11-22-22 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Scott Powell: Faith, Gratitude and Perseverance - Americans Have Much to Learn from the Pilgrim Story

2. Nikki Goeser: If You Want to Deter Murders, Bring Back the Death Penalty

3. Martin Mawyer: How the LGBTQ Movement Rose to Political Dominance After Stealing the Symbol of God's Covenant Rainbow

4. Kenneth Rapoza: China's Shein Finds Banned Cotton Everywhere

5. Daniel Greenfield: The Next Generation of Doctors will be Diverse, 'Woke' and Incompetent

6. James Hirsen: Making Twitter Great Again Elon Musk-Style

Faith, Gratitude and Perseverance - Americans Have Much to Learn from the Pilgrim Story

By Scott Powell

The Thanksgiving holiday, which commemorates one part of the Pilgrim story, remains the favorite holiday for many Americans... and for good reasons beyond enjoying a feast. With our country passing through troubled times, it is worth revisiting the Pilgrims' five significant achievements, which created the seminal story of America, and reveal remarkable insight into who we are and the qualities of character we need to overcome our present challenges. This thoroughly researched article is one of my best and recounts what happened four centuries ago. To the extent we are shaped by what our forebears did to contribute to and from our present world, this is a story for the here and now. [more...]

If You Want to Deter Murders, Bring Back the Death Penalty

By Nikki Goeser, Executive Director of the Crime Prevention Research Center

Without the threat of capital punishment, there's no reason for killers to agree to a plea bargain.

Amidst the high murder rate of the last couple of years, it is little wonder that Americans support the death penalty by at least a 3-to-2 margin. And their support would rise to more than 2-to-1 if death sentences were carried out on a timelier basis. Thirty-two states have inmates on death row, but only eight states and the federal government have held executions since 2020. Even in the states where executions occur, the average time between sentencing and execution is 19.8 years. But that is only part of the story behind delays. Several years of delay from murder to sentencing is common. It took four years and nine months before Nikolas Cruz was finally sentenced earlier this month for the mass murder of 17 people in the Parkland massacre. Still, because of one juror, he didn’t get the death penalty. [more...]

How the LGBTQ Movement Rose to Political Dominance After Stealing the Symbol of God's Covenant Rainbow

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

LGBTQ activists needed a banner they could rally under, a flag with a message of unity that could attract straight sympathizers, a social masthead that could inspire nervous gays and lesbians to come out of their closets and join the cause. What better symbol could there be than one that spoke of love, harmony, acceptance, unity, and peace – namely, God's very own rainbow? From its inception, the rainbow flag was as much about assailing Christians as it was about gathering gays and lesbians under an umbrella of unity. The rainbow flag gambit paid off. When the 28-foot rainbow flag was unveiled in San Francisco on June 25, 1978, there were 250,000 spectators in attendance. Subsequent gay pride rallies saw their numbers increase throughout every major city in the United States. [more...]

China's Shein Finds Banned Cotton Everywhere

By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

China’s hot, fast fashion exporter, Shein, was put under the microscope at labs contracted by Bloomberg to see if any of the clothing was made from cotton sourced in Xinjiang. And, guess what... it was. Two batches of clothes purchased from Shein — one ordered in March and a second in July — were shipped to Germany for analysis. The clothes were chosen from about 60,000 items that turned up in a search for "cotton" on Shein’s U.S. website. The cotton in those clothing items was compared with fabric sourced directly from Xinjiang that Bloomberg said it obtained from an unidentified U.S. company in China. [more...]

The Next Generation of Doctors will be Diverse, 'Woke' and Incompetent

By Daniel Greenfield

Instead of doctors being chosen for their ability to help patients, they're being chosen to make them feel represented.

Bad news for the future of medicine and the future of human life. While radical politics had consumed the 'soft sciences' and most impractical academic fields, the practical ones, especially the sciences, were generally intact. In the last decade, all of academia has crumbled. Quotas are everywhere and 'woke' mandates have displaced academic ones. That means people will die. Because we'll have doctors who got there by talking about their victimhood, but are not qualified to do anything more than posture and virtue signal about their pain. [more...]

Making Twitter Great Again Elon Musk-Style

By James Hirsen

Elon Musk just welcomed back to the Twitter-verse former President Donald J. Trump. In the process, the social media site owner and self-described "Chief Twit" showed exactly what he's made of, principles-wise. The official reversal of Trump's lifetime Twitter ban, along with the restoration of his more than 80 million followers, was implemented over the past weekend. The handle @realDonaldTrump was reactivated, and users on Twitter are once again able to tag the former president in posts. Elon formally brought 45's account back to life after conducting a poll on the platform that received more than 15 million votes. [more...]