No, I am not talking about the political jockeying in Washington and the incessant drive and desire of the Democrats and the Never Trump Crowd to destroy the president.  In that, we probably should be alarmed and even angered, but that is not my subject today.  I want to address, once more, ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Manmade Global Warming’ or whatever they are calling it these days.  There are some legitimate questions that need answers and I hope to point you in a direction that might help you determine the answers to the questions.  I will, however, offer my view and couple that with a $10 bill and you can get a cup of coffee even at Starbucks.

I keep hearing former presidents, liberals, leftists, and even some Republicans arguing that the scientific community is unanimous in their consensus on the matter.  They have bought the arguments of the Global Warming Activist or Hucksters and embraced the idea that fossil fuels are ultimate evils and must be eliminated.  That leads to many questions but let me offer two or three and you take it from there.  Is the scientific community really united and in agreement on this issue?  Can we truly harness solar and wind energy sufficiently to take over for fossil fuels in the foreseeable future to a level that would allow humanity to maintain our modern level of productivity and convenience?  Remember we have a world of 7 billion people.  Another question that must be addressed is, has CO2 caused any real harm, yet?  Let me capsulize those questions with one answer – NO!

When someone says that 97% of all scientists agree, I shake my head in disbelief.  Disbelief because I’m not sure you could 97% of any group to agree on anything, much less something so lacking corroboration as ‘man-made global warming’ and ‘climate change’ because of man’s activities.  I don’t believe it and keep finding evidence that the claim is another Fuzzy Math Manipulation by the Leftists and Global Warming Activist in an attempt to give credibility to their argument. 

Someone suggested that if the scientists had been asked, “Do you believe that the Earth’s climate is changing, and does mankind have any effect on it?”  The percentage would likely have been 100%, not 97%.  Likewise, had the question been, “Is burning fossil fuel such a threat that there should be a major and emergency effort to stop it?”  I believe the response would have been 50% or less. That’s not what they ask or how they ask the questions.  Like all polls, the questions are skewed so they the responses will be in accordance with the desired, not factual reality or honest evaluation.

The scientific community is and will always be very divided on this issue.  There was a petition circulated by Friedrich Seitz, the president of the National Academy of Sciences disputing the ill effects of CO2 on the climate.  It was signed by 32,000 scientists and in that number were over 9,000 Ph.D. scientists.  An excerpt from Steven Koonin, director of the Institute for Urban Studies at NYU, in the Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2017 highlights that divide.  “The public is largely unaware of the intense debates within climate science.  At a recent national laboratory meeting, I observed more than 100 active government and university researchers challenge one another as they strove to separate human impacts from the climate’s natural variability.  At issue were not nuances but fundamental aspects of our understanding, such as the apparent – and unexpected – slowing of global sea level rise over the past two decades.”  Can we depart from the 97% and realize that it might well be 50% agreeing with the activist such as Al Gore?

In 1998, about 86% of the world’s energy was from fossil fuel, and 9%, nuclear, solar, and wind.  In 2017, about 20 years later and hundreds of billions spent, ($150 Billion in the U.S. alone), we find the numbers are now 85% and 5%.  That should tell you how unlikely it is that wind and solar power will not replace fossil fuel in the near future.  The cost is too astronomical to pursue on a scale needed to do that.  Imagine what a decrease of 85% in energy would mean to you personally.  How would that affect your lifestyle?  If you are willing to give up your automobile, lose your air conditioning, high-tech goods, and medicines, lose virtually all air travel, and most electricity as well as manufactured goods, then it’s a good thing for you.  I am not in the number.

The melting ice we are told is a clear and present danger and proof of man-made global warming.  The problem is that rather than losing ice mass in the Antarctic there has not been a loss of ice but the formation of 80 billion tons per year.  It is just in a different location than the previous.  Melts in one area and forms in another.  That is not melting ice that is going to raise the sea levels microscopically.

Regarding CO2, we can’t live without it.  It is beneficial.  It is not, as they claim, a pollutant, but a vital nutrient for plant life.  Do you realize that without atmospheric CO2, life on this planet would not be possible?  NASA’s report of the past 40 years of satellite measurement reveals that the Earth is ‘greening’ not dying.

Climate statistics and data for the past 118 years demonstrates the fallacy of using ‘climate models’ to predict or promote the climate change alarm.  From 1910 to 1940 the Earth warmed and that was not a response to CO2 released into the atmosphere by man.  We don’t know why it just did.  But then I am a believer in God and that His creation has cyclical changes for reasons known only to Him.  From 1975 to 2000 there was similar warming and the apologists of Man-Made Climate Change insisted it was exclusively the blame of CO2.  It wasn’t in the earlier period but was in that period.  What is their proof?  They wanted it to be, so they manipulated and reasoned within themselves, it must be so. 

There are, in my view, and for what I can discover, many unknown causes for warming and cooling of the planet.  CO2 and greenhouse gasses do have an effect, how much, we really don’t know.  But beyond those, there is the overturning circulation of the oceans, the magnetic field of the sun, the periodic cycles of ocean temperature, and the chaotic variation that occurs.  The idea that the Pacific Islands will be flooded and underwater because of melting ice is not substantiated by their own scientific calculations.  For example, they survived the sea level rise at the end of the Ice Age.  Why?  Because coral islands grow upward as the sea level rises.  That is not a secret, but the Global Warming Advocates don’t want you to think about that truth.

There are many many reasons to reject the alarmist claiming that our planet is on the verge of destruction because of man-made global warming.  It is not, and it will outlast all of us and generations to come.  I, as a believer in God, believe that He created this Earth knowing what would transpire and His promise that as long as the Earth remains there will ‘seed time and harvest, cold and hot, winter and summer.’  I trust God, not computer models of manipulated science.  Believe what you will, but if you trace the roots of this hysteria you will find two things at its heart – Money and Power!

God bless you and God bless America!

I’m quite serious and will possibly be unfriended by some because of this post, but here goes.  Since the Presidential Election of 2016 and my expressed support of the GOP and in that President Trump, I have been challenged numerous times by those who are adamantly opposed to him.  In fact, their dislike for him is so strong they were and may still be willing to allow the Liberal, Leftist, Socialist, Progressive, Globalist Democrats win.  Some of them have claimed that they are the true patriots and conservatives because they oppose Trump.  I find that a very quizzical position at best and incredibly disturbing at worst.

I know I am a conservative in my political and life views.  I am a Vietnam veteran and a committed defender of our Republic.  I am proud to be an American and believe that I am a patriot.  That seems to be in question to those who call anyone who supports this president a ‘cultist’.  I have a difficult time grasping the reasoning of those who claim to be Conservatives, defenders of the Constitution, and patriots who would cede the House, Senate, and White House to the Democrats because of their angst or animosity toward President Trump.  That is more than a little perplexing to me.

I did not like many of the ideological or political views of Mitt Romney or John McCain, the previous two GOP nominees, but I could not envision any scenario in which I would either not vote or vote for Barack Obama, the Democrat.  Therefore, I, as my brother has said, “held my nose and voted Republican.”  I saw, and we experienced eight years of horrific policies and the systematic dismantling of our military and the perversion of our justice system slanting it in favor of anti-Americanism.  There were millions who stayed home and refused to vote for Romney and allowed Obama to win and they claimed moral high-ground and patriotism in their actions.  I confess I cannot understand that reasoning.

If a person is a professed liberal Democrat I can understand their vote and even appreciate their sincerity in their argument for their ideological position.  However, if a person claims conservatism and their opposition to the GOP candidate makes them a patriot, I find that an incredibly bitter pill to swallow.  There are no perfect candidates and there never will be.  Therefore, we sometimes find ourselves with the choice of defeating liberalism or letting it succeed.  In that case, I believe it is very principled to vote against the liberal.  You may disagree and that is your right and I will defend your right.  I disagree with your position and believe you are doing harm to what you claim to be in favor, the Republic, the Constitution, and Conservatism. 

Not all Republican nominees will be 100% conservative. nor will they have the particular polish or personality that we might prefer.  However, when faced with a binary choice, as we do in virtually every presidential election, if we are conservatives we must choose to defeat liberalism.  I say that even if the GOP candidate gives us conservatism lite rather than solid conservatism.  A little is better than none.  I agree that is a terrible position to be in, but until we regain control of the Party or see the real development of an alternative that is our choice.

I cannot fathom any true conservative being opposed to Tax Cuts.  I cannot see any scenario in which a true conservative would be against Border Security or National Security.  I cannot envision a situation in which a true conservative would be better served voting for or allowing the liberal to win regarding our 2^nd Amendment Rights, 1^st Amendment Rights, Religious Liberty, or Free Market Capitalism.  I cannot believe that any true conservative wants the federal government spending our tax dollars on entities such as Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand.  Maybe you can, but I cannot.  I cannot believe that any true conservative would be opposed to reduced unemployment, reduced entitlements for those refusing to work and simply taking for those who do.  I cannot believe that any true conservative would be for Government Run Healthcare, the rogue use of the IRS to harass conservative individuals and organizations.  That, to me, is not conservatism.

I do not hide from the fact that President Trump was not my first choice.  However, when he became the nominee, I threw my support behind him because he was a far cry better than Hillary Clinton.  I have been pleasantly surprised and appreciative of his determination to stand against the Democrat threats and not cave as previous Republicans have.  I see him as somewhat of a pragmatist rather than a conservative or politician.  He sees a problem and believes there is a solution and sets his mind to finding the solution and fixing the problem.  Does he get it right 100% of the time?  Who does?  Will he make mistakes?  Who doesn’t?  Which one of us is perfect?

I find it both amusing and aggravating that those who are part of the Never Trump Crowd like to call those of us who support him “Cultist” and yet get offended if we identify them as a “Hater.”  I have worked with people that I found repulsive, but in order to achieve an objective I needed them, and they needed me, so we found common ground and pursued the prize desired.  My prime objective politically is America.  I believe that it is critical that we defend her against the toxicity of liberalism and that may mean we elect presidents and other candidates that are not our most favored people. 

If someone tells me they are a conservative and their conservatism affords them patriot status but voted for the Democrat, I find it difficult to see conservatism in that action.  If you are a conservative and love America and Freedom, as do I, then let’s join together and set aside our personality preferences and unite against the toxicity of liberalism in the Socialist Leaning Democrat Party of today.  I am not trying to be antagonistic but simply detailing my failure to grasp the position of some conservatives today who are willing to see the Democrats win because of their dislike for the current GOP President.

God bless you and God bless America!

America, we either deal with the division that is not only existent but prevalent in our nation today or we see it destroy us like a terminal illness.  No matter where you stand on the political spectrum and what you think of the Democrats or Republicans, the Leadership in Congress or the President, America is a prize worth fighting for.  The Constitution, in its Original Intent, is critical for the survival of the Free Constitutional Republic. 

If you believe that the Constitution has outlived its usefulness and is as antiquated as the rub board or wringer washing machine, you will vehemently disagree with what I am going to say.  If you believe that the Constitution was and is a viable document that has allowed us to enjoy a governmental experiment like no other in history with incredible success, you will agree with most that I assert. 

The basic issue in America is not simply division it is the Constitution!  Even our Founders disagreed as they hammered out the wording of the Constitution and then formulated the Bill of Rights.  However, they all had one desire in view, AMERICA.  Not just a new nation but one that recognized the inalienable rights of All Citizens and would provide a means to protect and preserve those rights.  They wanted a Republic, not a Democracy for they understood the perils of a Straight Democracy, unlike the proponents of doing away with the Electoral College today. 

We are in a Crisis, not just because our borders are porous, that is a serious issue, but because of various elements within our government becoming propaganda tools and political weapons.  Our federal law enforcement community has been corrupted.  Our intelligence community, the Internal Revenue Service, Homeland, and many other federal arms, agencies, or bureaucracies have as well.  I fully support the enforcement of our laws.  Those laws, if bad, need to be eliminated and if good fully enforced.  However, the selective and partisan enforcement of our laws is unacceptable and detrimental to our prize, the Republic.

The paranoia of Richard Millhouse Nixon was well known.  It was not applauded but considered one of the major reasons for his political demise and the scandals that were an outgrowth of that condition.  However, the paranoia of the FBI is being lauded as patriotic and heroic by those on the left.  Sadly, too many on the right, are either unable or unwilling to see the depth of that corruption and how it is detrimental to All Americans regardless of political persuasion. 

I believe that just a few years ago if such mismanagement and partisan targeting had been revealed it would have resulted in an outcry of outrage from most Americans.  The distrust of our federal law enforcement agencies is being justified with each new revelation of how deeply partisan the meritless and costly investigations truly are.  I now wonder if the “insurance policy” by the FBI authored by former agents Peter Strzok and Liza Page was more about CYA for the agency than preventing Donald Trump from winning.  They did not believe he would even as they penned the plan but knew that there could be negative exposure of the agency and wanted to guarantee protection from prosecution.  That is more than disturbing it is diabolical and beyond self-serving.  I don’t care if they were Democrats or Republicans, this is repugnant and destructive. 

According to ABC’s Jonathan Karl, the Mueller investigation into which the counterintelligence probe flowed will yield “zero evidence” of collusion: “We are now just, I believe, weeks away from getting a final report from Robert Mueller, and there is so much anticipation, so much speculation about what he is going to show. He’s been looking into, you know, this whole range of issues. And I am led to believe by people who have interacted with the special counsel that we should be prepared for him to release a report that is anti-climactic.”  The fact that the FBI somehow believed and possibly believes that it to be their patriotic duty to treat a sitting president as ‘guilty until proven innocent’ is a revelation of how deep our problem is in America.

The Clinton email investigation and handling by the FBI was nothing short of judicial prostitution.  The FBI sold its soul, if it had one, in taking measures to ensure that the candidate they believed would become the next President was protected.  It was not their love for Hillary that motivated them, but their love for position, status, and power.  They wanted to ensure they were on the good side of the presumptive president, so they sold their integrity to give her and the outgoing president cover.  I don’t know what to call that but political or judicial prostitution.

I have wondered from the beginning, how far the FBI and other political operatives were willing to go to take Trump out and I believe I am beginning to come to grips with that question.  The answer, in my view, is they were willing to stoop to any levels, pursue any pathways, and do anything to DUMP TRUMP.  The pursuit of Trump did not begin with the election or even the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.  That pursuit began during the campaign and before Trump was the nominee for the GOP.  It was authorized and possibly orchestrated by the Obama administration if not Obama himself.  That is cringeworthy for all lovers of Freedom!

The indictments by Robert Mueller against Trump people and the absence of indictments by the FBI against Democratic operatives are incredibly revealing.  The Democrats have been given a ‘free pass’ and a ‘get out of jail free’ card but any Republican or Trump supporter who crosses any legal line is immediately exposed to the full force of the law.  If that does not trouble you, your troubler is broken.   The FBI showed no interest in the perjury cases or incidents with Obama, Holder, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch, Clinton, or Rice to name a few.  But they were devotedly determined to bring every violation of any Trump supporter to incur the full weight of justice.  Surely, you see the hypocrisy in that and it should cause you to realize the depth they were willing to pervert justice and use their agencies as political weapons.  THAT MUST END!

If Robert Mueller releases his findings and there is ‘no collusion documented’, and that is what should happen, the FBI and other agencies will live in trepidation.  They have been scrambling to give themselves cover and using the MSM to advance the theory that even if nothing is found, something is there.  Sadly, those who want to believe that the President is a traitor and such a despicable human being he is deserving of nothing short of execution will believe their spin and advance their talking points. 

I don’t want the FBI or our Intelligence Community to be deemed so corrupt they are useless, but we are getting dangerously close to that place.  Any student of Civics would realize how deeply flawed the assertions that President Trump is a national threat are.  Any president can tilt our foreign relations toward any country they desire and that is not really any of the FBI’s business and does not indicate treason or provide a basis for impeachment.  It is his responsibility to deal with foreign affairs.  Withdrawing from a war or buttering up to a dictator, presumably trying to find common ground to secure an agreement that is beneficial for America is not a crime.  It might or might not be the wrong approach but is within the purview of the duties of the president.  Congress is the ‘check and balance’ of our Constitution, not the FBI.

What we have been witnessing is nothing less than today’s “Watergate”.  Brennan’s convening of a ‘working group’ at the CIA headquarters that included Peter Strzok, James Comey to stymie Trump’s campaign is the problem, not Donald Trump.  Using a political opposition document purchased by the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, knowing it was not verifiable smacks of a modern “Watergate”, not a legitimate action to protect America and Americans.  It was political gamesmanship and partisan weaponizing of our federal agencies.  THAT IS TRAGIC!

America, we can either allow this to continue and watch our Republic disintegrate before our very eyes or reclaim our government. How can we do that? What do we do?  Again, my faith demands that we Pray, Pray, Pray and turn to God as the first course of action.  The second course of action is to become informed and the third is to become involved.  We Vote Out all those who will not protect and defend our Constitution. We Vote Out all who want to take us down the path of Socialism and destroy our Republic. We cannot sleep through this, it is far more than a bump in the road.

God bless you and God bless America!

HOLD IT! Before you lose your religion and throw something at your computer over my title let me explain what I mean.  I do not believe he was successful in the sense of doing what was right and good for America.  I believe he was an abysmal failure on that front.  He was, in many ways, more damaging and dangerous the Islamic or any kind of terrorism.  He was more damaging to our economy and our system of government than any outside foreign enemy has been.  So, why would I say he was successful and in what was he a success?

Many remember the Watergate Scandal and the downfall of Richard M. Nixon and those who do not remember have heard various spins on the events that led to the resignation of the president.  However, I believe that Barack H. Obama and his administration or partners in crime were far more successful at cover-ups than Nixon ever dreamed of being.  In fact, I would argue that they have pulled off the most effective cover-up in American history, to this point.  You may disagree and while there is still hope that the ‘cover-up’ will be fully uncovered, at this point they have and are succeeding. 

I could contend this on several fronts, including Benghazi, the Iran deals, Fast and Furious, Russia and Uranium, and more.  However, the one cover-up that stands at the front of the line and rises to the top of the page is the current one being played out in the incessant attack on our electoral system and the duly elected president of these United States of America.  It began before the 2016 presidential election but solidified during that timeframe and has continued to develop insulating layer after layer since that time. 

Our own Justice Department and the FBI participated along with numerous other governmental agencies in perpetrating and perpetuating the illegalities and the cover-ups needed to protect the Obama team and Hillary Clinton.  The entitlement mindset and the belief that they are morally superior to the rest of us encourage them to do what they do.  They truly believe that the end justifies the means and when that becomes the bedrock policy and ideology the means become the end and there is no distinction between the two. The Bible says, “a little leaven leavens the whole lump.”  Simply, a little corruption taints everything and if allowed to continue unimpeded corrupts everything it touches.  That’s where we are now in Washington, DC in a great measure.

We have endured two long years of endless diatribe, rhetoric, and devoted digging into everything Trump and nothing Clinton or Obama.  We have uncovered documentation after documentation that there was a cover-up and the collusion between various law enforcement agencies, members of Congress, the courts, and the White House under Obama is apparent.  Sadly, nothing has been and under our current lists of legislators and many bureaucrats in Washington suggest nothing will ever be done.  Justice will not be served but the pursuit of the perversion of justice will continue.

Representatives Nunes, Goodlatte, and Gowdy dug deep into the scandals and cover up and we know the incredible threat to national security through Hillary Clinton’s use of a private unsecured server to send and receive emails with classified information.  The FBI and the DOJ effectively insulated her and granted immunity to her team and has ignored any connection between them and Obama himself.  I’m sure there was every attempt by his staff to assure him of plausible deniability even when the deniability was not believable.

The use of the Steele dossier to obtain FISA warrants demands deeper investigation and Obama’s directives to the FBI, NSA, Homeland, CIA, IRS, and every other agency of government must be fully addressed.  The fact that the FBI and DOJ withheld much if not most of the pertinent information from Congress is more than a concern, it may well be a crime.  It borders on if it is not obstruction of justice and is clearly a coordinated effort to ‘cover up’ the improprieties, illegalities, and unethical behavior of the previous administration including herself, Hillary Clinton.

The collusion and conspiracy to infiltrate the Trump campaign, have Rod Rosenstein wear a wire in his meeting with the president, and the infamous insurance policy of former FBI agent Peter Strzok all have a repugnant odor that is loathsome.  When the former president can smugly claim that his administration was the most transparent and scandal-free in history, one would like to laugh but cannot.  Transparent?  Richard Nixon was more forthcoming than Obama.  Scandal Free?  Does anyone remember Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and dozens of other events?  He said, “Scandals that we were concerned about” so maybe that is the real issue, they weren’t concerned so to them there was no scandal.

The damage done to our system of justice and government will not be removed and will create problems for generations to come if we survive that long.  The blatant lies, the destroying lives of innocent people to facilitate their desired cover-up and the wedge that has been driven between Americans may well be irreversible.  Therefore, I say, “Barack Obama was successful.”  Not at being a good president or advocating for what is best for America but in seeking to ‘fundamentally transform’ this Republic and hide from those who are willing to be led into his web of darkness, he was.  In 2016 I believed that many American has begun to awaken from their political stupor and decided no more!  However, in the two-years that have ensued and the 2018 mid-term elections, I am no longer as convinced of the continued awakening! The elections of 2020 will define our future and whether the successful cover-ups of the Obama administration are allowed to stand.  If they do, America may never recover.  If they are not allowed to stand and justice is finally served, America will enjoy restoration to her Constitutional status as a Free Republic.

God bless you and God bless America!

The Democrats with the help of the Main Stream Media and various deep-pocketed activist are winning the air time debate on the Border Wall issue.  It appears that we have reached the tipping point toward Socialism in America.  The Democrats are hell-bent on the completion of the ‘fundamental transformation’ threatened or promised by Barack Obama when he entered office.  They had numerous opportunities to do just that but did not follow through as much as they could have. The American people work up for a brief time and wrested control of Congress from their hands.  Now, the pendulum seems to have swung to the Left once again and I am stunned at how many Americans are buying the rhetoric and drinking the poison of toxic liberalism.

When the President asked Nancy Pelosi if he reopened the government for 30 days would they fund the wall and she said, “NO!”  He left the meeting because truly there was nothing to discuss at that point IF he is committed to border security including the wall.  The Democrats were for the wall under Obama and now they are against the wall under Trump.  The wall went from being a needed effort to Immoral with the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45^th President of these United States.  The threats are the same, the need is the same, the only thing different is their devoted hatred for this President.  That is what is Immoral in this scenario.

The Democrats are pushing on two major fronts and if they are successful in one or both our Republic will have been ‘fundamentally transformed’ into a Socialist nation run by mobs and entitlement.  If anyone truly believes that is the best way to go, please leave me out of your conversation because, in my view, sanity has escaped you.  We are already $22 TRILLION in debt as a nation and cannot afford another $30-40 TRILLION over the next ten years.  Anyone with a 3^rd grade level of math knows that is not sustainable.  However, the new face of the Democratic Socialist in America Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has advanced a Green Policy that will not just bankrupt America but will destroy our entire system of economics and government.

The Green Policy coupled with the two major pushes in the works now form a Pincer Movement designed to bypass the Constitution or rewrite it to their satisfaction.  The 116^th Congress is waging war on the Constitution and we must not only be aware of it we must prevent it from becoming a victory for the Leftist. 

Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced a Resolution on January 3, 2019, to amend the Constitution and abolish the Electoral College.  The Democrats who have benefited from the system in the past with the elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton. You’d think they would want to keep it.  However, since they have been stung by the system twice in the past 20 years they are determined to abolish it and make our Republic a Straight Democracy.   That is something our Founders and the Framers fought valiantly to prevent from happening and why we have the Electoral College.  It would require the States to ratify but in today’s growing Socialist environment and the apparent lack of thought given by millions, it just might pass.  That would be tragic!

But, that is not the only front on which they are planning an attack on our liberties and constitution.  Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) Chairman of the House Budget Committee asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the effects of shifting all healthcare costs to the federal government.  What is that?  Medicare for All.  Single Payer Insurance.  Socialized Medicine.  That is a serious and real issue on the agenda for this Congress.  Where are the Republicans?  Will they have the backbone and fortitude to fight this? 

This is serious and should either of those two measures become realities and enacted into law, we are toast as a Republic.  My question is, “Are there really that many American citizens who want to become a Socialist nation?”  I must also ask, “Is the desire for freebies that strong that a majority of Americans would sell their liberty for a check in the form of some government entitlement?”  If the answer to either is yes, stick a fork in us we are done.

The Electoral College issue, if it becomes a reality and they manage to amend our Constitution and abolish it, would mean that mobocracy has prevailed, and we will see more chaos than we can imagine.  The destruction and disruption will be of such epic proportions that the only recourse for the federal government will be martial law and tyranny.  That’s what the Left wants and sadly, too many Americans seem oblivious to this danger.  Call me whatever you want, but I am sounding the alarm and see enough shift in members of Congress to make me very apprehensive.  If the Single Payer or Socialized Medicine becomes a reality we will have Mob Entitlement ruling the day.  Either way, we are headed toward destruction if we continue on this path.

Of course, I am fully aware that both those objectives have a significant hill to climb to become a reality. However, the incessant push coupled with the determined effort to destroy this president causes more than a little trepidation in my heart.  The fact that the Democrats and Obama pushed through a plan (Obamacare) doomed and designed to fail is part of their strategy.  They knew that the American public would become so incensed by the failures and inadequacies of Obamacare that Universal Healthcare would have more of an appeal and that strategy seems to be working on millions.

Before you dismiss what, I am saying consider that they only need a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate to pass the Electoral College Amendment to the States for ratification.  Then, consider the gains the Democrats had in Governorships do not automatically say, “This can’t happen.”   I wish people would remember the warnings of Milton Freidman and Ronald Reagan when the Socialized Medicine Issues arises.  They said, “Have you ever seen government take over anything and cause it to become more effective and less costly.”  The answer is NO!

We, allowed the Democrats to regain some power in the 2018 elections and we will rue the day for that grave error.  If we allow them to succeed in any of the things I have listed, we will not only rue the day we will witness the destruction of the Republic and see the rise of the Disunited States of Socialist America.  My love for freedom, for America, and my faith demand that I resist this with all I am!  I hope you will join this Resistance and stand with us for Faith, Family, and Freedom!

God bless you and God bless America!

I am amazed that some on the Right are already ceding defeat and offering their concessions to the Left in the 2020 elections.  Some of their reasons might have a trace of validity but many of them are either rooted in a desire for Trump to fail and lose or imbibing too much of the Media Kool-Aid.  I have never been one to give up before the final pitch has been thrown or until the curtain falls on the last act of the play.  Even in the face of daunting problems and obstacles, we are faced with we should keep the fires of hope burning until the last ember is nothing more than a cool lump of ash.  I follow the biblical directive found in Galatians 6:9 – “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”  And the wise words of Ecclesiastes 11:4 – “He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.”  The simple message is Don’t Quit! 

I have often told people, “The devil cannot win unless we quit.”  He can’t win in the end, but in our lives, he can be victorious momentarily if we give up and thrown in the towel.  Never do that!  NEVER!  We lost the House of Representatives in 2018 for many reasons and even though it is being touted as an “anti-Trump backlash” I doubt that was truly the reason.  I would place more blame on the failure of the GOP in Washington for not backing the President in the pursuit of his promises on the campaign trail than any ‘anti-Trump’ sentiment.  I could be wrong but believe that a unified Republican Party would have crushed the Democrats in 2018 and can do so in 2020.  On the other hand, a disorganized and disunified Republican Party that is more its own enemy than the Democrats can create such a perception of inability and ineptitude that we could lose the nation in 2020.

In 2019, the Democrats are almost giddy with optimism, and I don’t blame them.  They added 40 seats in the House of Representatives and their total vote exceeded that of the Republicans.  Why did that happen?  Partly, because too many Republicans or Independents that are conservative leaning, opted to sit this one out as they have in the past and when that happens, we lose.  Pat Buchanan pointed out that in the New England states the Republicans do not hold a single House seat and Susan Collins of Maine is the lone Senator in that area held by the GOP.  That is not encouraging for those of us on the Right and should spur incredible optimism by those on the Left. 

I don’t know if it will happen, but I can foresee a war within the Democratic ranks in 2019.  Nancy Pelosi is not as popular as she once was and there is growing disagreement on how to proceed by the rank-n-file in the Party.  The Leftist Base is adamantly determined to destroy Donald Trump and they want a no-holds-barred approach resulting in impeachment, removal, and indictment of this president.  They don’t care how it happens or even if it is within the scope of constitutional legality.  They just want him gone.  That may play well or may prove to be a disaster for those following the toxicity of liberalism and rapidly turning to the Socialist approach. 

The Establishment Democrats are finding they are not as popular nor influential with the vast majority of Democratic voters today.  A USA Today poll recently released revealed that 59% of Democrats said they would be “excited” about “someone entirely new” leading the party in 2020.  The other side of that coin that should be disheartening to the Establishment Democrats is that only 11% want a familiar face to lead them.  That same poll seems to discredit its own reports because it also revealed that Joe Biden, the old-line Democrat who is a 76-year-old white male garnered 53% of the ‘excited’ votes.  The only candidate to come close to Biden was Crazy Bernie Sanders the 77-year-old Socialist from Vermont. 

Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke is a far less known individual and has not produced the overwhelming favor he and they had hoped for.  Other lesser knows than Sanders or Biden are Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, two extreme liberal leftists.  The negative for both Harris and Booker is they are from entrenched Democrat States, California, and New Jersey and would not give a boost to the ticket outside the voting blocks of California and New York. 

There is Sherrod Brown the liberal Democratic Senator from Ohio who won reelection in the face of the State going Republican.  Some have suggested that the 76-year-old Biden and the 66-year-old Brown would provide a formidable ticket and be problematic for the Republicans.  Much of that reasoning is that the Democratic Party is never-ending in the celebration of its so-called racial and ethnic diversity.  They believe they have the women’s vote in the bag as well as that of the millennials.  Could two white males satisfy the base that decries whiteness and maleness?

I keep seeing evidence that many blacks, Asians, Hispanics, women, and even some in the LGBT are splintering from the Democrat rule and thinking about the failures of the party for over 50 years with regard to their causes.  That could be problematic for the Democrats in 2020 and beyond.  However, it will also require the Republicans to articulate the differences in the party and platform and rally behind the president to achieve the promised objectives.  I am convinced that nothing sells like success and if the GOP does what it should have been doing all along a win in 2020 is not only possible but probable.

Democrats such as Louis Farrakhan’s giving praise to those who declare the Jews as ‘the enemy’ is finally troubling some of Jewish descent.  We are learning that the diversity policies in Ivy League Schools are embittering some Americans of Asian descent.  Quotas always hurt someone and usually fail to reward excellence, hard work, and qualifications.  That is not the American way and not the way to success. 

Identity politics, political correctness, and the censorship of anyone or anything conservative are not playing well in all parts of America.  Of course, the MSM and the Democrats and some weak-willed Republicans are claiming that anything less is ‘Un-American’.  For those of us who have fought to defend the freedoms of all people, this is grating and troubling.  I have recently spoken with lifetime Democrats who have looked at the list of potential candidates from their party for 2020 and said, “I cannot support those who desire to destroy our Freedoms and strip us of our Liberties any longer.”  They lamented that their party has drifted too far toward Socialism and has become quite antagonistic toward the Christian Faith, Judaism, and our Constitutional Rights and Liberties.  Some of them are expressing being troubled enough to, for the first time in their lives, vote Republican or not vote.

I am not ready to throw in the towel and declare the Democrats conquerors in 2020.  They may well win but for them to win we have to give up and either not vote or vote in such a manner as to ensure their victory.  I cannot do that, and I hope you are unable to do so either. I believe in God and I believe in America and my hope remains strong! Rise up America and let’s prevail and see our Republic restored.

God bless you and God bless America is my prayer and desire!

I am not saying they can actually achieve a total reversal of the 2^nd Amendment or the gun control or confiscation they desire, but they will do damage to our inalienable right of self-defense.  The Constitution is meaningless to them when it stands in the way of what they desire.  We will continue to hear that the 2^nd Amendment is archaic, and the Founding Fathers did not mean it to include every citizen and modern firearms.  They will continue to argue with such statements as, “if it saves even one life,” as justification for infringing upon our Constitutional Right to “keep and bear arms.”

My question for them on that front is, “What about abortion?”  If one baby could be spared by stopping abortion on demand wouldn’t that be good?  Also, “What about border security?”  If preventing one terrorist, murder, rapist, drug dealer, or the like from entering our nation and harming our citizens and thereby saving one American from that trauma or disaster would that not be good?  Of course, they do not want to hear that type of logic or discussion because it exposes the hypocrisy of their position.  They know, I know, and you know that taking the guns out of the hands of legal and responsible citizens will not curb gun violence.  We know that criminals will still have and find a way to get guns.  It is impossible to totally remove guns from our society.

That begs another question and should force us to consider real measures to deal with the problem.  High capacity magazines are not the problem, people are.  New Jersey has embarked on a journey to make owning a gun illegal in that State.  The New Jersey State Police have not ruled out ‘house to house checks’ to find illegal weapons legally purchased and owned by legal law-abiding citizens.  What part of the word criminal do these people not understand?  Those who are living outside the law will not abide by this new measure and this will place both citizens and police in harm’s way making them out-gunned by the criminals.  Is that reasonable?

Of course, high-capacity magazines have been used in mass shootings.  But we dare not forget they have also been used in stopping those shooters.  The fear of the AR-15, the prime target of the liberal leftist and the anti-gun crowd is misplaced fear.  Former Navy SEAL Dean Raso is quoted in The Federalist as describing the AR-15 as an ideal defensive weapon against heavily armed predators.  I agree!  I also agree with Judge Andrew Napolitano who is quoted in the Washington Times, “The historical reality of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms is not that it protects the right to shoot deer.  It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and it protects the right to shoot at them effectively, with the same instruments they would use upon us.  If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had had the firepower and ammunition that the Nazis had, some of Poland might have stayed free and more persons would have survived the Holocaust.” 

I hope you remember the story of a 15-year-old who used his father’s AR-15 to ward off invaders in their home.  He defended his home and his 12-year-old sister who was in the house with him.  He shot one of the burglars, multiple times.  They got away but were apprehended the minor of the two was apprehended and the adult was flown to a different hospital.  He saved lives that would likely have been lost had he not had the firepower and ability to defend himself, his home, and his family.  That’s what the 2^nd Amendment is all about and no person, political party, or activist group has the right to take that from us.  It is both a Constitutional Guarantee and an Inalienable Right!

We hear about ‘common sense gun laws’ from the Left and too many on the Right in Washington and far from being sensible, they are nonsensical in their intent and scope.  I guess ‘common sense’ is another word for ‘nonsense’ because all they have proposed is just that, nonsense.  The Democrats have promised to make a swift and extensive push for ‘gun laws’ when they reclaim the control of the House of Representatives in January.  They have little chance of succeeding in achieving their stated and desired goals without the RINOs joining them.  We must ensure that does not happen.

They are planning a Democratic “gun violence prevention task force”.  That sounds good to everyone who is truly concerned about gun violence, but it is a front and a sham.  Universal background checks have always been a red herring.  It sounds great and sounds like common sense and wins the favor of many in the public, but the fact is that under current laws EVERY and I mean EVERY commercial gun sale in America has a background check now!  At what point do we truly believe that anyone wanting to commit a crime will report a gun sale? 

What that means is that we will have to develop a national registry of every firearm in America and track them.  Where will that lead?  It gives them the data they desire and will need for a universal gun confiscation movement under martial law.  Call me a conspiracy kook if you please, but they are serious and although it is virtually impossible for them to achieve their true objective they will do damage.  Just as the backdoor effort of Corporate Gun Control via refusal to lend money to gun owners, gun manufacturers, and gun traders.  Do we truly want the government with that kind of power?

I believe it is delusional to believe that background checks will stop school shootings, drive-by gang shootings, or domestic violence.  Universal background checks are one of those campaign talking points that score points with those who do not think the entire measure through and look at the endgame of the ones pushing that effort.  It gives the appearance of “doing something about the problem” while actually doing nothing.  We have requirements on the books today that do exactly what they are proposing on a very large scale.  Nothing will stop the illegal transfer of guns or the illegal use of them. 

What can we do?  You may not like my solution or even agree with it, but we need to deal with the hearts of people not the weapon of choice.  We need to teach our children the safe and responsible use of firearms like we used to.  We need to enforce our laws effectively, efficiently, and to the full extent of the law.  We need a revival. Yes, I said, revival.  We need God!

God bless you and God bless America!

Did I use enough descriptive adjectives?  Some of you may have some a bit more colorful but those work for me.  The Government shutdown has once again exposed the glaring need to Drain the Swamp, Dismantle the Deep State, and Reduce the Size of the Federal Government.  The hoopla over the disastrousness of a shutdown, which is not a shutdown at all is laughable but serious.  The danger is that far too many get their positions from outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, and the various Left Wing Liberal Media Outlets as well as Google and Facebook.  We have created a monster with an insatiable appetite and if we do not reign it in, it will eat us alive.

Politicians always test the resolve of the other side in a stalemate or standoff and I pray that President Trump has the needed intestinal fortitude to stand firm on the Wall and the so-called shutdown.  The fraudulent characterization of this move that the president has made is far more damaging than in negatives in a temporary pause in some government actions.  In fact, we find in this incidence as we have in the past, many parts of government a totally unnecessary and repetitious.  We do not need 3-10 agencies doing the same thing we need one efficient department for the needed functions and need to eliminate the redundancy.

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating, 75% of the government is fully funded through September of 2019.  I did not say 75% is unfunded but FULLY FUNDED!  I would argue that the State Department is largely unnecessary and has outlived its usefulness.  I’m sure that will raise some eyebrows because, after all, the State Department deals with foreign governments, so it is vital, right?  Only if you insist on using antiquated means and communications tools and are a stickler for pomp and ceremony.  If the president, any president wants to talk to another world leader he can send an email, call him on the phone, have a video conference, or even text him.  They all have each other’s numbers or can easily get them. 

To be honest, I do not want to totally do away with the State Department because in a limited fashion it could prove useful.  However, how many sub-departments are there in State and every other Cabinet-level department?  Hundreds if not thousands and with the way Congress has set up regulatory agencies they are virtually a government unto themselves and many of them are under the leadership of some incredibly partisan persons.  Some of those departments view it as their duty to be weapons against the political enemies of their ideological agenda.  That is not just dangerous it is destructive.

Let me suggest, as have others, that we could completely close several cabinet level departments at significant savings and not lose anything in the process.  In fact, if we returned the oversight of many of those departmental tasks to the States would, the American people would be far better served, and our government could become more efficient.  Some have suggested closing the Department of Energy reducing the budget by $32.5 Billion annually.  Eliminating the Department of Commerce would save us $61.8 Billion and the Department of Education would save taxpayers $59.9 Billion.  I believe very strongly in the Tenth Amendment and in State’s Rights and believe that the individual states are far better equipped to regulate and decide what is best for their citizens than the federal government. 

The Department of Education was created in 1979 and I don’t know how anyone could argue that education is better today on a national level. No one truly believes that commerce would cease if we did not have a Cabinet Level Department of Commerce.  But, Roy, what about all the people working in those departments?  That is one of the sticking points but if we did what corporations often do in a downsizing we could offer early retirement to the non-essential federal employees who have been ‘shut down’.  How about forcing Congress to return to being, the Legislative Body responsible for creating laws rather than abdicating its responsibility to various agencies and let them do the work?  Novel idea, right?  If we followed our federal constitution and returned power, as it was intended, to the state and local governments we would become far more efficient and far less redundant.  Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, who would have thought of such a concept?  Not politicians in Washington for they are like the Sanhedrin in Jesus’ day, doing all they can to protect their position and place.

If we follow the desires of extreme Socialist like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, we will not only see the government grow but explode exponentially at a cost impossible to sustain.  Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has offered a ‘Green Policy’ that would destroy our economy in a very short period of time and place most Americans in violation of the law.  Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker among others have embraced her plan to Eliminate fossil -fuel consumption in the United States.  There are at least 40 House Democrats onboard with her plan.  That should get your attention.

 Her plan would force every home and business in America to ‘upgrade’ not just to make them more energy efficient but to become totally dependent on alternative sources of energy such as solar, wind, etc.  How much would that cost?  Nobody truly knows but the most conservative estimates are that it would be in the tens of trillions if not hundreds of trillions.  It would cripple agriculture, transportation, and virtually plunge us back into the 1800s before electricity.  How would you like to walk or ride your bicycle or horse to work?  How would you like to no longer have access to the internet or your smartphone?  Her plans don’t stop there they include a massive expansion of the power, size, and scope of the government.  She can’t tell you how to pay for it except, “We just pay for it.”  Throw in the mix free education for everyone including illegals and free healthcare and we are more than bankrupt in a very short period of time.

Yes, I believe, and have for a long time, that we MUST reduce the size of government and WE THE PEOPLE once again take control and exercise oversight.  Has the mule already gotten out of the barn and closing the gate now, too little too late?  Quite possibly but we must try!

God bless you and God bless America!