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‘Amazing! Good News!’ (2016)

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Wow, this was eight years ago. With the COVID circus in between. If wonder if the atheists ever came back for a rematch.

Amazing! Good News!

As we drift into graduation season–for those schools not shut down for assorted “protests”–we should remember the Class of ’16 at East Liverpool High School, Ohio. Their School Officials (always a bunch of weasels!) caved to the atheists’ threat of a lawsuit, if the graduates were allowed to sing the Lord’s Prayer. But the graduating seniors did not cave. They sang it anyway, and no lawsuit got filed.

If being led by teenagers is what it takes to free our country from wicked fools and tyrants–follow the teens!

The Difference Between Us

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What makes the United States different from other countries founded and populated by British settlers? Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, for instance.

We Americans purchased our freedom with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The others tamely accepted whatever scraps of freedom the British were willing to bestow on them.

The Battle of New Orleans, in 1959, was a No. 1 hit song when I was a boy. We still remembered, back then. Remembered the War of 1812, Chapter Two of our fight for freedom against the British Empire. 2014 was the 200th anniversary of that battle.

Do we still remember what we had to do to win our freedom? Our place in the world?

I think this year’s election will answer that question. One way or another.

 

OK, I Did It!

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(No wonder she’s so tired… Please tell us she didn’t lay those eggs.)

Well, I’ve done the interview with Delmer Eldred, he’s invited me back in January so I must’ve done all right–and now I’m really tired, I think I want a cigar.

You wouldn’t think being interviewed was hard work, but sometimes it is… especially when you’re really trying hard to reach the audience. And it’s been years since I’ve done this.

After he edits the tape, Mr. Eldred will send me a link to the show so I can post it here and you can all listen to it. It’ll be on both AM and FM radio out in Washington State. I wonder if my voice sounds any better than it did.

For the time being, I need some rest and then we’re going to visit our town’s Halloween decorations. And at least one more blog post after that.

Judge Rules: Baker Can’t Be Forced to Serve Same-Sex ‘Wedding’

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Libs think the First Amendment only applies to them–no one else.

Wonder of wonders! A superior court judge in California, of all places, has ruled that the state cannot force you to say and do things contrary to your religious beliefs.

I’m not linking to this news story, nor providing any proper names, lest some troll should see it and use the information to launch a campaign of harassment against the defendant or the judge. It’s too bad I have to do that, but that’s the age we’re living in and it won’t get better for as long as Democrats hold public office.

The judge ruled that creating a wedding cake is “artistic expression”–which of course it is–and that no one can be compelled to create a work of art for a same-sex “wedding.” The baker did refer the, uh, “couple” to another bakery, but that’s never good enough, is it? Once they’ve got your First Amendment rights in the crosshairs, the Far Left will always shoot.

Simply, the judge ruled (I repeat for the sake of clarity) that the state cannot force a person to create a piece of art against his or her will.

As a novelist, that’s a relief to me. I can easily imagine a writer being sued for not including “positive gay characters,” or whatever, in a story. Don’t laugh: they fired the creator of Midsomer Murders–and “investigated” him, as if he’d committed a crime!–for not including more “minority” characters in his screenplays.

There are a lot of people out there trying to erase our freedom. But at least one judge isn’t with them.

‘Disinformation Governance Board’ Finally Scuttled

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Sayonara, Ministry of Truth!

Months after the Dept. of Homeland Security “paused” it, the new Disinformation Governance Bureau (aka “Ministry of Truth”) has been terminated (https://www.ntd.com/dhs-terminates-disinformation-governance-board-months-after-pause_830294.html).

Hmm… now why did they get rid of it?

I’m just guessing, mind you: but Senate Republicans have demanded “all relevant documents” pertaining to the Ministry of Truth… and rather than turn them over for examination, Democrats deep-sixed the potential source of acute embarrassment.

Historical note: When Scipio Africanus and his family were accused of and tried for assorted mischief in their government of Syria, Scipio angrily tore up all the records in front of the Senate. This led to his lifelong banishment from Rome.

Can’t investigate what’s been put through the shredder!

Has The Regime given up on censoring its critics, silencing them, shutting down dissent? Well, they didn’t really need the Disinformation Board to do that, did they? And they know that now.

Beware. They’re going to learn to be sneakier.

Judge Blocks Vaccine Mandate, Nationwide

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A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine “mandate” nationwide–after a federal judge in Missouri, earlier this week, blocked it in ten states (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/breaking-federal-judge-blocks-vaccine-mandate-nationwide-protects-health-care-workers-across-america/).

A quote from Judge Terry Doughty says it all: “If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim an indefinite state of emergency.”

Carve it in stone and hang it over the door of every courthouse building!

May I suggest a Constitutional amendment forbidding the federal government from ever imposing any kind of “mandate” for any kind of reason? Like, if you can’t get it passed as a law, you’re not allowed to do it?

Governments the world over need a smackdown.

And I think that would have to start here, in America.

(Question! If these vaccines are so good and so safe, why are so many health care professionals refusing to take them? Try getting that one asked on NPR.)

‘We Don’t Have to Take This Anymore’ (2016)

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Five years ago, this was–the first small twitchings against tyrannical minorities who have seized control of our whole cotton-pickin’ country, just about, and were rubbing our faces in it. And yet here was proof that we were stronger than they–proof that we don’t have to let them bully us.

We Don’t Have to Take This Anymore!

Now, finally, at long last, regular decent people are getting way sick and tired of the whole “woke” movement–tired of being doxed, being silenced, being called racists, being blamed for everything that ever went wrong in any lefty loser’s stupid life–and are not not just twitching anymore, but standing up to fight it.

We don’t have to submit to Critical Race Theory, transgender horse-schiff, Green New Deal, CNN, and any and all of the rest! And let’s not stop with just ignoring it. Uproot it altogether, and cast it into the fire.

R.J. Rushdoony, ‘Religious Liberty’

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(This important essay on the roots of religious liberty, by R.J. Rushdoony, first appeared in 1991 in Roots of Reconstruction.)

This piece is a little long, but well worth reading and considering. It traces the origin of American religious liberty to Martin Luther and the Reformation: when Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony, a staunch Catholic, extended his projection to Martin Luther, Protestant religious reformer–and Luther extended his protection to Frederick. Between them they declared the Biblical basis for religious liberty.

https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/religious-liberty

Liberty is so much more than “freedom to sin”! For Rushdoony it was a theological fact. And so it ought to be for us.

As our country’s founders so well knew, government naturally seeks at all times to extend its power–which God’s law limits. Rushdoony wrote at a time when many different government agencies were forcefully encroaching on religious liberty.

And that has not changed.

A firm Biblical understanding of and belief in religious liberty is the best protection of religious liberty. As Luther himself said, “He that believes most will protect most.”

And our freedom needs protection.

R.I.P., Rush Limbaugh

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Rush Limbaugh receiving his Medal of Freedom. Melania Trump does the honors.

I am very sorry to report that Rush Limbaugh, 70, has died of cancer. We have lost a champion of the conservative cause.

As one of El Rushbo’s 40 million listeners, going back several decades, I learned a lot from him. I think the biggest eye-opener I got from him was the realization that government has no money of its own and creates no wealth on its own: it has only the wealth that we, the American people, create by working for it. Government can’t “give” anybody anything; it can only take from some to award to others–and very seldom justly, or wisely. Thank you for that insight, Rush.

We are at a perilous juncture in our nation’s history, and to lose Mr. Limbaugh now is to lose much.

But we still have our prayers, and I take some comfort from the thought that as his life drew to a close, Rush learned to lean more and more upon the everlasting arms of Jesus Christ Our Lord. I hope there’s another microphone waiting for him in Christ’s Kingdom.

Instructed by the Holy Spirit, Isaiah wrote, “The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.” (Isaiah 57: 1-2)

I pray we aren’t there yet, and that the Savior will deliver us from the snares of the ungodly. But if we are, then I pray the Lord will give us faith, courage, strength, endurance, and wisdom. Because we shall need it, every drop of it.