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2nd Amendment

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The Word

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TRUMP REMEMBERS THE FORGOTTEN

BY DR. ROBERT OWENS

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ot so long ago Washington all but gave up on our country’s blue-col la r workers. T hey washed their hands of those in the supposedly outdated manufacturing and energy sectors. The message the perpetually re-elected and their bureaucratic “experts” tried to sell us through their media megaphone was that with the rise of globalization these industries were hopelessly in decline. According to them for the vast portions of the country they contemptuously call the “Rust Belt,” there was nothing anyone could ever do to change that.

Mocking then-candidate Donald Trump’s pledge to bring these jobs back President Obama asked, “What magic wand do you have?” It turns out

no magic wand was necessary. All we needed is a President willing to fight for the forgotten workers across America with policies that put U.S. industry first instead of ones that sold us out to the globalists.

Beginning as soon as he entered the Oval Office President Trump turned the accepted wisdom of the inside-the-Beltway Deep State on its head. Instead of going along to get along the populist president repudiated the globalist agenda of the BushClinton-Obama triumvirate.

He cast aside the downward trajectory of managed decline and adopted a policy agenda that’s made life easier for America’s working people and the small businesses that employ the SEE TRUMP REMEMBERS | PAGE 20

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Outsider’s Perspective: To Wield The 1st

BY DAVID JORGE

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want to propose a thought experiment. Envision these three hypothetical situations.

Imagine yourself discussing with your neighbor about how much you disagree with the War overseas. You then see the terror in his eyes because you are not supposed to say such opinions out loud. “It is best if you only think that way within your house,” he says while frantically glancing sideways.

Fancy yourself an artist. As a painter, you work hard in perfecting your art and dedicate time and effort to produce a work of beauty, and you have to face a government official’s explanation of why your painting does not reflect, or even clearly depict, the values of the nation. Or as a musician, your lyrics might cause you to be banned and become socially ostracized in the name of not “disturbing the peace” with “exaggerations” or “persuasive lies?”

The last example, please bear with me: For a moment put yourself in the skin of a devout religious person who hides his Bible or Quran in a backpack on the way to this week’s service. You do not go to a temple of any sort but to a clandestine house, a new one this week because the last pastor, or rabbi, or imam was made and had to run away during the week because the local authorities grew too suspicious of the popularity of the service.

Why this thought exercise? You might wonder. It is all to bring your mind to a place of reflection. Have you ever stopped mid-sentence in the middle of an offensive commentary because you don’t know who might be listening? Have you ever preferred not to make public your faith? Have you ever employed innuendos in order to convey an idea so you can have plausible deniability in front of a court of law?

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for just disagreeing? If your answer is no, you can consider yourself fortunate enough to experience a marvelous concept called freedom of expression.

Expression is a human right. Nobody can grant you “expression”. You simply express yourself according to your imagination and your interpretation of reality. Expressing oneself is not limited to the spoken or written word but to any creative activity that requires an individual’s imagination to exist.

This involves art in any form, as well as architecture, thought, opinion, spiritual and scientific beliefs, and language.

Of course, being able to express yourself freely does not necessarily means that what your (the individual’s) belief is factually true, right, or even “good”.

Expression is extremely subjective, and it is meant to be that way so nobody can force you to accept a reality that you disagree with. That is what makes it an individual right.

The Bill of Rights of the United States of America explicitly recognizes the right to free expression in its First Amendment. As of today, this concept is still revolutionary. The First Amendment protects every American from being censored, forced or compelled

into a particular opinion or belief. Why is this so important? Well you saw some of the possible consequences of not being free to express yourself right at the beginning of this article.

Why going through all of this? It is simple. Today we face an unprecedented dilemma in America. Freedom of expression, our most sacred First

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2020 Vision or DIVISION?

BY DR. JIM SULLIMAN

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s we look forward to the new year and new decade, there is one dynamic that can be seen in multiple, apparently disparate, areas. This deadly trend can be seen in religion, psychology, politics, education, the media, families, and individuals. It is both blatant and insidious.

Religious leaders are faced with the choice of being faithful transmitters of the “Word made flesh” and proclaiming countercultural messages or, instead, preaching words that will be more “acceptable” to the congregation. At the risk of having fewer people in their pews, many ministers have separated from the teachings of Jesus, causing many churches to become more and more worldly. “If I take

stands against abortion, same-sex marriages, and self-serving actions, I may lose my members.” For fear of people separating from their church, ministers more and more separate from Christ. Feel-good messages replace hard truths and the “you can be your own god” message that Lucifer preached to Eve is repeated over and over again.

The field of counseling and psychotherapy adds to this mantra by often suggesting that one’s happiness can be achieved by thinking of oneself first and foremost. This belief may be reinforced by suggesting that significant help that is rendered to another person is “enabling” and any sacrifice that we make for others is merely a reflection of a “martyr complex.” It allows an individual to think that it is healthy to be unconcerned about the needs of others.

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Politics today has become increasingly divisive. No longer is one party simply in the minority as we work together for the common good. While there has always been disagreement and discord between different points of view, the vitriol expressed today is like none other that I have seen. The Democratic Party, to which I was once a very active member, has become a faction that bears little resemblance to what it was in the day of JFK. The hatred that it now spews is unprecedented and will hopefully also leave it “unpresidented,” as well, as it continues its assault on the unborn.

Our educational system under the guise of inclusivity and tolerance has promoted separation from parental standards and the normalization of the abnormal. Recently, I had a 16-yearold in my office who was brought by her concerned parents because of her involvement with another girl. She was extremely popular in her school and knew many people in her age bracket in several different cities. I asked her, from her classes and experience, to give me her best estimate as to how many people of all ages were gay, bisexual, or straight. Unhesitatingly, she responded “one third, one third, one third.” From what she had learned in her schooling, opposite-sex attraction exclusively was something experienced by a minority! Any opinion to the contrary was outdated and intolerable...no room for discussion...you are on one side or the other.

The flames of this “one side against the other” are fanned by a media insistent on “taking sides” rather than presenting both sides of an argument in an objective, neutral manner. The “news” has become instead a subjective expression of personal opinion designed to lead the viewer away from positions deemed unacceptable by the presenter.

It is not facts that are shared but words that are crafted to bring people over to “our side” in opposition to the “other side.”

Families have become increasingly more splintered and the nuclear family,

so much a norm in the past, now finds itself on the endangered species list.

Children growing to adulthood in the same home with their mother and father are now in the minority as more of them are born out of wedlock or experience the consequences of divorce.

Family members no longer speak to one another for years, if ever, because of “irreconcilable differences” between other siblings or their parents. Differences in religion, politics, worldly success and “tolerance” are often the issues responsible. As the family unit disintegrates, it puts its members at risk, as well.

Looking at the future, we can expect the number of suicides to dramatically increase. While it is easy to think that suicide is primarily more prevalent among young people, that concision is reached because it is one of the three leading causes of death in that population. Cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses mask the number of self-inflicted death among the older population...a population that is exploding in numbers thanks to the aging baby boomers. Separation from God, families, and friends put the elderly at great risk to separate from themselves.

Many suicides will never be reported as such because they will be done in ways to look like “accidents.”

Today, we often hear about “blue states” and “red states” but far less often about the “United States.” If we are to decline as a nation, it will not be because of the flames of war but rather through “infernal” combustion.

Above all else, Satan seeks our death and destruction by creating a divide between us and God, others, and within ourselves. Those divides are accelerating at an alarming rate and if that trajectory is unchanged, then extrapolating to this year and the future is not difficult.

We will experience the very bad effects of 2020 “DI”VISION Submitted by James R. Sulliman, Ph.D. Individual, marriage, and family therapist in Abilene, TX. “Live life courageously”

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Which Is Really the Party Filled with Hate?

BY CHARLES JOHNS

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ow that Pelosi’s democrats have Impeached President Trump, the democrats have stretched truth beyond acceptable bounds. Everyone knows politicians stretch facts to suit their agenda, but Democrats constantly lie about President Trump’s words.

Schiff even invented words to distort the President’s meaning to fit the democrat narrative. The most egregious of the many false statements by Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler, is their saying Trump “demanded” the new leader of Ukraine investigate former VP Biden and his son, to aid Trump’s campaign. Really?

As I write this, NO democrat candidate has been chosen. Trump stated he wanted to know corruption in

Ukraine was being addressed before he sent money or weapons, and never demanded any quid-pro-quo.

The fact corruption involved some democrats is their fault, NOT HIS.

Remember Lois Lerner at the IRS targeting conservatives? She retired.

Fast & Furious got a border guard killed and Eric Holder was found in Contempt of Congress. But nothing

has happened to either of them, and it all happened during the media backed Obama administration.

The problem for democrats is, Vice President Biden while in office, did “demand” Ukraine fire the person investigating Burisma, and it was caught on video. His son Hunter was on the board, making $50,000.00 to $85,000.00 a month, though he has no expertise in the field. Even he had to admit his father’s name and position probably had something to do with his getting the job. Joe Biden lied, saying no person questioned what he did, because many republicans did. With that FACT as background, democrats went after Trump for asking Zelensky to do “us” a favor, though democrats changed it to DO ME a favor and investigate SEE WHICH IS REALLY THE PARTY FILLED WITH HATE? | PAGE 7

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corruption at Burisma. President Trump surprised democrats when he released the transcript of his call to the new Ukraine leader, so they had to find something in it to use against him. Even though Trump said, “No quid-pro-quo” democrats had to find wrong. They hate Trump so much, Schiff “invented” words Trump DID NOT say. Schiff changed his words to reflect what Schiff wished he had said, so they could impeach him. Schiff can lie from the house floor and not be taken to court…a little-known fact.

Nadler’s hearing was biased with four pro-democrat Constitutional experts.

If a good liberal can’t win at the ballot box, lies become their tool of choice, and losing another justice to Trump cannot be allowed. The court is the only place where liberals get their power… illegally.

Professor Turley was the only democrat expert who left his bias at the hearing chamber door, testifying there was nothing there to impeach the president. The three, biased against Trump, said he should be impeached.

We know the major news media has been against Trump since before he was elected, and for three years they have wanted him impeached as if they are part of the democrat party. Maybe they are part of the “swamp” that needs draining. Media Swamp Creatures can be found all over radio, TV, on-line, and in print, as if DNC operatives. Studies

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And they want us to believe they are fair. Could it be they too are circling the drain and trying their best to hold on with impeachment? Now that we have PROOF the FBI lied to the FISA court, for a warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign, the media is scared they will go down the drain with the other swamp creatures.

Pelosi says she does not hate Trump but prays for him as a good catholic, but she does hate being called a hater. I would love to ask her, as a good catholic, why she is for abortion and homosexual marriage since both are opposed by the catholic church. Is she a renegade starting a reformation? Does she understand the bible better than the Pope? I think democrats are looking for a plug to stop the drain, but it keeps popping out as more and more liberals get caught.

One can only hope and pray.

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American Exceptionalism 2020

BY DONALD R MAY

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he United States of America is exceptional not because of what the American people have built and achieved but because the United States of America

is founded on Liberty and the fundamental truth that God creates all people with equal rights. Our Founding Fathers established our government for the primary purpose of protecting those God-given rights. Our Constitution establishes our government as one of laws and not of elite people. Our Constitution intends for our government to be run by honorable men and women who are elected and appointed with the permission of the people.

American Exceptionalism is the inevitable result of the Constitutional structure of the government of the United States and the opportunities that have resulted from this grand experiment in Liberty. Our Founding Fathers established a “novus ordo seclorum” (new order of the ages) that remains unique in World history. Our nation was founded on the concept that people can rule themselves and do not need elite rulers to direct them.

Liberty, which is freedom combined with personal responsibility and the ability to fail, became the pillar of light that brought those seeking freedom and opportunity to our shores. Our Constitution allowed men and women to work hard protected by their government and not controlled or directed by tyrants and elitist busy bodies.

The American people believe that all people deserve to have the God-given

rights we enjoy and realize if the freedom of others is not protected, freedom will eventually be lost everywhere.

We have fought wars to restore and to protect freedom. We have freely given of our blood, sweat, and treasure to secure and to restore the freedom and safety of others.

Decades of misdirected political leadership have detracted from American Exceptionalism and have temporarily restrained it. People claiming government bureaucrats built this nation and that personal hard work and sacrifice are irrelevant have only helped to strengthen the resolve of the American people to throw off the yoke of repression that has been placed on them by the corrupt actions of both major political parties.

The United States of America is a Republic and not a Democracy, which provides a foundation for our Liberty.

The American people are served by elected representatives, whose courage and wisdom is required in order to protect us from the tyranny of the majority. Our Republican form of government protects our individual freedoms from the power and passions of democratic mob rule.

We give aid to other countries so their people can prosper and eventually enjoy the freedoms our Founding Fathers secured for us. We give to other countries and do not ask for tribute or repayment, even from those we have defeated in war.

The exceptionalism of our nation is shown in the fact that Britain, Germany, and Japan, the three greatest nations we have defeated in battle, became our closest allies. Our nation helped Japan, Germany, and the rest of free Europe to rebuild and to restore their freedoms. Japan and Germany became great economic powers. We Americans give others a hand and the encouragement to achieve great things.

Our Exceptionalism is shown in how

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we treat our defeated enemies. A young German boy, who later married a cousin of mine, was drafted into Hitler’s military at the age of eleven. He received limited military training and was sent to Normandy. Soon after D-Day, he was captured by Americans and became a prisoner of war. He told me the best meal he had eaten in more than four years was the meal the American soldiers gave him the night of his capture.

Exceptionalism is an ideal that is not crushed by the misguided or evil deeds of a few. Even though FDR’s friends bought their property for a few cents on the dollar and they and their families became prisoners in relocation camps, most Americans of Japanese decent remained fiercely patriotic to the United States of America. The 442nd Combat Infantry Group, composed of Americans of Japanese decent, became the most decorated unit in U.S. Army history.

Ordinary Americans do exceptional things every day. When an earthquake or typhoon strikes, Americans are on the ground rescuing, comforting, and restoring. Often one of our aircraft carrier groups is parked offshore providing helicopters for search, rescue, and transport. Medical help, food, fresh water, shelters, and clothing are supplied. Payment is usually not requested.

Our confidence and work ethic should not be confused with arrogance or elitism. We believe that doing good for others and protecting them is what we Americans do. We expect much from ourselves. We work long hard hours, take chances, deal with failure, learn from our mistakes, innovate, create, and treat others as we would want to be treated.

Submitted by Donald R May, Lubbock, TX, retina surgeon, farmer, medical economist, decorated Air Force Veteran, and former medical school professor, department chair, and dean.

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You Are Being Taxed to Lobby Against Your Interests

BY TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE DUSTIN BURROWS

“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson writing in the Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty.

Texans are famous for their independence. However, it appears there’s at least one thing the vast majority agree on: government should not be spending Texans’ hard-earned tax dollars on lobbyists. According to a survey of registered voters in Texas, 91% oppose using tax dollars to fund lobbyists, with 80% saying they strongly oppose it. Despite this agreement, you are being taxed to pay for lobbyists. To add insult to injury, many of these lobbyists are hired to

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Over the last ten years, cities, counties, and special purpose districts have spent between $124 million and $300 million on taxpayer funded lobbying.

What do Texans get from the taxpayer-funded lobbyists? Higher spending and higher taxes?

While you may agree with some of the things being lobbied for, chances are you don’t know all of the things your taxes were used to lobby for. For example, did you know tax dollars were used to: (a) promote illegal immigration by having so called “sanctuary cities” in Texas; (b) promote radical environmentalists who want to hurt our Oil and Gas industry by banning fracking; and, (c) make it more difficult for first responders who are injured in the line of duty from getting

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As larger cities are electing more progressive mayors, our taxes are increasingly used to lobby against conservative policy. In the last Session, the vast majority of Republicans in the House and Senate voted to stop some of these practices. I proudly joint authored this bill. Unfortunately, it failed when a handful of Republicans joined with the Democrats to defeat it.

I believe enough is enough. Please join me in demanding more transparency in what tax dollars are being used to lobby for and against. Please join me in calling for the end of this practice.

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What is Dhimmitude?

Part Three of a Three Part Series

BY VICTOR SHARPE

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he extermination and genocide of Christians in the Middle East – just like the Turkish genocide against the Christian Armenians in 1915 – is happening now: even as you read this.

Jihad is believed in by millions of Moslems around the Third world, as much as by Moslems living in America, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. It is a belief, passionately held, that one day the entire world will be forced to accept Islam and the will of Allah.

It is vital, therefore, that the general public in every non-Moslem country be made aware that Moslems consider

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themselves in a perpetual state of war, however outwardly peaceful they may sometimes appear to their non-Moslem neighbors.

If Islamic armies are unable to defeat what they consider the so-called infidels, then a period of “truce” exists, which has several conditions. These include allowing Islam to be propagated, the building of numerous mosques, and the requirement of Shariah law co-equal with civil law. If a non-Moslem nation forbids it, then that nation will be considered subject to violence through “holy” jihad.

It is nearly impossible for sophisticated and secularized Western elites to understand or accept such medieval concepts, let alone the idea that a 7th century religious war is being waged against them.

But their dismissal and amused disregard of what is taking place is as calamitous as that exemplified by myopic politicians in Britain and America before the Second World War. The lone voice in the wilderness at that time, Winston Churchill, appealed in vain to the British political leaders who had not the ears to hear or the eyes to see the growing fascist menace during the 1930s posed by Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy.

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democracy, are all alien to the imams, mullahs and assorted tyrants of the Islamic world.

Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Boko Haram, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, ad nauseam, all consider Judeo-Christian civilization as being in theological error.

For them, the entire human race must embrace Allah’s pre-eminence, and the Moslem believer is the divine instrument to bring about the “Umma” (worldwide Moslem community) in whatever way possible, including warfare and nuclear terror.

Jihad has reappeared as a way of wiping out the humiliation the Arab and Moslem world has felt as Western power became ascendant, especially after the defeat of the Ottoman Turkish Caliphate at the end of the First World War. With a fabulous and never ending flow of petrodollars pouring into Arab and Moslem coffers, the belief among Moslems is that the time is now right for Islam to reassert itself in dominating the world and bringing it to Allah through terror, all-out war, and including nuclear war, if necessary.

The corollary to jihad is dhimmitude. This is what appeasement by non-Moslems to Islamist threats, demands, and terror leads to. Winston Churchill would have been shocked

but not surprised at today’s craven appeasement or even empathy towards Islam displayed by elitists in the Western political echelons.

Today, America and Britain are seduced by the unholy trinity of political correctness, multiculturalism, and diversity. These idiocies hobble the minds of too many officials and politicians so that they are incapable or unwilling to prevent the pernicious introduction into America of stealth Islamic Sharia law or win effectively on the battlefield against jihadists in the Middle East, Afghanistan, or wherever this terrifying struggle may take us.

It is in marked contrast to the manner in which an earlier existential Islamic threat to Europe hundreds of years ago was defeated decisively at Tours, Sicily, Iberia (Spain and Portugal), Lepanto, Vienna, Greece and in the Balkans.

But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamo-Nazi aggression, we may all be faced, sooner than we might think, with the choice of forced conversion to Islam or subservience and wretchedness as dhimmis.

Better, therefore, for us all to be aware of the facts and not be dummies.

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ibertyUnderFire warned in June 2018, “If Big Tech can control the information flow then they can also influence the outcome of the midterms and even future presidential elections should they succumb to a collective political view.” Big Tech is defined as Internet giants, Facebook, Google, Twitter and YouTube.

They have. New evidence shows them poised to influence the 2020 presidential election potentially shifting 15 million votes to their favored candidate without leaving a paper trail.

So says Robert Epstein, Ph. D, a research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavior Research and Technology, probably Americas leading authority on Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs, having published widely in the area since 1981. What makes him especially credible is that he is left on the political spectrum, a Democrat, and a “published supporter” of Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Why did he testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, July 16, 2019, revealing this threat to our national security, likely to hurt his own political party?

He explained, “I value my country and democracy more than I value any party or candidate.”

He offered three disturbing findings from his extensive research. First, “in 2016 Google’s search algorithms likely impacted undecided voters in a way that shifted at least 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton, whom I supported. I know this because I preserved more than 13,000 election related searches prior to election day and Google’s search results were significantly biased in favor of Secretary Clinton. I know the number of votes had sifted because I conducted dozens of controlled experiments that

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measure how opinions shift when search results are biased.”

Dr. Epstein continued, “I call this shift SEME, the (Search Engine Manipulation Effect) which I first published in the proceedings of the National Council of Sciences in 2015.

Biased search results can easily produce shifts in the opinions and voting preferences of undecided voters by up to 80% in some demographic groups because people blindly trust high ranking search results over lower ones. SEME is an especially dangerous form of influence because it is, in effect, subliminal. It also leaves no paper trail for authorities to trace.

It’s an example of a short lived or esemeral experience. That’s a phrase you’ll find in internal emails that have leaked recently from Google. I now am studying seven such manipulations like SEME and, unlike Billboards, or those Russian placed adds, these manipulations are invisible and non-competitive. They’re controlled entirely by Big Tech companies and there is no way to counteract them.”

Second, “on election day in 2018, the Go Vote reminder that Google displayed on its home page gave one political party at least 800,000 more votes than it gave the other party. That reminder was not a public service, it was a vote manipulation.”

Third “in the week leading up to the 2018 election bias in Google search results may have shifted upwards of 78.2 million votes, spread across many races, to the candidates of one political party. This number is based on bias in data captured by my 2018 monitoring system which preserved more than 47,000 election related searched conducted by a diverse group of American voters.”

Dr. Epstein shared how Go Vote, just one of several Big Tech’s subliminal

messaging techniques, was used in the 2010 and 2018 elections. Google published the results of its 2010 election interference in 2012. “It had 60 million Facebook users involved. They sent out a Go Vote reminder and they got something like 360,000 more people to get off their sofas and go vote, who otherwise, would have stayed home.”

The Go Vote technique was not used in 2016 because these companies were overconfident that Hillary would win without it. But it was used again in the 2018 election. “We have lots of data to support that….” Epstein estimates that had Mark Zuckerberg used this technique in 2016 it would have given Hillary Clinton an additional 450,000 votes.

Although Go Vote was not used in 2016 other messaging techniques were, resulting in a manipulative range of “2.6 million rock bottom” and possibly up to 10.4 million votes moved in favor of Hillary Clinton. The fact that Hillary Clinton with Big Tech election interference did not overwhelm Trump, documents how fearful voters were of her.

Dr. Epstein warns that “in 2020 you can bet that all of these companies are going to go all out. And the messages that they are using are invincible, they are subliminal. They are more powerful than most any effects I have ever seen in the behavioral sciences and I have been in the behavior sciences for almost 40 years.” Adding later, that they are likely to be aggressive in the other subliminal techniques as well, naming “the search engine manipulation effects, the search suggestion effects, the answer broad effects, [and] a number of others. They control these and no one can counteract them.

These are not competitive. These are tools that they have at their disposal exclusively.”

Given Big Tech’s election interference in three past elections and the refinement of additional subliminal techniques giving them the power to shift 15 million votes to a favored party, it is easy to see who will choose

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future presidents without our knowing votes were shifted. Outside retaining elections to persuade us that we participated, elections would become meaningless.

Submitted by Dr. Harold Pease who is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

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oday (at the time of this writing) is my birthday. I am grateful for many things in my life.

I am blessed with good friends, excellent professors, and a wonderful fiancé who’s the love of my life.

I have a humble apartment to call home for now. I always have enough food. I am graduating with my bachelor’s degree this May with no debt.

However, as I reflect on my birthday, I realize I have another thing to be grateful for: birth.

Birth is taken for granted, especially in this modern, scientific, so-called civilized age. True, we hear and know about the horrors of mothers and babies dying during the birth process, but this is the exception rather than the rule. We all know of those who have tragically persevered through miscarriages, but health science has reduced the prevalence of these tragedies.

Today, the vast majority of infants who never leave the womb alive are not taken by disease or accident. No. They are killed purposely. This statistic is startling. In 1998 (the year I was conceived and born), there were

about 27 abortions for every 100 live births in the United States according to Statista. That means I (and the average U.S. baby) had about a 21% chance (27 out of 127) of never leaving the womb alive. One-fifth of my birth year cohort is dead. They were dead before they even had a chance to cry. Imagine if one-fifth of your graduating high school class never existed? Of better yet, imagine if they were killed in some mass tragedy? You would never forget such a thing.

Praise God that the abortion to live birth ratio has decreased. As of 2016, about 19 babies are killed per 100 babies born. This leaves a 16% chance of not surviving the womb. This is still horrendous. Still genocidal. However, progress is being made. Nonetheless, a human is not a statistic. Very few people compared to the whole population of the United States died in the terror attacks of 9/11. Very few people die in comparison to the population via mass shooting each year. Regardless, we mourn the deaths of these people not because of how many died but because people died, and those of us who are decent do not wish death on the SEE WE’RE MISSING A GENERATION | PAGE 19

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What Makes America Great

BY JACOB NICHOLSON AN 8TH GRADER AT KINGDOM PREP ACADEMY

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hat makes America great?

Many ideas for the cause of America’s greatness are freedom, military strength, culture, technologic innovation, geographic location, economic structure, government, and the Constitution. For America to have all of these attributes while still being relatively young as a country is remarkable. America’s future is extremely bright because of all of these strong factors.

One specific reason that I think is crucial for America is its Constitution and government. When I watch the news or read an article about what is happening in different countries, I realize how blessed I am to live in America. I am so thankful that the country I live in has a working constitution and a president with limited powers whereas other countries still struggle with unjust monarchies or dictatorships. America also has a very efficient voting system. There is no discrimination against different genders, religions, races, or social classes. Almost every citizen over eighteen is able and encouraged to vote. Without America’s government, America would be significantly worse.

Another reason that I think makes America great is how America provides the opportunity to become what you

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Harry S. Truman once said, “America was not built on fear, it was built on courage and imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” I think this is the perfect explanation of what makes America

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Race: The Root of Racism

BY RUBY GOLD

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eady. Set. GO! And the race is off! Oh wait? We’re talking about a different type of race today. Are you Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, etcetera? Everyone (especially those more towards the left) seems to be urging everyone else to ‘talk about it.’ “We need to have these tough conversations,” people say. “We need to bridge the gap between White and Black America.” (Forget about Asian America or Hispanic America. For some reason it always seems to come down to White versus Black.) However, it is the concept of different races which allows for racism in the first place.

Thinking about race, at least in the way everyone seems to want us to, makes you more racist. Here’s why.

The fear of racism breeds racism. Let me quote Jedi Grandmaster Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Let’s unpack this quote and its relevance to the race issue.

Now, I have not done any scientific studies, but I believe many well-meaning people of the majority (White people) are often scared, genuinely scared about being racist against the minorities. Why are people scared?

Why am I scared about being racist?

Well, there are two possible answers.

Either I am actually racist and afraid

it will pop out at any moment, and my efforts to repress my racism will come to naught, or I have been told I am racist so much and so often that I begin to internalize it.

I know I’m not racist. How do I know this? Because I do not believe that anyone is any less valuable or virtuous simply because of the color of his or her skin. Now perhaps it can be argued that implicit racial biases exist in everyone.

However, even if this true, biases do not make one racist. To call someone racist as a general categorization means that the person actually believes that people are prejudged based on their skin color, their biological race. It may also mean that the person acts in a way that is generally in agreement with the

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afore-described belief regardless of whether or not the person assents to the belief. Regardless, implicit biases (which should be combated; I am not trying to excuse them) do not equal bona fide racism.

Even though I know I am not racist, I find myself becoming more and more nervous when I interact with people from minority groups who are not my friends. (That’s what I get for majoring in a social science.) I don’t want to be racist or to say something insensitive or offensive! I own this fear. I choose to give fear power over me, and I should not. However, ‘To be offended’ has become a virtue in this society and as one of my professors so aptly and humorously pointed out, “That’s not a fruit of the Spirit.”

I suspect I am not the only one who feels this fear. Where will this fear lead? According to Yoda, to the “dark side.” That is, fear, when not managed and used appropriately, will lead to corruption, to suffering, and to pain.

To Hell. What exactly am I fearing?

I fear being racist. More specifically, I fear minorities calling me racist! I fear minorities! What? That seems incongruent. I just said I am not racist.

How, then, can I be afraid of minorities? This is my point. I do not have

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racist beliefs, but if I dig into my emotions, I have seemingly racist feelings.

These feelings are not the idea that one race is better than another. Quite contrarily! These seemingly racist feelings stem from the manipulation of beliefs of racial equality! Fear of racism will breed racism, and it is identity politics and the people pushing them which causes this fear.

After this fear, according to Yoda, comes anger. You can only walk on eggshells so long before you begin to resent the eggshells. No relationship can thrive on fear whether it be between man and woman, man and God, or man and man on the microlevel. And most certainly the relationship between different ‘races’ and ethnicities cannot thrive on fear at the macrolevel.

Resentment and anger can lead to hate. While anger is the emotion that signals something is wrong or violating one’s boundaries, hatred is an act of the will. To hate is to will evil for someone.

It does not need to be stated how hatred easily leads to suffering, and thus the path to the dark side is complete.

How long can our society bear the constant accusations of racism and systemic discrimination before we once again become that way? Already, many schools and colleges are attempting to partially re-segregate as if it were virtuous! How do we conquer this?

Well, here’s the simple answer. Stop believing in race as anything more than a social construct. Stop placing your identity in the color of your skin. Contrarily, place your identity in something concrete: your family, your nation, your humanity, your God. Furthermore, speak your mind and don’t care about being “insensitive.” Be gracious, don’t be a jerk, and don’t be afraid.

Ultimately, there’s only one race: the human race. And if there’s only one race, you can’t be racist. To base your identity on a social construct is folly.

Submitted by Ruby Gold, Local College Student, Lubbock, Texas.

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n the year 2020, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in America, and said, “Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans.”

He gave Noah the blueprints, saying, “You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights.”

Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark! “Noah!” He roared, “I’m about to start the rain! Where is the Ark?” “Forgive me, Lord,” begged Noah, “but things have changed.”

“I needed a Building Permit.”

“I’ve been arguing with the Boat Inspector about the need for a sprinkler system.”

“My homeowners association claim that I’ve violated the neighborhood by-laws by building the Ark in my back yard and exceeding the height limitations. We had to go to the local Planning Committee for a decision.”

“Then the City Council and the Electricity Company demanded a ton of money for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions, to clear the passage for the Ark’s move to the sea. I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear none of it.”

“Getting the wood was another problem. There’s a ban on cutting local trees in order to save the Greater Spotted Barn Owl.” “I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go!”

“When I started gathering the animals, PETA took me to court. They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodations were

too restrictive and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space.”

“Then the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that I couldn’t build the Ark until they’d conducted an environmental impact study on Your proposed flood.”

“I’m still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I’m supposed to hire for my building crew.”

“The Immigration Department Is checking the visa status of most of the people who want to work.”

“The labor unions say I can’t use my sons. They insist I have to hire only union workers with ark-building experience.”

“To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I’m trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species.”

“So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this ark.”

“Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine and a rainbow stretched across the sky.”

Noah looked up in wonder and asked, “You mean you’re not going to destroy the world?”

“No,” said the Lord. “ The Government beat me to it.

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Recruiting to Win in 2020

BY JAMES DICKEY, REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS CHAIRMAN

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he 2020 election is already taking shape here in Texas.

In order for candidates appear on the Primary ballot in 2020, they must file with their respective Party offices. Those whose districts are contained entirely within one county must file with their county party and those whose district spans more than one county, even if by just one precinct, must file with the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) in Austin. Just a short time ago, the filing period came to a close which left us with a good picture of the candidates running for office as Republicans.

Following the 2018 election, we set forth numerous goals which would lead to victory in the 2020

election. We’re excited to announce that we’ve accomplished one of the most important of those goals - for the first time in recent memory, we have a Republican candidate in every Congressional race in Texas and a Republican candidate in each of the target State House races. We even have candidates challenging incumbent Democrats in districts like HD 31 south of San Antonio to the border and HD 74 which covers a considerable portion of the Texas and Mexico border. This now forces incumbent Democrats who have given considerable aid to others when unchallenged to focus on their own campaigns.

Not only have we increased the number of candidates challenging Democrats, we’ve increased the total number of candidates by over15%. We had 26 women file to run for Congress

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as Republicans which is more than double the 12 women who filed to run for Congress from Texas in 2018.

We’ve seen this significant increase for several reasons: first, the RPT activated the Candidate Recruiting Task Force led by Hamilton County GOP Chairwoman Cat Parks; and second, because Texans are ready for Congress to get back to work and tired of Democrats’ seemingly endless efforts to obstruct the results of the 2016 election.

Chairwoman Parks’ efforts led to the biggest candidate recruiting effort for the RPT in history. We are immensely thankful to her and her team for their efforts. By making it clear that our Party is able and willing to welcome, train, and assist new candidates across Texas, they naturally saw an increase in those who share our beliefs willing to stand up and those who stood up more accurately reflecting the diversity in the Republican Party of Texas. .

Of course, just getting on the ballot to challenge Democrat incumbents is not enough. We must now support these candidates in the General Election and help lead them to victory over those Democrats. Fortunately, we’ve raised more money, hired more staff, and deployed more programs to date than we have in the past. We’re putting in the work not only to defend our Republican seats,

but to win back seats lost and take longtime Democrat seats.

The road to victory in 2020 will require a lot of hard work, but we’ve put together a team that is eager to take on any challenge the Democrats throw at Texas.

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Be Mindful of Others Trying to Control You

BY GARY W MOORE

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he national media is absorbed by impeachment proceedings while most of the nation has tuned out. Regardless of which side of the aisle you reside, most Americans recognize the extreme partisan agenda of the process. There is no thoughtful discussion of events, only hardline talking points crafted to influence the proceedings.

I’m not a political columnist. My mission is to awaken the optimism of my readers and encourage a more positive approach to life. As I have pointed out numerous times, optimistic people live happier, healthier and more successful lives. This claim isn’t just my opinion but proven through a plethora of clinical and university studies. Now there is evidence that optimistic people may live as much as seven years longer than those with a pessimistic outlook on life.

We become what we focus upon.

What we allow to occupy space in our heads, influences our every action and deeply impacts our overall attitude. Because of civic duty, I am keeping up with the impeachment proceedings, but I also recognize it is largely based upon political agenda and less on actionable facts … which I believe is shameful.

If you watch the proceedings and make your own decision, good for you. However, most people are busy making a living and navigating their lives. Few can sit and take it all in as it happens. Instead, they tune into their favorite television opinion journalist (and I use that title loosely) to get their info. The problem is that none of the talking heads want to give you facts. Instead, their goal is to win you over to their way of thinking. They want to seize your mind and, in the process, influence your vote. Period.

Sean Hannity is a partisan opinion influencer on Fox News, while Rachel Maddow is the same for MSNBC. Philosophically they could not be more different. They are polar-opposites, yet one-and-the-same when it comes to their agenda of winning you over to their side. They are both shamelessly partisan, mouthing political talking points from their side of the aisle and are nothing more than political commercials for their party and agenda. And its not just Hannity and Maddow, it is most hosts on our primetime cable channels. There is not a network in America today that isn’t openly displaying their bias. Take for example, Bloomberg Business News, a formerly reliable source. They have openly declared that they will only cover Donald Trump and his campaign and not a single Democratic challenger. What happened to Bloomberg News? They are no longer a news network but an activist machine for their founder who is now running for President.

Did “real news” ever exist? Or are we only finally waking up to the fact that television and radio pundits have been trying to manipulate us all along?

So, what is optimistic and positive about all this?

Hannity, Maddow and other pundits only have the power we give them by watching and believing they are in the news business. They are not. Becoming aware of the reality of their manipulation allows you the option to decide not to be manipulated. When we are aware of what their agenda really is, we become more discerning. We weigh their claims for reality rather than accepting whatever comes out of their mouths. Once we begin doing so, the talking heads lose their power over us and we instead take the power back.

That is positive.

I encourage all of us to be discerning

this election cycle and beyond. Ask questions. Listen to and read sources from all channels and stations. Do not allow a familiar face on a television screen that you have never met to control your beliefs. Become a smart and savvy citizen, not a clone of your favorite talking head. They are not your friend. They do not have your best interests at heart. We are smarter than that. We deserve better than what they are dishing.

I believe the American people are smart and want the best for our nation and world. We have been hijacked by “infotainment” masquerading as news, but once we realize what they are trying to do, we take back control.

Be positive. Be discerning. Always remain aware of the agenda. Get your information from a variety of

sources… and make decisions based upon your educated opinion.

Gary W. Moore is a freelance columnist, speaker and author of three books including the award-winning, critically acclaimed, “Playing with the Enemy.” Follow Gary on Twitter @GaryWMoore721 and at www.garywmoore.com

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BY JOHNNY ROWLAND

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ppa rently the Bloomberg funded communists who have taken over the state government of Virginia, haven’t studied much United States history. They should probably Google “Shot heard round the world” and learn just what attempted act kicked off the American Revolution. British troops were on their way to disarm the local citizens, who were just getting too uppity and talking about some “self-rule” nonsense! Well, we know how that turned out, or at least those of us do who are familiar with the account of what transpired, when a tyrannical government finally decided to clamp down on those errant colonists. It was one of the first efforts to enforce “common sense” gun control with what was essentially a preview of the original “red flag” laws; those naughty colonists just might hurt someone if they were allowed to keep their dangerous weapons!

And yes, they possessed “assault weapons” of the day!

Tyranny is still tyranny, regardless of where it comes from, be it a foreign country or state or even local government which is over-reaching its constitutional authority. Virginia just may become the new Concord, if the communists in the state government decide to try their hand at American Disarmament 2.0. And, I don’t use the term “communist” lightly, as the Democrat party has adopted a platform of wealth re-distribution along with a plan for total government takeover of all facets of human life. We are witnessing a Bolshevik type effort to replace our US Constitution and Bill of Rights with the Communist Manifesto and apply it according to how the Globalist puppet masters dictate.

I reference the totally illegal Deep State actions and outright lies

presented and sworn to by Democrat (and other!) legislators, and we surely can’t overlook a number of “false flag” events to manipulate public opinion! Illegal works don’t seem to matter much when the crooks are calling the shots; Hillary, Obama, Clapper, Comey, Brennan, and a whole host of other criminals are NOT in jail where they belong, but are still free to jet-set around the world and plan more dastardly deeds while promoting sales of their fictional memoirs. Who said

crime doesn’t pay?

The most dangerous mistake any generation makes is assuming that they are somehow more “enlightened” and or smarter than those who came before.

One group or another may have access to different or new (to them) information, but we sadly continue to observe that the accumulation of knowledge brings no guarantee of intelligence on how to use it. Modern people are just as gullible and narrow minded and anxious to please authority as our

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ancestors ever were. Those nice folks who cheered when Galileo was punished for having the audacity to proclaim that the earth revolved around the sun and the self-righteous Puritan witch-burners, would be more than happy to line up climate change deniers against a wall for execution, as ignorant little Greta has suggested. Of course, even the worst of the Puritans were probably not stupid enough to believe in, much less be accepting of “gender fluidity;” behavior may be fluid, but gender is definite! Snowflakes generally melt when encountering heat or actual adversity, so maybe they should just go and cry in their “safe spaces” until they are eventually located by reality.

I recently witnessed something rather chilling, as a friend of mine wanted to forward a published news article concerning possible (probable?) police state tactics which the Democrat-communist controlled Virginia state government is threatening to implement regarding gun owners. A Google mailing program refused to deliver the message due to classing the article as a “security threat!” So, guess what?

Every email we send, along with every text, EVERY phone conversation, and thanks to ubiquitous technology listening devices, many of our most privately spoken words are eavesdropped, recorded, and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by the Deep State and their Globalist masters. Pen and paper and manual typewriters may make a comeback after all!

Those who would deny that Providence has taken a hand in our survival, would do well to reconsider their position. Many of our main line churches have had their Biblical message gutted and replaced with social justice garbage. Great numbers of our professional educators are more concerned about parroting “the party line” than about teaching young people how to SEE CACTUS CHRONICLES | PAGE 19

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think; our political system has become so corrupted by greed for money and power that some fear it is beyond reclamation; and main stream media is more propaganda than news. Yet our country is still up and running and viable on the world stage, and our normal and reasonable people are showing signs of having had about enough of the crazies and their weird and destructive behavior. (By the way, there is a credible movement to discover the truth of what really happened on 9/11 at the World Trade Center; and all indications are that will vastly differ from the official government verdict. I hope to have more on this in a future column. ) Sometimes, prophecy is not pleasant.

(And the next few lines may get this column censored by Big Brother!) The Democrat-communists are showing no indication of gaining any semblance of consideration for, or direction from,

our US Constitution and Bill of Rights— these people extol the virtues of partial birth abortion, so how could we expect any regard for law or principle which might disagree with their hysterical bleating. They have dropped all pretense of governing on behalf of our country and are only interested in overturning the 2016 presidential election, which they lost fair and square. It would appear that we are unavoidably heading for another march to confront and overcome these tyrannical adversaries, who are rabidly intent on enslaving our populace and snuffing out the light of Liberty on planet Earth. Decent America has bent over backwards for many years in attempts to humor and placate Leftist wackos; said compromises have only resulted in hurting our own families and restricting our Constitutional Heritage, while doing nothing to alleviate the voracious appetite for control and domination which our enemies possess.

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The Founders indeed understood the requirements to preserve the Tree of Liberty. Let us Pray that somehow this bitter cup of conflict may be withdrawn; but if it will not be, let us Pray just as earnestly that We The People will rise to the occasion of defending

the United States of America from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

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reminded to not just be angry at those who would advocate for the right to kill the unborn. I am reminded to pray against those who would kill unjustly as well as pray for their repentance. I am reminded to preach forgiveness as well as conviction. Most importantly, I am reminded to love my unborn fellow humans. Although we should hate sin, only the love of God and fellow man will change the world. (source: https://tinyurl.com/sl7347g) Submitted by Mitchell Cochran, mcochran2325@lcu.edu, Lubbock Christian University Psychology Student, Lubbock, Texas.

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undeserving.

Abortion, on the other hand, is mass murder and it is unrecognized. Very few of us actually mourn the loss of a fifth of a generation. How can we mourn something that was never here?

Out of sight, out of mind. Yet, the unborn are and were here.

While reflecting on my birthday, I am reminded that the womb has never been a safe place in human history.

Man has made this so. I am reminded to mourn. I am reminded to view abortion not only as a political issue. I am

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majority of them. He passed the biggest employer and worker tax cuts in a generation. He mandated deregulation across the board. And defying the naysayers he’s negotiated new trade deals that have one goal in mind; make America great again by putting the interests of America first.

These bold moves have helped drive the unemployment rate to a 50-year low. And according to Investor’s Business Daily the Trump economy is creating factory jobs ten times faster than under the Obama administration. Blue-collar jobs are OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3

Amendment is under scrutiny by progressive left-leaning movements that would rather focus on their subjective idea of safety rather than the American values of individual freedom. It is important to remember that individual freedom does not cover the incitement of violence because, the fact that the aforementioned freedom is indeed individual means that my freedom stops when yours starts. We are free to make public our opinions but not

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surging for the first time in decades.

Since President Trump’s inauguration 523,000 manufacturing jobs have been added. Compare that with the 287,000 created during President Obama’s final three years in office.

In August 2019 while touring Shell’s new Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex President Trump sought to explain that it’s a new dawn for American energy and manufacturing. In his remarks he said, “With your help, we’re not only unleashing American energy we’re restoring the glory of American manufacturing, and we are reclaiming our noble

heritage as a nation of builders again.

The critics expected you to stay on the sidelines, silence your voices, and surrender the future of our nation.”

In December of 2018 the Wall Street Journal reported, “The U.S. became a net exporter of oil and refined fuels last week for the first time in decades, a symbolic milestone that would have seemed unthinkable just 10 years ago.” Today America is the largest crude oil producer in the world. Until the Trump Bump none of this was considered possible. Now the world is filled with possibilities.

On August 19, 2019 while speaking at the Detroit Economic Club Vice

President Mike Pence said “Wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than a decade. And maybe most important of all to the President and me: that wages are rising fastest for blue-collar working Americans. The forgotten men and women of America are forgotten no more.”

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to attempt to directly endanger the physical well-being of others. Although directly inciting violence is not protected speech under the First Amendment (and with good reason, we don’t want hitlists appearing everywhere) some ideologies seek to go further than the proverbial “thou shall not harm” into a post-modern “Thou shall not harm MY feelings.”

America stands today as the last bastion of free speech in the world.

Even allied nations, developed countries that claim to embrace classical western values, have fallen victims to the ancient impulse to control their citizens by removing freedom in the name of “safety”. Countries such as Germany and Canada enforce “Hate Speech” laws that might sound noble on paper, but the nuance should not be lost. Canadian comedian Mike Ward was fined $42,000 in 2016 by a human rights tribunal for telling a joke. A joke!

Luckily, he stood up to the institutional bulling and appealed the decision, even if it resulted in a higher personal and monetary cost to himself. You can have a firsthand account from Mike Ward himself in his interview with Joe Rogan in the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast.

What is wrong with hate speech?

Hate is bad isn’t it? Well, as any student in the field of psychology would say: it depends. Defining hate is extremely relative to the subjective nature of the

individual. If I make you feel awkward, or uncomfortable, or maybe plain sad is that ground for fines or jail time?

What am I doing that makes you feel that way? Is it the way I dress? Maybe my mannerisms or my accent? What about my choice of words that, as it is the nature of expression, reflect the subjective judgement I make of my surroundings? It is a slippery slope that can go south really fast if we are only considering one party’s perception of a particular situation. Some individuals might claim a right to “not be offended” but as Dr. Jordan Peterson demonstrated in a famous (or infamous, depending on where you stand) interview for Channel 4 News with Cathy Newman, it is impossible to discuss anything without facing the possibility of offending somebody, which renders such “right” as completely pointless and detrimental to human betterment (ironically). The precedent that Hate Speech Laws set is that the government is granted the power to determine what is hate speech. Today it might be entirely directed at protect the feelings of select protected groups but tomorrow it could be… well, you have already had an idea of it.

How can I possibly make such a claim? As a Cuban immigrant who lived 19 years under the communist dictatorship of Fidel and Raul Castro

in Cuba, the examples I presented at the beginning of this article I have experienced either myself or through someone I know personally. I know what it is to be forced to pledge your life to a dictator and to an ideology, not to your nation, not your flag, not a set of values that you have embraced because you believe they are right; a dictator. Every day since preschool we were required to pledge to live our lives in honor to murderous communist icon Che Guevara. Chants of “Socialism or death” were our daily bread. I have been singled out because of my religious beliefs since age six. I have been forced to write ideas that I considered lies in order to pass a test and obtain a grade. I have been that person who speaks in innuendos because anyone might be listening, and I was a lucky one by comparison. There is a main reason for why I always wanted to come to America, something that everyone dreamed of back home: Freedom of speech. Do not take it lightly, do not trade it for trivial benefits or governmental “safety,” rather, embrace the enormous responsibility that comes with such freedom and wield it daily, if not for you, at least for the billions that cannot... But hey, what do I know? I am just an outsider.

Submitted by David Jorge, Cuban immigrant, Lubbock Christian University undergraduate psychology student.

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BY DOUGLAS MCARTHUR

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uring my three years as ship’s company on the U.S.S. Forrestal and two years in the Air Wing on board the U.S.S. Saratoga I rarely missed Sunday church service, in port or at sea. I can’t speak for you but for me I have always felt a need for inspiration to keep me on the straight and narrow. If you have followed my other articles the last 12 months you will agree I needed it. I am not perfect, and neither are any of us.

To quote one source, “The road to hell is wide and easy”.

Recent events reminded me of two inspirational songs that became lifelong favorites; The first is the “Navy Hymn” Eternal Father, Strong to Save, and the second is Little Red Box.

Crew members attend a Protestant worship service conducted by Chaplain (LT. CMDR.) Dave Belt in the forecastle of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Generally, a reasonable crowd was in attendance where we heard a good Christian message and sang several hymns. The last hymn was always “The Navy Hymn”.

The “Navy Hymn” Eternal Father, Strong to Save, original words written as a poem in 1860 by William Whiting of Winchester, England, for a student who was about to sail for the United States. The melody, published in 1861, was composed by fellow Englishman, Rev. John Bacchus Dykes, an Episcopalian clergyman.

The hymn, found in most hymnals, is known as the “Navy Hymn” because it is sung at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

It is also sung on ships of the Royal Navy (U.K.) and has been translated into French.

Here are the inspiring lyrics (I suggest you Google and listen for yourself); Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep, its ow n appointed limits keep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, for those in peril on the sea!

O Christ! W hose voice the waters heard and hushed their raging at T hy word, Who walked’st on the foaming deep, and calm amidst its rage didst sleep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea!

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood Upon the chaos dark and rude, And bid its angry tumult cease, and give, for wild confusion, peace; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, for those in peril on the sea!

Lord, guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces in the sky.

Be with them always in the air, in darkening storms or sunlight fair; Oh, hear us when we lift our prayer, For those in peril in the air!

O Trinity of love and power! Our brethren shield in danger’s hour; From rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect them wheresoe’er they go; Thus evermore shall rise to Thee, Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

Self-Evident: Just as God is self-evident; the words of the song need no explanation. There is no way I can amplify the meaning of the writer’s words. If you do not get choked up or do not believe the thoughts expressed, maybe you need sole searching and some help.

The other song It was many years ago I first heard some children sing “Little Red Box”.

I don’t remember exactly when or where, but it made an impression I never forgot. It goes like this: I wish I had a little red box to put my Jesus in I’d take Him out and kiss, kiss, kiss And put Him right back in I’d take Him out and kiss, kiss, kiss And put Him right back in SEE OLD SALT | PAGE 25

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True Stories of a Vietnam Long Range Recon Patrol: Part VI

BY HAROLD WAYNE HAMLIN

Part six of a 12-part series sharing the very personal and boots on the ground account of one Green Beret’s time in Vietnam. fter the sun had been down an hour or so and the Covey Forward Air Controllers had left for the night, the trucks rolled past in front of us. I had the impression they were loaded because of the strain of the engines as they climbed the uphill sections of the road. Glimpses of the trucks as they passed showed that each were covered except for the last truck. I could see it was full of NVA troops.

The Troops were being sent in to capture or kill our team. To kill me.

Seeing the troops signaled to me that Recon Team Bushmaster was in a very (very) grave situation. I knew that I (code name BUSHMAN) was a walking dead man.

I realized that we were going to remain in position over night and that it was going to be a long sleepless one.

I cupped my hand over my Seiko wrist watch and lifted the electrical tape covering the face. The radioactive dial showed close to 8:45 pm and I noted that the seven trucks had passed by about two minutes prior.

I could still hear the engines of the trucks as they rumbled west.

In a microsecond, I realized I had not

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Oh My God! The engines cut off. They did not fade away. They cut off. How far away were they? How far had they traveled since the trucks had passed me? I uncovered my watch and noted that it was 9:28 pm. At what speed were the trucks traveling... 15 mph... 20 mph downhill? What distance away? Damn three quarters to one mile away. Close.

Very close. Too damned close.

I did a quick estimate of the number of troops and trackers that I had seen or heard since morning. Surely at LEAST a million! My mind screamed.

Logic kicked in and I estimated from 40 to 50 NVA and 20 local trackers.

Still it was a lot of people who were trying to find us and kill us or worse capture us and torture intel out of us.

I had been taught that everyone breaks under torture. Everyone breaks. I was told to hold out as long as I could and focus on analyzing what the enemy wanted to hear by the questions they ask. I was taught how to give truth to their questions then add a little something to mislead them or at least channel or delay them in their thinking. The hardest thing in the world to know the truth of something is when truth and half-truths are mixed together.

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I couldn’t see but I heard movement along our ambush line to my right. I assumed my men were getting in a more comfortable position for the night.

Usually at night, we grouped closer together for communication which is done by touching the man next to you. When it was dark, it was impossible to see more than a few inches in front of you.

In training, I had been taught to not look directly at a person or object but to look to the left or right of what you wanted to see. This allowed the eye to gather the maximum amount of light to be utilized in seeing objects in the dark.

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Night cooled air washed over me and I became aware of a stench. I sniffed the air trying to detect where this strong odor was coming from. I first thought a dead body of man or animal must be near.

You can smell certain things about people. People that eat a lot of meat can be smelled more and quicker than those who don’t. Someone that is on a diet throws ketones. That produces a different smell. Someone that is grossly obese, and sweats has another smell.

People think by putting on cologne they can mask their odor. Not true.

To be un-trackable, you have to adapt.

If you are in a civilized situation, don’t eat meat, and don’t use deodorant or minty toothpaste. Don’t use flowery smelling soap. Use baking soda for all of it, and if you are in the country, use yucca or sage. It is all in where you are and what you are trying to accomplish.

Your clothing absorbs the odor and when you move, the odor is released in the air. This is one of the reasons women that are involved in combat and are in their cycle are easily tracked.

Slowly I realized that it was me that stank. In training, when on forced 50-mile marches and I had pissed in my pants to save time so I could stay near the head of the column, I had always returned to hot showers and clean clothes.

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I stank and stank bad from all of the sweat, and piss, and fear stressed hormone releases of my body.

I realized I was no different than a walking cigarette I never pissed my pants again in my life but for this mission the damage had been done. I WAS the damn stupid new guy.

I stank so bad I am sure the local village hogs and dogs were smiling.

I must have dozed off into a very light sleep because I snapped from unconsciousness to consciousness in an instant. In that instance of wakefulness, I was fully aware of where I was and everything around me.

Truck engines from my left... From the east. Close. I was so mad at myself for falling asleep.

I saw a small beam of light. It took me a bit to understand what I was seeing but it dawned on me that a man was leading the trucks using a flashlight as he walked the road ahead of the trucks.

I counted nine trucks with no troops visible. It was not long before the truck engines cut off at the NVA supply depot to the west.

After the trucks had past, I peeked at my watched. It was 2:33 am. There was no doubt in my mind that I was witnessing the stock piling of arms and munitions for future assault (or assaults) against American installations over in Vietnam.

About 30-minutes after the engines cut off, I felt a tug on my leg. Two tugs and two taps. Our teams signal that the team was preparing to move. In turn, I crawled to the man on my left and tugged and tapped his leg.

I then crawled to the Claymore Mine I had placed earlier. I retrieved and put it away… then waited.

It was not long before I heard it… the team signal to move out. A single hit of wood on wood ... That would be the One-Zero. Two hits of wood on wood which meant the team would move west.

Hit! It was so close and loud it startled me.

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A single hit of wood on wood from the last man to the east of me.

I slowly stood... Faced west and waited until I felt a touch on my back. A moment later I was tapped twice on my back.

This told me the two men behind me were there and ready to move out. I moved forward until I touched the man in front of me and tapped him twice. He in turned move forward to the next man. While we were doing this, I knew the One-Zero and OneOne were moving to the head of the column to take point. From this point forward it was the responsibility of each man to follow the man in front of him and not get separated.

I realized how my breaking of protocol the other night had been so dangerous on so many levels. Oh, the moving had been proven justified, but not in the manner it was done.

Except for the damn smoking... I had more respect for my One-Zero.

It is very hard to convey how difficult it was and dangerous to move at night in a combat zone especially when known enemy, in large numbers, were all around you.

Because I had not heard the trackers did not mean they were not there.

They were there. Like fishermen waiting until there was a tug on the fishing line indicating fish were present.

But in this case, WE WERE THE FISH! We had to be very careful not to tug the fishing line.

I WAS the damned new guy, but I was gaining experience.

To be continued next month.

S u b m i t t e d b y Ha rol d Wa y n e Hamlin, Lubbock, TX. Harold was a Sergeant in the US Army during Vietnam, serving 16 missions with as Long Range Recon Green Beret while serving with the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) and Command and Control North (CNN); where he was awarded a Purple Heart. Harold is also a retired Lubbock Fire Fighter.

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Additional verses just change the word, Jesus, to Disciples, Prophets, God and so on.

What stunned me then, and still does today, is so many who claim to be believers, actually, practice what this little song states.

If you just take out your religion for show and profit you are like the children’s song. If you take your God out, your Jesus, your Spirit out for your selfish motives you are to be pitied.

Yes, “All have sinned and fall short” including me.

I do try to improve and grow even at age 82. Believers are not perfect but are saved.

If you are using your religion for some kind egotistical gain, I hate saying it, but do you think you are different than remote superstitious

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Even worse are those so-called preachers, business people, political figures, or others who see Christianity as a gimmick for money and power.

I pray you do not have a little red box! Just remember God is God, you and I are not!

A Biblical Take, Encouragement for Believers, Medicine for skeptics: The following is from “Today’s Turning Point” by Dr. David Jeremiah. I included as encouragement for some and medicine for others.

You do not know what will happen tomorrow.

James 4:14 Talk about bad timing! On September 16, 2008, The Wall Street Journal’s magazine, SmartMoney, featured a cover showing two chickens hatching. The accompanying

words said: “Double Your Nest Egg: Now Is the Time to Jump Into Cheap Stocks.” On that same day, the stock market began its worse drop since the Great Depression, sending the nation into a deep recession on September 29 of that year that took years to overcome.

Someone said that timing is everything. Yet we don’t know what will happen later today, let alone tomorrow. But there is Someone who knows. The psalmist said, “My times are in Your hand” (Psalm 31:15).

The psalmist also said, “I will bless the Lord at all times” (34:1). And he said, “Trust in Him at all times” (62:8). We don’t know what tomorrow holds, and we don’t have the wisdom to exercise perfect timing in all the events of life. But God is the great Timekeeper. We can bless Him and trust in Him at all times. When you don’t know what to do, wait on the Lord and watch for Him to work. His

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End of quote by Dr. Jeremiah. You might also read James 4:13-17 The Sound of One Hand Clapping I committed to do at least twelve articles for the Caprock Patriot as the Old Salt. Having now exceeded that goal, I hope you have enjoyed my little articles as much as I have delighted in writing them. I always wanted to tell my stories, but nobody was available to listen! Maybe you listened and maybe no one did. At least I got it off my chest.

Was it “the sound of one hand clapping”?

If you wish to comment, please email me at: oldsaltCVA59@gmail. com God Bless You All. Submitted by Old Salt, Douglas McArthur, Arlington, TX, with Tarheel roots, USS Forrestal Ship’s Company, USS Saratoga VA-34 Blue Blaster Squadron, U.S. Army Reserves

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Who is that one friend you have who is always complaining and never seems to really be very satisfied with anything?

Or maybe it’s a family member who you see often that never can quite seem to say anything positive. Or maybe, this is all sounding far too familiar, because maybe this person is you.

I challenge you to try and figure out why your friend is complaining so often, or why your family member is never really satisfied, or even, why you seem to be so unhappy. If this is the case, pinpoint what is making you unhappy and either fix it or remove it.

Misery is a funny thing; it can happen slowly over time, so much so that you sometimes don’t even notice it. Now I don’t want to drone on about being in a perpetual state of unhappiness, because that is certainly not the point of this read. The point is, once you figure out what is taking up your energy in this way, you can actively work to

correct or even remove it altogether. This is sometimes harder than it sounds, but once you do it, you will feel so different in the New Year!

Maybe you’re already a pretty positive person and this doesn’t apply to you. Then I challenge you with something different in 2020; try something you have always wanted to, but never have! Is it learning a new language?

Going to that place you’ve had marked on the map for years? Or something as simple as striking up a conversation with someone you’ve wanted to talk to but haven’t had the chance or courage.

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Winning The 2A Fight Beyond Elections and Legislation

BY HAROLD HUTCHISON

One thing is becoming more and more clear – the legislative and political arenas are now only part of the overall battle over our Second Amendment rights. While Second Amendment supporters have done well in those arenas, including making the Supreme Court reasonably pro-Second Amendment, the new arenas threaten to outflank the gains in the political and legislative arenas.

These arenas include, but they are not limited to, corporate gun control, leveraging pop culture, Silicon Valley censorship, and social stigmatization.

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Let’s start with corporate gun control.

The wallet has always been the Achilles heel of the firearms industry. When Andrew Cuomo was quarterbacking big-city lawsuits against gun manufacturers, the goal was to force companies to choose between accepting settlements that forced them to agree to the agenda of anti-Second Amendment extremists or go bankrupt from massive legal fees against dozens of plaintiffs.

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is this: Maybe they can’t pass a law that prohibits manufacturing modern multi-purpose semiautomatic firearms, but if banks deny business to those who make AR-15s or component parts, then the AR-15 will eventually fade away – without any laws passed to ban it. Even if it isn’t a bank, a company like Salesforce can force a licensed dealer to choose between an expensive change in software or acquiescing to an agenda.

Silicon Valley’s censorship is just as threatening as corporate gun control.

Social media and the internet have become crucial for Second Amendment supporters to not only get facts out, but to coordinate their activism and to help each other out. Shut down the voices, though, either through a one-sided application of rules of conduct, and all of the sudden, Second Amendment supporters are cut off.

This is what Instagram is doing with its new rules, for instance.

Meanwhile, anti-Second Amendment extremists are leveraging pop culture. Think of it this way – Hollywood stars generate press, even when they are not at the A-List levels of celebrity like Angelina Jolie or Meryl Streep.

In fact, these days, it’s about getting press for those who have seen better days, like Alyssa Milano. In the fierce competition, anti-Second Amendment advocacy can help an actor or actress

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get work and keep a career going. It would also include what gets included in storylines on hit TV shows.

That celebrity power then helps generate the social stigmatization of gun ownership and Second Amendment support. That social stigmatization has been a long-time goal, going back to Eric Holder’s famous desire to “brainwash” Americans against guns. In this case, it is about making it so painful to defend our rights that you choose silence and acquiescence rather than lose out on promotions, being the outcast in your neighborhood, or even seeing your family face being berated – or worse.

The fact of the matter is that while the political and legislative battles to defend our rights are important, they have never been the only battles we have to fight. This is why the approach we choose to defend our rights matters and why we have to be mindful of how we come across. The ultimate battle we must win for our Second Amendment rights is in the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans.

Submitted by Harold Hutchison who has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites. Reprinted with permission from Ammoland.com

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Eternal Truth – Amazing

BY JERRY MASTON

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t is amazing how many different stories are being told, on the same subject, by people who totally disagree, wouldn’t you agree. Would you agree if I said, “It is bazaar”?

Certainly, you would. The impeachment, for instance, is not the only example. In many places you can go as nearby as the local city hall and find those who will swear to opposite ends of the spectrum.

If it is True that the Truth will set you free, how can we be sure we secure freedom? Someone said that given enough time, truth will emerge. Actually, there is more to it than that.

Truth doesn’t emerge, truth is. It is either true or it is simply false. A halftruth loses its distinction because a portion is missing. Truth remains and will never change.

While enjoying a meal at our local diner, a friend walked over and began discussing politics. The evidence was unmistakable, my friend did not know what he was talking about. I asked where he gets his information. I already knew because his opinion was marked by rhetoric that comes from only one direction. He affirmed that he listens to various news casts and then makes up his own mind. Without cracking a smile I almost laughed out loud. Again, isn’t it amazing . . . that our opinions are shaped by other’s opinions and we always think we are making up our own minds?

This is where we get the idea that truth will emerge, or develop, over a period of time. Instead of emerge, let’s say truth may be hidden, hidden under a pile of rubble, false pretenses, lies and corruption, with the possibility it may never be revealed. Please follow me to

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2020 Vision: Do You See What I See?

BY LEO JALOSZYNSKI

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ll who read and contribute to the success of the Caprock Patriot effort excitedly look ahead to year two issues. This publication provides a valuable source of information about protecting and supporting the three pillars of a strong America. These three pillars are conservatism, patriotism, and Christianity. As we peer into the next 12 months of the year 2020, we need to first review the trustworthiness of past American historical events and facts to more clearly anticipate what may become new historical events and facts in the days ahead.

History records powerfully shape our vision of what was and is the truth about the facts of any event. Police reports attempt to accurately determine the facts of accidents or criminal acts.

There are two sides of the event that can be investigated. The two parties involved in the making of the historical record of incidents under review will remember different “visions” of what actually happened. The “truth” of records reported can prove guilt or innocence. The “truth” can be twisted or never revealed by trial lawyers in their effort to cause a jury to come to a “truthful” conclusion. American citizens are the jury members deciding the “historical truths” being presented

by historians and media sources.

Many of the ideas you will read next, come from two books written by two Jewish authors who are “patriotic” and “conservative”. The audience for the Caprock Patriot is mostly age 45 plus.

Consequently, what is seen through the lens of recorded history will be interpreted differently by America’s demographically diverse citizenry. Labels are used to describe America’s people groups by their age, i.e. Boomers, GenXers, Millennials, Gen-Alpha. Each of these groups interpret history through the “truth” that they are told or discover for themselves from trustworthy sources. These Jewish historians, mentioned above, strongly support the Christian values and history that were

responsible for the founding of this nation, called America. Rabbi Lapin’s (age 72) book America’s Real War was written in 1999. He sums up the two battle lines of the cultural war we find ourselves involved in, in its pages. “The basic question is whether America is a secular or a religious nation”. David Horowitz’s (age 80) book, Dark Agenda, was written in 2018. Mr. Horowitz clearly reveals how the current American “civil war” has roots in the first book of the Bible (Genesis 3:5). Satan tempted the first man and woman with this lie, “then your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”. Secular eyes believe that humanity can redeem the world from its own evil choices. Bible believing

people believe that humanity can only be redeemed from its sinful ways by the Savior named, JESUS. American history sometimes is and has been “twisted” (i.e. separation of church and state interpretations) or deleted. In the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, all references to God and faith have been deliberately edited out of photos and historical displays. One panel claims that our national motto is E PLURIBUS UNUM (“Out of Many, One”) not ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’. The role of radical Islamist radicals in carrying out the 9/11 attack on New York City’s Twin Towers is not shared with most of our public school students born after this historical event in American history. Thanksgiving history, in most public schools, now makes no mention of the pilgrim’s deep desire to thank God for their divine protection and provision. The Old Testament historical record forces its readers to remember what God alone has done and promises to do. The New Testament reveals how history still yields its twists and turns to the power of a merciful, spiritual Father.

Conservatism preserves and protects true historical facts. History must never be revised or deleted altogether. Patriotism zealously protects the Constitution on which our nation was founded. Patriotism requires loyalty SEE 2020 VISION | PAGE 39

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A LITTLE GOOD NEWS TODAY“Passing On The Mantle”

BY PETER ADAMS

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ith all the terrible news we are hearing on TV and in the papers, it sure would be nice to hear something good. There’s an old song by Ann Murray called “A Little Good News Today.” It goes like this: “There’s a local paper rolled up in a rubber band. One more bad story’s one more than I can stand. Just once, how I’d like to see the Headlines say, not much to print today, can’t find nothing bad to say. We sure could use, a little good news today.”

I’m going to write a series of true stories of the miracles and words of knowledge that God has used me in over my lifetime and call them, “A Little Good News Today”.

I was the last of 7 children. I grew up seeing the Lord speak to my Mother,

telling her to pray for one of her kids “now.” It was always revealed that one of them just escaped death or injury at the time she was praying.

God had rewarded her with a special gift to pray continually and to hear His voice because of her faithfulness.

Once I grew up, I finally gave my life to God completely. I began to see God using me to pray for people like my Mother did… but I knew there was more, much more.

I drove to my Mother’s and asked her to lay hands on me, passing on the mantle that God had given to her.

I had no idea how happy and proud she would be that one of her kids would actually want to truly serve God in the way she had. She prayed for me and asked God to bless me with the same gifts that He had given to her, passing on the mantle of intercession.

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After that, I would find myself praying for 10 to 12 hours a day and never miss a beat at work. God used me in words of knowledge and in prophecy, and many people I prayed for were instantly, miraculously healed. There were just as many that did not get healed, and was very hard to watch, especially when it was little kids. But we are just the instrument God uses.

We are told to pray, and the rest is up to God. He is sovereign and makes all the decisions. We’re just along for the wonderful ride.

ONE OF THE MIRACLES that happened in the beginning was a young man in his early 20s that came down

front for prayer in Church. I was an Elder in our Church and when I prayed for people, I usually kept my eyes open in case the person was healed. I didn’t want to miss anything.

This young man’s arm was very swollen and red from his elbow to his fingers. He couldn’t move his fingers or bend his arm. He said, “I need God to heal my arm so I can go to work in the morning.” I asked him what happened and he said, “Yesterday I tried to step in front of an 18 wheeler on the highway to kill myself but I tripped and fell on my hand and arm.”

I thought, “You tried to kill yourself yesterday and now you want God to heal you so you can go to work tomorrow.” I don’t mind saying, I didn’t believe God would heal this young man. I closed my eyes and began to pray for God to heal him. Suddenly I felt him moving around and he started hollering, “Hey… it works, it works.”

When I opened my eyes, all the swelling had gone, and he was bending his arm and squeezing his hand. It surprised me more than it did him, but as I said, God is sovereign, and He makes all the decisions.

THE NEXT MIRACLE happened at a men’s fellowship and prayer meeting at my home. About 40 men had met every SEE A LITTLE GOOD NEWS TODAY | PAGE 39

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Teach Me How to Pray

BY PETER ADAMS

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am one of the columnist for the CapRock Patriot. I’m also the author of a book entitled Teach Me How to Pray ~With Authority~: A Book On The Simplicities and Difficulties of Prayer.

This book is essentially an autobiography of my life of prayer. It is a book to teach you how to pray, with

authority, but also gives real life examples of the many miracles God has used me in prayer for others. It is also many examples of when the Lord would speak to me about someone else and how it changed their lives.

Paul said in the Bible that he would only declare the works God did through his hands, so it is the same in this book. All the examples of miracles with God are those He did through me personally. Through this book, I hope it not only helps you in praying w it h aut hor it y but shows you that God’s anointing and miracle working power has not diminished one bit, nor has He ceased to work miracles in our lifetime.

To purchase Teach Me How to Pray search Amazon for “Teach Me How to Pray by Peter S Adams” or visit https:// tinyurl.com/upph2ns I sincerely hope you enjoy the book and that it gives you as much hope and trust in His works as it did for me to write it. If you’d like to give feedback about the book or have your o w n m i ra c l e s t h a t you’d like to share, I’d love to hear from you.

You can email me at MacRanch@windstream.net.

Peter Adams worked for Brown & Root offshore oil & gas pipelines and Drafting at Chemical Plants, Representation in Arbitration Cases for the Fed. Gov., Church Elder many years, now a retired Rancher. Contact Peter at MacRanch@ windstream.net

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Evangelism is…… LEAVING A LEGACY

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s Christians, we are ALL called to be evangelists. Evangelism, itself is a lasting legacy. My whole family was saved when Major W. Ian Thomas, a Missionary from London, England came to speak at

our small protestant church in Manchester Connecticut when I was 12 years old. Maj. W. Ian Thomas has been dead since 2007, yet my family, his children, as well as many others, are carrying on his passion for ministry. In God’s economy of investing into souls, I believe that every person

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I influence for Christ is a reflection of Ian Thomas’ legacy as a mentor.

Just as Joshua was the recipient of an eternal legacy that he carried in his heart every time he made a decision, the same is true for me or others who were influenced by Evangelist Missionary Ian Thomas. Our passion is not our own. It is borrowed from God but manifests itself through willing hearts of obedient servants. We stand on the shoulders of every person who has invested in our lives.

Your legacy begins today. Moses began mentoring Joshua early in the sojourn from Egypt to the promised land. At that time, it was not evident that Joshua would be the one chosen to complete the journey after Moses’ death. Still Moses was faithful to give himself away. Our legacies are born from the daily influence we exert over the people God brings into our lives. We may

never comprehend the full extent of our impact. The call is to invest ourselves selflessly into the process of multiplying disciples, and this begins within our current spheres of influence with a co-worker, classmate, a student, or a friend. When you come in contact with others, your response will determine your legacy. Do they sense a passionate follower of Christ? Are you committed to live out your faith in a way that impacts the kingdom through reaching the unsaved? Will you make a difference?

First… Record five to 10 names of people God has placed in your life in whom you can begin to build your eternal legacy by investing your time and energy. Pray for the names every day.

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Sitting in a waiting room a very nice lady brought up the subject of impeachment. Her kindness and gentle speaking were almost persuasive to the impasse of her concepts. When I asked where she got her information, she explained that it was from sources we could trust; CNN, Washington Post, and etc. Again, I almost laughed out loud. My elderly friend on one side challenged her perceptions with forthright clarity. Like the skilled surgeon he wasted the foundation of what seem like her every thought. At the same time, myself being a little bit elderly also, I was applying the basis of scripture to affirm, not only her misguided notions, but primarily to support the truth my friend was establishing. After a while the nice lady was at a loss for words, I believe because she heard an abundance of truth.

Four facts: 1.) The truth is rarely LEAVING A LEGACY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36

challenge them to begin building their legacy by investing in others.

Second… Go out of your way to recognize the people who invested in your life. Affirm their legacy by citing specific times in which you were blessed. Write a note, call, or make a personal visit.

My dad once told me that if I made a new friend every week, when I died,

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2.) Truth can easily be found. All you have to do is quit looking in the wrong places. 3.) Nothing can replace or substitute the truth. 4.) If your thoughts cannot stand on their own there is nothing that will support them.

Whether you are talking about impeachment with false witnesses, abortion – the shedding of innocent blood, voter fraud or . . . . the list goes on and on. Truth may become sequestered, but it can never be abated.

Listed below are five truths of Biblical proportion: God created all things All powers in Heaven and on Earth are under God’s authority Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord Truth may be defied but it can never be denied Only the Truth will set you free Isn’t it amazing, when you search for Truth you can find it? Not only will truth set you free, but when you I would be the wealthiest woman in the world!

“The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” (2 Tim 2:2 NASB) Submitted by Ann Birdsong, Evangelism and Engagement Director, Munholland United Methodist Church, Metairie, LA; sister-in-law of the Caprock Patriot.

share it, it will set others free as well.

You will learn that standing, whether alone or in in a crowd, standing on a right foundation, the foundation of Truth, you will be secure, you will be valued, and you will make a difference that can measured by that which is eternal.

Submitted by Jerry Maston, Eastland, TX. Jerry is a devoted husband, father,

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The book titled, 1984, speaks about a “Ministry of Truth”.

The function of this “Ministry” was to rewrite any history that threatened the narrative and power of the government in charge. In 1984, President Reagan is quoted as saying “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under”. It is vitally important for us to remember that our vision for the year 2020 must be viewed through what was said and written in year 1984 and into the present. History is not governed by the power of human actors but rather by an all-powerful Creator, Redeemer, and ever-present Holy Spirit God. Do you see what I see? The pillars that keep America strong are under assault by those who control the “truth” of American history.

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Lord, You make all things new. You bring hope alive in our hearts and cause our Spirits to be born again. Thank you for this new year and for all the potential it holds. Come and kindle in us a mighty flame so that in our time, many will see the wonders of God and live forever to praise Your glorious name.

In Jesus’ name we pray... Amen