Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes' College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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When it comes to environmental justice what do muslims and liberals have in common?
Most news readers would probably answer without a beat... "nothing." However, that isn't true. There's been a growing relationship between Islam and progressives for generations but it's only become apparent over the last few years.
Progressives, under the guise of Social Democrats and, now, the mainstream Democrat Party, have fully embraced the concept of depopulation, but they're no longer targeting people of color, certain ethnicities or sexual orientation. The bull's eye is boldly painted on the back (because cowards won't face their adversary) of anyone who still believes in God, family and country.
National media has been quick to cover Oregon Governor Kate Brown's militaristic response to republican legislators who have cut senate sessions and left town.
In an effort to save Oregon agriculture, transportation and natural resource industries from bearing the burden of a boundless cap and trade bill (Oregon HB 2020), 11 republican senators ditched the state capital to prevent a quorum in the chamber. It was a stand made to force the far-reaching plan into a referendum vote rather than allow a super-majority legislature, packed with politicians lacking business experience, to set policy.
"Mine" and "no."
Each toddler goes through the stage of identifying everything as belonging to them. They'll hold tightly to an item that is another child's and refuse to give it up, sometimes yelling "no" at the top of their lungs. They haven't grasped the concept of ownership beyond claiming as theirs what they see and want. Young children can't see past the expectation that their immediate desires are fulfilled without hesitation.
Democrats don’t see President Trump as a witch or even the enormous fish (arms spread wide to emphasize its size) that got away. House leadership and the deep state operatives have always seen their nemesis as big game to be tracked, shot, delivered to the taxidermist and rendered into a trophy to hang in the Capitol rotunda.
Proof that progressive politics now defines education is walking the halls of justice and Congress. Disinformation regarding our founding documents has reached the point that 20 states are crying "foul" because the Trump administration is enforcing First Amendment rights.
With the Equality Act passing the House Friday, it's obvious America simply doesn't have enough victims. That in mind, it is imperative government establish more and herein is a proposal for an amendment to the legislation when it hits the Senate.
As usual, this commentary could be pushing the envelope on assumption. Should that be the case, it's certain that someone will call out the defects following.
A case that is now being considered by the Supreme Court of the United States was the subject of a recent column--Sex discrimination doesn't translate to pantsuit equality. Bringing it back into focus is the Equality Act, H.R. 5, that the House of Representatives is poised to vote on this week.
Confused boys, girls and others who are doing their best to degrade social standards to virtually none at all, it's time to draw the line. The question is whether SCOTUS can sort it out without giving in to popular thought that deconstructs culture.
How is it that people will line up to leave their family and homes behind in exchange for shackles? What can they be told that will make them trek hundreds or thousands of miles over lousy roads through worse weather to reach a foreign country? Lastly, what has that got to do with Passover?
...A promise of something they lack.
Once democrats and socialists have invented distorted definitions of equality and social justice, they clutch them to the end. No sensible argument or explanation can penetrate the depths of dogma squarely lodged in their circular thinking.
Four years of holding the fort against local government attack, while continuing to rely on faith to get through the siege, has finally yielded good fruit.
Hyperbole? Perhaps, but the Christian ministry that weathered the blockade employed by a county planning commission ignorant of the Church's mission can testify to the battle that was fought just to make one very important point--that the Church is called to love and assist those in need and is not just a building that stands empty except on Sunday.
After the 2018 election of more democrats and outright socialists to the House of Representatives, reports of discrimination have ramped up. The first words out of the mouths of freshmen congressmen (this is the correct application of the title so drop the anger over sex assignment) have disparaged the process that assisted them entry into the halls of government.
Having lived and worked in both Cathy McMorris Rogers and Greg Walden’s districts, I’ve seen the infiltration of liberals settling in their rural, and historically conservative, regions. The result of the migration of leftists into right country makes it apparent that these two (and other republicans facing liberal incursion) will cross the line if the President can be expected to take the heat and cover for their transgression.
To what purpose does Hoda Muthana really want readmittance to the United States? To live the good life or to do her part to undermine the government that guarantees it?
Once a person claiming citizenship abandons their claim by joining forces (literally) with an enemy, they have renounced any possible privilege of returning to that nation. And this is precisely where the “ISIS bride” stands.
Central to political persuasion is the usage of words in modern language, how traditional definitions are subverted until the word means the opposite of the original intent. What is fascinating is how, by the time the word is accepted under its new guise, it is still emotionally connected to its origin.
Trigger words for today have long since been undergoing a slow transformation that has actually switched definitions but not the emotional attachment to what it once meant. As twisted as this sounds, it's primary to converting and controlling public opinion. As an ideal illustration of this phenomenon are two words bandied about by media, politicians and pundits: Liberal and Reactionary.
Who is it that accepts as fact whatever floats across the newsfeed on their social media?
This question must be answered in order to see the complete picture of how this nation's liberty is slipping through our fingers, fingers that don't seem to grasp the enormity of the loss because of the blood on our hands.
Doubletalk has become the hallmark of democrat dialogue, hereby dubbed “DC” to cover both the place of origin and as an acronym for deceit and what once indicated civil exchange of ideas, discourse.
Time is subjective.
No physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, or string theory will be found here because, honestly, they aren't part of this vernacular.
At first blush, it's hard to determine if "food justice" refers to weighing the equality of edible components on one's plate, how what is eaten affects one's sense of justice, if food types and distribution indicates human equality/inequality, or...?