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!

When I hear Democrats and others argue that building a wall is immoral, as did Nancy Pelosi, I wonder how deeply they have thought about the issue.  When you live behind a wall and call a wall for the nation immoral, what does that make you and how logical is that?  Logical?  Sorry, I ascribed that to a Liberal Leftist and I know better.  Logic and reason along with critical thinking have departed like the flowers of summer.  Fortunately for the flowers of summer, they will return, but as for logic, reason, and critical thinking, I’m not sure a better comparison might be the dinosaur.

The Border Wall Issue has fully exposed what the opposition is really all about and it is not morality but potential or actual voters for the Democrats.  The issue at the border spans a very wide spectrum of issues.  Those include preventing the influx or invasion of terrorist, gang members, drug traffickers, opioids, and human trafficking to name a few.  It is in the best interest of Legal Immigrants for us to secure the border because Illegals make it more difficult for the legal immigrants to get in or get jobs once here.  It is an economic issue, a healthcare issue, a welfare issue, and needed to protect our Electoral Systems and our System of Government.  Yes, voter fraud is part of the equation. 

I expect the endless meaningless diatribe and rhetoric from the MSM but when contributors on Fox News join their chorus it motivates me to turn off all the news outlets.  Maria Harf, Chris Hahn, Jessica Taylor, Juan Williams, Shep Smith, and Chris Wallace motivates me to turn them off and delve into the issue myself and expose Schumer and Pelosi as the frauds they are on this issue.

I have asked Liberals for a long time, “Why the Democrats support Sanctuary Cities?”  I have pointed out the criminal elements hiding in those places, the murderous activity against American citizens, the rape of American women, and the other crimes being committed and ask, “Why, defend them?”  I usually get some superfluous diatribe and hear the leftist talking points about civility, and morality and the defenseless women and children being protected.  They know they are not on solid ground factually, but they stand firm.

If the Democrats and RINOs were genuinely concerned about protecting America and Americans and were truly taking the moral high ground, the road less traveled, they would not support Sanctuary Cities and endanger Americans.  They would not seek the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and try to prevent them from the needed funds and authority to deal with the problem effectively on the border.  They would want ICE and the Border Patrol to have the means and support to effectively and safely remove the illegals from our land.  We are a sovereign nation and have an obligation to our legal citizens to protect them both constitutionally and morally.  Why Not Do That?

They want the border to remain porous and virtually non-existent.  Their political reason is ‘potential or actual votes’ not the security and safety of America and Americans.  They do not want to send a message to the countries of the world that America is no longer a paper tiger and we will and do enforce our laws and if you come you will be deported or prosecuted.  That would be counter-productive to their agenda of building a larger Democrat Voting Base.  They are engaging in Vote Farming.

How can you expect people to take you seriously in your moral argument when you offer support for funding more agents and drones along the border but oppose the wall and insist on protecting Sanctuary Cities?  If you, on one hand, say you want the illegals caught and dealt with but on the other insist that they have a right to be here and defend Sanctuary Cities you are not credible, you are being a hypocrite.  It is my view that you are exposing yourself as a Voting Farmer trying to harvest a large crop of new votes, so America be damned, and your political agenda advanced.  That is not moral or constitutional, so your position is a purely political, not genuine concern for our borders or Americans. 

Our founding fathers recognized the principle and belief of what is known as the Castle Doctrine or a man’s house is his castle or sanctuary.  If you believe there should be no walls, no borders, not preventative for people entering the country illegally, why do you have security systems in your homes to protect your Sanctuary?  If you believe that there should be no walls, borders, barriers, or preventatives at the border why do you have 10’ fences around your homes to keep people out?  Tear down your walls, open your gates, unlock your doors and windows and place signs on your front lawn, “Everyone Welcome, my home is your home, enter and take what you desire.”  I can hear people screaming, “Roy that is not rational.”  I agree, but it is the definitive position of the Democrats.  They can fund the world, abortion, and so many other things but not $5 Billion for the Wall. 

I fully support, and we need Legal Immigration.  However, those immigrating must bring something to the table other than just seeking a better life.  That may sound harsh, but our Immigration policy and system have, until recently, insisted that people have the skills needed and are desirous and willing to assimilate into our nation and culture.  No, they do not have to lose their cultural identity, but they have to become Americans.  There are those who are afforded political asylum and even those are expected or should be to assimilate.

The Democrats are perfectly fine with a $4.4 Trillion budget.  They are fine with $27 Billion in foreign aid for economic development, health, humanitarian assistance, peace, security, and other objectives in those nations.  The Secure Fence Acts of 2006, remember that?  That Act budgeted $50 Billion over 25-years to control our borders.  But Congress only appropriated $1.4 Billion and ignored the rest.   The $27 Billion for foreign aid was for ONE YEAR, not TWENTY-FIVE.  How does that feel America?  Those in Congress are willing to spend 5 times what the President is asking for a Wall on foreign aid and projects to help them develop, grow, and enjoy protection but only a pittance for America.  That is disgusting and must end.

When I consider what we are sending to foreign nations I find the wall argument of the Democrats defenseless.  Did you know that we have been sending $687 million to Pakistan, Osama bin Laden’s sanctuary nation?  $7.2 Billion to Afghanistan, $570 million to Syria and even $20 million to China.  What are they thinking?  I don’t know but I know that there is no thought of what is best for America in the mix. 

Those in Congress continue to grow rich and live in multimillion-dollar mansions surrounded by walls and armed guards and average Americans are left without the desired and needed security along our borders.  How they grow so rich is a bit puzzling since they earn less than $200,000 in salary per annum.  Illegals cost the American taxpayer about $115 Billion each year. That is taking the actual cost and subtracting any taxes paid by the illegals and the net is $115 billion.  Wouldn’t it make more sense to spend $5 billion on the Wall and allow ICE and the Border Patrol to effectively deal with the problem?  It would be sound economic sense not to mention national security.  The position of the Left addresses none of those issues and is clearly a front for “harvesting” illegal votes and building a voting base for the Democrats. 

Call me whatever you please, but I am disgusted with the issue and the entire budgetary process in Congress.  It is time to Drain the Swamp and Dismantle the Deep State.  It is time to Reduce the Behemoth called the Federal Government.  NOT SOMEDAY, BUT NOW!

God bless you and God bless America!

I am completely serious and realize that some may become so incensed and take offense to what I am saying they will gnash their teeth at me and desire my destruction.  I hope that is not the case, but there is a reason and there is the current rhetoric that causes me concern. I pray we all find a way and a willingness to engage in reason not simply rhetoric regarding this issue.  If we do, we can come to some concrete and viable solutions to the problem, but if not, we will see the problem grow exponentially and it will ultimately rip us to shreds.  This may well be the most serious threat facing our Republic today.

The insistence that President Trump killed sick kids at the border because he would not let them in is not being honest intellectually, factually, or even morally.  It may sound wonderful and compassionate to say we should let all those desiring to enter free access and if they are sick we are morally obligated to take them in and care for them.  However, our current Immigration Laws prohibit persons with communicable and highly infectious diseases from entering the United States of America as an immigrant. 

I am stunned that the Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC are removing tests for HIV infection from the list of diseases that keep people from entering the United States.  When did that occur?  Not under President Trump but under President Obama.  The proposal was advanced in 2009 and the final ruling published in November of 2009 and went into effect on January 4, 2010. 

Let me give you a list of diseases that prevent a person from entering the United States.  They include active tuberculosis, infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale, and until 2010 HIV.  Also, quarantinable diseases designated by a Presidential Executive order and the list, thus far, include cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza (pandemic flu).  Other diseases on the list include polio and the World Health Organizations list of diseases that could result in public health emergencies of international concern.  That is not all inclusive but reflects the reality that just because someone is sick they are to be given admission.

To grant admission to every sick person would endanger all Americans or millions of us.  That is not what our immigration policy and program are designed to produce.  Immigration was supposed to be a system that would allow people who could contribute gainfully to our society with certain skills, abilities, and a willingness to assimilate into our American society to gain access or entry.

Before you target President Trump for killing sick children you might want to ask why any responsible and loving parent would subject a sick child to a thousand-mile trek across Mexico trying to enter the United States.  Would not responsible parenting insist that the child is cared for in the home or hospital near them without subjecting them to further physical trauma that would make their condition worse and possibly kill them?  Why are there few, if any, asking the parents why they would do that?  Mexico offered, at their Southern Border, medical care so why wait until you are outside the U.S. in Tijuana before requesting medical help?  We did all we could for them once they were here, but they should never have been here in the first place.   

The idea that Trump is a monster because he separated children from their parents who entered the United States illegally is also a charge that is that unjust.  I’ve gone through this before, but if a person commits a crime and illegal entry is a felony (a crime), and have their children with them, are they separated?  Before you argue that is apples and oranges, I must ask, “Is It?”  What would you have us do with the parents, (if they were the parents) and the children?  The policy of letting them have free access to the United States with only a promise they would return to court for their hearing is ridiculous. Should we detain them, as family units, in facilities designed to house adults?  Is it more humane to keep the children separate, care for them, feed, clothe, and house them that subject them to that trauma?  I guess not, because it’s President Trump. 

But if reason kicks in everyone will understand this is not about children and families or even sick kids, it’s about keeping our borders open. I cannot fathom even one of our Founding Fathers embracing the Democrat policy and rhetoric regarding our borders and the illegals.  In 1790 the House of Representatives debated the matter of naturalization.  James Madison said, “It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable?”

In Madison’s argument, it was not because “diversity” is our greatest value. It was not because Big Business needed cheap labor. Madison asserted, “Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of.”  Madison argued plainly that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate but exclude the immigrant who could not readily “incorporate himself into our society.”

George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, emphasized that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that, “by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.”  Alexander Hamilton argued in 1802: “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family.”  Hamilton went even further saying, “the United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others, it has served very much to divide the community and distract our councils. It has been often likely to compromise the interests of our own country in favor of another.” 

Hamilton argued adamantly and predicted rightly that, “the permanent effect of such policy will be, that in times of great danger there will be always a numerous body of men, whom there may be just grounds to distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader.”  Immigration is not just important it is critical for our National Defense!  Our founding fathers understood, too bad the liberal leftist’s socialist progressives do not. 

Let’s end this faux piousness and ridiculous insanity of pushing for open borders.  If walls don’t work, why do former presidents and celebrities have them around their homes?  If walls and fences provide no benefit why do businesses surround their warehouses with fences and prisons have fences and wall?  Because they work!

God bless you and God bless America!