America Is A Nation, Not An Idea
Posted By: Harlowe, 3/11/2025 11:40:00 AM
Last week President Trump said farmers in South Africa who are facing confiscation of their lands without compensation under a new land expropriation law could be offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship. [Snip] ...Prioritizing certain foreigners over others is a repudiation of the popular but fatuous notion that any person from any culture or part of the world can become an American simply by going through a neutral administrative process. ...it matters where you come from, what you believe, and how you live. [Snip] Before the 1965 immigration changes, U.S. immigration law reflected the fact that America is a particular people with a particular culture and traditions...
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A LifeSiteNews reporter told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Tuesday that Catholics are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) for the mishandling of massive funds from the government for the resettlement of “refugees.” [Snip] “They’ve received hundreds of millions of dollars. Supposedly that all goes to the resettlement of illegal immigrants. But in the midst of all that, supposedly 300,000 children are just missing." [Snip] Catholic NGOs, including the USCCB, received nearly $3 billion in federal funding for immigration-related activities during the Biden years, according to recent reports.
America Is A Nation, Not An Idea
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Last week President Trump said farmers in South Africa who are facing confiscation of their lands without compensation under a new land expropriation law could be offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship. [Snip] ...Prioritizing certain foreigners over others is a repudiation of the popular but fatuous notion that any person from any culture or part of the world can become an American simply by going through a neutral administrative process. ...it matters where you come from, what you believe, and how you live. [Snip] Before the 1965 immigration changes, U.S. immigration law reflected the fact that America is a particular people with a particular culture and traditions...
Many times, when we are too close to something, it can seem out of focus or undefined. But then, when distance and time are added, it immediately snaps into the sharpest of clarity and meaning. I maintain that is what is happening now about how President Donald J. Trump is transforming our government, our quality of life, our nation, and even the world. He, and he alone, is ushering in a new American revolution. One which may not be clear to us now, but months, years, and even decades from now,,, [Snip] As well as its massive historical significance.
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Pot, meet kettle.
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"We're about to turn 250 years old, right? We're still pretty young for a country," she explained. "These are, like, our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad."
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USAID Senior Staffer Instructs Remaining
Staff to Convene for an 'All Day' Document Destruction 18 replies
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Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Bill Keating had a meltdown on Tuesday, during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, after the subcommittee's chairman called transgender Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride "mister."
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Self, a Texas Republican, introduced McBride, who was the first transgender lawmaker elected to Congress, as "the representative from Delaware, Mister McBride."
"Thank you madam chair," McBride swiftly responded.
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As pointed out by the author, millions of unassimilated migrants have taken residence in Western Europe and causing “chaos, social disintegration, and lawlessness.” Leaders in those countries “have prioritized the needs of foreigners over the needs and wellbeing of their own people” and citizens feeling betrayed. Multiculturalism has been defined as a “false construct deployed as a weapon against the West.” By contrast, America is “indelibly English and religious sensibilities and civic morality are thoroughly Christian.” Indeed, “America is great, our home, needs to be guarded carefully, and unless outsiders are willing to assimilate completely, they can never become Americans.”