The Left Teaches Us Another Great Strategy For Winning

Today, Kurt Schlichter has an article at Townhall.com that nails the Virginia Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities For The Win. Schlichter's typically sarcastic and sardonic phraseology is in this article simply brilliant. One of the points that Schlichter makes is that Second Amendment sanctuaries are borrowed from the Left's new rule book wherein they just ignore, or openly defy laws they do not like. But unlike the Left's new rules, Second Amendment Sanctuaries are for the purpose of upholding the law, in this case the Constitution.

It’s glorious how the normal people of Virginia are rising up to reject Governor Blackface … or is it Governor KKK-klothes? He can’t seem to remember which one he was in the photo, meaning he had probably donned both creepy get-ups at some point. Yay, our Democrat betters! In any case, the people are telling him, “No, we’re not letting you goose-stepping Bloomberg bots take our guns,” and it is especially glorious that the means to make this righteous commitment is a new, and not garbage, sanctuary movement.

I’ve always been an advocate of playing by the left’s new rules, and this is a great opportunity to new rules the libs good and hard. We got your sanctuary right here, pinkos.

See, the left decided that Virginia, whose northern reaches are now full of government workers and other garbage people, needed to turn blue. With tons of lib donor money and the aid of a typically inept state GOP (I know those feel here in California), they managed to just barely grab control of both houses of the legislature. With Governor Byrd-Jolson in charge, they immediately promised to do away with the Second Amendment. They announced that they were going to confiscate the citizens’ scary guns and do all sorts of other things to show those disobedient, probably Jesus-loving rubes who was boss.

There's another subtext to this article, but one not to be missed: government can only push and nudge so far. At some point, the people get a say and the people have spoken loud and clear here. At this point, 90% of Virginia counties have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries:

In any case, the Democrats have finally found a kind of sanctuary city they won’t goo goo over – one that protects the constitutional rights of American citizens instead of one that undermines and breaks the duly-enacted laws passed by the American people’s representatives for the benefit of foreigners who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

This kind of civil disobedience is absolutely justified in the face of manifestly unconstitutional threats to the Bill of Rights. The liberals think the Constitution is some sort of cafeteria, where they get to pick and chose the rights they will enforce – usually rights that aren’t even in the Constitution in the first place. But this only works if American citizens go along with it, and they are not going to.

. Please go read the entire article as Schlichter is at his best here. But also take some courage here. We need to get involved in the political process and turn it to our advantage. I realize, of course, that most have to work, and raise kids, mow the lawn and take out the trash, but in the few minutes that remain, we all need to be more active at the local and state level. Do not let Bloomberg do to us what he did to Virginia. Please also remember that we are supposed to be on God's side here, so don't let winning by any means necessary become your focus. He will be with us if we are with him.

Rediscovering the Not Nice Jesus

It is not often one sees this, but it is the truth. Taylor Day has the story on Christmas Day, that Jesus Wasn't Very Nice. He also didn't press his message on everyone he met. He actually wanted to make people work for it. He wanted to make people think, and see God's commandments as God intended them, as things that made your life better, rather than as rules to keep people from enjoying themselves. Day:

Jesus wasn't nice, and I can say this with absolute certainty. Therefore, I get disgusted when I see a lot of churches and preachers trying to emasculate the teachings of Christ into a simple "just be nice" doctrine. When a Christian dares deviate from this, liberals pounce and call someone's faith into question, as we saw last week with Christianity Today's attack on President Trump. That is a deep perversion of the truth and the Lion of Judah's message.

Nice people don't make enemies, and Jesus Christ had enemies in excess. King Herod believed an infant Jesus to be a usurper. The Pharisees hated Jesus since His teachings often contradicted their actions. Because cancel culture was also a thing in the first century, the Pharisees ultimately saw their popularity plummet and wanted revenge. The Romans wanted punishment for calling Himself a King while the Jews called for his crucifixion because He was nicknamed the Son of God.

I have to say that I have never understood the beatitude that the Meek shall inherit the earth I have read a number of commentaries on the Beatitudes, but have never found a satisfactory answer until reading Taylor Day's post:

The meek remain one of the most misunderstood concepts in the Bible. Some Christians mistakenly assume that it means quiet and submissive; however, it is anything but. Edward Feser, an esteemed modern philosopher, writes:

"When Christ said, "Blessed are the meek," He was using a military term[.] ... Strength under control. Power under authority. Formidable determination in the face of the constant onslaughts of the enemy. The humble willingness to do what your Master commands you to do.

The exact opposite of feeble timidity."

One of the reasons I left the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is because they have adopted the notion of the mamby pamby Christ. Whereas Luther himself wrote many martial hymns. Luther understood Jesus as a real life man, one who had worked hard and had callused hands, one who was afraid of no one, one who would do his Father's will no matter what. In this understanding, then, martial hymns are excellent metaphors for the faith. I joined instead the Missouri Synod, because these people understand that Jesus wasn't nice.

If we are to take up our crosses as Christians, perhaps we need to also stop being nice, perhaps we need to become soldiers of Christ.  I should point out that being nice about such things as abortion and infanticide, or the LGBTQxyz agenda hasn't made the liberals like us any more.  It may be better to be respected than liked.  Abortion after all is murder, infanticide.  The LGBTQxyz agenda is anti-life, and Jesus is the Lord of Life.

Of course, I am aware that Christians will be called hypocrites for calling out the sin of others.  How dare we, right?  Did not Jesus tell us to take the log out of our own eye before we take the spec out of our brother's eye?  Only someone who commits no sin can truly take everyone to task for their sins.  There was only one of those.

But this is where being "nice" may come in.  For as Christian soldiers, we can never condone sinful behavior, and we must constantly point out that such behavior separates one from God.  But as fellow sinners ourselves, we must always have compassion for our fellow man. We need to love the sinner while condemning the sinful behavior.  And while we would like everyone to join us, we must understand that we can never compromise Biblical principle.

And here is where Jesus found himself, in a world that is no different than it is today.  Man has not changed.  He always wants to do the wrong thing, and rejects God's law.  In such circumstances, Jesus could not be nice, he needed to be the muscular, militant warrior for His Father here on earth.  We Christians need to rediscover this not nice Jesus, and emulate Him in our lives.  But we also need to remain grateful that God did for us what we could not do for ourselves, took the punishment for our sins Himself, and now welcomes all to be with Him in Heaven

Merry Christmas, And Practical Christianity

It is the eve of Christmas Eve, and has Christmas Day grows closer, no doubt I will have less and less time.  So, let me say to all readers of this blog, Merry Christmas, and a Happy (and blessed) New Year. With that being said, Fay Voshell has an excellent Christmas post at the American Thinker today entitled Satanists At The Christmas Party. She takes the inevitable party poopers to task as a lead off to the real reason for the season:

One thing is sure. What Christians in America have known for at least two generations is that there’s always someone itching to spoil their Christmas party in the name of diversity, separation of church and state, individual “rights” or some other doctrinal tenet of the Dark Side. There is always the uninvited satanic gate crasher who pops up at the last minute to join the mocking “enlightened” party pooper cynic who wears the intellectual equivalent of a lampshade on his head.

But perhaps the First State Satanists don’t know just what it is Christians in Georgetown, America and around the world are celebrating at Christmas. The fact is that for Christians, Christmas is the biggest party this side of glory. That is because for the faithful, Christmas is celebration of a victory with cosmic significance. Christians believe that when Christ was born, the promise of Genesis that Satan the serpent would be crushed under the feet of a savior was fulfilled. We believe the major battle against Satan and the forces of evil has been won, that victory over sin and death has been accomplished.

So, that's it. That's why we are so happy, saying "Merry Christmas" to one and all, singing carols, giving gifts, and generally making merry. Because Christ has come into the World. As Saint Paul noted, we have all sinned, and fallen short of the Glory of God. But God has taken on our sinful form and our sins as well, and because we could not atone for our sins, he himself has atoned for them. Hallelujah!

But, wait...there's more!

As it turns out, Christians believe Christ the gracious and merciful Host invites everyone to the celebration. Whosever will may come and receive a welcome from Him who came to seek and to save those who have lost their way.

Yes, though they don’t believe it, the Son of Man invites even repentant First State Satanists to his Christmas celebration. All they and any of us must do is accept the invitation and put on the robes of righteousness the sacrificial Host supplies so as not to be cast out by angelic bouncers.

Then? Party on joyfully forever in the presence of the heavenly Boy.

So, if someone would like to understand the REAL things we Christians believe, and if one has limited time, he could do worse that to read the book of Romans in the New Testament to the Bible. Romans was written by Paul after spending most of his adulthood as an apostle of Christ teaching and preaching the Gospel. It summarizes his thoughts on Christianity just before the Roman government executed him around 60 A.D. (also known as the "common era.") I say all this by way of introducing a post by Selwyn Duke entitled On How Evangelicals Can Support Trump, Both Libs and Conservatives Get It Wrong.

With both the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes having fizzled and the "legal" means for President Trump's removal perhaps exhausted, at least for now, the Left appears to have moved on to a "moral" argument designed to influence the 2020 election. Initiated by Christianity Today and advanced by figures such as CNN's Chris Cuomo, the idea is that Evangelicals — and by implication all Christians — should be ashamed to support Trump because he makes a "mockery" of their faith.

It's an interesting argument not because it's anything but a demagogic one, but because it relates to interesting issues completely eluding the very uninteresting people making the argument. Unfortunately, I've yet to hear them treated adequately.

So, did you go read Romans yet? Duke has in this post shown us one example of practical Christianity at work. While the Left claims that we Christians are making a "mockery" of our faith, in point of fact if we bought into the Left's rhetoric, we couldn't vote for any candidate. As was noted before, all people are sinners. But, as long as we are talking about voting for a candidate who makes a mockery of Christianity:

And that's the point. As usual, leftists are engaging in pure projection. Cuomo the Lesser supports Cuomo the Greater (N.Y.'s governor), a man who signed a bill allowing prenatal infanticide up to birth ("Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you," Jeremiah 1:5, anyone?). In fact, along with other purported leftist "Christians," the Lesser makes a mockery of his own faith.

It requires a striking lack of self-awareness, or a sociopathic lack of compunction, for the glass-house Left to hurl its White House stones. Who, Mr. Cuomo, is this saintly viable alternative who must exist if you imply that Christians should abandon Trump?

Whomever you suggest, it won't just be someone supporting prenatal infanticide, putting boys in girls' bathrooms ("[M]ale and female he made them," Genesis 5:2), and indoctrinating schoolchildren with sexual devolutionary propaganda ("But 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 depth of the sea," Matthew 18:6).

So, while we Christians recognize that Trump is all too human, we also recognize that so are we all. But even though Trump has done many things that go against our beliefs, as have we all, would have Hillary been a better choice? Without reciting her deplorable record of crimes for which she will never be prosecuted, thank you Democrats, I think not. If politics is the art of the possible, then continuing to support President Trump is what is possible today. Tomorrow? God only knows.

Second Amendment Sanctuaries Are Legal And Right

The current situation in Virginia, as Christmas rapidly approaches, is that its Governor, Ralph Northam, with the help of a new Democrat majority in the legislature, plans to pass bills that would outlaw certain types of firearms that are now quite legal to own.  Indeed, he plans to outlaw guns that are currently legal in all 50 States of the Union.  Presumably, he then plans to arrest and imprison anyone who will not comply.  He even threatens to call out the National Guard to carry out a house to house search and arrest function.

In response, Virginians have erected what are called Second Amendment Sanctuary counties and cities where the new laws will not be enforced, and where sheriffs and local police will not cooperate with the effort to make felons out of law abiding citizens.

While Second Amendment Sanctuaries are a new idea in our time, they apparently are not new at all.  Indeed, as attorney Hal Holbook writes at the American Thinker today, in a article entitled Second Amendment Sanctuaries Started in 1774, the idea has been around since the founding.

Spearheading the war on Virginia gun owners is Gov. Ralph Northam, best known for his gig in blackface or Klan attire, and for calmly endorsing post-delivery abortion, that is, infanticide. To divert attention from the backlash, he is moving to criminalize all sorts of innocent conduct that has been lawful in the Commonwealth since Jamestown was settled in 1607.

It’s as if “the Redcoats are coming” again. Northam’s counterpart in 1774 was Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor, who took measures to disarm “disloyal” Virginians led by Patrick Henry. The patriots were arming and organizing themselves into independent companies to protect their rights.

None other than George Washington formed the Fairfax Independent Militia Company. “Threat’ned with the Destruction of our Civil-rights, & Liberty,” wrote George Mason, the volunteers pledged that “we will, each of us, constantly keep by us” a musket, six pounds of gunpowder, and 20 pounds of lead.

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... Counties that have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries make clear their dedication to use all lawful means to protect their constitutional rights. Law-enforcement authorities have scarce resources and must choose how to allocate them. Work to solve murders and robberies, or track down gun owners because they have rifles with those oh-so-deadly pistol grips or adjustable stocks? That’s a no-brainer.

But those who support filling the prisons with law-abiding citizens just because they have, for instance, a rifle that will also shoot flares -- which is nothing more than a distress signal -- should remember our history. The Second Amendment was adopted to prevent exactly those kinds of infringements.

What Halbrook is pointing out with this article is that, contrary to Attorney General Mark Herring's assertions, the current wave of Second Amendment sanctuaries are both legal and have a historical basis. But that is exactly the point that Eric Pratt of the Gun Owners of America made in an article published in The Roanoke Times entitled Second Amendment Sanctuaries Are Lawful and Right Pratt writes:

Those hostile to the Second Amendment rights of individuals to keep and bear arms are mischaracterizing the efforts of Virginians who urge local governments to pass “Second Amendment Sanctuary” resolutions. Critics falsely claim such policies openly defy state law. They do not.

Sanctuary resolutions provide the most prudent and effective way for local officials to inform the newly elected General Assembly and the governor that if they rush forward to create new felony crimes to jail law-abiding Virginians — just for exercising their most fundamental and natural right of self-defense — then they cannot expect localities to enforce such unjust laws.

As noted, Governor Northam has forces at his command. The State Police and the National Guard are two such forces. Indeed, he could deputize more people if he so chose to carry out his laws. The question, though, for both members of the State Police and the National Guard is will they obey an order which is clearly Unconstitutional? The military is well aware that simply obeying an order is no excuse. That is the reason for the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Following orders that are not moral or legal does not absolve the individual who followed those orders.  Everyone at all levels needs to be clear that he may be personally held liable for any order he carries out that is not legal or moral. 

Please read both articles, and spread the word among your friends and acquaintances.  The next two years will be interesting times in The Old Dominion.  And, of course, North Carolina is next in the cross hairs.  Keep your powder dry. 

Hallmark Caving To LGTBQxyz Mob Is A Bridge Too Far

Have I mentioned that I like to watch Hallmark movies?  So, I will confess it now.  Yes, I realize that these movies are formulaic, much as the Harlequin Romance novels are.  There are certain Hallmark stars that show up time and time again because these people project the sort of personality the Hallmark movies typically want projected.  Lacey Chabert, Candace Cameron Bure, or even Ali Liebert, who is in real life a lesbian are stars on the Hallmark Channel.  But Liebert projects a normal character on television, and the reason  people like these movies is not because of the real life of the actors and actresses, but  because the movies themselves project an idealized picture of life.

If you’re a pious Christian mom who wants to escape into a universe where all the cynicism and immorality of modern life aren’t allowed, or if you want to snuggle up with your eight-year-old daughter and watch a silly movie without having to explain inappropriate content you weren’t expecting, the Hallmark Channel is about the only place left that will let you do it.

So, on the heels of the Chick-fil-a cave in to the LGTBQxyz mob, now comes the Hallmark Channel, caving to the LGTBQxyz mob as well, in a piece at The Federalist by Hans Fiene at For the LGTB Mob, Lesbian Ads On Hallmark Channel Are Just The Beginning.

On the latest episode of “Everybody on the Internet is Angry,” the Hallmark Channel found itself caught between a Christian rock and an LGBT hard place. After the network ran a commercial from online wedding firm Zola featuring a lesbian wedding, One Million Moms, a division of the American Family Association, “voiced its concern and gave Hallmark the opportunity to do the right thing.”

Hallmark quickly dropped the ad from its schedule, but after complaints from “prominent LGBT celebrities and advocacy groups” and the rise of #BoycottHallmarkChannel on Twitter, the network reversed its decision, with Hallmark CEO Mike Perry apologizing for the hurt the company had caused and stating, “Hallmark will be working with GLAAD to better represent the LGBT community across our portfolio of brands.”

The major point of the article is that the mob will not be content with taking most of the culture. No, even this small corner of the culture will be invaded, and you will be required to celebrate their perverse lifestyle. You will be made to care.

Once upon a time, you could watch a sizable chunk of network TV shows with your children without exposing them to programs that praised fornication (of both the heterosexual and homosexual varieties). Then the children of the sexual revolution got control of the writers’ rooms and the programming decisions, and now you don’t dare let them near a Thursday evening sitcom for fear they’ll contract HPV via satellite dish.

Once, you could take your kids to a Star Wars or superhero movie without being told you weren’t welcome in Skywalkerland or Iron Man Village if you believed homosexuality was contrary to God’s law. Not anymore. Once, you could trust Disney and PBS not to fight actively against the Christian beliefs you wanted your children to hold. Then Disney and PBS stuck gay characters in programs aimed at preschoolers.

While Hallmark may not be the hill on which Christians want to die, we will eventually have to speak out and resist the cultural invasion of evil that currently is on the march. Will you be on the side of God, or the side of Satan? Personally, I no longer eat at Chick-fil-a, but then I didn't eat there often anyway. Their food just doesn't appeal to me. But now I will not watch Hallmark movies, and that hurts. Still, I can not support the LGBTQxyz program. It is not that I hate gays themselves, I don't, but I can not condone their actions, and I will not celebrate the LGTBQxyz lifestyle.

But it’s important for all Christians not to miss the three-fold point. First, the LGBT mafia zealously desires to drive faithful Christians out of any space where they are welcome. Second, the LGBT mafia is proving to be ruthlessly efficient at carrying out this goal.

Third, the same ruthlessly efficient mob probably won’t be content to take away every metaphorical sanctuary we have and then stop short of seizing our literal ones. If they wouldn’t let us celebrate cheesy Hallmark Christmas without celebrating their sin, they won’t let us celebrate actual Jesus Christmas that way either.

Ooops...I Forgot Yesterday Was Bill of Rights Day

Yes, December 15, 1791 was the day the Bill of Rights, otherwise known as the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, was ratified.  I will state again that my focus on the 2nd Amendment is because the 2nd is the thing that guarantees the other 9 Amendments...or should if people were paying attention.  I know, I know, your twitter account is more important than the petty things mentioned in the Bill of Rights.  But some old white men fought a long war with the most powerful army in the World at that time to give them to you.  You shouldn't squander them on things like "Dancing With The Stars" or Kim Kardashian.

To remind you, and me of course, of the importance of this date, here is  Alan Korwin giving his take on the fact that Bill of Rights Day, December 15, Is In Big Trouble:

While gun rights previously took most of the heat, all civil rights are in more jeopardy in 2019. Gun-rights advocates promoted the date, because they saw Second Amendment guarantees of the right to arms as fundamental to protection of the rest. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, http://www.jpfo.org, has vigorously promoted the date for decades, under a banner, of “All of the Bill of Rights for all citizens,” knowing gun rights were carried on its coattails.

Journalists, who as a group often disparage the Second Amendment and the armed populace it encourages, now face a torrent of anti-Bill of Rights sentiment and laws, largely from left-wing college students and professors, who believe free speech, which derives its nearly absolute powers from the First Amendment, falls out of favor. Along with it, the right to practice religion without government interference, and even the right to assemble, have come under withering scrutiny, including physical and moral attack. Varieties of “political correctness,” euphemisms for marxism/socialism are to blame, promoting fear, hatred, racism, intolerance, “required diversity,” offensiveness, narratives and group think as reasons to curtail free exchange of ideas and speech.

Pundits note that so-called “red-flag gun laws,” as well as current congressional efforts to impeach the U.S. president, rely heavily on removal of due process protections under the 4th through 6th Amendments. These include bedrocks of freedom such as innocence until guilt is proven, the ability to confront your accuser and compel witnesses to appear in your defense, and public trials by jury, all of which have been abrogated. Other guarantees of the Bill of Rights have been ignored, with no penalties—or even charges—brought against the perpetrators, one of the most glaring flaws in the Constitution—it provides no specific penalties for abuse of its terms, short of revolt.

Many on the Left say that President Trump is shredding the Constitution. Actually, no, he is not directly doing so. But,  by letting it be known that he would not veto a Red Flag law should one come to his desk, he encourages the shredding of the Constitution by those bent on such a task. Red Flag laws are arguably the most egregious of these infringements to date, but they are hardly the first. Remember the Kelo decision? Or for a more damning case, how about Roe v. Wade. And then there is the National Firearms Act of 1934. These violations of the clear words of the Bill of Rights have gone on for decades. Every time the Left gets away with it, they double down the next time. It's like children to keep pushing the envelope until one day their parents can no longer control them.

So, I implore you, if you have not done so, to read the Bill of Rights yourself. These are not written in some arcane legalese. These are written in plain English, and should be easily understood by persons of average intelligence. There are no "penumbras" or "emanations," no secret meanings only understandable by the learned Justices of the Supreme Court. No, YOUR rights, MY rights, are spelled out in black and white on the page. So, read it today. Discuss it with your family. Keep it close to your heart. Most of all, remember it when you vote. You have no right to free stuff, rather you have the right to be free.

Impeachment Circus Moves To A House Vote

The Democrats are planning to pass articles of impeachment on a party line vote.  No Republican is expected to vote in favor of these articles.  And while a number of vulnerable Democrats will not vote for them either, it is expected that enough Democrats will be lined up to vote them out of the House.  As Peggy Ryan notes in her piece at the American Thinker today, entitled Unconstitutional Impeachment: The Real Abuse of Power, this is not the first time the Democrats have steamrolled the American electorate. Back in 2009 they did it with Obamacare. Now, here they are again.

The House has filed articles of impeachment against President Trump. The charges are vague, not criminal, not in line with constitutional requirements, but Democrats don't care. The American people are opposed to this illegal impeachment, but again, Democrats don't care. They have a mission, and nothing will stand in their way.

But then we've been here before, haven't we? In 2009, our government rolled over us like a tank in Tiananmen Square to pass Obamacare. Like impeachment, Obamacare was unpopular, opposed by most Americans. Like impeachment, Congress and their media pushed the lies, the empty promises: to tamp down opposition.

And here we go again. Nancy's marshaling her forces to once again steamroll the people. And she's just as committed to overthrowing our government as she was to enacting a socialist takeover of our health care. Our government operates outside the will of voters because it can. Once we send these people to Washington, we relinquish control, have no way to stop them until the next election, usually years away.

The horrifying truth is, we the people no longer matter. This globalist cabal has plans in place to take control of America, and it's not going to let a bunch of Constitution-toting idealists get in the way. We had no say with Obamacare, and we have no say in impeachment.

Ryan is clearly upset that we seem to have a legislature who believes that it can rule against the will of the American people. Such an attitude is dangerous, not to the legislators themselves, but to us, the American people. Yes, of course the Senate in this case will not convict the President. But if the Senate majority were Democrat, what then? The Democrats are willing to use vague issues as a means to impeach a President who has not met the test of the Constitution, high crimes and misdemeanors.  As such, then, you have to wonder what else the Democrats are willing to do that is against the Constitution?  And isn't acting against the Constitution, and their own Constitutional oaths therefore both criminal and treasonous?

What do we do about that?  We have already seen that if you are high enough on the Democrat food chain that you are impervious to prosecution.  The reluctance to call out the Demorcrats may well stem from the fact that many Republicans may have succumbed to the same ambitions.  It is unlikely that we will be able to vote our way out of this mess.

Frankly, I think each of us needs to take up our obligation to having integrity.  We all need to examine our selves, purge selfish motives to the degree possible, and ensure that we our selves have integrity.  Then we need to start talking to our fellows at work, and wherever we encounter them.  We need not change minds, because that is often not possible, but we can begin planting seeds.  We must begin to speak out if we are to save our republic. And for heaven's sake, go vote. You never know when one vote may make the difference.

Show up, America. There's more at stake than the Trump presidency. Our Constitutional Republic is on the line.