Mike Mustang

I believe what I say and believe I am right. Thus, the title of my column, Undeniably Right. Take it as you will, that I'm a conservative or I have a huge ego and believe I am always correct. Sometimes those things overlap, sometimes not.

Mike Rowse

Why Would You Do That?

It is an undeniable truth of life in my world, we need to bring back lawn darts. If you do not know what those are look it up because it was one of the best games we played as children, but of course people got hurt by the game darts because they're just flat stupid. The benefit of their stupidity is that it helped us to clean the gene pool. The same can be said for putting warning tags on a lot of products. How many people do we really think we are saving by warning people not to use a toaster in the bathtub? Do the dumb ones really read the warning labels? But the result of trying to protect everyone is that the stupid ones are breeding and becoming a larger percentage of our population. I think most of them go into politics, while a few go into media.

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t's Happening Right In Front Of Our Eyes

MI have spoken or written quite often about the ultimate goal of the politicians and the people that control them. Their goal is to have total power over us. They love the Marxist model in which a central body makes all decisions for everyone. The rules do not apply equally to all since those in charge are often the elite and exempt themselves from the same standards applied to everyone else. To gain support among the population they often use words like equality or privilege that are like dog whistles. While most people agree on some level with my opinion, I don't think many have actually thought what it looks like.

In cities like San Francisco or Austin where the defund the police movement has been most prevalent, we have seen crime increase exponentially. District attorneys will not prosecute certain crimes. It started typically with shoplifting under a specific dollar amount but then progressed to include crimes such as robbery unless an individual was injured by the perpetrator. Already we are seeing efforts to include more violent crimes as ones that are forgiven. In my opinion, the goal is to create a national police force. We have already seen the capitol police, whose only responsibility is to protect the capital in Washington DC request funding for offices throughout the country. The FBI has already provided some tactical support to local police departments. As people get more frustrated with the increase in crime rates in their cities, they would be glad to welcome in any form of help.

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ESPN Remains Clueless

Maybe too woke?

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Harvard and Others Will Double Down

The Supreme Court handed down their decision regarding affirmative action policies by colleges and universities in their admissions policies. You may recall that this case involved Harvard University artificially reducing the number of Asian American students admitted to the university because they felt there were too many Asian Americans being admitted. Because academic achievement was the primary factor in determining admission to Harvard, Asian Americans generally had higher testing scores, GPAs, and class ranks as compared to other demographic groups. Harvard was specifically concerned about African Americans.

The court essentially said that we cannot move beyond bigotry and racism by promoting preferential treatment as required by affirmative action policies. We have to get beyond identifying people by demographic characteristic. Our constitution guarantees that we are treated equally under the law and that law must be colorblind. People forget that the majority of our civil rights legislation requires people to be colorblind and base policies upon relevant skills or abilities.

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The Double Standard Rears Its Ugly Head Again

I'm guessing I know what double standard, but I'm going to listen to confirm!

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Another College Nickname is Offensive

Macon GA's collegiate baseball team is nicknamed Bacon. The Macon Bacons. It's catchy, it's cute, it's a wonderful play on words and it was chosen by the fans of the college baseball team. But in today's world you knew it was only a matter of time before someone was offended and demanded a name change. But this time instead of PETA, it was a medical group that thinks you are too dumb to understand the risks associated with consuming bacon.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine bought ad space on a billboard asking people to "Keep Bacon Off Your Plate." Anna Herby, nutrition education coordinator for the group penned a letter to Brandon Raphael, president of the college, demanding the team change its name to Macon Facon Bacon to promote a plant based alternative to bacon.

Ms. Herby made a couple of points to support her demands. First, she said people do not realize that the processed meat contains ingredients that can increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%. Secondly, she said the fake plant based substitute is just as good as the real deal. She is a bald-faced liar and her pants are probably on fire. Mostly because there is nothing except real bacon that tastes like real bacon.

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Juneteenth: The Real Story

Wondering what the real story is behind Juneteenth? Here it is.

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It All Makes Sense Now

Alice Bailey was born in 1880 and died in 1949. She was a prolific author of 24 books, countless magazine and news articles, and spoke quite prolifically about her views of the world. She is credited with coining the term “new age” and creating the new age movement. She spoke about enlightenment and awareness of our surroundings, often referencing a power bigger than us but that connected us to each other as well.

In the early 1920s she created the Lucifer Publishing Company, which was later changed to Lucifer Trust. She wanted to promote other authors and believers and spread the word of her belief system around the world.

She was sought out by many politicians around the world as well as celebrities and became an adviser to many of them. Her core principles have been adopted by many politicians as they try to shape our world. One of her stated goals was to destroy Christianity which she saw as the purveyor of all evil in the world. She also claimed that her books were not written by her but that her ‘God’ spoke to her in her dreams and she just wrote down what she heard. Here are her guiding principles:

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