Back before government-funded public radio fully morphed into a bastion of anti-Americanism, NPR had a tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence every July 4.

With NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting fully captured by the America-hating left, the annual reading of the Declaration became a distasteful experience for NPR’s journalists. Effective July 4, 2022, NPR officially terminated its annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, replacing it instead with a discussion of what a despicable country the United States is and has always been. NPR understood that July 4th is a traumatic day for its listener base, so it sought to offer some comfort to triggered listeners recoiling at the star-spangled fun going on around them by denouncing patriotic Americans as being racists.

NPR also retroactively updated its previous links about the reading of the Declaration of Independence to advise that it is a racist document containing offensive language. Here is a link to NPR’s July 4, 2019 reading of the Declaration, with an Editors Note retroactively added in 2022 which reads:

Editor's note on July 8, 2022: This story quotes the U.S. Declaration of Independence — a document that contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur.

Although the House of Representatives allegedly controls the nation’s purse strings, and although there have been numerous Republican House speakers over the past several decades, none has chosen to defund NPR and PBS. President Donald Trump finally did what Mike Johnson, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, John Boehner, etc would not do when he ordered the suspension of all taxpayer funding to NPR and PBS.

Going back decades, Republicans have been promising to defund NPR and PBS, but none did, not until Donald Trump came along.

President George W. Bush could have defunded public broadcasting, but he wouldn’t. Speaker Paul Ryan, an alleged small-government “budget hawk” could have done so too, but he wouldn’t. Current House Speaker Mike Johnson could stop any further appropriations for public broadcasting, but he has shown that he won’t. In fact, Speaker Johnson has pretty much put the House on permanent vacation so he can avoid enacting any legislation to codify into law the actions of President Trump and DOGE.

This is another reminder of why President Trump’s support is so strong from those of us who are weary of establishment Republicans who promised to reduce the size of government and cut spending, but didn’t. Bush, Ryan, Boehner, etc all lied to our faces when they talked about eliminating government waste and defunding left-wing propaganda mills operating at taxpayer expense. These are the same establishment Republicans who also ran on the promise of closing the border, eliminating the Department of Education, etc. They never meant any of it. They lied to us to get elected. But now, Donald Trump has actually closed the border and is eliminating the Department of Education.

Meanwhile, the polite Republicans of Conservative, Inc. all applaud those same mendacious establishment Republicans for having the “character” that Donald Trump lacks. They also condemn Trump as not being a “true conservative” even though he is the only Republican to slash government jobs and spending in a manner that we conservatives have been demanding for years.

There is nothing about defunding NPR and PBS that will prevent it from operating without taxpayer funding. Its loyal listeners can still hate on the flag and hold a solemn day of mourning every July 4. But thanks to Donald Trump, those of us who love this country will no longer have to pay for NPR’s America-bashing propaganda.

My latest piece at The Blaze has been published. In it I discuss how Harvard’s cash scramble is worsening, as the poison Ivy has to keep running to the bond market to raise enough cash to pay its bills.

In the past two months, Harvard has turned to the bond markets twice to quickly raise over $1 billion in cash. This follows a scramble in 2024 to raise $1.5 billion through similar bond offerings, which still fell short of its initial target.

I also discuss why Harvard’s famous (and highly illiquid) endowment cannot help it through this liquidity crisis, as donors and Donald Trump combine to constrict Harvard’s traditional sources of operating revenue. The piece is behind a paywall, but if you’re a Blaze subscriber, I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

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