The more things change, the more they stay the same
I think the world is going mad, at least this modern version of it. Most of the American people who voted for Donald Trump as president thought they were getting someone different, someone who would not make the same mistakes as other presidents in the past. They were hoodwinked!!!
How many countries are we going to pick a fight with? Lets try to count, Syria, Somalia, North Korea, ISIS (not a country but they act like one). We are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it’s any ones guess for how much longer.
I had the smallest of hopes that President Trump would be different, would be able to go against the system. But it was just a small hope. My prayer is that Constitutionally minded folks will continue to speak up and oppose Americas foreign policies as they are today, and get us out of empire building and back to our roots of being friends to those who will accept us as friends, and only use military force to defend ourselves. Getting entangled in other countries internal affairs is a bad idea for all parties involved!!!
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Knowing what we don’t know!!!
Ryancare lite
Today congress will try to vote on repealing Obamacare, and replacing it with Ryancare. A vast majority of Americans are concerned about the outcome of a vote on the ACA and repealing it.
For the sake of the constitution and America, the ACA needs to repealed without a replacement that keeps the government in charge of our healthcare. To do anything else would be to go back on campaign promises that were made to the American people, mainly to repeal Obamacare!!!
Anytime government tries to control anything that a sovereign individual should be taking care of themselves, it never ends well. In order for the government to handle stuff, freedom and liberty, of necessity, needs to be curtailed!!! This is the nature of government that is socialistic, freedom and liberty die, so safety and security imposed by the government can take it’s place.
There are no guarantees in life except from God. So knowing this how can anyone believe that government can guarantee anything will work if we just give them control?
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The first thing we need to address is, are all beliefs equal? Are some beliefs based in facts and truth and others are not? Yesterday we looked at the difference in the Critical theory and the Socratic method. Critical Theory looks for facts in support of a conclusion already believed, and the other test beliefs, facts and truth to see if it can be supported in reality. I dare say most personally held beliefs fall in the first camp of a conclusion in search of facts.
Forcing what you believe to be true or factual on others is not the best way to get someone to change their minds. If you have to force your beliefs on anyone, are they worth supporting in the first place? Beliefs that are not based in real truths, facts and reality are not beliefs at all, but just fanciful wishes of the way some folks want things to be!!!
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Why is there so much confusion with right and wrong?
There is so much confusion in America with what is right and what is wrong, that more than a few Americans have checked out of the daily debate on the issue.
Is there such a thing as objective truth? If there is objective truth, how do we know it to be the truth? Once objective truth is found, does that mean it can never be questioned? Do feeling have a part to play in finding objective truth? Do you see what I did there? Its called the Socratic method, and it is the best way to find objective truth. To have ones positions and truths challenged is the best way to see if they hold up as truth or just supposition.
Our children are not being taught the Socratic method in school anymore. They are taught the Critical theory method of finding the truth, which presupposes to know the truth already and looks for the facts that support their presuppositions. The facts usually turn out to be someone’s opinion that supports their presuppositions, or cherry picked facts to fit their presuppositions. With the Critical Theory method rarely are all the facts of a particular subject brought out to be discussed. Unwanted facts are usually ridiculed, or the one who brings out the facts are accused of a social injustice, that is false and cannot be quantified!!!
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Liberty in America is under attack!!! Our freedoms are being replaced with what is good for the state!!! Logic and reason are being replaced with emotions and ethical humanism. Feelings are more important than truth and facts!!! We are living in a post-common sense era!!!
As far as religion is concerned, Americans have a pluralistic point of view, and one religion is as good or no different that any other, to each their own. Some Americans don’t see the harm in Islam, and will go against their firmly held beliefs to support Islam!!! Christianity is viewed with disdain by a lot Americans and see it as being forced upon folks!!!
As far as politics goes, freedom and liberty are viewed as being selfish and uncaring and needs to be curtailed!!! Most Americans are unconcerned or have no idea what true freedom and liberty entail, they take a live and let live attitude towards politics, economics and life in general!!!
As Walter E Williams talk about in a speech he gave recently, “if liberty dies in America, it will be dead for all times, everywhere.” As liberty and freedom loving Americans, we can’t sit idelly by and wait for someone else to defend and teach liberty and freedom, we need to start taking it to the streets and proclaim it to the masses, if we don’t we will doom not only our children to a bleak future, the world will loose that shinning city on the hill, and the light of freedom and liberty will go out, and the world will go into a darkness that will be seen by ALL!!!
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Why are we in Syria?
Yesterday president Donald Trump sent 50 plus cruise missiles into Syria and took out one of the Syrian military air force bases. This was in response to an chemical weapons attack in Syria on Tuesday that killed men, women, and children.
I hate to see any innocent civilians killed in any conflict, and those responsible for those deaths need to be held accountable, especially if chemical weapons were used. The timing of this gas attack looks suspicious to me.
Assad is not a stupid man, he would’ve gotten a fair shack from president Trump. I think president Trump may have been duped by the deep state in Washington D.C. And the warmongers in both parties. The questions you need to ask is what did Assad have to gain by this? If Assad had nothing to gain then who did?
I hate that I can’t trust my government to tell us the truth, or even to follow the constitution in these matters. I believe there are going to be dark days ahead and president Trump and his team needs to make absolutely sure they are doing the right thing with every step they take!!!
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Antifa and the American left
With all that has happened in this last election cycle, and all the unbolstered accusations being flung about by each political party, the worst thing is the violence being perpetrated by leftist groups in America!!!
Groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, use violence and intimidation to get their way and shut down anything or anybody that they disagree with. These groups have a warped sense of what free speech is, and freedoms in general is. The bullying and the smear campaigns they endorse have a chilling affect on freedom as a whole.
The framers of the constitution were right to add protections of our God given rights in the form of the Bill of Rights, but I believe the protection is not only from a tyrannical government, but also from tyrannical groups who would deny fellow citizens their God given rights!!!
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Why the Susan Rice scandal matters
The 4th amendment and Rice’s unmasking of Americans!!!
