The lunacy of virtually every presidential hopeful on the Democratic Party’s side of the political ledger grows exponentially daily.  It is beyond my ability to comprehend how any rational thinking American who actually works for a living and pays taxes could support them.  I can understand how those on the government dole, those who refuse to work, are filled with greed, envy, and a sense of entitlement can embrace their plans but not working Americans.  If you pay taxes, how could you support a Party that wants to take more and more of your hard-earned income and redistribute it to those who do not work?

If you scream it is compassion and benevolence, then be compassionate and benevolent and engage in personal and private charity.  That is your right and something I would applaud, because it is something I believe in and do. However, it is not the right or the responsibility of the federal or state government to provide a living for anyone.  It is the responsibility of individuals, churches, and charitable organizations. 

There is no constitutional provision for the that endeavor to be pursued or fulfilled by the government.  Yet, today, we are told that it is our duty to provide and their right to sit on their backsides, do nothing while drawing a comfortable living from their government entitlements.  Where are the modern-day Madison’s, Jefferson’s, Franklin’s, and Washington’s?  We need some modern-day patriots with backbones to step up!

Elizabeth Warren, who is rising in the polls on the Democrat side of the political equation has offered an economic plan that even the uber leftists CNN admits will destroy our economy.  If it is that bad and that obvious, how do working and taxpaying Americans still support her or her party?  That is more than the sixty-four thousand dollar question it may be the question of the ages.

I had to laugh when she ranted about her ability to foresee our economic future and declared that there was an impending implosion coming and her plan would, like Mighty Mouse, save the day.  Yep, immediately following her dire warning of an economic crash she began calling for Free Everything.  She wants free college, a minimum wage that would destroy entire industries, more Dodd-Frank regulations imposed on banks, and a mountain of other free stuff.  Yep, Senator Warren, that would fix our economy if by fix you mean destroy beyond repair.

Apparently, Senator Warren and the other Democratic hopefuls do not consider spending the country into the abyss of financial oblivion a matter to be concerned with.  After all, it’s only money, right?  I am incensed at both Republicans and Democrats who seem to have to no willingness to curb spending, reduce the deficit, and deal with the national debt.  Senator Warren’s plan would require two-prongs of destruction that no freedom-loving American should endorse.  It would require massive tax increases and printing more money further devaluing our current monetary standing.  Nice, Senator, if you call lunacy nice and desirable.

Then we have a member of the ‘Squad’ of apocalyptic intent, Rashida Talib of Michigan who has gone beyond Bernie Sanders and other Democrats and called for a $20 per hour minimum wage.  She is not a presidential candidate but a member of the Leftists Party and she calls that a ‘fair wage.’  Seriously? 

Your economic savvy, Congresswoman, is closely aligned with that of the other liberal Democrats and especially that astute economist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.  Wow!  I guess she believes that losing over a million jobs by such actions would be a good thing and spur the economy and boost jobs in America.  The $15 per hour minimum wage proposed, according to the Congressional Budget Office would eliminate about 1.3 million jobs.  Congresswoman Talib’s plan would make that seem like a Sunday picnic and destroy even more.  Hey, Congresswoman and Democrats, why not make it $50 per hour and I’ll come out of retirement to flip burgers for that.

The minimum wage was never designed or intended to provide a ‘living wage’ it was a minimum and provide entry-level opportunities for people.  Putting millions out of work is not providing a living wage it is destroying any hopes of living outside the government dole.  Wait, maybe that is the plan?  Maybe the design is to entrap as many people as possible on the government dole so that they will vote properly to keep those checks coming in.  Maybe that is the real plan.  I don’t like calling people stupid or ignorant but if you buy that plan or any of the economic plans being offered by the Democrats you just might want to pick up your sign and wear it. 

On the other side of the equation, there is President Trump, the much-hated president by those on the Left and some on the Right, seeking to close the loophole that allows Illegals to be on the food-stamp roll.  His plan, if enacted could remove about 3.1 million illegals from the food-stamp program and save the taxpayers over $2.5 billion annually.  I say a hearty, Amen!  Do it, Mr. President, do it!

Some government programs, such as the food-stamp program were to be ‘temporary safety nets’ for people while they got back on their feet.  It has become a permanent government entitlement and, in the minds of some, their right.  I go back to the words of the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “if any would not work, neither should he eat.”  The operative words are ‘would not’. 

There are far too many willing to sit on their butts and receive a hand-out not expecting to be expected to make it a hand-up and actively seek a job.  That must end and it is time for ‘tough love’ to be applied and ‘economic sanity’ to be employed in America.  We are moving forward, God help us if we allow the Democrats to take us backward into the economic calamity of the Obama era.

God bless you and God bless America!  Let’s keep America the land of the Free (not Free Stuff) and the Home of the Brave, where everyone has the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!  Vote No on the Democrats in November of 2020.

I am cognizant that my position and postulations will possibly render me persona non grata with some people.  In fact, it may cause me to lose friends and diminish my influence in some circles.  Some may consider my position going too far and others may consider it not going far enough.  But, to preface all that I hope to convey, each of us can think, form opinions, and develop beliefs.  Those thoughts, opinions, and beliefs are the bedrock of our lives and shape our principles and ideological views.  In short, they make us who we are and who we are will not please everyone.  If everyone were exactly the same, some of us would be unnecessary.  I believe you are necessary and valuable whether we agree or not.

I keep hearing arguments from many sectors and segments of society insisting that our current president, Donald J. Trump must go.  There are many factors that cause them to feel that way that it would be impossible to sufficiently detail.  Some are rooted in preference, some in ideology, some in partisan politics, and some in a belief that all things political are merely cyclical and not dire.  I happen to disagree with the last view and while I do believe politics like all of life is cyclical, I do believe the condition we find ourselves in today’s America is dire. 

Some believe it is dire because Trump is the president and therefore, he must go.  I believe it is dire because of the ideological agenda of the Left and they must be defeated.  I believe that we are on the brink of political cataclysm and we are truly fighting for our survival and our Republic. 

I have never argued that President Trump is a Conservative.  He was not prior to becoming a Republican and I do not believe he is today.  However, he has advanced more conservative causes than did George W. Bush, the previous Republican president.  No, he has not advanced all the conservative and constitutional things I would personally like to see, but he is dramatically different and demonstrably more supportive of the Constitution than anyone on the Left. 

I believe President Trump is a pragmatist and a businessman.  He is and will always be a “shoot from the lip” type person who when pushed pushes back.  It may not always be with the class or the demeanor that many would prefer but we have had some incredibly colorful presidents in our history and none of them have experienced the hate, this president has endured.  He does not play by the standardized political rules largely written or unwritten by the Democrats, the Media, and Hollywood. 

But, talking about Trump’s personality, his tweeting, his verbal explosions, or anything of the sort, is not what I am addressing.  I am concerned about the future and the survival of our Constitutional Republic and Representative System of Government.  I am concerned with Free Market Capitalism vs Socialism.  I am concerned about Liberty vs Tyranny.  I am concerned with America!

I have heard the argument that it is mandatory that the Republican Party be decimated to the point it becomes extinct in order to save the Republic.  I must ask, “What is there in the Democrat Agenda and Ideology that makes you think we can survive if they win power?”  I would also ask, “How is Trump more a threat to our Constitution and Republic than the Proposed Agenda of the Democrats?” 

If the Left regains control of the government and the Republican Party becomes extinct, is there enough time to form and establish a viable Party to replace them and stop the train-wreck of the Left?  I think not, but some do.  I believe that it is a flawed philosophy to seek to wreck the Republican Party believing that the Democrats will not destroy the country.

Do we really want to trust the Democrats to use any measure of restraint in advancing their ideological agenda?  Do we want to risk the probability of them attempting to or suspending our inalienable right of self-defense and our right of freedom of speech?  Before you argue they cannot or will not do that let me offer a few thoughts and you decide.

If they regain control of the government what will prevent them from packing the Supreme Court with liberal activist jurist who disavow the principles of the Constitution?  We have already seen the Constitution shredded by liberal activist judges. 

The Obama administration ignored the law, cherry-picked the laws they would obey or disobey, and the liberal activist judges frequently backed them.  Do we truly want to risk that?  Do we want to face exorbitant taxation which they have all vowed to impose upon us?  Do we want to see our healthcare system destroyed via Medicare for All or Government-run healthcare, which they all support?  Do we want open borders, which they all support?  Do we want Socialism, which they all support in some fashion? 

I believe the risks are too great and seeing the damage of eight years of Obama and the escalation of their overt actions of destruction today, there is too much at stake to allow them to win.  We are more aware of the depth of the Swamp and the expansiveness of the Deep State than ever. Therefore, we should be very cautious!  You may detest Donald J. Trump, but I hope you love America enough to see the danger of the Leftist Agenda.  I would love to have a president that held the same Constitutional and Conservative values as I, but I haven’t seen one in my 50 years of voting. 

Therefore, I will vote to stop the Democrats because I believe the risk is too great to do otherwise!  I do not like everything this president does or how he does some things, but I do like many things he has and is doing.  The threat to our Republic is too great for me to be complicit in allowing the Democrats to regain power.  I recognize the danger and the damage they will or have promised to do.  They will expand upon Obama’s promise or threat to ‘fundamentally transform’ America.  I love America too much to run that risk.

God bless you and God bless America!

“I hate therefore I am!”  Well, it is more than hate, their mantra and ideological position appear to be, “I hate America, want to fundamentally transform it into a third-world country, and destroy its foundation.  Therefore, I am!”  I’m sure that social media and some who are securely in bed with the Leftists mentality and some who insist that we must never call out evil will take offense. 

I have Christian friends who insist that I must refrain from calling the evil of today’s Leftist agenda evil because it is somehow not Christian to do so.  I am limitedly amused at that statement and resoundingly in disagreement.  Jesus did not sit in silence while the temple was being corrupted, he threw the violators out.  How do those modify or reinterpret Isaiah 5:20, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” 

There are countless other verses and biblical examples that could be used but I end my Bible quotations with Ezekiel 33:9, “Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.”   I learned early in life that ‘birds of a feather truly do flock together.’  I learned that evil associations corrupt the thinking and encourage abandonment of moral and ethical principles. 

The ‘Squad’ of Democrats made up of Ocasio-Cortez, Talib, Pressley, and Omar appear to be the new face of the Democrat Party in America.  They are devotedly anti-Semitic.  They are all proponents of Open Borders.  They are all Socialist or anti-Capitalist.  They are desirous of the complete dismantling of our Constitutional Republican System of Government and the imposition of something more akin to Leninism, Marxism, Socialism, Sharia Law or other forms of government.  They are all adept at playing the ‘Race Card’ and playing the victim. 

The New Mantra of the Left affords them the forum, and platform to spew forth their vitriolic hate but no one dares question or criticize them.  If you question them, you are immediately labeled a Racist.  Today’s Republicans, in Washington and those many who have a national platform, are terrified of that charge.  That’s one of the reasons so many of the Republicans were negative in President Trump’s tweets as he called them out.  Again, I am not trying to be a Trump apologist and certainly do not ascribe to the view that he can do no wrong.  He can, he does, and he will, we all do!

The problem with the mentality advanced and embraced by these women in Congress and others so vocal is the absence of appreciation for our Republic.  Many if not all of the Democrats wanting to be President believe that America was founded on evil principles, pursued evil agendas, and must be made to pay for her sins.  President Trump has demonstrated, from the beginning, that he has zero concern about receiving criticism for his positions and calling out the un-Americanism of many on the Left.  I may not like all he does or the way he says what he says, but I agree with addressing the total destruction they espouse. 

The problem with many of those seeking to come to America today, both legally and illegally is they have no intent or desire to assimilate.  They have no desire to further our system of government, they only want the economic benefits afforded in America. 

Those here illegally are sending billions of dollars home to their native countries.  That money could be aiding American families, but those jobs and wages are being diverted to Mexico, Central and South America, African countries, and many other locals.  The money is helping the economies of those nations but draining America because those here illegally are, frequently, receiving entitlements, welfare benefits, free healthcare, and much more.  We are paying for them to support their nation of birth or nationality. 

The President’s act of calling them out has somewhat rallied the Democrats into a position of defending them.  I believe that the result of that act by the Left will be that ‘The Squad’ and those of their ilk will become the policymakers of the Democratic Party going forward.  People like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, and other less radical Democrats of the past will be forced into retirement. 

The War on Christianity, Israel, Republican Democratic Rule, and Capitalism will escalate.  The censorship will not only increase but become the accepted norm.  The War on our 2^nd Amendment Rights, our Freedom of Speech, and the Traditional Family will become overt, not covert.  The quest for a gender-neutral society, the push for reparations, and the suppression of whites, especially white males will become rallying cries for the activist.  Our current course is a collision course with bloodshed and that I want to avoid, if possible.

President Trump has forced the Democrats back together and made the choice not simply binary but the difference between maintaining our Constitutional Freedoms and Inalienable Rights and losing them.  His action was a calculated risk and if the Democrats rally together around the Mantra and fully expose their Ideological Positions of Radical Liberalism, America just might wake up. 

I love America.  I love God.  I love my Family.  I love my Freedom.  I am not suggesting that anyone reading this does not.  What I am pleading for is that we honestly evaluate the positions of those on the Left and those on the Right and ask, “What direction do we really want to take?”  I ask that we consider the true benefits of our Free Market System, and Republican Form of Government as opposed to the abject failure and tyrannical despotism of Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and Fascism. 

The Elections of 2020 are not Trump vs the Democratic Candidate, they are about maintaining our Freedoms or losing them.  You and only you can make the choice and I pray you choose wisely.

God bless you and God bless America!

The more I review and muse on the political landscape of today’s American politics, the more some conclusions are solidified in my mind.  I have studied our historic founding, the fight for Freedom in the American Revolution, the struggle for identity and producing a viable and lasting constitution, and our national direction.  In those studies, I have often wondered what our Framers and Founders would think of today’s America politically.  I believe I can answer that reasonably decidedly.  You may or may not agree but let’s give it a go.

First, what was the vision and desire of the Framers of the presidency?  What did they want in a President?  Someone asked, “Would Donald John Trump be their worst nightmare or exactly what they envisioned?”  I suspect a little of both but let me get to the heart of my commentary.  Again, you may agree with my analysis or disagree fiercely, but it is my view and I only ask you to hear me out before kicking me to the curb or giving me an amen.  As Ecclesiastes 12:13 recommends, let’s hear the conclusion of the whole matter.

The Founders and Framers were almost unanimous in their choice of our first president.  It would be General George Washington.  He had weathered the storms of difficulty in holding together the Continental Army, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and was a successful businessman.  He was, in my view, a successful president and chose wise and capable men to serve in his cabinet.  Two men, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, provided tremendous insight and stability to the fledgling nation in its infancy.

Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury put the new nation’s finances in order.  Tragically we have had few Hamilton’s since and our finances are in total disarray today.  I can only imagine what he would say if he could address our fiscal condition, but I am certain it would not be complimentary.  Thomas Jefferson, the Secretary of State helped to establish our standing among the nations of the world.  That was no small task, considering that we were upstarts and were breaking the old, world order’s unwritten pecking order.

Both Hamilton and Jefferson had somewhat checkered pasts. Hamilton’s temper ultimately brought about his death at the hands of Aaron Burr in a duel.  Hamilton also weathered a blackmail scandal due to unwise coquetry.  Jefferson confessed to having, “offered love to a handsome lady” not his wife. 

Let’s make some comparisons and this is where you may or may not agree with me.  If you are adamantly ‘anti-Trump’ you will protest.  If you are on the fence, you may or may not agree.  If you are a Trump supporter, the Amen chorus will echo so loudly people in Europe will hear. 

Hamilton and Trump both succeeded in placing America’s financial situation on much more solid footing.  Jefferson achieved some significant victories in foreign affairs as has Trump.  Yes, Trump has, despite the claims of the Left and the Media otherwise.  He has also avoided military engagements abroad.  The Democrats chanted that Trump was sending us to war with China, North Korea, Iran, and even Russia but alas he has kept the peace and sought the pathway of diplomacy much to their chagrin.

The closest of the three to being a career politician was Jefferson but Jefferson was more than a politician.  He was a plantation owner, a noted scholar, a tremendous author, and an inventor worthy of note.  One of the consummate fears of the Founders and Framers was that the new Republic would fall prey to factions in government and political elitism would prevail.  They offered safeguards and warnings to prevent an oligarchy of elitists and attempted to guarantee that ‘we the people’ would not lose control and oversight of the government.  Their warnings were not heeded, and their safeguards bypassed, leading to today’s political America.

In many ways, Trump is exactly what they envisioned, and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic acolytes of destruction are the opposite.  Donald Trump’s promise to ‘drain the swamp’ resonated with millions of Americans and most of us translated that to mean a return to ‘self-government’ and the end of ‘Statism and administrative rule.’  More could have been done, had the Republican Establishment kept their promise to the voters, but some has been done and much has been attempted.

What we need is for more of us to take up the challenge and embrace our constitutional responsibility in fighting to rid ourselves of the National Professional Political Parasites now serving in Washington.  We dare not lose sight of what has been done as well as what is left to do and reinvigorate our resolve to fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom in America. 

Old Joe Biden wants to take us back to the disastrous policies of the Obama era.  He wants to restore the old, world order and strip from us the progress we have made under this administration.  He wants to return us to the very thing that we elected Donald J. Trump to rid us of. 

I suspect that Jefferson and even Hamilton would be in favor of much of what Trump has done and is trying to do.  James Madison famously declared, “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”  Jefferson’s well-known quote is alarmingly apropos today.  He said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” 

I do not want a shooting revolution, but I do want a resounding defeat of the Left in November 2020.  If you will, I see Trump’s victory in 2016 somewhat of a Jeffersonian rebellion.  We have accomplished some, but there is much to be done.  

God bless you and God bless America!

It’s been a while since I’ve ranted about Agenda 21 and the United Nations Globalist objective of World Government and Utopian Control, but let’s approach it regarding ‘Climate Change’ or whatever the identifying term is today.  History reveals that Europe has provided the world with some very undesirable gifts.  Those would be Fascism, Communism, and Nazism.  Oh, I’m not blaming everyone in Europe for those but that is where they arose and were the birthplace from which they have furrowed destruction throughout the world. 

Today, the incessant and scientifically unverified paranoia over ‘Climate Change’ is the face of a much darker purpose.  It is one of the tools being used by Globalist to advance their agenda and objective of Control.  The government regulations designed to achieve greater energy efficiency are both costly and ineffective.  The more the government, any government, regulates the more it controls.  The more it controls the less freedom we have and more of our money they confiscate.  All under the guise of ‘Saving the Planet.’ 

When I view the world of economics and finance, as I do from time to time, I find some perplexing revelations.  I am at a loss to understand, other than their quest for power and control, why anyone in America would want to copy Europe economically or even governmentally.  Why?  Statistical data confirms that the GDP in the United States is 5 times that of Germany, 7 times that of France and the United Kingdom, 10 times that of Italy, and 14 times that of Spain.  How are those economic models better than what we have?  Yet, the Democrats and sadly some Republicans want to make us more like Europe economically and even governmentally.

The answer, I believe, lies in one word – Control.  The more they can force us to practice Europe’s ‘Control-down Economics’ the easier we are to be placed under their thumbs and controlled.  Is that what Americans really want?  Only those who do not think and by the fallacies of socialism and liberalism.  Anyone who has carved out a comfortable lifestyle and economic nest egg wants no part of the agenda of the leftist.  How have millions become so deceived with the romanticizing of the European model? 

Many of the efficiency standards and regulations imposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) have been more detrimental than helpful and incredibly costly for the consumer.  A small price to pay to protect the planet, right?  If we were truly protecting the planet that might have some validity.  The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 contains some interesting provisions that few know about.  That Act contains the provision of protecting consumers from efficiency standards that reduce product features and performance.  Wow!  Who knew? 

In March 2018, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned the Department of Energy to set a new standard.  The DOE granted that petition this year and has begun the long laborious governmental process of determining whether a new efficiency rule is warranted that would permit the production of dishwashers that can do the job in an hour rather than the two or three hours required by the regulated energy-efficient models.  There is much more work to be done and hopefully, with Trump in the White House, the DOE will consider more and more of the overly restrictive regulations in other areas.

Agenda 21 and the Sustainable Development Agenda has a long-range plan to force us into public transportation and out of our cars.  They want to force us into Urban living with restrictive travel options.  In short, they want to dictate every detail of our lives.  Ultimately that will include when and how we die.  I am horrified by their objective and even more horrified by the millions that believe it to be a good and noble effort.  After all, the Liberal Leftists insist, ‘We must save the planet.’  What if it is not in danger and does not need to be saved from man?

The City of Portland, Oregon created an ‘equitable mobility’ task force.  What was their assignment?  Investigate and offer plans to charge people for using local roads.  There is a hidden agenda.  The stated objective is to reduce carbon emissions and congestion on the city streets.  They are expecting as many as half a million new residents by 2040.  Their desire, as stated by Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, the overseer of the transportation bureau is to ‘get people out of their cars.’  There you have it.  Those dastardly evil cars and the freedom they provide must be eliminated.  If that is not Control what is it?

I have long contended that automobiles enable us to be more productive, live in less dense environments, and provide expanded work opportunities for people.  Americans do not live, as do our European counterparts in cramped urban metro-centers.  Yes, places like NYC and a few others do but millions across this expansive and great land do not.  We do not all live in areas or environments that make taking the bus, train, or bike feasible.  The time factor alone for trying to navigate public transportation or riding 40 miles to work is a deal breaker for most Americans. 

Cities across this land are reducing the number of vehicle lanes by expanding dedicated bike lanes trying to force us to ride bikes rather than drive our cars.  They are further escalating the congestion problem because rather than giving up our cars we endure the hours-long commutes and curse the politicians and city planners who devise these schemes.  Of course, bike enthusiasts and global warming activist are elated and fail to fully grasp the objective of control.

Today, the PC Police want to censor and regulate all speech.  God forbid that anyone holding Christian views should speak publicly on matters citing the Bible as their reference and guide.  God forbid that anyone wanting fiscal sanity in government should speak and reveal the dangers of entitlements and uncontrolled spending should voice those views publicly.  God forbid that anyone wanting to secure our borders, preserve our national sovereignty, and advance conservative ideas should speak openly.  Hate speech has become any speaking by a Christian, traditional family supporter, pro-life, conservative and constitutionalist.  Hate speech has become any speech the liberal leftist hate and worthy of the severest of punishment.

God help us if we do not realize that Control is the real objective and that politicians are not our friends.  Even those that go to Washington professing to believe what we believe and want to protect and defend the constitution fail us.  I don’t know what happens but as one Congressman told me, “You have to give to get, so we compromise.”  My concern is not compromising but the abandonment of the promises made to the voters that elected them.   Are we going to wake up?  I don’t know, but I continue to pray and fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom!  Join the fight, please!

God bless you and God bless America!

Before I launch into my private rant and in a limited fashion detail what I am talking about I must ask, “How Much Destruction of the Republic Is Worth Satisfying Your Hate?”  I am speaking to people on the Right, on the Left, and those supposedly in the Middle, if there is a Political Middle today.  It is my view that when hate and the thirst for vengeance or revenge become the prime objective everybody loses, and nobody wins.  In my life I have witnessed people, proverbially, cutting off their noses to spite their faces.  I ask, “Is or Was it Worth It?”  I suspect the truth is, NO!

There are some people I call friends who are adamantly anti-Trump to the point they voted for Hillary and voted for Democrats in 2018. They have vowed to vote for whomever the Democrat is in 2020 in opposition to Trump.  They hate Trump that much!  It has far more to do with who he is than what he has done or stands for.  They are willing to ignore the warts, flaws, and anti-American sentiment expressed in the ideological agenda of those following the toxicity of liberalism and socialism, but not any flaws in Trump’s demeanor.  One of them said, “I’d vote for the devil himself before I’d vote for the devil Donald Trump.”  I was flabbergasted at that declaration and the shortsightedness of it.

As the 2016 presidential campaign developed some of the Trump antagonists attempted to join forces with the Democrats to defeat him.  Bill Kristol, the de facto head of the NeverTrump, Inc., proclaimed he was building an army and funding a ‘war machine’ to take down Trump in 2020.  He failed in 2016 and is failing in his attempt regarding 2020.  Many of them have been as vocal as the Democrats in promoting the fallaciousness of Trump’s Russian collusion and ignored the involvement of the Democrats in that faux intelligence.  The Steele dossier was a fabrication almost from start to finish and literally bought and paid for by Hillary, Obama, and the DNC. 

The massive shift of the Democrats to the Left toward Socialism and Communism has significantly left many of the “Never Trump” advocates out in the cold with no home in either party.  The Democrats, as they often do, used them to regain control of the House in 2018 and in their attempt to defeat and then unseat Trump after 2016.  Now, that many of those advocates are criticizing the Left’s hard left turn the Democrats have little interest in their views and have, in many incidences, shut them out of the conversation.  They have become an afterthought to the Left, who are far more interested in the Illegals than them.

Mona Charen, a former conservative, has admitted in a column for Politico that she voted Democrat in 2018 and empowered uber leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilham Omar, and others.  She and those who joined her in voting for the Democrats in opposition to Trump have opened the door to massive destruction of our Republic and system of government.  They are enabling those who are a direct threat to our national security and our economy.  I must ask, “Is Quenching Your Hate and Securing Your Pound of Flesh Worth It?”  The price that will be paid in the years to come has yet to be fully revealed, but I believe it will be catastrophic. 

Before you accuse me of being a Trump puppet and apologist I ask that you consider the cost, on every front, of the eight years of Obama and the current proposals by the Democrats.  Do you truly believe that is better than what has transpired under Trump’s watch?  He has been none of the atrocious things the Left has contended that he is.  He is not the existential threat claimed by the Left of the Never-Never Crowd but what they are doing to the country is.

When supposedly conservative constitutionalists such as Tom Nichols contends that the “Only requirement for an opposition candidate is the ability to get 270 votes” I cringe.  Do you really hate Trump that much that you really do not care what the opposition candidate believes, advocates, and proposes so long as they can defeat him?  Is America’s survival that unimportant to you?   I am sick of hearing the term “principled conservative” being used to describe and laud any conservative that opposes Trump while voting for the Leftists.  I take that as an insult to my character, ethics, and principles.  I love America and believe that the most principled thing I can do is defeat the toxic liberalism of the left. 

Some Trump haters are acknowledging that the breakup of the Left and the Never Trump advocates is imminent.  However, that does not prevent them from continuing to try to find some fictional common ground that the two can unite and launch a full-frontal assault on him.  They have been doing that for three years.  There are those who hate Trump who have offered a compromise in their principles in supporting abortion providing it is in the first twenty weeks of the pregnancy.  They have modified their opposition to man-made climate change, energy, gun control, and illegal immigration attempting to form a union of opposition to take down Trump.  That is astounding to me.

There are things I strongly dislike about the demeanor of President Trump.  His language is not my preferred choice.  He has signed on to a few things such as spending that I do not like.  However, I like his willingness to fight back but that is not the basis of my support.  I support protecting our rights and freedoms, defending America and Americans and I see him doing that as opposed to what Obama did and what the Democratic hopefuls propose.

When I consider what he has done, what he promised, and what he has tried to do contrasted to what the Democrats vow to do, I say, “Thank God, he and not they are in the White House.”  I have moved beyond concern of what people may think of me for my support of Trump and my efforts to defeat the Democrats.  If you consider me subhuman, that is your choice.  If you consider me a cultist, that is your choice.  I have fought in war defending this nation and freedom and will defend your right to think, believe, and say what you believe.  I believe in America, American people, the Constitution, the Bible, and our Inalienable Rights.   I stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom and make no apologies for that.

God bless you and God bless America!

I realize that any reference to God turns some off in today’s world, but most who read what I write are not turned off by God.  They may or may not ascribe to the doctrine, tenets, and core beliefs I hold but they believe in God.  Some who are in the trenches with me regarding this Republic believe the much-bandied argument about “Total Separation of Church and State.”  I believe that argument is not consistent with the intent and even the declarations of our Founding Fathers, you may not.

I have long lamented over what appears to me to be a loss of the vision, purpose, and the intent of our Founding Fathers in their American vision.  My historical research and study solidify my belief that most of our Founding Fathers and the Framers of the American Constitution were religious men.  No, they might not have been followers of the same doctrinal tenets that you or I follow but they believed in God and wanted His favor on the Republic.  Our code of laws is clearly based upon and rooted in biblical principles, especially the Ten Commandments.  Any that argue differently are not, in my view, being intellectually honest.  Again, I’m not trying to offend, just stating my beliefs.

John Adams said, “Liberty can no more exist without virtue than the body can move without a soul.”  I am not alone in my view that we are living in a time of societal collapse and ever-increasing decadence and depravity.  I ask you to read 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 and Romans 1:18-32.  It speaks of strong delusion in the mind and having a reprobate mind.  When I contend and lament that we are living in a collapsing society morally I have some say, “It is no worse than any other time, decadence and depravity have been with us as long as there has been man.”  Yes and no.  I believe that the level or extent of the moral decay of today is far worse and far more open than at any other time in our human history. 

Research has revealed that as of 2014, over 70% of all African-American children are born out of wedlock. That is three-times the statistical data from 1960.  Can you think of any governmental action from the 1960s that might have affected or encouraged that trend?  Let me help you.  It was Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’.  That was an effort by the Democrats that was theoretically supposed to ‘fix’ all the problems with race, inequality, etc. The more I read Johnson’s documented positions the more I realize it was to enslave voters not relieve racial or domestic tensions.  It has encouraged having babies for pay.  If the mother was in the home without the father, the pay was even better. 

In 2014 research also reveals that about 50% of all Hispanic children are born out of wedlock and 33% of all Caucasian babies as well.  That is troubling on many levels and reveals a trend in our society that can only lead to a more pronounced moral collapse.  When you abandon traditional marriage, a home with two parents, and the discipline and training that affords you are asking for decay and you get it.  In 1970 only 15% of all American babies were born out of wedlock.  Wow!  When you calculate the rate of all groups is it at 40%.  Surely that troubles you, it does me!

When we stop to calculate the cost of programs that stemmed from the ‘Great Society’ Programs we find that it weighs in at $22 Trillion.  Has that massive sum solved the problems of equality, crime, race, gender, etc.?  Far from it, we are worse off on most fronts than ever with no light at the end of the tunnel, aside from the Return of Jesus!

There was a study done by the University of Pennsylvania that suggested that young men who grow up in single-parent homes, usually with a father or a husband in the home are placed in an economic straight-jacket.  The report also stated that the statistical data for those young men is that they are twice as likely to end up in prison as those in traditional two-parent homes with a father and a mother.

The consistent theme in this decline has been our abandonment governmentally and societally of biblical principles while embracing political correctness, expanding entitlements, and the pursuit of gender nullification.  The diminishing of the value of human life as seen in ‘abortion on demand’ is not a minor part of the problem.  I grew up in the 1960s and in the middle of the ‘sexual revolution.’  That mentality and abandonment of moral principle, not politics helped create this monster.  However, politics has piggy-backed on it to advance various devious and nefarious agendas.  We are paying the price and our children and grandchildren will pay an even higher price.

I believe in the concept of ‘imago Dei’ or that we are created in the image of God.  If I view all other human beings as beings created in the image of God, then I am bound by a moral standard that dictates and determines my interpersonal relations with those people.  Yes, they may slap my olive branch aside and in full vengeance attack.  I must defend myself in those cases, but I still believe in the concept and principle of the biblical truth that “a soft answer turns away wrath.” 

Our first president, the now maligned, George Washington in his first inaugural address said eloquently that “religion and morality are the finest props of the duties of men and citizens.”  He added that they are pillars supporting “the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity.”  He said, “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect the national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”  Does that sound like a man who wanted “Total Separation of Church and State”?

I close with the words of Edmund Burke, the English philosopher: “To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections.”  Politics today is more a war than a debate.  It has morphed from differing ideologies and agendas into an attempt to completely obliterate any opposing views.  A society that abandons God and moral principle will decline into a state where human life has no value, and it is every man for himself. That is chaos, anarchy, and results in despotism and tyranny taking charge. 

I am sounding the alarm and giving a warning, hopefully a clear one, that we ignore to our own hurt.  Help me and the millions like me who want to reclaim the Republic and see us embrace the directive of 2 Chronicles 7:14 in America.  I am praying for national repentance and a return to moral rightness.

God bless you and God bless America.

I mean that in more ways than simple $$$.  I am speaking morally, societally, constitutionally, and nationally.  However, the dollar cost of their agenda is astronomical and expresses a view of Americans that is unhealthy and unacceptable. 

I thought that the 8-years of Barack Obama were as bad as things could be, but I was wrong!  The new Democratic Socialists of today want to do far more damage to our economy, our citizens, our national sovereignty, and our system of government than even Obama thought possible.  Their agenda expresses a complete disregard for the Constitution and lack of concern for legal American citizens.  I guess, the prospects of a very large voting bloc of illegals are so appealing that they are throwing all caution to the wind to win!  That is despicable!

Democratic Party Chair Tom Perez has confirmed that his party fully embraces and endorses “free healthcare for illegals.”  That is beyond this American’s ability to comprehend with any semblance of sanity.  No, my position is not about compassion or the lack thereof, it is about America and American citizens.  If America and Americans do not come before Illegals we have destroyed the Republic and the America birthed in 1776 is no more.  That is deeply saddening to this veteran patriot who has served in the armed forces in war.  How dare they trample the memories of those who died for our Freedom.

The Democrats have escorted the Illegals to the head of the line for healthcare and various other entitlements or ‘freebies.’  Things they do not deserve, should not be granted, and they do so at the expense of needy Americans.  How can the Democratic Party claim they are the Party of the People?  What People?  I argue, based on their policies it is not the American people but those they view as potential Democrat votes in future elections.  Illegals are their new pathway to a political dynasty and control.  We must not allow that to become a reality.

In the 2^nd night of the 1st debate, all 10 of the would-be nominees raised their hands that they would favor covering illegals with health insurance or providing free healthcare.  That means they would move them ahead of the struggling veterans needing care, the middle-class workers who have been priced out of Obamacare, the baby boomers facing likely Medicare cuts.  Thanks, Democrats, you just gave me another reason to oppose you at every level. 

The cost, glossed over by the Democrat POTUS hopefuls is significant.  According to the Pew Research Foundation, there are approximately 10.5 million illegals in America today.  I think that number is much higher.  Yale University and MIT demographers suggest that the real number is double and more like 21 million.  Either way, the cost of their Democrat Plan is staggering not to mention disgusting in their disregard for Americans needing care.

Depending on which set of numbers you employ in calculating the cost of enrolling that entire population in Medicaid ranges from $84 billion to $176 billion per annum.  You might be able to pare from that number those illegals who are working and have insurance through their employer.  That could drop the number to $50-$100 billion each year. That is with the current numbers.  But what happens if the Democrats win and our borders are erased?  The influx of illegals will rise exponentially, and the cost will as well.  Candidates, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders also want to change the law and stop prosecuting illegals except those guilty of committing ‘serious crimes.’  Invading America and trespassing on our soil is deemed a wrist slap offense to them. 

Not one of them is as committed to caring for the elderly and veterans as they are illegals.  I wonder why?  Congress is nickel-and-diming the Veteran’s Administration and the entire budget for 2020 is $8.9 billion.  Compare that to the estimated cost of insuring illegals.  Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?  No, it should infuriate you and embarrass you and more so if you call yourself a Democrat.

Congress is appropriating a measly $1.5 billion for homeless veterans.  The Left would have you believe that this is inconsequential, and money is no object.  That doesn’t hold water when you consider their failure to care for the elderly and veterans but going full bore to provide for the illegals.  I guess the elderly and veterans are not a sure thing politically, so they are unnecessary, but illegals provide a ray of sunshine for their political hopes, so nothing is too good or too costly for them.  That is despicable.

California, and I hate to keep picking on California, has voted in their state legislature to fund health coverage for illegals to the age of 25.  Wow!  How do they plan to pay that tab? Simple, they are slapping a huge fine on anyone who does not have insurance.  That fine can be up to $3,252.  Seriously?  The illegals have no insurance, so you are giving it to them free but American citizens who cannot afford health insurance get fined.  Yet, you call yourself the Party of the People and the Party of the Working-man!  Can I offer you some oceanfront property in the middle of the Sahara Desert?

A person making $80,000 a year (which is barely survivable income in Los Angeles) does not qualify for an Obamacare subsidy.  That poor stiff will have to pay for healthcare for an illegal.  That should make everyone want to move to California, right?  Yeah, and the moon is made of green cheese, unicorns are grazing in my backyard, and pigs can fly.  This is another attack on the middle-class by the Democrats.  If one earns over $48,650 as an individual or $65,840 as a couple they do not qualify for the subsidies.  The illegals not only qualify they get the full freight paid for them at no cost, no penalty, and for doing nothing!  Sounds like a good gig if you can get it.

We dare not forget that in 2010 the Democratic lawmakers stole $750 billion from future Medicare funding to pay for Obamacare.  They literally robbed Grandma to fund their boondoggle healthcare Ponzi Scheme.  Now they want to go a step beyond. 

I have only addressed one of the reasons we cannot afford the Democrats and believe me there are dozens more that we need to and will talk about as we go forward.  America, if you like your country and want to keep it, you MUST vote no on the Democrats in 2020 and beyond.  The choice is yours and if we make the wrong choice everyone will pay dearly as we watch America destroyed.

God bless you and God bless America!

I more frequently than I care to admit get angry, and it is not always righteous indignation, at the antics and actions of those who continually trash America.  I have sat in perplexity wondering, “what could they be thinking?”  Those who live here, but continually trash this nation want all the freebies, benefits, protections, and liberties the Republic affords but want to fundamentally transform America.  Into what, I might ask?  Most of them have no clue what they want her to become but parrot the rhetoric and diatribe offered by the Liberal Leftist following the toxicity of liberalism, socialism, communism, and hate. 

Someone recently asked me, “Is America Still the Land of the Free?”  My immediate reaction was, ABSOLUTELY!  Then, I tapped the brakes, gave it some thought and said, “I Am No Longer Sure!”  That is a statement I would never have dreamed possible but is a current reality. 

We live in an America where about 50% of the population is working almost tirelessly to destroy what we have, what we have been, and what we are.  Why?  Is it that the genuinely believe that America is an evil empire much like the regime of Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Stalin, Mao or other despots in history?  The failures of every Socialist and Communist attempt worldwide seem to be completely invisible to them.  They are totally oblivious to the potential, inherent, and real dangers of that system of government and economy.  They, in my mind, are “messing with a bull.” 

The Bull of Freedom and Liberty!  The Spirit of Independence and the drive and desire to be free and live without the restraints and chains of tyranny produced America!  Those became a Bull respected, hated, and feared by the rest of the world.  Tyrants dared to “mess with the bull” and each time they discovered the reality of an old saying I grew up hearing.  “If you mess with a bull you get a horn in the rear!” 

I do not fear our foreign enemies because I believe that our ability to contend with those forces are once again formidable enough to endure and produce victory.  I have enough confidence in our men and women in uniform and the remaining American spirit and resolve to believe that, if attacked, we will respond unitedly enough to be victorious.  You may or may not agree and some hate the military enough they want no standing Army to exist.  That is not the view of this patriot, veteran, Christian, and American.  I salute our troops and always have!

The enemies I am most concerned with are the domestic parasites and political prostitutes.  Those following the toxic view that the power of the state should be paramount over the liberty of the people.  Those who view government as the giver of rights, liberties, freedoms and vested with the power to decide who lives and who dies.  Those who view all things Conservative, Constitutional, Christian, and Traditional anathema and are engaged in varying levels of animosity and war with those elements of our American society.  They concern me.

Why?  The major reason they concern me is ignorance!  Sorry, if that offends anyone but I do believe that the entire slate of Democratic POTUS hopefuls are on a mission to destroy not revive our American ideal.  They are all proponents of not just abortion but expand it to abortion on demand or infanticide. 

They do not want to call it murder, but what do you call the taking of a life that has been fully birthed and viable?  If you snuffed out the life of your neighbor what would you call that?  I know what the law normally calls it, but I’m not sure what the followers of today’s Democratic Socialism would if the individual was a conservative or Christian.

They are all proponents of governmental theft through excessive taxation.  Hey, we fought a war, in part, over that issue back in 1776.  I call to your remembrance the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Tea Act of 1773?  We are rapidly heading toward if we have not already fallen prey to the evil clutches of Socialism and authoritarian fascism.  If you do a little digging in the annals of world history, you will uncover the declaration of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s definition of a fascist state.  He said, “corporatism and the merger of corporate and state power” produced that state.  I see the evidence of that today and hear it from the Liberal Leftist POTUS candidates.  They are “messing with a bull!”

Do you remember “too big to fail” being applied to various corporations and the bailouts of GM and Chrysler and banks?  Too many Americans have adopted a view that the government is our ‘knight in shining armor’ or the ‘Calvary rushing in to save the day.’  Too many believe that it is the duty and responsibility of the government to provide both their needs and their wants.  They believe that it is incumbent upon the federal government to ‘redistribute the wealth’ because they somehow deserve to share in other people’s labors. 

Anything the government gives us has a price tag and extracts a price and demands a piece of our liberty in the process.  Whatever the government provides and subsidizes it controls, at least in some measure.  That produces an ever-expanding infection that produces the incurable disease of tyrannical rule, political oligarchy, and ultimately the total loss of liberty and freedom.  Nothing from the government is without strings attached and the cost of ‘government help’ is beyond any reasonable valuation of their service.  My liberty is too valuable to sell for a bowl of porridge.  They are ‘messing with a bull!’

I hope that the Bull they are are “Messing with” will result in the American people rising up, drawing a line in the sand, and saying, “No More!”  I hope that the “American Bull” will see the red flags being waved in front of our faces and take the appropriate action, at the polls and evict ALL THE INTERLOPERS and reclaim our Republic.  Will we do that?  The 2020 elections will be a good indicator of the existence or absence of the Spirit of 1776 and Independence.  It burns in me and hopefully millions more like me.

Thomas Jefferson once stated: “Even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”  Although the number is disputed by some, even President Ronald Reagan once noted that there are roughly 20,000 laws regarding gun control alone, and that’s just the federal illegitimate laws.  So many other laws exist that it’s been estimated that the average American commits approximately three felonies day.  That makes the authorities’ task simple if for any reason they wish to victimize you.  Just ask the Bundy Family, Hammond Father and Son, LaVoy Finicum’s Family, Lt. General Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen and a few others. 

America, are we going to take it without resistance or are we going to allow the Leftists resistance ‘fundamentally transform America’?  You and you alone can answer that question but as for me and my house, we will stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom as long as we have breath.

God bless you and God bless America!