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Monday • March 30 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XIV

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White House Bans “Religious-Themed Art” Submissions to Religious Holiday Art Contest

Sat, 2024-03-30 20:00 +0000

Despite the best efforts of weirdos and neer-do-wells, this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will use eggs. Trying to get Jill Biden to use potatoes instead of eggs has failed, but the nutjobs did manage a victory nonetheless. “Religious-themed designs banned from White House Easter egg art contest.”

Children of the National Guard are prohibited from submitting religious Easter egg designs for the 2024 “Celebrating National Guard Families” art event at the White House.

The art contest is part of the White House’s Easter traditions, which include the annual Easter Egg Roll. The flyer for the contest states that an Easter egg design submission “must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”

Questionable content? What does that mean, and who gets to decide? The potato weirdos?

Can contestants submit eggs with cartoons of kids giving each other a b…j…? That’s not just acceptable in most public schools; it is a crime against humanity to object. Pictures of drag queens? Joe sniffing a kid’s hair? Sex workers?

The secular humanist sky is the limit, but no crucifixes or Jesus on Easter. Easter Sunday.

We can argue about when, why, if, or how the Catholics absconded existing pagan days or rituals, but Easter has been a religious holiday for all of Western civilization.

It can also be argued that the White House might be better off not sponsoring or hosting an event or contest on a religious holiday, but that’s not how you change the collective consciousness from tradition (Easter is a deeply revered religious celebration) to a ham dinner, some colored eggs, and gifts from Santa in a Rabbit Suit.

The issue, however, is that the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. The White House isn’t making a law, but is it prohibiting free exercise and expression?

Or is it as simple as this: By refusing art with a religious theme, the White House is discriminating in violation of its own rules?

Children also can’t promote material that promotes “bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age” in their designs.

Do you have time for one more?

The White House on Friday announced “trans day of visibility” for March 31, which this year falls on Easter Sunday.

Happy Easter!

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Sadly, NH-NeverTrump Journal Is Right … Only A RINO Can Compete In Congressional District 2

Sat, 2024-03-30 18:00 +0000

Lily Tang Williams’ story and message is compelling and inspiring. But that’s exactly why she has ZERO chance of winning CD2. A clear majority of the district’s voters are COMMUNISTS. An anti-Communist like Lily Tang Williams has no chance of winning a district that is majority Communist.

Sadly, Mikey Graham’s NH-NeverTrump Journal is right. Only a RINO can compete in CD2.

Even including Kuster’s 2012 race against an incumbent Republican, her average margin of victory is 9.3 percent. …

It’s not Kuster’s incomparable political skills. It’s the district. In 2016, both Hillary Clinton and failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern carried the district. In 2020, Joe Biden crushed Trump 54 to 45 percent.

GOP primary voters, assuming a RINO throws his hat in the ring, have a simple choice. It is between COMMUNISTS like “Yogurt-Boy” Colin Van Ostern (a nickname that I manifested and that NH-NeverTrump Journal credited to Jo(k)e Sweeney) and a RINO. Nominate a real Republican and, sadly, you are as a practical matter electing the Yogurt-Boy or whichever Woke-Commy the “Democrat” voters in CD-2 choose.

 

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