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Well, clearly in today’s world, “America, we have a problem”. We have many new problems. We have domestic terrorists, foreign terrorists, failing public education, and Moral Relativism attacking nearly three centuries of traditional American values.

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The Myth of Moderates and Centrists

BY MITCHELL D. COCHRAN

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he people who align with the Left or the Right generally show disdain for one another, but Lefties and Righties alike do not seem to have contempt for so-called moderates or centrists. This is because these moderates can swing left or right. So, both the left and the right must appeal to these people to win majorities.

But what does it mean to be a centrist?

Intuitively, centrism means being close to the middle of the left-right dichotomy. Realistically, being a moderate or centrist means leaning left, but not being a full-blown Marxist or critical race theorist. Why? This is because the Left has gone more to the left while the Right has remained generally consistent. The Radical Left, characterized by intersectionality, Marxist ideas, and/or a desire to completely overhaul the United States, has become increasingly less ‘radical.’ By that, I mean that the radicals make up a significant portion of the Left in the United States.

However, the Right has stayed very similar. The Radical Right (or AltRight) is characterized by racism and white nationalism. The Alt-Right is

condemned by mainstream conservativism. On the other hand, the “moderates” or non-radical Lefties seem to constantly cave to the radicals. Although some non-radicals may vaguely condemn things like socialism, they would much rather side with the radicals than compromise with Righties.

So, what happens when one side of the seesaw gets heavier or when one side of the Tug of War game pulls harder?

The center moves! The center becomes more oriented towards the Left. As radical leftism becomes more and more normalized, centrism is no longer a balance between Left and Right. Rather, it is a ‘moderate’ form of leftism.

Those who strive to be centrist (for better or worse), do not be deceived.

If you are a philosophical American (meaning you support free trade, the right to life, and the other basic rights laid out in the Bill of Rights), do not be drawn into the left in the name of centrism. A true centrist has much more in common with big-government conservatives than he does with the Left.

The Left increasingly accepts the radicals, meaning that the moderates will be shunned or forced to cave to the radical agenda. A true centrist and an orthodox conservative may have great disagreements, but we all strive to make America better, not to overhaul it completely.

Unfortunately, our divided culture means that those who generally support America must compromise and unite together to combat those who hate the American Dream. True centrists, the whole range of conservatives, libertarians, and many more must band together in the name of America.

We must stop the onslaught of the Radical Left. Then, maybe, there will be time to quarrel amongst ourselves.

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What Makes America Great?

BY LYNNLI WISEMAN, 10TH GRADE, FRENSHIP HIGH SCHOOL

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rom a young age, I was often asked what I wanted to be when I grow up, and my answer was constantly changing from teacher, to astronaut, to doctor, to actress. As my passions and interests changed so did my future career goals. In some countries, these aspirations would be merely dreams, but in America, they are conceivable career choices available to everyone with the drive and ambition to pursue them. Living in the United States and being surrounded by successful people and diverse cultures, I know my pursuit of happiness is within my grasp.

America was founded on ideals of abundant opportunities, independence, and equality for everybody, no matter their personal views. The Declaration of Independence states, “... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The Constitution solidified those values and embedded them into the foundation of our country. We have the ability to speak our minds without fear of retribution thanks to the First Amendment, and women have the right to vote because of the Nineteenth Amendment. These rights foster a sense of freedom that every American citizen holds dear: the freedom to pursue your dreams as well as the freedom to raise your voice and be heard. Not having these rights is difficult to imagine, but there are countries still struggling to gain freedom from an oppressive government.

Overbearing governments drove various cultures from across the globe to the U.S., bringing them together to create one community. America became the melting pot of the world, as cultures converged, mixed, and learned to cooperate with one another. Immigrants fled, and continue to flee, to

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America in order to escape unsafe situations or to search for acceptance and freedom. America welcomes immigrants entering New York with the ultimate symbol of freedom: The Statue of Liberty. That glorious statue was one of the first images of the United States that my great-grandmother saw after her long voyage from New Caledonia.

Lady Liberty beckons to the world, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...” Immigrants from all over the world are drawn to America because it is viewed as the “Land of Opportunity,” and there is a strong belief that everyone can succeed if they work hard and strive to reach their goals.

In the U.S., there are limitless career options available. People have the opportunity to chase their dreams and anyone can aspire to be whatever they want. As former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt proclaimed, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” With determination and a little bit of luck, anything is possible. We can pursue any number of career opportunities thanks to the liberties granted to us by our government.

Our Founding Fathers established America with the promise of citizens having basic human rights, rights which are now deeply ingrained into American society. It is nearly impossible to picture life without them. But

in order to maintain this way of life, our military is often called upon to safeguard these rights, and the fight often extends to other countries. Thanks to our brave and hard-working Veterans, we have the ability to live life to the fullest and find our true passions and callings. Due to America’s strong defense of citizen’s rights, we have the benefit of diverse cultures and vast opportunities that provide a perfect place for a flourishing economy and culture.

The greatest thing about America is that even though there are struggles and disagreements within the country, we know our voices will be heard. And when our country is tested, despite opposing views and opinions, we are unified by a sense of patriotism that rises up in communities across the U.S. Citizens come together and fight for the American dream that lives in each of us. I know I will be asked the question of what I want to do with my life many more times, and due to my fortune of living in this country, my answer will only be limited by my own imagination.

Submitted by Ancile “AL” White VFW Post 2466. This essay was written by Lynnli Wiseman and submitted to the VFW Patriot’s Pen youth essay contest. Lynnli is a 10th grader at Frenship High School. Lynnli’s essay Finished 2nd place overall in the Voice of Democracy.

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LIBERTY VS. TYRANNY: You Can Hear History if You Listen

BY HERODOTUS PAINE

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istory always tugs at those who understand it. Today, it is yelling across the decades to get our attention. That was then, and this is now, is no longer true.

Then IS now—or at least it is heading that way quickly.

During the early 1800s, the two major sections of the country waged war in the newspapers regarding slavery and the primacy of federal law. No bloodshed, but lots of shouting and spilled ink.

In the 1830s, South Carolina tried to nullify Federal laws (The Nullification Crisis) by claiming it would no longer abide by federal tariffs (among other things). Pres. Andrew Jackson threatened to send troops. A compromise was reached just short of bloodshed. The first major “sanctuary state” movement didn’t end; it just simmered on a back burner for three decades.

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Senator Charles Sumner to death with a cane on the Senate floor.

Bleeding Kansas (or the Kansas-Missouri Border War) broke out in earnest in 1854 with neighbors killing one another in the streets, surprise raids, and general lawlessness. Violent ideological groups like the Jayhawkers and “Border Ruffians” battled over whether Kansas would be a free state, or a slave state.

Few people heard the canaries singing in the coal mines because they failed to grasp the ramifications of what was taking place. Most Americans didn’t live there and were not experiencing the breakdown of the civil society. They just read about it in the papers.

In 1859, a polarizing event that shook the nation occurred when John Brown and his sons and others from Kansas brought their own version of identity politics east and stormed the Harpers Ferry Arsenal at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers.

Brown hoped to seize weapons and initiate a slave uprising to kill white owners in a race war to end human bondage.

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the troops who crushed the insurrection. Brown and two others were tried and hanged. Brown’s goal of abolition was indeed just, as is the goal of ending racial injustice today. His methods, however, were criminal and murderous. To Brown, the ends justified the means.

Brown’s Raid was better organized than what had come before along the Kansas-Missouri border, but the writing had never been so clear on the Republic’s crumbling red, white, and blue wall. And this time the country took notice.

The raid horrified Southerners, who knew an uprising would mean the slaughter of thousands of men, women, and children and perhaps the end of their way of life. The Northern folk also took notice because it wasn’t way “out there” any longer.

In 1860, prominent Democratic politicians argued for the secession of Southern states if Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he was against what they stood for. When Lincoln was elected, the Democrats decided secession and Civil War was a good idea—and they got the latter, good and hard.

Can you hear history? You can if you listen.

Scroll back up if you need refreshing and let’s tick through that list.

Political in-fighting and media editorials shouting at one another for decades? Check.

South Carolina and the Nullification

crisis is happening NOW. Today, the same Democratic party in cities and states across the country claim their cities, counties, and even states are “sanctuaries” immune to Federal laws they do not like—the Supremacy Clause of the U. S. Constitution be damned.

They are the neo-Confederates of today. There is no other way to spin it.

No politicians have beaten one another on the floor of the Senate, yet but a Leftist Democrat shot and nearly kill GOP Congressman Steve Scalise three years back, and another beat Senator Rand Paul so severely he was put into the hospital with life-threatening injuries that required surgery. Why? Because these Democrats disagreed with Republican policy positions—much like Brooks had disagreed with Sumner over questions of slavery.

Interesting modern parallels, yes?

There are more.

The prewar uprisings in Kansas and Missouri are similar to the riots and looting and statue-destruction we see now across the country. Just substitute Antifa or Black Lives Matter for “Border Ruffians” or “Jayhawkers.” The vast majority of Americans see this unfolding on TV, but it still seems a bit distant and unreal, just as it did to most citizens in the 1850s.

We may look back and realize our “Harpers Ferry” moment came this past June with the seizing of property by force of arms to start an uprising in Seattle. CHAZ/CHOP anyone?

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CACTUS CHRONICLES: Mask-O-Mania!

BY JOHNNY ROWLAND

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omeone once said: “you can fool some of the people all the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people, all of the time!” Well, the American Sheeple are in full bloom, with a significant number fooled into believing that by somehow wearing a yard type dust mask or equivalent, that they will be protected against COVID-19.

The real and far deadlier disease here is the “stupid flu” which is spread by outfits like CNN and other major media sources. Fortunately, there is an antidote which may be used by some, one only has to go over to the screen device, and look for a button labeled OFF— some might want to pick up the remote controller and locate the same OFF switch!

I suppose the most stunning thing about this public fiasco is how gullible so many state Governors and Mayors have been. We have always had a good number of folks educated far beyond their actual intelligence, but this demonstration of stupid is elevated to an entirely new level. We are indeed witnessing an assault on humanity of Biblical proportions. Who could have predicted that the global cabal of would-be slavers would have picked the year 2020 to make their big move!

As far as the mass masking nonsense goes, this is simply a divisive procedural tool and exercise to measure compliance. I do not doubt that those of us who refuse to accept the lamebrained advice and orders of Fauci, Newsom, Cuomo, and other would-be dictators, are somehow cataloged for future reference. Isn’t it amazing how some of

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Character is Revealed in the Toughest of Times

BY GARY W. MOORE

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e are living through unprecedented and uncharted times. A pandemic has seized our world, while social unrest and violence has swept into our major cities. Add to it all that it’s an election year and everything that is happening has become politicized.

It appears that the nation has never been more divided. It has put us on the edge and I’m witnessing people I know speaking and acting in ways I would have otherwise never imagined. How we respond to what’s happening in our world is as important as the events themselves.

Respond to circumstances rather than reacting.

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“knee jerk” in nature. A response is measured, while a reaction is often the first thing that comes to mind and is usually emotional. When we calmly respond, it often disarms and relaxes others to do the same. Reactions are what we see playing out on our streets and in social media.

Relax. Take a breath. The world is not coming to an end. The truth is that cable news, and reactions to it, are playing out on social media and encouraging us to believe otherwise.

Don’t believe it. As bad as you may believe things are today, tomorrow the sun will rise and a new day will begin. Yes, take a breath and relax.

A new day is coming.

Like the streets, Facebook can be dangerous territory. You may not get physically hit by a brick, but you can certainly suffer the loss of friendships

and incite anger that dominates your life.

I rarely post anything on social media that is controversial. I use Facebook and other apps to keep up with friends and family, post my columns and news about my books. I’m a very casual social media user.

I’ve been following the Covid-19 issues with intense interest. The great mask debate rages on. For every medical professional that says masks are not helpful, there seems to be twenty-five that says they work. I ran across a picture that showed how the virus is spread and how masks can help. The best data I can find says that masks can reduce the spread of the virus by up to 65%. Nothings perfect. Certainly not a mask, but a 65% reduction is significant. We teach our kids to cough and sneeze into their arms. It’s also not perfect but better than coughing into the open. If true, isn’t a mask better than nothing?

So, I posted the graphic and commented, “I think this makes sense.”

I didn’t expect the firestorm that quickly followed. The first comment from a friend began, “You of all people should know better ...” (an example of a reaction rather than a response). Then came the numerous comments about “constitutional rights” and the idea that the pandemic is actually a “plan-demic” and a government conspiracy.

A friend of mine who is a Doctor of thirty-five years posted a comment about the effectiveness of masks and a young nurse offensively offered him her nursing books, as if he was totally uninformed and she had all the answers. It devolved quickly into a raging mess.

I chose to respond rather than react. Trust me, I could have easily let my emotions rage but instead, I just deleted the post and went on with my day.

Yes, I was bothered and hurt by a

few of the comments. But more than anything I watched in wonderment as rational and smart people so openly and purposefully began attacking others who disagreed. My response was to delete the posting and stop giving space for others to react in anger and immaturity. Once the post was gone, everything on my page normalized and I assume everyone else went on with their day.

I’m not smarter or better than anyone else, I just choose to respond rather than react. I choose to be positive and not add fuel to the fire of negativity. Some do the same thing, while the majority do not. To react or respond is a choice we make, just as being positive or negative, or pessimistic or optimistic. These choices determine our success and quality of our lives. And yes, these choices determine our happiness.

I’ve said before that I never met a successful pessimist. I’ll add that by saying I’ve also never met a happy pessimist.

Want to avoid losing friends?

Choose to respond rather than react.

Want to be happy?

Choose to become an optimist.

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

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THIS IS INSANITY

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he folks who are getting the free stuff don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

And the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.

And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now.. The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So… The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

Hooray

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

Understa nd th is… A l l great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

T he United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 244 years ago.

The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff.

Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

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HOOK, LINE AND SINKER:

Breaking Free from Fear Through Celebrating Liberty and Freedom

BY DON BEBEE

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hen we were little kids back in the 1960’s our pampaw would take my brother and me fishing and teach us the tricks of the trade. We learned about rods and reels and all the different sizes and types of hooks, lines, and sinkers. Particularly how to tie the right kind of knot to hold the hook on the line. And then the proper sinker to use based on its weight depending upon what type of fish we were fishing for.

And then the most important thing was the bait. We used a lot of worms, shrimp, perch, minnows, and shad which would catch most of the species in the lake. However, if we were fishing for carp, pamplaw had his own

recipe for making dough bait.

It had molasses in it among other ingredients. He baked it in a cast iron skillet. When it was done, it

was round like a cake, several inches thick and moist and pliable. This was important because when we would break off a piece and roll it into a small ball and then press it onto our treble hooks, even when it got soaking wet, it would not dissolve and stayed on the hook. It was a perfectly crafted deceptive bait The Globalist Technocrat Tyrants perfectly crafted the deceptive bait of COVID19. They tied the lie line of pandemic to the hook baited with fear and with the rod of the World Health Organization and the reel of Coldblooded Communist China and the sinker of the Socialist Marxism Fake News Swamp propaganda they cast their deadly deception into the world. Paralyzing national sovereignty around the globe. And with United Nations impunity infecting and or murdering millions.

Think of this cabal as the new political party known as the Globalist Technocracy Mask-A-Raid Party.

As we have discovered their political party platform is breathtaking. Murdering people, economies, cultures, freedom, and liberty. Why? For power and control. By any means. To implement their globalism utopian agenda. And to stop Donald J.

Trump from being reelected President of the United States of America.

How do We the People break free from this global totalitarian tyranny?

“Sir Francis Bacon once wrote that “nothing is terrible except fear itself”. In his first inaugural address to the nation, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt picked up on this theme and called people to courage and action when he restated Bacon’s line and famously championed “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Bing Search FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real There were times when pampaw and my brother and me were fishing when one of us were reeling in a fish whose strength empowered with the desire to be free would break our line. And there were also times when we had the fish reeled to the top of the water and they would abruptly spit out the hook. And other times when the fish just stopped biting.

We the People, it is time to empower our convictions about liberty and freedom. It is time for We the People to individually with all our united strength to break the lie line of pandemic deception and spit out the hook of fear and quit biting on tyranny.

Knowledge is empowering. By now the internet is loaded with information about existing medicines that stop the virus. Information about the hoax of the masks. (Mandated Asphyxiation Servitude Kills Slaves) Information about the truth that this is not a pandemic. And the manipulation of the COVID19 statistics to pander fear, as they divide and conquer liberty and freedom through quarantine, socialism distancing and the false hope of their vaccine cure all.

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The Lessons of History

BY DR. ROBERT OWENS

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mpires rise and empires fall.

They usually don’t end with a bang. They end with a whimper.

Revolts become revolutions when those sent by the authorities to put them down instead join the revolt.

Is that what we’re beginning to see as police and National Guard troops kneel in submission before BLM and ANTIFA? Many who railed against those who kneeled for the playing of our national anthem now kneel before those who showed their contempt for America. Are the reins of power about to slip from the limp hands of the descendants of the Minutemen, the Grand Army of the Republic, and all the heroes who won the wars and enforced the peace? Are the cultural, financial, social, and political structures we’ve known all our lives about to be upended?

Many readily admit they agree with everything Trump is doing and has done. They acknowledge his policies led to the greatest economy the world has ever known and prosperity like we haven’t experienced since we all liked Ike. And yet many of these same people say they won’t vote for him again because they don’t like the tone of his tweets or the combative manner in which he returns fire to the daily verbal broadsides from the democrats who identify as journalists.

As you watch the blue cities burn and the blue leaders’ bow ask yourself, “For whom the bell tolls?” Is the answer inevitably, “It tolls for thee.”

And if it is, what then shall we do?

Sit on our hands, quarantined in our homes, wearing our masks, watching in disbelief as thugs take over the streets, as the police are disbanded, waiting for Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders, and the rest of the millionaire plutocrats to raise the red flag from the White House?

If our fleeting moment upon the world’s stage as uncivil as it is, has become a civil war this November we will arrive at Gettysburg. A climactic moment that will decide in which direction the war will flow. Looking ahead, knowing there will be many casualties physical, political, cultural, and societal it might be the perfect time to recall the words which frame the actual Battle of Gettysburg for all students of History: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new

birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Will freedom survive? Or will our Republic like the Romans before us morph into something completely different? Instead of an empire, we may become a dictatorship of the proletariat where those who dole out the equal shares paraphrase the haunting statement from George Orwell’s Animal Farm … “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

If the blues sweep the board in November, we may all end up singing the blues.

Those who don’t learn the lessons of

history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. Those who do learn the lessons of History are unfortunately doomed to watch everyone else repeat the mistakes of History.

Hunkered in the bunker. Waiting for the rain.

Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.

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More Than Just an Election

BY RAY JOHNSON

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ur nation is in great turmoil right now. Amidst a political war that has been waged now going on its fourth year against arguably one of this nation’s greatest Presidents. A man not even given a chance to defeat seasoned politicians in any primary, much less receive the nomination and go on to win by an overwhelming majority!

I know many will say he did not win the popular vote and that is why we need to do away with the electoral college, but in truth, if you were to break it down based on how the Democratic party cut their own candidates throat (Bernie Sanders) by cheating him in the primaries, Trump would have won overwhelmingly in the popular vote as well! Bernie’s

army was forced to support Clinton, even though her checkered past and ties to corporate lobbyists made her a political albatross for them to have to swallow!

While Trump’s name-calling, and not so politically correct way of debating, left many scratching their heads, it was clear he had the nation’s attention by making bold accusations of corruption among both parties and pointing out their inability to work for the people as they had been elected to do!

Turning a blowtorch on the wouldbe Queen of the Democratic party, he proved how cold and calculating she was about serving her own needs over that of the nation! From making uranium deals with the Russians, robbing the Haitian people of funding, to allowing an American

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ambassador and his security team to be brutally murdered at the hands of Islamic extremist, then lying to Congress and the American people about the whole e-mail server and subsequent destruction of evidence by her, her staff and many crooked players at the DOJ! Now it has been nearly four years of hate-driven divisiveness by many Democratic senators and Congress to the point of attacking those who support this administration and this President!

Innocent people who want to see America flourish, not flounder, as she had under the previous administration! It did and went beyond expectations, and every step was filled with hate-filled rhetoric by the liberal media, political pundits, and Hollywood and sports elites!

His own party began to abandon ship as he went about cutting red tape and ending job-killing regulations!

He called out other nations leaders for the lack of financial burden-sharing when it came to defense and insisted they start pulling their weight or we would pull out! He faced down a bully leader of North Korea and was the first President to step foot into North Korea to meet with him to discuss nuclear disarmament! He made a promise to our allies in Israel to bring our embassy to the rightful

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place of Jerusalem and fulfilled that promise! He ended NAFTA a lopsided trade agreement that kept U.S goods at a low-income scale, while our manufacturers could not compete and opted to move to nations with low overhead and cheaper labor cost!

His business skills brought a nation that had given up on employment to one that had more job opportunities than applicants!

Now I bring us to where we are today.

A pandemic unleashed upon the world either by accident or as a political weapon, and it was used to drive the hatred even more! Self-quarantining put many businesses at risk to lose everything! The flourishing economy began to stumble as the nation was force-fed fear and intimidation from thinking and choosing for themselves!

Then we had a bird’s eye view of police brutality and watch as a handcuffed man was killed with a knee on the back of his neck in Minneapolis!

Now on top of a pandemic, we have rioting, looting, and destructive behavior across our nation, like it had been preplanned! Videos began popping up showing the staging of bricks and other materials by government officials in these Democratic-held cities! As they burned and beat innocent people, police were told to stand down and even were forced to abandon their precinct stations to be overtaken and destroyed!

People were asking why the President did not send in the national guard to put an end to this madness!

It’s a trap that many would have stepped into! You see our Constitution provides that all states are independently responsible for policing their own communities! If he had sent in the military, without a governor’s request, he would be held liable and in breach of the constitutional SEE MORE THAN JUST AN ELECTION | PAGE 19

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Schizophrenia in The Liberal Democrat Party

BY CHARLES JOHNS

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emocrats and schizophrenia… really? That term is defined as, people who see things that are not there and have trouble with reality. Democrats can’t seem to decide on anything except, “It is Trump’s fault.” They laughed when he ran for office saying, “He has never been a Mayor, Congressman, or even held office. He won’t know what to do.”

Then he won, and the economy went through the roof. So, they went crazy inventing lies to make him look bad, and schizophrenia set in.

After their Russia collusion HOAX failed, the Mueller investigation failure, the Ukraine problem turned into a problem for Biden and his son, and every lie they could invent failed to do him real harm, they decided he was a racist.

T hen t he econom ic nu mbers showe d Bl a ck, H i s pa n ic, a nd women’s employment was the best since records have been kept. Failure again.

Next, they jumped on “Reparations for Blacks” but only about 5% of White’s ever owned slaves, because they were expensive. Then

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schizophrenia took over the party!

Hillary has way too many skeletons in her closet, so democrats ran a dozen or so people in their primary, to include a known socialist, several women, and people of color. When it was over, they picked an old white man with a bad history with minorities. He has been in Washington for four decades but has accomplished nothing. Anti-Americans and Black Lives Matter groups were rioting in the streets, burning neighborhoods, and demanding police be defunded.

Democrats say they are not socialists and do not want to defund police.

But they went on TV saying BLM had a good argument and should be believed. A Black Lives Matter group tried to attack a home-owner couple, after breaking the gate in front of their home. That couple confronted the rioters with guns, which schizoph ren ic Democrats wa nt to be banned, but that stopped the BLM rioters and they left. Schizophrenic democrats got even crazier!

They knew in their hearts Trump was a Russian spy, a Putin plant, a Russian operative, or maybe Putin himself in a great disguise, so they invented collusion. The

Russia-Trump collusion was just one time democrats invented something not there.

Schizophrenics are unable to think clearly. With their agreeing and disagreeing with BLM’s defund police, democrats can’t seem to decide. Being unable to make sense of information, also called confusion, is a trait of liberal democrats and schizophrenics. Letting BLM protest with rocks, bricks, fire-bombs, clubs, and finally, guns, shows Democrat Mayors have a confused understanding of “peaceful” protest.

Reality is what THEY see, not what is, and they see Russians behind every image of Trump and his advisors. Five investigations found zero proof to charge Trump with collusion, and we now know the Russian HOAX was paid for by Hillary and the DNC, with help from the FBI SEE SCHIZOPHRENIA | PAGE 19

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BLACK AMERICA: Before Y’all Sign On to BLM...

BY LLOYD MARCUS

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uring the opening monologue of his show, Arsenio Hall included a running gag titled, “Things that make you say hmmm.”

To my fellow blacks, here are things that should make you say “hmmm” about Black Lives Matter.

BLM’s mission statement says they want to destroy the nuclear family.

Rejecting BLM’s war on the family, black former NFL star Marcellus Wiley offered these stats. “Children from single-parent homes versus two-parent homes. Children from single-parent homes are 5 times more likely to commit suicide – 6 times more likely to be in poverty – 9 times more likely to drop out of school – 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances – 14 times more likely to commit rape – 20 times more likely to end up in prison and 32 times more likely to run away from home.”

BLM’s founders admit they are “trained Marxists.” These disciples of Karl Marx have launched a revolution against capitalism to implement socialism which will morph into communism. Communism means elites dictate every aspect of your life. They sucker you in by promising everything for free. Their promise always falls short because someone has to work to produce goods and services. When the government confiscates the majority of what you earn to redistribute equally to people who do nothing, human nature asks why should you bust your butt?

Communist dictators live high on the hog while the people live on the crumbs that fall from their table. Do you see anything related to George Floyd or empowering blacks in BLM’s Marxist agenda?

To please BLM, Democrat city councils, mayors, and governors have begun disbanding, defunding, and ordering their police to stand down. Mainstream media (fake news media) won’t tell y’all

this, but when the police go away, black folks suffer most. Consequently, in six weeks there have been six hundred murders, mostly blacks killing blacks, in Democrat-controlled cities; New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Baltimore.

For years, black-on-black homicides continue to reach record-breaking numbers in Democrat cities. Why isn’t BLM dealing with this real issue costing black lives? How come black lives only matter when they are killed by a rare white person?

This will come as a shock, but

rock-solid data confirms that police have been the greatest defenders of black lives for several years. Fake news media and Democrats lie about everything; using y’all as useful idiots. They have manufactured extreme racial unrest hoping blacks will blame Trump and vote for Biden.

Systemic racism is a lie. Blacks are only 13% of the population. Therefore, white America voted for the first black president two times. Oprah is worth $2.6 billion. Can we please stop the systemic racism nonsense?

Before the COVID hysteria, Trump

had blacks experiencing unprecedented prosperity and historic low unemployment. Why did Democrats and BLM work so hard to destroy Trump’s booming economy? Answer: BLM said their top priority is to force Trump to resign. Screw black jobs and prosperity.

BLM burned down black businesses, chased businesses from black areas; suicides, domestic violence, and black suffering has skyrocketed due to BLM’s and Democrats’ joint efforts to crush the economy to get Trump out of office.

Sacrificing babies in worship to a false god, BLM and Democrats strongly support and defend Planned Parenthood.

Do y’all know PP was founded by racist Margaret Sanger? Sanger thought blacks were inferior and must be exterminated. In a 1939 letter, Sanger wrote, “We don’t want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population...”

Still today, 70% of PP dead-baby chop-shops (they illegally sell the parts for profit) are located in black neighborhoods. Black women are only 14% of the child-birthing population and yet 36% of all U.S. abortions are black babies. Blacks are engaged in their own genocide via abortion. Why do those black lives not matter?

It truly amazes me that so many corporations, Democrat politicians, fake news media, and Christians have no problem with the glaring reverse racism demanded by BLM. BLM is a cult whose zealots demand that whites actually kneel in worship and beg forgiveness for being white. Is this what Jesus wants?

BLM operatives have white middle school students hating themselves, taught that they were born racist. Does Jesus want people (kids) hating themselves? BLM had a sportscaster fired for daring to say, “all lives matter.” Jesus sacrificed his life on the cross because all lives matter. If you support BLM’s racist mandates and agenda, the love SEE BLACK AMERICA | PAGE 13

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OBITUARY: Common Sense is Dead

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oday we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain Why the early bird gets the worm Life isn’t always fair And maybe it was my fault Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to

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of Christ is not in you. Your Christianity emits a putrid odor.

So there you have it. I have given you several easy to confirm truths to consider before signing on or joining the cheering team of BLM. Some will still rather believe the 24/7 deceptions, distortions, and lies of fake news media. I believe there is an evil spiritual component attached to such a willingness to be deceived.

The Bible speaks of those who prefer

get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by: his parents, Truth and Trust; by his wife, Discretion; by his daughter, Responsibility; and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers: I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, I’m A Victim and Pay me for Doing Nothing Because so few realized he was gone, not many attended his funeral If you still remember him, practice his values. If not, join the majority.

Submitted by LJ, Greensboro, NC. Author unknown. to believe a lie over the truth. “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.” (Jeremiah 7:8) But then, why should you believe me? I am nothing more than a selfhating, Uncle Tom, black Republican, Conservative, Christian, stupid n*****, and a traitor to my race; seated firmly aboard Trump Train 2020.

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Survival in the Time of the Chinese Virus

BY DONALD R MAY

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ur personal goal must be to delay catching the Chinese Virus (COVID-19) for as long as possible. We want to delay because when we catch it, we want much better medications available, so we have a greater chance of recovering and not dying. The death rate for those infected with the Chinese Virus keeps improving with a mortality rate now of only about half of what it was in April. The longer we can avoid catching the Chinese Virus, the better chances we will have for survival.

New highly effective medications, including the antiviral Remdesivir, and potent existing medications including the injected steroid dexamethasone, have been effective in managing the

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Several vaccines are entering the final stages of evaluation in human testing.

Some vaccines will soon be ready to use. Hundreds of millions of doses of each of the most promising vaccines are being manufactured and will immediately be available for injection as soon as each is approved. Our military is preparing to efficiently and quickly deliver each vaccine nationwide as soon as it is released for use.

This is an exciting and historic time.

Vaccines will eventually eliminate the Chinese Virus just as the cowpox vaccine led to the elimination of smallpox.

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Chinese Virus are preparing us for the next possible epidemic, whether it is a deadly variant of the flu or a terrorist biological weapon.

The China Virus Pandemic was created by the purposeful actions of the Chinese Communist leadership. The Chinese did not warn the world that the Chinese Virus was being spread from human to human and that the infections caused a deadly disease.

The World Health Organization was complicit with the Chinese in hiding the dangers.

The Chinese stopped travel from Wuhan, where the Chinese Virus originated, to other places within China.

However, flights from Wuhan to the United States, Europe, and elsewhere were not stopped, indicating the Chinese Virus was purposely spread to the rest of the world.

President Trump wisely stopped all flights from China and later Europe.

Democrats criticized the actions of President Trump in confronting the virus, but President Trump acted in our best interest.

Our shutdown crisis occurred because the Obama Administration had not replenished our national stockpiles of facemasks, surgical gowns, protective gloves, ventilators, and other necessary supplies. Sufficient supplies were not available when the Chinese Virus arrived. Dr. Anthony

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Fauci and others were fearful that there would not be enough facemasks for health care personnel, so the use of facemasks by the general public was strongly discouraged.

Isolation and the economic shutdown were used because of the shortage of facemasks. The shutdown worked, people were isolated from one another, and probably one to two million lives were saved in the United States.

Wearing facemasks could have prevented most of the illnesses and the epidemic had the public started to wear facemasks as soon as they were available. Masks were worn very early in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and other countries. Very few people contracted the Chinese Virus in these countries and few died.

When our states started to open again, many people were not wearing facemasks, they mingled with others at close distances, and the Chinese Virus predictably quickly spread giving us the current high levels of infection. The number of infections will continue to rise at a high rate until people appropriately protect themselves with facemasks.

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can further decrease the chances of being infected.

Those who cannot wear a facemask should not be in public and in contact with others.

What people want more than anything is the assurance that almost all who are infected with the Chinese Virus can be medically treated and will have a good chance of survival.

It will be the vaccines that will finally eliminate the Chinese Virus, just as the cowpox vaccine eliminated smallpox and polio vaccinations will soon eliminate polio.

Vaccines work by making our bodies somewhat ill, which directs our immune system to produce antibodies and T cells specifically designed to kill an invading virus or bacteria. The illness created by a vaccine is far less severe than would be the actual disease.

Vaccinating large numbers of people will produce “herd immunity,” which provides protection also to those who have not been immunized. If persons who have not been immunized are surrounded by people who have been immunized, the non-immunized persons have a lower chance of encountering someone with the disease who can infect them.

Several vaccines will eventually be available. If one has ethical or safety concerns about any of the vaccines, one can eventually choose a different vaccine.

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Vaccines are generally quite safe and produce few side effects or adverse reactions. Vaccines save 2 to 3 million lives per year and prevent large numbers of disabilities such as paralysis from polio, encephalitis from measles, and severe damage to the unborn when the expectant mother has rubella.

The death rate from the Chinese Virus will slow as the disease and its treatment options are better understood and new treatments and vaccines are developed. The longer we can delay being exposed to the Chinese Virus, the better chances we will have for survival.

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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This...this right here is America,

Home of the brave and land of the free.

Why anyone would want to change her,

Just completely baffles me.

But there are those who hate this country,

And I’ve a hard time figuring out why.

Could it be they’ve all bought into,

The left’s progressive socialist lie.

To hear the whinny ass liberals talk,

We live in the land of the oppressed.

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And Antifa has made their big debut.

Claiming if you’re a Christian conservative,

They’re coming after the likes of you.

They’re burning down our cities,

And removing statues from their place.

Trying to erase America’s history,

These nuts are truly a disgrace.

Then there’s Black Lives Matter!

Trying to make an even bigger splash.

Claiming all whites are racist,

And demanding reparation cash.

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assuredly with their global technocracy. The result? Zero freedom and liberty for the people. And the end to the sovereignty of nations. Many have swallowed this globalist tyrannical poison agenda hook, line, and sinker.

So, what should we do to break free and return to the liberty of our Creator endowed unalienable rights?

TAKE COURAGE. TAKE ACTION. Do not wait for them to give you permission. Peacefully and respectfully boldly call their deceptive

They’re known as useful idiots,

Just pawns for the communist regime.

Trying to overthrow our form of government,

And crush the American dream.

They’re shredding our constitution,

Which was designed to keep men free.

It was put in place to protect each race,

And guard against tyranny.

The first ten amendments to that constitution,

Are known as the bill of rights.

Now the first and second are under attack,

And in the politician’s sights.

Our founding fathers framed that piece,

As they stood on America’s sod.

But if they were here today you’d hear them say,

It was written by the hand of God. For mortal man could not conceive,

Only He could foresee.

The struggles we’d face in this very time and place, to preserve our liberty.

Now the constitution is being shredded,

She’s hanging now by a thread.

And if...We rhe People... don’t save her,

I fear what lies ahead!

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government mandated bluff. Intentionally separate from tyranny.

Resolve to unite in liberty. It is time to spawn the celebration of exercising our true liberty and freedom.

Empowering our individual liberty given to each of us through our Creator endowed unalienable rights.

Go back to being mask free. Now. Go back to work. Now. Go back and open your small business. Now. Go back to school. Now. Go back to church. Now. Go back to the parks. Now.

Go back to shopping. Now. Go back to sports. Now. Go back to eating out. Now. Go back to supporting local business. Now. You get the picture.

Remember, it is not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog. Especially the underdog.

United we stand. Divided we fall.

We can do this.

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President Trump has shown amazing restraint (and keen political skills) by not acting. In 1859, the Buchanan Administration sent in troops to put down Brown’s insurrection. The strong action did not end the nation’s disharmony. The raid and its bloody end only hardened positions. The ongoing riots are hardening positions, too.

On June 20, 2020, former Democratic Senator John Kerry warned there would be a “revolution” if President Lincoln Trump is reelected this November. Kerry is threatening that if the people of America freely elect a president of their choosing there will be a revolution? Another name for that would be a civil war.

Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Yes, you have—if you can hear history you have heard it all before. This time it is coming from mouth of a prominent politician of the same party that

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threatened secession and civil war in 1860.

The Democratic leaders of today (not the average Democratic voter), protected by an ideologically driven media, are repeating history. The same party that supported slavery and fought a civil war to preserve it also instituted Jim Crow laws, the KKK, segregation, and the internment of Japanese Americans. In 1957, Governor Gov. Orval Faubus, a segregationist, refused to allow black children into Little Rock, Arkansas, schools. President Eisenhower, a Republican, signed an executive order and used the 101st Airborne oversee desegregation.

A greater percentage of Republicans supported the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Bills than did Democrats, who selected a former Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (Robert Byrd) as both Senate majority and minority leader in the 1980s, and as president pro tem of the Senate in 2007! Today,

Republicans are in favor of school choice so African Americans can decide where to send their kids to school; Democratic politicians (who often send their own kids to private schools) are against school choice because one of their largest donors is the teachers’ union.

This explains why as of today, not a single major Democratic politician has come forth to denounce the rioting, the looting, and the destruction of property. Not one. Why? Because the rioters and looters form their core constituent base, hurt the economy, and thus hurt Trump.

Calls for tearing down our institutional history—then and today—have the same goal: to determine the direction of the country. The current insurrection—and that is what this is—is about implementing a fundamental shift in the direction of the country.

Back in 1860 it was slave vs free. Today, it is socialist/anarchy vs due process

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and the rule of law based on our Founding documents.

We are not yet engaged in a second Civil War . . . but we are surfing the waves of history in that direction and heading toward the reefs.

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multiply. This mask-o-mania, and associated lockdowns, are making the global warming hysteria look downright benign! Also, could someone inform me as to when the 4th Amendment to our US Constitution was suspended, so we could all have the silly masks forced on us without legislation?

The globalists understand that if they are unsuccessful in the worldwide economic shutdown, then their cause of total domination will be set back for decades. And I might add that if there was a Demonazi in the White House, the Coronavirus would be just another flu, with no lockdown, no goofy masks, and major media would be lying about some other subject. Trump is being persecuted for our sins of wanting to be free, wanting to run our own lives, and wanting to be Americans first. It’s not Donald Trump that our would-be dictators hate, but us, as conservative and

Christian citizens, having the temerity to elect him to stop the hostile takeover of our country by globalist slavers.

Soros and his lackeys seem dedicated to pushing the Three Percenters into some sort of civil disorder or socially corrective actions. He and others of his ilk have been on a massive organizing campaign to create mayhem in our country, orchestrating and using the monumentally stupid participants in ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter.

This dastardly cabal is counting on Demonazi Governors, Mayors, judges, and legislators to punish those of us who take measures to effectively resist their goals of restructuring our country into their version of a “Worker’s Paradise!” Make no mistake, the Chinese Communists, Islamists, and other enemies are reveling in our struggle to maintain order; they are hoping that if enough trouble can be caused on our streets, then the evil United Nations will step in to help out, followed by

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Chinese troops, and possibly Russian military as well.

Does the term “circling vultures” come to mind?

The US military still has formidable strength, which has kept our enemies wary of a direct attack on our country, so these same enemies have mounted an infiltration campaign, demanding nonsensical “diversity” and “social justice” theory poisoning among the ranks. Just how effective has their guerrilla warfare been against cohesion within our military? We honestly don’t know to this point, but the globalists are betting the farm that their destabilization efforts will be enough to bring our system down.

Standing in the way of this looming debacle are large numbers of armed, but as of yet, mostly unorganized Americans. If our country is to be saved, it is going to be the armed Christians who will have to do it. No less a figure than George Washington

himself was convinced that Almighty God took an active hand in the birth and formation of the United States; I would certainly agree!

And the smartest thing we can do as US Constitution and Bill of Rights supporters is to invoke His aid again in blessing our actions to help us get this mess straightened out! If you would like to get involved, please check out GunPowderNation.com.

Like the drill my typing teacher used to have the class do: “Now is the time for all good men (and women!) to come to the aid of our country!”

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guarantee that every state has that right! Congress was hoping he would do something to give them a reason to put him back up for impeachment again!

We have seen how the rhetoric of defunding the police and law enforcement has led to a major rise in crime and violence! We have seen how these Democratic Mayors and Governors have banned together to destroy law enforcement and put all the blame on the President at election time! A pandemic, an economy trying to recover, fighting to survive, and a race-driven war that has nothing to do with injustice; but everything to do with destabilizing our nation to be taken over by these Marxists!

Make no mistake they want to carve up our nation like a thanksgiving turkey and people are being led astray by the old ‘smoke and mirrors’ trick of they will make it right! They want to serve us up to the globalist who have put all these great tragedies in motion!

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and Department of Justice. Some Democrats and FBI people should go to jail!

If a schizophrenic can’t find what they think is there, they begin to see things that are not there.

They invent racism in Trump but can’t find proof, so they suggest it in the way he expresses himself, which is different because he is not a politician. They say he divides the country by the way he says things, but proof evades them. They don’t like his style, because he challenges their lies with facts. They produce fake news conjured out of newspaper articles from Trump-hating reporters. Those are also usually found to be false.

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party!

This election is more about our social future than who is elected president! If we continue under a Democratic-held Congress and our Senate becomes overtaken by the DNC, it won’t matter if President Trump wins by a landslide because they are already warming up the impeachment lawyers again and it will be another farce of an investigation that will see a coup take place among our government!

The media is not allowing a political advertisement to run for our President! Facebook, Twitter, and Google and YouTube are pulling them as well! They want the MAGA faithful to be silenced as they destroy all visible signs of their oppressive past!

Democrats have kept black Americans in bondage! By destroying the family unit and killing the businesses in those states that were vibrant and rich with opportunity! Their liberal mentality has regulated many great corporations out of business and taxed those that remained until they had to close their doors to bankruptcy!

Capitalism has made these liberals rich beyond belief, but now that they have theirs safely stowed away, they

are going to destroy our economy and sell off the best parts. When it’s all said and done, we all will be looking in the trash for our dinners or eating whatever vermin we can trap.

Religion that we built this nation on will be scattered to the winds with the prayers to only be spoken in private places away from prying eyes!

A social upheaval has begun and no matter how it turns out, we will be a changed nation. Will it be better? I think it can if the people take back control from these power-drunk Mayors and Governors and send reforms to Congress and the Senate to include term limits. We need good for the goose good for the gander laws, meaning no one is ever above the law and justice needs to be fair. We need to reinstall innovation in our children and put an end to the defeatist mentality among minorities!

We all have so much to offer when the government gets out of the way!

I hear these millionaire athletes talking about coming up from the streets and their moms working two and three jobs to get by, but when they make it, I don’t see many in the inner cities building affordable housing for the poor! I don’t see these Hollywood

elites going to homeless shelters with four or five hundred thousand dollars’ worth of food every week! It’s easy to run a man down when he is being beaten and battered from all sides, but I don’t see any of them putting up their salaries to charity!! I don’t see many sacrifices from loudmouths like LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, Robert DeNiro, Alex Baldwin, Jim Carrey, or any of these mouthpieces who can criticize, but lack the courage to step up and help fix the problems that those they helped elect created!

I doubt I will live past this year to see the outcome of this election, but I hope the true Patriots step up and fight to keep our nation free and to remove the heavy hand of the federal government from our family, our community and our businesses, and curb the liberal mentality that is teaching our children to hate their country!

May God bring us a better tomorrow so that we can continue to grow together as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!

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Before Trump, Obama had the slowest recovery in history and a very low GDP. President Trump brought back manufacturing jobs President Obama said would never come back unless Trump had a magic wand. I don’t know if Trump used a magic wand, but schizophrenic democrats may have seen one, since seeing things not there is one of schizophrenia’s problems.

Bottom line…reality and democrats do not go together, they live in a ‘hate America’ fantasy world, and Biden will probably fall asleep before he figures out anything that helps America.

Do not let democrat lies stop a good thing.

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Long ago and far away, the American experience was formed by pioneers facing the unknown in a new world, and there was order. The Pilgrims had a firm foundation that would, and has, survived the test of time.

That foundation was rooted in a reverence explained in the Declaration of Independence. There are several references to God in that Declaration, not the least of which are: The “laws of nature and of nature’s God” entitle the United States to independence; “Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”; Congress appeals “to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions.

Yep, there was a higher power recognized then because they humbly knew mankind is a fallen and sinful condition. Unfortunately, man has slipped into a prideful state where he believes he knows more than God. Data shows a rapidly declining number of American’s who claim to be Christian. Christianity is the most adhered to religion in the United States with 65% of polled Americans identifying themselves as Christian in 2019 down from 75% in 2015.

It is a slippery slope when men drift from humility to prideful narcissism. No matter the data, the US is as Christian as Turkey is Muslim.

So, what difference at this point does that make! Well, for 244 years we

have operated under the same constitution while every other nation on earth has had a new guiding document every few years.

Our constitution’s governing principles are based on Humble beginnings where we had learned from history and formed a more perfect union. But education has failed us.

It has failed our children.

I was born at the beginning of World War II and my generation put the Fox in charge of guarding the henhouse. In so doing we assumed our kids were being taught what we had been taught, and that was a very bad assumption. After all, we had grown up in a booming post World War II economy with untold opportunity.

And while we were enjoying great abundance and new gadgets and toys, the enemy within had ideas and designs to fundamentally change our government and thus our way of life.

To take over the ruling, the elite would have to demonize our way of life. They would have to change our perception of America. No longer could we believe in our exceptionalism, our founders, our faith. That perception would have to be replaced by a better form of government that would truly make us great. Cast off the old and bring on the New World Order.

Professors in our institutions of higher learning, in lockstep, have badmouthed America telling our kids capitalism is nothing more than greed, faith is folly and what we need

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are community organizers and more laws to make life better. We need to grow the government and empower it to solve any and all problems. We, the people must relinquish personal control. It is the collective and we are a democracy. That is a lie, of course, since even professors of history and government know America is a Constitutional Republic; two very different things.

We in America have become apathetic and now we’re on a fast track to bondage yet again. The cycle of history in America is following the predictable pattern over time.

Here’s the cycle: Bondage > Spiritual Faith > Courage > Liberty > Abundance > Selfishness > Complacency > Apathy > Dependence > REPEAT. Look up the Tytler Cycle in History.

President Ronald Reagan said that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream”.

The founders broke the ties and bonds of tyranny in the person of King George III of England. It was a monarchy.

Today the battle we face is the need to resist the tyranny of the few again, but now it comes in the form of an entrenched political leadership. The intention was that they be public servants, representatives of the people, and not dictators.

Conservative thought reminds us that we must return to our basic constitutional principles and guidelines.

We have watched the world in turmoil as they all suffer from socialism, monarchy, aristocracies, communism, democracies, and anarchy.

All the while American Capitalism reigns supreme, despite what our system of education would propose.

Getting back to the roots that have differentiated us from all other forms of government for three centuries means supporting and defending the US constitution. Article five of our constitution provides a remedy

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when and if the country loses its way.

It provides for a convention of states that was foreseen by the framers when necessary to get back on track.

The platform of the proposed convention is like a three-legged stool and is simply to propose patching a sinking boat rather than allowing it to be sunk in favor of one of many governing forms akin to those tried by nearly every country on the planet.

Conventionofstates.com sees a simple patch job as a better solution.

Its platform: 1. Term limits for Congress 2. Reign in federal government’s overreach 3. Fiscally responsible or balance the budget.

Those three things would be decided on with the adoption by 34 states and then would have to be ratified by 38 states. The proposal is to affect change in a peaceful, thoughtful, and constitutionally lawful manner.

All citizens should consider joining the people in 15 states who have already passed resolutions in favor of a convention.

The question is – should we keep the USS America from sinking beneath the waves and winds of radical change. That change is what is being proposed by the Antifa and Black Lives Matter crowd who are a lawless gang of misguided folks who don’t understand America’s history and heritage.

If they did understand they wouldn’t want to tear down this wall of protection, we call the US constitution.

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Approximately 14 years ago, a Vietnam Veteran walked through their door that would help create a much-needed program for a special group of people that hadn’t been receiving the proper help that they needed… Veterans. Through all the help they were providing, they had not had the opportunity to serve vets. Though the gentleman walked through their door as a volunteer, he started on the path to recovering from his PTSD without even expecting it.

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Coordinator, is ready to assist any veteran in need of help that may experience symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, TBI, or any other symptom of war. Paul is a Marine Corps veteran himself that served two tours to Al Taqqadum, Iraq, and four years total in the Corps.

Paul says, “I used to be a dog trainer and trained service dogs; and at the time, I thought that dogs were the only animal that veterans could benefit from. You take the dog everywhere, and it is there for you through all of your bad times and can bring you out of it. Now my mind has changed. Not only by seeing the change in others but just getting to work with the horses on a daily basis, I have gotten to experience the change in myself. I talk to these horses every single day. Sometimes if I am having a bad day, they know and

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will show me comfort that still truly surprises me. Aside from just being around them and feeding them, when I do ride, I feel a sense of relaxation and usually sleep better than I do regularly. I recommend this service to any and all Vets, the benefits are surely worth it.”

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For more information on our veteran program or to sign up for the program, please call 806-632-4738 or email veterans@refugeservices.org.

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OLD SALT: Not on My Watch

BY DOUGLAS MCARTHUR

The Morality of the Watchman Whether you know it or not we are all born to be “On Watch”. If we have not destroyed “that still small voice” within us, we are driven to be on watch for the very soul within, that soul given by the creator. If you are a normal human being, you have an urge to watch over and protect others. America became the beacon of the world only because of individual freedom and responsibility as codified in the Declaration of Independence and our U.S. Constitution.

We elect people to political office, first and foremost, to be “On Watch” having been given a sacred trust.

More about this later! But first: Standing Watch: Big gun and No bullets Those who read my monthly article know I try not to get too serious and I enjoy remembering related U.S. Navy events aboard the aircraft carriers I served aboard. For you Veterans, yes, I know the one about “This is my rifle, and this is my gun, etc. etc.”. I had plenty of experience standing watch in the Army Reserves and the Navy.

No matter how boring, I always took it seriously.

Boring: When the U.S.S. Forrestal was in our homeport of Norfolk, we occasionally had to provide the watch over a huge remote parking lot where officers and enlisted parked on base. It was not easy to get on-base parking, but I had it for my 1941 Caddy. Whether you had a car there was irrelevant to having to stand watch, it was just a duty of all ships in port to supply people for various distasteful duties. I ended up having to stand that one a couple of times, both times were late at night and in the dead of winter. Here I was walking guard duty on acres of cars with nothing but a nightstick and thinking I would freeze to death before my four-hour watch was over. I shivered through it taking

comfort in knowing my 1941 Cady was being protected. I made sure to be better prepared the next time.

More Serious but Funny: When we were deployed in or near the Mediterranean, we kept fully armed aircraft ready to be launched at a moment’s notice. This was in the era of the USSR threat so you can guess what these bombers were armed with. A more serious watch was guarding these armed aircraft when flight operation was not in progress. I drew that guard duty several times and believe me I took it seriously. As you might imagine at least two such weapons systems were tied down near the catapults for

quick launch. There were always two sentries walking a post around said aircraft. Who can forget being bone-tired only to be awakened for a mid-watch?

For this duty, we reported to a Marine Sargent of the Guard where we were handed an M-1 rifle and an ammo belt.

There were no bullets in the M-1 and, as I recall, none in the ammo belt. If anything seemed out of the ordinary, we were to call the Marine Sargent of the Guard who would supply a real ammo magazine. Strangely, the Marine magically seemed to be always nearby.

Nonetheless, I took the duty as serious business just in case a foreign agent, swimming faster than the carriers 25 knots, should manage to clamber aboard. Walking watch on a cold lonely flight deck for 4 hours can cause some strange mind games. I recall thinking, in lieu of bullets, how I would use the weapon as a club to stop an intruder.

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I found they had the same good-natured thoughts. Even funnier, before the Navy I was Company Armorer in my Army Reserve unit and very proficient in all aspects of the M-1. On those Navy guard assignments, I had my doubts the rifles we were given were functional. Thus, we had big guns and no bullets.

The Origin of the Watchman: The Watchman is as enduring as mankind from caveman to today’s electronic spying. In a democratic republic, the USA, the modern-day Watchman is a sacred trust to benefit American citizens and by default keep the freedom light burning for a desperate world.

One Biblical Example; Ezekiel 33:6: “But if the Watchman sees the enemy coming and does not sound the alarm to warn the people, he is responsible for their captivity. They will die in their

www.CaprockPatriot.com sins, but I will hold the Watchman responsible for their deaths.” (New Living Translation) Archaeological Evidence: The watchtower or watchman’s wall, many intact and others as ruins can be seen most anyplace on earth. You can see examples of these in Italy and around the Mediterranean. They were put in place to defend a people and a way of life.

Political Evidence: There are many types of governments, generally meant to lord over the people for the benefit of a ruling class.

The shining example of a system for and by the people was established in the Declaration of Independence and our U.S. Constitution. Who are the Watchmen to protect these fundamentals and guarantee we remain a Government for and by the people? We the people employ well paid Watchmen to guarantee all Americans, no matter their social status, are free to enjoy the birthright of the founding documents.

Other than our birthright these Watchmen are to assure protection to every citizen from all foreign or domestic enemies. Who are these Watchmen?

They are our elected officials, e.g. U.S. Congressmen, Senators, and the President. Also, our appointed Watchmen are elected state and local officials.

Nationally, our elected Watchmen are basically to do no more or less than described above.

Time to Fish or Cut Bait: I am calling out at least one Texas Senator and many of our Congressional Representatives. Quit hiding under your desk or behind Nancy Pelosi’s skirt and get in this fight. If you do not act in the next two or three weeks, I will name names. If you are all hat and no cattle you will be highlighted. If you are a disgrace to the memory of the Alamo, you will be named. Many of you are like the coward who ran away or crawled in a hole when the Alamo fell. Do you want publicity? You will get it!

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No more of the vote for you “just because you are a republican” or we just held our nose and voted. Just like in the Biblical example if you are not the Watchman you claimed it’s time to go.

Fellow Caprock Patriot readers, many of our feckless political class have fooled us long enough. Do you think they care if extremists win it all?

Most don’t as long as they can stay in the Federal club. Why? Its greed and a lack of any moral compass. Their fat federal pay and benefits demean them.

They have become millionaires by exempting themselves from laws and regulations they place on you and me while collecting millions from special interest groups.

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Special Forces: Training to Free the Oppressed, Part I

BY HAROLD WAYNE HAMLIN

The first story of an 11-part series sharing the very personal story of one Long Range Recon Green Beret and his time in Special Forces training.

18-months of hard mental and physical training without being given any home leave. I was bitter.

I had nothing else to do. I had no one I wanted to see. I was a robot, mindless, emotionless, sad of heart but I no longer could show emotion outside myself.

I arrived at the military bus station early and had an hour to wait before my bus 19 arrived. It was the longest hour of my life.

When bus 19 arrived, I went to the driver and ask him if I could help him with anything. He looked me up and down and said, “What you want white boy. I ain’t got nothing you want.”

I remembered what my Dad had told me, “Everyone has work, you just have to sell yourself”. So, I said, “You got work. I am bored. I need to work. I work hard. Anything.”

The old man looked at me hard, taking my measure, “You got any brains white boy?”

I replied quietly befitting my crushed spirit, “Sir, no sir. I am too

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Rufus’s deep baritone voice burst from the driver in laughter, “You all right for a white boy. I’m gonna tell that one to my wife tomorrow. Come on you can help me.”

He led me outside to the back of the bus. “You take a hose out of there.

You hook it up there. You run the other end of the hose there to that hole. You then open the valve until it empties the tank. When it is emptied you put it all back in its place. Any questions?”

“Yes, boss man. You got anything dirtier I can do later, like any snotty nose, slobber covered steer I can bite the nose of and bulldog?”

“Lordy, Lordy! A nice white boy like you and crazy in the head.” He turned and went on the bus to clean it.

The first job I preformed wearing my hard-earned Silver Wings was emptying the toilet tank of the bus.

God blessed me, it fit my mood.

When I entered the bus with my things, the driver handed me some comic books, I want these back white boy. All seven of them. Maybe they

will cheer you up.

I sat at the back of the bus and opened a comic book. The driver was right the comic books took my mind off my foul mood.

One by one other men boarded the bus; five in all, none of whom I had seen before. The driver started his bus and closed his door. Before he could pull out however a vehicle pulled up right in front of the bus stopping the driver. I looked up to see a hippy painted VW van with Ralph kissing Liz. Ralph jumped out, grabbed his things, and boarded bus 19. He greeted the bus driver with his arms spread wide and said in a loud happy voice, “I been on my honeymoon boys and it was wonderful.”

Everyone clapped but me. I could not show any emotion.

Ralph spied me and that ended the comic book reading. For the next 10-hours, Ralph told me his and Liz’s life story and his plans to become a Doctor. The pamphlet Liz had recited to him many weeks ago had been about the Special Forces A Team which called for a medic.

Ralph had volunteered for the most prestigious unit in the USA military for one reason, to become a medic that he could help mankind. Ralph was there to save life, not kill life.

A fter his initial Special Forces Training, he would go to the medical school at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. After a year of intense medical training that would put him only two years away from getting his medical degree, he would be fulfilling his dream.

We arrived at Fort Bragg at 3 am. At the military bus station, Ralph and I were picked up by a jeep and taken to our dorm rooms. Only four men to a room. The rooms were clean, modern, and of high quality.

The other five men who were on the bus with us went up the hill to the 82nd Airborne Unit.

Usually, a person who joins the Army goes through Basic Training, completes eight weeks of physical and mental training then is assigned to a duty station. From that point, the man is back to a normal job. He works 8-hours doing the job he is assigned to then goes home to his wife and kids and a normal life.

Because of the Special Forces career path that Ralph and I had chosen, we went from hard physical and mental training to even harder physical and mental training.

This went on for over 11-months.

We had no duty station; we had no normal life. We had what was 11-months of Basic Training. The grind not only could break men, it DID break men; a lot of men.

Ralph was more fortunate than I because he had Liz for comfort.

He had stolen moments of love and support and a light at the end of his tunnel.

I, on the other hand, had nothing; not even letters from my girl.

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With no leave being given me after Airborne Training I had no light at the end of my tunnel. Also, with the realization that most likely Elise had found another love and moved on, I no longer had hope of there ever being a light at the end of my tunnel. I would just go and die in Vietnam and be forgotten by everyone.

The next morning, no corporal showed up to order us to do this or that or show us around. We found the Mess Hall on our own. Count them… three chocolate milk and ice cream dispensers. There was a buffet bar, but you served yourself; no one waited on you here.

I had, overnight, stepped from an Army world of children that had to be told what and when to do or not to do something into an Army world of responsible men. Here, I, and I alone, was responsible for being responsible

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Here if a man could not be responsible for himself, they did not want you, did not tolerate you, and would ship your ass out.

I was intoxicated with my freedom.

It was perfect except for one thing. I did not have Elise with me to share it all with. I wanted, I needed, Elise with me to share the pain, the joy, the disappointments, the achievements, and yes the pride of what I had accomplished and what I was about to accomplish.

Submitted by Harold Wayne Hamlin, Lubbock, TX. Harold was a Sergeant in the US Army during Vietnam, serving 16 missions with as Long Range Recon Green Beret while serving with the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) and Command and Control North (CNN); where he was awarded a Purple Heart. Harold is also a retired Lubbock Fire Fighter.

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The Master Chief and the Seaman The Master Chief noticed a new Seaman one day and barked at him to come into his office.

“What is your name, Sailor?” was the first thing the Master Chief asked the new guy.

“John,” the new guy quickly replied. The Master Chief scowled. “ L o o k , I d o n’t k n o w w h a t kind of bleeding-heart, liberal, pansy stuff they’re teaching sailors in boot camp today, but I don’t call anyone by their first name–ever!”

“It breeds familiarity and that leads to a breakdown in authority.

I refer to my Sailors by their last name only – Smith, Jones, Baker – that’s all.”

“I am to be referred to only as ‘Master Chief’. Do I make myself clear?””

“Yes, Master Chief!”

“Good! Now that we got that straight… what is your last name?”

The new seaman sighed. “Darling. My name is John Darling, Master Chief!”

“Okay, John. The next thing I want to tell you is…”

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t’s hot! So, summer is the ideal time to move to our indoor range on some of the finer details of your archery shooting. Summer bow practice is common, but focusing on specific details could drastically improve your performance 1. Shooting Stance: This is a great time to focus on your shooting stance. Any variations in your stance will cause variations in your shot. When you are in that high-pressure moment of shooting a deer, your stance must be instinctive, and the best way to do that is to consciously practice it this summer.

2. Bow Anchoring: Having a consistent anchor point is critical to success. However, despite what many archers think, making it consistent

involves more than just one thing.

That is why I follow a three-point process: release-to-hand, hand-toface, and string-to-face. By keeping all three repeatable, I’m able to have a more consistent shot.

3. Back Tension Form: Summer is a perfect time to refine how you draw your bow. When it comes to this form, sometimes small changes can make significant differences. One of these changes may be how powerful your draw is. I’ve found that a powerful back tension draw is no longer relevant. Too much of this “push and pull” can be the cause of inconsistencies. Why is this? Because modern bows now have greater let off. This means that too much “push and pull” allows for too much force with nowhere to go.

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The Normalization of the Second Amendment

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his month, we are going to talk about something a little different than we have before.

However, this topic of conversation still has a chance to stir controversy.

As we’ve previously discussed, life (and the further exploration of it) is the journey we are all on. To seek a high quality of life and an efficient and proper way to protect it is the shared objective by many.

So, as Americans, the thought of protection and preservation of life typically brings us to the Second Amendment.

The right to keep and bear arms. Ok, sounds good. Let’s do it. But what does that mean? What did it mean then? Did it just mean you have a right to own five of every kind of gun there is? Did it mean that by the very existence of the Amendment that you are “not to be trifled with?” Or did it mean something bigger, something grander?

Unpopular opinion: our modern interpretation and reliance on the Second Amendment strictly as a “catchphrase” has possibly made us more docile than ever. If this is the case, then we have not only forgotten our past, but we may have also forgotten our ability to preserve our future by taking responsibility for our present. Within this article and possibly a handful following, I want us to discuss this issue. I want to highlight specific aspects of our responsibility as autonomous individuals and as free Americans and explore specific points on what the Second Amendment calls us to rise into.

If you’re ready to just blow this off, bear with me. I think you might like what I have to say. I won’t post the exact Amendment here because I need the space to write but go look at it really quickly. Let’s start this quick analysis with “arms.” I encourage you, readers, to do some research into the meaning and understanding of the term

throughout the colonial era and the times immediately thereafter.

In short, it meant pretty much everything regarding armaments and supplies of military fashion to remain autonomous and free from a tyrannical state. In their day, canons, rifles, pistols, swords, magazine storehouses, regular and routine training, etc. Literally anything for the use of deterrence of an aggressive force with the intent of defense and preservation of the life of the beholder and the community. In our day, rifles, pistols, armor, and any other means of properly outfitting, including training. Within this paragraph alone there are numerous points to unpack, but we will save those for future writings.

My intention for this article was to talk about specific types of gear, such as armor, night vision, the ability for long-range/close quarter tactics, and the benefits that come thereafter acquiring these skills. However, even the introduction of such a topic demands length. And after we have explored these points, I want to wrestle with the philosophy of such things.

I don’t mean to bore you and I don’t mean for these writings to be lost in

the pages of yet another magazine. I want this to be intentional. As we have

been discussing life, intentionality has shown up to be quite relevant in our conversations.

Taking the responsibility to claim and maintain our sovereignty as a free people in the continuous pursuit of freedom requires us to be intentional about our rights and responsibilities.

This is beyond just examining our rights when we feel entitled to complain about “but my rights…” This isn’t about entitlement. This is about ownership and I look forward to exploring this ownership with you in the coming months.

Until then, Godspeed.

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shot inconsistencies and is something that should be improved upon this summer. To keep torque limited, I recommend gripping with only one muscle. This is achieved by sticking your thumb at the twelve o’clock position, then turn it to the two o’clock position while keeping the rest of your fingers tucked behind the grip. That way you are taking away the “life-line” of your hand. This reduces the chance of “over-gripping”, which is the cause of the torque.

5. Mental Focus: Usual summer bow practice is the perfect time to prepare for stressful situations.

Instead of calmly shooting in your backyard, try to ramp up the stress.

Spend your time focusing on one small spot. By training yourself to do this, you’ll teach yourself to be more consistent no matter how hard your adrenaline is pumping. By learning how to focus on only a small spot this summer, you can learn how to subconsciously focus on only one small spot this fall. Being able to do this under stressful conditions will be critical to your success.

6. Breathing: Something as simple as practicing your breath can help you execute a great shot when you need it the most. That’s why this summer is the perfect time to practice when to breathe. Learning when to breathe, and doing it repetitively, will be the key to keeping your composure come fall.

7. Target Panic: This summer is a great time to combat target panic.

Many archers will come down to the target and when they reach the middle, they will immediately fire the shot. Instead, simply pull back, aim, and hold. When the shot starts deteriorating, let up and regroup. Do this fifty to sixty times a day for the next two weeks. Before you know it, that pin will sit there longer than before.

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everything else in shooting, having a consistent thought process is crucial for execution, especially when faced with buck fever. Although it’s always important to practice this process, summer is a perfect time to make this process better.

9. Shot Timing: Accuracy is all about repeatability. Shot timing is no different. This means trying to keep the same amount of time between the anchor and the release. For me, this is a three to four-second window from the time I “anchor” to when the release fires. Staying consistent with this time is crucial to keeping groups as consistent as possible.

10. Focus on Scenarios: After you’ve been consistently improving your shooting technique, I recommend spending some of your summer bow practice sessions focusing on each possible scenario you may be faced with. This means if you might be shooting sitting down, then practice from a seated position. If you are a spot and stalk hunter, then practice shooting from kneeling position.

Consider practicing from different angles, different stands, and especially different distances. Utilize the consistencies you’ve built from focusing on the tips listed above and put them to use in real-world situations.

The Ultimate Goal: All of these points and archery tips have one goal: to help you become more consistent. As I’ve mentioned before, repetition is everything in archery and summer is the perfect time to make the smallest details consistent.

Visit our indoor range and we’ll work with you to assure you are going to perform at your best when you are faced with that buck of your dreams this fall.

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The Emotional Beginnings of Everyday Pistol Carry – Get Over It GUNS KILL PEOPLE?

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law. Initially, the ninety-five sheriffs of the state-issued the permits. A bond was required in addition to the cost of training and permitting. I was able to scrape together the funds to get the ball rolling. I took the required course, paid

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To me, carrying a pistol seemed strange at first. You see, although I grew up with guns (Gun Culture 1.0), carrying one on the person in public was seldom done, except for police and thugs. I had carried one in the car when traveling, but carry permits were uncommon in those days.

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I went to the magazine rack at Walmart once and was thumbing through some (gun) magazines, and up walked a police officer. “Am I printing? Does he think I am a bad guy?” Oblivious to me, the 12-pound anvil on my hip, and my decided list to starboard, but then he started perusing the magazines, too. Okay, I’m just an ordinary guy, participating in my constitutional right to bear arms. Everything’s cool.

As time went by, daily carrying of a handgun everywhere, except where prohibited, became routine, and the time came when being without at least a little pistol in my pocket became odd and uncomfortable like I forgot something.

Carrying a handgun is an awesome right and responsibility. For most of human history, the powerful have ruled over the weak. Fists or blades have enabled brigands of all sorts to rob, rape,

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From Smithsonian Magazine: The old saying goes like this: God created men equal. Colonel Colt made them equal.

If you are thinking about carrying a handgun and getting a permit (in states where required), then just go ahead and start the process. Get training whether required or not. Get some good instructional videos, such as the Gunsite 250.

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Rule Two: Never let the muzzle cover anything which you are not willing to destroy.

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Particularly in these unsettled times, with police stations being burned and insurrectionists taking over sections of cities, you are indeed on your own.

Plan and act accordingly, and above all remain dangerous.

By Liston Matthews who served in the military, worked for the Department of Agriculture, and educational administration. Liston writes his own blog GoodHillPress.com and is an AmmoLand.com contributor.

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Peter... Not the First “Fisher of Men”

BY DR. JIM SULLIMAN

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rowing up in New Jersey, I loved playing sports and was decent at a few of them. I was the MVP of my 13-15-year-old baseball league and played semi-pro, was the state champion in bowling and beat hustlers from New York who were paid to play me in pool.

By contrast, fishing never seemed very stimulating. Also, evidence suggested that fishing and hunting were only done by high school dropouts. That picture changed 34-years ago when I moved to Texas and was shocked when an attorney told me about his fishing boat and deer lease, as I learned a new normal. But that was clearly not my experience in Jersey.

There was only one very distant fourth cousin that I had that ever spoke to me about fishing, and, true to form, he did not graduate from high school.

Bobby, ten years my senior, was a great guy, always happy, positive, and filled with energy. Time and time again he would ask me to go fishing with him, and time and time again I told him I didn’t like it. “But you have never tried it,” he would say. I would respond by giving him any one of countless examples of things that I had not tried that I was reasonably sure I would not like... running in front of a moving bus, for example, or learning ballet. Still, he persevered.

When Dad’s spirit left his body when I was 16, Bobby’s pursuit of a fishing trip went into overdrive. There was no doubting his sincerity in trying in some small way to bring some fun into the life of a kid that no longer smiled, had no siblings, and was shutting down.

Bobby became relentless.

My mother said, “Just go with him one time so you can tell him you went and didn’t like it, or he is never going to stop coming over more often and asking you.” I resisted as long as I could

and finally agreed to go as long as it wasn’t an all-day deal. He was ecstatic and the following Saturday morning we were on our way to Farrington Lake.

There was a 30-foot piece of land that jutted out in the lake a few feet, and that is where he set us up. Me, with a pole and a little red float that signaled a “catch” and Bobby who had five poles active at the same time. After what seemed like an eternity of him reeling in fish and me thinking I should never have come, he said something quite unexpected.

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For him to think a fish was stupid was intriguing. How could he know? What did the fish do or didn’t do that tipped him off? Did it come out of the water by itself and then flop in the bag where the

caught ones were? Did it jump out of the water and land in his pocket? I left my post and the remote possibility of the red float disappearing from sight and immediately traversed the 20 feet between us and asked Bobby how he could tell if a fish was stupid. He said “Look” and squeezed its mouth revealing three hooks that were perfectly spaced apart on its lip. “Three times he got caught going for the bait... he doesn’t learn.”

As it turned out, my fishing experience was everything I thought it would be and less. But there was that one interaction with me, Bobby, and the fish that made my one and only fishing experience memorable to this very day.

In quite an analogous way, we are all in a “lake” and Satan has been “fishing” for us since the beginning of time.

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Privilege, Bent Knees and Unity

BY LEO JALOSZYNSKI

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merica finds herself in a perfect storm. Our ship of state rocks wildly in the waves of COVID-19 and the winds of violent racist encounters. As the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic encouraged American citizens living under the clouds of a civil war, may God’s truth be the drumbeat that leads us into calmer waters.

Privilege is a powerful word. White privilege stirs up powerful emotions when used as a weapon to label our fellow Americans. Many years ago, I was born and raised in a white mid-western farming community.

I encountered my first black person

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while drilling for the Vietnam war on a parade field. That black person was my drill instructor. Vietnam was the first war that saw American soldiers bleed the same on the same battlefield. Since that time, my family and I (two boys and an adopted bi-racial girl) have lived in California, Minnesota, Texas, New York and now North Carolina. ‘White privilege’ is a label I struggle with understanding. We adopted a month old bi-racial child in rural Minnesota. We love children and it was not easy in the 1980’s to place a child in a home, if they were “mixed’.

We have encountered racial bias in different ways in different regions of our country. I pastored a church in rural

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New York that began as a congregation standing against slavery, in 1841. Civil war graves in its cemetery remind us of our nation’s difficult racial history.

The Midwest, Northeast, and South all raised different attitudes of bias as we parented our family. Racism is real and a sin humanity will struggle with until our hearts recognize that we all bleed the same.

America exists as an experiment in the history of humans living together under a constitution or a covenant contract. With bent knees, the founding Fathers authored the Declaration of Independence. Their knees were bent in reverence for their Creator, whom they believed gifted them with

the inalienable rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and justice for all. A black leader named Robert Woodson has begun a movement called “1776 Unites”. You are encouraged to check out www.1776unites.com. There you will find many voices of the black community united in the reasoned defense of a grand and bold effort to acknowledge the flaws and unfulfilled promises of a young America.

Bent knees can unite or divide a nation. The sports world has placed a giant magnifying glass upon our need to wrestle honestly with racism. I recently watched the movie, The Help, again. I saw it for the first time in the year 2011. We have lived through the assassination of Martin Luther King and the many other killings of blacks in our lifetimes. The Help movie relives who we were as Americans in the 1960’s. Our times and hearts have changed since then, but we have much heart-work left to do. Tim Tebow began knee-bending in prayer on a football field. Colin Kaepernick began knee-bending in protest under the singing of the national anthem at an NFL game. Black lives Matter expects white privileged people to bend their knees for how long and for what purpose? What does white or black patriotism look like? Black and white citizens have bled, throughout American history, to keep America free so SEE PRIVILEGE, BENT KNEES AND UNITY | PAGE 39

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The Kids are Full of Rage

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state-backed cultural revolution has swept across our country.

Rioters have torn down monuments to the fathers of western civilization while, for the most part, the police looked on and did nothing to stop them.

The revolutionary spirit has possessed America’s youth. What sparked this fire in the minds of millennials? Most conservative pundits blame Marxist college professors, but socialism is only a symptom. The true cause is far more personal than any ideology: traumatized children rebelling against their fathers.

America’s got daddy issues—bigly.

The irrational rage directed at Trump brings to mind a petulant teenager’s cry of “Screw you, Dad.” Trump, an alpha male who holds the highest office in the land, is a proxy father-figure for a wounded generation.

The left’s hatred of capitalism is just another proxy. An entire generation was dumped-off at daycare as toddlers, so their mothers could go labor in a cubicle for some soulless corporation. It’s less painful for America’s youth to blame an economic system for the trauma they experienced than it is to confront their parents about their childhoods.

America is getting a divorce, and the kids are full of rage. The left and right can be viewed in a Jungian sense as feminine and masculine, the mother and the father. If females were the only voters, the electoral map would be majority blue. If males were the only voters, the electoral map would be majority red. For millennia, women were in charge of ensuring that each of the children in their family received a fair distribution of food. Because of that, females are now more adapted to an egalitarian mindset. Males are more adapted to competing in a competence hierarchy—the hunter who brings down the deer survives; the failed hunter starves. In America, we’ve tried to strike a rough balance between right

and left through the alchemical marriage of democracy, but that experiment is over, and it’s been a failure. The differences between conservatives and liberals are irreconcilable.

The heart of the issue goes even deeper than mothers and fathers, all the way down to the most primal religious impulses of mankind. Our society denies any transcendent meaning to life, and public schools teach a strict materialist explanation for the universe. Traditional religion is routinely mocked, yet mankind’s religious impulses cannot be denied. As Carl Jung showed, we have an inescapable psychological instinct to manifest mythos-religious archetypes. Try to suppress religion, and it comes bubbling to the surface under new forms. We feel a need to purge ourselves of the negative emotions of guilt and shame, to achieve catharsis through acts of self-mortification and confession.

There’s a new religion in America, the “Faith with No Name,” as writer Zero HP Lovecraft called it. The nameless religion has various sects—feminism, genderism, diversity, etc. “White privilege” serves as its original sin, and abortion is its ultimate sacrament. Most recently, the Black Lives Matter movement exhibited blatant characteristics

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of religion when its white adherents washed the feet of black apostles, when white liberals bowed before blacks and repented of their privilege. Even the CEO of Chick-fil-A could be mistaken for a new convert, kneeling to shine a black rapper’s shoes and calling for white Christians to repent of racism.

As Jim Goad pointed out, Social Justice Warriors are the church ladies of the

21-century. Their lives revolve around guilt, shame, and endless repentance, and much like Mencken’s definition of a Puritan, they’re haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.

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CHRISTIAN CLERGY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Part II: The Story of Pastor James Caldwell

BY DR. BILL MILLER

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his is the second in a series about special Pastors who were part of the “Black Regiment” in the Revolutionary War. We remember them especially this July on the 244th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence because according to the British army leaders, it was those Pastors in their black robes that caused the greatest army in the World to go down in defeat. It was accomplished by the preaching from their pulpits that motivated Christians to action and by their expertise at recruiting militia and regular army troops for service under General Washington.

Some of them were themselves army officers who led their church-folks into battle.

Patriot churches also provided a moral sanction for opposing British authority. It was an assurance to average American Christians that revolution was justified in the sight of God. It has been estimated that up to 45 percent of the population of the thirteen colonies were patriot supporters with 35 percent effectively neutral. Only about 20 percent were loyalists. Without the influence of the Church, support for the Patriot cause would have been

Pastor James Caldwell (1734-1781) considerably less.

This series focuses on five examples of these great ministers that you may not know about because their involvement in the Revolutionary War is rarely taught anymore. There were hundreds of them and this week we look at James Caldwell who became Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth) New Jersey in 1762. He is remembered in history with affection and admiration as “The Rebel

High Priest.”

From the onset of the War, Pastor Caldwell supported the Patriot cause.

He served first as an Army Chaplain and then as a commissary for the New Jersey militia. His place in history was secured during the June 1780 Battle of Springfield, New Jersey, which turned out to be the last major battle in the northern colonies.

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Hannah’s death became a rallying cry for the Patriots and a few days later the two sides met again, this time in Springtown with the British troops still trying to break through to engage General Washington. As he mourned the death of his wife, Pastor Caldwell again took up his musket and went out with the militia. He fought side-byside with the outnumbered patriots and eventually sealed his place in history as the militia was on the verge of running out of wadding for their muskets.

Muskets must have wadding and only a Pastor could have come up with this solution because Pastor Caldwell ran under fire to the nearby Springfield Presbyterian Church where he took up an armload of hymnals and returned

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A LITTLE GOOD NEWS TODAY: Miracle for Bulgarian Woman

BY PETER ADAMS

I WAS PRIVILEGED TO be able to go on a two-week mission trip to Bulgaria the year after communism fell. They were wonderful people who would sit all day long and listen to someone preach. A hunger I’ve never seen here in America.

My Pastor had made the trip to Bulgaria many times while it was still under communism. They would have to try to throw off the Secret Police in cloak and dagger ways by switching cars many times and finally ending up in the woods with maybe 20 people and a flashlight as the Pastor preached.

If they were caught, it would mean being thrown in prison and beaten, even death for some.

During my trip, an older woman who held Church in her house sent word asking us to come and preach at her church in Sozopol. It was a 3-hour drive, but we went.

When we arrived, the little lady Pastor named Zafierca came out to greet us. She was very short and staunch.

The second I saw her, the Lord began to speak to me about what she would soon go through, and it was bad. It was as though she had a newspaper in front of her and I could easily read it.

Zafierca said she was the Pastor only

because there wasn’t a man who would take the position. After the service, she fed us well while telling us her story as we ate. She said her daughter and grand-daughter had recently been killed by the daughter’s husband. He took a lead pipe and beat them both in the head and then threw them in the river.

AFTER HEARING HER STORY, I just couldn’t bring myself to tell her what the Lord had shown me about her. I just couldn’t give her any more bad news.

So, after we preached to a packed house with people in the doors, windows, and standing outside trying to hear, then being graciously fed, we began the 3-hour drive back to Sliven to preach at an open-air Amphitheater with a mountain backdrop.

While on the road, I told the Pastor and our interpreter what the Lord showed me about Zafierca. I told them that I just couldn’t tell her the bad news after hearing about her daughter and grand-daughter being brutally murdered. My Pastor said, “You know you should have told her.”

Once we finally arrived back at the Amphitheater in Sliven, we were praying before it was time to preach. All of a sudden I looked up and saw Zafierca, the little lady Pastor from Sozopol, walking towards me with a young girl

to interpret. She stood sternly in front of me and through her interpreter said, “Tell him to tell me what the Lord showed him about me while he was at my home.”

HOW COULD SHE KNOW? I had told no one but the Pastor and our interpreter while driving back to Sliven. I was still wrestling with telling her and I started to cry with compassion for the woman. Then it was like the Holy Spirit grabbed me by the shirt and shook me saying, “Straighten up and tell her what God told you to say.”

I got my composure and began to tell the little preacher woman what was to happen to her: “The Lord showed me that soon, you will become very sick. You will have to go to the hospital, and they’ll diagnose you with Leukemia, cancer of the blood, but Jesus will be right there with you the entire time. You will lose much of your weight to the point of almost just skin

and bones. The hospital doesn’t have hardly any medicine, so they’ll finally send you home to die. When they send you home, then God will heal you so that all the people in your village can see the miracle happen. You will quickly gain all your weight and strength back right before their eyes. God will then give you the gift of healing and restoration of marriages. People will come from all over Bulgaria to be prayed for.”

Zafierca never showed any emotions at all. She just listened intently, then said through her interpreter, “Tell him it is OK. The Lord showed me exactly the same thing a week ago while I was fasting and praying.” Then she went back to her home in Sozopol.

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This is NOT Normal

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od established government to reward the good and to punish the wicked. Our forefathers established our republic government to protect the people from foreign and domestic terrorists and to protect our God-given rights, such as private property, choosing what we will or will not do for our health, providing for our families, and so much more.

Governing, especially in righteousness, is not an easy position, nor should it ever be taken lightly. Nor should any leader presume to operate outside those established boundaries.

Never in the history of mankind was the government ever established (by God or man) to protect the people from

the flu. God did not give us the right to be free from all diseases. Instead, He gave us amazing bodies that fight off disease when treated properly with a healthy diet, exercise, sunshine, and purpose.

He also gave each of us the intellect to use for making the best decisions for one’s health, life, and happiness.

To rely upon “experts”, who do not even know us from Adam, to tell us how all of us should act, think, or what to accept is to be foolish, forsaking the very intellect and responsibility that God gave each of us.

The science and history have both shown that for nearly 7000 years mankind has continued to thrive despite viruses, illness, pandemics, and disasters. No one can protect us from all these things, except God. Nor should

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again under fire so his compatriots could use the pages as wadding. They were then able to repulse the English attack which saved General Washington’s Continental Army to fight another day.

Pastor Caldwell is widely regarded as one of the heroes of the battle and the town of Caldwell, New Jersey was named in his honor. Had he not thought of the novel hymnal wadding idea, the entire Revolutionary War would likely have gone to the English stamping out the fledgling

root of American exceptionalism.

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 thirtyplus 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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they try to. To try to do so is to set oneself in the place of God and is guaranteed to fail.

Jesus told us that in this life we would have tribulations. It just comes with the fact that mankind sinned. These things are not going away until Jesus returns.

God told us that the number of days each of us will live is determined before any of us is born. Nothing will take God by surprise or cause your death before you have fulfilled your purpose on this earth. Jesus also told us that none of us can lengthen our life by even one hour with our human worrying and efforts.

When it is our time to go, we will die.

We can determine the quality of our lives, but God determines the length of our lives.

We, the people, have the God-given right to decide which medical procedures we will accept for ourselves and our families. We also have a responsibility to speak up against those who

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try to force their agendas on us, even in the guise of the public good. Mask wearing and social distancing were instructions given by God to be followed only when one had leprosy. No where did the Creator of all the universe (man and viruses included) instruct people to shut down businesses, stop the economy, and quit living a normal life for any situation.

These extreme actions do not prevent the spread of other diseases, nor benefit the vast majority of the world population. These medical procedures, these responses to a flu virus, are not normal nor should they even be tolerated. We must make our voices heard not only for ourselves but for our children.

What one generation tolerates the next will accept as normal. This is NOT normal.

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sick and had to go to the Hospital. They diagnosed her with Leukemia… and she smiled. She lost most of her weight and looked like death. When the doctors sent her home to die… she got excited. The people in the village saw her looking like death, then they saw her get healed, gaining all her weight and strength back. She began to pray for sick people and miracles happened. The word traveled fast, and people were coming from all over Bulgaria to be healed and for restoration of marriages.

Now, my friends, that’s A Little Good News Today.

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Like the fish, it is often hard for us to avoid the “bait” that is put before us “and leads us into temptation.”

Bait that is of the evil one, not God. For some it is tobacco, for others drugs, for many it is materialism, while others “bite” on alcohol, pornography, gambling, the internet, unhealthy sex, superiority, or excess food. The list goes on.

Regardless of the bait, the goal of the original “fisher of men” is always the same... to separate us from others and God... to cause division, destruction, and death. Evil goes after us one by one.

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with forcing their substitute, secular gospel of egalitarianism on the world.

That same spirit, coupled with the notion of collective guilt, led to mass murder in the Bolshevik Revolution, and it will lead to the same horror in America unless our hearts are changed in a fundamental way.

The human psyche cannot stand the chaos of a materialist philosophy with no objective morality. Western civilization has rejected logos, from which logic arises, to the degree that we don’t have a fixed definition of gender or even

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“hooked.”

Like that fish, we must be careful not to impulsively satiate a need for immediate gratification, or we run the risk of consuming the deadly agent that lies behind the irresistible bait that appears so self-satisfying. Like that fish, whatever bait we found attractive the first time, is likely to be attractive again and again, even when we “should know better.”

God’s love is the only thing we need in life and it is our greatest defense against being “caught” if we follow the example of Jesus.

When life on earth ends and He squeezes our mouths, how many hooks will He see?

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that all citizens might freely exercise and expect to enjoy their God-given inalienable rights.

“One nation under God with liberty and justice for all” is part of our American pledge of allegiance. This used to be voiced in all of our schools at one time. It no longer is a commonly repeated pledge of loyalty to our national flag. Liberty and justice for all is a noble vision to strive for.

Our justice systems do not reflect this promise of justice for all, yet.

But we must agree together to defend and pursue this vision, or our nation cannot stand united. There is a Christian song authored by Kirk Franklin and Toby Mac titled, “We all bleed the same”. Other parts of the song’s lyrics voice these truths. ”We are more beautiful when we

come together. Let’s fight for one another (not with or against one another)”. Our national creed summarizes our deepest need, ‘From many one’.

Across the world we can see nations ruled by dictators and bullets. In just a few weeks, we will be deciding if we want to be ruled by ballots or bullets. This truly is a time of Battle for the American Republic.

Will we see the glory and mercy of God in our upcoming national elections or another civil war?

May God’s truth march on and not the lies of satan’s divisiveness!

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a human life. Of course, the SJWs feel a need to create a new religion. Unconsciously, they crave salvation from chaos and a return of order. Why else would radical feminism choose to align itself with Islam? Weary of chaos, the west is desperate for order, however harsh, and therein lies the great danger of our times.

There is no political solution. Don’t believe any false prophet who tells you otherwise. The only solution is spiritual. Only a healing of the relationship between lost sons and daughters with their Heavenly Father can stop the inferno that’s coming to engulf the west.

This doesn’t mean a return to old religious systems. On the contrary, as Bob Dylan said, “Religion is another form of bondage which man invents to get himself to God. But… Christ didn’t preach religion. He preached the Truth, the Way, and the Life. He said He’d come to give life and life more abundantly.” Jesus didn’t preach a system of guilt and repentance. Instead, he preached grace—unmerited favor, not based on works—and a transformation of the desires of the heart through atonement with the Father. To the degree you still have a consciousness of sins, you haven’t embraced the

sufficiency of Jesus’s sacrifice. Freed from sin, guilt, and shame, we can embody the strength that our culture lost, the strength we’ve lacked ever since the west began its slow decline.

The west is full of broken children and weak fathers. For the traumatized generation whose vision of God has been twisted, whose parents’ flawed examples distorted the face of the Heavenly Father, look to Jesus.

When you’ve seen Jesus, you’ve seen the Father. Only this can save the west from the coming darkness.

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