Gas under Trump $1.80 in Hutchinson Ks
now under Biden $4.39 and rising!
now under Biden $4.39 and rising!
We are in transition to the revolutionary Green New Deal with all that it entails. All other priorities have been rescinded. We are captives in their journey to utopia whether we like it or not.
While Democrats collude with the legacy media and their radical showbiz comrades like Matthew McConaughey performing at the White House, their unyielding assault on the Second Amendment takes a deceptively moderate form.
They become ever more powerful while the rest of us drop a notch on the food chain.
Unless of course, you are a Marxist founder of Black Lives Matter, in which case you’ve enriched yourself in the revolutionary struggle then abandoned the hood for a multi-million-dollar mansion located in a lily-white neighborhood. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
These disastrous policies could be reversed with the stroke of a pen if only Biden wasn’t attached at the hip to the eco-left.
The Biden administration’s inane energy policies facilitated Vladimir Putin’s ability to invade Ukraine by increasing world dependence on Russian oil as well as driving Russia into Red China’s waiting arms, adding a 21st century reality to the arcane 19th century polemic “The yellow peril.”
We’ve gone from Trump era energy dominance to groveling at the feet of other oil producing nations to hypocritically increase their oil production for our benefit.
From Biden’s first day in office the non-Chinese world has been in an energy related state of artificially induced economic chaos. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
They have done more to defend the constitutional rights of the average American than any other organization.
It is always difficult to prove a negative, so we will never know for sure how many Americans are alive because they have successfully defended themselves or loved ones because of the efforts of the NRA.
We do know that anyone who truly wants a gun for evil purposes will get one and that a gun in the hands of a citizen can bring the evil actions of another to an end very quickly.
If only a teacher, concert-goer or innocent bystander had been armed, how many people would be alive today? We will never know the answer to that question, but a solid case can be made that more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens is a proactive deterrent and immediate resolution to gun violence.
In a violent world, laws that depend on the compliance of the individual will never provide the social stability of an armed citizen. Gregory H. Bontrager Hutchinson
When we object to his radicalism or question the gross incompetence of his administration you can almost imagine the echo of Hillary Clinton and her “basket of deplorables” mumble out of Uncle Joe’s faltering lips.
Using dark money and nebulous undefined terms like equity, climate emergency or racism, the Biden administration attacks his critics as undemocratic while he leads us into the murky swamp of neo-left degradation.
Parents don’t want their children subservient to teachers’ unions or indoctrinated by agenda-driven activists masquerading as teachers.
From the height of Trump era security, hundreds of thousands of unvetted “who knows what” now illegally cross our border in a calculated attempt by democrats to subvert our democracy and are then relocated into our communities without consent.
Biden and his mega rich donors ensconce themselves behind walls and fences for safety but deny the same privilege for our vulnerable nation. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
In my opinion, judging by the price of gasoline, natural gas, electricity, border security, inflation, unemployment or any other measure you choose, this is the most rapid under-reported downward spiral I have ever seen.
Evidently the American people haven’t learned that by populating our government with serial liars and influence peddlers like Joe Biden and his malignant ilk is a fast track to disaster.
While the previous administration’s brilliantly honed foreign policy is being dismantled and our schools are firmly in the grasp of radical teachers unions, remember we could have been on the path to a more prosperous, equitable union instead of this headlong plunge toward the foul stench of a woke socialist sewer. Gregory H. Bontrager, Hutchinson
A vote against Kansas with open arms
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly
vetoes GOP bill banning
transgender athletes
By Mary Kay Linge
People have a right to pursue their own lives, not to hold society hostage to their particular psychological anomalies or engage in the indoctrination of school children. For the State to compel citizens to participate in transgender dogma is as Orwellian as it gets.
Real women have a right to compete against real women, not transgender men who don’t have the slightest problem engaging in unfair competition or invading women’s restrooms with a sense of self entitlement and sometimes ulterior motives.
As heartbreaking for the trans community as it may be, fanciful supposition, cosmetics and highly profitable medical special effects will never change the fact that biological truth remains immutable. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Sanctuary cities that defy the will of the American people should be dealt with swiftly and, if need be, aggressively. The anchor baby loophole is being ruthlessly exploited by foreign nationals and no longer serves the purpose for which it was originally intended. This antiquated provision in the law needs to be eliminated.
We need to be selective in the people we grant citizenship to. They must reflect our religious, moral and constitutional values. If they don’t, they have no business being granted citizenship. We are not citizens of the world, but of the United States of America. Our obligation is to our own welfare first, not the rest of the world. The days of accepting freeloaders into our midst must come to an end.
Greatness is not always measured by how many people love you,
but by the ferocity of your opposition and the depths to which
they will stoop. Gregory H. Bontrager, Hutchinson
I do remember President Trump’s pledge to put America first and the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs, including the recovery of thousands of manufacturing jobs that Obama said were gone for good. I also remember that 63 House Democrats boycotted his inauguration, Madonna saying she wanted to “blow up the White House” and Democrats plotting his impeachment before he was even inaugurated.
What Trump gave us was unparalleled economic growth, energy independence, stable borders and the reassertion of our sovereignty over leach nations like the People’s Republic of China. We also got an amoral Democratic Party that lied, connived and disseminated at every opportunity.
What the Biden administration has delivered is thousands of high-wage Americans forcibly propelled into the unemployment line in pursuit of the existential fairy tales of the left. The same lofty promises and failed policies are being propagated by essentially the same pack of losers that gave us the malaise of the Obama years and are being replicated in the Biden administration. Gregory Bontrager
They, along with the Chinese, Mexican cartels, teachers unions, Hollywood liberals and replacement American border crashers find the ethically flexible Joe Biden refreshing.
On the other hand Mexico and Canada, along with the rest of the world, even those who wouldn’t realize it at first, grew quite fond of Trump. In spite of his often obnoxious personality, his coherent policies worked spectacularly.
Now, we must endure four years of voodoo that will be passed off as science. We are required to pretend boys with penises can be girls; the Keystone Pipeline is environmentally harmful and benign children’s classics like Dr. Seuss must be banned!
Who is telling us this malarkey and, more important, why is anyone paying attention to them?
As Biden might have said before the ring was inserted through his nose “COME-ON MAN.” Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Biden’s leadership team is a reflection of himself – ineffective and malicious. Their greatest collective achievement is the most avoidable domestic and international decline the United States has ever faced!
As I speak a premeditated tsunami of fentanyl laced illegals is flooding across our southern border, resulting in a Biden administration induced slaughter by overdose. Not to mention a blue state crime wave created by creepy-left Soros-backed Democrats without a whimper from Joe.
When will the malfeasant Joe Biden and his Democrats put law-abiding Americans first?
As Russian troops mass on the Ukrainian border and Red China flies their grubby jackboots over Taiwanese air space, the dire consequences of a Biden election become manifest.
Don’t expect any new tricks from Uncle Joe because he’s been bought and paid for by the most radical elements the Democratic Party has to offer! Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
A culture that can produce two young men with this combination of innate courage and instinctive moral clarity has got to be doing something right!
In a contest between good and evil these ordinary teenagers overcame the forces of chaos, in Rittenhouse’s case the specter of death at the hands of a craven mob only to be persecuted by a corrupt political/media elite that has come to represent the nihilism of the neo-American left.
A left whose ethical void has been filled by Jacobins like Representatives Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff and to the shame of the nation President Joe Biden.
In a world where deception is transformed into truth by masquerading in a swirl of media-manufactured disinformation, these two innocent young men overcame a pack of frothing jackals with an unpretentious courage that resides at the core of all American greatness. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
RITTENHOUSE
NOT GUILTY!
GOOD PREVAILS
OVER EVIL
In a few short months America has gone from the pinnacle under Trump to laughingstock of the World à la Joe Biden and his smug disinterested administration.
These people don’t care about the price of gas or milk or keeping warm in winter because they don’t have to, it’s below their station to worry about such trivial things. Tilting at windmills is their priority, no matter how much it costs the rest of us.
If Biden showed the same outrage for the plight of working America or fixed income elderly as he does fake border incidents or paying third world grifters hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars maybe his poll numbers wouldn’t be plunging like the proverbial rock.
A wise man once said, “You know them by their works” and we’ve come to know the works of Joe Biden and his incompetent duplicitous administration all too well. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Instead, the once-vaunted FBI is being morphed into the KGB lite by politicized operatives like Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose allegiance seems to be servicing the needs of the democratic elite and the intimidation of law-abiding citizens who have legitimate grievances.
American parents have a right to be outraged at Trojan horse school curriculums and a right to express that outrage in profound terms. This country wasn't founded by sheep, but by the greatest order of human beings to set foot on earth and it's time we act accordingly.
Parents standing up for their children against this fifth column of virtue signaling misanthropes is a virtue not a threat and represents a counter to the bold display of Biden regime speech suppressiontactics. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The unarmed Babbitt’s death deserving offence was climbing through a broken window.
While media stooges and sinister political forces try to gaslight the Capitol riot into the Reichstag fire, the decorated Air Force veteran crossed the river Styx for what amounted to trespassing.
Babbitt was different from other high profile police shootings; she had a long history of esteemed patriotic service to her country. Yet there will be no statues erected or city squares named after her.
Ashli Babbitt had no business being in the Capitol building on January 6th, but her biggest mistake was not realizing that the “summer of love” rules didn’t apply to her or thousands of other disaffected Trump supporters. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Not to mention the thousands of American citizens and NATO allieswho were callously left to fend for themselves at the hands of the brutal Taliban. NATO member Prime Minister Janez Jansa said on Aug. 16 this is the “Greatest defeat for NATO in history.”
From his first day in office, America and the world have discovered the hard way that Biden’s governance can be summed up succinctly with the phrase, “from order comes chaos.” Everything this man and his regime touch seems to spiral into the abyss.
In my view, American citizens, third-world migrants, Afghaninterpreters and our NATO partners’ only value is to serve the needs of Joe Biden and his Democratic base in callus pursuit of their own radical agenda. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
With Trump, it was back across the border you go, with Biden its catch and release into the heartland of America using the highly problematic honor system to appear in court at a later date.
From Trump border order, into the nirvana of chaos so loved by the pathologically irrational American progressive movement, it’s California here we come!
As usual, it will be the proletariat who bears the brunt of this masochism inflicted on us by the ever so virtuous intelligentsia of the Democratic Party along with their Hollywood/billionaire donor-accomplices, who love moralizing to us 'lost souls' as they cynically pursue their own political and economic self-interest no matter what the cost to the rest of us may be. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
What will our fearless leader Joe Biden do to protect America from this invasion in all but name only? If history is an indicator of the past, they will not be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccinationwhile millions of American citizens are under a mandate to do so (What makes them so special?). Then these law breakers will be scattered like autumn leavesas surreptitiously as possible throughout the United States.
We will be lied to shamelessly at every convenient opportunity as a token number are sent back to Haiti. We will also hear bold statements of our humanitarian virtue as American citizens in border communities and throughout the nation will be expected to pay the price with our health-care system, schools and tax dollars to support these transnational grifters. All to what end? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The proletariat is not interested in trans-gender bathrooms or safe spaces for pampered children. They what immigration reform and an end to sanctuary cities.
The motto of the working class is America for Americans, not illegal aliens. Multiculturalism has proven to be a disaster everywhere it has spread.
The radicals of the “left” who couldn’t get elected dog catcher have infiltrated the higher education system and have more in common with the fascist of the 1930′s then the founders of our constitution.
America has rejected them and their anti-American platitudes. They can’t give there sugar coated poison away, so they have turned to deception and violence as a substitute for being rejected by the American voter. Gregory H. Bontrager
The people who built this country, fought the wars, pay the taxesand patrol the mean streets in police uniforms are being propelled into second class status by philosophical degenerates who have an absolute belief in their own supremacy. They twist our children with elitist lies like ‘critical race theory’ and obliterate high paying jobs in the name of hogwash called ‘global climate change’.
While sitting in gated communities with taxpayer funded security protecting their own backsides, they try to destroy the second amendment to the Constitution. A constitution whose only value to them is a punch line in the malignant propaganda they spew. Gregory Bontrager / Hutchinson
It may be time to invoke the “Insurrection Act” of 1807 to secure the border and begin removal of the invaders from our country.
According to the Daily Caller published on May 16, 2019, the insurrection act was used in 1992 by George Bush Senior to quell the Los Angeles riots and by President Eisenhower in 1957 to enforce school desegregation.
It is clear this invasion is organized by drug cartels and political activists and that normal enforcement agencies and local governments are overwhelmed.
Even critics of the “Insurrection Act” concede that under current circumstances precedent falls within the lawful scope of the president’s authority.
It’s time to protect the American people as the mechanisms of orderly government break down under the weight of organized criminal activity along our Southern border. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
https://www.kansas.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article231092968.html
In my opinion, judging by the price of gasoline, natural gas, electricity, border security, inflation, unemployment or any other measure you choose, this is the most rapid under-reported downward spiral I have ever seen.
Evidently the American people haven’t learned that populating our government with serial liars and influence peddlers like Joe Biden and is a fast track to disaster.
While the previous administration’s brilliantly honed foreign policy is being dismantled and our schools are firmly in the grasp of radical teachers unions, remember we could have been on the path to a more prosperous, equitable union instead of this headlong plunge toward the foul stench of a woke socialist sewer.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The real intent of this under-reported executive action is mean-spirited harassment of the law-abiding American shooting public who have used this inexpensive ammunition for years.
The gun control efforts of the Democrats have met with little success legislatively. So they enforce their will on an unwilling public through administrative gimmicks that will make an already severe ammunition shortage worse.
When the people reject Democratic gun control policy electively, they concentrate on shoving it down your throat administratively.
Never let the American people get in the way of the dictatorial urges of the Democratic Party. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson, KS
American’s only desire is to be free from the heavy hand of power-mongers, who are attempting to parse every aspect of our lives, all done under the color of law. The American people are being viewed as if they are inmates in a maximum security cellhouse.
The spirit of King George III resides at the highest levels of American government and is just as feckless and power-mad now as he was then.
At some point it may be necessary for the proles to show that resistance is not futile, and if need be direct noncompliance with the King and his minions may be necessary. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Facts are pesky things and when you separate them from race baiting propaganda, unjustified use of force by law-enforcement against blacks as with all other groups is extremely rare.
But I guess we should never let the facts get in the way of a good rampage, especially when you’re in pursuit of television ratings, a false narrative or a free pair of Nike sneakers. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
At this moment an unchecked World invasion of the United States along our southern border is underway. Yet Biden told political commentator Charles Hurt that he inherited this problem from the previous administration and the situation was now under control.
Instead of facing the crisis he created, Biden has constructed a “Potemkin” border where Mexican cartels aren’t really engaging in rampant human trafficking or drug peddling and unvetted foreign nationals aren’t being surreptitiously scattered throughout the United States. That’s all right-wing disinformation.
Clearly the Biden administration has placed the welfare of the nation below their own perceived political self-interest. Preferring instead to stand idly by while innocent American communities are being thrown to the wolves, forced to bear the brunt of this manufactured calamity.Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Despite assurances from the master-elite, expect to pay higher gasand utility bills in pursuit of the religious cult of climate change. The American taxpayer will be expected to joyfully pay the health care costs of potentially millions of third-world vagabonds, not to mention flooding our schools with their children whom the Biden administration has every intention of repopulating our homeland with. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Even more nefarious is the Chinese infiltration of our universities, where their students are used as intelligence agents to steal our most vital military and economic technology.
A stranglehold of Chinese cash and large student enrollment has created an environment of bullying were direct and implied pressure from mainland China has created an environment of “keep the Chinese happy,” no matter what the cost.
As usual, the highest administrative levels of our universities have caved to Chinese pressure.
It may be necessary to limit the number of Chinese studentspermitted to attend our schools in order to protect our most valuable technology from the pervasive threat Chinese intelligence gathering pose to the security of the American people.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
哈金森新闻 - 2018 年 8 月 9 日
With our preoccupation with the war on terror, this looming superpower - more powerful and deadly than the former Soviet Union - is aggressively seeking to supplant the United States as the preeminent military and economic power on the globe.
Following a policy of appeasement, the Obama administration has abysmally failed to protect the American people from the Chinese. Why design for yourself when you can steal the best. And steal they do, from nuclear warheads to toaster ovens. According to Brooks, the PRC has 3,500 front companies in the U.S. whose sole purpose is the theft of our technology.
While Red China plays military and economic hardball, the Obama administration remains oblivious, exposing America to what may be the greatest threat to our national survival in modern history.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The Chinese have a specially designed ballistic missile just waiting to take out our carrier battle groups. They manipulate their currency to take unfair advantage of us, and we owe them tons of money. But I guess we don't have anything to worry about do we? They are our friends, right?. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The Topeka Capital-Journal | 2011 年 4 月 28 日
With the election of Biden, the American People have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by electing a malleable chameleon, replacing the most capable, transparent president of modern history.
We should all pledge to give President Biden the same level of cooperation that the Democrats along with their media acolytes gave President Trump in the preceding four years; after all, turnabout is fair play. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
A lawful society can never allow innocent citizens to be victimized or society at large to be held hostage to the tantrums of an aggrieved minority.
There is no justification for innocent people being set upon by arsonists, looters or organized agitators who use these uninvestigated incidents to further their own anger, political agenda or common thievery while masquerading behind the word protester.
If these criminals were charged for the felonies they committed instead of an overnighter in the local jail you would see a decline in this kind of behavior.
When President Trump began prosecution of vandals for the destruction of national monuments it's amazing how quickly it stopped. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
When I see a mother harassed for arranging a play date for her child in Wisconsin, a man in cuffs because he dared walk in a public parkor public beaches closed by California’s governor-thug who has an unnatural fondness for illegal aliens, I realize why we have a Second Amendment.
The groundwork to tyranny is being laid like it always is, in the name of the people. Ask the shop owners who are being driven out of business what tyranny looks like. Look at the statistics for states that didn’t lockdown in contrast to the ones that did and the pandemic modeling of alleged experts that proved to be so wrong.
What is taking place is a power grab by leftist authoritarians who, in my opinion, place greater value on the Chinese paradigm than that of our founders and are potentially more virulent than the virus itself. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
On the other hand; red-states with the support of Donald Trump tend to be citizen-friendly, prosperous and under control, while blue-states are in debt, with high taxation, and a declining population.
It’s too bad the Blues under the faux leadership of Joe Biden don’t spend as much time telling the truth as they do making up lies for years of catastrophic failure. The only chance the radical democrats have in 2020 is to keep Uncle Joe under wraps with a massive infusion of Saul Alinsky and George Orwell with the hysterics provided by the talking heads at CNN. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
White supremacy hasn’t been a force in the U.S. for generations except in the rabble rousing of race baiters like Al Sharpton and Democratic activists.
On the other hand antifa and BLM have been burning our cities and victimizing innocent citizens of all races. It is a lie to compare them and the left knows this, they are trying to divert attention from their own subversion by drawing a false equivalency between the two. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The statues they deface belong to everyone, yet a minority of malcontents is allowed to obliterate our history with impunity. It is time to put a stop to this madness.
If our political leadership is too craven to defend the images of our by-gone past then it is time to dispense with them and the rabble whose feet they kiss. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Once in awhile fate bestows the brass ring of mechanized death on a deserving subject like Qasem Soleimani the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
With the life and limb of hundreds of American soldiers and thousands of other human beings lost, Soleimani met his end confidently on a dark highway near Bagdad.
Thanks to the determination of President Trump to protect Americans and a well-placed Hellfire missile He was reduced to the same fate he had sentenced many others, too, remains burned beyond visual recognition. Soleimani reaped what he had sown and the world is a better place!
Let’s hope we never become second best at the use of this technology or have leaders who hesitate to use this powerful tool decisively against our enemies! Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
A vote for Trump is a step back into the sunshine.
Biden is an empty vessel who will say anything to garner political relevance, like the claim of being arrested in South Africaor fabricated war stories, not to mention a lifetime of plagiarism that started in his college days and extended throughout his political career. Biden has proven he will say anything.
Uncle Joe happily recites the script of his radical handlers and is barely able to maintain stamina for a news conference before speaking gibberish.
With the collapse of the objective media, approach negative reporting about President Trump with skepticism and realize that positive news is being suppressed by a national media that has become spin-central for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
I was working as a volunteer with the Sedgwick County EMS reserve when the unit I was stationed with responded to a multi-car accident. When we arrived at the scene several automobiles where overturned and the smell of gasoline permeated the air.
Wichita fire department personnel worked skillfully to stabilize the scene and extract an elderly couple who had been pinned in their vehicle. I participated in CPR on one of the victims but unfortunately both citizens died as a result of the injury’s they sustained.
I found out later the accident was caused by an illegal alien who had stolen a car and then attempted to evade the police in a high speed chase.
I never learned the fate of the perpetrator of this crime but I often wonder how many times a day innocent Americans are victimized at the hands of illegals who have no right to be in the United States.
I wish our president and supporters of the sanctuary city concept cared as much about the lives of innocent Americans as they do increasing their voter base. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Just what Kansas needs to follow in the footsteps of Germany, Franceand Sweden! We need to make sure Kelly is a one-term governor and have an exit strategy for these refugees. Preferably back to where they came from or the neighborhood Gov. Kelly lives in. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Other than meeting a need for short-term workers in the agriculture industry, those immigrants provide little economic value and undercut American lower-class workers.
Border walls have worked for generations. Hadrian’s Wall across Britain served its purpose. Israel’s West Bank barrier and Hungary’s border barrier have proved nearly 100 percent successful.
Have no doubt that an invasion of the United States is under way by foreign nationals. Claims made by Democrats that walls don’t work are simply short sighted political disinformation. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
This is the same Biden who withdrew from the 1988 Presidential race after plagiarizing a speech by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock.
Has there ever been a creepier assortment of Democrats running for president? They can’t shed their scales fast enough to keep pace with their competitive pandering.
Stop pushing faith-based fairy tales like the Green new deal and encouraging Central American migrants flooding our border.
How many more Americans will be victimized by this new crop of illegals while Democrats and corporate opportunists like the Koch brothers refuse to work with Trump?
Try representing America for a change instead of pandering to the Robespierre/Cortez wing of the Democratic Party. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article228741904.html
Blending into the weeds is a Darwinian survival skill Biden has mastered with scary proficiency. Biden’s team is attempting to project a “woke” image for an old-time politician who carries a ton of baggage.
His only remarkable feature is a willingness to jettison decades-old convictions on the turn of a dime.
From minute to minute, who is the real Joe Biden? That has yet to be determined by the demands of political expediency. Like the portrait of Dorian Gray, the Biden team knows the less of the real Joe people see the greater his odds for political survival become. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Conclusive proof of a crime is always guaranteed yet remains just beyond grasp. This is essential because no crime exists and the illusion of wrongdoing is always more powerful when left to the imagination of the target audience.
The same scoundrels who guaranteed us irrefutable proof of Trump and Russian collusion are typical of how corrosive eight years of exposure to the corrupt practices of Barack Obama and his fellow progressives have been on the Democratic Party. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
With a moral compass received from a superior education, they validated the teachers and schools they represented, in contrast to the provocateurs who rushed to judgment before learning the facts.
Like the Jussie Smollett hoax, its evident many celebrities and media outlets didn’t care about the truth, as long as it supported a race-baiting narrative.
Even now many would prefer to believe the lie. The Covington students are a credit to the nation while exposing their critics for the hucksters they are.
Hate crimes exist, but many high profile cases have proven to be stunts perpetrated by fakers for political or personal gain.
Is it too much to ask that our media do their job and withhold reporting until the facts have been established? Apparently it is, because they keep reporting unsubstantiated “news” on a variety of subjects and keep getting it wrong. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Maybe on Ms. Cortez’s home planet, things are different, but people who are abused by border guards or forced to drink toilet water don’t stick around.
Left-wing disinformation is no substitute for the fact that Democrats are responsible for the mess on the border, not the agents shouldering the burden.
Former acting ICE director Tom Homan summed it up best, 90% of illegals can’t find a way to court, but they don’t have a problem finding the welfare office.
It’s not taxpayer responsibility to fund miscreant border crashers or support their offspring. This is the looting of the American taxpayer with the full support of the Democratic Party. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
According to Cortez, climate change is like fighting World War II. Is invading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional office to protest climate change really the same as storming the beaches of Normandy?
Cortez is a perfect example of the fluff who graduates from indoctrination centers like Boston University. From border security to health care she is incapable of providing anything other than a debunked cliché. Representative Cortez makes an ideal spokesperson for her fellow uninformed comrades on the left - Viva La Venezuela.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The act was used in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush to quell the Los Angeles riots and by President Eisenhower in 1957 to enforce school desegregation. Even critics of the “Insurrection Act” concede that under current circumstances precedent falls within the lawful scope of the president’s authority.
It’s time to protect the American people as the mechanisms of orderly government break down under the weight of organized criminal activity along our southern border. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
It’s heartbreaking to see reports of women who have striven in athletics pushed aside for a false concept and then criticized if they complain.
No matter how you feel, you should compete with the gender you were born into and then resume your private life as you choose. Subjecting women athletes to compete against biological men is unfair and if permitted to continue may ultimately destroy women’s athletics.
Transgender wishful thinking will never change biology or the facts of life. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Like Barack Obama, she is a virulent globalist, and has a religious belief in “man-made climate change.” This belief has caused the average German household to pay three times more in energy costs.
Merkel has led Germany from ethnic cohesion into a blood-soaked reign of terror by flooding the country with unassimilable migrants.
Like the United States, this open immigration is at the expense of the working class, who are supposed to shut up and pay the bill. Their plight is of little interest to Merkel or her ilk – if you don’t like it get out.
Police armed with sub-machine guns must patrol once safe streets and concrete barricades are needed for fear of being run-down by suicide martyrs.
As the body count rises, Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May have opened the floodgate to culturally disaffected human beings, resulting in the de-evolution of western European society. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Like socialism, cultural diversity is a talking point of the progressive left. If you want proof take a look at what this failed concept has done to Western Europe.
By contrast Japan and Eastern Europe have taken the best of Western culture and discarded the liberal baggage to produce more stable citizen friendly societies.
They also have shown the value of physical barriers to stop the mass movement of uninvited people. Japan is protected by an ocean and Eastern Europe by border fencing. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
These poor, unfortunate lawbreakers have been prepped by human traffickers to game the system and use their own children (or someone else’s) as pawns hoping for a free pass.
When these freeloaders lose custody of their children, are we really supposed to feel sorry for them?
If your first act entering the United States is one of lawlessness and you have no hesitation using innocent children as an accomplice, should you have custody of these children to begin with? Are you the kind of people we what as future citizens? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
https://www.kansas.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article214268989.html
According to USA Today “There has been an explosion in building border walls since World War II” from 7 to 77 in 2018.
Israeli, Hungarian and United States border barriers have proven to be nearly 100 percent effective.
Compared to the economic drain of illegal immigrants and the economic threat they pose to low-wage American workers, a wall would be cost-effective protection.
Other than a need for short-term seasonal workers, Mexican and Central American migrants provide little economic value to the United States.
Encouraged openly by Democrats and secretly by corporate Republicans, an activist-fueled invasion of the United States is underway, for what these two odd ends consider to be in their own political and economic self-interest. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
According to the media, these migrants are poor hapless woman and children seeking a better life.
The reality is 80 to 90 percent are young fighting age men who tactically stage woman and children at the front of the column to bear the brunt of the tear-gas.
As with the European experience, most of them will become wards of the state either dependent on welfare or in prison.
If you want your schools and neighborhoods turned into crime-ridden sewers, by all means, let them in.
Never fear because even if you don’t an Activist court will force you into submission.
Resistance is futile in the Globalist order; you will be assimilated while the morally superior remain comfortably secure in gated communities protected by guards who carry guns, protecting them from the same third-world trash that we are supposed to joyfully rub elbows with.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The problem is they don’t. They reflect the rigid intolerance of the societies they come from. They have little regard for human life, including their own.
Never has such a religious culture believed itself to be so superior yet demonstrated the misogynistic brutishness of a third-world street gang.
The question Western societies must ask themselves: Is Muslim immigration worth the debasement of their own women and children in order to placate a subset of human beings whose ultimate objective is the destruction of every social vestige of the host country?
We also must remember that these people fled lands of competing tyrants and they were the losers.
Like most barbarians, they don’t seek to change their ways, but to ply their brutality on those they consider weaker than themselves.
Is victimhood at the hands of cultural thugs the legacy you wish to leave your children? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Somewhere along the way, they have surrendered reality for a virtual world ruled by intellectual duplicity and an absolute faith in their own supremacy.
The price we will pay for blindly following these people is the loss of our souls the way they have lost their own.
Resistance to this cabal is a necessity if we are to maintain our sovereignty as a free and independent people.
All you need to do is look around the world and see that if we surrender to these so-called elite we will become as morally bankrupt as they are.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
This is the party of swamp creatures like Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters, a place where anything goes in the pursuit of absolute power. Character assassination, ambush tactics and intimidation have become a substitute for rational political debate.
With more resemblance to “brownshirts” the youth-wing of these Soros-funded basement dwellers resort to the stalking and bullying of anyone who stands in their way and then pretend they are engaging in “freedom of speech.” Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Both of these countries have proven they know how to stop aggressive migrants from entering their sovereign territory. The days of dealing with invasion-migration tactics by massed foreigners must come to an end.
The use of tear gas, pepper spray or water cannon may be an unpleasant necessity when dealing with virulent border crashers. But the lesson will be learned very quickly.
The U.S. has learned the hard way we cannot be the world’s policeman. We must also learn that we cannot be the repository for every person or group of people who have a real or imagined reason for fleeing their country of origin.
Perhaps these people should learn they must stand and fight for their own homes instead of shamelessly sneaking or crashing across our border.Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
With every excuse she makes for her unthinkable defeat at the hands of Donald Trump, she shows the depth of her contempt for the American people.
Like the Hollywood elite and tenured faculty who adore her, she can't fathom that the common folk don't recognize their superiority to the rest of us.
Clinton exudes every derogatory clich'a of contempt the left has to offer for America.
Like a chameleon, the new breed of Democrat is learning from Clintons mistakes. They masquerade behind the values of Middle America while fitting comfortably in sheeps clothing waiting to reveal their true nature until they have consolidated power.
Whether by altering the demographics of the voter base with illegal immigrants, or the creation of a welfare dependent population, the suppression of any political thought other than their own is the ultimate objective. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
A candidate usually wants as much media exposure as possible. But in Clinton’s case, the more you see the less appealing she becomes. Instead of speaking directly to the people, she dispatches such acolytes as John Podesta and Lanny Davis to convince the proletariat she is as pure as the driven snow.
Clinton has calculated she has the Democratic Party’s nomination wrapped up, so why upset the applecart answering questions about influence pedaling, big money deals with foreign governments and deleted emails.
Sen. Rand Paul summed it up best: Hillary needs two planes, one for herself and another for all that baggage.
If you want to see the way a Clinton presidency will operate, look at the way she is running her campaign and then draw your own conclusions. Is this a snapshot of a Clinton presidency? GREGORY H. BONTRAGER
The only thing predictable about Clinton are the fables she concocts to cover the ridiculously avoidable behavior she engages in. Like the perfectly innocent taking of money from foreign governments and all those emails she deleted from her personal server. We are obligated to take Clinton’s word that everything she does is just rosy.
After all, the Clintons have never done anything questionable have they?
Lanny Davis and James Carville bristle with indignation at the thought that anyone would question the veracity of the anointed heir apparent to the White House.
Sinister right-wing forces must be hard at work forcing Clinton to do all those dumb things. Yes that’s Just what we need, a few more years of sneaky duplicitous behavior from the president of the United States. GREGORY BONTRAGER, Hutchinson
It's not Clinton's concern for the welfare of the American people that matters but an ego bordering on narcissism and the fact Bubba wants to walk the halls of the people's house again in search of unlimited access to the television camera.
The only tether binding the former first lady to the current administration is her shameless ability to distort the truth without breaking stride. What difference does it make indeed when you're in pursuit of the biggest entitlement of your life, the presidency of the United States. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
If you like welfare, food stamps or unchecked borders, Obama was your man, but if you work for a living or own a business, President Trump is on your side.
The working class finally has a friend in the White House. The American worker will no longer be the target of runaway bureaucracies like the Environmental Protection Agency or rogue tax collectors in the IRS who were weaponized by Democrats to suppress political opposition.
Whether they sit on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, city councils of sanctuary cities or the Hollywood elite, it is time to reject this neo-fascist sect that has seized control of the Democratic Party.
This new breed of Democrat follows a path of violent intolerance toward others and unlimited ambition for power, no matter how unethical the end result may be. The Democratic Party of today would be rejected by liberal icons like John F. Kennedy.
It is clear that a fifth column of Obama holdovers has embedded itself in the bureaucracy of the United States government and is illegally working to subvert the will of the American people and undermine the presidency of Trump. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The nation is objectively better off from Trump’s first day in office, unless you listen to the media, who have parsed the words of “unnamed sources” to create the illusion of wrongdoing.
Is this what the Salem witch trials looked like in the 17th century? Maybe we should reinstate “spectral evidence,” because without it, Democrats haven’t got a shred of proof that Trump did anything illegal.
When this witch hunt is over, the only thing that will be evident is a concerted disinformation campaign against Trump by the mainstream media and the left wing of the Democratic Party. Another media manufactured crisis will be looming as soon as this one ends.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
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Everywhere these so-called immigrants have been permitted to nest, crime rates have skyrocketed and civil chaos has followed. In countries like Sweden, Germany and France, women and children can no longer walk down once-safe streets for fear of being accosted by these violent sociopaths. Peaceful neighborhoods have become hunting grounds for gangs of predatory refugees.
Instead of protecting their citizens from these barbarians, the liberal governments of Europe and the United States are allowing the brutalization of their own populations at the politically correct altar of multiculturalism. In the masochistic liberal mindset, the defense of your own citizens from predation by foreign invaders has become an act of intolerance.
Can anyone answer the question why other Muslim countries refuse to accept these refugees who share their own faith? Take a look at Europe and the answer becomes obvious. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
With lies that were twisted to sound like the truth, these Progressives opened the gates to the peaceful kingdom so that predators could roam freely among the lambs.
Women and children could no longer walk hand-in-hand down once-safe streets, and darkness fell over a place that had been full of the Sun. This once-peaceful land, which was betrayed by the Progressives, is called Sweden, and thanks to them, it is now the rape capital of Europe.
Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Coexistence is a cover for the ultimate subjugation of other cultures whose only choice will be to convert or be driven to extinction. Assimilation has never been an objective of Islam.
Not all Muslims are the same, but a substantial segment of the Muslim population are jihadist or jihadi sympathizers which means a small number of these zealots are capable of disrupting the entire fabric of western civilization.
Are we going to stand up for our values or are we going to surrender to a culture of religious zealots who consider the murder of infidels to be a free ticket to heaven? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
This utopian fallacy has driven peaceful Europe to the brink of chaos. Like most progressive disinformation, multiculturalism is a product of self-hating indoctrination based on a variation of white guilt.
Poland, Hungary, Romania, and other Eastern bloc countries like most Muslim countries have restricted the influx of predominantly Muslim refugees. The result being healthy ethnic cohesion and centuries-old cultural stability, minus the terrorism and high crime rates fostered by the virulent multiculturalism of Western Europe.
The sad fact is that mass immigration over the past several decades has led to social and economic disintegration of the host countries as it has for states like California. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Around the world, U.S. soldiers have fought heroically against evil only to be betrayed at home by cowardly civil authorities who wither in the face of organized violence by groups like Antifa.
When the Berkley, Calif., police fail to protect peaceful protesters from “10-on-1” violence, I wonder what master they serve because it is not the Constitution of the United States.
These civil servants dishonor the men and woman who have paid the ultimate price by their failure to safeguard constitutionally protected speech.
Have we become a third-world country that passively allows masked thugs to rule the streets of our cities and strike at the core values of our democracy? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The proletariat is not interested in trans-gender bathrooms or safe spaces for pampered children. They what immigration reform and an end to sanctuary cities.
The motto of the working class is America for Americans, not illegal aliens. Multiculturalism has proven to be a disaster everywhere it has spread.
The radicals of the “left” who couldn’t get elected dog catcher have infiltrated the higher education system and have more in common with the fascist of the 1930′s then the founders of our constitution.
America has rejected them and their anti-American platitudes. They can’t give there sugar coated poison away, so they have turned to deception and violence as a substitute for being rejected by the American voter. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Perhaps it's because certain groups believe they benefit from votes that may not be legitimate.
The U.S. has traditionally been caught flat footed when dealing with its own vulnerabilities. Our voting process is antiquated and susceptible to fraud. Photo identification is a necessary step in maintaining the integrity of the democratic process.
There is selective outrage over alleged Russian interference in our elections, but none over undocumented immigrants who routinely cast votes in our elections. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
High profile Democratic pundits have begun to back away from the Trump/Russian election interference angle as the investigation by special counsel Mueller appears to be winding down with only one or two minnows on the hook for unrelated matters. As all sane people knew Trump was right, fake news.
Fasten your seat-belts Democrats it may be a bumpy night as the investigation deepens into the sordid connection between Hillary Clinton and the malignant incompetence of the Obama administration visa vie our arch enemy Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
The American worker will no longer be held hostage to insane regulations by runaway bureaucracies such as the Environmental Protection Agency or rogue tax collectors in the IRS who have been weaponized by Democrats to suppress political opposition.
The Democratic Party cares more about the rights of illegal aliens than your children being able to walk safely down the streets of their own neighborhoods.
Whether they sit on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals or the city councils of sanctuary cities, it is time to push aside these apostate Americans and take our country back. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
They have done more to defend the constitutional rights of the average American than any other organization.
It is always difficult to prove a negative, so we will never know for sure how many Americans are alive because they have successfully defended themselves or loved ones because of the efforts of the NRA.
We do know that anyone who truly wants a gun for evil purposes will get one and that a gun in the hands of a citizen can bring the evil actions of another to an end very quickly.
If only a teacher, concert-goer or innocent bystander had been armed, how many people would be alive today? We will never know the answer to that question, but a solid case can be made that more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens is a proactive deterrent and immediate resolution to gun violence.
In a violent world, laws that depend on the compliance of the individual will never provide the social stability of an armed citizen. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
I haven’t seen any Mexicans or Syrians storming the beaches of Cuba or China. If “Black Lives Matter” thinks the United States is so bad, try the paradise of Mozambique or Angola and see how that works out for you.
European people have done more than any other group to bring equality, prosperity and stability to the turbulent world of humanity. That is why the world wants to be in the countries that they created.
Anytime you think you have it so bad, remember you are always free to find someplace better. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Someone at Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. should suggest to Lawrence that she could always return that portion of the money if she finds it morally objectionable. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
I bet the Europeans wish they had never allowed the Muslims to settle in Europe in the first place, they have caused nothing but trouble. They will do the same thing here. We need a president who will put Americans first. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Walls are not a panacea, but physical security is always a good starting point. The most vocal opponents of a wall on the border are sanctuary city types who think an open border will help secure their re-election by pandering to their voter base. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Since the immigrant and refugee populations tend to vote democratic this is part of a long-term strategy to increase the democratic voter base
That’s what the refusal to enforce immigration laws and sanctuary cities are all about, job security for a bunch of liberal democrats. So a large criminal element has been willfully set free to roam the streets of America and terrorists disguised as refugees are allowed to infiltrate the homeland for the benefit of career politicians.
As usual hard-working American citizens are left to pay the price in blood and treasure for these invaders. Does anyone doubt for one second that if these foreigners were breeding future Republicans instead of Democrats, that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would have had the border sealed tighter then a bass drum? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
It was widely believed these demonic murders were retaliation for the recent convictions of upper echelon gang members and that the killings bore a striking similarity to Mexican drug cartel assassinations.
A disgraced Kaufman County magistrate appears to have been the perpetrator of the murders. The frightening thing is that, with the porous southern border, these assassinations could easily have been carried out by Mexican murder squads that could walk across the border in broad daylight.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reported Mexican cartels are currently setting up shop in American cities, controlling wholesale drug distribution across the nation.
The question is, when will these Mexican Narco terrorists, many of whom were trained by U.S. special forces, bring their grisly brand of violence to the main streets of America?
And will we deal with this threat in the same corrupt spineless wayas the Mexican government? Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
It is clear our Chicago politician considers his re-election more important than American jobs or energy independence. Better to dump billions into Solyndra and a host of other feel-good politically correct scams.
This administration has gone beyond corrupt or incompetent. It is placing the survival of the United States in jeopardy. The decline of our country pivots around one point, the failed policies of the Obama administration.
The Chinese will laugh while they fuel their economy with Canadian oil that should have been flowing into the heart of American industry. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
From Benghazi to the “fiscal cliff,” the Obama regime has been given a softball pass by NBC, ABC and CBS. These once great news organizations have become grotesque caricatures as they shill for the “most transparent administration in history.”
The only light in this dark room has been provided by Fox News. On critical issues, Fox is routinely excluded from White house briefings. According to White House adviser David Axelrod, “Fox is not a real news organization.” Could it be that Fox tells the American people the uncomfortable truth instead of the administration spin?
As twilight descends on objective Journalism in America, the only firewall between the American people and the complete subjugation of the press by the progressive/Obama left has been Fox News. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Hiding behind well-financed front organizations, this Judas, who as a youth during World War II assisted in confiscating property of fellow Jews (as revealed in a 1998 "60 Minutes" interview), hides his nefarious financial empire offshore to avoid the scrutiny of U.S. financial regulators.
He will use any means necessary to reshape the world in his own twisted, left-wing image.
With billions of dollars and insidious fifth-column maneuverings, Soros is attempting to encircle independent media outlets and replace the truth with his progressive "one world" dogma. What happens to those who stray from Soros' path? Ask Juan Williams, formerly of National Public Radio.
Using mouthpieces like the Huffington Post, Soros is relentlessly moving toward the destruction of our core American values.
Unfortunately, Mr. Soros has run into a problem; fearlessly, Glenn Beck of Fox News is exposing this elitist socialist in his insidious plot to reshape our nation and the world in his own distorted, godless image.
If Mr. Soros is successful in his endeavor, hopefully we will receive better treatment than he gave his fellow Hungarian Jews 65 years ago. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
Now, all I see is a politician pandering to an increasing population of illegal aliens in the hope of garnishing votes at the expense and welfare of his fellow citizens. This is a man who took his Washington phones off line during a vote on "immigration reform" to thwart the outcry of fellow Kansans to vote against what amounted to amnesty for people who entered our great nation through illegal means.
In my view, Brownback has placed the status and welfare of foreign nationals above his own country men and women and has begun embracing positions of groups that were once referred to as the "loony left." We see in Brownback a disturbing thing that happens to many politicians who have held office too long: They forget they hold office to serve their constituents, not their own re-election. To paraphrase Al Gore, it's time for him to go. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
How many of you have read sworn court transcripts listing you as present in court, when you were home in bed? I have. All of our jurists are of the highest character, or are they? I guess the question is have enough citizens of Reno County seen the dark side of our legal/judicial system as it works on an everyday basis? If you haven't, you may be in for a surprise.
Here is good news. We don't need a revolution or revolt to change this system. The founders of our nation have given us all the tools we need to effect change. Go to the polls and vote. With a little involvement we can make our community a better place to live. Gregory Bontrager, Hutchinson
