Toward the bottom page 2, under the heading Options, the paper states, “The following options – used alone or in combination – have the potential to result in meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.” Reading further reveals multiple layers of strategy to impose the will of the elite on the unwilling and unaccepting citizens of the land.

Each of these options requires, we are told, “development of specific written guidance and/or regulatory language, implementation protocols…” One can only recall the old adage, “more regulation, less freedom”. Yet this is only the beginning.

The paper outlines various paths to turn the unenforced laws written to protect the legal Americans into guidelines that make the agency charged with this task into an agency charged with looking after a new and expanded class of protected individuals. They want to do this subtlety, not by changing existing laws and regulations, but by tweaking details within them.

They want to raise some standards here, lower some standards there and revising definitions, basically gutting the protections built into our immigration system… making those who have spent the time and money to complete the process according to our laws look like major league chumps. It could be rightly argued that the process is too involved and convoluted to be practical, but that is the a discussion for another day.

Reading blogs, news stories and listening to the chattering class does not compare to reading the source document. Read through it. See what the inmates who have taken over the asylum want to do to our country. We must shine the light of truth on the nefarious plans they want to implement in the dark of night. We need to make this light of truth continuous and bright so we can watch the roaches scatter into their hiding places.

The only chance we have is to create public outcry loud enough to be heard round the world. Harassing our elected representatives will have limited impact as they probably won’t get to vote on this scheme, but the more we can put the fear of the voters in the members of the Presidents own party, we may be able put a crimp in their plans. Beyond this, all we have left is to seek injunctions to keep them from making the illegal legal against the will of the people.

All the while we need to seek guidance from the creator who gave us this great country on how to keep it… and not insult Him by giving it away without a fight.

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The old Soviet Union was well known for vodka, borscht and re-education camps. As awful as the first two sound, the third was far worse as citizens who did not tow the party line and were perceived to be a threat to the government were sent off to have their thinking adjusted. To the American mind, steeped in the concept of free speech, the idea of punishment for unpopular “thought crimes” convinced those of us who lived through the cold war of the righteousness of our cause.

Back during the poisonous sixties, radicals were fond of telling us “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”, misattributed to Thomas Jefferson – perhaps to give them some undeserved credibility. These same people, now grown older and having wormed their way into positions of power are now singing a different tune. Many of these were professional students who never left the ivy covered halls of academia. They never learned about life in the real world and have done little but let their disastrous ideas percolate until they are now in a position to execute them.

Augusta State University student Jennifer Keeton has run into the work of these guardians of secular humanistic doctrine. She has been told that, to complete her masters degree in counseling, she must set aside her Christian beliefs about homosexuality and submit to a re-education program… or be expelled from the university. The university, of all places, purports to be a place of acceptance and open discussion, yet there there are some ideas and concepts just too radical for these old time radicals.

While the mortar board set is fond of telling us that there are no absolutes, that each person is responsible for finding their own “truth”, they are absolutely sure that some “truths” just are not acceptable enough to be explored, or even talked about in polite company. In spite of their high sounding “academic freedom” rhetoric, there is an “absolute truth” they live by. That truth is no one can criticize or question the validity of the homosexual experience.

Fortunately, with the help of the Alliance Defense Fund, Jennifer Keeton is fighting back by suing the school that will accept deviant life styles, almost every form or religion and atheism, but not Christianity. There is a clear case of religious discrimination… the kind we are told is illegal. This young lady is standing up and fighting the good fight. We wish her well, and we all need to keep her in our prayers.

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The process of eliminating public protection in the city with the fourth highest crime rate the country shows the city fathers (and mothers) are following the old political practice of funding the lowest priorities first. Then, when the money is gone and the public still had needs, it is much easier to come back and ask for more money. For some reason, up to this point, people believed that the elected representatives were really working for the good of the public. How many citizens would accept a tax increase for extra flowers for the park across town? Yet, these things are often already bought and paid for when weeping and wailing is heard in the halls of power because some essential services will have to be cut. Here’s a helpful hint – don’t believe a word of it!

The idea is to create the maximum inconvenience for the maximum number of people. Oakland residents will have to make do with less police protection. This can have life and death consequences for those who find themselves in need. Cutbacks like this hit voters at the gut level as they see the criminal element taking over more and more of their city – and they become an easy touch as their representatives work to pry open their wallets. While the unions need to be reigned in, cutting down on public protection is not the way to make their city a better place to live.

A little trip this weekend showed me one of the possible results of these cutbacks. Police officers are not stupid. Many see the writing on the wall. Governments are a lot like real businesses. They are concerned with such things as expenses and revenue. When municipalities cut back on police departments, they are also cutting back on a source of revenue. This point was brought home to me as I headed down to Sandbridge Beach from the Richmond VA area.

On one short, ten mile stretch of Route 295, State Troopers had drivers pulled over in each direction. This is to be expected as we are told that heavy traffic, vacation times require tighter law enforcement in the name of public safety. However, as I traveled down Route 460 through one sleepy little town after another, with speed limits popping up and dropping down with predictable regularity, I passed through one such town that appeared to have a population of about thirty seven people and two shiny new police cars.

Each of these shiny new police cars, lights flashing brightly, sat by the side of the road, behind some hapless motorist as the officers, in the crisply pressed uniforms, politely produced traffic tickets that enhanced the finances of their sleepy little town. In the past, some remote southern towns have developed a reputation for fleecing unsuspecting, usually out of state, visitors as a matter of public policy and finance. As I said before, police officers are not stupid. It may be that the thought has occurred to some that by enhancing revenue for their employers, they enhance the likelihood that they can actually keep their jobs.

This is not to impugn the many officers working to keep us safe. Unfortunately one of the things they cannot protect us from is greedy “public servants” who maybe looking to increased zoning, traffic and building code enforcement to help cover budget shortfalls. This may or may not be happening in your area, but be forewarned… governments at all levels want your money… they say they “need” it, but we know the truth, don’t we?

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Anyone who has read more than half a dozen posts on this blog should be well aware that it is not a house organ of the Republican Party in any way like the formerly main stream media that is the mouthpiece of the Obama administration. In fact, much of our criticisms have been directed toward the GOP for their lack of courage and resolve in standing up to the Democrat majority.

Many of the obstacles to the Republican Party actually acting as an effective opposition party is their breathing the inside-the-beltway air and wanting to be liked and accepted as members of the ruling elite. The ruling elite, as recently described in The American Spectator article America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution. I would highly recommend this article that is so much on target that Rush Limbaugh spent the better part of one show reading from and commenting on it.

Trent Lott’s recent comments disparaging the tea parties illustrate this infection. This hero of the right is reported to have said, “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” It appears that even this perceived “good guy” has sold out to the ruling clique. This is part of the problem and, no, we are not in the pocket of the GOP.

As for demonizing our opponents, this is a measure of how much one regards our struggle as a spiritual battle. Phelim McAleer’s insightful documentary, Not Evil, Just Wrong that destroys the the global warming mythology, says many people are just deceived and have no evil intentions. This is correct in many cases, but not all. Recent revelations of emails showing the suppression of conflicting information shows that some are aware of what they are doing. They are not deceived, they are deceivers.

This brings us to the Christian world view which recognizes the presence of both good and evil… and who the author of lies is. For a Christian to see the suffering and injustice in the world, one has to understand the evil influences in our society.

We just need to remember that not everyone who espouses some of these socialistic approaches to life is evil. They are victims of the lies as much as those they hurt… yet that influence is still with us, and needs to be opposed. Here is where the gift of discernment comes into play. It is the one we need to ask for to make our efforts as effective as possible – so we don’t overlook the fact that many on the other side of issues need our help and prayers as much as their victims.

Showing the exclusively race based tunnel vision, the organization set their sites on repudiating “the racism of the Tea Parties”. The leadership of this formerly useful institution, in pushing the same disastrous programs that all but destroyed the black families, had to resort to playing the race card and engaging in character assassination. Generally this is the last play of one who is unable to refute logical arguments.

We know that the government intervention has never, and will never, lift people out of poverty. Abraham Lincoln said, “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong, you cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down, you cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.” Yet, holding out the promise of benefits paid for by someone else is what placed these leaders in their exalted positions and what they expect to keep them in power. Therefore, the tea parties who recognize the failure of the NAACP’s traditional approach and had the audacity to point it out… much like the child who noticed the emperor had no clothes, have to go.

These people are fighting to maintain the impression of relevance, so they are calling the tea partiers, which means they are calling most of us, what they believe to be worst name in the world, which is “racist”, and this is, somehow, to make us go away. While racism is evil and disgusting, calling someone a racist doesn’t make him one… just like their calling Barack Hussein Obama a great president, doesn’t make him one. However, they have to keep up the image of taking on the functioning part of America to keep their membership fired up and paying dues.

If they were truly effective and getting the job done for the constituents, they would not be fighting the same fights and using the same rhetoric for the last fifty years. The fact is, most of our country has moved far beyond evaluating people based on the color of their skin. Unfortunately, the NAACP is stuck in the 60s and only sees things through the lens of racial conflict. In spite of the charges of racial prejudice among the tea partiers; something that has never been proven, they need to understand that we have bigger fish to fry than keeping our black brothers “in their place”.

In fact, to anyone who believes that our creator made everyone in his own image, and endowed everyone certain unalienable rights, these ideas are preposterous and offensive. However, my reading of our constitution doesn’t include a right to go through life without hurt feelings. We are not only fighting for our own families, but all families to have a more free and more prosperous life.

We, and I include myself in the tea party crowd, have been called all sorts of vile names by protectors and agents of the status quo. This is just one more attempt to discredit a movement that threatens to bring sanity back to our world. We have two choices in how we deal with this attack. The first, and the one our enemies hope we take is to hide our heads and quietly slink on back home, having been exposed by the great moral arbiters of our society. If we really believe in what we are doing this is not an option.

The second option is to just keep on keeping on. Our example went about doing good. Some people loved him, just like they do the tea partiers. Some hated him and tried to discredit him… but you can’t discredit the truth. Then some killed him. We hope the enemies of freedom won’t get that far, but doing the right thing is never wrong and if we shrink back, we are unworthy of our founding fathers.

We can only hope that we see enough change in Washington to defund such programs in the absence of the possibility of an actual repeal. At a time when our country is more divided than at any time in the recent past, we do not need one more, or multiplied numbers of agencies designed to assign quotas and pit one group of citizens (usually) against another.

The United States has long been known as a “melting pot” where newcomers to our country were integrated into a more or less common culture with common language and aspirations. Immigrants came here, and believed they were coming to the promised land. Most saw an opportunity filled land and they wanted to get their piece of the pie. Our country prospered as more and more legal immigrants joined the pursuit of the American Dream. This is not surprising as our creator knew the value of unity when he said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” (Genesis 11:1-9 NIV)

Unfortunately, somewhere around forty years ago, academics and overly ambitious political types decided they could garner more influence by pushing the idea of multiculturalism. It’s the old strategy of divide and conquer. From a common effort to keep our country strong, we moved to parochial society primarily looking out for group benefits, even if it did damage to the rest of our American brothers and sisters. This fragmentation of society can be defined by memberships in unions, or some sort of racial or possibly social group. Instead of working to create an expanding economy driven by entrepreneurial effort and expertise, we have retreated to a zero-sum game where everyone’s gain is offset by someone else’s loss.

This is a plan destined for failure. It is a plan that, by definition, makes our citizens jealous of any gains by any group they don’t belong to. We have become suspicious of our government and suspicious of our fellow Americans… anyone not like ourselves. Ivory tower promoters of the multicultural curse on our land live in the dream world where the words of Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” actually make sense. They totally misunderstand the human nature that will cause men (and women) to create and innovate when they can reap rewards for their ingenuity. This same human nature will slam the brakes on innovative creativity if people see the fruits of their labors snatched away before they can be enjoyed.

The lack of economic understanding on the part of the national government, concerning the creation of wealth they intend to confiscate to fund their grandiose schemes is astounding. We cannot continue to carve out benefits for unions, ethnic groups and now, illegal groups. We have an administration obsessed with the common political practice of creating focused benefits combined with broad base financing to the point where the broad based financing consists, not of the taxpayers, but the taxpayers grand children.

I have been learned many years ago that when you find yourself in a hole… you stop digging. The Obama administration, already way over its head in debt, is even bringing in a bigger backhoe to dig even deeper. They are catering to the most extreme and least productive segments of our society and their base, promising all sorts of benefits at the expense of other segments of the population. This is a situation guaranteed to create dissension and fragmentation of our society… possibly even violence when the money runs out or the citizens tire of being financially raped.

Our country is in trouble and this condition will not be cured until we send the multiculturalists packing and return to our founding values of individual responsibility and unity of purpose. We cannot remain fragmented and stand strong. We cannot rob Peter to pay Paul… even though the current plan has the complete support of Paul. It is time to review Ben Franklin’s sage advice that “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

Don’t you get tired of people pussyfooting around about the nonsense taking place in Washington and around our country? Many speak of their “concern” about freedom destroying trends in hushed tones. Words that come from pastors like Rev. Swaggart are said to be inflammatory and not very helpful in our multi-cultural, diversity worshiping world. These people don’t want to rock the boat or are afraid to be seen as extremists. They are afraid of what others will think. They wring their hands and wonder, “what can we do?” All this, just like the Jews in Germany during the 1930s.

Compartmentalized Christians who split their lives between Sunday morning, and their own time, won’t like or even comprehend what the preacher in the video was saying. Those who understand that life cannot be split into segments with conflicting loyalties know exactly what Brother Swaggart is talking about. Those without even a claim to the Christian faith will see him as foolish, ridiculous and even dangerous. However without this understanding and passion, our efforts will turn out to be half hearted and futile.

Whatever else each of us finds we must do, I believe Charles Stanley from Atlanta has the ultimate answer that will back to the America God gave us. What is he suggesting? Two things really. The answer is found in II Chronicles 7:14 “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (NIV) The two things are that we (the Christians, not the philistines running our world) need to do is seek the hand of God to work on our behalf, and the hard part, clean up our own lives… stop acting like the rest of the world. We are here, but can anyone tell we are different? Is there enough evidence in your life that you could be convicted of being a Christian?

Dr. Stanley is calling us to 140 Days of Intercession for America – twenty weeks, with a different focus each week such as Personal Preparation, Increasing Taxation and Killing the Unborn. Find out more at InTouch.org. Sign up to be a prayer warrior, then hit your knees… it’s the surest, and in reality, the only way to victory.

Each in his own way thought the normal rules of civility, legality, economics and humanity did not apply to them. Each one, not only destroyed themselves, but they left a trail of devastation and death (some literal and some figurative). This should not be surprising that each came crashing down to earth in a tragic death spiral as Numbers 32:23 tells us “you may be sure that your sin will find you out.”

There is one more name that is on track to be added to the list and he is in the process of pulling us all under in a whirlpool debt and destruction. That name is Barack Hussein Obama. Many people believe he is unique on the scene… and in some ways, he is. On the other hand, he is just one more in a long line of charlatans whose dreams took them far beyond the realm of the possibility and propriety.

The thing about pulling us all under in a whirlpool of debt and destruction is the real issue. If he should choose to self destruct, while it would be sad to see, it would be his own business. Yet it is not just his own ruination he is careening toward, but ours, our children’s and our grandchildren’s.

We cannot let November go by without giving the this man’s supporters a thorough thrashing at the polls. But that’s not enough. We need to keep the pressure on the legislators to minimize the damage they do both before the election and during the lame duck session that follows.

Yet even that is not enough. The Keynesian economic policies of the current and previous administration have put our country on track… and the numbers confirm that we are on the path to a double dip recession. The economic policies are in line with actions taken leading up to the previous Great Depression as are the results of governmental effort. The point is that even more difficult times appear to be around the corner and we would do well to take defensive steps to protect our families.

The scope of this article does not even come close to providing financial advice. You might want to look into advice from someone like Dave Ramsey, which would include such things as reducing debt and expenses along with re-evaluating investments. Wisdom will guide you to moderate the impact of the Obama disaster.

Before you go off into a doom and gloom funk, please consider that some of the rules (not of behavior, but of economics) do not always apply to followers of Christ. Psalm 37:25 says, “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.” So no matter how badly the government fouls the economy, if we are faithful, we will make it through. With that confidence, we can go through life annoying secular progressives with a smile on our faces.

This song means so much to many Americans and is the prayer of so many Americans.  It is something we look for, not always remembering II Chronicles 7:14 that tells us, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”  If we follow this advice we will make our country blessable once again.

As a soldier, Gen. McChrystal was expected to follow orders. As a career soldier, particularly one who achieved his rank, he knew not to publicly question his orders, or the civilian source. This is pretty much cut and dried that his actions warranted his dismissal. Some who publicly criticized him did so primarily on the principle that the man should know his place in the overall scheme of things Others could not accept the fact that this man who was almost universally highly regarded, both at home and abroad would have the temerity to question the alleged manhood of the White House resident. It is unfortunate that those of honor and good will would be lumped together with the blatant partisanship of this administration.

The concept of civilian control of the military is basic to our American system of government. The elected representatives of the people must be able to direct or restrain the vast power to kill and destroy that we have developed. The rub comes when this civilian control is exercised by those who despise the soldiers, sailors and airmen who keep us safe, or if they have no clue as to what will preserve or harm our great nation.

Reports that the good general was less than complementary to the Commander in Chief brought a comparatively lightning quick response from the normally lethargic administration that took weeks to figure out that it should be doing something about the gulf oil spill. Barack Hussein Obama has developed a reputation for being thin skinned and unable to handle criticism well. In this case, he had a legal and moral excuse for his speedy retribution. Yet in doing so, he found himself in the awkward situation of having to call back into service Bush’s man, David Petraeus whom he set aside for his hand picked replacement, McChrystal – one of the few service personnel who actually admitted voting for his boss.

Many see right and wrong as the primary determinant of appropriate actions. To this thinking, consequences are secondary to doing what is right. If the General sees that the President is incompetent, then it is his duty to speak up. To not do so, would mean he was falling short of upholding his oath to protect our country against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. For some, the question of proper time and place is irrelevant. As with the opposing view, those with the most virulent distaste for the resident of the White House tend to let these feelings color their evaluation.

So what is the right course through this maze of political intrigue? First of all, while it is never wrong to do the right thing, sometimes we have to use the common sense our creator gave us in choosing the proper time and place. At times, we will be prompted to go against our common sense, and because we don’t always have the big picture, it may be the right thing to do… we just need to be as certain as possible that it is a divine prompting and not just our own impatience or, worse yet, a push from the other side.

There are times we know there will be consequences to our actions, and we must weigh the benefits of our choice against the cost. Does this mean that just because there is a price to pay we pull back. I believe our forefathers would be calling to us from the past telling us “Never!”, chief among them, the likes of Nathan Hale.

While I question why any military leader with at least half a brain would give the Rolling Stone the time of day, I appreciate the honesty McChrystal displayed, if not his wisdom. The thing is that this man saw up close and personal the presidential leading us down the path of destruction. To a soldier trained to focus on and accomplish the mission at hand to work under the direction of a President without a firm understanding of the world around us and how to deal with it, must have been exceedingly aggravating. It could be he just slipped, or the thought crossed my mind that consciously or unconsciously he may have seen his actions as the only way out of a no win situation. He was not given the resources he asked for and his hands were tied in so many other ways, yet he was responsible for the success or failure of the mission, which by all appearances does not include victory. Each of us has a breaking point, perhaps the General had reached his. In any case he is no longer responsible for executing and ill defined foreign policy and seeing our young men and women dying as a result.

Perhaps now he can say “Mission accomplished”.