York County Reaganites

05/31/2026

Read and Vote in the Primary!

Memorial Day by Reaganites Member Mark Herring

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men [and women] who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men [and women] lived. General George S. Patton

I write this scribble during the week of Memorial Day. I am not a veteran. When the Vietnam War broke out, my lottery number was 312, placing my call-up beyond the reach of that undeclared war. Granted, I could have enlisted, but I was young and foolish (but I repeat myself) and did not do so. Add to the lottery number my college deferment, and unless a world war erupted, I was staying in college and completing my degree.

I cannot, therefore, wax eloquent about the war or what service should be like. But I can proffer opinions about what might be suitable veterans’ benefactions. Of course, one can thank veterans for their service, and I do that regularly. This is somewhat hollow, I know, coming from one who never served (both my father and father-in-law did, in World War II, and my Dad saw active combat). One can buy them dinner or fill their cars up with gas. But what else can one do?

The best thing is to ask a veteran, of course, but I’m willing to take a stab at what might well be a good beginning.

The current generation of Gen Zs and Gen Ys appear perfectly willing to try socialism, and that strikes me as the worst possible “thank you” we could give veterans. Socialism has not worked anywhere it has been tried. As Churchill once said, it is the “philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” The only thing that socialist totalitarians have given us is terror and police states. Now, before liberals begin their yapping about socialism as evidenced in programs like Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, let me hasten to add a caveat. These programs are only socialist in miniature, if at all. And besides, Social Security is my money, really, just held and returned to me.

With the advent of elections in Washington State, California, and Oregon (aptly named the left coast), and Mamdani’s election in New York, Republicans should fear these developments more than any possible candidate pairings. (Mamdani celebrated in prayer for Eid Al-Adha in the Bronx this week.) While it did send febrile excitations in my soul when one ticket paired Kamala Harris and Michelle Obama, I fear that ticket less than I do hordes of 20 and 30-somethings voting in to office socialist candidates everywhere. And the Democrat party seems happy to have it that way. Socialist and millionaire Bernie Sanders campaigns with Graham Platner (Senate) and Troy Jackson (governor) in Maine, in Sanders' ironically named “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. AOC, meanwhile, soaks the rich, which she has become, while making sure she remains dry. Platner runs from his Totenkopf-like tattoo that the N***s made famous.

All of this would be so many clowns and Mini Cooper cars were it not already apparent that young people now of voting age learned in our now socialist-dominated universities that socialism is fun and a solid replacement for democratic capitalism. As Seneca once said, “To worst schooling, youth lends a ready ear.” Socialist run California continues to work on the “bridge for animals” over US Route 101, known as the Wallis Anneberg Wildlife Crossing, which will spill over wild animals into the backyards of California residents. This bridge, only 200 feet long and costing, currently, $114 million, is still unfinished in its fourth year. Meanwhile, Democratic capitalism built the 4,200-foot Golden Gate Bridge and the enormous 22,000-foot Oakland-Bay-San Francisco bridges, both built in less than four years and during the Great Depression.”

If Republicans are not wary, they should be. This is what we will get if the Democrats win the midterms, not to mention daily impeachment hearings of President Trump. All of this to say that perhaps the best thing we can do for veterans is to vouchsafe what they fought for by voting in the right people in the right jobs.

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

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05/21/2026

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05/14/2026

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04/27/2026

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04/26/2026

Believe Science! Believe Science!
(Unless It’s About Abortion)

An Op-Ed by Reaganites member Mark Herring

If we heard it once over the duration of the pandemic, we heard it a thousand times: Believe Science! Believe Science! We were scolded with this mantra in a vehement fideism that rivaled any pulpit-pounding Fundamentalist Baptist preacher.

The Science (almost always in capital letters because it had a messianic ring to it) in this case focused on the Wuhan virus and the demand that we had to mask up everywhere we went. Even now, some misguided leftists are calling for folks to remask. Fat chance. The Left’s Der Stürmer, better known as the New York Times, often led the way, all but criminalizing anyone who dared not “mask up.” It did not matter that the Science was hopelessly muddled; the muddler-in-chief, Dr. Fauci, first told us not to mask, and then told us we must. You say potato, I say potahto, tomato, tomahto. We learned only later that masking, a catchpenny at best, didn’t matter much if at all. Ditto that for the ridiculously stupid social distancing.

The Science in the abortion case that overturned Roe v. Wade, Dobbs v. Jackson, is unassailable, and there is nothing muddled, confusing, or the least bit bewildering. Abortion is murder because it stills a beating heart. The unborn child is not impassible, is not unfeeling. And yet, this is a Science that the Left has completely ignored. In the case of masks, it was forever dubious; in the case of abortions, eternally dismissed. As Neil deGrasse Tyson is fond of saying, “The best thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe it.”

As you’ll recall, the left-leaning political magazine, Politico, leaked Supreme Court Justice Alito’s 98-page Dobbs ruling. Chief Justice Roberts called that leak an “egregious breach” of trust, launching a full-scale investigation. Meanwhile, the even-loving left sent “white powder” to Alito’s chambers, not to mention doxxing him and everyone else who signed on to the 5-4 overturn of Roe. In her new book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution, Federalist journalist Mollie Hemingway contends that Alito urged liberal justices to speed up their dissents because security threats against the conservative majority had become lethal. Alito, according to Hemingway, thought that the delay increased security risk because abortion supporters “had an incentive to kill one or more of the justices in the majority” to change the vote. Leave it to the left to vote for death, not only in abortions, but for all those who fight against it.

Thank God for Justice Alito who saw through the “penumbra” mumbo-jumbo of the prior court and argued without varnish that Roe had to be overturned, and Casey with it. And thank God for Donald J. Trump, who gave us three other justices who sided with him. While Roberts, still eyeing the tony parties in Georgetown, did join them, it was later alleged that he planned to talk them out of it. The notorious leak prevented it. In any event, the ever-defeasible Roe is finally overturned.

For the last half-century, any thinking individual knew there was no right in the Constitution for abortion, and that includes those on the Left and the Right. There were no constitutional emanations of rights, no flickering lights, no outtah sights, which granted mothers-to-be the legal proxy to extinguish their children like shooting fish in a barrel. The Science has been clear from the start. The baby inside the womb is not a “tissue,” not “debris,” not the flotsam and jetsam of in*******se. It resides in the mother’s body, but it isn’t the mother’s body.

We also knew from the start that Roe would lead to abortion on demand. So, it did, so much so that abortions could not only be done in the last trimester, but even as birth began in partial birth abortions, the helpless child being executed with scissors in the back of the neck at the base of the brain. At the same time, the torso hung outside the mother. Gruesomely, a vacuum “removed the intracranial contents,” known to the rest of us as the child’s brain. Yes, it’s horrific, but necessary for those ill-informed to know what occurs.

Predictably, the Left has exploded in rage over Roe’s demise. By now, their modus operandi is obvious: don’t give them what they want, and they will burn down your city, block your interstates, stalk you in restaurants, threaten to kill you, and more. The Left cannot build up; it can only tear down. Pro-life clinics are everywhere under attack. Under the Biden administration, the worry was about pro-choice protesters and their safety. It took a nationwide humiliation to get Biden and his administration even to begin to protect the justices who passed Dobbs.

There is a strong possibility that the Right will overreach on this, as it often does, and steal defeat from the jaws of victory. The current Palmetto bill to make abortion criminal for the mother and physician may well be the first step that crushes our victory so far. Suppose a man with a handlebar moustache commits a crime. A law that criminalized all men with handlebar moustaches would make certain no man with facial hair would ever be arrested. The current abortion bill follows the same logic by criminalizing mothers and physicians for abortions that occur owing to r**e, in**st, and gross fetal deformity, about 5% of all abortions. Such a bill will vouchsafe the return of the bloodbath Roe unleashed to begin with, the other 95%.

Meanwhile, the Left will have to produce better arguments. No one is curtailing a woman’s reproductive rights. If anything, abortion grinds them to a halt. No one is putting their hands on them, only preventing them from the unspeakable act of filicide. No rights have been removed since there was never an abortion right in the Constitution to begin with: just the figment of a prior court’s demented imagination. No, we cannot kill the helpless or those who cannot speak for themselves.

If a woman does not want to be pregnant, there are enough reproductive prophylactics to prevent it. Because the Left views s*x as essential as eating and drinking, abortion quickly became the preferred prophylactic. Of course, you do not die from not having s*x, though some would argue you just wish you were dead. Casual s*x with anyone and everyone is so common now as to be hackneyed. Because people are irresponsible, those given to libidinous behavior often ignore the need for any sort of protection, especially young people. It has become an inalienable right to engage in in*******se at any point, anywhere, with any partner. No one thought then, nor do many think now, of the consequences.

Science is to the point here, too. Engaging frequently in heteros*xual in*******se without protection, or with intermittent protection, naturally leads to increased pregnancies. Should this be the burden of women alone (and by women, I mean those for whom abortions were invented)? Of course not. Should men bear this burden, too? Of course, they should. Yet in an age that does not value restraint, the road to accidents is not far away. We mock virginity and wonder why we have unwanted pregnancies in our midst. We laud doing as you please and wonder why so many are displeased with the doing.

Science led us to the overturning of Roe. For now, let’s Believe Science!

Oh, wait. That only works for pandemics, right?