There is an old saying in the military. “Friendly Fire Isn’t”.

Pity the poor bastards watching “short rounds” from their own artillery falling closer and closer to their foxholes. It happens, and far more often than people realize. That concept can be expanded to what is happening currently in our country. I can’t imagine anything more tragic than a group of Americans being killed by a weapon we manufactured and supplied to former allies. As I said in a recent post, that is a distinct possibility in the not too distant future. 

Attacks on electrical substations in Oregon, Washington and North Carolina in the last few weeks bring another serious threat to the nation to the forefront. It has been know for years that our electrical “grid” is extremely vulnerable to natural events such as solar flares, hurricanes and even snow storms, as well as physical assaults on sub-stations. Incredibly, the focus of the Biden government seems to be that these incidents may be the work of “Domestic Terrorists” (to them, that’s anyone who disagrees with the Democratic Party). To me, the threats are far more likely to be the work of international groups sworn to destroy our nation at any cost. The Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Iranian Mullahs for example.

Any one of those groups are dedicated to our destruction after all, so It would be foolish to ignore them while we search for right wing bogeymen at home. You know, the MAGA hat wearing, sign waving thugs who verbally attack school board members at their meetings. Obviously, they are capable of anything, even taking down our electrical power grid in their angst. These are the folks the full force of the Biden DOJ areisn get trashed in the process, who cares. Hell, it was written by a bunch of rich old white slave owners, right? It needs to be rewritten to match the needs of the 21st Century. It doesn’t even mention Transgenders and Double Latte Machiatos for God’s sake!

So, the Lefty Lemmings aren’t just satisfied to jump off the cliff by themselves, they demand that we all join them in their suicidal leap of faith. Well guess what buttercups? We’re not coming along, and when you hit that freezing water we’re not going to toss you a life preserver either. You’re on your own. Continue reading Friendly Fire Isn’t! →

In 2007 and 2008 when Barack Obama was on the campaign trail (that’s him without his hand over his heart as the National Anthem was being played at a 2008 rally in New Mexico) I listened carefully to his speeches and was a bit more than just concerned by their content, I was alarmed.

Though he tried to distance himself from his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, He had attended that church for many years, and must have been there when Wright made his infamous comment from the pulpit:

“God Bless America? No, no, no. Not God Bless America. God damn America. It’s in the Bible!

It became clear to me that this mixed race individual had serious problems concerning race relations in general, and his attitudes towards white people in pparticular. His wife Michelle echoed that attitude when she stated after his nomination to be the Democratic Party candidate for president in 2008 that:

“For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”

Considering her very privileged life up to that point, that was an outrageous statement. 

As the months dragged on, Obama continued to make statements which revealed the man behind the myth that was being created by an adoring media. Instead of bringing the various races together as simply non-hyphenated Americans, his attitudes and policies would most likely drag us farther apart.

Finally, on Oct. 30, 2008, on the cusp of his historic presidential election, Obama stated, in a speech given in Columbia, Missouri:

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” 

My initial reaction was, and still is:

“Into What?”

That became clear after his inauguration by the choice of his cabinet members, particularly for Attorney General. Eric Holder, the first black to hold that position, stated publicly:

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards.”

That brought us all together for sure.

The other thing that bothered me was Obamas choice for a running mate. Joe Biden, a Senator from the tiny state of Delaware was chosen for several reasons, the first of which was his race and the second that he wasn’t a threat to the power base Obama planned on building. Known for his many verbal gaffs and propensity for exaggerating his accomplishments, Biden was just “Crazy old Uncle Joe”.

So, during eight years of the Obama Administration, we watched fuel prices rise to the highest point on record up to that time. That of course affected the price of everything else. Inflation raged, but Obama could and did blame everything on the cards he had been left by his predecessor, George W. Bush. It was “racist” Ito imply anything else.

Biden chose not to run for president in 2016 after the untimely death of his eldest son, leaving that task to Hillary Clinton, who was declared by the media to be a shoo in. Unfortunately for her, she believed her own propaganda, and even with the false Russia collusion charges cooked up by her campaign organization and the DNC, she still lost to political novice Donald Trump.

Now, the political machine led by Valerie Jarrett went into high gear. With Obama the self proclaimed leader of political “resistance” to the Trump Administration, the next four years were constant chaos. It was amazing how much Trump got done with the political hounds of hell released by the DNC constantly nipping at his heels.

Now, probably pressured by his wife, brother and remaining son, Joe Biden was persuaded to run against Trump in 2020. The election was one of the most contentious in history, with Biden supposedly winning with the largest number of votes in history, even though he couldn’t attract a hundred people to any of his rallies while Trump was speaking before tens of thousands at his. “Nothing suspicious here” screamed the DNC and the media. “Move along, move along.”

So here we are, fourteen years later. Fuel prices at another all time high, once again dependent on OPEC for oil and China for virtually everything else.  31 TRILLION dollars in debt and threatened for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union by a nuclear holocaust. In a recession, although Biden won’t admit it in his increasingly addled state of mind. I finally have the answer to my question,: “Into What?” 

Quite simply into a nation in decline financially and morally. Into a nation racially at odds with itself, being pushed towards a race war if we’re not careful. Into a nation where our Constitution isn’t worth the parchment it is written on in the minds of the Democrat leftists who control that party. Finally into a nation being led by a man in way over his head. As was commented by Barack Obama, who should know: 

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up”

We’re seeing that in action, aren’t we?

The phrase “None are so blind as those who will not see” is often quoted as biblical text. In fact, it isn’t found in the Bible. However, Jesus, in Matthew 13:13 said that he spoke to the people in parables “Because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not.” Examples of that truth surround us these days, particularly in the arena of politics.

Politicians lie, and rank and file members of their political party blindly accept it as the truth. They have, in effect, abandoned common sense and subscribed to a new religion, that of their political parties dogma.

Although Democrats would have you believe that the tens of millions of Americans who voted for President Trump are simply duped members of a political cult, I believe the opposite is the truth. One must only look at the historical facts, which are easily verified, to understand that the Democratic Party, from its very inception, has been and is today a chameleon, hiding its true beliefs and aspirations behind a carefully crafted curtain of lies and distortions.

The Founding Fathers realized that the Republic they created could not exist without a population of religious and moral individuals. That’s why they included in the First Amendment to our constitution the guarantees of freedom of speech and religion, as well as the rights of citizens to peacefully confront their elected representatives and redress their grievances.

If they have their way, the Democrat politicians will abolish those rights and many others. By their actions, they demonstrate that fact on a daily basis. The only question is how have they been able to convince their followers that this is the correct course of action? The simple answer to that question is by controlling the dissemination of what the public is allowed to hear about the critical issues we face as a nation.

Dictators have long known that if they are to control their countrymen, they must first control the news media. Joseph Goebbels, the chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, said it all when he observed: “A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth”.  That is exactly what the Democrats and their co-conspirators in the media have done for a very long time. They have become experts at the practice.

A violent thug like George Floyd becomes a hero of the black community. The violent riots and looting egged on by groups like Black Lives Matter after his death are deemed “mostly peaceful,” while the mostly peaceful protesters at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 are called “violent insurrectionists”, painted as such with a very broad brush because of the actions of a tiny minority present that day. The very real possibility that violent minority was in fact instigated by FBI agents or their surrogates is ignored. It doesn’t fit the desired narrative.

Democratic controlled cities like Newark, NJ and New York City have produced Public Service Announcements to tell people what to do in case of a nuclear attack. Suggestions are to “go indoors and remain there, remove and discard your clothing, and then shower and shampoo your hair”. This might be worthwhile if you were in a suburb, and not under ground zero of a Hiroshima/Nagasaki sized bomb in 1945. However, it is estimated that a modern hydrogen bomb delivered by a Russian missile would make a radioactive hole a hundred feet deep covering most of the five boroughs of New York City.

We find ourselves in a very dangerous place because of the actions of the Biden Administration. We’re closer to a nuclear war with Russia than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963, and we’re being led by a dementia crippled 80 year old with a giggling, race baiting idiot waiting in the wings to replace him.

Inflation continues to strain the pocketbooks of average Americans, with food and fuel prices at all time highs, and about to go higher, due to the actions of OPEC and the refusal of Biden to ramp up our own energy production on an emergency basis. Instead of admitting that his policies have failed miserably, and dealing with the self created crisis, Biden bumbles on, doubling down on the insanity.

After he won in 2008, newly elected Barack Obama reminded the American people that “elections have consequences”. He was right. On the other hand, allowing election irregularities to place a totally incompetent regime in power has consequences as well. We are watching the destruction of our great country by vindictive, power hungry fools.

We must all pray that the madness will be checked on November 8th at the polls. If it isn’t, we are left with very few options.

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

That’s a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Some “fact checkers” deny that. If he didn’t say it, I wish he had, because it is undeniably true. Right now, due to the actions taken by the Biden Administration to weaponize various federal agencies against the people, many Americans do fear the government. That must stop. Too many of our forbearers gave up their lives to give us the liberties we have previously taken for granted. If reason doesn’t prevail, some of us may be called upon to do likewise. If Americans can’t understand that, it is because, as Jesus said:

“Seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not.”

We must open their eyes and ears to the truth. We must stop the left from Stealing America!

On March 13th of this year I made a post to this site titled “Better Red Than Dead!”. Here’s a link to that post:

https://wp.me/p7RFUu-1eF

In it, I expressed the opinion that even if the Russians used tactical nuclear weapons after their invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. would not respond in kind, especially under the Biden Administration. The events of the last couple of weeks have caused me to reassess that position.

It should be increasingly clear to anyone who is capable of unbiasedly viewing the actions of Joe Biden that he is increasingly unable to make the critical decisions our presidents must make if they are to keep our citizens out of harms way. A man who can’t remember for a few weeks that a very supportive member of congress has tragically died in a car accident.  A person to whose family he sent personal condolences at the time, is increasingly debilitated by the symptoms of dementia or Alzheimers Disease.

Because of that fact, there is someone else at the helm of our government, and it isn’t the vice-president, who has proven herself to be, if anything, more feckless in her behavior that he is. So who is in charge, and what is their agenda for the nation?

Is it White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain? If so, do we want an un-elected individual making what are life and death decisions which could spell the end of our nation, and indeed possibly the whole human race? For make no mistake, that is exactly what might be the consequence if we push Vladimir Putin too hard in the next days and weeks.

A war, any war we allow us to become involved in, has consequences for our country that go far beyond the financial costs involved. The effusion of American blood, as well as that of our allies and indeed our adversaries, is no small matter. I we decide to move in that direction we must assure ourselves that it is indeed not only a just cause, but a justifiable one.

Although we, as the sole remaining “Super-Power” at the end of World War Two, gradually took on the mantle of being the “World’s Policeman”, were we justified in doing so? We have not won a single conflict in the last seventy-seven years with perhaps the exception of the First Gulf War against the forces of Sadam Hussein. However, because of the refusal of Bush ’41 to finish the job, even that was in fact a draw, with the dictator left still in power, and creating a situation where we had to once again go to war against Iraq a decade later, at much greater cost in blood and national treasure. Our disastrous twenty year long military adventure in Afghanistan ended last year not only with the enemy intact, but indeed much stronger militarily than we found them when we arrived after attacks of 9/11.

Now we are told that it is a vital national interest of this country that we defend the right of Ukraine to maintain her current borders. It is much more important to do that, we are told,  than to defend our own. The fact that in the process, we are moving increasingly closer to an open armed conflict with a country that has over six thousand nuclear warheads, many of them pointed at our country, doesn’t seem to matter to whomever is in control of the Oval Office.

The national media continues to carry the water of the Democratic Party and the Biden Administration. Americans have not been told the truth about the dangers we face if we continue to support Ukraine and demand regime change in Russia. Vladimir Putin has nothing to lose and everything to gain by standing firm against Biden’s threats. Our country however, has virtually nothing to gain by not pushing for a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia. Although it is no longer a case of the American Left saying “Better Red Than Dead”, it is instead more correctly “Better Pragmatic Than Extinct”. A nuclear holocaust is forever.

Every federal employee, members of congress, members of the armed forces, and various other elected and non-elected officials are required to take an “Oath of Office” which contains these words

While our foreign enemies might be obvious (but occasionally they are not) the domestic enemies of the Constitution are a whole different matter.  In the case of the Capitol protesters on January 6, 2021 the roles can be reversed.  The Democrats and probably individuals within the FBI, concocted a narrative that stated the Trump voters, who really were “Mostly Peaceful”,  had violently attacked the Capitol Police and threatened members of Congress.  Because of that false narative, it was possible for persons accused of such violations to be in effect guilty until proven innocent, rather than the other way around.  That concept is completely unconstitutional under several provisions in the Bill of Rights.

Nonetheless, well over a hundred people, who either actively participated in the demonstrations at the Capitol on January 6th, or were basically just bystanders, and invited into the building by Capitol Police, have been incarcerated in one of the worst federal prisons in the country for well over a year.  In many cases with no, or the flimsiest charges filed against them.  How could this possibly be happening in this country?  The answer to that question is both simple and complicated at the same time.

First, and I believe that this is undeniably true, various agencies of the Department of Justice,  particularly the FBI, have been politicized, and unfortunately have become pawns of the Democratic Party.  Second, and more unfortunate still, the Republican politicians, with the exception of a notable few, refuse to fight back beyond mouthing a few complaints.  It’s like two people playing the same game with completely different rules.  The Democrats are engaged in a vicious street fight and the Republicans are sticking to Marquise of Queensbury rules.

This is what Donald Trump instinctively realized, and by stating that fact, calling Washington a “swamp” which must be drained, he instantly became a target after he won in 2016.  The DOJ and several other federal agencies, following orders from the Democratic Party leadership, instantly engaged in multiple efforts to cripple his administration.  They were generally successful in doing so.  Remember the old saying:

“It’s hard to remember you’re here to drain the swamp when you’re up to your ass in alligators!” Continue reading The Enemy Within →

On July 2nd, my wife and I drove thirty-five miles from our home in western South Carolina to the Cowpens National Battlefield.  Not far, but it required some effort on my part to do so.  It was important enough however, because of its significance in the history of the American Revolutionary War, which we celebrate today on July 4th.

Many Americans don’t understand why we chose that day to have backyard barbecues and enjoy fireworks that evening.  In England, the fireworks occur on Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th.  They celebrate the foiling of a plot to blow up the building where the opening session of the British Parliament was scheduled to occur in 1605.  We of course celebrate the 4th of July for a very different reason, which I’ll get back to.

So what was the significance of The Battle of Cowpens, something I’m quite sure very few of the readers of this blog have ever heard of?  Well, as I learned during our visit, it may well have been one of the crucial turning points in our War of Independence.   I also learned that there were more battles fought in the state of South Carolina during that conflict than in all the other colonial states combined.

These weren’t the classic confrontations, of massed troops standing shoulder to shoulder and firing volleys from their muskets and rifles at adversaries a hundred yards distant. They were frequently fought in densely wooded areas, with hand to hand fighting using bayonets, knives and tomahawks.  That was the case at the Cowpens battle, named for a cattle pasturing area surrounded by a dense forest. Continue reading The Battle of Cowpens →

It is coming to be obvious to clear thinking Americans that Both major American political parties are FUBAR!   Don’t know what that means?   Look it up.   Although there are many Republicans who believe in the original concepts of the Founding Fathers, ie: maximum freedom through limited government, there are just as many who have drunk the cool aide of the Democrats. 

What is that concept?   Simply to control the masses by exerting maximum power over their lives.  The more restrictive laws and regulations the better.  Pit one group against another.  Sow distrust and hatred of people who don’t look like you.  Spread the false notion that the government will always take care of you and look out for your best interests.

Unfortunately, since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the cancer which has overtaken our system of government has metastasized to the point where removing it would kill the patient in the process.  It is becoming more and more apparent that the only solution is to replace it with a new organ, which contains all the life giving qualities of what made this country great in the first place.  Simply put, we need a new political party which patriotic Americans can trust and believe in. Continue reading Is It Time? →

Some very smart people, including commentator Mark Levin, who’s opinions I generally agree with, are calling for more American involvement with the war in Ukraine.  I think he’s wrong, and here’s why.

Although there is no doubt that Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine must be opposed and stopped, it is past time for the European members of NATO to take the lead, militarily and financially, to accomplish that task.

Due to the fiscal policies of the Obama Administration, our national debt more than doubled during his administration to over 18 trillion dollars.  Donald Trump began to turn that around, but the Chinese Wuhan virus ended up cancelling that effort, and the policies of the Biden Regime have caused another massive rise to over 30 trillion and still rising.  This is simply unsustainable.  We are in effect using a credit card which is well past its limit.  Soon, it will be cancelled, and this nation will go into default on our debt payments.

Whether by plan or unlucky coincidence, we are staring the definite possibility of the removal of the United States Dollar from its status as the World Reserve Currency.  That would have a catastrophic effect on our economy.  It would devalue our dollar and effectively wipe out the retirement plans and  savings of hundreds of millions of Americans.  It would most certainly drive us into a deep recession at the same time it drives massive inflation.  We haven’t seen anything like this since the disastrous years of the Jimmy Carter administration in the 1970s. Continue reading The Stolen Credit Card →

What you see above is a large billboard just outside Bluffton, South Carolina.  After his famous “March to the Sea” in 1865, ending up in Savannah, Georgia, Union General Sherman spared the city, both because of its historical significance, and the fact that it was not defended, but opened its gates to the Union army.

After leaving Savannah, Sherman laid waste to much of South Carolina, the birthplace of the rebellion.  As is always the case, history is written by the victors in a war, and William Tecumseh Sherman is venerated as a hero, who helped General Grant finally bring an end to the bloody four year conflict.  However, the losers also have a memory.  This sign, in place over one hundred and fifty years later, proves that beyond a doubt.

The media, including nominally conservative Fox News, is constantly condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the acts of aggression against civilian targets committed by the Russian forces involved.  The terms “War Crimes” and “War Criminal” are being used more and more frequently, especially when referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. What we must ask ourselves is what affect this may have on the eventual outcome of the war.

There is virtually no chance that Russian forces can be defeated militarily by the Ukrainians.  They can however, possibly fight them to a standstill with the continuing influx of sophisticated weaponry being supplied by the United States and other NATO countries.  But at what cost?   Continuing to demonize Putin and the Russian military hierarchy only hardens their will to continue  the destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainians  will to continue to fight.  Continue reading Sherman A War Criminal? →