Be Of Good Cheer

We are without a doubt in unsteady and turb-ulent times. Some of our highest leaders in government have forsaken the Constitu-tion and are deter-minedly leading us off the sure and certain course established for us so many years ago by our brave and clear-thinking forebears.

Many of us are hopeful that we can rally our fellow citizens and by doing so avert a calamity. We have arrived at a desperate hour in the history of our nation, an hour not unlike that faced by President Lincoln and our ancestors during the Civil War. We, too, are now engaged in a great conflict, testing whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal can long endure.

We must not assume that our cause is hopeless. Many things are in our favor. For one, we are fighting for what is right. Moreover, we are not alone. A great many Americans ardently believe as we do. And most important of all, we have our faith in God to sustain us.

Jesus said: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

We are in these treacherous times because dishonorable men currently rule the earth, believing mistakenly that it is theirs. One day, however, this grievous misconception will be cleared up.

In the mean time let us heed the words of Paul: “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; we are persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed.”

On July 4, 1776, Americans assumed among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitled them. On that day we asserted that we were endowed by our Creator, not by a government, with certain unalienable rights.

Until our rightful King comes to reign over us, let us hold fast to those sacred God-given rights and relinquish them to no man.

Surely the gifts of God are more precious than the empty and capricious promises held out to us by our misdirected government.

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
--Thomas Jefferson

A Deeply Committed Few

A society cannot be improved by depriving its members of the opportunity to learn from their mistakes, harsh though those realities may be.

When a government seeks to mitigate and temper conse-quences that are the natural result of indolence, stupidity, incompetence and greed, they are doing their citizens a grave disservice, especially when resource-rich developing nations are pursuing a more prudent and practical course, and would be happy to see us go under.

It should be apparent to anyone with even a modicum of sense that a nation composed of citizens and corporations that are incapable of responsibly managing their affairs cannot possibly compete with countries whose citizens and business enterprises can.

Our government currently is pursuing social and economic policies that are rapidly reducing Americans to helpless children, children who soon will have no other recourse but to lean on their near-bankrupt government for support. And how long do you suppose we can stand up to our competitors in the world under circumstances like that?

It’s both a shame and a crime that a nation that once was the envy of the entire world, and rightly so, has sunk to such extreme levels of moral degeneration.

But this is no time to be feeling sorry for ourselves or to be looking to our highest political and business leaders to do the right thing. We well know where they stand.

The hard fact is that if we as individuals do not return, and return quickly, to the principles upon which this great nation was founded, and whole-heartedly embrace our responsibilities and defend our God-given rights, the next gust of ill-wind that sweeps across this country may be the one that topples us over. And there will be another ill-wind. Any truly mature person realizes that ups and downs are inevitable and must be prudently planned for.

Remember, it doesn’t always take superior numbers to win a battle. Sometimes a deeply committed few can carry the day.

Please start taking an active and sincere interest in your country. As Americans we have a proud and noble heritage, and if we will work diligently together to preserve it, we can have a bright and prosperous future as well.

So seize the initiative before it’s too late! Don’t leave your fate in the hands of self-serving and unscrupulous politicians. At the next election, let’s fire as many of the hopeless dolts as we can!

“The foundation stone of national life is and must ever be the high individual character of the individual citizen.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Trust Issues

Among the truly absurd observations made by Hillary Clinton over the years is this gem: “It takes a village to raise a child.”

Although no one would dispute the fact that it is helpful to live in a village where people care about one another’s children, the influences contributed by a village are obviously inferior and secondary to the influences contributed by a loving family.

Of course, Hillary Clinton is hinting that she wants the federal government to begin playing a greater role in raising your children, so she would like you to believe it’s a good idea to get the “village” involved. What she is saying in effect is this: “Why return to basics when we can create another intrusive and expensive government program?

Somewhere God got the idea that a mother and father were just the right combination for rearing children. But apparently Hillary Clinton disagrees. It wasn’t bad enough, I guess, that she couldn’t see eye to eye with the Founders. Now she feels the need to take it one step further.

When we were born, if we were lucky, we were born into a good family, a group of people who worked together and loved each other. That is how we initially survived as human beings. A family took care of us.

Those initial years in a loving, protective family were our introduction to what it means to be a member of a group. That is where we learned to get along with others and do our fair share of the work.

Granted, in the last few decades a number of families have fallen into a state of disrepair, but is that sufficient reason for us to give up on the family organization and replace it with something else, some alien product of the federal government?

Most of us recognize that the family is the core of civilization. It is the primary element in any society. Only a misguided liberal like Hillary Clinton would want to tamper with something so fundamental.

What egos these liberals have! They want to control everything--the economy, the weather and even the family. And they haven’t given us the slightest reason to believe they can handle any of these jobs. They have made a mess of everything they’ve touched. Yet they cry out for more power.

Their problem seems to be that they don’t trust anyone. Not even God!

Editor's note: Yes, we realize Hillary Clinton is now Secretary of State, but she is still a snake in the grass and a liberal.