There is Abuse of Power in Washington, D.C. in today’s America.  That fact is unimpeachable and incontrovertible.  However, the true abuse of power has not been in the Trump White House but in the House of Representatives in Congress.  The actions in this charade that traveled speedily along the impeachment track revealed a dangerous condition that can and will destroy our Republic if not stopped.

I know that some who are Democrats, Left-Leaning and Liberal along with those who detest Trump to the point they want anything and everything bad to happen to him will disagree with my assessment.  The condition of which I speak is the Elitism that is the backbone of the Political Ruling Class Politicians.  Those who seek ultimate power and control have evolved or morphed into an ideology of Entitlement.  They truly believe that they are Entitled to Rule us.  In fact, they believe that they are the rightful heirs of control and government.  They believe that we, whom they deem the unwashed and uneducated masses, are incapable of knowing what is best for us or the nation.

I disagree with their view!  I feel relatively certain that most Americans disagree with their assessment.  The Democratic Party Establishment is on a pathway that will either lead to the total disruption of our Republic or full-blown blood-letting fighting among our citizens.  That is how divided this nation has become. 

If the Democrats truly believed in the republican form of government as established by our Founding Fathers, we would not be enduring the incessant attempt to overturn the 2016 election.  If they truly believed in our Republic rather than envisioning it, as do far too many, as a Democracy they would have reacted differently to their loss in 2016.  Those who embrace representative democracy as our Republic embodies and demands in governance would have accepted the loss and sought to discover the reason.  They lost the confidence and support of millions but care not why.

Their reaction would have been or should have been to evaluate what caused the loss and seek to regain the confidence and support of the voters through introspection and internal change.  Rather they became angry that we would have the audacity to reject them and their ‘divine right to rule.’  They have voiced their view of us as being members of the ‘deplorable’ segment of society.  They have deemed us to be unprincipled, uneducated, uninformed, and irredeemable.  Therefore, we must be silenced and our mortal sin of rejecting them must be corrected. 

Anyone believing in and ascribing to our system of government would see the voting booth as the place to correct what is deemed to be an error.  That has not been the pathway of the Democrats.  They truly believe that they could not have lost except for some nefarious meddling from a foreign source.  Imagine that, they believe that Trump was incapable of defeating the terribly weak and flawed offering they presented, Hillary Clinton.  Rather than asking, “Why did the voters reject us?” They asked, “How do we get rid of Trump and destroy him and those who supported him?” 

Their view has led to the abuse of power on every turn and the enactment of Gestapo style tactics with all the earmarks of despotism and tyranny.  I am firmly convinced that the Democrats have become so entrenched in the belief that they are government and lords of the earth they will do anything to regain power.  Rush Limbaugh said, “It may not be in my lifetime, but there will come a time when the Democrats will insist that elections are detrimental to America.”  That is not an exact quote but reflects his view of their view.  I tend to agree that that is their view that anyone who opposes them must be punished.

Their reaction to defeat and resistance is anger.  Prime examples of that have been the antics of Schiff, Nadler, Green, Waters, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Harris, Booker, and a myriad of other prominent Democrats.  They are infuriated, as are those in the media when anyone dares to question their authority or position. 

As they did with George W. Bush, they paint Donald Trump an ignoramus and a buffoon.  He is boisterous, outspoken, fights back and has a very large ego, but which of them does not have monstrous egos?  They accuse him of being a terminal narcissist, but he deflates that every time he shows compassion to a wounded warrior or the family of a fallen military hero.  Nancy Pelosi chided him for not caring correctly for “our dreamers.”  She and the Democrats readily place the illegals and the dreamers ahead of our veterans, our own homeless, and our elderly. 

President Trump is hated, although Queen Nancy insists that she hates nobody.  She inserts a reference to her Catholicism when attacking Trump but fails to mention it when she speaks in favor of abortion and even abortion on demand.  Interesting, Nancy. I call their animus what it is, HATE! I can find no words appropriate to sufficiently identify what they are doing and saying otherwise.  When they can wish for his death, want his family sodomized, raped, kidnapped, and murdered, if that is not hatred, I would shudder to think what hate is to them.  May we never see hate, if what they are doing is not hate.

The Democrats claim that this is about protecting the Constitution and saving our Democracy.  First, they do not understand what system of government we have and second, they trash, sidestep, and ignore the very document they are claiming to defend and protect.  They quickly forget the ‘hot mic’ incidents of Barack Obama, especially with Russia.  They forget the open admission of Joe Biden regarding Ukraine and the firing of the prosecutor investigating his son.  They forget the abuses of Hillary Clinton and the abuse of power by James Comey in absolving her of all guilt.  They forget the abuse of power by Nadler and Schiff in the House. 

The Constitution, in their view, was defined by Barack Obama when he insisted it was a problem and filled with ‘negative liberties.’ He meant that it restricted them from doing what they wanted and protected us from them.  The Constitution was designed to protect American citizens not empower the government to rule over us in a tyrannical manner. 

Having a different opinion and a disagreement with a policy is not an impeachable offense unless you disagree with the Democrats.  How dare any Republican not to cower in the shadows and succumb to their demands.  How dare the voting public reject their despotism and desire to keep our liberties, freedoms, and inalienable rights.  How dare we!  Someone said, regarding the ramblings and inconsistencies of Nadler, Pelosi, and Schiff, “I feel like I’ve been lectured to about nuclear physics by a junior high school cheerleader.”  It is that ludicrous.

America, they want total control and are willing to destroy the republic and plunge us into the abyss of tyrannical darkness to solidify their position and power.  If we do not prevent that from happening by resisting them once more in 2020, we will witness elections become meaningless and tyranny a reality.  If you are willing to allow that, then either do not vote or vote Democrat.  I love Freedom and America too much to do that. 

God bless you and God bless America!

America, have we gone mad?  Have we lost our collective minds?  Have we abandoned reason and fallen prey to the godlessness of the politically correct world and succumbed to the belief and acceptance of Moral Relativism?  My argument is, “Yes we have.”  I argue that based on what I am seeing, hearing, reading, and encountering in virtually every walk of life.  I would love to answer the question of how this transpired, but I’m not sure I have either the ability to fully articulate it or the time to do so in one or ten blog posts.

In 1953, C.S. Lewis wrote regarding the “apostasy of the great part of Europe from the Christian faith.”  He was disturbed by what he viewed as ‘very grave dangers’ existing in Europe.  If that was the condition in 1953 one can only speculate how much more pronounced the dangers are in 2020. I agree with Lewis that moral relativity is an enemy not only to the Christian faith but to any society. 

Moral relativism is rampant in today’s America and no place more pronounced than the NBA’s demands of political correctness from everyone.  If you pay no attention to professional athletics, then I wonder if you recall the so-called ‘principled stand’ of the toxic liberals in North Carolina and the ‘bathroom bill.’  In 2016, they totally and completely abandoned reason ignoring science and moral principles by demanding that in the city of Charlotte men must be allowed into women’s locker rooms, restrooms, etc.  That is ludicrous but alas, the principled position of the Politically Correct segment of our present society.  The NBA’s demand caused this to transpire.  So much for reason and sanity, but alas the principled position of the NBA.

The North Carolina Legislature used a bit of sanity and passed what they called a ‘commonsense law’ (H.B. 2) which reversed the toxic liberal’s agenda in Charlotte.  The NBA reacted by pulling its All-Star Game from the city of Charlotte.  The NBA’s spokesperson piously declared: “We have been guided…by long-standing core values in our league.  Those include not only diversity, inclusion, fairness and respect for others but also the willingness to listen and consider opposing points of view.”  Seriously?  You listen by punishing the City of Charlotte and the state for not caving to your ludicrous and dangerous demands of moral insanity.  How’s that for rampant and rabid moral relativism?

Let me offer another group that does not accept ‘opposing points of view’; the godless communists in China.  They put millions on the table but no willingness to hear any opposing views.  What did the NBA do when The Houston Rockets Daryl Morey tweeted his support for the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong?  They bowed at the altar of the almighty dollar and stood with China and against the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.  So much for diversity and willingness to hear opposing points of view.  Nope, their morality and principles were rooted in the money.

Imagine that, the moral stance of the pious NBA was that it is a principled position to allow men into women’s restrooms and locker rooms but standing for freedom is not.  They appear, as do other segments of our modern society, willing to stand with the political protests that are anti-American but rebuke any protest that opposes the communist regime in China. 

Some have rightly called this ‘cultural relativism’ and it is.  However, I believe that it is far more than simply cultural relativism but moral relativism and incredibly damaging to any civil society.  The moral compass is broken when anyone can view the actions and agenda of a communist regime with the atrocious human rights engagements of those totalitarian despots as more principled than keeping men out of women’s restrooms.  That is beyond repugnant it is diabolical and poses an incredible danger to any civil society.  Where does it lead and where does it end if we become laws unto ourselves and our moral compass defined by whatever we happen to believe acceptable at that juncture?  We must have moral absolutes, or we lose our freedom, safety, and society.

When school superintendents, city councils or other entities can impose their politically correct view of what is right and moral on a community that believes otherwise what can we call it but moral relativism.  In the field of psychology, the American Psychological Association has constructed guidelines to instruct graduate programs to steer away from pronouns to identify people without asking them what they view themselves as.  Wow!

The gender blending and gender-neutralization demands being placed upon Americans are a danger signal that in our mind-numbing attempt to appear understanding, tolerant, and accepting we ignore.  You may love me or hate me but there are two genders, male and female and I base that both on science and the Bible.  There are absolutes in right and wrong and no one is afforded the liberty to determine what is good or evil based on what they desire.

I realize that I will lose some who might otherwise agree by citing the Bible but Isaiah 5:20 addresses this issue.  “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”  I believe in moral absolutes!  I believe that it is morally wrong to kill the unborn!  I believe it is morally wrong to steal!  I believe it is morally wrong to lie!  I believe it is morally right to love our neighbor as ourselves and do unto others as we would like for them to do unto us!  I believe that marriage is to be monogamous and both partners are morally obligated to be faithful in their marriage!  I do not ascribe to situation ethics or moral relativism.

We may disagree on what is the best or even right approach, that is not what I am talking about per se.  My foundational guide is the Bible and God’s Word and those laws that are consistent with the guidelines of the Bible.  If we adopt a view of moral relativism, and society decides that it is okay to become marauding bands taking whatever we want whenever we want it because we believe we deserve it, we fail our faith and our conscience.  I want a country where we recognize the validity of true science, ascribe to moral principles laid out in the Bible and evidenced in our Constitutional Laws.  I want everyone to be treated fairly and with all the respect they earn and deserve. 

 I view the current Democratic Party as a group that has succumbed to such political correctness that moral relativism is in danger of destroying our Republic. Therefore, I reject their agenda and ideology.

God bless you and God bless America!

Before anyone protests and hurls, a dangerous projectile in my direction let me add, it is about rights.  That is the bottom line in the wording of the second amendment.  It reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”  (Emphasis mine).  The right of the people to keep and bear Arms is the guarantee of the second amendment.  It makes no attempt to identify what kind of arms we can keep and bear, but that we have the right to do so. 

When did gun control become politically palatable?  I would, as do many, argue that it got its greatest impetus under Lyndon Banes Johnson in 1968.  The Gun Control Act of 1968 was designed primarily to regulate interstate commerce in firearms transfers.  It was designed to make it illegal to make those transfers except among licensed manufacturers, dealers, and importers.  That has been vastly expanded by today’s gun control advocates.  They are pressing for outright bans on certain firearms and mislabeled them in the process.

The term ‘assault rifle’ is grossly misused and inaccurate in discussing the AR-15.  The AR in that rifle does not mean “Assault Rifle” as one liberal recently insisted in our debates.  It stands for ArmaLite Rifle, manufactured by the Colt Manufacturing Company.  The gun grabbers prefer to call it a military-style assault weapon.  It is not!  One military expert amusingly said: “Soldiers would be laughed off the battlefield if the carried an AR-15 into combat.” 

For all who have the same mentality as Joe Biden or Michael Bloomberg, the AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle.  It requires a trigger pull for each round fired.  I know that is shocking to Mr. Bloomberg who thinks the AR is a fully automatic firearm, unlike the semi-automatic pistols he refers to in his rants about the virtues and need of gun control and bans of the AR-15 and AK-47 as well as other firearms. 

The more one researches the factual data compiled by the FBI, ATF, and other law enforcement agencies the more we discover the fallacy of the Left’s arguments.  The idea that some of the leading Democrats have advanced that if we ban certain firearms the criminals will also turn in their weapons is beyond laughable it is frightening.  What part of ‘criminal’ do they not understand?  In some of the more recent statistics regarding firearm induced homicides, the FBI and other agencies’ own data debunks the gun control argument.

Regarding murder victims by firearms, the data from 2014 to 2018 indicates that only 297 of the 14,123 homicides were committed by criminals using a rifle.  That would be roughly 2%.  That is lower than the 1,515 lives taken by someone using a knife or about 11% of the murders.  Why is there no clamor to ban knives but howls by the Left to bank those evil-looking firearms they call military assault weapons?  How about the juicy tidbit in the data that there were 463 people killed by someone using a hammer, club or some other bludgeoning instrument?  Add to that list the 672 killed by someone using their hand, foot or fist and the fact that handguns accounted for 6,603 murders.  Why is the rifle the target?

The fallacious argument that guns are too readily accessible and available denies the historical and empirical evidence that guns were more readily available in earlier years. In my lifetime, you could order a gun from a Sears catalog or walk into any hardware store or pawn shop and buy one with no background check.  When you consider those days and compare the numbers of gun violence and mass murders to the more recent highly regulated gun availability times you find that there were fewer incidents then than now.  What changed?  Not the guns but the hearts and minds of people.  Much of that change has been produced via our educational system, Hollywood, and politicians.

Those who were alive during my teen years would be alarmed at the behavior of today.  They would find it almost impossible to believe that some of our largest cities now must hire police officers and security guards to police their schools.  In my teen years, you frequently saw a gun rack in a pick-up truck with a rifle hanging on it visibly.  We did not fear mass shootings unlike those of today when guns are far more highly regulated and more difficult to obtain.

The motives of the nefarious gun control advocates, not the rank in file citizen who has been inebriated by the Kool-Aid rhetoric and diatribe they have been fed, is not public safety.  It is about disarming American citizens.  Why would they want to achieve that goal?  They know that their actions would do little to nothing to reduce the homicide rates in America.  Why would they push for something they know will not make people safer?  That, I can only speculate about, but I believe it is far more sinister and diabolical than most are willing to consider.

If we look no farther than our Southern neighbors in Venezuela, we find some alarming facts.  The Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro banned private gun ownership in 2012.  That action stripped the citizens of that nation of the ability to protect themselves from both criminals and government troops who preyed upon them.  In Cuba, Fidel Castro said: “Armas Para Que?” or “Guns, for what?”  The Cubans quickly found out what and it was not pretty.  

History reveals that in 1938, Hitler signed a new Gun Control Act and Jews were banned from working in firearms plants.  The .22 caliber hollow-point ammunition was banned. We know the result of Hitler’s Gun Ban and the tyrannical despotism of his regime as well as the Holocaust.  The German Weimar Republic decreed gun registration in 1931 but warned that those records must not fall into the hands of radical elements.  The National Socialist Party led by Adolf Hitler ascended to power in 1933 and used those records to disarm his political opponents and rendered them powerless to resist.

Gun Control turns law-abiding citizens into disarmed subjects and relegates us powerless to defend ourselves against criminals or a rogue tyrannical government.  That is precisely what the Founding Fathers insisted must not be allowed to happen.  Thus, we have the second amendment and must never relinquish our right to “keep and bear arms”.  They understood that if the citizenry was armed and capable of defending itself it would be a permanent deterrent to both crime and governmental tyranny. 

I am pro the Second Amendment and will never willingly relinquish my God-given Inalienable Right to “keep and bear arms.”  I believe that certain inalienable rights come from God not the government and we all have the right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”  We have the right to protect our property and person, which is part of the right to life and liberty and required if we are to be allowed to pursue happiness.

God bless you and God bless America!

The modern Democrats in Washington have established a new precedent for the impeachment of a president and a new precedent on accepting or rejecting the outcome of elections.  As a lover of Freedom, a supporter of the True Constitution, and a defender of our Republic and republican form of government, I believe what they have done is damage the framework of our Republic irreparably. 

In the 19^th century, Lord Acton offered the view that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”  Of course, he was focusing on absolute monarchies and dictatorships, not the American Republic, but it applies today.  The Democrats have accused the president of ‘abusing his power’ as president while ignoring their own ‘abuses’ and outrageous misinterpretations and misapplications of the provisions and articles in the American Constitution.  They view themselves as The Law and maybe even God, but they are neither.  They are a third-leg in the trilogy of government. 

When Barack Hussein Obama was elected president, he declared that we were just days away from the ‘fundamental transformation of America.’  Tragically, he was right President and although he failed in much that he attempted, he succeeded in launching or escalating the push to ‘transform’ America into something other than the Free Constitutional Republic of our founding. 

During the first two years of his presidency, the Democrats controlled Congress and held enough seats in the Senate to override a filibuster.  They were dangerously close to having ‘absolute power.’  America is still paying the price for that period and will pay for it into perpetuity.  They had control of most of the federal courts and had their cheerleaders in the media, Hollywood, and many other outlets.  The framework for destruction was in place and when Trump won the election that was a fly in the ointment for them.  They could not abide by the decision of we the people and immediately began the process of overturning the election they did not like. 

They are claiming to be the defenders of the American Constitution while rendering it meaningless.  They are turning our system of government into a weapon against political opponents and setting a precedent that has the potential to destroy this Republic.  As they enjoyed the two-terms of Obama and believed they were a lock for four or eight more years with Hillary, they dreamed of being forever in power and would transform our nation into an oligarchy of leftism and rule us with an iron fist. 

To his credit, President Trump has weathered the three-year barrage of missiles launched at him and achieved a great deal, almost single-handedly.  He had little help from the Republicans in Congress and the Never Trump advocates in the Republican Party have worked for hand in glove with the Toxic Liberal Agenda to destroy him.  Barack Obama said, “elections have consequences” and the consequences for the Democrats with Trump have so infuriated them, they are unwilling to accept our decision as to who would be president. 

When a Congressional leader or any politician stands before the American people and insists that “no one is above the law” they need to be reminded for their own sins.  Congress will not police itself, having the fox guard the hen house is not good for the chickens.  It is Constitutionally up to you and me to police Congress.  Yes, we elect them, and they are granted Constitutional power and responsibility but if they violate their oath and fail to fulfill their assignment, duty, and responsibility it is incumbent upon us to ‘show them the door.’ 

The lunacy that is coming from the Democratic hopefuls seeking to occupy the White House is beyond belief.  The illustrious Joe Biden has gleefully affirmed that he is willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs to enact the Green Energy policy that Saint Greta and the clairvoyant Ocasio-Cortez who can predict the end of the world, demand.  The Green Deal would destroy America’s economy, plunge us into the abyss of fiscal chaos by and render us powerless to compete with the rest of the world on the economic stage.  If you like your horse and buggy, you can keep them but forget your smartphone, computer, electricity, automobile, and much more.  Yes, I’m being facetious and sarcastic, but it is apropos. 

They accuse Trump of abusive tweets but then demonstrate their incredible hubris tweeting, “Merry Impeachmas from the WaPo team.”  Wow!  Unbiased media, right?  Unbiased Democrats in the hearings, right?  Now they suggest that the Senate might not be unbiased and bipartisan and but operate, as the Democrats did in a strictly partisan mode.  Pelosi initially appeared to believe that she held all the cards and could force McConnell and the Senate to bow to the whims of the Democrats.  That must never happen! 

The un-elected liberal bureaucrats in our government are the arms and legs of the politicians to carry out their destruction.  Former Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, has blasted William Barr as a partisan and because of his alleged partisanship, Barr is disqualified to be the Attorney General.  Seriously, Mr. Holder?  You said you were “Obama’s wingman and you were there with your boy.”  Your words, not mine.  You sir, and those in the Obama administration and today’s Democratic Party in Washington have and are engaging in the most partisan impeachment and resistance I have witnessed in my multiple decades on the planet.

Mark Levin said that the Republicans must treat the next Democrat President in the same manner.  That might be a succulent morsel of revenge but would not prevent this from happening in the future.  I believe that those guilty of corruption, abuse of power, violation of the Law and the Constitution must be held accountable.  More than censorship and a slap on the wrist must become a reality.  It is unacceptable to simply pick the low-hanging fruit and prosecute a few inconsequential players in this attack on our republic. We must see some, hopefully all, the high-level participants face criminal indictment.  That, in my view, is the only possible preventative for this diabolical precedent set by the Left to become etched in stone.

However, there is one more way for us to save America.  That is through God and prayer.  We must, and I am committed to interceding for this nation and our leaders.  I will also work to oust those who reject our Constitution and our Rule of Law and violate the basic principles of freedom.  I will then vote against them in voting for someone to replace them and hopefully, they will honor the wishes of the American people, serve with integrity, and honor the Constitution.

God bless you and God bless America!

Those three elements are regrettably present in American politics today and will be into the foreseeable future.  I detest all three, but then I will be charged with being a purveyor of all three by the Left because I voted for Trump and against Hillary Clinton.  I voted for America, am pro-life, pro the 2^nd Amendment, pro-Freedom of Speech, and believe in the Constitution and the Rule of Law.  I am also a Caucasian male of European descent (Irish-Scottish), therefore I must be Racist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, as well as being an anti-Semite and filled with hate.  In the view of the Left, my vote for Trump and support of America can only mean that I am a vile, evil, white male who succeeded in life due to white privilege and established my absent fortune on the backs of the less fortunate. 

Amazingly, the Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York was a clear act of anti-Semitism.  The Democrats and the Media refuse to blame the hater with his crime and lay the responsibility at his feet.  No, no!  They blame it on Trump.  After all, Trump is Hitler, a Nazi, a Racist, a Homophobe, and Islamophobic deranged unhinged man, right?  They refuse to consider the facts and reality, they want Trump to be those things, therefore he is those things, in their minds.  The good guys with guns in the Texas church are trashed by the Left, but I praise them and thank God they were willing to end an even more tragic situation quickly.  It took about 6 seconds for them to stop the shooter!

The Democrats cannot run against Trump on his record and policies.  They know that, Trump knows that, and anyone with an IQ above freezing on the Fahrenheit scale with half-a-brain should know that.  Sadly, their unexpected and nightmarish loss in 2016 must be explained by some diabolical phenomenon because America’s rejection of their policies and agenda is unthinkable for them.  They have sought for over three years to find something, anything, real or fictional to charge Trump with because his policies are working and producing good for America.  They must avoid talking about his success like it were a plague, or they will get slaughtered at the voting booths.

They have insisted that Trump is an anti-Semite.  Imagine that, the President who moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s true capital, was somehow an act of anti-Semitism.  Forget the fact, that his daughter is married to a Jewish man and her children will be Jewish.  Nope, that is only a get out of jail free card to hide his anti-Semitism, according to them.  Forget the fact that Trump, not Obama, recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.  All that he has done in standing up to Iran and putting the UN on notice that their consistent bashing of Israel would not be tolerated.  That, to the Left is somehow only a cover to hide his anti-Semitism.  That is much the same as they have charged with hate, bigotry, racism, and charging him and his supporters as being white supremacists.

They insist that Impeaching Trump has placed an asterisk on his presidency that he can never shake, and it will forever taint his legacy.  Amazingly, they do not say the same about William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton.  Not a peep.  They never recognize the anti-Semitism, anti-police, and racism of Barack Obama.  They ignore reality and facts and present fiction and lies because they know they cannot run against the truth.  The Truth makes people free and freedom is not on their agenda.  At least not freedom for America and Americans, only for them to do what they please. 

Barack Obama spent 20 years in an anti-Semitic congregation and sat under a minister who was openly racist and filled with hate towards those, not of his ethnicity or ideology.  Obama surrounded himself with those who were clearly and openly anti-Semitic during his 8-years in office.  The co-chair of his campaign in 2008 was General Merrill McPeak who had a long and documented history of blaming American foreign policy on the “Jewish lobby.”  His foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski blamed America’s pro-Israel policies on the “Jewish lobby.”  In 2010 Obama appointed Nawar Shora, a member of the anti-Israel American-Arab Anti-Defamation Committee (ADC) as a senior advisor to the Transportation and Safety Board on civil rights and civil liberties matters.  Wow!

The Obama Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice went on an anti-Semitic rant in 2011 and then was promoted to National Security Advisor.  Obama then nominated Samantha Power as the U.N. Ambassador.  Power was an open anti-Semite and anti-Israel radical who wanted to shift aid from Israel to the Palestinians and suggested invading Israel.  None of that is remembered, but somehow the Democrats view it as fashionable to call Trump an anti-Semite and declare him to be the most anti-Semitic President in our history.  Sorry, but that distinction belongs to Barack Obama.

The economy is strong, the repatriation of money into the American economy is amazing, unemployment is the lowest it has been in our recorded history among blacks and other groups.  Our borders are being secured without the help of the Democrats and too little support from the Republicans in Congress.  The policies and promises Trump made in 2016 are being fulfilled and if allowed to continue with the help of the Republicans and any suddenly awaken to reality Democrats we will see America progress much more. 

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders want to jail oil and gas, and fossil fuel industry executives for their non-crime crimes.  They believe that is palatable to their base and somehow seem to think that the rest of us will buy into the diatribe and rhetoric.  We don’t, at least I don’t and hope you don’t.  Each of the Democratic candidates want to repeal the tax cuts we have enjoyed, watch the economy roll back into a recession, burden us with universal healthcare, sharply restrict if not remove our inalienable rights of self-defense, freedom of speech, and religion.  We are faced with a choice between Freedom and Tyranny and Trump is not the purveyor of tyranny.

Chuck Todd and others on the Left have gone full bore in trashing the Bible calling its teachings myths.  They cannot understand how a Christian can vote for Trump, after all, we support the rights of the unborn in the womb, we support the traditional family, we believe that everyone should carry their own load, and hold to traditional values including the Constitution. Those things are foreign to their ideological minds.  How dare us, not bow at the shrine of liberalism and become rabid climate-change activists and worshippers of that ideological lunacy.  We believe that there are two-genders as the Bible declares.  We believe in personal property rights, as the Constitution defines.  Simply put, we believe in the idea and ideal presented and goal targeted by the Founders in our Declaration of Independence.  Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Left cannot run against Trump’s policies and record as President, so they impeach, project on him the sins they are committing. They call all of us who reject their agenda deplorable, racists, homophobic, bigots, and hate-mongers.  We are not the ones burning things in the streets and spending millions of tax-payer dollars on a fictional pursuit of ousting a legitimately elected president.   I defend Trump’s record as president.  He has not done all I want him to do, but he has attempted to do more than the previous presidents in recent memory.

God bless you and God bless America!

There has been more than one occasion when what the Democrats and career politicians have said or done they reveal the glaring reality that they do not trust us or want us to have the power to decide the future of this nation.  Nancy Pelosi has indicated that and even hinted that it is her view that we were so ignorant in the last election that we can no longer be trusted, therefore it is up to the Ruling Class of Professional Politicians to decide for us. 

Now, the most-high potentate on the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jerry Nadler has taken it a step farther.  He indicated that it was his view that impeaching Donald John Trump the duly elected president of these United States was too important a matter to be left to the voters in the next election.  Why does he feel that way?  I believe it is because he knows that the likelihood of the voters returning Trump to the White House is great and they consider that the end of days.  Well, the end of days for their stranglehold of control over America and Americans. 

The view, expressed by Nadler, Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, Al Green, Waters, and the bulk of Democrats in Congress as well as the anti-Trump Republicans, is frighteningly revealing.  It reveals the political Gulag they desire to incarcerate ‘We the People’ in should they gain full control of Congress and the White House.  Give them both branches of Congress and the White House and they have the Supreme Court, the lower courts, and the unelected bureaucracies, intelligence community, and federal law enforcement.  At that point, the proverbial fat lady will not be preparing to sing she will be exiting the stage having finished her diva’s song of demise.

The Democrats are now wrapping themselves in the very document they have lamented as being archaic, outdated, and needing to be ignored, rewritten or reinterpreted.  They cite the Constitution as their authority while ignoring the portions of it they do not like and bypassing its demands for decorum and legitimacy.  They have, it would seem, totally forgotten or willingly ignored that the Constitution established three branches of government, not one ruling body and two lesser bodies.  Congress is not the final authority on anything and checks and balances were our founders’ safeguard to preserve our Republic. 

The Democrats in the House of Representatives appear to believe that Trump and those of us who support him are such an imposing threat to their survival they dare not wait for the courts to respond or the next election to reveal the will of the people.  Heaven forbid!  Their insurance policy in the last election failed, their fabrications of falsified documents failed, their lame charges have failed, so they do not believe they can wait.  They see the handwriting on the wall and believe that if they do not destroy the President, he and we will destroy them.  Therefore, he must go!  I warn you that if they get him, we will be next, so do not think this is not life or death, it is.

They are having a resurgence of selectively quoting the founding fathers but despise the process those men established.  They hate the electoral college and insist that the popular vote in a national election is the only right way to elect presidents.  Yet, they do not hold national elections to nominate their candidate, they go state to state.  Isn’t that a bit ironic and hypocritical?  They do not want ‘democracy’ as they insist, they want ‘mob rule’ and want to create mass confusion that allows them to do their deeds under the cover of darkness and confusion. 

We have come to the place in American politics and through the antics and actions of the Democrats in control of the House of Representatives where a president can be impeached because of personal animus against him and/or his policies.  That means that no future president is safe, and if this prevails and is allowed to continue will so distort the balance of power and the system of checks and balances, America as the Free Constitutional Republic will be a fading memory. 

They claim that America is threatened by foreign influence in our elections and that is so serious it cannot be delayed until the people can decide in the next election.  Why is it that they do not care about the fact that America has meddled in the elections of other nations?  One of the most recent was Obama’s attempt to oust Netanyahu in Israel.  They do not seem to care about the documentation that millions of illegals voted in the 2016 elections, the growing awareness of dead people being registered to vote in various states, and people voting multiple times and in different states and cities.  Isn’t that meddling in the elections?  I guess not because most of those votes went to the Democrats so that is not a threat, but if anyone votes for Trump or the Republican that is such a serious threat it cannot be left to the people.

Our founding fathers believed that elections were the people’s outlet to ‘throw the bums out’ when the need presented itself.  I guess that is not the view of the Democrats for they do not want us to decide, they want to decide for us.  How long will it be before they insist that elections are a threat to national security, therefore they must make political appointments and keep us safe?  I would hope that most Americans would be incensed at that position and band together to ‘show them the door.’

The real abuse of power has been by the Democrats in this process.  I quote Professor Jonathan Turley, a Democrat and not a Trump fan, but a legal scholar.  Professor Turley, a George Washington University law professor boldly informed Congress that impeaching Trump under the charges they have offered would constitution an abuse of their power.  He said: “I can’t emphasize this enough and I’ll say it just one more time: If you impeach a president if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts; it is an abuse of power, It’s your abuse of power.”

The view of the Democrats is they can do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it with no regard for the Constitution and the clear guidelines of that document.  That was expressed what some have called an Orwellian reading of the Constitution by freshman Congresswoman Madeleine Dean said that the Constitution gave the House of Representatives the ‘sole’ power to impeach.  She arrogantly declared: “It’s a civics lesson.  Don’t let the other side, who have such talented constitutional attorneys over there, distract you.  We do not need permission from the president, we do not need permission from the courts.  In fact, we have an obligation to do our job under this simple, smart document,” as she held up a copy of the Constitution.

Congresswoman, I argue that you do need permission by the courts regarding claims of executive privilege.  The very document you supposedly know so well clearly states that fact. 

America, if we want to protect and defend the constitution and keep our Republic Free and Healthy, we must band together.  Personality differences cannot be the determining factor in our response – Freedom must be!  Yes, I believe that our Freedom is at stake and our Republic is being threatened from within.  I plead for everyone to take a definitive stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom and ‘throw the bums out’ in November 2020. 

God bless America and God bless you!

A few years ago, my optometrist said, “You have better than perfect vision.”  Technically, I don’t think that is possible, but he said the oft used theory that 20/20 vision was perfect vision.  When I pressed him, he informed me that the designation of ‘perfect’ might not be the best but that it was the baseline standard for what his profession deemed optimum vision.  At that time, I had 20/15 in both eyes and to him, that was better than perfect.

In life and politics, we are always striving for perfection.  Well, maybe not always, but we want things to be the best possible.  Sadly, in too many lives and in American politics it appears that we have evolved in our attitudes to the idea that ‘pretty good’ is okay and what is being called ‘optimum’ in today’s politics would be resoundingly rejected by our Founding Fathers.  They wanted a ‘more perfect union’ and did not believe that ‘just okay’ was okay.  They wanted the best possible and so should we.  

Our Founders saw the dangers of the human ego and the thirst for control and power and gave us repeated warnings to guard against those situations and people.  They placed within our founding documents, the Constitution and Bill of Rights safeguards.  They did all they could in both their actions and subsequent writings preserved for posterity to warn us of the dangers and give us guidelines to preserve the Republic.  Sadly, we have allowed the deviousness of the devious to erode our government and steal from us rights and liberties for their purposes.  That can change but not without incredible pain and sacrifice. 

If anyone had told me, as a child or a teenager, in the ’50’s and 60’s that we would be on the brink of witnessing the year 2020, I would not have believed it.  In the ’50’s and a significant portion of the 60’s we had the ‘Red Scare’ and most believed that there would be a nuclear war with the Soviets and/or the Chinese long before we became adults.  We endured the drills hiding under our desks to protect us from a nuclear attack.  We lived with a certain amount of daily trepidation.  Some built bomb shelters at great expense and sacrifice, hoping to survive what was deemed a certain eventuality.

If 20/20 is perfect can we anticipate the year 2020 providing or ushering in an era of perfection?  Where are my rose-colored glasses, I need to feed my unicorns and trim the wings of the flying pigs in my back yard.  With the present state of disarray and decay politically ‘pretty good’ would be mighty good.  If we achieve the objective of defeating the toxic liberal offering of Socialism and unseat the most anti-American, anti-Freedom, anti-God, and the sanitization of history and blurring the lines of moral decency we might achieve ‘pretty good.’

As an American who has lived more than 70-years, served in combat, raised a family, worked for what I have, and preached the gospel for over 50-years, I want more than ‘pretty good’ or ‘just okay.’  The desire for perfection lives and grows daily in my heart.  Believe me, I am very aware of my lack in that area.  I am profoundly cognizant of my personal deficiencies and failures.  Yet, I continue to ‘press toward the mark’ and ‘seek that prize.’  I have always believed that if you accept second-best you get third or fourth or fifth best for your complacency and abandonment of the pursuit of the best. 

As a preacher, I have encountered the arguments, “Well, I’m a good person.  I don’t hurt anyone. I am not any worse than anyone else.”  That is a flawed view of God’s desire and demand for us and it is a capitulation of our dream and objective of being the best we can be.  The slogans of the various branches of the military, designed to inspire also expose our deficiency.

The Air Force’s current slogan: “Aim High, Fly-Fight-Win” is a lofty objective and would demand a rejection of the status quo and any acceptance of pretty good.  The Navy’s current slogan: “Forged by the Sea” requires some inquiry to define its application to life and the pursuit of perfection.  The Navy’s slogan is not that the sailors somehow crawled out of the ocean in some evolutionary process, but the Navy was designed to tame the seas.  In life, we have stormy waters that must be tamed and navigated and pretty good just won’t cut it.

The Army’s slogans: “Army Strong” and “Be the Best or All that You Can Be” reveals that strength is required to attain the best and reach the highest goals in life.  There can be no acceptance of second best. and it is a revelation that we cannot do this alone but must move as a unit.  The Marines’ slogans: “The Few, The Proud” and “Looking for a Few Good Men” or women as would be apropos today demanding a sense of the pursuit of being elite.  If you are not willing to give it your all you will never be a part of the victorious.

The Coast Guard’s slogan: “Born Ready” almost sounds like the Boy Scouts but “Semper Paratus” or ‘born ready’ and suggests that the attitude of determination is integral in their mission.  Ingrained in the various branches mottos is the attitude that nothing less than perfection is acceptable.  The Air Force’s motto: “Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do” is a proud target.  The Marines’ motto: “Semper Fidelis” (Always Faithful) is indispensable if the pursuit of excellence.  The Army’s motto: “This we will defend” is an attitude that must be incorporated in the pursuit of perfection and the protection of the Republic.  The Navy’s motto: “Honor, Courage, Commitment” is essential in both the public and elected officials if the nation is to rise above mediocracy and beyond the acceptance of ‘pretty good.’

What will the year 2020 bring to America and us as individuals?  Without question, we will witness even greater division politically.  We will find ourselves faced with decisions more difficult than any of the past politically, socially, economically, and spiritually.  We can revert to the paranoia and hysteria of past eras or we can determine that ‘Making America Great Again’ is more than a catchy political slogan but a worthy objective. 

I am convinced that many on both sides of the political aisle want America to survive and thrive.  Sadly, some of them do not truly understand what America has been, is, and can be.  They have been taught a revised and slanted view of our Republic, its original purposes and the benefits of our system of government.  They have only seen a sanitized and revised history of America and the world and out of that distorted view, they vote. 

Also, there are many who have heard so little real biblical truth from the pulpits they believe the humanized interpretation of the Scriptures and are manipulated by political correctness.  We are far from perfection and may never see any semblance of the exceptionalism and patriotism that established our Republic and keep us and much of the world safer for generations.  However, failing to desire that status and abdicating our responsibility to pursue excellence and fight for the prize of perfection nationally and individually dooms us to 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, or 5^th best and that is unacceptable for this American.

Join me in a willingness to vote against the destruction of America and reject all politicians who do not or will not protect and defend the constitution.  Let’s reject those on both sides of the political aisle who place their pursuit of power and control over their obligation to serve the American people and the Republic.  I will vote no on the Leftists Agenda of National Socialism and vote for America! 

God bless you and God bless America!