By Frosty Wooldridge

© 2025 Frosty Wooldridge – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Frosty: frostyw@juno.com

Authored by Devvy Kidd not AI

March 31, 2025

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson

Ah, the federal income tax season is underway.  I happened across yet another article promoting something called a flat tax and even worse, a national sales tax:

The IRS Must Fall: Liberation Through a Flat Tax and Tariffs – “The Internal Revenue Service stands as a towering symbol of oppression, shackling Americans with a tax system that suffocates freedom and drains vitality from every corner of life. We’re taxed when we earn, when we spend, when we live, and even when we die—property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, estate taxes—it’s relentless. The IRS, with its labyrinthine rules and invasive audits, isn’t just inefficient; it’s a parasite on the American spirit. It must be dismantled, not reformed, and replaced with a flat tax and tariffs. This isn’t a suggestion—it’s a necessity…

“This isn’t about tweaking the edges—it’s about smashing a broken machine. The IRS enslaves us with its reach, its waste, its arrogance. A flat tax and tariffs aren’t perfect, but they’re a damn sight better than this tax-on-everything nightmare. We’d breathe freer, work smarter, and live without Big Brother’s boot on our necks. Congress must act—dismantle the IRS, institute a national sales tax, and wield tariffs boldly. Anything less is surrender. The time for half-measures is over. The IRS must fall, and we must make it happen.” (The IRS should be confined only to collecting corporate and constitutional excise taxes.)

Tax Cuts, Fair Tax Schemes Keep People Herded in the Wrong Direction, May 14, 2007.  Mine
“My last two columns dealt with the reality of the income tax and traps to replace it called flat tax, fair tax or value added tax. They are just distractions and the wrong discussion. The real issue is the size of government. So few Americans today know that prior to 1913, we didn’t have an income tax to feed the central bank (FED). How certain the traitors were at the time that everything would go as planned. There’s no question the events of 1913 were carefully planned and executed:

“The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were clearly never ratified by the required number of states; fraud was committed when they were announced ratified. The Federal Reserve Act was passed the same year. A central bank needs a mechanism to syphon off the wealth of the people (a direct personal income tax, the second plank of the communist manifesto) and the states needed to be deprived of their representation in Washington, DC., (17^th Amendment) in order for the long-planned world government to proceed step-by-step, one fraud at a time.

“For forty years the tax and spend Democrats ruled Washington, DC, looting the people’s treasury for social programs that are clearly outside their authority under the Constitution. LBJ’s great society jump started this insanity and sadly, my parent’s generation bought into their chains of dependency and have passed this mess to my generation. Their addiction was fed by Congress and the state legislatures for votes.

“In 1994, people said they wanted change! Clever word smithing and a stable full of carefully polished liars emerged. The “Contract with America” and the “Republican Revolution” were born…. and died. It was all smoke and mirrors. The Republicans took control of Congress in January 1995 – those “smaller government” critters who speak with a forked tongue.”

“Not one unconstitutional or unnecessary cabinet was eliminated. Quite the opposite -government exploded in size and cost with the Republicans out spending the Democrats because the American people were demanding more! more! Hello? Weren’t these the same people who said they wanted less government? Yep, then they turned right around and begged for more big spending as jobs continued to disappear overseas. (NAFTA, GATT & other “free” trade treaties.)

“Again, the people had enough, allegedly, and a “new,” improved and repackaged Congress was “elected” in November 2006. New lies for old. Of course, this was a clever hoax sold by the “mainstream” media, including cable networks. Congress is comprised of 435 members of the House of Representatives. This “new” Congress brought in about 25 new hucksters who know nothing about constitutional restraints; a few “new” faces with “new” ideas and “vision” for a “new America!” Hooray and bring out the flags, boys – Happy Days Are Here Again!

“The U.S. Senate sits unlawfully, but again, the only thing there was a few chairs rearranged on the deck of the Titanic. In the four months the tax and spend Democrats have been back in “power,” it’s business as usual. Squabbling, battles between big egos and ignorant fools like Rep. Carolyn McCarthy with her unconstitutional gun legislation. The Democrats who claim to be for the working man (another bald-faced lie) have simply picked up where they left off in 1994.

“Most of the “smaller government” Republicans who took “control” in 1995 and out spent the Democrats are still in office. Their arguments regarding taxes are the same: Democrats chant “tax cuts for the rich,” while the Republicans stick to their mantra that “we must stick with President Bush’s tax cuts because they’re working.”

“The working man and woman are drowning; millions know the federal income tax does NOT apply to domestic Americans. Out of desperation, ideas are born for replacements to stop this draining of America’s lifeblood: a fair tax, flat tax, value added tax – anything help us!!! These distractions are designed to keep the American people busy promoting their own destruction; it’s called the herding technique.

“These alternative taxing schemes are just that and will not solve the problem of the Federal Reserve and a fiat currency. These schemes will continue to feed the banking cartel – which is why this poison is being peddled to desperate Americans. Without the Federal Reserve Banking System, these crooks and liars in Congress would not be able to continue spending BILLIONS of “dollars” every day when there’s no money in the people’s treasury.

“Of course, a whole lot of these craven crooks and liars performing this magic of spending money that doesn’t exist are the same bunch who kited checks years ago. For those who might be too young to remember, back in the early 1990s, a major scandal broke about members of Congress writing hot checks. It was reported that roughly 355 members of the House of Representatives had overdrawn their accounts with the House Bank; some 110 came clean. So, you see, writing hot checks is nothing new to these scoundrels. The tragedy is that they are dooming your children and grand babies to a life of serfdom. Do you care?

“The real and true discussion needs to be a demand that Congress abolish all these unconstitutional and unnecessary agencies, cabinets and spending. I’ll get to constitutional funding in a minute. Let’s take the Federal Department of Education, a massive failure that continues to drain the people’s pocketbook like spaghetti sieve.” End of excerpt. The rest of that column is filled with important information.

That column was not long before the 2008 crash people like me (and so many others) warned was coming and no way to stop it.  So, in 2010, I wrote another column about the Internal Robbing Service aka IRS.  It does require a fair amount of reading but in order to fully understand what I didn’t know before my 31-year journey for the truth began, you just have to read the entire piece.  Please understand when reading I am not advocating to turn off Medicare or SS but both need to get fixed and DOGE has begun the process of cutting the waste so those programs work fairly and efficiently; there are SERIOUS problems with funding for those two taxes – they are not entitlements. I was forced into Medicare when I turned 65 even though I already had full health care coverage and paid my premiums. Yes, I do receive a SS check every month; I will be 76 in June.

Here are but a few excerpts from Fair tax is a trap: Demand NO vote on H.R. 25 (Mine):

“In order to understand why H.R. 25 is just another tool of tyrants, you have to go back and see where and when the problem started. Prior to 1913, we had no federal income tax. There was no unconstitutional “Federal” Reserve Banking system and there was no Seventeenth Amendment. This nation thrived in agriculture, manufacturing and industrial output.

“The shadow government that has been controlling Congress for almost a hundred years had the downfall of America well planned. First, an income tax to siphon off the fruits of our labor. Even though the Sixteenth Amendment wasn’t legally ratified and did not give Congress any new power of taxation, we all know what that Gestapo criminal syndicate will do to you if you don’t voluntarily submit (with a gun to your head) to looting your earnings.

“In order to strip the States of the Union equal suffrage in the U.S. Congress and turn over that purse to the mobs, the Seventeenth Amendment was declared ratified even though it clearly was not. The states then became dependent upon the whims of maggots like John McCain, Chuckie Schumer, Dick Durbin, Diane Feinstein, Lindsay Graham and all the rest of them…

“The big granddaddy came in December of 1913 when Congress passed the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Banking Act.

“As long as the FED exists, there can be no economic freedom for we the people.

“As long as the FED exists, the Outlaw Congress will continue to borrow more and more worthless fiat currency to fund these grotesque, illegal invasions of foreign countries, fund massive unconstitutional welfare programs like the Department of Health and Human Services, unconstitutional cabinets like the Federal Department of Education and the EPA.

“The Outlaw Congress will continue to rape we the people to send hundreds of billions of BORROWED “dollars” to the communist UN, the USAID (United States Aid for International Development), BIS (Bank of International Settlements) and the World Bank. That’s the short list…

“For decades I have said, along with millions of others: A limited form of republican government means just that and mandatory at the top of the list is to get rid of the income tax, the FED, get us out of Bretton Woods and all the foreign financial entanglements looting the people’s purse. People can still pay their indentured servitude taxes and the Outlaw Congress can pass simple bills to eliminate the obscene death tax as well as others.

“In order to fully understand the truth about these fake “solutions” (fair tax, flat tax), you have to do the research. Those taxing schemes are nothing new, but it appears there is big money behind getting that bill passed and we must stop it. If Congress wanted to get rid of the income tax, they could have done it decades ago. The Republicans had control of Congress from January 1995 – December 2006. All they did was continue spending us into unpayable debt. And, yes, the debt is unpayable, and if you think the U.S. won’t default on its debt, you are ignoring the hard, cold facts.

“Please take the time to read the excellent analysis on the phony “fair” tax so you fully understand it is just another trap:” End of excerpt. The mentioned analysis is very important so I hope you take the time to read it all at link above.

Well, here we are in 2025 and along came Trump, Musk and the big cannon known as DOGE.  Some of Trump’s EO’s will have to be passed via legislation by the U.S. Congress now controlled by the “Keep more of your money. Less taxes, smaller government” party called the GOP.

However, with the incredible amount of waste uncovered by the DOGE team (and hated by the communists in Congress, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the rest of the human trash) the American people who are seeing the truth are demanding the financial and moral destruction of our nation stop.

Naturally the liars and crooks in Congress, the Democrat/Communist Party and unfortunately some RINO’s don’t like what’s going on with DOGE for a variety of reasons – as in they haven’t been doing their “oversight” jobs, kickbacks and profiting from insider trading.

The hyenas screeching about Elon Musk having access to their personal information is beyond asinine.  The richest man on this earth wants Joe Smith’s (a bagger at the local grocery store who files his return) personal info and SSN for nefarious reasons? Well, here’s one for the dullards out there:

Even though I’m not required to file, I do and I don’t cheat to keep the dragoons off my back and praying someday we will succeed in stopping the theft of our labor to fund nonsense, torturing animals, favorite projects of reps and senators and endless, big contracts for relatives to get rich and undeclared wars as required by the U.S. Constitution. DOGE has a web site you might want to visit so you can see in real time their progress and what they uncover.  The unconstitutional waste will blow your mind.

I sent my return certified mail and guess what the green return USPS card this time shows?  No signature but is stamped:  JPMorgan Charlotte NC Agent for Internal Revenue Service, March 12, 2025; the largest bank in the U.S.  Try that one on for size.  The richest man on the planet and his extraordinarily high IQ team won’t get to see my tax return but it looks like someone at JPMorgan will – unless they farm it out to a third party who can then snoop through your return.

Please go to my web site. On this page (yes, numbers haven’t been updated as I don’t have a web master), but what I want YOU to read begins about halfway down:  A Pioneer on the withholding issue.  Vivien Kellems was most certainly a brave and courageous woman. I have more on her, but this column is long enough already!

In closing, if you didn’t see Bret Baier’s interview with Elon Musk & his team it’s well worth the time to watch.  Seriously.  And yes, tens of thousands of federal employees are going to lose their jobs, most likely.  I know what that’s like as a federal whistleblower.  I worked for DoD and saw the waste and laziness all around me every day and coming from the private sector, it was, well, shocking and this was back in 1989; I was a GS-11 going in.

Tens of millions of illegal aliens have been stealing good jobs that belong to Americans using fake documents for decades.  But, if you have the skill set and we get rid of millions of ILLEGAL aliens regardless of country of origin, by either self-deporting or forced deportation, it will open up a huge number of jobs that would become available for Americans and naturalized Americans who did it the right way.  Like both sets of my grandparents (Italy & Germany).  New job openings for federal employees who lose their jobs. It’s stressful but no one guaranteed life would be easy.

For a thorough, comprehensive education on the Fed, the income tax, education, Medicare, SS, the critical, fraudulent ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment and more, be sure to order my book by calling 800-955-0116 or click the link, “Taking Politics Out of Solutions“. 400 pages of facts and solutions. Order two books and save $10.00

© 2024 Devvy Kidd – All Rights Reserved

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Related:

On my web site:  The Seventeenth Amendment:  A Cancer on our Constitutional Republic
Crushing the Rights of the Sovereign States of the Union

Today is April 15 … again, April 29, 2005.  Mine.  “Then we have a startling revelation made in a case out in Idaho. You will see this document was filed by Betty H. Richardson, United States Attorney. On page two, item four, read this admission by a United States Attorney: “Denies that the Internal Revenue Service is an agency of the United States Government but admits that the United States of America would be a proper party to this action.” (I looked up the case and it’s real, not a conspiracy click-bait.)

“If the IRS isn’t an agency of the federal government, just who are they, where does their jurisdiction come from and how does it apply to domestic Americans? I already know that this income tax does not apply to domestic Americans – although Bush, Congress and the 99,000 employees of the IRS will deny it to their last paycheck, this is a fact. Actually, the key lies in the clever wording contained in this court filing: not an agency of the United States Government, but they claim jurisdiction under the United States of America.”

Just FYI.  Statutory authority – IRS

“We’re organized to carry out the responsibilities of the Treasury secretary per Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 7801. The IRS was created based on the secretary’s authority to administer and enforce the internal revenue laws.”

How the IRS Violates Its Own Code, Mine, Nov. 6, 2003: “We’re confiscating property now…That’s socialism. It’s written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what’s happening to him.”

“T. Coleman Andrews, May 25, 1956, U.S. News & World Report, Commissioner of the IRS for 33 months Under the Eisenhower Administration before he resigned.

“The response to my recent article, IRS Makes Chilling Proclamation, was overwhelming and really got folks angry. Good. It’s about time something nudged the people of this nation out of their self-induced comas to face a harsh reality: Our servant government (both Republicans and Democrats) have lied to you for the past eight decades regarding the income tax. The IRS cannot handle the situation any longer, so they are resorting to unlawful enforcement actions and using the “mainstream media” to instill even greater fear in the American people.

The big lie

“The big lie is that the income tax applies to domestic Americans, when in fact, it does not. The powers that be know the American people simply don’t want to believe that their favorite politician, whether it be FDR, Joe Libermann, Dana Rohrabacher, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Helms, Diane Feinstein or George Bush, Jr., have been lying to them. People would rather willfully believe the big lie than face reality. The path of least resistance and that’s how slaves are made.” Rest at link.

3 Charts That Show Why The Income Tax, The IRS & The Federal Reserve Should All Be Abolished, Feb. 21, 2025

Memorandum of Law:  The Money Issue

We’re all aware of the grossly inappropriate books found in school libraries – including the propaganda filled ones encouraging children to “trans”.  I purchased two sets of these great children’s books – I read them before giving one set of four to a friend’s 6-six-year-old granddaughter and one set to one of the Christian schools in my city.  Hearty House Children’s books.

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 31, 2025

In the past 50 years, I have bicycled the length and width of California seven times. I have motorcycled the coast 10 times. I have driven a car up the coast 8 times. I’ve driven a United Van Lines 18 wheeler dozens of times around California during my trucking years. In other words, I have seen California from every possible angle.

I’ve visited Yosemite, Prairie Creek Redwoods, Avenue of the Giants, San Francisco, Monterrey Aquarium, Big Sur, Los Angeles, End of Route 66 at Santa Monica Pier, Sequoia National Park, Death Valley, Sultan Sea, General Sherman, Golden Gate Bridge, Hearst Castle and dozens of other incredible landmarks in that once Golden State of California.

At the same time, I witnessed the decline from “extraordinary” to what it has become today: a growing third world trash heap of something around four to five million illegal third world refugees who have created an entirely “different” California.

Added to that, an estimated 250,000 homeless Americans as well as illegal refugees. They’ve set up camps in the canyons where they subsist much like Third World encampments that I witnessed in my travels around the world. Los Angeles features 175,000 homeless. San Francisco tolerates 50,000 homeless pitching tents all over the city, human waste, drugs, mentally ill crazy people, and a total loss of the rule of law and standards.

Both cities see crime rates into the multi-millions if not billions of dollars over the past 20 years. Illegal aliens that get caught and prosecuted for their crimes fill up over 50 percent of the prisons in California.

Drug lords such as MS-13 distribute tens of thousands of doses of heroin, Fentanyl, Meth, Ecstasy, MJ, and other poisons to kill American kids or addict them into uselessness.

“Since 2000, nearly 1 million people have died of a drug overdose. As of 2020, over 37 million people 12 and older actively used illicit substances. About 13.5% of Americans 12 and older have used drugs in the past 30 days. Another 25.4% of all users of illicit drugs suffer from drug dependency.”

Shoplifting has bankrupted dozens if not hundreds of convenience stores, mercantile stores, gas stations, drug stores and more. In the past year, Walgreen’s withdrew 17 stores in San Francisco alone.

Yosemite National Park hires full time “trash pick-up groups” to clean the enormous amount trash tossed by visitors. Additionally, the park suffers millions of visitors to a point that the animals flee the park to save themselves from the hoards of humans.

Smash-and-grab gangs dominate San Francisco and Los Angeles to a point that no one can park their cars to visit the trolley cars or downtown. If they do park their cars, they suffer trunks pried open and driver-side windows smashed where the thieves steal everything in the car within 30 seconds—and they vanish into traffic. I witnessed one smash-and-grab during my last visit.

The traffic in LA and San Francisco jams up every freeway, street and avenue to the point of paralysis even with 10 lanes going one way.

Crime dominates those cities to such a point because the legislature voted to not prosecute anyone who has stolen less than $950.00 in goods. Entire gangs come into stores and steal them into bankruptcy. Who mandates that kind of insanity? Answer: Governor Gavin Newsom and the mayors of those cities.

California politicians support illegal alien refugees with food, housing, schools, medical care, interpreters and more—so the state stands $76 billion in debt. All the while, those same refugees mail billions of dollars back to their home countries, annually. Even worse, the ones that do work, get paid under the table so that California features the largest underground economy in the world. California’s taxes at 13.3 percent are the highest in the United States. Citizens pay the highest gas taxes in the country at 70 cents a gallon.

California’s roads are among the five worst states in the Union. Maintenance cannot keep up with potholes and torn up pavement.

Twenty seven percent of the people in California were not born there. They bring dozens of languages that do not and cannot learn in our classrooms. Student test scores are in the bottom ten states in America.

California pays for the health care of illegal aliens into the billions of dollars. Millions of illegals cannot and do not pay their electric bills.

California is a dysfunctional and unsustainable society declining into collapse at some point. It’s SO BAD, somewhere around 10 to 15 million Americans have fled California according to historian Victor Davis Hanson.

California features more illegal alien refugees than any other state with NO PLAN on how to integrate them into our culture, language and working class. (Source: Victor

Davis Hanson Podcast) One out of three people in America is on public assistance in California. Twenty percent of California’s population lives below the poverty line.

I’ve watched this nightmare develop in California for the past 50 years with my dozens of visits. It’s SO BAD, please watch historian Victor Davis Hanson talk about it on his podcast:

To make it even worse, because of mass and unchecked immigration, California is projected to grow from 40 million to 60 million by 2050. They don’t have the water, energy or resources. And, they don’t have a plan! If ever one of America’s states resembled the same course as the H.M.S. Titanic, California would fit that historical nightmare.

And, you must understand, once a state like California collapses, places like Chicago, NYC, Detroit and Miami won’t be far behind.

We as a civilization need to check our course, and for sure, we need to change course. Wouldn’t you agree?

© 2025 Frosty Wooldridge – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Frosty: frostyw@juno.com

by Rees Lloyd, Attorney (ret.)

March 31, 2025

“I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!” — Cesar Chavez.

Cesar Chavez Day is an official State holiday in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and is observed in several other States (including Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin) on the anniversary of his birth on March 31, 1927.

It honors an extraordinary American — Cesar Estrada Chavez, the late co-founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America who became a legend in his own time in the Civil Rights Era.

In his honor, his headquarters for the UFW, which he named “La Paz” (“The Peace”), in the Tehachapi Mountains in Keene, CA, on Highway 58 between Bakersfield and Tehachapi, is now officially the “U.S. Cesar Chavez National Monument,” established by the federal government.

The U.S. Navy, of which he was a WWII veteran, has named a ship for him.

He was posthumously awarded the highest civilian award for service to America, the Medal of Freedom, which was accepted by his widow, Helen Chavez.

Many States, counties, cities, towns, villages, have named streets, schools, libraries and other public buildings in his honor.

But there are many Americans today who are unaware that there is a Cesar Chavez Day (the major media ignore it), or why there should be a holiday honoring him.

There are also malicious myths tainting the life and the memory of Cesar Chavez that need to be repudiated, most particularly the lies that he was not an American but a Mexican national, and that he was a “Communist,” both of which were first promulgated by the John Birch Society. They are utterly false.

I had the honor of working with Cesar Chavez for some twenty years, starting in 1973, when I was a young long haul trucker participating in a nationwide strike of some 100,000 independent truckers in protest against escalating fuel costs —and escalating profits of the big oil companies—in the so-called “Arab Oil Embargo.”

I was helping to coordinate the truckers’ nationwide “Shutdown” at the Triple T Truckstop in Tucson, AZ, as a member of the steering committee of the “Truckers For Justice.”

Cesar Chavez mentored me in that strike. It remained non-violent because of Cesar Chavez’ demands in mentoring me that there should be no violence. “Rees, if there is violence, it is your fault,” Cesar Chavez admonished me, insisting: “Violence is a failure of creative intelligence; violence is a failure of creative intelligence!”

After that strike was broken, an alliance between the Truckers For Justice and the United Farm Workers of America was established. During that work, in which we refused to haul non-union (“scab”) lettuce and grapes, Cesar told me I needed to go to law school as I could do more good as a lawyer. His recommendation got me into law school.

I worked with UFW lawyers while in law school, and after graduating and passing the California Bar in 1979, I became one of Cesar Chavez’ lawyers until the day of his death on April 23, 1993, and for the UFW thereafter as called upon. I remained exclusively a civil rights, workers rights, veterans rights attorney.

I can attest based on that long “up close and personal” experience that Cesar Chavez was, in his own way, a true American hero; that there are valuable lessons to be learned from his honorable life; and that he is deserving of recognition by all Americans for his service and sacrifice for others, no matter their race, color, or creed.

However, in order to understand that, it is necessary, first, to overcome the lies and myths which continue to distort the truth of who and what Cesar Chavez was.

These are myths by those who hated and maligned him for their own political purposes; and by those who want to exploit who and what he was in order to appropriate him based on race, ethnicity, or nationality for their own political ends.

The most malicious of those myths are, as stated above, first, that he was not an American but a “Mexican” national; and, second, that he was a “Communist.” These malicious myths were first promulgated, utterly falsely and politically deliberately, by the John Birch Society in the 1960’s. Over sixty years later, they are repeated to this day.

First, as to nationality, the truth is that Cesar Chavez was a native-born American, not a “Mexican.” While proud of his Mexican-American heritage, he was a third-generation American, born on his grandfather’s small ranch in Arizona in the Yuma area. No matter the indisputability of those facts, Wikipedia, for example, on which many students and others rely, informed: “Chavez was born on the Mexico Texas border and therefore has dual citizenship.” Utterly false.

Second, Cesar Chavez was no “Communist.” He was a devoted Catholic Christian. He was attempting, humbly, to live his Christian faith as faithfully as he was able by sacrifice and service for others as taught and exemplified by Jesus the Christ, not Marx the Communist.

Perhaps the best proof, although none should be needed, that Cesar Chavez was not a Communist but a devoted Catholic Christian living his faith, is the fact that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in its U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults, which is taught to all adults seeking to become members of the Catholic Church, chose as the exemplar of living a “life in Christ” and “the principles of the Christian moral life”—Cesar E. Chavez. (See, USCCB Catholic Catechism for Adults, Chapter 24, “Life In Christ-Part Two,” pages 233-234).

Moreover, almost never mentioned by those who hate Cesar Chavez and define him as a “communist” and a “Mexican” rather than an American, is that Cesar Chavez, in 1944 at the age of 17, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in WWII and served for the duration of the war in the Pacific in defense of the country of his birth, the United States of America.

Ironically, those who claim to love Cesar Chavez make themselves accomplices of those who hate him (and them) by obscuring Cesar Chavez’ American birth — and by almost never mentioning that he was an American veteran of WWII.

They do this not to honor Cesar, but in order to appropriate Cesar Chavez on race or ethnic grounds as a “Mexican,” “Chicano,” or “Raza” race-based civil rights movement leader rather than as an American hero who should be honored by all Americans — as an American hero.

In regard to that, Cesar Chavez, while proud of his ancestral heritage, always identified himself as a “labor” or “union” leader,” not as a civil rights leader of Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, Latinos, Hispanics, or La Raza.

In fact, in the some twenty years I worked with him, Cesar never defined himself as a “Mexican,” or “Chicano,” “Latino,” etc., and, regarding the identification “La Raza” (“The Race”) he told me he didn’t use it because he considered it racialist.

Thus, those who condemn him as a “Mexican” and “Communist,” and those who claim a possessory interest him as a leader of a race-based “Chicano” or “La Raza” civil rights movement, are both wrong: He defined himself as, and acted as, what he was—a “trade union leader,” and most importantly, a devout Catholic Christian living his faith.

In truth, Cesar Chavez, as he lived his Catholic Christian faith, was the inspiring moral heart of the American labor movement.

He built the first viable farm workers union in American history, the United Farm Workers of America. As president of the UFW, Cesar Chavez represented all farm workers, whatever their race, ethnicity, or nationality.

One example which refutes the myths of both those who hate Chavez and those who appropriate him based on race, and shows the willingness of both to corrupt historical truth to suit their political ends, is Chavez’ acts regarding illegal immigration, which was then and remains now at the center of national controversy and division.

In 1969, Cesar Chavez famously led a march from Indio, CA, to the border. It is portrayed today as primarily a march in protest against discrimination by racist growers oppressing Mexican and other Hispanic farmworkers. That is false historical revisionism.

The primary purpose of the 1969 march to the Mexican border was a protest against the federal government’s failure to secure the border from importation of illegal immigrants who were being used to keep wages and working conditions down and to break strikes and the farmworkers union entirely. Indeed, as UFW members set up picket lines waving “Huelga” (“Strike”) flags, buses would arrive from Mexico to unload strike breakers.

In short, Cesar Chavez’ 1969 march to the Mexican border was for the same purpose that the Minutemen later went to the border in the 70’s and 80’s— to secure the border and demand that the government stop illegal immigration. (It should be noted that the Minutemen were widely condemned as “racists” for doing just what Cesar Chavez did. Was Cesar Chavez a racist?)

In the 1970’s, Cesar Chavez fell out of favor with race-based civil rights groups, white liberals, Leftists including open Socialist and Communist organizations, and liberal media. He was criticized because he adopted the position of calling upon and aiding the then-Immigration And Naturalization Service (INS) to deport strikebreakers illegally in the country.

Among other things, Cesar Chavez testified before Congress about immigration. He testified that illegal immigration had to be stopped, and the border secured, as illegal immigrants were used to hold wages and working conditions down, and to break strikes, defeating efforts of farmworkers to build a union to improve their wages, hours, working conditions, and lives.

Today, Cesar Chavez’ 1969 march from Indio to the border is historically revised to be a protest against racist growers and his Congressional testimony is rarely cited, to satisfy the political ends of race-based la raza groups and non-raza liberals who want to transform him from what he was, i.e., a leader of a labor movement to improve the lives of all farmworkers, to what they want him to be, i.e., a race-based political leader.

Meanwhile, many conservatives continue the original wrong and error of the John Birch Society when it falsely slandered and branded Cesar Chavez as a non-American and a “communist.” That continually repeated malicious lie has alienated not only many Americans, including many Mexican-American and other Hispanics for whom Cesar Chavez is, rightly, a hero, as he should be for all Americans.

In his lifetime, although he became nationally and internationally renown, Cesar Chavez never sought personal fame, wealth, or celebrity. It was all about “La Causa,” the cause, not about him.

Indeed, Cesar Chavez turned down millions of dollars offered for the rights to make a movie of his life, Similarly, he rejected all offers to write an autobiography or for the right to produce an “authorized” biography. All that he would authorize was the “Autobiography of La Causa,” by Jaques Levy, who didn’t “buy” the right but earned it by working in la causa.

Cesar Chavez’ achievement is monumental. Farmworkers, and domestic workers, were exempted from the right to organize into unions provided to all other workers by the National Labor Relations Act. There were no State laws creating a right of farmworkers to support unionization. They could be and were fired and “blacklisted” with impunity by employers who suspected them of supporting a union. Farmworkers were also migrant, moving from employer to employer on the migrant trail during harvesting seasons.

There were more than a hundred attempts to organize migrant farmworkers by major international unions with money, members, and paid full time organizers. All failed. It was thought impossible to organize migrant farmworkers.

Then came Cesar Chavez. He had nothing. No money, no members, no paid staff. Nothing but the belief that the only way to help farmworkers was to build a union in which they could themselves achieve better working conditions — and dignity. He succeeded by touching the hearts of Americans by his non-violent “boycotts” and exposure of the dangerous and miserable working conditions of farm workers.

He, himself, had become a migrant farmworker at the age of ten when the ranch of his grandfather on which he was born was lost on foreclosure in the Depression and taken over by the Bruce Church Corp., largest lettuce grower in Arizona. He had little education, attending some fifty different elementary schools as his family followed the migrant farmworker trail. After his service in the U.S. Navy, he went back to working in the fields. He married his sweetheart, Helen, also a farm worker, in Delano, CA. Together they worked the fields, ultimately having had eight kids.

The story has been told now in many articles, books, documentaries, and a relatively recent movie of how Cesar Chavez, while working as an organizer in Los Angeles, became convinced a union for farmworkers had to be created if working conditions were to be improved. He quit his job. He and Helen loaded up their old station wagon with the kids and a mimeograph machine, and headed to Delano. There, they rented a house, set up the mimeograph machine, and sent out a flyer calling for a house meeting, the first step in creating what would become the United Farm Workers of America.

How did Cesar Chavez succeed where all others had failed? By touching the hearts of Americans and the conscience of the nation by exposing the true working conditions of migrant farmworkers through creative, non-violent acts and actions, including his fasts and boycotts, and by his manifest personal selfless service and sacrifice.

Cesar Chavez did not merely say: “I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!”

He lived it. By doing so, he succeeded where so many others failed. He achieved what was thought impossible. He inspired and taught by his example, humbly serving and sacrificing for others, and thereby has enriched the lives not only of farmworkers, but the lives of millions of Americans, of all races, all colors, all creeds, including my own life.

It was Jesus Christ whom Cesar Chavez worshipped, followed, and humbly attempted to emulate by service to others through living his Catholic Christian faith.

I am greatly indebted to Cesar Chavez, especially for the example of his humble, selfless life in service for others. I will always walk in his shadow.

May the God he so faithfully served bless and keep him. May the country he so faithfully served, always remember and honor him.

Cesar Chavez and Rees Lloyd are shown at a press conference in Tucson, AZ, announcing the establishment of an Alliance of the United Farm Workers of America and the Truckers For Justice during a nationwide truckers’ shutdown opposing huge increases in the costs of fuel —and oil company profits—during the so-called “Arab Oil Embargo” in 1973.

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By Lewis Brackett

March 30, 2025

God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit are the sole and only triune God of creation. The word triune means three parts or three persons of the trinity, or perhaps both, which is, btw, an eternal debate within the faithful church.

When you deny God, you in effect make yourself little gods, and creating God in your own image. What we have in our society today are a lot of self declared little gods each competing for power and relevance.

Militant paganism is worshipping the creation as in the present “climate change,” “global warming,” and “mother earth /sustainable development” ideological narrative.

The French Revolution 1789/1800 resulted from the deliberate abandonment of Jesus and the Christian foundation of the rule of law, so that the most violent person could rise to power. This resulted in the infamous Terror, a couple of years where everyone representing the former government and the rule of law had their heads cut off.

The late nineteenth century saw the “Enlightenment” as a period calling Christianity superstition, and undermining the foundation of law and order in our society. This Enlightenment’s motive force was, and still is, the dim bulb Hegel, who taught that civilization must be thrown into chaos and bloodshed in order to force the establishment of this violent New World Order.

All around us these militant pagans are mobbing in the streets, howling for our blood, and the final destruction of our Christian civilization.

Concerning the Principalities and powers indwelling these militant Pagans … As Jean- Michael Angebert noted;

“Those who induced Germany to embrace the Swastika are not dead. They are still among us, just as they have been in every era, and doubtless will continue to be until the Apocalypse. National Socialism was for them but a means and Hitler was but an instrument … That undertaking failed. What they (Demonic spirits / fallen angels) are now trying to do is to revive the Myth by other means.”

They will not have long to wait. Thankfully, neither do we. Any moment now we will be gone and the pagans coming ruler will have his day, his brief kingdom and lasting infamy.

So, Darwin Freud and Marx. Today we only have time to refute Darwin. Let the facts be submitted to a candid world:

Darwin Delusions

Darwin Contradict Causality causality is the cause behind creation. Nothing causes everything. So, first we have the delusion that Nothing causes everything. Lets look at that. In the pagan’s narrative first there was nothing. Then this nothing blew up/ expanded/ created gas, dust, dirt. Then, this stuff happily got mashed together, and after a while we had big Macks and small fries … and a coke.

Non reason causes Reason (self awareness or sentience) Randomness causes Fine Tuning(if your car is idling rough getting better by ignoring it?) Nonlife causes Life (a rock somehow gets rained on long enough that it becomes a cat) (but why would you want one?) Chaos causes Ordered Complexity (an explosion in a car junkyard results in a line of brand new cars)? Unconsciousness causes Consciousness (nothing becomes the rock who does my taxes)

The River Systems of our world have not existed more than 5000 years. In the 1840s, General Humpfreys US Army Corp of Engineers dug some holes in the Mississippi Delta to find out how old the river was. By dividing the thickness/ size/ volume of the river deltas by the annual soil deposits of the river deltas by the annual soil rivers can be 5000 years old. Look at the earliest maps of San Diego Bay Evolution and Species Extinction Species are meeting changing environments. by being genetically selected for them.

This leads to the loss of many sub-species, However, genetic viability is being lost. endangering the long term survivability of each species in its ability to adapt to future changes. This is simplification of complexity, a devolution.

The Genetic Code Is an information storage system. To create this system, you must first have an immense intelligence to create a language; Then to create the system and Out of place objects A gold necklace found in a lump of coal. An iron spike found in a vein of silver. An Iron tool found on Scottish coal bed … A metal bell found in solid rock in Ma.

Yellowstone and Grand Canyon Tree rings in layers of sediment show all the layers were deposited at the same time just a few thousands of years ago … All the “fossils” are preserved whole showing they had been quickly buried in Noah’s flood and not torn apart by Rapid coal formation as a result of the Mt Saint Helens eruption. Peat, the precursor to coal has already formed there. Hardening layers of sediment similar to the Grand Canyon with calcifying trees are obvious.

Darwin ignores … Entropy/ Chaos Theory and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. icr.org / reasons.org/ yfiles.com/. answers in genesis.org

Truth is not a personal decision. Whether its true to YOU is irrelevant… Truth, like the law of Gravity, just IS There are two world views prevalent today. The first world views says “I believe “it” because its True” This has absolute laws of truth, math and physics.

The second world view is “Its true because I believe it”. This second world view has no objective truth in philosophy or science.

The presupposition of evolution violates the most basic laws of Mathematical numbers theory; the law of of probabilities; as well as the second law of Thermodynamics which is the law of ever increasing chaos in all systems. This is most evident in the rapid decay of data in ALL information storage systems.

Genetic Drift, or Natural Selection

Every change makes the animal genetically simpler, and so is less likely to survive, which is the opposite of evolution.

Evolution insists that natural selection creates what is called “genetic drift”. This process involves the selection of genetic traits in a species favorable to an environment with the loss of the genes not useful for existence in its environment.

If you have a heard of pigs let loose on an island, inbreeding and environment will over time simplify the genetic structure of those pigs to fit that environment…. it has been shown that the genetic separation with other pigs not on the island will eventually be sufficient that the two groups of pigs cant be bread together.

However, each descendant of both groups will always be a pig….not one descendant will ever be a dog or a cat! This shows that evolution always selects from Within a species. It does NOT create a whole new species. Pigs beget Pigs, Dogs beget dogs, Cats beget Cats.

Peppered Moths.

Every student of biological evolution learns about peppered moths. Here we have the same issue and cause. The dramatic increase in dark forms of this species during the industrial revolution, and experiments pointing to differential bird predation as the cause, have become the classical story of evolution by natural selection. The same careful scientific approach which established the classical story in the first place, however, has now revealed major flaws in it. It is time to take another look.

The peppered moth, Biston betularia, comes in various shades of gray. One hundred and fifty years ago, the species consisted almost entirely of “typical” forms, with predominantly light gray scales interspersed with black (hence the name, “peppered”). In 1848, a coal-black “melanic” form was collected near Manchester, England, and by 1950 melanic forms made up more than 90% of the peppered moths in that area. A similar change was reported in many other species of moths, as well as in ladybird beetles, spiders, and even some birds. Since the phenomenon was observed not only around Manchester but also near other industrial centers such as Birmingham and Liverpool, it became known as “industrial melanism.”

In Every case “natural selection” by “genetic drift” results in a genetically simpler animal selected for a specific environment.

This result is the opposite of evolution toward a more genetically complex “higher” form of life.

This is Entropy in action. Entropy is ever increasing randomness eventually resulting in total chaos. This is the 2nd law of thermodynamics. This entropy eventually causes extinction of species. It also causes old age, cancer, etc and death.

Intelligent design for everyone

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” –Charles Darwin, Origin of Species

With this statement, Charles Darwin provided a criterion by which his theory of evolution could be falsified. The logic was simple: since evolution is a gradual process in which slight modifications produce advantages for survival, it cannot produce complex structures in a short amount of time. It’s a step-by-step process which may gradually build up and modify complex structures, but it cannot produce them suddenly.

Darwin, meet Michael Behe, biochemical researcher and professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Michale Behe shows, Darwin false through a concept he calls “irreducible complexity.” In simple terms, this idea applies to any system of interacting parts in which the removal of any one part destroys the function of the entire system. An irreducibly complex system, then, requires each and every component to be in place before it will function.

As a simple example of irreducible complexity, Behe presents the humble mousetrap. It contains five interdependent parts which allow it to catch mice: the wooden platform, the spring, the hammer (the bar which crushes the mouse against the wooden base), the holding bar, and a catch. Each of these components is absolutely essential for the function of the mousetrap. For instance, if you remove the catch, you cannot set the trap and it will never catch mice, no matter how long they may dance over the contraption. Remove the spring, and the hammer will flop uselessly back and forth-certainly not much of a threat to the little rodents. Of course, removal of the holding bar will ensure that the trap never catches anything because there will again be no way to arm the system.

Now, note what this implies: an irreducibly complex system cannot come about in a gradual manner. One cannot begin with a wooden platform and catch a few mice, then add a spring, catching a few more mice than before, etc. No, all the components must be in place before it functions at all. A step-by-step approach to constructing such a system will result in a useless system until all the components have been added. The system requires all the components to be added at the same time, in the right configuration, before it works at all.

How does irreducible complexity apply to biology? Behe notes that early this century, before biologists really understood the cell, they had a very simplistic model of its inner workings. Without the electron microscopes and other advanced techniques that now allow scientists to peer into the inner workings of the cell, it was assumed that the cells was a fairly simple blob of protoplasm. The living cell was a “black box”-something that could be observed to perform various functions while its inner workings were unknown and mysterious. Therefore, it was easy, and justifiable, to assume that the cell was a simple collection of molecules. But not anymore.

Technological advances have provided detailed information about the inner workings of the cell. Michael Denton, in his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, states “Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10^-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world.” In a word, the cell is complicated. Very complicated.

In fact, Michael Behe asserts that the complicated biological structures in a cell exhibit the exact same irreducible complexity that we saw in the mousetrap example. In other words, they are all-or-nothing: either everything is there and it works, or something is missing and it doesn’t work. As we saw before, such a system cannot be constructed in a gradual manner-it simply won’t work until all the components are present, and Darwinism has no mechanism for adding all the components at once. Remember, Darwin’s mechanism is one of gradual mutations leading to improved fitness and survival. A less-than-complete system of this nature simply will not function, and it certainly won’t help the organism to survive. Indeed, having a half-formed and hence non-functional system would actually hinder survival and would be selected against. But Behe is not the only scientist to recognize irreducible complexity in nature.

In 1986, Michael J. Katz, in his Templets and the explanation of complex patterns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) writes:

“In the natural world, there are many pattern-assembly systems for which there is no simple explanation. There are useful scientific explanations for these complex systems, but the final patterns that they produce are so (het der-rog-in-us) heterogeneous that they cannot effectively be reduced to smaller or less intricate predecessor components. As I will argue … these patterns are, in a fundamental sense, irreducibly complex…”

Finally, we see that Darwinism is a self delusional religion of the willingly deceived; militant pagans indwelt be Satan’s demons today, and destined for hellfire tomorrow.

Romans 3:16 there is none righteous 3:23 All have sinned/ 5:8 while we were sinners Christ died for us /6:23 for the wages of sin is (eternal) death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

10:9-13 That If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved.

Meaning that You will be saved from the consequences of your sin which is eternity in hellfire.

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By Rob Pue

March 30, 2025

I’d like to begin today with a couple of verses of Scripture.  From Isaiah 30, “For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.’”

Let’s read some more.  This time from Amos, chapter 8, “‘Behold, the days come,’ saith the Lord God, ‘that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.’”

I recently read a survey that found only 5% of Americans attend a church on a regular basis now.  It’s no secret that the modern American churches have been struggling to hold on to attendance numbers for decades.  Through the 1960s, 87% of families went to church every week.

But according to this study, American churches have lost 82% of their attendees since 1970.  Of course, they’ve tried many things to retain their congregations, but today, the vast majority of people are just not going to church anymore.  Those that are, are often disappointed in their church or with their pastor…for numerous reasons.

Another study shows that 69% of Americans claim to be Christians, but only 4% of them have a biblical worldview.  For instance, 72% of professing Christians say that people are basically “good.”  And of those who call themselves “Christians,” 66% say that “having faith” is more important than which faith you have; 64% say that all religious faiths are equally valid; 58% believe that if you’re good enough, or do enough good deeds in your life, then you’ll go to heaven; and 57% believe in “karma.”

Where did they get these ideas?  You might think that since they’re not going to church or reading the Scriptures for themselves anymore, they’re coming up with these false notions on their own or absorbing them from our deeply UNChristian culture, and that may be partially true.  But churchgoers are also learning this stuff from the modern day “teachers” who only tell them what their itching ears want to hear.

For many people, the only times they go to church at all is for weddings and funerals…but today, most weddings and funerals are not being held in a church.  Instead, they’re in parks, community centers and even bars, and are not being led by Godly, Bible-based teachers.  Such missed opportunities for people to hear the words of the Lord.  And today 30% of Americans identify as “Nones,” meaning they have no religious faith at all.  They’re comprised of atheists, agnostics or say their “religion” is “nothing in particular.”  They may believe in some kind of “higher power,” but they have no idea who God Almighty is, nor have they spent much time considering the things of God.  Is it any wonder so many are struggling with anxiety, depression, drug abuse and madness?

I believe many of these who don’t know God would like to learn about Him and His Word and many are open to discussing these topics.  But how will they learn if they’ve never heard, and how will they hear if no one is willing to speak?

Let’s face it: very few Christians today are willing to talk about God, much less disciple others, witness to strangers on the street or even to their own family members.  They have a fear of speaking about God and Jesus Christ.  It’s as if they’re ashamed of Him.

But if they only had the courage to step out and begin a conversation, most would find people are, indeed, interested in learning and hearing more.  Why are so many Christians so afraid to tell others about our Savior?  I believe it’s because they don’t really know that much about their faith themselves, and if they do, they’ve never been trained for the work of the ministry, which should be the main purpose of church gatherings.  Most Christians today have never witnessed to anyone, because they don’t know how. Because they’ve never been taught.

You see, that’s just not the goal of most of our churches these days.  Today, most sermons are very short, and the messages are meant to comfort and soothe, rather than convict hearts and lead them to repentance.  The Church should be a place where soundly saved people gather to worship the Lord, study the Scriptures together and be trained for the work of the ministry, as iron sharpens iron.

Instead, we now have institutions that cater to UNsaved and unrepentant people — reprobates — and pastors dare not speak anything that might cause offense or conviction.  We have it backwards.  Churchgoers should be discipled for the work of the ministry; then go out and witness and minister and make disciples; then bring those disciples into the House of God, where they, in turn, can then be trained up for the work of the ministry.

That’s not happening.  I understand that churches are filled with people at many levels of spiritual maturity.  Not all are on the same level of understanding.  But those who are spiritually mature, with years of sanctification and growth behind them, are frustrated when the “sermons” are geared only for spiritual babes.  It’s like having a Ph.D. and sitting in a kindergarten class every Sunday.  How long must they drink milk before the pastor allows them to try a bit of meat?

So here we are, catering to unsaved and unrepentant sinners who only want to feel better about themselves, socialize with friends and have fun.  These are “children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions…”  These are the regular church-goers I’m talking about, not the unsaved.  They attend church for an emotional “pep rally,” and only want their “best life now.”  Unless something changes, they’d better enjoy that “best life” now — because this world is the only “heaven” they’ll ever know.

There is, indeed, a real famine of hearing the words of the Lord in our land.  That’s the real problem…and that’s why our culture has so degenerated today; that’s why a majority of those who call themselves “Christians” believe all religious faiths are equally valid — and being a “good person” will get you to heaven.  The fact that so many modern-day preachers refuse to speak the whole counsel of God or follow what little Scripture they themselves know is why we have so many problems in our churches.  It’s why more and more churches are bowing to the changing times, ordaining homosexuals, conducting homosexual marriages, marching in Pride parades — and rather than being salt and light in the wicked culture around us, choose to simply turn up their guitar amps and sing louder as our children and grandchildren march blindly down the broad road to hell.

I know a little about what I’m speaking of, from personal experience. I was an elder on the board of a church many years ago, and brought up numerous issues within the congregation.  We had people who believed abortion was perfectly ok, just a “woman’s choice.”  We had some who openly ridiculed the biblical account of Creation.  We had others who believed in same-sex marriage and transgenderism.  And some who promoted the apostate Hollywood movie “The Shack” as “the best Christian movie we’ve ever seen.”  As an elder, I thought it was important to let the pastor know about these issues so that he could address them from the pulpit, and also offer individual counsel for those who had drifted so far off course.  He steadfastly refused.  Being an elder, I also learned why he refused.  Most of those that were so off-base in their doctrinal beliefs were also large donors to the church.

Then, there was the issue of our youth getting in trouble, and struggling with worldly enticements.  Our youth group was shrinking.  Kids were dropping out.  They only came on Sundays because their parents forced them to.  What to do…what to do?  My suggestion at the board meeting was to connect the older church members with these young people to mentor them.  The older men mentoring the young men; the older ladies mentoring the young women.  That idea was quickly dismissed in favor of holding more “fun” times — more pizza parties, outings to the skate park and movie nights.  Basically, more entertainment.  Of course, that didn’t work, because you can never out-entertain the world, nor should we try.

The lifetime of wisdom our older generations have is not valued in our churches today.  Older people are generally dismissed as irrelevant.  There may be a “Senior Saints” group, but that’s usually nothing more than a monthly lunch or a sewing circle.  Such a waste of knowledge and wisdom that could be put to work mentoring our young people who so desperately need it.  Not only that, but it would strengthen families too, as our kids would learn to respect and honor their elders.  Instead, we cater to the kids and try to entertain them with a tiny bit of “God stuff” thrown in on the side.  It’s no wonder the majority never return to church once they graduate high school.

Our nation is in desperate need of God, and His Son, Jesus Christ.  The vast majority of Americans today know nothing about Him, because no one has ever told them.  And I’m not just talking about our kids.  The majority of adults — including regular church-going adults — are biblically illiterate.  There’s a famine of the words of our Lord, and people don’t even realize they’re starving to death.

On April 4th and 5th, Wisconsin Christian News will be holding our annual Ministry Conference in Wausau, Wisconsin. We’ve held these events for more than 20 years.  This past November, after my prayer time, as I was lying in bed, God said to me, “hold on a minute…one more thing…”  I learned, long ago, not to argue with God…because when He tells you that you need to do something, you’re going to do it, one way or the other… So I’ve learned to just obey.

He proceeded to tell me that this year’s Conference was essential — vitally important — and needed more than any we’ve ever done before.  Then He gave me all the details of how He wanted this year’s event to be.  Including the names of every speaker, and the topic we need to focus on.  That topic is: “Revival & Reverence, Returning to God.”  Because that’s what we all need — in our nation and our individual lives and families.  Every speaker God told me to invite graciously agreed to come without hesitation.  We’ll have some of the most solid, Biblically-based teachers I know of, along with the old hymns of the faith that are so filled with sound doctrine, reverence and awe.

Our speakers will include Pastor Art Pawlowski from Canada, Dr. Ted Broer from Florida, Coach Dave Daubenmire and Dr. Mike Spaulding from Ohio, Pastor Matt Trewhella, Dawn Wolf and Scott Schara from Wisconsin and Pastor Butch Paugh from Call To Decision Ministries in West Virginia.  Music ministry will be led by national recording artist and retired Pastor Layton Howerton, joining us from Montana.

Each year we have people from all over the USA — and even other countries — come for our Conference, and it would be well worth your time and effort to learn from just one of these speakers.  We’ll have nine this year.  If you come, I can promise you, you’ll experience a renewal, a regeneration and freshening of your spirit, and you’ll leave closer to our Lord than you can imagine, eager to live out your faith and serve our King like you might never have thought you could before.  And bring along your friends and loved ones who may never have heard sound Biblical teaching before.  As usual, we’ll also be offering baptisms for those interested. And, we have an incredible family group discount available if you book by March 4th, because our children and grandchildren desperately need to experience this too.

Contact me for more information.  But pre-registration is required, and seating is limited, so don’t put this off.  Get the information and reserve your seats today — and then prepare for a special family weekend that will truly be life-changing.  Call me at Wisconsin Christian News, (715) 486-8066.  Or email Rob@WisconsinChristianNews.com

We all need this.  I know I do, and I hope to see you there.

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By Steven Yates

March 29, 2025

Neoliberalism’s meteoric rise in the late 20^th century; it’s decline and fall in our era.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,

“In an ideal free market resting on private property, no individual can coerce any other, all cooperation is voluntary, all parties to such cooperation benefit or they need not participate. There are no “social” values, no “social” responsibilities in any sense other than the shared values and responsibilities of individuals. Society is a collection of individuals and of the various groups they voluntarily form.”  —Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” (NYT, 1970)

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”  —Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987)

“The case for free trade is based on the British economist David Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage — the idea that each nation should specialize in what it does best and trade with others for other needs. If each country focused on its comparative advantage, productivity would be highest and every nation would share part of a bigger global economic pie.

“However, when Ricardo said that free trade would produce shared gains for all nations, he assumed that the resources used to produce goods — what he called the factors of production — would not be easily moved over international borders. Comparative advantage is undermined if the factors of production can relocate to … a relatively few countries with abundant cheap labor. In this situation, there are no longer shared gains — some countries win and others lose….    [T]oday’s vital factors of production — capital, technology and ideas — can be moved around the world at the push of a button….

“This is a very different world than Ricardo envisioned. When American companies replace domestic employees with lower-cost foreign workers in order to sell more cheaply in home markets, it seems hard to argue that this is the way free trade is supposed to work. To call this a jobless recovery is inaccurate: lots of new jobs are being created, just not here in the United States.”  —Paul Craig Roberts and Chuck Schumer, “Second Thoughts on Free Trade” (NYT, 2004)

“Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is?”  —George Monbiot, “Neoliberalism — the Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems” (The Guardian, 2016)

“The purpose of the corporation is not merely to enrich shareholders. The greatest grift in contemporary economic life is the neoliberal idea that the only purpose of the corporation and the only responsibility of executives is to enrich themselves and shareholders. The new economics must and can insist that the purpose of the corporation is to improve the welfare of all stakeholders: customers, workers, community and shareholders alike. Greed is not good. Being rapacious doesn’t make you a capitalist, it makes you a sociopath. And in an economy as dependent upon cooperation at scale as ours, sociopathy is as bad for business as it is for society…. Neoliberal economic theory has sold itself to you as unchangeable natural law, when in fact it’s social norms and constructed narratives based on pseudoscience.”  —Nick Hanauer, “The Dirty Secret of Capitalism” (TED Talk, 2019)

Classical liberalism and homo economicus may have been “out” in most of academia, but they didn’t disappear. Their defenders — in economics, business, or their small corner of the intellectual world — doubled down. Sadly, they did so without considering factors, none of them political-economic in nature, that got secularized classical liberalism into trouble. Instead, they invented neoliberalism, elevated utility-maximization and monetization to the status of divine principles, and told us There Is No Alternative.

What Is Neoliberalism? How Did It Originate?

Neoliberalism refers to a range of policies that emphasize free markets, privatization, globalization, and minimal state intervention. To many conservatives this sounds ideal. Do we not want reduced government spending, deregulation, and greater individual economic freedom? Neoliberalism retains a role for government: maintaining the infrastructure deemed necessary for markets to flourish; serving as enforcer of, e.g., trade agreements; and protecting intellectual property rights. It has no quarrel with concentrations of wealth if these are seen as enhancing market efficiency. It tends to dismiss worries about regulatory capture of governmental agencies.

Neoliberals emphasize globalization more than classical liberals did, encouraging economic integration. Borders, they say, are impediments to unfettered free trade and migration. They have zero patience with the cultural conservatism of those who see disruption when their communities are colonized by peoples who don’t identify with or respect their national traditions, don’t speak their language (or speak it poorly), and so are unlikely to assimilate.

It is fair, I think, to say that neoliberalism promotes globalism as a general outlook. Its condemnation of “protectionism” notwithstanding, it doesn’t reject state protections of economic activity. These tend to favor big enterprises and automatically work against small, family-owned businesses. It hastens Schumpeterian creative destruction via technological change and says that if for whatever reason you don’t adapt, your resulting poverty is your fault. It oversees the migration of power from national governments to international organizations with “soft law” accords that serve global corporations with no loyalties except to money and power.

Numerous authors contributed to the development of these ideas. Many were bankrolled by wealthy interests.

The first was Friedrich A. Hayek, whose primary influence came through his landmark book The Road to Serfdom (1944) which criticized state-directed central planning. He and fellow Austrian Ludwig von Mises argued that government intervention in the marketplace invariably caused economic dislocations. These led to more intervention until freedom was destroyed and de facto socialism instituted.

Mises and Hayek were two leading lights of the Austrian School of Economics. The Austrians try to derive all economic science from a single axiom, that man acts (defining action as the use of means to achieve ends). They see this as axiomatic because its denial is self-contradictory. A denial that man acts would be an action (of a linguistic-conceptual sort, using language to achieve communication). This form of reasoning is called apriorism. It marks the Austrian School as Second Stage in the sense of Part 1. Empiricist economists who go off data (e.g., Third Stage Keynesians and monetarists) predictably reject apriorism as pseudoscientific.

Hayek created the Mont Pelerin Society in the late 1940s. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe called this group the Neoliberal Thought Collective in their illuminating anthology. Their membership included Karl Popper (author of The Open Society and Its Enemies from which George Soros derived the name of his huge operation), George Stigler, Michael Polanyi, and of course, Milton Friedman who would be their U.S. protégé, selling the ideas based at the University of Chicago. There were 33 other founding members (39 in all). In addition to economics they drew on philosophy of science, and on history. The Mont Pelerin Society grew to a membership of hundreds, representing 17 nations.

The Mont Pelerins worried about the spread of collectivism (see Part 3). As Europeans their context was the post-war reconstruction of shattered economies, government-based central planning being a temptation to short cuts.

Though ultimately embracing the above-mentioned creative destruction, they were troubled by another core idea in Joseph A. Schumpeter’s classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (orig. 1942). Schumpeter’s view: contrary to classical Marxism, capitalism would be undone not by its failures but by its successes. It had produced great wealth and was not impoverishing the proletariat. But this led to leisure — especially among children of the new bourgeoisie. They would grow up with expectations capitalism could not satisfy.

There’s an implicit argument here that prosperity and leisure, absent direct consciousness of what made them possible, make for soft and undisciplined youth unable to accept the demands of the marketplace. No teenager, supported by the “bank of mom and dad” and excited by thoughts of becoming a sports star, a rock star, an actor or actress, an astronaut, whatever, awakens in the morning thinking, “I can’t wait to grow up and sell insurance policies.” This, Schumpeter thought, would render capitalism less palatable over time. It would push populations leftward.

Schumpeter’s view, following the footsteps of the New Deal, was that a critical mass would democratically vote their way into socialism by supporting candidates advancing fundamentally socialist ideas. This would be unstoppable. “Can capitalism survive?” he asked at the beginning of his discourse. His answer: “No, I do not think it can.”

The Neoliberal Thought Collective wanted to counter such tendencies, and they pushed their views assertively. Milton Friedman published Capitalism and Freedom (1962), intended as a decisive statement of free market principles and a defense of privatization and free trade. In many respects, this was a Road to Serfdom for Americans. Friedman would publish the article quoted at the outset in 1970. He used the word neoliberalism openly in additional writings, developing further the idea that business has no “social responsibilities” beyond obeying the law. He would popularize this in books such as Free to Choose (1980) written with his wife Rose, and an accompanying video series.

It was the start of the Thatcher era in the U.K. and the Reagan years in the U.S. Neoliberalism gained in influence, pursuing policies the Mont Pelerins had championed: tax cuts, deregulation, free trade, globalization, and opposition to communism/socialism. After the Soviet Union fell, leaving a unipolar world with the U.S. as the world’s sole superpower, these went into overdrive.

Neoliberalism: What Went Wrong?

Neoliberalism, like its forebear, relies on homo economicus as a first postulate: we are self-interested utility-maximizers: free trade maximizes self-interest. It’s all voluntary. No one enters into a trade from which he doesn’t expect to benefit.

As we’ve noted, this doesn’t fit human nature. We do try to maximize utility and we do trade, of course, but there is much more to being human. A political economy that neglects our need for community, belonging, validation, and love, not to mention our sense of the difference between right and wrong, cannot stand indefinitely.

It’s a commonplace that neoliberal economics created massive inequality via what I’ve called welfare-statism in reverse: a structural distribution of wealth upwards. Financialization of the economy contributed to this. Money printing debauched the currency, causing massive inflation (what’s being inflated is the money supply) and the well-documented state of affairs in which the cost of living rises while wages remain mostly stagnant.

Add to this Paul Craig Roberts’s target: outsourcing well-paying manufacturing jobs to cheap labor countries, destroying American industrial capacity, hollowing out communities in the U.S., and causing the middle class earlier capitalism had created to spiral downward. Generation Z (born from 1997 to 2012, well after these effects had begun exacting their toll) is understandably resentful and greatly worried by the prospects of being unable to find the stable, long-term employment their Boomer and Gen X parents had. In practice, neoliberalism served up a “services economy” replacing real jobs with “gigs,” as well as hundreds of hustlers exploiting economic insecurity and offer “opportunities” most of which didn’t exist: many were, and are, outright scams. The adage applies that what looks too good to be true, probably is. Think of MLM.

Neoliberals deny the reality of market failure. Their claim is that blaming the market when things go awry can be compared to stumbling and falling and then blaming gravity. This assumes, of course, that the marketplace is akin to physics.

The problem: there clearly are market failures, understood as a market either not meeting the needs of buyers for any number of reasons or delivering perverse and harmful consequences.

Consider the healthcare industry (go here for more details), in which profitability has clearly replaced health as a primary driver. Today, especially in the U.S. which has maintained an exclusively for-profit model (and where neoliberals speak darkly of “socialized medicine”), you don’t have a healthcare industry, you have a sick care industry. Chronic illnesses “managed” with pharmaceuticals are far more profitable than actual cures. Health insurance, too, has become a racket, in which people who aren’t doctors deny claims resulting in people dying from preventable causes when real health care becomes unaffordable. Hence Luigi Mangione, and his transformation into a folk hero by those who, on some level, have figured this out.

Or consider the war industry, in which the production of weapons makes enormous sums for their manufacturers and contractors, despite the destruction wrought, usually on a population of anonymous expendable foreigners, when the weapons are used in a major city.

Consider finally private prisons. The facility saves money (i.e., is more profitable) from feeding prisoners low quality food, so they end up malnourished; or die from treatable conditions because again, medical care affects the facility’s bottom line. Don’t commit crimes, some will retort. Response: those convicted of crimes, even heinous ones, are still human beings. Second response: with money a top priority in the legal profession as well, and many of those accused unable to afford decent legal representation, is anyone out there so naïve as to believe everyone imprisoned for a crime is really guilty of the crime?

An even more serious accusation against neoliberalism, though, holds that by concentrating wealth and power it enabled the wealthy to become more powerful than any government, because they could buy a servile political class. We have studies such as that of Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page showing that oligarchy is a better term for what emerges from neoliberal economics than democracy, because policy reflects what the wealthiest interests want, not the desires of the less moneyed.

Peter Turchin, whose book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration (2023) I discussed previously, argues compellingly that this kind of arrangement is destabilizing. First, it brings public immiseration. Its “wealth pump” (Turchin’s term for what I’ve called redistribution of wealth upward) throws previously prosperous populations to the wolves when, as noted, their increasingly meager wages can’t keep up with the cost of living. Second, it overproduces aspiring elites, i.e., well-educated professionals competing for a limited (or diminishing) number of well-salaried positions. This provokes resentment and eventual revolt by those sufficiently resourceful and well-positioned to become counter-elites, who turn against the system they tried to join or were once members of. They then work to undermine the system; if they are successful, the result threatens state breakdown.

These three factors in how neoliberal economics destabilizes societies are especially acute if there’s a sense among the “losers” that the “winners” cheated, that their gains are due not to genuine merit but skill in gaming the system.

Narrative Collapse.

Cultural Marxism had its Achilles heel. As late twentieth century philosopher Richard Rorty observed in his worthwhile book on the American left, Achieving Our Country (1999), and as we discussed in Part 3, it throws the proletariat to the wolves if they are white, male, straight, and Christian — Rorty, a man of the left, would never have put it that way, of course!

He all but predicted Donald Trump’s rise (pp. 89 – 91; see my attempt at a comprehensive discussion of Rorty’s views here). He foresaw the consequences of cultural Marxism’s neglect of real human beings with real economic struggles, as well as their struggles in the face of the disruption of their communities by mass migration.

The cultural narrative, that diversity is our strength, has now collapsed.

The economic narrative driving globalization — that it would make us all prosperous — also collapsed. It was clear not long after the turn of the millennium that it had done nothing of the sort, and would not do anything of the sort.

Together with financialization it was making the rich richer, and that was all you could say about it. That’s why we got an Occupy Wall Street, however impotent this movement turned out to be.

Finally, the warfare state narrative driving so-called American Exceptionalism — that the U.S. both can and should bring “democratic institutions” to the rest of world, at gunpoint if necessary, echoing Wilson’s call to keep things safe for the “rules-based liberal international order” — had collapsed.

Thus the rise of Donald Trump who despite being a complete outsider in the sense of never having held public office before, had surprisingly little trouble obtaining the GOP nomination.

Then he upset Hillary Clinton, whom the elites and “experts” favored. I don’t think Trump himself expected to win.

Trumpism is Not Liberal.

But Trumpism a not a restoration of classical liberalism.

I think it is a sign that secularized classical liberalism has run its course.

Trumpism is illiberal. Trump is a counter-elite in Turchin’s sense. What do we mean, illiberal? Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is also described using that term.

Illiberalism rejects the above narratives as delusional. It does not trust “experts” who peddle The Science (think: Tony Fauci, who lied about gain-of-function research enhancing the infectious nature of coronaviruses and over two years of lies and efforts to suppress the idea that the coronavirus that causes covid was leaked from the Chinese lab).

Illiberalism tries to expose how the decisions of the pseudo-meritocracy at the top are completely out of touch with the needs and desires of the general population.

It joins conservatism in favoring traditional opinions and practices, even if this means repealing supposed rights of, e.g., biological men to enter women’s locker rooms.

Illiberalism will turn to charismatic “strongmen” who say things like, “I can fix this!” if only because there seems no one else able to get the job done.

Hence the fear of “authoritarianism” by those totally unused to having their power questioned or being cast aside (as they were in 2016, and again in 2024).

Elites who favor the “rules-based international order” see it unraveling. They fear illiberalism. But truthfully, illiberalism is not the problem (and I fear that Trump is not a systematic enough thinker to have figured out what the real danger facing us is).

This danger, I will argue in my concluding Part 5, is that capitalism is evolving into — may have already evolved into — not socialism but what I’ll join Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek economist, author, and former Syriza Party finance minister, in calling technofeudalism. For an informal preview, go here.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4,

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In 2012 he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: the problems of the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere. The problems are problems of Western civilization as a whole.

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By Lex Greene

March 29, 2025

Early, I received information that made it appear as though the American Oversight case was filed in the SDNY court. It was in fact filed in the DC Circuit Court with the same Obama Judge already embattled with Trump over Executive Branch powers.

THE ORIGINAL CASE

THE REQUEST FOR TRO

Is TEAM Trump making a critical error in relying upon the corrupt unconstitutional Supreme Court to save his agenda from the Obama/Biden appointed lower court activist judges?

Democrat President Andrew Jackson addressed this quite well in Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832) when he reportedly responded to then Chief Justice Marshall, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”

Numerous previous Presidents have openly ignored court orders concerning court opinions related to Presidential powers, including Obama, Biden, Clinton, Bush and Reagan…in addition to Andrew Jackson and others!

“Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” – (Jefferson letter to Abigail Adams, September 11, 1804, immediately following Justice Marshall’s seizure of unbridled unelected power in our courts IN 1803.)

(NOTE: However, in truth, because every federal judge must be appointed by the Chief Executive and confirmed by Congress, both “elected” branches do indeed hold ultimate power over the Judicial Branch.)

This is an all-out war over who holds the ultimate power in the USA, as it pertains to the powers of the Oval Office.

• The duly elected President and Commander-in-Chief?
• The duly elected Congress?
• The unelected Judiciary?

In the end, YOU (the People) will decide!

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” So declared Barack Obama in Columbia, Missouri, on Oct. 30, 2008, on the cusp of his historic (fraudulent) presidential election.

This is exactly what Americans have been witnessing ever since this Obama declaration in 2008. They have used five critical tools to do it.

1. The unelectedCourts (Obama/Biden appointees)
2. The mass media they control (news and social media)
3. Academia (The Poison Ivy League and Teacher’s Unions)
4. International Money Laundering (ACT BLUE, USAID, CIA, Soros Orgs)
5. Marxist mobilization of Obama’s “citizen army” (BLM, ANTIFA, Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel)

You either believe our Constitution granted unlimited power to the only “unelected” branch of government in the country, or you don’t. You either believe in constitutional self-governance, or you don’t. Even God cannot help this Republic if YOU get this one wrong!

My personal recommendation to Trump…

1. Waltz and Wong have to go. Pick better next time!
2. You have to get back on the campaign rally trail to get in front of those who voted for you…but are fast losing faith. They are your power. You need them to defeat the very well organized, funded and mobilized enemies determined to stop you from ever Making America Great Again. Get back out with your supporters!

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By Andrew Wallace

March 29, 2025

I am writing on this subject again in greater detail, because we can never prosper in freedom while we are governed by the existing Criminal Enterprise, using income taxes against us. God bless President Trump for doing more than any other president to drain the swamp.

Without income taxes, the Criminal Enterprise loses its economic power to usurp state functions, wage no-win wars, finance Communism, and generally impoverish the people. This is an irrefutable fact, because the income tax reverses the role of the states and their federal government, giving all power to the Federal Establishment.

Contrary to the Constitution, the income tax sucks up available money, forcing the states to allow the Federal Establishment to usurp (blackmail) state functions, centralizing power and control in Washington.

Governors are complicit (blackmailed) because they need the federal benefits (services financed with federal income taxes) to meet their budget requirements, and must comply with Establishment mandates to get them.

Remember, the Federal Establishment is not a sovereign government. It is mostly a criminal enterprise masquerading as a Constitutional Republic. The states, however, are sovereign governments that created the Constitution and defined the limitations of the federal government that are being recklessly usurped today.

It is difficult to understand how income taxes alone could deprive us of the benefits of our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. I hope to accomplish this by showing you only a few of the negative effects of income taxes.

Income tax gives the Federal Establishment the money to fund and usurp functions assigned to the states in our Constitution. This results in a concentration of power in Washington. Following are only a few of the unconstitutional departments of the Establishment:

Departments of Education, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, etc

In simple terms the income tax takes an inordinate amount of money from the public, allowing the Establishment To:

1. Waste, steal and squander much of it.

2. Finance no-win wars for profit of the PSRRC (Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class) and bribe Congress.

3. Finance Communism in the cities.

4. Cause shortage of workers by paying them not to work (food stamps, housing, medical, education, etc).

5. Pay illegal invaders more than the average Social Security payment to citizens. The Constitution says any support of enemy invaders is treason.

The quality and quantity of governmental service to citizens is reduced when done by the Federal Establishment, rather than locally done by the states.

The Establishment is using income taxes to pay people not to work and many employers can’t match those “government benefits” for not working. Every dollar that does not produce goods or services increases inflation.

The unconstitutional privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank and fiat dollars allow the PSRRC and establishment to wage wars for profit and impoverish the people. Gold and silver are the only Constitutional money because they are a store of value, anti-inflationary, and can’t be printed endlessly by a machine.

FEMA is another unconstitutional agency that has used its money to support illegal invaders, rather than Americans in disaster areas. FEMA should be abolished. Its functions can be better performed by the states (why should all other states finance disaster relief for Communist California, for example?).

The “Administrative State” refers to the unelected Bureaucrats in the Establishment who think they are entitled to benefit and control everything forever, and they answer to no one in the public. The graft and corruption discovered by DOGE is eye-opening, and will continue to expose unbelievable corruption and waste.

In the Coup of 1913, we were cursed with the income tax, the privately- owned Federal Reserve Bank, and Tax-Free Foundations. Until 1913, the Establishment was funded by tariffs and excise taxes. It was a period of great growth and prosperity (except for the civil war period). Manufacturing and jobs were protected by tariffs. This has not been true since 1913, except for about 30 years after World War Two (when American Dream was operative). The PSRRC moved its factories overseas, producing unemployment and the devastation of thousands of towns and cities (now known as the rust belt). The American Dream no longer exists, together with the demise of the middle class.

Our Economic situation is really dire without a drastic Trump miracle consisting of a reduction of more than $2 trillion a year in expenses. But that will not reduce the $36 trillion debt; the interest is more than $1 trillion a year and growing (more than the defense budget!). The Establishment is now spending 40% more than it earns, and along with the debt, is an unsustainable burden that could result in a majority of the public being unemployed if enough federal employees are not terminated (a really great depression).

The only solution is to terminate the income tax and fund the Establishment with tariffs/excise taxes. The federal Establishment would have to return to its Constitutional format and terminate all unconstitutional functions to prevent financial Armageddon.

It must be noted that President Trump can terminate any unconstitutional function created by the legislature with his signature.

Only the Congress can pass laws, which means that agencies like ATF cannot write laws, much less enforce them.

By the way, the founding fathers never meant for us to live in a pure democracy, and we never did. (Democracies are impossible to maintain, and ALWAYS fail). We live in a Republic, but a Republic requires that the representatives of the people act on their behalf, honorably.

Note, many writers believe that Israel’s many evil actions from its inception to the present day have earned them the undying hatred of all Muslims. The actions of Hamas were terrible, and BRILLIANT. Hamas was willing to sacrifice their people as their only option for change. The resulting genocide has inflamed negative feelings toward Israel in the rest of the world. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion best explain the negative feelings. ( I think the Protocols are fiction). All of this makes the long-term survival of a Jewish state problematic. Our foreign aid in support of genocide is unconstitutional, stupid, venal and costly to our reputation. Many knowledgeable writers maintain that the Jewish Lobby controls our politicians and media (the public not so much).

Note, aircraft carriers are capital ships from World War Two (80 years ago) and are now very vulnerable to modern missiles. They are now placed in a combat situation. If a carrier is sunk with 5,000 sailors, we would be at war with Iran. The warmongers here and in Israel would get what they wanted.

As is my wont, I have only tickled the surface of the issues discussed to increase readership and understanding. My notes are to inform readers of important off topic events. If I incur the anger of the PSRRC and swamp by writing this, you should at least pass it on to officials and others who could benefit.

God bless you and the Republic

© 2025 Andrew Wallace – All Rights Reserved

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By: Amil Imani

March 28, 2025

The American system was founded on a simple idea: three branches of government, each with its distinct role. The president executes the law, Congress creates it, and the judiciary interprets it. However, at some point, activist judges became more than just referees; they began seeing themselves as emperors, wielding gavels like scepters and rewriting the rules to fit their desires. These black-robed radicals believe they possess more power than the president, and it’s time for conservatives to confront them as the tyrants they have become.

Consider the immigration saga under Donald Trump. In 2017, Trump issued an executive order—a travel ban targeting countries plagued by terrorism. It was bold, unapologetic, and squarely within his constitutional authority to protect national security. Then came the activist judges. Federal courts in Hawaii and Washington state blocked the order, with unelected judges like James Robart and Derrick Watson acting as armchair commander-in-chief. Their rationale? Trump’s campaign rhetoric caused hurt feelings, so the policy must be discriminatory. Forget the Constitution or the will of the voters who placed Trump in office—these judges concluded that their moral superiority outweighs executive power. The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the ban, but not before years of chaos demonstrated the reality: activist judges do not interpret the law; they create it.

Then there’s the abortion racket. For decades, Roe v. Wade stood as a symbol of judicial overreach, a 1973 decision concocted from thin air by justices who discovered a “right” to abortion lurking in the shadows of the Constitution. Fast forward to 2022, when Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health finally overturned it, returning the issue to the states. You’d think that would settle things, but activist judges aren’t finished. In states like Ohio and Michigan, lower courts have rushed to block pro-life laws, twisting state constitutions into pretzels to keep the abortion mills operational. These judges don’t care that Dobbs stripped their federal protection – they’ll concoct new rights faster than you can say “living document.” They’re not answering to voters or executives; they’re answering to Planned Parenthood and the progressive elite.

What about guns? After Trump’s ATF tried to crack down on bump stocks – those nasty little devices that turn rifles into machine guns – activist judges swooped in again. 2023, the Fifth Circuit struck down the ban, with judges like Jennifer Walker Elrod arguing that the agency had overstepped. Fair enough, except the pattern repeats: courts don’t just check the executive – they supplant it, deciding policy from the bench. Meanwhile, in blue states, judges uphold every gun control scheme the Left dreams up, ignoring Bruen (2022), where the Supreme Court demanded strict historical scrutiny. These aren’t rulings; they’re power grabs, with judges picking winners and losers based on their politics, not the Second Amendment.

The arrogance is staggering. Millions elect presidents and are accountable to the people every four years. Judges, however, are appointed for life, insulated from consequences, yet they behave as if they run the show. When Trump attempted to end DACA—Obama’s illegal amnesty-by-fiat—courts blocked him, with judges like Nicholas Garaufis in New York asserting that the move was “arbitrary.” But when Biden pushes climate edicts or vaccine mandates, activist judges support him and rubber-stamping executives overreach as long as it’s their guy. The double standard is evident, but the message is clear: these judges believe they’re above the Oval Office, holding veto power that no election can challenge.

This isn’t what the founders intended. Article III of the Constitution assigns courts a limited role: to resolve “cases” and “controversies,” not to dictate national policy. Alexander Hamilton referred to the judiciary as the “least dangerous” branch, lacking the purse of Congress or the sword of the executive. But tell that to the modern judiciary, where lifetime appointees like Ruth Bader Ginsburg (before her passing) and Sonia Sotomayor treat the bench as a progressive throne, issuing decrees that undermine tradition and sovereignty. They don’t just see themselves as ranking above the president—they consider themselves above us all.

Conservatives must take action. Demand that Senate Republicans thoroughly question judicial nominees — no more stealth activists slipping through. Advocate for term limits for federal judges; life tenure was never intended to create demigods. And when rogue judges act, governors and presidents should channel Andrew Jackson: “The court has made its decision; now let them enforce it.” The judiciary has no army – its power depends on compliance, and we don’t have to go along with it.

Activist judges aren’t the guardians of justice; they are usurpers in robes, intoxicated by their authority. They have transformed courts into super-legislatures, bypassing both presidents and voters. The Right cannot remain passive while these petty tyrants dismantle our republic. It’s time to strip the emperor’s clothes and remind them: in America, the people rule—not the gavel.

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by Rees Lloyd, Attorney (Ret)

March 28, 2025

March 29, 2025, is the 52nd Anniversary of the day in 1973 that America terminated the “U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam” — a/k/a the Vietnam War — and the day the last American troops left Vietnam for home.

March 29, 2025, is also National Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day, by Act of Congress signed into law by  President Donald J. Trump in 2017.

The Vietnam War divided the nation to an extent exceeded only by the Civil War itself.

While more than nine million Americans served when the country called them to defend the nation of South Vietnam from aggression by Communist North Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh,  anti-war demonstrations involved many thousands who condemned not only the war, but those who were sent to fight it.

This condemnation of those who served in Vietnam by those who never served, led to the nation never realizing that many of the American troops engaged in humanitarian acts unprecedented in war.

For that aspect of the Vietnam War, I respectfully refer you to the truth-telling book of Maj. Gen. Patrick Henry Brady, (Ret), Medal Of Honor recipient,  Vietnam. He is considered to be America’s most decorated living veteran.

Most recently, Gen. Brady was honored by having the main hall of the new National Medal Of Honor Museum named “Patrick Brady Hall” at the museum’s opening on March 22, 2025 in Arlington, Texas.

As a Medical Evacuation helicopter pilot in Vietnam, Gen. Brady  flew over 2,000 combat missions and rescued more than 5,000 wounded— including enemy wounded.

His enlightening book is: Dead Men Flying: Victory In Vietnam. The Legend of ‘Dust Off: America’s Battlefield Angels.”

The Vietnam War was the only war in American history in which those who served and sacrificed in defense of the country  were not welcomed home with expressions of thanks for their service.

Instead, many veterans on returning home found themselves the subjects of hate-filled attack,  accusations that they were war criminals. Publicly vilified. Shunned in other instances.  Even spat upon.

So hate-filled were the anti-war demonstrators that many troops coming home were advised by their officers not to wear their uniforms to avoid verbal attacks, or worse.

More than nine million Americans — many if not a majority of them draftees — served honorably in defense of the nation in the almost twenty years in which the nation was mired in Vietnam, from November, 1955, to April 30, 1975, when Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the Communists of North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh.

More than 58,000 thousand American troops gave their lives in the Vietnam War. More than 300,000 were wounded. No matter their personal views of the war, they responded when the country called them to serve.  In fact and in truth: “All gave some, some gave all.”

Further, it must not be forgotten that while those veterans of Vietnam served —no matter what their personal view might be of the war—so did the Blue Star families who had a loved one in service, especially the Gold Star families who had a loved one killed in service.

While the  modern liberal media is likely to ignore or minimize the importance of Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day, it should not be ignored by a grateful nation.

There will be many observances, especially by veterans, at posts of the American Legion, VFW, and other veterans organizations, which welcome the participation of non-veterans in honoring all who honorably served. Go, welcome home the Vietnam Veterans, and their families. And thank them for their service, no matter how belatedly.

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY FOREVER; SURRENDER TO TYRANNY—NEVER!

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By Donna Bleiler, edited by Kathleen Marquardt and Robert Powell

March 28, 2025

“Legislative hostility ensues over supporting “the idea” that people should not live in areas mapped as high hazard”, this through ignorance, political pandering or outright political theft of Humanities natural rights.

This fire map, map #1, is the continuing deception.

Original “Fire Map” # 2 (same as #1, . SB762 Map.

Understood or not, a vital part of the long-term UN goal is the removal of humans and thus their right to own property, through Environmental-ism (socio-communism) and continuance of the three major precepts of UNESCO education — Eugenics, Globalism & Humanism.

Reality: Beginning with the Tillamook Burn, to today there have only been a couple of major forest fires in Oregon until now. In fact, the state was doing a good job controlling forest fires. Ultimately, the deception was to gain the 1994 Wildlands Project and the resulting U.N. Environmental Program. (UNEP. That’s why the fires now. Clinton’s “Commission on Sustainable Development was to move the illegal treaty into Oregon policy – which then would be driven to all the other states. All resulting in the ultimate dystopian assault on mankind.

State Representative Vikki Breese Iverson (R-Prineville) says, “My district was deeply affected by last year’s wildfire. We need to not only repeal the wildfire maps, but we also need to undo the damage caused by these maps.” She has identified four key policy changes that are needed to begin repairing the damage:

♦ Explore every opportunity to incentivize private insurance companies to offer plans to rural Oregonians again;
♦ Offer tax relief to Oregonians who lost their homes in major wildfires and pass HB 3139;
♦ Invoke state coordination to improve federal forest planning; and
♦ Return management control of our millions of acres of federal forest land to state and local governments (LC 4525).

Point of order, President Biden signed Executive Order 14008, on January 27, 2021, engaging 30 X 30, the overt removal of humanity from 30% of the land in the U.S. Oregon Senate Bill 762 was brought into session February 28, 2021.” Coincidence? Nope.

SB 762 passed creating an updated wildfire program, which has opened a backdoor effort to prevent people from living in rural areas. This bill included one extremely controversial requirement – the establishment of a statewide wildfire risk map used to regulate people’s properties. Samantha Bayer exposes how legislative bills SB 79, SB 78, SB 77 and SB 73 are attacks on rural Oregon’s right to exist. Bayer also points out the legislators’ hostility. This map below, is the original 1994 ”Wildlands Project Map”.

The idea that people should not be allowed to live in areas mapped as high hazard is a threat against rural Oregonians property rights. The continuum of the pressures is an overt sign of the intent, which is in fact the deconstruction of human activities over the United States, and the western state are the opening battle grounds.

Representative Paul Evens (D-Monmouth) put his hostility in writing bulling the Greater Idaho Movement, which will further the demise of rural Oregon. He writes: “For the counties asking for assistance in capital construction funding for repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of county courthouses and justice facilities, I have suggested that we prioritize funding for counties that intend to remain a part of Oregon for the duration.”

This discussion outlines the “Biodiversity Treaty” rejected by the U.S. Senate because it included the “Wildlands Project”. This illustrated where people in Oregon would no longer be allowed to own property. This is also occurring across this great land via agency deception.

During testimony in 2021, Robert Powell, an avid researcher, exposed the connection of mapping to the Rockefeller Foundation, which also established a Globally intended environment-related program in 1969.

In 1970, the United States was divided into 10 regions, with offices. Months after, the United States established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Both are part of the bigger plan of private property removal.

In 1973, the Rockefeller Foundation gave $500,000 to Oregon State University to create a report, “Man and his activities as they relate to environmental quality.” This report was based on the 1971 UN General Assembly Resolution 2581. The resolution came from the UN “Stockholm Declaration”. “Rights and obligations of citizens and governments with regard to the preservation and improvement of the human environment”, but the citizens are considered nothing but biological resources.

Out of the OSU language manipulation of the original declaration, a report became legislation SB 100, passed in 1973, which created an institutional structure for statewide planning. It required every Oregon city and county to prepare a comprehensive plan in accordance with a set of general state goals while preserving the principle of local responsibility for land-use decisions.

It included setting up an NGO,1000 Friends of Oregon, to deal with opposition from Oregonians aware they were being deceived. And deceived they were. Under cover came the “Wildlands Project”, and when the UN Biodiversity treaty failed at the Rio Accord, they changed the name to “Commission on Sustainable Development” that is openly visible in SB 79. This was blatant usurpation of Senatorial duties in Treaty arena.

Point of order, President Biden signed 14008, on January 27, 2021. Engaging 30 X 30. Oregon Senate Bill 762 was brought into session February 28, 2021 fully written. Coincidence? Nope.

Then along came SB 762 and the # 2 fire map that enhanced that enhanced the exposure of the Rockefeller’s donation to OSU, to further the UN’s goal removing 30% of humans from the world.

Biden followed with his 30 x 30 Executive Order 14008 dated January 27, 2021, which was providentially revoked by Executive Order 14148 and 14154, January 20, 2025, by President Trump. However, the revocation has not stopped the Democrat leadership in Oregon from pursuing SB 79 and like bills.

Oregonians need to recognize that the surface explanation for mapping has nothing to do with convenience, insurance, or safety. Up until the time President Trump took office, there have been many intentional attempts to remove citizens from their land with fires and floods – Maui, North Carolina, Tennessee, Los Angeles, and they will continue until forced to stop.

We all remember the Bundy standoff to protect ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond’s right to graze their cattle on public lands and protect their property from an out-of-control Fed. Oregon’s loose enforcement has allowed back-burns to get out of control, blaming climate change. Like LA, ignorance is clearly not bliss.

When Global warming became unprovable, the name was replaced with Climate Change but the plan remained the same —to deconstruct the world. In 2022, the Rockefeller Foundation announced that it would make the fight against climate change central to all of its work. At the same time, Governor Kate Brown took significant executive action to address the climate crisis, and Oregon adopted a revised Climate Protection Program in November 2024. Oregon property owners will need to diligently follow this legislature and respond accordingly, by following Oregon Citizens Lobby Alerts. Donna Bleiler writes for the Northwest Observer, works on the Oregon Citizens Lobby Alerts, and is State Coordinator for Oregon Abigail Adams Voters Project.

[BIO: Donna Bleiler writes for the Northwest Observer, works on the Oregon Citizens Lobby Alerts, and is State Coordinator for Oregon Abigail Adams Voters Project. Article has been updated by Robert Powell and Kathleen Marquardt to include more specific information.

Robert Powell, American Policy Center “Freedom Pod” coordinator in Oregon, and Kathleen Marquardt assisted with historical and correlative research. He researched and built the following PowerPoint and provided to the Oregon Legislative Body now 15 years ago.]

Climate link:

[Editor’s note: Oregon was the first state to adopt Agenda 21, thus is\has been replacing good governance with Sustainable Development throughout the entire government, including our failing “Education for Sustainability”.

This article explains the long-obscured objective of the Rockefeller Foundations $500,000.00 gift to Oregon State University, is exposed by SB79 (noted above).

Article has been updated by Robert Powell and Kathleen Marquardt to include more specific information. There are currently three maps: two fire maps, and the map used in the 1994 Congress hearings that ended with rejection of the UN Biodiversity Treaty because of the findings hidden within.

© 2025 Donna Bleiler – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kathleen Marquardt: koikpm@yahoo.com

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 27, 2025

“Political liberty exists only when there is no abuse of power. But all experience proves that every man with power is led to abuse it.”

Benjamin Franklin – “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

In Sam Jone’s new book, Five Steps to Kill a Nation, he forcefully argues that a republic cannot stand without a citizenry of moral and virtuous people guiding the cultural mores and checking the public servants when they stray from the principles upon which these United States were formed. These citizens must have a common and objective ethical standard on which to base their shared lives and prosperity.

Back in 1776, America consisted of a majority of farmers, ranchers, sheep herders, homesteaders, cattle and horses. If you farmed, you worked hard for your living and for your life. You learned common sense with each mistake you made while growing up. If you left the gate open to the pasture, the cows got out, and it took you an hour to round them up for milking. If you don’t keep the barn manure shoveled out, you can just about die from the smell.

Today, most Americans live in cities. They do not learn common sense, critical thinking and/or standards. Over 60 percent cannot perform reading or mathematics to the 8th grade level. Few comprehend a “hard day’s work.” Students today suffer “text neck” from bending down over their cell phones for four to six hours a day.

In the past four years, with the last president, ah, I forgot his name…because he forgot his name…we lowered standards, lost critical thinking, forgot “reason”, and abandoned “common sense.” The results exploded in the crime rates, drug overdose deaths, suicides into the thousands, shoplifting into the billions of dollars, stolen cars, thievery of all kinds, illiteracy exploding and another dozen problems. We lost the “rule of law” and allowed an invasion of our country like nothing ever before in history.

In place of critical thinking, politicians spun “political correctness” into WOKE, D.E.I., C.R.T., Transgenderism, men competing against women in women’s sports, affirmative grading, and allowing men to pretend they were women by “identifying” as women.

American Thinker writer Robert Smith wrote, “In our dawning Era of Common Sense, here’s some common sense. If you unchain junkyard dogs, you better be sure they won’t bite you in the rear. Democrats are being bitten in their collective behind lately. Not just once but repeatedly. Siccing DEI and woke dogs on folks — those not them — is turning on them. [Dems are being devoured by their own kind.]”

Smith continued, “In today’s hip, urban, dwindling Democrat Party, the dumb and untalented have been promoted while the best and brightest take back seats.”

Talk about a loss of standards! Let’s bring a national initiative to obliterate D.E.I. before America seriously declines into chaos.

You must ask yourself how did half the country vote for someone like Kamala Harris whose only qualification for the Vice Presidency showed up as “female and a person of color”? If she did reach the White House with such qualifications, it would have been a continuation of Biden’s Alzheimer’s Disease, incompetence and “someone” telling her how to run our country.

Let’s face it, “DEI dictates that only the most superficial qualities possessed by humans’ count. The focus is on skin color, gender, and fashionable sexual preferences. In practice, leaning on those superficialities has ruinous consequences. Innocents suffer, but now, so do Democrats.”

What really happened with that helicopter and airliner crashing at Reagan National Airport? Was it D.E.I.? What are the bets we’ll never be told the truth.

Let’s face it: Joe Biden followed his figurehead presidency by following his wife…because the fact remains…Biden didn’t know which way to exit the stage let alone any knowledge about the correct day of the week.

Common sense would tell you that we cannot not tolerate men who think they are women in our military. We need ‘TOXIC MALES’ in all our military branches to go out and kill the enemy. We don’t need guys in dresses “dancing” with the enemy.

Common sense dictates that we need a man like Elon Musk to cull the enormous amount of theft out of the taxpayers’ largess. And yet, when he brings his genius to discovering all the covert thievery, the liberal masses scream, cry, blow up Tesla dealerships, key Tesla cars, and make a mockery out of “law and order.”

MILKING THE GOLDEN COW TO OUR UTTER DISASTER

Smith added, “That doesn’t sit well with the progressive walking dead — from D.C. lifers to academics to corporate welfare-ists to grudging bureaucrats to 159-year-olds in Social Security’s database to rainbow-hued minions. USAID is more than a boondoggle. It’s emblematic of the extensive money laundering done in Washington. It lines pockets and is used to spread woke’s warped gospel across the world. Saving the planet comes in a distant second to keeping the federal milk cows pumping milk. Let the arrests roll across the fruited plain like thunderclaps.”

TALK ABOUT WOKE DISASTERS ACROSS THE BOARD

The latest “Woke” disaster, Snow White, budgeted at an estimated $250 million, but pulled-in only $43 million last weekend, may prove the tip of Mariana Trench in terms of woke and DEI folly. You can’t keep pushing men pretending to be women on Bud Light beer cans, or creating movies that do not jive with America’s culture and mores.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Hank Johnson (D-GA), and Jasmine Crockett (D for dumb) appear to be the next leading “WOKE” Congressional critters. Too bad all of them couldn’t pass an 8th grade math test or write a decent sentence. If any of them gain more power, they will trash the U.S. Constitution.

While in office, democrats lower every standard to a point that there are no standards. Do you think that’s any way to run a country?

“Whether it’s a sheepskin in law or Third World pottery, either opens doors to the oppressed,” said Smith. “Plagiarizing research is winked at if you fit certain categories. Ask Biden! Plagiarists are just striving to overcome historical injustices. Bullying Jewish kids on campus is okay. Hate speech is free speech, though when it leads to thuggery, well, it’s still labeled free speech. Campus nannies turn blind eyes.”

In the end, at least for this moment in time, enough educated/common sense Americans rejected the stupidities of “WOKE” and the rest of Democrats’ non-productive platforms. You rejected an unqualified female candidate for president. How would any of us have ever survived her snarky laughter for another four years? You rejected our country from being invaded. You chose the “rule of law” over the insanity of letting thieves walk off with $900.00 in goods with no penalty. You rejected giving illegal invaders free hotels, food and medical care. You rejected endless drugs killing your children from overdoses. You rejected shoplifting by throwing the little thieves in jail for long periods of time.

Let’s face, Donald J. Trump broke the wildfire of stupidities engulfing our nation in a mind-bending conflagration for the past four years. Today, we actually know who stands at the helm of the United States of America in 2025. He’s already gutting the stupidities of D.E.I., which in itself is racist, unfair, stupid and unethical. When it comes to jobs like air traffic controllers, airplane pilots, doctors, nurses and the like, it’s downright deadly. He’s got the most brilliant mind on Earth digging into U.S. AID’s fraud, cheating, lying and criminal financial activities on a scale unheard of in human history.

At some point in the next four years, we must “right the ship” of America. We must demand standards, common sense, ethical actions, and honest leadership by competent people in the Oval Office. We citizens want to know that our handywork and our taxes are spent to keep our streets safe, keep our borders secure, no more dangerous drugs in our schools, and some eggs in our supermarket coolers. We want our schools to teach our kids to read, write, work math, work computers, biology, history, health, sports and becoming a contributing American citizen via every kid’s personal accountability and personal responsibility. Let’s be proud of America and teach that pride to our kids. Let’s send the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens back to their own countries to solve their own problems in their countries.

We’ve earned citizenship as Americans whether we are plumbers, nurses, truck drivers, teachers, doctors, handymen, electricians, janitors, cashiers, construction workers, sewer cleaners, burger flippers or pizza delivery boys/girls. All those thousands of jobs that make America great are worked by Americans who make America viable.

We want ourselves and our children to “Live the American Dream.” That means a fair shake by our elected officials. It means honesty, integrity and common sense. It means that Democrats need to get off their fat rear-ends, quit whining and support what most of us want—love of our country, our future, our way of life, our kids, our freedoms, our educational systems, our police, our firefighters, and everything that makes our country the single greatest civilization, ever, on the face of the planet.

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” Mark Twain

© 2025 Frosty Wooldridge – All Rights Reserved

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By Coach Dave Daubenmire

March 27, 2025

I suppose it is dangerous to write about this topic…seeing how the idea of “judging” is no longer kosher in American Christianity.  In fact, “Judge not”, a partial statement taken out of context by many American Christians, is the modern command of those practicing modern soft American Evangelical Christianity.

An all-loving, never-angry Christian God has been adopted by many American pulpits as TRUTH languishes in the streets waiting for some brave pulpiteer to re-introduce to our American society a sin-hating, justice loving King of Kings.

For those of you who might be wondering Jesus actually upped the ante on judging. Far from banishing judgement he made it personal. The JUDGE NOT Christians fail to tell you the whole story. He made it personal regarding our own behavior,

Here is what the ONE who died for our sins actually said regarding judgement.

“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

The admonition of Jesus was not to stop judging…but to stop judging hypocritically. Once you clean up your own life then you can effectively clean up the life of another man. Do not criticize someone for exhibiting the same behaviors in which you are engaging.  We can only see clearly after seeing the inconsistencies in our own lives.

Come on now…what kind of person does not judge? Our entire existence is based on judgements…should I…shouldn’t I…will I…won’t I…when, where, why, why not.  It is impossible to live without making judgment calls.

The Bible teaches that Jesus is the Judge. In fact, the Book of Revelation teaches us that we will ALL have a Judgement Day.

 ^“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”

Stay with me here. Have you ever been in a court room? Court is a place where evidence is presented before a JUDGE who has the power to pronounce a JUDGEMENT based on the evidence presented.  Hence, THE BOOKS referenced in the above Scripture contain the EVIDENCE that will be presented to the Judge. The JUDGE will pronounce guilt or innocence after reviewing the evidence (books).

Sooo…the Christians’ roll is one of a WITNESS.  The job of the witness is to testify to the veracity of the evidence. A witness does not JUDGE, a witness TESTIFYS! Testifying is not JUDGING. Testifying is BEARING WITNESS regarding the evidence. EYEwitness is the most credible testimony in a courtroom.

America is in a mess today, not because of the lack of JUDGES, but because of the lack of WITNESSES! EVERY Believer is called to testify…be a witness…to the Truth of God’s Word. Testifying is not JUDGING. TESTIFYING is presenting EVIDENCE of the TRUTH of what God’s laws say.

Matthew 22:36  “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Pointing out that a person’s behavior is wrong is not being judgmental. It is one of the greatest forms of love. I often hear people say that we should “share the Truth in love.”  My friends, sharing the TRUTH regarding harmful, sinful behavior IS love. It is the BEHAVIOR that is sin. We have a duty to point it out.

James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Pointing out sinful behavior is TRAINING. The Scriptures tell us to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  Training requires direction, correction, and discipline. It is SO important that the Bible tells us “whom the Lord loves He disciplines…

Saying “NO” to immoral behavior was God’s idea. If we love our family and friends, then we will tell them the TRUTH.

Truth often sounds and feels like HATE. Testify to the Truth.  It may leave a mark.

But only the TRUTH can make one free.

© 2025 Dave Daubenmire – All Rights Reserved

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By Paul Engel

March 26, 2025

• What is the proper remedy to past discrimination?
• Is it present discrimination, as Ibriam Kendi says?
• Or is reverse discrimination just as evil as the discrimination it claims to remedy?

Ibriam Kendi is often quoted as saying “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” Is that true? Above the main entrance to the Supreme Court is a promise chiseled into the marble façade: “equal justice under law”. How can we have equal justice under law if one side is always discriminating against another?

Enter the case of Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services, where Marlean Ames claims she was discriminated in her job because of her sexual orientation. What makes this case uniques is Ms. Ames is heterosexual, and the Sixth Circuit claimed that meant she had a higher burden of proof than a homosexual.

Arguments for Mr. Wang for the Petitioner

We start with oral arguments from Mr. Xiao Wang, attorney for Ms. Ames. Mr. Wang begins by describing the situation that led to the lawsuit.

1. WANG: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:

Marlean Ames has worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services for over two decades, and in 2018, her year-end performance review described her as being very competent in her — in her role, a pleasure to have on the team, and always willing to assist others.

But, in 2019, she experienced two adverse employment actions. First, she sought a promotion to Bureau Chief for which she was qualified, for which she applied, and for which she interviewed. But neither she nor the two other heterosexual employees who applied and interviewed got the job. Instead, the job was held open for eight months before going to a gay employee who neither applied nor interviewed for the position.

And second, Ms. Ames lost the job that she was in, and she lost it and was replaced by another gay employee who also did not apply or interview for the position.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

The situation described by Mr. Wang certainly does seem to show discrimination. First, three heterosexual applicants for a job are denied, then the job is left open for months until a homosexual employee was given the job, even though they never applied nor interviewed for the position. Then Ms. Ames lost a job for which she had been given excellent performance reviews, only to have the vacancy filled by yet another homosexual person who neither applied nor was interviewed for the position. Seems pretty cut and dried, both to me and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Based on these facts, the Sixth Circuit held that Ms. Ames had satisfied the usual requirements for stating a — for stating a prima facie case of discrimination under Title VII, but she could not proceed because of the background circumstances rule, which the Sixth Circuit described as an additional showing unique to majority-group plaintiffs.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Wait, Ms. Ames stated a prima facie case of discrimination (A fact presumed to be true unless it is disproved. — The Free Legal Dictionary), but because she wasn’t a minority, she needed to prove more?

The narrow question before the Court today is whether this judge-made rule is consistent with Title VII. And we submit that it is not. It’s not because this Court has said that Title VII aims to eradicate all discrimination in the workplace.

But the background circumstances rule doesn’t do that. It doesn’t eradicate discrimination; it instructs courts to practice it by sorting individuals into majority and minority groups based on their race, their sex, or their protected characteristic, and applying a categorical evidentiary presumption not in favor of but against the non-moving party based solely on their being in a majority group, however you define it.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Title VII was created to get rid of discrimination, yet this “background circumstances rule,” something made up by courts and is not law, actually tells the court to discriminate? Again, this is not based on a law passed by Congress, but by a “rule” established by one or more judges, in violation of the law.

But that’s not consistent with the statute that tells us that we are supposed to protect all individuals from individual discrimination based on the individual case. And it’s not consistent with McDonald versus Santa Fe Trail, where this Court says that all individuals, whether in majority or minority groups, are protected by Title VII under the same terms and the same standards.

For these reasons, we urge the Court to reverse the judgment of the Sixth Circuit.

I welcome the Court’s questions.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Questions for Mr. Wang

It took no time at all for the justices to start their questions. Justice Thomas starts off with a question about precedent.

JUSTICE THOMAS: What do you do with Respondent’s argument that this is merely an application of our precedents?

1. WANG: I don’t think it is an application of this Court’s precedents, Your Honor, and — and, Justice Thomas, it’s because this Court’s precedents in McDonnell Douglas lays out a framework, and then McDonald versus Santa Fe Trail says they apply to the same terms and same standards.

But the background circumstances rule isn’t the same term. It’s not the same standard. The Sixth Circuit says it’s an additional burden. And in prior cases, it says it’s a difficult and more demanding burden on majority-group plaintiffs. So I don’t think it’s consistent with this Court’s precedents.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

So Mr. Wang doesn’t think the Sixth Circuit’s decision followed Supreme Court precedent by adding the greater burden to majority-group plaintiffs. Next, Chief Justice Roberts puts the question in another context.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: What if you have a situation where, say, 60 employees in the company, say, you know, a half dozen African Americans, an African American is — applies for a job, there’s an opening, he doesn’t get it, it remains open for, you know, a couple of months?

Does that satisfy the prima facie case if he said it was because of discrimination?

1. WANG: Assuming that they are qualified and —

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

1. WANG: Yes.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Okay. Now — I’m sorry. Is that — that’s a yes?

1. WANG: Yes, that — that — that is true.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Okay. Now let’s say it’s the same thing, but the applicant is white, exactly the same facts, and she says: I was discriminated — I lost the job because of discrimination on the basis of race. Does that start — state a prima facie case?

1. WANG: I think it states a prima facie case, but I think it goes in — perhaps, Your Honor, it goes to the idea of getting employers to come forward with an explanation and then providing sort of a legitimate non-discriminatory reason, which I don’t think is a high burden at all. I think, as Reeves, as Burdine, as Furnco have made clear, they just have to provide some sort of legitimate non-discriminatory reason to answer or to rebut the prima facie case.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

So what appears to be an obvious case of discrimination can be stopped if the employer simply shows there was a non-discriminatory reason for the action.

Justice Barrett dealt with a claim that, should the court agree with petitioner, it would open almost any case where someone did not get a job to claims of discrimination.

JUSTICE BARRETT: Counsel, what do you have to say to the Department’s contention that this is just going to throw the door wide open to Title VII suits because now everybody can say, hey, this was discrimination on the basis of race, gender, et cetera?

1. WANG: Well, I don’t think that contention is well taken, Justice Barrett, and for two reasons. The first is this is an evidentiary question that arises at summary judgment. So they’ve already have gotten past a discussion with EEOC, plausibility under Iqbal and Twombly, a motion to dismiss. So I think, if there were a floodgate issue, that would be sort of more — more on the pleading standards.

I think the second point is — is merely sort of an empirical question. And, as we lay out and as Judge Kethledge lays out in his concurrence, about more than half the circuits don’t apply the background circumstances rule. We don’t see those circuits having some sort of flood of litigation.

And I don’t think there’s a huge delta between those circuits that apply it and — and those circuits that don’t apply it, which I think goes to the narrow question that’s before the Court today.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Other circuits do not use the “background circumstances rule,” and they do not have a problem. Neither does the EEOC. So there’s no reason to believe removing the rule from all circuits would make much of a difference.

Justice Kavanaugh wanted to know what Mr. Wang wanted from the court.

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: So — so all you want for this case is a really short opinion that says discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, whether it’s because you’re gay or because you’re straight, is prohibited, and the rules are the same whichever way that goes?

1. WANG: That — that’s right, Your Honor. And I —

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: That’s all we need to say, right?

1. WANG: I — I think that would be something — well, I think you’d also have to say reverse or vacate.

(Laughter.)

1. WANG: I want to look out for my client here a little bit.

But — but, certainly, as to the reasoning, yes, I — I entirely agree. I think that this is a narrow question, and it’s a question of is there an added burden.

And — and if the answer, I think, under McDonnell and under Title VII’s text is no, then — then this goes back to — to the lower courts to resolve.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

A simple ask of the court: Make sure that every case before the court is treated the same, regardless of whether they are part of some “protected class” or not.

Arguments of Ashley Robertson, as Amicus Curiae

Ms. Robertson, Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States offered her arguments in support of vacating the lower court decision.

1. ROBERTSON: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:

The court of appeals applied a different and more difficult standard to Petitioner because it considered her a member of the majority, but Title VII draws no distinctions between plaintiffs based on their race, religion, sex, or other protected characteristic.

That alone is reason to vacate the decision below, that the Sixth Circuit’s test would have been wrong if applied even-handedly.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Ms. Robertson gets right to the point. While the court of appeals applied a standard, it was not based on the law, but their own apparent desire to discriminate against what they see as the majority. That alone should be enough to vacate their decision.

But Ms. Robertson goes further, claiming that, even if the court had applied their test even-handedly, it would have been wrong.

The Court required evidence, reason to suspect an employer usually discriminates against a group, that the statute does not, and it required more evidence to make out a prima facie case than this Court has held is necessary, including in McDonnell Douglas itself.

That heightened standard risks screening out cases with merit and complicates litigation by focusing on whether to shift a burden of production that Ohio had already met in this case.

The Court should vacate and remand for the court of appeals to apply the proper standards in the first instance, including to consider Ohio’s alternative arguments for why summary judgment might still be proper.

I welcome the Court’s questions.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

The goal of the court should not be to screen out cases which may have merit, especially because of some “protected class”.

In response to a question from Justice Jackson, Ms. Robertson brings up an interesting point. Does a lack of evidence of discrimination against a group mean there cannot be discrimination against an individual?

So what the Sixth Circuit did here, for instance, by asking for a reason to think that an employer usually discriminates against a group, requires evidence that a plaintiff wouldn’t need to establish liability under the statute because, of course, even if an employer generally treats a group well, if a plaintiff has evidence that the employer discriminated against her, she should be able to proceed.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Later, in response to a question from Justice Alito, Ms. Robertson pointed out how she believes the Sixth Circuit got it wrong.

1. ROBERTSON: I think it’s important to distinguish between two ways that a court might take race into account. The first is the way that the Sixth Circuit did, which is tell me your race and I will tell you how much evidence you need to — to produce, or you’ll — or I’ll apply a different standard. That would be wrong at any stage in the proceeding.

JUSTICE ALITO: Okay.

1. ROBERTSON: That’s not to say that race is irrelevant in a race discrimination case or that sex is irrelevant in a sex discrimination place. …

Second, courts can consider a plaintiff’s identity to help them draw inferences from the evidence in the record. So comments that look neutral in a vacuum might take on a different valence when directed at a certain group.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

In other words, it’s not that race doesn’t matter in discrimination cases, but that your burden of proof should not be based on race, sex, or any other grouping.

1. Elliot Gaiser, Solicitor General of Ohio, for the Respondents

The final attorney to speak was Mr. T. Elliot Gaiser, Solicitor General for the State of Ohio. As you might expect, Ohio sees the facts of the case differently.

1. GAISER: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:

Ohio agrees it is wrong to hold some litigants to a higher standard because of their protected characteristics. But that is not what happened in this case.

When Governor DeWine took office in January 2019 and appointed a new cabinet-level director of the Ohio Department of Youth Services, the state’s juvenile corrections system, Petitioner was an unclassified civil servant, effectively an at-will political appointee.

She claims the Department took two adverse actions against her in the first five months of the administration, denying her a promotion and demoting her because of her sexual orientation.

But, after discovery, she could not establish that anybody was motivated by sexual orientation or even knew her sexual orientation, nor the orientation of the unclassified political appointees, Ms. Frierson and Mr. Stojsavljevic, that she points to as comparators.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Wait a second. Doesn’t the premise of a “majority group” include the assumption of membership in that group unless there is evidence to the contrary? Wouldn’t it be the assumption that Ms. Ames, Ms. Frierson, and Mr. Stojsavlijevic are heterosexual?

In other words, she failed to make out a prima facie case under the first step of McDonnell Douglas that should apply to every Title VII plaintiff. She didn’t provide evidence that, to quote Furnco, “if otherwise unexplained, raises an inference of discrimination.”

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

I suppose that would be true, if the people who were chosen to fill these two positions had applied for the job like the others, had interviewed for the job like the others, and were at least as qualified as the others. Then again, since neither person applied for the job, why were they chosen? One distinguishing factor is their sexual orientation. And since the fundamental assumption of majority groups is that most people are part of them, that seems to be a prime facia case to me.

Whether that evidentiary standard is framed as background circumstances, as in Parker, or circumstances which give rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination, as in Burdine, this Court has said a prima facie case under Title VII must be complete enough for the court to enter judgment for the plaintiff before the burden shifts to the employer.

Because the best reading of the Sixth Circuit judgment applies that standard, this Court should affirm.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Remember this statement, because it will become very important during the justices’ questioning.

If this Court nevertheless holds Petitioner made out a prima facie case on these facts, then McDonnell Douglas has effectively two prongs, and the Court will have made Title VII that unusual statute that presumes liability for employers and swallows what remains of at-will employment.

I welcome the Court’s questions.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

That seems to be the logic of Mr. Gaiser’s argument is we got the answer we want, so please don’t overturn it. During questioning, I think Mr. Gaiser really stepped in it when he answered a question from Justice Kagan

JUSTICE KAGAN: Mr. Gaiser, I mean, you can say, well, there’s language. I mean, I think that that’s the absolutely critical language in this opinion. Because Ames is heterosexual, she must make a showing in addition to the usual ones for establishing a prima facie case.

And then it says, you know, Ames’s prima facie case would have been easy to make had she belonged to the relevant minority group, here, gay people.

So, I mean, this is what the Court did.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

The Sixth Circuit Court clearly stated that Ms. Ames’ case would have been easily made if she were part of the relevant minority class. Meaning, because she was not gay, she had a higher burden to prove her case had merit. This is where Mr. Gaiser had to back-peddle.

1. GAISER: Well, and we can’t retreat from what the Court here said, but we think the best way to construe that language is consistent. But, nevertheless, I think that —

JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, the best way to construe that language is, like, as the language says.

1. GAISER: Well, Justice Kagan, yes, the Court said what it said. The important point is the prima facie step this Court has laid out needs to be complete enough before the employer has any burden under Title VII to show an inference of discrimination.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

So according to Mr. Gaiser, the question before the court, if the Sixth Circuit erred, doesn’t matter. When the Sixth Circuit denied to review the case, even though they admitted Ms. Ames had made her prima facia case because she was heterosexual, is not the point. So, did she make the prima facia case? The court clearly stated she did.

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: You — you agree that those passages are wrong?

1. GAISER: We’re not defending the exact language there. This — this per curiam, we asked for oral —

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

So let me get this right. Ohio is defending the case, but not the language the court used in the case? I’ve heard this before, from my own lips, but this is a different situation.

JUSTICE KAGAN: I mean, the exact language or you’re defending something like that language? I — I mean, it’s a little bit of a peculiar situation, isn’t it, because this is what the court said. And you’re up here, and I don’t know exactly what to make of this, that — are — do you think that that’s right, or do you think that it’s wrong?

1. GAISER: I think the idea that you hold people to different standards because of their protected characteristics is wrong. And if there’s any upshot from this case, let reverse discrimination completely fall out of the Federal Reporter.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

If the State of Ohio believes reverse discrimination is wrong, why are they fighting to prevent a case about reverse discrimination from continuing? I agree this argument just doesn’t make sense.

JUSTICE KAGAN: — I — I — I guess my reaction to a lot of what you’re saying is this: You say you agree with your friends on the question that we took this case to decide. The question presented is whether a majority-group plaintiff has to show something more than a minority-group plaintiff, here, whether a straight person has to show more than a gay person. Everybody over here says no. You say no too. That was the question that we took the case to decide.

And now you’re asking us to opine on various other aspects of how the McDonnell Douglas test works, what we should think of the first step as doing, then what we should think of the second and third steps as doing, that are, you know, really not intertwined at all with that question.

Whatever McDonnell Douglas does, it does for majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs alike is all that we have to say. Why shouldn’t we approach the case in that way?

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

And attorneys wonder why people hate them. Here you have a simple question presented to the court.

Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show “background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.”

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari

A question where all the parties to the case agree the answer should be no, but Mr. Gaiser, representing the State of Ohio, doesn’t want reversed? This idea of the ends justifying the means is what so many American find disgusting about the legal profession.

1. GAISER: Well, I think there are two responses to that, Justice Kagan.

First of all, while we all agree that everyone should be treated equally, we don’t agree about what that prima facie step actually looks like when we do that.

JUSTICE KAGAN: Yes, I know. That’s exactly what my — my — my point is. But that’s — that’s — that’s orthogonal to the question we took. So, I mean, why would we use this case, which is about the — whether a majority-group plaintiff has an extra burden, to opine on a range of things that have nothing to do with that question?

1. GAISER: Well, so what the Sixth Circuit did here, that’s — this is my second reason, Justice Kagan, if the first one doesn’t satisfy you — is exactly what we think every court should do: ask for enough evidence to raise an inference of discrimination.

And simply going through those four prongs, copy/pasting McDonnell Douglas with subbing out racial minority for any particular protected group, doesn’t do that. It doesn’t satisfy what this Court said in Reeves and Burdine in Footnote 6 and 7.

And so our thought is the Court should still affirm because what the Sixth Circuit’s judgment did here is what we ask every court to do at the first step of McDonnell Douglas even if we agree that’s saying that an additional burden is a mischaracterization of what this Court has said in the past.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

In short, we agree that the Circuit Court should not have dropped the case because it is unfair, but the State of Ohio doesn’t want the Supreme Court to reverse, because Ms. Ames hasn’t made the case that she has not had a chance to argue yet.

I’m sorry, but I find Mr. Gaiser’s argument disgusting.

Mr. Wang’s Rebuttal

Since Mr. Wang represents the petitioner, and therefore argued first, he gets a chance to rebut the other arguments.

1. WANG: Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice. I’ll be very brief.

I — I just want to conclude, I think, with several members of the Court have talked about this theme, and it’s actually something that — that my co-counsel, Mr. Gilbert, and I talked about when entering the Court this morning, which is, I think, what this case is all about, and those are the four words on the side of this building: equal justice under law, equal justice under law.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

“Equal justice under law.” Is that too much to ask from the Supreme Court? Was it too much to ask the Circuit, or even the District courts? If everyone agrees that should be the goal, then why is the State of Ohio fighting so hard against it?

Now I know that sometimes we don’t fulfill that promise. I understand that. But, at the heart of this case, at bottom, all Ms. Ames is asking for is equal justice under law. Not more justice, not more justice, but certainly not less and certainly not less because of the color of her skin or because of her sex or because of her religion.

We’re simply asking for equal justice under law because I think that’s what Title VII says, and I think that’s consistent with what this Court has held in numerous cases, and it’s consistent with Congress’ intent in passing a civil rights law to protect the civil rights of all Americans.

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services – Oral Arguments

Conclusion

As those words on the facade of the Supreme Court state, equal justice under law. Is that too much to ask? Is it too much to be judged on the merits of the case, rather than the color of someone’s skin or their sexual preferences?

I know it’s the job of an attorney to represent his client to the best of his abilities, which makes me wonder how someone like T. Elliot Gaiser could argue such a case. How can you claim “we all agree that everyone should be treated equally,” yet oppose a decision to treat all people equally? If, as Mr. Gaiser claimed in court, Ms. Ames did not present a prima facia case, a claim flatly denied by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, then let her have her day in court and show she is wrong.

Personally, I don’t know how someone could look at the facts of the case and not see the strong possibility, even the prima facia case, of discrimination. Then again, I’m not an attorney, I’ve never played one on TV, and even if I had, I hope I would never sell my soul to argue against such injustice.

© 2025 Paul Engel – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Paul Engel: paul@constitutionstudy.com

By Kat Stansell

March 26, 2025

RFK, Jr.’s cousin, John F. Kennedy, Jr. called out Biden as a “traitor” in 1994 in a letter found among the FBI’s Washington DC, field office. John-John’s plane went down in 1999. This was the most revealing part of the recent “reveal”, to me anyway. Bar none.

If you’ll remember (or, if you’ve read of it) the slain President John F. Kennedy’s son’s plane “came down”, in the Martha’s vineyard area in 1999, killing the President’s son, wife and her sister. The official cause? “Spatial disorientation” from flying at night, or so said the NTSB, which even then apparently didn’t need DEI to be a Deep State tool. The press of the day hustled to say that John., Jr. was an amateur pilot, etc., etc.

Rumors had been circling that the young man, “John John”, was thinking of running for the Senate in 2000. The world’s memory of him, saluting his father’s casket as the horse-drawn caisson bore the slain President through the streets of DC to his final resting place, made a powerful spring-board to election.

After John-John’s death, Hillary Clinton was elected to that same Senate seat in NY. Remember when she suddenly moved there? Lots of us still do.

Just as Oswald was murdered before he could talk, so has killing anyone who gets in the way of the Globalists become a deadly pattern. Even Oswald’s killer was immediately taken out. There have been many more. I’m sure. Hillary’s list will always haunt me.

Now, it becomes easier to understand the strange handling of the supposed “lone gunman” in Butler, PA who was shot and left to rot on a rooftop before his body was hauled off. Somehow the attending officials left things as vague as possible (social media accounts, foreign connections, appearances in Black Rock commercials, guns owned and their sources, parents hiding/protected from involvement, etc., etc.). Then, the subject of an attempted assassination of a former and possibly future President, was just dropped.

The deadly pattern was to have continued, of course, with the murder of Donald Trump on July 14, 2024, but God interfered. I will believe that always.

In August, 2024, RFK, Jr., our current Secretary of Health and Human Services, son of JFK’s brother, Bobby, surprised many when he joined in support of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2024 election. Kennedys had been Democrats from the get-go; none had ever strayed to Republican support! The Kennedy clan squawked loudly.

RFK. Jr., I believe, did not need the recent reveal of the “unredacted” (THAT didn’t happen, even this week) reports on the death of his uncle to know the truth – that the Deep State protects their own and murders their way to power.

I believe that RFK, JR., may have carried this knowledge all his life. He was 45 yers old when his cousin’s plant came down in 1999. He may well have known John, Jr.’s thoughts about Joseph Robinette Biden, revealed in the latest document dump.

I believe that our Bobby, Jr., had Biden and the Deep State clearly defined.

When he saw the Butler assassination attempt, it struck too close to home.

In August, 2024, RFK,, Jr., suspended his own Presidential campaign and joined forces with Trump. RFK, Jr., wanted to do everything in his power to avenge the deaths of his father, uncle and cousin. He didn’t need the release of any documents. He grew up with what they said.

This is just what one Kat’s sniffing has assembled out of the dust of all that has gone down since 11/22/1963. We still trusted our government then. Mostly. We had a lot to learn and we STILL DO.

One thing we know for certain: The Deep State has NOT changed its deadly plans. They still want us to shut up and sit down. They still want us to “own nothing and be happy”. Our Constitutional government gets in their way, and they will do anything and everything to win.

God bless RFK, Jr., God bless our President, God bless our nation and its people.

© 2025 Kat Stansell – All Rights Reserved

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By Bradlee Dean

March 26, 2025

In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power.

Today, Americans are being driven to their television sets by spin doctors to watch the illegals that have invaded their land.  What is being highlighted by the networks are the crimes being committed: murdering American police officers, rape, drug and child trafficking, carjackings, targeting malls in cities throughout the country, and the list of crimes goes on (Deuteronomy 4:6).

Then, only adding insult to the crimes they are responsible for committing, they cry out in front of the cameras, begging not to be sent back to the country from which they came.  This, of course, they do with their country’s flag in their hands waving above their heads back and forth.

So, in other words, they came here illegally to conquer this country (Deuteronomy 28:43).

Yet, with all of this, the networks are distracting and not highlighting the fact that it has been the American politicians, in both federal and state positions, who have treasonously enticed these illegals into America (Luke 22:48).

They have enticed them with $5 to $10,000 credit cards, cell phones, homes, cars, planes, and bus tickets to their desired destinations.  This is all factual information, friends.  They are even letting them vote.

These said representatives have clearly committed the act of treason against the very people they are to serve, namely, you and me!

Treason: In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. – Websters 1828

When we look at Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution, we read:

Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

These treasonous criminals have become so emboldened that many of them have now stated that they will stand in the way of deporting the illegals that they have allured into America.

According to 8 US Code 1324 Bringing in and harboring certain aliens.

When a crime has been committed by an illegal, the said representative who allured them in is to be personally held accountable for the crime committed by the illegals.

Unless the American people learn the lesson, and quickly, that our representatives are NOT above the Law and that they are to be held accountable for the smallest of crimes by “We the People” through the impeachment process, and prosecuted when impeached, in teaching them the consequences (Proverbs 16:6; 21:7), all will be lost!

© 2025 Bradlee Dean – All Rights Reserved

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By Lex Greene, Timothy Harrington

March 25, 2025

The very people conning Americans into thinking they are all about “democracy,” are busy doing everything they can to force Trump into becoming the “dictator” they warned you about. Meanwhile, it’s democrats who are fighting to empower their unelected partisan appointees with the authority to dictate to a duly elected Executive Branch and more than 77-million voters who elected them.

In the first 60-days of the new Trump administration, democrats have filed over 160 lawsuits against Executive Branch authorities. Almost all of these cases are being filed in Obama/Biden appointed courts, after democrats rushed an estimated 235 “deep state” judges into office to preempt the 2024 re-election of and undermine President Donald J. Trump.

In a recent TV interview with Senator Charles Schumer of New York, Schumer openly confessed to his party packing the Federal Courts for the sole purpose of usurping and subverting the Article II powers of the Oval Office.

Before I proceed to proving my points here, allow me to state for the record that at least three specific sets of U.S. laws are in play here, which may impact literally everyone involved in the effort to undermine our Constitutional Republic by subverting the Constitutional powers of the Presidency.

1. 18 U.S. Code Chapter 115
2. Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law
3. The Alien Enemies Act

First Things First

As a matter of fundamental constitutional fact, the Executive Branch of the United States is placed under the sole command and control of a duly elected President. In case you think this is all about Donald J. Trump, you’re wrong. It’s about much-much more than that!

The current duly elected Chief Executive was placed in power by 77,302,416 legal American voters, from whom all political power is derived. It is the only political office in the country that is elected by a majority of citizens across the entire country, the Constitutional Electoral College, certified by Congress and ultimately responsible for the safety and security of the United States.

Each Senator is only elected by the people of their respective State. Each House member is only elected by the voters in their respective home districts.

Last and least, Federal Judges are not elected by anyone. Each is a partisan political appointee nominated by the sitting President, often at the suggestion of members of Congress at any given time, vetted by the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The Federal Judicial branch is the only “unelected” branch of government in the United States. As such, it is the only branch which holds no loyalty or accountability to the American people, and therefore, the most limited power.

It Must Be Adjudicated?

Actually, in the case of President Trump’s directives to his Executive Branch Agencies, concerning the sovereignty, safety and security of the United States, it has already been adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court a number of times, most recently in the 1948 case “Ludecke v. Watkins” wherein the Supreme Court concluded the following.

1. “The Alien Enemy Act precludes judicial review of the removal order.”
2. “The Alien Enemy Act, construed as permitting resort to the courts only to challenge its validity and construction, and to raise questions of the existence of a “declared war” and of alien enemy status, does not violate the Bill of Rights or the Federal Constitution.”
3. “The fact that hearings are utilized by the Executive to secure an informed basis for the exercise of the summary power conferred by the Act does not empower the courts to retry such hearings, nor does it make the withholding of such power from the courts a denial of due process.”

There is No Doubt

Whether approaching the subject as a matter of Constitutional authorities granted each branch or reviewing the previous opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court on the matter, in either case, you will arrive at the same conclusion. The anti-American leftwing Judges rushed onto the bench by Obama and Biden, as an organized effort to subvert Oval Office powers granted to the Oval Office occupant via Article II, have zero legal authority or power over the Executive Branch or Executive execution of the policies the American people elected the President to carry out.

Instead, the acts of such judges place the judges themselves at odds with the laws of the United States and their Article III obligations under the U.S. Constitution. Because such acts can easily be construed as acts of usurpation, sedition and even treason, aiding and abetting foreign enemies, and an overt conspiracy to undermine the powers of the Oval Office, these judges may be held to account under standing U.S. Criminal Codes.

Further, members of Congress and law professionals also engaged in these events, may also be held to account under those same criminal statutes.

How Insidious is This?

A section of the statement sitting on the Court website itself reads as follows:

“The names of potential nominees are often recommended by senators or sometimes by members of the House who are of the President’s political party. The Senate Judiciary Committee typically conducts confirmation hearings for each nominee. Article III of the Constitution states that these judicial officers are appointed for a life term.”

Yet, if you take a moment to read Article III of the Constitution for yourself, you will quickly learn that the document makes no mention at all of “life term” appointments. Instead, Article III establishes that these judges only have the right to sit on these courts “during good Behaviour.”

Excuse me for suggesting that an overt attempt to overthrow the duly elected President and subvert his constitutional powers by the only “unelected” body of government, established via partisan appointments, cannot possibly be considered “good Behaviour” by these purely agenda-driven (activist) judges.

Such acts also fall under statutes concerning “deprivation of Rights under color of law.” Not only is it an effort to deprive a sitting President his Rights under Article II and his ability to protect the USA and all Americans, but such acts also deprive the Rights of over 77-million voters to freely elect a Chief Executive of their choosing.

As for the Voters

It’s totally ironic today to watch self-proclaimed liberals, progressives and democrats, claim to be protecting their “democracy” from some alleged “duly elected dictator” in the Oval office, while at the same time, supporting the rule “unelected dictators” who are nothing more than partisan political appointees.

Some things never change…

The same people who claimed they had a Constitutionally protected right to abortion because a court said so, now claim that the same court had no authority to reverse that opinion. The same people who voted for the only “unelected” presidential nominee in 2024, claim that the democratically elected winner of that election wasn’t really elected, even though he won most of the states, almost all of the counties, the Electoral College and all swing states.

The same people who backed every Executive Order of Obama and Biden, even though many were entirely “unconstitutional” on their face, now reject the Executive Authority, simply because their preferred candidate isn’t currently sitting in that office.

The Survival of our Republic

This is about much more than Donald Trump. Most of the so-called “resisters” have no clue what they are resisting or why. They have no clue that the only people they can enslave are themselves, not their perceived political opponents. Most would not be in our streets today if they were not being organized, financed and mobilized by the same people who stacked the federal courts to undermine the Constitution.

The Democrat Party is in total freefall now, the result of their own doing, allowing insane global leftwing nuts like Bernie Sanders and AOC to become the driving force of the party.

One of two things will happen now, and very soon.

Either the two “elected” branches of government will reign in the only “unelected” branch of government, back into complete constitutional compliance – – or… the Republic will fall under the weight of an entirely corrupt and unconstitutional federal government run amok.

To end with a fine point on the matter, the “unelected” Judicial Branch has no constitutional power over the Legislative or Executive branches, both of which are “elected by the people.”

The main reason why…is the 3^rd branch is the only branch that is elected by no one! If you support unelected dictators, you don’t support any form of “democracy.”

Such an unaccountable unelected government, our Constitution does not create! As once promised, “Lock’em up” or just let it fall, and we’ll start over!

© Lex Greene, Timothy Harrington

E-Mail Lex Greene: LexGreene24@gmail.com

Co-authored by Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers, and Steve Curtis

March 25, 2025

Electricity from nuclear power is continuous, uninterruptable, emission free, and utilizes the least amount of earth’s natural resources to generate electricity.

Only the few wealthy countries have spent hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing what they call “renewable energy” in the name of “carbon-free electricity” that is unreliable and weather dependent. Yet, despite picking our pockets through taxes and borrowing to support humongous subsidies for wind and solar, our direct costs are rising for electricity, our electric grid is becoming more failure-prone, and we still live with a monopolistic system, called utilities, of marketing electricity.

There is nothing more critical to our quality of life than all the 6,000 products made from oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil, and continuous and uninterruptible electricity. So, what good has all our tax money done for normal citizens to ease their lives as those renewables only generate electricity, but CANNOT make any products demanded by our materialistic society?

The best way to ensure delivery and low prices of electricity for our materialistic society is a free enterprise system free of useless and expensive regulations. So why are we allowing electricity to be marketed to us in the most expensive and precarious way imaginable?

It is common sense that if huge subsidies are needed to make a commodity viable in the market, then such a commodity is not viable in a free market. So, why do we pay such excess levies? Indeed, why are there subsidies for renewable electricity at all when about 80% of the global population of 8 billion people are living in less developed countries?

We have pointed out that nuclear power, when marketed in a levelized free-enterprise system with fair laws for all, is by far the cheapest way to produce electricity that is safe, continuous, uninterruptible, emission free, and utilizes the least amount of the earth’s natural resources to generate that electricity.

Yet, we continue to trust wealthy country governments’ intervention (remember you pay for all government expenditures) when the result is higher prices, less safe delivery systems, and effectively no lowering of pollution from poorer developing countries. Common sense would tell us that something is wrong.

All of us should be environmentalists at heart. Our daily purchases and actions should contribute to the preservation of clean air and water on the planet. Yet, we also care about our quality of life and our peaceful existence on this planet. So, we make compromises. One such compromise would be to ensure that any replacement for electricity production would be better than what we abandoned. We would also prefer not to abandon an existing solution until an even better solution comes along.

Nuclear power has earned the reputation of being the safest industry in the world. Not a single person has been harmed by a commercial nuclear power plant under normal operation in more than 70 years. About 10% of the world’s electricity, and about 20% of the US electricity is produced with nuclear power. That is a lot of production, and such a safety record is certainly worth noting.

♦ Before you write letters, nobody was harmed in Three-Mile Island or Fukushima from a failed reactor, and Chernobyl was not under normal operation when it failed. Perspective is based on perception, and we want to present this perception since so many people seem to believe differently.

Why is your perception so important? Well, if fear drives your perspective, you may tolerate more expensive or environmentally destructive methods of power production which are not to your advantage. This attitude is especially devastating in a monopolistic market in which you are not free to choose the merchant you think is best. You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit. But we are not kindergarten children, we are thinking, discerning consumers, right?

A common-sense approach would be to have all production facilities in place before we start shutting down existing, perfectly good facilities. We should not change over until we got a cheaper price on the new commodity. Since electricity delivered on the grid is all the same, why would we pay more for something we could get cheaper? Yet, our electricity prices have skyrocketed of late on top of our being forced to expend our hard-earned tax money as well.

We have shown in other articles that recycling slightly used nuclear fuel (SUNF) from existing stockpiles could produce such a volume of electricity that it would be delivered at around a penny per kWh. It is safer, more compact, more available, cleaner and less imposing than all other forms of electricity generation. Since we are constantly producing more SUNF than we can use, it is also renewable. We still need petroleum for most of the products in our society that did not exist 200 years ago, and aviation, gasoline, and diesel fuels for transportation infrastructure since it is also compact and widely available. So, why are we paying trillions of dollars in subsidies for more expensive and less available electricity? Shouldn’t that be a consumer choice?

Unlike those living in Russia and China, US citizens have a direct choice of who our leaders are. Over the last 60 years, they have bankrupted our treasury while making our quality of life lower, at least in our most important factor, electricity. It may be time to demand a return to free-enterprise and away from artificial fear to improve our lives. Consider this perspective and make your desires known. No politician can stand up to popular demand.

For once, let us drive demand instead of being told what we are going to suffer with. Nothing will improve world quality of life in the developing countries like free or penny per-kWh electric power and access to the more than 6,000 products being enjoyed by those in the wealthier developed countries. Nuclear technology is here, and we have the time to innovate without disrupting our lives if we only demand our right to free enterprise in electricity production and delivery. The nuclear technology is here. We only need the shackles of government subsidy and overregulation to be released to allow it to happen.

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By Kelleigh Nelson

March 25, 2025

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry. —James Morcan

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve. —Marcia Angell

Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can’t even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capitol Hill. —Leonard Horowitz

Every year, pharmaceutical companies contribute millions of dollars to U.S. Senators and Representatives as part of a multipronged effort to influence health care lawmaking and spending priorities.  And they’re successful in buying the votes of these rewarded members.  The senators and reps care nothing for the American people, they are beholden only to those who fill their pockets. As a result, their votes aid those who fund them, not the American people they are elected to represent.

According to Statnews.com, “Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the 2020 election representing more than two-thirds of Congress, according to a new STAT analysis of records for the full election cycle.

“Pfizer’s political action committee alone contributed to 228 lawmakers. Amgen’s PAC donated to 218, meaning that each company helped to fund the campaigns of nearly half the lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Overall, the sector donated $14 million.”

Opensecrets.org shows the top 20 member recipients of money from Big Pharma and health products between 1990-2024. The money comes from employees or PACs affiliated with the industry, not from the companies themselves.  Biden, Harris and Obama were the top three recipients.

For decades, Democrats have thrashed Big Pharma in their campaign ads and speeches, and the drug industry has responded by shelling out millions to the Leftists.

According to an analysis by the group, Conservatives for Lower Healthcare Costs, “Between the 2016 and 2022 election cycles, the top 10 pharmaceutical firms have given $29 million to Democrats and $24 million to Republicans.”

Open Secrets tells us that our founders funded their own campaigns and the very thought of asking for money was verboten.  Kathleen Frydl, a historian at the University of California-Berkeley, said the first fundraising committee organized by an interest group was the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC), which was formed in 1943 to support Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 presidential bid. More than 60 years later, there are more than 3,880 active federally registered PACs. It is now 82 years later, and that number has undoubtedly grown.

Corporations distort public policy and subvert the will of the electorate by donating to politicians and expecting quid pro quo for their monetary gifts.  All corporate funding needs to be eliminated.

CDC Nominee Dr. Dave Weldon

The following three-minute video by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services lays out what he and his team will concentrate on during their first 100 days. Kennedy tells us that chronic disease is the top priority and they will examine every possible contributing factor.  He wants to Make America Healthy Again, just as we were when his uncle, John F. Kennedy, was our president from 1960 until his untimely death in 1963.

Three men have been nominated to the operating divisions within HHS, and one has already had his name yanked at the last minute.

Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman whose district included the Space Coast and Treasure Coast, says opposition by the pharmaceutical industry played a large role in his failure to win confirmation as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a statement Weldon released after his nomination was withdrawn, he blamed Big Pharma for the concern that some Republican senators would vote against confirming him. “The concern of many people is that Big Pharma was behind this, which is probably true,” Weldon said. “They are, hands-down, the most powerful lobby organization in Washington, D.C., giving millions of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle.”

In Sharyl Attkisson’s 2019 documentary on her show, Full Measure, she interviewed eleven current and former Congressmen about their experiences with pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and agents in Washington. Dr. Weldon is interviewed at 7:40. I urge you to watch the 10-minute clip where we find out that vaccine makers don’t defend their vaccines, the federal government does that for them.  It is done in the little known “vaccine court” created by Congress in 1988.  Money for victims’ fees comes from patient fees added on to every vaccine given.

Attkisson states, “Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a world-renowned pediatric neurologist, was the government’s top expert witness in a case of a child who became autistic after a vaccine.  He testified that vaccines do not cause autism.  But now, Dr. Zimmerman has supplied new information.  He claims that during those vaccine court hearings all those years ago, he privately told government lawyers that vaccines can and did cause autism in some children.  That turnabout from the government’s own chief expert should have changed everything about the vaccine autism debate if the public were to find out.”

The United States government, the Department of Justice suppressed his true opinions.  Zimmerman then partnered with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who said, “This is one of the most consequential frauds arguably in all of human history.”  RFK Jr. was instrumental in getting Dr. Zimmerman to document his remarkable claim of the government covering up his true expert opinion on vaccines and autism.

Dr. Dave Weldon, spoke candidly about what happens to representatives who raise the issue of vaccine safety.  “It would typically be in a hallway or on the street, and you know, people would come up to you and say, you know, you really need to back off on this. It could be bad for the community or bad for the country or bad for you.”

The CDC which promotes vaccines and monitors vaccine safety never disclosed that the government’s own one-time medical expert concluded that vaccines can cause autism.  And to this day, public health officials deny that’s the case.

Dr. Peter McCullough tells us, “Physician and former Congressman, Dave Weldon, who was about to undergo his examination by the Senate panel posed the greatest risk for vaccine-crazed senators to publicly face evidence-based concerns over the safety of the ever-increasing childhood vaccine schedule and the four-year COVID-19 vaccine debacle.

“Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA), a gastroenterologist from Illinois who said during the RFK panel that not a single dollar should be spent investigating the relationship between vaccination and autism.”

Close minded because of their funding by Big Pharma?  Most senators believe in vaccines, but they were exempt from the COVID mandates.

“Perhaps Cassidy was in agreement with billions of dollars spent over the past four-years on nonsensical and unproductive transgender research in laboratory animals. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) also said she would vote against Weldon. Both Cassidy and Collins voted in 2022 against reinstating military who refused the COVID-19 vaccine.”

So, freedom from mandates for them, but not for us.

Losing Dr. Dave Weldon as CDC Director is a massive blow to health freedom.  RFK Jr. backed his nomination.  Why?  Because Dave Weldon knew the dirt behind the CDC and the decades of lies given to the American public.

Weldon’s name was pulled telling the public, “He’s too anti-vax and didn’t have the votes.”  That is an outright lie.  Obviously, the Big Pharma funded senators wouldn’t vote for him or they’d lose their cash cow.

In 2004, Congressman Weldon asked the U.S. House Appropriations Committee chair to fund an autism research center that would be led by Dr. Andrew Wakefield.

“Wakefield was the first author of the 1998 study, published and later retracted in The Lancet, that linked the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism in certain children.”  Weldon wanted Wakefield to head up an autism center.  That act alone, that proved Weldon was concerned about autism and American children, was enough to sideline his nomination.

Dr. Wakefield felt there was a link between autism and the MMR vaccine.  A former CDC researcher by the name of William Thompson came to the same conclusion.

Thompson publicly admitted that he and his CDC co-authors cooked the study on MMR and autism so that it would not show any connection.  They purposely omitted vital data.

He later wrote his confession and had it posted on his attorney’s website.

August 27, 2014 Press Release, “Statement of William W. Thompson, Ph.D., Regarding the 2004 Article Examining the Possibility of a Relationship Between MMR Vaccine and Autism”

Then he told Congressman Bill Posey that he and his CDC co-authors tossed the study data in the trash.

Thompson knew Wakefield and he apologized to him in private.  Had he spoken out about the connection of the MMR to autism, it would have helped Wakefield.

Wayback Machine has the recorded statement in an 82-second video of the phone call from whistleblower Thompson to Brian Hooker PhD.  Hooker is the Chief Scientific Officer for Children’s Health Defense.  Thompson stated that he had a boss who forced him to lie.  He also said that autism studies are 10 years behind and Congress needs to say, “Give us the data, and we’ll do an independent study.”

Video here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140917192449/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8697rSvIqhg

Conclusion

Look into Dr. Weldon’s legislative history during his time in Congress. His work on healthcare and family-focused policies speaks volumes. Congress.gov.

Dr. Weldon’s background as a physician is well-documented, especially his contributions to medical literature and public health discussions. PubMed

In a time when our children’s health and future are at stake, we must support leaders who uphold the values of family, science, and common sense, values of this nominee. Dr. Weldon’s absence from this role is a missed opportunity for America.

Where was the White House in fighting for Dr. Weldon?  Or did Susie Wiles put the kibosh on Dr. Weldon?

Two Republican Senators, Collins and Cassidy, cost Weldon the confirmation for CDC Director.  Those are the politicians who need to be primaried.

© 2025 Kelleigh Nelson – All Rights Reserved

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By Sid Secular

March 24, 2026

Profit margins are becoming increasingly marginal in the food industry. Historically averaging 2%, the skinny margins historically were counterbalanced by large purchase volumes. However, since the onset of the Covidiocy and the concomitant disruption of supply chains, which is still ongoing, profit margins are being squeezed further, and operational costs continue to increase as inflation continues unabated, and this also affects all levels of the supply chain. Everyone notices by now how food prices are rapidly increasing.

The way to dampen these sharp and ongoing increases in price and keep them from creating food riots is to find another way to turn a profit without increasing prices. Thus, the packaging for products are being progressively downsized without changing their prices. This is especially apparent for items that come in plastic packaging. Gatorade, for example, has been reduced in size from 32 to 28 ounces, allowing the price to remain the same. This practice hardly raises an eyebrow, even among lowbrow purchasers, but for food producers it is a very significant event.

Each time a bottle/can is redesigned, even if the change is very slight, new molds must be designed and machined, and all the machines producing the product must be fitted with the new molds. Other recalibrations must also take place, and the cartons or containers used to ship the product must be modified accordingly. Resizing of this nature is a last resort to stay competitive or even stay in business. Its only done when the producer is backed into a corner and can’t do anything else. Competitors can get into copycat mode if they are having problems staying afloat, and an entire industry can get caught up in the downsizing, creating problems across the board.

The minutiae of food production can thus become a big deal, since there’s no issue of greater importance to the general public than the supply of food. We are usually complacent about this subject except in abnormal situations such as during the Covidiocy when shelves were denuded of essentials such as water, toilet paper, and some foods.for lengthy periods. Weather induced emergencies can also disrupt food deliveries to localized areas, sometimes for weeks. Also, the sudden and unexplained disappearance of baby formula a few years ago made waves across the fruited plain, and was suddenly resolved, leaving us perplexed as to what was going on. That kind of thing can have enormous consequences and is unpredictable, so you should become at least something of a prepper and have a long term supply of essential items on hand at all times.

What if certain supermarket chains, already on thin ice, operating with razor thin profit margins, were to close? Some rural or even semi-rural areas rely upon a single large supermarket to serve an area encompassing several square miles. There’s a dearth of supermarkets in “food deserts”, usually associated with ghetto areas, where stores are forced by community or government pressure, to stay in operation, where if given their druthers, the store operator would close the store. These stores would be the first to close in emergency situations. What would the denizens of these depressed domains then do? Most likely, engage in food riots and steal food when and where they can.

In decades past, many supermarkets hand their own warehouses that could quickly fill in the gaps on shelves when emergencies caused by snowstorms, floods, etc. caused panicked buyers to prematurely pick shelves clean, but these are largely gone. Stores must now rely on semi-weekly deliveries from wholesalers to keep shelves full. There’s minimal back-up supply and little wiggle room left. There’s this “just-in-time” philosophy that has taken over to reduce costs and obviate the necessity for intermediate storage. Payment terms of 30 days net used to be not uncommon in the industry.to allow financial wiggle room, but it is no longer viable.

Three-day payment turnarounds are now the norm. The entire industry is now being squeezed by inflation, and chains have to come up with creative coping mechanisms to avoid starving financially. If a mere 3 consecutive months of heavy inflation were to occur, some stores would go belly up and people would have a hard time filling their bellies. The links/kinks in the food supply chains would incur small price increases all the way up until the final retail price would reflect these increases.

If shortages were to develop in home appliances, for example, people could adjust to the situation, but that is usually not the case with food. If the long prognosticated economic disaster should actually occur, food riots could break out, and famine could occur for the first time in the living memory of most residents of the First World. So the downsizing of the size of Gatorade bottles could mean much more than meets the eye.

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By Frosty Wooldridge

March 24, 2025

Mass and endless immigration out of the Third World degrades America’s, and all Western Countries’, literacy and educational standings in the world.

As a former math-science teacher in middle schools and in the inner-city, along with being a college lecturer, I discovered that IQ’s, whether high or low, define a student’s ability and/or desire to excel in academics.  With an IQ over 110-120+, a student “wants” to learn.  In fact, nothing can stop his or her curiosity to learn, achieve and apply knowledge.  Such individuals become “critical thinkers” along with becoming engineers, doctors, inventors, teachers, entrepreneurs, nurses, leaders of industry and in the sciences.  Just about everything Western Countries enjoy in the 21st century stems from “brilliant minds” working their curiosities into inventions such as clean water, toilets, hygiene, sanitation, abundant foods, conquered polio, tetanus, created transportation, and much more.

Essentially, intelligence brought the human race out of the Dark Ages and into the Age of Enlightenment.

If you look on the world stage, every country’s collective IQ dictates its “modern” standing in the world.  If that collective IQ runs in the 70’s, its people suffer a lower standard of living, lower sanitation, lower food sourcing, lower educational achievements, and lack of modern freedoms.

China owns the highest collective IQ in the world at 107.  Ghana suffers the lowest IQ at 59.  Most African nations suffer 65 to 80 IQ’s. Somalia averages 67 IQ’s among its people. That defines Somalian immigrant Ilhan Omar’s basic intelligence level. (She’s a US House of Representatives member, but was not elected by Americans, only fellow immigrant Somalians.)

Before the Immigration Reform Act in 1965 that imported millions of refugees from all Third World countries, America’s average IQ stood at 100, which is a decent amount of intelligence in order to maintain a First World country. Today, our national IQ level stands at 97.4.  That’s a huge drop in only 60 years.  (Source for country by country IQ’s:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country )

“72% of the world’s illiterates are in Africa. That’s out of 1.4 billion persons.  In 2008, nearly 796 million adults (17% of the adult population worldwide) could neither read nor write. Approximately two thirds were women. A large majority of illiterates live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ten countries account for 72% of adult illiterates in the world. According to

the “2011 Monitoring for All Global Education” report from UNESCO, in the last ten years significant advances have been seen in education. However, there is a fear that it is slowing up. In any case, even today 43% of children with no access to schooling live in Sub-Sahara Africa.”   (Source:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/documents/acp/dv/8-education_/8-education_en.pdf )

WHERE ARE ALL THOSE IMMIGRANTS’ ORGINS? 

What is the most important factor for a First World country to maintain its freedoms, its excellence and its success?  Answer: a solidly educated citizenry that “wants” to learn and grow.  It needs youth to excel in schools in the STEM subjects.  An intelligent and educated citizenry remains the ONLY way to maintain a First World country.

Last week on network news, you saw that over 60 percent of American 4th graders cannot read at grade level or perform math at grade level.  Eighth graders performed even worse.  Millions of our youth do not graduate from high school—-rendering them functionally illiterate.  “Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day.”  (Source: www.dosomething.org)

We’ve got 45,000,000 (million) Americans and immigrants subsisting on food stamps and other welfare. The National Center for Education states that 43,000,000 Americans are functionally illiterate. They are too illiterate to participate in our society and/or contribute by working a job.  We’ve got millions of immigrants living on SSI welfare food, housing and medical care on American taxpayers’ backs. Of which, those immigrants did not contribute a dime.  They simply moved here from Third World countries. Minneapolis, Minnesota houses 125,000 Somalians who remain eternally on welfare and food stamps.  Same goes for 300,000 Syrians in Detroit, Michigan.

Sadly, if not sickening, millions of our minority kids in places like Chicago, LA,  Detroit, NYC, Miami and beyond, cannot and do not become educated citizens.  That lack a father.  They lack decent housing. They lack nutritious food. They lack afterschool guidance. Little wonder why drugs have killed over 300,000 in the last four years!  Little wonder why kids are shooting/killing kids in cities across America by the thousands.  When you’re poorly educated or of low intelligence, you revert to the lowest common denominator to solve a confrontation: violence.

All the while, we keep pumping 1.2 million legal immigrant refugees into America from all those countries that have failed because of very low collective IQ’s.

In other words, we have millions of functionally illiterate refugees, along with functionally illiterate Americans unable to perform anything more than driving a taxi, slinging burgers or sweeping floors.

“For example, at current legal immigration levels where the U.S. imports more than 1.2 million legal immigrants a year—at the detriment of American workers’ job prospects and wages—every American loses either a job or taxpayers pay for welfare recipients.”

Note once again, we suffer 774,000 homeless in America. We keep serving and caring for millions of legal and illegal migrant refugees without solving our own problems in the first place. Do you think that’s reasonable or intelligent?

All the while, we keep exploding America’s human population toward that magic number of an added 100 million more people, from 350 million to 450 million, net gain, by 2050.  Who on God’s green Earth thinks those numbers are going to keep our country sustainable as to water, energy and resources? Can you imagine our horrific loss of “quality of life” in America when those numbers manifest?

Here’s another beef about mass immigration: all the top scientists cry about “global climate change”, but they do not, will not, and NEVER speak to the fact of what drives it!  Answer: human population growth. For every added person to America, that person goes from a Third World minimal energy use—-to driving a car, or riding a bus, or burning energy in an apartment, using up more water, more food, and dozens of other consequences that burn oil—-that ultimately creates more carbon footprint, and accelerates “catastrophic climate destabilization.”

It’s almost like we’re “on purpose” destroying our own future. Or, we’re allowing those “intellectual” giants like AOC, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson or Jasmine Crockett in Congress to continue destroying America for us.

Dear reader, have I made it plain that we’re in DEEP trouble?  How can I make it any clearer?What can I do to gain a greater voice on 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, NPR, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, Joe Rogan and beyond to get this message out?  Can you write Joe Rogan to ask him to interview me?  He’s got a website that offers you to write him.  Can you write 60 Minutes and ask them to interview me?  60M@cbsnews.com   If we don’t create a national discussion/debate on what’s coming, our children are screwed. Would you agree with that fact?

Write these top journalist on TV and radio to invite me on their shows:

Megyn Kelly: megyn@megynkelly.com
Chris Cuomo: programming@newsnation.com
Clay Travis: clay.travis@gmail.com
Diane Sawyer: diane.sawyer@gmail.com
Lester Holt: anchor@nbcnews.com and/or tips@nbcuni.com
David Muir: news.tips@abc.com
Chuck Todd: chuck.todd@gmail.com
Jen Psaki: jenpsaki@gmail.com
Scott Simon scott.simon@gmail.colm
Terry Gross: freshairsociety@whyy.org
Leslie Stahl: info@oconnorinstitute.org
Charles Hurt: charleshurt@gmail.com ; charlesHurt@charleshurtpolitgics.com
Guy Benson: gupolitics@georgetown.edu
Meet the Press: nbcnewsmediarelations@nbcuni.com
Nicolle Wallace: nicole.wallace@gmail.com
60 Minutes: 60M@cbsnews.com

In the end, if we don’t stop mass immigration, we’ll have degraded our national collective IQ level so much so, we’ll be too stupid to save our civilization.

© 2025 Frosty Wooldridge – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Frosty: frostyw@juno.com

Authored by Devvy Kidd not AI

March 24, 2025

“The Constitution… meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”  —Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:51

It’s not ‘March Madness’ in sports, it’s “judicial madness” that has hit this country like a Cat 5 hurricane.  It’s the same old playbook shoved down our throats the first time Donald Trump was lawfully and fairly elected president. The shadow government “got him” in 2020 through in-your-face election fraud and cheating.

This time around, it’s now a lawfare feast by judges who believe they are gods.  Law firms getting paid big bux to bring these lawsuits doing their part in attempting to destroy once and for all our freedom and liberties setting America up for a totalitarian Hell.  Their cheerleaders and advocates are so brainwashed, they’ve become idiots; robots chanting the same pre-recorded messages.

“Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787

The number of lunatics and maniacs continues to grow as junkyard dogs in the prostitute media]1][2][3] vomit up lies on a daily basis. Useful idiots that are now finding out Trump’s DOJ isn’t going to turn a blind eye; several have been arrested for vandalism at Telsa dealerships as well as individual vehicles.  Besides jail time, they should each be fined $1,000 to be given to local food charities AND pay for ALL damages and I don’t care if it takes them 50 years. Payback is a bitch as they say.

“No sooner has one Party discovered or invented an Amelioration of the Condition of Man or the order of Society, than the opposite Party belies it, misconstrues it, misrepresents it, ridicules it, insults it, and persecutes it.”  —John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 9, 1813. 

The miscreants and America haters who belong to the Democrat/Communist Party USA have been busy “forum shopping” to find just the right judge to “get Trump” by issuing TRO’s (Temporary Restraining Order) to stop, as an example, deporting 238 murderers, rapists, thieves and gang members:  The Tren de Aragua gang designated as a terrorist organization.

One of the high-profile cases regarding removing the scum of the earth from our country to keep our citizens safe is being “presided” over by Judge James Boasberg appointed by the illegitimate former president, Hussein Obama, who stole two elections through fraud and cheating.  Boasberg is a real piece of work, let me tell you.

His Lordship Boasberg: “A showdown between Boasberg and the Trump DOJ played out in court this week after the judge issued an order forcing planes en route to Central and South America carrying dangerous Venezuelan aliens to turn around and come back to the US.

“On Sunday, the Trump DOJ provided an update to Boasberg’s order and said the criminal aliens were outside of US territory when the order came down.  The DOJ argued that the Judge has zero jurisdiction over international airspace.”

Those empty-headed citizens out there cheering on his “order” are all in favor of keeping ILLEGAL aliens in this country who murder, rape and belong to one of the most vicious gangs from South America and Mexico.  Oh, those poor “migrants”.  Of course, we have a whole plethora of lunatics in Congress who are also in favor of keeping such scum out on the streets in OUR country.

Boasberg is dirty and a disgrace to the robe he wears and his oath of office:

Protecting Terrorists Is Just The Latest Of Judge Boasberg’s Partisan Activism, March 17, 2025 – “Boasberg was appointed to a seven-year term on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in Feb. 2014.

“Between August 2016-June 2017, four FISA applications were requested and approved, launching the Russia collusion hoax that attacked Trump for years. Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith later pleaded guilty to lying on one of the FISA applications, a serious violation that carries a maximum five years in prison. As “luck” would have it, Boasberg was also the judge in Clinesmith’s case, and he served no prison time.

“Boasberg has handled dozens of Jan. 6 cases and has sent many Trump supporters who were at the Capitol that day to prison, a harsh outcome compared to his Tren De Aragua gang ruling.” Rest at link and worth the time to read.

“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.

“The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”  —Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277

Of course, another turncoat robe, Chief Justice John Roberts, decided to puff up his chest and go after Trump[4] last week. Before you send email, yes, I’ve been aware for at least a decade of articles in “mainstream” publications regarding Roberts’ and his wife adopting two children from Ireland and an alleged cover up: the adoption was illegal.  The word blackmail comes to mind.  DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU AUG 04, 2005  – “Both children were adopted from Latin America.”  Which is it?

Here’s what the brilliant Thomas Jefferson had to say about judges and justices:

“In denying the right [the Supreme Court usurps] of exclusively explaining the Constitution, I go further than [others] do, if I understand rightly [this] quotation from the Federalist of an opinion that ‘the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government, but not in relation to the rights of the parties to the compact under which the judiciary is derived.’

“If this opinion be sound, then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo de se [act of suicide]. For intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independent, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others, and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. For experience has already shown that the impeachment it has provided is not even a scare-crow… The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”  —Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819. ME 15:212 (Emphasis mine)

He also wrote: “This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825. ME 16:114

Many articles, columns and op-ed’s have been flooding the Internet on Boasberg, his “order” and disgraceful shenanigans.  I am going to quote from one of the most brilliant legal minds in this country who has NEVER received the respect or recognition he so richly deserves after a lifetime of dedication to real law and the Constitution just like deceased former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

This is from Dr. Edwin Vieira’s book, How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary, pg 285:  Removal of Judges for Lack of “good behaviour” or by “Impeachment…and Conviction.”:

“1..a.  Removal from the bench sine die of every judge who demonstrates such incapacities as inability properly to construe the Constitution, or instability in construction over time, or infatuation with “the living Constitution” is the only sound means to deal with the problem so grossly evidenced in Lawrence.  Whatever the explanation for their transgressions, judicial malefactors must be compelled to desist.

“But, invoking “judicial supremacy”, they will resist any attempts to control, direct, correct, or even influence their behavior.  Therefore, the weapon of “judicial supremacy” must be stricken from their hands tout court, and their ability to perpetrate further harm totally curtained, by removing them from office.* No man, no problem.

“As discussed below, Congress enjoys plenary power to remove judges of the General Government from office for their demonstrated lack of “good Behaviour.” Or for their commission of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, or both. “Senators and Representatives”…shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support th[e] Constitution” and in this particular as in all others – especially so to correct judges’ misconstructions of the Constitution, Congress’s toleration of which amounts, not to “support” of perversion, deconstruction, or destruction.  And “[w]hatever functions Congress are, by the Constitution, authorized to perform they are, when the public good requires it, bound to perform.” The same, of course, is true for the President where the Constitution presumes that he will cooperate with Congress in these matters.”  End.

* Just like the “standing” weapon cowardly judges use all the time while the sissies in Congress have gone along with denying important cases because of their damn politics.  If you’re going to drain the sewer of bad judges, do it now while Congress is GOP controlled with a GOP president and stop our ROTTEN federal judiciary from destroying the lives of the American people.

How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary “In this brilliant, accessible, and documented work, Dr. Edwin Vieira offers us the best researched and clearest overview to date of the power of the people to control a runaway judiciary.

“It is time to put the Judiciary back in its proper place. Dr. Edwin Vieira, a Trustee of The Conservative Caucus Foundation (TCCF) and a brilliant legal scholar, has comprehensively addressed these and other issues in this study commissioned by the TCCF (Constitutional and Statutory Remedies for Judicial Usurpation and Tyranny). As I am sure you will agree after reading this important work, Dr. Vieira has made an historically significant contribution to the public policy debates of the twenty-first century.” — Howard Phillips, President, TCCF

Buy a copy and send to your GOP House member and Senator with a letter signed by you and as many people as you can.  Tell them to start cleaning up our judiciary. Impeach rogue, partisan judges Republican or DemonRAT. The Forward in Edwin’s book alone is a superb explanation regarding the courts and the Constitution.  Edwin’s book was published in 2004 and here we are eleven YEARS down the road with too many federal judges and a number of maggots on the U.S. Supreme Court telling WE THE PEOPLE, DOJ and the President of these united States of America to go suck eggs.

So what if howling shrews like empty-headed AOC, Elizabeth Warren and all the rest of the Marxist worshipers’ scream, yell and jump up and down.  Silence is acceptance.  We can be silent no more and without violence.

Rep. Andy Ogles Drafts Article of Impeachment Against Longtime Democrat Activist Judge Over Ruling That DOGE Likely Violated Constitution by Shutting Down USAID, March 22, 2025

Unhinged Biden Judge from Uruguay Yells at DOJ Lawyers During Hearing on Transgender Military Ban Case, March 21, 2025. (Joining the military is not mandatory or a right.  The Dept of Defense is under NO obligation to allow individuals with mental health issues (the tran$gender con disaster) to serve.  But, “identify” as a whatever, LBGQTRZYXFG, and the sweat off your back pays for biological females to have their breasts removed, tubal ligation, a new penis; biological men can get a new set of jugs and vagina.  The cost of hormone treatments alone must be huge.

“Here’s How Much the Pentagon Has Spent So Far to Treat Transgender Troops, June 18, 2021 (The Pentagon has failed 9 audits so you can bet the numbers to 2025 are huge.) “The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department data provided to Military.com…

“According to the Defense Health Agency, the surgeries were performed in military health facilities and included removal of breasts or testicles, hysterectomies and labiaplasty — creation of or reshaping the flesh around a vagina.”  Doesn’t matter how horribly they mutilate their bodies, there are only 2 sexes, male and female, not 5, 10 or 67 “genders”.

Transgenders Mentally Ill & Should Be Treated With Compassion. This is what the media and prostitute politicians don’t want the general public to know – especially about the high percentages of those poor souls who commit suicide. These are the victims:

READ:  Individuals who regret ‘sex change’ operations: “You are not alone. Up to 20% have regrets about their “sex change.” Sex change procedures are not effective, say researchers. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate is 20 times that of comparable peers. Regret is NOT rare. See the evidence.” One of the feature articles: ‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’”

Hegseth suggests judge report to military bases after ruling that Pentagon must allow transgender troops, March 23,2025 – “Hegseth said the judge ‘can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids’. In her ruling, the judge said Trump’s order contains language that is “unabashedly demeaning,” adding that the policy “stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit.”  (Born in 1974 (age 50–51) in Montevideo, Uruguay, judge Ana Reyes is a lesbian and must recuse herself from that case. Another Biden DEI choice.)

“Hegseth responded to the ruling on the social media platform X….Reyes said in her decision that the executive order likely poses constitutional rights violations.”  Wrong.  There is no draft; signing up is voluntary and DoD can and does reject applicants all the time.”  Rest at link above.

WTH? Another loon. DEVELOPING: Obama Judge Pushes Back After Ruling Attacking DOGE is So “Weirdly Written” and “Overly Broad” That It Could Lead to IMMEDIATE Shutdown of Social Security Administration, March 21, 2025 – What horse shlit.

JUST IN: Rep. Eli Crane Officially Files Articles of Impeachment for Far-Left Obama Judge Paul Engelmayer Who Blocked DOGE’s Treasury Access, Feb. 21, 2025

“They Need to Put Judge Merchan’s Ass in Prison” – Attorney Mike Davis Calls on Trump 47 DOJ to Investigate, Prosecute Crooked Partisans Who Used Dirty Lawfare to Go After Trump (VIDEO), Jan. 4, 2025 (For those unfamiliar with him, Mike Davis is a very intelligent man.)

Video: Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch – FITTON: Activist Judges CAN BE IMPEACHED!

Line of Effort Two: Unprecedented use of Judicial Activism to block Presidential Actions: “Follow the numbers and the data shows 50% of the injunctions against Presidential Administration’s since 1963 have been against the Trump Administration. The numbers do not lie, this is unprecedented Judicial Lawfare.” Gateway Pundit, March 23, 2025

Donald Trump is the President and the Republican Party had better go out and rent a bucket of guts because this round (along with J.D. Vance) Trump isn’t going to put up with a bunch of wishy-washy cowards worried only about getting reelected or what the media whores print.

Not all Democrat appointed/nominated judges are bad as there are many GOP judges who should have been kicked off the bench years ago; some are now deceased. The two alleged “conservative” justices that should go on the U.S. Supreme Court are John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.

It’s up to us to tell Congress to quit playing politics and worrying about their next fund raiser – we are FED UP with these rogue judges and want them gone. 

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman (all talk), Jim Jordan [R].  Forget the ranking member [D] Jamie Raskin who is one of the most dishonest cockroaches ever to serve in Congress next to Adam Schiff.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman is headed up by 91-year-old Chuck Grassley [R].  The DemonRAT Ranking Minority is another stinking Marxist, 80-year-old Dick Durbin.

Both chambers have done nothing for decades to clean up rogue judges and We the People are now suffering.  If we do nothing, nothing will get done. 

“Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”  —Patrick Henry

For a thorough, comprehensive education on the Fed, the income tax, education, Medicare, SS, the critical, fraudulent ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment and more, be sure to order my book by calling 800-955-0116 or click the link, “Taking Politics Out of Solutions“. 400 pages of facts and solutions. Order two books and save $10.00

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Footnotes:

[1] Democrat Lunatics & Maniacs Want Violence

[2]  Idiot Leftist Keys Neighbor’s Tesla and Then Enters His Apartment — All Caught on Vehicle’s Security System! (VIDEO)

[3]  Compilation Shows Deranged Leftists Vandalizing Parked Teslas—Including One Man Smearing Feces on a Cybertruck

[4] This article is a MUST read:  REVEALED: Chief Justice John Roberts Caught in Elitist Club of Judges and Lawyers That Includes James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Amit Mehta and Ketanji Brown Jackson, March 20, 2025

“George Soros has funded a fellowship at Middle Temple where John Roberts is a master of the bench.  First let me very quickly explain how this secret society called, the American Inns of Court came about. In the UK, they have the four Inns of Court that dates back hundreds of years. One of those is called Middle Temple (see Roberts photo). Well, the US created the American version of this in recent decades. There’s a massive list of branches.”

If you missed these:

Good:  Musk threatens to sue after Democrat ex-Rep Jamaal Bowman calls him a ‘Nazi’ and ‘thief’ during TV appearance – Elon Musk warns he’s ‘had enough’ and ‘lawsuit inbound’ after ex-Rep Jamaal Bowman’s CNN appearance, March 22, 2025

Speaker Johnson Reveals House Plans to Limit Abuses of Activist Judges and ‘Expose the Worst Offenders’, March 22, 2025.  What?  Johnson has suddenly found his backbone?

Indict, arrest and throw the mayor’s arse in jail with some of those illegal aliens he loves so much and will do “everything in his power to protect them” – including violating federal immigration laws.  Elections have consequences:

Democrat mayor blasted for vowing to make major city ‘safe haven’ for illegal immigrants, March 23, 2025

Illegal immigrant released by Biden admin charged with killing Georgia grandmother in random attack – David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, is charged with the murder of 52-year-old Camilia Williams, March 21, 2025

We’re all aware of the grossly inappropriate books found in school libraries – including the propaganda filled ones encouraging children to “trans”.  I purchased two sets of these great children’s books – I read them before giving one set of four to a friend’s 6-six year old grand daughter and one set to one of the Christian schools in my city.  Hearty House Children’s books.

By Glynn Adams

March 23, 2025

Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness getting prepared to be used by God. In the fullness of time, God commissioned Moses to deliver the Hebrew children from Pharaoh in Egypt. Moses asked, “Whom shall I say sent me?” God answered, “Tell them I AM sent you.” (Ex 3:13-14) Why did God call Himself I AM? Perhaps I AM was an invitation to get to know God more than it meant to describe His identity. In giving Moses this elusive name, God wanted to provoke His people to a joyful journey of discovering the countless and wonderful ways in which I AM could be known?

In God’s confrontation with Pharaoh, God was saying, “I want you to see that I AM the One who confronts the strongman who holds you in his grip. In the plagues on Egypt, God was saying, “I want you to know that I AM the One who contends with those who contend with you.” As Moses and the people stood helpless at the shores of the Red Sea while Pharaoh’s powerful army advanced upon them, God was saying, “I will show you that I AM the One who makes a way for you where there is no way.” In God’s dealings with His people throughout all of Scripture, He is showing that I AM is the one who ushers you through every barrier and I AM the One who helps you scale any wall. I AM your source, I AM your wisdom and I AM your sustainer. I AM with you, I AM the One who sees you, I AM the One who hears you, and I AM the One who keeps my promises to you. Most of God’s people who came out of Egypt never entered into the promise land because they never discovered I AM and their undoing took place in the wilderness.

While Jesus was on this earth, He was and is the very nature of I AM. He showed the heart and love of God by setting free those in bondage to sin, those in bondage and held captive by demons, and the sick who needed healing. Jesus proclaimed the good news of the Kingdom of God. He said, “I AM the light of the world, I AM the living water, I AM the bread of life. I AM the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep. I AM the resurrection and the life, and I AM coming again.”

Today, just as with God’s people escaping the bondage of Egypt so long ago, God’s love for us at Calvary, has set our freedom in motion. But many Christians today are in danger as God’s people were in the wilderness. Please be warned – our trials, our tribulations, and our persecutions, regardless how painful and hurtful they may be, will not undo us. Each crisis, which is never more than we can bear, merely exist to move us into the wonder of discovery of knowing and experiencing God as the One who confronts our Pharaoh and parts the sea for our safe crossing over. The dead-end place in which you may find yourself today, that frightening, threatening thing that confronts you, the impossible wall you need to scale, is merely a disguise for the sacred invitation to know I AM.

So what will be our undoing as the children of God? It is our failure to accept God’s invitation to sustain a daily, intimate relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ to discover who He is and to know Him. Not to know about Him but to know Him intimately. To know Jesus is to love Him and obey Him. To have the mind of Christ and the nature of Christ only comes from knowing Christ. To know His ways, to hear His voice, to converse with Him, to know He hears us, to praise Him, to worship Him, to give Him all glory and to feel His presence only comes in time from knowing Him. Let us never forget in this solemn moment of time that Christianity is not about buildings, programs, prosperity, teaching and sermons.

Christianity is about an intimate relationship with a living person – Jesus Christ. We must get to know this Living Deity who knew us before we were formed in the womb (Isaiah 44:2) and who has inscribed us on the palms of His hands (Isaiah 49:16). “My people are fools; they do not know me…” (Jeremiah 4:22) Let us not suffer the same fate as those who died in the wilderness. They had the same option, we now have, to prevent their undoing. It is to accept God’s invitation to sustain a daily, intimate relationship with our God to discover who He is and to know Him!!! God bless, I remain His Minister and watchman, Glynn Adams. glynnadams@sbcglobal.net (My thanks to Kay Vinci of Morningstar Ministries for some of her insights on I AM)

© 2025 Glynn Adams – All Rights Reserved

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By Rob Pue

March 23, 2025

In the hectic activity of our daily lives, it’s easy to become comfortable and complacent when it comes to our personal devotion to God and our own personal spiritual condition.  Many attend church weekly, but many others don’t have a good, solid Bible-teaching church in their area.  Many have good intentions to study God’s Word daily, and many actually do, but for others, their daily devotional and prayer time can easily end up on the “back burner” when life gets busy, and we get tired.

I understand that many of us are tired these days.  We need to work hard and put in long days to earn a living, and the cost of everything has risen substantially with rampant inflation and price increases due to “shortages” — many of which I believe are intentionally imposed on us by nefarious groups.  And work is only a part of our lives. We also have busy home lives, with cleaning, maintenance, repairs, broken appliances and house projects to do.  Then we have family commitments and at the end of the day, it’s not uncommon to simply be worn out.

Worship of, and reverence for God is something all Christ-followers have in their hearts, something we certainly want to make a priority, but often times, life just gets in the way, unless we are intentional about our spiritual commitment.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, and today, both the spirit and flesh easily grow weary.

On the night of His betrayal, Jesus went to the Mount of Olives and told His disciples, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.  Tarry ye here and watch with Me.”

This was just after the Last Supper, when our Lord had shown Himself to be the ultimate Servant of all.  He’d washed His disciples’ feet, instructing us to learn the humility to do likewise as we follow Him in service and ministry to others.  It was an intimate, significant moment in history.  But then after asking His disciples to watch with Him, He went further on by Himself, fell on His face and prayed to the Father, asking if it would be possible that the cup of wrath would pass from Him.  But He added, “nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”

The scene here is one of great spiritual distress, turmoil and sorrow.  Jesus knew what was coming and that He must face it.  He knew He would soon suffer and be killed in the cruelest of ways, to defeat the works of the devil and offer the only way of salvation and reconciliation for mankind to return to God the Father.

Then He came back to where His disciples were, only to find them asleep.  They were understandably tired and worn out.  Most likely, none of them could truly grasp the magnitude of the situation at hand, and though He had asked them to “watch” with Him, they all fell asleep.

Even Peter, who had just vowed to never abandon Jesus, had fallen asleep in His greatest time of need.  Matthew 26:40, “And He cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, ‘What, could ye not watch with Me one hour?’”  Peter must have been ashamed of himself.  But Jesus went away alone again to pray — two more times — and each time He returned to the disciples, they were sound asleep.

By that time, Judas, the one who betrayed Him, had arrived with his group of killers, sent by the chief priests and religious elders to arrest Him.  The time to “watch” with Jesus was over, and upon His arrest, all His followers, including Peter, “forsook Him and fled.”

Indeed, our spirits may be willing, but our flesh is so weak.  What would have made the disciples’ flesh stronger in that moment of fear?  Paying more attention to the Lord’s words, His teachings, His commands.  Having the spiritual eyes to see and discern the gravity of the situation.  Understanding that in everything that happens in our lives, every time of opportunity is there for just a fleeting moment.  The door of opportunity always closes quickly, and slams shut tightly.

I would submit to you that this time in the Garden of Gethsemane, at the base of the Mount of Olives was the most significant time of testing the disciples had ever faced up to that point.  It was also the most significant time in the history of mankind, second only to Christ’s crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection.  Yet Jesus’ disciples couldn’t grasp the significance.

In our modern world today, we’re presented with many times of great significance in our lives, but we usually underestimate what’s right before our eyes, and only understand later, when it’s too late.  Those times of opportunity pass quickly, and the door of opportunity slams shut with a bang.  Then we grieve as we realize what we missed.

And today, we stand at the threshold of great open doors of opportunity — to witness to others, to minister to and serve others, to be ready with answers to deep spiritual questions, to snatch the souls of those who are ignorant and about to perish from deception, confusion, delusion and ultimately, eternal damnation.  That’s what Jesus’ disciples eventually went on to do with their lives, after He returned to sit at the right hand of God.  But before they could go forth and minister to all the world, they first needed to really understand the things of God and cultivate great reverence, honor and awe of Him in their own hearts.  It was only after they were so deeply spiritually moved that their “flesh” became strong — strong enough to endure any type of persecution and hardship and gain the ability to deny themselves in order to serve the King of kings…willing to “love not their own lives, even unto death.”

Are we that devoted and committed to our Lord?  I doubt many of us are.  Not really. Our spirit may be willing, but we always have an excuse.  Can we not devote one hour to our Creator and Savior each day?  And if we, who know the truth, are unable to reverence and honor the Lord like this, how much more lost are those who have never heard the Word, because no one has ever told them?

Our world today is about as Godless as it’s ever been.  As I follow our local news, I grieve as I see the weekly “crime gallery.”  This is a published listing of mug shots of people arrested for various crimes. The people range in age from 18 to 85.  The crimes run the gamut from forgery to identity theft, to child abuse, drug use, drunk driving, and extreme violence against others; even murder. I look at the faces of those arrested and see broken people and lost souls. What’s missing from their life is just one thing: God. If they knew God, reverenced Him, feared Him, honored Him…their lives would have been so different.  Instead, most are now facing inevitable prison time and a life in ruins.  Not to mention the many other lives they’ve destroyed with their crimes.

And for each face I see in the “crime gallery,” I know there are a great many more just like them who just haven’t been caught yet.  Yes, our world is filled with people who don’t know the Lord or anything about Him and if they do, there’s no respect, fear or worship of Him.  You can rarely go anywhere in public without hearing foul language or seeing people — young and old — so confused, lost and deluded.  I have empathy for the criminals because I know that without God in my own life, this could very well be me.  “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”  Should we not fall to our knees daily in thankfulness, praise and worship of the One Who saved us?

Can we not “watch one hour?”  Have we become so cavalier, so comfortable and complacent that we’ve come to take God and our spiritual life for granted?  Are you satisfied with your current spiritual state, or do you have a deep desire to grow more, to reverence God more, to honor Him more, to worship and serve Him more?  Do you already have that intimate, personal relationship with your Creator and Savior you so long for?  Or…is something missing, and you know it?

Now, I’m going to ask you to do more than just “watch one hour.”  I’m going to ask you to invest one weekend to vastly strengthen your spiritual commitment.  On April 4th & 5th, Wisconsin Christian News is hosting a Ministry Conference with the theme, “Revival & Reverence, Returning to God.”  What could possibly be more important or urgent — for all of us — than a thorough deepening of our faith as we come together as the Body of Christ in reverence, repentance, worship and awe?  This is not just “church as usual.” This is a special time of learning, spiritual growth, renewal and worship.

Our speakers will include Art Pawlowski, the Canadian pastor who’s been aggressively persecuted by the Canadian government for years now, simply for preaching God’s Word.  We’ll have Dr. Ted Broer from Florida, offering deep insights on prayer and explaining what happens when we pray.  We’ll also have Pastor Matt Trewhella, Scott Schara and Dawn Wolf from Wisconsin, as well as Coach Dave Daubenmire and Dr. Mike Spaulding from Ohio; Pastor Butch Paugh from Call To Decision Ministries of West Virginia, and national recording artist and retired pastor Layton Howerton from Montana.

Our theme verse for the event is Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”  Yes, Lord.  Oh, how we all need that.  I’m also asking that you do your best to bring some guests with you.  Do you know a young person who’s struggling with confusion, depression, lack of direction for their lives, and answers to questions that no one has been able to provide?  Please, bring them.

Do you have friends who are “nominal Christians?”  Do they have a form of Godliness but still deny the power thereof?  Would you like to minister to them in ways they’ve never experienced before?  Bring them with you.  Is your own family fractured or broken?  Are there relationships that you need to mend? Perhaps even your own marriage.  Come.  Come home to Jesus.

Don’t remain stuck in the never-ending news cycle of politics and cultural theater.  There’s no political solution for our spiritual condition.  Nothing else but returning to God will ever heal our land.  It’s time we took 2nd Chronicles 7:14 seriously, instead of simply quoting it and then lamenting that nothing has changed.  If things are to change — in your own life, in the lives of those you care about and love, in our overall culture and society — it’s really up to you.  God doesn’t force anyone to come.  Instead, He stands at the door and knocks.

Has Jesus been knocking on the door of your heart, yet you’ve managed to ignore Him?  If He is knocking, He won’t stop. He’s not willing that any should perish.  If people perish, it’s because that is what they chose.  This is your Call to Decision.

I know there will be many reasons why you think you can’t come.  There will be many excuses the enemy whispers in your ear to keep you away from this event.  Instead of telling yourself why you can’t come, ask a better question.  Ask, “how can I make it possible to be there?”  Ask, “how can I bring others with me?” Ask, “Is God Himself calling me to be there?”  And ask, “Is this not exactly what I’ve needed in my life for so long?”

The Conference will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wausau, Wisconsin.  We begin Friday night at 5 pm and then resume on Saturday morning at 8 am.  We’ll finish Saturday by 6.  Those who wish to be baptized will also have that opportunity at the end.

Pre-registration is required, and tickets are just $69 per person — for a full weekend like you’ve never experienced before.  Go to WisconsinChristianNews.com for the details or call me for more information at (715) 486-8066.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and that door of opportunity is open to you now…but now you must decide what you really want and need in your life.  More of the same?  Or something infinitely more deep and substantial?  April 4 & 5 is coming up quickly.  You owe it to yourself, your loved ones and God to commit to one weekend.  Your spirit is willing. Don’t let your weak flesh stop you.

© 2025 Rob Pue – All Rights Reserved

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By Dr. Mike Spaulding

March 23, 2025

American government, which is to say, American politics has become a convoluted mess of near opaqueness. This condition has been intentionally constructed to distract and disorient the casual observer. The more serious individual given to a thirst for truth will find the veneer frustrating but the treasure of seeing clearly achieved through perseverance, well worth the effort.

To begin to unravel the quagmire that has become American politics, one must refresh their understanding of history. Philosopher George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” For our concern in this article, a more apt quote from Santayana might well be, “A country without a memory is a country of madmen.” Indeed, America has become a country of madmen and women. Irrational and illogical beliefs rule the day and are foisted upon sane people through the threat of lawfare – refuse to use the pronoun of choice for any number of delusional people and you could find yourself unemployed. Or refer to someone as a she when they claim to be non-binary; or refuse to accept that gender is a social construct. Or reject the idiocy that men can have babies. The question on millions of American’s lips is this: “How did we ever get to this place where good is evil and evil is good? How has darkness been substituted for light and light for darkness; bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter?” (Isaiah 5:20)

The answer to the insanities that have gripped America is found in revisiting our American history. When we understand our shared history, we will clearly see through all of the demonic subterfuge that characterizes our current situation. When we take the time to investigate, an undeniable pattern of deliberate corruption emerges.

We could start by examining the current progressive Marxists in our government. But they are merely the symptom or result of what came before them. To unravel the mess, we will start with a brief history of American politics.

I remember taking courses in American history in high school. It was and remains my favorite subject. Knowing our history means knowing our shared values. Understanding why our government did certain things makes sense when you understand the context or history of those decisions. Knowing our history also points out times when government failed its citizens.

Tammany Hall

One of the subjects I studied was called Tammany Hall. Briefly, Tammany Hall was the name given to the political machine that ruled New York City in the years after the American Civil War. The Society of St. Tammany began in 1789 as a social club whose members met to discuss many things of interest including the politics of the day. Not long after its founding the Society of Tammany began to realize that it could wield political influence. Society members also learned quickly that political influence resulted in their preferred candidates for office being elected. Tammany supported candidates showed their gratitude through political “graft” and “spoils” directed toward the organization and individual members. The graft and spoils given were jobs and other unmerited favors to party supporters who voted in block for candidates. Tammany Hall became so powerful that the Democrat national convention of 1868 was held at its New York City building.

Notable figures such as William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, elevated the corrupt power of Tammany within New York City politics even after Tweed’s illegal activities were exposed and he was imprisoned.

The point to understand here is that political “machines” that promise certain candidates elected office and then deliver on that promise is nothing new to American politics. The Daley political machine in Chicago is another well-known example of government corruption and the graft and spoils system that supports their continued existence while undermining our republic.

I doubt that today’s American student is taught anything concerning this era of political corruption. If they do, chances are good that it is shown in a positive light and not for the evil it was and remains today.

Codifying the Unwritten Rules of Corruption – Saul Alinsky

Long-lasting political machines that deliver consistent election victories for the Democrat party are a carefully managed enterprise. People need jobs, companies need contracts and voters need managed. These things are axiomatic in the Progressive Marxist Communist Democrat Party of today. Not until recently have the tactics of the Democrats become spelled out.

In 1971 a Chicago Community Organizer, which is synonymous with Marxist Communist, by the name of Saul Alinsky published a short book titled Rules for Radicals: A Primer for Realistic Radicals. Telling was Alinsky’s tribute to what he called the “first” radical.

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.
― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Alinsky’s book was nowhere near a best seller. Its main appeal was to college students who thought they were born to change the world, and to young people who fancied themselves radicals. The truth is that Alinsky’s book appealed to the corrupt natures of rebels and anarchists. Among them were the Weather Underground, a far-left militant Marxist Communist group founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969. Alinsky’s book became a “how to” manual concerning corrupting voters through mis and dis information concerning the Marxist Communist agenda. It was popular among such people as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Frank Marshall Davis, and Barack Obama, a self-proclaimed Community Organizer himself.

Alinsky’s rules were simple and powerfully effective. Among them are two worth noting.

• Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense for ridicule even when the ridicule is irrational or infuriating. Ridicule can serve as pressure to force your enemy into concessions.
• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

One anonymous author summarized Alinsky’s strategies thusly:

Progressives exploit the weaknesses inherent in the system, made weaker by pitting opposing forces against one another. They also oppose independent, morally strong, educated people because those individuals, especially in groups, can’t be manipulated easily. They attempt to end-run constitutional rights with social contract and dialectic consensus methods. Alinskyites engage in large scale social engineering, attempting to unfreeze a society using chaos, and to then refreeze it in a new predefined shape. The dividing lines they polarize people on are most often racial, economic, religious, and political.

The main goal of Alinskyites is to cause social instability through subversive and divisive rhetoric. One method is to control the outcome of the education system by lowering the standards of education so that it creates a dependent class. As adherents to the Cloward-Piven strategy, they use their political platforms to overload a society with social spending programs and class warfare to the point that hatred and division cause social panic. Once they’ve created a problem, they propose themselves as the answer and use wealth transfers and the trumping of rights as the method to bring about “equality”.

Progressives, Marxists, and Communists deploy Alinsky’s tactics in a manner which accuses their opposition of doing exactly what they are doing. Psychologists call this transference, but it is much more diabolical than this. The Democrats have been using the “race card” for decades. Its usefulness has been nearly depleted because Americans are not submitting to this intimidation any longer.

Americans are not racist for demanding law and order in their cities. They are not racist for insisting on a level playing field. They are not racist for demanding that borders are secured and that illegal aliens coming into this country are stopped completely. They are not racist for demanding that deadly drugs are taken off their streets. The Democrat Leftists Marxists Progressive Communists try to frame these issues in a way that suggests inherent virtue in lawlessness, in violent crime, in open borders, in lawfare aimed at Americans who disagree with their satanic agenda of chaos.

If this sounds familiar it is because this is exactly what the Democrat party has done to America for several decades. The shrieking and screaming emanating from Democrats such as Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Jasmine Crocket, Jamies Raskin, and Al Green just to name a select few, is the result of their Marxist tactics being exposed.

Graft and Spoils Become Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

By far, the most egregious thing President Trump has done as far as the Progressive Marxist Communists – the Democrat Party – is concerned is he has destroyed their decades in the making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion con.

Whereas the old Democrat party machine distributed jobs, political appointments, and other favors based on individual loyalties, the new Democrat Marxists distribute their graft and spoils to tribalized blocks. They have created ethnic and racial quotas as a means to ensure their desired outcomes. They have done so by infusing civil rights language into their propaganda. As Daniel Greenfield points out in a recent article:

The great objective of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) was to tribalize our institutions, recruiting government and corporate employees into affinity groups based on their race, sex, sexuality and other factors, and then defining institutional goals around the “right” tribal mix through selective hiring and promotions.

The complete inversion of civil rights, from race-neutral to race-conscious, also transformed the intended purpose of government and all lesser institutions, from tribal neutrality to tribal partisanship, and it was impossible to achieve this without tribalizing government.

Government and other institutions stopped being merit-based or democratic and came to reflect the tribal coalition politics that had come to define the Democratic Party’s urban machines.[1]

The Marxist Communist Democrat Party also managed to create fear among corporate board rooms to the extend that corporations rushed to create an office of DEI to signal to the race hustlers among the Democrat Party and their associated bureaucrats, that they had submitted to the new orthodoxy.

Tribalized blocs were embedded not only in elected government but within the bureaucracies whose employees became activists, promoting and rewarding their “own kind” to broker votes. The shake-down politics of Jesse Jackson’s PUSH movement and imitators like Al Sharpton began the process of embedding the same system within major corporations. Corporate lobbying, from Comcast’s NBC deal to Philip Morris’ tobacco business to Enron’s shady finances, came to depend on recruiting some of those same minority organizations to defend them.

Corporate DEI finished the job by modeling government and university systems with top DEI officers and “affinity groups” that employees were strongly encouraged to join for the sake of their careers. Soon corporate life had become equally tribalized with blocs of employees that saw it as their mission to defend and promote members of the same group above their stated jobs.[2]

While most of the press, Marxist Democrats, and activist judges appear concerned about the defunding of USAID, the real prize for the Trump administration is the dismantling of DEI within the government, educational institutions, and corporations.

The critical nature of this effort to destroy DEI cannot be understated. Americans must understand several important points when discussing DEI. First, by its very nature, DEI created civil rights violations. Merit was discarded for quotas and favored affiliation. Exasperated by a Critical Race Theory invention of white supremacy, and white privilege, civil rights violations were and to this day continue to be created by DEI initiatives.

Second, Americans must understand that the culture created by DEI will not disappear easily. Tribalism has become embedded in Human Resource departments across a spectrum of organizations. A whole generation of professionals have become convinced that certain groups of people – tribes – must be elevated and advanced despite the inefficiencies and in some professions, dangerous conditions they create for peers. The California wildfires debacle is a clear example of the insanity of DEI promotions. Of course, the mainstream media quickly and quietly moved that spotlight off of this disaster.

Third, American Christians must lead the charge to correct the defamatory and destructive practices and results of DEI. Race relations in America were deliberately enflamed by President Obama. A primary tactic of the Marxist democrat Party is to use race as a bludgeon to silence anyone who sees what they are doing to undermine peace and prosperity for all.

The challenges that America faces are not insurmountable, but they are formidable. An entire generation of college students as well as young professionals have been deceived to believe that prejudice and discrimination are virtues when they are applied to disfavored groups. When vice becomes virtue, the entire nation is at risk.

Where This Is Headed

The Marxist Democrat Party has nothing to lose at this point. Their favorability rating is the lowest it has been in over thirty years. Americans are disgusted and fed-up with racial, identity, diversity, and gender politics. The Founding Fathers intent for America must be realized once again. Continuing to assert tribal rights to quotas or reparations based on previous wrongs is itself racist. True equality is a level playing field. Freedom is the right to happiness and prosperity, but those pursuits are individually realized. Attempting to rig the system for an outcome that benefits corrupt politicians and further balkanizes America must be stopped. Diversity of thought is good, but forcing diversity of interests is sure to bring about a catastrophic implosion. Our national security and future of America are at stake.

For Christians who see the issues detailed in this article, the time is now to speak the truth of God. Returning to God is returning to truth telling. The Democrats have attempted to silence our voice. We must not let that continue.

I am reminded of a verse of Scripture that is apropos for our time:

The cords of the wicked have encircled me, But I have not forgotten Your law. Psalm 119:61

The future of America lies in our faithful obedience to God. His Word will shine the necessary light to walk out of this nightmare of illogical and irrational thought and into a brighter day.

The church must rise up and rediscover its voice. Evil and wickedness have a name, and the enablers of these things have a name too. Learn them and speak to them clearly with conviction.

© 2025 Mike Spaulding – All Rights Reserved

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Footnotes:

[1] Daniel Greenfield, “DEI Detribalization,” March 18, 2025. Gatestone Institute International Policy Council. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21482/dei-detribalization

[2] Ibid.

By Andrew Wallace

March 22, 2025

We lost every war in the last eighty years, none of them for the national security of America or with a Constitutionally-required Declaration of War.

A majority of Congress is complicit, corrupt, well-bribed and swimming in the blood of millions of dead innocents and 105,000 of our military. No group in history is more contemptible than a majority of the blood-sucking Congress that have no ethics, morals, honor or redeeming qualities whatsoever.

How can the people tolerate a Congress responsible for unconstitutional wars, death of millions (including your sons and daughters), while impoverishing the people to do so?

It is a damn shame that during the last eighty years, young people served in the military based on false propaganda. Many were killed or disabled for life. I say it is criminal because the wars were unconstitutional without a Declaration of War, and had nothing to do with the security of the United States. The media and establishment propaganda lied and our military died for profit and bribes.

Veterans must be honored for serving to protect the United States, even if it was based on propaganda. People of military age are mostly interested in the opposite sex and accept media and government-sponsored educational and establishment propaganda as fact, and so do their parents. This reality is difficult to accept if you have been maimed for life or lost a child in an unconstitutional no-win war for profit of the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC).

We need the military on United States soil to protect us from Mexican cartels, freeloaders, and criminals crossing our borders and to deport those already here. The military must also protect us from internal Communist and terrorist attacks.

I repeat what is obvious: the United States can’t be invaded, and it can only be defeated in a nuclear war or by Communists and insurgents already here. Enemies just don’t have the ability to get here in quantity to fight a war (oceans). We have no genuine right or benefit to fight wars overseas unless attacked. Bring the troops home where we have 20 million illegal invaders that could be a Democrat/Communist force to overthrow our Republic!

These foreign wars for profit could not have been fought without funding by the income tax and fiat dollars printed by the unconstitutional and private Federal Reserve Bank. We have unconstitutional fiat money because they couldn’t print gold. All of this was made possible by the Great Coup of 1913 ( see my recent articles).

Note: The PSRRC learned from the Civil War that while tariffs and excise taxes funded the government quite well in peacetime, additional fiat money (Greenbacks) were required to fund a war. The income tax provides that funding.

Of course the Military Industrial Complex portion of the Parasitic Super- Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) ordered and profited from the wars and paid bribes to Congress. The PSRRC consists of the wealthy owners of stock who control and direct corporations to pay minions in the establishment to do their bidding.

Remember that the federal establishment is not a government, so I don’t refer to it as such. It has unlawfully usurped many state functions, but it is still not a government.

President Trump, please obey the Constitution and bring all of our troops home from 150 countries, terminate all foreign aid and care for the veterans as promised. We have no business in NATO; let Europe defend itself .We have no right to project military force unless we are attacked or to combat piracy. In simple terms, our troops should never be in combat in another country since any effective attack on us must be nuclear. Most of what the government tells us about Israel and Ukraine is a damn lie. Sorry, that’s the truth.

As is my wont, I have only covered important points of the subject to increase readership and understanding. Please pass this article on to officials and others who could benefit.

God bless you and the Republic

© 2025 Andrew Wallace – All Rights Reserved

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By Cliff Kincaid

March 22, 2025

They say “elections have consequences,” except when President Trump tries to implement conservative policies. The federal courts are full of Obama and Biden judges and the Supreme Court is led by a “Republican,” John Roberts, who teamed up with a Trump nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, and both sided with the three liberals to dictate continued foreign aid boondoggle spending to the tune of $2 billion.

These five anti-Trump judges carried the day and President Trump complied with their orders.

Now, President Trump is pleading with Roberts to save his presidency from a group of federal judges working under Roberts’ protection and perhaps direction and whose objective is to reassert the “power” of the judicial branch over elected presidents of the United States.

Trump is walking into a trap. He has received very bad advice from his lawyers and political aides.

In order to understand the judicial power  grab now taking place, usually described as “Judicial Supremacy,” watch my interview with J.B. Williams of the North American Law Center on my Rumble TV channel. He notes that the Democrats are using lawfare, or legal maneuvers of obstruction and interference, to defeat the Trump agenda that 77 million American voters endorsed.

It turns out that Roberts is a member of a special club that includes prominent left-wing judges. Revelations on the X platform by an independent conservative investigative journalist known as “Bad Kitty” have identified the members and their secretive ways.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says over 160 lawsuits have been filed against various administration policies and Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer notes that 235 “progressive” judges were confirmed under Joe Biden that are determined to block the Trump agenda.

Schumer said, “The good news here is, we did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump, last year on the bench, and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time. And we hope that the appellate courts, when it gets up there, and the Supreme Court will uphold those rulings. They restored the money to NIH. They required that 8,000 employees, federal employees, have to come back. We’re in over 100 lawsuits against them, and we are having a good deal of success. It’s only at the lower court level right now.”

“These activist judges are trying to control our entire federal government,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Fox News.

Do elections have consequences or not?

Liberal-left media organs are highlighting and celebrating various “setbacks” for Trump in the courts, such as:

• Ruling that DOGE likely violated the Constitution in dismantling of USAID. Go deeper.
• Blocking enforcement of Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service.
• Stopping the administration from terminating $14 billion in grants to so-called ‘climate action” groups.

• Reinstating probationary government employees.
• Ordering the Trump administration to pay USAID funds to contractors.

As J.B. Williams says, the Administration should have declared, in advance, that any rulings that impinge on the constitutional powers of the executive branch would be declared null and void.

President Trump took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. So why isn’t he defying left-wing activist judges undermining his policies? They do not have a monopoly on the correct view of the Constitution.

Founding Father Thomas Jefferson wrote about this, saying that “…The…question, whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law, has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the executive or legislative branches.”

Jefferson believed that impeachment of judges was entirely appropriate and constitutional. What is more, he believed impeachment was one way for Congress to make the courts responsive to the will of the people.

The Jefferson Administration was involved in the impeachment of federal Judge John Pickering of New Hampshire, who was removed, and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, who was acquitted by the Senate.

Impeaching judges is one way — but not the only way — to reign in judicial supremacy, and Jefferson knew it.

The other way is for the president to simply reject the courts’ interpretation of the law and the U.S. Constitution and to reject the courts’ jurisdiction.

In a previous broadcast on my channel, Dr. John G. West examined the cultural collapse of the United States and how our political and Christian “leaders” have failed to challenge “judicial supremacy” that has led to “rights” such as abortion and gay marriage that cannot be found in the Constitution.

President Andrew Jackson, one of Trump’s favorite presidents, defied the courts. Will Trump?

Trump aides like Stephen Miller are talking tough. He says, “…show us the line in the Constitution where it says a lone unelected district judge can assume decision-making control over the entire executive branch affecting 300M citizens? Any mention of nationwide district court TROs [Temporary Restraining Orders] ? Or permanent all-powerful bureaucracy?”

He adds, “Unelected rogue judges are trying to steal years of time from a 4 year term. It’s the most egregious theft one can imagine: robbing the vote and voice of the American People. Any ‘conservative’ legal commentator who fails to condemn this lunacy has lost all credibility forever.”

One commentator, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, sided with the Supreme Court, saying, “It will be up to the Supreme Court to define the limits of presidential authority, but Chief Justice John Roberts’ preemptive scolding of Trump for musing about judicial impeachment doesn’t bode well for the president.”

Why does the Supreme Court get to decide the ultimate view of what is constitutional and what is not?

Chief Justice Roberts had declared, in response to Trump’s threat of impeaching liberal judges, “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Yet, the so-called “progressives” had wanted to use this weapon against conservatives. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over made-up “ethics violations” and “political bias.”

I don’t remember Roberts objecting to that course of action. He seems to be under the influence of the “progressives” on the federal bench and in the national Democratic Party. That spells doom for Trump.

© 2025 Cliff Kincaid – All Rights Reserved

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• Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. usasurvival.org

By Paul Engel

March 22, 2025

• Why does the Supreme Court go gaga just about every time abortion comes before them.
• Coalition Life sued the city of Carbondale, Illinois, claiming a the city violated their rights protected by the First Amendment.
• This time, the Supreme Court wouldn’t even take the case.

Free speech jurisprudence has rested on shaky ground for decades in this country. Looking back at cases like Hill v. Colorado, Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health have left a confusing and contradictory morass of precedence, most if not all of it contradicting the Constitution of the United States. With the recent case Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois, the court had the opportunity to set the record straight once and for all. Instead, the court whiffed, and declined to even hear the case.

Background

As always, the best place to start is at the beginning.

Petitioner Coalition Life is a Missouri nonprofit that organizes sidewalk counselors to counsel, educate, pray, display signs, and distribute literature outside abortion clinics. Their goal is to engage in “one-on-one conversation in a calm, intimate manner,” as they find that approach most effective. Complaint in No. 3:23–cv–1651, p. 3, ¶10. The organization prohibits its counselors from engaging in intimidating or threatening behavior.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Sounds like a simple example of exercising the right to peaceably assemble to me, but if it were that simple, I wouldn’t be writing about it here.

Until the passage of Ordinance No. 2023–03, Coalition Life counselors engaged in sidewalk counseling outside abortion facilities in Carbondale. But, the new ordinance “severely hinder[ed]” their ability to do so. Id., at 11, ¶48. The newly enacted 100-foot buffer zone meant that Coalition Life counselors were forced to stand far away from those with whom they wished to speak. In some cases, sidewalk counselors had nowhere to stand but in the middle of busy roads, rendering intimate counseling activities effectively impossible.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Imagine being told that you cannot come within 100 feet of a location simply because you disagree with its stated purpose and wish to discuss that fact with their customers. Again, we aren’t talking about intimidating behavior, that was prohibited by Coalition Life. And if someone prevented someone from entering said business, I believe that would be criminal as well. But according to the complaint, none of that ever happened with members of Coalition Life.

Coalition Life sued the city of Carbondale, alleging, among other things, that the ordinance violates the First Amendment.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Problem number one for Coalition Life, is this ordinance cannot violate the First Amendment because it wasn’t passed by Congress. The First Amendment reads…

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,…

U.S. Constitution, Amendment I

Since Congress didn’t make this law, it cannot violate the First Amendment, but that doesn’t mean the act was constitutional.

No law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech; every person shall be free to speak, write or publish whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuse of that liberty;

Colo. Const. Art. II, Section 10

Since this is a violation of the state Constitution, it’s not within the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary. However, that isn’t the only violation of the United States Constitution.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;  nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;

U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 1

Since Colorado made and enforced a law that abridged the right of freedom of speech, and deprived people of the liberty to engage in conversation with others without due process, it is a clear violation of of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The complaint may have mentioned other violations, but it appears only the First Amendment question was brought to the court.

Needless to say, the city of Carbondale wanted this suit to go away.

When Carbondale moved to dismiss the suit under Hill, Coalition Life responded that over the years Hill has been eroded, but it nevertheless conceded that its claims were foreclosed insofar as Hill remains good law.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

When the city moved to dismiss the suit, they pointed to a Supreme Court decision known as Hill v. Colorado. This leads us to the second problem with for Coalition Life’s case: The belief that the previous decision of the court is “law.” It is not. Hill is precedent, showing how the court had previously decided a similar case. The importance of this will become evident as we get into the dissent.

The District Court dismissed the suit on the ground that Hill and binding Seventh Circuit precedent controlled. Coalition for Life St. Louis v. Carbondale, 2023 WL 4681685, *1 (SD Ill., July 6, 2023). The Seventh Circuit affirmed on the same ground, acknowledging the plaintiffs’ assertion that Carbondale’s buffer zone was “‘modeled after and nearly identical’” to the one upheld in Hill. 2024 WL 1008591, *1 (Mar. 8, 2024). Because Hill was the exclusive basis for both decisions below, this case clearly and cleanly presents the question of Hill’s viability.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

So this whole case was decided because it matched the case Hill v. Colorado, but was that case rightly decided?

Thomas Dissent

This history of this particular violation of people’s rights goes back to the Hill case from the year 2000.

In Hill v. Colorado, 530 U. S. 703 (2000), this Court upheld a state law restricting peaceful speech within 100 feet of abortion clinics.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

What made this law restricting free speech special? Why did the Hill court uphold the law?

Hill’s abortion exceptionalism turned the First Amendment upside down. As Hill’s author once explained, the First Amendment reflects a “‘profound national commitment’ to the principle that ‘debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open.’” NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U. S. 886, 913 (1982) (majority opinion of Stevens, J.). That principle applies with perhaps its greatest force to speech that society finds “offensive” or “disagreeable.” Texas v. Johnson, 491 U. S. 397, 414 (1989). Yet, Hill manipulated this Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence precisely to disfavor “opponents of abortion” and their “right to persuade women contemplating abortion that what they are doing is wrong.”

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Justice Thomas makes a couple of very important points. The court has used abortion as an excuse to ignore not only the First Amendment, but their oaths and duty as justices. As the author of the Hill opinion, Justice Stevens I believe, wrote, the First Amendment reflects a profound national commitment to debate on public issues. Yet the Hill court, along with the District and Circuit courts in this case, ignored that commitment, apparently for one reason and one reason only: To stifle debate about abortion.

To be sure, this Court has not uttered the phrase “we overrule Hill.” For that reason, some lower courts have felt compelled to uphold Hill-like buffer zones around abortion clinics. See, e.g., Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, 71 F. 4th 130, 141 (CA2 2023). This case is another prime example of that trend, and “[o]ne can hardly blame [lower courts] for misunderstanding” when “[w]e [have] created . . . confusion.” Gee v. Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast, Inc., 586 U. S. 1057, 1059 (2018) (THOMAS, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari). We are responsible for resolving that confusion, and we should have done so here.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

In 2000, the State of Colorado passed a law intentionally restricting speech. While this may seem to be an obvious constitutional violation, the Hill court got it wrong.

It was clear at the time that Hill’s reasoning “contradict[ed] more than a half century of well-established First Amendment principles.” Id., at 765 (Kennedy, J., dissenting); see also id., at 742 (Scalia, J., joined by THOMAS, J., dissenting). A number of us have since described the decision as an “absurd,” “defunct,” “erroneous,” and “long-discredited” “aberration” from the rest of our First Amendment jurisprudence.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

However, it wasn’t just the Hill court that got the First Amendment wrong, but Justice Thomas.

We have long stopped applying Hill. See, e.g., City of Austin, 596 U. S., at 76. And, a majority of this Court recently acknowledged that Hill “distorted [our] First Amendment doctrines.” Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U. S. 215, 287, and n. 65 (2022).

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

It seems the court long ago saw a problem with their Hill precedent, specifically distorting their First Amendment doctrine. Did you notice that? Justice Thomas didn’t say that Hill distorted the First Amendment, but the courts’ doctrines did. That arrogance did not end there.

Following our repudiation in Dobbs, I do not see what is left of Hill. Yet, lower courts continue to feel bound by it. The Court today declines an invitation to set the record straight on Hill’s defunct status. I respectfully dissent.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with Justice Thomas that the court should have taken the case, but not for the same reason. He appears to want to establish a new precedent, while I want to restore the Constitution to its rightful place as the supreme law of the land.

Thomas’ Justification

When Coalition Life petitioned for their writ, the court declined to hear the case. Justice Alito said he would grant the petition, but Justice Thomas issued a dissent. Let’s look at Thomas’ view on Hill in more detail.

Hill involved a 1993 Colorado statute that established “buffer zones” around abortion clinics. The law made it a crime for any person, within 100 feet of any “health-care facility” entrance, to “knowingly approach” within 8 feet of another person, without that person’s consent, “for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with such other person.” Colo. Rev. Stat. §18–9–122(3) (2024). Put another way, Colorado’s law—still in effect today—prohibits unconsented “sidewalk counseling” within 100 feet of abortion clinics.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Colorado enacted what is commonly called a “buffer-zone” law. Actually this is a double-buffer, since within the 100 ft buffer of a health-care facility you are not allowed within the eight foot buffer of someone else, but only if you wished to exchange information.

Shortly after the law’s enactment, a group of self-described sidewalk counselors who sought to peacefully “educate” and “counsel” “passersby about abortion and abortion alternatives” challenged the law under the First Amendment. Hill, 530 U. S., at 708, 710 (internal quotation marks omitted). This Court upheld the law as a content-neutral time, place, and manner restriction.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

This is one of the free speech violations that courts have adopted. As I pointed out, the Constitution of Colorado protects freedom of speech. Yes, you can be held accountable for the abuse of that right, but how is approaching someone to engage in that right abuse? The real question that should be asked is: Who has the responsibility to stop someone’s speech? Imagine if freedom of speech everywhere was treated the same way as Colorado treats it around health-care facilities. “Excuse me, is it OK if I wave and say hello to you?” “Do I have your permission to return the set of keys you just dropped?” “I’m sorry, is it OK if I drive past you with a sign on my truck?” But the court claimed that the state could abridge the freedom of speech as long as it wasn’t based on the content of that speech.

Hill’s errors were numerous. Whether Colorado’s law applies to a given speaker undeniably turns on “what he intends to say.” Id., at 742 (Scalia, J., dissenting) (emphasis in original). “A speaker wishing to approach another for the purpose of communicating any message except one of protest, education, or counseling may do so without first securing the other’s consent.” Ibid. Nevertheless, the Court deemed the law content neutral on the theory that it does not prohibit a particular viewpoint or a particular subject matter. Id., at 723. But, this Court had never—and since Hill, has never—taken such a narrow view of content-based speech restrictions. Buffer zones like the one at issue in Hill are “obviously and undeniably content based.” Id., at 742 (Scalia, J., dissenting); accord, id., at 767 (Kennedy, J., dissenting).

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Which brings us to the idea of content based discrimination. It’s one thing to establish rules for conduct in public areas that are content neutral. The use of bullhorns or demonstrations that obstruct traffic, for example, but that is not what the Colorado law did. Rather, it determined that if the content was “oral protest, education, or counseling” and if that content was expressed outside of a “healthcare facility,” that speech was restricted.

Justice Scalia could identify only one explanation for the majority’s anomalous decision: “[T]he jurisprudence of this Court has a way of changing when abortion is involved.” Id., at 742. Hill reflects “the ‘ad hoc nullification machine’” that this Court “set[s] in motion to push aside whatever doctrines” happen to “stand in the way” of abortion.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Yes, this was content-based restrictions on free speech. If the content was pro-abortion, no problem, but if it was anti-abortion, Colorado wanted to censor it, at least outside “health-care facilities,” which was generally used as a euphemism for abortions clinics.

Conclusion

As Justice Thomas noted, at the court things change when abortion is in the mix. What we have here is another case of courts placing their opinions above the supreme law of the land.

This Court has received a number of invitations to make clear that Hill lacks continuing force. Some of those invitations have arisen in cases with thorny preliminary issues or other obstacles to our review. See, e.g., Bruni, 592 U. S. ___ (opinion of THOMAS, J.). But, no such obstacles are present here. It is undisputed that Carbondale’s ordinance is identical to Colorado’s law in all material respects. It is likewise undisputed that both the District Court and the Seventh Circuit dismissed Coalition Life’s suit exclusively on the ground that those courts felt bound by Hill. This case would have allowed us to provide needed clarity to lower courts.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

I guess I’d call that a swing and a miss. Once again the court had a chance to fix a mistake from a previous court and didn’t. In Dobbs they fixed their decision in Roe, but here they failed to fix their mistake in Hill.

Hill has been seriously undermined, if not completely eroded, and our refusal to provide clarity is an abdication of our judicial duty. “We are responsible for the confusion among the lower courts, and it is our job to fix it.” Gee, 586 U. S., at 1059 (opinion of THOMAS, J.). I would have taken this opportunity to explicitly overrule Hill. For now, we leave lower courts to sort out what, if anything, is left of Hill’s reasoning, all while constitutional rights hang in the balance. I respectfully dissent.

Coalition Life v. City Of Carbondale, Illinois

Yes, the Supreme Court has failed to “provide clarity” in regard to their previous decision, but the fault is not all theirs. After all, the judges in the District and Circuit courts took oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, not the opinions of other judges. If either of those courts in this case had bothered to look beyond precedent, they may have seen the Fourteenth Amendment violation. Since our law schools apparently do not teach the Constitution, placing precedent as their primary concern, it’s not really a surprise that the product of their education is so flawed. Perhaps one day we’ll find someone who will bring a truly constitutional argument to a case like this. Who knows, maybe such a well founded argument could even turn the heads of the justices of the Supreme Court. We can always hope and work toward that day.

© 2025 Paul Engel – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Paul Engel: paul@constitutionstudy.com

This is about land and ownership. Should the federal government control our land or should we the People and our states?

Western states are handicapped vis a vis land ownership. The federal government owns over 46% of the land area in the 11 contiguous Western states, while it owns only 4.2% of the land area in the eastern state. About 70% of Utah’s total land area is under federal control. But this Act is about just 1/3 of the land in Utah, so the federal government would still control a good bit. The federal government controls nearly 70% of land in Utah, that is about 2/3 of the land in Utah.

Yet, on January 14th, the Supreme Court refused to let Utah file a seeking to bring 18.5 million acres of its land – which comprises only half of Utah’s land and its resources under state control. That doesn’t seem to be too much to ask.

The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States, which is about 28% of the total land area of 2.27 billion acres. Most of that land is in the Western states that is 46.4% of the land area in the 11 contiguous Western states.

The case, State of Utah v. United States, brings into question 18.5 million acres of what the state is calling “unappropriated” lands — essentially lands Congress hasn’t set aside for a specific purpose — that are managed by the Bureau of Land Management across Utah.

The federal government controls nearly 70% of land in Utah, in comparison to eastern states where that number is closer to 1-3%. “Nothing in the text of the Constitution authorizes such an inequitable practice or relationship,” said Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes.

Utah’s state leaders called the lawsuit “historic” — the state is better poised to manage land within its borders, they argued. The red tape that stymies forest management, permitting and industry would be gone, and local governments could generate more tax revenue.

What does the Constitution say about ownership of land in the U.S.?

“Article I, Enclave Clause

• empowers the federal government with exclusive legislative authority like that exercised for Washington D.C. over “Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock-yards, and other needful Buildings.”

“The United States’ indefinite retention of huge swathes of Utah’s territory severely restricts Utah’s sovereignty—both absolutely and relative to its sister sovereigns—including its powers to tax, legislate, and exercise eminent domain.

“This Court’s original jurisdiction is designed to defuse that kind of dispute between domestic sovereigns. The issues are purely legal and surpassingly important, as Utah’s ample amicus support attests. And the federal government’s actions are flatly unconstitutional. While the Framers authorized the federal government to maintain enclaves, own property needed to carry out its Article I powers, and to “dispose of” acquired federal lands, they did not empower it to retain unappropriated lands within a State in perpetuity.

“The federal government’s policy of indefinitely retaining unappropriated lands deprives Utah of basic incidents of sovereignty over nearly one-third of the land within its borders. That diminution upsets not only the Constitution’s careful balance between federal and state power, but also the foundational principle that all States enjoy equal sovereignty. Utah’s constitutional claims against the United States are precisely the type of “high claims affecting state sovereignty” that call for an exercise of this Court’s original jurisdiction.

“While the environmental groups are telling us that this decision is the right one, we must understand that these groups were either formed by Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) to be spoilers in fights regarding property rights or older environmental groups bought out by them – same result: attacking property rights, whether those by state and local governments or by individuals.”

An institute that promotes the constitution values of faith, family, and freedom, Southerland Institute, came to the conclusion on Utah’s transfer of public lands act:

Only one-third of land in the state of Utah is locally owned. The other two-thirds is controlled from Washington, D.C.  The transfer of Public Lands Act (HB 148) puts some those federal lands. back in state hands. The act demands that the United States Congress transfer public lands within the state of Utah back to the state by December 31, 2014, with the exception of national parks and monuments, certain wilderness and Department of Defense areas, and tribal lands). The act also requires Utah to pay the United States 95% of the proceeds from the sale of any land, while the remaining 5% is reserved for school funding in Utah in accordance with its Enabling Act

For well over 80 years our government has used methods that are not compatible with free state operations – and it has accelerated over the last 10 years, weakening the states abilities to deal with the 10th Amendment.

© 2025 Kathleen Marquardt – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kathleen Marquardt: koikpm@yahoo.com

By: Amil Imani

March 21, 2025

On March 11, 2025, Congressman Keith Self (R-Texas) sparked outrage during a House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee hearing by referring to Sarah McBride, the Delaware poster child of the progressive elite and self-proclaimed “first transgender member of Congress,” as “Mr. McBride.” The response was predictable—a truth bomb that sent the sanctimonious left into a frenzy. Bill Keating, that self-righteous loudmouth from Massachusetts, nearly choked on his own hypocrisy, demanding an apology and lamenting about “decency” like a preacher who’s lost his flock. Self didn’t back down—he slammed the gavel, adjourned the circus, and later told Fox News he’s not there to play along with McBride’s gender charade. “I don’t have to participate in his fantasy,” he declared, and it certainly deserves a standing ovation from anyone with a shred of common sense left in this country.

Self is no stranger to standing his ground. A retired Green Beret with 25 years in the Army, he isn’t some soft-handed career politician swayed by every gust of outrage. Lieutenant Colonel Keith Self was born in a military hospital in 1953 during his father’s service in the United States Army, returning to Texas with their five-week-old son. Self grew up immersed in discipline and duty—values he carried through West Point.

“His service took him to Europe, the Middle East, and the Pentagon, where he worked on the most sensitive military matters. Widely recognized for his strong leadership abilities, Keith served as Infantry Platoon Leader, Special Forces Detachment Commander, Company Commander, and Executive Officer to a Major General in Egypt, managing $2 billion in security assistance. In addition, Keith served in Joint Staff assignments in US European Command and later in NATO Military Headquarters in Belgium.”

This man has a backbone forged in fire, not the flimsy Play-Doh spine you see in many of D.C.’s spineless wonders. When he told conservative firebrand Michael Knowles, “I’m a retired Green Beret. I’m not sure what all the fuss is about,” you could practically hear the eye-roll through the screen—a soldier’s disdain for the petty tantrums of the perpetually offended.

Let us be honest: Self doesn’t have to tiptoe around McBride’s delusions. McBride can wear whatever he wants—freedom is a beautiful thing—but we shouldn’t be expected to accept the idea that biology is merely a suggestion. Self, reaffirmed his stance, pointing to Trump’s January 20 executive order, which states that the U.S. recognizes only two sexes: male and female. That’s not an insult; it’s a fact supported by science and logic, rather than the fevered fantasies of the woke brigade. McBride is free to live his life, but Self isn’t here to play pronoun roulette—he has a job to do, and it doesn’t involve coddling egos.

The left’s meltdown was immediate. Keating, with all the seriousness of a wet sock, attempted to shame Self into compliance by asking, “Have you no decency?” Oh, spare us the theatrics. Self didn’t toss around insults or start a fight; he simply called it as he saw it. McBride’s response, “Thank you, Madam Chair,” was a clever little jab, but Self didn’t engage. He shut it down and walked away, leaving the whiners to stew. That’s not cowardice; a man refusing to let a sideshow derail the mission. The hearing focused on arms control and U.S. aid to Europe, not a therapy session for delicate feelings.

This isn’t Self’s first rodeo with controversy, either. In 2023, he faced criticism for suggesting that the Second Amendment includes cannons—hardly surprising for someone who’s handled real firepower. He’s a constitutional bulldog, not a lapdog, so his district—a part of North Texas that favors BBQ over Brie—sent him to Washington. They’re tired of the pandering, and Self’s their guy: a straightforward vet who’d prefer to ruffle feathers than kiss rings.

The McBride incident fits into a larger pattern. Republicans have been attacking the transgender agenda since Trump’s return, and Self is just one soldier in this fight. Consider Nancy Mace, who promoted a resolution last November to ban trans women from Capitol bathrooms—aimed at McBride. Or take Mary Miller, who misgendered McBride on the House floor in February, proudly declaring, “Enough with the lies!” These aren’t random attacks; they represent a coordinated pushback against a cultural tide submerging reason in a sea of glitter and guilt trips.

And let’s not kid ourselves—the outrage is selective. McBride wants to be seen as more than a transgender icon, lamenting to Politico that she’s here for “housing, health care, and child care,” not pronouns. Fine, then stop turning every slight into a headline. Self didn’t storm her office with a pitchfork—he used a title and moved on. If she’s so focused on Delawareans, why is she holding on to pearls instead of policy papers?

Self’s stance isn’t about hate; it’s about standing firm. In a Congress where too many yield to political correctness demands, he’s a rare figure who chooses to face criticism rather than pretend to be polite. The woke mob can shout as much as they want—Self’s not budging, and neither are the millions who see through the emperor’s new clothes. He’s a Texas titan, a warrior in a suit, and when he drew that line in the sand, he dared the fools to cross it. They didn’t. They never do. Because deep down, they know he’s right—and that’s what frightens them the most.

© 2025 NWV – All Rights Reserved

By Lex Greene

March 21, 2025

Today’s democrats continue to make complete fools of themselves by claiming to “save democracy” while being the most “undemocratic” group in the country!

Not only did they illegally remove the only democratically nominated party nominee for President in Joe Biden last year and install an “un-nominated” replacement in Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, they also now use street violence, destruction of private and public property, lawfare and open threats of assassination against the duly elected President Trump and his cabinet members.

After losing all power in the Executive and Legislative branches of government and achieving the lowest approval ratings for the party in history, currently at only 27%, they have turned to the usurpation of Executive Branch authority via the only unelected branch of government, the courts.

Article I creates the sole “lawmaking” branch of the government in Congress, with members in both chambers elected by the people. Article II creates an Executive Branch with sole power over all Executive Branch Agencies, and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military.

Article III created the only “unelected” branch of government, the courts, which was supposed to be the least powerful branch of government as it is the only branch not elected by the people. Instead, the branch is made up of partisan political appointees, all of whom have proven to be partisan hacks engaged in promoting a particular political agenda.

These facts should be enough for all Americans to correctly conclude that the courts have no power over either of the other two branches, and for damn good reason. This “unelected” branch does NOT represent the people, but rather only the partisan political interests of those who appoint them, or those who control them!

Of course, any “democratic” form of government requires a government “elected by and accountable to” the people. The Judicial Branch is the only branch of government that is elected by and accountable to no one! As a result, it can not be allowed any power over anyone or anything, yet for over 200-years, this is the branch that has been running our country under color of law!

NOTE: Color of law refers to the appearance of legal authority or an apparently legal right that may not exist. The term is often used to describe the abuse of power under the guise of state authority and is therefore illegal.

Ruled by the Unelected!

Really America? You honestly think that our Constitution created an oligarchy of unelected and unaccountable highly partisan political appointees to rule this nation? Who the hell told you that? Have you never read the Constitution for yourself? Was it the lawyers who benefit from this lie, who convinced you the courts rule this country?

A “democracy” is defined as “a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives.” Why did you let your country become a nation governed by the only “unelected” branch of government?

Our Constitution didn’t even create a so-called “democracy.” It created a Representative Republican form of self-governance. Our Constitution requires a duly elected government, of, by and for the people…not an unelected partisan body always in search of more power for itself.

The problem is…people “assume” things that just aren’t true.

Because the Judicial Branch has lived well beyond its constitutional authority for over 200-years now, most Americans “assume” that’s how it’s supposed to be. In case they have any doubts, most lawyers will confirm, you are ruled by the only unelected branch of government, the courts, via so-called “case law.”

But are they right? Is it true? Or are they just additional beneficiaries of a runaway branch of government despotic in nature? It’s human nature to seek self-empowerment. That’s why the 3^rd branch was given no such power!

Thomas Jefferson had it right over 200-years ago…

“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against all liability to account.” (Jefferson’s letter to A. Coray, October 31, 1823)

As the only “unelected” body of government, it was granted no such power whatsoever in the Constitution. Yet, before the ink was even dry on that document, a single judge in a single court opinion, stole the power from the people in Marbury v. Madison (1803).

Since then, we have watched the court “create law” via mere court opinions (aka case law) and even amend the Constitution by the same method, including amendments never intended or envisioned by any American, legislative body or Chief Executive in the White House.

The Rule of Law, or of unelected Lawyers?

We are not a nation under the Rule of Law, but rather under the Rule of unelected lawyers. Congress makes laws…not the Judicial Branch. Even Congress is prohibited from making laws which are repugnant to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

But the courts have been allowed to destroy our system of self-governance under the color of law, the mere appearance of such power, which constitutionally, does not exist at all.

So, it is “unconstitutional” to use the courts to overthrow the legislature or executive branch. In fact, it is an overt act of usurpation, subversion, sedition and treason!

But so long as the people know no better or lack the courage to stop the practice of lawfare in America, the courts, and anti-Americans, can do anything they want to you and this country.

What happens next is up to you, the people!

Now you know! So, what are you going to do?

© 2025 Lex Greene – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Lex Greene: LexGreene24@gmail.com

By Amil Imani

March 20, 2025

The Democrat party is not simply irrelevant. Rather, it is America’s greatest adversary, driven by globalist priorities and divisive policies — a decaying shell scheming to undermine the nation that Donald Trump revived. From the Rio Grande to the Rust Belt, patriots see the truth: This is a radical mob set on tearing apart our borders, our jobs, and our freedoms. Republicans — especially in Texas, where the battle feels personal — must defeat this threat before it drags the whole country down. This is war — for America, not just Austin.

Once a cornerstone of American political life, the Democrat party has morphed into something unrecognizable — a force that now threatens the fabric of the nation. Historically a party of working-class advocacy and progressive reform, it has abandoned its roots in recent years to embrace a radical, anti-American agenda. This transformation demands scrutiny.

The Democrats once waved the blue-collar flag — FDR, JFK, all that jazz. Now? They’ve betrayed the working man. Newsweek nailed it post-2024: They lost the heartland — Pennsylvania, Michigan, and even Texas saw ranchers and oilmen switch to red. Why? Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) pushed her “Jobs for All” bill in January 2025, promising jobs but delivering billions to green-energy fat cats while rig workers in Odessa barely get by. Trump’s tariffs rebuilt steel towns; Democrats promote solar panels that nobody requested. America First means jobs, not handouts.

The Democrats’ border policy hits hard, especially in Texas, where illegal crossings overwhelm towns like Del Rio. Since 2021, Biden’s administration has allowed in over 10 million, according to Politico, flooding the streets with drugs and crime. Kamala Harris, the laughable “border czar,” smirked on CNN in 2024, cooing, “We’re a nation of immigrants.” Tell that to the ranchers dodging cartel bullets. Now, in 2025, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pushing through his “Pathway to Citizenship Act,” a February amnesty bill to secure blue votes nationwide. Trump’s wall helps stop the bleeding; Democrats tear it wide open.

Foreign policy is in disarray under the Democrats. They’ve aligned themselves with the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 2015 nuclear deal; Trump terminated it because it funded terrorism. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) tweeted in 2023, “Sanctions are economic warfare,” advocating for leniency toward Tehran while it attacks Israel. In contrast, Trump’s Abraham Accords advanced peace through strength. In 2025, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt., essentially a Democrat) criticized Trump’s China tariffs in a March speech, calling them “regressive” while Beijing continues dismantling American factories. From Houston to Harrisburg, Democrats betray us to tyrants.

Democrats oppose law and order — end of story. San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, regarded as a puppet of George Soros, released felons until voters pushed back in 2022. That’s their playbook: defund the police and embrace criminals. ABC News revealed GOP ads in 2024 criticizing blue cities for it — think Chicago, not just Dallas. Now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) promotes her 2025 “Community Safety Act,” which cuts police budgets for “restorative justice” rhetoric — because feelings can prevent carjackings. Trump’s firm approach succeeds; Democrats encourage chaos.

The Democrats cater to globalists, not to Americans. According to The Guardian, Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act funneled $369 billion into climate initiatives, while Texas drillers and Ohio miners received nothing. In February 2025, House speaker Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) promoted the “Global Climate Partnership,” tying U.S. energy to U.N. authorities. Forget that — we’ve got oil in Midland. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized Trump’s China tariffs in a March op-ed, lamenting that they “hurt consumers,” oblivious to the fact that they preserved jobs from Laredo to Lansing. It’s always elites over workers, every single time.

Democracy? They rig it!

Don’t fall for their “save democracy” tears. The Journal of Democracy reported that 20% of Democrats supported violence in 2021 — less than the GOP’s 30%, but still despicable. They cheered the riots of 2020. Harris tweeted support for bail funds — then cried when Trump defeated them in 2024. Now Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) proposes his Electoral College “reform” bill in 2025, a blatant power-grab aimed at eliminating red states like Texas. Trump won big; they can’t stand it.

According to Newsweek, the 2024 election proved one thing: Trump flipped Nevada as voters nationwide turned away from Harris’s woke rhetoric. Pew Research reported Democrats at 31% approval in 2023 — lower than a snake’s belly. From Schumer’s amnesty to AOC’s disdain for law enforcement, their actions reflect contempt for America.

Texas feels the strain at the border, but this is a battle for every patriot — our kids, our flag, our future. Trump is draining the swamp again; Republicans must leave these traitors behind. No mercy, no retreat.

© 2025 Amil Imani – All Rights Reserved

By Kat Stansell

March 20, 2025

The RPOF Is As Corrupt As Anything “47” Will Find Across the Country.

This week, the RPOF has struck again, with more blatant anti-constitutional corruption, This time, they have finished summarily removing the an entire ELECTED Republican Executive Committee, (REC) in Manatee County and replaced them with people of their own choosing. They have done this illegally, even according to their own latest rules. To whit: From the RPOF County Model Constitution, of Jan. 11, 2025,

“In the event no county committeeman or committeewoman is elected or a vacancy occurs for any other cause in the County Executive Committee, the vacancy shall be filled by a majority vote of those present at a regular or special meeting of the County Executive Committee at which due notice of the meeting has been given to all members and at which a quorum is present.’

In Manatee County, NO meeting was held, regular OR special, with or without special notice. Quorum? Wouldn’t have mattered, as you see.

The Republican Party of Florida has removed the people’s official choices, and inserted their own.

There was NO reason to remove any of these people. The RPOF simply sent a notice, filled with vague lies, via email, on March 13, to Trent Wayman, the duly elected State Committeeman of Manatee County, as follows:

“This letter is to inform you that after careful consideration …pursuant to the powers granted to the RPOF Grievance Committee, adopted unanimously at its March 6, 2025, meeting…I have accepted their recommendation that you be removed from the Manatee REC DUE TO DISRUPTIONS IN REC OPERATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE (NEW) TURNAROUND PLAN (from the RPOF Executive Board.”

They declared an immediate vacancy and Mr. Weyman was replaced by a young RPOF sycophant, Jennings DePriest, from Bradenton, not even the same precinct. What’s a small detail like this when everything else done is so wrong?

DePriest, as it turns out, lives in a luxurious home in a million dollar neighborhood, on which there are three years of unpaid tax liens which total just under $97,000. Is this a good person to put in charge of a county REC?

The other replacements were a scattering of party “pros” (you know the kind), NOT the choice of the voters of Manatee County. This gang included the appointment of Agatha Mantanes as treasurer. Hold that name. The Chair is to be Mark Flanagan, VC, Matt Kezar; Secretary, Jordan Vanadore; and Committeeman and -woman, DePriest and Jayne Kocher. Funny how they were all waiting at the ready for this…

Ms. Mantanes was involved in the drowning of a pro-MAGA meeting attendee’s ipad which had been used to take notes of a contentious meeting prior to the election of the MAGA candidates. It went missing but was later discovered, hidden in a house owned by April Culbreth, the former chair. The sheriff was informed, and the owner of the ipad, upon retrieval, found water running out of the computer’s ports. No charges, of course. Also, no notes of the important meeting.

Frankly, if I ever so much as hear DeSantis use the word, “constitution”, my scream will send my feline research assistants running for cover. The Republican Party of Florida is being run by very skillfully corrupt people.

So, to summarize, last week, it was the RPOF-sponsored legislation to remove verifiable audits from elections, and put controls on who may meet with whom. THIS week, they have broken their own “rules” to remove the Republican Executive Committeeman of Manatee County.

What especially infuriates me is this.

While our President is in Washington DC literally risking his life to remove the corruption from our federal government, HIS party in HIS home state is seemingly as corrupt as anything he is finding in the nation. They are a danger to every Floridian.

Donald Trump MUST be informed of this. Why he does not already know may be an indication of the depth of the depravity in the state.

© 2025 Kat Stansell – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kat Stansell: katvanatt@protonmail.com

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 20, 2025

How do you get your mind, emotions and arms around the insanities gripping America? Every day in the news, you hear or read about peoples’ madness occurring in our cities that baffles your mind, cripples your sense of ethics and destroys your understanding of common sense.

That honor student named Luigi Mangionie walked up to the president of United Health Care—a shot him in the back several times until he died on the street. That left a mother and her children without a father. That kid killed a man in cold blood.

Even more insane, thousands of Americans posted $750,000.00 in cash to defend him in a court of law. How do you wrap your mind around that kind of insanity? In the end, he should be sitting in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Cold blooded murder!

But then, you’ve got Bryan Kohberger, who by all the evidence compiled, walked into a student house in Idaho and executed four young college kids. For all intents and purposes, he did it for kicks to see if he could get away with it. And yet, he’s got tens of thousands of dollars given to him to try to judge his innocence. Let’s face it, the same thing happened when O.J. Simpson killed his wife and the boyfriend, but O.J. walked free. Was that nuts, or what?

How do you intellectually digest THAT kind of insanity?

Look at the nursing co-ed at the University of Georgia, Laken Riley, running down a runner’s path, and murdered by one of 15 million illegal aliens and thousands of hardened criminals—set upon our country by Alzheimer’s patient Joe Biden, but no one in Congress did anything to stop the invasion in four years. How crazy is that?

And then, President Trump rounds up thousands of illegal alien criminals via Border Patrol’s Tom Homan, sends them off to jails in another country, but a U.S. judge blocks the Executive Order to deport them. Would that judge have made a different decision if he was Laken Riley’s father? Three other judges have blocked Trump’s deportation orders, too. Are they THAT stupid or THAT corrupt?

At the same time, the anti-American ACLU, that once stood for individual citizen rights—-fighting for criminal rights. More ironic, they place ads on TV for more funding. I would not give them a wooden nickel.

Why is it that we’ve lost all common sense in America?

You’ve got one of the smartest people in the world, Elon Musk, weeding out and cutting out all the corruption, graft and criminal waste of our tax dollars at U.S. AID, and multiple other government agencies—but internal criminal terrorists are firebombing his Tesla car dealerships. Does that mean they want more corruption, waste and fraud to continue with their (our) tax dollars?

Is that nuts, or what?

What about the fact that we spend billions if not trillions of dollars to fly to the moon and on to Mars, when we have over 1.0 billion human beings living in abject poverty on earth. We’ve got 4.0 million children under the age of 12 starving to death annually and 8.0 million adults. The misery is beyond comprehension, but do we solve THAT problem on our planet home? Of course not!

Then, you have to ask yourself, “Who in their right mind wants to live on the moon? Or Mars? Why would you want to live in a concrete bunker on Mars for your whole life? Anybody think that would be a “really wonderful experience?”

We’ve got 774,000 homeless in America, but spend billions on war preparation. Why didn’t we solve THAT homeless problem before we sent $200,000,000,000.00 off to Ukraine? Who in their right mind, with an ounce of common sense, keeps doing these really stupid things?

General George Patton said, “Politicians are the lowest form of life on Earth. And, democrats are the lowest form of politician.”

When you see the reports of the INCREDIBLE corruption in all our federal agencies, you cannot help but wonder who is running our country? Answer: crooks, swindlers, liars, thieves, gangsters, but mostly, politicians.

When it comes to absolutely insane craziness, we’ve got female governors supporting biological men beating the crap out of biological women in sports. Worse, those same women and men move toward the courts to support their insanity. How do you wrap your rational mind around THAT degree of stupidity, insanity, and madness?

How is it that the entire mainstream media covered up the fact that a sitting president, Joe Biden, for four years, suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease, and he could not govern our country, and relied on his wife and inner circle to cover up and fool the American public? We’re talking a level of journalistic corruption that will go down in the history books as the biggest scandal in American politics.

Why is it that our 30 million legal immigrants and illegal aliens have been sending over $800,000,000,000.00 (billion) in cash transfers back to their countries, ANNUALLY, but not a word written about it by the mainstream media? Source:

“International remittances have recovered from the dip in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrants sent an estimated USD $831 billion in international remittances globally in 2022, an increase from USD $791 billion in 2021 and significantly more than USD $717 billion in 2020.27 As in previous years, low- and middle-income countries continued to receive vast sums of remittance inflows, which increased by 8 per cent between 2021 and 2022 from USD $599 billion to USD $647 billion.”

We are being robbed blind, but we pay for their anchor babies, their breakfasts and lunches, their schooling, their medical care, and Section 8 Housing. We pay legal immigrants billions in SSI payments just for moving to America without any funds whatsoever. Examples are: Detroit Muslim population over 300,000. Minneapolis’ Somalian Muslim population at 125,000—all eternal welfare. You can chalk all that fraud up to our politicians in Washington DC. They party; we pay!

In 2025, we’re being “Woked” to death with absurdities beyond understanding. Instead of your mother, she’s a “birthing person.” We’ve got homosexual drag queens giving shows to grade schoolers. We’ve got 12 year old “trans girls” getting their breasts removed so they can identify as boys. Little biological boys are getting castrated so they can “identify” as a girl.

You, dear reader, can come up with more insanities that you’ve watched on TV or in the news. At some point, we need to come back to “reason”, to “rational thinking”, to “critical thinking”, to “common sense.”

Because if we don’t, our civilization faces some rough consequences in the years ahead.

E-Mail Frosty: frostyw@juno.com

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By Cliff Kincaid

March 19, 2025

It was at a recent local anti-Trump “resistance” rally that I took actual photographs of lunatics carrying posters and signs threatening the assassination of President Trump and a “guillotine” for Elon Musk.

“Assassination is the highest form of public service” one sign said. This left-wing “resistance” rally included one man carrying a pitchfork with a picture of Elon Musk’s head on it. He wore a “Tax the rich” T-shirt.

The guillotine was a method of executing those condemned to death during the French Revolution. The Jacobin government that used the guillotine was called the Reign of Terror.

Today, Jacobin is the name of a popular Marxist publication.

This “resistance” rally started off the day at Frederick City Hall, in Frederick County, Maryland, and then marched to the local Baker Park to hear calls for slavery reparations and other causes.

It was held on International Women’s Day, March 8, which was the idea of Marxist theorist Clara Zetkin and established at the 1910 International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen. She thought women’s “equality” was necessary to establish a socialist society. What that means, in practice, is getting women out of the house and into the workforce, so the job of raising children can be left to the state.

Alarmed by the direct calls for violence being made by women, I called the local FBI office about these threats and was directed to the Baltimore, Maryland FBI office and no one picked up the phone. I called the local Sheriff’s office and a deputy said they couldn’t act unless there was evidence of an actual conspiracy to kill Trump or Musk.

By then, of course, it would probably be too late, considering the state of the FBI, which was unable or unwilling to stop the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt on President Trump.

Director Kash Patel must act quickly as Democrats are openly embracing “resistance” that includes threats of violence.

Cheers from the Audience

I didn’t see any sponsor or speaker take issue with the signs advocating death for Trump and Musk. One speaker asked about those in attendance and many raised their hands indicating they were either federal workers or teachers.

One sign on display showed Princess Leia, a female character from “Star Wars,” with an automatic weapon. It declared, “Well behaved women rarely defeat empires.”

“A woman’s place is in the revolution,” said another female with a sign. Still another said, “No women’s liberation without Palestinian liberation.”

Hence, destroying Israel AND America are the objectives. And feminists (and trans activists) are the shock troops.  (Lucy Grace Nelson, a transgender activist also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, is charged with hurling incendiary devices at a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado).

Over the course of my career, I have covered literally dozens of demonstrations on the left, from anti-nuclear protests featuring Jane Fonda to openly communist conferences sponsored by the Workers World Party (from which I was ejected), and have never witnessed such a hunger for death and destruction.

This is the anti-Trump resistance. They want Trump and Elon Musk, a special government employee running DOGE, to be dead. Trump has already survived two assassination attempts and is clearly in the crosshairs for more.

This “resistance” gathering in Frederick, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area was backed by a local group called Rise Up Frederick, which meets in the local Calvary United Methodist Church, and the local Democratic Party, which advised participants to “make and bring creative signs of resistance.”

Those death threats were certainly creative and dangerous.

Approved by a Christian Pastor

The group Rise Up Frederick is led by the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel, who served 17 years as pastor of Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ in Frederick and is described as a preacher on “social justice” issues.

Director Kash Patel is trying to reform the FBI and get agents to respond to real threats from criminals and terrorists. Clearly, they didn’t monitor this event.

In the meantime, citizen activists can understand left-wing politics by covering what local Democrats do in your own community.

Since the FBI is still out to lunch, I suggest that conservatives attend these events and take photographs and pick up their literature. You will discover an interesting but frightening nexus of organizations ranging from communist to anarchist to religious.

These gatherings are potentially more dangerous than the anti-Israel protests on college campuses.

The local events are where potential assassins can be inspired to act and kill people.

Amidst this bloodlust, one demonstrator could be seen holding a sign declaring “On stolen land, no one is illegal.” It was meant as an appeal for illegal immigrants but also signifies the idea that European settlers stole the land of indigenous people.

Though many of those attending this event denounced billionaires and oligarchs, I found that, not surprisingly, there is a George Soros link to these local activities.

Local Democratic Party chair Mari Lee announced that they were creating a “Resist Fascism” page on their website that provided a link to Indivisible, a Soros-funded group that “Fights to defeat the rightwing takeover of American government and build an inclusive democracy.”

The Indivisible group, given more than $9 million in grants from Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2017, is staging “town halls” around the country to embarrass Republicans in Congress.

The “Palestinians” and Anarchists

So-called “Palestinian activists” waving their flags at the Frederick event distributed three pieces of literature:

• “8 Things You Can Do to Sop ICE” brochure,
• A “Frederick Permanent Ceasefire” pamphlet, and
• An “anti-Zionist zine” or small pamphlet proclaiming “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” and designed to “act as an amulet to safeguard you in further actions.”

The “Stop ICE” brochure was produced by something called “CrimethInc.,” pronounced as Crimethink, which describes itself as an “international network of aspiring revolutionaries” that includes people who “have thrown ourselves completely into the struggle for a better world.”

This is typical communist rhetoric.

From February 28 to March 2, according to a website linked to the group, hundreds of “abolitionists and anarchists from across the country” recently held a meeting to implement their agenda of “abolition and destroy,” a reference to resisting “blatant fascism while simultaneously cultivating the world we wish to see blossom in its ashes.”

They want to see America reduced to ashes.

Nationally, groups seeking to destroy America’s capitalist system include the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism & Liberation, Workers World Party, Communist Party USA, African People’s Socialist Party, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Socialist Unity Party, Spartacist League, Revolutionary Communist Party, and the Party of Communists USA.

The FBI doesn’t monitor these groups anymore because so many are tied directly to the Democratic Party. That can and should change under FBI director Kash Patel.

The “anti-Zionist” literature being distributed at the Frederick event directed people to “Stormbringer Press” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that listed various anarchist projects such as:

• The Socialist Rifle Association, an “inclusive, anti-capitalist organization dedicated to advocating for self and community defense.”
• Black Liberation Autonomous Collective.
• Antifascists in the Pittsburgh area.

Local sponsors of the Gaza “Ceasefire” campaign were the Islamic Society of Frederick, the NAACP, and the Democratic Socialists of Frederick.

Exposing the “Palestinians”

To understand the real nature of the “pro-Palestinian” nature of the event, it is important to have the facts about the phony “Palestinians.”

I recently interviewed American-Israeli political commentator and journalist Sha’i ben-Tekoa on my Rumble channel about the so-called “Palestinians” and he explained how the  Arabs and later the communists adopted the “Palestinians” as a scheme to destroy the Jews and Israel. His book, Phantom Nation: Inventing the ‘Palestinians’ as the Obstacle to Peace, explains the history of this scam.

The local anti-Israel groups working hand-in -glove with the Democratic Party use the resources of national organizations like the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.

The Muslims, though massive in numbers, are not capable of organizing the thousands of anti-Israel protests we see around the world, including in the United States. People like the Syrian-born Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University depend on the communists to turn out people.

On this level, I have found through covering these protests that socialist and communist groups provide most of the manpower and organizing expertise. My report on the communist-organized “Free Palestine” rally in Washington, D.C. on November 4, 2023, can be found here.

Of the various sponsors, the New York-based People’s Forum is significant in the communist realm, for it is directly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation and is financed by millionaire Neville “Roy” Singham, an American businessman based in China. Its “1804 Books” affiliate has merged with Liberation, the publisher of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

We need official investigations of these groups.

As we wait for Kash Patel’s reforms to take effect, Congress can act.

The much-maligned House Committee on Un-American Activities was succeeded by the House Internal Security Committee, which published “The Workers World Party and Its Front Organizations” in 1974. After that, liberals in Congress forced the committee to go out of business and communist and socialist groups accelerated their subversive activities and started working openly in the Democratic Party.

With conservatives now in charge of Congress, bringing back the House Internal Security Committee should be easy to do. Exhibit number one should be my report “Inside the Anti-Trump Resistance,” complete with photographs of their death threats.

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By Lex Greene

March 19, 2025

Constitutionally speaking, the 3^rd Branch of Government, the Judicial Branch, exists for only three reasons;

1. To uphold, protect, enforce and preserve the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
2. To equally apply the laws adopted by Congress, without any partisan, ethnic or other prejudice
3. To settle disputes peacefully in a courtroom, rather than by force in the streets

None of these purposes can be served by “unconstitutional” Common Law “lawfare” courts.

How many times have you heard someone say, or have you referenced, “our constitutional rights?” We do not have any “constitutional rights.”

The U.S. Constitution is not a document defining our Rights as legal American citizens of the United States. It’s a document establishing a Federal Government under certain terms and conditions and assigning the different branches of that government with certain specified separate duties, and the powers to carry out those duties.

What about the Bill of Rights? Again, this document is not an enumeration of the people’s Rights.

Instead, it is a list of additional specific prohibitions of government power. Each of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights is a specific prohibition of federal authority, establishing that all other Rights and powers remain with the People under the 9th amendment, or the States under the 10th.

These two founding documents only establish the limited powers of the Federal government. They have nothing to do with the Rights of the people, other than the Bill of Rights is a specific protection of certain People’s Natural Rights, via the prohibition of federal authority in those areas, such as the “inalienable Right” to keep and bear arms.

Our Rights do not come from government. Their power and authorities come from us, We the People.

The only Founding document that talks about our Rights as American citizens is the Declaration of Independence. The true source of our Rights is established in the opening stanza of this document;

“to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them;”

The “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” are the source of our Rights. Our Rights are “endowed by our Creator,” not regulated by our public servants.

Constitutional Law is based upon the Natural Rights of the people under The Laws of Nature. Freedom, Liberty, Life, the Pursuit of Happiness, are all “Natural Rights.” Government has no authority or power over Natural Law or Natural Rights.

But the government is in full control of everything and everyone via the use of British Common Law, which makes the Judicial Branch an unelected, unaccountable, partisan appointed oligarchy able to undermine and destroy all Natural Rights of the People, via court opinions, what they claim is “case law.” Under Constitutional Law, there’s no such thing as “case law.” Only the Legislative Branch is granted any lawmaking power.

Constitutional Law and Common Law cannot coexist as a result. One is used to destroy the other.

We either have Constitutional Law, or the courts stand in violation of the Constitution itself, for using Common Law practices and procedures to destroy the inalienable Natural Rights of the people.

Last, “unalienable” and “inalienable” are not really synonymous terms. Inalienable is the correct term when discussing the Rights of the People.

That which The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God have given, no one has the power to take away. That’s what it means to be “inalienable.”

So, when we see judges or courts attempt to usurp the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch, or the Legislative Branch, these judges and courts are acting well beyond any constitutional powers or authorities granted them by the People, via Article III of the U.S. Constitution.

Such acts are…and should be declared despotic acts by the 3^rd Branch, with a clear intent to undermine the constitutional authority of the other two separate independent branches of government. Federal Judges are not elected by anyone. Each is merely a partisan political appointee, chosen and appointed for their “activist” views. British Common Law is used to undermine Constitutional Law and all Natural Rights of the People, via mere court opinions.

“Common law is law that is derived from judicial decisions instead of from statutes.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is itself a nine-member oligarchy of unelected and unaccountable “partisan political activists,” when left unattended and free from any constitutional restraints.

The open call for all Americans to be “forever vigilant” in defense of our own Natural Rights, was intended to prevent the very real “constitutional crisis” we witness daily today. Until we have legitimate constitutional courts again, absent the use of British Common Law, we have no peaceful means to restore our Constitutional Republic.

“Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” (Thomas Jefferson letter to Abigail Adams, September 11, 1804)

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By Bradlee Dean

March 19, 2025

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”-2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights

Over the last 3-4 months, we have been working on a Second Amendment documentary with James Gillette that highlights constitutionally who we are and what our God-given rights entail (Hosea 4:6).  This is to confront those who are attempting to drive an un-American narrative by indoctrinating the people in hopes of overthrowing those God-given rights (Micah 6:16).

In other words, it gives an education as to who we are, not who we are not.

Forefathers Face-Off With Modern Politicians – The 2nd Amendment Is A God-Given RIGHT, Americans, Not A Privilege! 

Enjoy:

After watching this documentary, I believe that you will respond in such a way that I have, and that is by educating others who may not know the difference.  Please share.

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By Karen Schoen

March 18, 2025

“The problem isn’t lack of food, money, water or land. The problem is that you’ve given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their power than helping mankind.”  —Bill Hicks

Have you noticed yet that all the screaming pointed to Elon Musk and DOGE are made by a  group of people  who have benefited from these disgusting, disgraceful grants.

Every executive order addresses reducing the budget is adding real growth through lowering energy costs. It drives the left crazy because they are finally being EXPOSED. As we are discovering, it takes an algorithm to find the corruption and money laundering. Elon is working with a group of extremely intelligent people and they have the algorithms.

As Rand Paul said, “We have to make choices.”

Which comes first, American citizens or citizens of every other country? Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Foods Stamps are the staples of our tax system. Everything else must be borrowed. Why the heck are we borrowing money to pay for the pleasures of others, or are we?

Where’s the Money?

Where exactly is that money going?

As I constantly say: Everything is Connected and Follow the Money. According to DataRepublican.com https://datarepublican.com for too many years, the Deep State, the stealth shadow government, has been borrowing money to enrich themselves. Our borrowed money has been funneled through left Communist organizations into NGO’s and charities designed to DESTROY America by creating a color revolution. A Color Revolution is a revolution designed to change the culture of a country.

Here is an example:  The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors gets a grant from We The People through a grant from USAID.    Defending Democracy gets a grant from Rockefeller who then gives a grant to an NGO dedicated to funding migrants. Defending Democracy gives money to dictators who gives money to an organization like The Clinton Foundation. The money, our money, goes around in a circle to the same people who become extremely wealthy while robbing us BLIND and putting us, Joe Taxpayer into the Money-Pit of Debt.

These people will NEVER stop because the worst thing to happen is for them to lose POWER.  This is why you see the Left losing their minds! Their heads are exploding! Because they have lost POWER. When you lose Power, you lose Money and Control as a result. They can’t stand it. The Left is losing their retirement “cushion” money!

Money, Power, Control. 

We must be smarter and remember they will lie constantly. Example: They are blaming Trump for inflation. We are still living under the Biden/Harris budget with their insane spending. Until that is stopped, inflation continues to rise. What can we do?  Make sure our legislator votes for a budget not a CR in March!

Prepare for hard times. Stock up now so you won’t have to buy later. Buy necessities not luxuries.  The Biden inflation will probably take 2 years to work through this Biden/Harris mess.

A much wiser Trump and staff have jumped ahead of the DNC. By using policies put in place by Obama and Biden, Trump has outsmarted the deep state and left them in the dust. DOGE is actually an agency put in place under Obama with a different name.  It is almost a blessing that Trump lost in 2020 because it gave him time to study and plan and the public a chance to see the corruption and prepare for changes and choices.

Anyone who thinks Trump could fix anything in one week with the opposition he is getting from the elected liars and cheats, is living in a dream. Common sense tells us this economy will take time to fix. We all know the left has no plan except to complain.

You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail.

You, however, can have a plan! As a former math teacher, I discovered that  an economics education was a thing of the past. No one will protect you other than you.  So do you have a plan for your future? Retirement and no money don’t work well together.

Join me on my podcast at karenbschoen.com Today’s guest is Anthony Castro, financial planner.  Join us and learn some new products that  can help you prepare for retirement.  Also hear from Kenny Edwards, pilot. Discover what is going on in the airline industry?

Remember:  Applying knowledge is power!

Applying Knowledge is Power

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By Steven Yates

March 18, 2025

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4,

Secularized classical liberalism proves to be unstable. Why?

Because while homo economicus was better off materially than he’d ever been before, he struggled with deep dissatisfaction. Modern art, modern literature, modern philosophy, modern music, all reflect to some extent a degree of dissatisfaction with industrial civilization and our anonymity within it. Some (especially the young) cast about for something more, had little trouble finding it, and this made the system as a whole vulnerable to infiltration by alien ideologies. That makes probing such ideologies essential to answering: is liberalism dead?

Left “liberalism.”

Reviewing: an advancing society of homo economic calls for the disciplined restraint of personal passions, the willingness to live by rules not created by oneself, social trust that depends on such rules being honored most of the time, and respect for institutions that pass the test of time. These include marriage and family, religion, property, a work ethic.

The twentieth century tore these apart.

Its philosophers (positivists and materialists all) disdained religion as outmoded superstition. They deconstructed ethical judgments as expressions of emotion or attempts at control. They privatized morality and “scientifically” destroyed the basis for controlling sexual passions (think: Kinsey reports, soft-porn empires such as that of Hugh Hefner who was a Kinsey disciple, today’s performers such as Miley Cyrus who cavort about on stage nearly naked).

Feminists hammered the family as “oppressive to women.” Many blacks denounced the work ethic as “acting white.”

What resulted owes more to Marxian collectivism than anything coming down to us from Frederic Bastiat or John Stuart Mill. Marx opined that collectivity is our true essence and that class interests dictate our consciousness. What happened to homo economicus? He was simultaneously collectivized and privatized. We’ll explore the first of these below; the second, in Part 4.

From John Locke to Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marx/Engels.

We should distinguish the British idea of freedom from the Continental idea of freedom. British philosopher John Locke outlined the former in his Second Treatise of Government (1690s). Paraphrasing: freedom is the freedom of the sovereign, self-owning individual to take action, acquire property, etc. Locke’s view is Cartesian. We’re blank slates (tabula rasas) at birth. What is free, owned, and acts, is one’s private autonomous intellect (explored in Part 2) which became homo economicus.

A few decades later, French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau outlined a different sense of freedom. His Social Contract found freedom in the individual subordinating his private will to the “general will” of the body politic. One who refuses can be “forced to be free.”

The “general will” is the will of the collective — a group of intellects or Cartesian homunculi somehow merged into one. Collectivism grew on the Continent even as Mill outlined secular classical liberalism in On Liberty (late 1800s).

The Hegel/Marx/Engels axis rose.

Classical Marxism: Dialectical Materialism.

This story has been told many times, so I will try to be brief. Marx and Engels held that the drivers of civilization were economic: your need to produce the means of your survival is a primary encirclement around your entire existence. Class arrangements surrounding how this happens condition your experience of the world and your consciousness.

Society is divided primarily into those who own the means of production (bourgeoisie) and those who own only their labor (proletariat). The state serves the former. Institutions such as the church rationalize these arrangements and mesmerize the proletariat into accepting their lot as God’s will. Hence Marx’s rejection of religion as “the opium of the people.”

Before Marx came German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel had distinguished lordship (Herrschaft) from bondservice (Knechtschaft). More commonly: masters and slaves.

In Marxian jargon, the former became the bourgeoisie; the latter, the proletariat.

Marx got his materialism from Ludwig Feuerbach. Materialism denies the Transcendent (i.e., God), and in Marx’s/Engel’s hands, the materialist theory of history proposed that civilizations are shaped by conflicting material (economic) interests — in which an immiserated class of Knechtschaften rises up and overthrows the Herrschaften and establishes new arrangements.

Hegelian dialectic: thesis generates antithesis, and out of the ensuing clash comes a new synthesis.

Historically: feisty incipient bourgeoisie strangled feudal lordshop and invented capitalism, based on private ownership of the means of production (given state protection in the form of property rights) and capital accumulation. The bourgeoisie would become as bad as feudal lords had been. This would immiserate the proletariat, setting the stage for violent overthrow by a proletariat vanguard.

Capitalism first must become globally dominant, so that no society escaped the bourgeoisie’s greedy clutches. It would then be overthrown in nation after nation, region after region. That proletariat vanguard would establish socialism, rooted in Continental collectivism. Lockean private ownership of the means of production would be abolished.

This process, to include subversion of capitalist states from within as well as incursions from without, would continue until socialism was universal. Since the state protected capitalist institutions, e.g., private property, and since socialism had abolished these, the state’s material raison d’être would end and it would “wither away,” leaving Communism. The End of History!*

Classical Marxism fails.

Not a single nation or region followed the Marxian trajectory. We know this. I feel embarrassed bringing it up.

Bolsheviks such as Lenin sang Marx’s/Engels’s praises but established brutal dictatorships. Under Stalin, actually existing communism murdered at least 36 million people. When communism came to China, the psychopathic Mao Zedong killed at least twice that many.

But wherever capitalism advanced (U.K, U.S.), material conditions of the proletariat improved by leaps and bounds. Many sought to join the bourgeoisie, and did so through consistent hard work, thrift, and thinking generationally (they might not make it but their children would).

All one seemed to need to succeed under capitalism was a product other homo economici (relabeled consumers) wanted and could pay for. Quite unlike Bolshevism and Maoism, no one had a gun at anyone’s head. Capitalism placed demands on people, but it didn’t mass murder them.

This was particularly true where the Christian worldview remained intact: God, family, that work ethic.

What were self-respecting Marxist “theoreticians” to do???

Cultural Marxism and “Critical Theory”; uprooting Christianity.

Seeing their worldview as wrong wasn’t an option. They were too ego-invested in it. So they reinvented it!

The Frankfurt School did the heavy lifting. Another figure to consult is Italy’s Antonio Gramsci. The former operated out of Frankfurt, Germany, at the Institute for Social Research founded in 1923. In the 1930s their efforts bore fruit. They wanted to understand why there was factionalism within leftist movements, why Bolshevism had failed to deliver Utopia, and why Germany had turned to Nazism. Being Jews, they fled their home country for the U.S. where they found academic positions in places like New York University and the New School for Social Research, also in New York City.

There, they formulated critical theory. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

 “Critical theory” refers to a family of theories that aim at a critique and transformation of society by integrating normative perspectives with empirically informed analysis of society’s conflicts, contradictions, and tendencies. In a narrow sense, “Critical Theory” (often denoted with capital letters) refers to the work of several generations of philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. Beginning in the 1930s at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, it is best known for interdisciplinary research that combines philosophy and social science with the practical aim of furthering emancipation. There are separate entries on influential figures of the first generation of the Frankfurt School – Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), and Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) – and the leading figure of the second generation, Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929).

In a broader sense, there are many different strands of critical theory that have emerged as forms of reflective engagement with the emancipatory goals of various social and political movements, such as feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and postcolonial/decolonial theory. In another, third sense, “critical theory” or sometimes just “Theory” is used to refer to work by theorists associated with psychoanalysis and post-structuralism, such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida (see these separate entries as well as the entry on postmodernism).

Unglaze your eyes. Let’s see what we can sort out.

Focus first on emancipation (or emancipatory). Leftists love such terms. They are fancy words for freeing some group. In what sense?

Consider: the Frankfurt School combined philosophy and social science, and later, gave rise to “feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory….”

Recall Rousseau and the submersion of the individual consciousness into the collective, and you should get the idea.

“Emancipation” is freedom from the autonomous self from capitalism and its demands, in favor of submersion of one’s individual will into that “general will,” whose mouthpiece is that vanguard we mentioned? There was, however, a problem. A big one!

As Max Weber had shown in his major work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (early 1900s), economics is not the primary driver of capitalist civilization.

A (mostly Protestant) Christian worldview is. That work ethic yet again, automatically embraced in the marketplace.

In Marxian jargon, bourgeois class consciousness infected the proletariat. And — egads! — it was Christian!

The problem for classical Marxists was that political economy is downstream from culture.

Thus cultural Marxism: prioritizing culture over political economy and beginning that “long march through the institutions” to capture and de-Christianize the culture.

Critical theory sought ways of doing this, looking for “structures of domination” unnoticed by those immersed in them, and so in “false consciousness” made acceptable through the hypnosis of religion. Only if cultural Marxists could expose all this could they ruin capitalism.

They retained Marxian class consciousness, which saw homo economici as experiencing, thinking, acting — and voting — with class, not as autonomous selves. Emancipation occurs within group identity, freedom being voluntary subordination of self (Rousseau).

False consciousness also explained anyone in an “oppressed group” who went off message, got out of line, refused to follow the vanguard. Those infected with false consciousness had to be purged, or as we’d say today, canceled.

Christianity being the major source of false consciousness, de-Christianizing culture by marginalizing Christians was the imperative. As they marched through the institutions of arts, music, entertainment, and education at all levels, cultural Marxists furthered whatever would portray Christians as mean, ignorant, backward, dogmatic, hypocritical, evil, or stupid. Eventually they infiltrated Christian institutions themselves: seminaries.

They drew on Freudian psychoanalysis, the so-called “social gospel,” “higher criticism” of Biblical texts, evolutionary psychology, whatever else was at hand that might prove useful in discrediting the Christian worldview among thought leaders and weakening its hold over the culture even among young and impressionable Christians.

Hijacking Dr. King’s dream; from equality to equity.

Cultural Marxism had inadvertent help because of the worst blunder in America’s past: slavery.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s cultural power (in addition to personal charisma) was his appeal to a transcendent moral order rooted in the Christian worldview. He’d begun as a theologian, after all. His call to extend equal opportunity to all Americans, opposing racial discrimination, could be seen as an extension of this: an appeal to that merging of classical liberalism and Christian values.

He was not calling to turn the tables on white people. He wanted them on board, and his effort was working. Civil rights and voting rights legislation could not have been passed without the support of a lot of well-intentioned white people, a few of whom sacrificed greatly for the cause.

Cultural Marxists hijacked Dr. King’s dream in the mid-1960s.

Herbert Marcuse penned his short essay “Repressive Tolerance” (1965). Anyone who desires to know where differential treatment favoring blacks against whites (eventually women against men, and other politically-designated oppressed groups against their “oppressors”) came from, this essay is the best place to begin.

Cultural Marxism played up the idea of black Americans being behind white Americans for structural or systemic reasons, the long arm of slavery’s influence, and not just individual acts of discrimination. Thus, calls for equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, equality under the law, etc., would continue to “privilege” whites.

Freedom of speech would have the same effect.

The call for equality had to be altered, and free speech curtailed. Thus the start of political correctness, long before anyone called it that.

Thus the replacement of equality with equity in official jargon. DEI, after all, doesn’t stand for diversity, equality, and inclusion; but diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Now you know why.

Equity assumes that due to the absence of a level playing field — something that has never existed, anywhere, under any arrangements — some must be given preferential favors in the present to bring about “genuine equality” in the future.

Displaced whites? As the saying goes, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Collectivism by nature sacrifices some for the perceived good of the whole.

Cultural Marxists thus used the supposed legacy of slavery to widen rather than heal existing divisions between blacks and whites. They encouraged the study of this legacy in pseudosubjects like “Afro-American studies,” and used myriad other devices to encourage resentment against whites (and white guilt).

Nothing widens divisions more than the perception that some are getting government freebies at the expense of others.

Divided populations, moreover, are easier to bend to the will of those interested in power. Groups look angrily at one another instead of the power-hungry.

A turning point was the Griggs v. Duke Power Supreme Court decision (1971) which shifted the meaning of racial discrimination from actions taken by individuals to politically unacceptable outcomes.

Then came the view that if nonfavored whites criticized such moves, they were motivated by racism. “Liberals” maintained this as loudly as possible. Many still do. They also maintain that those who don’t see “systemic racism” are blinded by their “white privilege,” i.e., their collective racial (false) consciousness.

See how this works?

Gender ideology.

Arguably, classical liberalism was on life support. Its reach was limited to a few think tanks. Cultural Marxism had marched through the major educational institutions and became a dominant force among the young who had no idea of its history or what had come before

Now, something else quite interesting began to happen. Products associated with the new consciousness became marketable. Corporations, smelling money to be made, got on board.

This is why corporations embraced DEI.

For by this time, the now-prevalent mindset had been extended to women, even if statistically, by the late 1990s single career women were doing better economically than single men who were even then losing ground.

Their marching orders: don’t speak of sex, a biological category, but gender, a social construct. Judith Butler, an academic philosopher, gave this idea legs in her book Gender Trouble (1990). Similar tomes appeared in other humanities disciplines. Academic feminists described this as “third wave” feminism (the “first wave” gave women the right to vote; the “second wave” called for equal pay for equal work).

Suddenly, gender was all the rage! It spread quickly to the legal profession, journalism, and corporations.

The traditional family was out!

When another then-academic philosopher, Christina Hoff Sommers, read a paper at a normally tame academic conference in the late 1980s entitled “Feminists Against the Family” which criticized “gender feminism,” as called it, the meeting turned hostile, with taunts, catcalls, and a degeneration into near-chaos.

Sommers had gone off message. She’d displayed “false consciousness.” She had to be canceled. During ensuing years, which included publication of her book Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994), her life was made miserable. She finally abandoned academia and took a research position at the American Enterprise Institute, one of those think tanks, where (to the best of my knowledge) she’s remained — still writing but without significant influence. Academic philosophers ignore her work.

In the 1990s, homosexuals were pulled in. This occurred via sympathetic depictions of homosexual characters in popular nighttime sitcoms. The march through that institution changed the culture from one repulsed by homosexuality to one fascinated by it.

The fact that Christianity rejects homosexual conduct as immoral drove Christians further to the margins. Worsening the situation was the fact, mentioned above, that discerning Christians realized they couldn’t trust their own dominant institutions. Eventually homosexual “marriage” was mainstreamed by the Supreme Court in Obergefell v Hodges (2015). The mindset had succeeded in subverting American higher education and corporate media well before LGBTQ+ and woke crept into our vocabularies (2010s).

Generation Z (born 1997 to 2012) grew up never knowing anything different!

Other marching orders: despite men’s continued loss of economic ground and their descent into substance abuse, health problems, and suicide, if they grouse about their situations, speak of toxic masculinity, respond with pejoratives like misogynist, or (if they are single and unattached “dateless wonders”) insult them as incels (short for “involuntarily celibate”).

Or just tell them to “man up.”

Transgenderism, the Disappearance of Truth, and the Rise of Leftist Illiberalism.

Where was truth in any of this? There wasn’t any! Truth had been postmodernized, one might say. Recall the Law of Three Stages, or actually, Four Stages (see Part 1)? By the new millennium, more and more films and other popular culture products seemed designed to make us question all our perceptions and beliefs about what’s real (think of 1999’s The Matrix). We were in an amalgamation of Third (modernity) and Fourth Stages (postmodernity).

The apotheosis of gender ideology was transgenderism, which tries to obliterate biological sex. Transgenderism is an extension of gender as a “social construct.” What is “socially constructed” can be deconstructed.

One can then speak of gender “assigned at birth,” in accordance with it’s being something other than chromosomal reality.

Or promote biological males (“transgender females”) participating in women’s sports or entering women’s bathrooms. Or encourage children to question the “gender” they were “assigned at birth” while offering them “gender affirming care” as they “transition” using hormonal treatments, etc.

In this new world order you can be any “gender” you like, and if anyone points out your chromosomal reality, you’ve been “misgendered.”

All of this is highly illiberal, despite its association in many people’s minds with what the Democrat Party calls liberalism. (Though in fairness, even California’s arch-liberal governor Gavin Newsom is now balking.)

Classical liberalism saw the individual as the primary social unit — that Descartes-originated autonomous intellect, itself a construct, becoming homo economicus, making decisions rationally and maximizing utility.

Cultural Marxism identifies us as groups: identity politics. It distinguishes oppressor from oppressed (in alignment with the Hegelian categories). One can identify with more than one oppressed group at a time, enabling complex constructs of oppression: intersectionality, introduced by critical race theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, during those years late 1980s – late 1990s when so much of academia went sideways.

In the cultural Marxist landscape, people don’t make decisions, act, participate in markets, or vote based on individual reason. Rationality is historical and group-situated, not objective or neutral. Treated as an objective source of truth, knowledge, know-how, and moral judgment, individual reason “privileges” the group-situation straight white Christian men (now labeled cisgender men).

Who Is this Individual Person?

I don’t recall how the conversation began. It was back in the 1990s, the decade identity politics first sank its claws into academic culture. I’d given a talk on the brand of libertarian thought I then defended. An English professor engaged me in a private conversation. What he said to me, “Yates, you’re a straight white guy. Take away your whiteness, your masculinity, your straightness, and what’s left?”

When I responded with something like, “Why would I do that? I’m just the thinking person you see standing in front of you, not a set of academic constructs,” he looked at me like I was from outer space.

My response was completely outside his conceptual framework.

There’s no such thing as even the Cartesian rational intellect, to these people, even then.

To stand against the tide of identity politics was to be in false consciousness, or be on the “wrong side of history.”

Such folks must be canceled!

As noted, the problem was that this sold in the marketplace, especially to Gen Z (and it’s no surprise that within Gen Z, a higher percentage than any previous generation identifies in some way as LGBTQ+, or “nonbinary,” or what-have-you)?

It made money. The term: woke capitalism.

This made many of the handful of remaining classical liberals shrug and say, in effect, “To each his own.”

So long as they aren’t bothering me!

Unfortunately, while this may be a good justification for leaving one’s neighbors alone, one can’t maintain a functional society on that kind of non-foundation.

At least we’re now seeing plenty of “false consciousness,” as record numbers of blacks and Hispanics voted for Trump last November. Is Trumpism a possible path back to a stable classical liberalism? Or a sign that all the narratives have collapsed, and liberalism (in all forms) really is dead?

*Marxian concepts can account for why the Soviet Union became a brutal dictatorship instead of a haven for proletarians: the Bolsheviks skipped a step in civilizational development. They tried to go directly from an agrarian-feudal economy direction into socialism, skipping the despised capitalist stage. They misgrasped Marx, who never denied that capitalism was essential. His claim was not that it couldn’t produce wealth, only that it couldn’t distribute wealth rationally or justly. It was capitalism’s inequities, immiserating the proletariat, that would lead to its downfall, a necessary step toward actual Communism.

It follows that, on Marxian terms, the Bolsheviks should have been agitating for capitalism, not socialism. Odd as this sounds. But some would come and correct this mistake.

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By Kelleigh Nelson

March 18, 2025

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom. —Steve Forbes

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world. —David Limbaugh

In 1932, the predecessor organization of the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.  —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The U.S. health care system is on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors, and limited access to care. – Michael E. Porter  He is a renowned strategy expert, who argues that the healthcare system needs a fundamental shift towards value-based care, focusing on improving health outcomes per dollar spent rather than just cutting costs, and competition should be based on results, not just price. This is what RFK Jr. also believes.

After eleven hours in the ER, I was finally shown to a room on the ninth floor of the University of Tennessee Medical Center.  It was 11 p.m.  Three nurses came into the room and I looked at the bed and said, “It looks as though an elephant last slept here.”  There was a huge dip in the middle of the bed.  They said nothing.

After they hooked me up to all the monitors, I got myself situated to where I thought I could sleep and the bed started beeping.  Yes, beeping!  I called the nurse.  She came in and thought she fixed it, but shortly after I fell asleep, it started beeping again and again the nurse thought she fixed it.  When it happened a third time, she said she would get the maintenance techs to look at it.  So, I stretched out once more until the two men entered and not only fixed the bed, but blew the mattress back up.  Why didn’t the nurses notice that to begin with?  It was 4:30 in the morning and at 7 a.m. the loudspeaker announced breakfast was being served.

After reading these other ER horror stories, I felt blessed, although I’m going to request an itemized list of the charges during my ER and hospital stay.

The map shows the ER waiting times in each state.  Remember, these are average times.

Prior to being admitted, I had been seen by my internist, two walk-in clinics, twice at Tennova Hospital’s ER and twice by my dermatologist.  I had been given three different antibiotics, including one bag of IV antibiotics in Tennova’s ER, none of which stopped the infection from a wound on the inside of my left calf. A plastic doggie gate had fallen over and skinned it.  My calf was swollen to twice its size.  After almost two months of this, my husband called our internist and actually demanded another appointment, not a month from now, but immediately and I saw him the following day at 11 a.m.

The internist took one look at the wound and the size of my very swollen leg, and sent a number of orders to the ER.  Once there, I sat and waited in this huge room filled with every specimen of humanity one could imagine.  I felt as though I was in a Petrie dish of bacteria and couldn’t escape.

My husband went home and later brought me back some lunch.  Meanwhile, I was checked in, and after three hours saw a PA who hooked me up to an IV of antibiotics and gave me a tetanus shot.  Then I waited another several hours for an ultrasound and CT scan.  I waited again until finally at 7 p.m. an ER room opened up.  I was hooked up to several monitors and another bag of IV antibiotics.  At 8 p.m., no one had come to check on me and I needed some help.  I disconnected everything I could except the IV, and waited over two hours, yet no one came into the room.  Obviously, I wasn’t being monitored.  I could have been dead in the room and no one would have known.

At 10 p.m., I called my husband and asked him to call the ER and tell them that I couldn’t reach the bathroom in the room to even get a drink.  A little black gal from another department came in and unhooked me.  Finally!  I thanked her profusely and told her I couldn’t get any help from anyone.  She said they were very busy and as always, short staffed.

I walked out into the hall and stopped a downwardly mobile male nurse who had a beard, long hair, tattoos and a nose ring and asked him if I was going to be admitted or if I could go home.  He said I would be admitted but I had to wait for a room.

The hospitalist, a female physician, came in and said they were admitting me, and asked what medications I took.  She said I would most likely be given strong IV antibiotics to kill the cellulitis infection and it could take several days.  I was thinking that I’m just too busy to spend days in a hospital, but if they could get rid of the pain and the swelling, I’d be happy.

At 11 p.m., my husband was with me and I was finally shown to a room.

After two and a half hours of sleep, on Friday morning, they actually brought in a really lovely breakfast, and several nurses came in to introduce themselves as the day nurses for the next three days.  They work three 12-hour shifts and then have four days off.  The charge nurse was a gorgeous little gal by the name of Emily.  She was training two newer gals.  After telling her about my ER experience, she said she knew exactly what I had been through as she had been there too. She has a heart problem which resulted in surgery where a special bar that monitored her heart was implanted in her chest.  She was very sympathetic.  She is getting married in August, and showed me pictures of the place they’d chosen for their wedding and reception.

I fully believe that every one of the female nurses and the techs, who constantly monitor your blood pressure, were hired by this hospital because they were beautiful, with gorgeous skin, and upwardly mobile, no tats, no piercings, no nose rings.  They were lovely young women and not just attractive, but talented and exceptional care givers.  And they saw to it that four bags of IV antibiotics were put through me every 24 hours, totaling 10 hours of antibiotics per day.  The day shift was from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Two items are posted on the walls of every room.  I took a picture of them simply because they tell a story themselves about both patient attitudes and patient care.

I had told the hospitalist in the ER the meds I normally take, but no one brought them to me on Friday or Saturday.  Thankfully, I had my own two meds in the bag my husband brought me.  The hospital usually substitutes the meds you are taking as they don’t want you to bring your own.  Saturday afternoon a new hospitalist came to see me.  He told me what was being done, answered some questions and spoke on the phone to another physician in South Carolina who knew my situation.  I chose to follow what the SC physician suggested, especially after I was discharged.  I told this new hospitalist that I hadn’t received any meds, but it didn’t matter to me.  Then they started showing up.

The hospitalist spoke to me for a good while and told me that both Covid and inflation had caused a huge number of problems in hospital care.  Apparently, many nurses left during Covid and they were short staffed everywhere.  I told him I was going to write about it and he said that was great, it needs to get out.

He also told me that I didn’t need the horrid heart monitor attached to me 24/7 as it was heavy and I had to carry it around everywhere.  I took it off.  The next morning, a tech came in and told me I had to wear it because it was ordered, but she couldn’t tell me who ordered it and obviously didn’t have the hospitalist’s orders for it to be disconnected.  I refused.

My night nurse for three nights was a young man named Chad. He was fantastic, and brought me two Tylenol every night along with the bags of antibiotics. He would tell me tales about his two little nephews and had me laughing to the point of tears. Really a terrific young man and great care giver.

I was released on Monday afternoon and a prescription for oral antibiotics was called in.  A dear friend of mine who had been through the same diagnosis, but spent weeks in the hospital with IV antibiotics said, “The minute I am in a hospital I want to go home, and I have to adjust my attitude in order to cope with the long stay.”  He was right and that’s what I had to do.

It will be another four to six weeks before the residual effects of this infection are totally gone. I never again want to go through what I’ve been through since January.

My internist wants me to come in for another blood test and a final checkup. Not all of his orders were followed by the ER or while in the hospital.  He never visited me while I was there.  Once I was home, I got a call from his office wanting to know what the diagnosis was.  I told the gal that he has access to all of the information regarding my care in the hospital and it would behoove him to check that rather than having me tell him as I may leave something out.  I also told her that I would come in for a follow up appointment when I felt comfortable doing so.

Conclusion

One needs to have the patience of a saint while sitting in today’s ERs.  The hospital nightmares are the result of laws passed by Congress, the devastating destruction of Covid, the shortage of healthcare workers and Biden’s massive inflation.

I am blessed to have a husband who came to the hospital twice a day, brought me lunch and iced tea and anything else I needed, but not everyone has someone who can watch over them as an advocate for care.  Advocates and families during Covid were not even allowed to be with their loved ones.

I would urge you to read Charline Delfico’s article, COVID Era Hospital Nightmares – Neglect and Abuse.  Many of the hospital horrors of the last five years were caused by the Covid plandemic.

The fundamental cornerstone of today’s US health industry is the monetization of suffering, because treating illness will always be more profitable than curing.

Our new Secretary of Health and Human Services will have his hands full trying to straighten out the disaster of America’s healthcare.  The decline started in 1984 when Dr. Anthony Fauci was appointed as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

RFK Jr. only has four years to fix 40 years of destruction.  Pray for him and pray he succeeds.

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March 17, 2025

Since Donald Trump was legally and honestly elected last November,  brainwashed lunatics, insane maniacs in this country whether they be ignorant, empty headed female hosts on the propaganda box (TV both “mainstream and cable…The View top of the list), college students, and their America hating professors and the Democrat/Communist Party USA have been in meltdown the likes I’ve never seen in my adult life and I’ve been in the trenches full time for 31 years.

Hysteria by females running to get tubal ligations so they can’t have children because Donald Trump won the presidency, both the popular vote and electoral college!  Trump is Hitler and he’s going to take away a woman’s reproductive rights when those pathetic brainwashed females don’t even know what they’re talking about.

The Democrat/Communist Party USA must be destroyed once and for all; leave that “party” if you truly love this country, freedom and liberty.  Not to promote the Republican Party because if you honestly reflect back decades, when they held the majority in Congress with a GOP president, all they did was keep funding fraud, waste and kick the can down the road while ignorant Americans began the predictable destruction screaming to protect “our democracy”.

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”  Benjamin Franklin.  When a majority of the country votes solely for what a political party promises, mob rule (democracy) will destroy the very freedom and liberties given to us by rivers of blood.

“The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.”  John Quincy Adams.  “Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”  James Madison.  “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”  John Adams

That’s where this country has been headed for decades and the Soviet-style propaganda being drummed into people’s brain and students in public schools (the younger the better) has birthed insane lunatics running governments from city councils, mayors, governors, state legislatures, Congress and the White House. From “woke” to out and out idiocy, what we’ve seen and been shoved down our throats is almost beyond words.  What’s been done to America’s children at the sewers they call public schools is obscene.

Governor wants to replace ‘mother’ with ‘inseminated person’ in state law – In new budget, references to ‘wife’ or ‘husband’ are changed to ‘spouse,’ ‘paternity’ to ‘parentage’ (Wisconsin) // (Not to mention she’s a prolific liar and the definition of narcissist.)  Can anyone name a dumber woman on planet Earth than AOC?  (My note, yes, try Sen. Mazie Hirono & U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, age 82 and wears purple hair.)

They/Them/Turtle’: Oregon mental health advisory board includes member who identifies as terrapin species, March 12, 2025: “A member of a state panel advising the director of Oregon’s Health Authority (OHA) on best practices and policies in mental health identifies as a “turtle.”

DOGE slashes $620,000 from pregnancy program for ‘transgender boys’ – Also canceled a program examining ‘black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey’, March 14, 2025

I could fill 50 pages of this insanity promoted by raving loons – elected by either vote fraud or by voters whose heads are planted in rectal darkness.  Jeri Lynn Ball wrote about this kind of brainwashing, the planned destruction of America’s moral compass and a responsible, self-determined, self-reliant people.

MASTERS OF SEDUCTION – Beguiling Americans Into Slavery and Self-destruction.  Jeri wrote her book in 2000.  Hussein Obama usurped the office of president by cheating twice and began, in his words, “the transformation of America” picking up where Clinton left off.  Anyone who doesn’t believe Hussein Obama is a die-hard Marxist is in complete denial.  Jeri’s book is out of print altho’ one can acquire a copy from rare book stores.  However, she wrote a 20- page preview of her book:

“In order to create their New World Order, Communists must destroy America’s fundamental ideas. Why? Because a nation whose citizens are governed and sustained by the economic freedom, is difficult to transform. Principled individualists think for themselves and are independent and self-reliant. They have integrity and self-respect. They’re loyal to their families, their leaders, and to their nation. A nation which upholds and defends principled individualism and laissez-faire capitalism has a high ethical standard. Its citizens will fight to defend their principles, their freedom and their unalienable individual rights.

“Today, most Americans are embracing the communitarian moral code, and this country is now in a process of disintegration, making it vulnerable to a takeover. Communists have sought to degrade the nation and to produce the maximum chaos. Communist psychological warfare has wreaked havoc in the lives and families of virtually all Americans. Human casualties—the drug addicts, criminals, alcoholics, suicides, neurotics, psychotics, the ignorant and the illiterate—number in the tens of millions. In his book, The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators:

“American Society At the End of the Twentieth Century, William J. Bennett writes, “[S]ince 1960…we have seen a 467 percent increase in violent crime; a 463 percent increase in the numbers of state and federal prisoners; a 461 percent increase in out-of-wedlock births…more than a doubling in the teenage suicide rate…and a drop of almost 60 percent on SAT scores.” The rate of divorce has “more than doubled.” The number of adults in prison now totals 2 million. Research studies show that drinking, drugs, and casual sex have become national vices.

“Since 1992, when Clinton and Gore began their bombardment of communitarian propaganda, teenage drinking and drug use has soared. Illegal drug use is now not only an urban problem; the use of alcohol, cocaine, crack, inhalants, marijuana, methamphetamines and other hard drugs has reached epidemic proportions in small towns and rural areas. Tens of millions of Americans are suffering from mental disorders, such as anxiety, panic attacks, depression, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, eating disorders, manic
depressive psychoses, and schizophrenia. Countless others are marked by aimless lack of purpose.  The Clinton-Gore Administration and its Communist allies are successfully achieving the ideological and psychological convergence of the United States and Communist Russia.

“America is becoming a replica of Russia: sick, brutal, deviant, vulgar and violent, yet slavish and submissive toward governmental authority.  Communitarian ideals block or cripple individual growth and development. They destroy independence, self-reliance, courage, and creativeness—and produce profound feelings of helplessness, worthlessness, and instability. They breed hatred, fear, ignorance, cowardice, indolence, dependency, and conformity. Every society which embraces the communitarian way of life is reduced to unspeakable poverty, and the people endure tyranny, slavery, and misery.”

America today.  Drugs destroying families, the mentally ill roaming the streets when they should be in a state hospital.  A dirty, filthy culture where web sites make young females tons of money by selling their skin while insecure males, losers, shell out big bux to see them show their nipples. Everyone wants to get rich as an “influencer” on some web site while politicians and unelected bureau-RATS continue to destroy the lives and livelihoods of hard-working Americans from our precious fishing families, ranchers and farmers to industrial and what little is left of manufacturing.  Keep the people distracted and addicted.

And the hate factor that’s been saturating the stupid tube (TV) along with daily helpings of everything is racist continues to bring riots and death threats to those who strive to bring provable facts to Americans or because they support “Nazi” Donald Trump with “Nazi” Elon Musk coming in second.

Well, Donald Trump didn’t just fairly win the election, he took the popular vote and the Democrat/Communist Party USA and their useful fools all crapped their pants.  Americans have had enough and this has to stop.  Conservatives are being targeted with violence and make no mistake who’s behind the dirty money funding this kind of grossly unacceptable violence.

Swatted: John Paul Mac Isaac, Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones And Law Professor Jonathan Turley Are the Latest Targets of Bogus Police Calls, Dec. 30, 2023

Infowars Reporter Jamie White Targeted on Ukraine’s Deadly ‘Kill List’ Before His Murder, March 11, 2025. 36-years old.  I’m sure there will be more on this in the near future.

DOJ and FBI Must Act NOW! VIOLENT LEFT Is Trying To Kill Conservatives and Their Family Members By Having Their Homes SWATTED: “They wanted the police to kill my father”, March 13, 2025 – “This morning, on “X,” Nick Sorter, who has over 900K followers on X, shared a chilling explanation of how his sister and his father could have both been killed last night during fake police reports that led to both of their homes being “swatted” by the police. “Swatting” happens when someone reports a made-up crime at a specific address. The police respond to the caller’s false crime with SWAT teams or Special Weapons and Tactics, placing the individuals inside the home in grave danger.

“When an individual or an individual’s family is “swatted,” it opens the door for an innocent person to be seriously harmed or even killed by law enforcement who have no reason to believe the caller has manufactured the crime.”

JUST IN: FBI Director Kash Patel Issues a Statement Regarding Radical Leftists Trying to Kill Conservative Figures by Having their Homes Swatted, March 14, 2025

“FBI Director Kash Patel has broken his silence regarding the swatting incidents targeting major conservative figures across the country.  As The Gateway Pundit reported, several conservative figures including Nick Sortor, Gunther Eagleman, and Shawn Farash have been swatted over the last couple of days.

“Catturd and Gunther’s brother Mike were also swatted this morning. This is the fourth time Catturd has been a victim of this left-wing terrorism.  This comes after Infowars journalist Jamie White was brutally murdered in Austin earlier this week while another journalist from the organization got swatted twice.”  You can read Patel’s warning at the link.

Twice after my husband passed away in Feb. 2016, I received death threats which I passed on to the FBI in San Antonio, TX.  I get them here and there but those two were serious.  One was a video on You Tube with some male holding an AK-47 and announced it’s time for Devvy Kidd to die.  He didn’t like my honest reporting about Muslims and the fact that Islam is a political party masquerading as a religion and the danger of allowing them into this country. 

The second was a Google map of my backyard (I sold that house in 2018) showing my three dogs.  Another Google image in the same email:  One of my Jeep Cherokees was in the driveway; John had one and so did I.  The text said the next time you turn on your Jeep Cherokee will be your last day on this earth.  I never give out my home address and in fact, our City Council has excused me from announcing it whenever I get my five minutes to speak for my safety.

Of course, the FBI – even though it was my case – would not give me any information.  The video disappeared within a few days; I don’t know if they bothered to try and track down the gutless coward who made the other threat.

I’m not alone.  If you’re not part of the liars, thieves and insane infesting Congress, state houses and even local “politics” promoting the insanity we’ve been living with for the past 20 years or so, you might be a target.

If you’re a whistleblower exposing the diabolical plans to destroy this country, you might end up dead just like Seth Rich in Washington, DC.  Coppers have remained steadfast it was just a robbery gone bad and I’m the Queen of England.

REPORT: Seth Rich Attended Party with Numerous DC IT Workers the Night He Was Murdered, July 28, 2017.  God rest his soul and I’m so sorry for his parents and now Jamie White.  Someone or someone’s knows about both of those murders. Bank money on it.  Man up and contact U.S. Congressman James Comer or Congressman Andy Biggs.  Two honorable men.

That old hag, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, is a hateful witch.  Bear with me on this:  Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb. Amazon: “In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.

“Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities.

“Webb’s original article spurred an immediate outcry. Within days of publication, both of California’s senators made formal requests for investigations of the U.S. government’s relationship with the cocaine ring. As a result, public demonstrations erupted in L.A., Washington D.C., and New York. Then-chief of the CIA, John Deutsch, made an unprecedented attempt at crisis control by going to South Central L.A. to hold a public forum. Representative Maxine Waters later said in George magazine, “I was shocked by the level of corruption and deceit and the way the intelligence agencies have knowledge of big-time drug dealing.”

“The allegations in Webb’s story blazed over the Internet and the Mercury News’ website on the series was deluged with hits—over a million in one day. A Columbia Journalism Review cover story called it “the most talked-about piece of journalism in 1996 and arguably the most famous—some would say infamous—set of articles of the decade.”

Mad Max had her panties in a twist over Webb’s investigative work.  She was outraged!!! but then sold out her constituents and went back to business as usual except Gary Webb then allegedly committed suicide.  I was shocked at the time. One other book well worth the time to read (maybe your library carries it):

The Big White Lie:  The CIA and The Cocaine/Crack Epidemic by Michael Levine, a 25-year veteran of the DEA – Amazon: “Drugs are unarguably a scourge on U.S. Society, with incalculable direct and indirect costs in drug-related crime, deaths, and injury.  Levine hopes that his book will open readers’ eyes to the U.S. governments’ questionable actions in its unsuccessful “war on drugs” and the fact that, while the U.S. government taxes Americans billions of dollars for stopping drugs, it is, at the same time, flooding its own shores with them.”

Top Democrat Attack Dog Maxine Waters Lashes Out at Trump, Doubles Down on Violent Rhetoric (VIDEO), March 13, 2025 – “The Democrats’ top attack dog Maxine Waters, 86, said President Trump is working toward a civil war.  “I believe [Trump] expects violence. I believe he expects confrontation. I believe he’s working toward a civil war!” Rep. Maxine Waters shouted.”

Maxine Waters, House Dems ripped for ‘unhinged’ clash with security guard at Education Dept – House Democrats unsuccessfully tried to enter the Dept of Education building on Friday morning, Feb. 7, 2025

Go listen to this – the hatred and in-your-face threats to a GOP U.S. Senator: “Holy Shlit. Senator Thom Tillis (R) released disturbing voice messages left by unhinged lunatics making death threats toward him. So much for “love and tolerance”.  More useful idiots who should be taken seriously because they’re too stupid to understand they’re just being used as pawns in a deadly game.

The bottom line is the evil forces, domestic terrorists behind the curtain are itching for conservatives and constitutionalists to do what they are doing.  Another set-up like Jan. 6^th.  And, I believe they’re recruiting the brainwashed, ignorant and useful fools to carry out their plans.  Jeri Lynn Ball was 100% on point when she wrote her Masters of Seduction book 25 years ago on using Soviet-style propaganda to create “the new man” (or woman”).

Lunatics and maniacs – besides the leeches that have crossed the border the past four years right along with deadly gang members, terrorists, murderers and rapists – are out of control in this country.  They are in elected and appointed offices and boards.  We must continue to resist and say no, we’re not going to take it anymore.

Not violently but through activism which I cover all the time in my columns along with groups and organizations that have been highly successful.  Yes, it requires sacrificing your time and becoming part of the rebuilding of our nation under the U.S. Constitution and our state reps and senators under state constitutions.

I pray Kash Patel goes after all of them and that includes mayors, sheriffs who refuse to cooperate with ICE, governors and members of state legislatures or Congress who promote violence and refuse to uphold their oath of office.  Arrest them, throw their asses in jail and charge those who are causing violence.  No exceptions because as the cockroaches in the Democrat/Communist Party USA in Congress love to chant:  No one is above the law.

And God bless Tom Homan for his amazing work in stopping the flooding of our border by human garbage from dozens and dozens of countries.  I know our Border Patrol agents who believe in upholding the law appreciate his support, leadership and courage.  Homan doesn’t back down to the scum in the MSM or DemonRat members of Congress.

I’m going to watch: “We have a new documentary coming out on March 19 called “Rigged.” A trailer is available now.”  Is this happening in your state?

“Culture War: The Deadly Consequences of a Woke War Machine” — The True Story of Abbey Gate that You Did Not Hear from the Mainstream Media – MUST-SEE DOCUMENTARY – “On August 26, 2021, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive at the Abbey Gate of Kabul Airport, killing 13 U.S. service members and over 170 Afghan civilians.

“Reports have surfaced that top military officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, were aware of an imminent threat hours before the attack. Despite this knowledge, they failed to act decisively to protect American troops and civilians.”  Documentary embedded in article.  Damn them.

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Dumber Decade: Report Shows Human Reasoning, Attention, Problem-Solving, Declining Substantially Since 2010, March 16, 2025

Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored – “Two inches of raw sewage. Black mold. A bat infestation. Reporter Emily Schwing shares what she uncovered as she investigated dangerous conditions inside Alaska’s deteriorating public schools.” (My note:  Hey – call Saint Sarah Palin.  She can solve the problem.  Yeah, that’s a joke.)

A Congresswoman with Dementia Stopped Coming to Work. The DC Press Corps Never Noticed, March 14, 2025: “For months, she’d been living in an assisted-living facility in Texas that also includes memory care. A reporter was sent to the facility. “We fully expected them to just basically escort him out,” Putnam said. “But no, they sent a representative out and they acknowledged it….

“When the publication was unable to reach the Fort Worth Republican for a story, Putnam said, “I checked roll call, and I saw that she hadn’t cast a vote since early July.”

“What followed, according to Putnam, was basic journalistic shoe-leather. He dispatched a reporter to Granger’s district office and found the place all but abandoned — something confirmed by a call to the property manager. “I started making some calls personally to some of the folks that I know in the area,” he said. “And sure enough, we were tipped off about where she was.”

My late mother had dementia. This should not be allowed to happen.  Granger served in Congress [R-TX] for a quarter century but was in an assisted living facility since July 2024 and no one in her party, her office in DC or the Speaker of the House bothered to let her constituents know?

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 17, 2025

Just for a moment, let’s separate ourselves from the troubles of Washington DC, world conflicts and the disarray that splashes across our television screens, nightly.

The one thing that our third president, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, continues to ring true in my mind for all of my lifetime. I am thankful for the luck and the privilege of being a citizen of the United States of America. That “luck” afforded me a life of personal choices and opportunities in whatever path I chose to live this amazing journey that all Americans may choose.

Therefore, at my advancing age, what have I done with my life? Was it meaningful? Did I accomplish anything of merit? Was I a kind person? Did I treat my wife well? Did I honor my friends? Did I support my community? Did I make a difference in the lives of the people I touched? Did I make the most of my “time” during my life on this planet?

It takes 60 seconds to make a minute, 60 minutes to make an hour, 24 hours to make a day and 365 days to make a year. What is ironic with the perspective of age, is that “time” flies by faster than anyone ever imagined. Before you know, those years piled up into a lifetime already past.

Captain Jean Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise said, “Someone once told me that “time” stalks us all our lives. I’d rather believe that “time” is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.”

When I think of my youth, I am thankful for my luck of having had good, solid, loving parents. While we were strictly lower middle class, I always enjoyed a roof over my head, bed, toilet, shower, and food on the table. I attended average schools and played many sports. I delivered papers on my bike from age 12 to eighteen. Dad and mom were always proud of my siblings and me.

Tragedy did devastate my youth when my father died at the age of 46 when I was seventeen. His death wrecked my emotions, my mind, my spirit and my understanding of life. I questioned God, life and my part in it. Dad’s death took the wind out of my sails. It staggered me, and I can honestly say that his death changed my personality from high-spirited to a sobering and unique understanding that life is fleeting.

And yet, his guidance, along with my mother, who carried us onward, still guides me to this day. The pure goodness and tenacity of my father dwells in me for my entire life.

Whenever I faced a problem, he would put his arm around my shoulders, “Son, if anybody can do this, you can do it. You’re going to make a difference in this world.”

That stuck with me my whole life as a student, as an athlete, as a math-science teacher, as a cardiac medical tech, as an Army Lieutenant, as a college environmental science lecturer, as a United Van Lines truck driver, as a volunteer ski instructor for the disabled, as a husband, friend and stepfather. Dad’s guidance and confidence allowed me to continue my quest to become a writer and author.

I’ll never forget one customer that I moved from Detroit to Tampa said when I finished the job, “Frosty, thank you for doing an exceptional job with our move. But you just don’t seem to be a truck driver. What’s actually driving you?”

I said, “You’re right! I am a writer, temporarily driving a truck so I can pursue my dream of world travel and becoming a published author.” He replied, “I could see something different in your eyes…and now, I know.”

So, what about you? What about your life? What about your hopes and dreams? What about your path toward you gaining a “meaning for your life?” Are you having a good time? Are you tapping into the wellsprings of your creative talents? What makes your life worth getting up in the morning? Are you sitting in front of that TV set 4.1 hours daily like most Americans?

Henry David Thoreau said, “If you advance confidently toward your dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with success unexpected in common hours. You will pass through invisible boundaries. You will engage new and liberal laws. And you will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”

His words stare at me on my office cork-board for more than 50 years now. I’ve discovered that if I maintain positive energy toward my daily life, then, life feeds that energy back to me. In that line of “flourishing your mind”, such energies speak to your soul, to your spirit, and carry you onward toward your own destiny and toward living a “meaningful life.”

The Roman philosopher Epictetus said, “Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast…and one day you will build something that endures; something worthy of your potential.”

To give you an example as to how he inspired me, it took me hundreds of rejections slips from my first eight book manuscripts, and 22 years before a publisher accepted one of my books. Had I given up, I would never have become the author of 17 published books, and two more on the way, I’ve shown my dad that his guidance paved the way for my tenacious literary journey. HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com

Mind you, it’s not important that you become a New York Times bestselling author, or an artist like Rembrandt, or one of the Beatles, or Taylor Swift, or Dolly Parton, or Shania Twain, or Karen Carpenter. It’s not important that you become a football star, tennis star, LeBron James, or the next Simone Biles.

What’s important is that you use your time on this planet to bring out the best in yourself. Live each day with zest, joy, energy and positive thoughts. Write a poem, sing a song, write a play, volunteer at your local food bank, take a walk in the woods, meditate, say a kind word to a cashier at the grocery checkout stand, eat a chocolate chip cookie, or, maybe a half dozen!

Viktor Frankl said, “Man/woman does not simply exist but always decides what his/her existence will be, what he/she will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”

Finally, Viktor Frankl said there were three paths to finding meaning in life (1) through creative actions, doing something creative, (2) experimental encounters, experiencing beauty, truth, goodness, nature, culture or loving another person, and (3) attitudinal choices, how to respond to unavoidable suffering such as a loved one’s death.

At my father’s funeral, the preacher said, “…In his passing it may be difficult to find the grit to regroup and advance. But, in sons, daughter and friends, Wooldridge left the hard core of aggressiveness and the will to win. The human body lasts less than a century. A man’s achievements, good and bad, endure to infinity. This then is the end result of fatherhood and friendship, and memories that survive the ages. In the eyes of the people that knew him, he shall remain a man of limitless courage, iron determination and a monumental sense of humor and compassion.”

“The adventure of life offers every human being the ability to live ‘the’ moment of his or her most passionate idea, fantasy or pursuit. It may take form in the arts, acting, sports, travel or other creative endeavors. Once engaged, a person enjoys ‘satori’ or the perfect moment. That instant may last seconds or a lifetime. The key to adventure whether it involves painting, dancing, sports or travel: throw yourself into it with rambunctious enthusiasm and zealous energy—which leads toward uncommon passion for living. By following that path, you will attract an amazing life that will imbue your spirit and fulfill your destiny as defined by you alone. In the end, you will savor the sweet taste of life pursuing goals that make you happy, rewarded and complete. As a bonus, you may share your life experiences with other bold and uncommon human beings that laugh at life, compare themselves with no one and enjoy a whale of a ride!” Frosty Wooldridge

In summation, thank you dear reader for reading my columns, and your comments over the years. Thank you to each kind person who offered me lunch or a bed or directions on my bicycle journeys around the world. Thank you to my wife Sandi for dancing, romancing and sharing this grand journey.

What is the meaning of life? It’s all right there in the palm of your mind.

My preacher, Rev. Josh Reeves, inspired this column. Thank you!

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By Lex Greene

March 17, 2025

It has become far too common for people to toss around terms used to label others, without any attention to the accuracy of those terms or labels. It’s become a common practice to attack those they think are political opponents, with labels like “racist, bigot, fascist, insurrectionist, or homophobe,” simply as a means of trying to quash all voices of dissent.

Most of the time, the people engaged in these activities lack even a basic understanding of the terms they toss around. They have been Pavlov trained to simply use these labels to silence the voices of anyone who holds a difference of opinion, no matter the subject matter. Usually, the people engaged in this activity themselves are guilty of the very things they accuse others of. They don’t even know that “fascism, socialism, communism, Naziism, Maoism, and Marxism” are all just different labels for the same thing, extreme-left totalitarianism.

But when it comes to legal terms, like Treason, these terms have a very specific definition and meaning, and the related laws pay no attention to which side of the partisan fence one sits on. These terms are specific and universal, without any consideration for the alleged political leanings of the actor or actors.

When “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere,” it’s called Treason, as a matter of established law under 18 USC Ch. 115: §2381.

When “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State,” it’s called Misprision of treason under §2382.

When “Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto,” §2383 calls this Rebellion or insurrection.

• 2384 refers to “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof,” as Seditious conspiracy.

If you want to study the rest of these laws, here you go! All of the subsections are forms of treason.

So, what should we call it when an individual or group of individuals works to overthrow our Constitutional form of government, our Republican form guaranteed every State in the Union and every legal citizen in the U.S. Constitution?

What should we call it when taxpayer-funded NGOs work to silence the voice of American citizens, engage in the greatest foreign invasion of our country, aid and abet illegal invaders, or back known pro-terrorist groups causing massive chaos, destruction, and terror in our city streets?

What should we call it when a political party sets its sights upon taking down our Constitutional Republic and replacing it with a “socialist democracy” via “mob rule” in our elections and streets?

What should we call it when foreign terrorists or violent gangs invade our country to establish operations designed and intended to terrorize American citizens, rape, murder, rob and burn American cities, with the help, funding, and protection of political figures who took an oath the prevent any such things from ever happening on our soil?

What should we call it when thousands of American kids were intentionally brainwashed by “education” into aiding and abetting the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaeda and ISIS? …Or attacking fellow students simply because they were born into the Jewish faith?

What should we call it when elected, appointed or for-hire public servants take actions against the United States and all legal American citizens, in some twisted global Marxist “reset” designed to end American sovereignty, security, peace and prosperity?

What should we call it when an entire “news media” industry, and academia, work in concert with anti-American politicians, NGOs and corrupted federal agencies, to aid and abet known enemies of the USA which are attacking, undermining, silencing, prosecuting, jailing and destroying the lives of innocents simply for daring to utter an ounce of truth?

Yes, the USA is full of treasonous actors at present. Treason is happening all day every day, on a wholesale level and nobody seems to notice, or care enough to end it.

Last, but far from least…what should we call it when our judicial system has become the most dangerous organization in the USA, using English Common Law to undermine and destroy Constitutional Law, and rob every legal citizen of their Natural Rights as endowed by our Creator?

If you made it this far, then you know quite well what all of these acts are called under existing U.S. Code. You also know why “death” is the appropriate sentence for anyone convicted of treason in the USA. There is no other adequate remedy for someone so evil. But who is ever charged with these high crimes, much less convicted?

Yes, I know what I’m saying here, and I know how unpopular this information will be to all who are guilty of these acts and worse. But tell me, if there is no penalty for treason in the USA, how can there even be a USA?

How much longer can the USA survive treason from within? Who is the “someone” supposed to “do something” about it?

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By Rolaant McKenzie

March 16, 2025

RoboCop 3 (1993) is the final of a series of science fiction action films set in a near-future dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, featuring a murdered police officer named Alex Murphy, who is revived as a cyborg called RoboCop through the technology of the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP).

Detroit is financially bankrupt and going through societal collapse due to high crime that is overwhelming the city’s diminishing resources. Unbeknownst to the city government and residents, OCP is facilitating the increase in crime to generate public support for its security products and services. This opens the door for the corporation to take over the city and pursue the development of RoboCop, a law enforcement droid designed to eventually replace the police.

But this is part of OCP’s larger goal of removing the current residents of Detroit, demolishing the city, and building in its place Delta City. This was envisioned to be a clean, efficient, digital city managed by OCP and its subsidiaries, its residents under constant surveillance and control, and policed by an army of RoboCops.

The first stage of mass evictions of Detroit residents starting in the poor section of Cadillac Heights runs into some delays due to the passive resistance of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), who do not have the stomach to forcibly relocate their neighbors. As a result, OCP sends into the area a heavily armed private security force called Urban Rehabilitators. In scenes reminiscent of Jews being forcibly removed from the Warsaw Ghetto by German authorities in occupied Poland (1940-1943), the Urban Rehabilitators brutally go door to door, evicting residents from their homes. Some are murdered, some escape, and the others are forced onto buses and taken to rehabilitation centers, where they are not seen again.

Some of those who escaped forced relocation formed a small resistance group to defend themselves and their homes. Joined by RoboCop (set free from the constraints of OCP programming) and the DPD, they finally defeated the mercenary army, causing OCP’s stock to plummet and the company to fall into total ruin.

Efforts by powerful people or entities to facilitate or take advantage of crises to move people away from an area they wish to exploit are things that have occurred many times in history. One example is the Roman emperor Nero, whom historians such as Cassius Dio, Suetonius, and Tacitus say started the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, destroying more than 70% of the city so that he could rebuild it in his image. Nero directed blame to the already unpopular Christians to deflect responsibility for the fire from himself, leading to their cruel persecution and martyrdom.

Globalist organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have for some time been promoting a form of urban reconstruction called “digital cities,” “smart cities,” and “15-minute cities” that they claim make use of advanced technology and data gathering to improve the quality of life for residents and businesses while reducing environmental impact. One example is a report published through the City of Los Angeles, California, in December 2020 called “SmartLA 2028: Technology for a Better Los Angeles.”

Many around the world have expressed suspicions about these efforts and resisted them because they were seen as an outgrowth of the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which assumes the “man-made climate change” narrative. Proponents of SDG are seen as seeking to implement the kind of comprehensive surveillance and control that would become an integral part of life in a digital city. Such control would increasingly be used over time to enforce austerity policies such as limits on freedom of expression, travel, food access, and even health care.

Devastating wildfires have occurred in places such as Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui (August 8–16, 2023) and in Los Angeles (January 7–31, 2025), causing scores of fatalities and the destruction of thousands of homes. Global elites and organizations such as the UN and WEF have sought to draw attention away from deliberate infrastructure, forest, and water mismanagement as the likely cause, blaming instead climate change.

This false narrative is key in the promotion of digital cities and the ubiquitous surveillance and control it affords the elites over their residents, but it is also its fatal flaw. The decades-long history of failed predictions from climate alarmists and manipulated data demonstrates that there is no legitimate justification for this effort, and it should be opposed by all who treasure life and freedom, particularly at the local level.

About four thousand years ago, Abraham trusted God’s call on his life and traveled in a foreign land promised to his descendants, but he looked far beyond this with gladness to an Architect who would build a very different kind of city in a new country (John 8:56-58; Hebrews 11:8-16; 2 Peter 3:13). This Architect is Jesus, who two thousand years later comforted John and His other disciples with the promise that He would prepare a place for them in His Father’s house of many dwellings and return to bring them home. About 60 years after that, Jesus the risen Savior appeared to John and gave him a glimpse of New Jerusalem in its brilliant glory, a city made by Him as a gift to all who trust in Him (Revelation 21:10-27, 22:1-5).

The inhabitants of New Jerusalem are granted eternal life of joy under the perpetual light of the Son, wealth so great that the streets are made of gold, freedom of travel through gates that are always open, healing food in abundance, and life-giving water flowing from the throne of God. This is in contrast to the digital cities being created by global elitists on false premises that will make their residents prisoners and squeeze away life like a boa constrictor.

The UN, WEF, and their global elitist partners do not have the final word as they build their Tower of Babel in a futile attempt to make themselves gods over the world (Genesis 11:1-9). The Word of God, Jesus Christ, will return as the conquering King of kings and Lord of lords to knock down their tower with an unbreakable rod of iron (Revelation 19:11-21) and establish His eternal kingdom of joy, freedom, and abundant life.

The Lord Jesus has made a new city for you. It does not have the foundation of a digital city or “smart city,” the false and shifting sand of “man-made climate change,” which leads to destruction. Its foundation is the Rock, Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:24-27). Have a place in it. Trust in Him today!

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By Rob Pue

March 16, 2025

In the hectic activity of our daily lives, it’s easy to become comfortable and complacent when it comes to our personal devotion to God and our own personal spiritual condition.  Many attend church weekly, but many others don’t have a good, solid Bible-teaching church in their area.  Many have good intentions to study God’s Word daily, and many actually do, but for others, their daily devotional and prayer time can easily end up on the “back burner” when life gets busy, and we get tired.

I understand that many of us are tired these days.  We need to work hard and put in long days to earn a living, and the cost of everything has risen substantially with rampant inflation and price increases due to “shortages” — many of which I believe are intentionally imposed on us by nefarious groups.  And work is only a part of our lives. We also have busy home lives, with cleaning, maintenance, repairs, broken appliances and house projects to do.  Then we have family commitments and at the end of the day, it’s not uncommon to simply be worn out.

Worship of, and reverence for God is something all Christ-followers have in their hearts, something we certainly want to make a priority, but often times, life just gets in the way, unless we are intentional about our spiritual commitment.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, and today, both the spirit and flesh easily grow weary.

On the night of His betrayal, Jesus went to the Mount of Olives and told His disciples, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.  Tarry ye here and watch with Me.”

This was just after the Last Supper, when our Lord had shown Himself to be the ultimate Servant of all.  He’d washed His disciples’ feet, instructing us to learn the humility to do likewise as we follow Him in service and ministry to others.  It was an intimate, significant moment in history.  But then after asking His disciples to watch with Him, He went further on by Himself, fell on His face and prayed to the Father, asking if it would be possible that the cup of wrath would pass from Him.  But He added, “nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”

The scene here is one of great spiritual distress, turmoil and sorrow.  Jesus knew what was coming and that He must face it.  He knew He would soon suffer and be killed in the cruelest of ways, to defeat the works of the devil and offer the only way of salvation and reconciliation for mankind to return to God the Father.

Then He came back to where His disciples were, only to find them asleep.  They were understandably tired and worn out.  Most likely, none of them could truly grasp the magnitude of the situation at hand, and though He had asked them to “watch” with Him, they all fell asleep.

Even Peter, who had just vowed to never abandon Jesus, had fallen asleep in His greatest time of need.  Matthew 26:40, “And He cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, ‘What, could ye not watch with Me one hour?’”  Peter must have been ashamed of himself.  But Jesus went away alone again to pray — two more times — and each time He returned to the disciples, they were sound asleep.

By that time, Judas, the one who betrayed Him, had arrived with his group of killers, sent by the chief priests and religious elders to arrest Him.  The time to “watch” with Jesus was over, and upon His arrest, all His followers, including Peter, “forsook Him and fled.”

Indeed, our spirits may be willing, but our flesh is so weak.  What would have made the disciples’ flesh stronger in that moment of fear?  Paying more attention to the Lord’s words, His teachings, His commands.  Having the spiritual eyes to see and discern the gravity of the situation.  Understanding that in everything that happens in our lives, every time of opportunity is there for just a fleeting moment.  The door of opportunity always closes quickly, and slams shut tightly.

I would submit to you that this time in the Garden of Gethsemane, at the base of the Mount of Olives was the most significant time of testing the disciples had ever faced up to that point.  It was also the most significant time in the history of mankind, second only to Christ’s crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection.  Yet Jesus’ disciples couldn’t grasp the significance.

In our modern world today, we’re presented with many times of great significance in our lives, but we usually underestimate what’s right before our eyes, and only understand later, when it’s too late.  Those times of opportunity pass quickly, and the door of opportunity slams shut with a bang.  Then we grieve as we realize what we missed.

And today, we stand at the threshold of great open doors of opportunity — to witness to others, to minister to and serve others, to be ready with answers to deep spiritual questions, to snatch the souls of those who are ignorant and about to perish from deception, confusion, delusion and ultimately, eternal damnation.  That’s what Jesus’ disciples eventually went on to do with their lives, after He returned to sit at the right hand of God.  But before they could go forth and minister to all the world, they first needed to really understand the things of God and cultivate great reverence, honor and awe of Him in their own hearts.  It was only after they were so deeply spiritually moved that their “flesh” became strong — strong enough to endure any type of persecution and hardship and gain the ability to deny themselves in order to serve the King of kings…willing to “love not their own lives, even unto death.”

Are we that devoted and committed to our Lord?  I doubt many of us are.  Not really. Our spirit may be willing, but we always have an excuse.  Can we not devote one hour to our Creator and Savior each day?  And if we, who know the truth, are unable to reverence and honor the Lord like this, how much more lost are those who have never heard the Word, because no one has ever told them?

Our world today is about as Godless as it’s ever been.  As I follow our local news, I grieve as I see the weekly “crime gallery.”  This is a published listing of mug shots of people arrested for various crimes. The people range in age from 18 to 85.  The crimes run the gamut from forgery to identity theft, to child abuse, drug use, drunk driving, and extreme violence against others; even murder. I look at the faces of those arrested and see broken people and lost souls. What’s missing from their life is just one thing: God. If they knew God, reverenced Him, feared Him, honored Him…their lives would have been so different.  Instead, most are now facing inevitable prison time and a life in ruins.  Not to mention the many other lives they’ve destroyed with their crimes.

And for each face I see in the “crime gallery,” I know there are a great many more just like them who just haven’t been caught yet.  Yes, our world is filled with people who don’t know the Lord or anything about Him and if they do, there’s no respect, fear or worship of Him.  You can rarely go anywhere in public without hearing foul language or seeing people — young and old — so confused, lost and deluded.  I have empathy for the criminals because I know that without God in my own life, this could very well be me.  “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”  Should we not fall to our knees daily in thankfulness, praise and worship of the One Who saved us?

Can we not “watch one hour?”  Have we become so cavalier, so comfortable and complacent that we’ve come to take God and our spiritual life for granted?  Are you satisfied with your current spiritual state, or do you have a deep desire to grow more, to reverence God more, to honor Him more, to worship and serve Him more?  Do you already have that intimate, personal relationship with your Creator and Savior you so long for?  Or…is something missing, and you know it?

Now, I’m going to ask you to do more than just “watch one hour.”  I’m going to ask you to invest one weekend to vastly strengthen your spiritual commitment.  On April 4th & 5th, Wisconsin Christian News is hosting a Ministry Conference with the theme, “Revival & Reverence, Returning to God.”  What could possibly be more important or urgent — for all of us — than a thorough deepening of our faith as we come together as the Body of Christ in reverence, repentance, worship and awe?  This is not just “church as usual.” This is a special time of learning, spiritual growth, renewal and worship.

Our speakers will include Art Pawlowski, the Canadian pastor who’s been aggressively persecuted by the Canadian government for years now, simply for preaching God’s Word.  We’ll have Dr. Ted Broer from Florida, offering deep insights on prayer and explaining what happens when we pray.  We’ll also have Pastor Matt Trewhella, Scott Schara and Dawn Wolf from Wisconsin, as well as Coach Dave Daubenmire and Dr. Mike Spaulding from Ohio; Pastor Butch Paugh from Call To Decision Ministries of West Virginia, and national recording artist and retired pastor Layton Howerton from Montana.

Our theme verse for the event is Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”  Yes, Lord.  Oh, how we all need that.  I’m also asking that you do your best to bring some guests with you.  Do you know a young person who’s struggling with confusion, depression, lack of direction for their lives, and answers to questions that no one has been able to provide?  Please, bring them.

Do you have friends who are “nominal Christians?”  Do they have a form of Godliness but still deny the power thereof?  Would you like to minister to them in ways they’ve never experienced before?  Bring them with you.  Is your own family fractured or broken?  Are there relationships that you need to mend? Perhaps even your own marriage.  Come.  Come home to Jesus.

Don’t remain stuck in the never-ending news cycle of politics and cultural theater.  There’s no political solution for our spiritual condition.  Nothing else but returning to God will ever heal our land.  It’s time we took 2nd Chronicles 7:14 seriously, instead of simply quoting it and then lamenting that nothing has changed.  If things are to change — in your own life, in the lives of those you care about and love, in our overall culture and society — it’s really up to you.  God doesn’t force anyone to come.  Instead, He stands at the door and knocks.

Has Jesus been knocking on the door of your heart, yet you’ve managed to ignore Him?  If He is knocking, He won’t stop. He’s not willing that any should perish.  If people perish, it’s because that is what they chose.  This is your Call to Decision.

I know there will be many reasons why you think you can’t come.  There will be many excuses the enemy whispers in your ear to keep you away from this event.  Instead of telling yourself why you can’t come, ask a better question.  Ask, “how can I make it possible to be there?”  Ask, “how can I bring others with me?” Ask, “Is God Himself calling me to be there?”  And ask, “Is this not exactly what I’ve needed in my life for so long?”

The Conference will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wausau, Wisconsin.  We begin Friday night at 5 pm and then resume on Saturday morning at 8 am.  We’ll finish Saturday by 6.  Those who wish to be baptized will also have that opportunity at the end.

Pre-registration is required, and tickets are just $69 per person — for a full weekend like you’ve never experienced before.  Go to WisconsinChristianNews.com for the details or call me for more information at (715) 486-8066.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and that door of opportunity is open to you now…but now you must decide what you really want and need in your life.  More of the same?  Or something infinitely more deep and substantial?  April 4 & 5 is coming up quickly.  You owe it to yourself, your loved ones and God to commit to one weekend.  Your spirit is willing. Don’t let your weak flesh stop you.

© 2025 Rob Pue – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Rob Pue: Rob@WisconsinChristianNews.com

By Pastor Glynn Adams

March 16, 2025

When asked your opinion on any subject – say, fornicators, your answer is, “I have no opinion.  My kingdom government’s position is in God’s Word 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, says, “do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.  Do not be deceived, neither fornicators shall enter the Kingdom of God.”  There are other unrighteous listed with fornicators but I was not asked about them.

How about unity?   Jesus prayed for unity in John 17.  If you only gave the answer from the Word of God on any issue, there will be no division.  Remember, we have no opinion or private interpretation in a kingdom with a Sovereign God.  His Word is law and unchangeable.  There would be no division about the rapture.  The word rapture itself is not mentioned in the Bible.  Jesus tells us when He will return in Matthew 24:3-14.  His disciples came to him privately and asked Him, “Tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?  And Jesus answered and said to them, ‘SEE TO IT THAT NO ONE MISLEADS YOU.”  Do you realize how many times have we heard in the last few years that He is at the door.  He could come any day!!!!  Look at all the books that were written 100 years ago and in modern times and He has not come yet.  I repeat again, “See to it that no one misleads you.”  Many will come in My name and will mislead many.  You will be hearing of war and rumors of wars, don’t be frightened for those things must take place but that is not the yet the end.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.  But all these things merely the beginning of birth pangs.  Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and will kill you and you will be hated by all nations on account of My name.  And many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.  And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.  But the one who endures to the end he shall be saved.

AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD FOR A WITNESS TO ALL THE NATIONS, AND THEN THE END SHALL COME.  Do you see a rapture or second coming before the gospel of the kingdom is preached to the whole world?  Who in America is preaching the gospel of the kingdom (the good news of the rule of God) right now in just America not to mention the whole world?

I have been writing articles on the Kingdom of God since sometime around 2012 with very little knowledge.  There has been a negative response to the Kingdom Message because we are engrained with religion and false concepts of the ways of Jesus.  Jesus is not coming back until the gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached to the whole world.  We determine we who have been given dominion will determine when Jesus will return!!!!!  Wake up America, we have much work to do – rid our nation of this evil inhabitants that have overtaken our nation.

Most of us are going to have to get much more serious about Jesus and His Kingdom ways.  If we don’t repent and forsake this easy and passive false Christianity religion we have embraced and become citizens of the Kingdom of God, we are in for a rude awakening in this nation.  If the watchman and the prophets cannot bring us to repentance, then God will send us His judgment to bring us to repentance.  We can repent now or after the horrendous pain and judgment!!!!  HATH GOD REALLLY SAID?

Yes, He has – if you want to know what God will really do, read in the Word of God to see what He did in the past to rebellious and disobedient religious nations that were not taking repentance and a return to Him very seriously!!!!!  God bless, I remain His warrior and watchman, Glynn Adams (Thanks to the late Myles Munroe and his wonderful books and tapes on the Kingdom of God, and Eklesia by Joe Nicola.)

© 2025 Glynn Adams – All Rights Reserved

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By Kat Stansell

March 15, 2025

On the day of Donald Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, Hillary Clinton used some of her former staffers and started a nationwide organization to train young socialists to run for positions in state politics, to take those “down ballot races”. To spread communism at the “ground level”. THAT is why we must care.

Her organization is called “Run For Something”, (RFS). RFS solicits, trains, and pays for bringing young progressives (aka, Marxists) into public office. As Wikipedia says,

“Run for Something is a progressive American political organization dedicated to recruiting and supporting young candidates running for down-ballot office. Its mission is to get young progressive candidates from non-traditional backgrounds to run for and win state and local offices, and create a next generation slate of political candidates that will seek higher office” in the years ahead.

I did a deep dig into this years ago, and their training unabashedly includes teaching their young people to lie. A young woman running for Chattanooga TN school board in 2018 had signs all over town claiming that she was a Republican. Fortunately she lost, but she spoke openly about the trained scam, but all units of local governance were not that lucky.

The first year that the young commies were out there running for office, they won over 600 races around the country. They fought against even other Democrats who were considered too “old school Democrat”, i.e., not Leftist enough. Judgeships, School Board seats, city council chairs, and even state legislatures were filled with Hillary’s young Communists.

RFS candidates appear in states in direct proportion to how many electoral votes are at stake.

In Florida, during the first year or so of RFS turning their young people loose on society, there were 42 who ran for office, from water board to state legislature. Some names you might know include Austin Gaylord, W. Melbourne City Clountil; Eunice Flowers, N. Miami City Commission; Evan A. Shields, N. Miami Council (also a real estate developer who pushes “workforce housing” which “elevates access and equity ). Corey Givins, St. Pete City Council, and Vice Mayor Joshua Simmons who in an incumbent on the Coral Springs City Council, billing himself as the “first black” in the position.

Then, there was David Arreola, Mayor of Gainesville; he ran in ‘24 as the D candidate for FL House Dist. 22, but lost. A. J. D’Amico, a young Cuban lawyer ran for FLHS 113 in 2022, also losing to a Republican. But not all lost.

Bryan Eastman was elected on his first try (2022) to Gainesville City Commission and served as mayor pro-tem in that city for a period of time. Eastman managed Obama’s campaigns. Then, Ashley Gantt, FLHD 109 won, and is currently the sponsor of 8 bills heading into the 2025 session. Sara Jones, a personal injury attorney, is on the Polk County School Board. Travares McCurdy was the incumbent in FLHD 46 2022-22.

Sarah Rockwell, another RFS graduate, won a seat on the Alachua County Bd. of Ed. and was unanimously chosen as chair in 2024.

So it goes, around this country. This information and these numbers were taken directly from the websites of Wikipedia and RFS.

You can go directly to their website to see, Runforsomething.net, to read more, but this is today’s reality in that red state of Florida. Young socialists are all over the state, and the nation.

Since its inception in Jan., 2017, RFS HAS RECRUITED 100,000 young people in all 50 states, making sure that there will be a plentiful supply of Marxists running for offices. It is our responsibility to sniff them out, and spread the word. Never wonder about who is a new candidate who shows up for one of your local elections. KNOW; he or she might just be a Run For Something graduate.

Know this. They will never stop, regardless of who is in the White House, and will be out there campaigning against our Republic at every turn. President Trump and Lady Liberty need our help.

© 2025 Kat Stansell – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kat Stansell: katvanatt@protonmail.com

By Andrew Wallace

March 15, 2025

It is absolutely impossible to have a Constitutional Republic funded with federal income taxes. Period.

This is a simple fact because the income tax reverses the roles of the federal establishment and the states. The income tax sucks up all the money, leaving the states almost destitute. This allows the federal establishment to usurp (blackmail) state functions. This concentrates all power in DC, contrary to the Constitution (Enumerated Powers) and funds Communism in cities.

As long as the federal income tax exists, the Constitutional Republic can exist in name only.

It is wrong to refer to the federal establishment as a government because it is but a creature of the states, lacking the sovereign powers of a government such as police powers (public health, safety, and welfare). But, the federal establishment has usurped Constitutional state powers by blackmail, contrary to Organic Law (Constitution). This is nothing less than an overthrow of the government, a Coup. In short, the federal establishment is mostly a criminal enterprise with no legal support for its existence. None, whatsoever.

Remember there was no income tax established in our original Constitution because it would reverse the roles of the states and the federal establishment, making the Constitutional Republic impossible. Present circumstances verify this statement.

The income tax was engineered by the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC), which consists of the wealthy who control banks and corporations by stock ownership. The corporations direct and bribe Congress and the bureaucrats to do their bidding.

The PSRRC owns major news outlets and the federal establishment pays off others on an international basis to support their narrative. (DOGE is exposing this!)

Let me make this clear. All federal expenditures to states for whatever reason are unconstitutional blackmail, concentrating all power in the federal establishment.

The federal establishment is therefore funding Communism in the blue cities, which will fail when it runs out of working people’s money (taxes). Federal funding of communism must be terminated; the alternative is civil war when the economy tanks.

All foreign aid is unconstitutional and rife with fraud, waste, and kickbacks. Its only purpose is to blackmail and bribe governments.

The CIA and other establishment departments are guilty of spending taxpayer money to overthrow countless governments. This only causes wars and well-deserved hatred of the United States. There is nothing in the Constitution to support these actions which must stop, and those involved departments terminated.

Not only is the FBI the most expensive and corrupt police organization, it is also the most ineffective and criminal. It allowed , promoted and collaborated in criminal prosecutions of innocents while protecting criminals in the establishment. It has been this way since its inception, and certainly since my days in law enforcement 65 years ago. Public relations (propaganda) was the only thing the FBI did to perfection.

The illegal invaders must be deported before the next census in 2030, otherwise the number of federal representatives will be increased in favor of the Democrats/Communists. Deportation will be costly but much less than allowing them to remain (they already destroyed Europe!). Invaders must be deported (on sight) and any employers severely sanctioned. Invaders don’t speak English, have little education, no skills, and many are criminals. They bring us only disease, crime, and welfare fraud while destroying cities.

Our Constitution states that giving aid and comfort to invaders is TREASON.

People must realize that when the Federal Reserve Bank prints money without a corresponding increase in goods and services, the result is inflation, etc. This in turn results in all kinds of negative things, such as decline in the dollar’s value which is causing a destruction of the economy (Great Depression). This is the almost universal opinion of responsible Economists.

I should also point out that money printed to pay government employees and for welfare is inflationary if it doesn’t produce comparable goods or services.

In round numbers, the estimated income of the federal establishment is $5 trillion, expenses are $7 trillion. I estimate that at least 50% of establishment employees would have to be terminated along with all foreign aid and all of our military in 150 countries.

Note: We can’t be invaded. We can only be defeated in a nuclear war or from within. Our troops on foreign soil serve no national security purpose and are like canaries in a coal mine.

We have been in 30 conflicts in 80 years to benefit the PSRRC (military industrial complex). We had 105,000 military dead. We lost every “war”. None involved national security. Contrary to the Constitution, there was not one single Declaration of War!

As is my wont to increase readership and understanding, this article covers only a small part of the issues facing us, but they are the most important. Dangerous possibilities do exist from criminal invaders and Communist gangs, so don’t forget to have emergency food, an AR 15 or 12 gauge and plenty of ammunition!

If you agree with me please send this article to establishment officials and others.
God bless you and the Republic

© 2025 Andrew Wallace – All Rights Reserved

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By Amil Imani

March 14, 2025

Well, folks, if you ever needed proof that the Democrat Party has truly shuffled off this mortal coil, last night’s spectacle during President Donald Trump’s fabulous address to Congress was the smoking gun—or perhaps the smoking ruin of a once-respectable political institution. What we witnessed wasn’t just a party in disarray; it was a full-on, cringe-inducing implosion, a tantrum so pathetic that a toddler could’ve scripted it when denied an extra scoop of ice cream. Trump stood there, basking in the glow of a mandate larger than Joe Biden’s ego, delivering a commanding and electrifying speech. At the same time, the Democrats flailed around like drama club rejects who had forgotten their lines.

Let’s set the scene: Trump, in all his golden-haired glory, strode into the House chamber on March 4, 2025, to remind America why they handed him the keys to the White House—again. He spoke of cutting egg prices (because apparently that’s the hill Biden chose to die on), unleashing American energy, and slapping tariffs on anyone who dares not to make their widgets in the good ol’ U.S.A. It was a speech dripping with red-meat MAGA goodness, clocking in at a record-breaking one hour and forty minutes—the longest joint address ever, because when you’re winning, why rush? And the crowd? Oh, they loved it—Republicans chanting “USA! USA!” while independents nodded along, likely wondering why they ever doubted the man. A CBS poll showed that 76% of viewers approved, and even CNN, bless their biased little hearts, admitted that 69% had a positive reaction. Trump was on fire, and America was here for it.

And then there were the Democrats. Oh, the Democrats. What a disgrace. What an absolute train wreck of a performance. They couldn’t even pretend to play nice for an hour and a half. Instead, they turned the chamber into their own personal circus of petulance. Rep. Al Green of Texas—because of course it’d be Texas—decided to kick things off by shouting, “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!” like some unhinged street preacher. House Speaker Mike Johnson, with the patience of a saint, had the sergeant-at-arms haul Green out faster than you can say “decorum.” But that was just the appetizer. Half a dozen stormed out like sulky teenagers, while others waved signs. “No King!” read Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s whiteboard, because apparently, she thinks Trump’s crown is in the mail. Rep. Maxwell Frost strutted around in a “No Kings Live Here” t-shirt, which is rich coming from a guy whose party spent years bowing to the altar of Obama.

Let’s discuss the optics, shall we? Democrat congresswomen dressed in pink—almost as if auditioning for a Barbie reboot—sat there with stone faces, refusing to clap even when Trump promised to improve life for, you know, actual Americans. Others wore blue and yellow for Ukraine because nothing says “we care about our constituents” like transforming a domestic policy speech into a foreign aid fashion show. They brought guests—fired federal workers, Medicaid sob stories—as if parading human props could somehow erase the fact that Trump won every battleground state and the popular vote by “big numbers,” as he put it. Newsflash, geniuses: America didn’t buy your sob story in November, and they’re not buying it now.

The pièce de résistance? The walkouts. More than a handful of these clowns just got up and left, as if fleeing Trump’s words would magically undo his landslide. Rep. Seth Moulton, a supposed “moderate,” bolted when Trump touted military support—ironic for a Marine vet who’d rather grandstand than salute. Meanwhile, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries later lamented that Trump’s speech was “one of the most divisive in history,” which is peak projection from a guy whose party spent the night proving they’re incapable of unity. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, chosen for the official Democratic response, droned on about “reckless change” from a podium that screamed “I’d rather be anywhere else.” It was so dull that even the fired VA worker she brought as a prop probably nodded off.

This wasn’t resistance; it was a requiem. The Democrats didn’t just disgrace their party—they buried it. Trump’s speech was a victory lap, a masterclass in leadership, and they responded with a meltdown that would make a Real Housewives reunion look dignified. They heckled, jeered, and held up their little signs like kids at a protest who don’t know what they’re upset about. And for what? To prove they’re still relevant? Spoiler alert: they’re not. The party of FDR and JFK is dead, replaced by a gaggle of sanctimonious crybabies who’d rather clutch their pearls than face reality. Trump’s America is here, and they’re stuck in the past, grasping their Kamala Harris body pillows and weeping into their soy lattes.

Let’s be honest: this party has been on life support for years, and the other night they pulled the plug on themselves. They had a chance to pretend at least to maintain some dignity, to sit there and endure like adults while Trump outlined a vision that, whether or not you agree, clearly resonates with the country. Instead, they opted for chaos, proving once and for all that they’re not a serious opposition—they’re a punchline. Trump’s speech was outstanding because it was bold, unapologetic, and triumphant. The Democrats’ response was a disgrace because it was petty, fractured, and irrelevant. Suppose this is their strategy to regain power, good luck in the 2026 midterm elections. They’ll need it—along with a miracle, some courage, and possibly an entirely new party. Rest in pieces, Dems. You’ve earned it.

© 2025 Amil Imani – All Rights Reserved

By Ronald Stein, PE

March 13, 2025

Wind and Solar can ONLY generate intermittent electricity but CANNOT make any products for our materialistic society.

So-called renewable energy is ONLY intermittently generated ELECTRICITY from renewables, as wind turbines and solar panels CANNOT make any products, or fuels for the various transportation industries.

In fact, those renewables of wind turbines and solar panels CANNOT exist without oil, as all the parts and components of the net zero emissions fantasy from wind turbines and solar panels are 100% dependent on the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, the same oil that net zero enthusiasts want to rid the world of.

Today, American policymakers setting “green” and “zero emissions” policies are oblivious to the reality that electricity came about AFTER the discovery of oil.  Without oil, there would be no electricity!

• ALL six methods for the generation of electricity from hydro, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar are ALL built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
• All EV’s, solar panels, and wind turbines are also built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
• Everything that needs electricity to function like iPhones, computers, data centers, and X-Ray machines are all made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil. Without fossil fuels, there would be nothing that needs electricity!

The Bogus Myths for the generation of occasional and unreliable electricity that also kills birds, bats, and whales and lays waste to farmlands and forests and oceans are numerous:

1- It is claimed that wind and solar renewables are green and kind to the environment.

• Humongous mining requirements occurring in developing countries for the exotic minerals and metals from this 4-billion-year-old planet earth’s natural resources, the same ones that are not being replaced.
• The Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy does an excellent job of discussing the lack of transparency to the world of the green movement’s impact upon humanity exploitations in the developing countries that are mining for the exotic minerals and metals required to create the batteries needed to store “green energy”. In these developing countries, these mining operations exploit child labor and are responsible for the most egregious human rights violations of vulnerable minority populations. These operations are also directly destroying the planet through environmental degradation.
• Minimal or even non-existent labor laws in poorer developing countries to protect people against humanity atrocities of people with yellow, brown, and black skin.
• Minimal or even non-existent environmental laws and regulations laws in poorer developing countries to protect against environmental degradation to local landscapes from the massive mines scarring the landscape to produce the copper, silver, cobalt and rare earth metals required.
• Maximum usage of this 4-billion-year-old planet earth’s natural resources, the same ones that are not being replaced for future generations.
• Humongous “footprint” of land compared to the generation of electricity via nuclear, natural gas, hydro, or coal.
• Emissions will be exploding from those poorer developing countries, i.e., the other seven billion on this planet. Unlike the wealthy countries that have huge economies that can subsidize any delusionally obsessed idea, but those poorer countries dismal economies cannot subsidize themselves out of a paper bag!
• To manufacture each EV auto battery that weighs 1,200 pounds, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet.

2- It is claimed that renewables are cheap.

• Only the wealthier developed countries can afford the humongous subsidies required to build renewables like Germany, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, all of the EU, and the USA.
• With about 80% of the global population of 8 billion people living in less developed countries. Much of Africa and South-East Asia are prime examples of this, but also Pacific Ocean Island states. The people in those countries might live on less than $10 per day but the greater problem is that they have little or no access to reliable electricity, nor to the myriad of products manufactured using fossil fuels and their derivatives. The “green” agendas of the developed world are threatening to never allow them access to it.
• Wind turbines for the generation of electricity under favourable weather conditions, would be non-existent were it not for government subsidies and mandates behind them.
• Net Zero policies raise electricity costs for families and businesses in the wealthier countries that have the ability to subsidize them, and threatens the reliability of the electricity system.
• High electricity prices coupled with electricity austerity have led to economic stagnation in many of those wealthier countries.
• The cost of renewables is rising but is not recognized or understood for wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries

3- It is claimed that renewables will replace fossil fuels.

• Despite decades of efforts and billions in subsidies to bolster “green electricity” from weather dependent wind and solar, people still get all of the 6,000 products from oil, the same products that are integral to human prosperity across the globe, that support the demands of infrastructures like: Transportation, Airports, Water filtration, Sanitation, Hospitals, Medical equipment, Appliances, Electronics, Telecommunications systems, Heating and ventilating, and the Space programs.
• Everything that needs electricity to function like iPhones, computers, data centres, and X-Ray machines are all made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil. Without fossil fuels, there would be nothing that needs electricity!
• ALL the parts and components of renewables are built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, the same oil that renewables are supposed to replace. Without fossil fuels, there would be no electricity!
• Shockingly, the “green” movement has yet to identify a replacement for oil to support the materialistic demand for those 6,000 products made from oil.
• We’ve had more than 200 years to “clone” oil to support the supply chain of products demanded by our materialistic society and have been unsuccessful.

Net Zero, only in the wealthy countries that can subsidize renewables, is ineffective in achieving its primary goal and can never stop the weather changing. The impact of Net Zero policies is devastating for the economy and high productivity, electricity, all the more than 6,000 products made from oil derivatives, and the aviation, gasoline, and diesel fuels for our intensive industries in particular. Renewables are not kind to the environment and the lies and bogus myths being told to promote them are untenable.

Thus, before Net Zero enthusiasts destroy the economy, they need to identify the “replacement” to crude oil that will support the materialistic demands of the e8 billion on this planet for all the products made from those oil derivatives, as well as the aviation, gasoline, and diesel fuel needs of the various worldwide transportation infrastructures, before they preach net zero emissions.

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by Kathleen Marquardt

March 13, 2025

Woohoo. While DOGE is exposing the deepest corruption in America, whistleblowers and media are doing the same in the European Union. I can’t wait for someone in the U.N. to start revealing the lies.

Watts Up With That’s latest article “The European Commission Faces Its Biggest Scandal in 20 Years” comes at such a perfect time. Yes, much of the western world is in upheaval with the U.S. exposure of the Democrat and New World Order corruption here (which obviously consisted of a lot of Republicans, too) and has been going on for well over 100 years. But let me just give you a few samples of this revealing article (their words in chalkboard).

“Recent reports from the ‘Brussels Morning’ newspaper said that the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf had uncovered findings that are now shaking the entire European Union. They discovered that the European Commission had been financing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) lobbying for the policies of former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans and influencing politicians to push through his ‘Green Deal.’ It has now come to light that the EU commission gave €1 billion of public funds to green NGOs and lobbyists to promote the policies of the EU Commission.” 

Yes, I am aware that most of you readers have suspected something like this since the early days of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in 1994. But now it is cast in ink and sent all over the world. And, yes, we knew the Green New Deal, Agenda 21, and all the rest of the “humans are destroying the earth and need to be eradicated” mantra was horse pocky. Now it is writ large and needs to be spread wide.

“Commenting on these revelations, Michael Laurier, CEO of Symphony Environmental, said, “Political manipulation of this kind undermines the credibility of NGOs who have been campaigning against plastic.”

Duh. “Undermines the credibility”??? It exposes that they lie and lie ad naseum. So, for those of you new to hearing the truth about the fraudulent environmental movement, just stop and think about all the other so-called human travesties against Mother Earth and her non-human occupants. You can bet your sweet bippy that 99% what the Greens say is the exact opposite of what is true.

“The Brussels newspaper Report continues, ‘Many of these lobbying contracts were classified, making them inaccessible, and it was only during an audit conducted by the Court of Auditors that some of them came to light. Others were exposed thanks to whistleblowers—insiders within these NGOs who decided to speak out.  Every year, €2.6 billion was spent on questionable studies designed to justify the necessity of the Green Deal.’”

And the icing on the cake (for me, anyway):

The European Commission has long been financially supporting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) lobbying for the green policies of former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans. Lobbyists, funded from the EU budget, were tasked with influencing politicians to push through the Green Deal. This is evidenced by secret contracts obtained by the Dutch newspaper.”

We will just have to wait and see what comes of all this. I’ll be having a cup of saki and enjoying the fun. It’s time to replace the emotional rhetoric for reason, logic, and sound science to rule the day.

To read full article here.

Meanwhile, keep in mind that the U.S. government was “Reinvented” by Al Gore in ’99. The key factors were to bypass Congress approval of Agenda 21 and, basically, everything else from then on. So, the balance of power has shifted, “destroying the checks and balances in the Constitution at the local level and therefore destroying representative government. This power shift is a philosophical shift to a completely new form of government. It is a merger between government, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations.”

Joan Veon, an American reporter who covered over 103 international meetings, including: the G7, G8, G10, G20, and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel Switzerland; attended yearly the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland; and twice a year covered the IMF World Bank meetings. In addition, she attended UN meetings on the Free Trade Areas of the Americas, Sustainable Development, the Earth Summit, Climate Control, the International World Court.  Veon so aptly put it, “reinventing government means:

1. downsizing and shifting power from the federal level to the local level, i.e., the community level which includes communication associations and churches;
2. changing the balance of power by shifting responsibility from Congress to the executive branch and its agencies (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms {BATF}, Environmental Protection Agency {EPA}, National Park Service, Forrest Service, Drug Enforcement Agency {DEA}, National Guard, National Security Agency {NSA}. And the President’s Council on Sustainable Development {PCSD}, to name a few; and
3. establishing public-private partnerships to become the new nucleus of government.”¹

Now, Trump and DOGE must get rid of this reinvented government and put us back to a Constitutional Republic. That is the only correction that will put America back where it belongs – with individual freedom and property rights. Unless they do, we do not stand a chance.

© 2025 Kathleen Marquardt – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kathleen Marquardt: koikpm@yahoo.com

Sources:

1. Veon, The United Nations’ Global Straitjacket, Hearthstone Publishing, 2000

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 13, 2025

“Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases of population, locally, nationally, or globally?” Dr. Albert Bartlett, University of Colorado

Let’s look at the realities throughout America’s civilization. A 747 jet plane limits its passenger number to exactly 416. Not one more person will be allowed onto that plane. A restaurant shows a limit of 110 people because that’s its maximum seating. A pool limits its swimmers to 80 to make sure its lifeguards can safely watch them. A high school, college and pro football team can only field 11 players on one side for the entire game. A basketball team features only five players per side. More than five players on each side would result in total chaos.

In other words, everything in modern civilization demands, carries and mandates limits on the number of people who can participate.

Today, in America, our leaders force us into a nightmarish future with unlimited population growth caused by horrific legal and illegal immigration.

As a young teacher in my twenties, I traveled all over the planet on my bicycle. I enjoyed extraordinary countries, cultures and languages on six continents. Call it my age of innocence! While I did participate in Earth Day 1970 on Michigan State University’s campus, I didn’t possess a clue as to what was going in the world.

That all changed in 1984 when I reached China. They had topped 1.0 billion people, now 1.4 billion. As I made my way from Hong Kong to Beijing and the Great Wall of China, I witnessed Chinese people packed, stacked and compressed into every corner of every piece of land in that overpopulated nightmare of a civilization. It was so bad, that, in 1979, they forced couples into 1.0 child per woman. Even with that draconian birth control, because of SO many women, their “population momentum” brought them to 1.41 billion by 2025.

China’s air, water, and soil suffered incredible pollution. Their rivers ran like sewage conveyor belts to the ocean. At the mouths of their major rivers, 20,000 square mile dead zones prevailed. Most vertebrate marine life could not survive the chemicals and sewage spewed into the oceans 24/7. That’s still true in 2025.

Today, China cannot feed its people. It must import food from all over the world. It’s commandeering land and food from Africa and South America. China owns over 350,000 acres of American farmland. Air pollution is a nightmare. People wear masks to filter out the soot to breathe in its cities. China features millions of cars on 50 lane highways, one way. If you think I’m kidding, just look it up on YouTube where you will see if it for yourself.

In other words, they’ve overpopulated themselves into an unsustainable civilization where “quality of life” spirals into the toilet. If they go to an ocean beach or a lake, people overrun and overwhelm everything.

The same thing escalates in India, Indochina, Japan, Brazil and more as the human race continues growing at 83,000,000 new babies, net gain, annually. In the past two years, humans topped 8.0 billion, but we aren’t stopping there! We will hit 9.0 billion within another 12-14 years. And then, 10.0 billion. In other words, we humans aren’t slowing down…at least third world humans aren’t stopping.

Do you notice our country filling up with Indians, South Americans, Central Americans and Chinese who are “chain-migrating” from their countries? Do you understand that the line of immigrants never ends.

Right now, the Biden administration invited somewhere around 15 to 20 million illegal aliens into America in the past four years. We also allowed another 4.0 million legal immigrants. That’s 24 million people. They are expected to birth at least another 24 million people if they only have two children per couple. That’s 12 million couples at 2.0 kids per couple—-that equals 24 million more kids.

In 2025, U.S. demographers show somewhere around 340 million Americans, with another 20 to 30 million more illegal alien migrants. We’re growing at around 4.0 million, net gain, annually.

In 1970, via birth control, American women have averaged 2.03 children per woman. We would have leveled off at 250 million people. Our cities wouldn’t suffer gridlock. Our standard of living would have remained high. Our quality of life would have remained the envy of the world. Instead, because of mass immigration, we exploded from 190 million in 1965 to over 340 million people in 2025, not counting the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens.

Today, our cities have become impossible to sustain. Our schools are turning out functionally illiterate students. Our Mississippi River features a 10,000 mile square “dead zone” in the Gulf of America. Our air pollution poisons all our cities and everyone breathing in them 24/7. Acid rain contaminates our soils. Those 84,000 chemicals and pharmaceuticals poison water, land and air.

In other words, we follow in the footsteps of China, India, Mexico, Japan and the rest.

Worse than that, you hear every kind of cry about stopping “Global Climate Change.” But you won’t hear a single stinking word about what causes it: human overpopulation. It’s like we’re brain dead or in denial or, we’re just too damned stupid change to save ourselves.

Fact: demographers project that America will jump from 340 million to 440 million by 2050, give or take a decade. But we’re also projected to accelerate to 675 million before the century is out. One look at the graph will show you our plight.

So, what do you want to do about what’s going to happen to your children? Do you have any solutions? What would you like to see happen? Do you feel we can force our president and Congress to take rational action to move us toward a sustainable future and a sustainable civilization?

What’s my solution? Simple: let’s take a 10 year pause on all legal and illegal immigration. Let’s examine how we want our civilization to survive.

Second solution: “Ingress equals Egress Solution”. If 50,000 people leave America annually, we can allow 50,000 into our country. They must be educated, speak English and bring a viable desire to work with a viable skill to benefit our society. Stop all welfare to immigrants.

One way or the other, we must create a stable and sustainable civilization. Because if we don’t, Mother Nature WILL take us down via global warming, water shortages that cannot be solved, conflict over resources, animal extinction rates, horrible quality of life, energy exhaustion, resource exhaustion, racial conflicts, and another dozen consequences ranging from our oceans being saturated with plastics to chemicals destroying our viability as a species.

“Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the Natural World that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to growth.” World Scientists’ warning to humanity, signed by 1,600 senior scientists from 70 countries, including 102 Nobel Prize laureates.

Are we in trouble or what?!

© 2025 Frosty Wooldridge – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Frosty: frostyw@juno.com

By Lex Greene

March 12, 2025

They say necessity is the mother of invention, and in that light, desperation might be called the father of shifting political winds. While the extreme left democrat party spent the past 80-years trying to turn our constitutional republic into a pure socialist democracy, destroying everything in its path, a new generation of pro-America young people was emerging.

FACT: Socialist democrats have used “democracy” to destroy freedom, liberty and prosperity in America, for decades. A pure democracy is “mob rule” wherein 50.1% of the people can rule over the other 49.9% at will. The Constitutional Republic established by our Constitution prevents that from being possible, which is why socialist democrats hate the Constitution too! When democrats say they are “saving democracy,” they mean, saving their ability to govern by “mob rule.”

GEN Z – The New America First Generation

While the elections of 2008 and 2012 were an experiment into a very promising sounding version of Marxism under America’s “first black President,” putting an end to the racist theory that Americans would never vote for a black leader, the elections of 2016, 2020 and 2024 became a turning point in the USA when voters would return to voting for America, instead of gaslit heated rhetoric.

No longer did the population accept false propaganda from the so-called “legacy” media. Younger audiences were shifting to new mediums in search of unfettered truths they needed to make decisions that would impact their own futures.

Raised by late boomers and GEN X, GEN Z had the benefit of wisdom from parents who had “been there, done that” as well as watching disaster after disaster created by America’s “lost generation” GEN Y (millennials). It was GEN Y who couldn’t tell male from female, faith from man-made religions, freedom from free stuff, or true leadership from “Weekend at Bernie’s” leaders who had seized control of the DNC long ago.

GEN Z saw it all… and as they were reaching adulthood, they found themselves increasingly worried about what kind of future they had, coming behind the lost generation, raised to hate everything American, including their parents and friends.

After watching the theft of the 2020 elections, surviving the COVID19 “Great Global Commie Reset,” and enduring the worst fake administration in American history under Biden and Harris, GEN Z decided enough was enough, and became the new America First Generation supporting the MAGA movement and Trump, for a brighter future.

As a result, Trump received more than 11-million more votes in 2020 than his election in 2016, the first election GEN Z could vote in…and another 3.5-million more votes in 2024 than in 2020, winning all swing states and 83% of the counties across the country. This massive shift largely came from the GEN Z voters determined to Make America Great Again and secure their futures, marking the largest shift of any generation in the USA.

In a CBS poll following the recent State of the Union Address to Congress, there was no mistaking what was happening in the American electorate, and to the failing democratic socialist party, and it wasn’t just evident in the CBS poll, but every network poll taken following the address.

• 51% of those polled were republicans, 49% were not
• 76% approved of Trump’s speech, 23% didn’t
• 63% said Trump addressed the issues they care most about
• 54% said Trump made them proud, 68% said hopeful
• 74% said Trump was very “presidential” in his speech
• 68% indicated confidence in Trump’s ability to improve economic conditions
• 77% approve of DOGE, and complete border security
• 73% agree with Trump’s plan for Ukraine
• 65% agree with Trump’s tariff plans
• 68% said Trump described our crime problem accurately
• 76% approved of disruptive democrats being removed from the chamber
• Overall, 76% support Trump and the MAGA movement today, according to the CBS poll

Unlike the generation before them, GEN Y, the new America First generation has chosen a different path. My kids are GEN Z, so I was able to watch what was happening in their generation up close, in person, in real-time.

That bright light you usually see in kids as they enter grade school excited to meet the future, was clearly being dimmed by the time they reached middle school, and even worse by high school. With each passing year, they were becoming less and less positive about their own futures.

Later, talking with my son about it, he once said, “Dad, don’t you realize that the whole time we were growing up, Obama was the President? We don’t remember a president before, and all we heard in school was how great it was to have the first black president. We didn’t know anything else!”

To be honest, I really didn’t realize that, until he said it. They knew nothing about America pre-Obama. But they knew something wasn’t right, that things were getting dramatically worse, not better, literally to a point of utter insanity.

And then, they watched GEN Y as they slipped further and further down the global Marxist trap, often turning against their parents, families and friends, as the “higher-education” campuses indoctrinated them with a flood of anti-American views and sentiments. GEN Z saw it happening, and couldn’t make any sense of it, or see how any of what GEN Y was promoting would ever provide them with a bright future.

Meanwhile, they watched the extreme left use a weaponized government in an effort to destroy all political opposition, silence all voices of dissent, and label everyone who would not buy into their global Marxist vision for America, a “domestic terrorist.

This was not an America they wanted to live in… and so, they became the New America First Generation, determined to burn the pink pussy hats of GEN Y, and put America, national sovereignty and security, freedom, liberty and prosperity for all, first. They decided to “Make America Great Again” so that they could have confidence in their own futures and even feel safe to have children again.

The boomers and GEN X are the past, and GEN Y has become as irrelevant as the anti-American democrat party itself.

GEN Z will drive the future of the USA, and may God Bless them with the abundant fruits of their efforts. It was bound to happen sooner or later, and extreme left democrats made it happen right now!

© 2025 Lex Greene – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Lex Greene: LexGreene24@gmail.com

By Bradlee Dean

March 12, 2025

“Oh, I am just a saved sinner.” That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. You can’t be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. —Leonard Ravenhill

If people would pay attention to the things that they have been indoctrinated into believing more often than not, they would question what they are being told.

For example, look at a man in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.  He is taught to sit in a circle with a room filled with others dealing with the same issue, say his name, call himself an alcoholic, and at the same time, believes that he is in the right place to get healthy.  Ridiculous.

By the way, how many have ever heard that alcoholism is a disease?

According to Dr. Bill Sardi’s “Knowledge of Health”:

“Alcoholism is not a disease and efforts to classify alcoholism as a disease only serve as an escape from personal responsibility. Let it be said that the designation of alcoholism came in at a popular time when therapists were attempting to gain reimbursements for treatment of this behavior.

Therefore, most experts declared alcohol abuse as a disease in a self-serving manner to obtain fees for treatment. There is NO scientific revelation that brought about alcoholism as a disease.”

Dr. Benjamin Rush’s resolve to those who choose to drink themselves into oblivion is “Abstention.”

According to Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, abstention means “to forbear, or refrain from, voluntarily; but used chiefly to denote a restraint upon the passions or appetites; to refrain from indulgence.”

What some call disease, the Bible calls a choice (Deuteronomy 30:19).

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” -Romans 6:16

https://sonsoflibertyradio.com/equipping-the-saints.html

How many times have you heard people say, “I am just a poor sinner (one who chooses to transgress God’s Laws; 1 John 3:4) saved by grace”?

What these are saying here, friends, is that Christ is a minister of sin by using His grace as an occasion for the flesh (Galatians 5:13).  This is unscriptural.

He not only “did no sin” (1 Peter 2:22), but He “knew no sin” (2 Cor. 5:21).  Jesus does not impart sin; He delivers His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).  This is where you find glory in His grace (Ephesians 1:6; 2 Peter 3:18).  He is glorified in deliverance, not man’s excuses.

Again, Christ is the giver of life and righteousness and the One who delivers people from sin (Ephesians 1:7), death, and law (Galatians 3:13).

Let me scripturally enlighten you in highlighting grace that overcomes sin.  This applies to those who have repented of their sins (2 Corinthians 7:10-11).  These are those who understand His grace when He said, “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11).

“But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” – Romans 5:20

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us” – Romans 8:37

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” – 1 John 4:4

“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” -James 1:12-15.

The apostle Paul, inspired writer of 2/3 of the New Testament, said of himself, “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (1 Corinthians 9:27).

In other words, Paul was saying, “I practice what I preach”.  He was empowered by the grace that overcomes.
Nowhere can you find in Scripture where it teaches that grace is a covering for wilful sin.

Grace does not grant permission to live in the flesh.  Rather, it supplies power to live in the spirit by its very definition.

In conclusion, throughout my Christian walk, namely in churches, when hearing someone stand up and give a testimony about how “Jesus saved them,” I have noticed that out of the 20 or 25 minutes that they are “testifying,”  a majority of the time that they were speaking that they were highlighting how bad they were with a little of Jesus sprinkled here and there.

Before you know it, the same ones giving their testimonies of how bad they were, were the first ones to go back to their sins (Proverbs 26:11).

A person who is saved from their sins understands that it is not how bad of a sinner they were, but how good of a Savior Christ is in saving His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).  This is how He is glorified!

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E-Mail Bradlee Dean: Bradlee@SonsOfLibertyRadio.com

By Kelleigh Nelson

March 11, 2025

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.  —James Madison

A centrally managed, centrally controlled, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a tool for coercion and control. —Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH)

We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000-peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also, we will have the technology to enforce that. —BIS General Manager Augustín Carstens

At some point, a CBDC that fails to provide a high degree of financial privacy will be used to monitor and censor the transactions of one’s political enemies. It is foolish to think otherwise. —William Luther, American Institute for Economic Research

I have never understood the logic of nominating three House Republican members for Trump’s administration when the republican majority margin is so slim. Why remove three members that you may need to keep the House in 2026?

Matt Gaetz was the first to go. He was nominated for Attorney General, but withdrew, and resigned his Florida seat after the House ethics committee report on him was to be released.

The next loss was Elise Stefanik nominated as Ambassador to the United Nations.  Although Elise is a young global leader of the World Economic Forum and as a New York representative, voted with the Constitution only 60% of the time, she has been a staunch supporter of Israel.  Her questioning of university presidents regarding anti-Semitism on campus was brilliant.

The third House member to be removed was Mike Waltz who was nominated for National Security Advisor.  I have grave reservations with Waltz who votes 78% of the time with the constitution.  His wife, Julia Nesheiwat, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum and the globalist Atlantic Council.  Julia Nesheiwat’s sister, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, has been nominated as US Surgeon General.  Dr. Nesheiwat was a strong promoter of the Covid vaxes for all and called the vaxes, “a gift from God.”  She also praised Facebook for their censorship during Covid.

President Trump has now endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds who has thrown his hat in the ring for Governor of Florida. Donalds represents the 19^th District which includes the cities of Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Bonita Springs, Naples and Marco Island, as well as unincorporated areas in Lee and Collier counties.

Was it Susie Wiles who advised Trump to endorse Donalds?

Donalds is tied to Americans for Prosperity, a Koch organization. They promote open borders, gay marriage, abortion, and UN Agenda 21/30. Link, Link.  They are also funding and promoting another Constitutional Convention, just like Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The Kochs have never supported Donald Trump.

Byron Donalds and Digital Currency

Donalds, has been working with the Democrats to advance digital currency. At the Collier County Republican Men’s breakfast in July of 2022, Byron Donalds said, “The Democrats have promised it will never be used for tracking law abiding citizens.”

Is he naïve or lying to his constituents?

In October of 2022, at Alfie Oakes’ Seed to Table in Naples, Florida, another public meeting was held where Donalds again was promoting digital currency. Oakes is also promoting the destruction of our 1787 Constitution by advocating an Article V Convention, just like Byron Donalds, Ron DeSantis, Mike Johnson and many more.

Donalds is a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Committee on Financial Services, has put forward a self-regulating industry policy for cryptocurrency.  He has stated, “I’m excited to see how much support we can get for a self-regulating enterprise for digital assets.”

Governments have long recognized that freezing someone’s financial resources is one of the most effective ways to lock them out of society.  CBDC currency would easily allow America to copy the CCP’s social credit system.  Trudeau froze the bank accounts of truckers who were protesting.  The Freedom Convoy was a series of protests and blockades across Canada in early 2022, initially organized to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers. The movement quickly expanded to protest all COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.

Various banks have purposely frozen out conservative businesses and members.

The office of the Attorney General of Virginia, “joined a 15-state coalition in a letter demanding Bank of America to provide a written report about its account policies and practices, update its terms of service to state that it does not discriminate against customers for their religious or political views or speech, and remove prohibitions on ’intolerance’ and ‘hate’ from its online banking service agreement.”

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could make the process easier and faster for governments by establishing a direct line between citizens and the government itself.  The truth is that a CBDC would most likely be the single largest assault to financial privacy since the creation of the Bank Secrecy Act and the establishment of the Third-Party Doctrine.

The threat to freedom that a CBDC could pose is closely related to its threat to privacy. With so much data in hand, a CBDC would provide countless opportunities for the government to control citizens’ financial activity.

Unlike paper dollars, it would offer neither the privacy protections nor the finality that cash provides.  That direct, digital liability—a sort of digital tether between citizens and the central bank—makes CBDCs a radical departure from the digital dollars millions of Americans already use today. While a CBDC would not offer any unique benefits to Americans compared to existing technologies, it would pose serious risks.  For example, a CBDC could spell doom for what little financial privacy protections remain for citizens.

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) General Manager Augustín Carstens said, “The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that.”

Congress should prohibit the Fed and Treasury from issuing a digital national currency. CBDCs have no place in the American economy.

Byron and Erika Donalds Attempted Hostile Takeover of a Charter School

Byron Donalds’ wife, Erika, tried to do a hostile takeover of Mason Classical Academy. There is much bitterness in the community because they wanted to run the charter school, Mason Classical Academy, which has one of the top ratings in the country.  They did not conceive of the charter school, but had, at one time, been on the board. Kelly Lichter and her husband Nick were the founders. As a state Representative from 2016 to 2020, Byron tried to write bills to make it easier for his wife to accomplish the takeover.

In 2017, Erika Donalds founded Optima, a company that has provided management support for several classical charter schools in Florida.  Florida’s Business Observer reported how the financial executive, turned school choice leader decided to open Optima.

At a Republican Executive Committee meeting several years ago, Donalds and his top staff member, Larry Wilcoxson, tried to start a public argument and disagreement with Kelly Lichter.  They were backing her leftist opponent. Tensions boiled to such a point that Florida Politics reported it.  A video lasting two minutes and 19 seconds mostly shows Donalds, with staffers Jesse Purdon and Larry Wilcoxson, speaking inaudibly with Lichter in a corner of the store.

A legal battle ensued over the allegations that Donalds and his allies were scheming to take over the school.  The case included Rico allegations, civil rights violations and defamation claims.  Had this case gone to discovery and depositions, it probably would have stained Donalds’ gubernatorial campaign.

In December of 2024, the embarrassing details of this case were scuttled.  Donalds personally coughed up $47K and his wife and Optima Foundation paid another $47K.  The settlement included a “non-disparagement” clause, and Optima agreed not to interfere with the school again.

Ryan Anderson’s October, 2023 column in Medium.com states, “Byron Donalds’ political career is marred by allegations of a troubled past, including drug dealing and bank fraud accusations. His recent involvement in presenting false evidence in a televised Biden impeachment hearing has further tarnished his image. The significant legal costs faced by his campaign add a financial dimension to the challenges he confronts. The implications of these controversies for his political career remain uncertain, but the public’s demand for transparency and accountability in politics has never been greater.”

The people in Donalds’ district are aware of his dealings and his background.

Byron Donalds’ Top Aide

Larry Wilcoxson allegedly takes home a six-figure salary.  He is Donalds top aide and his best friend.

Wilcoxson has been arrested multiple times including for child molestation. Link

He was arrested in 2014 for grand theft auto, a third-degree felony. In 2006, he was charged with three counts of child molestation of a 13-year-old girl in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2008, Wilcoxson was arrested for charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery with a weapon. He had previously been fired for allegedly exposing himself to a female school custodian at Indianapolis’ Donnan Middle School while he was a substitute teacher. In 2006, Collier County records indicate Wilcoxson was the defendant in several traffic cases and a paternity suit.

The grassroots leaders of Florida’s 19^th District, call Wilcoxson, “Byron’s thug.”

Unfortunately, many people believe that Byron Donalds is a strong conservative, but the facts tell a different story.  Before anyone backs Byron, they need to do their homework, and that includes President Donald Trump.

© 2025 Kelleigh Nelson – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kelleigh Nelson: proverbs133@bellsouth.net

By Kat Stansell

March 11, 2025

Life Has A Way of Keeping Things In Focus…

Just when you think you’ve seen/heard it all, things happen that set your head back straight.

As we age, we get to thinking we’ve seen it all, maybe even know it all. 100%, We have not. God keeps showing us that we don’t even get close to that level of awareness, like some get to believing. Last night, President Trump’s speech to Congress made that clear. The Left thought they knew enough to scoff. They looked really bad.

Donald Trump was masterful. I would say that even if he were NOT my choice for President. Had Obama or Biden been this smooth, kind and smart, I would have worried that they really did hold the upper hand. As it turns out, they did not, thank God.

Donald Trump kept his cool and good humor when most of us would not have managed that, despite the all out war waged against him for the last decade, by those he faced from the podium. Yes, it has been a decade since he descended that famous escalator and they began to fire on him, but Trump has only gained in strength and valor. A little divine intervention has seen to that.

The Democrats display was puerile and disgusting, at a minimum. If they had morals, they would be embarrassed, but they don’t, so they won’t. This is a large part of why people are abandoning the party label, as they watch their political leaders act like fools. Having no spiritual leader but for Lucifer, they are spared that emotion of shame, so tend to replace that unfamiliar chagrin with rage. Do they really think nobody sees? Or, are they growing increasingly crazed because they realize how many ARE really seeing the good coming from Trump and his crew?

Here were a few of my favorite moments of their pant-wetting last night…

*Al Greene (TX), lifting his leg repeatedly all over the President, who finally got escorted out. They are all termed, “unhinged”, I suggest, because there is no main frame in their souls to which to attach anything with a hinge…

*The still grieving mothers of Lake Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray ages 24 and 12 at the time of their murders by illegals were accorded ZERO respect by the Left; they apparently could feel no sorrow or put themselves in another man’s moccasins.

*A 13-year-old boy who has been fighting brain and spinal cancer since 2018, received ZERO accolades from the Left, when he became an honorary agent of the US Secret Service. The young man said that ‘I will continue till my gas tank runs out and God calls me home”. Humans everywhere had misty eyes and the boy excitedly received his surprise badge/photo ID from the current Secret Service head, Sean Curran.

Democrats did not. ‘Nuff said. Only one even bothered to clap, then Nicole Wallace made possibly the most disgusting comment of the evening…see above.

*One lib from NM held up a sign saying, “This is not normal”. THAT, folks says it all. The incredible number of accomplishments on our behalf, crafted by the Trump Administration seems just wrong to them. Work on behalf of the people??? Who does that, they screech? Give us our billions! Give us our perks!!

These followers of Obama, Biden and Marx are so far gone that they cannot recognize real solutions. I believe that they don’t even see problems in real terms, the terms of us regular Americans who work and pay bills. After all, they created so many of them.

Because they are thus, they have narrowed their base to the tipping point. The Democrat Party has delt themselves a severe blow. They won’t quit, but they are dramatically weakened as a political organization..

As disgusted Americans move to embrace Trump’s pro-American program, it is our time to help, to grow and strengthen, through all the generations.

Education, soon to be turned back to the community, will be a big start. then there is getting back with God.

To grow in depth and strength, we must return to a real God, not a “mother Earth god” or the dark angel himself. Then, we must do our best to try to be as He asks.

Those in Gen X and younger love their “devices” and games and “reality TV” – which is far from any reality I’D ever want – but won’t get involved. In anything – community groups, or, Heaven forbid, the work force. Respect for others is a necessary part of joining the community, and being successful and happy therein.

When love for others over self returns, we will have reached a spark point to ignite a true groundswell of change in America. The Left needs to see this; I don’t know, at this point, if they are capable. Ordinary people, maybe, but leadership, apparently not, at last not now.

Speaking of sparks, a wild fire began near me last night, shown in the picture above, nd threatened hundreds of peoples’ homes and farms, including my own. We nearly had to evacuate, but the firefighters and the rains came, and the fires ceased to threaten. Thanks be to both God and man. We only saw Trump on reruns, but were grateful to still have a home in which to do that.

Last night gave me perspective, for sure, and the necessary priority re-sort. From where I stood, with dear friends who had come to help, the Shakespearean mewling and puking of the Left looked even more ludicrous. “Ah, the giftie gie’ us, to see ourselves as others see us.” Wisdom from another bard long gone, poet Robt. Burns.

They should start teaching this stuff in schools again. America worked a lot better then.

© 2025 Kat Stansell – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Kat Stansell: katvanatt@protonmail.com

By Amil Imani

March 10, 2025

On March 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump delivered a stunning and historic address to Congress that lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes—the longest presidential speech to a joint session. “He talked for more than an hour and 40 minutes, breaking the previous record set by President Bill Clinton’s 2000 State of the Union address, which ran 1 hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds.”

This was more than just a speech; it was a thunderous declaration of American greatness and a fiery testament to Trump’s undeniable leadership. With unwavering resolve, he proclaimed, “America is back,” unveiling a bold and brilliant vision that ignited cheers from patriots nationwide. This marked a renewal of the American Dream, showing that Trump is the only man capable of making it a reality.

From the moment he strode to the podium at 9 PM ET, Trump commanded the night. Republicans leaped to their feet, their applause drowning out the few jeers from disgruntled Democrats too blinded by hatred to see reality. Trump began with a victory lap for his landslide election win—a clear mandate from We the People to dismantle the swamp and restore America. “The people have spoken,” he declared, his voice filled with pride, and they chose him to save a nation battered by years of radical leftist chaos. It was a glorious, fist-pumping reminder that Trump’s victory is our victory—every farmer, trucker, and factory worker’s triumph over the elites.

Economic relief was the centerpiece of his speech, and Trump delivered a masterstroke. He promised significant tax cuts for families and businesses, vowing to “unleash the greatest economic boom in history.” His plan is pure genius: eliminate job-killing regulations, promote American energy independence, and restore manufacturing jobs taken by globalist sellouts. “We’re going to make America rich again,” he declared, and you could practically hear the cash registers ringing in every small town from Ohio to Texas. Trump’s economic prowess—demonstrated in his first term—is back with a vengeance, and it’s going to be tremendous.

Immigration? Trump brought the house down with his ironclad pledge to secure the border and deport the illegals draining our country dry. “We’re taking our nation back,” he said, and the cheers were deafening. He torched Biden’s open-border nightmare and promised the biggest deportation operation ever—millions sent packing. No more coddling criminals, no more sanctuary city nonsense—Trump’s vision puts American citizens first, period. It’s tough, it’s right, and it’s what we’ve demanded for years.

Trade received the Trump treatment, and it was impressive. “We’re done being the world’s piggy bank,” he declared, criticizing China and other trade offenders with tariffs that will bring jobs back to our shores. He advocates for American steelworkers, not foreign factories, and his tariff strategy is pure America First brilliance. “We’re going to make America rich again,” he asserted, and every word resonated with the determination of a man who keeps his promises. The kind of leadership that made him a legend—and he’s committed to it.

Then came the showstopper: Trump’s dream team for government efficiency, led by Elon Musk. “We’re going to cut the excess and make Washington work for you,” he declared, promising to eliminate billions in unnecessary waste. Musk, the titan of Tesla and SpaceX, collaborating with Trump? That’s a conservative dream come true—a duo that the left can hardly imagine stopping. Trump’s vision of a lean, effective government is groundbreaking, and with Musk’s brilliance, it’s set to advance quickly. “Cut the excess,” he reiterated, and you could feel the swamp stirring.

In terms of foreign policy, Trump emerged as a reborn Reagan. “Peace through strength,” he proclaimed, promising to keep America out of endless conflicts while making our adversaries tremble. He is revitalizing our military, reclaiming our global dominance, and ensuring no one challenges us. “America is back,” he stated, and every veteran watching nodded with pride. It’s a vision of raw power and unwavering determination—vintage Trump.

The left’s outbursts couldn’t faze him. When a few Democrats—like Representative Al Green, who was escorted out—attempted to disrupt, Trump swatted them away like flies. Their complaints only showed how fearful they are of his momentum. Meanwhile, GOP leaders like Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator J.D. Vance beamed with pride, knowing that Trump’s agenda signifies the future: prosperity, security, and liberty.

Trump concluded with a spine-tingling rallying cry: “America is back, and we’re just getting started.” He envisions a future where families prosper, borders are secure, jobs are flourishing, and Old Glory flies higher than ever. “We’re going to make America rich again,” “take our nation back,” and “trim the excess”—he emphasized these points, which hit like a freight train. The renewal of the American Dream is upon us, and Trump is leading it with fire and fury.

The left can sulk—Senator Elissa Slotkin’s uninspired rebuttal lacked energy—but they’re powerless against this MAGA juggernaut. Last night, Trump didn’t just speak; he ignited a revolution. America’s future is bright, bold, and undeniably Trump.

© 2025 Amil Imani – All Rights Reserved

By Cliff Kincaid

March 10, 2025

America is on the rebound, but Canada is a failed state with very little national defense capability that has been sucking America dry through a series of unfair trade practices that President Trump is now trying to dismantle. At the same time, Canada has come under the control of organized crime networks pumping fentanyl into the United States. These are the stakes as our neighbor to the north enters into a campaign season putting “liberals” against an alleged fake conservative by the name of Pierre Poilievre.

The likely Liberal Party candidate is Mark Carney, a globalist elitist who hates President Trump and is considered a pawn of hedge fund billionaire George Soros.

But Tanya Gaw of the group Action4Canada says the “conservative,” Pierre Poilievre, is a fraud and the country’s only hope is to break through media censorship and eventually elect Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party. She argues that only he can save Canada from destruction and outlines the stakes in my interview with her on America’s Survival TV on the Rumble platform.

Looking back on my 50-year career, I remember Alan Stang’s analysis of communist inroads into Canada. I have posted an article on that topic that he wrote back in 1971 for American Opinion magazine.

Lester Bowles “Mike” Pearson, the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, was known as “Red Mike,” based on evidence developed by the FBI that he was linked to a communist spy ring. He was succeeded by Pierre-Elliott Trudeau, labeled “the man who made modern Canada” and who was “educated” in the socialist techniques and strategy of the Fabian Society. He was a member of a Canadian delegation organized by Canada’s Communist Party that attended an International Economic Conference held in Moscow in 1952. He participated in a Communist “victory celebration” in China where he met his idol, Mao Tse-tung. 

Both Pearson and Trudeau were members of the Liberal Party, which has now overtaken the (fake) Conservatives in federal election polling, a development that shows how Cultural Marxism and left-wing media bias have taken their toll on the people. Still, there is hope, as Canadians of a conservative and Christian persuasion are rising up against the Trudeau regime and working to replace it in elections scheduled for this year.

Pierre Trudeau’s “son” Justin has ruled Canada for the last ten years and is being forced to step down as leader of the Liberal Party. Once asked about Justin Trudeau and Castro, Trump cracked, “They say he’s the son of Fidel Castro and could be. Anything’s possible in this world.”

We do know that, after Fidel Castro’s death in 2016, Justin Trudeau praised him as a “legendary revolutionary and orator” who “made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.” He added, “I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honor to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.”

During that visit to Cuba and meeting with President Raúl Castro, Trudeau “agreed to collaborate on climate change, gender equality, regional safety and security issues” and participated in a roundtable “to discuss diversity, race, gender, and LGBTQ2 issues.”

This is the agenda he has inflicted on Canada, characterized by transgenderism, abortion, legal marijuana, injection sites for heroin users, and a program called Medical Assistance in Dying, the intentional taking of a human life that researcher Kelsi Sheren points out used to be known as murder or homicide.

The battles over abortion-on-demand and homosexuality seem to be over, but the Christian Heritage Party of Canada hopes to restore respect for traditional values.

Tanya Gaw admires the work of this party but still thinks Maxime Bernier, a renegade from the establishment’s Conservative Party, is Canada’s best hope.

We hear a lot these days about the “trade war” with Canada when Trump is only fighting back. In January of this year, the U.S. trade deficit rose to $131.4 billion, much higher than expected, amounting to more than $1 trillion on an annual basis. The U.S. trade deficit with Canada alone was $63 billion in 2024.

Regarding security, Canada has failed to defend itself and has active military personnel of only 68,000, spending only 1.3 percent of its GDP on national defense. As noted by Tanya Gaw, Trudeau has “intentionally understaffed and under-funded our military to give our enemies an upper hand.”

Under Trudeau, the government has imported millions of immigrants and the drug cartels have established bases there like they have in Mexico.

In response to Trump’s tariffs, the government has finally acknowledged that transnational criminal organizations, including cartels, “play a leading role in the production and distribution of fentanyl throughout Canada” and identified seven such organizations as terrorist entities. And the government of Canada now says it “is taking all necessary steps to address fentanyl in Canada; by appointing a fentanyl czar, launching the Canada – U.S. Joint Strike Force, convening a new taskforce to combat money laundering, and investing $1.3 billion to strengthen our border.”

Trump’s so-called “trade war” has made these actions possible.

Whatever the results of the Trump tariffs, which become reciprocal in nature on April 2, the dire political situation in Canada remains because the so-called “conservative” political party in Canada is led by a politician, Pierre Poilievre, who now spouts the ridiculous “Canada First” mantra and rejects Trump’s policies designed to make both countries stronger.

That is why real conservatives in Canada are backing the new People’s Party, led by Maxime Bernier and his platform of conservative principles.

In a recent press release, Action4Canada asked, “Why did Trump threaten to impose tariffs? Does he have legitimate concerns about Canada being a hotbed for terrorism and colluding with the Chinese Communist Party to take down the West?” The group pointed to an article written by investigative reporter Sam Cooper about the fentanyl crisis and how law enforcement agencies and the Trudeau government are implicated.

The article states that “…Canada is increasingly perceived as compromised—either incapable or unwilling to confront entrenched transnational criminal networks… a nation whose law enforcement agencies are in disarray, inhibited by suspected infiltration at the highest levels, obstructing investigations into billion-dollar drug networks and money laundering operations.” (emphasis added).

Looking back in history, remember that American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson had wanted to invade Canada. In a letter dated August 4, 1812, he referred to the “acquisition of Canada” being “a mere matter of marching” that will result in “the final expulsion of England from the American continent.”

Perhaps it is time for America to act. Trump’s proposal to make Canada the 51^st state makes sense from the point of view of exploiting its natural resources for the benefit of Americans, a strategy that would also benefit Canadian citizens and safeguard their country in the process.

© 2025 Cliff Kincaid – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Cliff Kincaid: kincaid@comcast.net

• Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. usasurvival.org

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 10, 2025

Each week in America, something weird, crazy, stupid, nuts and off the wall, crazy—pops up in politics, sports, race relations, and the environment.

To start off, a letter arrived over my transom about America’s racial divide, political chasm and the incredible bias in main stream news reporting.  Just watching the enormous fraud continuing at U.S. AID curls your guts.  What’s more, all the people that protest against Musk for exposing it, are the people defrauding the American taxpayer. Or, those same people support all the fraud into the trillions of dollars over the decades.

To all of that, this reader from Michigan said, “Many or even most ‘journalists’ today, yourself not among them, are in reality propagandists supporting the agenda of the Left. Some of those on network television, similar to the late Rush Limbaugh’s self-assessment, are ‘entertainers’ who may present the news while representing a political viewpoint with a certain flare. What is lacking is a uniform effort to portray the Truth in an objective manner which allows viewers and listeners the ability to decide for themselves what is relevant based on the unfettered facts.

“Unfortunately, critical thinking has become passe’, and many are unable or unwilling to understand the possible long-term consequences of current events, and how these will affect the future of our nation and world. This makes ‘the news’ even more likely to succeed in its attempts to influence and control public opinion. It also begs the definition of ‘Truth’, a question which has been a conundrum for ages. As Bill Clinton offered as one example under other circumstances, “It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ “is”.

“All of this not new. The retiring editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer many years ago stated that objectivity had been lost long ago in journalism. You and I are, similar to the state of Social Security, living out a Ponzi Scheme in which any benefits accrued today by us will reduce their diminishing number available in the years ahead. The future and freedom of our children, grandchildren, and future generations are at stake.” G.G., MI

In the end, each American must examine the “truth” from bias reporting, from his or her own wisdom, and/or gathering all the facts from different sources.  That’s why I watch MSNBC, CNN, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, 60 Minutes, and PBS.  I’ve got to decipher all of it in order to write a decent, truthful and reasonable piece of literary work—such as this commentary bi-weekly for the past 20 years.

This past weekend, a radio show on NPR aired a piece on “The Middle” that dealt with “Transgenderism.”  Callers responded with many different points of view.  Why such a topic has garnered such massive attention remains a mystery because the adherents to “Transgenderism” remain a tiny, tiny population in America of around .000000000001 percent.  Yet, because of social media, they garner extraordinary attention.  True, homosexuality has made giant strides in this country, too.  Their numbers might be as high as 2 to 4 percent of the American public.  Since we are a free country, and not Islamic, “gay” people enjoy all the rights and freedoms of every citizen.

So, how do you feel about children under the age of 21 choosing to have their mammaries removed by a scalpel?  Or, male boys choosing to be castrated at the age of 12 because they ‘feel’ they are a female?  How would you feel if your daughter chose to have hormone blockers to change her chemistry?  Do children under 21 possess the maturity to make such life-altering choices?

How do you feel about biological males “identifying” as females and competing against girls that cannot possibly match the speed or strength of those biological males?  Is it fair?  Who are those female governors of entire states advocating for biological males to beat the crap out of biological females in swimming, wrestling, boxing, volleyball, weightlifting and so many other sports?

How is it that 47 U.S. Senators voted to keep DNA male XY athletes competing against biological females?  Are they THAT ideologically locked into their own lack of common sense and knowledge of biology? How did they graduate from high school biology class?  What do they use for common sense?  Little wonder Congress earned a 17 percent approval rating for the past 10 years!  They’ve done more for non-citizens than for American citizens.  They’ve funded fraudulent U.S. AID without questions or auditing.

Back to transgenders: where are those that choose reason and critical thinking over emotions and hormone blockers?

How could the leaders of the NCAA choose to crush young women’s lives by allowing 6’4” William “Lia” Thomas to swim against them, and then stand on the podium with the 1st place trophy?  What a complete joke, fraud and insanity against reason!

Why not create the National Collegiate Athletic Transgender Association to have transgender athletes compete against their own kind?  Why not take the rational and reasonable choices to create a fair and balanced competition?  The Olympics feature the main course of competitors! And, they created the Para-Olympics to allow disabled sports stars to shine.  In fact, during my 25 years of teaching at Winter Park’s National Sport Center for the Disabled, I taught a few men and women how to ski to compete in the Para-Olympics. Incredible heart, talent and courage!  I often walked away from a day on the slopes crying my eyes out at their courage.

As to transgenders, the fact remains: a DNA biological male can “identify” as a female all “he/she” wants, but his XY chromosomes will NEVER be changed into XX chromosomes.  “His” or “her” mind may choose another gender, but his body will never switch genders no matter how many drugs he/she/it injects or consumes.

Even with high-profile transgenders like Cher’s daughter, Chastity Bono, who was born a female, all the hormones in the world to give her a beard, deep voice and “masculine” appearance—have not, and cannot change her DNA XX chromosomes into XY chromosomes.

In the end, we can accept their choices as long as their choices do not impede into other peoples’ lives like on the athletic field. If they want to cut off their breasts or castrate themselves, it would be more reasonable to legally wait until they are 21, with a more mature mind, to make such drastic, life-altering surgeries.

As an ending to this piece, let’s celebrate the Kentucky All State Choir for singing our National Anthem each night in the hotel lobby. There must be 20 stories of singers singing proudly and together, from all walks of life, all races and many religions.  We’ve got so much to be proud about in America.   Let’s raise our voices:

God bless America

© 2025 Frosty Wooldridge – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Frosty: frostyw@juno.com

By Rob Pue

March 9, 2025

In my previous message, I shared with you about how I grew up working hard on our family farm and starting my own lawn care business on the side; I told you about my first “real” job at the Holiday Inn and how I became the assistant manager of the entire complex at age 16. I also mentioned my work at the radio station, becoming Program Director by age 20 and working for a weekly county newspaper before opening my own photography studio.

There’s more to my story than I can tell here, but I’ll share a few more tidbits from my life. I was also the first member of our local AWANA club, and I enjoyed that very much. In fact, I memorized three years’ worth of Scripture in one year’s time and was the first to earn the “Timothy Award.”

Also, at age 12, I began my own little “newspaper.” It consisted of stories I wrote, and was first written by hand, copied on a Xerox machine and sent out to my “subscribers” — all of whom were extended family members. Eventually I acquired a mimeograph machine, and my little paper was going out to subscribers I didn’t even know, far and wide…even to writers around the country and in Canada who were much older than me and producing their own publications.

It was about this time that I learned our family history. The Pue family had the first printing press, and first newspaper ever published in Ireland, starting in 1685. I also learned that in every generation as far back as I can trace, there’s always been at least one person in our family involved in newspaper publishing and at least one person in Christian ministry. It seems that now, I’m the only one left, and have combined both vocations into one, though I’ve never had any formal training in writing, journalism or newspaper work.

I might also mention that in the fifth grade, our teacher gave us an assignment to write a report. The report could be on any topic, any subject and just had to be at least two pages long. Most kids scribbled a poorly written thing on both sides of a single sheet of notebook paper. My “report” was a commentary and explanation of the Book of John from the Bible. It was fifteen pages long, perfectly typed, included a cover page, a table of contents and footnotes, and I turned it in bound with a laminated cover. I got an “F” on that report, and the teacher wrote it in red pen, circled the “F” and then wrote “inappropriate for school” in big red, underlined letters. I doubt she even read it.

I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life. Let’s see if I can remember them all. First, the Holiday Inn, then I worked at a camera store, while also serving as the head cook at a cafe. I worked as a clerk at a convenience store owned by an oil company. I was a studio musician for a recording studio for a while. Then, there was the radio station and the newspaper, and then I opened my photography studio.

I loved my job at the Holiday Inn but had outgrown it by the time I graduated from high school. The camera store job enhanced my love of photography. I did well at the cafe, preparing the “soup of the day,” as well as planning, purchasing supplies and cooking daily lunch specials. The convenience store job was strictly for extra money, and often times I worked more than one job at once. The studio musician job came after I had recorded an album of original music with a band I was in.

I enjoyed the work at the radio station, but despite the fact that my own show there was popular and profitable, the rest of the programming was very “gray,” — “adult contemporary” secular music that really didn’t attract any listeners. I arranged to meet with the station manager and suggested that they needed to allow me to program our content based on a particular demographic. Specifically, those who had disposable incomes and would respond to advertisers’ messages. So, I suggested doing an “oldies” show. I also suggested we broadcast a Sunday sermon from a different church in our area each week.

These ideas were immediately rejected. They didn’t want to change anything, mainly because it would have taken time and work to implement these changes, but I was also told, “there will NEVER be any religious stuff broadcast here as long as I own this station.” I knew, then, it was time for me to move on. When the opportunity came to work for a newspaper, I was excited about it, but again, though I worked hard and was a great employee, they’d never give me an opportunity to write — my job was strictly graphic design and that was all it would ever be.

Now, here’s the interesting part about all the jobs I’ve ever had. Every single company I worked for, within just a few months of me leaving, went out of business. Every one. Including the Holiday Inn. I’m not saying it was because I always did the work of several people and contributed so significantly that the business couldn’t survive without me…but interestingly, none ever did.

The Holiday Inn, for example, had strict standards that the facility needed to adhere to in order to remain a Holiday Inn franchise. We had regular inspections from the corporate offices and when I worked there, I was in charge of making sure every department met the expectations. Under my watch, we passed every inspection with flying colors. Six months after I left, they had failed three inspections in a row and lost their Holiday Inn status. The entire place shut down for a while and later reopened under another name. Likewise, the camera store, the recording studio, the oil company, the cafe, the radio station and the newspaper all were either sold or went out of business completely within six months of my departure.

And here’s an interesting note about the radio station I worked at. Remember how I had suggested to the owner that they do an “oldies” show, and that idea was immediately rejected? Well, they went bankrupt shortly after I left that job, the station was sold, and it became “all oldies all the time!” Ironic, isn’t it?

I built my photography studio business from scratch and operated it for twelve years and it was very successful. We had over 300 regular clients and I employed nine people. Our wedding photography was so good, I had couples coming from other states, because others had referred them and no matter what it cost, they wanted me. I don’t mean to sound like I’m bragging, but we really were the very best. When God called me to start Wisconsin Christian News, I knew I couldn’t do both, so I sold my studio. Then, I trained the new owner in every aspect of the work for a full year. I handed over the keys on December 31st, 1999. And then, in less than a year, the studio was out of business.

Recently, as I’ve become an “old man,” people have asked me what will become of Wisconsin Christian News when I get too old to continue the work. Some get angry when I tell them that it won’t continue…but the truth is, it won’t. No one would put in the time and effort and work to do this job; and it’s more than a “job” to me, it’s a calling. I can tell you, the first thing a new publisher would do is to go completely “online” and discontinue the printed newspaper because it’s very labor intensive and very expensive. It’s not a money-maker, but rather, an outreach tool to the general public. Few understand the importance of this.

Yes, it would be much, much easier to simply publish our articles online. But it’s the printed newspaper that reaches people on news racks in public places — those who have never heard the Word of God or understood the truth of the times we’re living in, or who have walked away from their faith. Then they find our newspaper on a public news rack somewhere and eyes are opened, and hearts and lives are changed…and I have multiple boxes of testimony letters from people telling me that.

But God gets all the credit. Because every job I’ve ever had has taught me something of great importance and contributed to the worker I am now. Few understand the importance of diligence and hard work, or the concept of “failure is not an option.” And when confronted by the impossible, few really understand, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.”

I’m thankful to God for teaching me the value of hard work — even in times when that work doesn’t seem to be appreciated or acknowledged. He’s taught me diligence, excellence, and the humility to know I can always learn, grow and do better. Sadly, most don’t know, value or understand those things today, and it’s evident everywhere. Many just want a “free ride,” an easy path, and expect the highest of wages for the least amount of effort they can put forth.

I learned that as an employer at the photography studio. I had a couple of great employees, but honestly, even back in the 1990s, most workers just weren’t worth their salt. I had one office worker who would actually hide work. She’d ask to go home early or take a workday off, and I’d ask if everything was caught up. Of course, she told me “Yes, everything’s done.” Then, I discovered, multiple times, she had hidden piles of work that still needed doing — and I would be the one working late into the night to complete it. Good help was hard to find.

But I can’t imagine trying to hire employees in this day and age. People simply don’t want to work. I know a young man in his late 20s who’s perfectly healthy and able to work, and lives literally two blocks away from a factory that pays excellent wages and always has a sign out front saying, “Now Hiring, All Shifts.” They even offer immediate health insurance, vacation time and a signing bonus. But they can’t find workers. This young man somehow stays home and collects government money. He spends his time playing video games and browsing the computer.

Recently, we needed a dishwasher replaced at our home. We purchased the machine, and it was to be installed three weeks later. When the installers arrived, they refused to install it because we needed a special bracket. I told them I’d happily go get the bracket at the store a mile away and be back within 15 minutes, but they refused to wait. When they came back three weeks after that, they refused to install it because, they said, the water inlet hose comes from the basement. Of course. Where did they think water comes from? Neither one spoke English and had to communicate with me through a translation device on their phone. I managed to talk them into completing the job, with me showing them where each hose attached.

Then they left and I tried to run the machine for a cycle to try it out, only to get an error message having to do with the water line. I assumed they had kinked the hose when they shoved the machine in there. Upon closer inspection, we also found the machine was still full of Styrofoam packing materials, and when I pulled the dishwasher out to check the water line, found they had not only kinked the hose, but completely folded it in half. Later, I checked the reviews on this company’s appliance installers — at a major Big Box store — and found literally hundreds of bad reviews from all over the country, most reflecting my exact experience.

Delving deeper into this company, I learned that they’re deeply committed to their DEI programs. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…but clearly their workers don’t know and don’t care what they’re doing. My experience with DEI was frustrating. In other occupations it can be deadly. I wouldn’t want to fly an airline with a DEI-hire pilot. Or trust a surgery to a DEI-hire doctor. Things have changed drastically in our workforce. The “Affirmative Action” programs of the 1960s have morphed into today’s “woke” DEI agendas and they really are insane. People shouldn’t be entitled to a job they’re clearly not qualified for, simply because of their ethnicity or their sexual orientation, but that’s where we’re at today, and indeed, good help is harder than ever to find.

© 2025 Rob Pue – All Rights Reserved

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By Pastor Glynn Adams

March 9, 2025

Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness getting prepared to be used by God. In the fullness of time, God commissioned Moses to deliver the Hebrew children from Pharaoh in Egypt. Moses asked, “Whom shall I say sent me?” God answered, “Tell them I AM sent you.” (Ex 3:13-14) Why did God call Himself I AM? Perhaps I AM was an invitation to get to know God more than it meant to describe His identity. In giving Moses this elusive name, God wanted to provoke His people to a joyful journey of discovering the countless and wonderful ways in which I AM could be known?

In God’s confrontation with Pharaoh, God was saying, “I want you to see that I AM the One who confronts the strongman who holds you in his grip. In the plagues on Egypt, God was saying, “I want you to know that I AM the One who contends with those who contend with you.” As Moses and the people stood helpless at the shores of the Red Sea while Pharaoh’s powerful army advanced upon them, God was saying, “I will show you that I AM the One who makes a way for you where there is no way.” In God’s dealings with His people throughout all of Scripture, He is showing that I AM is the one who ushers you through every barrier and I AM the One who helps you scale any wall.

I AM your source, I AM your wisdom and I AM your sustainer. I AM with you, I AM the One who sees you, I AM the One who hears you, and I AM the One who keeps my promises to you. Most of God’s people who came out of Egypt never entered into the promise land because they never discovered I AM and their undoing took place in the wilderness.

While Jesus was on this earth, He was and is the very nature of I AM. He showed the heart and love of God by setting free those in bondage to sin, those in bondage and held captive by demons, and the sick who needed healing. Jesus proclaimed the good news of the Kingdom of God. He said, “I AM the light of the world, I AM the living water, I AM the bread of life. I AM the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep. I AM the resurrection and the life, and I AM coming again.”

Today, just as with God’s people escaping the bondage of Egypt so long ago, God’s love for us at Calvary has set our freedom in motion. But many Christians today are in danger as God’s people were in the wilderness. Please be warned – our trials, our tribulations, and our persecutions, regardless how painful and hurtful they may be, will not undo us. Each crisis, which is never more than we can bear, merely exist to move us into the wonder of discovery of knowing and experiencing God as the One who confronts our Pharaoh and parts the sea for our safe crossing over. The dead-end place in which you may find yourself today, that frightening, threatening thing that confronts you, the impossible wall you need to scale, is merely a disguise for the sacred invitation to know I AM.

So what will be our undoing as the children of God? It is our failure to accept God’s invitation to sustain a daily, intimate relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ to discover who He is and to know Him. Not to know about Him but to know Him intimately. To know Jesus is to love Him and obey Him. To have the mind of Christ and the nature of Christ only comes from knowing Christ. To know His ways, to hear His voice, to converse with Him, to know He hears us, to praise Him, to worship Him, to give Him all glory and to feel His presence only comes in time from knowing Him. Let us never forget in this solemn moment of time that Christianity is not about buildings, programs, prosperity, teaching and sermons.

Christianity is about an intimate relationship with a living person – Jesus Christ. We must get to know this Living Deity who knew us before we were formed in the womb (Isaiah 44:2) and who has inscribed us on the palms of His hands (Isaiah 49:16). “My people are fools; they do not know me…” (Jeremiah 4:22) Let us not suffer the same fate as those who died in the wilderness. They had the same option, we now have, to prevent their undoing. It is to accept God’s invitation to sustain a daily, intimate relationship with our God to discover who He is and to know Him!!! God bless, I remain His Minister and watchman, glynnadams@sbcglobal.net (My thanks to Kay Vinci of Morningstar Ministries for some of her insights on I AM)

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By Diane Linthicum

March 8, 2025

In 2021, Oregon’s Democrat majority passed Senate Bill 762, with a handful of bipartisan supporters, as a comprehensive wildfire management bill, also known as the Fire Maps bill. This bill was introduced to forestall future outcry that might erupt as details about negligence swirled in the news following the devastating Paradise, CA wildfire.

In that tragedy a regional electric utility provider, Pacific Gas and Electric, had neglected maintenance and upgrades to their utility lines. This led to sparks in a heavily forested area and ignited fires during a high-wind event. More than 100 lives were tragically lost, and PG&E was quickly bankrupted.

But SB 762 was a sleight-of-hand ruse.

It was obviously designed to lead the public away from the troubles with Oregon’s forest mismanagement and shift the problem onto the backs of the little guys – the private land owners.

Although the bill started with a nod to the PUC phantom, ELECTRIC SYSTEM PLANS, it demanded little from these public utilities. For grid providers, the legislature’s demands consisted of “periodic workshops” and suggestions, “to develop and share information for the identification, adoption and carrying out of best practices regarding wildfires.”

That’s nice but it sounds like the result of a noon-time therapy session instead of a solution.

SB 762 spent only 2½ pages out of the bill’s total 26 pages on these lackluster suggestions for workshops while the remaining 23+ pages are dedicated to saddling homeowners with economic burdens, diminishing private property rights and burying bureaucratic solutions into Oregon’s rules, regulations and statutes.

The real solution is obvious – Manage the Forests, harvest timber and thin excessive growth and underbrush.

Additionally, Gov. Brown and Sen. Golden’s Fire Maps Bill (SB 762) removed the $25.00 per parcel limit on forest protection district assessments (taxes) as imposed by ORS 477.060.

This was an important protection for property owners because the measure authorizes the State Fire Marshal to administer and enforce the minimum defensible space requirements and apply a graduated fee structure for penalties on property owners for noncompliance.

The sky’s the limit without this enforced tax limit.

This begs the question, was SB 762 a strategic move to transfer the cost of our mismanaged forests onto private property owners? Was this an intended or unintended consequence?

The Fire Maps Bill needs to be repealed in full!

The current repeal bill, SB 678, simply needs one small amendment to reinstate the appropriate reference to ORS 477.060 which would reimpose the $25.00 per parcel limit on forest protection district taxes.

These limits must be put back in place!
SB 762 must be completely repealed!

Support Diane’s Conservative efforts

Diane Linthicum
Oregon State Senate – Elect – District 28

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By Andrew Wallace

March 8, 2025

I defy anyone to question the title statement after reading this article.

The 1913 Coup resulted in the government being funded by income taxes rather than by tariffs/excise taxes, which had funded the government since the founding. At the same time we also got the unconstitutional Privately-Owned Federal Reserve Bank and Tax-Free Foundations, which were an essential part of the Coup to enslave us. Income taxes required a Constitutional Amendment, and there is ample evidence that the required number of states did not ratify it (more criminality!). Also, the manner of determining the tax is unconstitutional.

All of this was a Coup that destroyed the Constitutional Republic and doomed its citizens to endless wars, reduced living standards, and loss of God-given rights. This was the work of the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) and their bribed minions in both political parties.

In the meantime, the bureaucrats in the administrative state were enriching themselves by robbing us blind and weaponizing government against the people.

In simple terms. the PSRRC deprived us of our Constitutional Government (The United States of America) and replaced the majority of it with a Criminal Enterprise in the form of a similar-sounding corporation (“United States”) where the Constitution does not apply!.

The PSRRC then proceeded to make wars for profit, steal everything in sight, impoverish the people, deny the people’s rights, kill millions of innocents and tens of thousands of our military. None of this would be possible without the income tax.

All wars for the last 79 years were unconstitutional because there was no Declaration of War. Congress ignored the Constitution so PSRRC could profit from wars and pay them bribes.

Remember, our Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land and the only legal basis for government. A majority of so-called federal government is not legal, and is therefore a Criminal Enterprise.

Under the Constitution, the federal establishment is not a sovereign government, as it is a subservient creature of the states authorized to perform a strictly limited number of services (Enumerated Powers).

But the worm was turned by traitors with the Coup of 1913, in direct contravention of the Constitution. Our Supreme Law requires that federal establishment be funded by tariffs/excise taxes, allowing the states adequate funds to support their Constitutional functions.

Income taxes after the 1913 Coup reversed the role of the states, giving the federal establishment the funds to usurp constitutional functions of the states. States are now being blackmailed by the federal establishment, with all power being concentrated in DC.

We now know the wisdom of our founders in concentrating power in the states where services for the people could be maximized at minimum cost. The income tax sucks up all the money and power, resulting in waste, fraud and abuse in biblical amounts producing inadequate services at a bankrupting cost.

The irrefutable truth is that you cannot have a Constitutional government financed with an income tax. You must also have law enforcement to keep the crooks in Congress and the bureaucracy honest!

The FBI for the most part is a sick joke and responsible for allowing and protecting wholesale waste, fraud and abuse in government. The FBI has been corrupt since its founding. I doubt it can be reformed. It has no legitimate police powers in the states other than very few listed in the Enumerated Powers. Congress cannot give the FBI powers in the states not authorized by the Enumerated Powers. Congress has, of course, already done this. I also doubt that the FBI is legal, as the Constitution specifies that the laws of the union are to be enforced by the Militia of the Several States. Over 100 years ago the Militia was converted into the National Guard by Congress with the unconstitutional Dick Act that also concentrated power in DC.

America prospered on tariffs until the Coup of 1913 when income taxes were used for the first time, unconstitutionally concentrating all power in the federal establishment at the expense of the states and the people.

If you agree with this paper please pass it on to your elected representatives.

God bless you and the Republic

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By Lex Greene

March 8, 2025

Honestly, I can’t figure out why we still refer to anti-American global Marxists as “liberals” when it’s abundantly clear that there is absolutely nothing “liberal” about them, other than their very liberal degree of gross ignorance and hate.

Over the years, the “liberal” party in the United States, the Democrat Party, has evolved from a pro-American, anti-war, pro-peace, blue collar taxpayer party, into a full-blown anti-American extreme left lunatic party that champions everything wrong in the world, and works around the clock to undermine and destroy our Constitutional Republican form of self-governance.

There’s absolutely nothing “liberal” about today’s liberals, or so-called “progressives.” There’s nothing “progressive” or pro-America about them either.

In the good ole days, republicans and democrats had different ideas of how to achieve a common goal for building a better America for all American citizens. Because this is no longer true, a majority of American citizens have chosen “independent” status, still voting R or D in big elections, but refusing to be associated with either party trapped in a never-ending squabble over who holds power.

Historically speaking, Thomas Jefferson was a quintessential “liberal,” as in, promoting the maximum degree of individual liberty and freedom, which always requires a minimal degree of government. As the leader of the “anti-Federalist” movement at the time, Jefferson was in favor of extremely limited central power, and the vast majority of government power being held locally.

But 249-years later, even self-proclaimed “constitutional scholars” focus all attention on Jefferson’s opposition, the Federalists, who preferred a maximum degree of centralized power at the Federal level, and a minimum degree of local and individual power. The Federalists essentially fought for the North in the Civil War, as the anti-Federalists tried to reign in Federal power over the states and people in the South.

Before the ink was dry on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist North started exercising unconstitutional authority over the states and people from the newly minted Federal government.

“The Federalist Party originated in opposition to the Democratic-Republican Party in America during President George Washington’s first administration. Known for their support of a strong national government, the Federalists emphasized commercial and diplomatic harmony with Britain following the signing of the 1794 Jay Treaty.”  (Source)

Jefferson formed the Democratic-Republican Party based upon “liberal” ideologies grounded in anti-Federalist foundations, described best in writings such as Brutus 1 and anti-Federalist Thomas “Give me liberty or give me death” Paine. Later, the word “democratic” was dropped and Jefferson’s party became the Republican Party we know today, while the Federalists became today’s Democrat Party.

Those who still believe in the anti-Federalist notion of maximum individual liberty and limited government, are not part of the Democrat Party at all, but rather modern “republican” or “libertarian” members of society, fed up with the tyrannical nature of our out-of-control, deeply-corrupt, Federal government.

Today’s so-called “liberals” are actually global “Marxists,” opposed to all forms of individual freedom and liberty, and in favor of total Federal authority over everything and everyone.

Today’s so-called “liberals” oppose…

• Maximum individual freedom for all
• Economic freedom
• A basic Right to Life
• Free speech
• National sovereignty
• National security
• The Rule of Constitutional Law
• Limited government
• Free exercise of Faith
• A basic Right to Keep and Bear arms
• Performance based equality
• States Rights
• True Women’s Rights
• Peace in the World, or America
• Government Accountability
• Personal Accountability
• The Nuclear Family
• Victims of Violent Crimes
• The Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights
• A Republican Form of Government
• Sanity and Honesty
• True Education
• Fiscal Responsibility
• Real diplomacy to end and prevent wars

I could literally keep going for pages, but if you don’t get it by now, you never will.

The 2024 election proved beyond any doubt that the country is waking up to the facts above and moving away from today’s so-called “liberals” who aren’t really liberal at all.

After watching the disgusting behavior of congressional democrats at the recent State of the Union Address, there can be no doubt that today’s “liberal progressive democrats” are not for America at all. In fact, they only applauded one thing throughout the address, war in Ukraine. They aren’t even anti-war anymore…

When even “liberal” CNN viewers agree with Trump 69% and hang their heads in shame over democrats behavior at the Trump speech, it’s over!

Guess who has been marching in our streets in support of well-known terror organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, and Islamic Jihad, while attacking “jews” on college campuses across the country? Right, “liberal, progressive, democrats.”

Guess who has turned your children against you in K-12 and college education for years? Right again, “liberal, progressive, democrats.”

Guess who burned cities, looted businesses, attacked their neighbors and run “smash and grab” theft rings as their form of “protest?” Yet again, “liberal, progressive, democrats.”

Make no mistake, as if you even could. Today’s “liberal, progressive, democrats” hate over half of the people in this country. They are on record calling for over half of Americans to be put in re-education camps. Their fake news media is trapped in a perpetual propaganda operation aimed at undermining America, while promoting global Marxists, and running cover for global miscreants like Klaus Schwab (WEF), the UN and W.H.O.

These are not “liberals.” These are “democratic socialists.” They hate everything about America and everyone who stands up for America.

And this, is why they are headed for the ash heap of history, as the majority of Americans have finally set their sights on reforming the USA back to a decent moral free society.

Now is your chance for redemption… If you’re not too blind to see, too deaf to hear, or too dumb to care, then leave the party that left you a long time ago and join those of us who are not just fighting for our own freedom, but your too!

Otherwise….

Farewell, so long, goodbye! So-called liberals wrote their own death sentence. The socialists ravaged and murdered their own party in their never-ending effort to destroy America. They raped and plundered their own taxpayer constituents. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group!

© 2025 Lex Greene – All Rights Reserved

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By Kat Stansell

March 8, 2025

It is ever about control. Money=power. Power=money. On this earth, at least.

The “money hustle” which started with Nixon’s removing the gold-backing from the dollar, allowed for “them” to control us, just as did the removing of opposition/op research and personal opinion/action with the Covid epi-scam.

Speaking of money hustlers, it’s time to look at George Soros, and where he might fit into the revaluation of the dollar and the victory of America over world hegemony. I will tell you up front, that I do not KNOW where he might fit, but feel with relative certainty, that he DOES. Somewhere. So, let’s look.

George Soros is known for his famous hedge fund, (which is) known for its global macro strategy, a philosophy centered around making massive, one-way bets on the movements of currency rates, commodity prices, stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other assets based on macroeconomic analysis. He is famous for taking down the Bank of England in 1992 by shorting the British pound.

Soros is also a megalomaniac who believes he is God. He once told an independent British paper, “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”

Ever since I read his autobiography, I see him in the light of the powerful and dangerously insane person he is.

Soros’s net worth, as of Sept, 2024, is $7.2 billion. Interestingly enough, he is NOT listed as one of the top five richest men. Or even close. He has made his money in hedge funds, or risky investments. Soros is ranked at #436, according to Forbes.

As defined by Investopedia, A hedge fund is a limited partnership of private investors whose money is pooled and managed by professional fund managers. These managers use a wide range of strategies, including leverage (borrowed money) and the trading of nontraditional assets, to earn above-average investment returns.

It is what Soros has done with his money that makes him famous. He delights in destroying countries, which fits his megalomania, a condition he admits. I repeat:

“It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” Didn’t want you to miss that.

Will Soros play in the revaluation of gold by the US? Two possibilities. Yes – because he hates the US and would consider it his crowning achievement to destroy us; or NO, because a higher gold price will make him richer, so he can attack other nations. My hunch goes with #1. I believe he may be still trying to “live it out.”

He will ever be a concern in what the Trump Administration is doing with our gold supply. Wish I could tell you what that might be. Trump and Musk are well aware of Soros and are lot smarter than I am. I am sure they know of his admitted desire to destroy the world, which is in his own (Soros’) biography.

“Gold is a geo-political metal,” says macro-economic expert, Luke Grohman in his last interview with Tucker Carlson. It is used in a lot of international political situations.

It is also the least used medium of exchange. This is what gives it its power, if you will. What does this mean?

This is a concept, “stock to flow”, which compares inventory of something to how much is used in a year. Gold is the very best savings “store of value”; It can be used for nothing else. Portable, divisible, malleable, doesn’t deteriorate, and is the most private of all currencies. It endures., and it has, for 6000 years because it is good for nothing else.

Here’s how Investopedia defines store of value: essentially, an asset, commodity, or currency that can be saved, retrieved, and exchanged in the future without deteriorating in value”. (emphasis mine) Nothing else has had a 6000-year track record like gold’s.

America has defaulted twice on gold…FDR and Nixon.

In the 60’s, with the Viet Nam War, America began shipping gold on demand, to foreign nations; the French even sent war ships to gather it up. The USA had a net outflow, to pay for its wars.

To bring things current, since 2014, internationally, US Treasuries have been a big net loser to gold. Since that year, central banks around the world have been buying twice the amount of gold as US Treasury notes. That was the mid-term of Obama’s second reign at 1600. The world knew what America is just now discovering. Gold supplies flow to winners. America was NOT, since our original default, winning in the economic sense.

We had abandoned our pledge and promise of a gold-backed currency, which immediately make the US dollar a fiat currency, backed by nothing. It took the world some years to catch on, but after watching a few years of Obama destroying health care, and pushing the raising and educating of our children as a responsibility of the state, not the family, the world caught on . America was undergoing a sea-change, and not for the better.

Not trying to over simplify here, but some times, it pays to look at the trees so you can see the forest.

Now, reverse that. When you see gold is flowing into a nation, THERE is the economic winner. It’s been so for thousands of years.

Donald Trump is our President, and since his landslide election, gold has been flowing into the United States, from central banks all over. Lots of gold, palates of it which are in the cargo holds of many commercial, military and private flights, to this day.

Some say it is due to his threat of tariffs. I disagree; he has already said no to tariffs on gold. Some in the media are as yet, unaccustomed to listening to Donald Trump. I suggest that they begin…look at his first cabinet meeting.

Information is our best tool to weaken their power structure, and today’s leftist media disseminates bizarre stuff, possibly because they FEAR sharing the truth, for this reason.

We know one thing for sure. Donald Trump and his crew are doing everything in their power to make America a winner again. With God and His work crew of

Trump, Musk, and others on our side, we’re going to have one HYUUUGE last chance.

Help them all you can. Work to vote out every piece of anti-American scum in every county and state in 2026 and beyond. We need a margin in Congress of real Americans, instead of those working for their own bank accounts to the detriment of our freedom. Pay attention to what is happening in each state, listen to what they say vs. what they have done. Check voting records and past legislation The laws they make tell you a whole lot about who they are.

For instance, in my favorite Florida politician’s resume, is the mimicking of Trump’s DOGE, but the complete ignoring of Trump’s paper ballot initiative, not to mention the disenfranchisement of his supporters. This is the kind of stuff you can literally smell…

© 2025 Kat Stansell – All Rights Reserved

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Co-authored by Ronald Stein, Dr. Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan

March 7, 2025

Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, only the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources to bolster their economies and provide prosperous lives for their citizens.

Earth has existed for more than 4 billion years without present-day humans. In the past, dinosaurs and cavemen never used its plentiful natural resources.

The discrepancy in the allocation of earth’s natural resources between developed and developing economies, emphasizes a critical point affecting the future of the human species.

When we consider the needs of developing economies, we have no choice but to consider that access to electricity is a crucial cornerstone to alleviating poverty, promoting economic growth and improving living standards. It is an essential social and economic indicator. The link between electricity and GDP per capita is one of the strongest correlations in the social sciences. Why are we not utilizing a seemingly endless clean supply of electricity to shine some light on the hundreds of millions of people living in the dark?

Small Modular Reactors (SMR’s) hold the potential to revolutionize the clean electricity landscape by providing scalable and flexible solutions across both the developed and the developing world. Generation IV SMRs do not need to be near any large waterbody at all, a critical factor in many water scarce countries. They also incorporate a number of technological advances to meet the criteria of sustainability, nuclear safety, economic competitiveness and resistance to nuclear proliferation.

Small modular reactor development globally, is in part due to many South African engineers and scientists having been absorbed into private industry in South Africa and all over the world, including the USA. SMR’s have the potential to bring significant benefits to developing economies due to:

• Lower initial capital investment as SMRs require a lower upfront capital investment due to their compact size and modular design.
• Reduced construction time as SMRs can be deployed relatively quickly, with deployment timelines as short as three years.
• Siting flexibility as SMRs can be installed in a variety of locations, including remote areas with less developed infrastructure.
• Scalability as SMRs can be scaled up or down to meet energy demands. This flexibility allows developing economies to adjust their energy production as their needs change.
• Job creation and economic impact as the construction and operation of SMRs can create jobs and stimulate economic activity.
• Enhanced safety as SMRs have simpler designs and use passive cooling systems, making them inherently safer to operate than traditional reactors.

The generally accepted definition of access to electricity includes the provision of electricity, safe cooking facilities, and a minimum level of consumption. The International Energy Agency (IEA) takes a more holistic approach to its definition, requiring households to meet a minimum specified level of electricity, which gradually increases over time and is based on whether the household is in a rural or urban environment. The set minimum threshold is currently at 250 kWh per year for rural households and 500 kW per year for urban households according to the IEA.

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the average annual electricity used by a US residential customer in 2022, was 10,791 kWh. This equates to an average of roughly 900 kWh per month, 43 times the minimum rural threshold accepted by the IEA. We can thus understandably surmise that economic growth in developing economies inevitably requires growth in demand for electricity. Those economies that continue to grow, along with their long-term electricity sovereignty, must therefore develop their nuclear energy capability as a matter of fact rather than of opinion. Referring particularly to South Africa, which is an economy based on developing its mining, industrial and agricultural growth. It must focus its substantial base load electricity and energy growth on domestic nuclear power growth.

As a species, WE CANNOT accurately predict all future economic, technical and energy developments, which may radically change the upcoming economy and other progress of humans.  However, we CAN focus on certain existing issues which need to be highlighted as the very reality that cannot be ignored. The proverbial elephant in the room is that there are consequences of those wealthier developed countries avoiding methods to deliver electricity to those in developing countries.

The electricity from wind and solar renewables is weak, intermittent and unreliable. This makes them only suitable for certain situational applications, but the reality is that economic demand to achieve steady growth is for continuous, uninterruptable, dispatchable power.  Delivery of electricity to humans makes them suitable to grow industries that provide products and services to the 8 billion on this planet.

Using current nuclear technology methods, the used energy rods are taken out and replaced after approximately five to ten years.  However, only 3% of the energy available contained in nuclear fuel is used at this stage and 97% of the energy originally contained in this stored material is still available and can be used.  In other words, there is still a further 10 times the energy used still available from the Slightly Used Nuclear Fuel (SUNF) with revised usage methods. It can then be extrapolated that nuclear power will be available to humans for a further 50,000 years or more from these SUNF sources. How are we not as a species, embracing this gift from galactic solar events the universe has bestowed upon us?

Next-generation reactor designs like Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and advanced fast reactors offer greater efficiency, improved safety features, and a notable reduction of spent fuel.

Two of the co-authors of this article are from South Africa, and they believe their country is well positioned to stand on its rich history of nuclear transparency and compliance as a gateway into Africa, as well as the Middle East and SE Asia. With increased safety, oversight and non-proliferation measures, isn’t it time that the developing world share in the power needed to build resilient economies of their own?

The costings from South African based nuclear companies developing SMR’s, are estimating ~$0.12/kWh by the third plant with no need for back up capacity, cost of capital and disposal costed in. It has an energy availability factor of 95%, all of the time. So, we can accurately predict production. As the modular production supply chain grows and incorporating recycled material, the cost is predicted to reduce to ~$0.01/kWh within the next generation.

Now is as good a time, as we are going to get to take the critical leap as a species to nuclear power. As a species, we can make use of the infinite power that we have access to because of collapsing stars, and hundreds of millions of nova and supernova galactic events across space and time. The infinite light in our universe has sent us the densest form of solar power it could ever muster when we use atoms for peace. Nuclear generated electricity and a rapid roll-out of Small Modular Reactors is the fastest way to cast a lasting beacon of light in forgotten developing worlds living in the dark.

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By Steven Yates

March 7, 2025

8 Principles

[Author’s note: obviously this is not a contribution to my “Is Liberalism Dead?” series. This article was done for Medium — link — where my readership is minimal. Since I’d like to think more readers can benefit from these suggestions, I’m offering it here and wherever else it might reach others and help them. Comments or private emails are welcome as always.]

Years ago, when I was still in academia, a senior-level professor and I got into a disagreement via snail-mail (this was the early 1990s), later by email. He began the exchange with a private response to a letter-to-the-editor I’d gotten published. Back in the day, I sent out quite a few of those. I’d guesstimate that around three quarters of them were published.

I responded, standing my ground. He replied. One thing led to another, then to another. Fortunately, the fellow wasn’t at my university. Because what ensued didn’t go well. I’ll spare you the details.

For some strange reason (maybe I’m just a packrat), I saved the correspondence in a single fat folder (maybe two inches thick!). I recently found myself thumbing through it, rereading some of his contributions and some of mine and considering what I could have said and done better. Or at least differently — more constructively.

You see, the guy had gotten some things right; and I had some things wrong. I was too pigheaded to see it. These things happen. I’d like to think I’m a bit more knowledgeable and even a bit wiser now, but who knows? There are still a few things about which my opinions are pretty strong, and when that happens, there’s always the danger of overlooking something important.

The Internet era has made disagreements more ubiquitous, and often more hostile because there is so much online space for anonymous interactions where people will spout things they’d never say to anyone’s face. I don’t think there’s any doubt that social media has divided us and made us more hostile. It’s a design flaw. Social media algorithms show users what they’ve indicated (with their ‘likes,’ etc.) they want to see. So, what they see are posts from people whose views reflect their own.

We end up in echo chambers. Views, conservative or progressive, get more extreme. Those across the political aisle don’t even seem legitimate anymore. Everyone is at risk from this.

Over the past decade or so I’ve received emails, some quite lengthy, from someone who disagrees with me about nearly everything I write (apparently he’s also emailed others whose material also appears on NewsWithViews.com, and it hasn’t gone especially well).

I’ve also had extended conversations and exchanges over Zoom with a fellow whose worldview is very different from mine. I’ve tried to pay attention to the dynamics of our exchanges. Keeping the conversation going despite frustration at times has helped me realize a few things I might not have gained clarity about otherwise.

To give credit where it is due, I got the idea for this article here. My printout of that 2021 article turned up as I went through some old papers and folders, looking for stuff I could toss as I’d not looked at it in years. This piece stuck in my mind. I found myself returning to it and taking notes on it.

The author outlined ways of managing disagreements that made sense.

Like many other things in life, having a few principles in mind before you go into sticky situations might be useful in navigating such situations effectively and constructively. It’s more than agreeing to disagree, although sometimes it is that. But what can we learn from disagreements if we listen, and try to use them creatively?

That article I linked to isolated seven principles. I’ve reordered and expanded the list to eight.

Principle (1): Remember, you don’t know everything.

Obvious, right? But a lot of people, when they put pen to paper, or fingers to email, or mouth to microphone, act like they’re omniscient.

Or when they want to disagree, it’s from that perspective.

Maybe you’ve fallen into this trap.

Start by acknowledging that you’re not omniscient. No one is.

This means there are always things to be learned from the experiences of others, and from whatever thoughts they are willing to share. If someone disagrees with you, maybe it’s because their experiences are different from yours. Maybe they have information you don’t have.

Quoting economist and prolific author Thomas Sowell: “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”

Self-awareness helps. Think about just how limited any one person’s experience of the world really is. Unless we’re famous and in a position of great influence which brings hopefully reliable information our way, our world is probably very, very limited, next to the world. Even the most traveled among us have still traversed small paths, inhabited small corners, as opposed to what’s out there. The paths we’ve walked, moreover, may be very different from one another.

See also this for added perspective.

People bringing different experiences to the same issue or problem may reach very different conclusions about it. When you say (or write) something, they’ll disagree if it doesn’t fit their experience, and this is entirely natural. It’s not a sign the person is evil or stupid or even necessarily uninformed. It’s a sign that they’re human.

Principle (2): Listen actively without interrupting.

The ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus left us sage advice: the reason we have two ears and one mouth is so we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Active listening takes practice. It means focusing on what the other person is saying, without interrupting, letting your mind wander, or doing private mental gymnastics readying your rebuttal.

Most people don’t do this, of course. It’s not natural. Our default setting is to want to “be right.” This boosts our ego and self-image.

If someone disagrees with you, listen to them. Hear them.

Because sometimes we’re not “right.”

I’ve gotten a few things right over the years but also gotten a few things dead wrong. (One of the latter cost me almost $20,000, years ago!)

I’ve also had close calls that would have been really bad news had I not listened to the opinions of others who had information I didn’t have … or had picked up on red flags I’d missed, which others tried to warn me about and I wouldn’t listen.

Principle (3): Distinguish essentials from inessentials.

People disagree on all sorts of things, of various levels of importance. Coke or Pepsi (or neither)? Do cats or dogs make better pets? Are liberals “smarter than” conservatives? Were JFK and RFK killed by a conspiracy? Did we really go to the moon? Is this the best time in human history to be alive because of all the new technology, or are things falling apart? Etc.

Some will engage some readers. Others will elicit a shrug and a silent (or audible), “Who cares?”

Not every hill is worth dying on. Especially in light of Principle (1).

If someone disagrees with me over something I consider minor league, I might let the disagreement stand.

Even if it isn’t minor league, none of us has the time to research everything we might disagree about.

Decide if a given issue is worth pursuing. What is essential?

I receive inessentials all the time. I can’t begin to read them all, much less take a position on all that’s being said.

Note that nothing — no one — compels us to have an opinion on everything, or even on most things. Of course, I think some ideas ought to be defended in the public square, but others might disagree with my list.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the overall number of essential ideas worth defending isn’t as large as most people think. We’re often riding our own hobby horses and don’t always stop to realize, we’re not the center of the universe.

So it’s worthwhile to stop and decide what’s essential. Is every disagreement worth a response? Is it worth squabbling over? What is worth defending — or disagreeing with?

Deciding this in advance may help minimize unnecessary conflict.

Principle (4): Too much agreement isn’t a “good thing.”

Also obvious if you give it a little thought. There’s a saying: if two people agree on everything, only one of them is thinking.

Again in light of (1), given the likely differences between our backgrounds, experiences, and what has come to comprise our world, two thinking people may approach the same issue, look at what are arguably the same facts, but reach quite different conclusions about them.

Others disagreeing with us shouldn’t surprise us. Treat it as a sign that thinking is going on — yours and the other person’s — reflecting differences in experience.

In this light, I think we should do more to solicit disagreement. It’s a test for our ideas, which reflect our experience. When others disagree with us, it might be to point out something wrong with our thinking, or conclusion, because of what was outside our world. We learn, and we get better.

So be on guard for too much agreement. If everyone is simply following the leader, you don’t have a knowledge community, you have a cult. And if everyone agrees with everyone else, it might be a sign that “everyone” has been brainwashed or hypnotized by a few choice phrases.

Bland agreement and blind conformity are not desirable.

Principle (5): Find points or areas of agreement and build on them.

If someone disagrees with you and you’ve listened and heard them out, you might hear something that will enable you and the person to find some common ground. You will build rapport even if your initial disagreement isn’t resolved. Rapport is always better than enmity.

One of the two folks I mentioned above is a retired professional musician who has played in orchestras. I found this out because despite his disagreements with me, I was able to do a little creative probing. I learned he was in a nursing facility, and since I knew such facilities from helping my aging parents in declining health (now long deceased), I could express sincere interest in his condition.

The music came next. Since I’ve been an avid listener with an avocational interest in the history of music my whole life, that gave us something else to discuss and share information. He shared details of his professional life as well as some of his knowledge about the history of music and conducting. None of this has anything to do with our political disagreements, but they built the rapport I was after.

We had areas about which we could agree: classical composers, opera, etc., are valuable and lasting contributions to Western civilization.

The other person I’ve dialogued with realized from the start that we want the same thing: a more peaceful world in which we can all use our superpowers. His description of this draws on Maslow’s well-known hierarchy with self-actualization at its top.

We disagree on how to get there from where we are now, and on our basic worldviews.

The point is, finding areas of agreement, or topics about which you can exchange neutral information, keeps the doors of dialogue open.

The important thing is to always see past disagreement and see the humanity of the other.

Then we might each be less inclined to suspect the worst of the disagreeing other, or consider him stupid or uninformed. If someone disagrees with you, he/she isn’t necessarily stupid. Nor is he/she evil. He or she is just different. But not completely different, as can be seen from a little discovery. After such, you’re positioned to begin constructive engagement where you disagree.

Principle (6): Don’t confuse disagreement with a personal attack, or with hate.

Because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean he/she is attacking you personally, or that he/she “hates” you.

Both conservatives and liberals need to heed this, since both make this mistake. I tend to think those on the left make it more than conservatives, but obviously they will disagree and that’s fine.

Again, this is almost instinctive, because when someone says something we disagree with — especially about something we’ve decided is essential — we want to fire back.

And if someone disagrees with you, it’s like they’re challenging your ego.

Not controlling the emotions that arise is nearly always bad news.

In logic, arguing ad hominem is considered fallacious. That’s to attack a person instead of trying to evaluate their conclusion or their reasoning.

Unfortunately, ad hominems are often effective! I think that’s why they’re so common!

A closely related mistake is to misrepresent someone’s position to make it easier to attack (logicians call this a strawman). Usually, the misrepresentation oversimplifies. Example: when Archbishop Wilberforce supposedly asked Thomas Henry Huxley whether it was on his mother’s or his father’s side that he claimed descent from an ape. This, of course, improperly caricatures Darwin’s theory.

On the other hand: not everyone skeptical of Darwinism or its more recent descendants is a “religious fanatic” who thinks the world was created in six, literal 24-hour days, although this, too, is a common caricature.

A problem with all such gestures is that, being fundamentally emotional themselves, they tend to enflame the emotions of their target. Making matters worse is the threat to one’s worldview and one’s sense of place in the world. The possibility of constructive disagreement goes out the window.

The path to constructive disagreement is to control our emotions instead of letting them control us. Anger is particularly destructive. There are online courses on how to handle anger. Seneca, another Stoic philosopher, penned the essential essay On Anger where he shares his strategies which, given the environment he had to work in (counsel to the psychopathic Nero), might be worth consulting. I don’t think many of us today have to worry about that kind of an environment even if we have tough, critical bosses.

Principle (7). Ask for more information.

Three simple words often work like magic. At least, they work for me:

“Tell me more.”

You’ve said something and the other person takes issue with it. To ask for more information is to validate them as a person without necessarily validating their opinion (I hope everyone here gets the difference).

My guess is, they’ll be happy to share their further thoughts and feelings, because you’ve just made them feel important. You’ve communicated that their opinion matters!

You haven’t even said you’ll change your stance, but who knows? Again, given that none of us is omniscient, maybe in whatever ensues, something will come to light that will have you reevaluating where you stand.

Don’t be so attached to your own opinion that you can’t do this!

Especially if by changing it, you get smarter and better!

The more basic principle here is that everyone wants to feel like they’ve been listened to, heard, understood. If you’ve made someone feel important despite their not seeing eye-to-eye with you, they’re a bit more likely to listen and hear what you have to say, so there’s reciprocity here.

And as the conversation continues, you both have an opportunity to grow.

Principle (8). Prioritize the association or relationship above “being right.”

We have enough under our belts to grasp the need to separate the person from what he/she just said (or emailed). To not make this separation is to devalue them.

Is “being right” more important than rapport, or a work relationship, or God help us, a marriage?

How important are these? Well, someone might persist in disagreeing, continuing to bring a subject up long after you’ve tried to make peace over the matter. I’ve had this happen to me a couple of times, in which someone who made a show of their atheism or agnosticism tried to turn every conversation into an argument over religion until I was motivated to ask what they were so afraid of.

If this happens, you have a choice. If the other person can’t agree to disagree so you can move on, or the disagreement becomes increasingly acrimonious, it might be time to walk away. Not every association or friendship is salvageable if two people just aren’t “wired” the same.

If it’s the other person who walks away, let them go. Clearly the issue was more important than the friendship, and that was outside your control. Move on. Life’s too short.

Let’s come full circle.

In the last analysis, what do we have?

Opinions.

That’s all.

That’s not to say all opinions are created equal or are equally valid. That’s not it at all. There’s another saying: we’re entitled to our own opinions but not to our own facts.

This is true.

But the world is a complex place, and if you state your opinion and call it “fact based,” sooner or later someone will disagree over what the facts are, or possibly over which facts are relevant.

I’ll say it again: we’ve all walked different paths through this world, of which our actual personal experience, in comparison to what’s out there, is microscopic.

Different things end up on different people’s personal radar.

Seen in this light, maybe it’s surprising that we agree as often as we do!

Disagreements: they happen. I’ve tried to put forth a few principles that might help us better navigate them, in the hope that taking them seriously might lead to a somewhat less divided world even as disagreements continue. Final cliché: we can disagree without being disagreeable.

© 2025 Steven Yates – All Rights Reserved

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Steven Yates is a (recovering) ex-academic with a PhD in Philosophy. He taught for more than 15 years total at several universities in the Southeastern U.S. He authored three books, more than 20 articles, numerous book reviews, and review essays in academic journals and anthologies. Refused tenure and unable to obtain full-time academic employment (and with an increasing number of very fundamental philosophical essays refused publication in journals), he turned to alternative platforms and heretical notions, including about academia itself.

In 2012 he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: the problems of the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere. The problems are problems of Western civilization as a whole.

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Debra Rae

March 6, 2025

Seattle’s Spiritual History

Contemporary Mother Josephs are rare indeed! Appropriately, a bronze statue of Mother Joseph in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol acknowledges her. Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart famously led members of her congregation to the Pacific Northwest to establish a network of schools (seven academies, five schools for Native American children and two orphanages), not to mention eleven hospitals.

While this heroine showcases the ideal of the Pacific NW, a vacuum now exists. Historically, Oregon was part of a territory with the second most church venues in the USA. In contrast, Seattle ranks today among America’s most unchurched cities. New survey data from the ongoing Household Pulse Survey, a product of the U.S. Census Bureau, show that a clear majority of adults in the Seattle area (in fact, around 64%) never attend religious services, or do so less than once a year.

The good news is that praying Christians are discerning the times and seasons. The wind of Spirit is once again on the move in Seattle. But, arguably, political obstacles must be overcome.

Seattle’s Political History

In 2013 Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn dubbed himself “the most progressive mayor in America.” Thereafter, Mayor Ed Murray one-upped him by boasting he would remake Seattle into “the most progressive city in America.” Admittedly, voters loved it—for a time. But, argues Danny Westneat, that’s over. No longer does Seattle aim to be the most progressive city. Instead, he observes, voters want less idealism and more in the way of results.

Put another way, folks have asked and answered Dr. Phil’s signature question, “How’s progressivism working for you?” Apparently not so well.

Freedom from religion, redistribution of wealth under the UN principle of sustainability, “science” by consensus (e.g., gender identity), deflected accountability (e.g., guns kill; people don’t), centralized power, sanctuary status, reverse discrimination, slippery cultural norms/ethics, earth servitude over stewardship, tyranny of technocracy, defund police movement, etc.—none of these components of progressivism deliver promised utopia.

Biblical Christianity alone holds the answer. For that reason, the unconstitutional Johnson Amendment intended to muzzle Christians and deny them their First Amendment right to free speech must be resisted and overturned!

When idle silence meets wickedness, the church misses her calling; and God’s favor is repelled. The mission of Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us that “silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” As Jesus addressed governmental discussions of His day “with a profound sense of clarity,” so must we.

The Lord is our judge (judicial), lawgiver (legislative) and king (executive). (Isaiah 33:22) Clearly, He is personified government (not to be mistaken for partisanship).

Seattle’s Churches Awaken to their Call to Prayer and Civic Duty

Imagine government without Christian influence. For many, 21^st-century Seattle comes to mind. When Christians bypass civic duty, the church suffers escalating persecution from without and spiritual deception from within. More often than not, moral relativism trumps biblical mandate. Given misplaced love of money and pleasure, many are preoccupied with materialism. Youth are seduced by scripturally-forbidden, yet culturally-celebrated alternative lifestyles and “oppositions of science, falsely so called”—i.e., gender dysphoria protocols. Young girls are compelled to forgo modesty along with a fair chance at competing in women’s sports.

Increasingly, Seattle’s culture lacks natural affection—this, demonstrated by influx of human trafficking, open and legal prostitution, quick-fix abortions, no-fault divorce, rampant pornography, sexualization of children, substance abuse and addiction. A culture of death reigns supreme, and a contagion of contention attends political posturing. Seattle’s failed education system forfeits classical studies for godless indoctrination.

Add to these the threat of war and rumors thereof, pesky new strains of disease and escalating natural calamities. In the bogus name of peace, abounding lawlessness invites increasingly totalitarian transnational governance propelled by the spirit of Antichrist, just as prophetic scriptures foretell.

It would seem, therefore, that “the kingdom of heaven contained good seed, but while men slept, the enemy sowed bad seed.” (Matthew 13:25)

But God!

Indicting fear, faithlessness, wrong motive and passivity, David queried, “Is there not a cause?” (1 Samuel 17-29) Indeed, there is. For American Christians today, for Seattle Christians, informed, principled voting, speaking out on God’s behalf, and—most importantly—praying for those in authority are more than privileges. They are mandates. When informed Christians pray, speak, stand and vote in alignment with God’s Word, “the lot is cast into the lap”; and “its every decision is from the Lord.” (Proverbs 16:33)

Surprising to some, government is a dominant theme in Scripture. Good government promotes literacy, advances just law, provides religious liberty and allows churches freedom to preach, teach and serve. It is a conduit for human flourishing and, most importantly, for furthering the Gospel.

While God’s kingdom is mentioned more than 80 times, earthly “kingdoms” are mentioned 36 times and earthly “kings” 108 times in Scriptures. In Exodus 18, Moses set up a network of judges called to function ethically and enforce the law our sovereign God provided legislatively on Mt. Sinai.

• God and Government Go Hand-in-hand

The church’s call to civic duty reminds us of Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, who donned the uniform of an officer in the Continental Army. Among others of the black-robed regiment, three hundred like-minded men in his congregation put legs to prayers and stood up to fight the American Revolution that birthed the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Indeed, the Koine Greek term for “church,” ekklesia, means “summoned group” (literally, “they who are called out”). Historically, the ekklesia references ones “called out” from the world system of Rome to a sort of City Council by which Kingdom subjects were afforded keys of the Kingdom to “bind” and to “loose.”

To this day, believers are the ekklesia, and Kingdom reign heralds Kingdom power. (Matthew 16:19)

Governmental (versus Partisan) Cry for Justice

Scripture mandates that we, as believers, “seek justice” and “give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.” (Isaiah 1:17, Psalm 82:3)

Accordingly, throughout history, Christians have influenced government for good. For example, their efforts led to outlawing child abandonment, infanticide and abortion in Greece; cruel gladiatorial contests in Rome; human sacrifice, pedophilia and polygamy among European cultures, and burning widows in India.

Throughout America’s history, Christians have brought faith into the public square. Early on, Christian patriots boldly crossed the church-state line to birth “one nation under God.” To this end, founder of the Black-Robed Regiment Pastor Peter Muhlenberg took to the battlefield and encouraged others to do likewise. Signing the Declaration of Independence, Witherspoon bowed in prayer; and Samuel Adams stated, “We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men ought to be obedient.”

Blessed by God, America emerged as the freest, richest, most generous country the world had ever known. Our charge on her behalf is to occupy and steward the land aright until the Lord comes. Biblical citizenship requires a lifestyle of advocacy for truth (loving God), community bridge-building (connecting to Jesus) and cultural/ political engagement (serving the world).

Whenever and wherever the ekklesia has fulfilled her God-given legislative call, governmental landscapes are altered for the good. Case in point: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 trailed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s public condemnation of racial discrimination and segregation.

Recall that more than two-thirds of the leaders in the Abolitionist Movement were Christian pastors who faithfully preached politics from their pulpits to condemn and outlaw slavery.

One must ask, “What if reluctant people of faith throughout millennia had distanced themselves from politics, failed to engage culture and instead remained silent in the face of evil?”

It’s true, Jesus rejected the political pathway to inaugurate His coming kingdom, and so should we. Nevertheless, a believer’s civic (governmental) duties are clearly delineated in Old- and New- Testament Scriptures.

• Old Testament Governmental Engagement

The so-called “separation principle” was unknown to Old Testament patriarchs and judges, kings and prophets. A “man after God’s own heart,” King David served at the highest level of governance; and Daniel exercised strong influence over Babylon’s government. Joseph held sway over Pharaoh and administered FEMA-like relief in response to widespread famine. Moses was a law-giver, Deborah a judge. At risk of personal peril, Queen Esther boldly lobbied King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) and thereby saved an entire people group. A governor of the Persian province of Judah (Nehemiah) incited national reformation and, following Babylonian exile, led the return to Jerusalem under Zerubbabel.

• New Testament Governmental Engagement

At the very least, New Testament believers are commanded to pray for all in authority, give respect where it is due, submit to godly governance and be ready for every good work. Their struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, authorities and spiritual powers of this dark world. (1 Timothy 2:1-2, Titus 3:1-2, Ephesians 6:12)

With these truths in view, the ekklesia’s governmental call was well-modeled by the Apostle Paul. Appealing to protection afforded him as a Roman citizen, Paul boldly challenged the prevailing philosophy of cultural elites at Mars Hill. Even as John the Baptist influenced Herod, Paul likewise brought the Roman procurator of Judea (Felix) to conviction and approached Agrippa to the point of his near conversion.

Governmental Biblical Principles: Is There Not a Cause?

Christians have a clear mandate that “… supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority.” (1 Timothy 2:2) In no uncertain terms, Christians are charged with praying for governmental offices and services.

To do so, one must be informed and, at some level, engaged. Politics is defined as “the struggle over power and resources within society,” and partisanship is “prejudice in favor of a particular cause,” or “bias.” A praying Christian is fully engaged as a non-partisan champion of biblical principles.

Arguably, both political parties have morphed, almost unrecognizably, since their respective inceptions.

From its inception (1854), the Republican Party has defined itself as the protector of individual freedom. The party stood staunchly against slavery. Its philosophy included smaller government, individual responsibilities, belief in family, sanctity of life, parental rights and responsibilities, fiscal conservatism, strong national defense, tolerance, inclusiveness and optimism.

At its inception, the Democratic Party claimed to be the party of the “common man,” yet it opposed the abolition of slavery. From 1828 to 1848, banking and tariffs were its central domestic policy issues. No longer. Now, the party boasts a lion’s share of billionaires. It embraces big government, massive entitlements (even for non-citizen aliens), self-defined family units, right to abortion and underage gender transition, nanny state mentality, fiscal liberalism, DEI-compromised national defense and selective tolerance/ reverse nepotism—all abiblical at their core.

It should come as no surprise that, in the blue state of WA, the Seattle Times (April 2024) referenced the NW-based pollster DHM Research, a wide-ranging survey for which more than a third of respondents gave Republicans the coldest ranking. In fact, Republicans were rated below atheists in the poll.

Even so, while nobody will mistake Washington state for a hotbed of political conservatism, it turns out voters moved ever so slightly to the right—this, according to numbers from the recent November 5 general election. According to the Washington Secretary of State’s Office, Trump garnered 39.01% of the vote in Washington, compared to 38.77% in 2020. That’s a gain of almost one-quarter of a percentage point. Those figures are based on ballot counts through the deadline for the state’s 39 counties to certify their election results.

As always, King County carries the election. Be sure Washington State is still very blue in terms of political ideology—i.e., pro-abortion, open borders, privileges for illegals, pro-trans (given sanctuary status, parental exclusion), DEI, BLM, involvement in foreign wars, trying out defund and no-chase ideology.

As expected, Democrats swept all statewide offices and retained their majorities in both chambers (House and Senate) of the state Legislature. Nevertheless, Republican results at all levels did better in 2024 than in 2020 and earlier election cycles” by increasing their average performance by four percentage points—this, according to a WSRP news release. Moreover, in competitive congressional races, Republicans increased their median performance to about 47%, and state legislative races in “swing” districts showed similar improvements.

It appears that folks are waking to the query, “Is there not a cause?”

© 2025 Debra Mullins – All Rights Reserved

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By Frosty Wooldridge

March 6, 2025

Fact: Mixing one culture into another never works. Mixing multiple cultures into other cultures doesn’t work. Diversity doesn’t work. Mixing religions never works. Mixing tribes never works. Mixing “world views” fails on every level. Mixing languages in one country leads to linguistic chaos in that country.

In the first quarter of the 21st century—Europe, Canada and America participate in a racial-linguistic-cultural-tribal experiment that has proven horribly destructive, non-viable and threatens the existence of Western Culture.

As shown in Trump’s State of the Union address this week—angry, volatile, and nasty congressional critters attempted to create chaos in America’s most sacred chamber in Washington DC. One disrupter got tossed out on his ear. Others walked out with large signs on their backs, “Resist.” Still others raised signs calling the president a liar. Others said to, “Send Musk back to Africa.”

This week at Barnard College, Muslim Palestinian activists stormed the building chanting anti-Jewish slogans. They want to see every last Jewish person exterminated.

On the news, a congressional hearing forced four of the top “Sanctuary City” mayors to explain themselves for breaking federal laws. Johnston from Denver. Wu from Boston. Johnson from Chicago. Adams from New York City. All of them could and should be arrested for aiding, abetting and harboring tens of thousands of illegal aliens in their cities in direct violation of America’s laws. Yet, they remained defiant.

At the same time, those mayors have stolen billions of dollars from American taxpayers’ pocketbooks. They’ve placed illegal aliens over American citizens. They’ve gotten our citizens killed, raped and robbed.

While we know and understand that allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports is illegal, immoral, unethical and completely insane—-all 47 democrat U.S. Senators voted to keep men in women’s sports. It shows that when you’re THAT open minded, your brains fall out of your skull.

When the president spoke to the joint session about the death of Laken Riley and other women killed by illegal aliens, not one single democrat stood up to honor the mother and sibling of Laken Riley. At the same time, those same female congresswomen wore pink dresses in support of women—but voted against those women because those congresswomen voted for open borders to allow 15 million illegal alien criminals into America. You can’t help but scratch your head over that one.

Several members of the infamous “Squad”, a group of congressional women who support men in women’s sports, who support open borders, who openly call all white Americans ‘racists’, and who simply hate the U.S. Constitution—do everything they can to undermine law and order. *I’d bet none of them have read our U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.

Today in major cities like Detroit, Minneapolis, New York City, Denver, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta and more—-you’ve got immigrant Muslim “citizens” practicing Sharia Law from the Quran—with NO affinity toward America’s culture, language or law and order. They’ve created their own enclaves or “no go” zones where America’s laws can be broken at will.

Experts tell us that America houses people who speak 430 different languages in our country. In 1965, virtually everyone spoke English because they wanted to become Americans. That all changed with the Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Reform Bill that opened the gates to anyone and everyone with no mandate to speak English. We’re forced to placate them at the ballot box, mercantile stores and schools. Please remember that every single language brings a different “world view” and different “understanding” of reality. Not having a common language in America brings misunderstandings, political tensions, cultural disintegration and religious conflict.

In 2025, we’ve got somewhere around 20 to 30 million illegal aliens living and working underground—-siphoning off our tax dollars, stealing our mercantile goods, overwhelming our food banks, and creating havoc in our school systems, prisons and hospitals. They wire over $100 billion annually back to their home countries.

We’re seeing a complete devolution of America’s culture, America’s laws, America’s Constitution and our way of life.

How much longer can we maintain governance over our country with millions of people NOT born in our country, with no affinity toward our country, no affinity toward our language, and millions more arriving in the next 25 years?

Right now, demographers tell us that 55 million legal immigrants, not born here, inhabit America. Another 20 to 30 million illegal aliens inhabit our country. That’s up to 85 million foreigners out of 340 million Americans. Over 45 million Americans subsist on food stamps and welfare.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, we are projected to grow via mass immigration from 340 million to 440 million people within 25 years. That’s a 4 million annual growth rate, net gain, X’s 25 years. Voila! That’s 100,000,000 people. They are arriving from over 190 countries with every incompatible world view, religion, culture, and language you can imagine.

How do you think that’s going to work out?

How do we feed, house, educate and assimilate THAT many people? How do we grow enough food, provide enough water, and maintain any semblance of sustainability for our own citizens? How do we educate children with over 430 languages? What will happen to the “common thread” of being an American?

What happens when the incompatible languages and cultures start feuding with one another?

Have you read the history books of failed nations?

What about our depleting non-renewable resources at a horrendous rate to feed 440 million people? What happens when we can’t feed ourselves or them?

Resource author Christopher O. Clugston said, “Our deteriorating natural environment – especially increasingly pervasive global NNR scarcity – is causing our deteriorating cultural environment – increasing political instability, economic fragility, and societal volatility. We’re becoming increasingly frustrated, angry, and violent as a result…If I’m right, as Nature’s Squeeze intensifies, so will our unraveling – so I don’t see things improving, EVER! We can try all the political, economic, and societal expedients we want, but our predicament is geologically-based, and there is nothing we can do about it…Not what we want to hear, for sure, but Nature doesn’t care what we want to hear!”

Finally, when you see all the political, linguistic, world views, cultural and religious conflict in the world—how in the hell will we survive it by importing another 100 million legal and/or illegal immigrants into our guts? Why isn’t anyone speaking up about it? Am I the only journalist who sees it?

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By: Amil Imani

March 5, 2025

On February 28, 2025, the Oval Office echoed the undeniable strength of President Donald Trump’s leadership as he participated in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that demonstrated American resolve at its finest. What began as a discussion about a potential minerals deal and U.S. support for Ukraine’s conflict with Russia transformed into a defining moment of Trump’s presidency—a bold, unapologetic stand against perceived ingratitude and diplomatic overreach. Rather than being a misstep, this encounter became a masterclass in prioritizing America first, underscoring Trump’s unwavering commitment to his nation’s interests and his refusal to be dictated to by a foreign leader, even one steeped in wartime sympathy.

The scene unfolded with Trump at the helm, his commanding presence evident as he sat beside Vice President J.D. Vance, a loyal partner in this high-stakes exchange. Zelensky, invited to discuss terms to offset billions in U.S. aid through Ukrainian mineral resources, arrived with a demeanor that quickly grated on his host. Trump, embodying the clarity of a seasoned negotiator, pointed out what he viewed as Zelensky’s failure to acknowledge America’s generosity—hundreds of millions in weapons, cash, and goodwill had flowed into Ukraine’s defense. “You’re not in a position to dictate,” Trump declared, his voice cutting through the room with the authority of a man who had weathered political storms and emerged stronger. Vance emphasized this point, questioning whether Zelensky had ever managed a simple “thank you,” a fair critique considering the scale of U.S. sacrifice.

Zelensky, for his part, attempted to push back by waving photos of war-torn Ukraine and invoking Russia’s broken promises—a tired strategy that did little to sway Trump. His tone, laced with defiance, only intensified the President’s frustration. Here was a leader, Trump argued, gambling with “World War III” by rejecting reasonable peace terms with Russia, all while expecting American taxpayers to foot the bill indefinitely. The press pool, which included a Russian journalist who was swiftly removed, captured every tense moment, but it was Trump’s determination that stood out. When Zelensky’s arguments failed to resonate, Trump made the call: no joint press conference, no further talks. “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” Trump later wrote on Truth Social, a sentiment that summed up his decision to send Zelensky packing—a move as decisive as it was justified.

The reaction was electric. On X, supporters rallied behind Trump, celebrating his refusal to coddle a leader who had overplayed his hand. Beyond social media, the narrative took root among those who view Trump as a guardian of American sovereignty. His base cheered the optics: a President unafraid to draw a line, demand respect, and prioritize his people over endless foreign entanglements. This wasn’t chaos—it was control, a deliberate display of power that reminded the world why Trump reclaimed the White House in 2024.

Critics, predictably, clutched their pearls. European leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron, offered quiet support for Ukraine, while Democrats in Congress denounced Trump’s firm stance as “cruelty.” Zelensky’s allies in Kyiv presented him as a martyr, but their appeals felt empty against the reality of Ukraine’s dependence on U.S. support. Trump’s frustration wasn’t new—it traced back to 2019, when a phone call with Zelensky sparked an impeachment circus that only solidified his resolve. Now, back in power, he’s reshaping the narrative. The minerals deal, a smart strategy to offset aid costs, stalled not because of Trump’s temper but because Zelensky miscalculated his leverage. Who blinked first? Not the man behind the Resolute Desk.

Trump’s approach here was vintage: bold, brash, and rooted in a dealmaker’s instinct. He’s never hidden his disdain for leaders who take America’s support for granted; this showdown was no exception. His offhand remark about Putin—“he’s gone through a hell of a lot with me”—wasn’t a concession but a flex, a nod to his ability to stare down any adversary, from Moscow to Kyiv. Battered by war and desperate for aid, Zelensky gambled on guilt-tripping Trump and lost. The photos and lectures landed like a feather against a freight train.

By Cliff Kincaid

March 5, 2025

President Trump’s “trade war” is long overdue.

Every time President Trump talks about the great economy during his first term he says it was great “until COVID,” or words to that effect. What I do not understand is why the relatively modest tariffs being imposed on China do not consider the enormous damage COVID-19 did to our economy and especially our people.

Regarding Canada, let us recognize the truth about our “neighbor to the north.” Canadian Liberal Party Leader Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been corrupting Canada through drugs, sexual perversion, and a Muslim invasion.

Former drama teacher Trudeau, an admitted pothead, legalized marijuana nationwide and has facilitated the transgender revolution in Canadian schools. Trudeau, who visits mosques and has abandoned his Catholic faith on abortion and same-sex marriage, has invited foreign Muslims from terror-supporting countries to come to Canada.

On top of the destruction of their own nation, they have been taking economic advantage of the United States. That is why President Trump has put tariffs on Canadian goods.

Regarding Canada and Mexico, as noted by investment analyst Dan Niles, “they don’t have the cards” to win this “trade war.” These countries export 80 percent of their goods to the United States but we only export 16 per cent to them.

Mexico is being targeted because the Mexican drug cartels, working with the collaboration of the government of Mexico, are trafficking fentanyl with the assistance of the Chinese Communist Party that supplies the chemicals.  Trump has promised to go beyond tariffs to waging military attacks on the cartels.

In addition to the fentanyl problem, SARS-CoV-2, the China virus that causes COVID-19, continues to cause serious illness. Anybody alive in the United States know this is a fact. We all know people still getting COVID and suffering as a result.

Look at the figures:  CDC estimates that 72,000–120,000 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 between October 1 and December 7, 2024, and the virus is still causing “a substantial number of serious illnesses…”

It’s fine to talk about tariffs against China, Canada, or other nations, in response to economic concerns. What about the human damage done by COVID?

One think tank estimates that there were five “relief bills” in 2020 that provided an estimated $3.3 trillion of federal spending and the American Rescue Plan in 2021 added another $1.8 trillion.

This amounts to more than $5 trillion.

None of this addresses the lives that were lost. The latest estimate is 1.3 million. What price tag do you put on that?

The Heritage Foundation’s Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19 report shows the total financial cost to the U.S. amounted to $18 trillion.

In an op-ed, President Trump demanded $50 trillion in reparations over the release of the China virus from the Wuhan lab. On Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, he said, “They came out of the Wuhan lab. And I think if anybody thinks anything differently, they’re just kidding themselves. So, you can ask —  China has to pay. They have to do something. They have to pay reparations.”

In this interview, he proposed $60 trillion in reperations.

Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch filed a lawsuit against China that demands $20 trillion in damages. But since it may be practically impossible to sue China for damages, other options should be pursued.

John Yoo, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and his co-author, Robert J. Delahunty, argue for other measures, such as the imposition of economic sanctions on Chinese officials, general tariffs on Chinese imports, restrictions on Chinese investment in the U.S., and the expropriation of Chinese property in the United States.

“Conceivably,” they argue, “Washington could even cancel Chinese-held treasury debt and using the proceeds to create a trust fund that would compensate Americans harmed by the pandemic.”

Grzegorz Górny, a writer for the global publication Remix, did some digging into the controversy and points out that the U.S. Department of the Treasury clearly has the power to “confiscate Chinese assets in the U.S.” and “freeze all operations using American government obligations which were purchased by China…” The latter is estimated at $1.2 trillion. He concludes, “In one swift move, the U.S. may annul that debt and free itself from the Chinese loop.”

Still another option is Trump’s global summit on reparations, to highlight the Chinese role and mobilize the Free World against the communists.

Finally, regarding our so-called European allies, an amazing report publicized by the left-wing British Guardian newspaper reveals the awful truth — the European Union is spending more money on Russian oil and gas than on financial aid to Ukraine.

This bears repeating. The title of the report summary says it all: “EU imports of Russian fossil fuels in third year of invasion surpass financial aid sent to Ukraine.”

This means that the tough talk from Europe about standing up to Putin and supporting Ukraine is empty rhetoric.

No wonder Trump has concluded Europe can’t be trusted and that the war in Ukraine must end. Europe is helping Russia finance the no-win war.

It’s time for a new approach, especially with Ukraine under its comical and unstable president.

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By Bradlee Dean

March 5, 2025

“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.” -Leviticus 20:13

I’m just getting back from the great state of Michigan after speaking at 6 events back-to-back in 6 days. I love being spent, no doubt (Luke 17:33).

During my time there, I was sitting and speaking with one of my friends who had brought up a man that I have never met before nor had ever talked to before that had said that I was a heretic. It didn’t take me one second to come to the conclusion to what it may be as to why he thought I was a heretic, and what it may be that he was, and is, advocating. Sure enough, I was correct in my assumption.

Bradlee Dean is a heretic for preaching out against the sodomite communities that have relentlessly targeted America’s children.

One has to ask the question: Why is he advocating for the sodomite agenda, which the Lord clearly condemns?

My response was, “Then I am a heretic! And will continue to be so by the grace of God!” (Ephesians 5:11)

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By Cliff Kincaid

March 4, 2025

To understand the role of President Zelensky in the fate of Ukraine, one must point out, as J.D. Vance noted in the White House meeting, that Zelensky had campaigned for Kamala Harris in the swing state of Pennsylvania. That was a fatal mistake that can only be rectified by Zelensky stepping down or being replaced.

Politically, Zelensky chose the wrong, the losing, side. Now his country is losing under his presidency because he performed like a buffoon in the White House in front of the world.

Zelensky has only himself to blame, and I have noticed that many supporters of Ukraine are making the same mistake. They trusted the same political party that abandoned South Vietnam to communism.

Pointing the finger at Trump, calling him a Russian agent, or saying he is a victim of Russian disinformation, are all charges and actions that divert attention away from the problems in the government of Ukraine, foremost among them Zelensky, who thought he could support Kamala Harris and then, when Trump won, that it would be business as usual. That was a terrible miscalculation on his part.

The supporters of Ukraine who put their faith in Zelensky want to ignore the fact that he functioned as a lackey of the Democrats, even though they never provided him enough to win the war.

In front of Trump, he was demanding too much – American blood and more American treasure.

Simply put, America can’t afford it, and that is the platform that Trump got elected on. Zelensky should have been smart enough to understand this fact.

The Europeans could have done far more over the course of the last ten years but many are deadbeats who depended on Uncle Sam. Now they are rallying around Zelensky, once again sounding tough but acting like the milquetoasts they are.

The Democrats created the current mess. They blame Trump when they know they laid the groundwork for the country’s demise under Zelensky. They used Zelensky as a prop during the campaign and now J.D. Vance is holding them accountable. Of course, Democrats don’t want to talk about this kind of “foreign interference” in American political campaigns. Vance has done so. At the very least, Zelensky should have apologized for his partisan campaigning against the Trump/Vance ticket.

This has been a problem for Ukraine going back many years – trusting that Democrats would save Ukraine from the Russians.

When Russia invaded in 2014, President Obama did almost nothing. Before that, as a Senator, he had worked with Richard Lugar, the globalist Republican, in a bipartisan project to eliminate Ukraine’s conventional weapons. Ukraine trusted them, another mistake.

Before that, of course, Democrat President Bill Clinton arranged for Ukraine to give its nuclear weapons back to Moscow. Ukraine agreed to that, too, another mistake. That set the stage for Biden to excuse a minor Russian “incursion” in 2022 that became a full-scale war that Ukraine is not winning three years later.

In the middle of all this, between Obama and Biden, Trump was in the White House and gave Ukraine anti-tank weapons that slowed the Russian advance. During the Friday meeting, Trump mentioned this several times, noting that Obama gave Ukraine sheets and Trump gave them the anti-tank weapons, known as Javelins. But Zelensky didn’t seem appreciative and acted in an obnoxious manner.

Zelensky must understand that Ukraine has no right to make a claim on the resources of the American people. Trump was going to give him an economic deal to benefit both sides but that wasn’t enough for Zelensky.

That economic deal would have given him some financial resources to bolster his own defenses. He wanted more – an assurance that American military men and women would back up European peacekeepers.

Zelensky was begging Trump for “security guarantees,” beyond the economic deal he was promised, and left with nothing. It was another stupid mistake on his part, comparable to his campaigning for Kamala. He thinks he is somehow entitled to American support. He was wrong, again.

These are the kinds of mistakes by a national leader that can spell the difference between survival and outright defeat. Zelensky didn’t apologize for anything, another mistake.

I have been a supporter of Ukraine’s anti-communist struggle from the start. But when Zelensky campaigned for Kamala, I was so astounded that I wrote a column wondering if Zelensky had been a Russian agent all along.

Remember that Zelensky had inserted himself into the U.S. presidential election, on the side of Kamala Harris, by appearing in swing state Pennsylvania, cheering on local workers making ammunition for the war. He was joined by Democrat Senator Bob Casey, running for re-election, and the Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro. Republicans were excluded.

By visiting the ammunition plant in Pennsylvania, he was putting his faith in an Administration that made the war possible, when Biden said a minor “incursion” into Ukraine by Russia might be tolerated. I wrote at the time that Zelensky had lost his sense of purpose and must be replaced. He was not serving America’s interest or that of Ukraine.

The case for replacing Zelensky is stronger than ever. But that effort must come from the people of Ukraine and the country’s supporters here, many of them Democrats making all kinds of baseless charges against Trump, as if Russia-gate had never been investigated and dismissed during his first term.

They are willing to believe the worst about Trump but give Zelensky a pass for his serious mistakes in judgment.

Zelensky and these backers seem unable to understand the fact that Democrats are not really on the side of Ukraine in this war. They talk tough, beating their chest, as Vance pointed out, but just keep the war going and more people dying.

The Democratic Party doesn’t care if Ukraine falls to the Russians, any more than they cared about communists taking South Vietnam after they terminated aid to the regime in Saigon.

Republican Senator Bob Dole, a World War Two veteran, once remarked that Democrats are good at starting and losing wars. Ukraine stands as an example of this trend.

Personally, I favor regime change in Moscow and criminal prosecutions of Putin and his comrades. I want Ukraine to win this war or at least survive as a sovereign state. But Zelensky is not the leader Ukraine needs. He has made too many mistakes.

By staying in office, Zelensky plays into the hands of the Russians.  I am sure there must be an alternative, perhaps a patriotic General in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who will step forward and lead a coup against Zelensky.

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By Kat Stansell

March 4, 2025

The Enemy in American Clothing

Here is a list and a screen shot from the Gateway Puncit, of those American traitors who must be recalled or voted out of office ASAP! This is the group that met with Little Zelinsky before he met with Trump and Vance.

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Jacky Rosen (D-NV)

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

“Danang Dick” (Richard Blumenthal) (D-CT)

Roger Wicker (R-MS)

Charles Grassley (R-IA)

Chris Murphy (D-CT)

Peter Welch (D-VT)

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

These warmongers are the ones who have been giving away OUR TRILLIONS. If you see your state, you are responsible for participating in their removal from our Congress. They are all anti-American warhawks and will be responsible for WWIII should that occur. Those living in SC, IA, MD, CT, MS, VT, RI, MN and NV don’t ever have to wonder ‘How can I help?” again.

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By Steven Yates

March 4, 2025

Part 1. Recommended reading before tackling the material below. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

We’ve sketched the background of liberalism, distinguishing two forms of classical liberalism (one Christian, the other secular), and noted the Stages of civilization (in Auguste Comte’s sense) in which classical liberalism developed and began to flourish. There is a sense in which classical liberalism’s Christian form originated as a Second Stage idea, then helped enable the shift to the Third Stage as its successes focused more and more attention on this world and the possibilities of human autonomy.

One consequence is that Christian-backed classical liberalism all but died out. In Third Stage civilization, theism wanes. To the extent it doesn’t die out altogether, as it mostly has in the academic world, it becomes a marginalized societal decoration.

Lastly in Part 1, we noted the dichotomy between those who saw Third Stage modernity as liberating and exhilarating, celebrating achievements past and achievements to come, versus those who saw trouble ahead.

Arguably, the whole thing has now gone sideways. Modernity has accomplishments under its belt that no one disputes: technologies that would have been science fiction to our ancestors. Conveniences and creature comforts they couldn’t have imagined. But as persons we’ve been left isolated, filled with a sense of emptiness (paradoxical as that sounds), in a world filled with vacuous indifference to our very existence, where we risk being thrown to the wolves when we cease to be useful in the economic system (i.e., helping someone richer than we are make even more money). We may be surrounded by luxuries but still feel a sense of foreboding and even dread in our bones. Our mortality scares us; our lives simply bore us.

Some, of course, insist that these are the best times in all of human history to be alive (think of Steven Pinker, or Matt Ridley), with more prosperity, less violence, greater opportunities, and so on. But in a sense that is difficult to put our fingers on, it doesn’t feel real.

What happened?

Will a closer look at the first premises of classical liberalism help us? Let’s find out.

Homo Economicus I. Cartesian Spooks.

Go back first to Second Stage Pure Reason. To its foremost sixteenth century exponent: French mathematician, physicist and philosopher René Descartes. Pivotal figure in the history of ideas.

Troubled by fellow Frenchman Michel to Montaigne’s epistemic skepticism, and by the increasing evidence of culturally diverse worldviews revealed by the incipient Age of Discovery, Descartes sought a permanent grounding for knowledge: permanent in that once grasped, it would be seen to hold true for all peoples, all places, all times, through the sheer force of its logical necessity. (It isn’t clear to me what either man was so anxious about.)

Descartes believed he’d solved the problem with his “Cogito ergo sum.” I think, therefore I am. A phrase drummed into every philosophy student’s head. Descartes saw this as his autonomous intellect speaking, denuded of the five senses, science, God, even mathematics. His Pure Reason would quickly add these all back, but on a very different foundation: that of his autonomous intellect and its capacity, on its own, to discern eternal truth by the “natural light of reason,” he called it, or using “rules for the direction of the mind.”

Autonomous intellect, or mind, confronted the world as a homunculus: a little isle of intellect, inside a body made of something called matter (or as Descartes called it, corporeal substance) surrounded by myriad other objects also made of corporeal substance. The infamous ghost in the machine, in other words. The Cartesian spook inside our heads.

Dualism is the term philosophers use for this idea.

In Cartesian dualism was the seed of classical liberalism, which when it sprouted, transformed the homunculus into homo economicus: a private utility-maximizer, inherently subjective and rationally self-interested, a walking and speaking human calculating device participating in markets, buying and consuming, selling and profiting, looking for quid pro quos and edges — and willing to take short cuts where short cuts were findable. Bastiat would observe, centuries later, in The Law that labor is often painful or just dreary. So we try to maximize our gain with the least amount of effort, and we rationalize this if this happens at others’ expense.

Bastiat had not been the first to cast doubt on the idea that markets are always beneficent — or, more exactly, their participants would necessarily use them in beneficent ways.

In his famous Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued not for complete laissez faire as people like Ayn Rand and Libertarians would do in another couple of centuries. He saw the necessity of an encirclement of sensible regulations around business, created and imposed by the state. Why? Because without such outside checks on their behavior, businessmen would collude, form cartels, and fix prices. They wouldn’t maintain genuine free markets.

The situation was worse, of course. Today we know how easy it has been for the superrich to compromise even this system of checks on their power with regulatory capture. But alas, we’re ahead of ourselves.

Liberalism was going sideways. Its drawback is its first premise. Understanding this is why attending to basics — first premises — is always a good idea. We’re not creatures of Pure Reason with autonomous intellects. We have emotions that are integral parts of our personalities, or as Smith’s friend and associate David Hume called them, passions. Hume had little difficulty in show that these, not reason, are the primary drivers of decision-making.

Nor, as others (Thomas Hobbes is an example) believed, are we utterly self-interested. Unless we are hermits, or are isolated, we may have had people around us we cared about so deeply that we would have given our lives for them. It is normal to care about family, friends, others in our vicinity to the extent they will permit it, unless we are narcissists or sociopaths.

Not simply to profit. Not to “feel good about ourselves.” As an end in itself.

Egoism — psychological or ethical — is simply false! Philosophers have refuted it many, many times.

Twentieth Century Storm Clouds.

Classical liberals such as Bastiat had a Christian worldview, as I’ve noted. What I’ve called The Real Great Replacement (of Christendom with materialism), a product of Third Stage thought supplanting that of the Second Stage, scissored the Christian element out of liberalism. By Mill’s time this process was nearing completion, in the intellectual centers anyway.

Mill’s utilitarian ethics again: always try to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number, where good means happiness or pleasure.

Mill had introduced Auguste Comte to the English-speaking world. He’d had Comte’s writings translated into English. His methodology is implicitly positivist: empirical science is the sole determinant of truth about reality.

Thus we can set philosophy aside. It’s major problems are solved, and it remains to use utility maximization to solve societal and technological problems. Economic liberty frees homo economicus! Political freedom leads to democratic institutions (the British monarchy had become a mere decoration, however wealthy!).

Morally: we should not harm others. Not because God had anything to say about it, but because harming others decreases utility. The same is true of freedom of speech and thought. Mill’s criticisms of censorship in On Liberty come down to its interference with the most efficient path to increases in knowledge. Even if a suppressed idea is false, we can learn from taking the trouble to refute it, and this increases epistemic utility (one might call it).

This mindset increases everyone’s prosperity and well-being.

Straightforward, right?

No need to overthink this!

We can be “positive” because the fruits of science and technique were growing by the day, month, year, decade, century. We’d discovered propulsion, electricity, oil refinement, vaccines, and more.

In the 1900s, Third Stage economizers went on to invent and build automobiles, aircraft, refrigerators, freezers, washers-driers, interstate highways, countless other electric-powered devices, and the earliest computing machines. Out of fears (based on Sputnik) that the Soviets had gained an edge, Americans redoubled their efforts at science education in the late 1950s. A decade later, we were in outer space.

To this, we attributed liberal capitalism and its freeing of the human spirit to rise as high and go as far as we were capable. Clearly, by the 1950s, America — its economy the strongest in human history — had achieved heights that were previously unimaginable.

But not all was well in paradise.

Intellectually and educationally, we had begun to drift. This is a story told many times, with many different emphases. With just a few exceptions for those whose ideas proved useful to capitalist utility, intellectualism-for-its-own-sake doesn’t really serve capitalism. Thus government schools never much encouraged intellectual curiosity outside a few well-trod paths.

But outside that rather cloistered world, it was clear that the liberty of old-school liberalism wasn’t bringing benefits equally, or allowing everyone equal opportunities.

Hence civil rights, and women’s liberation, conceivably understood as efforts to apply the same principles to everyone, especially given the dictum that “all men are created equal” updated to include women also created in God’s image (who, after all, created us “male and female”).

Overcoming racial prejudices and sex-based discrimination so that all the homo economici of whatever ethnicity could realize their potential wasn’t going to be easy.

Again, pesky passions got in the way, and there were people who would refuse to employ a perfectly qualified black man to do a job. Or woman.

The executive orders and legislation of the 1960s seemed necessary and justified to those of us who grew up and came of age back then. There were also anti-poverty programs, as we’d never truly stopped being a society of haves and have-nots. We’d increased the size of the haves by creating a thriving middle class, but this wasn’t enough for moral egalitarians.

Very real storm clouds included the war raging in Vietnam toward which a significant fraction of a generation rose up in opposition — for the first time, the effects of war were broadcast into upper and middle class family rooms via that astounding new invention, television! — and there were newer expressions of the liberal desire for maximum freedom such as the sexual revolution and psychoactive drugs.

Sometimes liberation was still seen in economic terms; but in cultural or personal terms, it was more and more “do your own thing” if, in accordance with Mill’s liberalism, you’re not harming anyone.

To some extent, as we’ll see in Part 3 (next week), we were seeing the subtle infiltration of alien ideas and policies into liberalism. But we were also living out the deep contradiction built into secular liberalism itself, keeping in mind that its goal is the total self-authorization and complete personal autonomy of the individual — a residuum of that Cartesian spook inside every person’s head.

[Author’s note: due to the pressure of other work projects Part 3 will not appear until next week. Thank you for understanding.]

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,

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Steven Yates is a (recovering) ex-academic with a PhD in Philosophy. He taught for more than 15 years total at several universities in the Southeastern U.S. He authored three books, more than 20 articles, numerous book reviews, and review essays in academic journals and anthologies. Refused tenure and unable to obtain full-time academic employment (and with an increasing number of very fundamental philosophical essays refused publication in journals), he turned to alternative platforms and heretical notions, including about academia itself.

In 2012 he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: the problems of the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere. The problems are problems of Western civilization as a whole.

As to whether he’ll stay in Chile … stay tuned!

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His paranormal horror novel The Shadow Over Sarnath (2023) can be gotten here.

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By Lex Greene

March 3, 2025

Election fraud has been around as long as elections have been around, long before anyone dreamed up electronic voting machines. 244-years into the grand experiment of freedom and self-governance in our Constitutional Republican form of government, the 2020 elections set a worldwide record in massive election fraud, on a level never before seen on earth.

No one has done more or risked more, to uncover and expose the 2020 fraud than Mike Lindell and his Lindell Offense Fund. But the courts ran blockers at every turn.

But 80% of that fraud in 2020 took place via “paper balloting.” Hundreds of Americans, doing the job government officials, news media and the courts are supposed to do, uncovered literally dozens of methods used to steal the 2020 elections. Over a hundred law suits were filed across the country in an effort to bring indisputable evidence into court to expose exactly what had been done. But not a single court in the country allowed any evidence to enter a courtroom.

The fraud was absolutely blatant!

In 2016, Trump won the Presidency via the Electoral College, with under 129-million Americans voting. In 2020, Trump received an astounding 11-million more votes than he received in 2016, a whopping 18% increase in voter support for reelection, an increase never before seen in the USA for a second term.

But suddenly in 2020, the overall number of voters leaped from under 129-million to over 155-million voters counted and certified. In many blue districts across the country, the states “certified” more votes than they had registered voters. 80% of the fraud was via “paper ballot” … due to “COVID emergency” mail-in voting, dropbox voting, and ballot harvesting.

The overall number of certified Presidential ballots jumped by over 26-million ballots between 2016 and 2020. The numbers were statistically impossible and every intelligent person knew it. The 26-million overvote ballots were never verified, or even verifiable. But they were all counted and certified by Congress and the “steal” was in effect for a 3^rd Obama term under the guise of a totally corrupt and inept Biden Presidency.

Machine Fraud Too!

What was basically happening is two foundational forms of cheating. The cheating via “paper ballots” described above, but also Electronic Voting Machine fraud as well. In blue districts, the flood of unverifiable paper ballots dumped into the system before, during, and after election day, guaranteed a Democrat Party victory in those areas, even though the Democrat candidate never even campaigned.

But in red districts, where democrats could not use paper ballot dumping to manipulate the outcome of the election, electronic machine manipulations were used to switch votes from Trump to Biden in a calculated software program designed to move votes from one candidate to the other via “fractional” vote counting. There’s no such thing as a 1.3 vote, or a .7 vote, one-person…one vote, remember. Yet that’s what was discovered, a vote for Trump was counted as a fractional .7 vote while a vote for Biden was counted as a 1.3 vote, as an example.

Electronic Election Equipment was purchased and used from foreign companies with foreign interests. Even electronic election tabulating was being done via outside contracts with foreign companies and governments abroad, with the votes tabulated overseas, the results sent back to the USA after manipulation. The tricks used are numerous, and citizen groups across the country were investigating and seeing it all in real-time, but the courts rejected every effort to expose the evidence, along with the news media.

Then in 2024, people working together to prevent the fraud succeeded in preventing approximately 3-million fraudulent votes, bringing the overall voter tally from over 155-million in 2020 back down to 152-million ballots counted in 2024.

Another 3.5-million votes counted for Biden in 2020, were cast for Trump in 2024, providing a 7-million vote swing in Trump’s favor between 2020 and 2024, making Trump the most popular President in U.S. history. Trump won the popular vote, the Electoral College, all seven swing states and 83% of the counties across the country.

True Accountability is the ONLY Solution

You can talk about paper ballots, same day voting, voter ID, and hand counts from now until hell freezes over, and you will not have stopped fraud in our elections. It has always been “illegal” for any “non-citizen” to vote in U.S. elections. Yet you have state governments working around the clock to make sure that who is voting in their elections, or how many times, is hidden from public view via illegal anti-American election procedures.

There’s only ONE WAY to stop states from actively administering fraudulent elections.

An election which is not “verifiable” can’t be “certifiable.” No longer can we allow states to “certify” election results that they can’t or won’t “verify.”

The burden of proof should never have been placed upon American citizens to prove that election fraud exists in our elections. Instead, the burden of proof must be placed upon the government officials who took an oath to make sure our elections are lawful, legitimate and transparent.

Unless every state can transparently “verify” their elections in broad daylight, we cannot continue to accept a “certification” from that state. We have constitutional “checks and balances” in our system. The Electoral College is supposed to be a critical “check and balance” to prevent fraudulent elections from being certified, determining the course of the nation. Electors are not locked into casting their final ballot for the candidate they originally declared for, if they believe the outcome of the election is faulty.

Bottom line, no state election certification should be accepted unless and until the state has demonstrated that every voter and every ballot has been properly “verified.” If a state can’t or won’t comply, then their election results shall not be certified at the federal level, period. The burden of proof is on the state officials.

This is why democrats are desperate to eliminate the Electoral College.

Congress is supposed to be another “check and balance.” Congress is not supposed to “certify” election results in the face of election fraud evidence, yet they have been. The Vice President, President of the Senate is yet another “check and balance” with the power and duty to stop the certification of faulty elections. Mike Pence continues to lie about what his power and duty was in 2020.

The U.S. Supreme Court is yet another “check and balance” there to prevent the certification of fraudulent elections. The news media, “the eyes and ears” of the American people, are still another “check and balance” that has done nothing but carry water for the massive government corruption for decades.

Last but not least, YOU, the American citizens are the final “check and balance.” If everyone who took an oath fails you, then it’s YOUR job to take care of business yourself and do it together, in active groups.

Would you allow any “unverified” doctor to work on you? Do you know how many “doctors” have gone to prison for practicing medicine with a fake certification on the wall, that in the end, couldn’t be verified?

Why would we allow our country to be run by “unverifiable” voters, just because corrupt political figures have been willing to “certify” unverifiable election results?

Know it or not, like it or not, a government elected by fraud is not a government of, by, or for the legal American electors, you, the citizens. It’s an overthrown government working against you.

Do you trust that same government to protect your elections?

Isn’t that a bit like expecting the fox to guard the henhouse? Are you familiar with CIS (Center for Internet Security)? Are you familiar with CIS oversight of our elections? Or the CIS “Albert System?” If not, look into it. The false claim that “the voting machines are not connected to the internet” has been repeated many times. But the CIS Albert System will not work unless the machines are networked.

Creating Confidence in the Connected World™

“At CIS®, we’re harnessing the power of the global IT community to safeguard public and private organizations against cyber threats.” How’s this going for you? How many times have you been hacked online?

What do you not understand about the “global IT community?” It’s not American citizens, working for American companies, or even the U.S. Government, who is controlling IT over our elections. It’s a “global IT community,” using foreign election machines and software from foreign companies with “global IT” support. It’s all established by the same people telling you they are concerned with “foreign intrusions into our elections.”

Like just about everything else in the USA under democrat leadership, even our elections have been “outsourced” to overseas entities.

“Russian interference” in our elections? Russia is about the only country that hasn’t been interfering in our elections. What about Barack Obama’s regime changes all over the Middle East and Ukraine? What about Barack Obama interfering in the French elections on behalf of President Emmanuel Macron?

Thou dost protest too much…

If you haven’t figured it out yet…everything the LEFT accuses the RIGHT of doing, the LEFT has been doing for decades, here and abroad. How about “Terror Finance at the State Department and USAID” all under the Democrat leadership, now working around the clock to prevent DOGE from exposing where your money has been going?

Guess who has been running the election fraud systems across the country? Yes, D.C. traitors with the help of democrat Governors, AG’s and State Secretaries…even democrat county election commissions, state party officials and County Clerks.

So… there is only ONE WAY to put an end to it all and that is true accountability.

From this point forward, no matter how the elections are run, if a state cannot “verify” its voters and election procedures as “free from fraud,” the “certification” of that election must be rejected by Congress and the Courts.

So long as there is no penalty for cheating in our elections, unlawful cheating and fraud will continue, no matter how you run the elections. The consequence of election fraud must be the disqualification of election results, stopping the certification of unverifiable elections, state-by-state.

Maybe then, the citizens of each state will confront their state leaders on the matter and clean up their own houses.

© 2025 Lex Greene – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Lex Greene: LexGreene24@gmail.com

Authored by Devvy Kidd, not AI

March 3, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., against all odds is now the Health and Human Services Secretary, a money sucking cabinet not authorized in the U.S Constitution; Art. 1, Section 8. The liars, thieves and crooks in CONgress over the decades have used these six words in clause 1: “…general welfare of the United States” to fund that which is under the Tenth Amendment for the states of the Union to address. In other words, INTERNAL issues.

Joseph Story, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, said in the ‘Commentaries on the Constitution’ (1833):

“Another not unimportant consideration is that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the state.”

I’m cognizant of the fact that Americans are ‘busy’ with family, work and other obligations BUT if one doesn’t understand the law or in this case the true meaning and intent of a document – the U.S. Constitution – at the time it was adopted, we will never solve important issues with solutions.  Yours truly like so many millions of other Americans have taken the time (for me a little over three decades) to go back and study and learn.

I highly recommend you take an hour and listen to this interview with Rob Natelson on the true meaning and application of “general welfare of the United States”.  Podcast: A Lesson on the General Welfare Clause:  “Rob Natelson, recognized national expert on the framing and adoption of the United States Constitution, offers a lesson on the general Welfare clause of the United States Constitution.

“He discusses the original meaning of the words themselves, the meaning of general welfare in the preamble, the original meaning and understanding of the clause, the taxing clause, the Hamiltonian vs the Madisonian view, anti-federalist concerns, modern interpretations, court cases which have turned its meaning upside down, practical reasons for a limiting view of the clause and the Constitution as a whole, and more.”

Then we should remember the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson when he wrote (Emphasis mine):  “The term of redemption must be moderate, and at any rate within the limits of [the government’s] rightful powers. But what limits, it will be asked, does this prescribe to their powers? What is to hinder them from creating a perpetual debt? The laws of nature, I answer. The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. The will and the power of man expire with his life, by nature’s law.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:169

“Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.” –Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:455

“[The natural right to be free of the debts of a previous generation is] a salutary curb on the spirit of war and indebtment, which, since the modern theory of the perpetuation of debt, has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:272

I always give credit where credit is due. I have slammed RFK, Jr., a dedicated zealot for the manufactured, planned scam called global warming/climate change.  The earth is not heating or burning up contrary to the rants and raving of such a renowned scientist (which she isn’t, only another pawn) Greta Thunberg. I believe he’s softened up a bit on that by tossing the blame on corporations.

Kennedy has been a life-long member of the Democrat/Communist Party USA his entire life.  Here’s a few issues and his stand on them:  2023:  Supports abortion rights; Common sense gun control, and assault weapons ban (Obviously he has no understanding of the Second Amendment); CHIPS Act: Don’t subsidize rich nor cut off trade with China (Yeah, keep enriching the dirty, filthy barbarians in the Chinese Communist Party).

Ours:  The 58,279 dead, severely wounded mentally and physically from Vietnam was to stop the spread of communism. How’d that work out?  The Current Situation in Vietnam, Sept. 13, 2024: “Politically, Vietnam is a one-party state ruled by the Communist Party. The People’s Army of Vietnam has significant influence in the political system.” I will buy nothing from Vietnam.  Communists always lie. They are God-less savages.  In her first term, Arkansas governor Huckabee succeeded to become the first state to kick communists off their land, out of their state and more (video 10:47):  Arkansas blocks China from doing business in state.

However, Kennedy has done a lot of good in cleaning up rivers from industrial waste and his tireless work to protect children (and humans in general) is to be commended and I sincerely thank him for that as well as his (he’s not anti-vax, he’s pro-safety) research regarding vaccines, exposing big pharma and greedy, crooked politicians raking in their filthy lucre.  It hasn’t been easy for him but it never is when exposing the truth.

Kennedy’s goal is to make America healthy again.  Yes, the environment – spaying our skies, pesticides that are full of dangerous chemicals – those contribute to poisoning our food supply but that issue belongs to the state, not HHS or the EPA which also needs to be abolished.  Processed “food” is another category that’s contributed to making America very unhealthy: 70% of our population are fat or obese by their own hand to their mouth.  I’m not counting individuals who take medications that do affect the body and cause weight gain.

I believe the biggest (and justifiably so) target on Kennedy’s list are “vaccines”.  The issue of vaccines causing autism has been a constant war of words or I should say war of $$$ for quite some time.  I’ve written about this before but getting the truth out to a country as big as ours without an audience of millions on the nightly news or cable is difficult.

Let me put this out there again because autism rates are through the roof and it does not have to continue.  Joan Swirsky who writes for NWV’s, is a wonderful friend, a warm and loving person and highly intelligent. “The recipient of numerous Long Island Press Awards, wrote health, science and feature articles for The New York Times Long Island section for over 20 years, as well as for many regional and national publications. A former obstetrical nurse, Lamaze teacher, and psychotherapist, Joan is the book-and-lyric writer of four musicals, one of which, “Oh Baby!” – about three couples facing parenthood – was produced in New York City in 1983.

“For eight years, starting in 1985, Joan was a science writer for The Women’s Record on Long Island, during which time she wrote over 175 articles on the issue of breast cancer on Long Island – its clinical, psychological, political, environmental, and social implications. She has been publicly acknowledged as being responsible for two redesigns of the New York State Study on breast cancer and as being the first journalist in America to put the breast cancer-environment relationship “on the map” of public consciousness.

“Joan is a clinical nurse specialist (R.N., M.S., C.S., C.E.) and NY-State-certified psychotherapist. She was awarded a Nurse of Distinction Award by the New York State Legislature in 1991, received the Master’s Faculty Leadership Award from Adelphi University, and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society.

“She was also the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of REVOLUTION -The Journal of Nurse Empowerment from 1990 to 1995. The national quarterly magazine received First Prize for Editorial Excellence from the prestigious national media Folio Awards in 1994 in NY City. In addition, for 15 years, she was the founding editor of The Caucus Current, a monthly magazine on conservative Jewish political issues, which was mailed monthly to the entire U.S. Congress and Israeli Knesset.

“For 15 years, Joan wrote a monthly column on pregnancy and childbirth for Newsday’s Parents & Children Magazine and for Long Island Parent. She was also a political writer for Newsmax.com and Newsmax Magazine. To this day, she writes for numerous conservative websites. Joan is also the author/coauthor of 12 books.”

Looking For Answers to the Autism Epidemic in All the Wrong Places, April 21, 2023, by Joan.  Quite frankly, her column blew me away.  My mother never had an ultra sound with her 5 children (which includes me) nor did I ever get one when pregnant with my daughter.

The most important thing here is to bring healthy children into this world and getting rid of autism to me is a top priority ignored because it’s all about $$$ for big pharma, greedy politicians and doctors who ignore credible research.  Every child on this planet identified as autistic – I want to see as many as possible cured and YES, it is curable.

From Joan in her column: “There is a vast human tragedy – a true man-made disaster – taking place before our eyes.

“For whatever reasons – follow the money? – the mountain of evidence that points to a causal relationship between prenatal ultrasound exams and an escalating pandemic of autism is being systematically ignored.

“Could it have anything to do with the huge investments doctors and scientists have made in ultrasound technology, which, according to Jennifer Margulis, “adds more than $1 billion to the cost of caring for pregnant women in America each year”?

“Could it have anything to do with the revenue now pouring like an avalanche into the coffers of diagnostic and treatment centers and classrooms?

“Could it have anything to do with modern journalism’s almost complete abandonment of hard-nosed reporting and life-saving exposés?”  READ her column.  Pass it along to your email lists, use social media because knowledge really is power but only if you use it. I absolutely believe Joan’s research and analysis is spot on.

Yes, it does take extra work by the parent(s) by first becoming aware of how to do what so many mothers (and dads if there’s one in the house) have done who now have normal, active children:

GAPS Nutritional Program: How a Physician Cured Her Son’s Autism – Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola.  So powerful was his web site and content, our “free speech” government threatened him big time and he had to literally scrub his web site.  However, that hasn’t stopped him.  Here is the link to the full interview without the video censored by You Tube:

“Back in 1984, when she graduated from medical school, autism was an exceptionally rare disorder, with a prevalence of about 1 in 10,000.

“By the time I graduated from medical school I had never seen an autistic individual,” she says.”… To be honest, the first autistic child that I encountered was my own… Five years ago we were diagnosing one child in 150, which is almost a 40-fold increase in incidence. Now in Britain and some countries, we are diagnosing one child in 66.”

“The rates are similar in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand as well. She quickly delved into research, looking for an answer for her son, and ended up getting a second postgraduate degree in human nutrition. As a result of her work, her son fully recovered and is no longer autistic.”

Polio Vaccine, Cancer and Dr. Mary’s Money is a column I wrote April 26, 2015 – scroll about half way down to begin:  “One of the reasons I decided to read Dr. Mary’s Monkey is because one of my dearest friends, Thelma Taormina, passed away, April 6, 2015, after losing her heroic fight against small cell carcinoma cancer.” Monkey vaccines.

What about vaccines because RFK, Jr. and doctors and scientists he’s worked with for decades believe too many are unsafe?  I think Kennedy should get together with Joan Swirsky and talk about the ultra sound component as well as Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. So many parents now have healthy, normal children (I know they all loved their autistic child to the end of the earth) and that is something to celebrate.

Now that RFK, Jr., has the power and authority to get the truth out there after meeting with Joan and Dr. Campbell-McBride, he should extend an invitation to any governor who wants answers and hold a public presentation. Don’t tell me that can’t be done because it can and it should.  Whether it’s Rumble, You Tube or another platform because I doubt C-SPAN will touch this), go public.

As for a healthier America, that’s up to the individual.  I don’t know the source for this photo, but it all boils down to learning how to eat healthy, don’t eat processed “food” and DISCIPLINE.  Read the label!  Strive for a good, healthy weight for your age and height.  Otherwise, you’re eating your way to nothing but health issues the rest of your life.

As a parting note, HHS with a budget of $1.7 TRILLION borrowed phantom paper money “dollars”: Congress must abolish it during Trump’s term while the House and Senate are GOP controlled.  It is a Tenth Amendment issue for the states to address.

This is an ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH: Unpacking the Lies We’ve Been Fed.  I’ve known about Ty Bollinger’s great work for a long, long time.  “Bring you ‘Unpacking The Lies We’ve Been Fed’, a documentary exposing the decades-long agenda to keep America sick, obese, and addicted and the importance of Robert F. Kennedy’s nomination to HHS Secretary.

“Uncovering the corruption of the food industry, to vaccine induced autism, to geoengineering, ‘Unpacking the Lies We’ve Been Fed’ unpacks every lie the American people have been told about public health.”  Jonathan Emord is featured. His very impressive bio and columns are here.

Could it be a combination of ultra sounds and unsafe vaccines? Shooting up infants and toddlers with 10 or 15 vaccines to me is criminal knowing what I do – especially the COVID-19 gene therapy injections which ARE bioweapons not vaccines.

(Last but NOT least. Was this column helpful? All the amazing research and commentary on NWV’s by selfless writers?  Well, NWV’s desperately need donations to stay on line so if you haven’t made a donation or become a monthly subscriber, please do take the time.)

© 2024 Devvy Kidd – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Devvy: devvyk@protonmail.com

If you missed these:

The Kennedy Effect on Food, March 1, 2025 “It’s been just over two weeks since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and already some companies are adopting policy recommendations aligned with the MAHA agenda.” (Make America Healthy Again)

Zelensky’s Studio Posts Vulgar Trump ‘Dick’ Reference Following His Disastrous Meetings at White House, March 2, 2025 “Volodymyr Zelensky’s studio in Ukraine posted a disgusting and vulgar reference to President Trump after the Ukrainian leader was walked out of the White House on Friday.

“The Kvartal 95 Facebook page posted a photo of a piano with Trump’s name on it. The photo is in reference to the famous skit where Zelensky played the piano with his penis and no pants on.

“The photo, featuring a black grand piano with ‘Trump’ written on it, was published by the studio on Facebook and Instagram on Friday after Zelensky was asked to leave the White House.”

TUCKER: Ukraine Sold US Weapons Globally 20c On $, Murdered Politicians And Journalists, March 1, 2025

Newly Released NSA Documents Show That China Captured American Soldiers During The Vietnam War, Dec. 14, 2024

On the Great Communist Lie, March 9, 2009

Book: The Naked Communist, June 1, 1994 by W. Cleon Skousen (free on line) – “He served in the FBI for 16 years, four years as Chief of Police in Salt Lake City, and ten years as a university professor. He was a prolific writer and produced three national best sellers, The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and The Five Thousand Year Leap. Eight of his books were used as college texts, and several were translated and published in other countries.

“Dr. Skousen was born in Canada, and returned to the U.S. with his family at age ten. He spent two years in Mexico, two years in England, graduated from San Bernardino College in California, and received his juris doctor degree from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the District Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

“His seminars on the Constitution have been taught to several million across the U.S., and among his students were dozens of U.S. Senators and Representatives, two Supreme Court justices, and several candidates for President. He believed knowledge and understanding were key to maintaining a free country, and spent his entire adult life opening up complex issues for deeper understanding by students and audiences all around the world.”

By Frosty Wooldridge

March 3, 2025

Are you as mystified or exasperated as to the irrationalities going on in America and around the world?  Does any of it make sense?  How do you wrap your arms around the wars, rocketing to Mars when millions are starving on Earth, and men injecting themselves into women’s sports?  How do you watch $200 billion being shipped off 9,000 miles away to Ukraine to fight a war that’s reported to have killed 1,000,000 young men on both sides— while America features millions in poverty and 774,000 homeless at last count?

Why do you figure American taxpayers send billions to Israel to protect them from Muslim aggression, but U.S. AID has been sending millions to support Islamic terrorism in the Middle East? That nasty little bit of news was reported on numerous networks by DOGE. In other words, we American taxpayers are getting screwed by the unelected bureaucrats working for U.S. AID—every which way but loose!

What about the fact that our ghettoes feature children who cannot read or write, and are functionally illiterate upon reaching the age of eighteen?  Thus, we house 45,000,000 illiterate Americans.  What’s reasonable about that?  Why hasn’t that nightmare been solved with viable solutions?

How is it that one president shut down the borders within 30 days of taking office while the former president invited 12 to 15 million illegal aliens to violate our borders—while he paid for their transport, hotels, phones, medical and food—on your billions of taxpayer dollars?  And he got away with it!  How is it that dozens of governors and mayors could provide unlawful “Sanctuary Cities” to support those 15 million border violators, and they get away with it?

Why would California Governor Gavin Newsom pass a $25 million taxpayer-funded bill to protect his 3 to 4 million illegal aliens in his state?  It’s clearly against every law on the books.

How is it that we allow Middle Eastern students visas to enjoy our incredible universities of higher learning, but allow them to riot and scream out, “Death to America”?   Why aren’t they arrested and deported immediately?

How is it that some knot-head elected official in Congress dreamed up WOKE, Transgenders in the military, D.E.I. injected into the most important positions, and C.R.T. implementation with no ideas as to the consequences?

When you watch the news at night, whether you are a democrat, republican, Independent or don’t care—we watch one insanity after another continue into the next insanity.

For instance, according to an NPR report, we have tossed 170 trillion pieces of plastic into our oceans in the past 60 years since chemists invented it.  We’ve done NOTHING to stop tossing it into our oceans.  Reports show we dump 8,000,000 pieces of plastics into our oceans daily in 2025.  There are NO coordinated recycling programs worldwide!  Every country in the world ignores those plastics while they destroy the ecology of the oceans.  Those plastics kill countless millions of marine life. Those plastics have broken down into tiny pieces that fish ingest, so that when we eat ocean-going fish, we are eating our own oil via plastics. Those plastics inhabit the ocean floor, float on the waves, contaminate our delicate reefs and beaches around the world.

You would think the leaders of the world would gather together…and create an international 50 cent deposit/return law for all plastics, glass and metal containers.  Because if they don’t, we’re looking at doubling from 170 trillion pieces of plastic to 240 trillion pieces of plastic.  What happens when there are more pieces of plastic in our oceans than fish, turtles, whales, sharks, et al.?   Do you see how completely irresponsible the human race is toward its own planet?

Along with that nightmare, since 1990, as reported by Life Magazine, “Predator Becomes Prey”, we have been killing 100,000,000 sharks annually.  And, with no letup in sight!  We’re wrecking the ecology of the oceans, but you never hear about it on the news or in documentaries on major networks.  It’s like if we bury the facts, maybe they will vanish so we don’t have to worry about them.  But of course, the FACTS will come back to bite us in our collective rear-ends.

At the same time, we’re spending billions of dollars to rocket to the moon and Mars. I saw the movie, Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, where he rockets to the moon, and then off to Mars to find his father. Who, by the way, had lost his mind somewhere out near Saturn on a space journey.  On the moon, all the concrete bunkers showed pictures of plants and animals on Earth.  When Pitt arrived at the concrete bunker on Mars, more pictures of Earth’s wild places.  So, what’s the point of spending billions/trillions to colonize Mars when we don’t give a damn about our planet here on Earth.  And, anyway, who wants to live on a rock-planet?  Answer: 99.9999 percent of the human race would choose living on our green Earth!

When I worked in Antarctica years ago, an artist named Schimmel painted a beautiful portrayal of the life on the ice. He had painted the devastation of locations around the world. He said, “With a species like humans, even the stars aren’t safe.”

Yes, I’ve written about this insanity many times, but again, what kind of deranged mind supports biological men beating the crap out of biological women in women’s sports?  That’s got to be the most incredible insanity of the 21st century.  How do you process it when you know it’s wrong, it’s nuts, it violates rational thinking, and it’s completely off the wall—CRAZY?   And yet, you see female governors like in Massachusetts supporting it! You see biological men who dominate the NCAA—-supporting it.  Who votes for such stupidity?  Let’s face it, for a biological male to stand on a podium with a trophy ment for a women’s competition—illustrates a special kind of mental illness.

Another insanity beats the heck out of me: supporting over 20 to 30 million illegal aliens who violated our borders with hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to support them—-when our ghettoes simmer and explode with killings, illiteracy, drugs and futility. How do you wrap your mind around that one?  What kind of a Congressional Critter voted to allow such insanity?  Fact: the rest of the world adds 83,000,000 (million) new babies, net gain, annually.  Most of them will become refugees who dream to move to America, Canada and Europe. How can we save them all?  We can’t!   Fact: we already import 1,000,000 legal refugees from around the world, annually.  It’s a drop in the bucket, and, it does nothing to alleviate the world’s overpopulation crisis—now at 8 billion—headed for 9 billion in the next 12 years.  Mark my words: this human invasion will ultimately drive America into an unsustainable future as we add another 100,000,000 people by 2050…that will end in collapse of our civilization.  It’s that simple and that harsh.

My former colleague at the University of Colorado, Dr. Albert Bartlett said, “Unlimited population growth cannot be sustained; you cannot sustain growth in the rates of consumption of resources. No species can overrun the carrying capacity of a finite land mass. This law cannot be repealed and is not negotiable.”

Read the book:  Blip: Humanity’s 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment with Industrialism by Christopher O. Clugston. By 2050, we will have run out of all our non-renewable resources, specifically, OIL!

Here’s the final kicker that every news network avoids, but it’s coming:  “As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now, to a renewable energy resource economy, which we must do in this century, will the “civil” part of civilization survive?  As we all know, there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy, now,  much less for the 9 billion people expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going.  We are involved in a Faustian Bargain—-selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later, the price must be paid.”  Walter Younquist, Energy

HOW DO WE PROCESS WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY AND ALL WESTERN COUNTRIES?

This quote gives a clear picture of what we face:  “At this point,  it’s almost certainly too late to manage a transition to sustainability on a global or national scale, even if the political will to attempt it existed, which it clearly does not.  Our civilization is in the early stages of the same curve of decline and fall as with so many others that have gone before.  What likely lies in wait for us is a long, uneven decline into catastrophic starvation, violence and chaos, a new Dark Age, from which, centuries from now, the civilizations of the future will gradually emerge.”

Dear fellow American, we better start voting for representatives that understand what our civilization faces. We better come up with solutions.  And, having traveled around the planet,  I can tell you this:  the more we overpopulate America via immigration, the harder and faster we’re headed into the abyss.

Because this is a Constitutional Republic, it’s up to you to start writing, speaking, voting and taking action for your children. The year 2050 is less than 25 years away.

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By Pastor Glynn Adams

March 2, 2025

“The axe is already laid at the root of the trees, every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” (Matthew 3:10)

“There is a way that seems right unto a man but the way is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)

I am saying some hard things today that has needed to be said for a long time now.  America has reached the tipping point that will bring more serious judgments of God to this nation because the church in this nation is rebellious by refusing to obey the Lord Jesus Christ.   In the days ahead, visible churches with structures and organizations will be an unnecessary and dangerous place to be and they will be preoccupied with survival, security, and protecting their buildings and religion systems.

Throughout the Old Testament when God created Adam and Eve, when God called Abraham, Noah, Joseph, Moses, and others, when God’s People were delivered out of Egypt and were in the wilderness experience, God told them upfront that He expected obedience from them.  In the Book of Jeremiah, God told the prophet Jeremiah not to pray for the people anymore because He was tired of their burnt offerings, sacrifices and religious ceremonies.  In Jeremiah 7:23-24,  God  finally restated what He has always wanted from His people and leaders, “But this is what I commanded them, “Obey My voice and I will be your God and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the ways which I command you, that it may be well with you.  Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.”

How can Christians today read the Old Testament and New Testament and not realize that God wanted His people to obey Him?   In Luke 12:48b, Jesus said, “And from everyone who has been given much shall much be required and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.”   Anyone with a brain knows that Moses and the others did not get but a fraction of revelation of truth and light we in the New Testament era have received.   Isn’t it amazing that those in the Old Testament having received little, God demanded much, but we in the New Testament era having received much, we think and act like God expects little.

This is the nonsense going on in the Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic and other religious systems today.   In these religious systems today, they have created a Jesus in their image and an easy belief system by loosing the demands of God on Salvation and the obedience it requires.  Be warned, one does not enter the Kingdom of God by casual mental ascent or by believing a bunch of historical facts such as “Yes I know Jesus died for me.  Yes Jesus loves me” presented in these Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic and other religious systems today.   Salvation is God’s Spirit moving upon you and convicting you to see your horrible sin against deity in need of a Savior and the gift of pardon and forgiveness.   Jesus said in Mathew, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I said you must be born again.”  He becomes your Savior and Lord because you covenant and come into agreement with Him to OBEY Him all the days of your life.   Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.  The main reason church members and pastors don’t obey the Lord Jesus Christ is their flesh is hostile to God and will not obey the Word of God.  They are yet still in their flesh and not the Spirit of God.   In Matthew 13, in the parable of the sower, Jesus had before Him a multitude (which in the Greek is more people than you can count) and Jesus loved every one of them but he left them there by the seashore in their need and sin because they closed their eyes and ears and heart to Him and refused to understand.  In John 2:23-24, “Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the feast, many believed in His name, behold His signs which He was doing.

But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men and because He did not need anyone to bear witness concerning man for He Himself know what was in man.”  A crowd came to Jesus saying we believe as a result of what we see and Jesus refused to commit Himself to them because He knew what was in their heart and He does not need their testimony.    Jesus rejected their claim of faith because it was built on sight.    “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”   Faith is not mental ascent, faith is not historical facts, faith is not what you see but faith is active obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ.   Today our Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic and other religious systems in America are full of people who are deceived and lost and who have given mental ascent and committed to the historical facts about Jesus but never to the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

They have never seen or been convicted of their horrible sin against Diety.  These small or megachurches which carry the name of Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic and other names are full of people like the ones Jesus rejected in the parable of the sower and John 2:23-24 because of their easy belief system that requires no obedience.  When I pastored or attended Baptist and Pentecostal churches, they were full of people like the Rich Young Ruler that refused to obey the Lord Jesus Christ.  The disobedient of these Evangelical and other Churches today is proof enough when pastors and church members will not repent or lead their churches to become engaged in the spiritual war raging in their nation between good and evil.  These pastors and church members are cowards and have no courage from the Lord because they do not walk in the Spirit of God but their flesh Salvation is a daily, personal intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Your life is being changed to reflect His life.  He is a person that you can hear, know and love and walk with and obey.  You are His servant, son or friend and you obey every word of the Lord Jesus that proceeds out of His mouth.  It is dying to our flesh and walking in the Spirit as He walks.  Anything less is sin and demands repentance and a change in your life.  The average church member in a big or small religious system today, has no idea of what dying to self, daily relationships and obedience are all about.

To the average church member – Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic or any other religious organization in America, church to them is somewhere you go on Sunday, hear a smooth sermonette and go back into the world to live your life your way.  They are the reason this nation is going downward toward evil and not upward toward God.  FOR THIS REASON, THE REMNANT OF GOD, MUST COME OUT FROM AMONG THESE CARNAL AND WORLDLY FLESH POTS FOR OUR SAFETY, SPIRITUAL SURVIVAL AND MINISTRY TO THIS NATION AND WORLD AND MEET IN HOMES AS THEY DID IN THE FIRST CENTURY.  (My thanks to Evangelist Richard Owens Roberts for his insight on the gospel)  God bless, I remain His minister.

© 2025 Glynn Adams – All Rights Reserved

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By Rob Pue

March 2, 2025

In Genesis 2, we read about how God wants us to work.  Verse 15, “And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to work it and keep it.”  Gardening, farm work, yard work.

In 1 Corinthians 10 and Colossians 3, we’re told that whatever we do, we are to work heartily and diligently, as if we’re working for the Lord and not for men.  And in 2 Thessalonians 3, we read that if anyone is not willing to work, then he should not be allowed to eat.

Work is essential, not just for us to earn a living, but also for our own mental and spiritual wellbeing.  The satisfaction of a job well done really can’t compare to anything else.  Our work, when we do it well, can bring us great happiness and joy — even the hardest of work.  Through our work, we can transform useless things into useful ones. We can restore order out of chaos.  We can even create things that didn’t exist before, all through our work.

What about the opposite?  What about those who are lazy…those who are sluggards?  Proverbs 6, “Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.  How long will you slumber, O sluggard?  When will you rise from your sleep?”

And from 1 Timothy 5, “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”  And when it comes to working as Christ-followers, we have this from James 1, “Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” 

So, my message today has to do with work.  Today, we live in a nation where “work” has become a four-letter word. Employers have been struggling for years to find people who are willing to work.  The jobs are there.  The workers are not.  I admit, I don’t understand how this can be.  How do people survive?  How do they pay their bills?  How do they afford food, housing, clothing and other necessities, much less luxuries that everyone seems to have?

I can only conclude that there is some type of government system by which people receive money for not working.  Many times, I hear the unemployed complain if their government checks don’t arrive on time, or the money isn’t deposited into their EBT cards.  I’ve heard them ranting and raving in stores when those EBT cards run out of digits in their accounts.  They throw tantrums and cry out, “Where are my benefits?  I want my benefits!”

Last time I checked, “benefits” were things that came with a thing called a “job.”  You worked a certain number of hours each week and your employer paid you for your time.  If you were a diligent and valuable employee, it would be worth it to your employer to also provide you with additional benefits in addition to your paycheck.  Things like health insurance, a retirement fund and paid vacation time.  But our Nanny State has now trained multiple generations of able-bodied people to just expect free stuff to be handed to them, as if they’re entitled to it.  And in fact, the “EBT card” stands for “Electronic Benefits Transfer.”

I have to wonder, as someone who puts in more than full-time hours, where are my “benefits?”  Where’s my free stuff?  Don’t bother — I wouldn’t take it if it was offered.  I couldn’t live with myself if I refused to work and simply relied on the government to take care of my needs.  But so many today have found a way to “work” they system and thereby avoid having to work an actual job.  What do they do all day?  Do they not have any self-respect, ambition or motivation to make something of themselves or to contribute to society?  How do they live with themselves?

I grew up on a farm.  For many years, our family raised calves for other farmers.  They’d bring us the baby calves and we would raise them to a certain age, then the farmers would pick them up and bring us a new batch to raise.  This was a “side job” for my Dad.  His main job was as an appliance repair man for Sears.  But from the age of five or so, I worked with my parents and older brother in the barn in the mornings and again in the evenings after school.  I shoveled and loaded manure; I threw bales of hay down from the hay mow.  I fed baby calves with formula, then with grain and hay.

By about the time I turned 10, raising these calves was no longer offering enough income to make all the work worthwhile.  But we still continued to work the land on our 80 acre farm.  I spent every summer, growing up, baling hay.  Unless it was raining, if it was summertime, we were baling hay.  I’d load the wagons, then stack it in the hay mow. It was hot, dusty, dirty, hard, grueling work. We’d store they hay until wintertime, when the price was at a premium, and then my dad would sell it.  For a few years, we also raised oats.

In addition to baling hay, it was also my responsibility to help in our large garden, and then pick the crops, which my Mom would can and store up for winter.  I was also the one to mow the lawn, which included a very large yard.  For outlying areas, I used a riding lawnmower.  But for the lawn near the house, I preferred to use a push mower, because I like the design of the “lines” push mowers make.  For at least a few days after mowing with a push mower, the lawn looked beautiful.

But there was even more mowing to be done.  You see, my Dad was a private pilot and had his own airplane, which we kept hangered on our property.  We also had our own airstrip, which was grass, and nearly a mile long and at least fifty feet wide.  Yes, I also mowed that, every week.  And, we had some elderly neighbors down the road, whose yard I also mowed each week, just to be nice.

When winter came, guess who worked steadily shoveling snow…yep…and that’s when we used to get a lot of snow.  I remember drifts so high they buried our garage and nearly covered the airplane hangar.  Not all the cars fit in the garage though, so when those snowstorms came that covered everything, you’d have to guess where the cars were, then shovel down to them, uncover them, then shovel around them far enough so that my Dad could get the rest with the plow on the tractor.

We never took a single vacation when I was growing up.  In the spring, the last day of school was still wonderful — because I hated school — but it just meant that it was planting time, which was followed by non-stop hay baling, lawn mowing and general maintenance of the property for me.  Once a week, usually on Sundays, each of us kids would get one bottle of pop as a treat.  And no, we never got any kind of “allowance.”  We didn’t complain.  It’s just how things were, and it was all we knew.

When my siblings and I got older, my Mom started taking jobs in town cleaning houses for the rich folks.  She would do one job in the morning and another in the afternoon for extra money for household expenses.  That led to her getting me some additional work mowing lawns for those same rich folks.  First there were one or two jobs, and that turned into a full schedule.  Soon I was doing one yard in the morning and one more in the afternoon.  And I always did my very best and put in more effort than the people expected…which is why my schedule became full — because I was getting so many good referrals from my customers.

Not only did I mow their lawns, I also raked them and hauled away the clippings.  I weeded flower beds and trimmed what needed trimming, at no extra charge.  I went the extra mile and was rewarded for it, because now I had an income.  I saved that lawn money to buy my first car.  I was only 15 years old and couldn’t drive yet, but I had the money to buy one when I could.  I was earning more than $200 a week at age 15 with these side jobs.  That was a lot of money at the time.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the hay baling and farm work didn’t stop — I just did that in the evenings…every evening.  But I guess I wasn’t real good at math, because while I was earning more than $200 a week doing my lawn mowing, I wanted a “real” job.  So, I started putting in applications around town, and the day I turned 16 and was able to have a real job, I was called in to the Holiday Inn and hired as a dishwasher, for $3.35 an hour.  I finally had a “real” job and my own car to get there, but now instead of over $200 a week, I made about $67.

Once again, at my dishwashing job, I did more than my job description called for. Within about a month, another position opened up at the Holiday Inn — being a “porter.”  When I expressed an interest in this job, my boss told me that normally they wouldn’t offer this to anyone under 18, but because I was such a good employee, they gave me a chance.  Not only did I excel in that position, but within another six months, I’d worked my way up to being the assistant manager of the entire complex — at age 16.

Now, instead of being a dish washer, I wore a 3-piece suit to work, and was trained in every department, except the cocktail lounge.  That included overseeing the hotel facilities, the restaurant, banquet facilities and more.  I carried a “beeper” and was given the keys to the Holiday Inn van, and no one ever really knew where I was at any given time, but I was always there, somewhere.  I really loved that job.

When I finally left the Holiday Inn after High School graduation, I worked for a secular radio station.  It was meant to be an “automated” station, meaning all the programming was on reel-to-reel tapes, controlled by a computer and my job was to “babysit” the computer and fix it if it got off track.  Well, this was the mid-1980s and computers weren’t really a “thing,” and this computer malfunctioned almost constantly.  But when it was working, I really didn’t have much of anything to do there.  One night, I noticed a file full of advertising copy that my boss would need to record commercials for the next day.  I decided to record those ads myself and save him some time, which was greatly appreciated.

Then on one particular night, the automation system went completely down, and the station was off the air.  I was there by myself and knew there was nothing worse than a radio station with dead air.  So, I took to the airwaves and began playing records and tapes myself.  From that came my own radio show, which became very popular.  I gained a great following, had many listeners calling in, and it became profitable for the station.  The show was a hit.  That led to me being promoted to Program Director at the station.  By this point I was probably about 20 years old.

I had several other jobs, including working as a graphic designer at a weekly county newspaper, before opening my own photography studio in the late 1980s.  At all the jobs I had, I did more than was expected of me.  Usually, a lot more.  I’ve always done more than the job description required, because I wanted to do the best job possible and that has always paid off for me.  Not always in money — in fact, at one of those jobs, my boss was so astounded that I always went above and beyond, he came up with a catch phrase for me, which he said to me almost daily, “Rob, we appreciate it, but we don’t pay extra for that.”  In other words, he was impressed and thankful, but I wasn’t getting a raise.

Now, I’ve shared a little of my work history with you, not to pat myself on the back, but to let you know that once upon a time in our country, people worked hard and took pride in the work they did.  They had the satisfaction of knowing they did something worthwhile, created something new, built something, and were assets to the companies they worked for.

In my next message, I’ll continue with my story a little more, because I have a very interesting tidbit to share with you about what happened at every single place I worked at — after I left.  I also want to discuss how things have changed, and they’ve changed drastically since I was a kid.  Work is important.  God’s Word tells us so.  A good, solid work ethic is an invaluable asset that every employer would be thrilled to find in an employee, and in my next message I’ll share some of my experiences with today’s workers.  Oh, how things have changed!

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By Rolaant McKenzie

March 2, 2025

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Panama Canal is one of the greatest civil engineering achievements of the 20th century and is included on its list of Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Handling about 40% of the world’s cargo ship traffic, it has played a central role in the history of Panama, making this small Central American nation of great importance.

In 2025, the United States openly contemplated reasserting control of the Panama Canal over alleged security concerns regarding the strategic influence of communist China. This has led to speculation by some that the real agenda for this involves setting the stage for a regional government, like a North American Union, which would eventually become one of ten regions forming a world government. Globalist organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, Club of Rome, and Technocracy Inc. have depicted such a region in various maps, including one where it stretches from Panama to Greenland.

What would become the Republic of Panama was once a northwestern region of the Republic of Colombia. In exchange for support from the United States in seceding from Colombia and achieving independence in 1903, Panama agreed to allow the U.S. to assume construction of the Panama Canal the following year. The canal was completed and opened in 1914. The U.S. maintained sovereignty over it and the surrounding Canal Zone until December 31, 1999, when this was transferred to Panama by treaties signed by President Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) and Panamanian leader General Omar Torrijos (1929-1981) on September 7, 1977.

Torrijos became the strongman of Panama through a military coup d’état in 1968, assuming the title “Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution.” He began to rule by decree, taking control of the press, dissolving the legislature, exiling political rivals, and banning all opposition political activity.

Torrijismo was the name of the populist movement Torrijos started, focused on socioeconomic reforms involving the redistribution of land for poor farmers and opening up educational and employment opportunities for the less fortunate. This endeared him to the majority of the poor and middle class of the country, many of whom developed a cult of personality around him.

According to some reports, Torrijos, during weekends, would give a thousand dollars to random people and charities. It was not uncommon for some to say, when faced with a social or economic problem, “Ask Omar …” or “Omar will fix it.” They adored Torrijos and saw him as the fulfiller of their dreams for a better life and the solution to all their troubles.

Aware of the resentment many Panamanians felt regarding U.S. control over the Canal and the land immediately surrounding it, Torrijos made it a key priority to improve the living standards of the poor and promote national unity so that he could be in a stronger position to negotiate a treaty with the U.S. to cede control of it to Panama. His success in this task bolstered his power and prestige and made him a national hero.

Unlike previous rulers, Torrijos’ power base did not directly depend on the wealthy elite families that dominated the commercial and political life of the country. But the favor he showed to political allies helped them to amass their own fortunes at the expense of the national treasury. Though corruption and drug trafficking increased considerably under Torrijos’ rule, his supporters tended to overlook or excuse this and any other faults he had. They adored him for his social and economic policies for the poor and bolstering national pride by gaining sovereignty of the Canal for Panama.

Torrijos’ rule came to an end when he was killed with six others in a plane crash in central Panama. Though adverse weather was reported as contributing to the crash, there have been persistent speculations that the plane had been sabotaged either by a CIA operative or by Torrijos’ eventual successor, General Manuel Noriega (1934-2017), who had his own connections to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Noriega’s dictatorship was very repressive, brutal, and corrupt, bringing significant hardship to Panamanians who were not his political allies. His rule ended with the December 20, 1989, U.S. invasion of the country, but at a terrible cost. More than 500 Panamanians were killed, and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed.

The people of Panama for many years turned away from constitutional and democratic principles, putting their trust and adoration in a strong leader who ruled by decree because he did some things that they favored. But that trust was misplaced, for when that leader was removed from power, things became worse than before by another who ruled by decree in ways they did not like.

The Bible reminds us:

“Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.” (Psalm 146:3-4)

“Thus says the LORD, ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.’ … Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD and whose trust is the LORD.” (Jeremiah 17:5-8)

We may be tempted out of fear, hardship, or convenience to turn away from God and the principles of liberty He has graciously given to us and embrace poor substitutes for peace, prosperity, and security. An example of this was when Israel, experiencing hardship from the judicial corruption of Samuel’s sons, asked for a king like the other nations around them. Their request turned out to be a rejection of God’s kingship over them in favor of a greater focus on a human ruler, and it led to less freedom and burdensome taxation (1 Samuel 8).

Job, on the other hand, is an example of a man who faced intense loss, hardship, and suffering, for Satan was granted permission to test him to see if he would abandon his faithfulness to God and His principles. But he held fast to his integrity before God and in the end was blessed with a greater appreciation for God’s wisdom over man’s and a twofold restoration of what he had lost (Job 1-2:1-10, 42:1-17).

Succumbing to the idolization of any religious or political leader is a trap that leads to deception, disappointment, and disaster. Seeking consistently to follow godly principles as presented in the word of God, the Bible, is a shield against the snare of the cult of personality. This works for government, and more importantly, for eternity.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for sinners and rose again from the dead, and who is coming back to establish His everlasting kingdom. Trust and adoration are due only to Him, and it is only from Him that true forgiveness, reconciliation with God, and eternal salvation come. Jesus will never forsake, disappoint, or lead you astray to disaster (Romans 10:9-11).

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By Paul Engel

March 1, 2025

• The Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures.
• This includes the unreasonable use of force by law enforcement.
• Shouldn’t law enforcement be as responsible for their actions as any other citizen?

Most of us are aware of the Fourth Amendment’s Unreasonable Search and Seizure Clause. While definitions of what is “reasonable” have been argued since the Bill of Rights was ratified, it is pretty much agreed that the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures includes the use of unreasonable force during an encounter with law enforcement. What responsibility does law enforcement have in the initiation and escalation of a dangerous, possibly life threatening situation? That was the question in the case Barnes v. Felix.

Background

In the case before the Supreme Court of Barnes v. Felix, the question is not so much what is reasonable, but what evidence can the court consider when determining reasonableness.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from using “unreasonable” force. …, this Court held that reasonableness depends on “the totality of the circumstances.” … But four circuits—the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth—cabin Graham. Those circuits evaluate whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurred under the “moment of the threat doctrine,” which evaluates the reasonableness of an officer’s actions only in the narrow window when the officer’s safety was threatened, and not based on events that precede the moment of the threat. In contrast, eight circuits—the First, Third, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits—reject the moment of the threat doctrine and follow the totality of the circumstances approach, including evaluating the officer’s actions leading up to the use of force.

Barnes v. Felix – Petition for Certiorari

What standard should be used to evaluate law enforcements contribution to a situation where force may be warranted? The question of use of force has been of particular interest to me for many years. In every state in the union, a person has the right to use lethal force when there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to themselves or another innocent party. The one exception to this general rule is the person using lethal force cannot have initiated or escalated the situation that led to the threat.

On an April afternoon in 2016, Ashtian Barnes was driving his girlfriend’s rental car on the Sam Houston Tollway outside of Houston, Texas. That same afternoon, Officer Roberto Felix, Jr. was patrolling for toll violations. Through no fault of Barnes, there were toll violations associated with the rental car’s license plate, and Felix initiated a traffic stop. Felix asked Barnes for his license and the rental car’s insurance paperwork. Barnes indicated that the paperwork may be in the trunk, and Felix instructed Barnes to get out of the vehicle. A dash camera recorded what happens next: The car starts moving slowly forward, and Officer Felix jumps onto the door sill of the vehicle. In the same instant, Officer Felix begins shooting inside the vehicle, striking Barnes twice. Officer Felix then holds Barnes at gunpoint until he bleeds to death in the rental car.

Barnes v. Felix – Petition for Certiorari

The question before the court is not was the stop reasonable, or even was the officer’s shooting reasonable, but what evidence should the courts look at to establish said reasonableness?

Nathaniel A.G. Zelinsky – Attorney for the Petitioner

Oral arguments started with Mr. Zelinsky, attorney for Ms. Janice Hughes Barnes and the estate of her late son Ashtian.

1. ZELINSKY: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: We are here today because Ashtian Barnes was shot and killed on the side of a Texas highway after being pulled over for unpaid tolls. The question before this Court is how to determine whether Ashtian’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable seizures. Justice Scalia was no fan of a totality-of-the-circumstances test, but, in Scott, Justice Scalia made clear that courts must “slosh through the fact-bound morass of reasonableness.”

In this case, the district court and the Fifth Circuit didn’t do that. Instead, they applied the “moment of the threat” doctrine.

According to the Fifth Circuit decision below, “we may only ask whether Officer Felix was in danger at the moment of the threat,” and “any of the officer’s actions leading up to the shooting are not relevant.”

This kind of legal amnesia is incompatible with precedent, conflicts with common law, and defies common sense.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

How do we determine if Officer Felix’s actions were reasonable? Was it simply that at the instant he started shooting, his life was in danger? Or should the courts consider the officer’s actions, including jumping onto the sill of the vehicle, when it considers the reasonableness of his actions? The two doctrines the court talks about are “moment of the threat” and “totality of the circumstances.” The Fifth Circuit applied the “moment of threat” doctrine, meaning they gave no consideration to how Officer Felix’s actions may have contributed to the threat he felt at the time he used lethal force. While both the District and Circuit courts found the actions of Officer Felix reasonable, at least one of the judges wrote in his concurrence that the officer acted unreasonably.

Finally, as Judge Higginbotham underscored in his concurrence, the facts show that Officer Felix acted unreasonably. But this is a court of review, not of first view. The Court should rule for Petitioner on the sole question presented and remand for the lower courts to apply the correct constitutional standard.

I welcome this Court’s questions.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

After his opening statement, Mr. Zelinsky answered questions from the justices.

JUSTICE THOMAS: Under your approach, what would that correct standard look like and how would it be applied here?

1. ZELINSKY: Justice Thomas, we think the standard is the “totality of the circumstances” standard that this Court articulated in Graham and Garner, Scott, and Plumhoff. In this particular case, it would require looking at more than just the two seconds in which Officer Felix was on the moving vehicle. It would require asking was there a reason for Officer Felix —

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

You will find this “two seconds” rule referred to often in this case. It’s related to the timeframe in which Officer Felix jumped on the moving vehicle and him discharging his weapon. Do we only consider the situation when Officer Felix is standing on the vehicle or the situation that put him there?

JUSTICE THOMAS: How much more than the — than the last two seconds?

1. ZELINSKY: Justice Thomas, if you include an extra three seconds, then you would look at the seizure in its totality.

I think that this Court shouldn’t be drawing bright-line rules on exactly how much of the seizure should or shouldn’t come in. That’s what Justice Scalia underscored in Scott. There are no rigid rules.

And courts can apply ordinary principles of relevancy and proximate cause to determine the — the reasonableness of a seizure.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

So the plaintiff’s weren’t looking for a bright-line rule, meaning you can look back 2 seconds, or 5, 10, 30, etc. Rather they wanted courts to look both at the relevancy and proximity to the cause to determine if the actions of law enforcement were relevant.

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: Was it reasonable to — for the officer to jump on the side of the car?

1. ZELINSKY: So, Just — Justice Kavanaugh, we don’t think it was in this particular case, but that’s precisely the issue that the lower courts couldn’t evaluate because they applied this legal amnesia and only look at the fact that the officer was on the moving vehicle. Judge Higginbotham, in his concurrence, looked to the totality of the circumstances and said: I think it was unreasonable in this case.

We want the opportunity for a court to be able to look at that and for us to be able to litigate that core claim.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

I noticed during the oral argument that the justices frequently detoured from the question at hand: Should the court have used the “moment of threat” or “totality of circumstances” standard to evaluate the reasonableness of the officer’s actions? It seems the justices were very interested in whether or not Officer Felix’s actions were reasonable. Mr. Zelinsky was not the only person to attempt to bring a justice back to the question at hand. This really isn’t a surprise, since the topic of what is reasonable is so often argued in court.

JUSTICE ALITO: The — the reason for the question is to probe whether you are using the term “unreasonable” in a sense that’s different from the sense in which the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. So “unreasonable” has a particular meaning when the Court has to decide whether there was a Fourth Amendment violation. But, in lay speech, “unreasonable” could go to whether the action was prudent, whether it was a violation of best police practices or the practices of a particular police department.

Those are not necessarily the same thing. In fact, it seems that they’re probably different. So you are eliding these two different meanings of “reasonable.” Now maybe that’s — maybe that’s sound. Maybe that’s unsound.

1. ZELINSKY: Justice Alito, what we’re asking for is the standard that this Court has applied in Garner, Graham, and Scott and Plumhoff, which is you have to look at the — the balance here. There’s, on the one side, the state interest in seizing someone in a particular manner. On the other side, there is the harm to the suspect, here, the ultimate harm, the loss of his life.

The problem in this case is that the Fifth Circuit couldn’t engage in that core balancing because it couldn’t ask was there a really pressing reason for an officer to jump onto a car and give himself no other opportunity but to shoot the driver.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Was it reasonable for the officer to jump onto the sill of the car or not? Did Officer Felix take an otherwise simple traffic stop and escalate it by putting himself in a situation where deadly force was the only option? While that is a very interesting question, the argument Mr. Zelinsky is making is that the Fifth Circuit could not ask this question because they felt bound to the “moment of threat” doctrine.

JUSTICE ALITO: Well, would you be satisfied with a narrow holding that it is wrong to — it is wrong for a court to look just at the moment of the threat, that the court has to judge the reasonableness of the alleged unreasonable seizure based on — taking into account to whatever extent they are relevant the events that occurred before that? Would you be satisfied if we just did that —

1. ZELINSKY: I think we would, Justice —

JUSTICE ALITO: — and not get into these other, more difficult questions?

1. ZELINSKY: One hundred percent. I think it would be helpful if the Court makes clear that that means that you can look at the jump in addition to the shoot, right? That’s the core issue that we want to be able to litigate. But, yes, Justice Alito, we’d be happy with a very narrow holding.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

All Mr. Zelinsky and his clients were asking for was an instruction from the Supreme Court that only looking at the moment of threat was not sufficient for determining reasonableness. Other attorneys would make grander claims, but they just wanted to Circuit Court’s decision vacated and remanded to be decided on more than just the moment of threat.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You’ve given up in your reply brief, I understood, that you’re not asking us to — the — the — to address the question of what an officer-created danger rule is like?

1. ZELINSKY: We’re not asking for an officer-created danger test at all.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: And — and that wasn’t even addressed below, correct?

1. ZELINSKY: That’s correct.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Okay. Thank you.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

One of the oft repeated points was a question of “officer-created danger.” Meaning that if the officer created the danger, it was not reasonable for him to use said danger as justification for the use of force. But isn’t that the exact same standard used in every state law regarding the use of lethal force in self-defense? If I cannot create a dangerous situation, then claim self-defense, why should law enforcement?

As I said, the justices spent a lot of time on the question of reasonableness rather than the standard for determining reasonableness, which led to this interchange between Justice Kavanaugh and Mr. Zelinsky.

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: And when an officer jumps on the car, the deadly force can be avoided by — by the driver too.

1. ZELINSKY: Well, in this particular case, Officer Felix’s own expert testifies that Officer Felix shot so quickly, Ashtian Barnes didn’t have time to stop.

And — and if I could, let me sketch out, Justice Kavanaugh, why it’s so dangerous for you to shoot a driver. In fact, there is — I’m not aware of any police department that recommends that its officers shoot drivers.

The high likelihood — in this particular case, Ashtian Barnes didn’t immediately die. He was able to brake the car and put it into park. If he had been immediately killed, that car could have careened and crashed into the highway. Officer Felix put other people on that highway in grave, very serious danger that particular day.

So I don’t think it’s just a he’s jumping on to stop Ashtian from getting away. He’s also jumping on in a manner that is going to put a lot of other people at risk.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Again, not germane to the topic before the court, but an interesting question. Is it reasonable to shoot the driver of a moving motor vehicle? I’m sure there are times when it is, but this seems to not only be an escalation against Mr. Barnes, but a threat to the public at large. Based on research that Mr. Zelinsky brought, jumping on a moving vehicle isn’t the only dangerous actions repeatedly taken by law enforcement.

The other reoccurring fact pattern is a pattern where officers fail to identify themselves, and the suspect, exercising his or her own Second Amendment rights to self-defense, pulls out a firearm.

The Fifth Circuit alone has two cases in which they apply the “moment of the threat” doctrine. The cases are Cass and Royal, and they say: We can’t look at the fact that the officer failed to identify himself. We can only look at the fact that the officer faced a loaded gun.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Imagine someone comes to your door, or your vehicle, or just stops you on the street. Maybe they’re armed, maybe they’re just demanding information or that you take action. This could easily be seen as a threat, leading you to defend yourself by showing or possibly drawing your firearm. Since it appears most law enforcement is trained to draw and prepare to fire at the word “GUN!” this could easily end up badly for you. Now imagine the court only looks at the fact that the unidentified officer saw a firearm, and not the fact that the officer initiated, even escalated the situation to one of deadly impact? That’s what we’re talking about here.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: What do you do with the cases cited by the other side where the Fifth Circuit does appear not to apply the “moment of threat” docket — doc — doctrine and does take into account more of the totality of circumstances?

1. ZELINSKY: So, Justice Sotomayor, let me give you three responses.

First, there’s never a Fifth Circuit case where they actually look at the officer’s prior conduct and say that’s part of the calculus and it goes against the officer. So it’s always it — it — whenever they might do it, it’s only in the officer’s benefit.

The second, the best case —

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Some of my colleagues might agree with that. Why should we not?

1. ZELINSKY: Because you have to look — reasonableness. The framers gave us a test of reasonableness, and that is a — it’s a two-way street, not a one-way ratchet.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

In the Fifth Circuit, there has NEVER been a case determined by “totality of circumstances” that did not benefit the officer, and Justice Sotomayor asks why her colleagues shouldn’t agree with that? Are you telling me that law enforcement has never escalated a situation into the use of force? Or does Justice Sotomayor believe her colleagues agree with her that law enforcement is never responsible for the use of force, even if they’ve initiated the situation that led to it?

Zoe A. Jacoby, Assistant to the Solicitor General

Next to offer arguments was Ms. Zoe Jacoby, Assistant to the Solicitor General. She was representing the Department of Justice, who agree with the Petitioner’s position.

1. JACOBY: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:

The Fifth Circuit analyzed this case by examining only the so-called moment of the threat and categorically ignoring all prior events. None of the parties defends that approach. That is because reasonableness is assessed under the totality of the circumstances and pre-force events can be critical to that assessment.

Prior events often show that the force was reasonable. For example, police may have issued warnings or attempted deescalation, all of which a split-second “moment of the threat” doctrine misses. Of course, when officers face a moment of danger, that is by far the most important factor under Graham. But, in rare cases, a moment of danger doesn’t tell the whole story. If the danger was manufactured entirely by police conduct outside the bounds of reasonable behavior and not by the suspect’s intervening apparent misconduct, it is unreasonable to use force in the moment.

The panel’s approach fails to provide a constitutional backstop in those cases, and it disregards context that may show that force was reasonable in others.

I welcome the Court’s questions.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

I think Ms. Jacoby’s argument is both succinct and convincing. Yes, what happens before the moment of threat puts the threat in context. Did the officer escalate or deescalate the situation? Was it the actions of the accused or the officer who initiated the moment of danger? Were the actions of law enforcement reasonable or not? This is what needs to be considered when determining the reasonableness of the actions of law enforcement.

Charles L. McCloud on behalf of Respondents

Next to argue was Charles McCloud on behalf of the respondents Roberto Felix, Jr. and County of Harris, Texas.

1. McCLOUD: Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:

When an officer doing his duty confronts a threat to his safety or the safety of others, it is reasonable for that officer to use force to end that threat. That’s the conclusion this Court has consistently reached, and that’s what the Fifth Circuit correctly held below.

At the moment Sergeant Felix used force, he was clinging to the side of a fleeing suspect’s car, and Felix reasonably believed that his life was in imminent danger. That conclusion should end this case.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Yes, in general an officer has the reasonable authority to use force in response to a threat to his safety, but does that include when it is that officer who put himself in danger?

Petitioner’s contrary argument attacks a strawman. Let me be very clear. We are defending the decision below and the “moment of threat” doctrine as it actually exists. The core premise of that doctrine is that an officer doesn’t lose his right to defend himself just because he made a mistake at an earlier point in time.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

In this case, the straw man is not being presented by the petitioners, but by the respondents. It was never a question of whether or not Officer Felix made a mistake, but whether or not he put himself in danger and used that as an excuse to execute a suspect he was investigating. Yes, execute, but of the facts I’ve found so far, no one has been able to determine if Mr. Barnes actions were malicious or merely accidental. Was Mr. Barnes attempting to evade paying tolls that had accrued to the rental car before he rented it, or was it a simple mishap when he attempted to get out of the car at the officers request, but failed to put the vehicle in park? We will probably never know.

But applying that rule does not require courts to ignore everything that occurred prior to the use of force. Like other circuits, the Fifth Circuit has repeatedly held that preceding events are relevant to the extent they inform the officer’s perception of the danger that he faced. The panel decision below repeatedly cited to and quoted from those very precedents. The panel did not and could not overrule them sub silentio.

Petitioner asked the Court to create a new breed of constitutional tort under which an officer facing the barrel of a gun loses his right to defend himself if he previously used bad tactics or poor planning.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Again, this straw man of “bad tactics or poor planning” is used. We’re not talking about a situation where the officer parked his vehicle in the wrong place or whether or not he forgot to bring a pen with him. Officer Felix is accused of jumping onto a moving vehicle and using that as an excuse to take another man’s life.

That’s contrary to precedent and common sense. Graham asks only whether an officer’s use of force was reasonable in the particular circumstances he faced. It requires courts to put themselves in the shoes of the officer who used force, not to second-guess every decision the officer made in some of the most stressful circumstances imaginable.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

I’m not sure about precedent, but what is contrary to common sense is to believe that a law enforcement officer holds absolutely no responsibility when he or she contributes to a dangerous situation. This seems to be at the heart of Mr. McCloud’s argument.

And Plumhoff and Mendez rejected similar officer-created danger theories as illogical, unwarranted, and inconsistent with precedent. The Court should reject the theory again in this case and affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

I welcome the Court’s questions.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Under Mr. McCloud’s theory, officers can create all forms of danger, without any reasonable cause to do so, yet cannot be held accountable. Does that sound reasonable to you? Should an officer be able to stop you and ask you questions at gun-point? After all, that is an “officer-created danger” without reason. Since the officer in that circumstance was in imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm, and the accused had not initiated or escalated the situation, wouldn’t they have the right to use deadly force to protect themselves from the officer that created this dangerous situation?

JUSTICE THOMAS: How would you assess the difference between the Fifth Circuit’s approach, what you — as you see it, and the “totality of the circumstances” approach, as we heard it this morning?

1. McCLOUD: So I don’t think that there is any difference between what the Fifth Circuit does and what Graham directs. Both —

JUSTICE THOMAS: No, I mean, as — what the Solicitor General and Petitioner, as they see the totality of the circumstances, not so much Graham.

1. McCLOUD: So the difference, I think, between our position and — and somewhat the government’s position is they want to include within the totality of the circumstances arguments that the officer escalated the danger or created the danger.

And we think that that is not a relevant consideration under Graham and under the Fourth Amendment. In those cases, the question is: Was there a legitimate threat that the officer is responding to?

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

In other words, Mr. McCloud seems to believe law enforcement officers should have absolute immunity for any danger to the public they create. I wonder if Mr. McCloud would still hold to that argument if law enforcement broke down his door and entered his home in the middle of the night with weapons drawn? Would he still find the officer created danger “not relevant”?

Much of the interactions between Mr. McCloud and the justices seemed to me to be him trying to skirt around this basic fact. Mr. McCloud’s position is to insure that police do not have the same burden of reasonableness as the average citizen. After all, any citizen on the street that uses deadly force in self-defense must also show that they did not initiate or escalate the situation which lead to the threat against them. Although Mr. McCloud likes to refer to “the officer making a mistake,” “bad tactics,” or “poor planning,” what he repeatedly pointed out in his responses to the justices’ questions was he did not want to consider if the officer had contributed or initiated the danger that he was in. Just look at this interchange between Mr. McCloud and Justice Sotomayor.

If your answer had been — if he had walked up in an unmarked car, in plain clothes, with a gun drawn, and this person — and he walked up to the car and this person took off and/or accelerated slightly, and he jumped on and shot blindly, do you think that’s reasonable?

1. McCLOUD: I think that would not be reasonable for a number of reasons.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: All right. So you’ve given the game away because, at that point, you have to look at what the officer did.

1. McCLOUD: And, Your Honor, we agree that you can look at what the officer did. And the Fifth Circuit does look at what the officer did. The best example I can give you —

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: It didn’t in this case.

1. McCLOUD: In this case, that’s because the only argument that Petitioner made below, the only action she said you should look at, was an action based on officer-created danger.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: And we have three judges who said we shouldn’t be limited in this way in the mine-run of cases, and we — and so we’re stuck with this. We think the — the judgment is right, but it wasn’t addressed at all. Officer-created danger wasn’t addressed.

And the other side says clearly it’s not raising it here.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Did Mr. McCloud actually say that courts can look at the officer’s actions, but not if the action was based on officer-created danger? Yes, he did. I guess Justice Sotomayor was correct: Mr. McCloud did give away the game.

So you can still look to things that the officer did prior to using force, but you cannot blame the officer for creating a bad situation and — and second-guess all of the decisions he made.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

I don’t believe anyone was trying to second-guess all of the decisions the officer made, only the actions of him jumping onto a moving vehicle and shooting blindly inside.

Lanora Pettit, Principal Deputy Solicitor General,
Austin, Texas

The last to argue was Lenora Pettit on behalf of Harris County Texas.

1. PETTIT: Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:

In the last 15 years, this Court has rejected at least three times that an officer’s otherwise liable conduct violates the Fourth Amendment because an earlier split-second decision made a confrontation more likely.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

What was at question in the District Court was not a question of making a confrontation more likely, it was the reasonableness of jumping onto a moving vehicle and using lethal force. After all, expert testimony on behalf of Officer Felix showed that he “shot so quickly, Ashtian Barnes didn’t have time to stop.”

Properly understood, what Judge Higginbotham dubbed the “moment of threat” doctrine merely applies that rule. As this Court recognized in cases like Mendez and Sheehan, it is necessary because the Fourth Amendment must be applied by thousands of real cops in the real world without, in the words of Kentucky against King, an unacceptable degree of unpredictability.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

So thousands of real cops cannot understand that escalating a situation may bring the reasonableness of their actions into question, but millions of gun owners are required to? It seems the entire argument of the respondents is to place law enforcement above the laws they enforce on the American people.

The moment — the officer-created risk theory which Petitioners have continuously pressed at least until the reply brief in this Court is antithetical to that proposition because it invites an open-ended subjective inquiry into the officer’s intent that cannot be conducted without the benefit of hindsight. It also, as Mendez recognized, involves tricky questions and fuzzy standards of causation that cannot be easily be applied.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Nowhere has anyone asked to look into an officer’s intent. In fact, Mr. Zelinsky specifically stated that such subjective analysis was not their intent, but the objective analysis of the reasonableness of the officer’s actions.

Because the Fifth Circuit has properly rejected that proposition, its judgment should be affirmed.

And I welcome the Court’s questions.

Barnes v. Felix – Oral Arguments

Because the Fifth Circuit gave them the answer they wanted, Officer Felix and Harris County, Texas want the court to stop there. But would that be justice? Would that be due process, a judicial process designed to protect the legal rights of the individual? I don’t think so.

Conclusion

There are two aspects of this case I want to comment on. First, the actual question before the court, when determining the reasonableness of a law enforcement use of force. Should the court only look at the moment of threat or at the preceding actions of all parties, including the officer-created danger? I think the answer is obvious that the totality of the circumstances, including any escalations and dangers created by the officer, need to be considered. If not, then we do not live in a constitutional republic, but a police state where law enforcement can commit crimes with impunity.

Second is the question of the reasonableness of Officer Felix’s actions. While there are a lot of facts that need to come out in court, based on what I’ve read from the Supreme Court case, I’ve come to the following conclusions. The reasonableness of jumping on the sill of a moving vehicle is questionable. Seeing as it appears the vehicle had just started moving, and was therefore going very slowly, I would not automatically find that unreasonable. However, discharging a firearm into the occupied cabin of a vehicle in that situation was most definitely not reasonable. The greatest risk to the officer in that situation was the vehicle running over his foot, not a life-threatening injury, and one easily mitigated by jumping back down. With no evidence or probable cause that Mr. Barnes was a danger to others, there was no justification for the use of deadly force.

This “Dirty Harry” mentality of escalating relatively minor situations into an excuse for deadly force not only makes these dangerous officers a threat to our communities, but gives reasonable excuses for people to not trust law enforcement in general. All in all, I would say that both the District and Circuit Courts made a bad situation worse. We’ll have to wait and see how the Supreme Court handles this case.

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By Cliff Kincaid

March 1, 2025

On the eve of Ukraine President Zelensky’s arrival in Washington, D.C. to sign an economic deal with the United States, a prominent supporter of the anti-communist country has unleashed a bizarre attack on President Trump, repeating mostly old and discredited charges that there is a “possibility” he is a Russian agent.

Dr. Alexander J. Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, has attacked a president who has done far more for Ukraine’s survival against Russia than Joe Biden, Barack Hussein Obama, and Bill Clinton ever did. The economic deal guarantees America’s involvement in Ukraine, which is not a security arrangement but comes close.

Motyl, a painter as well as pundit, has demonstrated his passionate support for Ukraine’s defensive war for survival with his exhibition of drawings titled, “Ukraine in Ruins,” which depicts central Kyiv in ruins as a result of actions by the Soviets in 1941-1942, along with Ukraine in ruins in 2022-2023 as a result of Russia’s full-scale war.

What he does not understand is that those ruins are mostly the result of President Barack Hussein Obama’s disarmament policies and that Trump is the one U.S. president who helped Ukraine survive the Russian invasion which began in 2014 under Obama.

In an article for The Hill newspaper, picked up by the Drudge report, Motyl cites reported claims by three former KGB operatives over the years that Trump is a Russian agent or asset but admits none has provided any evidence. He goes on to say “…but the fact that three KGB agents located in different places and speaking at different times agree on the story suggests this possibility should not be dismissed out of hand.”

The Hill is a property of Nexstar Media Group, which says “We are committed to producing local and national news content that is fact-based, unbiased, and meets the highest standards of journalistic integrity.”

It’s difficult to see how Motyl’s article meets those standards.

One way of looking at his article is to conclude that opponents of Trump have launched another campaign to undermine Trump at a sensitive time in the Russia-Ukraine negotiations. In this case, the charges could easily backfire on Ukraine and its supporters.

If the charges had any credibility, wouldn’t they have been cited by the FBI’s investigation of Trump, known as Crossfire Hurricane, that came to be known as Russia-gate? Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s follow-up probe, estimated to have cost nearly $32 million in total, produced no evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, no evidence that Trump or his people obstructed the investigation, and certainly no evidence that Trump himself was a Russian agent.

While Trump is currently pursuing a break with the Atlantic Alliance, Europe, and NATO that may serve Russian interests if not handled correctly, he is doing so in the belief that his “America First” policy requires a change in direction and emphasis in foreign affairs. However, his economic deal with Ukraine means that U.S. support for the country will continue in some fashion and that the country will have the resources to continue to buy weapons.

The Motyl article looks at various charges, including from an alleged former KGB officer who “recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate mogul first visited Moscow.”

It seems strange, to say the least, that such a charge would surface on Facebook. It could have been planted. But by whom?

Even anti-Trump outlets were dubious. A left-wing “fact-checker” debunked  the charge, saying the KGB agent’s on-line biographies contradict his claim, while the left-wing Daily Beast ran with the admittedly “unfounded” story and then deleted it.

I had scheduled a recorded interview with Motyl to discuss the article but he cancelled at the last minute.

It is likely the Russians are at it again and that Motyl is embarrassed over his poorly-sourced hit piece on Trump.

Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham’s review of the Russia investigations had discovered that Russians originated the idea that Trump was a Russian agent and provided the “disinformation” in the so-called Steele dossier which drove the FBI investigation of Trump and his associates. That is the document which claimed that Russia had video of Trump watching prostitutes urinate in a hotel suite.

Steele was the last name of former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, a “confirmed socialist” in college at Oxford when he was hired by MI6, another point of suspicion for someone who would be dispatched to Moscow as a spy and later serve as head of the Russian desk at MI6.

Durham states that “it appears the FBI never gave appropriate consideration to the possibility that the intelligence [Igor] Danchenko was providing to Steele — which, again, according to Danchenko himself, made up a significant majority of the information in the Steele Dossier reports – was, in whole or in part, Russian disinformation.”

Igor Danchenko, who had Russian citizenship and an American green card, was a senior research analyst in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution with high-level contacts in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

The term “disinformation” means that it was deliberately released to confuse and mislead people.

FBI officials may have been so anti-Trump that they were willing to use Russian disinformation to paint Trump as a Russian agent. In other words, Russian agents or sympathizers in the FBI knew the information was false and therefore disinformation and used it anyway. It may ultimately mean that Crossfire Hurricane was a Russian “active measures” operation using communist disinformation and propaganda from the beginning. Their objective was to undermine the Trump presidency, at a time when Trump was trying to save and help Ukraine.

Remember that FBI counterintelligence special agent Robert P. Hanssen was a Soviet/Russian mole inside the bureau. His record of treason spanned 22 years, from 1979 to 2001. Robert S. Mueller, the Russia-gate special counsel, became FBI director after Hanssen was caught. Mueller then failed to reform the bureau to catch future spies.

If supporters of Ukraine want to look for blame for the nation’s predicament, they would be wise not to cite unsubstantiated allegations against Trump but rather examine the role played by then-President Barack Hussein Obama, who was among a group of high-level officials, according to the Durham report, briefed on the plan to frame Trump as a Russian agent.

Consider the fact that when Senator Barack Hussein Obama was running for the presidency, the FBI raised no concerns about his relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who was not only a communist suspected of being a Soviet espionage agent but a pornographer who wrote a semi-biographical novel about having sex with a 13-year-old girl. He mentored Obama for as many as nine years of his young life in Hawaii.

We obtained and posted the FBI file on Davis.

Our report on Obama’s mysterious trip to Russia and Eastern Europe in 2005 when he was a Senator reveals that Obama’s passport was briefly confiscated and examined by Russian authorities. We know that Obama then negotiated a treaty with Russia called the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

In a 2017 interview with Reuters, Trump called the pact “one-sided” in favor of Russia and commented that it was “Just another bad deal that the country made” under Obama.

Professor Paul Kengor, the author of a book on Davis, The Communist,  told me during an interview at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that while he has been appalled by some of Trump’s comments on Zelensky and Putin, Trump “is probably the only person in the world who could mediate right now” between them and suggested watching Trump’s actions rather than his statements.

Kengor noted that Putin “behaved himself” while Trump was office during his first term and that Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 when Obama was president. He added, “Then in February of 2022, a year after Trump leaves office and about 6 or 7 months after Biden pulled troops out of Afghanistan, what does he (Putin) do? Not only does he invade the Ukraine but he invaded Kyiv, which was shocking. He behaved badly when Trump was out of office and behaved much better when Trump was in office. He does seem to respect Trump.”

This means, contrary to what Motyl insinuates, that Obama and Biden were doing far more for Moscow than Trump. That is the objective reality.

It was Obama, in addition to Democrat President Bill Clinton, who disarmed Ukraine before the first invasion of 2014. Mark W. Smith’s book, What the Ukraine War Teaches Americans About the Right to Bear Arms, explains what then-Senator Obama did to Ukraine when he engineered its destruction of weapons stockpiles that included artillery, anti-aircraft weapons plus small arms and ammunition. Obama worked with globalist Republican Senator Richard Lugar in this effort.

If Ukraine had modernized the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the old Soviet Union and changed the launch codes in their favor rather than Moscow’s, it is entirely possible even probable that Russia would never have invaded in 2014. But President Bill Clinton signed an agreement, the Budapest Memorandum, to send the weapons to Russia, and Ukraine agreed. It was not a treaty that obligated the U.S. to come to Ukraine’s defense.

History shows that Clinton and Obama disarmed Ukraine and then, when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, Obama failed to send the Ukrainians the arms they needed to defend themselves.

Reversing Obama’s policy in 2018, the Trump administration approved a plan to sell anti-tank weapons known as Javelin missiles to Ukraine.

This is hardly the behavior of a Russian agent. If anything, the evidence suggests Obama was the Russian agent whose Russian handlers or controllers then instructed him to initiate the campaign to frame the incoming President Trump as a Russian agent.

In the Hill article, Motyl raises the possibility that Putin is behind the new KGB charges against Trump. “But he surely has no interest in undermining a president who supports his policies toward Ukraine, NATO and Europe,” he says. With such a statement, he exhibits gross ignorance of how Obama’s Russia-gate plot emerged from Russian disinformation and was designed to weaken and destroy the Trump presidency.

It was Trump who rescued Ukraine from the policies of the Democratic Party that led to the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion and that explains why the Russians were out to destroy him. He is Ukraine’s best and only hope at this juncture.

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