Warning, lest anyone think I am not bullish on America tap the brakes and put it in reverse – I AM and will always be!  I believe that America, from our inception to the present, is the best offering the world has seen for a long time and possibly in our human existence.  I believe that the Founding Fathers, all flawed human vessels, did an incredible job overcoming differences, embracing compromise, and formulating the opportunity to achieve “a more perfect union.”  I stand in awe of what they achieved and am rankled when anyone attempts to trash and subvert it. 

America was not and will never be perfect because humans manage the government.  As is stated in Federalist 51, probably by James Madison, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.  If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”  Just in case you missed it, men are not angels therefore we operate as flawed vessels attempting to achieve the impossible in human government.  That means we will always make mistakes and find it necessary to correct them.  That is another reason, preserving our history is vital.  History is our means of comparing the past and the present and achieving the future with more perfection.  Historic illiteracy is a death knell to liberty and freedom.

The pursuit of those seeking to ‘fundamentally transform’ America into whatever those following the globalist, socialist, Marxist, liberal, progressive, woke mentality of entitlement and political correctness want is dangerous.   History provides a sound basis for self-examination and provides benchmarks that enable us to realize progress as well as regression.  It is vital that we insist on keeping our history intact and that means all our monuments, memorials, statues, and the writings of those who fought on all sides of our various conflicts.  It is imperative that we resist the sanitization of American history and keep before us the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful. 

The play “Hamilton” is deemed the greatest thing since sliced bread to those who hate America, our Founding Fathers, and founding principles. However, history does not support the idea that Hamilton considered America so deeply flawed that it was anathema to morality and justice.  He was given his opportunity to serve in the fight for Freedom by the man that the Left is now targeting and tearing down his statues, George Washington.  Hamilton called Washington, “the venerated Virginian veteran.”  

Hamilton was always conscious of the contributions, struggles, mistakes, and corrections of Washington and men like him.  Hamilton the man, and the play both highlight the military contributions and incredible victories won by Washington.  Yet, the haters of our history and founding dismiss that and tell is none of that matters and we must remove all traces of Washington and his ownership of slaves disqualifies him from his place in history. 

I view the current divide in America as a binary choice between those who embrace the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence and those who do not.  It is a struggle, or war, between those who reject America’s founding and those who do not.  I am convinced that those rioting and protesting are doing so out of historic ignorance and have failed to grasp the heart of our Founding Fathers and the initial objective of our founding.  The forces driving this division and outrage either do not understand or do not believe that America was founded in pursuit of universal ideas, not about blood and soil. 

Alexander Hamilton was remarkably different than many of the Founding Fathers, in that he did not rise to prominence as a member of the landed aristocracy prevalent in that time.  The musical presents him in this way: “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” 

It could rightly be said that Hamilton was a political outsider and not a traditional part of the establishment.  His ability to use his pen propelled him to prominence and helped America achieve her dream of Independence.  He focused, as did the others, on the Idea of Freedom and the Principles embodied.  That is part of the uniqueness of America.

America is quite unlike the other nations of the world in many ways.  One significant observation is that America’s identity is not tied to lineage, origins, or borders.  Yes, we have borders and they must be defended, but our founding was the pursuit of Freedom and the recognition of the Providence of God and the Inalienable Rights He granted to All Men. 

I have always found it moving that we mark our founding not on military conquests and victories but on the moment that we put our objective on paper and declared the infamous words, “all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”  That is powerful and it is still the objective of freedom-loving American patriots.  That’s what Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton desired and what I desire.

If we omit or erase history because we find some aspect offensive, we subject ourselves to the incredible dangers of repeating those mistakes or sins.  Unfortunately, America would likely never have become the republic and the nation we have become had the Founders insisted on no union that included slavery.  Tragically, many of the agricultural southern states would have abandoned the cause.  Unfortunately, the image of slavery is relegated to the South and there is the omission of slavery and sweatshops in the North. 

We have warts in our history and omitting it because it is uncomfortable and even detestable does not change it nor does it correct it.  Knowing what we did, who we were, and what we have achieved should be an encouragement to progress in the pursuit of the stated ideal embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

The Founding Fathers were flawed human beings and made mistakes. George Washington, a powerful but often quite humble man, knew he was a flawed vessel.  In the play Hamilton there is the highlight of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.  In the song highlighting Burr’s duel and killing of Hamilton, we hear how Burr came to understand that he should have known that the world was wide enough for both he and Hamilton.  Tragically, many do not understand that concept today and seek to silence and censor any opposing view. 

The PC Police work laboriously to silence all conservative views and opinions.  The only accepted view is the mandated view of the Progressive Leftists now demanding that we ‘kneel’ with Black Lives Matter and ‘repent’ of our whiteness.  If you are white, black, brown, or any ethnicity be proud of who you are and realize that there is room for differing opinions and compromise.  Had our Founding Fathers not understood that America would never have been. 

Until the more modern era, America’s political spectrum embraced the concept that we are different, believe differently, and were willing to engage in open debate.  In today’s America, intolerance has become the cornerstone of those demanding tolerance from everyone else.  Politicians villainize their opponents, citizens adopt a ‘us against them’ mentality, and everything is viewed through the lens of race or political ideology.  I keep praying that we can, once again, embrace the objective declared in our Declaration that, “all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” 

I detest the destruction and I refuse to participate in the focus of today that seeks to destroy all who view things differently than I.  I am a believer in God, a Christian, a patriot, a lover of freedom, a follower of the constitution, and an American.  I love this country and respect the principles upon which we were founded. I will stand for the flag and never kneel to any man willingly.  I will bow only to God and will fight for everyone’s right to have Life, Liberty, and pursue Happiness.  

God bless you and God bless America!

Another way of phrasing that is, “What Did We Fight For?”  By that I mean, what was the Revolutionary War all about?  What were the various wars we have fought to preserve freedom and liberty in America and around the world all about?  What are we fighting for in America today? 

There are groups on all sides of various issues engaged in what can only be called a war and each of those factions present an image of America and the objective agenda being pursued.  It is mandatory that we consider what is being proclaimed as the just causes being fought for and what America is all about.  It is mandatory that we consider what is at stake if various factions win and gain total control of the government and thereby society.  It is mandatory that we consider what we truly want and what we are willing to invest our lives for.

Once we have determined what is at stake, what is worthwhile, and what we can embrace, we must then consider joining in the fight.  Am I advocating a civil war with blood in the streets?  NO!  Ten thousand times NO!  What I am suggesting, no appealing to everyone for is if we consider our Freedom, Liberties, and Republican System of Government worthwhile we commit to that cause. 

How do we commit and what is the investment required?  That will depend on your level of understanding of what is at stake and of what our Founding Fathers established and envisioned.  If you believe that a Free Constitutional Form of Government is the best then you must commit to defeating Marxism, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and defend the Constitution and Inalienable Rights.  That means, invest your time, money, energy, and vote to the cause of defeating those who want to destroy our system of government and fundamentally transform America into something other than the original intended system.

Our Founders envisioned a Republic that recognized God as the Creator and that in His position as the ultimate Sovereign He granted individuals certain inalienable or unalienable rights.  Those rights were never to be infringed by power-hungry, professional politicians, and activists who want dominance and control.  Those rights included but were not limited to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.  Included in those rights, as defined by the Founders was Freedom of Speech and Religion.  Deeper within the context of those rights was the Right to Thought.  It is out of our thoughts that we form opinions and out of those opinions we speak. 

It is clear from the record of their debates in formulating this system of government and recognizing those rights, they did not all agree.  They did not all say the same thing.  That would be a Utopia and not a reality when dealing with the human family.  We will never, this side of heaven, agree on everything and say the same thing.  We will say things and believe things considered incendiary to those who disagree.  There will be those who hold deeply racist views and those they consider beneath them will be offended by their thoughts, beliefs, and words.   However, to deny the right to think those thoughts are contrary to the original founding of America.  That right has been one of the things that have enabled us to overcome incredible barriers and obstructions and achieve national and international as well as individual greatness.

The repression of speech must be fought against by all sides or freedom of speech will become open to no side.  If those in power and the activists are allowed to control what is allowable to say, they will seek to control what is allowable to think, and rather than having freedom we will become manipulated puppets by our masters.  No human should be willing to see that transpire.

Repression of speech and censorship have been the tactics of despots throughout history.  History clearly reveals the tactics of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the Soviet gulag, and Mao’s revolution, to mention a few.  Similar trends are surfacing in today’s America and that is deeply disconcerting to this Lover of Freedom and American Patriot. 

If I do not agree with what you think and what you say I have the option of offering my opposing view, walking away and not listening, or resisting with violence.  The latter is what destroys republics and creates unbridgeable divides.  Our Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that everyone recognized the inalienable right of others to speak their mind without fear of retaliation and censorship.  Freedom of Speech is not an American invention, it is a God-given principle that predates America by centuries.

We have social media not only threatening to take away that right from those whose views they disagree with but are doing so.  That is anathema to the very principle upon which America was founded and has thrived for more than two centuries.  Healthy debate that is kept civil enables differences to be aired, opposing views to be considered, and viable solutions to be achieved.  I have learned in my 70+ years on this earth that if I take the time to listen to opposing views and they take the time to listen to my opposition or disagreement we frequently find middle-ground that enables us to move forward benefits all parties in the debate. 

It is when we seek to silence any view, we deem offensive or disagreeable we doom ourselves to repeating the mistakes of the past or worse.  Sanitizing history solves no problems and does not recreate a world where it never transpired.  I have observed that many who want to rewrite history and sanitize it to fit the narrative they desire often engage in intellectual, moral, and social hypocrisy. 

I cannot envision the Jews wanting to rewrite history to eliminate any mention of the holocaust.  Most people of Jewish descent that I encounter want it to be a constant reminder of the atrocities and enable us to never again allow that to transpire.  I have discussed the treatment of the American Indian with native Americans and they all want the truth told about what transpired.  They do not want to sanitize the savagery of some of their ancestors nor do they want to deny the treaty breaking and ill-treatment received at the hands of the American military or government.  They want it to be a reminder to all sides of the mistakes and provide a means to move forward not repeating the failures of the past. 

Fear, prejudice, jealousy, envy, greed, covetousness, and hate never provide a platform for unification, reconciliation, and healing.  If we have an honest desire to heal the hurts, wounds, sins, and failures of the past it is required that we stop looking through the lens of political correctness or skin color.  If we follow a simple Bible directive to “Love our neighbor as ourselves and treat others like we want to be treated” we will have a pathway to healing. 

I did not say ‘treat others as they are treating us’ but ‘as we want to be treated.’  That will not make you a doormat but will make you bigger than the hate and empower you to rise above being victimized.  It will enable all of us to create a society in which we achieve the stated objective of being “one nation under God.”  It will provide the basis for us to be “indivisible” and thereby able to resist all enemies both foreign and domestic.  I want everyone protected from abuse.  I want everyone’s property and lives to be viewed as a right worthy of defending.  I want everyone to be free to express their views, even if I adamantly disagree and find their views repulsive.  Freedom of Speech must be extended to everyone or it will become available to no one.

God bless you and God bless America!

I make no apologies in saying, NO!  That opening sentence will get me kicked to the curb by some, attacked by others, considered lower than a snake’s belly by others, and rejected by some Christians.  With that reality staring me in the face and the likely charge that what I am going to say is ‘racist’ why would I tackle this hot potato?  Because somebody needs to speak the truth and address the real issues, not the manipulated and manufactured ones inciting riots today. 

America did experience a period or periods of ‘systemic racism.’  I would never deny that it existed and being of the Boomer Generation I saw it and my parents and grandparents saw even more than I.  In my 70+ years on planet earth I have watched America move away from ‘systemic racism’ to ‘pockets of racism’ (not one-sided).  I have observed an advancement in addressing the problem, and we were moving forward noticeably until Barack Hussein Obama became president. 

It was Obama’s rhetoric, that of many within his administration, and the quickness to jump on the bandwagon of charging racism without the facts and way too early in the investigation of any incident that aggravated the issue.  It was not that a bunch of white supremacists came from behind the curtain and began lynching and burning buildings.  No, the burning, rioting, and looting, as well as the physical harm were at the hands of those groups calling themselves ANTIFA and BLM that were at the heart of the upheaval. 

All police have been lumped into the same basket as those of us who opposed Hillary Clinton and Obama and voted for their opponents.  To the Left, we are all deplorable and unworthy of the air we breathe.  The problem is not a Donald Trump problem although the Left wants to make him the blame for all the ills in America and all the ills that have ever existed.  In a way, they have made him bigger than life and that seems to have backfired on them in the past and could in the present. 

We have problems in America and the black community has endured hardships and difficulties that are unjust.  I believe that many, if not most of the problems they are facing stems from the pathological lies and agendas imposed by the Democrats affecting that segment of our society.  The progressive ideology and pursuit by the Democrats, often in the interest of winning elections, has harmed the black community more than anything in modern history. 

Lyndon B. Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ was more detrimental to blacks than anything to that point.  It appeared to be in their interest and was sold as a form of salvation for the ills they had endured but was a veiled attempt to enslave than to free.  Why do I say that?  Because that era along with the groundwork in previous Democratic administrations and the continued systematic work of the Left has produced some noticeable problems that are at the root of the problems of today.

The actions of politicians that encouraged and virtually ensured that there would be a dearth of fathers in the home were more damaging than chains could have been.  The amazing willingness to pursue abortion on demand and the praise of the founder of Planned Parenthood, who was an avowed racist, who was part of an elite chorus wanting to eradicate the black race.  The fact that more abortion clinics are strategically placed in or near black communities is telling if one will open their eyes. 

I have long believed, as the Bible teaches, in the importance and value of the father in the home.  I believe that a home with a father and mother who teach and train their children rightly is the most powerful deterrent to the hate-filled condition that exists today.  Hate is not the product of any race it is a heart thing, that is taught and caught and when a political party, the educational systems, and the media continuously suggest that a particular ethnicity is being abused unfairly by another it engenders hate. 

I agree with black voices that have stated that the greatest need is a strong home life for the children.  Denzel Washington told his interviewer that the problem in disproportional arrests of blacks was not where the focus needed to be. He said, “The problem is in the home.  They are not arresting 7-year-olds and by the time the arrest comes, we have lost the battle.”  

The Bible is clear in its directive that we are to “train up a child in the way he/she should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it.”  I have found that it is hard to escape the impact and influence of what I was taught in the home.  If taught rightly, godly, biblically, lovingly, and reasonably children will become responsible adults absent of racial bias and hate.  Is that a Utopian World?  Possibly but it is a world that God desires and possible.

If churches remain silent and attempt a pathway of appeasement, we will lose this war and evil will win.  Hate will prevail and love will be given no chance.  When politicians seek to make ‘entitlements’ the prime objective of a segment of society and pay them handsomely for having babies out of wedlock and making them dependent on the government for their sustenance, the chains become tighter on the recipients and the battle more difficult to win.

I refuse to allow anyone to place unreasonable guilt on me for being of the ethnicity I was born.  I want no person regardless of the pigmentation of their skin to feel guilty or entitled based on race.  If we allow that or adopt that pathway, we will weaken the foundations of the republic so severely that it cannot survive.  What do we replace it with? 

Defunding the police is insanity.   Sanitizing history, destroying memorials and statues changes nothing and only serves to widen the rip that is being promoted in our society.  That is the objective of those who hate America and desire our destruction.  Many are being played and made useful idiots for the cause of destruction thinking they are freedom fighters when they are enabling those who want to destroy freedom.

What we need in America, in all communities, is a strong moral ethic restored.  We need strong two-parent families.  I understand that there are many single parents burdened with the task of providing for their children and having little time to properly train them.  The single women who have no strong male figure to help are at a significant disadvantage and so are the single men.  The influence of the mother and the father are different but no less valuable. 

We need a return to personal responsibility and accepting responsibility for our own success or failure.  I grew up in a poor home in rural East Texas.  I have achieved some success in life, not because someone handed it to me or because of my skin color.  In fact, I have been passed over for a promotion and told that it was because of my ethnicity, not my qualifications that I did not get the job. 

My parents worked hard and took no handouts from the government.  They taught us that we were to earn our keep and give a good day’s work for a day’s wage.  I have been in the ministry most of my life and know what it is to wonder where the next meal would come from.  I have worked with and beside people of all ethnicities in ministry and the secular business world and learned valuable lessons from them. 

America, we can buy the lie that America is a systemically racist nation and ensure a condition that can only end in Civil War or we can acknowledge that the government has been more an enemy than a friend.  We can allow ourselves to develop a victim mentality or we can say, “I was victimized but I will never be a victim” and fight through the problem and allow our personal drive and determination to propel us to a higher level on the ladder of life. 

I believe God will help us if we will follow the directive of 2 Chronicles 7:14 and Matthew 6 and 18.  I desire and commit myself to follow the ‘Golden Rule’ and refuse to see skin color, I see human beings.  Some of them are good and some of them are bad.  Some of them are in difficult straits and working to better themselves and some have become leeches sucking the blood out of others.  It is a personal choice and I choose to follow God and good and not allow hate to prevail in my heart.

God bless you and remember in November that the policies of appeasement and entitlement are destructive, not productive.  We have a republic to preserve and can have peace and prosperity.  It won’t be easy but possible!

God bless you and God bless America!

Before anyone assume that I am saying we never compromise or seek to find equitable and peaceful solutions to our differences, I am not!  What I am saying is that if you attempt to appease a terrorist, your effort is viewed as weakness and once they get what they want, they kill you! 

You cannot have a non-aggression pact with the devil, he does not play fair or play by the rules.  If you give an inch, they take a mile and if you cave to their demands, bow before and with them, wash their feet, and chant their chants, they laugh at you.  Once they get what they have demanded, they demand more.  You will never satisfy their demands for ‘justice’ because justice is not what they are seeking.  They want dominance!

I was not around, but history records the naivete of those seeking to be appeasers in 1938 like Neville Chamberlain the British Prime Minister.  He returned to England with his worthless treaty signed by Hitler and insisted that the world had, “Peace in our time.”  It took less than a year for that to be exposed as classic naivete when Hitler invaded Poland and started WW II. 

Those demanding appeasements view the willing attempts to cede to their demands as weakness and become fearless in their pursuit of their objectives.  They realize that they are facing mice, not men and pussy cats, not tigers.  Their lists of demands grow longer and longer and if the appeasers continue their concessions the terrorists get what they wanted CONTROL without risking any lives or material.  It is handed to them with heads bowed and hat in hand. 

Winston Churchill famously said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”  The appeasers are prevalent in today’s American politics and society.  I am chided frequently charging that I am war mongering with my insistence that we cannot concede to the demands of the Sanitizers of History, BLM, ANTIFA, the Leftists, Globalists, and Marxists.  We cannot form a union with them and expect them to honor that agreement. No, the DNC seeks to use those groups to obtain their votes. They are promising them the world, but if the Leftists gain control and get what they want they will no longer need those groups. When that happens watch the immediate shift that occurs. 

So-called Republicans like Colin Powell, Mitt Romney, Jennifer Rubin, Meghan McCain, and Bill Kristol are attempting to appease and unite with the Democrats for the express purpose of defeating Trump.  Yes, they hope to be viewed favorably by the Left and benefit from their alliance, but they will become cannon fodder for the Left if the Democrats win in November.  We have Democratic leaders or vocalizers of the progressive agenda such as Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Stacey Abrams pushing the buttons to keep the flames of hatred burning.

The demand that we rename our military bases that are named after confederate generals or others they deem deplorable is ludicrous.  They want all Confederate statues destroyed, sports teams renamed, universities drop their anthems, and military bases renamed.  Where does it end?  I heard someone discussing this and they said, “If they rechristen Fort Benning, named after Confederate brigadier general Henry L. Benning, that would be step one.  After all, Fort Benning is in Columbus, Georgia and that would mean the city had to be renamed too since Columbus is also a target.  He is hated as much as Benning is hated.”

I’ve had people who claim to be conservative and constitutionalist insist, “If we just give them these few bones, they will be satisfied and stop.”  I laughed out loud and then cried trying not to burst out in rage.  THAT IS CRAZY!  They will never be satisfied with one thing or ten things.  They will never be happy or satisfied.  They would not be satisfied if they destroyed every statue they hate, renamed every base, city, team, or university they demand.  They would not be satisfied if they were able to eradicate every conservative constitutionalist and by the declaration of some, all white men.  We read in Proverbs 27:20 – “Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”

The assault by those demanding our concessions is not directed solely at confederates as has been demonstrated in their destruction of black businesses, black lives, and even union generals and others.  If you study history and listen to some of the activists, you will realize that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman is hated by the Leftists. Why?  He was a union general that helped defeat the South and left a wake of destruction in his path in his March to the Sea. 

Why do they hate him?  He didn’t like blacks.  He issued Special Field Order No. 16, which forbade the enlistment of black soldiers.  History reveals that Sherman detested the idea that free-born blacks from the North and the newly freed slaves of South would fight side by side with his white troops.  He demanded that the races be kept separate and threatened to arrest recruiters and imprison them if they enlisted blacks.  Therefore, Sherman is anathema to the activist as well.  Therefore, Camp Sherman in Ohio must be renamed.  What would they name it?  Camp Che Guevara, Camp Nicolas Maduro, Camp Castro, or Camp Stalin?

I like what Colonel Allen West said, “History is about learning from it.  I don’t want to see us become like the Taliban or ISIS.  Those are the people [who] destroyed history.”  I also applaud Dr. Ben Carson saying, “We need to move away from being offended by everything, of going through history and looking at everything, of renaming everything.  We’re going to have to grow up as a society.” 

Thomas Jefferson would not have achieved, for America what he did, had he lived today.  He would have been branded as a deplorable by those demanding appeasement today.  Abraham Lincoln would have been a political casualty for this group because in his debate with Stephen Douglas he said, “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”  He didn’t want blacks to vote, serve on juries, hold office, or intermarry with whites. 

We would have to boot the Progressive Champion Franklin Roosevelt because he signed Executive Order 9066 that forcibly removed Japanese from their homes placing them in internment camps.  You could not simply change the first name because Theodore Roosevelt is hated too, he was a gun owner, hunter, and wanted legal immigration.  I doubt that John F. Kennedy could survive today’s Leftist’s agenda because he took a strong stance against the Communists and wanted a strong military. 

Today corporations are caving to the demands attempting to appease the domestic terrorist.  Politicians are bowing to their demands, sports teams, cities, and even pastors are attempting to appease.  IT DOES NOT WORK! I believe in finding common ground wherever possible.  I do not believe in abandoning reason or violating one’s core convictions.  We cannot change history by erasing it.  We cannot find peace by appeasement.  We must achieve peace through rational reason, holding everyone accountable for their actions and returning to constitutional governance and God.

I desire that all be treated fairly and have equal justice under the Law. But, I can never cede any ground to a domestic or any terrorist. We either begin viewing all as human beings created in the image of God or we will fall prey to the hate and destruction prevalent in today’s America and society. I am praying for a Revival of the Heart in America!

            God bless you and God bless America!

Let me say at the outset I am not an economic guru and don’t play one on television, but then neither are most of the politicians.  Albeit, they do tend to play something on television or to the cameras that they do not have the credentials to pretend to be. That does not prevent them or the myriad of Leftists in all sectors from insisting their ideas are of ‘expert’ quality. 

What is at stake in this Presidential and All Elections this year?  There are several things and one of the most critical is the Supreme Court.  I am thankful that President Trump was able to appoint and secure the confirmation of two justices.  One of them appears to be solidly conservative and desirous of following Original Intent and the other more inclined that direction that Chief Justice Roberts.  

If the Democrats win the presidency, keep the House of Representatives, and gain the Senate the court would be almost immediately transformed.  The normal change through retirements or deaths would likely be scrapped and there would be an immediate pursuit of increasing the number of justices would ensue.  They have already affirmed that it is on their horizon and an integral part of their agenda. 

If they gain control of the White House, Congress, and the Courts most of our liberties and freedoms will be in serious jeopardy.  The 1^st, 2^nd, and 4^th Amendments will be in danger as will other provisions of our Constitution.  Religious liberty will face some serious challenges as will freedom of speech for any conservative of dissenting view to the liberal agenda.  The right to ‘keep and bear arms’ will immediately become a prime target. 

If the Democrats win in November, the economy will be in grave danger of reverting to the Obama economy and taxation will go through the roof.  Joe Biden and the Democrats have vowed to repeal the Trump tax cuts and if the plans include some of the views of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, we will see the tax rates for everyone ascend to the highest in our history. 

Small businesses will become an endangered species because many would be unable to function.  Universal government-run healthcare will become a reality.  Those things will result in a dramatic escalation in joblessness and wages would plummet.  If the mandated a $15 or $20 minimum wage the number of jobs will be reduced by such a hefty percentage the Great Depression will look like an economic boom.    

If the Democrats win in November, our American history will be completely rewritten to fit the toxic narrative of the Woke Adherents and the PC Police will operate with a Gestapo type power and authority.  Law and Order will become a thing of the past and securing the services of qualified and good police officers will become a distant memory.  Who would want to place themselves in the position of having to follow the demands and edicts of the followers of the toxic liberal idea of fairness and equality?  They would not only be risking their lives each day but their freedom from the very governments who hired them.  One false move and they could spend the rest of their lives behind bars for doing their jobs. 

I am supportive of sensible police reform and finding a means of weeding out the bad cops and giving all cops the needed tools and training to professional and efficiently do their jobs.  I am adamantly opposed to lumping the police or any segment of society into a stereotypical basket and target them because of a few rotten apples. 

If I had a barrel of apples, I would not throw out the entire barrel because of a few bad apples.  I would thoroughly go through my apple barrel and when I found a bad apple, I would discard it and keep the good apples.  However, the process in today’s politically correct, snowflake, woke world the anarchist is demanding that ALL cops are bad, and ALL cops must be discarded.  Lawlessness is not a solution to ‘equal justice’ under the law.  You do not achieve ‘equal justice’ with ‘lawlessness,’ which results in no justice and endangers everyone, especially those prone to obey the law. 

If the Democrats win in November, our borders will be erased, and the prize of American citizenship will become a doormat without value.  There will be no reason for anyone to go through the lengthy and often difficult process of immigrating to America legally and becoming a citizen.  Our electoral process will be destroyed, and we will never see another legitimate election or one that we could have any reasonable sense of confidence it was valid.  The political machines will, once again, rule the American scene and the days of mafia dominance and prohibition where lawlessness was the norm will be experienced with the more sophisticated and technological tools available. 

If the Democrats win in November, abortion on demand will likely evolve into legal genocide where the infirmed, elderly, and handicapped will likely be viewed as excess baggage and too costly to care for.  That will produce a Nazi-like pursuit of a superior race.  If the life in the womb is not considered a life and deemed merely ‘a choice’ of the host carrying that baby in the womb, what is to prevent other lives from being deemed without value? 

During the Obama administration racial tensions escalated not because he was half-white and half-black but identified as black, but because of the racism advanced by his agenda and administration.  We will see Sharia Compliant Zones in our major cities increase, and that scene will spread across the country. There will be severe restrictions placed on Christian churches and Jewish Synagogues.  There will be an attempt to force everyone to cast aside their core convictions and religious beliefs and embrace the lifestyles considered violations of their conscience. 

If the Democrats win in November, the Constitution will become meaningless.  They will ignore it, have the Supreme Court to back their views, Congress to write the laws and a president that would joyfully sign them into law.  America, as the Free Constitutional Republic will be no more. 

Let me state that I am as mad as the proverbial ‘wet hen’ over the debt and deficit.  I was opposed to the stimulus relief packages imposed on us.  I am opposed to the insane spending that is being pursued.  I am a Constitutional and fiscal conservative.  I am a Christian that believes that caring for the poor and needy is not the job of the government nor is it allowed by the constitution. 

I believe that charity must begin at home, in the church, and the community.  It is not the responsibility of the federal government.  I believe that our rights come from God and are unimpeachable and should never be infringed.  I believe that if we want to keep our Republic, we must set aside our personal preferences and vote to prevent the toxic liberal agenda of the progressive socialistic globalism of the Democrats from regaining power.  That is true on the local level, the state level, and the national level.

I am not concerned with what anyone thinks of me.  You may hate the president enough you are willing to risk the republic to defeat him.  That deeply troubles me because Freedom is more valuable than personal preference.  We know what the Democrats want, and we have watched President Trump become the only thing standing in the way of their desired ‘fundamental transformation’ of America.  I am not willing to passively afford them the opportunity to fulfill their mission.  I am voting for Faith, Family, and Freedom in November!

God bless you and God bless America!

I have read articles, talked to, and listened to black individuals over the past few months who are from various backgrounds, educational strata, and economic conditions.  I have found a common theme among many of that community in which they express that they do not consider what has been happening in the interest of the black community.  Some of them have openly declared they consider Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, and other organizations the enemy not the friend of African-Americans.

I have had some black and white people tell me that Black Lives Matter is like the Tea Party and it is a grassroots black-created, and black-run organization designed to fight racism.  Those holding that view believe that BLM is a needed organization and doing a valuable service.  I have researched and discovered some things that suggest that might not be the case. 

I discovered that BLM was the creation through a consortium of a few very wealthy individuals, non-profit corporations, and the media.  The official BlackLivesMatter.com website states it is a ‘global network foundation’ active in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.  If it is a ‘global network’ I began to ask who funds it?  That produced some revelations that were more than a little confusing and troubling, in light of the argument that it is a ‘grassroots’ black created and run organization.

What did I discover?  Funds were coming from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, Rob McKay the Taco Bell heir, the Ford Foundation, the Borealis Philanthropy, the Democracy Alliance, and numerous other Leftist groups.  It would be difficult to claim that it is a black-run, black-funded grassroots organization with those facts in mind. 

The movement began in 2013 as a result of the media’s emphasis or suggestion that there was a systemic problem due to unjustified and racially motivated killings of black men by white cops.  That was the spin but if you examine the facts you find that a bit skewed. 

There is an insistence that there is an epic rise in the number of police shootings of black men.  Statistical data suggests otherwise and even suggests they are on the decline not incline.  The BLM and media rhetoric are that the number one enemy of black men is the racist white cops and the police are systemically and institutionally racist and need disbanding. 

Let me bore you with some statistical data and you decide what you think.  If you deem me a racist for presenting these facts that might be revelatory of a deeper problem, not in me but… Well, you know what I mean. 

There is the FBI Uniform Crime Report that anyone can examine.  It revealed that in 2018 there were 2,925 blacks murdered.  The amazing and alarming facts are that 89% of them (2,600) were murdered by other blacks.  That report indicates that in 2018 209 blacks were killed by the police.  Some justified and some not.  What does that say?  If 2,600 were killed by other members of their ethnicity and 209 killed by the police, which is a greater problem?  One gets 100% attention and the other a ho-hum, nothing to see here, move on attitude.  Where is BLM regarding those killings?

The killing of George Floyd was not just tragic it was unacceptable and worthy of condemnation.  However, Mr. Floyd became a media star with massive ad campaigns presented and he became a household name.   At the risk of being attacked and branded something I am not; I ask who was George Floyd?  That question is not designed to mean that his celebrity status or lack thereof before makes his death, less important.  It is designed to call attention to the fact that he was not the saintly civil rights leader he has been portrayed.

Mr. Floyd had a history of criminal and even violent behavior.  He was released from prison in Houston, Texas in 2014 after having been arrested for aggravated robbery.  He had been in jail, five other known times.  He had been arrested for theft, drug possession, and criminal trespass.  He was deemed to have been the leader of a home invasion ring and according to document, police files his behavior was less than passive. His ring entered a woman’s home and threatened to kill her as they ransacked her home.

Does that justify his killing?  NO!  But what of the hundreds of blacks killed by other blacks, are their killings justified or unworthy of address?  Mr. Floyd’s death became a useful tool for BLM and the media to advance an image that all cops are bad and therefore the entire system must be dismantled.  That leaves everyone, blacks, whites, and all others in danger and exposed to further violence.  How is that in the interest of black or any lives?

Some politicians have suggested that we decriminalize crime and eliminate the need for the police.  If you said, “That makes no sense,” you are right, it doesn’t.  There is the argument that all drug offenses be decriminalized, and pardons issued for all blacks incarcerated on drug charges.  What would that do to solve any perceived racial issues?  I suggest that would not reduce the number of violent offenses but if you do that and disband the police you would see violence and theft increase exponentially.  That is the push from today’s Democratic Party, BLM, ANTIFA, and other leftists organizations.

I suggest that rather than solving the issues facing black communities where black on black crime is already rampant it would escalate it.  What is the endgame of the backers of BLM and other organizations such as it?  It is about control, and as in every example of despotic tyranny that has ever existed, once the tools used to achieve their objective have served their purpose they are eliminated, incarcerated, or disposed of in some fashion. 

I weep for those who have honestly been deceived by the diabolicalness of those coordinating the destruction.  They are and will be damaged more severely than anyone can imagine.  If they suddenly awaken and realize they have been used, what will happen to them psychologically?  I fear that the product of that reality will be equally as damaging as what has been happening.  Everyone should oppose racism and injustice.  However, destruction is not the solution and from my Christian perspective, I believe that if we would follow God’s directive, we could solve this issue without bloodshed.  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

God bless you and God bless America!

The situation in America is more than a little disconcerting and the handwriting is on the wall if we do not rectify the direction of the country immediately if not sooner.  It was bad enough that we have been forced to endure what could only be called a house arrest for months. Now we are subjected to an intensified push to rewrite and sanitize our American history.  The lunacy and historic illiteracy involved will not affect only this aspect of our American system of government and way of life.  It will touch everything, and everything will be damaged if not destroyed in the process. 

Sanitizing and rewriting history will not change the reality of what transpired it will only serve to eliminate the needed understanding of the errors and prevent us from avoiding them in the future.  I’m not sure who can be credited with the quote, “History is not there for you to like or dislike.  It is there for you to learn from it.  And if it offends you, even better.  Because then you are less likely to repeat it.  It’s not yours to erase.  It belongs to all of us!”  I shout, AMEN! 

Edmund Burke is credited with saying, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”  George Santayana’s original quote was most likely, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill paraphrased it, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”  All apropos and germane to the current Sanitization Effort by the Left, BLM, ANTIFA, and the Politically Correct Activists operating prolifically in today’s climate. 

Removing a statue, a memorial, a name from a public building or a sports team does not change the past.  I will not argue that it is never appropriate or acceptable to rename something. However, to completely sanitize history and attempt to remove all reminders of our past is to engage in historic illiteracy that will produce a society ignorant of history and give us not teaching tools to avoid the errors of our past.  Most of us learn by trial and error.  We do not learn everything through that pathway, but we learn many things that way.

I learned not to touch live electric wires by accidentally or stupidly touching one.  I learned not to touch a hot stove by touching one, even with my mother warning me not to do so.  I learned not to ignore wet paint signs and resist the temptation to touch the object by doing just that.  I learned to keep my mouth shut after opening it and having it shut for me a time or two.  I have learned many things that have proven to be positive reinforcements in my life through trial and error.  I try to remember the bad as a warning and remember the good as an encouragement to pursue the benefits of the lesson learned.

It seems that the ‘woke crowd’, the ‘millennials’, ‘BLM’ and ‘ANTIFA’ along with an almost endless list of other groups believe that it is their responsibility to eliminate everything they deem offensive from history and the public square.  We are witnessing the fruit of about three decades of modern educational historic sanitization. 

Too many in modern academia are participants in the leftists’ attacks of everything about our history, our founding, our founders, and our system of government.  The image many of the products of modern education are taught is that America was founded as a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, and immoral society.  They argue that it was built on the backs of slaves and through the aristocracy stealing from the poor workers. 

Those wanting to remove all traces of historical memory of the Civil War and Slavery have made it their mission in life to remove all memorials, statues, pictures, and plaques of anyone and anything connected to that era.  They began with Robert E. Lee and other generals and reminders of the Old South, but it did not stop there.  They have targeted Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Winston Churchill, and the list continues to grow.

The Democrats, in power, have forgotten that those Southern Leaders were Democrats and even the more modern history that in 1964 the Democrats engaged in the longest filibuster in American history, attempting to defeat the Civil Rights Bill.  A bloc of Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA), Richard Byrd (D-WV), and Strom Thurmond (D-SC) pulled off a filibuster that lasted 60 days. 

Democrats like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton think those men were virtual gods in the Democratic Party.  Imagine that, the party that is the home of a majority of those wanting to Sanitize history were attempting to perpetuate discrimination.  How ignorant can we be in America?  Don’t take that as a challenge but a rhetorical statement.

The Sanitizers defaced the memorial of the first all-volunteer black regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, the 54^th Massachusetts Regiment.  It was exactly 123 years to the date that it was dedicated that they defaced it.  That is beyond lunacy and reveals that these riots and many of the protests have nothing to do with George Floyd or any claimed abuse by the police.  It is about destruction and when those who know no history are allowed to roam free unimpeded and not held accountable, destruction occurs. 

They have defaced the statue of Cervantes, a slave himself, captured by the Barbary Pirates and enslaved in Algiers for five years before being ransomed.  He was enslaved by African pirates.  I suggest that this kind of mindless destruction is a prime example of the absence of literacy in far too many today.  

I believe that it can be traced to several things.  The home with the absence of proper guidance by a father and mother is a key element in our failure.  The failure of our educational system that seeks to rewrite and sanitize history is a significant part of the problem.  America’s decline in our moral fiber is an undeniable element.  I believe that when we kicked God out of the school and sought to ban Him from all things public and government we moved in the wrong direction and escalated our decline.

There are the demands that Universities cease singing their school songs, charging them with being racist.  Sports teams are being forced to change their names and drop mascots because they are offensive to some.  The Texas Rangers baseball team is under the gun because the ‘woke crowd’ deems the Texas Rangers (law enforcement) racists in its formulation and practice.  Where does it end?  IT DOESN’T unless we regain control of our society, restore Law and Order, and realize that the Sanitization of History only creates problems of the same type and worse than what our real history is. 

I do not support slavery, and do not want racial injustice toward anyone to be experienced.  I desire an America where the vision, dream and expressed desire of our founders is realized.   I desire an America where we recognize that all are created equal and have been given certain inalienable rights by our creator including the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.  I want an America that is One Nation, Unified, Indivisible, and affords Liberty and Justice for everyone regardless of their social standing, ethnicity, or religion.  I want an America that can truly be called a Christian nation where our moral moorings are restored. 

I do not want a history taught that has been Sanitized and opens the door to a virtual guarantee that we will repeat the mistakes of the past and go beyond them negatively.  I want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly of our past so that we can build an America that reaches the highest potential we can and returns to being, a Light of Hope for the world.  The insanity of the Sanitization of History and the agenda of the Democrats demands that I vote against them in every election and I will do so in November.  I hope you join me and prevent the advancement of historic illiteracy to continue and keep America the Free Constitutional Republic she was founded to be.

God bless you and God bless America!

The more I pray, the more I consider what is happening, what can happen, and what will happen in America I keep sensing in my heart of hearts the need for an Awakening!  We have multiple camps ideologically and politically in today’s America.  Those factions, as in any war, are forming unusual alliances and partnerships with all factions believing they will ultimately control the alliance. 

There are those on the Left who are followers of Marxism, Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, and Racism and they are hellbent on not only defeating Donald John Trump but fundamentally transforming America.  It is easy and difficult to see what they envision as the needed transformative state.  I say easy, because of the obvious visible events, rhetoric, and pronouncements.  I say difficult, because, there appear hidden agendas within each of the factions within the Leftist Alliance. 

I have become convinced that many do not see where we are, and the dangers posed by some of the agendas being advanced.  For those who identify as “Never Trumpers”, I cannot believe they see the danger but have allowed a personal animus toward the man to prevent them from considering the clear and present dangers.  They believe that people like me are either too ignorant to see the evil man in the White House or we are blind cultist not worthy of hearing our pleas and arguments. 

I have heard and read their declarations that Trump killed Herman Cain because he had a rally that Cain attended.  That ignores the actions of the Protester/Rioters who are burning America to the ground.  That ignores the potential dangers of public contact.  They seem to ignore the actions of New York’s Mayor and Governor endangering senior citizens and others by placing them in Nursing Homes and things of that ilk. 

There seems to be the desire to blame Trump for an economy that was decimated due to the virus and the lockdowns, claiming his response was too little too late and he is inept in dealing with the problem.  That requires ignoring the rhetoric of the Democrats, in the beginning, claiming there was no danger, including the illustrious Dr. Fauci.  That requires ignoring the claims of racism, xenophobia, etc. when Trump banned travel from China and highly infected areas.  But, alas, Trump is the evil one and the greatest danger to our Republic so all the blame must be laid at his feet.

There are those who claim that Biden helped lead us out of a Depression, but Trump has plunged us into one.  I cannot fathom that logic, but when I review what the Democrats have expressed as their desire and objective upon occupying the White House, holding the House and reclaiming the Senate I cannot wrap my head around how Trump is somehow a greater danger than those people, politics, and policies.

Biden wants to destroy the fossil fuel industry.  He wants to repeal all the Trump tax cuts that were proving effective for most Americans and boosting our economy.  Our unemployment rate was the lowest it had been and our economy was robust but the virus plunged us into economic oblivion and much of that was the result of the inaction or negative actions of the Democrats in Congress, the States, and Cities across America.  But to those who have hated Trump from the beginning, it can only be his fault, because they do not like him. 

Joe Biden and the Democrats have launched a visible and definable war on our Freedom of Speech, our 1^st Amendment Rights.  They have expressed a renewed desire to restrict or infringe upon our 2^nd Amendment Rights.  They have defended lawlessness but attacked law enforcement and private citizens who defend themselves and their property.  Some of the major players in the Democratic Party have expressed their desire to hinder if not destroy our Religious Freedom if we are followers of the Judeo-Christian Faith. 

President Trump’s personality is not why I support him.  If that were the only thing I had to go on, I would oppose him and most politicians.  He is brash, rash, egotistical, and a shoot from the lip New York street fighter.  But, alas, are the Democrats any less brash, harsh, angry, antagonistic, egotistical, and loose-lipped?  Joe Biden’s mental acuity is to be questioned and cause for concern.  The infrequent declarations of members of the Democratic Establishment and the talking heads indicate he would be, at best, a figurehead.  One high ranking Democrat said, “Biden’s black VP female running mate would be ready to be President from day one.” 

I know that what I am saying will cause those who detest this president to call me many unkind names and deem me one of the ignorant minions who blindly deify the man.  I do not, and frankly, most that I know who voted for him and will again do not fit that description.  We love America!  I am not saying that the Never Trumpers do not love America.  I believe that most of them love this nation deeply and as deeply as those who are in the same camp as I am. 

I have been attacked and called a cultist and a worshipper of Trump but when I question the source of the articulated hatred toward him, I am attacked.  Those in those camps insist they do not Hate but Love.  They love America so much that they believe the best course of action is to defeat and destroy the evil orange man and to make their view more palatable they claim that failure will destroy the Republic.  How they ignore the stated objectives of the Left and are unable to see the intended transformation and destruction is beyond my ability to cognate. 

I believe that to have opposed Trump and call yourself a Never from the beginning cannot be based on results.  There were no results at the beginning, therefore, to continue that animus seems to require ignoring the full body of work and focus on isolated situations, events, and actions.  That, in my view, is blindness and although may be well-intentioned it presents as great a danger for the Republic as the avid followers of Marxism, Socialism, and Liberalism. 

If you believe me to be beyond rescue and my views anathema to you and your core beliefs feel free to disassociate with me.  I am not extending an invitation for you to unfriend me, but saying, if you do, I will understand.  We are so far apart in our views that we have become antagonists and our fight for what we believe presents a condition where there is no cordial or common ground.  If you are willing to cede the Republic to the Left, I must ask, “Can you not see the damage was done under 8 years of Obama, and the intended and promised damages they are proposing?” 

I cannot support any party that wants to fundamentally transform America into a totalitarian authoritarian nation.  I cannot support any party that wants to tax us into oblivion.  I cannot support any party that wants abortion and abortion on demand.  I cannot support any party that is anti my Inalienable Rights of Freedom of Speech and Religion, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and wants to control my ability to Pursue Happiness and Live.  There are many more “never” that I could add but a political party that is as demonstrably Anti-God and Anti-Faith is impossible for me to support. 

You must follow your heart and do what you believe best.  As for me and my house, we will continue to support the President in our fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom and our desire to preserve the Republic as the Constitutional Republic our Founders Established.

God bless you and God bless America!

America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, you had a wonderful life. If anyone wants to see what America would look like had Clinton won or if Biden wins, look around you at the chaos, anarchy, and lawlessness.  If you, for one second, think all this will be reined in once the Democrats reclaim governing power, you are delusional.  You can attack me for that statement, but if you will read the rest of what I am going to present, you might, I did say might change your mind.

As many of you know, I pulled back from Facebook and other Social Media for a few days to pray for America, my wife, and attend to some things that needed care.  During that time of periods of fasting and much prayer, I believe I saw and heard in my heart a clarion call from Heaven for America.  You may or may not agree, and I cannot address all that I sense, see, and feel in this post but will speak to a few things and hopefully they will resonate inspiring you to Stand Up, Stand Against, and Stand Strong for Life, Liberty, and the ability to pursue Happiness.  I pray that you will see the dangers and join the throng of us who are beating the drums of warning. 

One of the things, that I will not adequately address is HATE.  I felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit and the quickening in my heart that we MUST quell the hate and regain order if America is to survive.  Surrendering to hate will produce nothing but disaster and our need is not more government but less.  Our need is not more violence but less.  Our need is not the abandonment of our moral and biblical principles but returning to them and the retethering our moral mooring lines.

The old almost ancient movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” could serve as a reminder to us of what can be if we fail to stand for what is right and continue to do what we know to do regardless of the circumstances or opposition.  When we look around the globe at the countries that are embracing the views advocated by the Leftists, Marxists, Socialists, and the Anarchists we quickly see how inhumane those regimes are.  In those nations, people face shortages beyond belief and as in Venezuela, a once robust and relatively free nation has been plunged into abject poverty through the very economic and governmental desires of the Left in America. 

I am reminded of the words or warning of John Adams, “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”  That is where we are in 2020 America and should Biden and the Democrats win in November, we are guaranteed the continuation and escalation of anarchy and should brace ourselves for the ensuing tyranny that will follow. 

The Democrats are using somewhat of a “Wag the Dog” effort to hide the deficiencies of their chosen candidate(s) and using smear tactics on all who resist their agenda.  The shenanigan actions with the A/G Barr by the Democrats should have every America shouting at their televisions for them to “Cease and Desist” but that is not happening.  Refusing to allow the accused to answer the accusations is a revelation that the charges are bogus, and the accusers fear being exposed if the accused is allowed to offer any defense. 

The devastation that is occurring in various Democrat-led cities in America should scream out a warning of the dangers of the Leftists Policies and the failure of Appeasement.   I was born but young during the Korean War. I served in Vietnam and I have watched the decline of our society toward a depraved condition.  In the 60’s when I graduated from High School and in the late 60’s served in Vietnam, I witnessed the depth and power of anarchy and wondered what the outcome would be in America. 

When I gave my heart to God and became a Christian in the very late 60’s, I was filled with hope that revival, restoration, and renewal would come.  I thought that what I had discovered in Jesus would be the healing balm of our world.  I found that not everyone is receptive to the Peace God offers but are filled with self to the point that Hate is more prevalent and powerful in their lives than Love.

I was stunned a few years ago when the Democratic National Convention booed God and have systematically sought to remove all mention of God and the Bible for the public square.  I wept when prayer, even silent prayer by individuals was banned in our schools, and the willingness to deny the opportunity of life to that innocent unborn soul in the womb.  Each decade, and now each year brings us nearer and nearer to a state of godlessness that is dangerous for our society.  You may not agree, but as a Christian, I believe that ONLY GOD can truly save this world and each of us.

When I look at what is happening in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and other localities in the United States, I tremble.  We are on the brink of an abyss of destruction from which we can never recover.  I am stunned at how many people still view what is happening as ‘peaceful’ and ‘justified’. 

I am stunned at how many people still view Biden and the Democrats as a better option than Trump.  Is hate for the man powerful enough to warrant the relinquishing of the Republic to tyrannical destruction?  I pray the answer is no and millions will awaken.  One of the things I heard in my heart to pray for was “Enlightenment of the Minds” of Americans and then that once we see the Truth we will “Gird up the loins of our minds for action.”  It takes more than seeing the problem to rectify it and preserve liberty, it takes action!

Now, the anarchist in Portland led by BLM are burning Bibles.  How can any believer or any American not be alarmed at that action?  That screams that this is not about police brutality, George Floyd, systemic or institutional racism but a desire to dismantle our Western Civilization and ‘fundamentally transform’ America into a Marxist nation with totalitarian governance.  Sadly, the factions within this unified effort all believe they will be the ones in control and that will produce more violence and anarchy.  America will cease to be if this succeeds.

How does burning a Bible protest the perceived or genuine racism by police or any other group?  In China, churches are being closed and Christians ordered to sign a pledge renouncing their faith.  Is that coming to America? Yes, if this is not stopped and if the Leftists are not stopped.

Let me insert the views of the German poet, in 1820, “Where they have burned books, they will end up burning people.”  I now ask you to remember what happened in Germany on May 10, 1933, where they burned more than 25,000 volumes in Berlin’s Opera Square.  That was presided over by the most intellectual of the Nazi leaders, Dr. Joseph Goebbels.  What happened during WWII under Hitler?  They built and used ovens to incinerate Jews, undesirables, and dissidents.  They will do the same in America if they are afforded the opportunity.

America, we either defeat the Leftist, Marxist, Socialist, Globalist, Progressives agenda or we sign our own death warrant.  You may not consider Donald John Trump, the 45^th President, worthy of holding that office, but please consider what is at stake.  If you will look at the Big Picture and the Whole Body of Work, you just might change your mind.  Our Freedoms are at stake and our Republic needs her patriots to rise and defend her.

God bless you and God bless America!