Our Rights Come From God

It is a common misconception that the Bill of Rights grants certain rights to citizens.  It does no such thing. The Bill of Rights recognizes God-given, inalienable rights.  What, then, is an inalienable right?  An inalienable right is an intrinsic liberty, granted to you by God that creates no countervailing obligation on another.  Inalienable rights are symmetrical: I recognize them in you, and you recognize them in me. 

The Second Amendment is clearly one such right, as the right to self-defense is absolute.  Make no mistake: the Second Amendment is not about hunting, or plinking.  It's about repelling intruders and tyrants with deadly force.  The origins of the Second Amendment can be traced specifically to April 19, 1775, when the British Crown took its tyranny one step too far; it marched on Lexington and Concord, seeking to confiscate the arms and ammunition of the colonists.

The Bill of Rights, by simply serving to articulate some of our God-given rights, puts the government on notice that none of these rights may be truncated in any way, irrespective of any government's incessant desires to do so — be it on guns, protest, or speech.  The government has exactly zero standing on any of these issues.

Colin McWay, Brace yourself: You're about to become a felon

Well Said

Time is Precious

Public Indoctrination vs Education.

Most of our schools teach almost nothing of importance, and nothing is more important than the study of good and evil. In the United States today, nearly all schools, from elementary through graduate, concentrate on teaching about racism, sexism, preferred pronouns, homophobia, transphobia, LGBTQIA+, climate change, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and white guilt. In other words, most of our educational institutions, including the most prestigious, do not educate.

Dennis Prager, Why Young Americans are Not Taught About Evil

"Progressives" and Marriage, Part 4

Marriage is, quite simply, a beautiful and inspiring devotion of a man and a woman to one another and to their dreams of raising a family, achieving success, a living together forever in love. The State is the enemy of all these dreams, and marriage, along with other forms of faith grounded in human nature, is part of what stands in the way of the totalitarianism we are facing.  We must honor marriage and celebrate the freedom and happiness it makes possible.

Jeffrey Folks, Marriage Stands in the Way of the State

"Progressives" and Marriage, Part 3

The State is determined to discredit marriage and make it just another "lifestyle choice," like bowling or crafts. The one thing that cannot be allowed is for individuals to put spiritual beliefs ahead of the State, and belief in marriage — along with faith in God and belief in traditional morality — is a deeply spiritual and redemptive faith in the goodness of life, the goodness of one's mate, and the goodness of the future for one's children.  None of this is within the control of the State, a fact intensely resented by progressives like Biden and those who control him.  Not long ago, Biden celebrated "Pride Month" at the White House.  When's the last time a liberal celebrated the nuclear family?

Jeffrey Folks, Marriage Stands in the Way of the State

"Progressives" and Marriage, Part 2

Progressives are determined to destroy traditional ideas of marriage and replace them with ad hoc arrangements more amenable to state control. The deep and enduring love of man and wife offers something real and meaningful, beyond anything the State can provide.  When love is lasting and true, it is the foundation for a joyful existence — not the State, not what one is told on state-controlled media, not what is taught in government schools, not the endless "benefits" dangled in front of the voter to buy his vote.  From within the bastion of the family, one can see the State for what it is: the enemy of liberty and of life itself.

Jeffrey Folks, Marriage Stands in the Way of the State

"Progressives" and Marriage, Part 1

[P]rogressives have done all they can, beginning with Women's Lib and "Open Marriage" in the 1970s and continuing through woke politics, with its emphasis on gay and trans-gendered experience, to undermine conventional marriage.  At its heart, progressivism is nihilistic, seeking to destroy existing institutions and beliefs and replace them with slavery masquerading as the freedom.  All traditional institutions and beliefs stand in the way of this transformation, which is why they are the target of left-wing politicians and media.

No other institution is as important as the nuclear family.  When a man and a woman join together for life with the intention of raising children and working toward a secure retirement, the State loses much of its control over them.  They do not need the "services" of the State.  Their marriage is a fortress against the State's determination to exert dependency.  They can live happily and raise their children according to their values and not those of the State — and their values are based on truths about human nature, not on the warped ideology of Marxism.

Jeffrey Folks, Marriage Stands in the Way of the State

The Problem With Tolerance/Diversity

Ben Shapiro, 8/25/23, Facebook

What is Leftism?

I want to first point out that for years I have been assigning the word "liberal" to what I understand now as leftist (LEFTIST). I'm leaving posts with that label as they are, but all new posts will be labeled under LEFTISM.  Now, it's time for the thought-provoking quote.

Leftism is the attempt to destroy the past — every value and every institution, the good as well as what it regards as the bad. That is why leftists, by definition, hate conservatism. Conservatism seeks to conserve the best from the past. The Left seeks to destroy the past, including the best.

The first of the modern left-wing revolutions, the French Revolution, quite consciously sought to destroy every major institution and value of French society — not just the monarchy but God, religion, the legal system, traditional notions of good and evil, the calendar, the old way of telling time, the old weights and measures, and even the names of the days of the week. In other words, the past. Just like the Left in contemporary America, the leftists of the French Revolution toppled statues — in their case, the statues of every king of France.

The next major left-wing revolution, the Russian, did the same. As the Soviet dissident joke went, “In the Soviet Union the future is known; it’s the past which is always changing.”

Now you can begin to understand leftism.

Dennis Prager, Can You Define Leftism?

Keep Sex for Marriage

I have never suggested that the only reason to abstain from sex before marriage is because God said so. You should abstain from sex before marriage because it is an intimate act reserved for knowing a person on an intimately emotional level. Sex is actually less intimate in some ways than knowing somebody on a deeper, emotional level.

Sex becomes intimate when tied to commitment. And marriage is the only form of commitment that matters. Sorry, but labeling yourself boyfriend and girlfriend or moving in together are not forms of genuine commitment. The door remains open.

Sex before marriage is particularly foolish for women because - unlike women - men treat sex as an achievement, not a form of commitment.

Again, marriage is the only genuine form of commitment. And when you are married, exposing the most intimate parts of your life to your spouse is perfectly appropriate. Doing so beforehand doesn't create a higher level of trust and bond. It actually makes you more insecure because now you've confided the intimate parts of yourself to someone you're not fully committed to.

Ben Shapiro, 8/22/23, Facebook post.

Social Justice

Character is the First Essential

[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

George Washington (1790)

Character

Godlessness, Not Guns, Is the Problem

Americans have had ready access to guns throughout our history. In fact, at one point in time a person could order a hunting rifle from the Montgomery Ward catalog and have it delivered right to your house. Marksmanship and Gun Safety were elective classes in many schools across the county. Pickup trucks often had a rifle rack holding at least one rifle, often more than one, in the parking lots of high schools across America. Yet in all those decades we did not experience the kinds of school shootings that happen far too often nowadays. So, what is the cause?

For one thing, Americans have turned their backs on traditional morality, traditional gender roles, and traditional religion. Studies show that regular church attendance has dropped precipitously in the last few decades. Few young people are receiving religious instruction inside of the home anymore, and sadly even fewer are receiving it outside of the home.

D.W.Wilbur, Want to End Gun Violence? Change Society, Don't Ban Guns!

The Importance of Knowing History

It is often said that when a people forget their history, they are condemned to repeat it.  I prefer to rephrase that by saying that when people either forget their history or never knew it in the first place, they make it easy for demagogues to get away with lying to them about it.

Mark C. Ross, False history and its unwitting victims

The Destruction Wrought By the Pill

This [Sexual] revolution was supposed to have freed women from the injustice of sexual repression.  Instead, it led to millions of women becoming pregnant and abandoned, left on their own, to raise their fatherless children.  Many of them were, as a result, raised in poverty and amid crime.  The welfare state sought to correct this mistake by subsidizing single motherhood.  This, in turn, predictably increased what it subsidized. 

Today, the harm wrought by the abandonment of sexual morality has left us with a society that cannot even recognize the good and natural differences between the sexes, even to the point of denying that there are two complementary sexes, and certainly denying that they are a naturally ordained partnership, one without which, society suffers consequences so pervasive that many people call them good. 

Robert Arvay, The Truth About Morality.

Evil and Tolerance

 

The Demise of Our Military

Let’s look at the attitude of the military towards the people who they want to enlist. Many are white males who know which bathroom to use, but if you’re a white male who knows which bathroom to use, you’re an extremist and a racist and an enemy and you’re going to get passed over for promotions and assignments for people based not on anything that you did, and not because of merit, but purely because of your race, sex, and normality. “Come, join an organization that actively hates you!” is not much of a sales pitch.

Kurt Schlichter, Of Course Young Patriots Are Rejecting Joining Our Failing Military

The PILL Caused More Sexual Immorality

Up until the 1960s, the out-of-wedlock birthrate in most segments of society was small, despite there being no reliable contraceptives widely available.  One overwhelming reason for the low incidence of premarital pregnancy was social opprobrium.  For a young, unmarried woman to be known not to be a virgin was considered shameful.  For her to become pregnant was scandalous.  The prospect of being humiliated was a powerful inducement, for women, to delay sexual intercourse until marriage. 

The advent of the birth control pill changed all that, and as history shows, the incidence of out-of-wedlock motherhood, which was supposed to have been dramatically reduced, instead dramatically increased.  Why? 

The birth control pill helped to reduce the stigma of losing one's virginity before marriage.  This, in turn, indirectly reduced the stigma of premarital pregnancy.  This, in turn, reduced the perceived need for the birth control pill.  Once the initial phase of these events had occurred, the floodgates were opened, and what quickly followed was what is called the Sexual Revolution.

Robert Arvay, The Truth About Morality.

The War Against God

The War against God is so blatantly obvious that you would have to be a dedicated atheist not to recognize it. Pro-death, or anti-life, forces dominate the decrepit world of America 2.0. Medical “professionals” cutting off the breasts of little girls, leaving them with Frankenstein scars, and cutting off the penises of little boys, leaving them as freakish eunuchs, is pure, unadulterated evil. Mothers encouraging their precious child to change their “gender” at the tenderest of ages, is evil. Euthanasia, as currently seen in the Suicide Squad in Canada, is evil. The eugenicists who rule our society are evil. They all directly or indirectly serve the interests of Satan.

In the political world, permitting hordes of homeless human beings to live in tents, while not even clearing their excrement from the pavements of once great cities, is evil. The disparity of wealth we have in this country, where some lives are worth literally millions of times more than others, is evil. Our thoroughly corrupt government agencies and soulless corporations are evil. A legal system that knowingly frames the innocent, as ours has done for decades, is evil. District Attorneys who let violent criminals off easy, while throwing the book at their political enemies, are evil. Corrupt leaders involved in graft, fraud, and assassination, are evil.

Donald Jeffries, The War Against God

A Fallacy of Evolutionism

The other twin tower of today’s Atheistic Faith is the theory of evolution. It was invented by Charles Darwin, who at the end of his life repudiated it. It is full of literal missing links. We are supposed to believe that all life originated in the sea, and gradually some (obviously not all) life forms crawled onto land. How they determined who would go on land, and who would stay underwater, how they magically developed lungs at some point, are questions that no devout atheist will answer. And then, of course, human beings evolved from the apes. Why apes then continued to exist as well is yet another of those nagging questions.

Donald Jeffries, The War Against God

Public School Failure

A Godless Culture

One of the rare writers of great faith, G.K. Chesterton, observed that “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” Indeed, for a being they consider mythical, nonbelievers certainly pay a lot of attention to God, and especially Jesus. Two of the most common swear words in our language involve the name of God or Jesus being uttered in vain. We don’t see the same antipathy towards Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, as we do towards what they denigrate as “your magical sky wizard” and the like. If someone is so sure God doesn’t exist, why bother to criticize him? I understand anger at God, but not a disbelief in him.

Donald Jeffries, The War Against God

Something an Estranged Child Should Think About

It is harder on the parent to have a child who does not talk to them than it is to have had a child who loved them and died.

Dennis Prager, Our Broken Culture is Getting Worse (A.I. Isn’t Helping)

Empathy Has Disappeared

I think it’s obvious that there is a critical lack of human empathy these days. And thus a lack of conscience. It’s easier to do something bad when nothing will subsequently make you feel guilty about it. Remember the Black Friday sale at Target some years ago, when a man dropped dead in the store. Not a single person stopped to help him, or even call 911. That represented a shocking lack of empathy on the part of huge numbers of people. Isn’t empathy a part of faith? After all, if there is no God watching us, who will judge us one day, why help anyone? Why not rape for pleasure? Why not steal what is needed? Why not kill to achieve our desires?

Donald Jeffries, The War Against God

The LEFT Has Destroyed Our Military

 Feminists wanted women in combat; traditionalists said “Look, this is nothing against women, but having both men and women in combat together will jeopardize the mission.  Chivalrous men will be distracted from their duty in combat if women fighting alongside them are injured; regular guys will be distracted from their duty in peacetime if hormones kick in and romances occur. And then we have to consider the undeniable differences in physical ability -- as groups -- and how it affects the ability of the corps.”

Homosexual activists wanted to remove the traditional bans on same-sex relationships in the military.  “Look, this is nothing against gays and lesbians, but you have to admit that all the same challenges posed by temptations and risks, from romance to abuse, that plague the challenge of women in combat go double if you allow homosexual activity in the military.”

Over the years, America essentially lost both of those arguments.  What has it done to our forces?  The statistics show the results: pregnancies, venereal diseases, abuse, depression, drug addition, suicide. 

All because we lost track of the key focus. We allowed our military to get distracted from its mission, and to cater instead to the sociopolitical desires of the Washington establishment and its NGOs, the New York press, and the Hollywood-controlled pop culture.

Our military is worse off for it.  And that means the homeland, the defense budget, and our allies are worse off for it as well, because anything that degrades our military readiness hurts all these too.

John F. Di Leo, Defense Policy and the Social Issues: Who Started This Fight?

Oh, When Will WE Ever Learn?

One of my favorite songs, written by Pete Seeger (1st 3 verses) and Joe Hickerson (making it a circular song). I listened to it yesterday (by Peter, Paul, and Mary) on the way home from a band gig and decided that it needed to be shared for its thought-provoking message.

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?

Where have all the flowers gone?

Young girls have picked them, every one

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?

Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago?

Where have all the young girls gone?

Gone for husbands, every one

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago?

Where have all the husbands gone?

Gone for soldiers, every one

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?

Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago?

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Gone to graveyards, every one

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?

Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Gone to flowers, every one

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?

Where have all the flowers gone?

Young girls have picked them, every one

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Pandemic of Cruelty

There is a pandemic in the Western world — especially, but not only, in America — that few are talking about, let alone addressing.

This pandemic doesn’t actually kill people. But it does destroy people, ruin lives, crush families and cause permanent, debilitating pain — far more than have the vast majority of cases of COVID-19.

This pandemic consists of adult children who have decided never again to speak to one or both of their parents. The vast majority of these people were never sexually or physically abused. In fact, nearly all were loved by their parents. ....

In our post-biblical age, there are no Ten Commandments. In fact, there are no commandments, period. That’s what “no shoulds” was all about — no Commandments. Instead, you do what you feel is right. If you don’t feel like talking to your mother or father, you don’t. My father, governed by the Ten Commandments and many other shoulds, called his mother every night despite the fact that he rarely felt like doing so. 

Though the Bible commands us to love our neighbor, love the stranger and love God, there is no commandment to love our parents. On the other hand, there is no commandment to honor anyone except our parents.

Dennis Prager, A Pandemic of Cruelty

They Ruin and Don't Care

 

George Orwell Saw the USA As It Is Now

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process continues day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell, "1984" (written in 1949)

Public School Tyrants Push Identity Politics

Teachers and administrators in those institutions are pushing sexual identity politics on children as young as two years old not just because it’s a current leftist fad, but because eliminating the family wipes out any competition. The gradual transitional elimination of the family is rapidly picking up speed. Now the plan is to destroy the family by destroying the children.

Children have an inherent need for a family. Totalitarian regimes have fought the family in the past by turning children against their parents. And yet even in the face of the monstrous propaganda of the USSR, Communist China and Nazi Germany, the family has persisted. The Left has come to realize that the only way to destroy the family is to destroy the children.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Nanny Government Parenting Our Children

Such children raised by the state become adults who want the state to go on raising them. When they’re hungry, the state feeds them, when they’re cold, the state shelters them and when they’re unhappy, the state tells them whom to blame. When their relationships fall apart or when their feelings are hurt, they turn to the state to soothe them with a dose of revenge.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Our Children Are Indoctrinated in Public Schools

The shift from the single-income family to the two-income family with preschool encompassing children as young as 18 months and then to an ever more intensive chain of state educational institutions happened gradually enough that most parents thought it was their own idea. But what the Soviet Union and Communist China had failed to accomplish, happened in America.

Children, from even before they could talk, were being raised either directly by the state or by the institutions that it closely regulated. The unintended consequences of that, emotional fragility, a lack of healthy models for interpersonal relationships, and an obsession with ‘snitching’ on others that persists well into adulthood, were only the collateral damage.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Government Take-Over of Children

Democracy had come to mean not a town meeting and a free press, but the state determining its own future constituencies, rigging elections a generation ahead by controlling demographics, education and all the elements of the lives of children. By controlling children, the state had become a next generation tyranny in the guise of a multi-generational democracy. The Left always looked to the “future” and the “children” because they had already brought it into being.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Family vs Government

The great struggle between human beings and the state was always going to come down to the question of whether the system or the family would be the central unit of social organization. In a little over a century a question that once seemed as basic to the understanding of humanity as the differences between men and women was muddied. The government took charge of education and demanded oversight of all the nation’s children because the indoctrination of the citizenry was a vital national interest. But so was the existence or non-existence of the children.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Good Opportunities Abound

 

Sexual Identity Politics

At the heart of sexual identity politics is an obsession with dismantling the family. The embrace of transgenderism by the state is no accident of politics. The family, like race and religion, is the chief rival to the state. The state set out to neuter its rivals through identity politics, using race, religion and finally sexuality to define new identities and use them to make the state supreme.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

America's Leadership is Horrid

Based on their actions, the beliefs of America’s leaders today are so far removed from where we started as a nation that it’s incomprehensible.

Samantha Koch, The White House — From Honorable to Obscene

Bad USA Leadership

Based on their actions, the beliefs of America’s leaders today are so far removed from where we started as a nation that it’s incomprehensible.

Samantha Koch, The White House — From Honorable to Obscene

Our Republic Has Fallen

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Joseph Story (1833)

"Pride" Month

The ultimate message of Pride Month is that God -- if He exists at all -- is a liar, and that you can do whatever you wish in the sexual realm without consequence. This is why no Christian should have any part of it.

Trevor Thomas, ‘Pride’ is Nothing to Celebrate

We Are Destroying Our Nation

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?  I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.  It cannot come from abroad.  If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.  As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. 

Abraham Lincoln