Our Current Government

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

Qualifications For Government

Three qualifications are required in those to fill the highest offices: 1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution, 2) the greatest administrative capability, and 3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Aristotle

A Purpose of the First Amendment

The real object of the [First Amendment] was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833, para.1871.

Business vs Government

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Ayn Rand

On the Way to Socialism

All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

Ronald Reagan (40th President of the U.S., 1911-2004)

The Cause Of Society's Collapse

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs ─ we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.

Patrick Jake (PJ) O'Rourke 

What Evolution Has Wrought

Many Christians (and even more classical conservative-minded unbelievers in the West) seem increasingly uncomfortable with the direction that culture is going. Many cite unfair court rulings, discriminatory practices, the promotion of communist ideology in classrooms, and unwarranted governmental restrictions as wrong and against common sense.

But common sense is only common when there is a commonality of thought between the people in a society. And many who enjoyed the fruit of Western society seem to have forgotten that the Judeo-Christian foundations of these countries have been smashed apart, leaving behind scattered pieces of differing ideological beliefs promoted by a variety of conflicting worldviews.

However, as the saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. And within the fractured ideological landscape, there is one common, overriding concept being taught to everyone participating in public education and media: the story of evolution.

Calvin Smith, “Will the Real “Creation Account” Please Stand Up?”

Love's Opposite

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Artificial Stupidity

Where the Greatest Evil Is Done

The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks, who do not need to raise their voices.

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, pg.X

Chicago Violence

The Left today has badly misappropriated the word “equity,” using it to mean equality of outcome—something to be achieved through affirmative action and economic redistribution. But real equity, in the old sense, cannot be given. Real equity requires the old fashioned virtues. It is inextricable from full ownership of your own course in life.

Matt Rosenberg, Spiraling Violence in Chicago: Causes and Solutions

1920s Symptoms of Moral Decline

The trend toward credit living may be a symptom of moral decline, an attempt to consume what you have not produced. At most times, of course, there are those who live beyond their means, but this does not necessarily become a matter of public morality.  There is greed involved in all cases, but it becomes institutionalized greed when government organs foster an ongoing credit expansion. But there were other symptoms in the 1920s.

One of the symptoms was the decline of the influence of the family in the bringing up of children. There were several sources of this declining influence. One was the separation of much of the family during a goodly portion of the day. As more and more men (and sometimes women as well) worked away from families in factory, mine, and office, they were separated from them during most of the waking hours. Compulsory school attendance took children away from the homes during longer and longer portions of the year, as the school year was extended. The automobile provided a means for young people to escape quickly from the watchful eyes of parents or people in the local community. The radio initially provided family entertainment and may even have enlivened family life, but movies provided a largely alien influence to that of the family. National radio networks and Hollywood-made movies were nationwide in scope and only limitedly subject to local and family influence. The emancipation of women, signaled by the 19th Amendment and ratified in the 1920s by “flappers,” and shortened hemlines, was registered by increasingly common divorces.

Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 4: The Growth of America 1878-1928, pg.264

Character Check

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark. 

Jay Danz, Career Carrier, U.S. Postal service.

The Bible and Government

True religion affords government its surest support. The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth. It is impossible to govern without the Bible.

George Washington, cited by David Limbaugh, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, pg.9

"Transgender" Is A Sexual Menace

Transgender children are overwhelmingly raised by Godless leftists. Is there some weird genetic quirk on the Left that results in them having a preponderance of these children? Or is there some gap in their belief system and world view that leads a child into such despair that he feels the only solution is to negate the self? … 

The current sexual menace is nothing more than another search for salvation through physical transformation. It's no different than using drugs, or money, or food, or plastic surgery, or triathlons or video games or any other idol to fill that soul need. Like the other failures, this won't work. It will only lead to suffering. The worst part? It will be suffering without meaning.

To suffer, is to be human. The solution, though, cannot be found in this world.

Melissa Mackenzie [email] Newsletter 4/1/22