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‘The New Tower of Babel’ (Newswithviews, Aug. 17)

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“Grovel to your betters, plebs!”

God confounded human language to stop the construction of the Tower of Babel and to keep worse things from happening.

Today it’s our ruling sinners who confound the language… to ensure that worse things happen. 

The New Tower of Babel

“Gee, they must be smart! We can’t understand ’em when they talk!”

They dumb us down in school and college, groom us for our role as useful idiots to the Democrat Party, and only remember us around election-time. Or if they need to whip up a riot for some reason. Any reason.

We are governed by people who despise us and who intend to do us harm. George Washington called the force of government “a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

We need to get those Constitutional Checks and Balances back into shape.

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Erasing Our Freedom

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[See Why Tech Totalitarianism Threatens to Turn America into Canada or China Unless We Stop It, by Kara Frederick in The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/23/why-tech-totalitarianism-threatens-to-turn-america-into-canada-or-china-unless-we-stop-it/) ]

So it seems that the glaringly misnamed Dept. of Justice is setting up a “terror unit” focused on “anti-government or anti-authority” sentiment. By which they mean anti-them and anti-their pretensions.

Have they forgotten how our country was founded? Maybe they simply don’t know. Let me clue you in, DOJ–the American colonies rebelled against both the government and the authority of Great Britain. We did not say “May I?” We did not wait for permission to set up our own country.

And the one that we set up, according to the Declaration of Independence, derived its powers from the consent of the governed. Do you see the difference? They, the freakin’ government, are the ones who are supposed to say “May I?” They need our permission!

But we seem to be drifting away from that lately, don’t we?

Yesterday was George Washington’s birthday. If he were alive today, he would be leading an army against the city that so unworthily bears his name.

Government and Big Tech are colluding to become our masters.

Give them your profound distrust.

Yes, We Can!

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George Washington, the Father of Our Country–what do you suppose he would think of his children today?

Had enough bad nooze today? Democrat cities torn and trashed by riots, teacher unions trying to run parents out of their children’s education… It’s not pretty. How can we possibly clean up this mess?

Who in his right mind ever thought that George Washington’s volunteer army would succeed in chasing the British Empire out of its 13 colonies in North America? We had the French Navy on our side–but when did they ever beat the British? And the British Navy had us cut off from the rest of the world. And sho dared imagine victory from the frozen vantage point of Valley Forge?

Nevertheless, we won. God ordained it.

And we can win again, because we must. We must. Why would we ever surrender to a lot of college professors and their brainwashed students? To lying, ignorant noozies? To race hustlers and rioters? To a political party that nominates a nearly brain-dead cellar-dweller for president? Surrender to them? Never.

We’ll have to do the work. We’ll have to create new institutions–a new free press, a new system of education that isn’t owned by the government–to replace the old ones that refuse to serve us anymore. And we’ll have to persevere in spite of setbacks, and learn how not to listen to all that howling from the Left. But is there really any doubt that we can do this? As Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto said after Pearl Harbor, “We have wakened a slumbering giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

It’s time to find that resolve and put it to work.

Our Need for This Bible Verse is Critical

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The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, “He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.   2 Samuel 23:3

George Washington got down on his knees and prayed for God’s guidance. We always need God’s guidance, but there are times we need it more than others. We are living in such a time right now.

Rulers–we properly call them elected officials, and used to call them public servants–ruling in the fear of God–has anybody, anywhere, seen that lately?

We are all, or all ought to be, servants of God, each carrying out his own function. There are those whose function it is to govern. If they govern under God, and in the fear of God, obeying God’s laws, then their authority comes from God, they are doing God’s will, and we can even rejoice in them because their efforts allow us to live in peace and security.

But if they rule as rulers, with no fear of God, doing whatever they please regardless of His laws: then not only are they tyrants, with no legitimacy at all; but, dude, that puts you under the hammer, man, because now you’re trying to be God! All you’ll get out of that is to be surrounded by toadies who tell you what you want to hear because they expect to be enriched by you, and an awful lot of people whom you don’t know wishing you would hurry up and die.

As Plutarch once said–even pagans used to know these things–tyranny is a nice perch with a lovely view, but there’s no safe way down from it.

Ruling under God is safe, and sane, and right, and tends to security and prosperity for the whole community.

Ruling without the fear of God is the very opposite of all those things.

 

‘Slander’ (by R.J. Rushdoony)

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Note: Normally I wouldn’t retype a whole essay while trying to hold the book open; but this piece by R. J. Rushdoony, originally published in California Farmer and now included in A Word in Season, Vol. 1, is especially timely… so here goes.

My daughter telephoned home one noon, very much upset. A girl had told her that George Washington was a scoundrel who had fathered fourteen illegitimate children and had died of venereal diseases. Was this true? I assured her that it absolutely was not. Tell the girl, I said, that your father has Washington’s collected works and has read them as well as many works about him, and there is not only no truth in such a vicious lie but Washington was a man of remarkably disciplined character and great moral integrity; ask her for evidence. Of course, she had none.

I spoke in one city on Washington’s Birthday, and the history supervisor in the public schools refused to attend, saying, “Why listen to a lot of sugarcoating for one of our worst scoundrels?” When asked for evidence for her statement, she walked away.

How, my daughter asked, do all these foul stories about great and good men get started? These people, I said, being themselves depraved, like to drag godly people down to their own level by their slanders. (“That fits this girl,” she replied.) Remember, I reminded her, what Solomon said, “As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly” (Prov. 26:11; 2 Pet. 2:22). These people love dirt, and they dirty everything they touch.

Solomon also said, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof” (Prov. 18:21), or, as the Moffatt freely translates the latter part of the verse, “the talkative must take the consequences.” Our Lord was even more blunt, “I say unto you, That every idle world that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” (Matt. 12:36).

Remember, therefore, before you repeat slander, or before you become party to idle words, that they have serious consequences. Talk may be cheap, but the payoff is costly. Are you prepared to pay the price?

 

My Newswithviews Column, July 25 (‘Our Racist, Sexist Moon Landing’)

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They really couldn’t have fit a couple of lesbians into that LEM?

Are you getting as tired of this race crap as I am?

Of one blood God made all the nations of the earth (Acts 17:26); but of course leftists are trying to un-make God’s creation. And trying to wipe out our history.

Our Racist, Sexist Moon Landing

If you “remember” things that never happened, you’re probably crazy. And if you can’t remember things at all, you have amnesia. Either way suits Democrats just fine.

My Newswithviews Column, July 19 (‘What if the Past Judged Us?’)

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I wonder if he’d pray for us.

We’re always judging the people of the past, always finding them guilty–always virtue-signalling for 2019.

But what if the people of the past could judge our era, as we have judged theirs? Do you think we’d get off easy?

What if the Past Judged Us?

Meanwhile, I’m trying to understand why we ever let some communist paint a mural of George Washington’s life, and paid him out of the treasury. Why were we doing so much of that while FDR was president?

What goes around comes around.

We’re Back (and Here’s Some Nooze: Erasing George Washington)

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(We had to go to the hospital today for Patty to have a CT scan, don’t ask me why, and then off to the supermarket, and now… some nooze.)

Eighty-three years ago, a Russian-born communist painted a huge mural (1,600 feet long) on the walls of what is now a public high school in the San Francisco school district. His theme was the life of George Washington, and he chose to emphasize Washington as a slave owner and a persecutor of Native Americans. Why this thing was painted in the first place–at public expense–is a mystery to me. But it was 1935, and on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s watch, a lot of hammer-and-sickle-friendly artwork got created.

Now the San Francisco school board has decided to destroy it (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/california-school-board-voted-paint-021440930.html). Seems it makes the students “uncomfortable.”

When I was a kid in school, everybody used to mock the Soviets for constantly rewriting history. Now we do it, too.

But this is complicated, because the mural was, all along, a rewrite of history, and rather a hostile one at that. Academics all around are pleading with the board not to rewrite it again by painting over the mural with some pap about minority self-esteem.

Yes, George Washington owned slaves. At the time, slavery was lawful in every region of the earth. That doesn’t mean it was good. There were already abolitionists at work, like Betsy Ross and, later, William Wilburforce, who led the successful fight to abolish slavery in the British Empire, legislated by Parliament in 1833.

George Washington does not need me to defend him. Take away Washington, and the United States is never born. And this world, fallen though it is, would be infinitely the poorer for that.

Today we love to judge historical figures by our own moral and legal standards of 2019. But how would we fare, if they judged us by theirs?

But the Lord our God judges all; and we do well to remember it.

Lib Ideology in a Single Sentence

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In case you missed it earlier today, we stumbled over a quote from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (not his real name) which sums up today’s Far Left Crazy ideology in a single sentence. By “Far Left Crazy” I mean Democrat.

Here’s what the one-time Sandinista wannabe told New York magazine in 2017 (Sept. 4 issue):

“If I had my druthers, a very, very powerful government would determine your day-to-day reality.”

Let that sink in for a minute. What do you think, oh, George Washington would have to say about that sentiment? And would Thomas Jefferson say it was time again to water the tree of liberty?

Where did we get these out-and-out loonies, too damned many of whom are actually in public office–and how, how, how do we get rid of them? I mean, do we even suspect what de Blasio’s notion of “day-to-day reality” is? Do we truly want to know that? With H.P. Lovecraft unavailable, who would be able to write it down?

At rather horrifying speed, the whole Democrat Party is morphing into this.

If you voted for even one Democrat in last year’s elections, shame on you! And never, never, never do it again.

Down with… George Washington?

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What can be said for a nation that hates its own history and wants to erase it? “R.I.P.”?

Students at George Washington University have gotten up a petition to replace the school’s old “Colonials” mascot–it’s someone dressed up as a kind of George Washington caricature–because, says the lump of protoplasm who started the petition, “It’s hard to have school pride when the thing that you have to be prideful for is so offensive” (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/george-washington-university-snowflakes-rise-again/). The offensive thing being “colonialism.”

The record shows that America, once upon a time, was 13 British colonies. Then, with George Washington leading an army of volunteers, America fought Britain and became colonies no more, but an independent nation. How in the world does this make Washington a “colonialist,” when he successfully fought the colonial power in his country?

They want to replace the Colonial mascot with a hippo. Go figure.

Next–it’s inevitable–they’ll want to change the name of the university. To what, I think I’d rather not know.

Washington was justly called “the father of his country.” When he stepped down after two terms as our first president, instead of making himself a king or a president for life, as so many wanted him to do, he set an example whose power greatly helped to keep the United States of America a free republic for over 200 years.

It’s something the Left in America labors to destroy. And our colleges and looniversities enthusiastically are helping them to do it.

People, why, in Heaven’s name, and at numbingly great cost, do you continue to send your sons and daughters to these indoctrination factories?

Our public education system, the costliest in human history, is killing us.