Kerby Anderson
Imagine being in the Army and watching a presentation about extremism. Up pops a slide with the title “Terrorist Groups” and under it are labels that identify the National Right to Life and anyone with a “Choose Life” license plate as an extremist. Mind you, this slide just followed a slide of the terrorist group ISIS.
This is not the first time we have seen such Army training slides. During the Obama administration, we discussed on my radio program other slides that identified “evangelical Christianity,” Catholicism, and Mormonism as different forms of “religious extremism.”
Danielle Runyan is Senior Counsel and Chair of the Military Practice Group at First Liberty Institute. Her editorial documents what I just discussed and then goes on to explain that this incident at Fort Liberty was not a one-time error. When members of Congress denounced such activity in their letter, the Army response was that the slides were not vetted and implied this was an exception.
Daniele explains that “the repetitive nature of these events in the Army over the past decade, as well as the woke ideology that has plagued our nation and destroyed the careers of thousands of religious servicemembers over the past four years,” make it hard to believe this wasn’t intentional.
She mentions a briefing given to Army personnel at Camp Shelby that identified the American Family Association as a “hate group.” At another briefing, the Defense Equal Opportunity Institute explained that it considered extreme leftist organizations to be a reliable source for training.
If the Army wonders why they are having trouble recruiting Christians to serve in the military, they might want to look at what they are teaching in these training sessions.

Penna Dexter
In these days, do you sometimes find yourself struggling to discern truth from lies? Do you sense that bedrock principles regarding culture and politics are being mercilessly challenged? Do sources of information you once found reliable now seem shaky?
We’re being targeted by a powerful propaganda technique called reality suppression. In a recent Substack article, author and filmmaker, Christopher Rufo unpacks how the Left suppresses reality in order to maintain “its control over the discourse.”
Chris Rufo explains: ”the technique of reality suppression is designed to persuade your opponent not to believe what is in front of him.”
He gives three examples. One is COVID. Where did the pandemic come from? If the evidence had you convinced or at least suspicious, that it was from a lab leak, it was deemed racist or too antagonistic toward China to say so. Skepticism of the vaccine was dismissed as anti-science, The possibility of natural immunity was dismissed.
Hence, either by censorship or intimidation, reality was suppressed.
The second example of reality suppression is critical race theory. Chris Rufo brought CRT to public attention and surfaced a massive body of evidence to show how it was being taught in schools. But the Left employed its media outlets to deny that CRT even exists.   “Pure reality suppression,” says Mr. Rufo. “taking something that is obviously real, that is substantiated by evidence and just using a blanket denial to say something that exists does not exist.”
Chris Rufo’s third example is immigration — massive numbers of illegals flowing across the border and into the interior of the country. The establishment media ignores or plays down the danger of criminals, specifically Venezuelan gang members bringing murder, drugs, and human trafficking into sanctuary cities like New York, places like Aurora, Colorado, and even suburbs around the country.
To fight reality suppression, Mr. Rufo says trust your own observation and intuition.  And seek out reliable sources of information.

Kerby Anderson
Yesterday I talked about the book on free speech by Jonathan Turley (professor of law at George Washington University). Today I would like to talk about the recent column where he documents “The Left’s Assault on the Constitution.”
The reason for his article, and many other articles about the Constitution, is due to a New York Times article that had the title “America’s Constitution is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?” Lathan Watts writes, “Our Constitution Isn’t Dangerous, But Our Ignorance of It Is.” Jerry Newcombe responds by asking “Is the Constitution Really Dangerous?”
The purpose of Jonathan Turley’s column is to show that the distain shown for the Constitution in the one New York Times article goes far beyond that one article. The assault on the Constitution involves more than court-packing and is targeted on the freedom of speech.
He quotes a UC Berkeley law school professor who has written a book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States. An editor of The Nation magazine calls the Constitution “trash” and urges the abolition of the US Senate. A law professor at Georgetown Law School complains that Americans are “slaves” to the Constitution.
The article in the New York Times repeats similar comments and scoffs at what the author calls “Constitutional worship.” She writes: “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.” And I might mention a previous New York Times op-ed by two law professors from Harvard and Yale who argued, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.”
These are just a few of the quotes provided by Jonathan Turley. They remind us that it is time to defend the Constitution.