According to Rush Limbaugh “Victory in Politics” solves problems.  From 2008 to 2010 the Democrats had that victory.  They controlled the Congress, the Senate and the Presidency. They passed a lot of laws, including Obamacare.  Since then they have had enough victory to hold on to the Senate and the Presidency.  Their changes remain the law of the land.

What problems were solved? The availability of healthcare with higher prices and deductibles has diminished.  Their victory made the problem worse.  Is the border safer? Is the problem of illegal  immigration better?  Do we have more full-time workers than we had in 2008?, Do we have less poverty? Do we have a safer world?  What about less division among the races?  

Victory only solves problems when that victory is associated with policies that actually and successfully address the issues at hand.  The current set of policies, and laws have driven this country into defeat on every front.  We are poorer, less respected, less successful, and less safe than at anytime in the past 30 years.  Victory is only worth while when those that win truly have the country’s welfare as their main objective.

There is a report today of a secret journalist group comprised of 1000 progressive journalists. So, what is wrong when journalists have strong personal views as to how government should function?  We all have personal views, so why is it wrong for journalists to have these views?  In short, it is not wrong, as long as those views do not cause their reporting to be agenda driven.  I would argue that much of the reporting we have seen over the past 6 years has been agenda driven, and the lives of most Americans are the worse for it. 

There are several examples where this agenda has negatively impacted Americans.  Selective reporting has shielded the democrats, the more progressive republicans and Barack Obama from the public holding them accountable the purposeful decline of this country’s economic and military capability.  

Let’s look at the economy.  The main news outlets have seldom if ever reported on the massive number of people who are no longer looking for work in this economy.  They don’t focus on how the jobs that have been created are part-time and pay less.  The loss of real wages over the past 6 years of 7% is glossed over.  The increase of poverty, welfare, disability payments, and the plight of the minority community has been ignored.  All these elements point to the failure of the policies that the progressive media support.   If they reported these things honestly, then the push to change these failures would be tremendous.  Blinded by ideology and agenda, the media props up these failing policies.  With the addition of massive monetization of our currency and an ever increasing debt, these same media are propping up a system that will fail and is failing in such a way as to exponentially increase the suffering that will occur as these failures compound. Honest reporting would provide people with a mechanism to minimized the suffering.  Does the press want Americans to suffer?  If so,  that is pretty bad as their whole existence was guaranteed by our constitution?

Racism is another area where the press has not only ignored the truth, but has actually made problems worse.   The history of racism in this country is not all that pretty.  Over the past 30 years (Excepting the last 6) I have seen views among most people becoming decidedly less racist.  There will always be some that have racist views, but instead of focusing on the great improvements and focusing on encouraging that color blind view, the media has encouraged division.  They have raced after the George Zimmermans and failed to report on the black on black violence in the inner cities.  They present some version of events that helps justify more violence while fueling the race bate industry.  Where is the true crusade to change the inner city.  Getting good jobs and out of poor circumstances is the proven way of changing the inner city.  Instead of promoting that, the media promotes hate, often sewing distrust in the groups that are willing to help.  

So, if you look at the media today, you do not hear the truth.  If you lose your job, you can blame NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, and MSNBC.   Unless they media changes and starts reporting the truth, people need to hold them responsible.  They need to stop buying from the advertisers that support these outlets.  Unless the media is unbiased, democracy dies.

A couple of days ago Alabama Power announced the closing of two coal powered electric plants citing the specifically Federal mandates as the reason they were closing the plants.  So all hail king Obama for being the master at creating poverty where none existed previously.  So how much misery did he bring this time?

The workers at these plants are losing their jobs.  Perhaps they will get federal money, but it will be less income than they had.  So they will buy less.  The stores and businesses in the region around those plants will sell less so they will lay off workers, so they too will have less income. The miners that provided coal for these facilities will lose their jobs and so will those that sell things to the miners.  The people that make mining equipment will lose their jobs.  The people that sell the parts needed to make the mining equipment will lose their jobs. The people that provide the raw materials to make the parts that make the mining equipment will lose their jobs. The truckers that drive the parts, the coal, the equipment and the raw materials will lose their jobs.  There will be fewer trains running to deliver these goods so people who run the railways will lose their jobs.  

How is this possible in the land of opportunity that the federal government steals opportunity out from under its own people?  Who pays for the federal benefits that ‘soften the blow’ this represents?  That would be anyone still working.  Why would anyone want to work in a nation that steals every ounce of  hard earned income to fund an agenda not supported by most of the citizens?

This is a crime.  If you are working you need to stand up and voice your dissent.  It is time to take back our government from those that are giving our country away and reigning down poverty on us all.   Real income has dropped by 7% since Obama took office.  This was and is his design.  Can you live when it has dropped by 50%?   March on Washington.  Remove every regulation of the last 10 years.  Abolish the IRS.    It is time for change.

A US History that is no longer taught is filled with ideals.  It is filled with Americans tossing aside the shackles on oppression usually at great risk and with often with blood.  That very thing formed the foundation of the true America, the America of dreams, heroes and extraordinary souls.  It’s the America where freedom reigns.  Getting to freedom has always required a mortal commitment.

Henry David Thoreau said, “Government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”

Escaping religious persecution the Pilgrims left England to form colonies in the US. The pursuit of freedom laid the basis for some of our first settlers.  As oppression came from England, the founding fathers, and specifically Patrick Henry stood up and said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”    

The revolutionary war, the war of 1812, the fight of the abolitionists (Thoreau was one of them.) and the Civil War were all wars fought for liberty.  People that believed slaves should be freed stood up and tore this country in two for that ideal.  The first World War and the Second World War were also about stopping unrestrained conquest and enslavement.  We Americans have been people to stand up for liberty and freedom throughout our history.  

Such ideals are not safe.  They cost lives, and they are risky. Preserving freedom is bloody business.  Without those ideals France would not be free and Eastern Europe would still be under the yoke of the old Soviet Union.  We should celebrate that about ourselves, that we are a beacon of freedom in a world of tyrants.  It can be said that we will stand up for the oppressed, here and at abroad, that we have real heroes in our midst and that we can impact the world for good.

Perhaps it is time to realize the America we should be, the America of ideals, the America that will not tolerate internal war zones like Chicago where gangs that oppress are eradicated, the America that has borders and remains the beacon for people to come here for a new life, not a dumping ground for the world,s poor, the America that gives more to the poor across the world than any other country, the America that understands that strength deters bad people, the America that fights for freedom around the world, the America that understands the difference between our friends and our enemies, and the America that chooses to let men (and women) govern themselves without the oppressive had of government to guide them.

The West African country of Liberia has closed its borders to prevent the spread of Ebola into the country.   So why has President Obama not closed ours to prevent the spread of TB, and Bacterial Pneumonia, both diseases having been reported among the influx of illegals coming into the U.S.?How is it that Liberia knows how to control its borders better than the United States?  

I guess that the new slogan for immigration into the U.S. will be, “Give us your tired, your poor, your diseased, your criminals and your children.”    Let’s open our arms to the next epidemic.  I guess that is how the President plans to reduce the surplus population.  Just think of the Obamacare savings.

Ok, I admit that the above headline is not true, but.. it may be true for the Water Authority in Detroit where the Water Authority’s threat to cut off water to people that don’t pay their bills is being called racist by the NAACP.  Perhaps taking on the thinking of the NAACP in this instance is not a good idea, but perhaps my confusion can be cleared up.    Isn’t the NAACP supposed to promote the advancement of colored people?   How is calling those that wish to collect on unpaid bills ‘racist’ promoting advancement?

The message the NAACP is sending is that if you are a minority, it is OK for you not to pay your bills.  We, the NAACP will help you keep your water flowing even though you have not paid your water bill.   Instead of saying, “You need to find another job, position or source of income so that you can pay your bill”, we are going to promote further handouts to you.  Does the NAACP believe that the people they are defending are not capable of supporting themselves?  The message the NAACP is sending is that these people are helpless unless given a hand out. The NAACP is encouraging minorities to be irresponsible and dependent.  How is that helpful to them. 

Whatever happened to giving people a hand up, instead of a hand out?  Somehow, the NAACP has forgotten the difference.   It creates a view of African Americans as incapable of taking care of themselves, not only in the non-minority community, but with African Americans themselves.  Why work, why be responsible if the NAACP can get you a handout.  Sooner or later the handouts will run out and a whole generation will be incapable of earning and doing for themselves.  It is a shame that the NAACP has no more depth and is willing to destroy its own beneficiaries for the advancement of the NAACP.  

ABC, NBC, CBC, CNN, and MSNBC  have not reported on the Christian Holocaust in Iraq any significant way.  Over a million Christians have been displaced or murdered.  ISIS is painting the letter “N” for “Nazarene”  on the front doors of the remaining Christian’s homes.  Does that remind anyone of how Jewish Homes were identified during World War II?  

Why do the main news outlets give so little coverage to this?  All I found were short blurbs which did not detail the real extent of this horror.  Are they covering for Obama whose policies have led to the fall of most of Iraq?  Are they covering for his inaction in Syria which has left ISIS untouched by any real resistance?  At what point will they wake up?  If these extremist are killing Christian’s how do you think Jews or Atheists will fair?  Does the media not care about Iraq and its fall? 

Letting ISIS, whose brutality and stated intent is no different than that of the Nazis, to kill all those who are not believers in Allah,  continue to consolidate territory makes no sense.  Not reporting the truth in detail and hiding it to protect the President puts not just Americans but every non-Muslim at risk.

When will the media call attention to this holocaust?  Once Turkey is overrun will they pay attention?  What about after Greece and Spain?  Can these countries be overrun without our taking steps to stop them?   ISIS is a group who intend to destroy Christians, Jews and anyone else that does not believe as they do. Yet our media shows no outrage against this religiocide.

Do the offices of CNN and NBC have to be taken over and their people slaughtered by ISIS before they pay attention?  It is a shame that the media and our government feel that it is OK to let evil reign unopposed throughout the world.  It is even sadder that the motivation for letting evil remain is ideological and political.  Perhaps when the sword looms over their heads they will figure out that evil does exist.

Four guys were sitting around the table at their Tuesday morning weekly bible study. The restaurant had the news playing in the background. A story caught their attention. A Pelham man had died leaving a widow and three kids. What should we do asked one man?

The first man said,”We need to pray for that family.”
The second guy said,”No, prayer is not enough. I will fast all day tomorrow and pray for them.”
The third man said,”I will fast, and pray. I will even go to their house to pray with them”
The fourth, the man that asked the question when the others looked at him, said,”I am concerned for them, but I am not sure what I would do.”

Immediately after breakfast the fourth man, who had few resources of his own started calling his friends. By that afternoon he had collected several $1000s of dollars in cash and a truck load of food.

When he dropped by the house of the widow that night she could feel the love of Christ in the offering. He was the hands and feat of the Savior that day. Indeed faith without works is dead. Prayer without the faith to do is also less than is asked of us.

Are you a doer? Are the leaders we put our faith in Doers?