Just Pick a Time Already!

 

In a rare showing of long-overdue bipartisanship to solve an issue which has become a non-issue, the House of Representatives just passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent. This latest legal battle has been raging for the last few years. It started during the Biden Administration, incidentally enough, but it never made it to his desk. Who knows if he would have signed it, since he wasn’t signing much of anything, right?

With Trump back in office, he has lobbied for an end to the time chances. Trump’s signature on this wonderfully bipartisan piece of legislation would be another win and a great addition to his welcome legacy.

I am all for getting a uniform time system in place. No matter what the reasons were in the past, the country should finally settle on a uniform time system, one that won’t require the changes twice a year—and all the health problems that come with it. To summarize, DST causes disruptions to Americans’ circadian rhythm, which can unleash all sorts of negative consequences. Every time the time changes, there’s a sudden burst of heart attacks, strokes, and other problems. Let’s end this.

Besides, the change is government-imposed will from previous demands, most of which were temporary when they started. Congress needs to get this micromanaging out of our lives for good and focus on other substantive issues, ensuring a brighter future for our country, no matter how much sunlight is shining in the sky.

Of course, all of this clock-switching and wrangling over daylight saving brings up the question:

Why does the United States have this strange chronological two-step every year in the first place?

It’s all about war, and it didn’t start with us, incidentally enough!

To be accurate, sections of Canada began experimenting with the daylight time changes for farming and other purposes long before any war broke out. Those efforts remained very local, though. During World War I, Germany was the first country to implement DST. Starting in 1916, the Central Power wanted to prolong daylight to save fuel for the war effort by reducing the need for artificial lighting. The U.S. followed suit in 1918 with Congress’s Standard Time Act for the same reason… but the time change was repealed after World War I. No one died when Standard Time was restored. It wasn’t the end of America. Everyone went about their business, including big business, agricultural interests, and everyone else.

Daylight Saving Time resurfaced when World War II broke out, and our country needed as much light as possible for the same resource reasons as in World War I. We won that war, and the federal DST regime was repealed; the United States reverted the power to states (and even local regions) to do what they wanted, going with Standard Time or DST as they pleased.

Time waits for no man, however, and uniform standards are essential for understanding and planning when different sections of the country are in different time zones. Planes (they came soon enough), trains, and automobiles faced all kinds of problems navigating the different states with their unique times and time zone preferences. Radio broadcasts found the lack of uniformity disconcerting, as well.

To solve this problem, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966 (one of the few good things accomplished by Lyndon Baines Johnson), which standardized DST for the whole country, and also legislated when daylight saving time would begin and end throughout the year.  Finally, Congress solved the standardization problem. However, the health issues and the general disruption of changing clocks twice a year would continue for everyone (Except Arizona and Hawaii, but that’s another story).

Americans have endured fifty years of this springing forward and falling back. I’m sick of it. It’s like some old relic, all coming from wartime, an anachronism proving yet again that government intervention knows no bounds. Times have changed, agricultural methods have improved, and everyone has technology to light their way, whether driving to work or getting to school. The United States has never been more energy dominant and independent, so concerns about fuel costs and availability don’t matter anymore.

To go with Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time is now a matter of preference. Lots of interest groups are going to be happy or unhappy either way, so let’s put aside their discomforts.

The frustration for me ultimately comes down to the simplicity. For centuries, Americans—colonists then citizens--didn’t complain about the rhythm and availability of sunlight from season to season. Americans managed; they made it work; they lived their lives in line with nature. For what it’s worth, I don’t recall General George Washington losing any battle with the British or President Abraham Lincoln trying to harness the sun’s power for war, playing with Father Time or Mother Nature to ensure military victories.

If they could manage, so can we.

Now that different sections of the country have gotten used to a certain rhythm, though, they simply don’t want any disruption. I must admit that the opponents of making Daylight Saving Time permanent have a point: do we want children to go to school in the morning when it’s still dark outside? Then again, those same kids went to school when it was dark, and there was no daylight saving time for them for decades before. Are we saying that the kids can’t handle the change today? We have better technology, more sophisticated methods for keeping kids safe. The United States is not facing an energy crisis, even while contending with our worst global enemy, Iran. Trump made sure of that.

The important point now is to stop the clock changes altogether. It’s to get uniformity without the arbitrary time changes. Widespread support for the current bill should shut down further discussion. US Senator Tom Cotton, however, wants to block the bill, sharing concerns about the darker mornings in winter.

We should note that this year’s legislative attempt would not be the first time that the country scrapped the time changes in our recent past. Because of yet another energy crisis (the OPEC oil embargo), President Richard Nixon signed a law, making DST permanent for the country. However, there was widespread outrage (as expected) over the change. From dark commutes for the adults, to long dark waits for kids going to school, to farmers' complaints about shifting their agricultural operations, Nixon and Congress realized they had a problem on their hands—plus they didn’t save that much energy to begin with!

The DST changes went back into effect, and then Congress added a few more weeks in 2007 with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

The American people have adapted to change before, and we really should end this time-switching. It’s time to move into the 21^st Century. Cotton is wrong, and he should shut up about the whole thing. Congress should pass the Sunshine Protection Act. Hey, I wouldn’t mind if the powers that be changed the bill to Permanent Standard Time, but the point is to make the change. Sure, there will be some grumbling, but probably not as much, and everyone will get used to it.

Just pick a time already!

LAUSD: Morally and Financially Bankrupt

 

Los Angeles Unified School District is having a hard time paying the bills, teaching the kids, and thus keeping its doors open.

Clearly, the administrators, bureaucrats, and the elected Board of Trustees don’t handle addition and subtraction all that well. The district is failing basic math, and not just for the students.

According to ABC News Los Angeles, LAUSD is on the brink of bankruptcy:

The Los Angeles Unified School District could run out of money within about a year and is showing severe signs of financial distress, according to county education authorities.

 

The nation's second-largest school district, which serves more than half a million students, faces possible insolvency, prompting the Los Angeles County Office of Education to take action.

 

The district's last student population estimate listed 497,105 enrollees. That’s LESS than half a million. Even ABC News is having number troubles.

 

 

What happened, and what could happen if the district doesn’t get its act together?

 

Officials cited massive union contracts estimated to cost more than $1 billion annually, along with declining enrollment and reduced state funding, as factors contributing to a growing deficit and the possibility of state oversight.

 

"Worst case scenario is the state takes over, and this goes under receivership under the state, and that takes a long time to get out of, and it is really hard to maintain any control over curriculum, over class size," Bacall said.

 

I am shocked---SHOCKED— (not!) that the school district is going belly up, and the parents are taking their students out.

The warning signs had been blaring for years.

The usual suspects cannot be ignored, and are easy to catalogue:

·         Plummeting Enrollment

·         Rising Inflation

·         Excessive Pensions and Salary Costs

·         Administrative bloat with Diminished Transparency and Oversight.

·         Lawsuit payouts

The biggest killer, obviously, is the plummeting enrollment. Los Angeles Unified kids aren’t learning, that’s for sure. According to US News and World Report, math proficiency scores have been plummeting across all grades. Reading scores show some progress from elementary to high school, but less than half of LAUSD high schoolers are proficient.

In the real world, companies without customers close down. In perverse contrast, government institutions get their money, whether they serve or not.

And LAUSD is not serving the public interest.

On top of that, LAUSD schools are not even safe. The students routinely run into abuse and harm from their peers—and sometimes their teachers! The rising rates of violence are frequently on the news. The feds could pull their funding because of the rising number of predator teachers who get transferred instead of incarcerated!

Getting a bad education from LAUSD was expected, but the student population was still relatively high.

Twenty years ago, I was a French teacher in South Gate, in a new school built on the site of an old General Motors plant. New school, lots of students (almost 3,000!), and there still weren’t enough classrooms. I had 45 students in one class! I could barely move around the room, and some students feared for their safety if there was a fire. When I threatened to call the fire marshal, the union rep leaned on the assistant principal, who moved three students out and dumped them in a P.E. class—those poor teachers had to deal with 70 students per period!

 

See how only three students were removed. Not much help there! Notice the bureaucratic hustle to get something done, too.

 

Fast forward to now, and LAUSD high schools, on average, manage around 1,000 students. Some of the schools should have been closed by now!

 

What changed the student population, then, if the bad education wasn’t enough? The dam broke with the COVID outbreak, which ended parental non-involvement. COVID-19 may have shut down the schools, but the whole ordeal opened the eyes of parents throughout the state. They saw the left-wing garbage their children were forced to learn. They saw the bad curriculum, the lack of attention to detail, integrity, and success. Los Angeles parents had had enough, and they voted with their feet, sometimes moving their kids to local districts (Downey, Torrance, Wiseburn Unified in the LAX-area are some notable examples), or they just left the state entirely.

 

COVID was a tipping point for another reason. Five years ago, I joined LAUSD teachers and parents protesting the outrageous health mandates from the district to “protect the kids.” Political affiliation or ideological leanings didn’t matter to all concerned attendees. Employees, students, and parents across the district protested in front of 333 South Beaudry, demanding that the district rescind its onerous vaccine mandates and mask rules and keep the schools open!

During the main rally after our march around the district office, teachers complained about the increased burden of contending with discipline issues and health demands. Then one of the students addressed the crowd, and her comments worked out to something like this: She lamented all the woke nonsense being shoved down her throat. She was tired of hearing all the race nonsense. She was tired of learning about the LGBT agenda and sitting through all the sexual diversity displays. Her summation was crystal clear about LAUSD, that they were not teaching anything, and then they make them wear these stupid masks, too!

Despite the rallying cry of parents and teachers, the district kept cracking down on the holdout teachers, staff, and students who had refused the jab. Facing the dim prospect of never entering the classroom again if they refused the dubious poke, students left.

The district didn’t care. They were looking for absolute obedience from the rank and file. If you didn’t step up, you got the boot.

And the teachers union—ULTA (United Teachers of Los Angeles)—didn’t care.

Five years later, their wicked, progressive partisanship could not be clearer. They don’t focus on education. They focus on leftist politics and progressive activism. In 2025, I was stunned by the large number of UTLA teachers protesting at Elon Musk’s Tesla headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. Didn’t they have more important things to do, like grading papers, preparing lessons, and contacting parents?

Their most pressing concern was stopping federal cuts to public education and the Department of Education. What they refuse to talk about—and this returns to the bureaucracy issue—is that public education could accomplish great things for students and parents with half the overhead, more accountability, lots of school choice, and efficient hiring and firing practices.

UTLA shouts “DOA!” at all of these reforms.

And the parents say, “CU Later.”

And now LAUSD announces that they’re broke.

Frankly, this is a fitting end for one of the largest school districts in the country. This kind of disruption, the cold equations of supply and demand, will do more to clean out the left-wing corruption that has marred states like California and New York while also limiting (and perhaps one day) shutting down the inordinate power of the National Education Foundation and the attending teachers unions across the country attached like tentacles to this destructive interest group.

LAUSD has been morally bankrupt for a long time, much of it from a corrosive teachers' union, inept and cowardly politicians, and misplaced priorities. Now their fiscal bankruptcy has come, and not a moment too soon.

 

Thanks to MassResistance activism, Texas State GOP Convention continues to condemn the LGBT agenda in its platform

Following overwhelming win after win on that issue by our pro-family delegates.

This year the Texas LGBT Log Cabin Republicans simply gave up trying to change it!

July 20, 2026

 This 2022 headline says it all. We defeated them so badly in 2022 and 2024 that they just gave up in 2026!

If your past record is strong enough, sometimes just showing up is all it takes to win again. That’s the political lesson for today from MassResistance! It certainly worked at this year’s Texas State GOP Convention.

The Texas State Republican Convention is held every two years. In 2022 and 2024, the MassResistance delegates were outnumbered by the LGBT contingent. But our people were far more successful and built up an unstoppable momentum leading into this year’s convention (held June 11-13 in Houston).

Here’s what happened:

At the 2022 Texas GOP Convention, we got a strong plank passed opposing “gay rights.” It was a real battle at first. MassResistance delegates Tracy Shannon and Kevin Whitt successfully led a bitter fight in the platform committee to get the language “Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice” before the full convention.

At the full convention vote, the LGBT contingent was well organized to stop it. But Tracy, Kevin, and the MassResistance team outworked them and were more vocal. The convention overwhelmingly passed it. Here is the text of that platform plank:

Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice. We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin, and we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values.

Getting this passed was a shock to the LGBT movement. Within a week, the Chairman of the Texas Log Cabin Republicans resigned over that defeat.

See our 2022 report: Texas LGBT “Log Cabin Republicans” group admits defeat – after Texas MassResistance gets strong “anti-gay” language inserted into state GOP Party Platform.

 Tracy Shannon (left) and Kevin Whitt giving delivering strong statements to the 2022 Texas GOP Platform Committee.

Two years later, at the 2024 convention, the Log Cabin Republicans regrouped and were determined to remove that plank from the party platform. But Tracy was ready for that.

Speaking before the full convention, Tracy pulled no punches. She said that there can be no neutral position when it comes to this issue. If the party backs away from it, then it essentially endorses the lifestyle. A watered-down version was attempted, but that failed. The plank remained!

See our 2024 report: MassResistance Texas leader keeps anti-LGBT-agenda plank in state GOP Party Platform

 Tracy Shannon takes charge and rallies the 2024 convention not to back down.

At this year’s 2026 convention, Tracy was there and prepared for another big fight. But this time the Log Cabin Republicans made no attempt to fight it! They didn’t even bother to contest the plank with a minority report, Tracy told us. They knew we had them beaten!

It was a great victory without a shot being fired!

And more

This wasn’t the only victory. Since 2020, Tracy and the MassResistance delegates have also been leaders in two other battles in the Texas GOP convention:

• Keeping the traditional marriage plank (marriage = 1 man + 1 woman) in the platform.
• Keeping the Log Cabin Republicans from being allowed to have a booth at the convention.

Both of those were upheld in the 2026 convention.

Coming in 2028: Tracy’s next convention battle will be to make an important change to the GOP’s plank on “gender identity.” Currently, the GOP platform opposes allowing sex change operations for anyone 26 or under. It also supports criminal prosecutions for anyone performing such procedures on minors.

Tracy says, “Why just for ages 26 and under? Why can’t we stand against ALL so-called sex changes?” The whole ideology is based on lies, and no society should tolerate it. We anticipate her winning that one, too!

Final Thoughts

All this is yet another example of where a few people have made a tremendous difference – often in the face of seemingly overwhelming opposition!

As we continue saying: It may look like you’re outnumbered and out-funded – but it’s only an illusion to believe that you can’t still do great things. Just jump right in! MassResistance will help you.

   

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Argonaut News: Where is Congressman Ted Lieu?

When Congressman Lieu first ran for office, he released a federal survey along with three main legislative priorities: protecting Social Security and Medicare, fighting “climate change”, and caring for our veterans. The survey focused on gun control, national security, and the refugee crisis, as well as entitlements.

About the entitlements, no well-thinking politician can believe that the United States federal government can continue to honor overgenerous promises for government-subsidized healthcare. The entitlement budget is eating up the vast and growing majority of our country’s funding. We need entitlement reform, not the pandering status quo. Whatever Americans paid in, they need to receive back. All remaining government subsidies should be removed from the federal government and returned to the states.

As for climate change, why does Lieu deny science? The country has endured unprecedented cold fronts and heat waves in wavering cycles for decades, even centuries. A recent, unprecedented expansion of ice in the Arctic Circle proves that climate change is a natural phenomenon, and our government’s overheated attention is unwarranted.

Regarding care for military personnel, when will Congressman Lieu appear in photo-ops with homeless veterans? How about meeting with the friends and families of those who have lost their lives to criminal illegal aliens in our country? As a newly promoted colonel in the Air Force Reserves, Congressman Lieu should focus on national security and fiscal discipline. Lieu should press for enforcement of our existing laws, which prosecute gun violence and secure our borders against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Trump Is Righting Latin America

 

I am proud to be an American, not just because our nation has lasted 250 years with great success under the same charter, but because of our positive influence around the world.

In World War I, we turned the tide in favor of the Allied forces.

In World War II, Nazi totalitarianism would have won, but the United States bolstered Allied forces overseas and in the European theater. Japanese aggression throughout Southeast Asia, from 1931 to 1945, ended because of America. We dropped two atomic bombs on their homeland, and we forced their surrender.

The Cold War was the longest battle. Yes, there were fewer battles, but many sanctions, lots of threats, and too many incursions and expansions of communist influence around the world. The United States stood firm against the Soviet Union and its satellites. President Nixon’s rapprochement with China and Reagan’s tough diplomacy hastened the Soviet Union’s decline.

The world received an unexpected Christmas gift on December 25, 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev declared the official dissolution of the Soviet Union.

North Korea still embraces its Stalinist cause, but faces increasing isolation, forcing them to allow increased economic liberalism.  China incorporated market reforms while retaining its authoritarian regime, but a population implosion, weakening trade, and increased indebtedness are dooming the country.

President Trump has increased the pressure on these rogue regimes, demanding economic freedom and political reforms. He has unchained American dependence on China; he has networked rapprochement between North Korea and South Korea; he has resisted Putin’s designs on Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Mountains. Indonesia and Vietnam have also become more friendly towards the United States. Freedom has a chance when nations begin to comply and cooperate with our country.

While Communism collapsed in Russia, it sadly relocated and re-emerged in Latin America. The cancer had already captured Cuba in 1958, then spread through Central and South America. Cartels and gangs filled the power vacuum, and Bush 41’s arrest of Manuel Noriega barely stemmed the tide. Further south, Peronist socialism ruined Argentina for decades, and juntas furthered the political disorder and collapse of freedom on the continent.

Latin America drowned in a red tsunami of communism during the early 2000s, as well. Bolivia floundered under the collectivist tyranny of the Evo Morales, and other Latin American states struggled to stay afloat in the midst of socialist machinations.

Latin America looked done for. America could finish off the Soviet Union, but what could the United States do about our neighbors to the South? If Stalinist Cuba could withstand embargoes, and hostile states like Iran, Russia, and China could form working relationships to undermine the law of nations and public order across the globe, what hope was there that we could turn things around?

President Trump has made all the difference through a savvy foreign policy regime while putting America First. Unlike previous presidents, Republican and Democrat, President Trump made immigration enforcement a cornerstone of his domestic and foreign policy. The free ride of cheap labor was over. He halted the teeming masses of upset refugees throughout the Americas from invading our country.

The message became clear to southern partners, neighbors, and adversaries: “The answer to your problems in your country will not be solved by running to our country.” Without the safe haven of the United States, the citizens of Central and South America had to look inward and turn their own countries around. They had to make do with their situation and find a way to restore order in their countries.

Thus arose Nayib Bukele in 2019. The mayor of San Salvador, he campaigned for president with a new party with a bold, basic platform of restoring civility, shutting down the terrorist gangs and cartels. He defeated the establishment of both major parties and became a human savior for the nation of El Salvador, locking up the prisoners, restoring law and order, then inviting economic investment. Murder rates in the former crime capital of the world have declined immensely—and he just won re-election by massive margins.

Then Argentina voted for freedom in 2023. Having Laboring under unrelenting government intervention, Argentina’s crippling inflation and moral collapse drove voters to take a chance on wily libertarian economics professor, Javier Milei. Adopting Trump’s mission and messaging, Milei took a chainsaw to the state and “the caste” of political insiders. Today, Inflation is crashing, jobs are growing, and law and order is being restored. The new rallying cry across the Land of Silver: Viva La Libertad, Carajo!

Milei credits Trump for his inspiration, and Trump 2.0 assisted Milei’s Congressional elections in 2025 with a credit swamp, which netted the United States massive gains and helped Milei gain power in Argentina’s Congress. He has passed effective economic reforms while cracking down on crime, stumping for life, family, and secured sovereignty.

Amazing!

And the MAGA-oriented right-wing shift has continued:

• In Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, a center-right businessman with a pro-security platform, took office, winning in late 2023 against leftist Luisa González. His successes netted him a re-election victory in 2025.
• In In Panama, right-wing candidate José Raúl Mulino won in May 2024, focusing on security and the economy.
• In 2025, en.wikipedia.orgPresident Trump arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a swift, early-morning operation, accomplishing what previous administrations had promised. Maduro was arrested for rampant drug trafficking and terrorism. His successor has acquiesced to American diplomatic and business overtures while releasing political prisoners.

• In Bolivia, Christian right-wing contender Rodrigo Paz Pereira ended twenty years of communist rule under Evo “Evil” Morales. Whoever said that you cannot vote your way out of communism?

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• In Chile, conservative Catholic José Antonio Kast won in late 2025 following a run-of, defeating a long-standing activist left-wing government which had sought to scrap Chile’s previous conservative reforms, including free market policies and school choice.

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• Honduras: Nasry Asfura (right-wing National Party) won in late 2025, defeating a leftist incumbent's ally.

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• Costa Rica: Laura Fernández Delgado (conservative/right-wing populist) won in February 2026. She campaigned aggressively on a pro-family platform, as well, denouncing the evils of abortion (just as Milei had done!)

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• Peru: Keiko Fujimori, daughter of populist former President Alberto, just won in June 2026.

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• In Colombia, another conservative Catholic, Abelardo de la Espriella, has replaced another left-wing narco-state-allied regime.

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Look across Latin America today. The right is on the march, cleaning out the wreckage of socialism and communism. Free market reforms are ascending. Rejection of authoritarian regimes, recognition of the state of Israel, friendly concourse with the West, and en masse crackdowns on crime and corruption are redefining the region.

 US Senator Ted Cruz offered a profound vision regarding the incredible political rightward shift washing across Latin America:

“[I]f that happens, this would be the most consequential geopolitical shift since the fall of the Berlin Wall, since America won the Cold War without firing a shot.”

 

Indeed, and Trump deserves credit for this transformation. He provided a successful campaign template focused on illegal immigration, national pride and sovereignty, focusing on economic growth and freedom while promoting traditional values. Trump endorsed many of the candidates listed above, as well, and has offered his support since their election victories.

 

Trump started the trend, set the standard, and Latin America is going right along with him.

 

CA MassResistance Catholics Protest LGBT Mass in San Deigo

 

California MassResistance Catholics confront “gay pride" Mass and radical priests in San Diego

For “Pride” - church interior is desecrated and Mass service altered

Our Catholics have had enough: “Go, and sin no more!”

July 16, 2026

 Contrasting messages from San Diego Catholics: Traditional Catholics outside (left) vs radical message inside (right) during the St. John the Evangelist Church's "pride" Mass.

For many years, faithful Catholics have endured a disturbing pro-LGBT turn in many of their churches. But lately, in some places, that has gone completely overboard. And many Catholics have had enough of it.

The Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego is the most “LGBTQ+” area in town. One would hope that the most prominent Catholic Church there, St. John the Evangelist, would be a beacon of light and truth on that issue. But sadly, it has gone in the other direction.

 St. John the Evangelist Church in San Diego.

Throughout San Diego County, July 11-19 has been designated as “San Diego Pride Week” by the various LGBT organizations – with the Hillcrest neighborhood being the center of activities. As part of that, the St. John the Evangelist Church advertised that it would have an LGBT-themed “All Are Welcome Mass” on Sunday, July 12.

When our MassResistance Catholic leaders in San Diego saw that promotion, they contacted us. They wanted to do something to confront this outrage and let everyone know that there are Catholics standing up to it!

We got right to work with them. At the very least, a strong protest was in order. They also wanted to document what happened inside during that blasphemous Mass. Over the next several days they contacted other local Catholic activists.

Catholics confront the blasphemy

On July 12, our protesters gathered across the street from the church entrance. So the theological tension surrounding the event was evident even before entering the church! The protesters held a Rosary prayer vigil. They held a large banner depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and signs reading “God’s Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman” and “Go, and sin no more” (the latter echoing Jesus’s scriptural words to the woman caught in adultery).

 Across the street from the church entrance Catholic demonstrators prayed the Rosary and sent a strong message.

The vigil drew sharp, hostile reactions from the surrounding Hillcrest traffic. The demonstrators  received numerous obscene gestures, horn blasts, and profane shouts from car windows – much worse than at vigils outside abortion clinics, one of the demonstrators told us.

Inside the church – worse than imagined

Upon entering the church, one immediately noticed the extensive array of LGBT symbols, decorations, and banners everywhere – on the walls, doors, and pews. They were a vivid contrast to the traditional sacred church architecture.

Toward the front, several rows of pews were specifically reserved for representatives of regional parish "LGBTQ ministries," each with rainbow ribbons affixed. In the sanctuary, the visual theme extended to large rainbow flower bouquets and ribbon adornments surrounding the altar space. Even the candles flanking the tabernacle were fitted with decorative collars matching the colors of the pride flag, and a single rainbow ribbon was tied to the parish collection box.

As the Mass was about to begin, representatives from several Catholic churches across the region marched down the center aisle carrying their respective parish LGBTQ ministry banners.

Catholic priests and deacons from across the region participated. Some clerics wore rainbow-patterned stoles over their liturgical vestments. A special pro-LGBT welcome from the Bishop of San Diego was read aloud to the congregation.

While the structural layout of the readings reflected the universal Catholic calendar, the liturgy incorporated a specific scriptural substitution. The universally slated responsorial Psalm for the day (Psalm 65) was replaced with Psalm 139, with the congregation singing the refrain, "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

The petitions explicitly prayed for the LGBT community, transgender individuals, parents of LGBTQ children – as well as refugees, the homeless, the marginalized, and those struggling with mental illness or addiction.

For more detail about this disturbing service, see the Liturgical Observation Report on this "All Are Welcome" Mass, written by one of our Catholic activists who was inside. [Photos by MassResistance]

 Also note the "progress pride" flag hanging from the balcony.

Final thoughts

It’s clear that the local Hillcrest neighborhood residents – and those who attended the Mass that day – got our protesters’ message. Our activists prayed the Rosary, but their signs were bold and hard-hitting (and spoke the truth). It shows how important it is in these situations not to just stand there and be polite.

As we’ve been saying, even if you feel outnumbered, it’s necessary to do at least something!

   

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The History of the World in Thirteen Poems

A History of the World in 13 Short Poems:

1. Sappho, sometimes called the Tenth Muse, was an Ancient Greek poet who lived in the 6th century BC. All we have left of her work are incomplete, tantalising fragments.

Fragment 147

I tell you
someone will remember us
in the future.… pic.twitter.com/6mwQnxLJSt

— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) August 10, 2023

Thank You, President Trump, for a Wonderful 250th Anniversary

 

Independence Day has come and gone, but President Trump still deserves special recognition for presiding over our glorious 250^th anniversary.

He deserves every honor, considering all the hate, dishonor, and outright legal horror that he endured. From the rigged elections of 2020, to the lawfare and invasions of privacy, to the extensive defamation he has suffered from corporate media, influencer lackeys, and government toadies trying to shut him down.

He worked hard for the presidency, and he broke precedents, being the first chief executive to return to office for non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland. He fought the good fight, overcoming every political machination possible against him. Who knew there were so many enemies, foreign and domestic, determined to destroy our beloved United States?

President Trump was the final backstop to the radical destruction and the horrid decline of our country. If Kamala had carried the day in 2024, the United States would have ceased to exist. We would have become a larger, slightly wealthier form of Canada, with our constitutional rights eroded or stripped away, followed by continued military humiliation and cultural and political decline.

Thank God for Trump, and thank God he led the festivities for our 250^th Anniversary.

Sadly, media pundits still mock his America First bravado. They don’t like the brilliant (some would call brazen) décor of the White House. They poo-poo the extensive array of presidential portraits in the Ovall Office. They don’t want to see MAGA hats, especially the ones bearing “Trump 2028” on the front.

He says what he wants, he insults citizens and world leaders, and he doesn’t care anymore. Does this still bother “The Beautiful People of the Beltway”? Of course, because Trump dares to say what the rest of them knew but were too timid to declare.

They had accepted American decline. They had bought into the historical truisms that Republics don’t last 250 years. Trump didn’t accept such lazy cynicism. Oh, how that bothered the pundits, the pollsters, and prognosticators in Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles! They enjoyed their ungodly counsel, they liked standing in their sin, and they loved sitting in their wealthy retirement homes, scorning everything else around them.

Trump did not. He has unleashed renewed vigor in America, a restoration underway. Not only are Americans proud to be American, but they want to help restore and expand this Exceptional Experiment.

The truth is, we have a chief executive, the first time since Ronald Reagan, who has determined not just to manage what remained, but to restore the greatness we had lost or witnessed taken away from us. China took advantage of easy trade conditions. Russia beguiled the foreign policy intelligentsia with empty proffering to join the international order, only to usurp South Ossetia, Crimea, and then invade Ukraine. Iran was still devising global nuclear destruction, burning our flags and despising our existence as the Last Best Hope on Earth.

Trump has stood up to those foreign affronts, unhampered by political pandering or collegial cowardice. Not only has he lived to tell the tale against our foreign foes, but he is rewriting our history at home, showing that American Greatness is here to stay. Jobs are up, industry is up, American morale is up. Immigration—legal and illegal—is down. Housing prices are coming down, along with crime and corruption across the continent.

Decline is a choice, and Trump has chosen not to go along with it. “Make America Great Again” is not an empty mantra for our 45^th and 47^th President. He is making our country great again, and he’s making all of us feel good about being Americans, too.

He has revitalized our American consciousness. He retells the great stories of our heritage. He gave front-seat honor to surviving World War II veterans, who fought evil overseas so that we could have the good, strong, and sure in our homeland. He has restored reverence for our flag, waving banners from then and now. During his July 3^rd, 2026, speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump told the story of the Belgian family who stitched together a makeshift American flag to signal their need for help. American forces came to the rescue, including the descendant of Francis Scott Key, the composer of our renowned national anthem. What an amazing coincidence, an incredible story! I had never known about this account until I listened to Trump’s moving speech. To top all that, Trump invited the descendant of that soldier to take the stage and salute that same flag before all of us.  Just amazing!

President Trump is reminding us how great we are—and how we should not forget it. I wish I could say I voted for this, too, but his efforts far exceed anything I could have imagined! Now that’s the kind of President we need all the time.

Trump has made American patriotism cool again, and he’s making all the right people mad about it. The petty phalanx of political Pharisees has condemned President Trump for his unrestricted love of country. They certainly found fault with him for the UFC championship fights on the White House lawn. Along with millions around the country—and the world—I supported the move. Not only is America back, but we are promoting healthy, rugged, in-your-face masculinity again. So what if one of the winners claimed that Michelle Obama is a man? The fact is, compared to her husband Barack, Michelle looks like the one wearing the pants in that family. And American men are hearing the invitation from Trump: be men, be proud men, and be proud to be Americans.

We all should be proud, brave, and full of bravado to be Americans.

The world is witnessing our greatness and repaying us the favor for our goodwill, too.

I wept with joy and gratitude listening to Scotsmen, Irish, and Englishmen singing “Country Road, Take Me Home” at FIFA soccer match after another, then continuing the warm, melancholy refrains in the local bars. To witness Germans, Japanese, French, Norwegians, and Africans of all backgrounds celebrating our wonderful country was so overwhelming. Even Canadians took to social media, begging to become Americans. Who would have thought, after all the anti-American propaganda from Canadian politicians and media, that Canadians would want to go from friends to fellow citizens? One German visitor has gained well-deserved fame following his tearful admiration of our country, including a heartfelt apology because he had believed all the bad press about our country—and was gladly corrected.

All the visitors to the FIFA World Cup love our spirit, they love our kindness, they love our abundance, and they love us.

And I love President Trump for making all this happen.

Trump isn’t just making America Great Again. He is making Americans great again, and more people around the world are recognizing this greatness, not begrudgingly nor blindly, but with a bountiful friendship that will outlast future political wranglings and culture clashes.

The fundamentals of our country have never been stronger. No matter the threats posed by the specter of communism or the demons of sectarian violence, I know that our country can overcome and thrive.

Thank you again, President Trump, for a Wonderful 250^th Anniversary Celebration!

MA MassResistance Exposes Obscene Materials at West Boylston Library

 

Another library director defends the indefensible: Argues that obscene LGBT books should be available to children.

A mother had confronted the library with the horrible medical facts on those behaviors.

Children should have the “freedom to read” about explicit LGBT sexual acts, answers library director

Regurgitates radical pro-LGBT American Library Association talking points supporting obscenity

NOTE: Graphic descriptions below.

July 13, 2026

 The historic Beaman Memorial Library building in West Boylston, MA has become a place for children to avoid. But one mother is fighting back.

Sometimes you feel all alone in a local battle. But it’s still important to do at least something. And we can help you do it!

As we all know, even in small towns, libraries have become so radicalized and are pushing increasingly destructive material to children. So, many parents don’t want to take their children there any more. Here is yet another example.

West Boylston is a town of about 7,900 people in central Massachusetts located just north of Worcester. It’s not as left-leaning as most of the state, voting about 56% Democrat vs 44% Republican. Last year, the town selectmen voted 4-1 to fire the Town Administrator because he ordered the police to take down a Trump flag hanging in the police exercise room.

West Boylston’s Beaman Memorial Public Library was built in 1912 and is in the National Register of Historic Places for its Colonial Revival architecture. But if the people who built it could visit it now, they’d certainly be sickened.

Shocking, graphic LGBT “pride” books for kids

A few weeks ago during “pride month,” a mother (and MassResistance activist) in West Boylston strolled into the library and was “greeted” by a display of graphic homosexual-themed books for children and teenagers. She couldn’t believe it.

Books in the Beaman Library for children and teenagers include:

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe: Explicit drawings of teens having homosexual sex with each other, including a “transgender boy” (a girl pretending to be a boy) sucking on a boy’s penis. One drawing is of a man lying back on a bed with his legs spread while the other man is lying between his legs. Typical dialogue: "I can't wait to have your cock in my mouth.”

Flamer by Mike Curato:  Crude descriptions of “gay” boys talking a Christian boy into engaging in homosexual oral sex and anal sex with them. He then “embraces” his newly accepted homosexuality. There’s a sick description of boys masturbating into a bottle and forcing another boy to masturbate in front of them, or else drink it.

Confronting the library director with graphic medical information

But what could this woman do all by herself? All her friends are afraid to speak out. She contacted us and we worked with her. She wrote a no-holds-barred letter to the library director. He’s probably never received anything like it before!

Her letter said this:

It has come to my attention that the library is displaying a large selection of LGBT(+) books in the teen section. The contents of these books are detrimental to the mental and physical growth of our youngest and most vulnerable by presenting homosexuality / transgenderism as normal.

These books should be permanently taken out of circulation. They encourage poor decision-making, incur a high risk of serious health problems and are rife with pornography. As a hard-working taxpayer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I object that my money is being used to fund these books.

I have some questions and thoughts for you:

1. Homosexuality is not innate, and no one is born in the wrong body.
2. Homosexual conduct is inherently harmful to the body. Please see the attached excerpt from the Christian Medical & Dental Associations.
3. Would you allow a display promoting drug use or suicide, too?
4. The library should include a copy of a book, The Health Hazards of Homosexuality in its collection. May I provide you a copy?

As the descriptions above show, the library books are very graphic. So in addition to the letter, she provided some graphic medical information to counter them!

She included a few pages of unfiltered information from the Christian Medical & Dental Associations describing some of the repulsive sexual practices and ensuing diseases and other health problems that directly result from LGBT behaviors.

The Health Hazards of Homosexuality brings together information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and prominent medical groups on this crucial subject.

The library director responds

About a week later, she received a letter in response from the library director. It was condescending and bureaucratic.

• He did not address any of the medical information that she included (which is also documented in many other places).
• Instead, he defended having the books there. He quoted the library’s collection policy  (obviously put in by leftist library officials) which echoes the ALA’s talking points. It basically says that the library can bring in any material for children it wishes because parents must have the “right” to let their children see it. It’s up to parents to police what children see in the library, the policy says.
• Moreover, the library has no duty to protect children from pornography on its shelves. “The library will not deselect materials in an effort to protect others,” he said.
• If citizens don’t want any of the books to be there, they can go through the library’s bureaucratic book challenge progress.
• Regarding accepting a donation of our book, The Health Hazards of Homosexuality, he was particularly patronizing and pompous. Even though the book’s material is sourced from recognized medical groups, it was compiled by an “advocacy group” and has not been reviewed by the library’s “professional selection sources.” We can imagine the “professional selection sources” he used to acquire Gender Queer and the other filth the library stocks for children. We’d love to go through the non-fiction there and see the results of the “strict” processes they used.

Final thoughts

Even if you’re just one person, telling the truth is still powerful. It’s the beginning of change.

And it’s also the beginning of leaving your fear behind, which is critical because leftists depend on your fear for their agendas to continue. So even though MassResistance is starting big “fires” of change in many communities, we’re also encouraging small fires everywhere!

   

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The Signatory Legacy of Founding Father Roger Sherman

 

Roger Sherman's Signature Legacy

Sherman’s unparalleled political resume spans multiple major milestones in early American history: [1, 2]

The Continental Association (1774): Signed while serving in the First Continental Congress, enforcing economic boycotts on British trade. [1, 2]
The Declaration of Independence (1776): Served on the Committee of Five tasked with drafting this historic document. [1, 2]
The Articles of Confederation (1777/1778): Helped draft America's first constitution and championed the inclusion of equal representation for smaller states. [1, 2]
The U.S. Constitution (1787): Played a vital role in the Constitutional Convention by proposing the "Great Compromise" (establishing a bicameral legislature). [1, 2]

The Treaty of Paris and Sherman's Role

While John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay served as the official diplomats who directly negotiated the terms with Great Britain, Sherman was a sitting member of the Congress that formally ratified the treaty to end the Revolutionary War in 1783. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Sherman's prolific legislative career did not stop there. He went on to represent Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the U.S. Senate before his death in 1793. [1, 2, 3, 4]