Umm, I think we've all been done with this joker for nearly two years now, so let me just get this out of the way real quick before moving on to more important matters. This is nothing new in regards to the former president's behavior; it's his MO: Obama goes overseas to badmouth America, Americans, and American interests. What's rich this time is that he actually lectures his enamored audience about lying politicians, HA! This is well beyond the pot calling the kettle black! I'm not gonna expose you to the man's voice, because God knows we heard it every single day of his presidency. You can find the lecture anywhere online, but this particular discussion pretty much encapsulates a more sensible sentiment towards his tired, bloviated rhetoric...
I mean seriously. From a man who lied so many times about so many things…
Note he laments that people don’t show any embarrassment when being caught in a lie. But that’s because of him! He did that! Yeah, he totally built that.
Allow me to remind you of a few of his great hits:
“The most transparent administration evah!”
“Shovel ready jobs!”
“If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, period.”
“If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.”
“Benghazi was because of a video!”
And there are so many more that I could spend all day writing them out. But unfortunately I don’t have that kind of time.
The last person on this earth that should be calling out anyone for lying is Obama. He was as shameless as they come and the media turned the other way while he coughed them up.
What a disgraceful joke that's doing nothing to bring his fellow citizens together, but then again, that's never been a part of his or his party allies' agenda.
I was listening to Levin last night, and he was spot on about the Democrats, what they've been ramping up for prior to President Trump's SCOTUS pick, as well as the wing-nuttery that continues to ensue now that a pick has been announced...
But Mark's broader point is that despite however the beltway elite of either side react, Trump needed to pick a strict constitutionalist. So, now the question is has he?
I'm certain everyone caught the announcement, so you be the judge...
Early accessments and vetting from constitutional organizations such as the Heritage Foundation (here and here) and The Federalist (here and here) appear to indicate that Kavanaugh is the 'conventional conservative' pick. Kavanaugh also has an impressive roster of conservative law clerks backing up his credentials. However, I can't deny that the mention of being hired at Yale by Kagan, clerking for Kennedy, and being appointed to the DC Appeals Court by Dubya prompted some valid concerns. So I looked up a reliable source to weigh out the pros and cons...
The jury will certainly be out for a while, so expect plenty of theater and pretending from now through the vote that will inevitably confirm him. But it's times like these that give pause to the larger reminder of how we've simply given too much power and importance to the Court...
Everyone is so focused on who the President picks for the Supreme Court because we, as a people, have abdicated too much responsibility to the third branch of government. We have allowed five black robed masters to conform the nation's morality to Harvard and Yale instead of letting the gradual, democratic processes that move in various directions chart our moral course. We have allowed courts to decide matters best left to elected officials. We have allowed Congress and the President to pass the buck to the Supreme Court to take care of issues. We have allowed judges to be viewed as arbiters of our future, not just the law. We have given too much importance to the Supreme Court and the founders of this nation would be dismayed.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth you hear from leftists about the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy is their admission that the massive changes imposed on America are not the result of convincing Americans that the left’s ideas are good but of the leftists convincing a few Supreme Court justices to unconstitutionally impose them on the people.
By building their “new” America on a foundation of sand, leftists have exposed their entire agenda to ruin if the Supreme Court stops being a partisan lawmaking agency and returns to its Constitutional role of interpreting the law in the light of what those who wrote it thought and what the words of the law actually say.
In a true representative republic, the government the Constitution defines and the government the people have agreed to live in, who is on the Supreme Court would be a matter of supreme indifference to everyone, because all the judges are supposed to do is apply the law as written and take into account the intentions expressed by those who put the law, which includes the Constitution, into effect.
But since the 1940s, and accelerating in the 1960s, Leftists have remade the U.S. government and enthroned the unelected judges on the Supreme Court as our true masters.
Yet another reason why our nation needs to enter a period of correction (jurisdiction and term limits, anyone? Hello, Article V Convention of States!). In the meantime, we should continue to offer prayer for Courts of Justice throughout our land...
ALMIGHTY God, who sittest in the throne judging right; We humbly beseech thee to bless the courts of justice and the magistrates in all this land; and give unto them the spirit of wisdom and understanding, that they. may discern the truth and impartially administer the law in the fear of thee alone; through him who shall come to be our judge, thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
O ETERNAL God, through whose mighty power our fathers won their liberties of old; Grant, we beseech thee, that we and all the people of this land may have grace to maintain these liberties in righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ~ The Collect for Independence Day, BCP
Happy 4th of July! As Americans celebrate Independence Day, it's always worthwhile to remind ourselves, despite the naysayers, secularists, revisionists and other deniers of truth, that our great nation was indeed founded by men and women who shared a strong faith in God and trust in His Divine Providence, which was crucial to ensure our independence. Here's a sampling of the Founders' remarks about our religious heritage. Remember them, embrace them, hold fast to them, so that we might be rejuvenated through them, and in turn our country might be restored through the faith once delivered...
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” – John Jay
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -- John Adams
“I conceive we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world . . . that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and the people willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is the Prince of Peace.” -- Samuel Adams
“The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.” – John Adams
“The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10]. -- John Quincy Adams
“The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations! . . . My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins” [Acts 22:16]. -- Dr. Benjamin Rush
“I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him. . . . That He made man at first perfectly holy; that the first man sinned, and as he was the public head of his posterity, they all became sinners in consequence of his first transgression, are wholly indisposed to that which is good and inclined to evil, and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death, and to the pains of hell forever. I believe that God . . . did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind, so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer. . . . I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to Him, joined by the bond of the covenant. . . . I believe that the sacraments of the New Testament are baptism and the Lord’s Supper. . . . I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgment of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.” -- Roger Sherman
“I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.” – John Adams
“I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles… This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.” -- Noah Webster
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.” – John Jay
“Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean Hell.” – John Adams
“I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.” – Dr. Benjamin Rush
“I verily believe that Christianity is necessary to support a civil society and shall ever attend to its institutions and acknowledge its precepts as the pure and natural sources of private and social happiness.” – Joseph Story
“The moral principles and precepts found in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.” – Noah Webster
“The Christian religion – its general principles – must ever be regarded among us as the foundation of civil society.” – Daniel Webster
“[H]e is the best friend to American liberty who is the most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.” – John Witherspoon
“[T]he only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.” – Dr. Benjamin Rush
