THIS IS IT: One week left to register for the Men's Club's golf fundraiser

The indispensable weekly newsletter

"Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world. ... Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground." (Ephesians 6:12-13)
Sen. Thom Tillis condemns
Biden's dereliction of duty

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis issued a pledge August 22 to intervene through all possible channels to save Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the inexplicable shortcomings of efforts heretofore.

"There is a dire humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan, and my office has been working around the clock since last week assisting hundreds of Americans and Afghan allies who are urgently attempting to get to the airport and evacuate." Tillis said in a statement issued by email.  

"We can leave no American behind, and we must use all means necessary to bring all Americans back home safely. Anything short of that is a dereliction of duty on the part of our Commander in Chief.  

"This is a particularly difficult time for many veterans and Gold Star Families who are understandably saddened, angered, and despondent watching the events over the past week. Our brave men and women in uniform did everything our nation asked them to do in Afghanistan and more, keeping Americans safe from terrorists and providing the Afghan people with the opportunity to experience freedom." Tillis issued a roster of online resources for military veterans struggling to cope with images and reports coming out of Afghanistan:
GOP Men's Club's 2021 golf
fundraiser arrives Aug. 30

Only a few foursomes unfilled
with less than one week to go

To help our Republican candidates stay on course in 2021 and '22, the Moore County Republican Men's Club is hosting its 25th annual golf fundraiser on an unrivaled course, the Dogwood at The Country Club of North Carolina, on August 30. The challenging Dogwood recently was the venue for the 73rd U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.

"Chipping in" on August 30 also gives you an opportunity to join the club in honoring local first responders -- 32 guests from the ranks of law enforcement, fire and rescue and EMS playing as eight foursomes. On a trial separation from golf?
Alternative activities:
  • Fitness center
  • Fishing by the lake
  • Swimming pool
  • Tennis
Dire consequences loom
amid vaccination frenzy

"Mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic is prone to promoting selection and adaptation of immune escape variants that are featured by increasing infectiousness and resistance to spike protein (S)-directed antibodies (Abs), thereby diminishing protection in vaccines and threatening the unvaccinated." (Geert Vanden Bossche, PhD, German Center for Infection Research, August 12, 2021) 

Chances are, you have not read this in a U.S. newspaper or viewed reporting about the expert's dire warning on a television network. And there's more:

"(The trend) explains why the WHO’s mass vaccination program is not only unable to generate herd immunity (HI) but even leads to substantial erosion of the population’s immune protective capacity," Vanden Bossche continues. "As the ongoing universal mass vaccination program will soon promote dominant propagation of highly infectious, neutralization escape mutants (i.e., so-called ‘S Ab-resistant variants’), naturally acquired, or vaccinal neutralizing Abs, will, indeed, no longer offer any protection to immunized individuals whereas high infectious pressure will continue to suppress the innate immune defense system of the nonvaccinated." Read more.
CDC knows masking school children is useless symbolism

World Health Organization agrees
At the end of May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a notable, yet mostly ignored, large-scale study of COVID transmission in American schools. 

These findings cast doubt on the impact of many of the most common mitigation measures in American schools. Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective. Read more.

(Source: David Zweig, writing in New York magazine, nymag.com, Aug. 20, 2021)
Snapshots ...
Above: Patriot, Moore Republican and school board member David Hensley also is a BBQ fanatic. He rolled in the heavy artillery to deliver pulled pork sandwiches during a school supplies giveaway sponsored Aug. 21 by the Frederick Douglass Foundation, the Moore County Republic Women’s Club and Hensley School Board. Next: George Little with county commissioners Louis Gregory and Jerry Daeke, Moore Republicans all, during the grand opening of Pinehurst Elementary School. (Board members in attendance did not wear masks despite requiring them of students and teachers when the school year began Aug. 23). Next (from left), Moore GOP chairman Tom Beddow, U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (NC-9), NC House speaker Tim Moore and Moore County District Attorney Mike Hardin during a Boy Scouts event Aug. 21 where NC Rep. Jamie Boles (NC-52) received a Distinguished Citizen Award. Below: Thousands descended on Cullman, AL, on Aug. 21, for a Donald Trump rally. Next: Concerned Moore County citizens assembled Aug. 22 in Southern Pines to rally in opposition to The Pilot's editorial bias.
By the numbers

50%
President Joe Biden's approval rating in a new poll by CBS News/YouGov, marking a decline from his 62% March 2021 approval rating. Who are these 50%? Are they hostages of the Left?
Moore County's Laura Morgan
is Ms. National Senior America
She wears it well, and, now our own Laura Morgan wears the crown bestowed upon Ms. National Senior America -- winner of the 2021 pageant.

Laura was eligible because she previously was crowned Ms. North Carolina Senior America. She is our state's first national winner.

She has performed in several musical theater productions in Raleigh, Lumberton and Pinehurst. Some of her favorite roles are: Princess Winifred in “Once Upon a Mattress”, Nellie in “South Pacific”, Maria in “Sound of Music”, Peter Pan in “Peter Pan”, Irene Malloy in “Hello Dolly”, and Nettie Fowler in “Carousel in Concert”.

Laura enjoys playing piano, painting with acrylics, traveling, bowling, learning sign language, reading, and spending a great time with friends. She is fluent in Spanish. She also just completed her second jump with the Fort Bragg Golden Knights. Yes, Laura is remarkable.

And, we are proud to number her among devoted members of the Moore Republican Women's Club.
NC's 9th Republican district
seeks Hall of Fame nominees

The countdown is underway toward the annual North Carolina Republican Party Hall of Fame Dinner in Raleigh, December 4, 2021.

During the Aug. 22 meeting of the Executive Committee of North Carolina's Ninth District, which includes southern Moore County, members were advised each district can nominate five individuals.

Submission forms and criteria will be forthcoming. District leadership will recruit a Selection Committee. Email district chair John Steward (ncgop9@aol.com) if you wish to join the committee.

The key criteria is the nominee must have been in involved in the Republican Party a minimum of 10 years.

Details emerging during the EC meeting include:

The annual Ninth District Patriots Dinner will be presented on Oct. 30, 2021, at 6 pm at the Union County Agriculture Center. Tickets will go on sale in September. Please save the date. 

Moore County's Harold Mendelson was appointed to a standing platform committee for the North Carolina Republican Convention.

The NCGOP Sportsman's Banquet and Gun Raffle is Oct. 9, 2021. This is the major fundraiser for the 2022 Judicial Victory Fund. Tickets to the banquet and raffle tickets can be purchased by clicking here. 
Trusted sources

  • American Greatness: A content rich news and analysis site featuring many of the nation's leading observers of the war on our values, including the great Victor Davis Hanson. Read his latest, Democrats No More.

  • The Epoch Times: A comprehensive print and digital news publication (some content requires a subscription) with roots in opposing human rights abuses in Communist China. It's investigative reporting is second to none. On July 6, Epoch TV released a documentary entitled, America Rewritten

Quotable
"It is clear that it is the Democrats and the hard left who are the science deniers -- at least when it comes to the subject of mask-wearing. The notion that the CDC would suppress information demonstrating that their narrative regarding masks for children lacks merit is telling. The reality is clear: The CDC and the left want your kids wearing masks whether they work or not. Why else would they hide this information?"
Writing for RedState.com, reporter Jeff Charles investigates the overwhelming evidence against masking children, August 22, 2021. Read more.

“Having retired as a teacher of both Language Arts and Social Studies, I am well aware of the shortcomings of the curricula in North Carolina. ... In reading through the Critical Race Theory, I am aware that this body of "suggested" teaching material is offensive to some people. ... No where is the idea that suggests ONE racial group is inferior or superior to another racial group in any way. ... No where should a poster, like the one in your window, be on public display."
If anyone remains unclear as to what we're up against when it comes to the assault on teaching American history, a local resident reminds us not so subtly. She mailed a letter to the Moore GOP, excerpts of which are quoted here. She not only misrepresents the mission of Critical Race Theory, but she also suggests disdain for the First Amendment (referring to the aforementioned poster in the window at headquarters). See below.
Upcoming

Meet Donna Stroud
Chief Judge
N.C. Court of Appeals
Candidate 2022
N.C. Court of Appeals
THIS Thursday
9:15 am
The Market Place
Pinehurst
(Interview with John Zumwalt preceding on WEEB 97.3 FM/990 AM at 8:30 am)
____

Constitution Alive!
10-week course
Begins TONIGHT
6 - 8 pm
Moore GOP Headquarters
211-E Central Park Ave.
Olmsted Village, Pinehurst
All ages welcome
Course is free
Optional text: $15
Bring dinner, beverages
______

Convention of States Action
North Carolina
Statewide Volunteer Meeting
TODAY
8 pm
Attend via ZOOM
Passcode: LevelUp!
____

WILL SELL OUT
Moore County
Republican Men's Club
Annual Golf Fundraiser
The Reburn Memorial
Mon., Aug. 30, 2021
CCNC
8:30 am shotgun start
Click here to purchase
ticket packages
_______

NC Republican Party
Eighth District
Executive Committee Meeting
Tuesday, Aug. 31
6:30 pm
Biscoe Town Hall
110 W. Main St., Biscoe
Questions?
Contact D-8 Chair Kelsey Brown
910-220-0182
_______

Meet Judge John Tyson
Re-election candidate 2022
N.C. Court of Appeals
Thursday, Sept. 2
9:15 am
The Market Place
Pinehurst
(Interview with John Zumwalt preceding on WEEB 97.3 FM/990 AM at 8:30 am)
________

Moore Republican Women
September luncheon
Wednesday, Sept. 8
The Country Club of NC
Pinehurst
12:00 noon
Guest speaker:
Middle East Subject Matter Expert
Clare Lopez
____

Meet Kellyanne Conway
Former Trump strategist
Attend a fundraiser for
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-8)
Wednesday, Sept. 8
6:00 pm VIP reception
6:30 pm General reception
The Country Club of NC
1600 Morganton Road
Pinehurst
Minimum contribution: $250/person
RSVP: Lucy Croxton
_______

Meet Judge Richard Dietz
Candidate 2022
N.C. Supreme Court
Wednesday, Sep. 15
9:15 am
The Market Place
Pinehurst
(Interview with John Zumwalt preceding on WEEB 97.3 FM/990 AM at 8:30 am)
________

Moore County
Republican Men's Club
September luncheon
Thursday, Sept. 16
The Country Club of NC
Pinehurst
Registration: 11:30 am
Guest speaker:
John Hood
Political analyst
Chairman, The Locke Foundation
____

Meet former NFL star
Utah Rep. Burgess Owens (UT-4)
Attend a fundraiser for
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (NC-9)
Friday, Sept. 17
6:00 pm
The Greenblatt Residence
Special guest:
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-8)
RSVP for address
Minimum contribution:
$250/person
RSVP:
Caroline Winchester
______

Meet former NC Gov. Pat McCrory
Candidate for U.S. Senate
Thursday, Sept. 23
5:30 - 7 pm
Forest Creek Golf Club
200 Meyer Farm Dr., Pinehurst
$125 per person
$250 per couple
School board watch
Freedom Matters NC encourages another well attended rally on Sept. 13 ahead of a regularly scheduled Moore County Board of Education meeting at West Pine Middle School, 144 Archie Rd., West End.
Nuggets
No Trump role, no organized plot behind January 6 protest

Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations. Read more.
(Source: Breitbart.com, Reuters)

Tracking NC House Bill 558

A pending bill in the N.C. Legislature seeks to bar Gov. Roy Cooper from requiring or mandating that any person receive a vaccination by operation of executive order. Track the bill.
Those in the know know ...
JD and Maureen have a show

John Zumwalt and Maureen Krueger keep us focused on government overregulation and abuse during their new WEEB Sunday 1 p.m. show, an hourlong discussion of local and statewide issues, some well known, others uncovered by the co-hosts.

If your golf tee times or Sunday brunch rituals conflict, fear not. Go to weeb990.com. Click on Podcasts on the lefthand navigation. Scroll to the John and Maureen Show. Click on the show you wish to hear. Click here.