UPDATE 5/22/22: It’s not just tea leaves or entrails. Authentic signs signal that sanity is making a comeback. And no one has been harmed by the presence of the world’s richest most newly-famous man making rationality cool again.
This is a take-no-prisoners fighter like we were delighted to discover in The Donald. No accident he shows welcome signs of becoming an authentic American hero in our time. (But don’t be a pothead, Elon. It will “blunt” your edge and is definitely a bad example for the young and stupid.)
UPDATE 5/25/22: There are sane voices, even Trump enthusiasts, who convincingly opine that he shouldn’t run again and let De Santis take over leadership of the MAGA fight.
UPDATE 5/20/22: America has thrived as a meritocracy, founded and sustained on countless individual “jobs well done.” There is no greater gift available to anyone than being free to fully utilize one’s inherent talent. If “doing good” for others is a serious goal, what’s of greater benefit than recognizing, encouraging, helping talent along as the roadmap to a satisfying, productive life? Do-gooders (of a certain political Left-leaning persuasion) constantly push for permanent infantile helplessness and dependency. In so doing, they are the destroyers and sworn enemies of self-reliance, the basis of a prosperous, civilized society.
UPDATE 5/16/22: Freeing Twitter from its Kafkaesque cage is meeting bumps in the road. According to DJT, Twitter is damaged, corrupt goods not worth buying, and he predicts that Musk will back out.
UPDATE 5/22/22: Biden’s attempt at insult has backfired bigtime. “ULTRA-MAGA” is proving to be the new rallying cry of the conservative base. Make that ULTRA-MEGA-MAGA.
UPDATE 5/14/22: Irving Berlin is not called our Songwriter Laureate for nothing. “God Bless America” still leads a distinguished pack of songs that continue to capture, express and spread the American Spirit.
UPDATE 5/14/22: American Spirit is synonymous with Can Do. This week’s example is cool-headed, professional flight controllers talking a totally untrained passenger through regaining control of a plane with a disabled, unconscious pilot and landing it. God may be one’s co-pilot in life and in the air, but man is obliged to utilize every possible resource available to humanity to finish the job.
UPDATE 5/9/22: Since Elon Musk’s new prominence is based entirely on his interest in free speech, mention of him currently belongs in the optimistic AMERICAN SPIRIT post. He is a person of great interest, and the more we know of him, the better. Let’s hope he doesn’t go the control freak way like billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
UPDATE 5/14/22: Is it possible the string-pullers of BrandonWorld have actually taken on the mental deterioration of their nominal figurehead and gone along with foggy old fogey Joe’s brilliant coining of the term “Ultra-MAGA” as their campaign theme? You know. The thing we’re against. Make America Great Again. Sheer genius. And TrumpWorld thanks you for the continued plug.
UPDATE 5/7/22: For most of us, who is worthier of honor than our mothers?
UPDATE 5/5/22: Free speech has always been under official threat by BigGov and unjustly punished, even in America as early as 1798. The good old days were not uniformly good, reminding us that fighting for and proteceting freedom has always been ongoing, never a finished task.
5/2/22: It’s exciting to contemplate a freed Twitter bird, and curiosity and questions surrounding Elon Musk are to be expected. Is he good, bad or a bit of both? Perhaps merely human with a real taste for freedom.
UPDATE 4/30/22: Despite skepticism in some quarters about Elon Musk’s motives and long-range plans for Twitter, complaints about the real possibility of a freer social media ring hollow. The positive consequences of moving in that direction still belong center stage. One recalls a similar skepticism about one Donald Trump, allayed swiftly for millions by his insistence on keeping the promises he made. It would be foolish not to take the same calculated gamble on Musk. This is about our threatened free speech, the dismantling of the censorship plague taking over American thought waves.
Is this, at long last, the comeuppance for Silicon Valley’s unchecked hubris? A lethal body blow to the digital totalitarians?
UPDATE 4/25/22: Trump candidate and firebrand Kristina Karamo’s star is rising as Michigan Republican primary voters choose her over GOP establismentarians.
UPDATE 4/25/22: Trump won’t be returning to Twitter even after Musk takes over but will be using his own Truth Social to communicate. His new media platform is still under development. Stay tuned.
UPDATE 4/18/22: Musk’s attempt to take over Twitter could spell the end of the Left’s domination of our national narrative, a rebirth of free speech. Clearly, the Twitter Board’s desperation to fend off this takeover despite profiting hugely in dollars is the giveaway that lost power supersedes anything to do with mere money. There is also conjecture now that Twitter is not a private company out to profit its shareholders but actually a heavily subsidized platform/mouthpiece for the Deep State.
DY-NO-MITE! Another dazzling voice for the restoration of common sense and renewed conservatism put into action.
4/18/22: Every country feeling the leaden weight of Woke could benefit from its own Trump to get the lead out. France appears to have one. And it’s a pleasant surprise that Australia boasts Clive Palmer, its own version. Hang on, it’ll be a bumpy ride but well worth the bruises on your bum.
UPDATE 4/23/22: Coupled with Elon’s possible restoration of free speech on major social media, Trump’s media platform Truth Social would be an answered prayer. The possibility of a permanent media platform and presence for The People, not simply Trump himself, could be his greatest legacy.
REPOSTED 4/17/22: FROM EASTER SUNDAY, 2013.
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A Victorian musical masterpiece as simple, dramatic and moving as its majestic 2100 year old source. This particular performance is all the more touching for the sincere catch in Stanford Olsen’s fine tenor voice as this great Easter hymn approaches its climactic, heart-clutching moment:
“And once again the scene was changed,
New earth there seemed to be.
I saw the Holy City beside the tideless sea.
The light of God was on its streets, the gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter, and no one was denied!
No need of moon or stars by night,
Or sun to shine by day:
It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away!
It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away!”
Yet another beautiful rendition of “The Holy City” by the great American tenor Richard Crooks.
Easter morning, 2013, as if on cue, the first daffodils open…
If a larger lesson for all faiths is to be drawn from an observance of Easter, it is contained in these words of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this [collectivist tyranny] has happened.” Echoes William Penn: “”Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
UPDATE 4/15/22: Will Elon Musk make free speech cool again by buying Twitter?
UPDATE 4/2/22: What topic could be of greater interest to Americans than freedom and its history as a philosophical concept that evolved into glorious practice on these shores?
UPDATE 4/2/22: Among William F. Buckley’s greatest insights is his statement that “I’d rather trust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” Are we Normals a dying breed self-governed by our own common sense (rather than “experts?”) Or are we the re-emerging Silent Majority that will save America?
UPDATE 3/26/22: Using existing legal statutes, real resistance to race/sex discrimination is growing on college campuses against unfettered, ILLEGAL Woke tyranny. Take it to court! Make the culprits think twice!
UPDATE 3/25/22: VDH optimistically predicts a gigantic Reversal Reset to the Great Reset. Do the super-rich & privileged Bidens/Clintons/Obamas/Pelosis/Zuckerbergs/Gates honestly believe they can continue to enjoy their mansions and millions undisturbed while their interference in everyone’s lives won’t allow the average Joe and Jane to fill up their gas tank or even go to work without a mask/vax card? Cue images of prissy, parasitical French aristocrats hauled away on tumbrils. Faced with real, justified insurrection, perhaps today’s Michelle-Antoinettes will have the sense to hole up behind their walled, moated palaces and leave the rest of us (and free market forces) the hell alone.
UPDATE 3/22/22: Suddenly everyone is touting Miami as “The City Of Tomorrow.” Considering all those Commie-wise Cubans and the exceptional individual in the Governor’s mansion, why should we be surprised? Thanks to De Santis, the spirit of liberty currently drives every aspect of governing the state; and to the continued denial and frustration of Lefties, people thrive in freedom, not collectivism.
UPDATE 3/14/22: Reagan was the right man for his time as Trump was in his. Both demonstrated that the real purpose of good government is to get the hell out of the way, to clear the path and keep it clear. We’ve been lucky to have both, and we’ll get lucky again. Circumstances and history demand it.
UPDATE 3/14/22: Tom Sowell suggests 3 questions to keep the upper hand in any debate:
Compared to what? At what cost? What evidence do you have?
UPDATE 3/12/22: Thank goodness it’s not Thanksgiving because there would be turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce flying akimbo over and around the table after Trump sits down and holds forth publicly with Joe Rogan.
This is certainly of interest for those of us still interested in what the Dem Left/RINO Right loathe and what all advocates of free speech welcome. Will Neil Young try another withdrawal from his empty Spotify account?
UPDATE 3/8/22: Seems there’s a convoy around DC. Unsurprisingly, DC habitues are less than hospitable or supportive of basic American populism, so it’s not making the headlines (or backlash) its Canadian counterpart created, Nevertheless, the spirit animating it lives with the same intensity in every free-thinking person.
UPDATE 3/1/22: DJT singles out NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as someone to watch for the future. “At this rate she’ll be POTUS in six years.”
UPDATE 2/28/22: Trudeau’s winged monkeys took a bit of the fun out of the Truckers Convoy, but the spirit has spread and is literally on the road here in the States. Support it wherever, whenever and however you can.
UPDATE 2/28/22: In active opposition to lockdowns, mandates and an unusually oppressive political climate, some have managed to maintain some normalcy and now are rebuilding the disrupted parts of their lives. Few have been untouched by the compulsory caging and wedges intentionally driven within marriages, families, friendships and professional relationships.
UPDATE 2/27/22: Is it unwarranted pride that we Americans are blessed to speak and communicate through all existing media in English, the language that has given the world its greatest documents promoting human liberty and progress?
UPDATE 2/25/22: The weakness demonstrated in the face of violent Russian expansionism (and the Chinese AND Iranian versions almost certain to follow) is not just something happening “over there.” Our ongoing, growing dependence upon the world’s two most powerful Communist regimes impacts every American. Continuing on this suicidal path, we are doomed to be relegated to second class power or, worse, a nation of obedient robots in the image of China as Canada and Australia have proven to be. OR we can choose leadership informed and fired by a genuine American spirit of liberty. That’s what we saw for four years with MAGA, and if enough of the populace wises up to freedom’s advantages over centralized control, we’ll be back. It happened with the right leader in 2016, then just as quickly vanished in 2020. God willing, we are due for a dramatic renaissance in 2024, beginning in 2022.
UPDATE 2/22/22: Trudeau has acted as expected, but the spirit of the Freedom Convoys must go on. What of the idea that they remain an undeniable, vocal presence without giving the Trudeaus of the world opportunities for tyrannical measures?
UPDATE 2/21/22: Never was George Washington’s birthday (no, not “Presidents Day”) so charged with significance as we ponder the full significance of “the indispensable man” in the founding of America.
UPDATE 2/20/22: Freedom should be the unifying force for all good people, but for too many the security of quiet obedience to punitive authority overrides freedom. This explains the (no longer mysterious) accommodation of a large percentage of Australians, Austrians and now Canadians to tyranny, neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, brother against brother. God willing the champions of freedom ultimately win while the sheepish collaborators in their own enslavement spend the rest of their days hiding out in the darkness of shame away from the light of brave people winning this fight, working, raising their families, going to their chosen places of worship, enjoying the fellowship of others like themselves, left alone to live their lives as they please. The optimists say that day is not far off.
The challenge is anything but a new story, and inspiration abounds from many sources. This passionate Canadian from Romania knows firsthand the impossible difficulties freedom fighters face, having suffered under the vicious oppression of the Ceausescus and lived to see her whole nation rise up as one against them. The last resort of a dictator is violence…
https://youtu.be/ojp_WNjlEM0
For now, the truckers are withdrawing, sensibly choosing not to be punching bags for Trudeau’s goons. But their cause is not going anywhere. We all live for the day when the innocent live freely and the guilty pay dearly.
UPDATE 2/22/22: Encouraging news that investment in Trump’s alternative social media company Truth Social has exploded from its inception this week with a waiting list of prospective investors itching to get in on the ground floor.
UPDATE 2/17/22: In dramatic opposition to the Vatican establishment including the Leftist Pope, Archbishop Vigano, truly a man of God and himself worthy of being Pope, wishes the Freedom Convoy well and illuminates for all of us that this is about much, much more than the right to go into a supermarket or refuse an inoculation. This is about the courage to resist those forces determined to encase the entire world in a globalist monolith of totalitarian control.
https://youtu.be/FXXM_BH4b7Y
UPDATE 2/18/22: Good news that parents continue to make their voices heard, demanding school choice and apolitical curricula for their kids. They are a front-line force holding back the tyranny looming over all of us. Ditto the Canadian truckers who are making it more evident by the day that they represent the essential best of the American spirit.
The arrogant politicians and media hailed truckers as heroes when it burnished their own phony image of themselves as “leaders.” But no longer as those heroes now demand basic rights, not a patronizing pat on the head.
2/16/22: Government’s response to the so-called Plague was a curse to the small business owner and individual citizen. By contrast, BigBiz in bed with BigGov pols enforcing the lockdowns grew like Topsy at the expense of any competition it couldn’t destroy in the free marketplace.
UPDATE 2/16/22: It’s a start. DJT Jr. has posted what is said to be DJT Sr’s first post on the new Trump Media site. We are paying bigly for letting them steal the election.
UDATE 2/11/22: Rumor has it from the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) that a trucker’s convoy may descend upon America during the Super Bowl. We are expected to believe that this growing number of free men and women pose a threat to national security as serious or even greater than Islamic terrorists or the millions of illegals pouring over our wide open southern border.
UPDATE 2/10/22: The Canadian people speak, directly, in their own words, of what all the hubbub is about. And it’s about what all liberty-loving people want.
UPDATE 2/6/22: Extraordinary and underexposed national monument for Veterans Day. In Arizona!
- The five pillars represent the unity of the five branches of the United States military serving steadfast together.
- Staggered in size with their appropriate military seal placements on each pillar, the pillars are arranged in Department of Defense order of precedence.
- At precisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun’s rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a solar spotlight on the glass mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States.
- The brick pavers within the Circle of Honor are inscribed with the names of U.S. servicemen and women, symbolizing the ‘support’ for the Armed Forces. The pavers are red, the pillars are white, and the sky is blue to represent America’s flag.
- The circle, flanked by two “Soldier Rows,” represents an unbreakable border.
UPDATE 2/6/22: The Donald holds forth, and one feels braced by his clarity and proven commitment.
All continuing developments in l’affaire Rogan moved to CANCEL CULTURE.
UPDATE 2/4/22: There’s always bad news galore when Leftists are in a hurry to ruin whatever they can before pushback. Alas for them, good news abounds in the form of major pushback and the gradual lifting of dissembling fog surrounding the Big Lies driving the madness.
Canadian Bad Seed Prince Justin, versed in Orwellian projection, states that Canadians are “disgusted” by the truckers’ convoy. In addition we are advised by Sir Nibs that our world is now blighted by a 16 wheeler basket of Deplorables. “AntiSemitism, Islamophobia, Anti-Black Racism, Homophobia, and, [of course not to shortchange anyone] Transphobia.” Who knew?
Sadly for him, those people for whom he claims to speak say otherwise. And engaged, freedom-loving Americans and kindred spirits worldwide concur.
These are the real people who do real work and live real, responsible lives against one wretched little tyrant devoid of any positive qualities while living large the delusion that he is the most significant person on earth.
https://youtu.be/3Z2ruoLixfA
The best news is the growing support for the truckers’ universal message from the citizenry and business community as the chimes of liberty around the world drown out fear. Despite the blue states whimpering in their cages begging not to be robbed of their chains, America can’t be far behind. We eagerly look forward to a torrential cascade pouring over the dam about to be permanently breached and washed away.
It’s happening. Be not afraid… May this be the final straw for all the “safety measures” that have proven to be nothing but cover to assert dictatorial powers over free people. The real WORKERS of the world are uniting, much to the dismay of the communists.
It’s not what you THINK you see. It says “Let’s go, Justin!” Or maybe it’s the imperative “Let go, Justin!!!”
2/2/22: After praising Joe Rogan for his open mike policy few weeks back, it’s disturbing to hear his fearful reaction to the threatened boycott by brain-fried former rock-and-rollers longing for 1969 again. Instead of framing himself and his show as a forum for free speech (which it is) open to all comers and letting listeners decide, he’s making conciliatory noises, promising to qualify and neutralize anyone who might upset the Neil Youngs of the world. Fair and Balanced in LeftLibWorld means obfuscation by propaganda, not factual rebuttal. Say it ain’t so, Joe!
UPDATE 2/2/22: A bit of good news for the persistent Colorado bakers tormented, fined and driven out of business by the Gay Mafia. The judgment against them holds but the $135K fine has been waived. Although years of their lives and peace of mind cannot be reimbursed, the money saved and the partial sense of victory for the most basic Constitutional rights supposedly accorded Americans offers some satisfaction.
UPDATE 2/1/22: Don Feder offers a tribute to Norman Rockwell and the America many of us think we should still be inhabiting.
UPDATE 2/5/22: An interview with former Congressman Devin Nunes, new CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) which includes TRUTH Social. What’s this? A real alternative to the crony capitalists Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube that doesn’t censor what they deem politically incorrect? Bring it on!
UPDATE 1/28/22: The forces of darkness using “Covid” mandates to suffocate healthy life in the name of saving it are meeting their match in the rousing, rollicking truck caravan North Of The Border, 43 miles (so far) of free people determined to override the mandates of our self-appointed jailers in BigGov. Beginning in Canada, the spirit is spreading to America. As always, the problem is not the evil gluttons for control but the passive acquiescence of those they wish to control. These truckers and their refusal to accommodate their slave masters provide the model of determination needed to recover our liberties. Can this be our Gdansk Solidarity moment?
UPDATE 1/27/22: There is no moral certainty more powerful than that of a parent fighting for his/her child. That spirit should imbue any and all resistance to the poison we’re being forced to swallow. Lacking any moral standing or beneficial ideas, our political opponents on the Left can only resort to character assassination, the term “racist” being their favorite means of silencing dissent. One gutsy Virginia delegate is having none of it, and his Dem opponents in the State House are left with only their malicious dishonesty to show for it. Let it be so for the 1001 nasty personal exchanges most of us have endured of late.
UPDATE 1/26/22: Music expresses the essential spirit of a culture, and it is encouraging to read that online song requests in 2022 (meaning dollars and cents accrued) are overwhelmingly for those going back (gasp!) to the 80s & 90s. Good news for those of us cringing at what passes for “music” nowadays.
Our suggestion for this and future generations is to go further back to the 20s/30s/40s/50s/60s when Broadway/Hollywood/Tin Pan Alley thrived. When good music also makes big money, we are gifted with a golden age; and the era of Gershwin/Porter/Kern/Rodgers/Berlin sung by Frank/Ella/Tony/Jo/Nat/Lena/Judy/Perry/Peg remains 24K. Complementing that extraordinary era, Rock/Pop in the 50s/60s thru Woodstock (’69) still provides endearing youthful nostalgia for us baby boomers. One hopes that in the absence of anything remotely comparable at present, the youth of today will seek out what permanently sustains millions of us old timers who remember what truly great songs were…and are.
UPDATE 1/29/22: Project Veritas is alive and well, going and still graphically exposing abuse of power more convincingly than anyone.
UPDATE 1/27/22: Any mention and move toward the continuation of MAGA via young, dedicated Americans seeking public office and accompanying mass media alternatives is cause for good cheer. Admirable former Congressman Devin Nunes has just given a first interview as CEO of “Trump Media & Technology Group.” What could sound better?
UPDATE 1/23/22:
UPDATE 1/11/22: America is a whole history of lost causes that somehow came out of the hopeless dark into the permanent light. One cannot despair if there is even a glimmer of hope and the willingness to forge on. Our forbears have repeatedly, nobly set the example.
UPDATE 1/8/22: Admiration in abundance watching this incredible rescue of a downed pilot seconds before a speeding commuter train smashes into the wreckage of his plane. Kudos, bravos, hats off and thanks to the courageous American cops who wasted not a moment and saved a life.
UPDATE 1/14/22; Trump’s future in political office remains a question mark. Meanwhile, the spirit of MAGA thrives robustly in the person of Joe Rogan. Just a guy online (with eclectic political tastes to be sure) who asks commonsensical questions and gets equally clear, truthful answers from his guests. We miss Rush, but Rogan is helping to fill the void in communicating the MAGA message by virtue of his curiosity and devotion to the truth.
UPDATE 1/3/22: From the reliable American Heartland:
UPDATE 1/1/21: There was a time when American movies (like IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE) reflected an optimistic America in touch with the eternal verities. Every individual was encouraged to be the ever-hopeful master of life’s brutal game granted the gifts of courage and persistence against the odds to realize a unique personal vision. Even in these cynical times, box office receipts indicate that people reject the prevailing negatives vomited out by clueless Woke Hollywood and still want what’s genuinely best for themselves, their families and friends.
UPDATE 1/1/22: PRAGER U continues apace providing the best online media resource for learning about and communicating the American Spirit to both young and old. Simple, clear, serious, entertaining, inspiring. No one does it better.
For anyone unfamiliar with this phenomenal site and movement, there is a new 20 minute documentary just out to enjoy.
