Author: jacohn3062

	Hostile Tribes
     By: Bill O'Reilly / March 5, 2023
	Not since the Civil War have the people of the United States
 been more hostile to each other. The corporate media and some toxic
 internet sites are largely responsible. Many Americans no longer
 seek common ground; our new collective hobby is despising those who
 hold different points of view.
	After the brutal attack on September 11, the country largely
 came together to oppose the evil Jihad. Initially, President Bush
 the younger had overwhelming support to right the wrong.
	That lasted until the Iraq War went south.
	Ever since then, creeping tribalism has badly damaged the
 USA. Barack Obama could not win over conservatives, Donald Trump
 was vilified by the left. No matter what these two presidents did,
 many of their opponents refused to treat them with respect or
 fairness.
	That was largely fueled by a profit-driven media which well
 understands there is big money in dividing the public. Here are two
 irrefutable examples of that.
	Fox News is in major legal trouble because the company did
 not want to lose viewers and revenue by challenging fraud assertions
 over the election of 2020. There is no more to it than that. Money
 trumped factual reporting, with apologies for the pun.
	Example two. NBC News, through its satellite MSNBC, seeks
 gold in luring African-American viewers. Thus, the cable station
 presents a steady stream of anti-white commentary, much of it in-
 flammatory.
	"Analysts" like Al Sharpton, Jonathan Capeheart, Joy Reid,
 Simone Sanders-Townsend, and others routinely feed black viewers
 grievance, some of it hateful.
	By the way, CNN actually destroyed its news franchise by em-
 bracing "all hate, all the time" directed at Donald Trump.
	But the race card is working for NBC. In February, MSNBC
 averaged 173,000 daily black viewers. CNN had 105,000, Fox News
 just 24,000.
	The harsh truth is that news consumption in America is now
 divided by skin color as well as ideology.
	The result of the money grabs by media companies is a drama-
 tic loss of honest reporting and a troubling diminishment of Ameri-
 can culture. Many immature folks now believe they have a license to
 loathe, and the most extreme of that crew acts out.
	Hello, January 6.
	Throughout our history, we have always had disagreements among
 the population. About half the American public didn't want to fight
 the fascists before Pearl Harbor.
	Also, half of the colonists didn't want to show the English
 king the door.
	But today, I fear the political and social divisions are per-
 manent, barring an attack on the homeland. It's too easy and some-
 times even fun to despise political opponents.
	And it's far too profitable for the powerful and soulless
 media corporations.
	The love of money is the root of evil.**
	O'Reilly took this to the edge but should have said more.
	The media has corrupted the American people to the point
 that people on the Left have rampant hatred for D. Trump and all
 Conservatives and can't even tell us why. They attack everything he
 or a conservative says that doesn't agree with the misinformation
 they are being fed.
	The Left seems to result to violence and therefore assume
 that Conservatives will do likewise, but it has never happened.
	So they created the riot of Jan 6, but even then, there was
 not a single Trump supporter who was armed that day. As a matter of
 fact, it has been discovered that there were many DOJ, FBI agents,
 and Capitol Police encouraging the innocent supporters to enter the
 Capitol Bldg. and attacked many with flash/bang grenades and even
 made things available to them to damage doors and windows.
	They murdered an unarmed veteran and beat others nearly to
 death and then spent the last 18 months trying to destroy Trump and
 his supporters to keep them from exposing the truth that took place
 in the 2020 election, the 2022 election, two runoff elections, the
 lies they attached to corruption of the media, the so-called Russian
 collusion, Mueller investigation, two impeachments, dozens of false
 accusations, and the rampant corruption of the Democratic Party.
	The Left know that there will be dozens of people who would
 end up in prison or impeached if the truth gets out so they decided
 they would rather destroy the country and anyone who gets in their
 way, even to make them disappear than to be exposed.
	God has a plan and said that he will protect his people and
 save our nation so I pray a lot and personally think that he is
 giving the liberal, communist, socialist, and progressive part of
 America enough rope to hang themselves. They will have no one to
 blame but themselves.
     Conservatively,
     John

     GOP: Biden Afghanistan Report is Spineless Fiction
Posted on April 10, 2023 by Matt

     Republican lawmakers pushed back against President Joe
Biden administration report this week regarding the August
2021 evacuation of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
    The public description of the disastrous Afghanistan
retreat issued by the Biden White House today, according to
House Military Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers,
R-Al is a spineless piece of fiction. Biden decision is be-
ing blamed on the Trump administration, as expected, but
also the senior military advisors and the Intelligence Com-
munity. 
     Rogers stated that President Biden was responsible for
this withdrawal, and he ought to assume accountability for
the tragedy that resulted from his actions.
     The report, released Thursday, stated President Biden
choices for executing a withdrawal from Afghanistan were
severely restrained by conditions imposed by the Trump Ad-
ministration negotiations with the Taliban. Trump ordered 
direct discussions with the Taliban without consulting Ame-
rica allies or inviting the Afghanistan government to 
negotiate.
     A spokesman for the National Security Council, John
Kirby, told reporters on Thursday that the Biden Adminis-
tration underestimated the rate at which the Taliban could
retake the country, leading to the tumultuous and deadly
evacuations in the last days of August 2021, during which a
suicide bomber at one of the Kabul airport gates killed
13 American service members.
     Kirby claimed they failed to account for the Taliban
rapid expansion in Afghanistan. The Biden Administration
didn't fully anticipate the degree to which the Taliban
were constructing deals in the hinterlands that crumpled
like dominoes. They also didn't anticipate how fast the
Afghan National Security Forces would fold and not fight
for their country specifically after America had dedicated
20 years to training and equipping them. Kirby added it
wasn't fully appreciated the corruption in the officer
ranks in the military.
     Despite the chaos, the United States evacuated more
than 124,000 people from Afghanistan during the tumultuous
withdrawal, Kirby said.
     Republican legislators did not favorably receive the
assessment.
     Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker told re-
porters that many should be held responsible for this
blunder in a well-run government. The Biden administration
has provided an extensive and profoundly partisan expla-
nation of its flawed Afghanistan policy to the public
rather than addressing honestly and openly the funda-
mental problems in its decision-making process.
     Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the ranking member of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has stated that the
leaders of China and Russia noted the bungled effort in
Afghanistan.
     Risch told the media that the White House release of
an after-action report on the disastrous withdrawal from
Afghanistan is unfortunate and untimely. Attempts were made
to hide the revelation over the holiday weekend nearly two
years later. The Biden administration failure to act force-
fully cost the lives of American service members and count-
less innocent civilians. Risch added it also doesn't take a
report to establish that Russia and China watched atten-
tively.**
     The US actually only evacuated 82,300 people, most of
which were Afghans. Only 90% of the Americans that wanted
to leave were actually evacuated. There are some 600 left
there and thousands of Afghans who supported our effort
are still there, left to the murderous actions of Hamas.
     Blinken, as usual was careful not to give specific
numbers of the number of Americans left at risk.
     Then there is also the $86B in military equipment
left behind due to the disastrous clueless actions of a
so-called leader who had no clue and his military leader-
ship was even less informed.
     Anyone with a clue would remove the equipment, which
includes ammunition before removing the personnel and to
leave the most isolated and well defended air base to the
invaders and try to do an evacuation in town was completely
stupid.
     Sadly Democrats do not learn from their mistakes so
we need to pray to God for all those souls that Biden
showed how little he cared.

   Conservatively,
   John

The Truth About America's History of Slavery

	The Truth About America's History of Slavery
Dennis Prager / April 18, 2023
	A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and
lies about the history of slavery in America.
They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad
and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn no-
thing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are
told are that black slaves-built America and that America is
systemically racist.
	Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here
are some truths about slavery.
	*Americas Slavery Compared to Slavery Elsewhere*
If you are interested in morality and committed to truth, you
do not ask, Who had slaves? You ask, Who ended slavery?
    Who had slaves?
Every civilization throughout history had slaves: Asian societies,
Africans, Native Americans, and other Indigenous peoples around
the world, and the Muslim/Arab world, which may have had the most
slaves of all.
    Who ended slavery?
	There was only one thing unique about slavery in the West:
It raised the issue of the morality of slavery, ferociously de-
bated it, and finally abolished it there, before it was abolished
in any other civilization.
	If you care about moral truth rather than, for example,
promoting America-hatred, you must recognize and you must teach
that America was one of the first slave-holding societies to
abolish slavery. This even includes Africa.
	Cornell professor Sandra Greene, a black scholar of African
history, notes, Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, but
in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it
stretched on unofficially until almost World War I.
    The numbers of slaves.
	According to the authoritative SlaveVoyages.org, the total
number of black slaves imported from Africa into America was
305,326. The number of black slaves other countries imported
from Africa into the rest of the New World i.e., into the
Caribbean and South America was 12,521,337.
	In other words, other countries imported 41 times the
number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere than the
United States did, including the years before American
independence).
	Yet, the American Left never mentions this important
moral point because the Left-controlled education system sup-
presses facts it finds inconvenient, and the Left is not
interested in morality or truth, but in vilifying America.
	And then there is Arab/Muslim enslavement of blacks.
Professor Paul Lovejoy, in his Transformations in Slavery:
A History of Slavery in Africa (Cambridge University Press,
2012), reveals that from the beginning of Islam in the
seventh century through the year 1600, the estimated number
of Africans enslaved by Muslims was about 7 million. After
1600, it was about a million per year.
Do American students ever learn about the Arab/Muslim slave
 trade? How many know, for example, that a great percen-
tage of the African male slaves were castrated so that they
could not have families?
    Black Slaves Built America
     This is another lie of the Left.
	Those who make this argument point to the lucrative
cotton manufacturing and trade in the 19th century the in-
dustry in which black slaves were primarily used in the
American South.
	But University of Illinois professor of economics
Deirdre McCloskey answered this:
	Growing cotton, unlike sugar or rice, never required
slavery. By 1870, freedmen and whites produced as much cot-
ton as the South produced in the slave time of 1860. Cotton
was not a slave crop in India or in southwest China, where
it was grown in bulk. That slaves produced cotton does not
imply that they were essential or causal in the production.
The United States and the United Kingdom and the rest would
have become just as rich without the 250 years of unre-
quited toil.
      They have remained rich, observe, even after the pe-
culiar institution was abolished, because their riches did
not depend on its sinfulness.
	But one need not know anything about cotton to under-
stand how false Black slaves built America is. All you need
is common sense.
	First, even if slavery accounted for much of the wealth
of the South, the Civil War that brought slavery to an end
in the United States wiped out nearly all of that wealth and
cost the Union billions (in today's dollars).
	Second, if slavery built the American economy, the most
robust economy in world history, why didn't Brazil become an
economic superpower? Brazil imported 4 million black slaves,
about 12 times as many as America. Why did the slave-owning
American South lag so far behind the North economically?
	Why did England, which, though it played a major role
in the transatlantic slave trade until the beginning of the
19th century, had almost no slaves, become the most advanced
economy of the 19th century?
	Black slaves built America is left-wing propaganda to
vilify America and to discredit capitalism.
    America is systemically racist.
	This is the Great Left Lie.
	Four million black people have emigrated to the United
States since the 1960s and tens of millions more would if
they could. Are they all fools? Why would anyone move to a
country that is systemically bigoted against them? Did any
Jews emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?
	Blacks have emigrated to the United States because they
know what Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the black woman who fled her home-
land of Somalia and who now writes and lectures in America,
knows:
	What the media do not tell you is that America is the
best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans, or
what have you.
	Blacks emigrating to America know what Algerian writer
Kamel Daoud, writing in Le Monde and Le Point, knows:
	It is forbidden to say that the West is also the place
to which we flee when we want to escape the injustice of our
country of origin, dictatorship, war, hunger, or simply bore-
dom. It is fashionable to say that the West is guilty of
everything.
	As regards American slavery and everything else, always
remember this: Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a con-
servative value. It is not a left-wing value.
	Now all Americans have to admit that no one alive today
was a slave and No one ever owned a slave in the US and 
paying reparations is ludicrous.
  	May God have mercy on our once great nation.
	
   Conservatively,
   John

    Fearful Churches Are Failing to Teach Americans Moral
Character, Pastor Says
By Beth Brelje
    April 1, 2023Updated: April 11, 2023
    A recent poll showing a decline in traditional American
values confirms what conservatives have been saying: The
character of America changing.
    The percentage of those polled who said patriotism is impor-
tant dropped to 38 percent today from 70 percent 25 years ago.
While 59 percent said having children was important 25
years ago, now just 30 percent do. And the importance of
religion dropped to 39 percent now from 62 percent calling it
important 25 years ago.
    The poll, released in March 2023, was conducted by the Nation-
al Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and funded
by The Wall Street Journal.
    Those who are older understand what this country was and
how we’re devolving, said Rev. C.L. Bryant, a senior fellow at
FreedomWorks, a group that advocates for freedom and small govern-
ment.
    Churches are failing this country, he said in a speech at
the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, an annual gathering of
conservatives.
    He said Americans are slowly being enslaved and
that he aimed to encourage people to build a fire in their
hearts and restore the light of patriotism to the nation.
    “Americans, whether you know it or not, there are coun-
tries around this world who’ve always looked to us for leadership.
    For strength. For encouragement. But even now, on the
faces of Americans, the light of this world, they are beginning
to see fear. They are beginning to see us in a state where they
understand that we are being hoodwinked. We are being bamboozled.
And our children are being swindled out of their American heri-
tage,” Bryant said. “In too many cases, it is because the churches
in this country are failing the congregants. This faith-based
nation, like we have been even in our founding, is failing in what
our founders saw it could be for people of moral character.”
    For the first time in our nation’s history, he said, more than
65 percent of children from the ages of 7 to 17 have never been to
a church, synagogue, or mosque.
    Political Correctness
He chastised pastors for not preaching truth to their churches.
    “Pastors … because of political correctness, there are cer-
tain things that you are beginning to leave out of your sermons
on Sundays. And you’re leaving your congregants unclothed and
certainly exposed to the attack of political wolves in this
country,” said Bryant, a Christian.
    He spoke of Jesus being crucified over the politics of his
day.
    “[Jesus] took them head-on. He came and overturned tables.
He came with a righteous anger over how they were manipulated
and how they were duping God’s people. He came to set them
free,” Bryant said. “It cost Him His life. It cost Him a cruci-
fixion. And the American pastor today understands the story of
Christ, but they don’t understand the mission of setting the
captives free.”
    Many pastors and congregants are afraid of a sort of cruci-
fixion today, he said.
    Our nation is dying, he said, and it can die if we don’t
understand the nature of what the mission is.
    “With Easter Sunday coming, the day that we celebrate the
resurrection of our Lord, it is time for us to understand,
pastors and congregants … that without the crucifixion, without
them coming after you with sharp objects, without them trying
to tear you down, and the struggle—without the crucifixion,
there is no resurrection,” Bryant said. And my friends, the
resurrection of America is certainly necessary now. Because
there has been a purposeful destruction of our moral character.”
    Slaves Seek Comfort
Bryant spoke of the trap of accepting handouts from the govern-
ment. The slave doesn’t necessarily seek freedom, he said, but
rather, comfort.
    “The slave will trade his freedom for more food in his bowl
and for a roof that doesn’t leak over his head. The slave will
trade his freedom for a paycheck that comes without work,” he
said.
    “Americans, you are slowly being enslaved. It is time now
for you to wake up and understand that the tools of our des-
truction are truly working on our young people, because they
love free stuff, and they love your stuff. They want your
stuff, because they may never accumulate things, in the way it
is going, on their own. So that presents a certain peril for
all of us who have worked hard and experienced the American way
of prosperity and success. There is a generation coming behind
us and slowly being suffocated by the principles of big govern-
ment.”
    Bryant encouraged the crowd to not let anyone take from
them what they fought wars for.
    “My friends, it is time for you to stand up and push back,”
he said. “I want you to take account of what our fathers have
bought and paid for with blood. Take account of that. If we let
anyone—Democrat, Republican, whoever they are—take from us what
our fathers bought and paid for.
    Not without a fight.”
    And with that, the crowd stood in applause.**
    God willing and we survive the corruption.
   Conservatively,
   John

	We've Been Going Downhill

	Men, like nations, think they're eternal. What man in his
20s or 30s doesn't believe, at least subconsciously, that he'll
live forever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer
beckons.
	As you pass 70, it's harder to hide from reality...
as you lose friends and relatives.
	Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd
century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain
to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever....
Forever was about 500 years, give or take.... not bad, but
gone!!
	France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now
the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of
the Muslim ummah. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the
sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in
perpetual twilight. Its 96-year-old sovereign is a fitting
symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
	In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world.
Business schools taught Japanese management techniques.
Today, its birth rate is so low and its population aging so
rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains
of elderly Japanese who die alone.
	I was born in 1950, the midpoint of the 20th century 
the American century. America's prestige and influence were
never greater. Thanks to the 'Greatest Generation,' we won a
World War fought throughout most of Europe, Asia, and the
Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun
to bed. It set the stage for almost half a century of unpre-
cedented prosperity.
	We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia
and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies
and lavished foreign aid on much of the world. We built
skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and
now COVID. We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the
wonders of DNA...the blueprint of life.
	But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has
moved from a relatively free economy to socialism - which
has worked so well NOWHERE in the world.
	We've gone from a republican government guided by a
constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less
freedom with each passing year. Like a signpost to the coming
reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere.
    We've traded the American Revolution for the Cultural
Revolution. The pathetic creature in the White House is an
empty vessel filled by his handlers At the G-7 Summit, 'Dr.
Jill' had to lead him like a child. In 1961, when we were
young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble nation
is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the
presidency.
	We can't defend our borders, our history (including monu-
ments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have
become anarchist playgrounds. We are a nation of dependents,
mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in
the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.
	The president of the United States can't even quote
the beginning of the Declaration of Independence ('You know
The Thing') correctly.
	Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that
5th graders could pass a generation ago. Crime rates soar and
we blame the 2nd. Amendment and slash police budgets. Our
culture is certifiably insane. Men who think they're women.
People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one
race that they're inherently evil, and others that they are
perpetual victims A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she
fantasizes about 'unloading a revolver into the head of any
white person.' We slaughter the unborn in the name of free-
dom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year. Our na-
tional debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend
that we will repay it one day. It's a $30-trillion monument
to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our
'entertainment' is sadistic, nihilistic, and as enduring as
a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise
that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.
	Patriotism is called an insurrection, treason cele-
brated, and perversion sanctified. A man in blue gets less
respect than a man in a dress. We're asking soldiers to
fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.
	How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the
regime of face masks, lockdowns, and hand sanitizers)
shows the impending death of the American spirit.

   How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
   * Fighting endless wars they can't or won't win
   * Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to
repay
   * Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation
to be inundated by an alien horde
   * Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
   * Allowing indoctrination of the young
   * Moving from a republican form of government to an
oligarchy
   * Losing national identity
   * Indulging indolence
   * Abandoning God, faith and family - the bulwarks of
any stable society.

 	In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced,
indicating an advanced stage of the disease.
	Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an
obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what
we had? I'm surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union
soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the bat-
tered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell
of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia
and came home to be reviled or neglected.
	This is the nation that took in my immigrant grand-
parents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore
in the Second World War. I don't want to imagine a world
without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.
	During Britain's darkest hour, when its professional
army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed
imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, 'Nations that
go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely
are finished.’
	The same might be said of causes. If we let America
slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what
will posterity say of us?
	While the prognosis is far from good. Only God knows
if America's day in the sun is over.”

**Read it and weep, forward or erase it! I read it and am
now forwarding it to you, believing that we in America are
at the moment in time to stand up, or let it fall! We now
may soon beat the next step in our country's future. I
believe that it might be closer than we think.

 Author Unknown

	The end times may be closer than we think. Please pray.

   Conservatively,
   John