Bearer of Bad News… 2024

Well, 2023 is winding down, and it seems only to have been a dress rehearsal for a coming year far worse than anything we can imagine. All of the things that made our nation good and decent in the world, and that made America a shining light on a hill, are in flux. The people and politicians our Founders warned us about, have been legitimized by the left, and are now emboldened and hell bent on destroying this republic.

Now I’m not going to reiterate what my patriot friends and supporters already understand with clarity, this day. Suffice it to say, the times I thought would come in my granddaughters life, are here now. The war for the soul of a nation is here now. And the battle between good and evil is upon us.

So while I’ll continue to write and defend the aspirations of a people, whose God given freedom guides them and their families every day, I will leave you with this on December 31.

2024 will test “We the People” like never before in American history. And it is incumbent upon each and every one of us, to defend a Constitution which belongs to our children, not the communist, fascist, socialist scum, whose intention it is, to circumvent all that is right and true in this country and around the world.

So let us stand together and against the enemies of liberty in 2024. Defend and protect election integrity. Close our borders. Unleash America’s energy potential, once again. Support a flat tax. DEMAND TERM LIMITS. Do your homework! And vote common sense and your conscience, not your damn emotions. If you do these things, the leftists will lose, and we may yet have a chance to save our children’s America. This is it, my friends. We are out of options…

God Bless and protect you all in 2024…

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Veteran’s Day, 2023…

“These are the times that try men’s souls”. I know I’ve written these words before in many an article, but the wisdom of Thomas Paine’s pen can never be overstated. From the nightmare at our southern border and a flailing economy, to the “wokeness” and relentless indoctrination of children in our education system from grade school to the so-called “institutions of higher learning”, and to the taxpayer funded money laundering scheme that is the war in Ukraine, to the hotbed of absolute terror in the Middle East, in fact, “these are the times that try men’s souls”.

Nevertheless, there is a small segment of this free republic, who think not necessarily of the politics of the day, but rather the very liberty and freedom which provide for things like the aforementioned discourse, and who in many instances, have sacrificed their very lives for its preservation. These men and women are unique in the world by way of their oaths, and their dedication to the notion that freedom is not free, and truly worth all of their effort. These patriots are the good men and woman who wear the uniform of the United States Military, past and present.

Now I’ve written much over the years and on these pages, about our brave volunteer Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. Suffice it to say, that in these uncertain and highly volatile times, a nation and the world may turn once again, to their service and skill sets. And while I’m prayerful this will not be the case, I ask all of my readers to be unwavering in their support and prayers for our fighting men and women and their families. Moreover, and while we prepare to celebrate the holiday season once again, consider their sacrifices, from simply time spent away from their loved ones when duty calls, to a flagged draped coffin in the cargo hold of a transport plane. Then and only then, may we adjust (our own conduct and application) of those last words in President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

Original text: “It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”.

God bless you all on this Veteran’s Day. And God bless the United States Armed Forces.

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Independence Day, 2023…

In Congress, on July 2nd 1776, the “Lee Resolution” passed by a vote of 12-0. This hard fought action was the recorded tally which brought about independence from Great Britain and the crown. On July 4th, we celebrate that vote, as the delegates would adopt the aforementioned resolution on that date. The actual signing took place over a period of weeks and months, as the men of our nation’s founding, scattered to fight and protect their homes and businesses from the coming British torrent of violence and destruction.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/signing-declaration-independence/

Nevertheless, the greatest experiment in human history had begun, namely the notion that a free people could govern themselves, within a representative  structure of their choosing. Ultimately, a Constitution and Bill of Rights were needed, and would come at a later date. But for all intents and purposes, that unprecedented document signified the birth of a sovereign nation. And the experiment continues today.

In the past 247 years, there have been many challenges to this experiment to be sure, however none greater than that of present day America. Now I don’t say this lightly, or with a nonchalant attitude concerning the history of this young republic. And I certainly don’t take for granted the blood and treasure which has been expended so I might enjoy my favorite bacon cheese burger and an adult beverage this Tuesday afternoon. No my friends, quite to the contrary, what I’m talking about is history, plain and simple. For if we fail the test of that fateful July 2nd, and if we fail to educate our posterity on the goodness and exceptionalism of a country which has done more for the human condition than any in recorded history, then all of the other contributions and great sacrifices made by those who came before us, are lost.

“Ignorance is bliss” to be sure my fellow Americans. But purposeful ignorance and complacency, in the face of the hard truths “We the People” must confront in 2023, is akin to spitting in the faces of the Founders, and yes, in the faces of our children and grandchildren.

So as we come together and celebrate “Independence Day 2023”, please take a moment to read and understand “The Declaration”. It’s not a long document, and it was meant to be read. It will clear up a few things for some of you, not the least of which is, that there was never any promise of happiness, but rather a person’s God-given right to “pursue” it in a free country.

In the final analysis, this “experiment” can fail. History tells us that other great nations have acquiesced to the nefarious ambitions of dictators and madmen and their thirst for power over the people, and they were diluted and/or destroyed in time. We too can lose it all to the ash heap of history, because we choose the low road the evil one has laid out for us, instead of doing the hard things and handing off a better country to the next generation.

America is not perfect I know, and neither are “We the People”. But it is that very premise, that we may come together, and by way of the God-given freedom as outlined in the Founding documents, overcome our differences for the common good and the preservation of liberty, which sets us apart. God Bless all of you this 4th of July, and be safe…

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Memorial Day 2023…

So as I look around and listen to the heartbeat of a wounded nation, I do contemplate quite a bit. What kind of country will my granddaughter live in? For that matter, what will become of the next generation as a whole? How bad will it get for my son, as he goes out at night on patrol to protect and serve his community? And, is my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, poised to return and straighten this whole mess out, once and for all? At my age, these are simply the things you think about, (or you should think about).

Now, this weekend is not the time to bloviate about how the leftist terrorists and traitors are subverting our founding documents and destroying the moral fabric of the greatest nation in all human history. I’ll save that for another time, soon. No, today I just want to give you some stuff to contemplate.

All throughout the last 247 or so years, depending on how far into the makings of the American Revolution you want to go, men and women have answered the call to defend the value systems and liberty our Founding Fathers pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to embrace and pass on. Many “gave all of their tomorrows for our todays”. So as you look around and bear witness to the all-out-war on everything we hold dear and right in our hearts, and as you watch a modern propagandist press/media dig in and portray truth and reason as the new hate speech, what of all those heroes I just mentioned? What of all the souls whose last thoughts may have been of loved ones they’d never see again, or of how those loves ones would mourn their loss and the reason for it. What of the enormous sacrifice, and whether or not we are now spitting on their graves and nonchalantly casting aside that sacrifice in the name of some ridiculous notion called, “wokeness”???

So pull up a chair friends, and grab a beer and a burger. But as you indulge, remember who we are, and the idea that united we stand, divided we fall. Let it sink in, how close this whole thing is to going out the proverbial window, and how absolutely unfortunate it would be to dishonor the memory of the heroes, who along with Almighty God, made it all possible…

Abraham Lincoln wrote some notes on the train on his way to Gettysburg, that in his humble opinion, would not even be remembered to history. Take a glance…

November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

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And so it continues…

Words for the day… 4/28/2023

I think I’ve probably written these words more than folks care to read them now. Nevertheless, they are even more consequential in these troubling times than at any time I can remember. Simply put, “I will pick up a rifle and defend anyone’s right to live as they chose, so long as it is within the lines of this republic under law, and does not infringe the rights of others. But I can not and will not validate you”.

To be clear, my defense of your rights is not an endorsement of your lifestyle or actions. You are not entitled to that. And you cannot force it upon me. So be assured, though I will always come down on the side of freedom, and free speech for that matter, I will also voice my opinions on the issues of the day. That is my right, as much as it is yours.

So let this be a starting point, and a warning. This country is in flux. The rule of law, which sets us apart from the rest of the world, is being subverted by forces intent on the destruction of our entire way of life. Up is down, right is left, and truth is the new hate speech. Thus, like many of you, I fear for the future of our children’s America, and I will fight to defend that future from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It’s a simple oath “We the People” ought to revisit and remember. Anything less, is to dishonor the memory of my father, and every other patriot back to the Founders, who pledged their “lives, their fortunes, and their scared honor”, to that end. And so it continues… Have a blessed day.

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Ok, so let’s ease into this…

Ok, so I’m back my fellow patriots. My plan is to kind of ease back into the writing, as I’ve been away for a time. Current events and my desire to be a voice against a corrupt and complicit main stream press, have compelled me to come off the sidelines and fight for my granddaughter’s country. For starters, we’re going to get back into something I was doing a few years ago, “Thoughts for Today”…

So buckle up, and let’s save America together. There is much more to come, and it’s only going to get better. God Bless…

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I know, I know…😜

I’ll be back shortly. But here’s something to read in the interim that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

    •  https://www.foxnews.com/media/jordan-peterson-warns-western-countries-woke-totalitarian-social-credit-system-highly-probable
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Ignoring the truth continues to come at great cost…

This is a product of our time. Don’t tell me it’s normal.

Exactly how many more of these murderous rampages will we endure as a nation before we realize it’s not a matter of the inanimate object in the hands of a criminal, but rather a sickness of the American soul. 

Now I know many of you will scoff at this assessment because the lies are easier to believe. And many will seek a political solution for a problem of the heart. But in the end, we can no longer run from facts, and the accountability that always goes with them.

We have chased “our creator” from our children’s schools and from the halls of government, and all while making excuses for 15 million fatherless homes, calling it the “new normal”. We tear down real history and replace it with a revised version that somehow validates opinions and ideology over facts. And those very voices of revisionism denigrate what we all know are the principles which set our country apart from all the rest. Yes, my fellow Americans, our way of life and our national motto, “from many, come one” are exceptional, and we must defend them from all enemies, foreign and domestic. 

Regrettably, and on this dark day following the celebration of the greatest experiment in the history of the world, I submit to all of you, America itself is in flux. Everything we are hangs on this next election. And not because it’s a Republican, Democrat, red, blue thing. But rather because if we do not turn from our wicked ways in this country, and return to the tried and true ideals that have given us the freedoms many now abuse in the name of some “new world order”, then this republic as we know it will falter. And while I understand this may seem a gloomy assessment of our national posture at the moment, I think we can all agree, that the news of the day supports such an assessment. 



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Much hangs in the balance…

So there are those in our country today who seek its ruination. Really?? I’m not sure what the motivation is, but it seems more and more to emanate from the world of academia, (as Marx said it would), where “education” is supposedly in abundance, but real knowledge and “common sense” are lacking. 

This Fourth of July has a very different and urgent feel for me. On the one hand, I’m hopeful for change in November, away from the disastrous path our nation took back in January of 2021. On the other hand, I see and hear the enemies of freedom, who while still a vocal minority, are vehemently opposed to the core principles of this republic and the Constitution which guides it. Their noisy and often incoherent rhetoric is rooted in the very hate they claim to abhor, and lacks any of the factual context and/or basic reasoning necessary to read and understand our founding documents, which, most certainly were intended to be brief but, well, foundational…

To be sure, the men who penned the papers that would change the world and how human freedom was and is viewed for the betterment of mankind, were not perfect, though I’m unsure why this bears noting, as we are all fallen and flawed. Nevertheless, the Founder’s intellect and want of a nation governed by laws and not men, guided them to the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. In fact, a closer examination of all that was debated and agreed upon in those critical and consequential years leading up to 7/4/1776, tell a story of extraordinary courage, fortitude and sacrifice, things about which many of the current generation would know absolutely zero.

In the end, the words, “We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”, rang true for many of the Founders. The trials they endured, would have broken the backs of the woke simpletons marching in the streets today, removed from the security of their parents basements and the video game alternate reality of the 21st Century. Theirs is a lost culture, devoid of the truth of a nation, that while imperfect, is the greatest arrangement for mankind under God the world has ever known. How foolish are they, who refuse to see this fact, and who seem to stand opposed to the very principles which allow for their twisted grievances to be heard. But I digress…

Anyway, I think we’ve reached those crossroads I’ve written of these past 25 or so years. I think there is not much time left. Now I don’t mean the nation will be swallowed up by the oceans shortly, as one curious United States Supreme Court Justice seems to believe. LOL! What I mean is, we’re losing our history, and losing it fast. And if we don’t come together as a nation and as a people soon, and if we don’t begin to truly educate our young people on not just the bad, but the inherent good of a country which has sacrificed great blood and treasure at the altar of liberty, from the latter 18th Century to present day, all may in fact be lost. Teach them of the lives of those Founders, their sacrifices, and contributions to these United States. And remind them that while representative government is messy sometimes, it must be preserved at all cost for their sake, and the sake of their posterity. 

Happy Fourth my friends! Be well and safe.

No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” – John Adams

 

  

 



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My Granddaughter’s country…

On July 2,1776, and after riding 80 miles through a thunderstorm, Caesar Rodney of Delaware arrived at the doorstep of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and broke a tie between his fellow delegates, George Read and Thomas McKean, thus bringing Delaware into the camp of breaking with England. You see, many don’t know that the resolution affirming “independency” was voted on, on the 2nd, and the Declaration adopted on the 4th. With Rodney’s “midnight ride”, the absence of dissenters Dickinson and Morris allowing for Ben Franklin to rearrange Pennsylvania’s vote in the affirmative, and the abstention of New York, the separation from Great Britain became a reality.

As I reflect on the rich and great history of these United States this evening, I think of my beautiful new granddaughter and grand niece. Theirs is a precarious time to be sure. The forces of evil and anti-American rhetoric are all around us. Modern academia has made great strides in revisionism. The indoctrination of an entire generation of young minds, blinded to the truth and context of the greatest arrangement for mankind under God, has been their marxist priority.

It’s difficult to be hopeful when the level of self-induced ignorance as I like to call it, is so alarmingly high. Moreover, elected officials in both houses of Congress and in the White House, are aiding and abetting this ignorance for the sake of power and at the expense of our posterity. Gone are the days of Reagan and O’Neill, when despite their political differences, there was enough patriotism and shared love of country between them to make things work in Washington for “We the People”. Now there is only vitriol and hate.

So what is left when these “times that try men’s souls” are upon us? At this point, I do the only thing I know is left when mankind fails in such ill-thought and reckless ways . I pray. I pray for peace in my son’s day, and I pray for his daughter, that she might live in my father’s country. I pray that God will come into the hearts and minds of our politicians, that they might think through their oaths and come back to the truth of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. I pray that our young people wake up and see through all of the lies and nonsense being thrown at them every day in their schools, on social media, and by the disingenuous and partisan press. Because in the end, this great experiment of true representative government, where liberty and freedom are foremost in the minds of the people, and those they send to the halls of government, hangs in the balance. 

May God bless this Republic, on the 2nd, the 4th and every day. 

More to come on the 4th!   



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63,000,000 million reasons to change course…

If you’d asked me what my first return post would have been, this wouldn’t have been it. With that said, the Biden Administration’s failure to act against illegal and dangerous so-called protests at the private homes of Supreme Court Justices is simply a sign of how far our nation has fallen under this president.

In a time of so much chaos and world tension, Americans are looking to their elected representatives for stability and the confidence of knowing matters are in hand. Instead, we see a POTUS who is obviously compromised, AND to the degree that he is even capable of making observations and decisions, regularly comes down on the side of divisive and unconstitutional. Dear Lord, what does it say about the state of our great republic, when a minority of screaming ideologues, who can’t or simply refuse to see the illegitimacy and moral bankruptcy of their thought process, can shape the future of our posterity? These are truly “the times that try men’s souls”…

In recent days we’ve heard from the likes of “comedian” Laurie Kilmartain, who stated live on “MSDNC”, that she fantasized about having sex with the SCOTUS leaker and then “joyfully aborting the baby out of spite if it ended up the leaker was a Conservative”. I mean, what is going on in this country, when a national “news” organization doesn’t admonish and ban such vitriol on their broadcast? Yes, this may indeed be free speech, but as I’ve said, it’s not a matter of what you say so much as should you say it. Moreover, it’s not unreasonable to question the value systems of those in charge of content at these information outlets. And then there’s the sitting mayor of a major American city, (Lori Lightfoot), declaring Chicago “an oasis for abortion” should RVW be overturned. What type of sick individual, (and politician no less), says something so divisive, hateful, and obviously twisted? Sadly, we’ve come to expect this type of putrid rhetoric from reprobates like Lightfoot and Kilmartain.

So it all boils down to what Marx and even President Lincoln said of freedom/liberty, in that it inevitably falls to us to preserve or destroy it. Now there are those who will attempt to paint socialism and even communism as misunderstood theories and ideologies which actually promote “individual freedom”. But true history tells us of a different and much more sinister outcome should we ignore that history. Just have a look at world events as of this post.

In the end, it will be up to “We the People”, in real-time, right now, to stand up for what’s decent and right in this last best hope for mankind, the United States of America. For if we fail, we fail God, our children and their children, and so on…



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Ramping back up…

As most of you may have surmised by now, I’ve left my beloved “Ocean State” and moved to “Free Florida”. Rush called it his “southern command”, and in honor of that great American, I’m going to borrow that moniker.

Adjusting to my new life has been a challenge, but I’m happy to be in a state where the Constitution is embraced and not used as a doormat.

So I’m back at the keyboard and looking forward to taking on the events of the day once again. To that end, look for new content, a revised site, as well as Youtube, podcasts, and a subscription service. Stay tuned my friends!

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If it weren’t for double standards…

The “news” media fawning over this new president is downright nauseating. Having failed in every way to vet the events surrounding the 2020 elections with even a hint of journalistic credibility, they have now moved quickly to hail Biden as some sort of second coming. From the NYT calling the pro-abortion president, “the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century”, to FOX’s Howard Kurtz blabbering about his “heartfelt calls for unity”, it’s as if all of Joe Biden’s sins have been washed away. (Ukraine, Hunter, China, Tara Reade etc…) The problem is, when we look at his actual policy initiatives and actions, we see a very different chief executive.

In terms of his faith, I would tell you that I stand in judgement of no man or his faith. I do however, make observations which form the basis for my opinions. So having looked at the FACTS, it is my view that Biden has in most cases opposed nearly every issue Christians have raised in this country. From his steadfast support and propping up of Roe v. Wade as “women’s health” and his incessant flip-flopping on matters of late term and partial birth abortion, to his championing of the LGBTQ agenda, it’s clear to any reasonable person that Joe Biden the man is likely at odds with many tenets of his faith, AND far more interested in simple but effective political pandering.

As far as his calls for unity, well, once again, actions speak louder than words. As we watched the cognitively challenged candidate spar with folks on the campaign trail, we got a glimpse into Biden’s true character and personality, and how quick he is to double down on mistakes and even become combative with those who disagree with him. These are traits his campaign regularly struggled to conceal along the way. Candidate Biden also had countless opportunities to unite the country by condemning the lawlessness and violence we witnessed over the summer, but declined to do so until very late in the campaign, and only then because polls were showing it was hurting him. From his reference to Trump supporters as “dregs of society”, to berating an 83 year old man at a town hall event, calling him a “damn liar, man” while approaching him angrily, Joe Biden’s track record and political posture don’t look much like that of man intent on uniting this country.

So as gas prices begin to climb and layoffs related to his policies grow, and as the economy that was roaring back begins to sink into recession under the weight of Joe Biden’s agenda and the leftist’s false utopia, some of us will consider the overall fake news analysis of 46 in the first hundred days and swallow hard on the “I told you so”. Because in the end, we understand it is our children’s country they’re destroying.

 

 



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Reflections…

I don’t usually post what I write for other publications, as I provide exclusive rights to the articles once I’ve released them. However, once in a while one comes along that screams, POST ME! This is one of those articles.

One of my editors usually gives me permission, 30 days out from the original publication and distribution. In this case, it was December’s article. I’m going to post a link to it below. Feel free to share it. “The Good News Today” is an extraordinary read you might consider supporting as well. Check out their website, www.thegoodnewstoday.org, and catch the physical paper, free in your local church and at retail spots throughout Southern New England. God bless, and Merry Christmas!

Reflections…



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COVID Collateral…

For starters, I’m not a virus denier, but rather a type 1 diabetic who’s just as apprehensive as anyone concerning COVID 19. But I’m also a common sense numbers guy, re-assured by a very capable and notable physician who tells me nearly all who are infected will recover, and that therapeutics coming on line as you read this are driving the actual mortality rate from the virus into the basement.

Nevertheless, I’m compelled to write today because this “pandemic” is also being exploited by politicians and so-called “experts” across the country and around the world, and it’s having an extremely negative impact in ways folks may not be focused on.

Now we can talk all day about how lockdowns were a mistake from the get-go and have caused billions if not trillions of dollars in unnecessary economic damage, some of which will be irrecoverable for those affected. And we can argue about the manipulation of those same lockdowns under the false flags of flawed models and rising COVID numbers, for which detailed information is often impossible to drag out of the loathsome daily briefing. Like here in my home state of Rhode Island, where Governor Gina Raimondo and her administration play fast and loose with what “facts” they choose to release. For instance, they won’t tell you that more than 75% of 1188 “COVID” deaths to date in the Ocean State have been in nursing homes and congregate care facilities, leaving just 275 deaths statewide over the last nine months attributed to the virus. Now while every single life matters, and a family is affected to be sure, how many have passed from other illnesses or issues in that same time period, say from heart failure or cancer? For some context via the last available data year of 2017, there were 320 drug overdoses, over 2300 heart related deaths and 203 flu related deaths. You do the math. Moreover, why does the state rarely report the initial health of those who supposedly contracted and then died from the virus, and only occasionally give their ages and/or living status when pressed? Better yet, how many of the unborn have died by way of abortion in the state since March?

And so now our condescending, potential Biden appointee (God help us), very wealthy and thankfully term-limited Governor is considering rolling back re-opening the state just ahead of what is likely the most pivotal Presidential Election in American history. To be clear, this is not just bad governance my friends, but more a calculated, cruel and vindictive scare tactic to keep voters away from the polls, and which will likely destroy what’s left of our states already crippled economy. But I digress.

To my earlier point, there’s an almost hidden symptom beginning to show itself during these truly unprecedented times. My wife told me of a conversation she had with a friend recently concerning her middle son of around 11 years old. The friend explained that her boy was sent home from school as he had symptoms (the sniffles), which under the school’s “guidelines” required he be tested for COVID. On their way out to the testing facility, the boy began to cry. Naturally, his mother reassured him with the truth, that being he was so young and in excellent health, he would certainly fully recover, even if he did test positive. Now the boy began to cry even harder to the point of sobbing. The friend told my wife that when she was finally able to calm him enough so he could speak, he told her that he was scared to infect his parents or anyone else, and that he didn’t want to kill anyone. Dear God, where would this young boy get such a foolish notion? And what kind idiot would suggest something like that to an 11-year-old? I submit to you today, this governor, her administration, and crackpot teachers and their union handlers are scaring our children right out of their minds! Of all that is wrong with this COVID chaos, in RI and across the nation, this type of reckless and irresponsible fear mongering is taking its toll on our posterity, and it will affect them for the rest for their lives. (By the way, the boy tested negative for COVID 19). He had a damn cold.

So, I suppose my message to my governor, and governors across this country who seem bent on disseminating only fear, and the politics of mask wearing as their answers to the Coronavirus is, “We the People” are wise to your intent.

Now there may be nothing we can do to cure you of your ignorance or Trump Derangement Syndrome,(TDS), but for God’s sake, consider the consequences of your politics. You are hurting our children! Stick to the facts, ALL of them, and “Knock it off”!

 



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Through their lens…

I thought it would be a good time to re-visit this one. Do not condemn until you’ve walked a mile in their boots. Back the Blue!

On Patrol with God and the Badge



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More “Good News”…

From the June addition of the Good News Today Christian Newspaper….

Ask the Governor



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When the truth comes knockin’…

This is a great read from The American Thinker. 

Yes, Virginia (and all the other States), There is Systemic Racism in America

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Reading conservative media over the past month, I have noticed a pattern develop. More and more writers are arguing that the ubiquitous assumption of systemic racism in America is untrue. In fact, there’s never been a better place to live as a minority than in America in the 21st Century. While I agree with many of the arguments made, I have to disagree with the conclusion. You see, I have also been listening to the personal histories of individual blacks across the country, and I now see the widespread, systemic racism that infects the United States in 2020.

Discussions of systemic racism typically start with slavery. Although that is the greatest example of systemic racism in our history, the United States fought a war with itself in which hundreds of thousands of Americans paid the ultimate price to end slavery here. However, although legalized slavery was ended by the Civil War, fighting this war didn’t end racism. After the war, groups like the KKK worked hard to prevent the newly freed slaves from exercising their full rights as citizens. These efforts evolved into the set of laws we know as Jim Crow, a systemic web of statutes and cultural norms that treated blacks as inferior in every way.

But wait! Didn’t the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, end the Jim Crow laws? Yes, the overt, legally enforced racism of the first half of the 20th Century was debunked, disgraced, and dismantled by the Civil Rights movement but it was quickly replaced with a more subtle system of racism. This one was not encoded directly into state laws or local ordinances but was created by the indirect outcomes of a new kind of political initiative: civil rights laws, welfare payments, court decisions, and statist economic policies.

Civil rights laws, supposedly passed to guarantee to blacks equal protection under the law and all the rights granted under the Constitution, were quickly interpreted to require racial quotas be met by schools, by government, and even by private businesses. The subtle racism of quotas is the assumption that blacks cannot earn these positions on their own merits so, instead of doing the hard work of helping blacks develop skills and habits needed for success, we should give them handouts and pat ourselves on the back for being so helpful. Meanwhile, these quotas have reduced the black graduation rates at colleges and increased racial strife by angering the more qualified applicants who lost out.

The welfare system created by the Great Society, supposedly passed to help the poor of all races, quickly resulted in creating a permanent underclass who were dependent on government handouts. The black family, which stayed together through slavery, Reconstruction, the Great Depression, and Jim Crow, was splintered apart when government handouts replaced the wages earned by a husband and father. This pushed fatherless youths into the streets to join gangs and kill each other off with both guns and drugs. A more racist system could hardly be imagined.

The Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, a procedure that has a more racist past than a Confederate statue. Abortion was a key part of the eugenics movement in this country going back to the 1920’s, when Margaret Sanger created the precursor to Planned Parenthood. Abortion was used to purify the white race and eliminate the black race back then, and black women continue to have abortions to at far higher rates than whites and Hispanics to this day. These deaths have reduced the black population, watered down their representation in society, and eliminated the potential contributions of millions of people to this world.

Meanwhile, in most large cities, regulatory and social welfare policies reduced freedom, opportunity, and prosperity for the people living in them, and a lot of blacks live in them. Basic city services that help people get and keep jobs, like decent roads, public transportation, and affordable housing, have crumbled under policies that prioritize public employee pensions, rent control laws, and entrenched political power. But the most devastating casualty in these cities has been quality education. The failure of cities to provide a high school diploma that had some worth in the marketplace has hurt black prospects for decades.

I hope, as you read through my description of systemic racism in America today, you have noticed a common culprit in all of it. Everything described above has been the stated public policies of the Democrat party all the way back to the days of slavery. Democrats opposed Abraham Lincoln’s and the newly formed Republican Party’s anti-slavery platform in 1860. After the war, the KKK became the militant arm of the Democrats and the Jim Crow laws that grew out of the Reconstruction were administered by Democrat politicians throughout the South.

The modern Democrat politician has raised systemic racism in this country to levels a white plantation owner in the ante-bellum South could have only dreamed of. After all, while the plantation owner treated his slaves as property, he also had a self-interest in keeping his slaves healthy and strong enough to do their work; the Democrats’ only self-interest is keeping blacks voting for Democrats, and they will do that most reliably if they are kept weak, poor, and dependent.

But I have not even mentioned the crassest form of Democrat racism yet: coopting black leaders with promises of money and power to help promote all these policies among their fellow blacks. How these leaders could have gotten in bed with the very party that had trampled blacks down for a century is a mystery to me. Without their support, however, all the Democrat platitudes about helping the poor and fighting racism would have been quickly rejected for the insidious racism that created them and the horrible results produced by them. With the support of those leaders, Democrats have been able to exploit blacks repeatedly by scaring them that Republicans want to enslave them and teaching them that every setback they encounter is evidence of racism.

The Democrats are terrible at a lot of things: fighting wars, growing an economy, educating children, protecting citizens from global pandemics, and guaranteeing constitutional rights, among others. But they are excellent at one thing: shifting the blame to others for their own racism and their constant failures.

I am tired of being called a racist because, as a white man, I am part of the system that holds blacks down. The truth is that, as a Republican, I have opposed and voted against the racist policies described in this article since I was old enough to vote.  I hope that black citizens of this country will #WalkAway from the Democrat Party and be set free to live and work and prosper along with the rest of us.

I am heartbroken over systemic racism and want nothing more than to see the Democratic politicians who built it and sustain it stripped of all their power by the very victims of their racist policies.

 

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“what is before us, the here and now”… (2020)

Context seems a very difficult notion in 2020. It’s usually dismissed as simply an obstacle to making ones point. However context is important, now more than ever. The ongoing debate over “racism” in America lacks even the most basic context, and is being argued in a way which does little or nothing to advance the cause of race equality. Is there racism in The United States? The obvious answer to this question is yes. Is it systemic and wide spread? I believe most reasonable people would say no. Unfortunately, recent events like the heinous killing of George Floyd, a black man, by white police officer Derek Chauvin, have emboldened those who would manipulate truth and reason to advance a much more sinister and divisive agenda.

Watching the destruction in Minneapolis following Floyd’s death was made even more difficult as we all tried to find the reason in burning one’s own neighborhood to the ground, destroying black owned businesses as well. And please tell me again how stealing everything that isn’t nailed down helps to end race inequality and “police brutality” against African Americans in this country. I think we all know the answer to that question. To make matters worse, politicians and pundits alike have seized the opportunity to politicize the issue, further dividing a nation already straining under the weight of the COVID pandemic. For “Black Lives Matter” or BLM, the event was the catalyst they’d been waiting for in order to promote a militant and violent campaign of misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric, devoid of even an iota of the aforementioned context or historical truth, thus fostering a nationwide climate of apologies and capitulation for crimes never committed. Politicians, celebrities and every day folks are now lining up to kneel before, and even kiss the boots of domestic terrorists openly planning to challenge and engage law enforcement with firearms. Statues of historical figures are being defaced and destroyed, even those of men like famed abolitionist Matthias Baldwin, lending evidence of my theory that much of what’s happening right now is fueled primarily by ignorance and ideological hatred. And now ANTIFA, another terrorist organization with the stated goal of open and violent anarchy on our streets, have joined the fray and literally taken over six city blocks in the Capitol Hill district of Seattle, and all while the city’s mayor stood by and seemed almost to validate the criminals responsible.

Again, I’m not going to debate the issue of racism because I feel it does exist, here and around the world. Slavery as well, has existed in one form or another and in every civilization since records have been kept. America on the other hand, using 1619 as a starting point and proceeding to the 13th Amendment in 1865, leaves just 249 years of slavery in this country. Comparatively speaking, more was done faster to address the issue of servitude in the Americas than anywhere in the world. Moreover, less than 6% of African slaves actually came to what would ultimately become the United States, but rather were enslaved largely in South America. Listen, slavery was and remains a moral sin, and the U.S. must never deny its culpability in that sin. I get it. However, in the “context” of the 17th, 18th and 19th century, nearly every nation on earth, including African nations, tolerated and even embraced slavery. Ironically, many of those African nations and their leaders were selling their own people into bondage. So yes, context is extremely important if there is to be any logical debate in search of solutions.

Accordingly, there’s a certain disgust and contempt I feel as I watch ignorant fools tearing down a history they clearly don’t understand. This is compounded by the realization that many of these “protesters” true motives are anything but peaceful, as a complicit press would have us believe. In fact, many have the stated purpose of up-ending our government and way of life in favor of a “utopia” not unlike the one we’re witnessing in Seattle, complete with all the drug abuse, murder and pillaging. Let’s look at some of the obvious contrasts and understand the hypocrisy. In the BLM/ANTIFA world, going to church is bad, but burning one down will get you a medal. Decent law abiding folks can’t open their businesses, but hoodlums can destroy a city’s business district and they’re called “peaceful protesters”. White people can’t have an opinion on racism, but are part of the problem when they say nothing. And you can riot in the streets with thousands of other “peaceful” protesters w/o a mask, but if President Trump holds a campaign rally, the COVID clicker will explode. This is just some of the madness we’re hearing from politicians, sympathetic press types and Hollywood jack-wagons.

So what do we do in these trying and unprecedented times? Well I’m not sure to be honest. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as just clearing the streets and arresting law breakers, though we should be doing that anyway. But we can start by asking God back into our classrooms and public buildings, and telling our children of the obvious correlation between the Ten Commandments, Mayflower Compact and our constitutional, representative republic under law. Then we might try and salvage the next generation by demanding teachers teach our children real history with context, not the revisionist Soros kind, big on vitriol and ideology, but short on truth and reason. Much of what we’re hearing from these “students” out there destroying the tax-payer’s public property, is being fed to them by teachers and professors who grow more and more radical in their ideologies with each passing year, and who see their charge as “educators”, not to simply instruct our nation’s young people and prepare them for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, but rather brainwash and indoctrinate them into the appropriate Liberal/Progressive mindset, so they will make good Marxist agitators when it comes time to overthrow the country. And we could also stop voting for candidates who are products of the above mentioned “education” system and have no business representing a loaf of bread.

No my fellow patriots, fixing a mess that has very deep roots will not be easy, or quick. And addressing racism absolutely requires acknowledging that indeed ALL human life matters, and the real issue before us is one of equal opportunity for all Americans, not some cheesy slogan which on its face is divisive. And we must also accept the fact that all this will be difficult. But we have to try, as our children’s America is hanging precariously in the balance. “The Good News” is, the Founders were smart people. And the genius of the documents they penned, was the realization that all people are inherently selfish and self-centered, and that they will go to war with each other based on those emotions. Moreover, they understood that a governmental framework which recognized these basic human flaws would form the basis for that “more perfect union” for generations to come. It’s why our Constitution and Bill of Rights are so special and so important. It’s why we are nation of laws and not men, of order and not chaos, and it’s why what’s going on across the country today is so foreign and wrong in our collective view. Nevertheless, civil disobedience is in our national DNA, and not all protest and response to it will be “peaceable”. Our history does demonstrate that freedom, while essential, is difficult sometimes. But when civil disobedience turns to mob rule, autonomous zones, vandalism and the wanton murder of an innocent man protecting his business, by beating him to unconsciousness and then pummeling his head with bricks until he’s dead, it ceases to be anything resembling civil.

I’ve been sitting on these paragraphs for over a week now, working the words and phraseology so as to promote thoughtful and truthful debate, not angry partisan rhetoric. But as I survey the political landscape and listen to ignorant antagonists like BLM “President” Hawk Newsome talk about “burning down the system and replacing it”, I question whether or not there can even be constructive debate and discussion with someone like that. I think this is the most disconcerting part of the whole equation, having to admit that in many ways, confrontation and conflict may be inevitable.

To sum up, I knew my son would face turmoil in his time. I knew ideologies would clash in his America at some point. But never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the kind of mindless savagery taking place in my own time. Worse yet, some of the people we’ve elected to the halls of government have failed in their collective oaths to protect our Constitution and country. Some municipal and state government as well, have demonstrated their extraordinary capacity to not only over-tax and underperform, over generations leading up to the current pandemic, but then to bungle their responses while watching their cities and states attacked and burned by domestic terrorists, under the guise of race relations.

For my part, I have no choice but to fight for my son’s right to grow up in the America his grandfather fought for. I must put on the full armor of my Lord and Savior and seek peace where there doesn’t appear to be any, to reach out a hand, but know there may not be one on the receiving end at the moment. I must pray for the best but be prepared for the worst. I mustn’t shrink from my responsibilities and have faith in the truth of this nation, that while not perfect to be sure, is the greatest arrangement for mankind under God in all of human history. And that for all its flaws, my country and ALL of its people are deserving of my best efforts.

“These are the times that try men’s souls”. I’ve often wondered what was going through Thomas Paine’s mind when he wrote those words. I think I have some idea today…

God please bless and protect The United States of America, and God bless ALL of you.

 



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Justice for General Flynn, and shame on Congressman Cicilline…

Rhode Island’s 1st District Congressman David Cicilline recently commented on Attorney General Barr’s decision to drop the charges against General Michael Flynn, calling it an “outrageous decision and a miscarriage of justice”. To the Congressman, I would only say this. If you, as an attorney, (who acted as a public defender for a short time), cannot see the obvious and dangerous pattern of investigative and prosecutorial misconduct associated with the Justice Department’s case against General Flynn, AND, if you are so blinded by your political ideology and hatred of this duly elected President of The United States, that you cannot or will not acknowledge the stated intent of certain DOJ-FBI officials in their treasonous attempt to undo the 2016 Presidential Election, then you must proceed immediately to Georgetown University Law Center as well as Brown University and demand a full refund. It is striking to say the least Mr. Cicilline, how you pivoted so quickly to a career in politics…



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Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem…

The more I learn about the COVID19 pandemic, the CDC, NIAID and WHO, the more I’m starting to think things aren’t all they appear to be. Now I’m not suggesting the virus is a hoax, or promoting any other crackpot conspiracy theory. Nevertheless, the real numbers simply don’t justify the unprecedented response, both federally and at the individual state level. All the testing hype has only exacerbated the fact that we’re testing for the wrong thing, and that antibody testing is the only way to measure the true extent and spread of the infection. Many states are basing restrictions only on confirmed cases and associated deaths. But now were seeing those numbers challenged based on recording guidelines, insurance compensation incentives and just plain shoddy reporting. And frankly, the more I read about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the more I think there may be some competing agenda’s here, and that he may not be the microscope nerd I originally figured him for, but rather a cleaver profiteer with questionable relationships to big pharmaceutical companies and billionaire backers.

Look, I’m a type 1 diabetic and I understand the fear. But as more antibody tests are performed, and as we begin to see the players and understand their agenda’s, ideologies and backgrounds a bit more clearly, it’s becoming easier to see a scenario where some in this country might have a vested interest in keeping it locked down. In my view, we must open up and move forward now, if not for ourselves, for our children. Speed the science of therapeutics and vaccines and save the world as we’ve always done. But do not deny the obvious and undeniable consequences of keeping this free republic closed for business and vulnerable. To rob the next generation of their America is to truly be “selfish”.



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For every soldier who gave their last full measure fighting this evil monster!!!

It’s laughable, (but disconcerting), to hear Democrats on the one hand condemning Iranian General Qassem Soleimani for the trail of bodies he left behind, and on the other, condemning President Trump for finally doing what should have been done years and president’s ago.

The audacity of Democrat politicians and their co-conspirators in the press is largely incomprehensible. From the mouths of fools like MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who recently and recklessly compared the attacks on our embassy in Iraq to the glaring failures of the Obama/Clinton debacle in Benghazi, referring to the Baghdad protest as “Trump’s Benghazi”, to the Democrat hacks in Congress, who’ve consistently displayed an unprecedented and near treasonous approach to American affairs overseas, it should be obvious to any reasonable person that the Left in this country are so consumed with their hatred of this president, they are actually rooting for our enemies.

Look, Soleimani was an ideological monster with the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands, including many American fighting men and women. So what does it say about some in this country, when they can’t even take unqualified solace in the fact that he’s no longer a threat to collective humanity?



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Meanwhile…

I don’t remember a time when this nation has been so sharply divided. Now we can debate the reasons all day, but from this Conservative Constitutionalist’s perspective, there are some very obvious takeaways.

I voted for a Washington outsider in 2016, a businessman and patriot. I figured he’d shake things up and he has. He doesn’t do business like a politician and that’s a good thing. The extraordinary and unprecedented results are indisputable but for the purposely ignorant and hopelessly partisan. And for those folks, the thought of (five) more years of this president, and the possibility of a couple more SCOTUS picks is simply unacceptable.

Truth is, presidents hold back financial and other aid from countries for many reasons, including corruption on the receiving end. In this case, and whether Democrats like it or not, there’s a very real possibility the former VP and his son might just be knee deep in it.

In the end, impeachment was NOT the road to take regarding the Ukrainian matter, especially with zero support from the other side of the aisle. History will likely bear this out. In the shorter term however, Democrats will definitely pay a price at the polls in 2020.



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Worth Fighting For…

Our nation has come to many crossroads in the time since revolution. And from then until now, brave men and women have gone in harm’s way in our stead in order to preserve those unalienable rights, being “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. So I suppose my thoughts this Veterans Day weekend can be summed up this way. As we navigate yet another crossroad, one seemingly more consequential than any before, it seems the best way we may honor those who’ve worn and who continue to wear the uniform is to educate ourselves about our great republic. You see, it’s easy to watch the “fake news” every day and come away with a misinformed or worse yet, tainted view of America. But I submit to you this Veterans Day 2019, that if you step away from the so-called “mainstream” media, truly do your homework and apply the appropriate historical context, and if you don’t lie to yourself in order to make a particular/personal political agenda or ideology seem plausible, AND if you’re willing to concede that while there have been bumps along the way, the principles of our Constitution remain relevant and even more necessary than ever before, then you will come away knowing in your hearts and minds that in 243 years, the United States of America has done more good for the human condition than any nation in all history. Moreover, you will most assuredly recognize the urgency in ensuring our posterity know this as well. To all who have served, thank you will never be enough.



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By any means possible… (And then some)…

(From the PROJO, full version)

Democrats are now focused on reversing the results of the 2016 Presidential Election by way of a phony “impeachment inquiry”. In reality, the system worked as designed and the will of “We the People” was manifest in the swearing in of Donald J. Trump as 45th President of The United States. Nevertheless, the nation has witnessed the accelerated erosion of JFK’s Democrat Party into the stinking, socialist trash heap it’s become. Bent only on power and “fundamentally changing” this great experiment, (which has undeniably benefited human kind and promoted God-given freedom around the globe), these pandering reprobates will not rest until they’ve permanently dismantled the greatest nation the world has ever known.

In contrast, this no-nonsense/businessman POTUS has changed the conversation to one of America’s greatness. In doing so, he’s promoted the strongest economy in world history shouldering even more vitriol, as those who oppose him are threatened by his success. You see, more and more Americans have become wise to the very old ploy of the Left, that being big government, entitlements, and social justice as means to secure near limitless terms, shining the seats of power in DC with their pathetic asses. President Trump is a threat to that “deep state” mentality however, so what they failed to do to him at the ballot box in 2016, they’re now trying to do with the “politics of personal destruction” in 2020. This too I surmise, will fail. Because this president is not your typical Republican wuss, but every bit the fighter the people elected him to be, and clearly won’t be silenced by what can now only be described as the forces of evil.

So yes my fellow Americans, the 2020 election cycle will be the most important in the history of this nation and likely the world. Nearly gone now, are the generation who lived the history which defines us. Moreover, modern academia has failed our posterity miserably and is now in lock-step with the Left in their efforts to undo “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Thus it is left to patriots who haven’t forgotten the promise of freedom going back even to the puritans, to preserve what is good about America and push back against the forces that would destroy it. And if you take anything from this short read, let it be that this isn’t about the President or Congress per’se, but rather what kind of country we leave our children. And if we’re truly honest about the answer to that question, then a vote for the Democrat party in 2020 is most certainly the wrong vote.

 

 



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TRUTH!!!

From Mackubin Thomas Owens as printed in the NYT.

Well, it’s settled. Everything we thought we knew about the American Founding is wrong. The real Founding is not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or even the drafting of the Constitution in 1787. Instead, it is 1619 when the first slaves arrived in the settlement of Jamestown. Thus sayeth the 1619 Project of The New York Times, which seeks “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”

Of course, the 1619 Project merely regurgitates what has become the mainstream view of today’s Democratic Party. For instance, Beto O’Rourke said recently that “this country … was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today.” Bernie Sanders said earlier this year that the United States was “created” in large part “on racist principles.”

How did this calumny take root? The answer can be traced to the project of an Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci, the father of “cultural Marxism,” who in the 1930s called on socialists and communists to subvert Western culture from the inside in order to prepare the soil for the overthrow of liberalism. In the 1960s, the German activist Rudi Dutschke dubbed this project “the long march through the institutions.”

The success of this endeavor, especially in the academy, can be seen by the popularity of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” a disgraceful work filled with outright falsehoods, omissions, distortions of evidence, logical fallacies, plagiarism, and dubious sources. The book is such a travesty that even left-leaning historians have denounced it. Yet two generations of high school and college students have been marinated in this toxic stew, which advances the view that the United States is unjust and racist.

In 1776, slavery was a worldwide phenomenon. Indeed, it was Africans who sold other Africans into the Atlantic slave trade, the vast majority of whom were transported to South America. Muslims enslaved Europeans.

The United States was founded on a different principle, one that undermined the morality of slavery. The fact is that the principles of the Constitution are fundamentally anti-slavery. As James Madison noted, those present at the constitutional convention in 1787 “thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.”

Of course, those who argue that the American Founding was unjust point to the fact that the Constitution compromised on the issue of slavery. But people who assert this claim make the fundamental error of confusing the principles of the Constitution, which arise from the Declaration of Independence, with its compromises, in the absence of which, slave states very possibly would have created a polity wholly devoted to slavery.

One who recognized this point was Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist and former slave, who came to understand that without the Constitution — which he believed was fundamentally an anti-slavery document — and the Union it created, slavery would never have been ended in America.

Economists and historians have been exposing the shoddy scholarship that underpins the 1619 Project. But the real flaw in the project is its failure to recognize the role of the American Founding in the eventual abolition of slavery, at least in the West.

As the late Harry Jaffa once wrote, “It is not wonderful that a nation of slave-holders, upon achieving independence, failed to abolish slavery. What is wonderful, indeed miraculous, is that a nation of slave-holders founded a new nation on the proposition that ‘all men are created equal,’ making the abolition of slavery a moral and political necessity.”

Mackubin Thomas Owens, a monthly contributor, is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and editor of its journal, Orbis.



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Painful but true…

I suppose the question of, (was it too soon for Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson to tweet out his “painful take” on the shootings in El Paso and Dayton) is a valid one. Nevertheless, the near immediate and reprehensible Democrat response to these horrific acts of evil, does beg the expeditious clarity and reason of thoughtful people in response. Now I would agree we must first come together as human beings in the face of such inexplicable violence so we may properly grieve and reflect. But why do Liberals get a pass when running to the nearest microphone or cable news network to quickly exploit the dead and wounded? Why are their “opinions” and factually challenged narratives on the tongues of nearly every media desk jockey and their complicit news outlet, yet when someone has the intestinal fortitude to throw some truth and reason into the discussion, it’s condemned out of hand.

Well I have a flash for all of you. Dr. deGrasse, while likely burdened with the insensitivity commonly associated with higher education, is 100% correct. The Left in this country are counting on your emotions and not your reason. It’s what gets them elected. Moreover, deGrasse’s short tweet doesn’t even begin to address the myriad of additional facts and data which literally suck the argument right out of the anti-gun narrative. Make no mistake my friends, political charlatans like Robert Francis O’Rourke and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg are nothing more than opportunistic and disingenuous ideologues who recognize the value of exploitation in their quest to “fundamentally change” America.

Ultimately, the loss of any human life to mindless violence rakes at our hearts and begs answers. But I think the point deGrasse is trying to make, is knee-jerk and emotional reactions to complicated issues of the heart and of society as a whole, only exacerbate an already difficult situation. Legislating, absent fair-minded and fact based debate, is like taking cold medicine for cancer. As for me, and how I see these tragedies, the further we allow our elected officials to steer us away from God and the truth of our success as a nation and a people, the worse this will get. We are seeing this truth play out before our very eyes. Dismiss it at your own peril…

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There’s hope…

This young lady gets it! 

By Alyssa Ahlgren:

I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their Mac Book’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”

Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.

With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.

My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?



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Do you know why you’re celebrating???

I suspect that if you queried many folks along the parade route in downtown Bristol, Rhode Island during the nation’s oldest Independence Day parade and asked them to recite the second and most consequential line of the (Declaration of Independence), few could. Some in the crowd might not even know what Independence Day is. In fact, a politically bias press and vocal minority who claim tolerance but who are wholly intolerant have made great strides in both, painting America in the most negative light as well as dumbing down its posterity to the point of total ignorance when it comes to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. So as the greatest arrangement for mankind under God appears to be struggling under the weight of socialist forces that would destroy it, I leave you with the words of one of the Founders, men who sacrificed more than many will ever know so that “We the People” would be a free people. Wake up America. The clock is ticking…

John Adams, as he wrote it: “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not”.

As written:

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

 

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

 

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

 

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

 

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

 

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

 

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

 

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

 

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

 

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

 

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

 

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

 

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

 

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

 

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

 

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

 

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

 

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

 

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

 

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

 

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

 

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

 

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

 

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

 

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

 

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

 

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

 

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

 

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

 

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

 

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

 

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

 

Massachusetts:

John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

 

Rhode Island:

Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

 

Connecticut:

Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

 

New York:

William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

 

New Jersey:

Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

 

Pennsylvania:

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

 

Delaware:

Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

 

Maryland:

Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

 

Virginia:

George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

 

North Carolina:

William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

 

South Carolina:

Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

 

Georgia:

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

 

 

 



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The debate is over…

Disclaimer: I did not watch the debate last night. I simply couldn’t stand the incessant drumbeat of socialism masquerading as legitimate politics, which by the way, has now become the marching cadence for the Democrat Party. I did however, do my usual morning scan and read of the major media outlets and newspapers so I could get a feel for what I already knew would be more of the same, (big government and no way to pay for it). Oh, and with a “smidgeon” of progressive social justice just to make the abortion folks and their friends on the left feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

One thing did stand out though and I think we may all agree. No matter your politics, or degree to which you are engaged in the 2020 Election, and no matter who has your support if anyone at this stage, I think it’s fair to say the modern American news media is now solidly Democrat and even progressive in their view and presentation of the issues of our time. This is significant in that we may no longer look to them for the objectivity crucial to any meaningful debate, especially a political one inside a free republic. We will have to do all of our own homework going forward.

So I took to Google and YouTube today to reflect on debates past and the differences are striking. To be sure, politics has its ebb and flow. But the manner of questioning by the press is no longer about investigative journalism or fact finding, but rather simple endorsement of one particular ideology and it’s sad. For in a time when “truth and reason” could NOT be more important, our posterity are instead left with the void created by an obvious lack of either, and abandoned by the one outlet with the power to promote both.



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A generation apart from liberty…

By the time D-Day 1 had ended more than 7000 allied troops were dead, many of them young American soldiers with the whole of their lives in front of them. Back home in the states, young men committed suicide because they were not allowed to serve for medical or logistical reasons. Sad as this is, it was representative of a generation, shaped by the great depression and hardened by the struggles of the early 20th Century. These brave men (and women) stood in the face of unspeakable horror and were prepared to give their last full measure to preserve a hard fought freedom they understood well. For those who left and did not return, as well as their families, our simple gratitude seems small against their sacrifice. Nevertheless, we pause and mark their history so we may never have to sacrifice so much blood and treasure again in the name of God given and “unalienable” rights.

As for those of the current generation not serving or having served in uniform, but who might be called to defend our republic if need be, born of basic privilege they take for granted at every conceivable turn, and taught the alternate truth of “higher education”, what do you bring to the table of liberty and human freedom? What are you prepared to sacrifice for the greater good you pontificate about and preach to others? And what will you tell your children when they ask about D-Day and what it meant to America and the world? I thought so….



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Counsel gone rogue…

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a decorated war hero who also received the Purple Heart after being shot in Vietnam. He’s a registered Republican who promoted the WMD hypothesis to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which we now know turned out to be a fairly accurate assessment. His service and career are essentially unblemished, thus I’ve been hesitant to jump on the hate Mueller band-wagon.

However the laws governing his appointment as Special Counsel as well as his submission of findings concerning collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia and the broader obstruction of justice assertion, seem to indicate he favors partisan political interference over equal justice under the law.

In his “retirement” speech recently, a clearly stressed Mueller appeared to abdicate his duties to Congress, that they should pursue a hoax perpetrated by certain political types in very powerful positions unwilling to accept the will of the American people in 2016. In an absolute mangling of the role and reasoning of the Special Counsel’s Office, Mueller turned “insufficient evidence” into “not innocent”, ignored real Russian collusion with the Clinton Campaign and basically green-lighted impeachment hearings while washing his hands of the whole sorted affair.

To be sure, I dread impeachment for our successful president and his family. Nevertheless, it will likely mean the end of the Democrat-Party as we know it, and not a moment too soon.

 



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Class of 2019, where are you???

Every American generation had its trials and patriots of consequence who rose to meet the challenges of the time. From the fields of Lexington to the stairwells of the Twin Towers, men and women who value this nation beyond its faults have given their last full measure in the name of our collective posterity. They, as well as those who embraced the tenets of “life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, understood that while America like all nations, will always strain under the weight of human transgression, the words in our founding documents set us apart from the tyrannies of history.

For “We the People” of the 21st Century however, our “trial” seems to be an obvious lack of the aforementioned courage of conviction. All around us we hear the incessant drum beat of feigned outrage and self-validation, while free speech is first qualified and morality re-defined in the name of political correctness. Moreover, those we elect to be watchdogs over our liberty are either ideologically warped, ignorant of true history, or simply purchased by the highest bidder. Where are our heroes?

This is not to say there aren’t still brave men and woman on the front lines, defending their foolish compatriot’s right to wear the black mask of cowardice and whine about this or that. But what of hard work, family and faith? What about “United we stand, divided we fall”? What about understanding your nation and its heritage before screaming about things you’re completely ignorant of? Oh, and what about truth? Does truth matter any longer, or is it the new hate speech?

All valid questions as we seek to do as our parents sought to do before us, that being leave a better nation for our children. Or maybe that’s not what we do any longer…? Wake up, oh sleeping America…



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What’s all the whoopla???

There is certainly room for interpretation regarding the disclosure of Grand Jury Testimony or classified information by the Justice Department. There is also room for discussion about the recklessness of Congress regarding the leaking of such information, which might damage an individual’s reputation, business or even the national security of The United States in order to forward a clearly political agenda. Nevertheless, the essence and alleged purpose of the “Mueller report” seems somewhat obscured by all the Liberal press whoopla over its content at the moment.

Ultimately, for me as a taxpayer concerned about his son’s America, there are only three questions. 1. Did the Trump Campaign collude with Russia in order to impact the 2016 Presidential Election? Answer: Based on the evidence, NO. 2. Was there an effort by (certain upper echelon members of the Justice Department, the FBI) and the Clinton Campaign to manipulate the investigative process, to include foreign espionage, deceiving (and/or colluding with) the FISA Court in order to create the illusion of impropriety on behalf of the Trump Team, AND should those responsible now be investigated? Answer: Based on the evidence, YES. And finally, 3. Why in the world were so many tax-payer dollars spent on a special counsel to investigate something that any reasonable person with a modicum of common sense could have figured out inside of 15 minutes? Answer: I don’t know



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Vote Democrat 2020!!!

We rarely win in the arena of ideas or on the merits of our arguments. We claim tolerance but are clearly intolerant. We exercise our First Amendment rights but harass others attempting to exercise theirs, (especially when they have a differing view-point). We restructure and revise our nation’s history and shout down the truth. We abhor labels but label those who oppose us, and we tend to personify what we rail against. We lecture on hate and violence but are often the greater offenders, behind the historical black mask of cowardice. We defend life when it suits our politics but slaughter the innocent in the name of “reproductive rights”, and we abandon our collective faith in favor of those who would destroy all of us in the name of theirs.

Who are we? Answer: The new Democrat Party…



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The New Democrat Party…

They cannot compete in the arena of ideas and refuse to debate on the merits of their arguments, as those arguments often run counter to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Frankly, it’s hard to imagine Democrats now stand for anything resembling the founding principles which made this nation unique and exceptional. So in the absence of a winning strategy, or a candidate who can connect with the electorate outside of the East/West coast Progressive sewers, radical Liberals vying for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination have decided to go nuclear with rallying cries like: “do away with the electoral college”, “release state delegates to vote for whomever they choose”, “lower the voting age to 16” and “let illegals vote”.

We simply cannot ignore the truth any longer my friends. The Democrat Party has lurched left in dramatic fashion with even its more centrist members now mostly silent in their dissent. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have made it fashionable within the ranks to disregard their oaths of office and attack the one document that sets us apart from a world in turmoil, the United States Constitution. In their relentless pursuit of power and control, they ‘ve borrowed a poison page from history and are prepared to lay waste to your children’s future if need be. These are the new Democrats. Do not ignore them…



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The Devaluation of Humanity…

I stood clear of the abortion debate when I was younger, as folks very close to me identified with the “choice” side of the argument and I elected not to engage them. I should’ve been more vocal about the truth. Nevertheless, I believe much of what is troubling our great nation has its roots in the perpetual devaluation of human life. When you couple modern media (and the press) with the factual aspects of what abortion actually is, it’s much easier to understand our current posture.

Now I agree there is an unfortunate political debate to be had regarding Roe V. Wade. That aside, the matter of “abortion up until birth” is really quite simple. No reasonable person can validate or otherwise legitimize the killing of a human baby, whether by way of surgical instrument or simple medical neglect. I’m sorry, but we will not relieve you of your God-given conscience by way of legislation or news media smoke and mirrors. Infanticide is self-explanatory and is a crime against humanity, period end. Moreover, when a political party or entity endorses or ignores the truth of such a horrific crime, they are complicit in the ruination of everything and anything good we have ever stood for in this country.

 



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The right deal or no deal…

The abrupt end to the second North Korean Summit will likely be portrayed as a defeat for President Trump by a House of Representatives and press more concerned with his political (and personal) destruction than with our nations safety and security. However, reading between the lines is essential to understanding the ebb and flow of politics, both in the U.S. and abroad. I believe President Trump walking away from table in Vietnam showed the rock-solid negotiating skill set needed for such critical moments, as well as the dedication to our collective posterity he has in his heart as he begins each day in office.

In the face of orchestrated and frankly unprecedented political attacks, along with Democrat vitriol the likes of which we haven’t seen in American politics, President Trump probably sensed the North Korean leader might have seen him as weakened by the turmoil on Capitol Hill, making him more likely to accept a lesser deal, or even concede economic sanctions in order to bolster his political posture at home.

In the end however, 45 once again demonstrated the difference between himself and the Swamp Democrats, (and Republicans), that being his willingness to put his country and its people first, every time.



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History (is) For Dummies…

History is the great educator, should we choose to embrace its lessons. The first two decades of the 21st Century have ushered in the consequences of raising a generation, educated by fools, absent the guidance of dying heroes and unwilling to heed any historical context or reason. Thus, the 2018 midterm elections gave us the confused ramblings of an upstart “Millennial” congresswoman who lacks even the most basic understanding of this constitutional republic, and who has already been anointed the new standard bearer for the Democrat Party by a free press which has its own issues with truth and facts.

To be clear, the by-products of socialism are not even debatable my friends. To challenge this is simply denial, vanity and/or a simple aversion to truth. Nevertheless, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) have submitted an undeniably socialist in its content resolution, dubbed “the green new deal” for consideration in the United States House of Representatives. The resolution proposes legislation that would certainly cripple our national economy and destroy the nation as we know it today. Unsustainable “Medicare for all” style healthcare, an unachievable net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by 2030, stifling business regulations, government takeovers of major utility interests, and tax codes which would punish success and completely suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit that allowed a single nation to inspire and lift up the world, are just some of the plans they no longer speak of behind closed doors for fear of political ridicule.

Now you can go ahead and read the resolution as I have and we may debate individual aspects of it. However, the reality is the Democrat Party has been infiltrated by a group of aspiring young and radical socialists, who like a certain former president, have chosen a road of denial for convenience, not unlike the one I described in the first paragraph. And in their ideological minds, there is no debate. This is not the traditional right vs left argument any longer, so much as it is an argument over “fundamentally changing” this country, the early results of which have been a growing divide amongst the populous the likes of which we’ve never seen. Moreover and more regrettably, in the shadow of modern socialism’s failures 1700 miles south of Miami and historical letters which spell out a dire warning like a neon Las Vegas billboard, elected representatives and senators on Capitol Hill sat on their hands and hissed like partisan serpents when the President of the United States emphatically stated that the U.S. would never be a socialist nation, during his recent State of the Union address.

In the end, and by no means do I say this lightly, I believe we are facing the greatest existential threat we’ve ever faced as a people and as a nation, not necessarily from invasion or physical attack, as we’ve faced down in the past at great cost, but rather from within, an organized and long growing effort to snuff out and replace the greatest arrangement for human kind in all God’s world and time. So significant is this threat that it will truly require our extraordinary due diligence and intellectual honesty beyond anything we are seeing in Washington, to overcome this new and unprecedented political reality. Our young children will learn of the battles to come in their day and we must absolutely be victorious for their sake and for the sake of their children. You know, a great president once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”. He was correct. Just the other night another great president said, “We were born free and we will stay free”. He too was correct…

Where do you stand at this critical juncture??

Think this is a little melodramatic? Check back with me next year at this time and we’ll talk…



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What would JFK do???

When I was growing up, I always thought Democrats were supposed to be champions of the little guy and defenders of humanity. I remember idolizing our martyred 35th president and wondering why my dad hated Democrats so much. Well, like many Republicans my age, it took a while, (and a hefty dose of reality), to realize many Democrats were full of crap and a bunch of hypocrites who ultimately set the table for the radical takeover we’re seeing today. But I believe it’s much worse than that. There’s an ideological struggle for the soul of this nation going on that many didn’t see coming and frankly, never would have imagined. Mind you, I’m just theorizing here, but I believe President Kennedy would have been speechless listening to the ignorant rantings of an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Rashida Tlaib. He would have likely embraced the “me too” movement, but firmly condemned the abortion law recently signed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Moreover, it’s even more likely that JFK the war hero, who was no stranger to the courage and sacrifice necessary to preserve our liberty and way of life, would have been sickened by the messaging and agenda of his beloved Democrat Party and what that messaging and agenda would mean for his children and grandchildren in their time.

Be under no illusions fellow Americans. We are living through unprecedented and extraordinarily dangerous times and our young ones coming of age are wondering if they will ever know the country of their fathers and grandfathers… Let that sink in…



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