Some Minnesota woman posting comments on Ann Coulter’s column about the Gates-Cambridge affair seems to be having trouble processing exactly what took place there and what it all means. Perhaps this woman should not bear the whole blame for her misunderstanding and confusion. After all, it isn’t as though “liberal” commentators, “journalists,” “academics,” “civil-rights ‘leaders’ ” and even U.S. presidents haven’t already disfigured the entire situation for entirely cynical, self-promotional and power-grubbing reasons.

Still, she gets extremely personal about it all. Emotional, too.

“Don’t Mess with My Rights,” she titles her post. And of course, it only slides straight downhill from there.

She continues: “The is [sic] great concern that police officers could enter the home of any American and arrest him or her citing ‘disorderly conduct’. [sic]”

Well, such may or may not be in fact a legitimate concern, but it is not, at any rate, what actually happened in this case. She continues: “It is unacceptable for a policer [sic] officer, white or other wise [sic] to enter my personal property and accuse me of disorderly conduct.” All of which is fine, as far as it goes, except that, again, it is not at all what took place at Cambridge.

This woman adds: “Such behavior from our police officers is not only ‘stupid’ but also very un-American.”

Well, it seems to us that, even if it had happened, it couldn’t be nearly as “stupid” as that entire post. Serious doubt arises whether this woman even has a clue what “un-American” means, because it is doubtful she knows what being American is about. She seems to think it’s about whatever she happens to feel like imagining are her “rights.”

If only someone would explain to these people what federalism and a constitutional republic are and what the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence do and do not guarantee. If only such people would take the trouble to learn about the responsibilities of individual and national self-government. Maybe then we could free our republic from these grotesque misapprehensions and misrepresentations of citizen liberties — which seem to have been revolutionized into some grasping, gluttonous, “gimme” frenzy.

No one’s “messing” with your “rights,” sister, so chill.

The Cambridge affair was a local police matter that got out of hand simply because some fathead, pampered, big-mouthed black fellow who sees Ku Klux Klan whenever he passes a clothesline and who thinks he’s “special” ’cuz his momma told him so and ’cuz “God don’t make junk” began shrieking and carrying on when there was no need.

That’s what happened. That and the fact that he and Obama play marbles together.

And so, all because of one self-impressed, narcissistic, expensively overeducated “African-American” imbecile, the entire nation has to be dragged through this Jerry Springer episode.

We are under no compulsion to award Sonia Sotomayor a seat on the Supreme Court merely because she is a Puerto Rican chick.

Sotomayor grew up in the South Bronx. Big deal, yo — I grew up in the South Bronx too, and no one ever gave ME a free ride through the Ivy Leagues.

And yet I believe I am no less intelligent than she. And frankly, I think I’m a better lawyer, even though I’ve never attended law school — which I am sure only works in my favor in any event. At the very least, I do understand that the Constitution is no “living” or “culturally evolving” document, and that its principles have nothing to do with redefining justice as Marxism, feminism or statism.

I know the importance of interpreting the Constitution in keeping with the original intent of the Framers, versus yielding to the seductions of some narcotic, post-modernist, legal positivism. One judicial activist on any U.S. court is one too many, and this is the Supreme Court we’re talking about, for the love of justice. Furthermore, the particular judicial activist in question here has been publicly much too cute about her proclivities in this regard. Well, I have no taste for seeing policy made in any court of appeals, thanks just the same.

And she knows, this is on tape, and she should never say that, because judges “don’t make law,” and she knows, OK, she knows, and she’s not promoting or advocating it.
She really isn’t … she’s — “you know.”

And we do know, don’t we?

I mean, Sotomayor’s got all that “wise Latina woman, richness of her experiences” thing going on, you know?  Well, maybe you don’t know, because this, after all, is a persons-of-color thing, and you might not understand.

America, America.

All of that imbecility aside, I understand that this nation’s founding documents and the Fathers’ philosophies of governance afford no legal sanction at any time, in any place to any of the indecent and dishonest inequities we typically get from those who “think” like Sotomayor, inequities born of all this affirmative-action-baby-type social engineering we see today — history of slavery or no history of slavery.

Permitting slavery at the establishment of this great nation was a serious lapse in judgment on the part of the Founding Fathers, to be sure. And this has since then produced no end of cynical machinations on the part of those who desire nothing better than to destroy this great experiment in self-government and replace it with a globalist empire of their own humanist arrogance, based at the UN.

All such are free to drop dead.

Whatever the stumblings of our Fathers may have been, there is no excuse for this kidnapping of the American constitutional republic that Sotomayor and Obama are fomenting and perpetrating now — assisted to no small degree by the limp-wrists in the Senate and their streetwalker partners in the “news” media.

America does not need a 60s/70s-era subversive on the Court simply because she’s got a little melanin in her skin and knows what “sí, se puede” means. We’ve already got one of those in the Oval Office, where he has wreaked more than enough damage as it is.

NO to Sotomayor. NO.

I no longer give a fig about so-called extreme or ultimate fighting.

But I confess that I would very much like to witness a cage-fighting match between Todd Palin and David Letterman.

I would complain only about the stunning brevity of the match. Letterman would go down immediately and would get back up no time soon. To the wager-minded: How long do you suppose it would take for Letterman to regain consciousness?

Gov. Sarah Palin's recent announcement about stepping down is what got me thinking about all this.

Todd Palin is incontrovertibly justified. Letterman unjustly and needlessly insulted Sarah, Todd Palin's wife, showing no respect for the woman or for the honor of her husband, and he also said unspeakably vile and wicked things about their daughters.

Letterman is on his own. Whatever he gets, he merits.

What Letterman did is rooted in some of the long-standing tactics of the "news" media and the American left as concerns their irrational and unhinged hatred of all things Palin, Sarah and otherwise. That hatred is behind Letterman's astonishing stupidity, of course, as it is behind virtually everything else involving the Palins.

The American left is characterized by disease of soul. I know. The people of the left are bereft of their senses, certainly. They have been so for a long time. In everything — in their actions, their words, their attitudes — they are savage and infernal. This is a new low, however.

That anyone should so publicly and so cravenly assault a man's wife and daughters — amazing. I don't care that the assault was only "verbal." Because it was also spiritual. Letterman is guilty of the grossest unmanliness. He is an utterly contemptible coward. You don't mess with a man's family, and if you do, I think you should be prepared to own the consequences and to become much better acquainted with the man you have insulted. Mano a mano.

Those cracks about the Palin girls especially irk me. One daughter is a young woman, sure, but the other is still a young girl, and anyway, both are still girls in the sight of their parents. (I'd like to break this dude's jaw myself.) I recall ugly comments made also about President Bush's daughters, though they were already about 20, and that was little compared to this.

All of that said, I would remind myself and remind others that we must never yield to the temptation to follow the leftists' example of depravity and pernicious conduct. I have heard some call for an "open season" as it were, on Obama's children. Wrong. The children of even our worst political enemies must ever remain off-limits. They are children and deserve our protection.

The reason the left can attack even children the way they do is that lefties are crazy. This is why they murder their infants and then sanction their savagery through "law."

When the Serpent wanted to corrupt mankind, he did not approach Adam — perhaps fearing he would have his tush handed to him (proof of his cowardice, as serpents do not even have tushes). Whatever the Serpent's reason, he decided to aim his lies at Eve instead, and he got what he was after.

"Don't believe what God said," that slime-bag told her. "You will not die, but rather be as gods."

The con worked, because women tend to be more emotional and feelings-oriented, as well as being much easier to sell on image over substance. (Glance over at the Oval Office for evidence of this — Oprah is in no small way responsible for Obama.)

Nothing's changed. Women are just as stupid today. Consider what Mike Adams writes in his latest column:

"Feminists applaud, rather than treat [psychiatrically], trans-genders who go to the extreme of permanently mutilating their genitals. And they do so in the name of gender equality. It’s almost as bad as applauding the dismemberment of children in the name of sexual liberation."

That is right on the money. Western women are the ones who have been stupid enough to buy Satan's lies about abortion (the murder of infants) and gender "equality" (the destruction of the home). Normally, women are supposed to be fiercely protective of children and also the keepers of the home.

But men have fecklessly and lazily permitted these perversions. And so here we are.

Feminism is proof that women are still idiotically buying the bill of goods they were first sold at the genesis of history, and that men are still spinelessly going along instead of saying: "Woman, don't be a moron! We're not killing our children, and I'm going to be the papa, and you're going to be the mama. End of story."

Sonia Sotomayor's affirmations of being an "affirmative action product" or "affirmative action baby," as widely reported, serve only to affirm that she's all wrong for the U.S. Supreme Court, all wrong for the Constitution and all wrong for our country as the Founders intended it.

But as big a menace to true justice and fairness as Sotomayor's attitudes reveal her to be, she's hardly single-handed in her devotion to these misguidedly egalitarian goals. She's had lots of "help," as Pat Buchanan points out in his latest column. There he spotlights the complicity of Princeton and Yale, both of which, it seems, admitted and advanced her based on her ethnicity and thus "affirmatively" aided her rise to those heights from which she now waits to swoop down on our meritocratic traditions.  

"[T]hose two Ivy League institutions," Buchanan writes, "cheated more deserving students of what they had worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity. This is bigotry pure and simple."

Yes, it is that. It is theft, too, if one thinks about it. In fact, such "affirmative" actions suggest an injustice of biblical proportions.

To perpetrate this sham, "those two Ivy League institutions" first had to commit to taking what was not theirs, for one thing, and then to making false statements in the bargain.

Further, they had to anoint themselves the ultimate arbiters of what is "fair," then set up their very distortions of fairness as the highest good.

They surely forswore their own mottoes -- "Under God's Power She Flourishes" (Princeton); "Light and Truth" (Yale) -- thus insulting the noble name of Him for Whom they were established.

They had to dishonor the family of every fully deserving applicant they defrauded. They had to foment bitter envy between the "classes," plus the murderous resentment that inevitably follows.

In the process, of course, these "two Ivy League institutions" prostituted themselves with shameless abandon.

And it's certain they've been committing these iniquities seven days a week for decades.

Thus, through their affirmative-action "policies" alone, the Princeton and Yale Sanhedrin have managed to violate every single one of the Ten Commandments.

Impressive.

This is what Sean Penn said at that silly movie-awards ceremony: I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

Thank you, Sean Penn, for the sanctimonious lecture.

Yes, I oppose so-called homosexual “marriages.” Yes, I supported — and still support — Proposition 8.

Still, I think I’ll retain the right to decide for myself what I should and should not be ashamed of, and what my children and grandchildren will learn and cleave to. Thanks. In any case, as concerns virtue and personal morality, I will not be needing — or heeding — the counsel of some Hollywood player with a record of drunkenness and hooliganism, who has been divorced and remarried, has fathered children out of wedlock and committed adultery, and who evidently approves of all manner of sexual libertinism in the lives of others as well.

I am content with my own "unevolved" family values, based in my own traditions and Christian beliefs. These continue to work for me, my household and the community of which I have chosen to be a part. I will hold to these, and Mr. Missionary Penn is welcome to take his post-modernist, "post-Christian," metro-lib version of the White-man’s burden somewhere else.

But given that Penn is so flush with self-satisfaction at having played that great martyr, Harvey Milk — OK, I'll  join him in one song: Anybody here seen our old friends Abraham, Martin and John — and Harvey?

This, by Devlin Barrett, on Townhall.com:

Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said.

The following, from me:

Hey, Mr. Holder:

With all due respect — do you even know what you're talking about?

I doubt it.

Please do the nation this courtesy: Spare us any more inane non sequiturs. Please. How heart-stoppingly STUPID.

Stop it.

"Cowards"? Because we do not talk enough about "race"? Or as much as YOU think we should about it?

Mr. Holder, that is ALL we talk about in this country anymore — when we are not talking about sex — and we serve it up boiled, mashed, stewed, and smothered in onions.

We are FORCED to obsess over "race" endlessly, because the race/grievance/victimization merchants, of which you are certainly one, will not let us think about anything else.

Do you refuse to let us go, Mr. Pharaoh?

Listen to me: The blacks in this country have it FAR, FAR BETTER than blacks anywhere else in the world. And you may not know this, but African slavery has long been abolished in our 50 states, the Jim Crow era is over and finished, we have affirmative action enacted and enshrined from sea to shining sea, and we are prohibited by law in this land to discriminate against blacks or even to say anything "mean" about them. Right?

Anyone who does not like it here is always welcome to leave. I notice they stay.

What in Reason's name are you talking about Mr. Holder?

Speak for yourself, Mr. Holder. You do NOT speak for me or my household. The man writing these words is no "coward" — not about "race," anyway, which I would not even think about if you would just quit dealing that particular drug.

In the Name of Heaven, Mr. Holder, you and all who "think" like you:

SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!

David Limbaugh has just written: "When Obama peddled panic to rush his bill through Congress, he heeded this advice from Rahm Emanuel: 'Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.' "

No doubt.

They are also opportunities to tell big lies, commit big frauds and perpetrate big thefts.

It seems a “crisis” presents a phenomenal excuse to commit big crimes.

Crimes, I say, and I do not overstate the case. What is there about the Obama-Democrat "stimulus" bill that honors the principles of representative government? This was a breathtaking power grab, a rejection of responsible stewardship, a betrayal of a sacred trust and a damnable act of larceny.

Which of us ever got to vote our consciences as concerns this iron yoke of a bill? Which of us ever knew what was in it, even as these "devoted and selfless public servants" rushed it through in a fever to clamp it upon our necks?

If this measure was so noble, why the secrecy? If so prudent, why the haste? If the national need was so "urgent," as they claim, why the coming years of delay upon so much that was enacted therein?

Those billions upon billions of dollars that do not exist and that they have pledged toward the perpetual enslavement of our children and the destruction of this nation — is any of that their money? Who says it is? Since when?

The wealth of nations belongs to the people who produce it by their labor — the product of their lives and their talents — and to the God Who rules those nations and bestows those gifts and is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Those who devised, supported and passed this abomination are perjurers and extortionists. They know what they have done. They know it is deceptive. They do NOT know that their destruction hangs over them, and that their punishment marches relentlessly in their direction.

The current “crisis” was a chance for this generation of political hacks, this despicable den of robbers, this contemptible brood of snakes, to get their goodies now.

It was their chance to "do big things."

"The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it will yield its best treasures. God has nothing to say to the frivolous man." — God Tells the Man Who Cares, A.W. Tozer

The biblical warrior is a man of tears.

Think not? Consider:

King David, Joshua, King Josiah, Jacob, Moses, Jeremiah, Simon Peter, Paul, Timothy, Jesus Christ. All these were men of tears; all were fighters; all were worshipers; all were faithful servants of the Most Holy God — and that last One is the incarnation of Almighty God Himself.

Why does this matter? It’s because grief is a proper response of the holy person to the certainty that the vast majority of human souls will perish eternally. It is also the proper response to the awareness that our sin is a burden and a grief to our God. Tears are therefore the divine tools and weapons of repentance for ourselves, and of intercession for others.

Sometimes tears are an expression of worship and gratitude to the God who has loved His people from before the foundation of the world, and Who continues to love us even unto the ages of the ages. We weep for joy and with profound love because our words fail us. And it is right that they should fail us. Consider the Eternal and Holy One: Who has ever fully understood His mind and His heart? Who has ever known Him to the very depths of His glorious, holy and wonderful soul?

At the same time, we must never forget that God’s eternal purpose is that tears should remain for a night, with joy coming in the morning. “Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal weight of glory that far outweighs them all; what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

And so we are called to suffer for now, but to rejoice forever afterward. On that great and glorious Day when the sons of Light inherit the kingdom that has been promised them from the creation of the world, He will wipe away every tear. That particular gift of God, then, is for this age only; it is destined to pass away with this present world, and will not be a part of that eternal age.

Amen.

David Harsanyi wrote this in his Townhall.com column: Democrats have concocted a surefire political victory. They've notified America that the so-called "stimulus" bill might take a long time to work -- which is exceptionally handy, considering we always come out of a recession at some point.

No worries, folks. The Democrat-Obama "stimulus" bill will NEVER work. Not even after a long time.

Why not? It's because, with all these bailouts and all that psychopathic spending in there (sexually transmitted disease education?!?), this thieving, lying Congress, gang-led by its biceps-flexing Shrieker of the House, has mortgaged the souls of our descendants down to about the 10th generation.

By the time these mountebanks — I mean public servants — get done with this medicine show of theirs, there will be no money in America, no prosperity, no national wealth — indeed, there will be no nation.

Nice work, "liberals," "Democrats," phonies. Years from now you will stand amidst all the ruin, misery and devastation you've caused, and you will still be lying about it, out of your duplicitous faces. I expect to witness it.

But that's your way, the way of the Whore: "She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' "

Far too many in this present generation have been intoxicated with the maddening wine of your fornications, you "liberals," "Democrats," phonies. But future generations will curse you.

Rightly so.

But I also know that you — "liberals," "Democrats," phonies — could not have perpetrated this massive fraud against honest, hard-working Americans (the minority in this once-great nation) without the aid of your lying, thieving partners in Congress: the Republi-cRats. (My apologies to those VERY FEW Republicans in Congress who understand and honor Constitutional principles and who strive to represent their constituents with honor and integrity. You few are worthy of a much better government — and a much better electorate.)

The Constitution of these United States gives the members of Congress the authority to represent us and to make law by our permission and in our name, using our authority — which is the sacred trust of the Almighty God — and for the benefit of all the people, but in strict accordance with the principles of that great founding legal document.

Whence derive these career politicians any authority to lie unceasingly to the people and to spend money that neither they nor we possess, and which does not belong to them in any case?

 

I am still contemplating the events of these past few days, events involving acts of "political protest" and "demonstration" by homosexuals furious about Proposition 8. Those actions amount to malicious mischief, vandalism, anarchy and violence. And such actions have increased in popularity over the decades, not just among homosexuals, but also among many who are self-obsessed, pampered and more interested in their toys and appetites than in the general welfare. I am reflecting on all this.

In line with that, a few posts I've read on one of the Townhall threads reflect some erroneous and disingenuous attitudes that issue from these disturbing trends and that I have been observing for years:

"Sounds like you're just aching for an excuse to have a gay man in your line of fire," reads one post. "Jesus would be so proud."

"Great. Another straight hoping for a chance to beat up a gay," reads another.

Now, how does this sort of vain, baseless accusation benefit even the one who hurls it? Can such calumny bring hope of anything even remotely approaching solution? Justice? Peace? No, it is merely petty, snarky and mean.

It dishonoreth him that gives and him that takes.

Then, too, that first quote demonstrates an appalling ignorance of the character and mission of Christ. This chimera that He came to tolerate and sanction any and every thought, impulse and habit that wretched humans might feel like indulging is the pitiful invention of a malignant generation gone beyond narcissism, beyond arrogance, beyond despair.

Anyhow,  I think many guys will concur when I say this: I do not want to beat up any homosexuals, or anyone else. I am busy with things that matter. That said, I add this, to homosexuals and to anyone else: Speak your speech, frame your argument, and disagree or dissent as you will. More power to you. But have some respect. And if your intentions be malicious, step way, way back. Stay out of our churches, stay out of our neighborhoods, and stay out of our homes.

I am a man who loves and wants peace. I neither relish nor invite conflict. But be sure of this: If you enter my church or my home without my permission and with evil intent, I AM GOING TO HURT YOU. BADLY.

If you will respect me, I will most gladly and happily respect you — though you needn’t expect that I’ll compromise so much as a single principle. On the other hand, if you mean any physical harm to me or my family, I will deal with you very swiftly and with terrible force.

I use the word "you" referring to no one in particular.

Townhall.com columnist Doug Giles reports about the harassment some Christian churches are suffering at the hands of homosexual groups infuriated over Proposition 8. Members of a group — read “gang” — called Bash Back entered the Mount Hope Church, in Lansing, Mich., last Sunday and engaged in quite a bit of extremely malicious conduct. Giles writes:

These winners entered the church along with worshippers and surprised the congregation when they stood up during the service, threw fliers and condoms at the congregants, pulled the fire alarm, made out in front of the church by the pulpit and shouted slogans such as "Jesus was a homo.” No arrests were made.

Filthy savages.

Let them try that stuff at my place of worship while I'm present. They'll never try it again. And there WILL be an arrest made: my own.

I expect occurrences of this kind to increase, because these reptiles fancy themselves the reincarnations of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. Pathetic.

The temptation to build a national "movement" on harassment as a form of political "statement" or “protest” will be too great for these curs to resist. How is it that they will menace innocent people this way and then demand respect? Do they expect us to take them seriously? For what? For perpetrating the very acts of brutality of which they falsely accuse others? Philistines.

They demand the right to “marry.” By what standard? By whose? The condemnation of the Judeo-Christian scriptures is unmistakably clear. The Constitution is properly silent on the matter. By what authority, then, do they shriek? Marriage is no human “right.” It is a sacred “rite.” It is within the purview of the church, not the state. And heterosexuals have done more than enough violence to this divine institution as it is. No further abominations are needed.

Bigotry? Yeah. It begins with these “gay activists.”

Intolerance? Nobody does it better.

Hate? Watch and learn.

Violence? Let's go to the videotape.

This Lord's Day we covered the following in my Sunday school class:

 

Thankfulness

Being full of appreciation and gratitude, realizing that God has given you all things.

Focus on what you have, and not on what you don't have.

It is not what is taken from you, but what you do with what you have left.

All good gifts are from God.

To be sure, all of this is appropriate in the face of our current economic difficulties. But as I meditated and reflected on these principles, it occurred to me that they speak even more forcefully to the political challenges our nation confronts at this very time.

I, an ordinary Christian, citizen and patriot, am thankful, because I realize that God has indeed given us every good gift. This includes my citizenship in this wonderful country, the very greatest that has ever existed on His earth, and our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. I revere and love Him for all these things.

As concerns our present distress, I will not focus on what I do not have. I will focus on what I do have: a fighting spirit, a clear mind, a command of the English language, and lots and lots of like-minded patriots all over this land, who are as concerned as I am, who are watching with me and who will fight alongside me. I have many praying with me. And I have the promises of the Almighty.

I know that He is on His throne, and so I have hope. We have hope. If He sees fit for now to chastise us at the hand of the socialist-statist tyrants, I will submit myself to His discipline, and I will trust Him for the grace to repent and reform and to change my ways. I will study and regroup and fight and pray.

Truly, it is NOT what is taken from us, but what we do with what we have left. At present, our adversaries have their Comrade-in-Chief in the White House. They have their politburo in the halls of Congress and their lying prophets in Hollywood, the universities and the news media. They have all that. They have TAKEN all that.

They do not have AMERICA: They do not have me, they do not have you. America they will not get without a fight. And we will fight. We will not hand over our children, our homes, our republic. We will fight, and fight and fight some more. We will never surrender, and we will never say "master" to caesar, csar, kaiser,  Comrade or Chairman.

Only one is our Master: even Christ.

The enemy may, in coming days, pervert our laws, press us sore and rob us of the wealth we have toiled to earn. He may try to silence our speech and take away our ability to defend ourselves and our families. HE CANNOT CHANGE US. He cannot rob us of our faith, of our courage, of our dignity, of our resolve, of our identity, of our love of truth and liberty and justice. HE CANNOT CHANGE US. AND HE CANNOT OVERCOME US. And he cannot defeat the One Who raises up kings and then brings them down again.

For most of our history, we have been free of invaders on our soil — with the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the War Between the States being, to varying degrees, the exception. But now, the wolves are skulking, and behind them prowl the hyenas, and behind them circle the vultures.

We must fight, but we must also pray and seek the face of the Almighty. We must declare truth, and refuse to lie. We must be honest about our errors, our injustices, our wrongdoing, our blasphemies, our sin. We must be a humble people, lowly in spirit, who respect and revere the Almighty. We must seek to understand His mind, His heart, His commands. We must understand His grace. And we must seek His succor, His mercy, His help.

Above all, this patriot is thankful for his knowledge of the Divine Savior Jesus Christ, who forgives all his sins. The nations belong to Christ. America included. And EVERY nation — whether they recognize Him or not, and whether they like it or not. Thank you, Almighty Lord, Sovereign and King of the universe, kind and gracious and merciful God.

The nations belong to Christ.

Happy Lord's Day.

I have yet to observe anything at all in Sarah Palin that I would consider personally offensive, or deserving of reproach on any level. I do not know the woman, of course, but I've read and heard those ubiquitous, seemingly endless criticisms and accusations. And I have to say that they continue to strike me as being pitifully shrill and strained. I don't get it. I simply see nothing there that does not look and smell like plain calumny and malice.

That sort of thing starts out as beneath contempt, then dashes off and takes an elevator to the sub-basement.

I mean, this stuff is LAME. As governor of Alaska, Palin worked to get some state trooper fired. Here is a guy who, by every account, belongs rather in an asylum or in prison than in any law enforcement agency. Palin's enemies hunted with desperate tenacity for grounds to accuse her of abusing power in that instance. They turned up nothing, because she had done nothing wrong.

All that ceaseless hiss and siss about Palin's lack of experience and her unfitness to be president — Who can keep from laughing? I never forgot that she was actually running for vice president, even if the news media never seemed to find much zest for admitting that. Like it or not, though, to this very hour Palin remains eminently better prepared to assume the Oval Office than Obama is to be even a state senator. Look, the man is not so much an empty suit as an empty wardrobe. Sorry, hoss, but that's just the way things is, and danged if the facts ain't just as stubborn as everybody says they is.

I hear disparaging comments about Palin from many in my very own circles who seem otherwise to be reasonable and decent people. Yet I perceive something bizarre about their attitudes toward Palin. Frankly, I think many women hate her because she is beautiful and sexy while being strong and virtuous. I believe men hate her because she's got more spirit and fire — more proverbials, actually — than many of them do. Of course, we're talking here about Lefties, mostly.

This lady has shown the pampered cowards of these present generations what it is to believe in and stand for life-affirming and worthwhile things and fight for them with honor. No one on the Left fights that way. They fight like animals — with venom and shrieking and lust. Sarah Palin fights like a warrior — with discipline and purpose and calling.

All the hostility aimed at her seems insanely disproportionate, unjustifiable, even illegitimate. What has she really done that justly earns this degree of disapprobation? Nothing, really. She seems to this observer to be a good governor, a good politician, a good wife, a good mother. Who has proved her to be otherwise?

But this world is lousy with souls who hate anything that is good. Once, there was a good man who walked about the earth.

They nailed Him to a tree.

A Townhall.com reader I respect wrote in one of his posts recently that many of the namby-pamby, mealymouthed pantywaists in the Republican Party are to blame for American conservatives' being on the outside looking in, in the wake of this latest electoral rout. This reader reminds us that "nice guys" finish last, and he insists that, for now, at least, "we are finished."

I agree.

But we are not defeated forever. No way. And I say that we desperately need something else now, a whole new political philosophy. That philosophy need not be novel — in fact it should NOT be. But it does need to be TRUE and to MAKE SENSE. The GOP, as it "functions" now, is USELESS, because it is FALSE and UNPRINCIPLED. No news there, I know.

I will add this, though: Those who are running down this country and threatening our constitutional republic, those who have made a sham of representative democracy and who are so consumed with envy and lust for power that they are hell-bent on fomenting a tyrannical socialist-statist system, those who are so blinded with barbaric rage that they will sell America out and betray our national security in a sneeze — such people are given over to their madness for the simple reason that they have rejected the One Who rules the cosmos He Himself has created, and Who alone judges justly. They have rejected Shiloh, and so their destruction is assured.

Anyone who wishes to may deny the existence of God. But everyone knows the truth in any case. Most people simply suppress it, to their personal destruction. So be it, but I will not go that way. The nations belong to Christ. Deal with it.

I do NOT want to preach, or come off as a religious zealot. I only mean to point out that any system of government or political philosophy worthy of the name must pay due deference, a right reverence, to the transcendence of truth — to an objective reality that is permanent and fixed, and which must constrain us all as we seek to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

I don't care whether anyone wants to go to church or not at this point. I do insist that anyone calling himself a republican (small "r," please) or who respects constitutional government be willing to acknowledge the legitimacy and centrality of traditional religious principle in the establishment of just government. This is nothing other than what the Founding Fathers said and bequeathed to us.

Let us return to that, posthaste and without apology, and let there be no dithering about it.

The American Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence are worth conserving — they are worth fighting for, in other words, so what is called for here is a manly conservatism.

And for heaven's sake — let's stop letting our women display all the manliness.

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