Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener, the candidate leading the race to replace Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi in CA-11, authored a sickening bill designed to protect older homosexual men preying on underage boys by wiping out mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for pedophiles.
He is using his political power to codify a predatory culture of grooming and sexual abuse that normalizes grown adults targeting children as young as 10 years old.
San Francisco isn't just sending another corrupt Democrat to the House. The radical Left is deliberately turning Washington into a permanent predator protection racket to normalize child exploitation and pedophilia across the entire country.
This is the Democrat Party.
There is no country on earth like this one. And I don't say that lightly.
Every nation has a flag. Every nation has borders and a history and pride. But America has something no other country can claim, a concept so radical it had never been tried before in human civilization. Not a state religion. Not a king ordained by God. But soul liberty.
That phrase was coined by Roger Williams, a 17th century Baptist preacher who founded Rhode Island after being exiled from Massachusetts for one dangerous idea: that no government has the right to tell you what to believe.
Williams was the first man to establish in practice the emancipation of conscience from the grip of political and religious rule. He didn't just preach it. He helped create a government built entirely around that belief, one that protected every person's right to seek God, or not, entirely on their own terms.
That idea became the First Amendment.
And here's what most people miss about the Establishment Clause. It was never a rejection of Christianity. As Ronald Reagan put it, the First Amendment was not written to protect people from religious values.
It was written to protect religious values from government tyranny. The wall between church and state is the greatest protection the church ever got. When government cannot crown a religion, no religion can be dethroned by government either. Your faith is untouchable.
People think the separation of church and state was invented by secular Enlightenment thinkers trying to push God out of public life. But the idea didn't come from philosophers. It came from the church.
Specifically, it came from Baptists, people who had bled for their faith and refused to let a government ever define it again.
The entire concept of soul liberty is that each person is directly accountable to God, and must have the freedom to make their own religious choices without coercion from the state.
Genuine faith must be freely chosen, never imposed. A government that forces belief doesn't produce Christians. It produces pretenders. And the church knew it, because Christ understood it first.
Worship cannot be compelled. It must be given freely.
That truth is woven into the entire ministry of Jesus. He never recruited by force. He never leveraged power. He invited. He asked. He reasoned. He opened people's eyes with truth and let them choose.
The creation of human beings in the image of God necessarily implies the freedom to choose, for or against a relationship with Him, voluntarily, without coercion.
Jesus himself drew the line: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." He never took a coin from Caesar or sought the help of Herod in his ministry.
If Christ did not compel worship, what king or government ever has the right to?
For Baptists, a free church in a free state rests not on political theory but on the Word of God. It is the Christian ideal.
America is America because of Christianity. Not in spite of it.
No other country on earth can trace its foundational freedom back to this. Not to a king. Not to a constitution borrowed from Rome. Only in America did a Baptist preacher standing in the wilderness declare God alone is Lord of the conscience.
As our 250th anniversary approaches, people need to understand what was bled and died for. They didn't die for a flag. They died for your freedom of conscience, your right to seek God on your own terms, to wrestle with Him, to find your way to Him without any earthly power standing between you and the divine.
That freedom has always been under attack. For generations it came from the left. Now the assault is coming from the right as well. And that makes it more important than ever to know what makes this country one nation under God.
This freedom of conscience, this freedom to worship, is the single greatest gift America gave to the world. It is unique. It exists nowhere else. It was born in the church, written into law by men who understood the gospel, and it must be defended by people who still do.
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America250 was originally going to be ran by NGOs with an explicit, left-leaning agenda to promote global, multilateral “democracy,” as demonstrated by @SKDoubleDub33 . Then Trump rooted out most of that nonsense. I suspect what we’re seeing is a revenge tour by the original NGOs who are painting the current celebration as “partisan.”
If they can’t be in control, they have to destroy it for everyone else.
@MattShaheen It's not the same. We're not voting for Sunday school teacher here. I don't agree with many transgressions by many politicians. But I watch how they vote and what they are doing for our country. Cornyn needs to go!
I don’t have to list all of Trump’s accomplishments, and there are many. I am going to just list one. The one every single one of the podcasters talked about ad nauseam during the last administration.
The border.
The border which is now sealed. The one that doesn’t have 100,000 plus crossings a month.
Have you heard them talk about that?
Nope.
That alone makes his presidency a success.
FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND! This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow War Fighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue. At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine. This miraculous Search and Rescue Operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave Pilot, yesterday, which we did not confirm, because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is the first time in military memory that two U.S. Pilots have been rescued, separately, deep in Enemy Territory. WE WILL NEVER LEAVE AN AMERICAN WARFIGHTER BEHIND! The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment that ALL Americans, Republican, Democrat, and everyone else, should be proud of and united around. We truly have the best, most professional, and lethal Military in the History of the World. GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
Lord 🙏🏼 protect our missing pilot from the evil forces of darkness. Strengthen his spirit and courage so that he may rise to the challenge to find his way home to us. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
Hello Professor Nichols,
You spent twenty-five years at the Naval War College. You taught the officers who would go on to run America's wars. Famously, you never served in any of them.
In February 2003, you were at your desk in Newport when you wrote this, about Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations: “There is only one thing to say about Secretary Powell’s presentation at the U.N.: If this doesn’t do it, nothing will.” You were confident. You were expert. You were wrong. You acknowledged this twenty years later in The Atlantic — the invasion was, in your own words, “one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in American history.”
You wrote that from the same institution you are now defending.
The Senior Service Colleges produced the officers who managed the Afghanistan withdrawal. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. General Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM commander. On September 28, 2021, both testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that they had recommended keeping 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
The recommendation was not followed. They did not resign or say a word publicly. Then 13 American service members died at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021. Only after that did they testify.
Your response, in The Atlantic, August 16, 2021: “Afghanistan Is Your Fault.”
Not the generals your institutions trained and credentialed. Not the curriculum that built the career-preserving, NSC-deferring officer class that drove those decisions to their conclusion. The American public, with our short attention span and our SUVs.
General Milley, whose career your institution shaped, secretly called his PLA counterpart twice, October 30, 2020 and January 8, 2021, and assured him the US would not strike China, and that Milley would warn him personally if an attack were ordered. You wrote “Trump Put Milley in an Impossible Position.”
That's not all. Secretary Austin concealed a cancer diagnosis from the White House and Congress for weeks while incapacitated; the DoD Inspector General documented it. At his farewell address in September 2023, Milley publicly called his former commander-in-chief a “wannabe dictator.”
You found none of this worth a column.
Anthony Tata is a retired Brigadier General. He commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He led soldiers in both wars. And now he has been asked to conduct a 90-day curriculum review of the Senior Service Colleges. Your objection is that he lacks the credentials for the job.
You wrote a whole book about credentials. The foundational knowledge of the average American is, in your assessment, “plummeting to aggressively wrong.” Institutions must be insulated from the ignorant. Expertise must not be questioned by those who haven’t earned it.
The men who earned your institution’s credentials - over twenty-plus years of your tenure - presided over two of the longest military failures in American history. They managed those failures in line with everything the War Colleges taught them: subordinate military judgment to civilian direction, preserve the relationship, testify about it later. They retired with honors.
That is what "expertise" means to you.
The question Pete Hegseth is asking isn't whether the War Colleges have credentials. It's whether the credentials mean anything. After twenty-five years on your faculty training generals who only know how to lose war, Professor Nichols, you are the wrong man to answer that.
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