Bethany Mandel is a sweet, wholesome, middle class    lady from the Jersey    (that is not an oxymoron). She is not by training, a revolutionary, or counter revolutionary, a Red or White. Seemingly, she received her position as a Defender of Western values by the warrant of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.    She made quite a stir this week when she was asked to define the term “WOKE” and froze.   “Bethany Mandel, who writes a weekly  column  for the Deseret News, is under fire after struggling to define "woke" in a TV interview about a  book  she co-authored that claims "woke indoctrinators" threaten kids' happiness.   What she said:  While promoting her book last week on  The Hill's  daily news show " Rising ," host Briahna Joy Gray asked her to define the term "woke," after Mandel said the left is pushing a "woke reimagining" of victimhood.   Mandel stammered for about 30 seconds saying, "This is going to be one of those

In 2003, twenty years ago this month, President George W. Bush’s America invaded the Iraq of Saddam Hussein.   Saddam Hussein was a very evil man; who had started wars against his neighbors Iran and Kuwait.   Saddam means " the one who confronts”; and he lived up to his given name.  He was evil before birth; his birth mother, feeling the Devil’s spawn within her, threw herself down a flight of stairs in order to abort Saddam. Alas, the Saddam version of ROSEMARY’S BABY survived. The Devil is    a powerful ally.   In his youth, Saddam had been a working man. Smart and ambitious, he hated the governing elite; so he joined the Baath Socialist Party; a party which advocated the union of the Arab states. It was a party of educators, academicians and intellectuals, with one working man, Saddam.   The ruler of Iraq was  Abd al-Karim Qasim, a military man who had made his bones leading a revolution which overthrew the pro-Western government of King Faisal II (the son of the character play

In 1998, a former Soviet KGB futurist turned academic, released a map, outlining the dissolution of the United States into four separate nations: a West Coast nation dominated by China; a Southern nation dominated by Mexico; an East Coast nation dominated by Europe, and a Midwest America dominated by a buffed up Canada, (he must have seen Justin Trudeau prize fight). Hawaii would go to either China or Japan; Alaska would revert to Russia.  (see second map below) He predicted that this dissolution would be caused by the centrifugal forces of multiculturalism and diversity swamping America’s cultural unity. He predicted this would occur by 2010. Like most futurists, he got his dates wrong, but his concept of a 21st Century American dissolution seemed and seems doable, viable, even reasonable.   In 2023, Republican Congresswoman, from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, suggested a national divorce because of conflicting values in the body politic.   Rep. Greene used the word “ DIVORCE”; tha