On October 24, 1861, workers completed construction of the link connecting eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allowed instantaneous communication between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, and effectively put an end to the Pony Express. The idea behind the […]
Father, lead us with Your Spirit of truth. Help us to be guided by You and Your Word. Let us fix our eyes on You alone. We are at war with enemies of liberty, domestic and foreign. Domestic enemies are now pressing relentlessly. Why shrink from the word “enemy,” the simple definition of which is “one seeking […]
Bible-burning on the streets of Portland may be old news by now, but there is an irony lost to many in burning the Scriptures. All these protests are presumably part of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. But if one truly believed that Black lives matter (or all lives, really), the last book you would […]
President Trump’s address to the huge crowd at Mt. Rushmore, S.D. on the evening of July 3rd was very excellent. The reception was spectacular. President Trump showed a knowledge of American history and the values and principles upon which this Great Nation was founded, adding that the American Patriot will continue to maintain these values and principles, and those “citizens” who actually hate […]
Since the dawn of the Republic, enforcement powers have been clearly delineated between the states and the central government. The states were responsible for internal use of force to maintain order, while the federal government was responsible for external use of force to repel a threat to the security of every state from some foreign […]
Neil Gorsuch struck a stinging blow Monday against the monstrous Roe v. Wade ruling in his majority opinion in a Supreme Court case, Ramos v. Louisiana. The Ramos case dealt with a state law that allows a less than unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious crime (Ramos was convicted on a 10-2 […]
Teddy Roosevelt remarked in 1914: “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” If that was true then, it is truer today – because of the curse of political correctness. With a new year upon us, and the opportunity to turn over a new leaf, why not resolve to spend […]
His horse went dead and his mule went lame, And he lost 6 cows in a poker game. Then a hurricane came on a summer’s day And blew the house where he lived away. An earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the land the house stood on And then the tax collector came […]
We have a long history of celebrating our heroes. It defines who we are and what we want to be. Right now our greatest hero might be a Belgian Malinois canine who tracked down and cornered the most wanted terrorist in the entire world, Al-Baghdadi. You might think that we, with our superior intelligence, would […]
“Wisdom is the power to see behind a tree.” – old Indian chief “Common sense is the widest understanding possible of the relationship of common things and our relationship to them.” – William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918) A FARMER’S PHILOSOPHY. For the benefit of anyone who has never heard of this great man, I think this is a […]