TRENDING

"STUDY:  Distrust in government rising worldwide." Drudge Report

"Tokyo olympics viewership plummeted 42% from Rio." Drudge. You don't think it had anything to do with American athletes kneeling during the Star-Spangled Banner, do you?

"Internet has never been so authoritarian." Drudge

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"Plant-based fish rattling seafood industry." Drudge

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE CALIFORNIA

"Dixie now second largest in CA history . . . Can't find enough firefighters." Drudge

A BACK-TO-SCHOOL SHOPPING LIST FOR YOUR LIBERAL CHILD *

* Compliments of Babylon Bee

> Ziplock baggies of kale

> A brown paper bag. This should be used to cover your child's head if they're white

> A coffin, since they will probably die of COVID

> Extra opposite-gender clothing in case they need to switch genders during recess

> Gasoline & matches in case they encounter an American flag

> Set of crayons for drawing inclusivity rainbows. Don't forget to remove all white crayons

BACON APOCALYPSE

"Like ancient Egypt, California is beset by plagues, most of them self-inflicted — homicidal summer wildfires, a crime spike, electricity blackouts, the end of the internal-combustion engine, failing public schools, water shortages, highest-in-the-nation taxes, a COVID response that gutted the economy and did little to contain the virus, metastasizing homelessness, critical race theory, official confusion about obvious differences among men and women, Governor Gavin Newsom, and, of course, University of Southern California head football coach Clay Helton. With all that, it’s hardly surprising that many Californians are fleeing for other states, crossing the Colorado River in a kind of exodus that’s also remindful of Bible stories: For the first time since William McKinley captured the White House, the state’s population is falling.

"Even so, it’s a little surprising that the next plague may well be hunger — not actual corpses-in-the-streets famine, but a bacon shortage in which some of the living may envy the dead.And not just bacon. State regulators are set to block, in January, the sale of chickens, veal calves, and pigs raised in conditions prohibited under 2018’s Proposition 12, the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative. You can’t blame this on Newsom or the state legislature’s Democratic supermajority. Instead, blame California voters, two-thirds of whom believed that they could suspend the laws of economics and that nobody would have to pay for it.

"They were wrong, of course. The bacon shortage — newspaper shorthand for a shortage of all pork products — may be unintended, but it was utterly predictable. Pork producers in Iowa and other midwestern states, and poor people all over the U.S., will pay more so that most California voters can feel less bad about themselves." Will Swaim, National Review Online 8/9

ROE V. WADE

"The Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments in October concerning the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It is anticipated that SCOTUS will either reverse Roe v. Wade or cut its heart out, rendering a decision with no real precedential value. Roe opened the door for abortion on demand and the subsequent deaths of more than 64 million unborn children. The time has come for SCOTUS to deal Roe a death-blow and put an end to abortion in the US . . .

"There are more than 2,500 pro-life pregnancy centers nationwide that provide alternatives to abortion services, empowering mothers considering abortion to choose life. These life-affirming agencies have a major impact in reducing abortion in their community and creating a culture of life in America.

"According to a recent study by Charlotte Lozier Institute, pro-life pregnancy centers provided more than $266 million in services to their clientele in 2019 — the vast majority of whom are seriously considering ending their pregnancies through abortion. Such services, provided at no cost . . . 

"The most impressive thing about the work of pro-life pregnancy centers and medical clinics is that their work is primarily supported through private donations, as opposed to government funds. Many volunteers that believe life is a better choice for any mother considering abortion provide countless hours of work, love and devotion for mothers coming to these centers. Trained medical staff, including nurses and doctors, also frequently donate their time to support women, babies and families." Thomas Glessner, Townhall 8/9