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Commentary: Dem Senator Tester Turns on Biden, Teams with Republicans to Fight 'Senseless' New School Gun Policy (LINKS)

If sex education were banned from public schools, do you think teenagers would be so dumb that they couldn’t figure it out on their own? Only a crazy person would answer, “Yes. The human race would die off due to a lack of procreation if students were not taught sex education in school.”

The Biden administration is that crazy. And some Democrats — a party that has an uncanny ability to stick together no matter what — have had enough of the insanity.

You heard that right. The Biden administration is withholding funding from schools that teach students how to shoot and hunt. A major component of that curriculum, of course, is safety.

https://ijr.com/democratic-senator-turns-biden-teams-republicans-fight-senseless-new-school-gun-policy/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ijr-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=firefly

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Sep 19, 2023Liked by Frederick R Smith

Insightful and excellent. I’ll reread to get it all in ! Thank you .

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3M faces more legal headaches after $6 billion earplug settlement To fund its settlements, 3M has cut costs, including through eliminating 8,500 jobs, or 10% of its workforce. While news of the settlement relieves one big legal overhang, 3M is still awaiting approval of its $10.3 billion settlement with water utilities over drinking water contaminated with substances known as "forever chemicals."

Capstone estimates 3M's total PFAS liability risk is nearly $30 billion, beyond the existing settlements.

Roman has been leading 3M for five years. That includes the Covid pandemic, during which a shortage of the company's N95 respirators quickly became a global crisis. He's also had to oversee the company through the earplugs and PFAS litigation, plus pushback from a top shareholder on the underperformance in the stock. Shares of 3M have fallen 48% since he was appointed CEO in 2018. During that same timeframe, the XLI Industrials ETF has rallied 50% . The stock rose more than 1% on Tuesday. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/29/3m-faces-more-legal-headaches-after-earplug-settlement.html

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Arlington National Cemetery Wants to Know What You Think About Removing Its Confederate Memorial

https://open.substack.com/pub/gailhonadle/p/arlington-national-cemetery-wants?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Aug 30, 2023·edited Aug 30, 2023Liked by Frederick R Smith

They couldn't foresee men so wealthy would do all they could to hang onto every cent, by endangering workers' lives, wages too low to house and feed a family, slums they lived in, and bred diseases. Violence as more began to get drunk, gin or beer was cheap.

Along comes WM Jennings Bryant a reformer, a Democrat reformer. So men like Carnagie, Rockefeller, and others chose a do nothing to rock the boat McKinley to spend massive money to get elected. In the process they saw Teddy Roosevelt as a threat, so had McKinley chose him as VP. Back then the VP had no real power. Nuetuerlized. Till the day McKinley was assassinated in his second term. Teddy started slowly making changes, today we'd call it Psychological Warfare. Teddy became a reformer. His time in the WH saw wages, living conditions, and safety improve.

Then he went too far left when he ran under the Bullmoose Party. We got Taft.

Sometimes you learn a little thing like that by watching History Channel's Men That Built America. Their Foods That Made America is worth watching, and the MEGA MANUFACTURES. Quite enlightening.

Excellent history lesson as per your superb talent for real history, Fredrick, I highly recommend you read his other history lessons. You learn what you were never taught.

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Aug 29, 2023Liked by Frederick R Smith

Great historical review of both the Constitution and how the current Democratic Party has abused the intentions of the founding fathers. We are at a critical time in our country politically. Thanks for essay.

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We start winning when we do not comply and it gets better from that point on. Once they can not use fear and hate to control us it is game over for them. It's that simple. Thank you for posting.

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As always, you have educated us and reminded us of the dangers we face. The cult (aka the "elite") has taken control of the USA. Their perversion and aggression, combined with our quiet complicity, is corrupting and destroying civilization.

As an afterthought, I'd like to add that states' rights took its major hit long before 1913.

Nullification is the doctrine that states have the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional and nullify them within their borders. It was based on the idea that the union was a compact of sovereign states, and that the federal government was their agent with limited powers. Nullification was advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798–99, which were written in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Prior to the Civil War, people used the plural to describe the United States of America. After the Northern War of Aggression, it has been described by singular adjectives as "America" proved its might in destroying "states' rights".

It can be argued that Eisenhower was a prophet when he warned of the military-industrial complex. Since the CIA assassinated JFK we have been drifting towards becoming a 4th Reich and the final war between good and evil is being fought on the world's stage and in each person's soul.

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Reminds me of the ending of the Planet of the Apes movie...

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An excellent and thorough explanation of how "the Great Experiment" not only went off the tracks. We went over the hill and down into the river! My wife got me a T-shirt that says "THIS is the government our Founders warned us about."

The question is where do we go from here?

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The Constitution is on life support just like those folks on "run. death is near" and ventilators for Covid.

Excellent article, by the way.

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