Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Together for Redlands' Creepy Grandpa Defends LGBT Perversion for Kids

                     

This creepy grandpa defended defaming a school board member of a misplaced "like" on Instagram.

This old man could not explain why he had a problem with Candy Olson.

The whole mob tirade against the Redlands Unified School Board is based on a falsehood, but more importantly, their abuses are about covering up their attempts to protect pornography, perversion, and predatory material in the classroom.

This old man could not justify his hatred of Candy Olson.

On top of that, he allowed his insolent grandson to interrupt him and prevent him from speaking with me.

The kids are running all over the adults, and the adults don't have the courage or the wisdom to do what is right for their children.

What's worse, Creepy Grandpa defended the obscene pictures in the book "Gender Queer!"


        

You have pictures depicting pedophilia, and Creepy Grandpa said: "They're drawings!" as if that makes it OK.

This is disgusting!

Together for Redlands is OK with pushing pornography on kids, and they want to groom kids into homosexuality and transgenderism. Creepy Grandpa is proof!

Breitbart: The Optimal Tariff Is Much Higher Than We Thought

 

by
John Carney - Breitbart Economics Editor
Alex Marlow - Breitbart Editor-In-Chief

 
August 13, 2025

The Optimal Tariff Is Much Higher Than We Thought

In a working paper circulated this spring, economists Oleg Itskhoki of UCLA and Dmitry Mukhin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison revisit one of the most controversial questions in international economics: when, if ever, should a country impose tariffs? Their answer, framed in elegant mathematical terms and grounded in the financial realities of today’s global economy, is both surprising and—perhaps unintentionally—vindicating of the Trump administration’s trade agenda.

Their central claim is straightforward. Even in a financially sophisticated and deeply globalized world, there is still an optimal tariff for a country like the United States. Once global capital flows, currency movements, and the structure of external assets are taken into account, the textbook logic favoring free trade weakens and in some cases, reverses.

President Donald Trump moves charts in the Oval Office of the White House on August 7, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The numbers are eye-catching. In a stylized benchmark with balanced trade, they find a welfare-maximizing U.S. tariff of 34 percent, with a revenue-maximizing rate approaching 80 percent. When calibrated to reflect actual U.S. economic conditions—persistent trade deficits and a large stock of dollar-denominated foreign liabilities—the “optimal” rate falls to around nine percent. Still positive. Still economically justifiable. But importantly, smaller than pure goods-market logic would suggest.

That shift comes down to what the authors call “valuation effects”: the fact that imposing a tariff strengthens the dollar, which in turn reduces the dollar value of U.S. foreign assets. In other words, part of the gain in trade terms is offset by a hit to America’s international investment position.

No Retaliation, No Problems

But the real-world implications of the paper may go further than its authors explicitly argue. While the theoretical framework assumes symmetric retaliation—a so-called Nash equilibrium of mutual tariffs—recent history offers a different pattern. Over the past six years, the United States has imposed sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries, including China, the European Union, and Japan. But instead of a cycle of tit-for-tat escalation, the response has often been negotiation and accommodation.

Japan signed a bilateral deal. The EU resumed trade talks. Even China, after a prolonged standoff, agreed to large-scale purchase commitments. India, targeted earlier this month with a new round of tariffs due to its imports of discounted Russian oil, has thus far responded diplomatically. The worst-case scenario envisioned in many economic models—a full-scale tariff war—has yet to materialize.

That reality changes the math.

As Itskhoki and Mukhin emphasize, the costliest outcomes in their model come from retaliation. But if partners choose instead to accept tariffs and offer concessions—cutting their own barriers, pledging investment, or agreeing to quantity-based trade deals—the welfare gains from U.S. tariffs become significantly larger. The authors do not model these kinds of side payments, but they would act as additional terms-of-trade improvements, directly increasing U.S. income while reducing the necessary tariff rate to achieve trade-balance goals.

Put simply, when tariffs serve as a negotiating lever rather than a permanent regime, and when they succeed in eliciting economically valuable concessions, the underlying logic of the paper tilts further toward support.

There is also a political and legal nuance the paper nods to obliquely. In theory, production and export subsidies are the most efficient way to raise employment in tradable sectors—especially manufacturing. In practice, however, such subsidies are often difficult to implement, politically controversial, or prohibited by trade agreements. Tariffs, by contrast, are straightforward, enforceable, and legally authorized under U.S. trade law. Managed-trade agreements with investment and purchase pledges effectively mimic the model’s subsidy channel—just delivered through diplomatic means rather than fiscal transfers.

Modern Trade Theory Supports Tariffs

What makes Itskhoki and Mukhin’s contribution so significant is not just its conclusions, but its modern framing. Rather than viewing tariffs as a throwback to a pre-global era, they present them as a macro-financial instrument, with predictable effects on the trade balance, the exchange rate, and the international investment position. Their work offers a rigorous counterpoint to the dominant narrative that tariffs are inherently disruptive or self-defeating.

To be clear, the paper is cautious. The authors acknowledge that their calibration is approximate, that sectoral frictions and long-run dynamics remain outside their scope, and that their results are sensitive to assumptions about asset composition and currency denomination. But the broader message is unmistakable: the debate over tariffs deserves a more nuanced, updated economic treatment.

With Donald Trump now back in the White House and tariffs once again at the center of U.S. trade policy, Itskhoki and Mukhin’s paper may stand as the most rigorous academic defense yet of the administration’s approach. The tariffs are already in place. Retaliation, for the most part, never arrived. What followed instead were trade agreements, investment pledges, and targeted purchase commitments—exactly the kinds of negotiated concessions that amplify the model’s predicted gains. Viewed through their framework, Trump’s tariff policy wasn’t a departure from sound economics. It was the real-world application of a theory the profession is only now beginning to formalize.

 

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 https://www.youtube.com/embed/hfbpdO2wTL8

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

DO NOT TALK: Gerrymander, Salamander, What a Mander?

Aaron Fernando: "Together for Redlands" Bigot Smeared Jewish Resident as "Nazi," Insulted Parents in School District

 This is Aaron Fernando:


He called a Jewish man, Doug Hauser, a Nazi.

  
        

He also insulted parents and the Redlands Unified School Board, which is taking steps to protect kids from perversion, pedophilia, and the predatory behavior of the entire LGBT movement.


                 

 Yet Aaron thinks it's OK to push pornography on children.

Aaron thinks it's OK to groom kids into sexual degeneracy.

Aaron thinks it's OK to attack parents and threaten their jobs.

Aaron is a creep who wants to hurt kids.

No one should support Aaron.

If you have any information about his employment or his further connections with Together for Redlands, please email me at arthur@massresistance.org

Christian Capitulation to Secularism is Apostacy

 

“It is doubtful that modern politics is any healthier for having purged itself of religious input. Nor is it at all clear that Christian political thought can meaningfully challenge totalitarianism or secularism without affirming that political authority is accountable to theologically grounded demands.

   “Much recent political theology, however, is written in the rarefied language of academic theologians who have never faced political struggles more serious than annual departmental budget battles.

   “Christian capitulation to secular politics - more the rule than the exception in the modern church - is nothing less than apostasy, a denial of the gospel that proclaims Jesus as Lord.”1

 

20th- and 21st-century America should have learned that a nation that divorces itself from its Judeo-Christian heritage and its devotion to Jehovah God cannot thrive, for the simple reason that laws must be rooted in truth, not feelings. If we want to fix our politics, we must reposition the Bible as the “fixed point in order to judge,” as French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal [1623-1662] once said, and as the American Founders understood throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.

 

In his commentary of August 4, 2025, titled Trump’s Unknown Frontiers, Victor Davis Hanson observes: “No conservative president has dared to question the last 70 years of progressive cultural, social, economic, and political dominance ... all traditional wisdom, all our renowned ‘experts,’ and all the self-described ‘authorities’ have no real credibility in their mostly flawed analyses and wrong prognoses.”2

 

Secularism’s long march through America’s institutions is now complete, as Hanson rightly noted on Albert Mohler’s Christianity podcast Thinking in Public.3 Secularists now control academia, K-12 education, corporate boardrooms, Wall Street, traditional media, Silicon Valley, foundations, and even professional sports, prompting Hanson to conclude: “Even though they don’t control or have influence over the majority of Americans, it’s very hard to communicate or retrieve information off the internet or watch the Super Bowl without that imprint of the Left.”

 

The old saying says it all: “What’s in the well comes up in the bucket.” Since politics is downstream from culture, today’s secular culture is the product of the moral framework imposed by the radically progressive Warren Court [1953-1969] in the mid-1960s, after a two-century war for the soul of American culture. Strangely, eight of the nine male justices were as proud of dismantling America’s Biblical foundation as the Founders were of establishing it.

 

Which brings us to the present moment: if Evangelical and Pro-Life Catholic Christians are wise, then over the next 3 to 4 political cycles [2026-2032] parishioners must step out from behind the four walls of the church and enter the public square by running for city council, school board, county commission, parks and recreation boards, etc., so taking responsibility for their communities.

In North Carolina in 2022, for example, 50 pastors and spiritual leaders ran for local office ranging from city councils to school boards. Twenty-five won their primaries; 10 were elected in the general.

 

The bold vision for North Carolina in 2026 and 2028 is to see 500 parishioners, led by their pastors, run for local office across the state. This is how you rebuild a nation: from the ground up, through faithful, God-fearing men and women engaging in civic life. [Pastor Summit - American Renewal Project; www.americanrenewalproject.org/pastorsummit]

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: The filing deadline to run for public office in North Carolina [2026] is December 19, 2025.

 

From a Christian perspective, we have come to our kairos moment. If we want to change politics, we must first reclaim the culture. And that starts with pastors and churches boldly standing in the public square.

 

Let’s be clear: politicians won’t save America. Wall Street won’t save America. Even our military, noble though it is, won’t save America. Our only hope is a return to Jehovah God and a restoration of Biblical values in our homes, communities, and institutions.

 

Alex Castellanos [born 1954], a Cuban-American political consultant and National Merit Scholar from the University of North Carolina, wrote last week that President Trump has restored the nation’s borders, dismantled elite wokeness, rescued our God-given pronouns, kicked men out of women’s sports, neutered Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and ended taxpayer-funded pro-Hamas campus activism.

 

But the political reality is this: if President Trump doesn’t expand his majority in Congress in 2026, it’s game over. Castellanos writes: “Few politicians, or political parties, survive success because success kills urgency. And without urgency, voters don’t vote. … His wins vanish the day he leaves the White House for Mar-a-Lago. Give Democrats the House, and they will spend two years impeaching Trump again, trying to jail him, setting the nation on fire, and organizing to reverse his triumphs.”4

 

To put it in Civics 101 terms: organized mobilizing is the key. Sermons and speeches are not denominations of political currency. Mobilize, mobilize, mobilize!

 

Dr. Leithart’s cultural diagnosis echoes the warning of Hungarian-American philosopher Thomas Molnar [1921-2010]: “Soon after political power emancipates itself from spiritual authority, it loses its own stability and, in short order, its legitimacy. The downward trend cannot be arrested. Individualism then leads to anarchy, which appears as the natural consequence.”5

 

A perfect example of Molnar’s warning is Obergefell v. Hodges [2015], where the U.S. Supreme Court redefined marriage, granting same-sex couples a constitutional right to marry. The Court overturned thousands of years of civilizational consensus rooted in Biblical truth and natural law. In doing so, it claimed authority to redefine an institution it did not create, ignored the democratic process, overruled more than 30 state laws, and betrayed judicial restraint.

 

Rather than gaining legitimacy, the Court sacrificed it, proving how secular power, once severed from higher moral law, becomes overbearing and oppressive.

 

As English actor and adventurer turned evangelist John Hambleton [1820-1889] put it: “Heathenism is cruel. It is not changed in character since the days when parents made their children to pass through fire to Moloch.”

 

With the 1 Kings 18:44–46’s announcement that a cloud the size of a man’s hand is on the horizon, we thankfully acknowledge that Gideons and Rahabs have entered the public arena.

 

David Lane 

American Renewal Project

 

1. Peter J. Leithart, 1 & 2 Kings Commentary.

2. victorhanson.com/trumps-unknown-frontiers/

3. albertmohler.com/2022/04/06/victor-davis-hanson/

4. x.com/alexcast/status/1951671836711792760

5. Molnar’s work Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred [1988] explores the relationship between politics and religion.

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Letter to the Editor: More Truth About Hamas in America



Great article today! (August 5, 2025)

I wanted to comment on a few things.


  1. The Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas (2007-2008) proved that Hamas dba CAIR is operating to great effect throughout the U.S.  It identified at least 92  operatives who are part of Hamas’ social infrastructure in Israel and the Palestinian territories.  Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, an umbrella organization that includes ISNA, ICNA, MSA, MAS, CAIR, NAIT, AMC, IIIT, etc.

https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/423.pdf


       In 2005, Steve Emerson, founder of the IPT, identified Hamas cells in Bridgeview, Detroit, NYC, Washington D.C., Herndon, Springfield, VA, Alexandria, Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbia, MS, Oxford, MS, Dallas, Ruston, LA, Houston, OKC, Tucson, Kansas City, MO, Phoenix, Denver, Los Angeles and Santa Clara.  


    2.  The following countries have moved their Israeli embassies to Jerusalem:


Paraguay

Guatemala

Hondorus

Kosovo

Papua New Guinea.


     3.  As far as self-determination is concerned, are there similar demands for the Druze and the Kurds?  I think we know the answer, especially when Israel is told to STOP trying to save the Druze.


Best,


Janet Levy

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Palestine: One Big Lie

Friday, August 8, 2025

Responding to NBC "Reporter" Re: Redlands School Board Meeting

Hi Arthur,

I’m a national reporter at NBC News, based in Los Angeles. I am working on a story about a group of parents pushing for Candy Olson to resign from the Redlands school board. I understand that you attended this week’s meeting and spoke at it. During the public comment section, you said you were “proud” of the conservative majority on the board, and that parents protesting Olson were behaving the way Nazis treated their political opponents “before they started pushing people into ovens.”

 

Could you please clarify whether you are a parent of a child in the district? If not, what drew you to appear at this week’s meeting?

 

Several people said that after you made your remarks, you began filming children in the audience with your phone, and they weren’t sure why.  They also said that you told a child named Quinn, who identifies as non-binary and is autistic, to “shut up” and called them a “fa***t.” Is this true?

 

Would you like to add any additional comment?

 

My deadline is this afternoon.

 

Thank you,

Tyler

 

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Tyler:

First of all, let's be honest here. This isn't a "news" report. It's an invented attack piece prompted by a small group of vicious LGBT activists. The conservative school board majority is passing policies that the community wants, but a small group of activists doesn't like. Rather than debate the issue, they have launched a disgusting campaign of destruction, including attempting to get one school board member fired from her employment as a nurse. As part of this, they are attempting to elevate a casual social media "like" into something absurd on its face. Nobody else in the community cares about it. The fact that NBC News is getting involved is pretty shameful.

I was invited to speak at the school board meeting by parents in the district. They are seeking MassResistance's help to stand up to the bullying and cancel culture efforts from these LGBT activists in the community and surrounding areas.

For the record, most of the activists attending the school board meeting on August 5th, 2025 do not live in the city.

Yes, indeed, I did state that the behavior of the LGBT activists harassing the school board and parents was a lot like the Nazis before they began sending victims to the gas chambers or concentration camps. Have you read about the perverse Nuremberg laws promulgated by the Nazis in 1935? They wanted to deprive German citizens, specifically Jews, of their livelihood and very existence in public spaces. The abuse and invectives that these LGBT activists have launched at school board members and residents in the community, even trying to get people fired from their jobs or ruin their businesses, is fascist behavior just like what the Nazis did before the outbreak of World War II.

I must remind you that one of those activists called a Jewish man, Doug Hauser, a Nazi during the line-up outside of the school board chambers. I have never heard something so abusive and ignorant in my life.

Whoever told you that I told someone to "Shut up! or called that person a fa***T is lying to you. I never said such things.

After my comments at the podium, I filmed the audience to document their abusive and in some cases illegal conduct (it’s against the law to disrupt a government meeting), including one of the students who flipped me off. I simply told him, "Do you talk to your father like that?"

I am really disappointed that you are not pointing out that one of the members of the audience got in my face, violating my personal space. I had to tell her to back away from me. These abusive tactics should never be tolerated or permitted in a school board meeting or any public forum.

I doubt that you will report the whole truth of the matter, but I have the right and responsibility to correct the record.

--Arthur Schaper

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