#BringBackOurFathers

dadnkidsWere you were fortunate to have a father who cared enough to stick around to raise you? Consider yourself blessed. Dads are vital to a child’s healthy emotional and psychological development. Sadly, as this article from Lee Culpepper at the American Thinker points out, it’s the country’s dearth of fathers that’s largely responsible for a myriad of social ills ~

Statistics about fatherless children reveal plenty concerning the chaos the news media pretend not to notice almost every time stories involving bona fide juvenile delinquents appear. Of the youths in prison, 85 percent are from fatherless homes. Children without fathers account for 63 percent of youth suicides, 70 percent of teenage pregnancies, 80 percent of rapists with displaced anger, 85 percent of children with behavioral problems, and 71 percent of high school dropouts.
 
Liberals, with their undaunted ability to ignore these ugly realities, blame society and phantom privileges for the deplorable statistics that coincide irrefutably with the rise of their counterproductive dogmas. Welfare, anti-Christianity, no-fault divorce, government-school monopoly, and Dr. Spock discipline have done nothing but eliminate personal responsibility and accountability from our society.
 
It is almost common knowledge that 72 percent of black children now grow up in homes without a father. Furthermore, despite the incredibly low graduation standards public schools have today, nearly 50 percent of black males drop out of school. Of course, black children are not alone in the disaster liberals have created by replacing a father’s hard-earned income, unconditional love, and stern discipline with government handouts, bleeding-heart psychobabble, and a child’s deep self-reflection.

 
Instead of encouraging two moms for Billy, instead of making dads the butt of every other sit-com joke, instead of ignoring reality… we need to recognize the critical role that fathers play in a healthy family – and a healthy society – and #BringBackOurFathers

 
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Related:
Celebrate Father’s Day, Not Parent Day

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Saturday Shorts – 6-14-14

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
5 Truths You’re Not Allowed To Say About Gays In America ~ If it’s not the pre-approved, P.C. affirmations promoted by LGBT crowd… it’s “hate speech.” Which of course immediately shuts down any chance of meaningful dialogue or debate.
For instance, don’t mention this to anyone ~ Study shows relationship problems, not family rejection, leading cause of higher gay suicides

 
Former Border Agents Say Flood of Illegal Alien ‘Youth’ Was ‘Orchestrated’ by Obama ~ Confirming what we all suspected about this latest invasion ~

A statement released by the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers said:
 
“This is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a predictable, orchestrated and contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans by her political leaders that knowingly puts minor illegal alien children at risk for purely political purposes.”

And here’s further proof that these assertions are true (and that the O’Ministration is growing ever more totalitarian) ~
Border Patrol Agents Threatened with Criminal Charges for Speaking to Reporters
Obama’s HHS Forbids Congress from Talking to Kids in Border Crisis Shelters

 
The VA Sacrificed Vets for Solar Panels ~ Well maybe not literally, but ~

… each and every year, from 2009 to 2011, the Phoenix VA Health Care System put in solar panels. The solar panels at the Carl T. Hayden VA in Phoenix cost $20 million.
 
That $20 million could have saved the lives of dying veterans. Instead it went to Green Energy.
 
The situation at the Phoenix VA wasn’t unique. In 2009, Obama had signed a Green Energy executive order. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced that “in order to continue providing Veterans with the best health care and benefit services, VA must adapt to climate change.”

Take your blood pressure pills before you read this one.

 
VA hospital hides Jesus behind curtain ~ Just as their own government is abandoning them – when veterans need to turn to Him – the feds cordon off Christ.

Some folks in Iron Mountain (Mich) became infuriated earlier this month when they discovered that statues of Jesus and Mary, along with a cross and altar, were hidden behind a curtain in the chapel of the VA hospital there.

 
As the ISIS reign of terror spreads across the Levant ~ Christian-hating jihadists are poised to eliminate the Church in Iraq ~

Mosul, Iraq’s second city (aka- the biblical Nineveh), is now free of Christians for the first time in 1,800 years

And then there’s this ~ ISIS Leader to USA: ‘Soon We Will be in Direct Confrontation’ ~ A warning from 6 months ago that the Obama administration chose to downplay or simply ignore altogether.

 
Cantor Campaign Spent More at One Steakhouse than Brat on Entire Campaign ~ The former Speaker of the House wasn’t the most evil person in Congress, but his entitlement mentality as a firmly entrenched member of the ruling class is certainly evident from just this one headline.

 
Study Finds Women Don’t Belong in Combat ~ Col. (res.) Raza Sagi, a former Israeli infantry regiment commander, just published his findings in a new book, confirming what we’ve known instinctively since the dawn of man ~

“The idea that there is no difference between men and women in the army is a ridiculous one that has been disproved in all of the world’s militaries.”

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Barack Obama = the greatest threat to U.S. Security

Last month John Bolton, former ambassador to the U.N., spoke to a Freedom Center gathering in Texas. His talk, titled ‘The Biggest Threat to National Security Is in the White House,’ is well worth half an hour + of your time (there’s also a full transcript HERE at FrontPage Mag).
 
As you listen, keep in mind this was before
• the administration released 36,000 criminal illegal aliens
• Iraq erupted in jihad (it’s been melting down since we left)
• our southern border was intentionally flooded with illegal minors to garner sympathy for amnesty

 

 
Through Obama’s vacillating, irresponsible – at times completely irrational – foreign policy, our enemies around the globe have been dramatically emboldened.
 
In Ukraine ~ Putin uses military force to change international boundaries on the continent of Europe –and the west does… nothing!
In Benghazi ~ Our embassy is under attack, the administration yawns, and lies about the motivation. No one is ever brought to account for the deaths of four U.S. citizens. Message our allies receive: how can you trust the word of Americans when they won’t even defend their own people?
Message the terrorists receive: you can do anything you want to Americans without fear of retaliation.
In China ~

In fact, China’s modernizing its army, it’s building up its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons capabilities. It’s creating a blue-water navy for the first time in 600 years. It has one of the world’s — certainly the most aggressive and one of the most sophisticated programs in cyber warfare. It has developed anti-satellite weapons to blind our capabilities to surveil China from space. It has extensive development of what are called anti-access area denial weapon capabilities to push the US Navy back from the Western shores of the Pacific, where we’ve been dominant since World War II. And all the while, it is making territorial claims in the East and South China Sea that make what the Russians are doing in Ukraine look timid.

 

Obama and his progressive pals pretend that the world will become a kinder, gentler place if the U.S. abdicates its role as the sole super-power. The truth is just the opposite.
To paraphrase John Bolton; it’s not American strength that’s provocative – it’s American weakness that’s provocative.

 
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Related:
5 Times Obama Abandoned US Allies

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“Illegal” doesn’t have any age limits

So what are we, the legal, law abiding, hardworking American citizens to make of this crisis on the southern border? This rush of illegal youngsters flooding into our country? (BTW- Leave it to the UK Daily Mail to provide the most comprehensive coverage on this lunacy!)
 
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I, for one, have nothing but questions… and there are no good answers.
 

First of all, where is this violence in Central America that’s supposed to be the impetus for the invasion?

Is it trouble with drug cartels? Civil wars? Terrorism? Who knows? In fact google “violence in Central America” and you’ll find it only comes up in reference to the recent flood of illegal children. Because it’s only a Leftist talking point with no correspondence to reality!
(There are some links to stories on criminal and gang-related violence but they’re a couple years old.)
 

Why weren’t these young illegals detained at Mexico’s southern border?

As near as I can determine, they were supposed to have a visa to even get into that country, which has much stricter travel and immigration laws than the U.S. does.
 

How did tens of thousands of youngsters manage to manage to travel more than 1000 miles, through rugged country, on their own?

Ex-border agents: Immigrant flood ‘orchestrated’ – ‘We are not gullible enough to believe thousands came without aid and assistance.’ Neither am I.
 

Why do regular Americans have to be exposed to third world diseases?

Oh, never mind. Obama hasn’t taken his responsibility to protect us from all threats foreign and domestic seriously since he moved into the White House. (In fact, he himself may now be our number one threat!) So be prepared for an increase in scabies, chicken pox, MRSA, tuberculosis, and other contagious viruses ~
 

Video from ABC15 Arizona via: TopRightNews

 

Illness prevention is one of the main reasons sovereign nations have borders – and immigration laws – in the first place.
Don’t regular Americans even have a right to self-preservation anymore?

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No. Actually, in this new upside-down world of AmeriKa, veterans who volunteered and served, who played by the rules, are ignored and left to die by an indifferent government. A lawless, corrupt government that is – who then turns around and rewards lawbreakers!
 
Here’s my solution (which I’ve heard echoed by several talk radio hosts 🙂 ):
Be they five, fifteen or fifty, these young – and not so young – invaders broke our laws. Find out which country they belong to, and fly or bus them back home. It’s not a question of cost. Detaining them for any length of time would cost much more. And we’re already flying them to military bases around the country! It’s not America’s responsibility to house, clothe, feed and provide health care for anyone that manages to sneak in.
 
Plan B: Fly or bus them to Washington D.C.. Set them up a tent city on the Mall. Let the ruling class get a dose of reality… and maybe a case of scabies!

 
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Related:

“Bishops Without Borders”

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Indoctrination – it’s all part of progressives’ “design”

The National Science Foundation (your tax dollars at work) recently funded a study aimed at developing ways to more effectively teach indoctrinate youngsters about evolution. Early last month Psychological Science published the results, from Boston University psychologist Deborah Kelemen and her team. As the Institute for Creation Research relates (my emphasis) ~

The aim of her research was to intentionally “suppress” children’s “commonsense ways,” and to “explain why animals have functional traits and show signs of apparent design.” 😯
 
According to the Psychological Science report, prior research had shown that “children in preschool and early elementary school show teleological biases to explain the origins of natural objects’ properties by reference to functions.”

 
In other words, even little kids recognize the design evidenced in nature. And Kelemen’s research is deliberately aimed at thwarting that innate tendency.
 
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“Studies show that many secular people who say they believe in evolution still don’t really understand it. Why is natural selection so hard to understand and accept? What can we do to make it easier?”

 
If evolution is just so darn hard to comprehend, maybe that’s because it’s just an old outdated supposition? Proponents of the still unproven “theory” typically ignore all evidence to the contrary, such as ~
 
Irreducible complexity
Anthropic principle
DNA evidence
Genetic entropy
 
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In fact the more science advances, the more the actual evidence points away from evolution. Yet facts don’t particularly matter to the Left. I believe that they cling so tenaciously to Darwin’s theory because it permits them to insert themselves in place of the God that they’re convinced evolution has eliminated.
 
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Once upon a time we used to teach children how to think. But that’s so last-century. Today’s progressive educator is all about teaching them what to think. And frankly, it’s insidious ~

The candid and enthusiastic embrace of training kindergarteners to “suppress competing intuitive” explanations has the flavor of Orwellian mental manipulation, with people coerced into accepting inconsistent concepts without dissent. Since advocates are psychological professionals trained to understand how young minds operate—and society entrusts them to use that knowledge for good—using them to teach Darwinism sounds even more perverse. Isn’t this essentially using a method of thought reform to indoctrinate a young child’s mind with a specific belief system against his or her will? Would it not be better to teach children how to objectively test competing explanations against factual data?

Source: Institute for Creation Research

 

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Whenever I come across stories like this I’m reminded of the scriptural reverence to a millstone, which describes the fate reserved for those who deliberately lead the innocent astray ~
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Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea. ~ Matthew 18:6

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Related:
Anti-Creation Rhetoric Lacks Creativity ~ As with all progressive endeavors, the Left’s favorite strategy is to ignore or disparage dissent.
 
The Theory Of Evolution Is An Evil Lie From Satan And Needs To Be Abolished From Society (WARNING – graphic Holocaust pix) ~ from Theodore Shoebat at Shoebat.com ~ A tad overzealous perhaps. And I think he paints Darwin’s motivation as much darker than it actually was. But he is correct about the social implications of evolution and the ways in which the “theory” has been used to justify all manner of man’s inhumanity to man.

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Keeping the Faith

loudon-enemieswithinLast night I attended a local tea party event featuring that honorary patriot from New Zealand, Trevor Loudon. He’s currently on a tour promoting his latest book, “The Enemies Within,” and discussing the depths to which socialists, communists and other fellow travelers have infested all levels of our government with their anti-American ideology. Suffice it to say, we’ve got our work cut out for us.
 
And although it seems hopeless at times, the battle to restore our Constitutional Republic goes on.
 
Loundon offered some strategic advice for the 2016 election, suggesting that we start promoting a full line-up of conservatives, not just the presidential nominee…
 
Trevor Loudon’s Tea Party 2016 Dream Team:

President: Sen. Ted Cruz
Vice President: Col. Allen West
Attorney General: Mark Levin
 
Cabinet ~
• Secretary of the Treasury: Sen. Rand Paul
• Secretary of State: John Bolton
• Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin
• Secretary Health & Human Services: Dr. Ben Carson
• Secretary of Education: David Barton
Ambassador to U.N.: “NONE” (this one got the most applause!)

 
While not mincing words over the insidious efforts by the Leftists to dismantle our freedoms, Loudon encouraged us to stay engaged, reminding us of Tea Party successes, especially the 2010 election seismic shift. He’s up-beat about the chances of the 2nd American Revolution. woohoo-smlr

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Well whaddya know? Just just 24 hours later… with a couple state primary election results in… Loudon’s optimistic words seem seriously prophetic! First was an encouraging victory for South Carolina’s Tim Scott: No Racists Here! Tim Scott Wins Primary with 90% of the Vote.
 

Scott was appointed to his senate seat by Gov. Nikki Haley, replacing the retiring Jim DeMint ~

If he wins his general election in November, Scott would become the first elected black Senator in South Carolina history. That’s quite a great achievement for his resume!

 

And second, a HUGE win in Virginia against the establishment Republicans!
 
In shocking upset David Brat defeats House Majority Leader Eric Cantor ~

RICHMOND, Va. — A political earthquake Tuesday night after polling stations closed for Virginia’s primary elections.
 
The No. 2 Republican in the House, Eric Cantor, lost his primary to a college professor and political neophyte. Cantor, House Majority Leader, was running for an eighth term in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, against Tea-Party backed economics professor David Brat.

 
And so, my fellow conservatives, in the words of the immortal Winston Churchill ~
 

“Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
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Trevor Loundon signed my copy of “The Enemies Within” with the heartening message: “Keep the Faith!” And so we must!

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Founding Wisdom [Flouted by the Foolish]

founders-quote-JAdams“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”

~ John Adams ~

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D-Day reflection, from a Christian perspective

The following thoughts on the significance of D-Day is excerpted from an email I received last Friday from The Fellowship of St. James ~

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The exquisite beauty of the headstones of Normandy’s military cemeteries together bear witness to a deep awareness in man that warfare lies immovably at the center of the universe: there is warfare in heaven; there is a sword brought by the Son of Man; fire cast on the earth; a battle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces; the battle front between good and evil in each heart. No victory without dying. No gain with sacrifice. Across the centuries, our battlefields should direct our eyes from earth to heaven, even as we respectfully salute the fallen. We hear the call, “Onward, Christian soldiers” to spiritual battle, not earthly. We await the final trumpet, the last command, when Normandy’s fallen together shall rise. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess: Greater love hath no Man than this Jesus, the Lion of Judah, who has conquered.
 
~ James M. Kushiner ~ Exec. Director,
“The Fellowship of St. James”

 

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel. It covers 172 acres (70 ha), and contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II. Included are graves of Army Air Corps crews shot down over France as early as 1942.
 
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Only some of the soldiers who died overseas are buried in the overseas American military cemeteries. When it came time for a permanent burial, the next of kin eligible to make decisions were asked if they wanted their loved ones repatriated for permanent burial in the U.S., or interred at the closest overseas cemetery.

[Source: Wikipedia]

 

“We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the
United States to other parts of the world throughout
the past century to put down oppression […]
And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do?
Did we stay and conquer? […]
No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead.
And that is the kind of nation we are.”

 
~ Colin Powell, Secretary of State ~ 2002

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Saturday Shorts – 6-7-14

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson: ‘There is a Satan Out There, an Evil One’ ~ Robertson was speaking with Sean Hannity last week ~

“…if anyone that looks at our culture doesn’t believe it, I would simply say, what, are you blind? It’s pretty rough out there.”

 
For anyone who doubts the devil’s existence, how do you account for the pervasive evil in our society so obviously present in a horror story like this ~ Two 12-year-old girls allegedly stab friend 19 times because of creepy Internet meme?!
 
5 Indications that Bowe Bergdahl Is a Traitor ~ from Robert Spencer – who knows his stuff when it comes to Muslim radicals. (After reading this, you surely have to wonder why Bergdahl enlisted in the first place. Was defecting his intention all along?)
Unfortunately, even though the evidence for treason is practically irrefutable…

To investigate, much less to try Bowe Bergdahl, despite the fact that evidence of his misconduct continues to mount, would require an honest president, a robust opposition party, and a media determined to uncover the truth. Strike one, strike two, strike three.

 
Bergdahl: They Don’t Care About the Law, Get Over It ~

The Bergdahl swap should illustrate to anyone who wasn’t paying attention that law no longer matters to this crowd. As long as you have enough leftist Ivy League lawyers at the DOJ to dream up new excuses and to rebrand lawlessness as legal, Obama has all the offensive weapons he needs to fundamentally transform America.

 

But since pointing out the obvious isn’t working, it’s time for a new strategy. J. Christian Adams advocates pressuring Congress to de-fund the lawlessness.

 
The Crisis of Fake Global Warming ~ Entertaining new video from Andrew Klavan mocking the computer-modeled climate crisis that’s threatening to destroy life as we know it. 😀
 
Baker Who Refused to Make Wedding Cake for Same-Sex Couple Willing to Go to Jail for His Beliefs ~ These activist judges are of of control! As this man’s attorney explained his client’s situation ~

“The state of Colorado has no business forcing Jack to abandon his religious beliefs, his First Amendment beliefs, so that … the government-approved message will be carried forward. It’s truly frightening. It’s Orwellian. And it’s against everything America stands for.”

 
Virgina Small Family Farm Promotes Historical Agricultural Practices ~ Interesting look at a family farm using innovative methods borrowed from the past; organic gardening, pasture-raised poultry and pork, diversity, and eating “seasonally.”

 
D-Day: June 6th 1944 as it happened ~ Really cool timeline from the UK Telegraph. They posted updates in real time yesterday every 30 minutes or so to coincide with real-time events as they were unfolding seventy years ago (Start at the end and work your way backwards.) The last entry ~

23.59 By the end of D-Day, 159,000 Allied troops, marines, airmen and naval personnel ashore have successfully established four sizeable beachheads. The invasion front remains vulnerable to German counter-attack, and there will be terrible fighting ahead, but a crucial step has been taken towards liberating Europe.

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June 6th – 70th anniversary of D-Day

Seventy years ago America stood for truth, justice and freedom.

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Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan reminded us that we were right to be proud of what all those brave men accomplished on that day, and for all the good that America stood for. Listen, and remember the courageous sacrifice of so many…
 

 
[President Obama is in Europe today. Let’s pray that he keeps his hopeless change and empty rhetoric to himself and doesn’t spoil our hallowed memories of the heroes who stormed those beaches.]
 
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Related:
Here’s a good post by Flopping Aces which re-caps of the D-Day Invasion, and stresses the importance of preserving the truth in history – both good and bad – so progressive media-types can’t rewrite it.

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We’re “Lost in Space” without real men

Here’s my man Bill Whittle recalling the old sci-fi TV series “Lost-in-Space” to illustrate the stark contrast between today’s intellectualized girly-men and the real version we used to admire for their courage, intelligence and confidence – and for their ability to inspire those qualities in the rest of us.
 

Video via Truth Revolt

 

Somehow we’ve let the Dr. Smiths of the world [Reptile-cold, weak, treasonous, lying, cowardly, incompetent shirker and goldbricker] replace the Captain Robinsons and Major Wests. And tragically, they’re now running the show in Washington D.C. 🙁

 

<<< DANGER WILL ROBINSON! >>>

 
 
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“Trading Private Bergdahl”

I owe much of my penchant for satire and sarcasm to the hours I spent as a teenager reading Mad Magazine. :mrgreen: Glad to see they’re still around – and haven’t lost their touch ~

 
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