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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Friday, June 1, 2018

Communism - 100 Million Dead ... Thx Newt G!

Sam Kegley

100 Million Dead - The Human Price of Marxism
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Karl Marx’s Legacy: More Than 100 Million Dead

Karl Marx’s Legacy: More Than 100 Million Dead
Karl Marx is being celebrated by Chinese president Xi Jinping as the “greatest thinker of modern times.” Western academics are celebrating Marx as a historic critic of the modern world.
Yet what all the pro-Marxist, pro-socialist speakers ignore is the human cost of Marxism.
In the name of Marx, Lenin established a police state which killed millions. Stalin succeeded Lenin and proved even more ruthless and committed to killing. Hitler led the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party and socialism was central to his taking over the German economy and the German state – a fact the Left makes every effort to avoid. Mao was the deadliest Marxist of all and killed an uncounted number of millions to impose his will on China. Castro turned a prosperous Cuba into a tragic police state in the name of Marxism-Leninism. Venezuela has been shattered by socialism.
The academic Left and its news media and Hollywood acolytes cannot confront the horrifying record of Marxism’s endless inhumanity.
This would be a good year to begin educating all those who have been lied to by the American academic infatuation with Marxism.
We need a TV series on Marxism (and its evolution through Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, etc.) so that Americans can come to grips with the horrors of centralized government and the cost of tyranny.
The desire of those with power to get more and more power seems insatiable.
Our Founding Fathers understood this and designed the Constitution to distribute power so no one person could establish a dictatorship. American exceptionalism is the opposite of Leninism.
Lenin used Marx analysis and rhetoric to justify establishing a secret police-controlled totalitarian system. Within a remarkably few years, he had centralized authority and begun to lock up, torture, and kill his critics. When Lenin died, Stalin took his system of centralized power and refined it with even more brutality. Literally millions were starved to death as a matter of policy to break the middle class farmers. As an example of the grip Marxism had on the American news media and intellectuals at the time, the New York Times reporter in Moscow conspired with other reporters to avoid covering the famine and the mass deaths. Diana West’s American Betrayal cites the evidence of this deliberate coverup.
Left-wing American academics have always had a soft spot for Marxist regimes. One of the most widely read economic textbook writers and the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics, Paul Samuelson, told college students in the 1961 edition of his best selling Economics: An Introductory Analysis textbook, that the Soviet Union’s economy was growing faster than the United States’ economy (never true). This incorrect information continued to appear in subsequent editions of the book for more than two decades. Today the Left argues that Marxism didn’t fail in the Soviet Union, only the way the Russians tried to implement it failed.
In fact, I was told by someone who was at a dinner with Mikhail Gorbachev and a group of academics that when one of them made that argument Gorbachev responded, “you would have to be an American professor to believe that.”
Hitler studied the Lenin-Stalin police state and modeled much of his own totalitarianism on their design. There was a lot of the KGB in the design of the Gestapo. The central power of the state and its authority over people was central to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao. The individual human disappeared in the search for historic power and control.
We are about to witness a fascinating experiment in whether Marxism with big data can work. Xi Jinping is implementing a system by which Chinese people are heavily surveilled and assigned citizenship ratings based on their social media activity, patriotism, productivity, fitness routines, and other behaviors. Those with low scores can be barred from commercial flights, some trains, or from having their children enrolled in some schools.
Deng Xiaoping saved the Chinese communists from popular rejection by advocating a system of free enterprise within the communist structure after Mao’s death. He argued that unless the Chinese economy was dramatically improved, China would not prosper. Further, he understood that if the system didn’t reward the Chinese people, there would be a widespread rejection of the Communist Party.
In his famous Southern Tour of China in January and February of 1992, Deng made the case for free markets in which productivity – not politics – decided winners and losers.
Now Xi Jinping is reversing the market-oriented decentralization of Deng. As he made clear in his recent speech on Marx (have your web browser translate it), he regards Marx – not Adam Smith – as the central guide for China’s future.
If indeed Marxism has defeated Deng Xiaoping in the corridors of Chinese power, we are in for a terrible experiment in tyranny. I wrote about President Xi Jinping’s aggressive power gathering in China, in my new book, Trump’s America: The Truth About Our Nation’s Great Comeback. I will doubtlessly write more on this in future columns, but for the moment, simply note that no experiment in Marxism has come out well.
Centralized control leads people to lie and cheat. Lying and cheating leads to the leadership demanding more secret police with more rules and more punishment. The system becomes a downward spiral in which humans are sacrificed to the power of the few.
This is Marx’s legacy, and President Xi should study it carefully before taking China off the path of economic growth and onto the path of tyrannical growth.
Your Friend,
Newt
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Charity of the Month: Easterseals

Charity of the Month: Easterseals
The Gingrich Foundation is proud to announce Easterseals as its June Charity of the Month in recognition of its peerless work in serving people with disabilities throughout the country and helping them live decent, meaningful, and productive lives.
Easterseals has worked to improve the lives of those with special needs for almost a century. Founded by prominent businessman Edgar Allen, the organization began as a hospital that was established following the death of Mr. Allen’s son in a streetcar accident. His work at the hospital provided first-hand experience that allowed Mr. Allen to notice the severe lack of support for children with disabilities. In 1919, Allen founded the National Society for Crippled Children to help address their unique challenges.
A decade and a half later, the society launched an Easter fundraising campaign in which donors purchased “seals” featuring a lily for letters and envelopes. The initiative took off, sparking a wave of awareness and support across the country for Americans with disabilities. With this increased attention, the organization expanded its mission nationwide, and its “seal” campaign was so identified with these efforts that in 1967, it officially changed its name to “Easterseals.”
Today, Easterseals has grown to an international organization supporting individuals with a variety of disabilities and serves more than 1 million people each year. Through its network of more than 550 locations in the United States, Easterseals offers childcare for those with special needs, offering careful attention to each child’s learning and development. For school-aged children and adults, Easterseals provides not only adult day care, in-home, and workplace services but also several support programs, including outpatient therapy and a school-to-work transition program.
Easterseals played an essential role in the development and passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed by President George H. W. Bush in 1990. This momentous law requires vital accommodations in public places and services for those with disabilities who have needs that often go unseen. Perhaps more importantly, it protects individuals from being discriminated against in academic and employment situations due to disability. For the millions of disabled Americans who work to help support themselves, Easterseals’s efforts on their behalf has made a profound impact in the pursuit of a wholesome life free of discrimination.
Easterseals continues its perpetual support of those with disabilities by extending its support to American service members who have fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other regions around the globe to help aid in overcoming physical and mental disabilities, as well as making the challenging transition back to civilian life. Easterseals, in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, offers training support services for caregivers of veterans who return home with injuries that have left them disabled. As one of America’s largest disability services organizations, Easterseals has joined the front line of assistance for many of our returning veterans who have made tremendous sacrifices for our country.
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What Newspaper Do You Read ... Thx Greg H!

What Newspaper do you read?
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> Experts have found the following analysis to be nearly 100% accurate:
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> 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
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> 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
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> 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
> country, and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
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> 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times.
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> 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running
> the country, if they could find the time and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.
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> 6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.
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> 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train
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> 8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably
> while intoxicated.
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> 9. The Chicago Tribune is read by people who are in prison, who used to run the state, and would like to do so again, as would their
> constituents who are currently free on bail.
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> 10 The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.
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> 11 The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they
> oppose all that they stand for.   There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are gay, handicapped, minority, feminist, atheists, and
> those who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.
>
> 12 The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
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> 13 The Seattle Times is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something to wrap it in.

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