It has been a long time since I have posted anything and please accept my apologies for the drought.  There certainly has not been a drought of material to discuss!  However, as I had mentioned a while back, it became much easier to talk about things on the podcast rather than sit at a computer, writing, after sitting at a computer at work all day.  Bottom line is, I just need to find my groove and timing, again.

As I restart my blogging, it seems only natural to briefly ponder what we have witnessed in our world the last 4 months.  I know the last things I posted were regarding the complete idiocy and lies of “gun control” after the Newtown tragedy.  Unfortunately, this administration can never let a crisis go to waste, so, four months later, we still see them parade the grieving families around to push their socialist agenda of gun control.  I have never heard so many absurd, mindless, and baseless cries to do away with the 2^nd amendment as I have the last few months.  Of course, those cries are always without logic and fact, but they have become even more of a nuisance with more and more of Hollywood standing up and talking out of their back ends (see Jim Carrey and Jay Mohr for starters). Just for fun, Thomas Sowell recently wrote a piece on Townhall.com that made the point of gun control being completely devoid of facts.  Read Sowell’s thoughts and do your own research.  You can easily see there is not a case for “gun control” other than feeling good about yourself, like you’ve “done something.”  In this case, we don’t need to “do something” to pat ourselves on the back and feel good.  By politicians “doing something,” my right to defend myself is in jeopardy; therefore, my life is in jeopardy because the politicians choose to act more mindless than a single cell organism.  So, this is a situation where we don’t need to force something stupid, but simply understand that evil exists and always will.  What we can do is educate ourselves, be prepared to defend ourselves, and deal with the heart issues in which evil resides.  If our society was still a God-fearing, moral society, this degeneracy would not be where it is today.  I am confident of that.  This is simply not a legislative issue and we all know it has nothing to do with crime or guns anyway.  It’s all about control.

How’s the economy been lately?  Well, the administration would tell us that everything is improving and we’re recovering!  However, allow me to offer my standard call of “bullcrap.”  You see, while they try to make the blind sheep believe that all is well, we have record numbers of people on food stamps.  That’s not the sign of an improving economy, is it?  “But wait,” say the liberals, “unemployment went down to 7.6%!”  Yes, but not because there are more jobs.  That particular number went down because the size of the work force shrunk.  We have a record number of people out of the work force . . . over 90 million people!  In fact, this is so crappy and we have moved so far “forward” at such a high pace under the Obama regime that, I guess, we’re lapping our own alleged progress.  Those figures put us back to 1979 levels!  You know, kinda like when everything sucked under Carter?  Man, moving “forward” is great, isn’t it?  Well, . . .  for communists who believe in fake utopias, I guess.

Another crazy thing about our economy recently has seen our Dow at record highs.  Yet, we have record numbers of people on food stamps and out of work?  Oh, wait, that’s right . . . it’s not really based on anything except the Fed pumping $85 billion per month into the system to falsely prop it up.  (Here’s another link on this from Fox Business.)  This will come crashing down, folks.  This is not sustainable at all.

Besides these big things, we’ve also seen evangelical Christians at the top of a list of groups for our military/government to watch.  Similarly, a Powers County, Colorado undersheriff reported that a DHS training seminar taught officers to watch Bible believing Christians carefully.  Why would they be considered a threat to the government?  Because they believe in America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.  They believe in the Bible and take it literally.  They disagree with the current direction of the country.  Because of these stances of good, Bible believing Christians, this government, apparently, lumps them in with what they call the “sovereign citizen movement.”  To my understanding, that is a weird movement of folks who believe they are completely “sovereign,” independent of any government, therefore, are not bound to that government’s laws, taxes, etc. That is nothing like evangelical Christianity.

Of course, just this week, America has been attacked again by some low-life(s) at the Boston marathon and my prayers are with those who lost loved ones and who are injured.  I know this kind of thing can always happen because, as previously stated, evil exists.  However, can we really say that this administration has made us any safer, or given us better standing in the world?  The answer is obvious.

I could go on and on about what’s currently happening (and I will in future posts), but suffice it to say that plenty has transpired since I last posted.  Unfortunately, very little of it is good.  This country is not necessarily the “shining city on a hill” anymore.  We have forsaken our morals, God, and our founding principles.  What we endure, now, is simply the consequences of such irresponsibility and defiance toward God.  Can we make it better and right this thing?  Sure, but it will be a long, hard process.  It will take perseverance and resolve like never before.  It will require us to encourage each other and stand with each other and shine the light on evil . . . and standing up to evil.  We’ve talked about it before and it is clear:  we MUST return to God and our founding principles.

I leave you with a moment in our history that probably would never happen today.  In David Brog’s book In Defense of Faith, he discusses some of the civil rights movement.  He tells of that day in August 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.  The point is not so much the speech itself as it is in the newspaper reaction the following day.  While all the papers praised King and built up what a tremendous and eloquent speech he delivered, one veteran journalist tapped the brakes and spoke a nugget of truth.  Writing for the New York Times, James Reston stated that “the first significant test of the Negro march on Washington will come in the churches and synagogues of the country this weekend” (pg. 211).  Reston believed one of the major marks of the march was to “demonstrate support for President Kennedy’s landmark civil rights legislation” (pg. 212).  However, he also knew that any political success went far beyond politics.  Reston went on to say:

It is no good waiting for a political reaction in Congress, for if there is no effective moral reaction out in the country, there will be no effective political reaction here.

This whole movement for equality in American life will have to return to first principles before it will “overcome” anything.  And as moral principles preceded and inspired political principles in this country, as the church preceded the Congress, so there will have to be a moral revulsion to the humiliation of the Negro before there can be significant political relief. – from “The First Significant Test of the Freedom March,” New York Times, August 29, 1963

The point?  A nation’s politics and leadership is a direct reflection of the moral aptitude of its people.  We cannot expect political change for the good until we fix the heart of the country.  Only when we become moral, as individuals, will we elect moral leaders and see fruitful results.  Returning to the standard of our founding principles and God is our only option of saving this great nation.

Are you still with me?