UPDATE 12/25/21: Evil is running amok in our world, and for Americans, that world has provided us with blessings beyond the wildest imaginings of our predecessors, going back millennia. These blessings now are seriously threatened by those currently in political power determined to suffocate freedom and install permanent controls. 21st century versions of Stalin, Mao and Hitler and their only-slightly-less-proficient imitators blight our beautiful skies.
How can God exist when such fearful misery perpetually looms? Maybe it’s the principle that our blessings come with responsibility. Nothing is free and easy but must be earned constantly, sometimes at the dearest cost. We must summon up the courage to fight every day, each of us in our individual way, to eradicate evil and doubt from our lives and our country. Therein lies the essence of our political differences: one faction thinks things should be guaranteed and fixed; the other is grounded in the reality of flawed (since Eden) human nature and knows that things must be eternally tended. It’s the hard way but the only way.
May God grant Americans and people worldwide the wisdom to choose the challenges of liberty over the “peace” of obedient enslavement. And may Longfellow’s classic Christmas Day lament and subsequent hope for a better world uplift your spirits and grant you the unencumbered blessings of freedom…which include the magic of a very Merry Christmas!
UPDATE 12/20/21: There are solid economic, political and spiritual reasons why a majority of Americans love Trump and want the benefits of MAGA back. No one knows better than David Horowitz the enemies of freedom, prosperity and human goodness.
UPDATE 12/18/21: Admittedly, we’re in very bad patch right now. But, given a love for life and freedom, there is no choice but to carry on. Things could be worse, so in the words of all tried, true and tested warriors of the past, PERSIST, PERSIST, PERSIST!
UPDATE 12/17/21: A nice distinction.
UPDATE 12/16/21: He was the Republicans’ default candidate in 1996 missing the inspired spark that would rally America away from the charmingly corrupt Clinton (and his thoroughly dislikeable spouse). Nevertheless, his convention acceptance speech reflects essential America, the eternally admirable principles of individualism, self-reliance, community, freedom that will outlast the self-serving superficiality of the Billarys, Baracks and Bidens, all destined to be unpleasant historical footnotes.
UPDATE 12/7/21: Wilfred McClay’s “LAND OF HOPE: An Invitation To The Great American Story” appears to be that rarity among U.S. histories that satisfyingly and honestly answers the question, page to page, “compared to every place else.” Those foolish destroyers pushing the Zinn/CRT anti-American line will fume while honest truth-seekers capable of embracing the benefits and responsibilities of freedom will be inspired.
Other promising sources of genuine education about the American story: an extensive online library called AMERICAN CIVICS and THE AMERICAN IDEA podcast.
UPDATE 12/5/21: Each day, each stomach-churning development from BrandonWorld continues to make 2021 the year of vindication for Trump.
Don’t expect any turnaround from the Party which claims to champion the Little Guy while ignoring the indisputable fact that tax cuts as implemented by Trump benefited the middle and lower classes the most, not the rich. Little Guys independent of the public trough are of no political value to today’s Democrat.
UPDATE 12/4/21: One gutsy American restauranteur named Tony Roman has taken a stand against Covid tyranny, barring entrance to his establishment by anyone wearing a mask. Naturally, he has become the focus of outrage from the usual suspects, worthy of condemnation on national TV. Admirably, he persists and should be hailed as yet another hero in stemming the spread of the deadly Covid tyranny virus. Another tale of courage that demands emulation if we are to survive this political plague.
UPDATE 12/3/21: America’s survival depends on the principle of individual freedom, free association, free markets-not on centralized Master Planning by a self-anointed Elite who thinks it knows best what’s good for the Little People. No one thinks, feels and lives this more passionately than responsible parents, and any political force allying and identifying with parents will triumph. In addition to fighting the political indoctrination of children through the wildly racist CRT, this must also include resistance to the forced infliction of an untested “vaccine” on babies and children by a BigGov/medical bureaucracy gone mad.
The GOP must remain the Party of Parents, and a tough agenda must be formulated and enacted to win the war.
UPDATE 12/3/21: Kayleigh McEnany speaks eloquently for those Americans decrying the Brandon administration’s betrayal of the American military and its supporters left behind in Afghanistan.
UPDATE `11/26/21: In Kyle Rittenhouse, every freedom-loving American sees himself as a potential Kafka character facing the very real forces of destruction, body & soul. His highest elected officials (Rittenhouse’s Wisconsin governor and the execrable PINO [President In Name Only] publicly pronounce him and all of us guilty villains in exercising our Constitutional rights and protecting ourselves and our property against real criminals.
On yet another front of this war, Sarah Palin and James O’Keefe of Project Veritas have pitted themselves against a slanderous, lying MSM.
Somehow, a realistically hopeful outlook has gained traction with the young American hero’s acquittal, and the truth as rendered by our severely compromised legal system may yet be on the comeback trail. Is the tide turning at last against the anarchist Dem Left?
UPDATE 11/20/21: Parents and intact families are still the indispensable building blocks of a free society, and the recent elections indicate that the Democrats’ craving for political indoctrination of children disqualifies them as the Party of the Parents. Mothers and fathers fighting for their children’s best interests in our schools have a long history in the courts; and we’re going to see more and more references to legal precedent as this war escalates.
UPDATE 11/20/21: Tucker Carlson’s exchange with Edward Durr, the NJ truckdriver David who slew the Garden State corruptocrat Goliath, continues to elicit smiles, warm the heart and enliven hope about American elections. Is government once again beholden to ordinary citizens again as it always was meant to be?
UPDATE 11/20/21: The double gift of free markets and free speech are bearing fruit in the form of alternative social media platforms, independent of the out-of-control control freaks/Leftists at Facebook & Twitter and their monopolistic comrades. For clarity, check out the original meaning of that misused, overused term, “fascism.”
UPDATE 11/11/21: It’s becoming clear that parents will be at the forefront of moving America back to sanity. Force feeding CRT to the kids has only been the match lighting the prairie fire.
UPDATE 11/10/21: A heartening number of conservatives seeking public office are called “outsiders,” but their appeal is their insider cred with real Americans. We like them because they’re NOT “seasoned” (ie, “corrupted”) politicians. Trump has set the tone, and we can only wish for more, of him and those emulating him. Let’s hear it for genuine populism!
UPDATE 11/9/21: At last a bursting forth of alternatives to the MSM and Woke social media! RUMBLE has just moved to Florida from increasingly oppressive Canada and provides a platform for videos without censorship that now restricts YouTube posters. On the academic front, hearty welcome to the newly founded UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN, an anti-Woke school-in-the-making already boasting a stellar faculty lineup: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, David Mamet…Class is in session!!
UPDATE 11/3/21`: A harbinger of very good news for all 50 states from the Commonwealth of Virginia for 2022 and 2024. Somewhat dampening this good cheer is that New Jersey suddenly flipped back to Prog/Covid tyrant Murphy after 40,000 Murphy votes suddenly, out-of-nowhere appeared post-election overnight in already 100% counted Bergen County. To no one’s surprise and adding to the travesty, dozens of voting machines suddenly shut down in the middle of the night without votes being counted, now supposedly being examined.
Perhaps some aggressive counter-action in court determining the exact source of those miraculous votes is in order. This jaw-dropping Project Veritas video of NJ poll workers giving an unregistered, self-described ” Irish citizen” a ballot offers a hint of something a wee bit amiss. We are living the disastrous consequences of the stolen November 2020 election, THE ISSUE most in need of legal investigation if we are to have legitimate elections ever again in this country.
To accent-tchu-ate the positive, there was the astonishing routing of the powerful Dem NJ Senate leader by a plainspoken Republican truck driver operating on a whopping $150 budget. Virginia provides more breaking sunlight on the horizon. Part of that hopeful glow is the election of Winsome Sears as Youngkin’s Lt. Governor, a female Black former Marine and conservative. Best of all, the Youngkin-Sears victory was all about sane, anti CRT parents spearheading the recovery of America for the rest of us. Welcome to America’s comeback, perhaps most accurately described as The Year Of The Parent.
UPDATE 11/4/21: Winsome Sears is one more Black conservative giving lie to the White Supremacist meme poisoning our body politic. She is someone for patriots to watch and for the Left to fear.
UPDATE 11/3/21: Speculation runs through every hopeful thought about turning back the tsunami currently engulfing us: will Trump run again? If polls are to be believed, and considering what we face and what sort of outlandish, fearless leadership this war requires, we can only hope so.
UPDATE 11/3/21: Though untested in these quarters, one can bank on new social media platform Gettr being a step up from the social media currently available. One suspects this is the first of many similar alternatives to the FB/TWIT/INSTA axis. Is Gettr better? Anything would be an improvement. 
UPDATE 10/30/21: Remarkably like in Frank Capra’s “Meet John Doe,” a healthy populism has taken root in the form of MAGA. Hardly the laconic, shy character played by Gary Cooper, Donald Trump has more than proven himself the driving force of a movement that offers Americans a choice between a life of servitude to Big Government or life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ensured by rational, minimal government as our Founders intended. Judging by a definitive statement from Trump himself, the long-awaited Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) appears to be approaching actuality as serious financial investors are now all in to “launching a social network, named “TRUTH Social.”
UPDATE 10/30/21: Supporters of Biden (and his disastrous train wreck of a Presidency) unwelcome! And cheers and money fly in from all over to a Florida diner fussy about the core values of its clientele. 
UPDATE 10/28/21: A conservative MAGA rapper named Bryson Gray has beaten out one musical version of “Let’s Go Brandon” (and the veddy vapid Adele) with HIS version of “Let’s Go Brandon.” Read all about him and take heart that young people (or whoever drives hip-hop sales) are getting the unWoke other side of the story. Naturally, his version has been cut by YouTube, only boosting sales.
UPDATE 10/28/21: Aroused parents are becoming the great hope for dispelling the deadly fog engulfing us. And take heart that there are highly vocal representatives in Washington like Tom Cotton fully on their side. One Illinois mother’s artfully focused rage is fortified by medical facts and irrefutable documentation of financial corruption surrounding vaccine/mask mandates for children. Hell hath no more righteous fury than a mother fighting for her children. Ditto an outraged, principled father.
UPDATE 10/26/21: A staunch Trump supporter is getting fined $50/day for hanging a 3-story TRUMP WON sign from his beach house. He’s so intimidated by his punishment that he’s planning a “LET’S GO, BRANDON!” banner to keep TRUMP WON company.
UPDATE 10/23/21: It’s an encouraging sign that that the execrable National School Boards Association has blinked and apologized for joining Merrick Garland in villainizing anti-CRT parents as “terrorists.” Perhaps even awakened Democrat parents will be, in the long run, part of the most effective resistance we have against the Woke totalitarians. In the natural order of animals, vegetables & minerals, there is no more powerful force with which to reckon than angered Mama & Papa bears.
UPDATE 10/21/21: Anti Woke Biden backlash at last, long overdue. And though it will come to nothing during Pelosi’s malevolent tenure, justifiable articles of impeachment have been filed in the House against this WPE (Worst President Ever) for “dereliction of duty by leaving behind thousands of American civilians and Afghan allies, along with numerous taxpayer-financed weapons and military equipment, endangering the lives of the American people and the security of the United States.” It’s a start in the right direction and ripe for repetition if Republicans can recover House majority in 2022…and their collective spine in the bargain.
UPDATE 10/20/21: Cole Porter it’s not, but one version of “Let’s Go Brandon! The Song” is at the top of the charts. And right up there AHEAD of it is another song by the same name from a stalwart MAGA rapper named Bryson Gray. Being the work of a Trump supporter, the latter version has been axed by YouTube making it go viral! Deplorables can only smile.
UPDATE 10/18/21: Parents (and all rational Americans of whatever Party) have found a banner under which they can march in authentic unity: “NOT DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.” And they’ve done just that yesterday in Washington, hopefully for the first of many more such gatherings.
UPDATE 10/17/21: America is only a free nation when the INDIVIDUAL’s life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are the bedrock of its existence. To quote Thoreau: “There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”
UPDATE 10/16/21: Heartening news: the Biden Mafia has overplayed its hand, and the people are getting a bit uppity.
UPDATE 10/9/21: Staying sane and overcoming fear in this Orwellian Twilight Zone is THE great challenge for those who put freedom over mythical, malignant “equality” as the highest human value and the bedrock of any civilized life.
A Silent Majority of freedom-lovers, not wishy-washy centrists , are those who will eradicate the forces that engineered the stolen election resulting in the tsunami now engulfing us. They can’t win if we won’t surrender.
UPDATE 10/4/21: America is finished? America is “broken?” America is fundamentally racist and evil? Only to those who have no real core values and think nothing is worth fighting for.
UPDATE 10/4/21`: For freedom lovers it is imperative to understand the difference between a democracy and a republic, both in what each offers and how each operates. Spoiler alert: democracy is a surefire risk; a republic is the way to go if individual liberty is to prevail.
UPDATE 10/1/21: What are the outstanding characteristics of those of us who love America? Among many things, it’s reliance on the solid common sense embedded in our DNA that puts freedom and the truth above all else. Conversely, it is the erosion of our trust in that common sense within ourselves that leads us dangerously astray. G.K. Chesterton lamented “The only thing surprising about common sense is how uncommon it has become.”
Fortunately, we still have some noble examples of that uncommon sense in public life-Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Tucker Carlson-who still speak out and act fearlessly on behalf of all free Americans. They lead and inspire by example. God save and protect each individual one of us from betraying what is best in ourselves.
UPDATE 9/26/21: A video floating about revisits the intriguing ambiguities of “Bye Bye Miss American Pie (The Day The Music Died)” Contrary to the gloomy spirit of the famous song, it brings up my own sense of gratitude for having realized a personal American Dream that has NOT gone wrong,
In my series of 75 musical programs on American Popular Music, I have one devoted to Rock/Pop of the 50s & 60s. My narrative interspersed among the songs makes a point of saying that the post-WWII American Dream for millions started to go awry with the Kennedy assassination, relieved only temporarily by the Beatles and all the fun that followed.
By decade’s end Vietnam, socio-political upheavals, the MLK & RFK assassinations, Altamont and Kent State marked the end of the Woodstock Nation delusion. Too many turned to drugs and self-destructive (Leftist/Utopian) politics. I turned to the miracles of great American popular music & culture that flowered in the really trying times of Depression and World War. In stark contrast to the later Baby Boom era, optimism, grit, romance and great art dominated the mainstream back then, not despairing self-destruction. My choice of the earlier era’s music as a profession and general outlook has served me wonderfully well, so no American Pie disillusionment here. The music did not die but lives robustly on.
UPDATE 9/25/21: An admirable Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard touches all important bases with accuracy and style. She’s also shrewdly positioned politically in that she can never be a RINO! Honest, decent Democrats, take full notice. And she happens to be beautiful and was never more so than when she took apart the stunningly superficial (and dull-witted) Kamala Harris like an expert angler gutting a fish. Hey, Woke Dems: don’t say you weren’t warned!
What a photogenic and intellectual pleasure it would be to have a Presidential race between Gabbard and Ron DeSantis! Talk about refreshing!! THAT would be America.
UPDATE 9/23/21: One of our best thinkers and writers, Angelo Codevilla, is suddenly, senselessly gone, thanks to (reportedly) a drunk driver. He was one of those, alongside Victor Davis Hanson, invariably easy and engaging to read for an authoritative, multi-tiered grasp of whatever issue he was tackling. His identification and use of the words ELITIST and RULING CLASS as the underlying reality behind America’s so-called “most educated” being our own worst enemies is landmark. His most recent article on the Ruling Class’ dismal failure in waging War On Terror will have to serve as his final wise words of warning. R.I.P.
UPDATE 9/13/21: The photo of the POTUS Pretender in Shanksville PA (one post below) superimposes the indisputable worst of America on the best: young MAGA kids near the final resting place of Todd Beamer and other authentic heroes to be revered for all time for their extraordinary American Spirit.
9/13/21: Guaranteed smiles seeing MAGA kids trolling oblivious Make Believe POTUS.
UPDATE 9/12/21: A hopeful sign is a TRUMP SIGN. So say Americans across the land who are unwilling to “move on” and accept the Biden steal and its guarantee of lost liberty as their future. It’s encouraging that people are not afraid to display their allegiances despite the dreaded, steady progress made by those intent on putting an end to America as we know it.
UPDATE 9/10/21: Things go in cycles, day to night and back again, and we are due for a move back toward MAGA after the present nightmare of BidenWorld. Win or lose, Larry Elder’s presence in California is illuminating the crisis not only of that state but of a whole country spinning down the Progressive drain. Personalities like Tucker Carlson, Dennis Prager, Candace Owens and Greg Gutfeld masterfully occupy the prominent Conservative pulpits once occupied by William Buckley and Rush Limbaugh. As long as information and ideas fueled by an optimistic realism abound, there is hope.
UPDATE 9/10/21: Redefining what is American and most importantly “un-American.” As Communists relabeled themselves anti-Fascists, the new fascists of Big Gov (and Big Tech) are slyly relabeling themselves “pro-Americans.” Naturally, everything they don’t like is “un-American” like refusal to take untested “vaccines,” being pro-life, voting for Donald Trump and protesting corrupted elections.
UPDATE 9/6/21: Ultimately, the light at the end of this dark tunnel enveloping us at the moment is parents taking full charge of their children’s educations and futures out of the hands of a culture and government that only sees people as pawns in their quest for absolute power. The dramatic rise in home schooling-from 13,000 in 1973 to 5,000,000 in 2020-and the proliferation of charter schools (and legislation promoting tax-deductible education savings accounts) should be as encouraging a sign as any that America has a real future.
UPDATE 9/4/21: Without the chance of switching leadership through honest elections, Americans are up against it as we’ve never been before. We’re living the scary results of the Democrats’ strategy of ginned-up crisis/lockdowns/open-ended mail-in/absentee voting. It was there for all to see and predict as November, 2020 approached. If we cannot take back the electoral process, we are headed for communism, Chinese-style: the basic amenities granted (or withdrawn from) us provisionally by a dictatorial Big Brother into LOTS of surveillance and control. Is our American Spirit still strong and widespread enough to fend this off?
UPDATE 8/26/21: As the brisk stream of catastrophes emanating out of BidenWorld/Twilight Zone morphs into a tidal wave, things look less and less like incompetence and more like the deliberately destructive agenda of those whom absolute power has corrupted absolutely.
Unfortunately, the solution to this grim state of affairs does not not lie in the removal of one senile robot from power. The real problem remains the mass stupidity of our fellow inhabitants of this planet and their age-old talent for messing up a good thing. The original European idea of representative governments that resulted in America was the premise that ALL men and women are the MASTERS of themselves and their PUBLIC SERVANTS in government (s)elected to safeguard their freedoms, not the obedient, dependent charges of those SERVANTS. This would come as a shock to the likes of Biden, Obama and Pelosi…and to those voting citizens who foolishly insist on investing such power in these bloodless scoundrels.
UPDATE 8/21/21: The image of Afghani parents handing their infant child up to an American soldier over a barbed wire fence brings home the power and presence of American freedom still offered to the world. These parents, facing the possibility of extinction at the hands of the Taliban, were willing to part with their child that it might grow up in freedom. The baby was reportedly reunited with its parents at the Kabul airport, but the final fate of the family remains unknown.
We dream of the day when those now in power intent on destroying America from within find themselves banished to the ashbin of history. If and how that can ever come about remains to be seen, but the wish burns brightly within anyone still animated by the American spirit.
UPDATE 8/17/21: Rekindling and refreshing the American spirit is not just for comfortable, feel-good times and contemplation. At the moment, Americans are suffering humiliation and very real impending disaster on multiple fronts. Not the the least of these disasters is the corrupted election process that has allowed a zealously anti-American administration to subvert us from within, fronted by an inanimate puppet/doll remote-controlled by forces yet to be fully identified.
It’s crisis time, and there is action that can and must be taken by our passive representatives in DC. Control our borders, build The Wall. Restore our free market economy and domestic energy independence and curtail putting able-bodied Americans on the dole. On the international front, clean out the Pentagon of Woke ideologues and restore a military force whose first duty is to protect Americans here and abroad.
Admittedly, all this amounts to a very modest proposal, but it’s a start.
UPDATE 8/16/21: The raison d’etre of Democrat politics from moderate to Woke is now the repudiation and suppression of anything resembling unabashed pro-Americanism. Trump’s rekindling of the America First spirit, MAGA, is considered a gigantic reproach to John Lennon’s imaginary “Imagine” utopia of globalism: no borders, no possessions, no religion that now totally informs the mainstream Democrat ideal. So, naturally Trump has to go and all his supporters with him. What has panned out in a breathtakingly short time is the beginnings of One World dominance and control, not only in America but in other formerly stalwart bastions of freedom such as the U.K., New Zealand and Australia.
UPDATE 8/13/21: The Woke Left’s war on boys, men and masculinity in general must be won, or we are literally a neutered civilization. For those of a certain generation and before, some of the best guides and touchstones remain Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and their many wonderfully rowdy, unruly, untamed, adventurous, brave compadres in classic literature. Is it any accident that such a real-life figure recently occupied the White House to the utter delight of one political demographic AND, simultaneously, the utter despair and rage of another part of the electorate?
UPDATE 8/8/21: Solzhenitsyn’s memoir, BETWEEN TWO MILLSTONES, offers fractured America hints of healing and resurgence from a great poet who looked with unblinkered eyes at his own land’s hellbent self-destruction and still found hope.
UPDATE 8/7/21: Let’s face it: we’re currently trapped in an asylum being run by Leftist lunatics. Some of them are “scientists:” some of them are our elected (hmm) “leaders;” some are prominent media “influencers” upon whom lots and lots and lots of really mush-headed people rely on for “thinking” and the stupid choices that follow. What they have in common is that all are working in service to evil, determined to rob us of our most precious possession: American freedom and prosperity.
What those of us opposing them have in common are lifetimes and souls enriched by that American freedom and prosperity gifted us that we have no intention of losing. Who doesn’t fear what that may cost us as individuals and as a nation? Time will tell.
In the meantime, take inventory and fully enjoy what is yours. No privilege or right is more sacred or satisfying than ownership.
UPDATE 8/7/21: One way to Own Your Life is to be prepared for emergency shortages in the event of mass power failures or the ugly specter of more lockdowns and restrictions on “the disobedient.” Here’s a start to becoming a Prepper.
UPDATE 7/20/21: No surprise that The Hologram-in-Chief and his programmers haven’t thought to make Guantanamo a Caribbean Ellis Island gateway to America. Can’t have all those communist-hating, liberty-loving immigrants turning Florida and the rest of America the good kind of Bright Red.
UPDATE 7/17/21: What are the essential underpinnings of America? Most would probably be at a loss to articulate precisely what American essentials need to be saved and preserved for the ages.
Freedom as a God-given right is the first word that comes to mind, the idea put forth first in the Declaration of Independence, then shortly thereafter detailed and codified into rule of law with the Constitution. Underpinning this concept of a free republic, has been the notion of The People and an innate Common Sense being sovereign in our own lives, not subject to the whim of a figurehead or ruling cabal of totalitarian regimes. As our Founders feared, America’s greatest peril lies in our elected leadership actively behaving more like our masters than our servants. Worst of all in this scenario is the willingness of too many Americans to acquiesce to and even applaud this development. The sane & civilized always live at the mercy of fools, one of many terrible consequences of centralized power, the autonomy of individuals sacrificed to a so-called “noble collective.”
That’s where we are. Now where are we going? The hopeful answer always goes back to the continuous rekindling of our American spirit, however it manifests itself. Time (and a mass resurgence of Common Sense) will tell.
UPDATE 7/15/21: It’s tough being conservative and having to work with Republicans who still think they are dealing with honorable, patriotic opponents. T’ain’t so, and let us list the ways.
UPDATE 7/7/21: MAGA is the future, not the dynamic personality who made it a rallying cry for a restoration and enduring triumph of American freedom. He made many mistakes of omission but actively reinvigorated the American economy and, more importantly, the American Spirit. Any future candidates representing Americans valuing their independence and freedom in lieu of dependency and the chains of Leftist government must be willing to go to full war against the Deep State that was outed for all to see, thanks to DJT. We owe him that, and we’re still fortunate to have him and his unique presence. Nonetheless, the battle is long term and needs new leadership. That fresh start is there if the individual American is willing to support it. That Republic Ben Franklin mentioned? Let’s keep it.
UPDATE 7/3/21: Getting down to bedrock basics in this life, there is first and foremost God. The Founders of America had the genius to recognize that individuals with free will and innate human talent can only thrive in a freedom tempered by responsibility, a reverence for and obedience to a Higher Authority. Without that concept of Deity, an Absolute, a final Judge, we humans wander lost in an amoral world devoid of values to guide and contain us, prey to those who would play God themselves.
For America, the final sentence in its founding document is “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Inspired directly by America’s Declaration, Israel included the omnipresence and omnipotence of God in its own Declaration of Independence. In both instances, 175 years apart, God’s inclusion came after vigorous debate between believers and secularists, both agreeing that only with the moral framework of religious faith could human progress truly flourish. Echoing Thomas Jefferson, Israel’s Declaration of Independence concludes, “With trust in the Rock of Israel, we set our hand to this Declaration, at this Session of the Provisional State Council, in the city of Tel Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the fifth of Iyar 5708, the fourteenth day of May 1948.”
There was a time for those of us lucky enough to grow up in the 1950s when people strongly disagreed on political viewpoints yet felt united by “something” that in the end made those heated disagreements relatively insignificant. First was the idea of “being American,” and now it is becoming more and more apparent in hindsight that the acknowledged presence of one God overseeing all lives provides the essence of “being American.”
Even more apparent are the perils of God’s absence in mainstream American life, leading to the globalist mentality, John Lennon’s “Imagine” fantasy of utopian unity, no religion, no private property. Standing in for God are self-appointed, self-anointed tyrants seeking to replace freedom of the individual (and God as guide) with the totalitarian collective.
On this Independence Day as we Americans find ourselves in the throes of moral chaos and confusion, we look with special reverence and hope to that “Divine Providence” and “Rock Of Israel” that originally inspired and continue to inform America and Israel’s priceless legacy of freedom.
UPDATE 6/26/21: Who these days doesn’t experience the unsettling fallout from our new Civil War of deep divisions within families, friendships, work environments, political parties originally sown and Progressively deepened by Obama’s 2008 vow to transform America? One of the most devastating of all divisions is that between those admirable individuals, young and old, really still believing in the American Dream of freedom, opportunity, hard work adding up to a satisfying life and those in government intent on thwarting those ambitions via high taxes, senseless regulations and, in the case of enforced lockdowns, the outright destruction of small business. There is also the threatening chill of political correctness and cancel culture casting a wide, dark pall over all forms of free expression that depart from the prevailing Leftist/Woke mindset.
One could easily shrink in fearful despair, but hope springs eternal when the tried-and-tested ideas that made and continue to make America great are brought out again and put into action. Reading Brit pol Nigel Farage’s description of an animated, unbowed, invigorated Trump at Mar-A-Lago provides a vivid portrait of renewed hope and absolute refusal to give up. Contrary to all the MSM propaganda and dismissive comments of our fellows, this is still the man to watch, the force to lead us back onto the MAGA track.
UPDATE 6/22/21: A Canadian pastor facing down the nightmare of senseless tyranny against him and his church is visiting America, warning us. “This is not about a virus! It’s about control.” Yes, Hanoi Jane, Covid is “God’s gift to the Left” as control, absolute control is what you on the Left are all about.
America, wake up.
JUNETEENTH-Celebrating Liberty or just more rancor?
UPDATE 6/18/21: IF (BIG IF) Juneteenth, the anniversary of the final Emancipation of slaves in America, celebrates a triumph of liberty for all Americans, what’s not to like? What IS not to like is the almost certain use of this new “holiday” as a Woke Black alternative to July 4th, another occasion to grind the ax and shake down guilty Whitey. For some, liberty has never been the goal but, in fact, is the enemy. Sowing discord, misery, fear, bitterness, exchanging one set of chains for new ones has become a profitable way of life for the Social Justice Warrior (SJW) set.
Don’t expect any framing of the day as a celebration of the courageous foresight of abolitionists. For the race-baiters, conflict remains the order of the day, and anything that opens the wound of past wrongs such as slavery is a godsend! Without civil strife, they would be robbed of their very reason for existing. This is what makes sense of their refusal to consider real, proven solutions to poverty such as free market capitalism. What would the PLO be if they actually had that State of their own that they claim to want? Substitute BLM for PLO and ask what would they be if they totally subjugated White America? In both cases, the answer is “obsolete.” Prosperity and success for the masses would be the worst nightmare imaginable for these Marxist parasites deprived of their hated hosts.
UPDATE 6/17/21: Going back to our historical roots is as timely as it ever has been. Without the fight and sacrifice of our forefathers at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg (to name just two major points on America’s timeline), there would be little to fight for now.
UPDATE 6/13/21: To survive and prevail, MAGA must be a movement, not an individual, but it’s rather advantageous to have a certain individual around to be the messenger. And he’s back, albeit as a private citizen. It’s still his Party, and he’ll laugh if he wants to. Not his nature to sulk.
UPDATE 6/8/21: An outstanding 16mm Kodachrome video making the rounds evokes such emotion and nostalgia for my parents’ 40s/50s world that baby boomers were lucky enough to be born into. It is also that quintessential America that fires the MAGA spirit.
That spirit is everything palpably, provably good for Americans that Trump began to restore and Biden has set out to erase without a trace. To the dismay of those all up and down the Woke spectrum, that America is still not dead but simply waiting in crouch position, ready to spring back. That includes a vibrant, free market economy and energy independence, so at odds with a regime now besotted by REAL Russia and China collusion.
MEMORIAL DAY AND D-DAY
UPDATE 6/6/21: To add to the stirring Memorial Day/D-Day tributes linked below from 2019, an equally powerful recollection from 2007 by late great American character actor Charles Durning, D-Day veteran and survivor. When the heroism of ordinary young Americans was mainstream.
UPDATE 6/2/21: One must seriously worry about the state of a country now in the act of turning its military against itself, making force-fed Marxist Critical Race Theory indoctrination a part of its training. And going so far as dismissing a high-ranking air force commander (Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier) for publicly criticizing this policy.
One’s discomfort at the present-day corruption of our military is almost unbearable when watching this moving Memorial Day tribute to two young America brothers who stormed the Normandy beaches and survived D-Day and that of five equally brave American brothers who managed the same miracle. Think again about the likelihood of future American soldiers winning a war on behalf of a country they’ve been trained to hate.
Read Lt. Colonel Lohmeier’s book. And to assure future young American heroes do not die and sacrifice in vain, two honorable voices (and military veterans) in Congress are on the case: Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw and Alabama Senator Tom Cotton. “We’re going to expose you.”
