuses all over the country is all about promoting a lunatic left-wing position and censoring all other viewpoints. You appear to live in opposite world, where everything you say is the exact opposite of the truth.
What is the purpose of education? The short issue I think is to teach the mind to think. How do you teach the mind to think? By presenting facts, opinions and ideas to the mind to process. When one starts to eliminate one side of the argument, the mind is not presented a balanced approach for the mind to work through. It leads to laziness and then to non-thinking.
So you start early, teach them not to question, not to think, and not to process thought all in the name of preventing harm. So when a kid is not taught to think, do not be surprised when they cannot think when they become adults.
Regardless of where anyone stand on any given issue, there are always two sides. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the subject, it does make one right, nor the opposing side wrong. Have the public discussion and actually promote education.
Exactly right Quiet Man. Teaching the mind to think requires exposure to competing ideas and the discipline of working through them. Once one side is removed, thinking is replaced with repetition and comfort. That is how intellectual laziness sets in.
What gets mislabeled as “harm prevention” is often the early training of avoidance. Teach children not to question, not to test arguments, and not to tolerate discomfort, and you should not be surprised when they reach adulthood unable to reason independently.
Education worthy of the name does not decide conclusions in advance. It creates the capacity to weigh evidence, challenge assumptions, and engage disagreement without fear. Without that, we are not forming citizens. We are conditioning dependents.
True, and let’s ask: who would want that to happen? Certainly, our geopolitical rivals. For them, the more our citizens become unable to engage in complex logical reasoning and sophisticated thought processes, the weaker we become as a nation, and therefore, the better for them. The people become doctrinaire and dogmatic, unable to think critically, leading to a lowering of our effectiveness as a strategic rival and the weakening of our social cohesion.
It is therefore plausible that behind the teachers unions, antifa, and virtually every other Marxist left-wing dogmatic entity, is dark money from the CCP, as has now been reported in the non-MSM news (I pointed this out earlier today and provided a link). Furthermore, President Trump is the first president since at least Reagan to have taken this infiltration by foreign actors seriously enough to do something about it. That explains the organized, violent opposition Trump is facing now, to the point of an armed insurrection (breaking out in places like Portland, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis).
oldman, I agree that external actors benefit from a population that loses the capacity for critical thinking and civic cohesion. Any serious rival would exploit that condition.
Where I would put the emphasis differently is on sequence and causation. Exploitation does not come first. Vulnerability does. External actors amplify fractures, but they do not create them from nothing. A people capable of self-government, trained to reason, tolerate disagreement, and think beyond immediate emotion, is extremely difficult to destabilize from the outside.
What we are seeing is the downstream effect of a long internal failure of citizen formation. Once education, institutions, and culture stop forming independent judgment and start rewarding conformity, comfort, and avoidance, exploitation becomes cheap and effective. Foreign actors then act as force multipliers, not originators.
That does not deny external influence. It explains why it works. We made ourselves exploitable first. Until that internal weakness is addressed, no amount of external vigilance will be sufficient.
Olly – agreed. And in terms of citizen formation, perhaps that should be considered a civil right. Perhaps that would allow it to be strengthened. If so, is it different from spiritual formation? (Just some ideas kicking around in my head.)
oldman, Once I settled on the root cause, the loss of citizen formation necessary for self-government, everything else came into focus. What I once thought of as a weak link, perhaps even the Achilles heel of our constitutional republic, revealed itself as the decisive factor.
A free people possess a natural capacity to surrender themselves to government, not by force, but by choice. Natural rights cannot be eliminated, but they can be voluntarily suspended in practice through ignorance, comfort, and dependency. Liberty is not usually seized. It is relinquished.
That is the dynamic my work seeks to reverse. The danger is not tyranny imposed from above, but acquiescence from below. As Bezmenov warned, many will not recognize what they have surrendered until coercion replaces consent and the consequences are no longer abstract.
The only open question is whether enough citizens can recover the habits of self-government before that moment arrives.
There are a number of quotes from the framers addressing this specific issue. We’ve all read them so I won’t post them again.
Hope your book footnotes identify the framers but I’m sure it does. Post the name of it at the end of your comments as PT does. We can all read it.
. Oliver, I didn’t write down the title of your book. Please give the title in your comments. Hope it isn’t expensive. Thanks.
Of course. Thank you for the interest. The title is Awakening a Forgotten Republic: Restoring the Soul of Liberty of and the Duty of Self-government
The book is grounded in the Founders and primary sources throughout, with full footnotes. I usually avoid attaching it to comments because I want the ideas to stand on their own, but I’m always glad when someone wants to dig deeper.
And yes, it’s priced modestly. Accessibility mattered more to me than anything else.
Spiritual formation definition?
Why not google it?
Oliver’s definition of spiritual formation, anon. It’s not generic.
Catholic? I live in the body. God will form my spirit as my body was also. < — application from google
Presumably Oliver is Roman catholic in application.
Thank you
I’m not making a Roman Catholic or sectarian claim. My position is more Jeffersonian. We have to be able to argue from both a belief in God and a belief in reason. Our system was built on that balance, reflected in the laws of nature and of nature’s God.
I do believe spiritual formation develops best through religion. History supports that. But we are not a theocracy, and the state cannot compel belief. What matters for civic life is that people develop an internal moral compass, however they arrive at it, that supports self-restraint and responsibility.
Civic formation teaches how we live together under law. Spiritual formation grounds the individual morally. When both are present, freely chosen, self-government works. When either is missing or coerced, it does not.
spiritual formation also develops through deep personal introspection of one’s personal ethics, with a true, knowledgable, valuation of the human self. the avoidance of that subject often leads one down a difficult path. religion is a useful source of inspiration (hopefully) to that individuals self-worth which leads one to the desire for application of their individualized ethics. self only, groupthink won’t do that.
I agree. Spiritual formation requires personal introspection and an honest reckoning with one’s own ethics. When that work is avoided, people default to group identity and borrowed morality. That is how groupthink replaces conscience. Religion can ground moral responsibility, but only when it forms the individual, not when it is used to dissolve responsibility into a collective. Civic health depends on individuals who have done that internal work. Without it, ethics become performative and easily manipulated.
My definition of spiritual formation is simple. It is the development of a person’s moral compass, however they come to it, that governs conscience, restraint, and responsibility.
That moral grounding is what makes an individual compatible with a system built on self-government, secured rights, and limited government. Civic formation teaches how to live together under law.
Spiritual formation grounds the person internally so that system can function without constant coercion.
Key quotes and perspectives from Reagan on immigration:
On Immigrant Strength: “Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands”.
On Open Doors: “If we ever close the door to new Americans, our leadership role in the world will soon be lost”.
On Legal Status: In 1986, he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which provided a path to legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants, stating, “I believe they’re already American citizens. These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully”.
On Policy Goal: “Our objective is only to establish a reasonable, fair, orderly, and secure system of immigration into this country and not to discriminate in any way against particular nations or people”.
On Refugees: “Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism”.
There’s mathematics for everything now, Olly. People without higher math skills are disadvantaged.
Don’t say that! A liberal will hear someone is ‘disadvantaged’ and exploit them!
Odd that you support exposing children to pornography, but there it is. It is always labeled as “harm prevention” and preventing them seeing adult material does leave children ill equipped to understand that adults trying to get them to go to a private island which has no law enforcement with wealthy people who might abuse them is a bad idea.
The purpose of public school education is Liberal & Teachers Union communist indoctrination with a touch of the Three R’s thrown in for cover.
Satanic Temple thanks you for demanding for them to have a place in elementary schools.
The Satanic Temple is a better steward of teaching critical thinking skills than a huckster of a very real physical effort disguised with a scripted performance of falsified personalities and pre-determined outcomes.
Parents get a thousand or more hours every year to teach their children all about everything; teachers get a few hundred hours for the students that is spread across a dozen subjects; teachers don’t have time to do the job that parents should be doing.
MAGA started in 2016.
In ten years, Trump has failed to make America great again.
MAGA did not exist before 2016.
Before then, people were able to live normal, happy lives before the movement even started.
It is a construct.
LIke National Socialism was a construct of Hitler.
You may think so, but hie numbers are still good. Even with all the dems BS
Did you know that this is a blog for legal and intellectual discussion?
There a many, many, “constructs” in the human record. Marxism is one of them.
Did you know that Marxism (socialism’s goal) has killed over 100-MILLION people?—And you’re worried about MAGA?
Just because mentally-ill people like you were happier when the rest of the nation was ruled by mentally-ill people, doesn’t make the cure (MAGA) a bad thing.
And WHY did MAGA start? It somewhat followed the TEA Party, after living through the Globalist Bush War era, we were subjected to 8 years of the Fraud Marxist Chocolate Jesus. Where the country was sent to perpetual debt and Whitey made bad, the deep state was filled and the looney tunes dug in. MAGA doesn’t have to do with the Orange figure head, it’s Americans fed up with anti American values and Communist wannabes.
Reagan was the instigator of the massive debt spiral – cutting taxes and increasing spending.
Want to eliminate Communist directives – wipe out farm subsidies and farm price supports. Don’t give tax breaks for corn that is raised to produce ethanol. Stop stockpiling cheese and eliminate the national petroleum reserve.
“BREAKING NEWS: DOJ RELEASES THE THREE MILLION PAGES OF EPSTEIN FILES!”
Apparently. among those files is documentation that Bill Gates requested Epstein to give him antibiotics for his wife, to whom he (Gates) passed an STD that he acquired from (presumably under-aged) Russian girls on one of his Pedophile Isle jaunts. I also read that there are over 3,000 photographs of men that are unredacted. This should be verra interesting…
Bet not….
Here’s more on that:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15513445/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-melinda-antibiotics.html
Where’s the Beef?
RELEASE THE EpStEi…
Oh, never mind…
Did you read the one from Jizzlaine to Big Bill Clinton, complementing him on the size of his junk? Our leader of the free world, haven’t seen much on Trump though. It is pissing off the psychopaths!
Mid Term Elections:
https://days.to/until/election-day-in-us
Department of Justice Publishes 3.5 Million Responsive Pages in Compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act
By: DOJ – Dept. of Public Affairs ~ January 30, 2026
It should be noted that this is not a Complete release of document of the Epstein files. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi has stated that the release will be completed “in the near term”.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-publishes-35-million-responsive-pages-compliance-epstein-files
DOJ Releases 3 Million Pages Of Epstein Files Including Hundreds Of Thousands Of Photos
“We complied with the statute,” Blanche said during a press conference, adding that the DOJ did not protect anyone for political reasons, adding that they are not secretly holding onto a collection of unpublished files – insisting that there is no “tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding.”
By: Tyler Durden ~ Jan 30, 2026
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-releases-3-million-pages-epstein-files-including-hundreds-thousands-photos
Ghislaine Maxwell Cites Dozens Of Men In Alleged Epstein ‘Secret Settlements’
The petition references four alleged “co-conspirators” and 25 additional men who were never indicted despite, according to Maxwell, being similarly implicated in the crimes…
By: Luis Cornelio – Headline USA ~ Jan 29, 2026
[Link] zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ghislaine-maxwell-cites-dozens-men-alleged-epstein-secret-settlements
Omg, is it categorized?
Make America Ghoulish Again!
If MAGA wants to celebrate the death of Alex Pretti,
then these cruel, heartless, arrogant a-holes shouldn’t cry like babies when the death of Trump is celebrated.
But you know that crying like babies is exactly what they will do.
Mark my words.
Turley might even lead the choir of cry babies by writing an article about what horrible people they are for celebrating a man’s passing, after his team has done the exact same thing to Pretti.
Who are the snowflakes?
^ Seriously diseased mind corrupted by Chinese Communist Party ^
Don’t pick a gun fight you fool
We were really looking forward to the execution of Luigi Mangione but another left judge nixed the charge s that carried the death penalty. What a fuking joke our country has become.
A problem with no death penalty is it leaves room for some unforeseen circumstance and parole.
It’s an abomination of law and order, quid pro quo.
So you admit that MAGA really is a death cult.
You have been reveling in the executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and now you are disappointed that you will not see Mangione executed.
What a sorry bunch of pathetic losers !!!!
Wow, quantum leap. Mangione is a cold blooded back shooting killer. He deserves death, the other two were just stupid, their stupidity resulted in their deaths. There’s no feeling good about that, just indifference at this point.
Commie with millions of murders under their belt don’t get much traction around here…
So are you thumping your neck or humping your fist…
Democrats war cry, “It’s for the children “, we just didn’t understand what they really meant, now we do!
No one is celebrating. People are crushed that there have been 2 deaths due to the negligence and depravity of Minnesota leadership so much so that that it’s realized Minneapolis is a danger to itself and others and a new path has been attempted by the DJT administration.
Narrative.
If commies want to celebrate Alex Pretti as some kind of martyr,
then these cruel, heartless, arrogant a-holes shouldn’t cry like babies when the death of said martyr is predictable and the desired outcome you ghouls.
Suicide by cop, for the ‘likes’, does not make a martyr, it makes an idiot. His mental illness is there for all to see in the videos.
Mental illness = useful idiot.
Next time, try an ‘everyone knows…’.
Senator Princess Fauxahontas Warren’s Eulogy To Gentle And Compassionate Alex Petti
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2016676363277664512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2016676363277664512%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontpagemag.com%2Fvideo-classic-the-story-of-alex-pretti-read-by-elizabeth-warren%2F
The only reason they didn’t arrest him for vandalizing that taxpayer-purchased vehicle and spitting in officers’ faces the week before is they wanted him and his gun to be free instead of charged and stripped of his carry license, in hopes they’d have a better chance to murder him later.
“Gentle And Compassionate” Vigilante Alex Pretti:
https://video.dailymail.com/video/mol/2026/01/29/3229913333516646920/1024x576_MP4_3229913333516646920.mp4
Proposition A: Trump stuck his penis inside the vagina of a 13-year-old girl.
Proposition B: MAGA supports Trump.
Conclusion: MAGA supports the raping of 13-year-old girls by middle-aged men.
This should make MAGA lose all credibility, yet they keep typing here as if their words have any credibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein
^ Stage-4 Trump Derangement Syndrome ^
Did that girl have a diary where she wrote about Daddy Joe sticking his penis in his daughter Ashley during the daily daddy-daughter inappropriate White House showers? Biden’s pervert Bolshevik Birthing Boyz need to go to Rachael Maddow’s blog if they hope to have credibility.
Trump raped a woman. He took the 5th and refused to defend himself in court. But, hey, you love it.
cry about it commie
If MAGA turns a blind eye to everything that Republicans do, then it is only fair that you turn a blind eye to everything that Democrats do.
^ DNC-paid troll. Ignore. ^
^ Aryan Brotherhood-paid troll. Ignore. ^
If MAGA turns a blind eye to everything that Republicans do, then it is only fair that you turn a blind eye to everything that Democrats do.
Democrat Dump To Deflect And Disappear, smelling like you’re a thief siphoning gas.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by a low-IQ perpetrator targeting those they hope to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or group. This involves the perpetrator trivializing, lying, denying events, and other methods used in the hope their intended victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational.
The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: trivializing, countering, lying, blame shifting, and withholding.
Why cancel the event just because a few Gigi/Natacha AWFLs are upset? Makes no sense.
Who cares if the children of intolerant, mentally unstable parents stay home? The children who show up will likely get more value out of it if the children AWFLs are not trying ruin the day for everyone else.
Unfortunately the result is from Testani, using parents as an excuse to enforce his commie ways upon our children.
Not enough normal parents in CT to care about our children to stop the commie indoctrination.
He knows the event could have just proceeded with those that wanted to attend but he wanted to violate the 1st amendment rights of every single American citizen from hearing speech he doesn’t like. I wouldn’t let this guy anywhere near my kids. School choice NOW!
Professor Turley’s characterization of this “cancel culture” moment is completely misleading and disingenuous. If parents don’t want their kids to hear the Education Secretary’s presentation they are perfectly within their right to do so. This is an elementary school where kids are nowhere near interested in what the Secretary of education wants to present.
It’s odd how the professor portrays this as denying kids to experience a different viewpoint while the same person denied LGBTQ or trans views to be expressed. DEI, would have been part of this ironically. But Turley seems to only want he have kids experience views those on the right dictate should be allowable. How about story time in drag? It exposes kids to a different point of view, in fact the whole point of the story time in drag is to show kids that different points of view should be embraced. But conservatives get squeamish and uncomfortable with the idea of a man dressed in drag read them stories about people of different views and cultures.
If parents don’t want their kids to listen to someone associated with a corrupt and dishonest administration they have every right to demand their school cancel the event. It’s their school, their tax dollars paying for that school. Parental rights and all that, right?
Professor Turley’s characterization of this “cancel culture” moment is completely misleading and disingenuous.
Get your own blog to use for your daily smearing of Professor Turley…
b>Why don’t you have articles by author X on the Marxists Internet Archive?
https://www.marxists.org/admin/janitor/faq.htm
The writer is alive and well and politically active. The MIA’s Charter forbids us from building an archive for a writer who is still politically active. There are several reasons for this:
(1) It ensures that the MIA stays out of current disputes and
(2) remains independent of all political parties and groups; Also,
(3) if a writer is still alive, they can build their own web site. This does not prevent the MIA from using material also from politically active writers in an editorial role or in support of a subject section, so long as we have the author’s permission.
335 days left in 2026 for daily cringe-worthy personal failure from X.
You seem intolerant of a different point of view. How ironic. Turley would be chastising you for being intolerant of different points of view.
He only does this when liberals do it to conservatives.
Every single day, you’re intolerant of Professor Turley and every single other person here that doesn’t do a Kamala Harris impression by getting on their knees when you post your Marxist crap. We should celebrate you living as a parasite on Professor Turley’s blog instead of creating your own?
Why don’t you have articles by author X on the Marxists Internet Archive?
https://www.marxists.org/admin/janitor/faq.htm
The writer is alive and well and politically active. The MIA’s Charter forbids us from building an archive for a writer who is still politically active. There are several reasons for this:
(1) It ensures that the MIA stays out of current disputes and
(2) remains independent of all political parties and groups; Also,
(3) if a writer is still alive, they can build their own web site. This does not prevent the MIA from using material also from politically active writers in an editorial role or in support of a subject section, so long as we have the author’s permission.
You confuse intolerance with fair game criticism.
george
fair game criticism.
Which you get from most everyone here. Look in the mirror
“You seem intolerant of a different point of view.”
It says — without a hint of irony.
SAm
Yep
Sam, again. You confuse intolerance with criticism. I’m not intolerant of Turley’s views. I’m often critical of them and express them on his free-speech blog which encourages such criticism.
“I’m not intolerant of Turley’s views.”
You’re not *that* dense.
I was referring to the subject of JT’s post.
george
You seem intolerant of a different point of view.
Unlike yourself…
What a joke you have become
I don’t think you understand what “intolerant” means. I have never been intolerant of different points of view. I have disagreed with them. That is not intolerance. On the other hand, it’s more obvious conservatives are more intolerant of different points of view including the President who often issues threats of investigations, jail, firings and demanding shutting down news organizations or talk shows because he cannot handle their different points of view, especially their views of himself. Funny how Turley doesn’t seem to notice that.
I guess elementary school children REALLY need to know about drag queens and hear about their life experiences. You are full of hate for anyone who disagrees with your views. Sad!
As usual with most MAGA nuts. You miss the point.
X
That’s funny cause usually you have both MAGA nuts in your mouth.
For some, they should see for themselves why their parents are very concerned with coming into contact with them, but in a safe environment. For the rest, it’s a fun diversion where they meet people they might not otherwise have met.
“If parents don’t want their kids to listen . . .”
Then keep them home.
What about the rights of the parents and children who do want to hear the Education Secretary?
Give ’em their money back!
“ What about the rights of the parents and children who do want to hear the Education Secretary?”
They can learn it online. Problem solved.
If the majority of parents don’t want the secretary of education at their school then it’s obvious the school will honor that request. Parents paid for that school. There are plenty of schools where the secretary was able to make her presentation without an issue. Turley chose this one school where they didn’t want it to engage in blaming the left for “intolerance”.
No, clown X. Those that don’t want to hear the speaker are the ones who need to go online for their alternative lessons. BTW, you bring up Trans so often that we are beginning to believe it is because you suffer something…..
“If the majority of parents . . .”
You have evidence that the protesting parents were the “majority?”
Or are you, yet again, just making stuff up?
If there are parents who want to have their children here what a fake-fight promoter has to say about education she can hold an evening program for when the parents are more likely to be available. Would it not be best, for those parents who feel this is a good thing, to accompany their children?
George
If parents don’t want their kids to hear the Education Secretary’s presentation they are perfectly within their right to do so.
______________________________
then ask the folks who want to heard what she has to say and tell other NOT to attend.
Yeah it’s that simple george.
Fool!
Yup,
“This is an elementary school where kids are nowhere near interested in what the Secretary of education wants to present.”
Thanks for deciding for them, authoritarian. Why give them any choice when X knows the ‘best’ choice. Hail X! Communism’s greatest hope (in his mind).
At what point is it OK to use violence against the government?
There must be a point.
The Second Amendment implies this.
What is it?
At what point is it OK to use violence against the government? What is it?
Democrat street thugs committing violent felonies against government law enforcement while they are engaged in enforcing the existing laws of the government has nothing whatsoever to do with being protected by or the purpose of the Second Amendment. Nor are the crimes being committed by these Democrat street thugs protected First Amendment assembly and speech.
In today’s attempted repetition of 2020 Election Season Mostly Peaceful Rioting, Policy 9mm applies.
It seems to me that Turley is biased when it comes to certain issues.
Mespo is gone.
My voodoo doll must have worked.
An officer is not allowed to shoot someone 11 times in the back out of revenge for an incident that happened the week before, no matter what the prior incident was.
Prove it.. bey you won’t
Crazy how the self-proclaimed preeminent scholar on the First Amendment isn’t writing his opinion on the biggest First Amendment news story all week (Don Lemon being arrested). I guess it’s easier to write about inconsequential grievance topics instead.
Not to worry. Bruce Springsteen has threatened to keep releasing songs until deportations stop.
COLTS NECK, NJ — After putting out a new song titled “Streets of Minneapolis” as a show of support for anti-ICE protesters, musician Bruce Springsteen issued a statement threatening to keep releasing songs until deportations were stopped. The news quickly spread across the country, with frightened Americans buying up canned goods and preparing to take shelter due to Springsteen’s threat to continue putting out new music unless the trump administration ended all ICE operations.
Read the whole story:
https://babylonbee.com/news/bruce-springsteen-threatens-to-keep-releasing-songs-until-deportations-stop
babylonbee is literally fake news. Keep it up, your reputation can hardly be worse.
The Babylonbee is literally fake news
This blog is why Jesus wept.
@Anonymous
Didn’t know they had blogs back then. The Romans and their fall bear a striking resemblance to a modern group masquerading as an American party, and they behaved much in the same way as those Romans did in their political death throes. Ceasar is spelled in 2026, D-N-C. Corruption and perversion beyond human recognition is not something to emulate, but the DNC has somehow stepped up to the task. Caligula was perfectly rational by comparison. You may not see it, but everybody else sure does.
C’mon… we’ve done enough here today and X has now arrived to take over. Let’s head back to the house, get into our Furry Tranny suits and pick up where we left off yesterday.
Had no idea Internet went that far back in time. So you believe Jesus is real… Now that’s a laugh when it comes to libs
Unadulterated snobbery that’s all this is, those thinking their vision should not be confronted for its vaults. IMHO this latest example of leftist mindset {ruling by emotion} is a dangerous course to take, with consequences of the unknown, but most assuredly pandemonium when being lead by a council of demons and evil spirits, or as Milton wrote {fallen angels}.
I see demonic influences in most all aspects of the American Democratic Party; they speak with forked tongues, fevered with spite, from an Altar, offering children as a ritualistic sacrifice to their supposed Nirvana.
Hopefully a majority of Americans can envision the fires of hell burning with every word a Democrat speaks; the grass is not greener but is brown and crisp from the flames of their fiery breath.
“The cancellation of a visit to McKinley Elementary School in Fairfield, Connecticut, by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.”
– Professor Turley
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In the Constitution there is no mandate to provide education.
In Article 1, Section 8, there is no power to tax for education, and there is no enumerated power to regulate education.
The Department of Education is unconstitutional and pure whimsy.
The Department of Education Organization Act, 1979, is unconstitutional and must have been struck down by the Supreme Court.
What must be cancelled here is the Department of Education.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
Copied and pasted posts repeatedly put up on a daily basis deserve the exact same word for word as rebuttal:
The overwhelming singular failure of the American republic rights and freedoms experiment has been voters allowing the continued existence of the vile and violent, seditious DNC and their equally vile members like Anonymous, The Racist Democrat Communist Formerly Known As George.
The Democrats who loved Chief Justice Taney telling them their Darkies were just a different breed of farm animal, now attempt to blame the chaos they’ve created on the Supreme Court, not themselves. That would be the Supreme Court that has given them what they couldn’t get at the ballot box.
The Confederate DNC, who have now embraced Marx/Alinsky’s communist strategies since losing the Kluxxer Civil War, now put their fellow communists like Justices Jackson and Sotomayor on SCOTUS, polluting that court in hopes of continuing to get from SCOTUS what voters consistently reject at the ballot box.
And while GeorgeX and other communist Democrats want to blame SCOTUS – at the same time they howl in delight at the actions of Jackson and Sotomayor that they worked so hard to put on SCOTUS.
Breaking News! Kamala Harris Leading In Polling For Preferred 2028 Democrats’ Presidential Nominee
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/01/22/can-you-feel-the-excitement-kamala-is-back-and-in-the-lead-n2669804
That’s good news. A Carmela-Vance contest would be a lot of fun to watch.
Most of all. With all the Wine she loves to drink.
Is Jeanine Pirro the topic. She acts like box wine is a sippy cup.
And the GOP is enjoy watching her make a fool of herself one more time.
The fact that Harris, the intellectual and ideological mother of “bananas and rice” is the front-runner, !already!, shows how strapped for brains and empty of talent the democrat party IS.
NO future win for socialist-democrats, on the national level, will ever be legitimate. Even if election fraud achieves its ends, it is KNOWN to exist.
Old Alzheimers, I mean Airborne, Dog strikes again…
Old Alzheimers, “Tampon-Tim-Style Valor Thief,” didn’t answer the question: What were your MOS, Awards, Campaigns, and Theater?
Why is that any of your business?