I cannot count the number of times I have been told to keep my faith and politics separate because they are incompatible.  However, the more I study the American Revolution and the role of the ministers, churches, and Christians, I find that argument invalid.  If you have studied Colonial History, you have undoubtedly seen how active the preachers and churches were.

I do not believe anyone can logically or factually argue that the colonists, patriots, politicians, or ministers of that era believed religion had no place in the political arena.  Preachers far and wide preached from their pulpits the righteousness of the cause of the revolution.  Today, they would be told (unless they are on the left) that they would lose their status by doing so. 

But there was no IRS then either, or should not be one now, but that is another topic.  The ministers of the revolutionary era assured the people that resistance to tyranny was a righteous cause and effectively built a fire of patriotism in the hearts and minds of most colonials.  Ministers served as military chaplains, penmen for committees of correspondence, and members of state legislatures, the constitutional convention, and the National Congress.  Some even took up arms and led troops into battle.

• Jonathan Mayhew, pastor of the West Church in Boston, wrote and preached of the Crown’s diabolical nature and God’s desire for all men to be free. 
• Peter Muhlenberg was called “The Fighting Parson.” He threw off his clerical robes after a fiery sermon concerning the revolution, donned a military uniform, and led troops into battle. 
• James Caldwell, a Presbyterian minister in Elizabeth, New Jersey, was one of many chaplains in the army. 
• John Witherspoon was possibly the most important “political parson” of that era as he represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress from 1776-1782 and signed the Declaration of Independence while preaching in support of the cause. 
• Even Quakers who called themselves “Free Quakers” took up arms.

For anyone to assume that the founding fathers and the religious leaders of that day wanted to keep religion out of the political arena is to ignore the facts.  It is beyond my comprehension why preachers today shy away from speaking out in support of truth, standing for biblical principles, and standing against those things that directly conflict with the Bible. 

There is only one way to silence me, and unless God tells me to stop speaking out, I will continue to proclaim the message of Christ, the Love of God, and the cause of Liberty and Freedom.  I am not a cat; I do not have many lives. I have a LIFE, and it is the total of everything that touches me, and politics touches me too.

So, I plead for everyone to stand for the right and biblical principles in this day and join in the fight to restore America and keep those who would destroy her from succeeding.  If we do not unite and stand firm, America, as the founders intended and as we have enjoyed and desired, will be no more!  Remember what is at stake in every election!   Our Freedom depends on it!

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

After the Elections of 2023, my title fits my objectivity regarding where we are in America politically, morally, socially, societally, and nationally.  It seems that each time hope springs up from something positive that transpires, there is a dash of gloom that follows it.  The attitude of the American people leaves one perplexed politically.

However, my hope and confidence are not in politics but in God; therefore, I have hope even in those things that could produce a sense of hopelessness.  I want to walk you through a few recent things that gave me hope and those that smashed hope to the ground.  I climb upon Cloud Nine to be plunged into Apartment Number Nine, where the sun never shines.

I saw a recent poll contrasting Joe Biden and Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election.  It indicated that Biden does not (I do not believe he ever did) have the popular vote, and his margin of error is gone.  The RealClearPolitics poll released on September 26, 2023, indicated that the Biden approval rating was 40.8%.  (How it can be that high is a mystery.)  His disapproval rating was 54.5%. (How it can be that low is equally a mystery.)

The 40.8% approval rating is approximately 10% below the recorded votes he received in 2020.  In July 2022, his approval rating was 37.2% (and probably still is), 15% below his approval rating on January 31, 2021.  All the indicators are that America is waking up, feeling the pain, and moving away from the lunacy of this administration. 

One would think that if voters are waking up, the GOP should have continued to gain in 2023, right?  Election night in 2023 saw the Democrats produce a winning night and the GOP on the losing side of the equation.  In Kentucky, normally a Red State, Democratic Governor Andy Beshear had an easy win.  In Virginia, Democrats flipped control of the House of Delegates and maintained control in the state Senate.  Likewise, abortion, a key Democrat issue, enjoyed wins in Ohio and other areas.  That tramples on the hope that Biden was losing ground and people were waking up.  Maybe they are just rejecting Biden but not the toxic liberal agenda and ideology.

I was encouraged when the House of Representatives voted to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, after she defended Hamas and called for the elimination of Israel.  The House voted 234 to 188, with 22 Democrats joining all but 4 Republicans voting to censure here.  Four voted present, which is a cowardly act.

She was videoed at a rally chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”  In an interview, she was asked to condemn Hamas’ actions of beheading babies, and she refused.  Hate is hate, and the House was right in censuring her, although that is a virtually meaningless action.

Then, basking in that ray of hope, I discovered that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials created a ‘disinformation group’ at Stanford University to help censor Americans’ free speech on social media ahead of the 2020 election.  Hope was seen exiting stage left with that one.  We knew it, but the continuing revelations of verifiable data dampen hope of enlightenment and restoring the Republic.

In September, federal appeals found that the Biden administration ‘likely violated the First Amendment.’  Likely?  They did so by pressuring social media companies to scrub posts the White House deemed false or misleading.  That would include anything that did not fit their agenda and rhetoric.  The Judiciary Committee uncovered emails that revealed months-long discussions between CISA and social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, over a proposed misinformation portal.  Was their corruption and fraud?  Do wild bears live in the woods?

The timidity of this administration and duplicity regarding Israel smacks with the overt support of the Muslim terrorist of his former boss.  We now know that the leaders of Hamas, like the leaders of BLM and other activist groups, are incredibly rich.  That is quite different from Osama bin Laden, who, after 9/11, was seen hiding in caves in rags.  Was that optics?  Maybe, but it engendered more sympathy for him than the revelation that Hamas leaders are living high on the hog in Qatar in billionaire lifestyles.

The New York Post had this article: “While their people languish in poverty and are treated as human shields, the leaders of Hamas live billionaire lifestyles.  The terror group’s three top leaders alone are worth a staggering $11 billion and enjoy a life of luxury and the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar.   The emirate has long welcomed the leaders of the terror group and installed them in its luxury hotels and villas at the same time as hosting a vast American military presence.”

Hamas runs an office in Qatar’s capital, Doha, and leaders Ismael Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk, and Khaled Mashal live luxurious lifestyles.  They have been seen at diplomatic clubs, photographed on private jets, and travel widely and extensively.  They were there for the soccer World Cup in 2022.  Nobody in Qatar and, for that matter, few in Washington seem even to care.

I applaud people like Chani Malul for their fearlessness in speaking out against evil and terror.  She grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem and attended ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools.  She now lives in suburban Maryland, is a mother, and is unafraid to declare the truth.  She said, “My former community drilled into us an important lesson: no matter what the whole world thinks, no matter what people around us say, we have to be upright and strong and do the right thing, even when it is not popular.”  That is the truth and much needed today.

The claim that the Palestinians, not controlled by Hamas, want peace and prosperity and a two-state solution is false.  If they wanted that, they could already have it.  In 2005, the Palestinian Arabs were given autonomy over the Gaza Strip.  To facilitate that, the Israeli government forcibly removed thousands of Israelis from the area.  They knew that without military protection, Jews would be murdered by Palestinians, who prefer their land, Judenfrei.  (No Jews).

By 2007, the unity government between the PLO and Hamas fell apart, and Hamas won in a landslide election in 2006 and began defenestrating its political opponents. That was a warning and a shot across the bow.  There has not been a genuine election there since.  Mr. Biden claims that Hamas does not speak for the Palestinian people. Still, the reality is they are more attuned to the people than the “moderate” Fatah party, which we keep going with billions of taxpayer dollars.

No Palestinian leader can agree to a deal on statehood because if they did, their life expectancy would be minutes, not years.  The Palestinians living in Gaza have been unwilling to build the necessary infrastructure despite receiving hundreds of millions in aid. Instead, they allow Hamas to build underground infrastructure from which to hide and launch their acts of terror.

The world is in chaos, and unless we in America and the world return to sanity and repel hate, we will see a world conflict like never seen before.  The illogical hate for the Jewish people was birthed in hell and will not end until Jesus returns.  However, we can have some semblance of peace if we unite against hate and force those practicing terrorism to suffer the consequences of their heinous acts. 

God bless you, and God bless America!

One can only imagine how the Founding Fathers would react if they stepped on the political scene today and saw the massive amounts of money invested in securing political office.  I am convinced they would deem it so contrary to their desire for a non-professional system of public servants called legislators and Presidents that they would weep. 

They would question, as do I, why so much money is willingly poured into securing an office that produces such a paltry amount of income compared to what is being spent.  They would logically conclude that it has to do with Power, Influence, and Control rather than Public Service and would be Irate! 

They would have much the same reaction as Jesus concerning the money changers in the Temple and John the Baptist to the Pharisees who came to him to be baptized.  They would question the motives and would likely urge the populace to clean house every term or two, sending a steady flow of fresh new blood to Washington.  They would hope to convey the message that those elected officials have a responsibility and duty to represent the people, protect and defend the United States, and honor the Constitution.

Today, Political Action Committees (PACS) and an innumerable number of special interest groups clamor for the attention of all candidates, especially those they deem likely to be elected.  They seek to create a sense of obligation or gratitude on the part of the candidate so that they will be favorable to their positions, agendas, and/or goals.  In short, they are buying politicians.  What better way to ensure that you get “inside information,” “favoritism” in negotiations, and anchor yourself and your business interests in the “good ole boy” or “cronyism” system that is prevalent in DC today?

Suppose you are fed up, as I am, with the current way of doing business in Washington, DC.  If you desire to see America restored to her core principles and values, it is time to awaken from our slumber and do our due diligence to determine which candidates are best suited to fulfill that dream.  We may have to accept lesser individuals initially, but if we stay the course, we can, in a few election cycles, convey the message that we demand a return to our constitutional roots.

• We can convey that we demand the Constitution be followed. 
• We demand that the rule of law be adhered to. 
• We demand that life be given the sanctity that God gives it. 
• We demand that there be no more career politicians in Washington or the State Houses. 
• We demand that God be put back in our schools, our churches be allowed to worship freely as guaranteed by the Constitution, and as the Founders, the wisdom of the Bible be sought in making laws and developing policies for this nation.

It seems that the only religion that the argument of “Separation of Church & State” ever arises is regarding the Christian faith.  It seems we are the only ones the government believes are guilty of “offending” others.  Then, with an overly aggressive desire to be Politically Correct, many have been booted out of Public Schools, Public Buildings, and Public Grounds.  Too many Christians have bought the flawed argument that government must be “secular only” and the Church “dare not engage in anything political.” 

That is foreign to the Bible and the ideology and actions of the Founders and the Constitution.  The First Amendment does not mandate the separation of Church and state. It only mandates that the Federal Government Will Not be allowed to establish a National Religion and give it preferential treatment over other religions. 

I am a Christian and an American citizen, and I have a LIFE that cannot be compartmentalized into “work life, business life, social life, spiritual life, and political life.”  I am not a cat; I do not have nine lives.  I have a Life that affects everything around me, including politics.  That is why I am so driven to educate all I can and seek to see America restored.  I do it for the sake of Freedom and the Kingdom of God!

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

My title may be confusing and may even cause some to sneer at the thoughts I desire to present in this blog post.  I am 100% a Constitutionalist and believe that everyone has a Constitutional and God-given right to form their own opinion and to express that peacefully and hopefully respectfully.  The fact that someone disagrees with me does not justify vilification and vitriol on my part or theirs. 

As an American citizen, a Vietnam veteran, a patriot, a Christian, and a defender of the Constitution, I believe that I have a mandate from God and my conscience to speak out when I see things that are unholy, unhealthy, and destructive.  One of the commissions I believe I have from God is to be a Watchman on the Walls and sound the alarm when danger is impending. 

That call or commission does not make me special; it only makes me obedient.  If I saw a child in danger, I would not be silent or inactive.  I would feel compelled to sound the alarm and do what I could to alleviate that danger and protect that child.  I have done that with children, animals, and people, which sometimes got me in trouble.  However, the danger of being misunderstood will not deter my desire to help people.

Are we at War with God and Ourselves?  One of the reasons I ask that question dates back to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.  At that time, the family was strong, and there was a healthy respect for God and a willingness to allow the Bible to be a national part of our lives.  The Johnson Great Society was anything but great and has proven incredibly destructive for the family.  It promoted a myriad of things that were anti-biblical and anti-family.  The War with God took a step forward during that time.

The insanity of this administration to advance ideologies of things detrimental to strong families, moral rightness, and faith makes my question even more critical.  The influx or invasion at the southern border of those with anything but a desire for peace or tranquility is alarming.  With the many other dangers, there is the incredibly dire flow of illicit drugs, and that is translating into the loss of thousands of lives daily in America. 

The enslavement of people, especially our young, is providing the foundation for the escalation of the War with God and our Republic.  Minds that are warped and rendered incapable of rational thought but able to vote are being used as tools to destroy the fabric of our Republic, weaken the pillars of the family, and divert allegiance from God to self in epic proportions. 

The Black community was affected in the direst fashion by the 1964 Acts of Johnson’s Great Society.  The family unit before that time was reasonably strong, and two-parent families with a mother and a father were prevalent.  Today, that is almost an anomaly or an aberration.

The role of the family in shaping society by shaping lives is an inescapable reality that today’s government and ideologues are working hard to prevent.  Thus, we have the push in our public schools to allow children as young as seven or eight to determine their sexual and gender identity without parental consent.  That is beyond insane; it is diabolical.  It is not an action rooted in a desire to help those children but to transform society into the ideological view the activist desires.

The dependency and entitlement mentality that has been engendered through activism and government programs is shredding our Republic’s foundations.  Ronald Reagan said that the best social program was a job, which is in harmony with the declaration of the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3:10.  Paul affirmed that a person who “would not” work should not be provided for.  The operative and key word is “would not” rather than “could not.”  Benovelance and any sense of godliness would demand that we care for those who “can not,” but if that “have not” is self-inflicted, we have no such obligation.

Benjamin Franklin succulently declared, “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

I agree with Newt Gingrich that the destruction of the family was not inevitable. It was intentional and diabolical.  It is not a small part of the effort to ‘fundamentally transform’ America into something other than the Free Constitutional Republic established by our Founders.  The Great Society inflicted incredible damage by making the poor even poorer. It forced them to become dependent upon the government dole, thereby controlling them and pushing them away from faith, family, and independence.

The new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has openly declared his belief in and commitment to God and the truths of the Bible.  He is being vilified by some on both sides of the political aisle for that position.  The activists and some religious leaders demand that there be nothing of God in government and thereby place us on the altar of humanism, secularism, and self.  Without God and the moral precepts of the Bible and Christianity, America would not be, and if it were, it would not be Free.  Our laws are deeply rooted in the Ten Commandments and Bible precepts.

Someone said Speaker Johnson has a vision of government that is restorative to biblical, moral, and constitutional principles.  I hope that is right.  In that declaration, it was asserted that Speaker Johnson’s purpose was to advance a government that was one of greater integrity than we have endured for decades.  He envisions a government that solves problems rather than creates them.  That is only possible when the War with God ceases, and we stop shooting ourselves in the foot with self-serving ideological agendas rather than Republic strengthening.

We need an awakening of the value of family, morality, civility, and justice.  William Blackstone, recognized as the father of modern law, believed that our legal system originated not with the American Constitution but with the Bible.  The more we allow the government to enact rules and decrees that dominate our lives and control our daily activities, the further we will drift from our origin.  We will continue to drift toward a godless society, and when you empty society of God, it is then filled with evil.  It never remains empty. 

We need to return to moral sanity, integrity, and honesty and renew a work ethic in America.  We need strong families that influence and shape young lives to become productive, law-abiding citizens, not deranged ideological lunatics.  We need the influence of the Bible, something recognized by our Founders.  If we continue on the current trajectory, we will find that our War with God and Ourselves has borne the fruit of destruction, and our Republic will be lost.

I am less concerned with anyone’s opinion of me and my view than I am about sounding the alarm and pleading with everyone to return to our moral roots and the things that enabled America to become a Republic and will enable us to continue.  I stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom.

God bless you, and God bless America!

I have chosen to post this and credit David Barton and Wall Builders for their research and commitment to Constitutional Liberty and the Christian Faith.  I have become so disturbed by what I see happening in the political world. I wonder if and when we will be called upon to make the kind of statements and commitment our Founding Fathers made in 1776 to bring this Nation into existence. 

What will it take for us to see a restored Constitutional Republican Democracy that they established for us?  What will it take for us to get our Republic back?  What sacrifices, commitments, and costs will be involved?  How many will be willing to pay the ultimate price for those of future generations, and how many will cede our liberty to the powers that be without any resistance?  I do not know the answers to those questions for others, but I do know them for myself.  I invite you to read this speech and let it sink into your hearts again.

God bless you, and God bless America!

Is it possible that America is drifting or rushing toward Totalitarianism?  The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind and the words of the Leftists in Washington and elsewhere.  If what they say accurately reflects what they desire, it is a resounding YES! 

The only question is how much will the voting public put up with?  How deceived are the masses?  How willing to be led like sheep to the slaughter are we as a nation?  Just a few years ago, I would not be asking those questions, but with the past decade or so of events, I not only ask them but am horrified by the likely answers.

As I watch the antics and actions of the national Democrats and the corporate Wokeism, I am convinced that is the endgame they have in mind.  The terms ‘fascism’ and ‘dictatorship’ are being used to silence all dissent and disagreement.  Sadly, I watch as the Republicans in Congress frequently cower in the shadows, fearing being labeled in an unappealing manner.  

I sometimes would like to use the grade school chant to them, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”  They fear words more than actions.  They seem to be so aware of the media that they clamor for favorable reviews from sources that will never give it.  They seem to believe that if they cower in silence, the storms will pass, and all will be Utopia.  It Will Not!

The almost identical tactics and path followed by Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler are being used today by the Leftists.  It is more than a little troubling, and the incredible impotence of those in Washington who should resist is alarming.  Where have all the backbones gone?  Does anyone in Washington have a spine or a conscience?  Do we, the people, matter to any of them?  I wish I could answer favorably, but the signs do not provide that hope.

Let me offer the Wikipedia definition of totalitarianism.  I know Wikipedia is not usually a reliable source, but its definition is quite good.

“Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It employs all-encompassing campaigns in which propaganda is broadcast by state-controlled mass media in order to control the citizenry.”

That is incredibly accurate and easily understood.  The complete control and regulation that ensued during the COVID-19 Pandemic is an example of how they literally took control of our lives with almost no pushback.  That was amazing.  America has shifted from being the beacon of hope, liberty, and freedom to a politically suppressed society that is almost on life support. 

Howard Zinn, a Socialist historian, said, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”  Wow!  I recall failed presidential candidate socialist Hillary Clinton saying, “We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”  Compare that to the actions of the Biden-Garland-Obama junta that has taken a direction in the opposite direction. 

The allegations against the Biden family are countered with indictments against Donald Trump, their political nemesis.  If questioning an election is a crime, then most all of the Democrats in Washington should be under indictment.  They question when they are not in the winner’s bracket, but no questions are allowed if they are.  Those actions smack of totalitarianism.

I do not want to get into the indictments against Trump, but I will reflect that there seems to be zero concern about the 1^st Amendment or the Supreme Court precedent.  The trial will be in the court of Obama appointee U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan.  Who is she?  She is the judge who handed down harsher than recommended sentences for the January 6 defendants.  Trump’s trial will be in Washington, D.C., where 92.2% of the 2020 presidential votes went for Biden.  The jury pool will share the judge’s prejudice. Basically, he is guilty unless he can have a change of venue and somehow have an impartial jury. 

The many totalitarian actions being pursued today have caused many to believe that the American system of government is to be short-lived in its current form.  I hope they are wrong, but something has to give and change for us to survive as the Free Constitutional Republic we were established to be.

If the globalists, Marxists, Socialists, and Totalitarians get their way, the U.S. will cede its sovereign powers to the United Nations, the WHO, and other diabolical international entities.  Some freedom-minded patriots are working diligently to see a restoration of constitutional governance and reigning in the rogue federal government.  Will their efforts succeed?  Possibly, only God knows, and only time will tell.  Something has to happen.  No republic can remain free if the usurpation of the constitution is allowed to become the norm.

I agree with those who contend that our federal government, as it operates today, is operating as an extra-constitutional, illegitimate system.  States’ rights are being infringed, as are our individual rights, privileges, and liberties.  The American Constitution was not designed to eliminate the rights of the individual states but to protect them.  That is not the mindset of the modern leftists.  They are waging war on the Constitution, and most Americans are sitting in silence, watching it transpire.

If we were to magically return to the Constitution, it is estimated that 99% of the federal government would be tossed into the trash bin.  The words of James Madison in The Federalist Papers (45) resonate.

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.  Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.  The former will be exercised principally on external objects, such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce, with which, last, the power of taxation will mostly be connected.  The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”

Simply stated, the individual states and the American people delegated a small number of powers to the federal government.  If you research, you will discover that there are only eighteen enumerated legislative powers in Article I, Section 8.  The 9^th & 10^th Amendments make it extremely clear that ALL other powers remain with the states and the people. 

How did we allow this to transpire?  The answers would be too numerous and lengthy to attempt.  Suffice it to say that we slept while the political elitists stripped us of our Constitutional Rights and governance.  We are being destroyed from within, as our founders warned. 

We have a Constitution and a System of Government that would provide us with a Republic. Still, the politicians have ignored it for so long; they know the public has neither the information nor the aspiration to truly reign them in.  They are, in their minds, our overlords.  God help us to wake up!

God bless you, and God bless America!