THE TAOS TATLER.

From the Daily Mail.

In a lengthy statement on Monday, sociology professor Elizabeth Hoover confirmed she is not actually a member of the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq tribes as she had been told growing up in upstate New York, affirming: ‘I am a white person.’

She said she never knowingly falsified her identity or tried to deceive anyone, writing on her personal website: ‘I’m a human. I didn’t set out to hurt or exploit.’

But now she is facing calls from more than 300 students and professors to resign from her position at the school.

They are accusing Hoover of being a ‘pretendian,’ or a white person who falsely claims to have Indigenous ancestry in order to profit

Since the modern leftist can sniff out racism in just about anything, let’s get in on the fun: why is it so many progressive women (and it’s almost always women) feel it incumbent to claim Indian heritage? Is it so they can claim to be victims of racist oppression and reap the bounty thereto? Isn’t being just a woman sufficient? Or does one’s whiteness cancel out whatever putative oppression you suffer.

And why is it so many of these phony-baloney indigenous persons chose that particular ethnic group over, say, African-American, which can easily be accomplished by smearing a bit of blackface (not too much, though; aim for a a slight mulatto shade) on  guilty-looking countenances? Their fellow progs will believe them despite their otherwise ridiculously caucasian features.

A final question: isn’t it racist to claim an ethnicity different from your own?

This much.

Might you think that headline is a gross exaggeration? Read on.

From RedState.

Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to strip a Catholic hospital system in Tusla, OK, of its ability to serve Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP patients if it retains its Catholic identity. The Saint Francis Healthcare System is the twelfth largest in the nation and runs five hospitals in Eastern Oklahoma. Those hospitals serve about 400,000 patients each year. Over the last five years, the hospital system has given away more than $650 million in free medical care to the indigent. It employs more than 11,000 people.

In other words, Saint Francis Healthcare is fulfilling one of the vital missions of the Catholic Church by following the command of Jesus to heal the sick; and it does it well. But does HHS truly want to strip the hospital of its credentials over a single candle? Yes, it does, or at least it claims so.

[T]he hospital system is Catholic in more than name. Because of the requirements of its faith, it maintains chapels in each of those hospitals that are available to patients and staff 24 hours a day. One of the features of a Catholic chapel is the presence of an eternal flame . . . On February 21, an inspector working for Xavier Becerra’s Department of Health and Human Services cited the hospital in Tulsa for a fire code violation. The hospital appealed. Naturally, the appeal was declined . . . Losing their accreditation means they can no longer serve patients receiving federal health benefits.

In its appeal the hospital points out this deadly single candle is surrounded by “many sprinkler heads” and the room it is in has “good exhaust, the flame’ [has] double glass encasing, the bronze top enclosing the flame, despite its mounting to a wall over six feet high, and despite the surveyor’s knowledge of the fire marshal’s long-standing approval of the eternal flame, the sanctuary lamp did not meet with the surveyor’s favor.”

And that’s that. It seems obvious the Secretary sent that “surveyor” to the hospital charged with a mission: find something, anything we can use to screw this outfit. Why? Who knows, but it could be simple blind hatred of the Catholic Church because of her espousal of conservative mores. Or maybe because there is one procedure the hospital will not perform under any circumstances, abortion. That must surely stick in the Administration’s craw. Whatever the reason, we may be sure there is more to this story than merely an over-zealous bureaucrat drunk with his little powers.

Just imagine what will happen to our nation should this toxic administration be allowed four more years’s license to continue its war against our institutions. We are in an existential struggle.

From professor Davidson, at Legal Insurrection.

Click at the link to learn more about the most insanely deranged psychopathic radicals of  them all, while being mindful they are competing on a very crowded field.

A long-time injustice has at last begun to be righted, right here in New Mexico: discrimination against men participating in female sports. This is an action long overdue.

The past several decades have seen formerly all-male institutions opening their doors to women, including symphony orchestras, clubs and fraternities, police forces, the armed forces, colleges and many others. Women’s sports however has rigidly refused to take down the barriers to  male athletes, this despite men’s abilities having proved again and again to be up to those of the ladies’s.

An example of men’s athletic abilities took place yesterday at the women’s Tour of the Gila tournament, a major Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-sanctioned competition in Silver City, New Mexico. Race officials, at last recognizing we live in the 21st Century, for the first time permitted a man to participate in the event. To the astonishment of only a few, the male cyclist, Mr. Austin Killips, not only performed brilliantly, but actually came in first and was awarded the appropriately named “Queen of the Mountains polka dot jersey,” and a $35,000 prize.  

With other women’s sports finally recognizing the new era in which we live, one of equity, fairness, and inclusiveness, the gentler sex is finally waking up to the obvious, that men are are not only equal to them in athletics, but often, deny it as some may, surpass them. If the more stubborn members among female athletes refuse to recognize this obvious fact, they are of course free to return to their homes and recommence keeping house, cooking an,d having babies. It’s only a matter of fairness.

—Emerson.

The Post deserves a Pulitzer Prize for its take-no-prisoners headlines.

Deja vu all over again.

—Yogi Berra

Is there anyone with even half a brain in the White House or State Department? Is there no one in the Biden Administration who learned something from the Afghanistan debacle? Such brazen incompetence makes you wonder if they’ve crossed the line into intentional malfeasance. But why? Only a day ago Joe’s handlers decided he’s running for re-election; are they deliberately sabotaging his own campaign? The mind boggles.

Update from the Daily Caller:

The White House confirmed Wednesday a second American has died in Sudan since violence erupted earlier this month between two warring generals.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby shared the news with reporters on a call Wednesday morning, but did not provide details on the identity of the American of the nature of their death, except that it occurred Tuesday. He said the administration offers its condolences to the family and is stressing to Sudanese leaders that they are responsible for the safety of civilians in the country.

Now there’s firm and decisive action for you. Those leaders must be quaking in their boots.

. . . and you’ll glean the reason the corporate cowards at Fox News felt compelled to fire him. He is the only contemporary commentator I know of, and I will hazard he is a prophet, who dares to bare the essence of what motivates the enemies of this country, without and within: pure, unadulterated evil, nothing less and nothing else. He points out in plain English that the agendas they promote are not merely misguided attempts to right wrongs or to improve the human condition. Their mission is the destruction of all that is good, to wipe all goodness off the face of the earth. The wimpy milquetoast Murdochs were terrified of him, or more accurately, of the backlash from the monsters Carlson fearlessly calls out. No wonder they gave him the axe.

Who would have ever thought a 21st Century prophet would be an Episcopalian?

The radical leftists, which heretofore have attempted to disguise their intentions making us all wards of the state, seem to have pulled off their masks lately, presumably because they are confident being open about their plans for us will no longer face significant opposition. I suspect though they are mistaken. Consider this piece in what used to be the relatively mainstream magazine, New York, courtesy of AMAC.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the Book of Proverbs says. To certain right-wing Christians, the concept is simple: A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. Though all parents hope they’ll pass their values onto their children, for some that hope is more of a mandate.

Do you get the impression this poor dear had a less than happy childhood? Read on.

My own parents believe that Proverbs is the word of God, and they believed, too, that a righteous upbringing would produce an adult in their image. Who can blame them?

Well, you, for one.

The idea that a child should replicate her parents does not belong only to conservative Christianity or to religion at all. A proverb is common wisdom, and lately this one is hard to escape. Authoritarianism is gospel to modern conservatives. Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.

As opposed to parading drag queens in front of them while they are in kindergarten, or leaning on them to question their sexuality (shh, don’t tell your parents!) and pouncing should they be successful in that, urging on them surgery considered child abuse only a generation ago?

Now, feast your eyes on this scrumptious bit of doublethink.

Like any piece of property, a child has value to conservative activists. They are key to a future the conservative wants to win. Parental rights are merely one path to the total capture of state power and the imposition of an authoritarian hierarchy on us all.

And what exactly do you propose as an alternative, comrade?

Read the rest of this harridan’s screed if you want a chuckle, but it seems to your Tatler the producer of this overwrought bilge is writing in a self-congratulatory mode as if the deed is already done. Judging by the goings-on in most of our public and private schools she may be right. On the other hand, it could be an example of pride going before the fall.

Among the many failings of leftists are their inability to sense when they have gone too far, crossed the line. The two issues that seem to rank the highest with them now are rights for female impersonators (or transsexuals, or, transvestites, or transgenders, or non-binaries, or whatever they’re called this week), and wresting control of children from their parents. Neither of those is finding much resonance with most Americans. We’ll have to wait till the ’24 elections to know for sure, but it could be the long-awaited correction may be at hand.