FLASHBACK – In my last blog post I wrote of weak-kneed senators, unwilling to fight for Republican values, referred to as “squishes” by Kurt Schlichter in Townhall.  Well, Sen. Tom Cotton is no squish.

Despite the fact that Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general, is certain to be confirmed, Cotton confronted her over her earlier comment that “there is not an institution in this country that isn’t suffering from institutional racism.”

“Ms. Gupta, Cotton asked,” is the Biden White House suffering from institutional racism?”  Avoiding the question, Gupta instead referred to the “ongoing scourge of racial discrimination … that remains very much a live problem in America today.”

Gupta certainly didn’t think her past statement would be used against her.  Indicating that her lack of response would be noted for the record, Cotton scolded her for “condemning your fellow Americans, without individualized evidence of their beliefs, their words, or their deeds. I think (your) statement is beyond the pale.  “I don’t think really anybody truly believes that, nor should it be believed because it is so preposterous.”

“Vanita Gupta’s outlandish claims that every single American harbors racial bias leaves her unfit to serve in the Justice Department,” Tweeted Cotton, “Americans deserve a fair and impartial Department of Justice – not one led by someone who makes wild allegations.”

Gupta supports defunding the police and expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court, according to Reagan McCarthy at Townhall

Regarding her anticipated confirmation, Bonchie, writing in Red State, wrote, “What’s sad, though, is that while Attorney General Merrick Garland stumbles around the DOJ as the figurehead (a la Biden in the White House), unable to ascertain what day it is, this hardcore radical will be running the show

SHALANDA YOUNG, nominated to be deputy budget director, played the race card during her hearing, too, claiming that access to abortion is considered “a matter of economic and racial justice.”

“Shalanda Young’s radical support for abortion on demand ignores the devastating toll abortion takes on black communities: an abortion rate four times higher than that of their white counterparts,” commented Marjorie Dannenfelser, SBA List President.

Racism in Higher Education

OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES is where the worst racists can be found, Francis Menton recently noted in his piece published in his Manhattan Contrarian blog.

“(If) you yourself don’t seem to see much behavior that you think is racist, at least no in any overt or observable way, you are not looking nearly closely enough at the world of left-wing colleges and their professors and administrators,” he writes, “That is where the really, really bad racism is pervasive.”

Space does not permit me to include examples of racism he cites at Princeton, Dartmouth, the University of Chicago, and even prominent Catholic universities – Georgetown, Notre Dame, Fordham, Holy Cross and Villanova.

In a follow-up to her dad’s piece, Jane Menton, in, “Now It’s Time to Disrupt Education,” in the Manhattan Contrarian, writes that even as colleges and universities have made efforts to improve diversity and inclusion, she believes it has resulted in more “systemic racism,” “oppression,” and “white supremacy.”

Prager on Education

SADLY, “if your child attends almost any university in America, the odds are that your child’s decency, intellectual acuity, faculty of reason, character and moral compass will be damaged, perhaps permanently,” wrote Dennis Prager in Daily Wire.

“The worse news is that sending your child to almost any elementary school or high school – public and private – is fast becoming equally toxic.  More and more schools are being taken over by left-wing ideologues and by non-ideologues who lack the courage to confront the ideologues.” – Dennis Prager

“Once infected with leftism, these schools teach children to hate reason, tradition, America, Christianity, whites, excellence, freedom and masculinity,” says Prager.  “In addition to perverting education, teachers and their unions have exhibited a contempt for children that has take even conservatives by surprise.”

‘Armed’ Insurrection?

THAT ARMED INSURRECTION THAT WASN’T – The term “armed insurrection” was bantered about by Democrat politicians and the media for weeks after the January 6, 2021 breaching of the Capitol, however, we are now learning it really was no such thing.  That is if you assume, as I do, that when you think of “armed” you think of firearms.  Sen. Ron Johnson stated that during a Senate hearing.

When asked by Johnson how many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds during the day, Jill Sanborn, an FBI assistant director for counter terrorism, stated, “To my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests at scene at this point.”

Sanborn confirmed that the only shots fired in the Capitol was the shot fired by a still unidentified Capitol policeman that killed the unarmed Ashli Babbit, an Air Force veteran from California.

A writer at thewriterinblack.com, who has friends with insurgency experience, writes,  “Did the people of Beirut need to be told that an insurrection was going on?  Did the people of Northern Ireland need the BBC to inform them than the IRA was engaged in an insurrection?

“If there was an armed insurrection, you wouldn’t need politicians and media pundits to tell you.  If you need the media, if you need pundits and political leaders, to tell you that “it’s an armed insurrection,” then it isn’t.”

Incidentally, it has been more than two months since the death of Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick, yet the cause of death has yet to be reported.  Just how long does it take to get toxicology results?

Now more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America