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Is There Any Hope for America?

Posted in Culture, Economics, Presidential Campaign 2024, tagged , , on September 1, 2024| 2 Comments »

Is there any hope for America? 

That’s a serious question. I bring it up because it sometimes seems that the answer is no. Our culture is an open sewer. Everywhere, economic and political liberty is under attack by powerful and sometimes secretive forces. 

You can’t trust our elections. It’s hard to say how long our national elections have been fraudulent. My perception was that Democrats, with the help of the deep state and the media, tried mightily to rig the 2016 election in favor of Hillary Clinton.  It was her turn, we were told.  If I’m right about the 2016 election rigging, the rig just wasn’t big enough. It seems that Donald Trump, flaws and all, stole a march on the deep staters and globalists and upended an election that they had planned as a coronation for Hillary Clinton.

The 2020 election was an obvious farce featuring a past-his-prime Joe Biden, who spent most of the campaign season hiding in his basement and cackling Kamala Harris as his running mate.  Yet somehow, this low-energy ticket managed to garner more votes than any other in American history. Color me skeptical.    

The 2022 mid-term elections were also rigged to maintain a Democrat majority in the Senate and to limit the Democrats’ losses in the House.

Here in 2024, the deep state has come after Donald Trump even bigger.  They’ve charged him with, I don’t know how many violations – I think at one point Trump was facing 90 some criminal charges – and attempted to assassinate him. When that didn’t work, they dropped the assassination attempt down the memory hole and continued the full-court press to denigrate him and his supporters in the media as we approach election day.

What are the odds that they will rig the election in 2024?  I would say it’s 100%.  No one has been punished for the fraud they’ve committed in the past few election cycles, so there’s every reason to believe they will do it again this cycle. The only people who have been punished for the 2020 election fraud were those who tried to expose it. Such is the present state of justice in our nation.

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Did the Establishment Just Try to Assassinate Donald Trump?

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on July 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Donald Trump being ushered off stage by the Secret Service after an assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump yesterday was shocking but certainly not surprising.  While they’ve been careful not to directly demand it, since at least 2015, many in America’s ruling class have invited such an attack with their repeated denunciations of Donald Trump and his supporters.

Early in the Biden Regime, someone – I don’t have the quote handy – commented that, historically, presidential candidates and presidents would attack their political opponents but not their opponents’ supporters.  That’s not the case anymore.

Obama started it with his comments about the “bitter clingers,” which was the term he used to put down impoverished small-town and rural whites, who he dismissively described as bitter and clinging to their guns and religion.

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The Protestant Reformation and the American Republic

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on July 2, 2023| 4 Comments »

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

  • Leviticus 25:10

As we approach the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’m moved once again to consider what a precious and rare commodity liberty is. 

Throughout the course of human history, most people have lived under some form of lawless tyranny.  Whether it was the pharaohs and kings of the ancient near east, the Caesars of Rome, the medieval popes, or the fascist and communist dictators of more recent times, the lot of most men in most places at most times is to have their rulers “lord it over them” as Jesus put it.

Given the long history of tyranny experienced by the human race, it’s worth asking why it is that we in the West have experienced such a long and blessed period of liberty.  Growing up, I was taught that our constitutional republic was the product of the Enlightenment.  It wasn’t until I was long out of school that I learned that the liberty that we historically have enjoyed as Americans was not the product of secular thought, but of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

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Independence Day 2021: Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land

Posted in Politics, The Reformation, tagged , , , on July 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »

The Liberty Bell

Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

  • Leviticus 25:10

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” That passage from Leviticus 25:10 is inscribed around the top of the famous Liberty Bell, a bell that hung in what was then known as the Pennsylvania State House, which we now know as Independence Hall, the place of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 

Although the bell was cast, or, more precisely, recast in 1753, some 23 years before the Declaration was signed, the inscription from Leviticus reflects the colonists’ understanding of the intimate connection between political and economic liberty and Word of God.   Many Americans, including many American church goers, would be surprised to hear that there is any connection between the Bible and political and economic liberty, but the colonists of the 18th century were not so ignorant as we are today.     

In his introduction to Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville wrote, “Among the new object that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, none struck my eye more vividly than the equality of conditions” (1). Later in the Introduction, De Tocqueville observed, “Christianity, which has rendered all men equal before God, will not be loath to see all citizens equal before the law.” It was the Reformed Christianity of the colonists and early Americans applied to politics that served as the philosophical basis for Americans’ remarkable equality before the law.

The idea of equality before the law was not some idea hatched in the New World either.  Rather, it was a product of the Protestant Reformation brought to America by the Puritans, whose arrival in America, not the American Revolution, De Tocqueville viewed as America’s point of departure.  Writing in the introduction of their translation of Democracy in America, Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop wrote, “Americans did not make themselves democrats but came to America as democrats.”

The American republic is a product, not of Greece and Rome, but of the Biblical Christianity preached and believed by the Protestant Reformers and their spiritual descendants. 

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Proclaim Liberty throughout All the Land

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 3, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Betsy Ross

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

    – Leviticus 25:10

Independence Day. July the Fourth. I don’t recall a time when it was anything other than one of my favorite dates on the calendar.

What’s not to like about it? As a kid, it was always a great time. Warm summer days. Family, friends and fireworks. Great stuff.

Oh, and then there was that whole liberty thing. And really, what’s not to love about liberty?

Fast forward forty or so years, and all those things I loved about the Fourth? I still love ’em. But with the passing of time, and growth in knowledge and wisdom, Independence Day has taken on a deeper meaning for me.

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