The Morning Report — 7/5/24

Good Morning Kids. Hope you all had a happy and festive Independence Day. It's natural as we get to be of a certain age, to look back on our younger days and of happier times. For me, I came of age in the late 60s and early70s and so the Bicentennial was one of those events that I can distinctly remember, as it was both smack dab in the middle of my high school years and then about a week later, a memorable road trip with my dad to visit relatives in Chicago.

Despite the rampant commercialization of the day that was ever-present and almost inescapable wherever you turned since even before New Year's eve '76, there was still a definite sense that people were sick and tired of the 60s, ready to move beyond Vietnam and had a general distaste for the hippie generation. And yet, 48 years later look who the hell is running the country, and steering society and culture. Along with the bicentennial, the other seminal event that occurred four years later was the US Olympic hockey team winning gold in 1980 by defeating finland after first gaining a huge win against the much feared and vaunted Soviets. And then came Ronald Reagan and what should have been a complete rejection of the failures of Leftism. But still, look where we are.

And two years from now The American revolution will be 250 years in the past. How will it be celebrated, or the question is in fact will it even be celebrated? Given the fact that we have academics and politicians who believe that this nation is both illegitimate and evil and ditto its founding.

On this Fourth of July, we are in another civil war (dubbed by me more than a decade ago as the Cold Civil War), this one a duel to the death between the Nation and the State. Here, and all across Europe, the Nation must win, regain control over the State and, if necessary, dissolve it. As history shows, it's easier to disestablish a form of government -- the French are on their Fifth Republic in the same amount of time that America has had only one -- than it is to kill a nation. But make no mistake: that's the goal the International Left has set for itself since Lenin was a pup. The tide is now running in our favor; celebrate our national birthday by acting accordingly.

YEs, as my dear friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh underscores in yet another fine essay is that much of the Western world and even here in America have woken up to abject failures and intentional destruction of society. Yet the election results in both France and the UK and even in places like Poland and Hungary seem to fly in the face of that observation. Will Biden's corpse or whoever it is that replaces him also defy what most seem to feel will be a stinging rejection of institutional leftists come November?

Another miracle happened on July 4th of 1976 which had us glued to our TV sets and still echoes today, 48 years later.

For those of a certain age, the word Entebbe is instantly recognizable.

We all know about July 4 and the amazing miracle that happened on this date 248 years ago in Philadelphia. Bur some of us are old enough to remember another July 4 miracle that happened not in 1776, but in 1976. It was not in Pennsylvania but in Uganda, and it's something we should all be aware of in this world of hostages today. . .

. . . The entire operation lasted 53 minutes.  All seven hijackers present at the airport, and between 45 and 45 Ugandan soldiers, were killed.  Of the 106 hostages, three were killed, one was left in Uganda (a woman who had been taken from the airport to a hospital on June 29), and ten were wounded.
 On July 9, the United Nations convened to condemn Israel for the attack. But thanks to the strength of Britain and the United States, no official resolution was passed.  Europe and America were unified in condemning the terrorists, and effusively praised Israel for her strong actions, swift and decisive response, and for not surrendering to terrorists.
 But as we have seen since Oct 7, that Western support for decisive action agsinst evil that existed in 1976 has been replaced with a sympathy for the terrorists today.  Praise for Israel as a defender of freedom has been transformed over the last 48 years into an overt anti-Israel hatred of Jews worldwide.  Commitment has been replaced by capitulation.
 America's Founding Fathers courageously acted on their faith and dedication to freedom 248 years ago with the Declaration of Independence.  Israelis acted with that same commitment to protect freedom 48 years ago today in Entebbe.  We all need to emulate their courage and commitment in every aspect of our lives by being and acting as proud Americans every day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Michael Walsh:What this all boils down to is simple: across the Western world, there is an ongoing war not only between Left and Right, but more fundamentally between those who believe in the power of the State versus those who defend and cherish the rights and prerogatives and histories of their Nation. For countries begin not as political entities -- political entities called States -- but as Nations, rising up from a people united by blood, faith, languages, culture, and philosophy. Some leftists refer to America as a "notional" nation, but that is historically untrue: the United States was founded in principle and practice almost exclusively by white Protestant men from the British Isles, sons of the Enlightenment who cherished right reason, Christianity, English culture, and who spoke the English language.
  'A Tide in the Affairs of Men'
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: Where jihad is “a holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal” and CIA bosses share information with Communist regimes.
  Collaborator Intelligence Agency
  
• Once downloaded, Temu can access almost anything on your phone — the camera, internet, audio recordings, and more — according to one study.
  Why Communist China-Connected Temu Is Worse Than TikTok
  
• Fred Fleitz: Whether Biden remains in office for the remainder of his term or lets Harris take over, our country is facing a leadership crisis that puts U.S. national security at serious risk.
  Americans Want to Know Who is Really in Charge in the White House

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a message to the American people in the Jerusalem Post: “Freedom is the most precious gift humanity will ever know. And freedom isn’t free. You have to be willing to fight for it.”
  Israel to America: Together We Celebrate Liberty, We Fight for Freedom
  
• IDF drone strike on Wednesday took out Hezbollah operative Muhammad Naser, who was “one of the terrorist group’s most senior commanders eliminated since the outbreak of the war.” 
  Hezbollah Fires Over 200 Rockets Into Israel After Top Terror Commander Killed 
  
• Figures from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs have long been identified as misleading
  Biden's State Department Used Data from Anti-Israel Org To Compile 'Report Card' on Jewish State, Internal Emails Show
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• AIPAC, which has been around since 1963, is a convenient target for their anti-Israel grievances. . . Yet the truth is AIPAC isn’t an omnipotent cabal, but a political action committee like any other — just one of many imperfect parts of America’s lively civil society. Take note the next time a politician singles it out.
  The Squad demonizes pro-Israel AIPAC with fake ‘dark money’ charge — despite its modest sway

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Why is the Biden junta allowing children of Chavista officials with Chavista values into the country under his catch-and-release program?
  Venezuelan thug arrested for Jocelyn Nungaray's murder is son of a former Chavista official -report

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

• Speaking at a podium outside the White House, the president stumbled as he repeated the claim that former President Trump called dead soldiers “suckers and losers” while visiting a WWI cemetery.
  Biden Stumbles Through Trump’s ‘Suckers and Losers’ Hoax in July 4 Address

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

  
  

• Naomi Wolf: The imprisonment of Stephen K. Bannon.
  What Time It Is
  
• Whatever the motives of our leaders, a power-grab by people who do not believe in freedom and democracy is becoming an increasing possibility.
  The Coming Coup

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• It won’t help. And may well make things worse for Team Biden.
  ABC News Moves 15-Minute, Pre-Taped Biden Interview To Friday Primetime
  
• As Jonathan Turley writes in his new book, The Indispensable Right, Joe Biden is ‘the most anti-free speech president since John Adams.’
  Biden’s Real Legacy Will Be As Silencer Of Speech
  
• “It’s basically a roadmap for government actors, not just the federal government, but also state and local government actors, to reach out to social media companies and pressure them into censoring this disfavored speech,” Center for American Liberty associate counsel Eric Sell told the DCNF.
  The Supreme Court Just Opened The Door To A New Orwellian Censorship Regime

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The analysis looked at a grocery bill covering a cookout for ten guests, which it estimated to be $71.52. The price is up five percent from 2023 and 30 percent higher than it was five years ago, under former President Donald Trump’s leadership.
  Report: Price of Fourth of July Cookout Reaches ‘Record High’ Thanks to Bidenflation
  
• If the laureates understood the difference between academic theory and policy practice, they would not have issued their silly letter.
  Why Nobel Laureates Opposing Trump’s Economic Policies Is A Ringing Endorsement
  
• The question that Americans will be asking themselves when they go to the voting booth in November is: Am I and my family better off than we were before Joe Biden?  This was the question Ronald Reagan asked more than 100 million Americans at the end of his famous debate against Jimmy Carter in 1980. Reagan won in a landslide. 
  Vote for Donald Trump this November to ensure an economic miracle

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• Did she or anyone else consider that rather than ban a consumer convenience the better course would have been to enforce litter laws and boost public anti-litter campaigns, which have been successful in the past?
  California’s Latest Effort To Ban Plastic Bags Also Doomed To Fail

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Court kicks case finding New York concealed carry statute partially valid back to the Second Circuit in light of the recent SCOTUS Rahimi opinion, which held that laws temporarily disarming individuals who pose a credible threat to others are constitutional
  Supreme Court Sends Latest New York Gun Case Back to Appeals Court for a Re-Do

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Schumer-linked PAC latest instance of Democrats relying on dark money while claiming to oppose it
  Schumer's Shell Game: Dark Money Group Disbands Then Resurfaces To Dump Cash into Swing States

  POLITICS

• There’s a trend in the polling...
  The Hint of a Trump Landslide Appears
  
• An examination of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s life and inner sanctum gets at the question of the hour: Is this the end?
  Biden: How We Got Here
  
• Trump, who was widely viewed as the winner of the first presidential debate last week, has remained relatively quiet while Biden attempts to assure allies and voters that he has the mental and physical stamina to continue his re-election campaign. Trump released his 4th of July statement hours after a leaked video of the former president calling Biden an “old, broken down pile of crap” went viral on social media.
  Trump Releases 4th Of July Statement, Slams ‘Highly Incapable President,’ ‘Laffin’ Kamala Harris
  
• Biden assured the governors that despite the growing calls for him to drop out of the presidential race, he would be staying in, two people who participated in the meeting and several others briefed on his comments told the NYT. In response to a question about his health from Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, the 81-year-old said that all was fine with him except for his “brain.”
  Biden Tells Dem Governors He’s Fine Except For His ‘Brain’
  
• Biden told donors he 'nearly fell asleep on stage' during debate with Trump
  Dem Rep Compares Joe Biden to Jesus at Virginia Fundraiser
  
• Plus, though she's on Team Biden, there's been a rift between Michelle Obama and the Biden clan for years. Obama is good friends with Hunter Biden's ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, who was dumped during the time of Hunter's notorious drug- and sex-fueled tryst with his dead brother's widow. When the Obamas were in office the two friends would work out together at Soul Cycle. (you think she wants to give up what she has to be her closet queen husband's replacement puppet? NO way - jjs)
  Michelle Obama Hears the Calls and Sees the Polls. Will She Boot Biden From Presidential Race?
  
• Dr. Jill is politically smarter than Hillary or Michelle ever were.
  Kamala v. Jill: The Ugly Catfight Ahead

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• So Britain is getting a left-wing government. The big question is, what kind? If Sir Keir really has reformed as much as claimed, we’re in for continuity Rishi Sunak. If he’s been hiding his true self to get at the levers of power, things could be about to get even more uncomfortable for Britain’s squeezed middle class. Who he appoints to his cabinet in the coming days may telegraph some of this.
  Exit Poll Says Leftist Sir Keir Starmer Will be Britain’s New Prime Minister
  
• “It looks as though Reform may win more seats than many polls suggested,” he observes, adding that “how many seats Reform will win is highly uncertain,” with models suggesting “there are many places where they have some—but a relatively low—chance of winning.”
  FARAGE BREAKS THROUGH: Reform Party Predicted to Win 13 Seats as ‘Conservatives’ Collapse.
  
• State of the Union: Protest votes are usually a sign of, well, protest.
  The French Election Is a Warning for Biden
  
• There is only one party willing and able to halt mass Muslim immigration.
  French Jews Come to Their Senses and Vote for the National Rally
  
• Evacuation missions have been attempted, but have thus far not yielded any results. Nonetheless, those inside the religious compound have remained confident that they will one day escape.
  Dozens of Sudanese women and children shelter in Catholic church as fighting in Khartoum escalates
  
• So-called extended deterrence is fraying.
  Will South Korea Get the Bomb?
  
• The Taliban is a proscribed organization in Russia, and Moscow does not officially recognize it as Afghanistan’s government—but the Islamist group now controls more of the country’s territory than it did before the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. Putin seems ready to adopt a pragmatic approach to it.“I am sure that the Taliban are interested in everything being stable in Afghanistan,” he said.
  Putin Says Taliban Are ‘Allies in the Fight Against Terrorism’ in Post-Biden Afghanistan.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  

• With both programs however it appears the military is no longer limiting the companies that can bid to as small a number as possible — which had been its policy for the first two decades of this century — but instead is eagerly expanding the number over time to increase competition and its own options.
  Space Force adds Stoke Space and Blue Origin to its list of smallsat launch companies
  
• Isaacman will then attempt his spacewalk, opening a hatch on Resilience that replaced its docking port.
  Isaacman’s Polaris Dawn mission to launch July 31, 2024

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• A Saudi-American producer is facing prison time over tweets he posted a decade ago and a Netflix cartoon he co-created, both of which the dictatorship claimed promoted homosexuality and extremist ideas. Abdulaziz Almuzaini, who was born in Texas but spent the majority of his life in the kingdom, was sentenced to 13 years in jail last year by a court initially set up to prosecute Al Qaeda terrorists. His punishment, which also includes a 30-year travel ban, was upheld by an appellate court, however he has vowed to exhaust all other avenues of appeal.
  Saudi Arabia sentences comedy producer to jail over Netflix cartoon 'endorsing extremist ideas'

  ON INDEPENDENCE DAY 248 Years On

• Daniel Greenfield: You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both.
  A Nation of Free People or Free Things
  
• “Against all odds, they risked everything to break away from the tyranny of Great Britain and create the freest and most exceptional nation in the history of the world,” PragerU added.
  PragerU Launches Video Series, E-book on Founding Fathers Providing Information that People ‘Didn’t Learn in School’
  
•  This story needs to be remembered today, both because of the July 4 anniversary and because of what has happened since Oct. 7. We need to take the lessons of 1776, 1976, and today.  Through remembering history, may we all find a path to a safe peace for us all in these challenging days. )Entebbe!!! - jjs)
  July 4 Is the Anniversary of More Than American Independence
  
• Freedom, like reason, needs faith to sustain it.
  The American Righteous Cause — Then and Now
  
• ‘The die is now cast, the [American] colonies must now either submit or triumph.’
  America No Longer Has A ‘Common Cause.’ Our Forefathers Would Be Ashamed

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