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Candles Can Stop Gaslighting For Fun & Profit

Well, one of my favorite holidays, Hanukkah is drawing to a close. This year it has been especially powerful for me. As I’ve written in previous columns concerning the miracles of Hanukkah, one of the things that’s different about Hanukkah is that unlike Purim, which celebrates the survival of the Jews from the destruction planned by Hamen, Hanukkah was about destroying Judaism, not Jews exactly. Antiochus would let you live, just don’t be so, well, Jew-ish. Antiochus didn’t have a firm grasp that you really can’t separate a person as a person, from their Judaism. A person can, but that’s a decision they are making. And so the holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the Jews over the Hellenists and a huge army who didn’t handle rejection of their vision of what would come to be known as JINOs, Jews in Name Only, or left wing Jews. But before the Macabees light that solitary bottle of kosher oil that was found for the Menorah in the now cleaned are rededicated temple, there was a massive battle fought. Without that battle, there would have been no oil, no rededicated Temple, no Menorah, no latkas, no sufganiyot…oh, well, ok so that last couple of items don’t exactly have the same significance, but still.

Today, we’re seeing a similar battle. And I believe like my hero Judah Macabee, that it has to be fought, and is a worthy battle. Its the rise of antisemitism coming from the right. Or as Dinesh D’Souza called them, “The Woke Reich”.

I believe it started with the murder of Charlie Kirk. In the wake of that horrific murder the conversations centered on the irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric coming from the left against conservative figures. Charlie was not a racist, hateful or any of the other things the left and the media accused him of being. But I repeat myself. People like Jimmy Kimmel discovered normal every day Americans had had it with the dancing in the blood of people we respected. The lone sane democrat John Fetterman spoke out against calling people on the right nazis and things like that. Just when it seemed like America was on the verge of having a productive conversation about debating ideas rather than just ranting and screaming….well known grifter Candace Owens rushed out waving her arms screaming “Look at me!!! Look at me!!!!” As I believe the Macrons are suing Kooky Candy for her obsession with Brigette’s genitalia, she needed to find something else. And since she and Charlie had been friends, and from the way she acts, she wanted more than that, his death appears to have wound up being the new grift.

‘IT WAS THE JEWS!’ Screams Candace Owens On First Round Of ‘Clue’*

“IT WAS THE JEWS!” Owens cried. “The Jews, in the Conservatory, with the Space Laser!”

In Clue, the classic “whodunit” board game, players are charged with solving the murder of Mr. Boddy by determining where he was killed, with what weapon, and by whom. Owens, knowing that the Jews are secretly in control of the entire world, knew she wouldn’t need to find any clues to solve the mystery.

And that’s actually NOT too far off of what happened. That was the start of her wild allegations against a whole list of people that she believes killed Charlie. She accused Jewish donor to TPUSA Bill Akman and demanded he release an entire text message thread, and he did vindicating him. Did she apologize or admit she was wrong? HA! Nope she moved on to her next target, Bibi Netanyahu demanding he release the entire letter Charlie sent him implying he was concealing Charlie’s shift away from Israel. The gall of this guttersnipe is amazing. She thinks she can demand people give her what she wants and if they don’t it implies they’re hiding something and she was correct. No, she’s bat guano crazy, but that doesn’t stop her on her crazy train. As best I can tell the list of the people she’s accused of being involved in Charlie’s murder or the cover up include, but are not limited to, and may have grown since I compiled this list a couple of days ago.

Israel

Netanyahu

Mossad

Trump

Jewish Donars

Bill Akman

FBI

CIA

Secret Service

TPUSA leadership

Ericka Kirk, you know, his widow? The Mother of his two children? Yeah, that Ericka Kirk.

Josh Hammer

Kash Patel

Charlie’s Pastor

Mike McCoy

Phil Lymon

Brian Harpole

French Government

French Hit Squad

13th Foreign Legion

Egyptian Air Force operatives

A mysterious B Colt

Guys in Maroom shirts

The doctors that tried to save Charlie’s life

People who knew Charlie with military backgrounds

or who have family in the military

Ben Shapiro

Deep State

Brittney Spears

The Mormans

THe Macrons

MK Ultra

Brigette Macron

She’s been on a tear about Egyptian planes and flight paths and how they prove they were shadowing Ericka around. Showing a chart with data points, very investigative of her. Except like UTC not meaning Utah Time, she was wrong about this as well.

Exposing Candace Owens’ Egyptian Planes: “66% Wrong on FlightRadar24!” Done by Kanekoa, and unlike Candace, he has receipts.

You know who Candace doesn’t think did it? The guy whos parents turned him in to the Sheriff’s Department and who the FBI thinks did it. Yeah, the one dating a furry who wrote Hey fascist catch, on his cartridges. A girlfriend of mine is so miffed about this she could spit nails. She said after all this, the jury may well have enough reasonable doubt because of all the doubt being thrown out there in Candace crap. She’s afraid the jury will either not find him guilty or not give him the death penalty.

But Egyptian planes are far from the only thing Candace has been wrong or lying about. If you’re curious about the rise of Candace, A Full Timeline of Candace Owens’ Bizarre Political Flip-Flops.

Part of how Candace became known was her involvement in “Blexit”. And a former volunteer tells us how she did with that.

Candace’s actions at Blexit

At one time Candace was involved with Prager U. She had become so antisemitic that Dennis Prager reached out to her to try to explain to her why her “facts” weren’t facts and what was incorrect in her claims. She didn’t respond, and Dennis then made the long letter public and it is well worth reading. Dennis Prager’s Letter to Candace Owens

.I wish I did not have to write this letter. But Candace has said many things that need to be answered. The primary reasons I have not spoken out sooner are that I needed to become fully acquainted with all or nearly all the things she has said about Jews, Zionism, and Israel, make sure I quoted her accurately, and that I never did so out of context. That was time-consuming work.

I ask anyone who has been influenced by Candace with regard to Jews, Israel, and Zionism to make the effort to read this entire letter. If you care about truth, I believe you have a moral obligation to do so.

Dennis Prager

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And then you might want to have a listen to Jeremy Boreing explaining to the Daily Wire team why they had fired Candace. And he’s not stating opinions, he’s citing actual example of things she has done or said and in what context. It’s also worth hearing him explain some of her tactics. Like making statements that both antisemites such as Nick Fuentes and people supportive of Israel and Jews perceive to be antisemitic. When the antisemitic group applaud her statement, she never pushes back and says, hey I didn’t mean that against Jews or Israel, she just lets it stand. But then when someone pushes back on a statement, she claims she never said that, they just took it that way and it’s their fault. Yet, somehow two polar opposite groups believe she did say something antisemitic. Gas lighting 101 or dealing with an emotionally abusive person.

And her duplicity in her wording is where a lot of the division is coming from. As Jeremy points out, for a skilled communicator, one of the best, if she wanted to be clear, she would. She doesn’t. Her game is to sow dissension and innuendo. For my example, I will go with the did she accuse President Trump of killing Charlie?

In the clip of Owens’ latest take on Kirk’s assassination, she does mention Trump but there is no direct accusation leveled at him. One of the profiles sharing that Owens was blaming Trump put out a part of her speech as well.

She said “He gave so much of his life to Trump & to politics, and they were just like NOPE. That’s it. So here’s a holiday. What is with them giving them a holiday after they kill them?…As soon as they give you a boulevard and a holiday, they definitely killed you. There’s no question – they killed you.

So of course she will say she never accused President Trump. Not to mention her trick bag of “I just know, you know”, or in a dream, or I got a tip, or or or. But maybe that’s why she said she didn’t care about the midterms. I for one, don’t want to live under demoncrat control again. But hey, what are midterms to her?

Now lets look at Tucker.

Tucker appears to be suffering from the onset of dementia.

And like all devout Christians in Tuckerworld, he’s very supportive of Islam.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iELcz7BUEkM

When trying to find a short clip of this part of his AmFest speech on YouTube, I found it interesting that it was posted in many accounts, and the ones listed toward the top all have account names like MuslimMom, or Muslim in the account name, or you click on it and all the comments are supportive of Islam. But this was a short clip so I picked it. I’m sure Tucker likes Islamic countries very much, after all, he’s buying a house in Doha Qatar, financial supporter of Muslim Brotherhood terrorism. And, America first, right?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6sc6F5JDc6s

Since January, Tucker Carlson has been funded by Qatar and has become an opponent of Trump

Tucker’s trustworthiness is probably similar to Candace, he just has a different technique.

Debunking Tucker Carlson’s Darryl Cooper Interview Hillsdale is a wonderful resource.

Recently, Tucker Carlson hosted the podcaster-cum-historian Darryl Cooper on his show. Though introduced as the “best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” Cooper spent his time peddling ahistorical conspiracies and factual errors. Gaining over thirty-four million views on X alone, such assertions need to be challenged. Most of all, his attacks on Sir Winston Churchill.

Or who can forget his riveting interview with the Christian nun with the mustache The Anti-Semitic Nun Who Happens to Be George Stephanopoulos’s Sister

There is a special kind of dishonesty that corrodes everything it touches. It wears the trappings of religion, borrows the vocabulary of faith, and then uses both as camouflage for something entirely different. People instinctively give it a pass because it comes wrapped in sacred cloth. That instinct is exactly what the deceiver is counting on.

We saw a perfect example when Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos — yes, the sister of broadcaster George Stephanopoulos — appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show. She did not come to offer a theological reflection or spiritual counsel. She came to launder old anti-Israel tropes in the language of humanitarian concern. By presenting herself as a defender of persecuted Christians, she dressed hostility toward Israel in the costume of virtue.

And of course, Tucker was right up front about his guest being the sister of a demoncrat advisor..

scratch that, he never mentioned it. That’s a pretty interesting article by the way. The nun with a mustache is every bit as honest as Tucker at this point.

Tucker Carlson Interrupts Speech For Evening Prayer To Mecca*

.Carlson reportedly grew agitated as the crowd began to jeer and boo. “You’re trying to censor me! This is cancel culture!” he cried. “How dare you! This is loathsome, obviously!”

At publishing time, Carlson had expressed hope for a much warmer reception at the upcoming QatarFest…..

One of the problem is people still trust Tucker, they accept what he says as truthful. And the consequences of that are very high, and they probably won’t affect him in the least. In a heart breaking irony, Tucker’s speech came only a few days after a vicious attack on a Chabad public menorah lighting at Bondi beach in Australia. Two muslim men that Australia had taken in, father and son decided the best way to spend their day was shooting as many Jews as possible. Thankfully the explosives they had taken didn’t go off.

Patrick Bet-David, had a Australian pastor and his wife on just a couple of days ago. He was born in Egypt and lived there till he was about 9 years old I believe. His family was Christian, a minority in a muslim country now that used to be majority Christian. He and his wife have quite the message for Americans about what it’s like to live in a formerly free country that has a large muslim population. I’m going to use several clips from this one video, but I’ll start the video at the relevant points.

First, let’s address Tucker’s claims about you can’t make judgments about people based on their faith. Martin and Millicent Sedra do have experience being Christians in a heavily Muslim place, he grew up being taught in muslim schools in Egypt, so perhaps he knows more than Tucker.

Why doesn’t Egypt take in Falestinians?

And to address the confused Tucker, what about living with muslims, what does the religion call for? Is it compatible with Western culture and values? What should America do about Muslims? From there it goes into why all these New Year’s Eve celebrations are being canceled world wide.

Why do Martin & Millicent need to hire security and German Shepherds to have a Christmas celebration at their church in Australia?

Can the two co-exist?

And a bit about speech, and why it matters, this will be re-visited in a bit. I’m also very very sad Patrick seemed completely unaware of the WhatsApp call from the innocent denizen of Gaza calling his parents on October 7th. And I think that’s where some of the antisemitism, and anti-Israel views come from. There is so much information that normal sane people don’t know. A dishonest media and people that could share the information don’t necessarily want to talk about it. Decent people don’t know any better.

Now let’s talk about one of the reasons why all this matters, why I went into all the deception from Candace and Tuckers. I hope I gave you enough to not take the things they say against Jews and Israel without first considering the tainted source.

There is a growing divide on the right, and I firmly believe it was started by very talented grifter Candace Owens. She hates Jews and Judaism, and that started with her conversion to her husband’s form of Catholicism called SSPX. I also have a hunch she wanted to be more than just Charlie’s friend and is very jealous of Ericka Kirk. She acts like a woman scorned. In recent years she hadn’t been invited to appear at TPUSA events, and I suspect there was good reason for that.

Candace Owens Honors Charlie Kirk’s Legacy By Doing Everything In Her Power To Destroy It*

U.S. — Podcaster and renowned private investigator Candace Owens has vowed to honor Charlie Kirk’s legacy by doing everything in her power to destroy it.

Owens has pledged, for Charlie’s sake, to stop at absolutely nothing to burn down the movement he built, as well as bring pain and harm to every person Charlie ever loved.

“All of my efforts to dismantle Charlie’s organization and hurt the people he cared for, that’s all for him,” said Owens. “As Charlie’s family and friends receive death threat after death threat because of me, I want everyone to know I’m doing it for Charlie. His legacy was one of deep love for Christ, his family, friends, and Turning Point. Which is why I am venomously slandering his family and friends, and will do everything I can to burn Turning Point to the ground.”….

The temperature was turned up and the lid blown off the schism at the beginning of AmFest when Ben Shapiro spoke. Basically he said things that shouldn’t have to be said. Like it’s wrong to attack a grieving widow and the co-workers of a murdered man. But this is apparently where we are. If you are a tiny country about the size of the state of New Jersey and the population of Israel is 9,577,913 as of Monday, December 22, 2025. It is the only Jewish country in the world, and there are about 17,161,100 Jews world wide total. Roughly 0.2% of the world’s population. Why should that tiny country need to explain to the world why they need to prevent the people they gave a falestinian state, and Gaza basically was the two state solution, They elected hamass and they still support their actions on October 7th, and look forward to being able to attack them again. If we have to explain that raping men, women and children is wrong, that cutting a fetus out of a pregnant woman is evil, and decapitating people with garden implements is immoral and putting babies in ovens in front of their parents is depraved, murder is wrong and so is taking hostages, then there is a deeper problem than Israel not doing PR well. When you have college students protesting Israel genocide the day after the attack you should have the intuition to sense something is off. Islamic Republic of Iran Outraged at Pro-Regime Prof’s Demotion in Arkansas. The third one actually they’ve had to get rid of, in middle America Arkansas….A fair amount of the world apparently lacks a moral compass. If things like that have to be explained, I guess it makes sense that Ben apparently needs to explain it’s a bad, naughty, evil, wrong thing to attack innocent people when you have no proof of wrong doing.

One faction of the right, the side with Candace, Tucker and Megyn are framing this as a discussion about canceling voices. Jack Posobiac, someone I quit listening to some time ago came out on stage to assist Megyn as she attempted to attack Ben Shapiro’s speech.

Ben Shapiro Delivers Blistering 3-Hour AmFest Speech In Just 17 Seconds*

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Shapiro, who delivered a speech about charlatans and grifters infiltrating the conservative movement and the need to stand against them, seemingly zapped his entire 3-hour speech into the minds of listeners in just 17 seconds like an advanced alien communicating telepathically. Camera footage, however, confirmed that Shapiro did move his lips in a manner consistent with human speech.

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Megyn whipped that red herring out from under her dress where she’d hidden it, deftly flipped it to Jack who caught it expertly and chimed in as they denounced Ben who was rather making the point just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should. Ben’s speech wasn’t about censoring voices, it was about using wisdom and discernment on who you let on your platform. And if your guests aren’t going to be honest, to keep credibility maybe you should push back, or question them. Something Tucker certainly didn’t do with the nun with the mustache, the fake historian he claimed was honest and apolitical and Nick Fuentes. Megyn claimed she didn’t want to pick on Candace because she was a young mother, like Meghan Markle…

Oh, well, ok then. Parody of Meghan Markle’s ridiculous show.

Scott Jennings appeared on Batya’s show, and he was asked to comment on it. His comments are true. It’s only 3:34 long.

It’s not about censorship, it’s about what the party will accept. Will we the conservative movement become like the demoncrats and practice intersectionality to the max? Pedophile? Come on in! Transgender wanting to compete in women’s sports and use their bathrooms? Come on in! Pushing drugs and surgery on children? Come on in! Pushing illegal invaders ahead of American veterans? Come on in! Pushing communism? Come on in! Accepting people into the country with values radically different than the Judeo-Christian values our country was founded on and refusing to assimilate? Come on in! The left has embraced and given a platform to every evil degenerate position they can find, is that the way the conservative movement wants to go?

You don’t have to have a crystal ball, a palm reader or any other prophetic device to see where this will go. Just look at the formerly free countries of Australia and Englandistan.

Martin and Millie talked about self defense in Australia, against the muslim horde the government welcomed. Don’t forget a couple of days after the Bondi beach attack, 7 muslim men were arrested on their way to Bondi beach to attack the memorials going on there. They are unrelated to the other two, any guesses as to how many terrorists in Australia? Don’t feel bad, they haven’t a clue either. What are the laws of self defense in Australia?

In the wake of October 7th, Australia allowed the hamass jihadis living in Australia free rein to go out in the streets and make threats against the Jewish community. Synagogues have been fire bombed, people have been attacked, and in front of the iconic Sydney opera house a couple of days after, a mob chanted “Gas the Jews”, Martin and Millie discussed this incident as well. Police allowed the riot, and told the Jewish residents to stay home. Right, rule of law or something….the lone Jewish man there with an Israeli flag was the only one arrested, not the mob.

It’s not like Anthony Albanese didn’t have warnings. Rabbi Eli Schlanger who was murdered by the terrorists at the menorah lighting had asked Albanese to reconsider his rewarding the Hamass terrorists by recognizing a falestinian state.

Hours after Rabbi Eli Schlanger was murdered at Bondi Beach, Sydney during a mass shooting at a Hanukkah event, a letter he had recently sent to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was revealed. In it, the rabbi made an impassioned plea regarding Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state and rising antisemitism in the country.

As a rabbi in Sydney, I implore you not to betray the Jewish people and not God Himself,” wrote Rabbi Schlanger. “This land was given by God to Abraham, then to his son Isaac, and then to Jacob, to be the eternal homeland of the Jewish people. Throughout history, Jews have been torn from their land again and again by leaders who are now remembered with contempt in the pages of history.”

The rabbi wrote the letter following Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state and amid rising antisemitism in the country. “Today, you have an opportunity to stand on the side of truth and justice,” he continued. “By reversing this act of betrayal, you will not only honor the Jewish people and our heritage, but also stand with the word of God. If you choose this path, you will be welcomed home with open arms and even a warm Shabbat meal. I bless you in advance for having the courage to do what is right and to stand firm against this act of apostasy. In hope and prayer, Rabbi Eli Schlanger.”

The terrorists were known to the government, the Australian version of “The FBI was watching them”. In addition to that, the Mossad warned the Albanese government ahead of time when most likely the attack would take place, and where. And the Albanese government did??? Oh right, the government that allowed mobs to chant gas the Jews did nothing.

Bondi Terror Attack Survivor Says Police Were More Concerned With This Than the Terrorists

Several points on this one.

Bondi survivor Vanessa Miller

Bondi survivor Vanessa Miller was separated from her three-year-old daughter and pinned down by gunfire. She told

@Erin_Molan

that she tried to grab the gun of a critically injured officer to suppress the terrorists, but other officers—rather than returning fire themselves—held her back.

These police officers were hiding behind a car… I tried to grab one of their guns. Another one grabbed me and said ‘no.’ I hope they are hearing this. You are weak. You could have saved so many more people’s lives. They were just watching this all happen, holding me back.”

In addition to that, remember the clip of the jihadis at the Sydney opera house chanting “gas the Jews?” You really should see this video that goes with this one.

If the police had heeded the pleas of Australian Jews, and arrested, investigated & charged or deported the “Gas the Jews” marchers, 15 innocents would still be alive, and Bondi would still be famous as an iconic beach—not as a massacre site. But they chose to pander to jihadis.

In addition to that, the police appear to have frozen during the attack. You know, the police that will come protect you after the Australian government confiscated all the guns to keep everyone safe. Those police. Here’s the Image That Says It All About the Australian Police Response to the Bondi Terror Attack

Australia Proves Gun Control Doesn’t Work

Because you know, diversity is our strength and can’t say mean things to the muslims. So, the Australian government has a plan! Crack down on free speech, and implement more gun control in the gun free utopia of Australia. And the brave (if it’s an unarmed civilian) police have already arrested someone for saying hurty words to the failed PM Albanese who should have resigned last week. And I get the feeling the Australians have about had it with the useless piece of schiff.

What’s it like living in the Muslim controlled country of Englandistan? Similar, just further down the road.

Islamophobiacs at It Again in U.K.

New Definition ‘Worse than Feared,’ MP Warns

A new definition of “Islamophobia,” slated for publication in the U.K. this week, has triggered widespread alarm among free speech campaigners. A leaked version of the definition revealed that the government had rebranded “Islamophobia,” a phrase used to silence criticism of Muslims, Islam, and Islamism, as “anti-Muslim hostility.”

Leading secular and religious free speech advocates and parliamentarians warned that the alternative terminology of “anti-Muslim hostility” could still serve as a de facto blasphemy law, stifling legitimate criticism of Islam, and rendering such discussions as an arrestable offense in the minds of law enforcement officials intimidated by Muslim extremists in the U.K.

This is what it looks like when your country is being conquered by Islam bit by bit. There are already places in the U.S. Historic Minneapolis Bar Closes, and Guess What It’ll Be Converted Into Now

If you were wondering what life looks like under Islam, take a glimpse at places like Dearborn and Minneapolis. In Dearborn, the Islamic call to prayer wakes you up in the early morning hours, every single day. If you complain about it, your city council and mayor will tell you that you don’t belong there. In parts of Europe, there are “no-go zones” where native citizens aren’t allowed to travel.

And in Minneapolis, a bar that was almost 120 years old is now being closed and converted into a mosque. Remember — alcohol is forbidden in Islam, so it only makes sense that in cities with large Islamic populations, drinking will eventually be banned.

Tulsi Gabbard Reveals the Greatest Threat to Freedom in the US

Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, issued a warning about what she described as the growing threat of Islamism in the United States, at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. Arguing that its ideology clashes with the principles of the U.S. Constitution, she said the problem can only be confronted by electing leaders committed to defending Americans’ God-given rights above all else.

There is a threat to our freedom that hasn’t been talked about enough,” she began. “And it is the greatest near and long term threat to both our freedom and our security, and that is the threat of Islamist ideology. It is propagated by people who not only do not believe in freedom, their fundamental ideology is antithetical to the foundation that we find in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which is that our Creator endowed upon is inalienable rights — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Why aren’t we talking about that? Because a crazed jealous deranged grifter is busy throwing tennis ball suspects for Charlie Kirk’s murder. She throws one tennis ball, the Jews, then another tennis ball, the Egyptians, then another tennis ball, people in maroon shirts. One after the other, subscribe to her podcast, send her money and she’ll find the real killer. Nothing about the threat of Islam.

Then there’s Tucker, he’s busy praising Islam from TPUSA’s stage.

Tucker Carlson: “Attacking Millions of Americans Because They’re Muslims, It’s Disgusting.”

Charlie Kirk: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

Charlie Kirk was a brave warrior who was never afraid to challenge the Muslim persecution of Christians. One of his tweets that outraged leftists was that, “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

Tucker Carlson however took the stage at TPUSA’s AmFest to denounce criticism of Islam.

Charlie Kirk: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

Tucker Carlson: “Attacking millions of Americans because they’re Muslims, it’s disgusting.”

Tucker is rejecting Charlie Kirk’s defense of America.

Tucker is a parasite using his hosts (TPUSA) event to make himself stronger.

Megyn Kelly is just dancing around throwing those red herrings in the air about this being about free speech and no one can tell her what to say. You can say it, but should you? You claim you don’t want to call out behavior, but then do so if it’s someone with a platform who doesn’t have followers that might physically attack you or your family, so.

Who did Charlie look to?

Who Charlie Kirk look to.

So with that, I will give you Ben Shapiro’s speech, which shouldn’t be controversial at all. It is bold, and as Scott Jennings said, necessary. We just finished Hanukkah, and when I heard Ben’s speech it just dropped my jaw, I just know, I just know Judah Macabee smiled. And this is the thing, I will never be in a position to pick up a rifle and fight with the Golani brigade, I will never work with Mossad, so what can I do to help fight the rise of antisemitism and by extension the one Jewish country? Maybe I can share information, maybe I can answer questions well when asked, I can try to do what G-d put in front of me. Because I do believe we are again in Hasmonean times, and circumstances. I believe everyone has some sort of sword they can use to be a person on the side of good. But we must be like the Macabees and willing to use it, and then as they did, leave the results up to G-d.

If a column linked has a * at the end of it, it’s satire, The Babylon Bee. But sometimes it’s so close to reality I figured perhaps I should mark it.

But Ben’s speech? Pure Israeli coffee, the best!

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Bill O’Reilly Lays an Egg- The Strategic Blunder Conservative’s Commonly Make

Part I

Why is the Left in a violent-mob frenzy to rewrite American history transforming its heroes, traditions, and founding principles into villains and ideas to be reviled? Why would conservatives pursue the strategy of conceding an adversary’s lie as the starting point to win a broader argument? They do this all the time. Radio conservatives from Sean Hannity to Chris Stigall,1 sling around the term “McCarthyism” attempting to pin this practice on Democrats. The problem is, McCarthyism isn’t “McCarthyism”. Like using “racist” to silence opposition, the Left invented it to dissuade anyone from looking into what they were up to in the 1930’s and 40’s. I did for my Master’s thesis and I know what they’re hiding. Conservatives who use this term are accomplices of the Left in doing a Jimmy Hoffa on the greatest spy and treason scandal in America’s history. In an attempt to paint modern Democrats as racists, Mark Levin and Chris Plante relish in pointing out Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy were Democrats. Their hands are on the same shovel liberals use to bury reasons, beyond slavery, why the South seceded; state’s rights, federalism, and government in unconstitutional service to northern business interests. One researching this history might discover the U.S. government functions so far outside the law, the Constitution is dead. Statists in both parties can’t allow this to happen. On Monday 11 September 2023, Mark Levin declared 9/11 was one of the worst attacks on America second only, not to Pearl Habor but the Confederacy’s “attack”.2 Utter rubbish. The lot of them are doing the Left’s dirty work.

The Left’s historical revisionism is motivated by a desire to destroy the principles upon which America was founded. Why do conservatives aid and abet them? Perhaps they concede small skirmishes waiting to fight the large battles. If they fought the small skirmishes, there might be no large battles. The following is an example of this blunder.

In his book Killing England, political commentator and pop-history co-author Bill O’Reilly besmirches two heroes of the American Revolution. The first in vicarious service to the Homosexual movement. O’Reilly determines as true, the slander Baron von Steuben, a Prussian military officer credited with whipping the Continental Army into shape, was homosexual. The second supports the Left’s war to destroy America. He reprises the long-debunked smear Thomas Jefferson sired six children by house slave, Sally Hemings, writing she “will share master Jefferson’s bed as his lover”.3

And what is O’Reilly’s proof? The “consensus” of modern historians. Historians that are overwhelmingly liberal. Consensus is not scholarship. It is opinion based on a vote. Truth cannot be determined by a majority vote. It can only be determined by hard evidence, solid irrefutable facts, and serious scholarship. O’Reilly insists he is correct about von Steuben and Jefferson. Why? He claims to be an historian. Is this true?

O’Reilly graduated college with an undergraduate degree in history as did I. He taught history for two years in a Catholic high school. I taught history for over two decades in a public high school. That makes us historians, right? Not so fast. O’Reilly holds a Masters’ degree in Broadcast Journalism and Public Administration, mine is actually in history. They are not interchangeable. Basing truth in consensus was the first red flag. Claiming expertise in a professional discipline in which he is untrained is number two. The third is the indefensible absence of end/footnotes, a tactic used by Communist history writer, Howard Zinn.

O’Reilly is not an historian. Instead, he churns out derivative digests synthesizing previously published works of real historians. His book offers nothing new, original, or novel. Why are they popular? Written at the high school level, they appeal to those possessing a shallow knowledge of history. Such readers are ill-equipped to evaluate the historicity of his books. What of O’Reilly’s historical knowledge? It might be prodigious but memorizing a medical library does not make one a doctor.

Every discipline, from astronomy, engineering, geometry, martial arts, medicine, music, to crime lab forensics follow standardized rules, methodologies, protocols, and practices. Individuals are not pronounced black belts, biologists, lawyers, nurses, and so forth until an accredited governing body trained in their discipline, determines they satisfy all requirements. It is no different in the field of history.

Historians do more than take classes. They must be trained and this is done in graduate school. When I started, the director showed me two filing cabinet drawers. The top one was packed full with folders of those accepted into the program. The bottom drawer contained one lonely folder, those few who survived to the end. After years of foundational courses, history students move to methodology classes. They are essential to becoming a trained historian. Students learn how to find and use primary sources, how to sift secondary ones for validity, and how to separate necessary from unnecessary information to support their work. They will write many sourced research papers. At the end of course work, they face the graduate exam. In my case, three professors submitted four essay questions. It took me six hours to answer them. But this is just the beginning. Next is the thesis, the part of the program that kills off so many applicants.

To be declared an historian, the candidate must write and defend a thesis before experts in their field. It is an original work and must either 1) Present a new interpretation of an historical event based on new evidence heretofore not seen, or 2) present an entirely new and possibly novel reinterpretation of an historical event challenging existing ones. O’Reilly has done none of the above. He has not written or defended a thesis in history, an absolute requirement for one to claim the status of historian.

A thesis requires students be detectives, anthropologists, archeologists, sociologists, and forensic scientists. Like crime scene and automobile collision investigators, they collect as much physical evidence as possible, establish chronologies, interview witnesses, and consider prior writing on the subject. This will take one to two years or more. They analyze and draw conclusions, then organize it into a coherent integrated explanation. It must address contrary interpretations and opinions explaining why the student’s is the superior one. O’Reilly ignored information contrary to his consensus conclusion, red flag number four. Writing the thesis will take another year… as long as one can live on little sleep. Thesis advisers will demand students rewrite major portions, scrap the whole affair and start over from scratch, rewrite major portions of the rewrite, scrap them, start over again, and so on. Finally, when their adviser concludes the student has produced a proper thesis, the real fun begins. The student must defend his or her work before a panel of professors all authorities in the thesis’ subject matter. They will attack it from every angle and try to tear it down forcing candidates to demonstrate they know their subject. It is no fun. As a policeman, I faced aggressive and hostile attorneys on the stand trying to pick apart my testimony. The thesis defense is worse. This is why those who survive to the end, bristle when people like O’Reilly claim to be historians. He is a journalist, not an historian. It explains why he botched stories of two men so badly.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben was born into a military family following his father’s footsteps into the Prussian Army rising to the rank of captain. A local prince in Baden inducted him into the Order of Fidelity conferring upon him the title of baron. Steuben became part of the royal court. Soon thereafter, an anonymous enemy circulated rumors Steuben sodomized young men, a charge he denied. Unfounded or not, a rumor of such dreadful nature was enough to cause expulsion from the court and military. His accuser was never known, no victims identified, and no evidence surfaced that Steuben was homosexual. Nevertheless, liberal historians conclude he was guilty. Steuben relocated to France hoping to repair his military career. It was there he met Benjamin Franklin on a mission to obtain financial aid for America’s war with Britain. Franklin recommended Steuben to the Continental Army. He sailed to North America and joined General George Washington at Valley Forge and was instrumental in fashioning his army into an effective fighting force.4

Historian and Steuben expert John McCauley Palmer writes accusations von Steuben was homosexual were most likely driven by personal jealousies and religious hatred. He was a Protestant in the Catholic royal court of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Prince Josef Wilhelm. After conducting an investigation, Wilhelm concluded the charges were baseless. The unknown enemy continued circulating rumors forcing Steuben to leave the royal court.5

Professor of history Michael Lynch notes the LGBT movement is attempting to rewrite history falsely claiming Founding Fathers welcomed open homosexuals because of their contributions to the founding. Their websites trumpet Steuben was homosexual.6 They feverishly scour historical records looking for tell-tale signs only they can see, important personages were homosexuals. The dead cannot defend their reputations from such horrid smears. They denounce defenders of the accused as “homophobes” trying to destroy anyone standing on Biblical truth with respect to homosexuality.

The liberal History Channel claims Steuben was homosexual. Fancy that, a homosexual serving on the staff of an army for which the Continental Congress drafted rules governing the conduct of soldiers forbidding homosexuals to serve. Moreover, General Washington court martialed Lieutenant Enslin for attempting to sodomize enlisted man John Monhort. Enslin was found guilty of violating Article 5, Section 18, of the Articles of War. Washington ordered Enslin drummed from the Army “with infamy”. He considered sodomy abhorrent and detestable.7 Yet the History Channel would have us believe he had no problem with this Prussian chap who desired to bugger young soldiers in his tent. Laws against sodomy were extant throughout pre and postwar America. Notions the Army would countenance let alone welcome homosexuals is preposterous.

Does O’Reilly address exculpatory evidence with respect to Steuben? No. Palmer’s book was written in 1937, are there newer books with new evidence? Newer books yes, new evidence, no. How can O’Reilly ignore the homosexual movement’s frenzy to claim everyone from the apostle Paul, George Patton, to Bugs Bunny were homosexuals? They are desperate to find masculine homosexual heroes to counter their image as effeminate males with an affinity for buttless chaps and marching divest of clothing in depraved parades. Next, O’Reilly resuscitates one of the most reprehensible libels ever promoted serving in the process as a handmaiden to Left. He writes the Jefferson Foundation proved through DNA Thomas Jefferson fathered six children by his slave mistress Sally Hemings.8 His proof? Its that consensus thing, again. What about the DNA test? Jefferson hasn’t been around to provide a sample for quite some time but I’ll address that soon.

Dumas Mallone’s six-volume biography is perhaps the most thorough published on Jefferson. He writes this lie, about Jefferson “emanated from a single poisoned spring”, James Thomson Callander whom the president “unwisely befriended”.9 Callander was a Scottish pamphleteer who wrote tracks attacking the Crown and Parliament and was indicted for sedition. He fled to North America picking up where he left off writing pamphlets attacking the Federalist Party and the Adam’s administration. Jefferson considered him useful to the Republican Party, strong opponents of the Federalists. In economic straits, Callander appealed to Jefferson. He provided him irregular monetary gifts including funds to write a book on American history. Callander authored an unsigned document exposing Alexander Hamilton’s affair with the wife of James Reynolds who used it to blackmail Hamilton.10

In giving Callander monetary gifts, Jefferson unwittingly left himself vulnerable to blackmail as well. Callander’s pamphlets attacking Adams on behalf of Republicans led to his arrest for sedition. He was fined $200 dollars and sent to prison. Jefferson promised to pay the fine but didn’t follow through for which Callander never forgave him. He was able to raise the funds, pay the fine, and was released from prison. James Monroe later pardoned Callander and the court remitted the fine.11 He then asked for a meeting with President Jefferson in Washington, D.C. He met with the president’s representative demanding appointment as Postmaster for Richmond, Virginia. He threatened to blackmail Jefferson by making public damaging letters and documents. He did not receive the appointment.12 In March 1801, Callander began attacking Jefferson in Federalist controlled newspapers. He revealed Jefferson paid him to attack Adams. This was “fully exploited by Federalist Papers including the best of them, Hamilton’s organ, the New York Evening Post”. At the end of 1802, Callander published his sensational claim Jefferson sired five children by black slave, Sally Hemings. He had never been to Monticello nor spoken with anyone who lived there including Sally Hemings.13 He claimed ambassador Jefferson took Hemings, as his concubine, along with his two cherished daughters to France. He described Hemings’ alleged children by Jefferson as very black when, in fact, Hemings was light complected to the point, children sired by Jefferson might have passed for white. Callander invented children that did not exist.14

So-called Federalists were anything but. They were Nationalists advocating consolidating all and unlimited power into a strong national government, rendering states merely its appendages. Republicans supported a federal government of limited powers and preservation of state’s reserved rights. The Constitution accomplished the latter but faux-Federalists worked to transform a federal into a national system necessitating Jefferson’s destruction. Callander’s calumny proved most useful in that endeavor.15

Then and now, there is no evidence or corroboration for Callander’s claim. It would have been “virtually unthinkable” for a “man of Jefferson’s moral standards and habitual conduct”. He was “fastidious” and devoted to his “dead wife’s memory and to the happiness of his daughters and grandchildren” which “bordered on the excessive”. None visiting or living at Monticello at that time noticed an affair. As was customary then, Jefferson did not comment on the accusations. He believed his moral life and standards spoke for themselves.16

Jefferson’s contemporaries and subsequent historians rejected Callander’s story. It lay dormant until 1974 when Fawn A. Brodie published a book using Freudian psychoanalysis to insist it was true. Barbara Riboud picked up the theme writing a novel depicting Jefferson having the affair. Suppressed memory hypnosis and a fictional novel were not enough to wave CBS off. Instead, the liberal network, practicing fake history, turned the books into a television miniseries. After historians “denounced the project as a preposterous lie”, CBS canceled it.17 “In 1998, retired pathologists Dr. Eugene Foster performed a DNA test on the Y chromosomes” of Sally Hemings’ male descendants. It revealed Tom, “Hemings first born son” who Callander claimed was Jefferson’s, “was not related to any Jefferson male”. However, Easton, Hemings last child, was descended from a male Jefferson but there was no way to say Thomas was the father. Why? Twenty-five Jefferson males lived in Virginia at the time, eight at or near Monticello. Moreover, Easton was born five years after Callander published his story when Jefferson was president. If Jefferson denied Tom was his son, why would he father Easton five years later when having a slave concubine would destroy him?18

Liberal newspapers rushed Foster’s work to press falsely claiming it proved the story about Jefferson and Hemings was true. I was a teacher at the time when a liberal biology instructor burst into the copy room gleefully and mockingly announcing the story about Jefferson had been proven by DNA. I had read the rebuttal debunking this claim and began to explain it. He said because I was not a biology teacher, I didn’t know what I was talking about. I placed a copy of the rebuttal in his mailbox. There was no apology.

DNA tests revealed all but one Jefferson male had a 15% chance of fathering Easton. It dropped to 4% for Thomas meaning the chances he was not Easton’s father is 96%. No letters, diaries, documents, or records among the large Jefferson and Hemings families mention an affair. Evidence points to Thomas’ brother Randolph. Easton was born in 1808 when Thomas was 64 and serving his second term as president. Randolph was 52 and his five sons ranged from ages 17 to 24. A

11 The Chris Stigall Show, KCMO 710AM Radio, 8 September, 2023.

22 The Mark Levin Show, KCMO 710Am Radio 11 September, 2023.

33 Bill O’Reilly, Killing England (New York, N.Y., Henry Holt and Company, 2017). 187, 188, 198.

44 Erick Trickey, “The Prussian Nobleman Who Helped Save the American Revolution”, April 26 2017, Smithsonian, at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/baron-von-steuben-19096L30481

55 John McCauley Palmer, General Von Steuben (New Haven Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1937), 94.

66 Michael Lynch, “Our Gaydar Seems Broken”, Past In the Present at https://pastinthepresent.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/our-gaydar-seems-to-be-broken/

77 General Orders 14 March 1778, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/washington/03-14-02–138.

88 O’Reilly, 198.

99 Dumas Mallone, Jefferson the President: First Term 1801-1805 (Boston, Massachusetts, Little Brown and Company, 1970), 206-207.

1010 Dumas Mallone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, and Company, 1962), 326-327, 331, 332.

1111 Mallone, Jefferson the President, 207-208.

1212 IBID. 207-208, 210.

1313 IBID. 211, 212.

1414 IBID. 212-213.

1515 IBID. 218.

1616 IBID. 214.

1717 Ann Coulter, “Was Thomas Jefferson on the Duke Lacrosse Team”? July 9, 2019, updated August 12 2020, The Marshall News Messenger, Friday May 5, 2023 at https://marshallnewsmessenger.com/opinion/columns/ann-coulter-was-thomas-jefferson-on-the-duke-lacrosse-team/article-20eed382-a-05a-11c9-bcb0-436538f71

1818 IBID.

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