Author: jacohn3062

	**Majoring in Cowardice
     By: Bill O'Reilly / October 22, 2023
     The ignorant anti-Israel displays on many college campuses are
all driven by one thing: fear.

     College administrators are afraid of radical left students and
faculty, so they allow them to run wild. What else explains the
mealy-mouthed statements issued by Penn, Harvard, UCLA, NYU, and
many others? It is shocking.

     When a terrorist group murders more than a thousand civilians,
there should be universal condemnation. There are not two sides to
the story. Murder is murder. Hostage-taking is terrorism.

     You expect some foolish, callous behavior from immature stu-
dents but not from administrators and faculty who are supposed to be
guiding them to productive and positive lives. But in today's cancel
culture, the students hold power and can get people fired. The shout
-downs of conservative speakers, the kangaroo courts dealing with
allegations, and the acceptance of destructive leftist demonstra-
tions are all indicators of colleges out of control.

     Here's a vivid example. Marist College is a small institution
on the banks of the Hudson River about 90 miles north of New York
City. The school was built by the Catholic Marist brothers, whose
collective vision was a place where children of working-class
parents could achieve a college degree.

     O'REILLY AND LELAND VITTERT DISCUSS HAMAS SUPPORT ON NEWSNATION

     I graduated from Marist with a BA in history. It was a great
place; I made lifelong friends and went on to earn Master's Degrees
from Boston University and Harvard.

     But the Marist College I attended is gone, replaced by a woke,
leftwing campus where if you don't toe the liberal line, you had
better watch out.

     The president of Marist is Dr. Kevin Weinman, who was hired
away from the ultra-liberal Amherst College in Massachusetts. Marist
selection committee members praised his emphasis on diversity,
equity, and inclusion in statements following his taking the job.

     Soon after the Hamas murders, Dr. Weinman issued a statement
that said he was "grappling" with the attack.

     Grappling? What kind of weasel word is that? Grappling with
what? Hamas has killed thousands of innocent people over the years.
Does Dr. Weinman not know that? He should have clearly repudiated
Hamas. He did not.

     This is insulting to every Marist student and graduate. 
     Grapple with that.

     Developing honest and courageous leaders is the mandate of
all higher learning institutions. But what we have now is a bunch
of politically correct cowards in charge of many schools.

     Enough.

     Higher education in America is in line for a total overhaul.
The woke faculty members will never wake up. They need some ac-
countability, and that can only be done by alumni donors.

     Don't give them a dime.**

     Since Bill wrote this piece, 4 leaders of major universities
were interviewed by Congress and they openly denied their obvious
promotion of antisemitism and greed.
     They lied about the practices at Harvard, Penn, and MIT and
that they apparently acted as though were unaware of how bad the
situation has become.
     All three are being encouraged to resign as well as they are
millions of dollars from donors.
     It is time to clean up the nations educators, especially the
ones who are ripping off the donors and making no effort to make
a positive effort to teach the students exactly what they are
being paid to teach.
     Educating seems to be the last thing they are there for.
     I fear that the future of America is being destroyed with so
many lies.

  Conservatively,
  John

	Most Americans Live "HOW"?!

     *(TheProudRepublic.com) Underscoring the difficulties of living
in the current economic climate of the United States, a significant
majority of adults are confronting financial constraints, parti-
cularly as the holiday season approaches.
     According to a recent report by LendingClub, a staggering 60%
of adults in the U.S. are experiencing the strain of living from
one paycheck to the next as of October.
     This phenomenon is not confined to lower-income brackets; a
notable 42% of individuals earning six-figure salaries are also
grappling with this challenge under the current administration of
Joe Biden.

     The data further highlights a growing financial distress among
the populace, marking an increase from 58% in March, as reported by
a separate survey from CNBC. This trend reflects a broader economic
uncertainty that has led approximately 40% of consumers to perceive
their financial situation as deteriorating compared to the previous
year.
      The LendingClub report also uncovers that over a third of
consumers consider tapping into their savings to accommodate holiday
expenditures. This decision, while offering a temporary solution,
could potentially leave them exposed to unforeseen financial
emergencies.
     Alia Dudum, a financial expert at LendingClub, expresses con-
cern about this behavior, noting that while individuals have found
ways to cope with inflation, their reliance on savings and a wil-
lingness to exceed budgets for holiday purchases might make them
susceptible to unexpected fiscal crises.
     Furthermore, 43% of consumers who barely manage to pay their
bills and live paycheck to paycheck are contemplating using credit
to finance their holiday shopping. This tendency towards what
Jacqueline Howard, head of money wellness at Ally Financial Ser-
vices, terms “hyper-consumption” stems from a lack of mindfulness
in spending. Howard advises a more thoughtful approach to expend-
itures, prioritizing financial well-being.
     Amid these challenges, credit card debt in the U.S. has sur-
passed $1 trillion. A survey by TD Bank reveals a concerning trend:
an overwhelming 96% of shoppers anticipate exceeding their holiday
budgets. Matt Boss, Head of Consumer Products at TD Bank, suggests
that strategic planning and adherence to a set budget can alleviate
some of the financial stress associated with holiday shopping.
     Interestingly, the report notes that Generation Z has a higher
propensity for budgeting during the holiday season. About 81% of
Gen-Zers are considering devising a holiday budget this year, com-
pared to 77% of Millennials and only 59% of Baby Boomers. Addition-
ally, 66% of Gen Z individuals are proactive in setting aside money
throughout the year in anticipation of higher holiday spending,
demonstrating a more disciplined approach to financial planning.*
     Remember to ask yourself, are you better off now than you
were 4 years ago? 'Be Honest'
     The credit card debt on this was at $1T in March 2023 but it
rose another $60-70B in the next 3 months. Now we are into the end
of the year holidays, taxes, insurance so a more reasonable guess
would now have Americans saddled with a debt nearing $1.3T and it
continues to grow at a rate of 16%-18% each quarter and interest
rates on those cards is rising as well.
     The Federal reserve has also talked about people spending all
or most of their savings and nest eggs to lessen the impact of the
crushing Biden inflation and declining economy.
     Many have lost their homes, jobs, cars, and are forced to 
apply for welfare and government assistance.
     They have cancelled their health, home insurance and skipped
their medicine and meals to survive.
     I find it difficult watching the Biden disaster destroy so many
who had hopes of living out their retirement in comfort not while
counting pennies and suffering needlessly because of the incom-
petence and ineptitude of a band of uninformed and clueless greedy
Godless and corrupt people that have ALL created a new meaning to
"The Peter Principle". 
     They have on been able to do this with the lies being spread
by the media and the corruptness of the entire Justice Department.
     If you are part of the destructive force being sucked into
try to do a couple of simple searches. (1) "Can a Democrat be a
Catholic?" (2) "Can a Democrat be a Christian?" and (3) Search -
The KJV of the Bible in Revelation Chapter 22: 18-21 which will
explain why most of Americans and the people of the world will not
be admitted into Heaven in the end times.
     Pray for America, for the lost, and God's children around
the world.

  Conservatively,
  John

	**Justice Thomas and the Uneven Scales of Scrutiny
Armstrong Williams / October 05, 2023
     The media holds Justice Clarence Thomas to much different
standards than liberal justices. If the mainstream media endorsed
his opinions, any whining over his financial disclosures would be
muted, says Armstrong Williams.
     There is no worse example of a biased, tendentious mainstream
media with ulterior motives than the castigation of Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas during the past half year.
     The latest example stems from flyspecking Thomas’ amended
financial disclosure reports, repeating what has never been disputed
and attempting to cast a dark shadow on otherwise innocent, normal
conduct—that the man has affluent friends and these friends engage
in activities with their friends, which is typical of those with
wealth.
     Apart from the shameless and intentional misinterpretation of
this reality, what is omitted from the reporting truly speaks
volumes. There are neither accusations nor even circumstantial
evidence that the 700-plus opinions Thomas has written over his
career, the 2,800-plus cases he has voted on, and the millions of
words he has authored have been compromised in any way to benefit
his friends.
     Even the “bombshell” article by ProPublica, which detailed
Thomas’ relationship with his friend Harlan Crow, conceded that
“Crow and his firm have not had a case before the Supreme Court
since Thomas joined it.”
     Throughout his tenure, neither the media nor any litigant
appearing before Thomas has alleged that he shortchanged justice
in any case for hidden motives. Yet, this ProPublica article and
its subsequent echoes desperately attempt to construe a narrative
that mere friendship with an affluent individual, and receiving
treatment no different from that given to other friends, somehow
signifies that Thomas harbors ulterior motives.
     The arguments presented vacillate between being feeble and
outright juvenile. The cornerstone ProPublica piece, for example,
musters the claim that “the details of [Crow’s] discussions with
Thomas over the years remain unknown, and it is unclear if Crow
has had any influence on the justice’s views.” In essence, the
exposé—heralded as a revelation of Thomas’ alleged indiscretions
—ended not with a bang but a whimper.
     If the mainstream media endorsed Thomas’ opinions, any whining
over his financial disclosures would be muted or inaudible. When
liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg publicly and injudiciously as-
sailed Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016, describing him as “a faker”
and criticizing both his “ego” and his decision not to release his
tax returns (comments for which she later apologized), most in the
media winced for a few seconds but moved on.
     Ginsburg remained in its judicial Valhalla, without an adverse
footnote, even though she didn’t recuse herself from numerous cases
involving the Trump administration that subsequently came before
the court. And when Justice Sonia Sotomayor failed to recuse herself
from a case in which her book publisher was before the court, there
was nary a peep from the media.
     The obvious problems that could arise from these two instances
warranted far more concern from media watchdogs than Thomas’ case.
After all, why should liberal justices be held to a less exacting
standard than he? All the justices take the same oath to support and
defend the Constitution; all should be role models for the nation’s
youth.
     Indeed, when the liberal bloc of the court held sway, Ginsburg
and Sotomayor were far more influential than Thomas, who was regu-
larly relegated to writing pointed, devastating dissents that, un-
fortunately, had no precedential weight.
     Of course, Thomas is not above criticism. His judicial handi-
work is fair game, as is that of every other justice; you can ques-
tion his reasoning or his adherence to precedents. As former pres-
ident and, later, Chief Justice William Howard Taft instructed,
     Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions
and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness
that every act of theirs is to be subject to the intelligent
scrutiny of their fellow men, and to their candid criticism. … In
the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed, their very inde-
pendence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of
greater importance, because it is the only practical and available
instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive
to the reasonable demands of those they serve.
     Journalists, of course, should be evenhanded in their analysis
and critiquing of the opinions of all the justices. Thomas should
not be singled out for special treatment, nor should any ideological
bloc of justices be. Journalists should report and analyze fairly,
no matter which justices’ opinions or actions they are analyzing.
     Supreme Court reporters, in particular, should be trained in
law to distinguish between the Constitution and partisan politics;
they should avoid turning fleas into elephants or shrinking ele-
phants into fleas.
     The Supreme Court bears the profound responsibility of inter-
preting a document penned more than 250 years ago by the most vi-
sionary minds of their era. Thomas, having personally endured the
deep scars of racism stemming from misinterpretations of this very
text, embodies the gravity and significance of this responsibility.
**
     Now the Democrats are running out of options to get control
of the entire government that they are now making up lies about
Justice Thomas who has done excellent work so they are attacking
his friends who happen to have wealth. 
     Lest we forget the Millions of dollars Joe has spent on his
homes purchased on a Senators salary but the truth is coming out
more each day. One of those homes was the DuPont estate.
     Maybe it is time for God to intercede and help Americans
expose his true corrupt dishonesty.
     Continue to pray for our future.

  Conservatively,
  John

	President Biden Leaves God Out Of Thanksgiving Proclamation

     I saw this message online and realized that Democrats really
don't hold God as their guiding light and deliverer.
     I also saw a video this week where the speaker stated his
direct message from a Clergy leader said that a Democrat can NOT
be a Catholic. There are many places in the Inspired Word of GOD
that clearly explains what being a Christian really means.
     Search, "Can a Democrat be a Christian?" The answer is "NO"
because most denominations have chosen to cut and paste God's
written Word to allow them to leave out the parts they personally
don't want to follow.
     God tells us that being a Christian is an extremely hard
thing to do because we are to strive to be like Jesus and no one
is without sin on a daily basis. No gays, same sex marriages, no
lesbians, or bisexuals or transsexuals. 
     We are to ask for forgiveness, cease repeating the same sins
trust in God and place our faith in Him.
     **President Biden Leaves God Out Of Thanksgiving Proclamation
     In a departure from tradition, President Joe Biden’s 2023
Thanksgiving proclamation made no mention of Almighty God.
     While the president expressed gratitude for the nation and
its many contributors, from firefighters and first responders to
teachers and caregivers, there was a noticeable absence of re-
cognition for the Source from whom all blessings flow.
     In his proclamation, Biden highlighted the essence of
Thanksgiving as a time to honor the blessings of the United States.
He expressed gratitude for the nation and its boundless possi-
bilities, remembering and thanking various groups, including
firefighters, police officers, first responders, doctors, nurses,
scientists, public servants, union workers, teachers, mothers,
fathers and caregivers. His message emphasized unity and the
strength of the nation when working together.
     The proclamation stated in part, “This Thanksgiving we are
grateful for our Nation and the incredible soul of America. May
we all remember that we are the United States of America — there
is nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together.”
     “NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby
proclaim Thursday, November 23, 2023, as a National Day of Thanks-
giving. I encourage the people of the United States of America to
join together and give thanks for the friends, neighbors, family
members, and strangers who have supported each other over the past
year in a reflection of goodwill and unity,” he added.
     Biden’s proclamation stands in stark contrast to the procla-
mation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Even as the
country was in the midst of the civil war, Lincoln firmly rooted
Thanksgiving in expressions of gratitude and praise to the “bene-
ficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
     He also directly attributed the nation’s blessings and boun-
ties to the Almighty, acknowledging that they were “the gracious
gifts of the Most High God.
     “No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand work-
ed out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most
High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath
nevertheless remembered mercy,” the late president declared.
     Calling upon his fellow citizens to offer thanks to God for
the singular deliverances and blessings bestowed upon the nation,
Lincoln cautioned against forgetting the source of these gifts,
noting that they are “so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to
forget the source from which they come.”
     Biden will not be the first president to make the decision
to omit references to God in his Thanksgiving proclamation, as
then-President Barack Obama did the same in 2016.**
     On a personal note as a retired Army disabled Veteran, Joe
also failed to mention the group of Americans most worthy of our
thankfulness, the United States military services that have, for
over 240 years defended this once great nation that the Left has
worked so hard to destroy in just 3 short years.
     Millions of Americans have been disabled, bent, broken, died
and given their all to protect what so many corrupt continue to
divide and destroy what God said He would save our land and keep
evil form His people.
     Now we pray He will be our deliverer sooner than later. He
is always an on-time Savior.

  Conservatively,
  John 

       **How the Left Lies to Our Faces, Seemingly Without Conse-
quence
     Victor Davis Hanson / October 06, 2023

     One common denominator that explains why previously successful
societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective
denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their
solutions.
     Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight
million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the
deliberate erasure of the southern border.
     Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advan-
tage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be
new constituents.
     Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more President Joe Biden
and his homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, flat out
lie that “the border is secure.”
     They both live in a world of make-believe, passed off to the
American people as reality.
     And the more the Americans are lied to that the border is
secure, the more they poll—currently 77%—that it is not.
     Biden apparently has reversed course and begun using the former
pejorative “Bidenomics” as a term of pride.
     He now praises this three-year effort to borrow $6-$7 trillion,
and spike interest rates threefold to 7% on home mortgages—even as
prices on essentials like food and fuel have spiked 25%-30% since
he entered office.
     The more that Biden brags about what he did to the economy,
the more people poll—over 60%—dissatisfaction with his alternate
reality of “Bidenomics.”
     Do we remember the humiliation in August 2021 in Afghanistan?
     The more retired Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the
Joint Chiefs, and Biden assured that the American military pre-
sence was stable, the more swiftly it crumbled and descended into
the worst mass flight of an American army since Vietnam.
     Consider natural gas and oil. The Biden administration waged
war on both by canceling pipelines, drilling on federal lands,
and entire oil fields.
     When the price soared and the 2022 midterms neared, Biden
suddenly begged formerly shunned illiberal regimes like Saudi
Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela to pump all the hated oil they could
to lower the price.
     A desperate Biden drained much of the strategic petroleum
reserve—he has yet to refill it—simply to lower the price of
gasoline and thus win voters back to the Democratic Party.
     When the midterms passed, Biden resumed his attack on once
bad, then good, and now bad again fossil fuels—at least until the
2024 election.
     Stranger still is the denial of the current crime wave in
our major cities. Predators and thugs have turned once iconic
downtowns into either war zones or ghost towns or both.
     Smash-and-grab swarming of stores and matter-of-fact shop-
lifting are destroying commerce in our major cities.
     Unsustainable stores either leave or shut down. Communities
that vote for politicians who defund the police blame the stores
for leaving—but not the criminals whose brazen thefts made it
impossible to do business in the inner city.
     Now modern-day pirates with impunity storm, sink, and rob
boats of all kinds in the Oakland, California, marina and estuary.
     Left-wing journalists and activists, and even Democratic
politicians, who all supported defunding the police, now cannot
escape the resulting street violence and unleashed murderous
predations.
     Everyone knows the culprit is the post-George Floyd effort
—with Biden administration complicity—to defund the police, end
cash bail, institutionalize catch-and-release of criminals, and
show more sympathy toward victimizers than victims.
     Yet neither state nor local officials nor Biden himself even
admits to a crime wave. The more the public is attacked and avoids
major downtowns, the more it polls furor over the crime wave.
     The more our officials, in gaslighting style, claim such
alarm is all in our collective heads, the more they themselves are
attacked by the very criminals their policies empowered.
     Sometimes the fantasies extend to the trivial. Sen. John Fet-
terman, D-Pa., for months has dressed like an utter slob while on
the Senate floor. As a gesture of approval, Democrats junked the
dress code so he could wear his sloppy cut-offs and hoodie.
     Americans were to assume his slovenly costume was normal ap-
parel—and they were hypercritical for thinking otherwise.
     Recently, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., pulled a fire alarm to
disrupt and delay a vote on continuing the funding of the govern-
ment. But he got caught on a Capitol surveillance video committing
the crime.
     Bowman whined that he got confused. He preposterously claimed
that by pulling the alarm, he thought he was opening a door to go
vote.
     All of that was pure fantasy. The alarm was clearly marked. A
sign in front of the door warned not to enter. And the door itself
was placarded with cautions that any attempt to open it would set
off emergency alarms.
     No matter. Bowman assumed by calling his critics “Nazis” and
using the race card, he could invent a virtual reality.
     Despite our epidemic of fantasy, there remains reality.
     And we will soon rediscover it all too soon.**
     This article barely scratches the surface of the constant
flow of lies from the corrupt Left and all of the Democrats who
even bother to try.
     What we have to remember is that whatever they try to blame
on Conservatives, they, themselves have already done and got
exposed, are doing, or fabricated to hide their own corruption.
     Then they create reasons, with NO basis, to divert peoples
attention from the truth with the aid of the corrupt media, DOJ,
and the gullible Americans that hear whatever they are told and
for some strange reason don't care enough to seek that truth.
     They know the damage they have done to the nation and our
economy out of ignorance.
     We pray to God that patriotic Americans wake up and save
us from ourselves.

   Conservatively,
   John

	Trump’s Medical Report Made Public
     Donald Trump (TheRedAlertNews.com)
 
     **As the nation is increasingly worried about the age and
fitness for office of President Joe Biden, who has just turned 81,
his likely 2024 election rival, Donald Trump, has been shown to
be in perfect health, as confirmed by his latest medical report.

     Dr. Bruce Aronwald, the personal physician of former President
Donald Trump, has recently released a medical report that affirms
Trump’s excellent health status, highlighting his impressive weight
loss and dietary improvements.

     Aronwald, who has been Trump’s physician since 2021, commended
the 77-year-old former president’s cognitive exam results as
“exceptional.”

     The timing of the report’s release, coinciding with Biden’s
81st birthday, has been in a report by Fox News.

     “I am pleased to report that President Trump’s overall health
is excellent. His physical exams were well within the normal range
and his cognitive exams were exceptional. In addition, his most
recent extensive laboratory analysis remains well within normal
limits and was even more favorable than prior testing in some of
the most significant parameters, most likely secondary to weight
reduction,” Aronwald remarked.

     He also stated that Trump’s cardiovascular assessments were
“normal,” all cancer screenings returned negative results, and
that Trump had successfully “reduced his weight through an im-
proved diet and continued daily physical activity, while main-
taining a rigorous schedule.”

     “It is my opinion that President Trump is currently in ex-
cellent health, and with his continued interest in preventative
health monitoring and maintenance, he will continue to enjoy a
healthy active lifestyle for years to come,” the physician
concluded.

     Recent public opinion reflects growing concerns about
President Biden’s health, Fox points out.

     An NBC poll indicated that 59% of registered voters have
“major concerns” about Biden’s physical and mental health as he
considers running for a second term. An additional 27% of voters
have either “moderate” or “minor” concerns.

     Furthermore, another poll released last month revealed that
76% of voters agree that Biden is “too old” to serve another term.
     These health concerns are not just shared by voters; they
are also echoed by political figures. Republicans, in particular,
have increasingly questioned Biden’s “cognitive ability” to serve
another four years.

     “He’s got these people that surround him that are inappro-
priately encouraging him to continue to run because it builds up
who they are and what they do,” commented US Rep. Ronny Jackson
(R-TX), a former White House physician for Presidents Obama and
Trump.**

     If you haven't noticed by now, Joe Biden has become a mental
wreck since he was Obama's Vice President. Do you remember when
he would touch children and women at the White House and Obama
would say, "Oh, that's just Joe."
     Then there is a 50 year habit he has of lying about nearly
everything, dating back to his post college years.
     Getting Biden to actually take a legitimate physical is not
something that will ever happen, and taking a cognitive evalu-
ation is even less likely.
     The American people have reached a point where the media,
who has lied to us ALL for decades, cannot afford to be exposed
now due to the repercussions attached. They have been working
on this plan to change America to a socialist/Marxist/Communist
nation to form a One World Order.
     As Obama has said many times, he was going to "Fundament-
ally Transform the United States.
     They have used the Cloward-Piven Strategy and Saul Alinsky's
Rules For Radicals. Every one of these rules appear in the way
that the Corrupt Left have been steering our nation off the
cliff, destroying the economy and the middle class but don't
take my word for it, read them.
     Biden is a tool, incapable of thinking for himself but he
is selfish and power-hungry enough, and lacks most all of his
ethics, morals, and Christian values to be manipulated in any
way that his puppeteers desire.
     They cheated to get him in office and will likely cheat
again for the 8th time until the Rapture occurs.
     We can only pray that He saves America or returns.
  Conservatively,
  John

       Why Can’t I Get To Heaven Through Good Works?
     by JACK WELLMAN · Prison Fellowship

     I spent a long time in a discussion with a few people this
week discussing how hard it is to satisfy God's commands and do
what He tells us to do to spend eternity with Him. 
     **Many people believe that they’re a very good person and that
will bring them to heaven but this is actually false and we can be
thankful that it is.

     Our good Works
Good works have their place in the life of the Christian.  Salvation
is not one of them.  James did say “What good is it, my brothers, if
someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith
save him” (James 2:14) in which he was really saying “faith by it-
self, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17). We are saved
by faith and not works (Eph 2:8-9) but a faith that does work.  In
other words, if someone claims to be a Christian and has no works to
show it, then James would ask “Can that faith save him?” No, because
it’s obviously not genuine, saving faith.  Of course I am not saying
that we are saved by works but we are saved for works as Paul wrote
there were “good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them” (Eph 2:10).

       Why Cant I Get To Heaven Through Good Works

     How to get to Heaven
The last statistic I read and backed up by people I talk to is that
almost 90% of people believe they’re a good person and believe they
have done more good to go to heaven. If that were true, I ask them
“then why did Jesus have to die on the cross if you could be good
enough to go to heaven on your own?”  We could live a million lives
and do good works in each and every one of them and not be deemed
good enough to go to heaven.  Good enough is not good enough to God.
We have to be perfect as the Bible says “nothing unclean will ever
enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false”
(Rev 21:27).  It’s not about a plan of salvation but about the Man
of Salvation and that is through Jesus Christ alone because there is
absolutely no other way (Acts 4:12).  If there were, God would have
revealed it to us in the Bible but it’s not there!  If our works
could get us there, then Jesus died for nothing and He most certain-
ly did not suffer and die for no reason.

     Who gets us to Heaven?
It’s not so much of how we get to heaven but Who gets us there.  It
is only Jesus Christ and His righteousness that must be imputed to
us because remember, nothing imperfect can ever enter heaven (Rev
21:27) so that leaves us with a huge problem because our sins have
separated us from a holy God (Isaiah 59:2). Here’s how God solved
this problem for us and we read about the solution in 2 Corinthians
5:21 which says that it was “For our sake He made Him to be sin who
knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of
God.” It was not for our sake or our work’s sake but for Jesus’ sake
alone.  God sees us as having Jesus’ righteousness and that’s what
it takes.

     Why works are Useless
You still want to consider that your good enough to go to heaven by
your good works and that your good will outweigh the bad?  Listen to
what God says about our works in Isaiah 64:6, “We have all become
like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a pol-
luted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the
wind, take us away.”  To anyone who says that they’re a good person,
I say that either you are right and the Bible is wrong or you are
wrong and the Bible is right but both can’t be wrong or both can’t
be right.  The truth is that the Word says “None is righteous, no,
not one… no one does good, not even one” (Rom 3:10, 12). It's only
"by grace you have been saved through faith. And this isn't your own
doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one
may boast” (Eph 2:7-8) and believe me, if we could boast, we would. 
I am glad that works cannot save us because when would we ever have
enough peace of mind to know how many good works was enough?   Could
we die peacefully knowing that we’d done enough?  No, there is no
peace of mind in that.  God made peace with us through Jesus Christ
and “since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1).

     Conclusion
We are saved by grace through faith and not by works.  No amount of
good works could ever get us there.  Only a good God Who sent His
perfect Son could get us to heaven and that’s by repentance and
faith. There is no way that a good person will ever make it to
heaven on his or her own but only bad people forgiven by a very
good God.
There is positively no other way to get there.  Sadly, hell will be
full of self-proclaimed “good people” who brought their works and
filthy rags to hell with them.
 
     May it never be so with you.**

     God expects certain things from those who want to spend
eternity in Heaven with Him. Always remember that.

   Conservatively,
   John

	What's the Future for Affirmative Action in the Workplace?
     If race-based discrimination is unconstitutional for college
admissions, how can we continue to allow it in the workplace?
     Douglas Andrews
     *Now that race-based discrimination has been rightly ruled un-
constitutional in college admissions, what are the odds that such
discrimination will continue to be allowed in the American work-
place?
     *Put another way: Is it time to red-line racial discrimination
right out of the office?
     It's a great question, and it's now top-of-mind among corporate
lawyers — the folks whose job it is to keep their companies from
getting sued for mega-millions. All of a sudden, "diversity" might
not be a good enough defense for looking at certain people's skin
color and deeming them less desirable in the workplace.
     As Fox Business reports: "Federal law prohibits the considera-
tion of race and other protected characteristics like age, religion,
sex — including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy —
national origin, disability or genetic information in corporate
hiring decisions."
     And yet, as Fox Business mealy-mouths it: "Many corporations
have sought to diversify their workforce by trying to recruit qua-
lified candidates from more diverse pools of applicants or through
training programs that offer opportunities to members of groups that
a company believes are underrepresented in their management teams.
Such initiatives are often part of a company's broader diversity,
equity and inclusion (DEI) program."
     Here's a tip: Think of "diversity" and "DEI" as euphemisms for
"discrimination." Because that's what they are.
     One can imagine both the rage and the despair currently being
felt among the activists in the New York Times's newsroom. Not only
is their president an international embarrassment and a source of
near-constant ridicule, but the policies they've championed and used
to divide Americans for more than a half-century are now, finally,
being rejected as unconstitutional and repudiated by the American
people.
     And now, in the wake of last week's landmark Supreme Court dec-
ision striking down race-based discrimination in college admissions,
the writing may be on the wall for the corporate diversicrats, those
racial bean-counters who've made it their mission to ensure proper
numerical representation of the races everywhere except in the NFL
and the NBA and the hip-hop industry.
     "The effects on business could be profound," the Times reports.
"Corporate America has embraced diversity, equity and inclusion
policies, particularly in the wake of protests over George Floyd's
killing in 2020. But Thursday's ruling opens the door for employees
— and conservative activists — to bring legal challenges to those
policies." (Is it just us, or does anyone else find it weird that
the Times is conflating the death of George Floyd with race-based
discrimination in the workplace?)
     *Newly released reports have now shown that Floyd did NOT die
from his neck being pressured but from a drug overdose.*
     Desperate to find a racially discriminatory silver lining in
the dark cloud of color-blindness, the Times trots out the experts:
"Corporate diversity efforts aren't exactly analogous to university
ones, some experts say. The equal protection clause doesn't apply
to private employers, Doug Brayley, a labor law specialist at Ropes
& Gray, told DealBook."
     It's an interesting argument to make — and it betrays the weak-
ness of the diversitymongers' hand — when they're reduced to arguing
that the Constitution doesn't prohibit racial discrimination in the
private sector.
     DEI though, is big business — really big business. As columnist
Charles Gasparino writes, "It's the acronym for the nearly $10 bil-
lion Diversity, Equity and Inclusion industry."
     As to the argument that the Supreme Court didn't rule on DEI
when it struck down racial preferences in college admissions, Gaspa-
rino begs to differ: "Sorry," he says, "my sources who advise cor-
porations on governance issues say the Supremes actually did rule on
DEI since corporate DEI is based on some of the same noxious and now
unconstitutional premises that colleges have used to justify race-
based admissions."
     (Affirmative action was a product of the percentage of members
of different races being equally employed but it didn't stop there.
     This was similar to Equal Opportunity Employment but it too
was inflated by the Left to have "Equal" take on a new meaning ig-
noring the facts. Facts like only 13% of Americans are African-Amer-
icans, 20% are Hispanic, but 59% are considered White so it is easy
to try to blame whites for holding a majority of jobs.
     The deciding factor should be qualifications, ability, and the
knowledge possessed regardless of creed or color because the first
concen of an employer should always be hiring someone who can do
the job without spending a fortune on training.)
     Let's see if corporate America agrees. And if not, let the 
lawsuits begin.**
     According to the Constitution, "All men were created equal".
That simply means that people should strive to prepare themselves
for whatever they aspire to accomplish.
     Blaming others for your failures is on you and it is not the
responsibility of others to provide for you unless you physically
are incapable.
     God tells us he will protect and provide but we have to ask
for His Grace, Help, and follow His commandments.
  Conservatively,
  John

	 *Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
    Victor Davis Hanson / September 22, 2023
     Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million
and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern
border of the U.S.
     The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law
was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary
Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He
is now written off as a veritable “Baghdad Bob” propagandist.
     But how and why did the Biden administration destroy immigra-
tion law as we knew it?
     The Trump administration’s initial efforts to close the border
had been continually obstructed in the Congress, sabotaged by the
administrative state, and stymied in the courts. Nonetheless, it
finally had secured the border by early 2020.
     Yet almost all the Trump administration’s successful initia-
tives were immediately overturned in 2021.
     Construction of the wall was abruptly stopped, its projected
trajectory canceled. The disastrous Obama-era “catch and release”
policy of immigration nonenforcement was resurrected.
     Prior successful pressure on Mexican President Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador to stop the deliberate export of his own citizens
northward ceased.
     Federal Border Patrol officers were forced to stand down.
     New federal subsidies were granted to entice and then support
illegal arrivals.
     No one in the Democratic Party objected to the destruction of
the border or the subversion of immigration law.
     However, things changed somewhat once swamped southern border
states began to bus or fly a few thousand of their illegal immi-
grants northward to sanctuary city jurisdictions—especially to New
York and Chicago, and even Martha’s Vineyard.
     The sanctuary-city “humanists” there who had greenlighted
illegal immigration into the southern states suddenly shrieked.
They were irate after experiencing the concrete consequences of
their own prior abstract border agendas. After all, their nihilism 
was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others.
     New York Mayor Eric Adams went from celebrating a few dozen
illegal immigrants bused into Manhattan to blasting his own party
for allowing tens of thousands to swamp his now bankrupt city.
     But why did the Biden administration deliberately unleash the
largest influx across the southern border in U.S. history?
     The ethnic chauvinists and Democratic Party elites needed new
constituents, given their increasingly unpopular agendas.
     They feared that the more legal Latino immigrants assimilated
and integrated into American society, the less happy they became
with left-wing radical abortion, racial, transgender, crime, and
green fixations.
     Democratic grandees always had bragged that illegal immigra-
tion would create what they called “The New Democratic Majority” in
“Demography Is Destiny” fashion. Now they slander critics as
“racists” who object to left-wing efforts to use illegal immigra-
tion to turn southwestern red states blue.
     Mexico now cannot survive as a modern state without some $60
billion in annual remittances sent by its expatriates in America.
But many illegal immigrants rely on American state and federal
entitlements to free up cash to send home.
     Mexico also encourages its own abject poor and often indigen-
ous people from southern Mexico to head north as a safety valve of
sorts. The Mexican government sees these mass exoduses northward
as preferable to the oppressed marching on Mexico City to address
grievances of poverty and racism.
     The criminal cartels now de facto run Mexico. An open border
allows them to ship fentanyl northward, earn billions in profits
and kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year. Illegal immigrants pay
cartels additional billions to facilitate their border crossings.
     Don’t forget American corporate employers. Record labor non-
participation followed the COVID-19 lockdown. In reaction to the
dearth of American workers, the hospitality, meat packing, social
service, health care, and farming industries were desperate to hire
new—and far cheaper—labor.
     Human rights activists insist that the borders themselves are
19th-century relics. And the global poor and oppressed thus have a
human right to enter the affluent West by any means necessary.
     Many in the tony suburbs and in universities do not live any-
where near the southern border. So, they pontificate on the assur-
ance that thousands of unaudited illegal immigrants will never
enter their own enclaves or campuses.
     The result is elite bottled piety—but not firsthand experience
with the natural consequences of millions chaotically fleeing one
of the poorest countries in the world to pour into the wealthiest.
Without background checks, vaccinations and health audits, legality,
high school diplomas, English facility, skill sets, or capital, the
result is an abject catastrophe.
     Polls continue to show that the American people support mea-
sured, diverse, legal, and meritocratic immigration as much as they
oppose mass illegal immigration into their country and the subse-
quent loss of American sovereignty on the border.
     They understand what the Biden administration does not: No
nation in history has survived once its borders were destroyed,
once its citizenship was rendered no different from mere residence,
and once its neighbors with impunity undermined its sovereignty.
     Ending illegal immigration now depends solely on the American
people overriding the corrupt special interests and leaders who
profit from the current chaos and human misery.*
     Since Joe became president, about 6 million illegals have come
into the US, not counting the 'got-aways, ones brought in for sex
trafficking, brought by coyotes and cartels and the ones that don't
pass through the border checks or don't get caught. This is esti-
mated to total about 7-8 million costing American taxpayers in the
billions and Biden still refuses to fix the problem.
     Some figures show that 200,000-300,000 illegally enter the US
monthly.
     We are in very serious trouble. Democratic cities are nearly
bankruptcy while they NOW scream at the Government for funds.
     Hundreds of thousands are getting low income labor jobs as
cheap as half of minimum wage.
     We are rapidly becoming a 3rd world country.
     Sadly most liberals are not even aware because their corrupt
media just doesn't tell them.
     God will save His people. Where do you stand?

  Conservatively,
  John

	  The Truth You Know Little or Nothing About Part 2
    The Left began trying to get rid of Trump beginning within
days of his victory in the 2016 election.
    There was the Steel Dossier investigation by the DOJ that cost
us millions but turned up nothing so they selected a Special
Prosecutor Mueller) that cost us some $30M and all he found was
evidence that Hillary broke numerous laws but nothing on Trump.
    So next they decided to impeach Trump that again found he had
no broken any laws but since they had the House majority, they
   decided, "Why not"? More millions wasted.
	  Pelosi's roll in the increase in the National debt.
    While Trump was in office and requested funding for the border
wall, Democrats added billions in pork waste to the request to
inflate the spending as a tool to blame Trump.
    During the pandemic Trump made 4 requests for funds and each
was used to steal from the taxpayer. Trump asked for $300B and the
Left forced a bill for $900B. Trump asked for $800B and the Left
would only approve $1.3T, The third one Trump requested $1.1T that
Pelosi inflated that one to $2.2T CARES Act, finally Pelosi tried
to force the HEROES Act of $3.1T. It never passed because much of
the CARES Act funding was never used.
    My point is that a very small amount of these Bills actually 
gave Americans relief from the pandemic. Very little was actually
requested  by President Trump.
    So when you think Trump increased the debt by some $7T, the
truth is that He requested only $3.2T and Pelosi forced the other
$4T on the American taxpayers, most of which was spent on the
Arts, NASA, raises for House Reps., Visa extensions for foreign
workers, ballot harvesting, amnesty for DACA aliens, even $25M
Capitol cleaning supplies, and unions. Does that sound like they
were going to help the victims of the Coronavirus?
	The Truth of the events of Jan 6.
    A challenge of the Electoral Votes was legal but Democrats knew
that if the challenge happened that the truth would be exposed of
of all the illegal events that took place for the previous ten
years but especially the year leading up to and after the 2020
election. Democrats had used the challenge 3 times since the 2000
election when G. Bush won.
   Trump said on Jan 6. "Peacefully and Patriotically" go to the
Capitol to have your voices heard. Yet he is being accused of an
insurrection although NO Conservative Trump supporter has ever 
attended a rally armed.
    All those People Pelosi and the DOJ were well armed with batons,
flash bang grenades, and other things but still accuse Trump's
supporters of creating the chaos. Like I said this was desperation
on the Left to keep the truth hidden.
    They have kept hundreds of innocent people in prison because at
this point, they can't fabricate a way out of this corrupt and
illegal scenario they have put themselves in when they know if the
truth is ever exposed they will end up in prison if not worse for
treasonous actions.
	The President is the only person authorized to take classified
documents out of the secure skiff where people with proper clearance
can view them. Yet we have Biden, Pelosi, Pense, Obama, Clinton,
and his wife in possession of classified documents.
   Classified documents were found in Biden's garage, U Penn offices
financed by China, and in his other home where Hunter lived.
   Trump as president could and did declassify many documents before
he left office. Biden, Clinton, Pense, and Obama have never been
charged for any of this but they have fabricated 91 felony charges
against Trump because they are afraid that if he win again he WILL
indict dozens of corrupt Democrats and their minions.
	Hunter's laptop he admitted was his but the FBI ignored for
years, until the statute of limitations expired. There is enough
proof on it to put Hunter, Joe, Jill, James, and even Joe's grand
children in prison.
     How has Joe destroyed the economy?
	 Biden has sold off over half, some 350 million barrels of our
Strategic Petroleum Reserves, mostly to China. It was there to use
in the event of a war or emergency for national security, not to
line Joe's pockets. We now have about 340M barrels.
     He has manipulated the unemployment numbers by allowing illegal
immigrants to take jobs that Americans would not and pay them less,
in some labor jobs, than half of minimum wage and then having the
states subsidize that with thousands in welfare and other freebies
to avoid being honest with "We the People".
	The manipulating of the Labor Participation Rates and the false
job creation numbers that they have adjusted down every month since
last year.
	Biden's $1T deficit is now $1.9T but the corrupt media just does
not tell the American people the truth.
	The National Debt is about $33.7 trillion dollars.
    Since I began this, much has changed.
   Home interest rates are 8%, car loans 5-6%, inflation total under
Biden 17%, Home costs are higher than any time before because of the
interest rates.
     The Left are so afraid of Trump that they have spent 8 years
and a hundred million dollars trying to find anything to keep him
from running for President since he now leads Biden by 9-10% in
almost every poll. 
      There is so much more but at least I have documented much of
the corruption of the Left.
      Few on the Left even believe in God but know this. As we slip
further into this anti-American and hate-filled, 60 year effort to
make this a socialist/Marxist/communist nation God has made it so
clear that He will have the last word when we reach the end times
and the rapture and all involved will pay for their sins.
        Pray for American and the world.
    Conservatively,
    John