Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee staff!
Thank you for subscribing and I hope you enjoy today’s newsletter.
Mike
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us.
Isaiah 33:22
Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth, a holiday that began in Texas and was recently declared a federal holiday by President Biden. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation making the slaves free under US law on January 1, 1863, but Juneteenth marks the anniversary of Union General Gordon Granger issuing an order in Galveston on June 19, 1865, declaring freedom for the slaves in Texas, making them the final slaves to learn that they were free.
So if you celebrate Juneteenth, then have a happy and safe one. But some black Americans aren’t pleased with the attempts to co-opt and mainstream this holiday. They fear Juneteenth will go from being the black people’s Fourth of July to another commercialized event like “Pride Month” where white “progressives” buy tacky Juneteenth merchandise at Target to virtue-signal their wokeness.
Rick Moran at PJ Media has more on that, along with the observation that if Juneteenth does become hopelessly commercialized and stripped of all its meaning, then it truly will have become a 100% American holiday.
Sort of Related: Target faced backlash for pushing all that “Pride Month” merchandise (especially the “tucking swimsuits” for little boys), and then even worse backlash from radical trans activists for moving it to the back of the store. But Monica Showalter at American Thinker asks a question that nobody else has brought up in all the debates over that stuff: Is anyone actually buying it? The answer appears to be “no.”
She visited several Targets and took some photos that suggest that “Pride Month” stuff is gathering more dust than “Star Wars” sequel toys. She notes that this is in San Diego, a light blue city, the kind of place where you might expect it to sell. In red states, you’d expect that nobody would buy this stuff (or any other Target merchandise), and in deep blue cities, all the Targets have moved out because of the theft.
Although I’d love to see some photos of the last Target left in San Francisco. It would be funny if everything in it had been stolen except for the completely untouched "Pride Month" merchandise.
Lawsuit filed
California 18-year-old Layla Jane is suing Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals for performing a double mastectomy on her when she was 13 after she was convinced that she was transgender and had to become male. She says she was struggling with mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts, but instead of treating her for that, the doctors pushed her to gender transition. She’s accusing the hospital system of "intentional fraud and concealment,” in telling her that if she didn’t do it, she’d likely commit suicide; and telling her parents they had a choice between having a live son or a dead daughter.
Her attorney, Harmeet Dhillon, represents another detransitioner who says that same “live son/dead daughter” language was used on her parents, so she suspects they’re just following a script.
Jane now suffers from both physical and emotional problems caused by the unnecessary surgery. She told Laura Ingraham, "I don't think I should've been allowed to change my sex before I was legally able to have sex. I don't think I'm better off for the experience, and I think transitioning just completely added fuel to the fire that was my pre-existing conditions." Dhillon added, "It is impossible for a child to give informed consent, and it is impossible for parents who are not fully informed and with a child that was not properly treated [cannot] also give that consent."
I’m normally not a big fan of lawsuits, but I hope to see a lot more like this one. Too many medical practitioners have let themselves be corrupted by either fear of the radical trans movement or the siren song of big profits from unnecessary surgery and the lifetime of post-operative care needed to deal with it. But nothing forces someone to reassess their bad ideas like a tsunami of big, fat lawsuits.
America the Beautiful
God's creation is all around us. We are blessed with his bounty. Take a moment to enjoy it.
China mission
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in China over the weekend, attempting to improve relations between the US and China. But judging by his underwhelming welcome and the comments from China’s President Xi Jinping, China thinks it’s the leader of the world and we have to follow its orders…
…And I wonder where they got that idea?
A chilling IRS, ATF raid in Montana
Maybe this is why the IRS needed all those new agents who were trained in carrying weapons and those giant stockpiles of ammo. Last week in Great Falls, Montana, nearly two dozen heavily-armed IRS and ATF agents in bulletproof vests and tactical gear raided the Highwood Creek Outfitters gun store as the owner was arriving to open shop for the day.
It’s unclear why there was a need for the raid, or for so much firepower, or why the IRS was part of it at all. The store sells AR-15 and AK-47 semi-automatic rifles, but does so legally. The IRS agents seized background check forms which contain the personal information of gun buyers, but no financial information that should be the only concern of the IRS. The shop owner said all he was told was that his business had been “reported,” but not by whom or for what. He said, “The current administration seems to be hell bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans.”
Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale is demanding to know the rationale for this guns-drawn raid on a legal business, and for a similar one recently on a gun store in Georgia, but so far, no response.
May I just add that if the Biden DOJ is looking for someone they can prosecute for lying on a background check to obtain a gun, I have a name I can report to them: Hunter Biden.
New Poll: 55% believe Trump indictment is politically motivated
A new Harvard/Harris poll found that 55% of Americans believe the indictment of Donald Trump is politically motivated, 56% consider it “election interference” and only 44% see it as a fair application of the law. The poll also found that 65% believe Biden mishandled classified information and 72% believe Hillary Clinton did.
However, the election interference appears to be working, at least so far. A Quinnipiac poll taken after the indictment of former President Trump shows Biden leading him 48-44 percent. Considering the other poll, plus the A-B comparisons of their Administrations, it’s a little shocking to me that Biden would be leading Trump. But just the fact that it’s within the margin of error and not a Biden blowout absolutely shocked Jonathan Karl and his bubble-dwelling panelists on ABC’s “This Week.”
Former DNC head Donna Brazile, who is what ABC thinks of as an unbiased news commentator, claimed that Biden has a sterling record of achievements (he personally created 13 million jobs!), and said the poll shows that “the country is very divided.”
That’s funny, I’d say that it shows the country is very misled, by people like this who are supposed to be journalists. Maybe if they devoted even five minutes a week to informing their viewers of the relentless campaign of lies and sabotage against Trump of which this is the latest salvo; or how shocking and unprecedented it is for a President to weaponize the justice system against his leading political opponent; or about how Joe Biden has been such a lousy President that any random armadillo could have done a better job (including one run over by a semi), that poll would not be within the margin of error.
More climate spending
President Biden will be in Palo Alto, California, today, announcing plans to spend another $600 million of our money on “climate change.” This time, it’s to protect the coastline from “sea level rise, tidal flooding, hurricanes, storm surge, among other severe climate impacts.” This will come as welcome news to all the rich climate change activists like Al Gore and Barack Obama who keep buying multi-million-dollar beachfront estates.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-unveil-600-million-additional-climate-spending