Marriage Crisis in Church and Society. Bai Macfarlane

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Bai Macfarlane	Sat, Oct 1, 7:54 PM (6 days ago)
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Dear Bishop Gracida,

Would your readers like to join my plea?

Thank you,

Bai

With the non-profit organization Mary’s Advocates, I work to reduce unilateral no-fault divorce and support those who are unjustly abandoned. I ask if you’d have time to listen to the talk I just gave for a Knights of Columbus’ speakers series in Manhattan (Bishop Morlino excerpt is included).  

I’d be grateful for any suggestions about how laity could encourage canonists and diocesan leadership to exert any effort to protect children and faithful spouses from the outcomes forced on them by government no-fault divorce courts. I’ve found that tradition and canon law give the Church exclusive jurisdiction over case of separation (a.k.a. civil divorce).

Watch my September 9 talk at The Shrine and Parish Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan New York.

Marriage Crisis in Church and Society. Bai Macfarlane

Consider the sample Covenant in Anticipation of Marriage and Arbitration Agreement Between Husband and wife developed from a constitutional law perspective wherein Catholics can attempt to create an enforceable agreement designating that their obligations toward each other and their children are decided by those whom canon law specifies have competence to judge. See text HERE.

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Bai Macfarlane

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Recently, Biden has pivoted repeatedly on stage with his arm outstretched to shake the hand—of someone not there.  

                                                   Cognitive Impairment?

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

October 5, 2022

Joe Biden, the nominal head of the Democratic Party, is 79. But he increasingly acts and sounds 89.  

Recently, Biden has pivoted repeatedly on stage with his arm outstretched to shake the hand—of someone not there.  

On one recent occasion, Biden called out for Representative Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) who passed away in a car crash in early August. He was insistent, shouting to the crowd, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she wasn’t going to be here—to help make this a reality.” 

Biden’s fantasy was the reality that Rep. Walorski is no longer with us. 

Biden slurs his words. He truncates sentences. He speaks in a muddled voice that often makes comprehension impossible. When questioned, he grows irate, growls, and stutters. 

Biden’s messaging is even more confused than his medium. On any given day, Biden may impetuously announce that U.S. soldiers will defend the soil of Taiwan, or that the “killer” Vladimir Putin, unhinged head of nuclear Russia, must be removed from office promptly.  

If Biden doesn’t like a question, he may deride the reporter as a “stupid son of a bitch.” He habitually lies about everything from COVID-19 vaccinations being unavailable until his presidency to the nature of his son’s military service.  

Biden confuses Iran with Ukraine. He calls a senior African American assistant “my boy.”

For much of the Trump presidency, leftist opponents sought to remove Trump by the 25th Amendment. A Yale psychiatrist diagnosed Trump in absentia and declared him deserving of a straitjacket forced intervention. Partisan charges grew so intense that Trump voluntarily took—and aced—the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.  

Strangely, the same Left armchair psychiatrists offer no such worries about Biden’s clear mental decline.  

One reason Biden enjoys immunity from removal is that his 57-year-old vice president, Kamala Harris, is seen to be even more incoherent and ill-informed.  

Harris cannot plead age as the cause of her mental confusion. Yet, the more the public sees and hears Harris’ mixed-up word salads, and bizarre cackling spells, the more it is convinced that she is either ignorant or intellectually lazy—or both.  

Recently while at the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, she read from a prepared speech that the United States honors its “very important,” “strong,” and “enduring,” “alliance”—with the communist, genocidal “Republic of North Korea.”  

For those other than the vice president, North Korea is the sworn enemy of the United States, and is officially known as the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”  

Millions of Floridians remain currently displaced by Hurricane Ian. In response, Harris recently reassured them that impending federal assistance would be predicated not on need or individual disasters, but based on skin color.

Translated that would mean that millions of the homeless, white middle-class should wait in line for relief, given Harris’s promises to “fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place.” 

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is 82. At times she too seems trapped in her own world disconnected from reality. Pelosi recently mixed up Taiwan with mainland Communist China, and thus exclaimed  “China is one of the freest societies in the world.”  

She stood up and weirdly rubbed her clenched fists together when Joe Biden in his state of the union darkly mentioned the dangers of soldiers inhaling toxic fumes from burn pits.  

Of course, after one of Trump’s SOTU addresses, Pelosi proceeded indignantly to tear up her copy of the speech on national television. 

More recently, Pelosi defended open borders and the vast influxes of illegal aliens by crassly claiming “We need migrants to pick crops.”

Pelosi’s startling revelation of progressive condescension was reminiscent of NBC retweeting the liberal commentator who said of the movement of immigrants, “It’s like me taking my trash out and just driving to different areas where I live and just throwing my trash there.” 

The Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania John Fetterman is running for senator in his home state. His handlers try to keep him from questioners. They duck debates. And they count on the media to edit videos of his increasingly rare and bizarre appearances.  

Why? 

Fetterman recently suffered a severe life-threatening stroke, the details, and prognoses of which he has yet to fully disclose.  

Like Biden, Fetterman is now severely cognitively impaired. He cannot finish a coherent sentence while campaigning.  

Almost daily Fetterman suffers long bouts of incoherence. He even becomes confused over where exactly he and his crowd are: “Send us back to New Jersey and send me to DC.” 

The Democratic Party’s top hierarchy is run by octogenarians and septuagenarians. In the case of Biden and Pelosi, their powerful positions and age-related cognitive disabilities startle both Americans and allies abroad.  

Why is the supposed party of youth dominated by such frail and forgetful elderly?  

Maybe because the alternative of the next generation of would-be leaders waiting in the wings—like a Kamala Harris or John Fetterman—is more frightening still.

NEA’S Left-Wing Attack On Columbus October 6, 2022 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the NEA’s attack on Columbus: The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the nation, representing more than three million teachers and administrators. It is also a decidedly left-wing organization, and as such often evinces a hyper-critical perspective of the United States, and Western civilization, in general. Its frontal assault on Columbus is one such example. Go to the NEA’s website and type in “Columbus” in the search engine. Guess what pops up? “Resources for Teaching About Indigenous Peoples.” There you will find information about people who migrated to America—just like the rest of us. These “indigenous peoples” came from Asia. We know them as American Indians. The NEA has lots of resources for teachers on Columbus and the Indians, the most prominent of which is the Zinn Education Project. It is named after historian Howard Zinn, a man who hated America with a passion, so much so that he became a member of the Communist Party. He wrote the best-selling volume, A People’s History of the United States, the most dishonest book on American history ever written. “Abolishing Columbus Day.” That is the goal of the Zinn Education Project, as stated on its website. It is a quick tutorial, but it is no substitute for Zinn’s famous textbook. Mary Grabar is the author of Debunking Howard Zinn. The subtitle says it all: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America. One way Zinn created his false history is by selectively quoting from what Columbus said. His account is laced with ellipses, glaring omissions from the exact words written by Columbus. Grabar offers many examples of this sleight of hand, saying these “omissions are essential to Zinn’s dishonest retelling of the Columbus story. By leaving crucial words out of the quotation, Zinn makes Columbus say something very different from what he actually said.” Just as bad, Zinn lifted much of what he said about Columbus from a book written by his radical friend, Hans Koning. The problem with that rendering is that “Koning was not a Columbus scholar any more than Zinn was. In fact, he was not even a historian, while Zinn was at least a college professor.” Worse, “Koning’s slim volume does not cite any sources (my italic).” As the author of many books, I can say without equivocation that no author of a non-fiction book should ever be taken seriously if he does not cite his sources. This is doubly true when the author seeks to counter the conventional wisdom on the subject. So when Christopher Hitchens wrote a 99-page book slamming Mother Teresa, offering not a single source to back up his libelous claims, I told him to his face that he was not a scholar and cannot be taken seriously. Zinn would have the reader believe that the Indians were doing just fine before the white man came along. Never once does he attempt to explain why many tribes engaged in savage warfare against each other (the Hurons and the Iroquois are one of many examples), nor does he discuss cannibalism, human sacrifice, and other acts of cruelty that existed before the Europeans arrived. Just as important, Zinn does not comment on all of those Indians that helped the Europeans win by defecting to their side. They had had enough with the butchery they experienced at the hands of some tribes. None of this is taught to students. Grabar notes that the Zinn Education Project has a role-playing exercise for students as young as elementary school. One of the questions is whether European life, called the “System of Empire,” made violence inevitable. “In effect such a trial is a show trial,” says Grabar, “with a jury of naive children who are manipulated by their teachers.” She closes with the following observation. “It is Zinn’s book that should be put on trial. If the historian lies, there is no defense.” If Zinn was a liar, what does that make the NEA? It is actively peddling his malicious falsification of American history. 

Texas Governor Signs Executive Order – And Makes Entire Country More Safe Overnight

 Mike Vance

 September 28, 2022

Recently, the Department of Homeland Security released a report that included some historic numbers. Over 2 million arrests and encounters have already occurred in 2022.

Republican leaders are calling out the open borders as an invitation to criminals. Drug cartels are known to have been taking advantage of this situation for years.

Well, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is taking action. Instead of begging the federal government for help, he has signed an executive order to designate these drug cartels for what they are: terrorists.

Per Fox News:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he has signed an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorists in his state.

Abbott made the announcement during a press conference on border security, appearing alongside members of law enforcement.

Abbott called out the fentanyl issue specifically and reminded everyone that Mexican cartels create and distribute this deadly drug in mass amounts. Abbott said in a statement:

Texans are victimized by Mexican cartels that produce and import (fentanyl). So, cartels are terrorists. And it’s time that we started treating them that way.

So today, I have issued this executive order designating cartels as terrorists in Texas.

Going into the election, border security is going to be a massive topic. The Biden administration has completely failed the American people in keeping them safe and keeping dangerous criminals and drugs out of our country. It’s great to see Texas Governor Greg Abbott taking action in such a critical situation.

Putin, Ukraine, and the Increasing Possibility of World War III

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When Bishops Put Obedience Above Charity

JAMES BARESEL

Fifteen years ago, Bishop Michael Burbidge, then heading the Diocese of Raleigh, instituted one of the best plans for implementing Summorum Pontificum. Two months ago, he announced one of the worst policies for implementing Traditionis Custodes in his current Diocese of Arlington. Public understanding of this policy has been confused by half-truths from both the diocese and its critics. The reality is in some ways better and in some ways more disturbing than it seems.

Beginning on the positive side, the number of locations offering the Tridentine Mass every Sunday has only been reduced from ten to eight. Eleven parishes had the Tridentine Mass on a limited basis, often only on a handful of weekdays each month. Provision for the laity remains reasonable, though hardly “generous” as the diocese fatuously claims. A generous bishop would have dispensed all twenty-one parishes from Traditionis Custodes on his own authority. A great one would have encouraged eleven of them to begin weekly Sunday Masses. 

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But limiting locations to a reasonable number is not the whole story. Three were transferred from parish churches to school cafeterias and gyms, another to a former church recently turned into a hall and stripped bare. Parishes have been told not to list Tridentine Mass times in their bulletins.

These policies were not enacted because Bishop Burbidge decided to choose appeasement or because he was later hounded by Rome. They were enacted because Bishop Burbidge chose a path which he and his representatives are calling “faithfulness” but is more accurately termed “servility.”

I do not use the term lightly. I do not use it because Bishop Burbidge disagrees with those who believe current circumstances justify certain forms of disobedience or with what can and cannot be done during a grave crisis. I do not use it because of any disagreement I may have with Bishop Burbidge as to the bare minimum which Church law strictly requires.

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I use the term because Bishop Burbidge is not interested in determining the bare minimum Church law strictly requires and then facilitating use of the Tridentine Mass as much as possible. His policy is to embrace Pope Francis’ decision to restrict the Tridentine Mass as much as he can while still providing reasonable access to it. The reason is that Bishop Burbidge misunderstands how obedience ordinarily works under normal conditions.

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, perfection consists primarily in choosing God as the supreme good. Obeying Him as the supreme authority is an essential element of that—not the core of perfection. We most directly choose God as the supreme good in prayer. In necessary obedience we indirectly obey God as the supreme authority. The perfection of prayer is the perfection of choosing God and uniting ourselves to Him as the supreme good. Perfection of obedience through nonessential obedience is not an essential precondition for perfect prayer and is virtuous only insofar as it does not impede the higher good.

Later writers inverted St. Thomas’ principles. For them perfection does not consist primarily in choosing God as the supreme good but in obeying Him as the supreme authority. Perfecting obedience was then elevated above perfecting prayer. The natural but absurd conclusion is the belief that to pray less deeply but under perfect obedience pleases God more than to pray perfectly while being minimally obedient.

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More simply, in the view of St. Thomas, we obey God as a necessary aspect of loving Him; in an anti-Thomist view, we love Him as a necessary aspect of obeying Him. But, ironically enough, acting on the Thomist view is more obedient to the hierarchy of goods which finds its origin in God Himself.

All other things are distinctly unequal when nonessential obedience impacts others. Charity is greater than obedience. When nonessential obedience negatively impacts others, minimal obedience becomes virtuous and sometimes necessary under pain of sin.

Bishop Burbidge has decided to make a strong effort to implement whatever the pope of the moment’s liturgical policy is—and argues that this is virtuous. Hence, on July 15, 2021, Bishop Burbidge was committed to promoting use of the Tridentine Mass in accordance with Summorum Pontificum, and on the following day he was committed to restricting its use in accordance with Traditionis Custodes. 

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His abrupt change of course is due to the fact that his priority is not to foster his people’s spiritual lives as much as essential obedience allows. His priority is to be as obedient as he can be, provided his people’s spiritual lives are adequately fostered. He chose to be sufficiently charitable so he could be more obedient rather than sufficiently obedient so he could be more charitable.

Such prioritization of nonessential obedience over charity is ultimately rooted in the anti-Thomist view and culminated in nineteenth-century ultramontanism. Such excessive submissiveness to the pope is precisely the danger which St. John Henry Newman warned against. Newman ultimately welcomed the First Vatican Council’s dogmatic definition of papal infallibility because he always believed the doctrine and the definition made clear how limited the scope of infallibility is. His earlier reservations were motivated by the fact that some ultramontanes wanted a definition which would push infallibility beyond its traditional limits, or at least be vague enough to insist upon nonessential submission to Rome in practice.

Newman’s anti-ultramontane principle of minimalization—of examining what we are strictly required to submit to and beyond that considering ourselves free to act on our own judgement as to whether greater obedience or something else is more reasonable in particular circumstances—accords with the Thomistic position that perfection consists primarily in choosing God as good. Belief that perfection consists primarily in obeying God as the supreme authority leads to the nineteenth-century ultramontane uncharitable attempts to pummel Catholics into nonessential obedience to Rome, which caused Newman to call them “an insolent aggressive faction” and to describe their behavior as “tyrannousness and cruelty.”

From the perspective of the doctrines of both St. Thomas and of St. John Newman, Bishop Burbidge has been even more incoherent by thoroughly implementing papal policies based on opposite theologies. Summorum Pontificum, as the bishop himself once accurately articulated, was based in Pope Benedict’s “hermeneutic of continuity.” Cardinal Roche has plainly stated he wants the Tridentine Mass restricted because he believes in the “hermeneutic of rupture.” 

Either Bishop Burbidge has not investigated the reasons for the law which led him to impose drastic restrictions or he knows those reasons are unorthodox and went ahead anyway. Saints Thomas and Newman would insist that the choice between maximum and minimum obedience must take into account the good or evil ends intended by the superior.

From this it is clear that Burbidge does not understand the role of a bishop. It is not his role to be as obedient as possible. It is to sanctify his people and as much as essential obedience allows. This is why bishops have broad powers to dispense from universal Church law, to make diocesan law, and even to replace elements of universal law with particular law. Within the limits of Catholic doctrine and of essential obedience, sanctifying his people requires taking them—rather than the pope—as the basic point of reference.

Other bishops have done their jobs and worked to sanctify their people by allowing the Tridentine Mass to continue as before. They understood that they are Successors of the Apostles, not regional managers. Bishop Burbidge has not even had the integrity to openly admit he freely chose to do more than strictly required, relying instead on platitudes about “faithfulness.”

Catholics in Arlington have overwhelmingly tried to be polite and deferential. But our bishop has chosen to act like a Quisling rather than like a Successor of the Apostles. So, within the bare minimum of absolutely strictly essential obedience, it is time to embrace the joyful defiance of Quisling’s eminent contemporary, who recognized that “without victory there is no survival” and declared We Shall Never Surrender.

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By James Baresel

James Baresel is a freelance writer. Publications for which he has written include Tudor Life, Catholic World Report, American History, Fine Art Connoisseur, Military History, Catholic Herald, Claremont Review of Books, Adoremus Bulletin, New Eastern Europe and America’s Civil War.

Should set your hearts on fire.

Words of St. Nathaniel

October 4, 2022

“To know as you are known is no small thing,

And yet this you are promised, as we were promised,

And now rest in this promise.

For He has numbered the hairs of your head,

And His thoughts of you are more numerous than the grains of sand.

Oh, the wonder of how you are known, and of how precious you are to Him

Should set your hearts on fire.

For the One who is all things, has so loved us who are nothing,

That He gave His life for us.

And even to be allowed to know Him from a distance,

To ponder His majesty from afar,

Would be all that we, such vile creatures, could have hoped.

But nay, He does not leave us afar,

But instead gives us His Heart, His Sacred Heart,

And, indeed, reaches out His arm, and pulls us unto Himself

So that we no longer view Him from afar,

But instead at arm’s length – nay, heart to heart!

And, indeed, He has promised that we shall know Him as we are known.

And those of us who now rest in that promise,

Bear witness of this to you,

And implore you to turn neither to the right or to the left,

To neither avert your eyes or to be knocked down,

But to stand firm and take not your eyes from Him.

For then shall you also one day rest in His promise,

And you will know Him as you are known.

For He has given you His Heart, His Sacred Heart,

And has pulled you close to Himself.

And although the winds blow, and the waters sweep over you,

And the fire nips at your heels,

Do not waver but stand firm.

For to know as you are known is no small thing,

And yet this you have been promised.

Evil walks through the world and attacks all men,

And has set its sight on the bride of Christ,

And has breached her doors, and has soiled her halls.

But the bridegroom is the One who has conquered all things,

And He will call for His bride,

And those who have stood firm will indeed inherit His promise.

Therefore, remember this – To know as you are known is no small thing,

And yet this you are promised if you take your eyes not off of Him,

For He has not kept you at a distance,

But instead has given you His Heart, His Sacred Heart,

And has pulled you close.

Oh, meditate upon the wonder of how you are known,

And of how He has loved you.

For this is His promise – That you shall know Him as you are known

If you do not waver.

Oh, how He has loved us.

Shall you not love Him in return,

Although the world trembles, and men lose heart and fall?

For He has not kept you at a distance,

But has given you His Heart, His Sacred Heart,

That where He is, you may be also,

And there you shall know Him as you are known.

To this I bear witness.“

-S

 Ukraine 

with a Whimper or a Bang?

Putin deserves what he’s getting,

but that moral and strategic victory is still

a very different story from America sliding into

a nuclear confrontation with a desperate autocrat.

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

September 14, 2022

Russia started the war with Ukraine in late February with a shock-and-awe effort to grab Kyiv. It failed both to decapitate the government and absorb half the country in one fell swoop. 

Soon the conflict descended into a war of attrition in Eastern Ukraine over the occupied majority of Russian-speaking borderlands. 

That deadlock was eventually going to be resolved by relative morale, manpower, and supply.

Would the high-tech weaponry and money of the United States and Europe allow heroic Ukrainian forces to be better equipped than a larger Russian force—drawing on an economy 10 times greater and a population nearly four times larger than Ukraine’s?

After the latest sudden Ukrainian territorial gains and embarrassing Russian retreats, we now know the answer. 

Russia may be bigger and richer than Ukraine, but it is not up to the combined resources of the United States, along with the nations of NATO and the European Union. 

Most are now in a de facto proxy war with an increasingly overwhelmed Russia. And so far, a circumspect China has not stepped in to try to remedy the Russian dilemma. 

So, what will become the next, and most dangerous, stage III of the war? 

A heady Ukraine believes it now has the wherewithal to clear out the entire occupied Donbas and turn southward to free Crimea. To complete that agenda of rolling back all Russian aggression since 2014, it may step up hitting strategic targets across the Russian border and on the Black Sea.

Again, what will a nuclear Russia—run by an ailing, desperate autocrat—do when a far smaller Ukraine finally and deservedly humiliates her before a global audience?

Will Putin cut off all European energy supplies to force a European end to supplying Ukraine? 

Russia has all but done that. But so far Putin has gained little strategic advantage on the battlefield, despite current European fears of an impending bitter winter.

Will Putin go fully medieval on Ukraine, like the carnage in Chechnya when he leveled Grozny in 2000? 

But a European Ukraine is vast compared to tiny Chechnya. And the Chechens even without allies still withstood a decade of savage Russian brutality.

So how will Putin survive his self-created disaster that may have cost him nearly 100,000 casualties, and now risks losing him all the territorial advances from 2014? 

Will Russia mobilize its entire army, drop its silly euphemism “special military operation,” and finally try to crush Ukraine with a full Soviet-style assault? 

But that escalation might push an already restive Russian population into open and angry defiance. 

Can he just admit defeat, slink back home, and stop the massive Russian hemorrhaging? 

Yet can Putin take his chances that sacked generals, money-losing oligarchs, and the embarrassed Russian street will fear his bloodstained reach too much to neuter or remove him?

Will Putin instead keep declaring that Russia is not losing to Ukraine, but to the United States and NATO—even though the West is only doing to him what an opportunistic Russia once did to America in both its Vietnam and Afghanistan fiascos

Putin would then keep portraying himself and Russia as the victim of this conflict. He would drone on that the United States, by supplying the Ukrainians weapons, is now the “aggressor”—as our new proxy keeps hitting more targets inside Mother Russia, sinks more ships of the Black fleet, and assassinates more Russian generals. 

Putin’s only way to keep his cred, back up his dangerous brinkmanship, and retain power is apparently to play defender of Mother Russia and continue threatening the use of a tactical nuclear weapon—perhaps against the Ukrainian nuclear power complex or Kyiv itself.

That final gambit of an updated version of the Cuban missile crisis is something the American people need to stop simply discounting. Do our leaders know for certain that the man Joe Biden once dubbed a “killer” is merely yesterday’s empty bluffer?

Of course, Putin deserves all he is suffering. And the Ukrainians warrant the world’s thanks for repelling a brutal aggressor. 

But that moral and strategic victory is still a very different story from America sliding into a nuclear confrontation with a desperate autocrat. Do the American people support offering up their nuclear umbrella to a non-NATO, former Russian republic?

And not so long ago, the United States advantageously saw Russia as a useful triangulation to the greater threat of Chinese aggression.

Western agendas is that so far they in toto appear mutually exclusive.

Consequently, the question remains: How exactly does the United States all at once avoid the resumption of a Verdun-like, endless bloodbath on the Ukrainian-Russian border, reject any negotiated settlement until Ukraine unambiguously wins the war and expels every Russian from all its territory, prevent a wounded Putin from using a tactical nuclear weapon—and circumvent a head-to-head showdown with Russia and its 7,000 nukes?

Sen. Chuck Grassley Blows Things Up on FBI Director Wray with 5 Words

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Thursday was a tough day for the FBI director. Senator Ted Cruz just had his way with Wray, and Sen. Chuck Grassley finished him off.

FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on a variety of issues.

Cruz grilled him over how the FBI was politicizing cases, he focused on some patriotic symbols that have been demonized by the department as signs of “militia violent extremism.”

Wray sounded either ignorant or he was lying. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn took the baton and questioned Wray about Russia collusion and the Hunter Biden laptop. Wray’s case looked even worse after that. He would not even admit that they had the laptop.

The fact that Wray would not even talk about basic truths indicates how compromised they may be. 

What can the director comment on? There was very little revealed by Wray.

When the senators ultimately circled him and called him out on his lack of response, Wray said, “Sorry, guys, I can’t stick around, I have to catch a plane.”

He actually said that to Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The Iowa senator seemed astonished and then absolutely nailed Wray with a simple statement.

“You have your own plane.”

Christopher Wray just couldn’t stand the heat and would not stick around to give the GOP senators even 20 more minutes to ask him questions he wouldn’t answer. 

Somebody should remind the FBI director who he works for, and who pays for his very own plane. 

Former President Trump may be out of office, but there are still committed conservative senators who are focusing on cleaning up the swamp.

The truth is they may need to clean house at the FBI. Wray is not the man to get that job done. 

Step one, take back the House. Step two, take back the White House. Step three, clean house at the FBI. 

Watch Grassley Work:

Tucker Carlson was shocked to discover Merrick Garland’s latest abuse of power

Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland is drunk on power.

He’s weaponized the Department of Justice to kneecap the Biden regime’s political opponents.

And Tucker Carlson was shocked to discover Merrick Garland’s latest abuse of power.

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The FBI is turning a blind eye to the Left’s violence while targeting the Right

Democrats are seething with rage after the Supreme Court put an end to the abortion on demand by overturning Roe v. Wade.

As the late Rush Limbaugh said, abortion is the holy sacrament to the religion of liberalism.

While deranged pro-abortion activists are firebombing crisis pregnancy centers and vandalizing churches, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department is sitting on its hands.

Instead of going after actual criminals, the rogue FBI is dropping the hammer on pro-life activists.

Mark Houck is a father of seven, and Catholic, pro-life activist in Pennsylvania.

He regularly leads prayers and protests outside of abortion clinics in the state.

After a deranged Planned Parenthood escort harassed his 12-year-old son outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia, Houck stepped in to defend him.

The escort filed charges against Houck in state court over the October 2021 incident, but the case was dismissed.

Nearly a year after the charges against Houck were dismissed, the FBI dropped the hammer on him in terrifying fashion.

The FBI unleashed 20 armed agents to raid his rural Pennsylvania home in order to arrest him for supposedly violating a federal law called the Freedom of Access Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, which makes it a crime to interfere or intimidate anyone seeking or providing an abortion.

Houck’s family is completely traumatized by this East German Stasi-style raid

Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to tell Fox News’ Tucker Carlson about the FBI’s bone-chilling raid on their home.

“My entire front yard, you could barely see it, it was covered with at least 15 big trucks and cars,” Ryan-Marie said. “There were 20, 25, 30, men, women, completely in jackets with shields and helmets and guns. They were behind cars. It was something I would never expect to see on my front lawn.”

The FBI launched a full-scale raid reserved for the most wanted criminals on a father of seven for allegedly committing a minor crime.

Ryan-Marie said FBI agents raided their home with “guns drawn” while her husband was put in “shackles” and the couple’s children watched.

“It was devastating,” Ryan-Marie told Carlson. “As you can imagine, it’s hard to even express the victimization and how traumatized we all are due to this unnecessary thing that happened to us.”

Ryan-Marie said the FBI’s gestapo tactics traumatized her children, leaving them “crying” and afraid to sleep alone.

“The older ones, we can talk, we can cry,” Ryan-Marie said. “We’ve had some counseling, we have more counseling to do. And the little ones, they’re scared. There’s a lot of crying and a lot of unrestful sleep. A lot of kids in our bed at night and in the morning.”

Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice is stooping to unthinkable new lows in his crusade against the Biden regime’s political enemies.