Contradictions in the Koran

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Letter to the Editor: Best Explanation Why Truman Was Right

Your Townhall piece (Eighty Years Ago, Truman Did the Right Thing) was the best concise explanation of why Truman was right that I've ever seen. 

On a personal note, my father turned 15 the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. 

In March of 1943, he joined the Navy (like 60,000 others who were underage, he used an altered birth certificate). He drove a Higgins boat full of Marines in the first wave at Tarawa. They got stuck on a sandbar. He watched most of them die while attempting to wade ashore. He also did landings at Leyte and Iwo Jima and would have taken part in an invasion of Japan.

---- Tim Sumner

Oklahoma MassResistance Shuts Down Drag Queen Pride Event

 

Huge annual “Pride” event in Oklahoma town is stopped after local citizen pressure.

Sponsorship by town businesses plummeted. Volunteers backed off.

“Pride” board members resigned after disagreement over keeping Drag Queens.

August 6, 2025

 LGBT activists hand dollar bills to Drag Queen at "Pride" event in public park in Bartlesville, OK. [All photos by Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise except where noted.]

Over the last decade, a major strategy of the LGBT movement has been to hold prominent public “Pride” events in predominantly Christian towns in “red” states. Oklahoma has been a big target. The purpose is to desensitize the citizens and to normalize bizarre LGBT behaviors. These events usually include garish Drag Queens performing before young children. They are held in public parks or similar open venues. LGBT activists from afar usually show up to make a larger crowd.

 Drag Queen hugs small child during the Pride event.

The event organizers are skilled at getting funding from leftist local businesses and “woke” corporations. And they find volunteers among local liberals and LGBT activists.

Large annual public “Pride” event comes to conservative Oklahoma town

Bartlesville is a conservative town in northeast Oklahoma (population 38,000). The LGBT movement got a foothold there in 2018 and again in 2019, holding an annual “Pride picnic” in a park.

But in 2022 it became a very large event in a public park, featuring outrageous Drag Queens cavorting among young children.

 Drag Queen "performing" among the crowd during the 2022 Pride event.

It was quite offensive to the community, and some local conservatives came and protested.

 Local citizens protesting across the street from the 2022 Pride event.

The Drag Queen spectacle in 2022 caused a lot of outrage – including debate in the Bartlesville City Council. To calm people down, in 2023 the Bartlesville Pride organizing group kept their Drag Queens from publicly “performing” at the Pride event, though they were allowed to attend in costume.

But in 2024, the Drag Queens were back as performers. The Pride group used a new strategy. They persuaded the City Council that “Drag performance” is “art” – not perverted behavior – and that their “art” was being physically threatened by bigoted citizens.

 Garish Drag Queens were back "performing" in 2024. [Photo: Bartlesville Equality]

Thus, the City Council assigned police as “security” for the event (at a cost of $30,000) and would not allow any protesters into the park. Protesters could only gather along the park perimeter.

Citizens reach out to MassResistance from Bartlesville

As we recently reported, at the beginning of March 2025, we were contacted by a parent in Bartlesville. He wanted help pushing back against this year’s annual “Pride” event scheduled for September 19, which would again target children. He said that many people were upset that the City Council was supplying police for security, and it was being funded by local businesses. 

We spoke with him about getting a team together. Word spread and the new Oklahoma MassResistance chapter attracted a sizeable group of citizens, both in Bartlesville and across the state.

Shutting it down in 2025

The Oklahoma MassResistance strategy this year was to start right away.

It included a campaign of education – of how the “Pride” event, and especially the hideous Drag Queens – men cavorting suggestively in garish women’s clothes – promote sexual and emotional dysfunction, plus a range of other unhealthy behaviors to vulnerable young children and the community in general.

That message was repeatedly presented to funders of the event, including a bank, insurance broker, credit union, a dentist’s office, a large national corporation, and others.

On July 31, the Bartlesville Equality organization (which puts on the annual event) posted a lengthy Facebook post announcing that the September 2025 Pride event would not take place. They said they were “postponing” the event, but no date was given. All the local media understood that as a cancellation.

Their “reasons” for cancelling the event

LGBT activists are used to getting their way wherever they go and are expert at bullying everyone. But when faced with real community pushback in Bartlesville, they collapsed.

Bartlesville Equality said they “faced a challenging financial climate” and were able to raise only a third of the money needed to put the event on.

They also blamed their cancellation on a “heightened climate of hostility” in the local community and claimed that they “cannot guarantee the safety” of the participants. (This “safety” concern is a common LGBT talking point when met with conservative protest. But in our experience, it’s the LGBT activists who are likely to become violent in these situations, not regular citizens.)

Third, they blamed it on a lack of volunteers – including members of their Board of Directors who had recently resigned. Apparently, their full Board had again voted to appease the community by not allowing Drag Queens to be featured performers at this year’s event. Several of their Board members then resigned in protest of that decision!

Trying to placate their angry ex-Board members, they included this paragraph in their Facebook post. If anything, it further reveals their bizarre, sexually dysfunctional state of mind:

Let us be clear: We affirm that drag is a legitimate and powerful form of artistic and cultural expression, deeply rooted in 2SLGBTQIA+ [sic] history. Drag has played a vital role in Pride celebrations across the world, and we believe it continues to deserve space, respect, and representation.

(Since the cancellation announcement, one other LGBT group announced it was considering holding its own - very diminished - "Pride" event indoors, outside of town, for adults only. A clear victory!)

Final thoughts

The LGBT movement, like other radical leftist movements, is very intimidating if you allow it to be – and most conservatives unfortunately play into their hands. But in fact, it’s a house of cards and can be easily collapsed.

   

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Letter to the Editor: Comment on Zamperini Field

(In Response to Eighty Years Ago, Truman Did the Right Thing)

 Arthur,

Before retiring from then TRW and escaping to Arizona in 1996, I had many flight hours out of TOA before I found out that the airport was Zamperini Field, and even more before I knew who Zamperini was.

Thank you for the many articles you write and I read, including this one.

Doug Freeman

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Doug:

Thank you so much for writing!

It feels good to give my hometown of Torrance a special shout-out, especially in connection with as momentous a topic as the Bombing of Hiroshima!

DO NOT TALK: The Devil Came Down to Palestine

The Truth About "Palestine"

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Oklahoma MassResistance on the MOVE!

 

MassResistance is making waves across Oklahoma. Igniting pro-family citizens to push for change!

Local protests, State House action, statewide and county GOP presence, school actions, and more every month.

July 28, 2025

 In Oklahoma, people are now standing up to the poisonous LGBT push for public Drag Queen events for children.

We all think of Oklahoma as a “deep red” state. But – as in so many other “red” states, that can be an illusion. There are RINOs controlling the Legislature as well as many city councils and school boards. Schools normalize destructive LGBT sexual behaviors. LGBT activists are publicly pushing their transgender Drag Queen agenda on children in towns across the state – and local businesses openly fund those events.

 Targeting children: A recent Oklahoma LGBT "Pride" event featured activities to specifically attract kids.

Pro-family parents have watched all this and have had nowhere to turn – until recently.

It started with one email at the beginning of March from Eddie, a parent in Bartlesville, in central Oklahoma. He wanted help pushing back against the outdoor public Drag Queen event targeting children – that his city council had not opposed and that was being funded by local businesses.  

We spoke with him about getting a team together and making a difference. Soon others got on board, and word spread across the state. Before long, our new Oklahoma MassResistance chapter had nearly 90 members!

Over less than five months, the Oklahoma MassResistance has started making a difference across the state! Here are some of the things they’ve done.

1. Peeled off businesses from funding the upcoming “Pride” Drag Queen event in September in Eddie’s town.


2. Publicly protested a Drag Queen reading event for children at a bookstore in a neighboring town. That will likely not take place again!
   
    Bartlesville MassResistance activists protest outside of a Drag Queen event for children in the town.


3. Began a campaign to pressure school district officials to remove its offensive “sexual health” curriculum that normalizes destructive LGBT behaviors. Oklahoma schools are overall less radical than other places, but we’re not settling for that. We want all the harmful materials cleaned out.
   
    From a local high school's "sexual health vocabulary" curriculum.


4. MassResistance had a table at the Oklahoma State GOP Convention. A lot of people expressed interest in working with us and getting involved.
   
    The MassResistance table at the Oklahoma State Republican Convention had activist information, pamphlets, and a sign-up sheet.
    Our table got a lot of traffic.


5. At a Drag Queen event in a public park, our activists held a counter-event with speeches and Bible verses telling the truth about homosexuality, pride, and the meaning of the rainbow.
   
    The LGBT Drag Queen event in the public park featured this bizarre man in a short dress speaking next to the sign "Drag Is Art."
    The counter-event, in the same area, by Oklahoma MassResistance activists.


6. Supported our national Obergefell resolution. Our Oklahoma chapter enthusiastically got behind our national MassResistance effort to have state legislatures pass a resolution calling on the US Supreme Court to undo its flawed 2015 Obergefell “gay marriage” ruling.


7. Thanks to our activists, the County GOP Committees in Washington County and Kay County each passed resolutions urging the Oklahoma Legislature to support our Obergefell effort. The Rogers County GOP Committee went even further; they told the legislators to pass the resolution.


8. At the Oklahoma State Capitol, State Senators enthusiastically got on board. When the MassResistance Obergefell resolution was formally introduced in the Senate, over half of the Senators signed on as co-sponsors!
   
    More than half of the Oklahoma Senate are co-sponsors of the resolution! It immediately got the attention of national media.
   The resolution would have easily passed. But outrageously, it was blocked from reaching the floor by the RINO Senate Majority Leader (Sen. Julie Daniels). When contacted afterwards, her office refused to give a reason for her opposition. But of course, we persisted ...
   
   

   Sen. Julie Daniels, the Senate Majority Leader, is now more unpopular than ever in her district.


9. MassResistance activists in Sen. Daniels’ district cornered her at an event and asked her directly. Here’s the lame reason this RINO gave:
   
   
   You told me that you want the resolution. I think there are ways that we could all celebrate marriage without always going and saying something more negative. I would go and celebrate what is positive and strengthen what is positive because I don't see that Supreme Court decision going away anytime soon.
   
   Then she walked away. But she hasn’t shown up at any of her scheduled public events in her district since then. We suspect the resolution won’t be blocked again next session!

Final Thoughts

Our Oklahoma team is doing its part to move the needle back toward the right!

Why does MassResistance catch fire among strong pro-family people across the country? They tell us it’s because we’re the only national group that is serious about forcing real change. Some of the individual issues we confront may appear small, but the effect of directly taking them on (and not stopping) has reach!

   

Our uncompromising work is made possible by people like you!

Please help us reach our $500K goal to keep it going!

Donate to MassResistance

Total as of 7/28/25: $165,867 / 971 donations

Your support will make a difference!

Letter to the Editor: "Do you live in Torrance or Downey my hometown?"

I’ve enjoyed and learned from your writing over the years.

I was reading your latest column today in Townhall.com and I was surprised when you mentioned “driving back home to Downey, California“. 

Because I grew up in Downey, and I graduated from Warren High School in 1964.

But then I looked at your biography on Townhall.com, and it says you currently live in Torrance.

So I am, of course, confused.

Torrance or Downey now?

And I was interested in what brought you to Downey, and how long have you lived there?

My brother and sister have also moved far away from Downey, but still in California.

And we have been surprised and disappointed frequently when we hear news of the deterioration of things even in Downey.

For instance, the crime. And the mayor of Downey currently seems to be a radical leftist.

A far cry from Downey Mayor Scott, Temple in the 1960s, who was a family friend and attended our church.

I’m sure you’re busy, maybe won’t have time to even read or respond to this, but I wanted to thank you for your writings and unique perspectives and perhaps you will drop me a note with a brief explanation to the questions I asked.

Sincerely,

DH ‘Deke’ Preacher

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Hey, Deke!

I always make the time to respond.

Thanks for writing back! Much appreciated.

I still live in Torrance, but I have been working with fellow pro-family activists in Downey, CA.

Things have improved somewhat in the city:

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24b/CA-media-attacks-MassResistance/index.html

And in Torrance, too:

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/25b/Pride-resolution-stopped-in-Torrance/index.html

To quote Downey native Karen Carpenter: "We've only just begun."

Kids in the Hall Mocked DEI Thirty Years Ago

The more things change ...

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The Controversies at LifeSiteNews

John Henry-Westen, the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews, was recently removed from his position by the LifeSiteNews board. Then he got reinstated.

These moves caught much of the pro-life, pro-family, religious conservative world off guard. That’s saying a great deal, considering that pro-life and pro-family conservatives have seen all kinds of moral decline and degradation becoming the norm throughout the West. Pro-family fighters have witnessed same-sex “marriage,” rising defenses for pedophilia, and the increased push for assisted suicide. So little shocks us now.

What’s going on here? Should we be concerned? Why is one of the flagship pro-family (and anti-LGBT) news sites facing such leadership turmoil?

First, let’s talk about LifeSiteNews.

This Catholic-based news site has rigorously and accurately documented the downfall and decline of a De-Christianized West. For years, their commentary and confrontation on these matters commanded respect. They even republished the activist reporting from the organization I work for—MassResistance—because of our unwavering commitment against the LGBT agenda in all of its perverse forms.

LifeSiteNews did not back away from calling out moral corruption. To their credit, they were not only unafraid to call out the wrongs and evils of homosexuality and transgenderism. They were a welcome voice for social conservatives like me because they unflinchingly criticized the Republican Party, including President Trump, as they cozied up to so-called LGBT “conservatives” infiltrating the larger conservative movement. Their countercultural attack on mainstream conservatism gave me hope in spite of the growing fecklessness or cowardice of conservative leadership to oppose same-sex “marriage”, adoption, and the like.

So, what’s going on at LifeSiteNews? Is the leadership getting soft, embracing pro-“gay” messaging? Not a chance.

Rather, the news site has taken a dark turn on another set of issues.

For the last two years, I noticed the site’s publishing an increasing number of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist articles on many policy fronts. They were cataloguing the so-called war crimes of the IDF and blasting American politicians and foreign policy makers as puppets of Israel.

Here’s a sample:

Orthodox rabbi: Zionism a ‘cardinal sin’ for Jews, creation of Israel is ‘satanic’

Zionism: Rebellion against God?! | Rabbi speaks out

Why is a Catholic-oriented news site interviewing a Rabbi? And why are they going off on Israel and Zionism?

Oh, and it gets better (or rather, worse). They talk about the horrendous “Israel Lobby” that supposedly controls Washington:

GOP Congressman Thomas Massie exposes Zionist lobby’s power over Congress

Leaked audio exposes Israel lobby’s enormous power over the Trump administration

WATCH: Candace Owens exposes the Israel lobby’s stranglehold on America

For what it’s worth, Candace Owens has been exposed as an intellectual lightweight with a shaky grasp of the facts. She celebrated Andrew Tate, a serial pornographer under indictment for sex trafficking, while denouncing pornography. She also claimed that Hitler was not that bad.

Regarding the purported power of AIPAC, most of their funding goes to Democrats, and the Democratic Party has become increasingly hostile to Israel. As for Congressman  Massie, his performance theater against big spending is starting to wear thin. He never called out the big spending from his fellow US Senators, and he voted for liberal Republican Tom Emmer to be the next Speaker of the House this year. The focus and subject matter of these reports leave much to be desired.

And sadly, LifeSiteNews has thrown itself into the USS Liberty conspiracy. (I refute those talking points here.)

In 2023, Patrick Delaney, one of the editors at LifeSiteNews, wrote, “Orthodox patriarchate condemns ‘Israeli radicals’ for attacking bishop, priest at Church of Gethsemane.”

Yes, there are Jewish radicals, as there are radicals in other religions. What is conspicuously missing from this coverage, however, is the widespread denunciation from other Jews against such abuses. In contrast, Islamic militants have committed all sorts of crimes and terrorism against innocents—Christian, Jew, Muslim—and there is no condemnation from residents in Gaza or Judea and Samaria of their hostilities.

For the record, the Israeli government has cracked down on hyper-orthodox adherents harassing Christians, and local Rabbis raised funds to help repair a Catholic church attacked by Jewish radicals, too.

In 2024, Delaney wrote a particularly egregious article, claiming that Israel was conducting a “genocide” against the residents of Gaza following the October 7^th, 2023 terrorist attack from Hamas:

Israeli soldiers celebrate the ‘torturing, humiliating, and mocking’ of Palestinians on social media

I refused to remain quiet in the face of these blatant lies. I wrote an extensive response email (republished here), refuting the libelous claims about Israel and American foreign policy vis-à-vis the Jewish State. I focused on the redefinition of “genocide.” I also pointed out that his using “Al-Jazeera” as a legitimate news source is suspect.

Delaney responded, and he provided a broad mixture of half-truths and misdefinitions to justify his dishonest arguments.

LifeSiteNews eventually printed my letter, along with Delaney’s response (InfoWars republished the article, too!), but referred to me as “William” and called me a “Christian Zionist journalist,” presumably as a smear. I wear such terms as a badge of honor. The most damning aspect of Delaney’s defense of calling Israel’s attacks on Hamas “genocide” rested on his contortion of the term to include any form of fighting in a combat zone!

With all of this information in the background, let’s get to the firing and rehiring (?) of John Henry-Westen.

LifeSiteNews Co-Founder and Managing Editor Steve Jalsevac released a statement regarding Westen’s departure:

While legal constraints prevent us from delving into extensive detail, I can share that the decision was influenced by several factors, including a 72% drop in readership from 2021 to 2024 during John-Henry’s tenure as CEO, a decline in monthly and new donors, and other business challenges. Additionally, an internal survey revealed significant concerns regarding staff sentiment and safety scores, which further informed the board’s considerations.

 

Nonprofits have to keep the money flowing, but should stick to their principles. A steep drop-off of nearly three-quarters of your readership is troubling.

I can guess why LifeSiteNews is losing readers and donors:

The Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel Propaganda!

Truth matters in the fight against moral and sexual degradation. When a Catholic-based news site insists on pushing pro-terrorist propaganda, venturing into foreign policy conspiracy theories, they are embracing lies, one can expect that their once-faithful readership will be repulsed.

And now, we receive word that John Henry-Westen has been reinstated.

Surprisingly, the site issued a very short reinstatement statement:

The LifeSiteNews Board of Directors voted today to restore John-Henry Westen to his former position.

 

“John-Henry Westen has been recognized by the board as the President and CEO of lifesitenews.com Inc. subject to administrative review and investigation.”

C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts issued the following analysis:

"This is likely the only time in the history of corporate governance that a statement restoring a CEO showed even less cordiality than the statement which announced his firing.

The brevity, timing and language of the announcement all suggest a profound reluctance, or even resentment, on the part of those who issued it.

It was released at 5:47 EDT on a Friday afternoon, a time best suited to minimize publicity on a story that a corporation or a government agency wishes to bury.

The use of the word 'recognized', rather than the more usual 're-appointed' is curious. It might suggest that the previous vote was somehow improper or legally defective.

The inclusion of the phrase 'subject to administrative review and investigation' suggests continued hostility towards Westen by the Board of Directors.

There is also a striking omission. There is no mention of Westen being restored as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews, a position specifically referenced in his termination announcement.”

LifeSiteNews is losing readers, then they bungled the removal of the CEO. C.J. Doyle’s analysis makes sense. Potential litigation often scares organizations into a quick, unexplained course correction.

But did the board fire Westen because of the website’s increasing embrace of anti-Zionist propaganda? One of the frequent commentators on the site, Peter LaBarbera, shared with me that Westen was not removed because of the anti-Zionist turn in reporting: “It wasn’t about the Israel bashers. They’re still there!” He encouraged me to reach out to one of their main contributors, who privately shared his criticism of the anti-Zionism turn in reporting, but that writer has not gotten back to me yet.

If the LifeSiteNews board of directors can’t see how their dishonest reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict is affecting readers, then they should be fired!

If LifeSiteNews editors want to maintain life on their site to report the news, they need to get back to reporting … news! All the anti-Zionist propaganda, I submit, is the real turn-off, turning off the donations and views.

The larger question remains: why publish such anti-Israeli (and thus anti-Semitic) garbage? One suspects that the site, based in Canada, is trying to placate an increasing Muslim population. Perhaps they are buying into the engagement harvesting that comes with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Whatever the reason, they need a major course-correction if they want to survive.