By DEXTER DUGGAN
OMAHA — The modernistic Kiewit Luminarian interactive science museum here near downtown Omaha’s high-rises overlooks the Missouri River and the historic landing site of the Lewis and Clark Expedition very early in the nineteenth century, after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 gave the early United States possession of vast new territories of 828,000 square miles, stretching from Louisiana to Canada, covering most of the Mississippi River’s drainage basin west of that river.
Whether or not Americans think much today of that purchase which helped set the U.S. further along the trail to becoming a world power, one of those steps was taken as the adventurers passed through here.
Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and a select group of Army and civilian volunteers set off to map the territory, find a route across the western half of the continent and establish a presence before European powers tried to assert claims there, as well as studying geography, plant and animal life, and establishing trade with Native American tribes, according to Wikipedia. They returned from their exploration in 1806.
The Luminarian museum reminds visitors of the science underpinning our lives that accompanies us in the present and points to the future. If comprehending the cosmos seems too expansive a topic, visitors could even observe a cow’s eye being dissected at a table right in front of them. The cattle business around here no doubt has more than an adequate supply of bovine orbs.
A sunny Sunday afternoon here, August 27, showed the museum’s new playground area heavily used by youngsters as attentive parents watched. The kids didn’t look any different than you might see from coast to coast, or elsewhere. However, one local Mom who had grown up in California remarked on the likelihood of seeing more children here than in the Golden State. Not in sheer numbers because California is far more populous but regarding individual families having them.
She remarked to The Wanderer that many women she knows here voice support for abortion, citing the propaganda lines that have been hammered into them by biased media for decades — rape, incest, control one’s body. However, she added, the hard cases cited as justifications make up only a small part of total abortions.
If dominant media were to have their way, society would become as twisted here in heartland America as in their left-wing urban dreamlands, or nightmare lands, rotting away with crime and decadence before everyone’s eyes. It’s not that the American people in any great numbers ever asked for the developing dystopia crawling across the U.S., but some diseased spirit of leftism was released in high places with powerful adherents.
To this Arizonan making his second visit here, Omaha seems a friendly, industrious, unpretentious city with neighborhood names including Dundee, Millard, La Vista, and Papillion. Its rolling hills with plenty of trees may look more familiar to many other Americans than to this southern Arizonan, accustomed to treeless mountains. The bogeyman of humidity, which we desert-dwellers live in terror of, hasn’t felt a bit bad here in this more well-watered place.
However, the local newspaper scene is like many others, a daily paper costing $3 for only 20 pages plus an 8-page homes tabloid the day I bought it on August 25. The day’s opinion page was only letters to the editor, without a single editorial or even a syndicated cartoon on it — which maybe is better than highlighting professional opinion writers reinforcing what the chattering classes are saying?
That void of professional opinion was filled, however, by a Page One article — you know, where news articles are supposed to be — trying to induce readers to believe that it’s entirely reasonable for men who think they’re women to compete in sports against actual women.
No one would have dreamed 15 years ago of such harmful hooey being thrust on society as mandatory proper thinking, but times have been accelerating. Please pray for global deliverance from globalist insanity, and an expedited deliverance time thanks to some angels doing pedal to the metal.
Just as the early U.S. took big steps including the Lewis and Clark Expedition that passed through here, the U.S. and world stand at a new frontier of threat or opportunity now. An elite prepares us to be shackled for centuries, chained into their rigged voting systems and social malformations, or we as voters and activists assert the end of their techno-corporate dominance everywhere the eye can see.
With the continued destruction of morality and tradition at issue in U.S. and other Western societies, the beginnings of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign grapple with what kind of face the GOP wants to emphasize to voters.
At one end of the spectrum, a liberal Republican presidential hopeful like Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey, seems to think the major issue is to denounce Donald Trump.
I recall when Christie had been a great hope for conservative Republicans, rather surprisingly elected as governor of New Jersey in 2009 to oust liberal Democrat one-term incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine. I remember coincidentally driving home on the freeway from Tucson to Phoenix on that Election Night, listening on the radio to national conservative talker Bill Bennett enthusing what a great victory it’d be if Christie pulled this off.
That was toward the end of the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency, and the New Jersey result so soon after Obama’s win was considered a negative referendum on his presidency. Not that radical Obama worried much when shoving his fist down people’s throats, as he would do with Obamacare.
But Christie proved to be another example of a touted Republican savior who eventually turned his back on people’s hopes. Except if you’re a hopeful liberal, who often seems to get rewarded with turncoat Republicans.
At the other end of the lineup for 2024 GOP hopefuls, there’s highly inspirational-sounding Vivek Ramaswamy, who critics say is just voicing slick slogans. Well, better to voice them than leave them unsaid. He hasn’t seemed a bit reluctant to throw leftward media talking heads’ words back at them, a welcome sign of combativeness where it’s sorely needed.
Those talking heads, you know, chatter away with each other about how came-over-on-the-Mayflower white and Christian the GOP is. When someone like Ramaswamy comes along to disprove them, they just move along to hurl the accusation some other day.
Left-wingers have been laser-focused on imposing their agenda. If the best that “moderate” or liberal Republicans plan to do is bathe themselves from the Trump virus, like Christie, we have a passive four years coming up for our side, while the opposition will be out for blood as usual.
For whatever demonic reason, the Democrats so far have chosen to stick with Joe Biden’s demonstrated platform of moral and physical disease and dementia. Plus, his scooping up bribes on a remarkable scale. If his immorality and age haven’t disqualified him in Dems’ eyes, perhaps his running a crime family will persuade them of a need for some replacement — especially when they’re obviously determined to imprison a certain former GOP president over a host of made-up criminal charges.
Meanwhile, the word comes in from Arizona that left-wing extremist Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs troubled herself to denounce the surge of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. Hobbs must have seen some poll about public outrage about this drug invasion and she hoped to divert attention from her extremist record — and from her open-borders stand.
However, even Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts, who’s usually in Hobbs’ corner, found this pose too much to bear. If Hobbs is so concerned about the deadly drugs, Roberts said, let her send the National Guard to the border, where the Biden administration has welded open border floodgates to better welcome unauthorized immigrants.
As I finished typing this story, a loud smoke alarm just went off in my Omaha host’s home because of smoke from the sirloin being seared for dinner. That’s what all of us need now, a loud warning that gets us roused to action to save the nation. And then we can sit down to a rewarding dinner.
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