Happy Thanksgiving Pilgrims

We don't have a large Muslim population here in Olongapo, but they seem to be growing and we've noticed a lot of Muslim street vendors across from the mall lately. Yesterday at one of the open air markets in town there was a Muslim riot. We're not sure yet what it was about, but it was Muslim on Muslim trying to kill each other. My guess would be we have both Sunni and Shia Muslims here in that case.

With that in mind the first thing I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving is that our God is Love, that His message is love, that His command to us is to love, that He doesn't bribe us with physical pleasures for hatred and murder, but rather promises an eternal joy that we can't even begin to imagine (I Corinthians 2:9) all because He loves us enough to have died in our place (John 3:16).

Unlike the White House Occupant I understand and appreciate our history. Our real history, that is. I love the story of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock after braving the stormy North Atlantic in search of religious liberty. I'm proud of the heritage they gave us by settling an area where no Indians lived and brokering a peace treaty with the Wampanoag and Narragansett tribes that lasted 55 years until the Indians broke it.

I'm proud of the true history of the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims invited the Indians to join them in a harvest feast and thanking God for His mercy and provision through that first terrible year. Yes, I'm sure they were very grateful to Squanto for the help he gave them, but the first Thanksgiving wasn't about Squanto or the Indians like some public school textbooks teach. It was about thanking the God of the Bible.

Thank you, Lord, for your magnificent provision and blessings in our lives. Thank you for giving us the greatest country in the history of the world. Thank you for those who have sacrificed to make it possible, and especially for those who have paid the ultimate price that we might breathe free.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING PILGRIMS.

Democrat Debate, Part 2

We don't have Fox Business Channel here so we didn't see the Republican debate this week. Then the Democrat debate was late last night your time which was during church this morning here, so we missed it too. No worries. From the news clips it looks like Rubio and Cruz had great nights, and the Democrats were all losers.

No sooner had Obama declared that ISIS is contained than ISIS uncontained itself and spread out of the Middle East to attack Paris. In response in their debate all three Democrat candidates supported Obama's plan to allow 170,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. Do you think there is something lacking in their intellectual capacitors? Then Bernie Sanders made the most insane claim yet about global warming. It's the cause for the rise of ISIS he said. Ann Coulter thinks the events this week just gave the next presidency to Donald Trump. The question is whether or not we will survive long enough for there to be a next election. While Obama golfs the world has descended into chaos, and liberals still think he's the greatest president in history. There's no measurement for brain capacities that small.

Ben Carson Gets Fired Up

Well did you see where obama said the bottom line about obamacare is that the American people like it? He's living in an alternate universe where everything he says is truth, and the lame stream media worshipping at his feet confirm everything he says. In the real world 70% of Americans want it overturned.

Did you also see Ben Carson's interview yesterday? He wrote his autobiography and claimed to have been offered a "scholarship" to West Point. Since he didn't take it the media is doubting the credibility of his claim. Actually, "scholarship" is the wrong word. If you get chosen you get an appointment to the service academies and then the government pays your way. But Carson turned it down because he wanted to go into medicine. No big deal except the media is challenging the truth of the allegation.

Along with that Carson wrote that in his rebellious teenage years he once threatened a friend with a knife. The liberal media is all over it, checking up with all the childhood friends they can find and finding no evidence of the incident. While they are busy calling Carson a liar they are missing the real story. Carson was such a good kid that none of his neighbors ever knew of the incident. It appears that the three things he mentions are about the only three things he ever did wrong in his youth. Carson is just being real, showing that he's not perfect, and the media is calling him a liar for admitting he isn't.

The best part, however, came in the news conference when reporters kept challenging him on these little tidbits of facts. Carson came unglued and angrily challenged the news media for not investigating obama's false claims in his books when he was running for president. When they tried to change the subject Carson wouldn't let them and repeatedly asked them why they had never asked these questions of bho. That led to bringing up the validity of the birth certificate. Carson accused the media of being all over his claim of a "scholarship" and what his true college credentials are, but they've never yet asked why obama's college record is sealed.

Carson brought up everything the politically correct leftists and wimpy right wing compromisers are afraid to talk about and laid it at the feet of the liberal media. But what's more, he showed he can get angry and raise his voice and command a situation. This was a great weekend of Ben Carson and for America. Finally we have people not afraid to demand answers to questions that even Bill O'Reilly has been afraid to ask because of political correctness.

The Democrat Debate

The much anticipated Democrat debate aired at 8:30am here in the Philippines so I adjusted my schedule to stay home and watch it. I probably didn't need to waste my time, except that I was curious to see if there would be any attempt to take down Hillary. There wasn't. In fact, there wasn't anything really unexpected in the two-and-a-half hour socialist love fest. It was almost a race to see who could promise to give away more: free college tuition, paid maternity leave, and Obamacare for illegal immigrants. Coldly missing from all their promises was anything for veterans.

The location for the debate, Las Vegas, Nevada, the gambling mecca of the world, seemed appropriate. In Las Vegas people put their entire lives on the line over a throw of the dice. They gamble away hard earned dollars hoping beyond hope for one lucky jackpot that will change their lives, and the vast majority go away disappointed and empty-handed.

It's like voting for a Democrat. The candidates promise the world with no specific plan on how to get it other than class warfare, make the wealthy pay. The liberal argument is always give it enough time and it will happen, like evolution. The facts are that socialism has been given enough time and the track record is that it has never worked anywhere in the world, and is not working under Obama's imperial usurpation of unconstitutional power. The roll of the dice on another Democrat president with the same agenda and disregard for the Constitution as Obama is a fool's wager.

I will say that Anderson Cooper did a good job moderating the debate. He kept it moving with machine-gun quick questions so that the discussion never stalled, but it was more of another powder-puff liberal interview for the candidates than a debate. Cooper's first question to Hillary challenged her flip-flopping on issues and asked if she would say anything to get elected. Her answer was that she has always been consistent on her principles but has learned and adjusted. Cooper pressed her on whether she is a progressive or a moderate. She is definitely a progressive, she answered. "I can get it done," she said emphatically.

That was the last tough question anybody was asked the entire evening. The debate then became a "same ol' same ol" regurgitation of Democrat socialist ideas and issues of minor or meaningless importance. One constant theme was an attack on Republicans for being obstructionists. Climate change appeared to be the most important issue for Sanders, although they all chimed in on it. Black lives matter over all lives matter was a softball for the African-American community. Three chimed in for black lives, Webb said all lives, and Hillary never answered the question. While Hillary made vague attempts to distance herself from Obama they all praised him and gave him their support.

They had nothing new on the economy. After seven years of the slowest economic recovery in history brought on by a recession caused by a Democrat controlled Congress, the Democrat candidates are still blaming President Bush. They all seemed to be in a race to see who could be the biggest Santa Claus and give away the most while leveling the playing field to make it fair for the middle class.

Sanders complained that we have the highest rate of child poverty in the world and the only country without universal healthcare. He pumped class warfare by calling for a groundswell movement to get everyone out to vote (the same type of movement as the Tea Party which Democrats excoriate) in order to defeat billionaires. But all of his attacks and those of the others about the inequality of the middle class are indictments against the Democrats and their failed policies. After seven years of Obama we still have the highest child poverty rate? What has Obama been doing about it? Where did he go wrong? We're still the only country without universal healthcare or paid maternity leave? What happened to Obamacare? It was supposed to fix that.

You might notice also that all the class warfare attacks were against billionaires, not millionaires. Of course, that might be because Bill and Hillary Clinton, who were "broke" when they left the White House according to Hillary, made 25 million dollars last year. If any of them are serious about class warfare, they ought to give away their own fortunes to pay down the national debt.

In the end their positions on the economy were very "Trumpish." The Democrats have all attacked Donald Trump for his bully-boy boasting but lack of specifics. But that's just what we saw in the debate. A lot of talk about massive giveaways but no specifics on how it will be done.

Of the five candidates only two are seriously running for president. The others were only there to make it look like a wide field of choices. Lincoln Chaffee provided comic relief, standing tall and looking like a throwback to the early 1800s. At least twice he pointed out that in thirty years of public service he never had a scandal attached to his name. He didn't get any traction.

James Webb was the most conservative candidate. He also was given the least amount of time in the debate which he complained about several times. He constantly referred to his military service and his son's service, for which he should be applauded, but he was stiff, inarticulate, and looked like he had a hard time expressing himself. Martin O'Malley was the strongest of the three lower tier candidates, but the debate was all about Sanders and Hillary. Sanders had an angry demeanor the entire evening in contrast to Hillary who had a smile almost plastered on her face.

They had slightly differing opinions on gun control but the only one opposed to it was Webb. He is for background checks but believes people need the ability to defend themselves. Chaffee said he believes in the Second Amendment but they have to find a common ground to address the issue.

On Russia in Syria Hillary blamed the deteriorating situation on Putin and said that our warplanes flying in Syria give us leverage to negotiate with Russia. She also boasted that she had been in the situation room. The question that begs to be asked and wasn't, is that since we already had warplanes flying in Syria why didn't that give us leverage to keep the Russians out? And what good is it to have been in the situation room if all you've learned from the experience is how to retreat and disengage yourself from the world?

Sanders went on a tirade saying the Iraq war was the worst policy in US history, called it a quagmire and said he would get us out. On Syria he tacitly supported Obama saying that Russia's economy would force them to leave. Chaffee proudly acknowledged that he was the only one in the Senate who voted against the Iraq war. O'Malley attacked Bush and supported Obama's policy on Syria.

Webb said Russia is in Syria because Iraq became destabilized. He went on to criticize Obama for the Arab Spring that allowed terrorists to ruin North Africa, and pointed out the greater threat right now is China's aggression in the South China Sea. He made an important point that everyone in the western world seems to be ignoring. China is a serious threat to Southeast Asia. Webb was the only one to get it right.

Hillary challenged Webb on Libya saying that Europe was begging the US to get involved in overthrowing Khadaffi who was murdering Americans. Webb argued that it was not so urgent that Obama couldn't have come to Congress first for a constitutional authorization to act. Hillary defended the action by saying Libya had its first free elections since 1951. Webb countered that Libya was no threat to us, and that now their situation is much worse than it was under Khadaffi. It was the sharpest exchange of the evening and Webb was right again.

O'Malley tried to bring up Benghazi but nobody would bite and the issue went away. But that was typical of the entire debate. It seemed to be protect Hillary night rather than debate real issues. Sanders from the start defiantly declared he was sick and tired of hearing about Hillary's e-mails. That brought applause and a thank you from Hillary, but it was a stupid move for Sanders if he is serious about winning the nomination. He just took away one of his most powerful debating tools. If it's important enough for the FBI to be investigating, it must be important enough to be discussed.

But this was corral the wagons around Hillary. There was no discussion of any difficult issues that would put her on the spot. Benghazi, ISIS, Planned Parenthood and the e-mail scandal were ignored, and when Hillary boasted of turning over 55,000 e-mails nobody challenged her on the 30,000 e-mails she had deleted or the amateur server she was using, or the lies she told about no classified materials being sent.

On illegal immigration they all supported a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. Clinton blasted the Republicans for "demonizing immigrants," and said she would go further than Obama has with executive orders. Webb at least said we need to define our borders, and O'Malley called Trump a "carnival barker."

After an hour and a half the debate became tedious and boring, but I lingered on till the end. Most of it was big government socialist ideology with Webb, the only one to challenge some of the Democrat norms, getting the least amount of time. There seemed to be a concerted attempt to accuse Republicans of being for bigger government, all the while ignoring that all the socialist giveaways they promised throughout the evening would expand government bigger than it has ever been.

When asked what they would do different so as not to be an Obama third term, the four men all gave a one point short comment, but the only difference Hillary gave was that she would be the first woman president. She then said she would build and go beyond what Obama has done. She also slipped in one comment about a woman's right to choose which brought the longest and loudest applause of the evening from the audience.

In the end the debate was really only face time for Sanders and Hillary. Chaffee and Webb were all but ignored. O'Malley was given more time and he asserted himself well when he had his chances, but he's going no where. The focus of the debate was on Sanders and Hillary, but rather than point out their differences they essentially patted each other on the back and held the same or similar positions on nearly every subject.

Sanders certainly didn't help himself and Hillary didn't hurt herself, so if there's a winner I would say it would have to be Hillary. If there's a loser I would say it's America if either of them becomes the next president.

Cold War 2

I make no claim to being a prophet but I published a comment July 6, 2009 about Obama's sniveling to then Russian president Medvedev and said, "My guess is they've just restarted the Cold War." Here's the comment:

I've been listening to the speeches Medvedev and BHO have been making after signing another "historic" agreement. What they've agreed to do is to work out a new nuclear arms treaty for our mutual protection, and to have better relations in the future.

This kow-towing Jimmy Carteresque president is back to bowing down to Russia and signing away our security with nuclear arms reductions, and sitting by while Putin lectures him on Russian-American relations. Then when questioned by Fox News' Major Garret, the first interview he's given to a Fox News reporter, he explained his statement about the Cold War being won by many nations by saying the Poles under Lech Walesa and the Czechs under Vaclav Havel had a part to do in it as well.

The truth is those protest movements only succeeded because Ronald Reagan challenged the USSR and gave the protesters moral support. Without it they would never have succeeded, and those movements would have come to nothing. Yes they were small cogs that helped to bring down the Warsaw Pact, and the Berlin Wall was a part of that, but they only succeeded because the Soviets pulled their troops out of Eastern Europe, and that was the result of no one else's efforts but the USA.

Obama doesn't understand history or foreign relations and he's making us extremely vulnerable. My guess is they've just restarted the Cold War.

In the six years since then Obama has retreated from the Middle East, backed down from an ascendant Russia's invasion of the Crimea and Ukraine, backed down from China's threats in the South China Sea, allowed Assad of Syria to cross his red lines with no retaliation, backed Muslim Brotherhood uprisings all over North Africa and Yemen which have all but destroyed any opportunity for freedom or democracy in the region, refused to help U.S. Ambassador Chris Stephens and three others while they were killed by terrorists in Libya and blamed it on an unknown anti-Muslim video, allowed the "JV" ISIS to rise to super terrorist status making no response while they brutally behead Christians, and given away the whole store to Iran in nuclear negotiations which were nothing less than a full scale surrender.

And now, after six years of Obama wimpiness, Russia has moved into Syria and a Russian general marched into the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and with utter disdain told us to stop flying over Syria. Obama's withdrawal of American influence from the world stage has left a void for the revived evil empire of Vladimir Putin to fill, and he's filling it.

So was I right? Is this Cold War 2 starting? Am I a prophet??? I made another prediction back in early 2012. I wrote that if Obama gets reelected, and if he gets away with dismantling our military and perverting our entire culture (which he is getting away with), that he would manufacture some kind of crisis in order to declare Martial Law and retain power. In that case his overthrow of America would be complete. So what do you think? A year from now will I be two-for-two?

I hope not.

Should a Muslim be President

What is overlooked in this debate on whether or not a Muslim should be president is that when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution the only religion of any consequence in the country was Christianity. The Christian founders guaranteed freedom of religion to all religions, but they never expected to see a day when Islam or any other non-Christian religion would have been dominant. This is clear in their own writings and comments. John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and author of five of The Federalist articles, said that it is the duty of Christians in a Christian nation to elect Christians to the nation's highest offices. The Founders, while granting freedom of worship to all religions, expected that America would be a Christian nation in perpetuity. The reason someone adhering to Sharia Law should not be president, even if the Constitution would allow it to happen, is that in Islam there can be no loyalty to any entity other than Allah. A Muslim president could not honestly take the oath of office because his only loyalty would be to Islam and an Islamic takeover and overthrow of the Constitution he would be swearing to defend.

Second Republican Debate

After the pitifully poor debates in 2012, the Republican debates this time have been refreshingly lively and constructive. And unbelievably, I think the CNN debate tonight was moderated better than the Fox News debate last month. The questions were rattled off quickly and the candidates were able to banter back and forth on the issues.

The down side was the moderators kept trying to engineer attacks between the candidates, usually involving Trump, but mostly the candidates didn't take the bait. There were some lively arguments between Trump and Carly Fiorina, Trump and Bush, Trump and Paul, and some spats between others, but when the debate stalled on Trump and Fiorina's wealth and business success, Chris Christie brought it back in order by saying the debate needed to concentrate on what they were going to do for the middle class and the economy.

Bush had a lot more energy and made a joke about himself and the energizer rabbit which was well received, and Marco Rubio was on fire about foreign policy. Fiorina and Scott Walker also tried to keep the debate on track by attacking Hillary and Obama, but the high point of the evening may have been when Fiorina made an impassioned to defund Planned Parenthood. It received a largest applause of the evening. Huckabee also spoke against Planned Parenthood. Ted Cruz was once again solid, although I don't think his performance was as good as in the first debate. Kasich had the best argument for himself and the economy since he engineered the balanced budget during the Clinton administration. In the end all of them showed themselves to be worthy debaters with strong positions, and most of them probably helped themselves to some degree.

The winner was most likely Carly Fiorina who showed herself to be tough and focused. Her downside may have been that she was too stern, and when she stood up to Trump on his comment about her looks and he gave what would be the closest thing to a Trump apology that anyone could hope for, she refused to look at him or be magnanimous in the least. She looked angry most of the night. She probably also won the sympathy vote when the discussion came to drugs and she told of her son who had died of a drug overdose. Two others who really shined were Christie and Rubio.

The losers ironically I think were the two that are on top of the polls. Trump's self-confidence will probably still take him a long way but his brash, condescension towards other candidates is starting to wear thin. He keeps talking about putting together a plan, but we've yet to hear very much of it, and people are going to grow tired of that eventually. The same is true for Ben Carson in the opposite direction. Yes he's intelligent, and yes he's humble, and yes he's got the right position on about all the issues, but his soft spoken manner is also getting tiring, and I think people are going to want him to speak up and get a little more animated or he isn't going to go far. Rand Paul did better than the last debate but I don't think he made many points.

Scott Walker, although he had good presence and solid answers, and won a dust up with Trump when he said we don't need another apprentice in the White House, was given the least amount of time to talk which couldn't have helped him, although that wouldn't be his fault. It makes you wonder if he's the one the left fears the most.

Planned Parenthood

When I was in the Navy they held a fund raiser every year called the Combined Federal Campaign. Raffle tickets were sold to both enlisted and officers for a number of prizes including TVs, stereos, washing machines, and occasionally a car if you were at a large enough base with a lot of people on board. The officers bought the majority of the tickets to finance the program but the enlisted troops won all the prizes. We all suspected it was rigged because every year one officer would win a coffee pot while all the valuable prizes went to the troops. We didn't mind, it was designed to help them.

Along with the drawing in 1990 a list of hundreds of charitable organizations was handed out that we could choose from if we wished to support any of them by having an amount garnished direct from our paychecks every month. The list had information about the organizations including how much in charitable contributions they received on average annually, and how much of their receipts went to administration and salaries, and how much went to actual charity. When I came across Planned Parenthood I was struck by the fact that 49% of their contributions went to salaries and administration. I was sitting in the Ready Room at our squadron going over the list when I decided to support National Right to Life. Only 13% of their contributions went to salaries and administration, and it was a cause I am strongly in favor of. As I filled out the form somebody asked me what I had chosen and the debate was on.

In my years in the military I found that the vast majority of servicemen and women were generally conservative and voted Republican. Ronald Reagan was very popular. But the conservatism of most of them ended at economics, foreign policy, patriotism and American exceptionalism. Most had a very New Age view of morality, and while they might be respectful of religion (many attended chapel services), they had no biblical conviction on morals. Relative truth ruled the day, and when it came to abortion, most favored "a woman's right to choose."

Any discussion on the right to life would of course include abortion, and the debate that day migrated to Planned Parenthood. I knew about Planned Parenthood. Even in 1990 it was a major abortion provider under the deceitful guise of being a family planning organization. While everybody else defended it for non-existent mammograms and other things, one pilot in particular denied that Planned Parenthood did abortions and smirked and laughed at me for suggesting it did. (I wonder what he thinks now that it has been proven Planned Parenthood is the leading abortion provider in the entire country.) I blew my stack and got so animated I was waving my arms at him while I let him know how uninformed he was. A couple of the other pilots jumped in and asked me what I was so excited about. "Because," I said, "he's wrong, he got my goat, and I'm not reacting well. I'm sorry."

I never had the discussion with that particular pilot again, but everybody knew where I stood on abortion. I was almost alone in my conviction in the squadron. I never lost my cool again, but the subject always makes me angry. I've heard all the arguments. In the eighties people were still sanctimoniously saying, "How do you know when life begins?" That's the most asinine of all abortion questions. The Bible is clear life begins at conception (Psalm 51:5). That being rejected, however, the physical argument still proves it. When the sperm fertilizes the egg and the zygote is formed the first thing it immediately does is duplicate. Then it does it again. In seconds the one cell has become two, then four, then eight, then sixteen. It is growing. Only live things grow. Dead things don't grow. Viability is not the issue. The baby is a living human being from conception.

The whole case on abortion rests on the inconvenience the baby may be to the mother and/or the father. They don't want to be bothered. In most cases the babies being aborted belong to unwed mothers. For many it may be a hard choice to make. It is understandable. For others there is no question. For Planned Parenthood it is a money making opportunity and that's all they care about.

We live in a culture where people are so oversexed that they want to be free to live out whatever sexual desires they have without facing any responsibility for their actions. If you disagree with this decadent lifestyle you're often called hateful and a prude. The defense for this licentious living is always to ask about exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Surely you can't be so uncompassionate that you can't make room for those exceptions they argue.

Okay, let's consider a couple of cases. In one, the mother is over forty, the father has syphilis, and three older children are already sickly and mentally unstable. The so-called compassionate argument is to let her have the abortion. Why take a risk on another sick child whose life would be miserable, not to mention the burden on the parents? If you agree to an abortion, you just killed Beethoven.

Let's try another. The mother is forty-four. The placenta has attached low in the birth canal and has torn loose. When it tore the mother hemorrhaged and was in the hospital for a month. The baby was barely hanging on. Now the mother has to be on bed-rest for the entire pregnancy which includes two more bleeding spells and trips to the hospital. To further complicate her misery the mother has a sciatic nerve problem and is in constant pain which only grows as the baby grows. In the seventh month she's in so much pain she's afraid she won't survive another six weeks to give birth. Surely the caring thing to do is end her suffering. After all, one doctor has already told her the baby couldn't survive and recommended ending the pregnancy. If you agree with this doctor to an abortion you just killed my son!

Today my son, Ethan, is seven years old, at the top of his second grade class in an advanced curriculum Montessori school, he speaks two languages fluently, plays the piano and is learning to play the guitar. Rather than being a burden, he is a blessing to my wife and I as we get older.

Another story similar to ours is Tim Tebow, the football player. Figure it out. How many Beethovens and Tebows, how many artists, athletes, doctors, writers, educators, scientists, inventors, astronauts, builders, you name it, and how many precious little children like Ethan have never had a chance to live, to dream, to accomplish, to be a blessing because of abortion? How many potential discoveries and advancements will never be made or will be delayed indefinitely because of the lives slaughtered in these greedy, money-driven, mad abortuaries?

Even if we allow for the rape, incest, and life of the mother exceptions, the truth is if these conditions were strictly followed there would only be a handful of abortions on any given day. The fact is there are over 3,500 abortions performed daily, 1.1 million annually, and well over 99.9% of these are elective abortions that have nothing to do with any of the exceptions. Over 57 million babies have been murdered by abortion since 1973. That's about the number of people who died worldwide in World War Two. This is a holocaust of unprecedented proportions.

Now a series of undercover videos by The Center for Medical Progress has emerged revealing the truth about Planned Parenthood. Starting with Planned Parenthood executives talking candidly about baby parts while eating salads, and laughing about making enough money to buy Lamborghinis, they have progressed to more serious talk of how they salvage baby parts intact, and just when you think it couldn't get any more hideous the most recent videos expose them talking about cutting the faces of babies open to remove the brain intact while the heart of the aborted child which has survived the procedure is still beating. Can it get anymore reprehensible than that? It's plain murder.

Any decent person would cringe at the thought, but not only do these Planned Parenthood abortionists not cringe, they have no compassion, they are heartless, cold, calculating and cruel. They have ice in their veins. They are godless. And what's worse, they don't care. They talk about harvesting body parts like it's picking snow peas from the garden. It's all money to them. They don't care that they are brazenly breaking the law in harvesting and selling body parts. They laugh at it. These are the most vile, heinous, wicked people in the world. The sanctity of life means nothing to them. The odious terrorists of ISIS are no more loathsome than these people. A pox on Cecile Richards, a pox on the entire Democrat Party for supporting Planned Parenthood, and a pox on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who can't find the time to bring the defunding of Planned Parenthood to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

The Heritage Foundation invited 2,000 Democrat staffers in Washington to watch a screening of the nine videos exposing Planned Parenthood. Four showed up and watched them all the way through. That's the Democrat Party. Mitch McConnell belongs in that group. They don't want to be faced with the truth because what they are doing is open rebellion against God, morality, and everything decent. Abortion is the shedding of the innocent blood of babies on the altar of paganism in worship of the devil himself. It's the theology of atheistic humanism which is the religion of God-booing leftists.

Don't be swayed when you hear someone who doesn't even believe the Bible say Jesus would have compassion on struggling mothers and approve of what they are doing, or "judge not that ye be not judged." These people have judged the life of innocent babies not to be worthy and are murdering them by the thousands every day. They don't know God. The fact is, Jesus, quite contrary to the leftist brand of compassion, has already judged them. In Matthew 18:6 Jesus said:

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Do you not think that if Jesus cares this much about children, He cares just the same about babies in the womb? The wrath of God's judgment is hanging over the United States of America like Damocles sword. As a nation we have become so wicked that I wonder if that sword will remain suspended until the next election? Is there a chance God might still have mercy on our nation after this 57 million baby holocaust? Perhaps, if we will put a stop to this abominable practice of abortion. A good place to start would be the defunding of Planned Parenthood, and then closing it down altogether.

I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just, and that His justice will not sleep forever. - Thomas Jefferson

The Trump Card

Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for several decades, not only as a financial wizard and real estate mogul, but also for his much publicized divorce from his Czech wife, Ivana, in 1992. They were both outspoken and obnoxious, they both survived. I remember thinking when one of his casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, filed for bankruptcy that this vain, brash, self-absorbed business giant was about to be taken down.

But Trump didn't go down. It turns out he has a lot more business acumen than most people realize and he has used it to build a multi-billion dollar empire. Using bankruptcy laws to help stretch out his loan payments, or for whatever reason it was, helped him to restructure and come out stronger than before and he eventually paid all his debts. He certainly knows how to use the system.

When he talked about running for president in 2012 I thought please don't. He would be a side show and if he wound up splitting the Republican vote he would throw the election to Obama. After all he was just a RINO himself, pro-abortion, and dividing his votes and support between Republican and Democrat candidates alike. As it turned out it didn't matter. Mitt Romney ran such an inept campaign that he gave the election, which any competent candidate would have won, away to Obama.

When Trump announced this time I thought it was going to be a joke. His announcement speech was not polished. He sounded like a blow hard with no substance, who would stir things up and then go away. But he didn't go away.

In fact, he struck a chord with people who are tired of politically correct politicians with no guts, who surrender on issues every time the political correct police start criticizing and calling names. He called out the so-called conservatives who slaughtered the Democrats in the last congressional elections by promising to stand up to Obama and overturn obamacare, who have bowed the knee to the White House and done nothing. All of a sudden Trump was outpolling all the Republican candidates and even though his first debate performance was not stellar he is still leading the field. Not only is his candidacy not a joke, it's for real, and interestingly enough he's drawing the majority of his support from grass roots conservatives. He's wooing the base of the Republican Party, the Christians and the right wing, people who in the past would probably have been appalled by Trump's personal life and history.

But now it turns out Trump is not pro-abortion. The media gave him that tag and it stuck, but he claims to be pro-life and always has been. In Dubuque, Iowa, he said that the Bible is the best book in the world. Whether he has actually read it or not is a question because he has said he never asks God for help. One has to wonder if his sudden appreciation for the Bible is just a typical leftist style comment designed to try and fool the religious right the way Clinton or Obama would do. But actually Trump has been the most outspoken in defense of the First Amendment and against the increasing persecution of Christians in America.

Economics rules the world and Trump obviously knows economics, finance, and business better than the lawyer class of politicians and bureaucrats who run Washington, D.C. He knows how to grow the economy and bring jobs back to America and has a plan to do it. He has a common sense approach to world affairs. He wants to secure the border with Mexico, rebuild our military to a position of strength and respect on the world stage, and he wants to undo the idiotic, lunatic nuclear deal with Iran. He wants to win in the Middle East and he has a plan to use Middle Eastern oil to finance the victory. You don't hear anybody talking that tough about anything, not even the best of the Republican candidates.

Although he is not as smooth as Reagan, Trump is very Reaganesque in his positions and his approach. He's bold, confident, and not afraid to tell the truth about anything. He hears what middle class America is saying and is speaking to it. His style may be brazen at times, but he's connecting with people who are fed up with the childish, petty antics of political correctness, and do nothing establishment Congresses stuck in the muck of Washington politics and completely out of touch with most of America.

Critics say he is all over the place on issues with no plan and no experience in foreign affairs. They say he'll make the world a more dangerous place. You mean like more dangerous than it is now after seven years of a community organizer with no experience at anything?

The critics called Reagan a "cowboy," complained that he had no experience in foreign affairs and warned that he would start World War 3. Instead, Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. The same critics vilified Sarah Palin for not having the necessary experience even though she was the governor of Alaska, but they didn't bat an eye at Obama's non-record. BHO has surrendered the free world to Islamic terrorism by not taking a stand on any issue. The panty-waste milksop negotiation approach obviously isn't working. What we need is another cowboy in charge.

Personally my first choice in the coming election is Ted Cruz. He and Trump are on the same page or close on many issues. He has a much softer manner than Trump, but he is just as firm in his positions, and he is for the Fair Tax, which I prefer over Trump's Flat Tax plan. He's also a born again Christian, unafraid to publicly share his testimony, and most likely reads the Bible often. And honestly, any return of America to conservative ideals, such as what happened under Reagan, will be short-lived (as it was under Bush 1, which led to Clinton, which then led to Bush 2 and Obama) if there is not a spiritual revival to bring America back from the immoral abyss we are beginning to fall into.

I think, however, that this next election is so critical to our nation's survival that maybe what we need is an arrogant, boastful, big mouth who believes in American exceptionalism, is not afraid to preach it, who will govern by the rule of law in the Constitution, and has the spine and the chutzpah in foreign policy to put the world in its place while he rebuilds America to number one. One thing is for sure, nobody since Ronald Reagan has shaken up the American political scene like Donald Trump.

Tomfoolery, Craziness, and Cruel

Obama went to Kenya and even though he was warned ahead of time by the Kenyan government not to lecture them about homosexuality, he lectured them about homosexuality. Essentially he told them they needed to change their culture. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta then essentially told Obama to shut up. Gay rights are not a part of Kenyan culture and they are not about to change. (Polygamy and immorality are, but not homosexuality.)

Back in America at a Young African Leaders Initiative Presidential Summit in Washington, D.C. a reporter asked Obama about the African practice of killing people with albinism and harvesting body parts for ritual reasons. "My request to you is to raise this issue with the heads of states from African countries to bring these atrocities to an end, for the benefit of for us in this room, and our brothers and sisters back in Africa."

Obama replied, "That's tomfoolery. That's craziness. It's cruel." He encouraged the audience to resist such a practice because any tradition whether in the United States, Africa, or anywhere that treats people differently because of fear, ignorance, or because you feel superior is a bad tradition.

You mean like abortion?

The next day the next in a series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood for the cold-hearted, money-making abortion slaughter house industry that it is was released showing a discussion with a Planned Parenthood doctor about saving the baby intact to harvest all of its parts. Obama's response? He defended Planned Parenthood. The illegal sale of harvested body parts caused the Justice Department to open an investigation ... not of Planned Parenthood, but of the people making the videos.

The head of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, said the videos show a "lack of compassion" ... by the makers of the videos, of course! The callousness of the doctors eating salad and laughing about buying Lamborghinis while discussing crushing babies in a way to keep salvageable body parts intact is so intensely vile that it turns any decent person's stomach. Lack of compassion? What about the child they are ripping apart and dissecting for financial gain? These people don't even know the meaning of the word. Not only do they lack compassion, they have no conscience.

Then Harry "the rat" Reid came out with the most moronic assertion of all. The Republican Party, he said, because they want to defund Planned Parenthood, "has lost its moral compass." Who is he to measure morality? The Left has no moral compass at all and hasn't had for a long time. We've heard it from Bill Clinton and we hear it constantly from Obama about our values and who we are. Values to the them means a lack of any guiding moral principle in life. Their values are perversion, hedonism, and a warped self-serving immorality that includes not only homosexual marriage but the ghastly, calculated murder of unborn infants, and by this latest video, possibly even live babies. When they talk about who we are, this is what they are talking about.

There aren't decent enough words to describe how decadent and sybaritic America has become. This is what you might expect in a barbarian, uncivilized, primitive culture hidden away somewhere in a jungle, and we've brought it home to roost on our civilized paved roads and air-conditioned buildings in our alabaster cities. The anti-God left and its media worshippers praise Richards for defending a "woman's right to choose." They call the most hideous assault on the most helpless of all people an act of courage and compassion. They call the most odious evil in the world good and then praise themselves for doing it.

Then empty-headed fools take to the streets to protest and call for the hanging of a hunter because he killed a lion in Africa that somebody had given a name. They complain about a flag because to them it represents a culture of hate and now all of a sudden it offends them, even though they've never been offended before. These same people have never shed one tear for 57 million aborted babies. Instead they equate Conservatives who are trying to protect life, one of the core principles of the Declaration of Independence, with Hitler and the Nazi party. You know, the ones who murdered six million Jews in the holocaust. Figure it out; America's abortuaries have slaughtered ten times as many babies as Hitler killed Jews. They have taken as many lives as were lost in all of World War 2.

Where will this put America at the bar of history? How are we as a nation going to answer to God for this wickedness? The Bible says that the blood of martyrs cries out to God for vengeance (Revelation 6:10). How much more do you think the innocent blood of babies destroyed in hideous, torturous abortions cries out? These are people. They are living human beings. Viability is not the issue. Babies in the womb are living, growing human beings. They are alive from conception. Science and technology have proven it true. There is no more argument about when life begins. The question for those who vote Democrat is how are you going to justify supporting a pro-abortion candidate and platform when you stand before God?

If we don't put a stop to this America will end up in the dustbin of history along with the USSR. How ironic after all that Vladimir Putin should call America godless and lecture Obama about persecuting Christians. This is the hope and change Obama has given us. It's tomfoolery. It's craziness. It's cruel. It will destroy us unless we change our culture back to our godly, Christian roots, and end homosexual marriage and abortion.