Written by Peter Heck
The over-politicization of our culture has ruined so much. Among plenty of other things, our language has been one of the greatest casualties of our 24-hour “news” culture, our obsession over ideological purity and political scandal. Words don’t mean what they used to mean anymore.
People who aren’t bigots are called bigots because it’s easier to call names than make arguments.
Things that aren’t racism are deemed racist because shaming is easier than logically engaging.… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
It was several years ago that in preparing a speech for an upcoming event, I flipped on the local evening news.
The first story of the night was a double homicide on the city’s northeast side. The second story was that police feared a serial rapist had struck again. The third story involved a string of armed robberies. And then it happened: The anchors turned to the fourth item on their laundry list of bad news, and detailed the removal of the Ten Commandments display at the local courthouse following a legal challenge.… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
In case you missed it last week, it seems some small outfit called the Satanic Temple won the right – on religious freedom grounds – to display a statue of Baphomet, a satanic occult figure, in the Iowa capitol building. The spectacle was to appear for a period of two weeks, but thanks to a Navy veteran named Michael Cassidy, the freakish ram’s head-on-a-mannequin didn’t quite make it that long.
Claiming he was outraged by the “blasphemous statue,” Cassidy said his conscience drove him to chop the thing’s head off and topple it.… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
I think we all remember where we were when we heard the news on June 30, 2021. Our long national nightmare was finally over. At long last, Americans – my countrymen – were going to be given a 3rd gender option on all State Department documents like passports. It was moving beyond words.
Besides correcting the discriminatory oversight of those humanoids who are neither male nor female, it was the surest sign yet that, as promised during the 2020 Biden campaign, the “adults were back in charge.”… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
A month or so ago, I wrote about the new acronym I’m pushing: LTKA – Leave the Kids Alone. I’m an LTKA activist, and the number of things that concern those of us who champion this movement continue to grow.
Don’t get me wrong: Christians were warning that this assault on the innocence of young people was always part of the left’s agenda. You don’t champion someone like Alfred Kinsey and not have wicked intent when it comes to young people.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alfred Kinsey, Chase Lanford, Chris Rufo, gender-affirming, Leave the Kids Alone, Libs of TikTok, Newsweek, Peter Heck, Walt Disney Company, William Scott Lowe
LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | July 13, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on “Leave The Kids Alone” Must Become a Cross-Cultural Demand of The Sane
Written by Peter Heck
Years ago I remember being floored when I realized that Abercrombie and Fitch – which is a clothing company – was actually selling clothes by using nakedness.
I should have known then that it was only a matter of time before I’d see Nike, a company historically associated with athleticism and even masculinity, selling sports bras and women’s athletic gear by using a man.
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Written by Peter Heck
Better late than never. And I’m serious.
I’ve been adamant about holding woke warriors like outspoken NBA coach Steve Kerr accountable for his inexcusable moral hypocrisy when it comes to matters of social justice.
Kerr’s persistence in pointing out to everyone how sensitive he is to the plight of those treated unjustly counterbalanced against his flagrant unwillingness to say a single word on behalf of the most oppressed and mistreated victims of systemic injustice in the world is mindless.… Continue Reading
Tags: Candace Buckner, Christian persecution, Daryl Morey, Hong Kong, Houston Rockets, human rights abuse, LeBron James, NBA, Peter Heck, Steve Kerr, Uighur, Washington Post, Woke
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | August 6, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on NBA’s Wokest Coach Finally Says Something About China
Written by Peter Heck
Several years ago I was approached in the grocery store by a gentleman from our community that I knew through acquaintance. He had learned that I was the new government teacher at our local high school and wanted to see if I was willing to accept a guest speaker. I told him I was open to the idea but was curious who he had in mind.
We set up a meeting days later where he introduced me to Zamir, a man who as an adult had escaped the communist regime of Albania and made it to the United States.… Continue Reading
Tags: Albania, Communism, Communist Party, Fidel Castro, Maximo Alvarez, Peter Heck, Saul Alinsky, Socialism, Useful Idiots, Zamir
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | July 16, 2020 7:30 AM | Comments Off on Make Your Child Spend 10 Minutes Watching This
Written by Peter Heck
Among other places, it recently showed itself in CHAZ, or CHOP, or whatever name the anarchists in Seattle ended up calling their little exercise in autonomy that predictably ended in murder, theft, and humiliating failure.
And don’t think I was rooting against them.
For someone who has always thought it is much easier to point out the superiority of conservative thought by being able to point to actual examples of leftism-in-action rather than arguing against theoretical concepts being taught by unserious utopian dreamers in campus lecture halls to doe-eyed freshmen who are incapable of resisting conformity, I was all for CHAZ continuing in perpetuity.… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
Make no mistake about it, Anna Kendrick, the actress/singer famous for roles in the Pitch Perfect and Trolls movies, undoubtedly considers herself quite woke. She is a Hollywood actress who is fully cognizant of what she’s supposed to say, when she’s supposed to say it, and what power she is supposed to “speak truth” to in order to maintain pop culture credibility.
That said, Kendrick bravely ventured into a position of “unlikely voice of reason” on Twitter recently when she properly identified what the mainstream media has been decidedly unable to deduce or unwilling to admit.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anna Kendrick, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Dan Rather, Ian Miles Cheong, Peter Heck, Pitch Perfect, social justice, Trolls, Violet Iknomova
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | June 2, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Young White Liberals Living Out Their “Teenage Anarchist Fantasy”