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The following information is a compilation of past and present ideas put forth by the two major political parties since Republicans became a party.

The Democrat party was established in 1828 while the Republican party came along 26 years later in 1854. These are basic ideas and policies that show a very different thinking about how our uniquely American system of government should work.

Due to the possible expansion of slavery into new states, the Republican party was formed to help stop that slavery expansion. Early Democrats fought against eliminating slavery due to many being from

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Abraham Lincoln was the first republican president and he wanted to eliminate slavery as soon as it was practical; but because the southern economy depended on slavery, it would take time even if its elimination was passed into law. The “Equal Rights” laws were passed by Republican votes, NOT Democrats. Some votes on equal rights had zero Democrat votes, and Southern Democrats fought against integration, passing separate-but-equal laws to keep Blacks out of W hite society. Jim Crow laws were Democrat ideas, but in recent decades Democrat political campaigns suggest Republicans are SEE A POLITICAL HISTORY | PAGE 7

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Courageous Worldview

BY DON BEBEE

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iffering world views are the problem. From a Biblical Worldview God is a nationalist. The enemy is a globalist.

At the Tower of Babel, to deny the erroneous disastrous globalist worldview agenda of the diabolically deceived people, God gave the people different languages. Which led to new nations being built on national and individual liberty and freedom.

Which also preserved those people in their day from the obsessive compulsive self-destruction insanity of the “in man we trust” socialistic progressive totally unrealistic utopian worldview of a one world government.

Additionally, God prevented the human race from being held captive under the anti-God tyrannical globalist control to do the will of the eternally destructive enemy of national and individual liberty and freedom. And fulfilling their globalist agenda of enslaving, destroying those nations and people who disagree.

In short, this enemy is a globalist. He comes to steal, murder and destroy the nations, the people. Our liberty and freedom.

The Socialist Progressive Democrat Pa rty a nd a l l that support it’s

PAINTLESS treasonous rebellious Anti-God globalist agenda worldview are devilishly deceived. Being controlled, manipulated by the globalist enemy of our truly Biblically based worldview Constitutional Republic Rule of Law Electoral College form of National Government. Which is built on recognizing, protecting, preserving our Creator endowed rights of political and religious liberty and freedom. Individually. Nationally.

What happens on November 3, 2020, if We the People lose this true Republican Presidency and or the Socialist Progressive Democrat Party, the globalist agenda enemy of our true liberty and freedom gains a majority in the Senate and retains the majority in the House?

We the People will then lose both our God given National and individual political and religious liberty and freedom to their godless globalist agenda. The result? There will be nothing standing between them and their destruction of other nations, people. Namely Israel.

Self-evident truth demands We the People vote Republican on November 3, 2020.

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MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG’S DELUSION AND CONFUSION

BY LTC ALLEN WEST

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oday’s missive will be short and to the point, as its absurdity does not need much explanation. It will simply offer an insight into the delusion, confusion, of the progressive socialist left’s radical gay agenda.

As reported by CNS News: “Pete Buttigieg, one of the frontrunners in the campaign for the Democratic presidential campaign, says he would sign into law the “LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Act” and start an “LGBTQ+ suicide prevention task force” if he is elected president.

Buttigieg’s campaign website includes a page that is headlined: “Becoming Whole—A New Era for LGBTQ+ People in America.”

One section of this page carries the subtitle: “Pass the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevent Act to address key risk factors for deaths by suicide.” It says: “LGBTQ+ youth are four times more likely than their non-LGBTQ+ peers to attempt suicide. More than two in five transgender people attempt suicide, with numbers climbing even higher for transgender people who are people of color, mentally ill, low-income, or adolescent. Pete will work with Congress to pass the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Act, which will launch a LGBTQ+ suicide prevention task force and address key risk factors for LGBTQ+ deaths by suicide.”

First of all, I want to emphasize a very important issue facing our nation. On my right hand, my salute hand, on the trigger finger, I wear a simple black ring. It is called the #22Kill ring. That ring signifies the, on average, 20-22 veterans who take their lives each day. If there were any segment of our population where we need to stress suicide prevention it is for those who have been willing to make the “last full measure of devotion” for our nation. As

the saying goes, “All gave some, some gave all,” and we should not have any veteran feeling so lost, so despondent, so rejected and isolated that they take their own life. We need to wrap our arms around these men and women of honor, valor, and help them walk the “razor’s edge.”

What I find delusional and confusing about Buttigieg’s assertion is that it supports the American Psychiatric Association declaration that gender dysphoria is a mental condition. Yet, the hypocrisy of it all is that the progressive socialist left is supporting the LGBTQ+ agenda to our young people, creating confusion.

Now, what we see is that they want government spending, a task force, to rectify a problem, a situation, that their ideological agenda support, promotes, and advances. All one has to do is take a gander at the sex education curriculum that the Austin (Texas) Independent School District voted 5-0 last fall, to instruct to 3rd-8th graders.

So, let me get this right Mayor Pete: you now want to create a task force to solve the problem that the left has created by teaching our children, youth, to mutilate their bodies? You want to spend government, taxpayer dollars, to set right the results of the ideological agenda being pushed in our society, to our children?

Doggone Mayor Pete, you purposefully confuse our children — and adults — telling them that there are countless genders . . . that they can pick any one of them. Then, as they become depressed, and sadly take their lives, over the crap you are promulgating, you want to have a “gubmint” program to fix it?

How about this Petey, stop proliferating this agenda! How about you stop advocating for a mental condition that leads to people

taking their lives? You are treating the symptom, not the real illness, which is the ideological agenda of the progressive socialist left.

Bottom line Mayor Pete, stop screwing around with God’s greatest creation. We are made in His image. When you alter, mutilate, and destroy that which He has created, it only leads to the destruction of the soul. The result is the sad tragic reality of suicide.

Now, come up with a plan to deal with Veteran suicide.

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Reprinted with permission of Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Allen B. West.

LTC West is a Christian constitutional conservative, combat veteran, and former member of the US Congress. His life has been defined as one of service, sacrifice, and commitment to this Republic, the United States of America. He believes it will be conservative, free market policies — not politics — that secures a sound economic future for Americans – with growth, opport unit y and ret ur ning the promise of the American dream for this generation and those to come.

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THE GIFT OF CHOOSING

BY JUDIE BROWN

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he Democratic presidential candidate debates of late reflect the ongoing reality that the act of abortion is an issue to be bandied about as though it were nothing more than a word.

Catholic-in-name-only Joe Biden deceived the audience with the following fallacious statement: “Look, here’s the deal, a litmus test on abortion relates to a fundamental value in the Constitution. A woman does have a right to choose.”

Umm, sorry Joe, but there is no Constitutional protection for the right to choose to kill a human being even when that individual is not yet born.

But Biden was not the only candidate to fight for abortion rights. Each of them had, in one way or another, the ominous distinction of having sold their soul to the devil by embracing what they call the abortion “litmus test.”

Contrast the comments of these would-be leaders with those of eighth grader Mary-Clare Franco who wrote in an award-winning essay: “This past year my mom suffered three miscarriages in a row. Our family’s suffering fortunately was not in vain. Several different people, including relatives, doctors, nurses, and people working at the funeral home, saw the dignity and respect that everyone deserves, whether

born or preborn.”

In her wisdom, Franco sets forth the stark contrast between those who embrace killing the innocent and those who love and respect life so very much that the loss of a baby for any reason is a wound to the heart that takes much time to heal.

The distinction between the two groups of people is called unselfish love. There is a commitment for those who love life to surrender to whatever pain or sacrifice is involved for the express purpose of protecting another from harm, including death by abortion.

One teen, Jessica Swygman, whose mother was put into the situation of either aborting her child or having the baby and giving her up for adoption, explains this phenomenon far better than I. She writes: No medicine, drug, or drink can erase the magnitude of life and the instinct within a woman who experiences life inside her. If pro-abortion women deny themselves, like my mom did, and accept their cross—which really is a gift—and persevere through the doubt and fear that come with the journey, they would be so much happier as they fulfill what God has in store for them. Men, too, can do their part by being encouraging and supportive even if it changes their plans. If everyone started or even tried to follow Jesus’ simple command and

CHOOSE LIFE, NOT A DEMOCRAT accept responsibility for their actions, the world wouldn’t be so chaotic and negative as it is today.

Such wisdom comes from the depths of a heart in love with the gifts God bestows on each of us. The profound difference between these young women and those on the debate stage is simple.

These young women understand that nothing of value in life occurs without sacrifice; the debaters understand that ego is paramount, and nothing should stand in the way of self-gratification.

Mary-Clare Franco sums it up nicely: Suffering can show others the dignity in each stage of every person’s life. Carrying your cross can help show different people that life is a gift and should be respected.

My family chose to accept their cross faithfully, in the loss of our baby brother, and was an example to my mom’s relatives, doctors, nurses, and those who

worked at the funeral home. My parents’ suffering will also hopefully create a better support system for other Catholics in our city who have lost a child through miscarriage or stillbirth. A culture of life accepts suffering and acknowledges the dignity of the human person. This involves carrying your cross voluntarily.

Our cross was very heavy, but through it we gave an example to many people.

This example is one way to help spread the culture of life to the world.

The cultural divide is before us at every turn; it is the choice of love versus hate. Each human being, if allowed to be born, is given the gift of choosing.

Submitted by Judie Brown. Judie is president and co-founder of American Life League, the nation’s oldest grassroots pro-life educational and advocacy organization. For more information, visit www.all.org

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Law Electoral College form of national government. We the People, let us be equally courageous.

“A Republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin Wouldn’t it be divine Providence if America received its own Pentecost?

Resulting in Awakening. Revival.

Re-election.

God is Able.

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Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

With this November 3, 2020, election, We the People are now in the fight for the survival of our liberty and freedom which our Founding Fathers appealing to divine Providence laid it all on the line to win for us. And then give us our Constitutional Republic Rule of

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NANCY PELOSI AND HER MINIONS!

BY BECCA KEATING

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hen reviewing the highlights of President Trump’s most recent State of the Union speech, we all remember Nancy Pelosi ripping up the copy of the speech. But if you were not present in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives you most likely missed what has not even been mentioned in the media.

And what did we miss?

Well, we did notice the shifting of Pelosi’s lips as if to realign her teeth, but it was Vice President Pence who witnessed her mostly indecipherable mutterings especially when the President talked of God and the value of human life. Even though she gave cues to her “white brigade” to stay seated or to stand and clap, witnesses say there were similar mutterings and even

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anti-minority, though Democrats formed the KKK in 1868 to stop exslaves from voting. Because Lincoln was a Republican, many Democrats feared Blacks would vote for his party.

F ra n k l i n D. Ro osevelt wa s a Democrat and he put American Japanese citizens in holding camps during WWII. It was a Democrat administration that refused acceptance of a boat of Jewish refugees wanting asylum in America from Hitler’s persecution. It was Democrats who got the Bible removed from schools as a teaching book saying it promoted one religion, getting the supreme court to go along. They both forgot our founders recommended it as a schoolbook, and they forgot the Constitution saying, “... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Liberal Democrats never let truth

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of the chamber about fourteen seats from the First Lady Melania.

With a special invitation to the SOTU, Pastor Jack Hibbs of Chino, CA., relayed part of his experience when preaching to his congregation on the difference between angels and demons. https://tinyurl.com/yx86um47.

Pastor Hibbs explains, “in that chamber of the SOTU address, an invisible world was in collision…and you could feel it! Every Christian could feel it!”

When the President acknowledged the special guests such as the 100-yearold Tuskegee Airmen, Charles McGee, who himself flew more than 130 combat missions fighting the Nazis in Europe and retired with the rank of Colonel… as well as other special guests such as radio personality, Rush Limbaugh…along with the young black

hissing coming from that side of the aisle. Now, that may not seem strange

until you hear more of the story from one of those present in the upper tier

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or history stop their ideas, even if they twist our history. Though we have a chaplain ask God’s blessing before each session of Congress, Democrats say that is wrong. Obviously, they know better than our founders, the ones who fought for and established this unique form of government. But then arrogance and superiority seem to be the foundation of any good liberal Democrat.

The Democrat party voted to remove God from their platform, taking a floor vote on TV. The vote was so close, when the podium said God could stay, serious vocal protesting began.

To the left, God is not necessary in government, only liberals are necessary…sorry Founders.

Republicans believe in American sovereignty while Democrats want open borders. Could it be they know they are losing the Black vote and need illegal’s votes to win?

Listening to news stories about

voting irregularities in recent elections, most problems appear to be in Democrat areas and always in their favor. Freedom from government intrusion into our privacy is the basis of our Bill of Rights, while liberal Democrats believe the Constitution was written for judges and lawyers, not We the People, and only they can say what it truly means.

Imagine a government that can change the meaning of laws as it sees fit, leaving citizens to wonder i f they a re brea k i ng a law.

How du mb is that? But l ibera l Democrats seem to think they are a superior group, highly educated in the system of a socialist utopia, while the unclean masses of Republicans who cling to their God and guns are too simple to understand their betters.

Arrogance is the hallmark of today’s liberals. Could that be why Democrats want One World Order? Could it be Hillary is so mad at

Trump because she would have been Queen of the World? But she lost because of smelly Walmart shoppers, stupid Christians, deplorable unredeemable masses, and uneducated scum, voted republican in Electoral College states, leaving Queen Hillary without power…

OH, the Horror! Maybe those republican Walmart shoppers are much smarter than liberals think…

OH, the Horror!

Su b mitt e d b y Ch a rl e s Joh n s, Abilene, TX. Charles is a Navy Veteran that served on 3 carriers, spent 20 years as a TV tech, 50 years building cars, and 10+ years as a shop superintendent and Police Department armorer. He graduated from Elkins Institute in Dallas, (the same school Rush Limbaugh attended). He holds a Federal Firearms License as a gunsmith, with his own 100-yard gunrange for 21 years. Charles can be reached at chasj43@gmail.com or 325-704-4872.

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SWAMP DRAINING IN PROGRESS

BY BEN GARRISON

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achel Maddow’s Russia, Russia, Russia! conspiracy claptrap is now behind her. Instead of owning up to her humiliation, she’s instead moved on to a fresh outrage. That is, Trump’s critical tweet about Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation.

Maddow dramatically labeled the situation a ‘crisis.’ Eric Swalwell said Trump was injecting a ‘virus of corruption’ into the DOJ and suggested another impeachment process. Various Democrat ‘analysts’ (many are former Obama officials) on MSNBC and other fake news media continue to call Trump a ‘threat to our Democracy.’

Marxists see Democracy as being the road to socialism.

The Democrats are now breathlessly saying Trump is retaliating against witnesses. The Democrats attack Trump for the very things they have done. Obama and his fellow Democrats helped corrupt the DOJ, the IRS, and

the security agencies and used them to harass and spy on their enemies.

The Democrats made justice a partisan issue.

The problem is there are too many Obama holdovers who continue to pull levers of power. They were installed to help Hillary further Obama’s destruction of America, but now these insiders, leakers, and bureaucrats are determined to use their power to destroy President Trump.

The Russia collusion witch-hunt was a gigantic lie, but the Democrats learned nothing from their failure and humiliation. They continue to create fresh hysterics in order to discredit the president. Roger Stone’s case should be thrown out since he had nothing to do with the Russia conspiracy theory— now thoroughly disproven. Instead, Obama’s functionaries still in government want him to do serious time based on concocted and ridiculous ‘process crimes.’

We are glad Trump is sweeping out the Obama holdovers. They belong in

the gutter.

Submitted by Ben Garrison. Ben is an independent political cartoonist based in Northwest Montana. Ben began drawing cartoons in 2009 to protest the central banker bailout, bloated

The Sun is Still Rising in America

BY DONALD R MAY

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he American people elected Donald J. Trump to restore our nation to its proper constitutional role of protecting the American people and the individual states from external and internal forces of tyranny and Evil.

We have had a long succession of Socialist Presidents since Ronald Reagan.

Donald Trump is repairing the damage and draining the Washington Swamp.

Our Founding Fathers established the United States of America and its Constitution on a solid foundation of religious principles with very limited federal powers.

Our Constitution prohibits the trust

of one person or of a few persons to govern our country. The powers of our federal government are separated into three branches, each with checks and balances over the others.

The World is a very dangerous place.

Many unrelated ideological groups believe that humanity and the environment would be better off without the United States. The increasing absence of religion and an associated moral compass have weakened our defenses and placed the American people and the United States of America in grave danger.

We can choose for mankind to live as slaves under tyrannical leaders such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie

Sanders, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Il. We can choose to be subjected to the evils of Fascism, Communism, and Radical Islam, or we can choose to stand and to fight these evils.

We must choose to live as free men and women and to fight for Liberty and justice for all people.

“American’s solemn duty is to constantly renew its covenant with humanity to complete the grand work of human freedom that began two hundred years ago. This work, in its grandness and nobility, is not unlike the building of a magnificent cathedral. In the beginning, progress is slow and painstaking.

The laying of the foundations and

government and the slide toward tyranny. Ben’s cartoons have been seen by millions of people around the world. Ben is not part of the mainstream media and editors do not tell him what he can and cannot draw.

the raising of the walls is measured in decades rather than years. But as the arches and spires begin to emerge in the air, others join in, adding their faith and dedication and love, to speed the work to its completion. My friends, the world is that cathedral. And our children, if not we ourselves, will see the completed work -- the worldwide triumph of human freedom, the triumph of human freedom under God.” Ronald Reagan, 1991.

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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girl who can now choose any school she wishes to attend…plus all the other special guests… “the other side of the aisle sat and grumbled, complained and made hissing sounds and funny noises,” says Pastor Hibbs. “It was wickedness like wickedness I’ve never felt in any setting. You could feel it!”

The demonic presence in that chamber is also evident in the hallways of Congress. The power grab for those in authority is most likely the target of those demonic forces who want to inhabit and control the mind and thinking of those making policies… policies that can bring death to the unborn, that bring destruction to marriage and the family, that will destroy the innocence of our children as well as manipulate the truth of our God-given rights secured by our U.S. Constitution.

It is for this reason, I’m sure, that the

Bible tells us to pray for those in leadership over us. I Timothy 2:1-2 states, “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings, and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”

So, Christians, pray it up! Pray for our President and our Vice President!

Pray for your Senators and your Representatives. Pray for your Governor, your Mayor, your city council, and your school board! The enemy is real!

The good news is that there are some in Washington D.C. who, according to Ralph Drollinger of the Capital Ministries, are solid believers who are studying the Bible on a regular basis and living out their faith in their daily lives and in their policy-making decisions. We should be very thankful for the cabinet that our President has chosen to surround and advise him. This doesn’t mean there is no opposition to these godly men and women. In fact, there are

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threats to their lives just because they are pro-life! Our enemy is a destroyer, a deceiver, and a liar. That enemy and his demons will work overtime to try to disrupt the forward motion of what is Biblical. “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapon of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5) At the local level, in our own states, this battle is just as real, remembering that those we elected have the power to legislate policies in our states that affect our children, our families, our businesses, our health (water and environment), our religious liberty and our safety. As a resident of California, I am under the fallout of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Governor Gavin Newsom. So, you all need to be praying

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for us here before we decide to move to Texas where many of my friends have chosen to relocate.

Seriously, we are living in the greatest country on the planet but “we the people” need to stay on our knees praying for our President, Vice President, his cabinet and all those elected and in positions of authority, remembering that our God is mighty… and “greater is He who is in you (a Christian) than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4) So boldly stand up, speak up, and engage in the voting process while continuing to lift up those in prayer who are ‘fighting the good fight” in Washington D.C. and in each and every state.

Submitted by Becca Keating. Becca is an author, speaker and powerful, contemporary voice on the frontline of politics, media, and religion. Keating’s urgent first-person perspective on faith and policy are ripped from today’s head¬lines and featured on TV and talk-radio. For more information, visit http://www. beccakeating.net

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When Optimism Isn’t Easy

BY GARY W. MOORE

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ptimism, optimism, optimism. It’s great that you are so optimistic, but I’m just not that way. I’m a realist and I see things as they are and the facts of the situation determine if I am optimistic or not,” the email began. I’d love to be more like you but being optimistic may make you feel better in the moment, but in reality, optimism changes nothing.”

I fully realize there are more people in the world who feel this way. It’s easier to let circumstances control your attitude than to thoughtfully work your attitude to positively impact your circumstances.

The email continues. “It’s easy for you to be optimistic. Your job is to sit at a desk and type a bunch of happy

words into a computer and get paid for it. I’d be optimis tic too of that’s all I had to do!”

I don’t think I’ve ever met the author of this email. It was sent anonymously and that’s okay. I am never offended by a response like this. I view this as a positive opportunity to help this reader and others live a more optimistic life.

It’s easy to be optimistic when everything is going your way. Things are good at work, the economy is good, your love life is positive and there is an expectation that your positive life will not change.

Suddenly, without warning, there is a downturn in the economy and your company frantically looks for ways to cut expenses. You lose your job and your significant other becomes irritable at the change in circumstances and the uncertainty of your financial

future. Circumstances can change without notice. You can choose to dwell on how unfair life is or you can find the positive opportunity buried within the negativity and move forward.

One of the only things certain in our lives is the inevitable uncertainty.

Optimism, when you are on top of the world is easy, but when the future is uncertain and your outlook is dire, it’s difficult to find and optimistic person.

When your optimism is needed most, that’s when it’s harder to muster.

Controlling your attitude and outlook is difficult for most people. They allow circumstances to determine their outlook. As their attitude plummets, so does their optimism.

Optimism properly applied is a way of life, not a here now, gone later state of mind that is controlled by external forces. It is your optimism that will guide you to a positive future.

In 2004, I was CEO of a company that was growing, thriving and providing great products and services to the incredibly stable housing market. Life was good. It was easy to be optimistic.

I’ve told you this story before, but with encouragement from family and friends, I decided to write a book about my father’s experience in baseball and war. Once completed I began my search for a publisher. My first rejection came quickly, followed by the second and third … then the eleventh, twenty-seventh, forty-ninth, sixty-third and seventy-fourth. After seventy-four rejections what did I do? I submitted it a seventy-fifth time and it sold. A reviewer said “Playing with the Enemy” became a surprise hit. A surprise to others, but not to me. I was always optimistic I would find a publisher and the book would succeed. I’ve since then written two more and have a fourth ready to go.

So, in 2006, I was still CEO of a company and a part-time author. Less than eighteen months later, a massive implosion of the housing market

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destroyed my company, left me out of work. I lost almost everything. I was depressed for a few days, then I clicked my optimism back on and evaluated my opportunities. It appeared that in the midst of the Great Recession, my chances of landing a corporate position were bleak. I didn’t have the resources to start a new business, so I decided I’d write for a living. I published two more books and began writing this column. It’s been a long road. My column is still expanding its reach and I continue to write more books but, deciding to write full-time was a risky decision that mustered all the optimism and positive energy I could find.

Here’s my point. If you allow your circumstances to determine your optimism … you have no optimism. You are a bobber floating in the water. The weather and tide will determine your fate. Optimism allows you to think past your current disaster. Your belief something better is coming encourages you to create the plan to make it so.

As I say almost every week … “If you believe nothing better is possible, why would you try?”

Optimism in the worst of times, leads you back to the best of times.

Gary W. Moore is a freelance columnist, speaker and author of three books including the award-winning, critically acclaimed, “Playing with the Enemy.”

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The Transgender Road to Hell

BY ROBERT ARVAY

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f the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, those intentions include the status of transgenders in society.

A transgender person is someone who mistakenly thinks he is a she, or vice versa. Mistakenly? Those who advocate the radical policies attached to transgenders object. There is no mistake about it, they insist. These boys who think they are girls are not misguided. They are girls, trapped in the bodies of boys. They must be accommodated, including in medical procedures, in civil rights laws, and in the general culture. (The complement is held to be true for girls who think they are boys.)

Wherever societal Hell is, it is at the end of this road. Any society that cannot distinguish between males and females abandons the vital concepts of manhood and womanhood.

Those on the left claim the high road, because they regard themselves as compassionate, caring, and even scientific. Anyone who disagrees with them (sigh) must be evil. In leftist ideology, if you are evil, you are not merely mistaken. You do not have an honest difference of opinion. You are a hate-monger. Not only that, but you are then defined by a long list of additional pejoratives, including racist, sexist, homophobic (fear of same?), Islamophobic (fear of not just radical Islamic terrorism, but of hijabs and turbans), a climate denier, and too many more to mention here.

The trans-advocates ask, what could be the harm in accommodating people who claim to be of a sex not identical to their anatomy?

Unfortunately, there is a great deal of harm, some of it only recently emerging in the news, but much more of it below

the surface, undermining the fabric of society.

As usual with radical ideologies, they tend not to be well thought out.

Unexpected consequences arise. The ideology that first was portrayed as being logical and compassionate begins to contradict itself and become the opposite. Two recent news items illustrate that.

In the first case, transgender policy has gone so far as to allow males to compete as girls in girls-only sports competition in high schools. Entirely unsurprisingly, the males handily out-compete the most accomplished girl athletes. These competitions are not merely for olive wreaths; they are for valuable scholarships, upon which many of the girls depend for their further education.

In the second case, a seven-year-old boy is being potentially subjected, by a court, to irreversible hormone treatments, over his father’s objections, to prepare the boy for the surgical mutilation known euphemistically as a sex change operation. The boy’s mother has indicated an interest in ordering the procedure. The absurd term “sex change” was more recently modified to

“sex reassignment,” an equally absurd description that regards sex as, in leftist terms, a “social construct.”

Therein lies much of the problem.

Social advocates, with power all out of proportion to their numbers have managed to instill their incoherent definitions not only of sex, but of compassion into the legal, educational, and legislative functions of society. Common sense be damned. Common sense is considered the archaic remnant of an evil America steeped in slavery, war-mongering, and the oppression of victimized minorities.

Inevitably, incoherence leads to self-contradiction. For example, the federal civil rights law known as Title IX, although not solely a sports equity law, does have provisions that require most educational institutions to provide equal opportunities for women in sports, equal to those afforded to men. In short, in layman terms, girls should not be excluded by law from sports opportunities on account of sex. Clearly, the intended effect of the law is to give girls status in sports, so as not to suffer from male competition. But the incoherent result has been the opposite: to allow boys to declare

themselves girls and thereby to defraud the girls of their opportunities in sports scholarships.

While photos of very masculine “transgenders” overpowering girls in competition,is dramatic proof of the idiocy of current policy, there is an even deeper problem at work, one that is convoluted enough to allow leftist advocates to scream discrimination at those who would end discrimination.

The deeper problem is that when society tries to delegitimize biological reality, it has embarked down a rabbit hole of policies that portend unexpected and destructive consequences at every level.

If we consider the malady to be healthy, and any cure to be forbidden, then we blur the line between abnormality and the normative. We vilify people who propose true compassion, the kind that demands that people adjust to reality instead of to fantasy.

Gender dysphoria, a politically corrected term for gender identity disorder, is a truly tragic malady for those who suffer from it. A cure should be sought. The disorder is in the brain, not below the waist. Therefore, the cure will be found in the brain — but only if the necessary research is conducted.

That research will not be conducted, because the problem is considered not to be a problem at all, but rather a condition to be celebrated, yet another stripe on the multi-culture flag of rainbow politics.

For the moment, the problem is not the confused adolescent boys who, with the support of political vampires, have been led to honestly believe they are girls. The problem is with the abandonment of traditional moral absolutes, without which no society can long survive.

The danger may not yet be clear and present, but it is no less dangerous.

Written by Robert Arvay. Reprinted with permission from AmericanThinker. com

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that invites the reader into a discussion on the documents that define the American states. In writing that is beautiful and fluid and evoking historical characters and important historical moments in American history, the author takes readers back into the defining moment of American history when the constitution was drawn up. The founding fathers are sure they are doing the right thing in drafting the four documents of the constitution. That is in the past.

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T.R. Hendrick tells a story and invites readers to revisit history, and he does so with intelligence, bringing to life people of American history, revisiting the birth of the country and compelling readers to think about the political reality of contemporary America. It is intelligently plotted, and the characters are well explored.

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Trump Brings Home the Bacon Why I Can’t Vote Democrat

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will vote for the most pro-life candidate, because God hates the shedding of innocent blood (Proverbs 6:17).

I will vote for the most pro-Israel candidate, because God blesses those who Bless Israel and curses those who don’t (Genesis 12:3).

I will vote for the most pro-debt reduction candidate, because the borrower is servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7).

I will vote for the most pro-work candidate because God says if a man

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ccording to the December report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and despite what we’re told by the democrats in politics and those disguised as journalists, the wages of America’s low-income workers are rising faster than the democrat’s designated villains: America’s top-earners. The report contains a graph which shows the median wage growth for the bottom 25% of workers hit 4.5% for the 12-month period ending in November.

According to CBS News, this exceeded the 2.9% gain in median earnings for the top 25% of earners. CBS

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And this cannot be attributed to that age-old stalking horse, mandated increases in the minimum wage by the central planning bureaucrats. John Robertson, a senior policy adviser in the Atlanta Fed’s research department said, “The increased tightness of labor markets, or some other factor than hikes in state minimum wages, is playing a role in pushing up the pay for those in lower-wage jobs.”

After conducting a poll CNBC said,

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won’t work let him not eat. (2 Thessalonians 3:10) I will vote for the most Pro-Marriage candidate because God is for marriage as defined in (Genesis 2:24).

I will vote for the candidate who most closely believes government’s purpose is to reward good & punish evil (Romans 13).

I will vote based as close as I can on God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:16) Submitted by JR, Lubbock, TX. Author unknown.

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Cactus Chronicles: Death by a Thousand Cuts

BY JOHNNY ROWLAND

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ancer is cunning, resource and power-mad, but ultimately turns out to be a really stupid disease. It relentlessly works to overcome and control its host, while stealing the life-sustaining means available to the body in which it lives. Left unchecked, the end result is the utter destruction of the entire organism.

On the other hand, if effective treatment is administered after the cancer has a firm hold on the body, then many times the body does not survive the combative process, or at the very least, may be permanently crippled, disfigured, or weakened, even if the offending cancer is finally defeated.

Amazingly, the cancer only has one aim: to flourish by overcoming its host; never giving any consideration to long TRUMP BRINGS HOME THE BACON CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13

time the percentage has been above 50 for two-straight quarters in the 11year history of the poll. In addition, 38 percent expect the economy to improve in the next year, the second highest number since the Great Recession.

And 41 percent of homeowners expect the value of their homes to increase in the next year, the highest mark since 2007.”

According to US News and World Report, “Approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy has risen 7 percentage points since the impeachment inquiry began, reaching its highest level in a year.” The paper also quoted a CNBC poll saying, “According to the poll, the president’s net approval on economic issues rebounded from a minus-8% in September, the first negative of his presidency, to plus-9% in December. The 17-point jump is good for Trump, who ran on promises to improve the economy and who has continuously touted strong job numbers as

term survival. It desperately needs a strong and healthy host to support it, but it is simply too stupid to grasp that its own insatiable desire for nutrients and control will lead to the complete destruction of the living entity it inhabits and is dependent on, thereby sealing its own fate.

Do we see any correlation to our modern political climate here?

Liberal socialism is indeed a leading cancer on our American way of life. It uses coddled snowflake students along with sheltered millennials, and others who are not in touch with history or the real world, to espouse the theoretical joys of socialist fairy tales. These folks are often referred to, in communist jargon, as “useful idiots,” and they are naive enough to proclaim themselves to be wise. In fact, these poor intellectually starved and challenged

persons, consider themselves to be much wiser than their forebears, who have already tried every imaginable formula to institute utopian societies on unsuspecting populations— always with the same cruel and dismal results.

Paraphrasing a Biblical verse: “they proclaimed themselves to be wise and became fools!”

Thought for the day: History does not tend to be kind to idiocy!

The best way to collapse any substantial building or structure is to destroy its foundation first. Realize that our moral absolutes, educational apparatuses, and American systems of government had their origins in the Judeo-Christian ethic and values. And obvious to the adversaries of Freedom, the base and source of our moral beliefs must be among the first targets to implant with the cancer of doubt and

confusion. Rights of, and consideration for, the individual were once held to be sacred, not pronounced by any invented governing contraption cooked up by mere mortals but inspired by instruction from the Creator. Godless socialism has no regard for the individual and bestows all authority on the collective sum of the population, except it becomes too difficult for the majority of the citizenry to consider all the day to day governing details, so a tiny group of “administrators,” who have decided they know what is best for the “herd,” manipulate their way into leadership and begin to rule said “herd.” Unfortunately, and consistently, they then begin to implement their own nefarious and self-serving agendas upon the masses.

part of his reelection campaign.”

These figures are higher than Trump’s overall approval rating.

This may indicate that record low unemployment levels, stable gas prices, a roaring stock market even in the face of a hostile and abusive media could still help get the president across the finish line in November. Gallup Polling puts it this way, “Americans are more upbeat about their personal finances today than at any time in the past 10 years, with 49% saying they are financially better off than they were a year ago.

This is up from the 44% who felt financially better off at the same time last year and from a low of 23% in 2009.”

Some attribute this rise in wages for the lowest income bracket to be a result of President Trump’s immigration policies. When there’s less low-skilled foreign competition against Americans through increased interior immigration enforcement these most vulnerable Americans experience a labor market that now resembles the labor market of top-tier workers. Nick Bunker an economist

with Indeed.com pointed this out when he told the Wall Street Journal, “A strong labor market makes the bargaining power of lower-paid workers more like the labor market higher-wage workers experience during good times and bad.”

John Binder of Breitbart observes, “For the first year in decades, the U.S. economy has tipped toward American workers rather than employers in terms of the labor market. Today, due to less foreign competition, workers have more chances to seek out the highest-paying job. For decades, it was employers who would bid on workers.”

Now its employers trying to attract workers.

On a recent broadcast of the New York City-based radio show “Cats Roundtable,” White House’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy director Peter Navarro said “Under President Donald Trump, everybody who wants a job can get a job.”

The current casting call of presidential wanabees tries to gain center stage by out bidding each other to buy our

votes; “I’ll give everyone a thousand dollars a month and free healthcare!”

“I’ll give every retiree $250 extra per month, free healthcare for everyone, and forgive all student loans!” “I’ll give free healthcare for everyone, free college, forgive all student loans, and get the banks to write off debts.” Blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum.

Meanwhile President Trump with little fanfare and totally ignored by the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media brings home the bacon. This may be bad news for the bi-coastal elites but it’s good news for those of us out here in fly-over country thinking about paying the rent and putting food on the table.

Submitted by Dr. Owens. Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2019 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com.

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Was Nixon Impeached? Yes, by a 412 to 3 Vote!

BY HAROLD PEASE, PH. D

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ost hold that since Richard M. Nixon resigned from office as President before the full House of Representatives could vote on the articles of impeachment, he therefore was not impeached. But they omit the House vote 12 days after he resigned.

There were two votes on impeachment by the full House of Representatives. The first on February 6, 1974, was a vote 410 for and 4 against, authorizing impeachment proceedings against Nixon which allowed the House Judiciary Committee to begin the formal inquiry. Talk of such had preceded this vote for several months. Thereafter, following six months of House inquiry that did not go well for Nixon, he resigned August 8, 1974 before the full House voted to actually impeach him based on the findings of their Judiciary Committee. So technically Nixon was not impeached. Although accused, which is what impeachment is, in the public mind there was no reason to proceed as removal from office was accomplished by Nixon’s resignation But wait, that was not the view of the House of Representatives as a second vote was cast TO GIVE FINALITY TO THE LONG INQUIRY PROCESS. It followed twelve days later complete with a 528-page report. Wikipedia reports: “On August 20, the House voted to accept the final Judiciary Committee report by a vote of 412 to 3, with Republican Earl Landgrebe, plus Democrats Otto Passman and Sonny Montgomery casting the only no votes. The 528‐page report, published on August 22, laid out in detail what it called the “clear and convincing evidence” against Nixon. It also contained a statement from the committee’s Republican members who had originally opposed impeachment, stating for the record that Nixon had not been ‘hounded from office’ but rather had

destroyed his own presidency through his patterns of deceit.”

The second vote occurred after the months-long House inquiry and was

the final vote of the House of Representatives—no different than any other House vote on impeachment except that Nixon had already resigned. So,

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Richard Nixon was impeached, meaning charged, just as Andrew Johnson before him and those after.

Donald Trump,was not impeached by the House for a month after their vote as they refused to give finality to their work by passing their demand for a trial to the Senate. They had, in effect, dropped the charges. This, of course, subsequently changed when House Managers took their charges to the Senate and Trump, now impeached by the House, was acquitted by the Senate.

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would, his removal from office.

So why are so many still ignorant of the Nixon impeachment vote—even college professors? Primarily because with Nixon removing himself the issue went away and the nation, so hurt by the Watergate Scandal, wanted to forget. Consequently The New York Times covered (buried) this previously headlined story on page 22.

It read: “Without a trace of fanfare or drama and without a word of debate, the impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives formally ended today. It ended as it had begun 10 months ago. First, there was a private agreement among leaders of both parties about how to proceed. Then, the action was taken in the tried and true parliamentary language that the House uses day after day to conduct routine business.

“At 1:50 P.M., Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, rose on the House floor and announced, ‘Mr. Speaker, I submit a privileged report pursuant to House Resolution CACTUS CHRONICLES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14

The Biblical Ten Commandments were never intended to be the “Ten Suggestions;” similarly, the Bill of Rights was never made out to be the

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www.CaprockPatriot.com 803.’ That resolution had given the committee the right to act as an agent of the House, with all of the House’s constitutional authority, in investigating whether. former, President Richard M. Nixon should be impeached. The Speaker of the House, Representative Carl Albert, responded in the same words and the same barely audible voice that he has used hundreds of other times when committee chairmen filed routine reports….

“But this report is not routine,” The NY Times continued, “Running about 200,000 words, it sets out the evidence that the Judiciary Committee found warranted Mr. Nixon’s impeachment, and removal from office. Had Mr. Nixon not resigned, this document would have formed the basis for the first House impeachment debate in more than a century….

“It is Important,” Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier of Wisconsin, a ranking Democrat on the committee, said afterward, and this is a major point, that “the impeachment matter not seem unresolved. Representative Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. of

Massachusetts, the Democratic leader, offered a resolution commending the judiciary committee for its work and accepting its report.

“Representative John J. Rhodes of Arizona, the, Republican leader, took the necessary parliamentary step of demanding a second, and, without debate, the resolution was approved by a vote of 412 to 3” (House Formally Concludes Inquiry Into Impeachment,” by David E. Rosenbaum, New York Times, Aug. 21, 1974, p. 22).

So, Nixon was impeached by a vote of 412 to 3. The populous can be excused for their ignorance but college professors, facts checking services, news reporters, journalists and historians cannot.

Dr. Harold Pease 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.

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“Bill of Privileges” which could hinge on whims of social media. The Founders of our country well understood the strengths and frailties of human nature; this is why our US Constitution places stern restrictions on just what the government can and cannot do, as well as including ironclad language respecting the rights and dignity of the individual citizen. Today’s unanswered question is: has the liberal-socialist cancer so metastasized into our underpinning institutions that it is beyond treatment, much less cure?

Our RIGHT to keep and bear (and USE!) arms, confirmed (and not GRANTED!) by the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, is the major stumbling block to the globalist would-be slavers, preventing their final takeover of our country. Heaven

forbid, if the US electorate chooses to go down the socialist-dictatorial path, blindly and stupidly submitting to those who would disarm us as citizens, then all other societies which aspire to self-determination, have just lost the war as well. We are currently watching the restriction and outright theft of our firearms rights and tools which enable us as individuals to defend ourselves and our families against enemies: foreign and DOMESTIC! We cannot and indeed, MUST not allow this Progressive travesty to continue— certainly not to succeed!

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enemies are well aware that they must resort to a “death of a thousand cuts” strategy rather than a full-on or overt attack to overcome us; this assault can be countered, but it won’t be done by “snowflakes” or by mealy-mouthed moderates and lefties pleading: “can’t we all just get along?”

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Hit! Hit! HIT! The sound of the bamboo sticks of the trackers was from the east. It was answered, instantly, by trackers again to the east but much higher up the mountain than the trackers that I assumed were at or near the road back to my east.

It was just a moment then more bamboo sticks to the west. But I could not tell if they were high up or lower down near the road.

I had been expecting the One-Zero to lead us up and to a landing zone (LZ) for extraction but instead, we remained in place.

To the east down near the road... there was an EXPLOSION of bamboo hits.

I might be the damn new guy, but I knew the bodies of the dead men I had killed had been found.

I was startled to hear the trackers signal from several locations; first the east, then north from up the mountain, and to the west. Trackers were all around us.

I had stuck grass in my flop hat and in front of my harness. I had done this to break up my outline so I could stand up and observe across the clear space and under the trees without being seen.

Movement down on the road from the east caught my attention. A runner was sprinting down the road. He passed my location and finally went into the trees and disappeared from view.

Three blasts of a whistle followed shortly after the runner had gone into the trees. Immediately the bamboo sticks from all around us went into an absolute frenzy.

I could make out men in the trees running to form up into a group.

The NVA troops came out onto the road and their platoon leader pointed up to our location.

At his direction, the runner made a signal by hitting the bamboo sticks.

The NVA platoon leader sent half his troops (about 20) into the grass. They were headed straight to my location!

The same NVA platoon leader led the other 20 into the grass in front of the One-Zero.

They had found us. No doubt about it.

I heard the sound of an aircraft engine to the west... COVEY. When I looked toward the west, I saw yellow smoke signaling our location to the extraction helicopters. The team was going to be extracted right here and under heavy fire.

Note, the procedure for popping smoke. It is very (very) important when popping a smoke grenade to never radio the color of the smoke to anyone. If you do tell the color of your smoke, the NVA will pop the same color and confuse the aircraft trying to find you.

I focused my attention on the grass to my front. The NVA troops advancing toward me were bent over to keep hidden from view, but I quickly noticed the movement of the grass as they advanced toward me.

I first saw seven ‘paths’ of waving grass. They were coming at me in pairs about 10-feet between the pairs. I saw

Photo Courtesy of TTU Vietnam Center an eighth path of grass movement moving up and to the east. I realized they were intent on flanking our line, which is very dangerous to defend against.

I took a careful bead in the grass on the flanking NVA and calculated where their bent-over bodies would be.

Before I could fire, I heard the hollow thud of an M79 grenade round my Vietnamese teammate had fired. I heard the M79 round explode on the flanking NVA. I fired on the position of the flanking NVA with open auto-fire and swung my CAR 15 along

the line of advancing NVA in front and to my right.

I became aware of rounds being fired by everyone in the world. Literally felt like it.

I emptied my 30-round magazine and with smooth motion. I triggered the magazine release and flipped the fresh magazine.

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BY DOUGLAS MCARTHUR

FIELD DAY & TRICKY TERMS I still remember August 1956 Navy boot camp and the first time the term Field Day came up. Now I will admit I knew exactly what the term meant.

Having spent three years in the Army National Guard, I had a good knowledge of most military lingo. I was astute enough not to flaunt my experience to my fellow boots as I did not wish to be “mister know it all”. How I managed to achieve three years in the Army National Guard before joining the Navy at age 18 plus is a whole other story for another day.

Field Day is a phrase that means a day for cleaning up all parts of the ship or a day of general cleaning. The term originated in the mid-18th century to refer to a day when military units would stand parade for the public.

On this particular day, my fellow recruits had a vision of a field day in high school. I guess, thinking we would maybe visit some local civilian activity or have fun and games (HA!).

In a rude revelation with growls from

our training Chief Petty Officer (I can never forget that man!), we were soon reduced to butts and elbows as we scrubbed or polished every square inch of our barracks.

So much for fun and games in boot camp. I don’t know about the contemporary U.S. Navy, but I can attest boot camp was serious back in the day.

YIPPEE! “HOLIDAY ROUTINE” Now leap forward to me being a new member of the crew of the USS Forrestal. At that point, having made it through boot camp and months of grueling technical training in guided missile technology (such as the sidewinder and sparrow air to air missile), I felt pretty confident in myself. However, I was by no means overconfident

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Here I was a part of this first super-carrier largely manned by astute WWII seasoned sailors, so my self-assurance had naturally receded.

I had suffered through the normal pranks pulled on a sailor who was for the first time at sea. There was the ritual of doing anything possible to nauseate the new sailor who had not developed “sea legs” on the first time out to sea. When I boarded the Forrestal, she had just returned from a Med Cruise. After being in port (Norfolk) for 3 or 4 weeks, the ship departed for a North Atlantic NATO operation. I can attest that the North Atlantic in October is rough, to say the least. No sooner had we left the breakwaters of Norfolk, Virginia, I began to feel the effects of the unstable sea on what was then the biggest ship afloat and on this. I was soon turning green; I was a neophyte sailor.

As we hit the waters off Cape Hatteras, the swells began to grow and my seasoned Guided Missile Shop fellow sailors all simultaneously lit up huge cigars and began to discuss the greasy pork chops being prepared in the galley and how one of these hung around the neck would ward off seasickness. It

did not take long for this new unseaworthy sailor to seek O’Rourke. For you who do not know, that is hugging the commode and making a sound like you are calling for “O’Rourke” over and over until there’s nothing left to expel from your gut.

Being seasick did not exclude one from doing your duty or your part of the work. As a sailor in the new rating of air-launched guided missiles, we were attached to the Weapons Department under G Division (that’s Ordinance). As we headed toward the North Atlantic, sick or not, I was busy taking care of missile maintenance or helping the ordinance men move and load bombs.

I had no complaints as this was all exciting stuff as we loaded bombs for day and night operations. I quickly adapted to flight deck procedures, as did other new arrivals. It was during these days, before reaching South Hampton, England, I was tricked with all kinds of fool’s errands. These included tasks such as “go to the Gunnery Office and ask for the daily cannon report” or “go to the chain locked and get 100 feet of shoreline”. Needless to say, by the time we got to England I had my sea legs and was a bit wiser.

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headed by the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ark royal for a 2-week joint NATO exercise. During the exercise, we crossed the Arctic Circle to test the new super-carriers ability to operate in such conditions. While in the Arctic Circle, we were operating pretty much around the clock to simulate war conditions.

Here is where “Holiday Routine” came into my life.

After the exercise, we were all dog tired when the word was passed that the following day would be “Holiday Routine”. I thought, well here we go again with another joke on the new guys. But then the Captain (piped on by the sound of the bosun’s whistle) came on and congratulated the crew on a successful operation. He stated there would be no further air ops as we headed for Greenock Scotland. He stated tomorrow we would observe “Holiday Routine”. I immediately began to think of the relaxing things I could do such a catch a movie, read a good book, etc.

The next morning at ships muster, after at least getting a good night’s sleep, we were all given various tasks such as chipping paint, swabbing, general cleaning, or any other loose needing attention. I quickly learned that if a ship is at sea there is no holiday.

“Holiday Routine” is simply another day. If one did not have normal duty the officers or other in charge made darn sure we did not have idle time to cause trouble. Though it was not the “Holiday Routine” I had expected, I at least found if you did a good job, we were given a little slack and free time.

In this case, the joke was on me as I learned another facet of Navy life.

As I have explained in previous articles, life had gotten a bit difficult before the Navy, so I never thought to complain or as they say, “bitch about anything”. I was getting three squares a day, learning a lot, having fun with my work, seeing the world, and on top of that getting paid. There is always some griping as its natural. As is said, “a bitching crew is a happy crew”.

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SPEAKING OF LOOSE ENDS: CORONA VIRUS AND CHRISTMAS ISLAND “REDUX” Have you ever noticed how you hear a word or maybe some obscure fact for the first time or hear of something you have not thought of in years, only to have that thought show up in contemporary discourse a little later?

In December my article was entitled “How’d You Like to Spend Christmas on Christmas Island”. I told of my connection to Christmas Island and how that place related to sea battles of WWII. You can review the article in the December 2019 Caprock Patriot.

I happened to mention that Christmas Island, now a part of Australia, has a facility similar to Guantanamo (Gitmo). The sparsely populated island is 1500 miles northwest of the Australian mainland. The fully self-contained Gitmo-like facility is much more hospitable than Gitmo. In recent years, there have been no inmates at the facility since it was built to hold potential terrorists and illegal aliens.

Much to my surprise, the Coronavirus brought Christmas Island to the fore. The Australian Government announced the facility would be used to quarantine any returning citizens who had or were exposed to the virus.

Maybe you saw that news? It just shows our shrinking world view.

The rapid spread of the Corona Virus on the cruise ship docked in Japan shows the immediate danger of this highly contagious viral infection. We need to be concerned as our government brings repatriating, exposed or infected, Americans to various American facilities. This thing could get totally out of hand.

The cruise ship proves the virus is nearly impossible to contain. Nobody truly knows the incubation period or if those who recover continue to carry the virus only to infect others.

As of this writing (02/17/2021), there are roughly 72,000 reported cases

worldwide. The number is growing exponentially.

For those who, like me, are not math wizards, just remember the old penny puzzle: if you were offered a 31-day job where you could choose to be paid one million dollars for the complete period or accept a penny the first day and your daily pay would double each subsequent day through 31 days. The answer is, take the penny deal because you will have earned well over 20 million dollars by day 31. If you want to see a complete explanation, watch the video on YouTube: https://tinyurl. com/wdhfe2h Now that’s exponentially mate!

If, by the time you read this, the worldwide infections are approaching or even over 100,000 you then have reason to panic. You can track the levels by searching the following: https://www.worldometers.info/ coronavirus.

Not to be an alarmist, but this could be the situation described in Alvin

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Tofflers book from 1970 , Future Shock.

The basic premise is how do you react when the world or environment you depended on no longer exist.

If this virus continues at an exponential rate everything will suddenly change. We cannot be sure of the current numbers. Some experts think the Chinese have been lying as the numbers could be many times what they have revealed.

Ask yourself… has our government let us down by moving these victims from the source of infection to U.S. locations meanwhile infecting aircraft, vehicles, and personnel. Keep a sharp eye on this.

What are your thoughts? I would love to hear from you. If you wish to comment, please email me at oldsaltCVA59@gmail.com God Bless You All. Old Salt, Douglas McArthur, USS Forrestal; Ships Company, USS Saratoga; VA 34 Blue Blaster Squadron, U.S. Army Reserves.

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B-O-O-M... An RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) had exploded behind me. I wasn’t even aware of the shrapnel in my leg and cheek until later. I fired my Claymore mine and bent over I raced following my team member.

I heard a new sound. It was the high pitched scream of an engine. I looked up toward the sound - as I ran - in time to hear the scream become so loud it was deafening. Then I saw it. An aircraft, way high, coming straight down engine screaming so loud it hurt my eardrums. I assumed it had been shot down. I was scanning the sky for a parachute so I could be prepared to attempt a rescue when I ran completely over the Vietnamese Lieutenant.

The scream of the engine was so loud it shook the grass. I got to my feet in time to see the A-1 dive bomber pull out of the dive and release two large bombs. I still had my eye on the A-1 and saw him shoot straight up. Immediately, the Vietnamese Lieutenant jerked me down to the ground. I was barely down when what I thought were huge explosions sent a shock wave over the grass. The Vietnamese lieutenant was on his feet in an instant and screamed “dunglie dunglie”. I,

the damn new guy, knew exactly what that meant… Run. Run like hell!

As I raced into the yellow smoke, two Vietnamese team members jump to their feet. The Vietnamese Lieutenant screamed at them as he had me.

As we raced up the mountain at a 45-degree angle away from the road, I heard it again. The scream of another A-1 dive bomber coming straight down. I have no idea how far we ran when I realized we were in a small circle with all the team.

I looked up and saw the A-1 screaming straight down but a bit west of our position. Just as the A-1 released the bombs and shot skyward, the lieutenant tugged my dungaree pants hard twice and I sank to the ground.

Again two huge explosions as the bombs hit. Then a fraction of a second later, a truly huge explosion shook the ground. Shrapnel sang in the air over our heads.

The second A-1 had hit a large munition storage site.

To be continued next month.

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Veterans and Hearing Loss

BY SCOTT HOGENSON

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ne of the most dangerous places in the world is the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. But the hazards involve more than tons of live ordnance, dodging spinning propellers, and avoiding rivers of flame from fighter jet afterburners. It is also the loudest environment in which I ever worked as a Navy technician during the Cold War. People rarely think of hearing loss as a military risk when, in truth, it is pervasive. Flight decks, small arms fire, artillery, explosions, and myriad other sources of high-decibel noise pose an ever-present threat to men and women in uniform. This fact came into sharp relief for me 25 years after leaving the military when I served as a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S.

Department of Veterans Affairs. It was only then that I realized the true scale and cost of hearing loss.

Two of the most prevalent injuries among veterans are hearing loss and tinnitus. In 2018, as many as 1,228,936 veterans suffered from hearing loss.

Another 1,971,201 suffer from tinnitus, and these numbers continue to rise every year. Thankfully, the Pentagon recognizes this problem and is studying innovative ways to protect service members so they don’t become another statistic in the growing list of veterans suffering from hearing loss and tinnitus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that veterans are 30 percent more likely than non-veterans to have a severe hearing impairment, which has a lasting effect on their daily lives. Hearing loss means much more than simply asking people to repeat themselves. It can cause mental and

social problems including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, isolation and withdrawal, reduced social activity, and problems at work. I was struck by the story of one Florida vet who admitted feeling lost and isolated because his hearing loss caused him to pretend to hear others when he actually couldn’t.

That happens to me sometimes, and some of my military buddies, too.

These injuries have real monetary costs to veterans as well. One study found that hearing loss can result in as much as $279,000 in lost lifetime income. With dwindling personal finances and an inability to effectively communicate, veterans are being set

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up to fail in civilian life, all because of a preventable injury.

To combat the rising rates of hearing loss and tinnitus among active-duty military personnel and veterans, the Department of Defense launched a hearing conservation program (HCP).

The program educates military members on the importance of protecting their hearing and the lifelong effects if they do not. But education goes only so far. The military has an obligation to equip war-fighters with hearing protection that offers safety while providing communications efficiency in combat scenarios.

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That’s good news, but now it’s time to follow through.

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Life

BY REV AT SHARP SHOOTERS SAFE & GUN

What a start to the year. Further tensions in the Middle East, conclusions to the impeachment trials, SOTU, 2A rally’s in Virginia and Kentucky, Coronavirus, etc.; and its only February.

Every time we turn on the TV or log in to Facebook, it seems that something else has happened that makes us even more ready for Jesus to come back. I know for most of us, jobs, families, and personal lives are the obvious priority. But whenever you look out into the world, some of you can’t help but feel that something needs to be done and it’s about time that you did something about it.

Most of us look outside the windows of our cars and our houses and see something, anything, that needs to be better than what it is now. We live in a world that requires constant improvement. Whether you belong to a faith, a creed, or a family motto, we all know that we have a job to do. The problem is that most of us haven’t got the slightest idea of what to do or where to start. Well to that, I have a suggestion.

How about instead of looking through the window, let us all look “through” the mirror. Not look at one, “through” one. I believe that if we do this, there’s a lot more that we can discover about ourselves.

Let me preface this topic by saying

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that nothing I say or suggest is rooted in, desires to seek out, or is motivated to cause a feeling of shame, but rather honesty. What about the deepest parts of ourselves need to be observed? What things about ourselves do we need to have a “come to Jesus” moment with? What parts of ourselves can we be thankful and give praise for?

I have a truth to share with you. We were created for more. I believe we were meant for more, often more than we give ourselves. Not more things or material passions, but for more life. More life, not in quantity, but in quality. My question for all of us is how and why have we neglected this need for more life? I believe that it is this neglect for more life that has led to the worldwide starvation of life we see today. These problems we witness, foreign and domestic, across states, town, and streets, they all come from the same thing: a lacking of life.

As we continue throughout this year, this must be a question we ask ourselves: how can we bring life and claim more life for ourselves, for our families, and for our strangers? What is wrong and how can I bring life into it? These are the questions, and those that follow them, that will be what charters our course for a better tomorrow.

So, look at yourself and the life

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I have never needed a gun. I hope I never need a gun. In all likelihood, I will never need a gun. However, should I ever need a gin, I better have a gun.

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of those you admire. I’m currently writing this article while listening to the film score of Braveheart. This morning I started the day by reading MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Once I got to my office and said my morning prayers, I began reading Wild at Heart by John Eldredge.

These are some of the things that help me look at myself, look at the world, and gives the reason to move forward to a better tomorrow. Find out the good things that fill you with inspiration and the bad things that turn

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you inside out. Find out, for yourself, what gives you the fuel to go across the nation and across the street and bring about life.

And at the end of the day, throughout all of the grind of work and life, throughout your struggles and trials as well as your joys and praise, I do hope you find and have life.

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LUBBOCK: STAND FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT!!!

BY BENNIE POPE

A group of local Patriots have been working together to draft and present a resolution to the Lubbock County Commissioners that would designate Lubbock County as a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.

This Resolution will be heard, discussed and voted for (or against!) on the County Commissioner Court agenda March 9, 2020.

We need HUNDREDS of Second Amendment supporting Patriots to come to this important meeting in support of this Resolution.

Please spread this info with your social media and email contacts. Do whatever you can to come to this meeting and bring others with you.

Come early to get a seat. We are hoping for, and expecting, a large crowd. Also, parking may be an issue.

You say you support the Second Amendment, it’s time to prove it. We must ensure our Second Amendment rights are preserved and protected!

Location and time: Lubbock County Courthouse 10:00am, Monday, March 9th, 2020.

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Below the Radar: HR 5301 introduced by Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK)

BY HAROLD HUTCHISON

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ne reason legislation will fly in under the radar is because it is not flashy. There is no catchy title, and it often just gets filed. There may not be many cosponsors – if any.

But some of these bills could make a huge difference. One such bill is HR 5301, introduced by Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK).

Hern did not even issue a press release with this legislation. The text takes two pages, and that is arguably due to the formatting on the first page. There’s no title. All it says is, “To amend title 18, United States Code, to permit certain individuals complying with State law to possess firearms.”

So, what is this bill about? All it does is provide a huge boost to those who exercise their Second Amendment rights in the 16 states that have constitutional carry through an amendment to the Gun-Free School Zones Act. What is that boost? It modifies the law to reflect the reality that in those constitutional carry states, there is no need to have a concealed carry permit.

The problem, when the Gun-Free

School Zones Act passed, it didn’t take into account constitutional carry.

The current law, found at 18 USC 922(q)(2), outlaws carrying a firearm unless “the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do so by the State in which the school zone is located or a political subdivision of the State, and the law of the State or political subdivision requires that, before an individual obtains such a license, the law enforcement authorities of the State or political subdivision verify that the

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So, in those 16 states, it would just take an anti-Second Amendment extremist in a U.S. Attorney’s office to decide to prosecute a gun owner who was not doing anything wrong – all on that technicality. That is not a good situation at all.

Hern’s legislation changes the convoluted language of the current law to something much simpler, saying that now, the exception would apply to anyone “in compliance with the law of the State and political subdivision in which the school zone is located.”

This removes the jeopardy attached to those who are within state law in the constitutional carry states. Now, if you are in compliance with state and

local law, you are no longer at risk from the Gun-Free School Zones Act if you exercise your rights.

One thing Second Amendment supporters should think about: A bill like this can often be slipped into a bigger piece of legislation, like the annual appropriations legislation, especially in the conference committee where the House and Senate resolve their differences.

Loyal readers should get in touch with their Representative and Senators, and politely urge them to support HR 5301, to improve the situation vis-à-vis the Gun-Free School Zones Act in the constitutional carry states. They should also take the time to thank Representative Hern for this good piece of legislation. Carrying in accordance with local and state laws should not place someone in jeopardy of losing their rights due to an anti-Second Amendment federal prosecutor.

Written by Harold Hutchison. Harold 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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BY DR. BILL MILLER

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ack in the early part of 2018, I finally noticed one day that a lot of Christians had started talking favorably about the idea of “open borders.” I had always thought that not having borders was a really dumb idea that liberal politicians were supporting so they could find more votes. But suddenly even some ministers and whole church denominations were declaring that it was unloving, even un-Christian to restrict the admission of “refugees” fleeing their countries in the hope of a better life in the U.S.A. Did the Bible not say that we’re to be compassionate hosts to “strangers?” Didn’t Jesus instruct us to love everybody?

On the surface, the call to compassion and love sounded laudable, even biblical. But it bothered me that Christians were agreeing with one of the recent, ever-emerging components of Political Correctness (PC). My thinking was (and still is) that PC is essentially a collection of secular, ever-morphing ideas that are counterfeits of particular Christian bible-based values. By confronting the true Word, PC gives unbelievers a sense of relief from the conviction they’re experiencing as a result of rejecting the Truth. So, for me, it was shocking to hear Christian ministers agreeing with

non-believers and their PC on how we should be dealing with what had come to be called our “border crisis.”

After all, the clear biblical warning is to avoid being unequally yoked together with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14).

It also says that friendship with the world actually makes us enemies of God (James 4:4).

To be sure, there were some Christian ministers speaking out against the idea of open borders but a lot of what they were saying was based on the Republican Party political position. So, we had non-believers lecturing us on what the

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Of course, there was also a third group made up of the majority of ministers who did little to no public speaking at all about this subject.

I asked God about this situation and before long He led me to a couple of verses I had read many times before but had not connected to the border crisis: Acts 17:26-27 = “…He made from one blood every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.”

Now this is New Testament scripture alluding to Old Testament scripture. Luke the physician is quoting the Apostle Paul’s “Sermon on Mars Hill” delivered in Athens, Greece during the establishing of the first century Church. As soon as I had paid attention to these verses anew in mid-2018, I realized there were two key points that

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speak directly to our border crisis and could help the Church come to a more UNITED Bible-based position: • The first is that the borders and boundaries of all countries were established by God and that He arranges and rearranges them as He wants to and when He wants to.

• Secondly, He does this for the specific purpose of supernaturally causing mankind to reach out to Him. How this happens I don’t fully understand. It just works that way because the Bible says it does.

To say this another way, God is the One who sets all the borders for all countries for all time. And, He does this for the purpose of somehow motivating mankind to draw closer to Him. That makes it an essential part of the Great Commission. We are to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations and He has established current borders and boundaries as a complement to that assignment by making the nations marginally more receptive to the Good News. Consequently, doing away with our borders would serve to oppose God’s plan for the nations.

Furthermore, that plan says we are to take the gospel to them, not bring them all here to stay and receive material handouts.

Some Relevant Old Testament History After I had meditated those initial verses for a while, I wanted to go back and connect to the Old Testament principles that Paul was referring to.

In short, the related history starts after the flood as the three sons of Noah (Shem, Ham and Japheth) had children and began their genealogies. The Bible shows us that within about three hundred years, there were enough descendants that it came time to designate nations for them and each of those nations was given a designated area to inhabit with related borders and boundaries. The Bible refers to this as the inheritance of the nations and at the beginning there were 70 designated nations: SEE HOW GOD VIEWS BORDERS | PAGE 28

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Genesis 10:32 = “…out of these (descendants) the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.”

However, instead of going out to inhabit their inheritance, all the people of the earth came together in the land of Shinar and began to build a tower to heaven within a city that came to be called Babel. They resisted God’s instruction to go out and populate the earth (Genesis 9:7). So, it became necessary to scatter them to the areas He had assigned in order to accomplish His long-term plans and purposes: Genesis 11:8-9 = “So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth…”

After the scattering, the population of the earth gradually increased and when Moses came along some 700 years later, the Lord had by then officially designated the descendants of Abraham to be His special people.

www.CaprockPatriot.com As Moses led them out of Egypt and into the wilderness for 40 years, he reminded that it is God who establishes the borders of all the nations on the earth. He did that so the people would know that it is the authority of God that sets all the borders of the earth including the new ones they would one day receive in the Promised Land: Deuteronomy 32:8 = “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples…”

At the end of those forty years in the wilderness and after the death of Moses, it became Joshua’s assignment to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land. What transpired over the ensuing years was God’s gradual reassignment of lands that had been originally designated for certain nations over to the twelve tribes of Israel, His chosen people (Deuteronomy 32:9).

Some 500 years later, we find still another reminder during the reign of

King David that it is God who sets the boundaries of the earth: Psalm 74:17 = “You (God) have established all the boundaries of the earth.”

The aggregate of this brief scriptural history is the clear confirmation that God has ALWAYS been the One setting the boundaries and borders of the entire planet. And, He changes them when He wants to for His own purposes. To try to remove those borders or rearrange them isn’t part of man’s job description. They serve God’s purposes which are greater than we can understand, and we tamper with them at our own risk.

Understanding God’s Border Plan Of course, we always want to know WHY God does what He does even though our little understandings of it are sure to fall way short of everything He has in mind. But we try anyway.

His initial purpose for having borders is to define the area of a sovereign entity. It is the means that God uses

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to bring order to the planet. A border sets apart a particular area where the people share common laws, beliefs, language, culture, governance, goals and objectives. Inside the border, there are agencies appointed to the tasks of protecting the inhabitants from outside intrusion and for regulating their activities according to local laws. It’s a delegation of authority from God down through selected leaders to successively smaller groups for the same reasons that God organized the Israelites (Exodus 18:25).

When the borders of nations are looked at this way, you can then notice that the Bible clearly says God’s overriding purpose for doing it this way is so that mankind will be inclined to seek Him. I’m not fully sure why it works this way but it’s what the Bible says, so that makes it true. There’s something about borders, a unique supernatural SEE HOW GOD VIEWS BORDERS | PAGE 30

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aspect to them, that makes people want to seek after God. Perhaps they see the futility of trying to rule themselves.

Or they compare themselves to other nations where God is present, and the people have benefited.

Certainly, they see the differences in lifestyle. Why have so many people wanted to immigrate to the U. S. since

its founding? Is it not because we are a free people and because we are by far the most prosperous and powerful country in the history of the world? I’m not bragging but I’m not apologizing either! The United States has a unique role for the conversion of mankind to Christianity. For various reasons, borders help that process along. God is here, so prosperity is here, favor is here, opportunity is here, and success is

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here. Indeed, all the benefits of God are here! Or, at least they’re perceived from outside our borders to be available.

People want to come here to participate in those benefits. That’s why the Great Commission says we have to go out to the nations (Matthew 28:18). We can’t accommodate all the people who want to come here.

Since open borders would in fact disrupt this process of God dealing with the nations, who would you suppose is the one behind the scenes trying to get rid of the borders? As always there’s a spiritual Adversary involved. Open up the borders and you cancel a supernatural process to take the Gospel to the nations. That makes this an important topic for the Kingdom of God. Indeed, the Church of Jesus Christ needs to take notice of it. Only then can we stand up and protect the interests of both the Kingdom and the Church.

On the surface, the confrontation between open and closed borders is a political issue. The world has made it that but it’s actually a biblical issue.

The politics of it isn’t so much our concern. Simply stated, the Democrat Party is the one that most loudly proclaims the idea of open borders and the Republican Party is against it.

Bible-believing Christians tend toward the Republican Party because directionally it tries to protect biblical values on a political level even as the Party continuously finds new ways to be divided over small issues.

What‘s needed is for Pastors around

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the country to bring the truth of this issue to their congregations so that the Body of Christ can be informed enough to advocate for the related Bible-based values. If you are a Pastor, please go and preach it! If our Pastors don’t preach the Word of God on these subjects, how will God’s people come to know the truth? From secular TV news broadcasts? God help us!

This has been the first of a two-part message. In Part Two, next month, we will look at how the politically correct view of biblical love and compassion is egregiously inaccurate.

In the meantime, feel free to contact me and request a copy of my 2018 book: The Truth about Open Borders. I will be happy to send you a copy postpaid for any offering to our nonprofit ministry.

You can reach me at bmiller@makeaway.net or 817-533-9499. Thank you for your support of our ministry!

Submitted by Dr. Bill Miller, Granbury, Texas. Dr. Bill is the founder of Make A Way Ministries, a nationally recognized credit and financial counseling ministry. He has written hundreds of articles and more than 40 books over the past thirty-plus years eleven of which are presently available on Amazon. In late 2018, Dr. Miller published an important book on the subject of national border integrity called The Truth about Open Borders explaining from Scripture God’s views on borders. He can be reached at bmiller@makeaway.net or 817-533-9499.

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Irreconcilable Differences? Really?

BY LEO JALOSZYNSKI

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s I write this March commentary, our nation is in the middle of one of its most controversial weeks. An impeachment trial of our President finalized, the State of the Union speech ripped to pieces, a not so “prayerful” prayer breakfast, and all this happening while the stock market continues to climb higher. Yet, to this writer, there seems to be a dark cloud hanging over the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The dark cloud hanging over our nation may be the presidential election coming upon us in November. The inevitable ugly campaign ads that will fill our screens, after the final ballot of candidates are chosen, already make us uneasy. Sadly, only half of eligible voters will exercise their duty of citizenship and actually vote. The worry about the security of our voting system also adds to the ‘cloudiness’ of this important every four years “We the people” exercise.

The subject of how we live together, PEACEFULLY, remains a timeless study of human relationships. Our worldview determines how we individually and collectively approach this unavoidable subject. Governments exist to provide for the safety and security of those who live within the boundaries of individual nations.

The world of nations reflects the ‘politics’ applied to answer the common human need question, “What is the best way to use power to organize a community for a particular nation?”

The United States is organized as a constitutional republic. A republic is a system of government in which citizens (with legal citizen status) of a nation elect agents to represent the interests of those who elected them. If the citizens do not agree with the laws being made to govern them, they can elect new ‘politicians’.

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Amazingly the word IRRECONCILABLE appears in the dictionary between the words irrational and irredeemable. The dictionary defines the word irreconcilable as anyone who refuses to compromise or cannot be brought into agreement with another.

It is the “My way or the highway” phrase that has come to dominate our conversations with our fellow-citizens.

REALLY? Does not that communication posture seem irrational unless we believe that our neighbor, or spouse, or co-worker is irredeemable? Since it is true that 80% of communication is conveyed through body language, is it no wonder that we now attempt to live PEACEFULLY with one another

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The Integrity of Fathers

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ntegrity! Integrity is becoming a word that needs an explanation each time we use it. Many claim to have integrity but the opposite proves to be true. A person with integrity is more than someone who has a set of beliefs, it is a person who will live consistent and uncompromising with strong moral and ethical principles and values.

The concept of speaking about the integrity of fathers does not sequester the responsibilities or the affirmation of mothers. Both are created and designed to support each other.

With this being said, it appears to me that the greatest failure between the two is with the fathers. So, I want to ask a few questions in order to spark a little interest here.

Question #1: Why are so many fathers in denial of their responsibility, not only in raising their children, but in leading and culturing them in the things that are right?

Question #2: Is there a way, a technique, to help fathers realize the worth and significance in helping their children prepare for a stable life, not only financially, but also spiritually. Remember, the eternal is far more lasting than the temporal.

Question #3: Is any hope left in our society that fathers may again

realize that building a future is more vital than having fun and playing games? When I was a child I thought as a child, but then I became a man.

Many more questions such as these remain and there are better ways to articulate the questions I just posed. The point I endeavor to raise is “Fathers should” focus on things that build character, personal responsibilities, and inner and spiritual strength in order to prepare their children to achieve and obtain lasting success.

The exemplary prayer that Jesus taught us to pray is often referred to as “The Lord’s Prayer”.

This prayer may more correctly be ascertained as “Our Prayer”. Recorded in the eleventh chapter of the book of Luke the disciples requested of Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray”.

Upon their request, Jesus granted the pattern prayer.

Notice how it begins, “Our Father”.

This is not given simply as a prayer to pray; it is given as a pattern for prayer. Addressing our Heavenly Father here is a pattern for seeking His will according to who He is, a Father who cares and is devoted to His children who call upon Him. With this in mind, I would like to add clarity that this not be limited to how we should pray, but also as to how we should live.

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have begotten children of their own and who are spiritually obligated to present a lifestyle and leave a heritage of living and doing what is right.

Consider the words from this prayer. “Father, hallowed be thy name” SEE THE INTEGRITY OF FATHERS | PAGE 33

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leaves the context that a father should be honored by his own children. Fathers, it is your duty to conduct your life in such a manner so as to be deserving of this honor. “Your kingdom come, your will be done” signifies what is always seen in small children. There is an innate desire with children, especially with sons, to be like their daddy. As a father conducts his life appropriately these small children will grow and mature without forsaking their desire to be like the one who raised them.

Let’s continue. “Give us this day our daily bread” illustrates one of the truest responsibilities that a man can embrace, the responsibility to provide for his offspring. “Forgive us our debts”, or as some translations state, “Forgive us our trespasses”, implies the value of granting approval to the sons and daughters,

even if they have failed in doing what is right, or required. Never forsake your children or provoke your children to anger.

Let’s continue with “Lead us not into temptation”. Is it necessary for me to give an explanation here?

Fathers! Do what is right and lead your children in what is right and the blessing and favor our Heavenly Father will reward you and shall rest upon your family.

Remember, this prayer was never granted as a simple prayer to be only repeated, but also as a pattern of how to pray and also how to lead a righteous life-style before the ones you love.

Just as diligence and discipline are cousins, so compromise and corruption are next of kin. We need to return to Biblical values and lead our families, this state and our nation in the paths of righteousness. Proverbs SEE THE INTEGRITY OF FATHERS | PAGE 34

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through ‘screens’. It is very difficult to disagree with another person while holding that person’s hand (unless it is a fist). What we say on Facebook, is not what we would likely say in a real ‘face to face’ encounter. We may do something offensive behind someone’s back, but not while that same person is looking at us. REALLY? Christianity recognizes that all people are born with a deceitful heart and an enemy of God. Jesus reconciles us to Himself even though such an undeserved gift seems irrational.

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Citizens who live with a worldview, other than Christianity, want to live under a government that does not recognize God, nor the inalienable rights given to us by our Creator.

Irreconcilable differences between human beings and their choice of governance, since the beginning of His-story, have been decided either by ballots or bullets (war). Only the Cross of Jesus can turn our negative hostilities against one another into positive possibilities.

May God heal our nation as we humble ourselves and agree with God that we must address our own sins first, in order to live PEACEFULLY with our fellow-citizens and our Maker!

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PASSES, PUNTS, AND A PASTOR

BY DR. JIM SULLIMAN

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don’t understand many, many things but I never minimize the importance of understanding something as opposed to just “knowing” something. I often tell the people who come to see me that, from an Adlerian psychologist’s perspective, the therapeutic process can be thought of as “educational” in nature. They already “know” what is problematic in their relationship with another person but knowledge in and of itself is not always enough to make things “better.”

W h at i s f a r m ore h e lp f u l i n any aspect of life is to have an “understanding.”

A person takes his car to the shop because it “pulls” hard to the right when he is driving it, and the mechanic diagnoses the problem and informs the car owner that the front end needs an “alignment.” Once it is done, the car drives perfectly straight as its owner takes it home.

In two weeks, he returns to the shop with the same problem, and the same diagnosis is made and, once again, the problem is resolved, only to resurface in another few weeks. This time the car owner boldly proclaims, “I think it needs to be realigned again,” and, after making the same determination, the mechanic compliments him on his diagnostic acumen.

This can go on and on, ad infinitum.

How much more beneficial would it have been for the mechanic to have asked a few questions to the man when the guy brought his car back for the same problem just two weeks later. Upon learning that the guy was driving through 20 huge potholes every day going 70 mph, he could have provided the man an explanation of why his car needed another alignment so soon. Once the owner understood some basic principles,

he could have been in a much better position to make changes.

Most of us have experienced that magical moment when our attempts at learning something changes from knowledge to understanding and the proverbial “light bulb” goes off in an “Aha!” moment. A teacher’s greatest gift is seeing that happen in their students. It is what teaching is all about.

It has always been frustrating to me when I do not understand something that makes no sense to me if it engenders some curious interest. Not having a grasp of quantum mechanics, computer science, or Swahili, for example, induces no concern. It is the

simple expressions of illogicality that initiate head shaking...like a sign in a store that grabs your attention by proclaiming that the item “WAS $.39 EACH...NOW 2 FOR $.89!” Unless, of course, the proprietor means it as an intentional taunt for any of us who did not buy the item YESTERDAY. So, what does any of this have to do with “pass, punt, and a pastor”?

Well, first, how does it make any sense that a football is on a team’s own two yard line and the quarterback throws a one yard pass completion and then the guy RUNS 97 yards for a touchdown and the quarterback is credited with 98 “passing” yards?!

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Or how does it conform with logic for a punter to kick the ball 45 yards into the end zone where it is immediately brought BACK 20 yards but the punter is credited with a 45 yard kick.

And after two of the unlikeliest of segues, how does it make sense that we have a “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day”? I do not think we should.

Wow... few statements are more likely to engender attacks from liberals more than that one.

“There you have it in ‘black and white!’ Conservatives and Trump supporters are nothing but a bunch of red-necked, illiterate, Christian, racist, reactionary males seeking to impose their narrow-mindedness on America!”

How can I make such a bold and incendiary proclamation?! It is actually quite easy.

First, while I am indeed a Christian, I was born and raised in New Jersey, have an IQ tested at 153, and have had my life threatened several times in three different states for defending minorities. I respect Pastor King and the work he did to advance and protect civil rights for all. I am not suggesting that he was not an important figure in our nation’s history... only to suggest that it is time to put the way in which we honor him in perspective.

We have now had 45 Presidents (44 “different” ones because of Grover Cleveland being both our 22nd and 24th). Not one of them have a national holiday in their name. Years ago, we honored both Washington and Lincoln with a special day but no longer. Now they are both combined with 42 others in the “President’s Day” catch all. That fact, in and of itself, should be a head scratcher.

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have ever lived COMBINED, including our first Black President!

There is also a second thing that this national holiday implies... that Dr. King is the most important Black American that ever lived. Is that really true?!

More significant and more courageous than Sojourner Truth who, in 1851, gave a speech professing “equal rights for Blacks and WOMEN”!

More important than W.E.B. Du Bois during our country’s “Progressive Era” who “led the framework for the NAACP and future civil rights movements”? And what about Rosa Parks, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and Ida Wells?

Would King have a national holiday in his honor had he not been slain at

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a time when our country was being torn apart by racial violence and honoring him thusly was an effort to promote healing and to quell the racial storm?

Lastly, and this is most significant.

If anyone looks at a calendar for our national holidays, they will see something that they probably never have given a second thought to. There are only two persons to whom our nation gives the extraordinarily high honor of a national holiday... only two people who share that same respect... only two above everyone else that has ever lived...

Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King.

My last words are my first...I don’t understand…

Submitted by James R. Sulliman, Ph.D. Individual, marriage, and family therapist in Abilene, TX. “Live life courageously”

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A LITTLE GOOD NEWS TODAY: Keeping My Guardian Angel Busy

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THE FIRST CAR I BOUGHT at the age of 15, was a Mustang. It was raining heavy one evening when a red-headed friend rode with me to pick up another

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The next thing I felt was someone pulling on my legs, pulling me out of the front windshield. Too fast driving made the Mustang slide off the road

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AT 18, I STARTED WORKING for Brown & Root Offshore on a lay-barge.

It was a big as a football field with a large Crane at each end of the barge.

We had 8 anchors, each weighing 15 thousand pounds. The anchors were pulled up and moved by tugboats hooking onto a buoy with a pennant line down to the anchor.

Once, an anchor line and a buoy pennant line got tangled up and we had to pull it up on deck to replace the pennant line. We tied the anchor on to the side handrail of the barge with a steel choker and the crane coiled the 1½ inch pennant line on the deck. It had a lot of tension on it due to being tangled and twisted and suddenly it began to flip, catching me from behind and threw me over the side of the barge. I caught the handrail as I went over the side, next to the tied anchor. Then the choker holding the anchor broke taking the anchor line and anchor straight to the bottom of the ocean with the pennant line going right over my head as I tried to hang on to the rail. It sounded like a freight train and everyone ran in every direction to get out of its way.

When it was all over, they noticed I was gone. Someone said they saw the pennant line knock me overboard

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and was sure I was dead. They ran to the edge of the barge and saw me still hanging on to the handrail.

I should have been at the bottom of the ocean with the anchor, anchor cable and the pennant line. Once again, my life was spared.

A LL T HE WOR K ERS ON T HE BARGE with Brown & Root loved to play games and pranks on each other. I had moved up to working in the Tower where two of us controlled the anchor winches, moving the barge ahead one 30’ joint of pipe at a time after it was welded. The Tower was three flights of stairs up and another 10’ to the top or roof of the Tower where the radar and ship horns were.

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I’ll show you.” So we began to climb the stairs and made our way to the roof of the Tower, 40’ above the deck floor.

I didn’t know it but when we got up on top, someone was supposed to blow the loud ship air horns and scare me, while everyone watched and got a good laugh.

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Once on top of the Tower, we walked over to the radar and ship horns, then someone blew the horns. It was as though a bomb went off. My body produces a lot of adrenaline and I jump before I ever think. One minute I’m looking at the radar and the next… I had jumped over the hand railing on top of the Tower roof but the Foreman was just lucky enough to grab my belt and held on while I was swinging and

lift it up high and swing it over to the racks and two men would remove the hooks, all very quickly. I was one of the men unhooking the pipe. The rope tag line got tangled around my body as the crane operator whisked me about 60’ above the deck. Then he noticed that I was hung up in the hooks and tag line.

On the way up, I had to bounce off of

looking at the deck 40 feet below. He pulled me back up and hugged me saying, “I’m so sorry, I’ll never do anything like that again.” Once again, my life was spared.

SMALL BARGES AND A TUGBOAT would bring 30’ joints of pipe to be unloaded onto the racks on the Lay Barge.

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Seeking Jesus: Look For The Helpers

BY ANN BIRDSONG

Proverbs 8:17 “I love them that love me; and those that seek me diligently shall find me.”

A lot of the articles I read about how to seek Jesus talk about having quiet time, finding a secret place and being in prayer. I believe that to be true because our God is a personal God and I have spent many hours in those conditions feeling the presence of Jesus.

In my personal experience though, I have found and stated when people ask me, “how do you seek Jesus?” I usually tell them, “if you want to see Jesus, go where no one wants to go.”

Mr. Rogers has a famous quote that says,” When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ “ I have been to hospitals in the Dominican Republic where doctors rotate from town to town on a monthly or quarterly basis, refugee camps where disease is rampant. I have walked and

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the ends of the 36” pipe to keep my legs from going inside and cutting them off as I was whisked up into the air.

Just when the crane operator saw

served on the poverty-stricken streets of Atlanta, where the sidewalks are stained from the blood of fighting their own neighbors. Prayed over impoverished fishing village homes in India, where in only a matter of months they would have to rebuild “again” after the rainy season. And I have been locked between two metal doors entering prisons to pray with women whose sins have been exposed and hearts transparent because they have not other choice.

These are the places where I have fallen to my knees because the presence of God is so real. His light shines brightest in the darkness. I could see Jesus in the full-time missionaries who establish relationships in these areas. I see Jesus in their kindness, sacrifice and love for the people and the area of their mission. I saw the healing touch of Jesus in the nurses and doctors who get paid so little or nothing at all to go into these areas to provide their skill when they could be getting paid so much more somewhere else in their country. I saw the faith

of Jesus in Christians who work side by side in disease infested areas on a daily basis, believing they would be covered. I saw Jesus work in miracles as small as perfect timing and as large as healing the sick. But the memory of seeing Jesus, that I have etched on my heart forever, are in the eyes of all the individuals , who I saw humble themselves to trust and receive care from strangers, ask for prayer in languages they didn’t understand, and others beg for the word of truth as their only hope for tomorrow.

Matthew 25:40; Jesus says, “The

me tangled up in the ropes, the knot came loose, and I slid down to a knot at the end of the rope and hung there until the crane operator set me down onto the deck. I was so weak I couldn’t stand up.

I knew that God must have a plan for me because my life had been spared so many times. Needless to say, I’m a firm believer in miracles. Now that’s A Little Good News Today.

Peter Adams worked for Brown & Root

King will say, “I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!” If you want to seek Jesus, sometimes it is uncomfortable and will push you out of your comfort zone, but the joy and the love that you will witness is like no other.

Seek Him diligently and you will find Him. Submitted by Ann Birdsong, Evangelism and Engagement Director, Munholland United Methodist Church, Metairie, LA; sister-in-law of the Caprock Patriot

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Father, we thank you for the March winds and April showers that bring May flowers. Father, You know what is necessary to prepare us for what You have in store for our lives. Help us to receive what You have for us. Prepare us as You prepare the seeds. Grow us strong, nourish and protect us with Your truth so that we can break through the dirt, sprouting into a healthy “flower” that radiates Your glory in the earth. In Jesus’ name we pray... Amen