– 7 Times New York Times Bestseller Mark
Levin, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HATES AMERICA
It was lovely.
Almost a decade before the first smart phone and social media. Zero expectation of having the perfect pictures, videos, or staged event. Knowing that the only thing that really mattered was the two of us.
We met almost a year earlier as students and quickly knew we wanted to spend our lives together. I said, “It's like she alone has a key to my heart.”
That Saturday morning, I treated myself to breakfast at Cracker Barrell, a rare treat for a graduate student. At the gift shop, I purchased a ceramic jar with the words “Memories” on the side. Later, I found two dozen roses in her favorite colors – pink and yellow - at a grocery store.
We had shopped together for a diamond so she could show me what she liked. Later I purchased one we thought beautiful at the Service Merchandise in Louisville. We didn’t care it didn’t come from a fancy jewelry store. We liked it, and its shape was unique and beautiful – like our relationship.
Enlisting
the help of a friend, I anticipated a lovely evening. She expected me to pick
her up for a date. Don showed up at her door about 5pm, instructing she needed
to come with him. He chauffeured her to the seminary chapel and brought her
inside to me.
She and I
climbed the attic stair door, heading toward the actual steeple. At one
landing lay the Memories jar, wrapped in a gift box. I told her she would need
that later. Climbing higher – which I’m sure was against school policy – we
came to the inside of the steeple.
Earlier that
afternoon, I prepared that special place. Popping her head into that area as she ascended the ladder, she saw several candles burning, two dozen roses, and a
ring box. After we sat down on the hard wood floor, I got on my knees, declared my love and asked her to marry me. We
prayed, thanking God, and held each other.
Relishing the moment, we enjoyed a magnificent view of the Louisville skyline. And we
later agreed we wished we'd stayed in that steeple longer, lingering in the
beauty of just the two of us.
We loved
each other and expected that love to grow, mature, and ripen. We
anticipated spending life together as best friends, partners, lovers, parents,
and helpers.
I told her to keep the rose petals in the Memories jar when they dried.
No pressure
to create the perfect event, picture, or video. Just the satisfaction of loving
and being loved by the “love of my youth” (Prov. 5:18-19). I snapped a
photo on my camera – one I’ve rarely shared in twenty-six years.
Then, we descended the ladders into the real world. It would be the world of ups and downs, appointments and disappointments, triumphs and tears, laughter and heartache, helps and hurts. But we descended into it all – together - one step at a time.
Dining at
the Tumbleweed Mexican restaurant, the same one as our first date, we
remembered that night. A bitterly cold winter Saturday, we were strangely
warmed by the first blossoms of our budding relationship. Seated at a small
table for two that first date, we both awakened to the reality we might
spend our lives with this stranger that felt like an old friend.
Returning to
her apartment the night of the engagement, we made four phone calls to tell the
good news to our parents and grandmothers. And we reveled in the beauty of her
diamond – and looked forward to beauty yet to come.
She’s still
my favorite, more than a quarter of a century later. And we’d do it all over
again.
It was
lovely.
A Discussion about the Rise of the Term "Christian Nationalism"
David Closson: Media Using "Christian Nationalism" to Discourage Christians
from Civic Participation
Trump, Biden, Christian Nationalism, and the Future of America
Tony Perkins
links the Left's use of "Christian nationalism" with the rise in
hostility to churches
We’re living in abnormal times. The news outlet The Epoch Times gave themselves that title, because an “epoch” (not “epic”) means a distinct period of time in history marked by particularly defining events. An epoch refers to an altering of the times.
Unfortunately,
deception marks our era. Deception has become billion-dollar business. We live
in days of corruption, where many basic institutions and organizations we
should be able to trust have betrayed us. Hardly a month goes by without
another revelation of a Christian leader marked by sexual scandal. Government
agencies like the FBI,
the CIA,
the IRS,
the Justice
Department, and others have been compromised
and weaponized
in alarming ways. (See The
Political Weaponization of the CIA and FBI from Michael Waller at Hillsdale
College.)
The term gaslighting,
when someone manipulates circumstances or evidence to deceive another, has
become common vernacular.
It doesn’t
take a brain scientist or Ph.D. to understand something is badly amiss. When
the Justice Department and other agencies continually protect and prop up the Clinton-Obama-Biden
machines while trying to annihilate conservatives, Lady Justice has dropped her
scales.
Regular
people – small business owners, accountants, homeschool moms, farmers,
mechanics, pharmacists, and 1000s of others – have realized what we hear and
see on legacy media – and from some of our politicians – does not always line
up with reality. And authors like Eric Metaxas keep warning us to wake up
before we lose our liberties. (See his book
and movie,
Letter to the American Church.)
“Legacy
media” refers to the old ways we received news in the 20th century:
newspapers, nightly television broadcasts, radio shows, etc. The presentation
can be easily manipulated in those outlets – and many of them are owned, if you
follow the money trail, by a few large conglomerate corporations.
Legacy media
outlets are easily controlled.
The nation didn’t know FDR was in a wheelchair until after his death. With traditional, legacy media, it was easy to plan staged events and present fabricated news. That’s also why the sexual trysts of several U.S. Presidents – like FDR and JFK – were unknown from the majority of the public until well after their deaths. FDR was actually spending the weekend with his longtime girlfriend when he died. The secret service had to get her out of the place quickly before his family arrived.
Today it is
much harder to keep such secrets from the public – but oh how they try.
During the
2020 pandemic, several employees of CBS news stations across the nation resigned.
These whistleblowers revealed CBS corporate kept sending instructions down the
line about what they were allowed and not allowed to say about the pandemic,
the vaccinations, remedies President Trump suggested that were later proved
helpful (like Hydroxychloroquine).
A new way of
receiving news emerged with the digital age. No longer do I wait for the 6
o’clock news to hear the weather report. An app on my phone shows it instantly.
With the explosion of digital communication means, information flows through
social media, podcasts, texts, emails, videos, and dozens of other sources. New
technology makes us not dependent on legacy media. Thus, many traditional
outlets are drying up – newspapers, magazines, traditional television shows,
and old-fashioned news broadcasts.
During the
last four years, we’ve lived through significant events – civilization changing
events – that leave millions of Americans with more questions than answers. Take
the recent attempted assassination of President Trump, for example. We don’t
trust the narrative. And we’ve realized much of traditional legacy media props
up the Left’s agenda and narrative.
The Left and Deception
The Left
thrives on deception. It lies continually. Dennis Prager
explains, “The first example is what is known as political correctness.
Leftist denial of what is true is so widespread that we have a term for it,
political correctness. There is no comparable right-wing political correctness,
i.e., denying truths so as not to offend right-wing values or certain groups.
For
example, among many on the left, especially academics, it has been almost
impossible for decades to tell the truth about the innate differences between
men and women because of the leftist dogma of innate similarities between the
sexes. So deep is the left’s hostility to truth regarding the sexes that a
president of Harvard University was forced from office after suggesting that
men’s and women’s brains process math and some science differently.”
Bill Clinton
lied his way through Arkansas on to the White House. Newt Gingrich once said of
Clinton, "He is one of the finest story-tellers in American
politics. Clinton spent his entire life telling you whatever you needed to
hear to make you like him." And, he added in 2016, “"Hillary
Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to run for President of the United
States."
Modern
leftist politicians like Barak
Obama, Hillary
Clinton, and Joe Biden have taken Crooked Bill’s deception and institutionalized
it. They are students of the Saul Alinsky playbook for politicians. Alinsky
trained his students to master deception, create chaos and division and use
them to your advantage, and to organize social upheaval.
Josh Hammer
writes, “The corporate media, whose 21st-century raison d’etre is propping
up the Regime Party (Democrats) and punishing the Deplorable Party
(Republicans), often joins the fray. The Russia-collusion delusion
disinformation operation was laundered by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to
seedy ‘intelligence’ firm Fusion GPS and law firm Perkins Coie LLP. For years,
the corporate media then dutifully pushed the false narrative. Indeed, it is
unclear to this day whether MSNBC has ever read the Mueller report.
But after
[the recent] CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, in which President Joe Biden
delivered a catastrophic performance for the ages, there is only one conclusion
. . . . For years, Democrats and the corporate media lied through their teeth
about the blatant decline of the president’s physical and mental faculties.”
These
players are masters of manipulation, gaslighting, getting the crowds to focus
on their right hands while doing their real work with their left, and creating
diversions to cast blame. Their key to success is libeling
the Right. They know the Right
will stand in their way of totalitarianism and their globalist agenda.
So they must vilify and destroy the right.
Many of them
– certainly
Obama – were mentored in Communist
ideals with the intent of turning
America away from her fundamentals. Since his election, Obama has struck me
as a type of the future antichrist prophesied in the Bible. A charismatic
leader with supernatural (not from Jehovah) sway and influence, who hides his
real intentions from the masses masterfully.
Newt
Gingrich said, “We have watched the hard left, the America-hating totalitarians
who want to define acceptable speech, as they took over the academic world. The
college boards – made up of supposedly sound community leaders – refused to
fight. Public universities and
colleges continued to hire vehement anti-American professors, the
state legislatures and governors refused to fight. Alumni continued to give to
schools, which were teaching their own children and grandchildren to despise
them.
We did not
think through the eventual reality that graduates who had been taught
systematic falsehoods would take those falsehoods into their jobs. As President
Ronald Reagan said, “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're
ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. . . . This educated ignorance has now infested our
news media, bureaucracies and corporate headquarters. These are sincere
fanatics.”
And David
Lane writes, “There are very real consequences to having allowed secularists -
those in rebellion against God - to imbue the minds of America’s youth with
their profane propaganda for the last 75 years.”
They are
experts at capitalizing on people’s good intentions (related to race, equality,
liberality) and manipulating them for other agendas. Look no further than the Black Lives
Matter movement for
an example.
Leftism is
the single greatest natural threat to liberty,
religion, and America.
The Left loathes
Western Civilization.
The Left does not value
truth.
The Left dismantles
free speech.
The Left destroys
more than it creates.
Whatever the
Left touches,
it ruins.
The Left hates
conservatives.
And, Leftism is not
liberalism. But the Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. Obama, Clinton,
Biden
and the like – Pelosi, Newsom, Schumer – these are not liberals. They are
Leftists. And the legacy media largely bows to their agenda.
But many
people are no longer deceived. People have woken up. And they are warning
others.
Read What
the Media Doesn’t Tell Us, Part Two, coming out the week of 07/22
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"It was a Providential moment. . . . He has been vilified by Joe Biden, the Democrats, and the Left wing more than any President since Abraham Lincoln. This was a political act. It was a deliberate act. And I've said for four months . . . that when all of the legal bologna fails, and when they begin to realize that he is going to win, that violence is the next thing, because they are that desperate." - Speaker Newt Gingrich
Painting by Matthew McGahee
“The Democratic Party, the Deep State, they hate Trump so much. He’s an existential threat to them, to their power, and they will do anything and say anything to get rid of him. The Russia collusion hoax was just the beginning. Any lie, any narrative they can grab onto. They will do anything. They will prosecute him. They will make up laws. They will do lawfare, anything they can do. And if that doesn’t work, they will try to put a bullet in his head.” - Eric Metaxas
"I refuse to
accept these types of blame-shifting responses from the Secret Service. An
American died, and others were injured yesterday because you allowed a shooter
to access an unsecured rooftop perch a mere 140+/- yards from the stage. The
bottom line is that the security perimeter was inadequate, as security coverage
should be beyond 500 yards or more.” - U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan
"These lies about Trump explain why an assassination attempt was inevitable." - Dennis Prager
"It's shocking the core of a nation." - Sean Hannity
"Clearly, our
political system is not well. The stakes in the coming election are genuinely
high. Both sides know it, and yesterday’s events will not bring about a kinder
and gentler political culture. The 2024 election looms large as we consider the
future of our nation. Those who see no higher plane than politics are
increasingly desperate. Christians cannot share that kind of desperation.
Why? Because the Christian faith underlines the two realities of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Both are absolutely necessary to Biblical Christianity, and both are absolutely necessary to the Christian worldview in every respect. But though both are necessary, they are not equal. Human responsibility is real, but it exists only within the transcendent reality of God, and within the context of his unconditional providence. The reality of God’s providence is something many Americans, and no doubt many Christians, think about with far too little seriousness. But I dare to ask, how do you look at yesterday’s events in Butler, Pa., and see it all merely as a lucky miss? If that’s all there is to it, our luck will one day run out. Thank God that day was not yesterday." - R. Albert Mohler
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Here are some good resources regarding the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which the legacy media immediately tried to downplay.
The Eric Metaxas Show 07/15 - on the attempted assassination
The Candace Owens Show 07/15 - Trump Assassination Attempt
An Assassination Attempt Was Inevitable - by Dennis Prager
Assassin Heard the Left’s Relentless Chant: Trump Equals Hitler - by Deroy Murdock
CNN Downplays Trump Assassination Attempt by Emma Colton
Secret Service Had Eyes on Trump Shooter for Thirty Minutes by Pamela Geller
Gunman Spotted 30 Minutes Before Shooting by Todd Starnes
Congressman Duncan Calls for Independent Commission to Investigate Systemic Failures in the Protection of Donald J. Trump - Press Release
An Inside Job - David Harris, Jr.
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“The Left is in a frenzy because, for the first time, more than 110 conservative organizations are uniting to provide personnel and policy solutions that prioritize the American people’s best interests. Unlike the Left, we embrace transparency and welcome public engagement: Our policy recommendations are publicly available on our website." The Heritage Foundation posted that statement in June.
The Heritage Foundation (THF), one of the most respected ones in the conservative movement, exists to to formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. Founded in 1973, they work as a conservative think-tank, who heavily influenced the Reagan era of conservatism.
Heritage historically has formulated a plan of action for conservatives in critical times. For years, The Heritage Foundation has compiled and released a book prior to Presidential elections.
"First published in January 1981, Mandate for Leadership served as a conservative plan of action for the Reagan Administration. By the end of Reagan’s first year, he had implemented nearly half of its ideas. This first edition of Mandate for Leadership appeared on the Washington Post’s paperback bestseller list, and the Post called it ‘an action plan for turning the government toward the right as fast as possible.’
The 2016 edition of Mandate for Leadership earned significant attention
from the Trump Administration."
It's a sort of manifesto for the conservative movement. They assemble several hundred conservative scholars, thinkers, and practitioners and they make proposals for how the conservative movement should move forward. Obviously, the hope is that they can influence the next President and his or her cabinet in making decisions.
THF does this project independently of any Presidential nominee. It is is not way binding on anything.
In 2023, THF released their next project, called Project 2025. On Heritage's main page about the project, Spencer Chretien, Associate Director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, writes,
“With the
Biden administration half over and with the immediate dangers inherent to
one-party rule in Washington behind us for now, it’s past time to lay the
groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right. For decades, as the
left has continued its march through America’s institutions, conservatives have
been outgunned and outmatched when it comes to the art of government.
One reason
is because the Republican establishment never moved on from the 1980s. Beltway
conservatives still prioritize supply-side economics and a bellicose foreign
policy above all else. Belief in small government, strangely enough, has
manifested itself in a belief among some conservatives that we should lead by
example and not fill all political appointments. Belief in the primacy of the
national security state has caused conservative administrations to defer
political decisions to the generals and the intelligence community.
The result has been decades of disappointment.”
Foaming at the Mouth
Project 2025 is a well-constructed attempt at building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.
The response from the Left has been somewhat like a rabid, hungry dog who knows he is cornered and out of luck. As usual, they have resorted to misinformation, libeling, and trying to stir people up emotionally.
The Left is enjoying the fruit of a several-decades long vision of radically changing our culture and politics. Communist-leaning thinkers were strategizing decades ago about how to influence our Ivy League schools, our New York businesses, and our Hollywood entertainment industry. Conservatives have sometimes tended to be short-sighted in only thinking about the next election. In recent years, however, in part due to good thinkers, as represented by The Heritage Foundation, conservatives are beginning to think more strategically. As Ben Shapiro has said, we need to have a forty-year plan of how to influence our country.
That is exactly what Project 2025 attempts to do. And that is exactly why the Left is foaming at the mouth about it. With Donald Trump accelerating, the Left and the Deep State are deeply afraid their plans may come undone. And so they do what they do best: deceive, manipulate, gaslight, libel, and create diversions.
Here are a few articles worth reading about Project 2025 and the Left's response:
Why Is Everyone Talking About Project 2025 - The Heritage Foundation
Project 2025: Fact-checking Democrats’ misleading and overly dramatic claims - Sarah Bedford
FACTCHECK: Does Project 2025 ‘Terminate the Constitution’? - Tyler O'Neil
Top 5 Things the Left Gets Wrong About Project 2025 - Evan Maguire
The Promises of "Project 2025" - Cal Thomas
Project 2025 Responds to House Democrats’ Unserious and Misleading Task Force - The Heritage Foundation
Project 2025 Reaches 100 Coalition Partners - The Heritage Foundation
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First, life
and death can come down to a matter of a millimeter. The video of President
Trump grabbing his ear and then diving onto the platform will be indelibly
etched into the nation’s historical memory. Just the slightest deviation in the
path of that ammunition round would have changed a bleeding ear into a dead
former president, even as Trump is just days from his official nomination as
the Republican candidate in the coming election. How can human life be so
fragile as that? But the fragility of life is essential to our understanding of
the gift of life. In a world of sin and evil, assassins and pathogens, every
breath we take is a gift. At some point, a single breath will be our last.
For Donald
Trump, his last breath could have come yesterday, broadcast to the entire
world. Thankfully, that was not the case. But why? Those who hold to a purely
materialistic and naturalistic worldview have no answer but luck, which is a
major doctrine of secular theology. But Donald Trump (and the watching world as
well) must surely know in his heart that something far greater than luck
preserved his life. Speaking to the press, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
acknowledged the hairline distance that separated life and death in the
assassination attempt: 'Fate stepped in.' Interestingly, it was President Trump
himself who clarified the issue, posting on Truth Social that it was 'God alone
who prevented the unthinkable from happening.' Indeed, it was God and God
alone, for God alone is the sovereign ruler of the cosmos."
Read the entire article by R. Albert Mohler here at World Magazine.
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The
situation is not sustainable for the Democrats. But what is most troubling is
that Biden and his advisers still think he can not just fight the fight, but
win the election. Regardless of his frailty, he and his team have lied to
Americans about his condition for quite a while.
Biden has
been exposed. Now he is in the worst position possible for an American
politician: He is both pitied for his condition and resented for lying about
it. That is not something from which one can recover."
Read the entire article by Erick Erickson here at The Daily Signal.
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