A Christmas Poem

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.

Matthew 5:9

Merry Christmas

Glory to God

A Child is Born

Hallelujah

Merry Christmas, Everyone

Even humor ...

… can be true.

To Hope ...

In the long vista of the years to roll,

Let me not see our country’s honour fade:

O let me see our land retain her soul,

Her pride, her freedom; and not freedom’s shade.

From thy bright eyes unusual brightness shed—

Beneath thy pinions canopy my head!

—John Keats, 1815

Did you know ...

Why is education important?

Why does it matter whether we go into debt with foreign countries?

Why should the average voter be smart enough to avoid electing communists to the Congress and White House?

Maybe it's time we removed our heads from where the sun doesn't shine because we are at a point in time when there's no second place, and we no longer have the luxury for 'do-overs'.

Maybe we need to be serious about what kind of schooling our kids are getting (at a tremendous cost), and maybe ... just maybe we need someone in government besides avowed communists.

Afghanistan

“When you’re wounded, and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, and go to your Gawd like a soldier.” —Rudyard Kipling

Shocking prose by one of the world’s greatest authors, and here we are today committed to helping a people build a nation who have never had one. We wonder how it will all turn out. Let me direct your attention to this exceptional article by Michael Yon. It will take a few minutes to read it, but read it is what you must do if you can.

As always, thank you for stopping by.

I believe ...

Mr. L. A. Sunsett has lost his title as King of Sarcasm. Allow me to introduce the new monarch ... Queen Leslie at Blunt Politics.

Long live the queen!

Pearl Harbor Day

Since our schools no longer teach about what happened on 7 December 1941, here's a short reminder.

God and America

Maybe ... Just maybe we're starting to 'get it' once again.

Hat tip: Z

A New Monarchy

During Andrew Jackson’s presidency, it was common to find average Americans knocking on the President’s door. Recently, however, an American couple ‘crashed’ a White House State Dinner prompting massive investigations (costing, we assume, massive amounts of money). Why, even the Congress of the United States is conducting an investigation —which is probably a good thing; if Congress is investigating, they aren’t picking our pockets.

But we wonder why it is necessary to isolate the President of the United States from the American people. Sure, there are nutcases out there, and there is no question that the President should have security. But keeping the president isolated away from the American people seems more like the situation among Europe’s privileged upper class and over time, we seem to have emulated the court of King George III. I just wonder if we need fewer elitists “serving” the American people. You know, people who do not require $10 million annually to protect them from fellow citizens, and/or who can get by as Speaker of the House without a skillion-dollar Gulfstream V executive jet.

What is your view?