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	Why the Redefinition of the Word ‘Woman’ Matters
	By David Harsanti
	December 16, 2022

	I saw this Opinion piece in the Epoch Times and had to share.
	I have been trying to find a good, informative way to make
 this point on a level that even a rabid liberal could grasp.
	First, the basics. No matter how many times a parent or a very
 confused responsible person looks at their DNA or look at them-
 selves in a mirror or in their pants, they cannot deny that God only
 created two sexes.
 	No matter how misguided they are or disillusioned with adopted
 identity descriptives, a tree is a tree, a dog is a dog.
	All of the ridiculous identifiers they create will not change
 how God made them, so accept it, get over it, and cease to make
 yourselves look increasingly foolish.
	Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” first
 published in 1755, defines the word “woman” as “the female of the
 human race.” And until October 2022, the word “woman” was still
 defined as “an adult female human being” in the Cambridge Dic-
 tionary. What transpired on the topic during the intervening 267
 years? Not much. Science confirmed what men and women have known
 since Adam and Eve began talking past each other — not only do the
 sexes have immutable physiological differences, down to their gene-
 tic matter, but they observe, act and think differently as well.
	Yet, Cambridge now says the definition of a woman is “an adult
 who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said
 to have a different sex at birth” (and the definition of a man is
 someone who “identifies as male though they may have been said to
 have a different sex at birth.”) How does one use “woman” in a
 sentence? One of Cambridge’s examples is, “Mary is a woman who was
 assigned male at birth.” Who assigned Mary’s sex? Her parents? God?
 Evolution? The SRY gene? And what other human characteristics does
 Cambridge believe can be altered according to one’s feelings? Lexi-
 cographers have a responsibility to offer clarity and accuracy — 
 which is, of course, impossible in this case.
	When asked about the change, Sophie White, a spokeswoman from
 Cambridge University Press, told The Washington Post that the
 editors had “carefully studied usage patterns of the word woman and
 concluded that this definition is one that learners of English
 should be aware of to support their understanding of how the lan-
 guage is used.” This is tautological gibberish. Though, in fairness
 to White, “Wokeish” is a relatively new language.
	The Post, for instance, claims Cambridge updated its defini-
 tions for “woman” and “man” “to include transgender people.”
 (Incredulous italics mine.) This also makes zero sense. If Cambridge
 changed the definition of “black” or “Caucasian” to incorporate
 “Asian people,” it would not be including a new group; it would be
 altering the fundamental facts of what makes someone black or white
 or Asian. “Woman” is not a neologism. Our understanding of “woman”
 hasn’t been altered by new scientific discoveries. Nothing has
 changed.
	At first, these liturgic declarations of one’s “pronouns”
 seemed relatively harmless to me. And, not that it matters much,
 but I’ve been perfectly willing to refer to adults in whatever man-
 ner they desire. It’s a free country. Pursue your happiness. It’s
 not like gender-bending is some new idea. In my real-world exper-
 ience, I find that most people try to be courteous.
	It’s one thing to be considerate and another to be bullied
 into an alternative reality. But that’s where we are right now.
 Placating the mob has led to the rise in dangerous euphemisms like
 “gender-affirming care,” a phrase that means the exact opposite of
 what it claims. In today’s world, “gender-affirming therapy” means
 telling a girl she can be transformed into a boy, but “conversion
 therapy” means telling a girl she’s a girl. The corruption of real-
 ity has led to the rise of a pseudoscientific cult that performs
 irreparable mutilation on kids, with puberty blockers and cross-sex
 hormones and life-altering surgeries.
	And in their never-ending campaign to smear political oppon-
 ents, Democrats have latched onto this idea as if it were a univer-
 sal truth. If a person contends that gender is an unalterable
 feature of human life these days — a belief shared by all of civil-
 ization until about five minutes ago — they might as well be Bull
 Connor holding a firehose. Only this week, after signing the same
 sex marriage bill, our octogenarian president claimed that Repub-
 licans had passed “hundreds of callous and cynical laws introduced
 in the states targeting transgender children, terrifying families
 and criminalizing doctors who give children the care they need.”
	Speaking of cynical. Does the president really believe these
 troubled teenagers “need” mastectomies, facial surgery and genital
 removal to feel loved? Or would it be more prudent to let them wait
 for adulthood to make life-altering surgical decisions? Has anyone
 ever asked him? Joe Biden is, of course, right that Americans
 should be free from threats of violence. That includes kids who are
 now subjected to abuse at the hands of people who have adopted this
 trendy quackery.
	I simply refuse to accept that most Americans, or even more
 than a small percentage, believe children should be empowered to
 choose their sex. Rather, in their well-intentioned effort to em-
 brace inclusivity — and avoid being called bigots — they’ve allowed
 extremists to, among many other things, circumvent debate by cor-
 roding fundamental truths about the world. And that’s what these
 dictionaries — once a place we collectively went for definitions
 and etymologies — have shamefully helped them do.
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	I have an opinion where, if a doctor is going to remove some
 sexual or private parts of another person, they should have to
 have endured the same operation themselves first.
	If a parent wants to force their teen to have the sex change
 surgery, they too should have first had it.
	If a male wants to participate in female sports, they should
 also have had the actual change surgery, not just shots and meds.
 My guess is that these barbaric surgeries will come to a quick
 and much needed stop.
	God did NOT create males and females for irresponsible and
 misguided mentally confused so-called adults could destroy any of
 His creations.
	I pray that He will intervene for the sake of His children.
 Conservatively,
 John

    Wasteful Spending - 2023 Omnibus Bill and How Dumb Do Democrats
 think Americans are?

	Discretionary versus non-discretionary spending and what is
 in the 2023 Omnibus Bill. Of this $2.2T bill, about $800B is what
 we have given to Biden to give away or whatever he wants without
 the permission of "We the People". Congress gave him a blank check.
	Non-Discretionary spending is like paying rent or a car payment.
 It is basically called mandatory spending. Very little of the waste
 in spending that you never hear about is mandatory spending so if
 you hear about a bill being pushed through, you can almost be sure
 that it could wait until we have a sound plan to get us out of this
 monstrous weight sitting on our personal budget, not just that of
 the federal government because we pay them as well as the debt
 they create. 
	Mandatory is about paying bills that must be paid to avoid fees,
 interest or things that are classified as bills.
	Discretionary spending in not having to explain how Congress is
 wasting "The People's Money". It is all about spending it on pro-
 jects that we could wait on until they can be better afforded.
	This type spending is done to buy votes or favor from members of
 a committee or party to garner enough votes to pass a bill without
 even asking the constituents of the person who are selling their
 vote and often make most voters unhappy because they are the ones
 being conned, lied to, or ripped off.
	So, let's say that a Democrat has a friend that wants some $30M
 for helping their local theatre out of debt, and a rural Texas Re-
 publican needs to repair a bridge so that the school bus can save
 some 20 minutes each way to save gas and have a safer route each
 day. The problem is that Democrats control the House. Then there
 is a company owned by a Democrat that will do the architectural
 study for a very inflated fee but the Republican in that district
 needs police protection. So, the Democrats make it known that if
 the Republicans will vote for funding for the theatre and the
 architect, they will include the much lesser cost to repair the
 bridge if the Texas Representative agrees to vote for their bill.
 But the other 200+ Republicans all have things from small groups
 in their districts asking for funding for various projects, but 
 but NO Republican gets what they want until ALL of the Democrats
 get their requests approved.
 	Since Trump took office, amidst the pandemic, Pelosi inflated
 every request made on the behave of the taxpayers.
	Trump submitted 3 requests for a total of $1.3T to supply the
 needs of the people but Democrats inflated those to $3.1T and some
 billions were included for the Arts, propping up several Democratic
 cities that were broke, and even built a wax museum dedicated to
 prominent blacks in Baltimore. The list is incredible on wasteful
 spending that Dems tried to call Covid relief.
	Even the free money that Trump suggested $600 was jacked up to
 About $3K, not to mention hundreds of billions they gave to their
 pet projects. All you have to do is search for the pork in each of
 Bills.
	Trump's first request was only $46B for coronavirus aid but
 Pelosi increased that to about $800B.  
	The next was the CARES Act in March 2020. It was $2.2T by the
 time it reached the floor. Trump had only requested $1.3T.
	The American Rescue Plan of 2021 cost Americans $1.9T. Trump
 had not actually requested this because there were still funds in
 CARES Act.
	Next was the Biden version of the American Rescue Plan Act
 that added another $1.9T.
	Then Pelosi tried to pass her $3T HEROES Act while there was
 still funds in the CARES Act. It failed in the Senate.
	There is so much pork in her bills that it is difficult to
 find the full content of these bills and where all that money went.
 The simple math is that a lot of people who refuse to go to work
 because they make more on the free windfall.
	Pelosi forced through about $6T because she could.
	That is not mentioning the new $2.2 Omnibus Bill designed to
 keep the Republicans from curbing their waste for almost a year.
	All of the money I mentioned is discretionary. One deal after
 another and a giant waste of taxpayer money.
	When Obama took office, the national debt was about $9T but by
 the time he left office, the debt was nearly $20T.
	Trump dealt with the pandemic and still our debt only rose to
 about $23T.
	Biden and Democrats don't care about the disaster they have 
 created and now the National Debt is almost $32T.
	Many economists think we have reached the point of NO return
 and that Americans have allowed the corrupt media, DOJ, Democrats,
 the gullible people who do not care enough about the country to
 take a moment and question the lies and misinformation they are
 being fed by those set upon destroying the economy.
	My Dad used to tell me to always vote for those that I feel 
 would do the most for the country, not just for me.
	We have to consider what will our children and grandchildren
 have to live with.
	When you hear about Congress talking about passing a budget or
 spending bill, ask yourself "WHO is going to benefit from this?"
 You may be very disappointed.
	JFK had it right when he said, "Ask not what your country can
 do for you but what you can do for your country.
	My Dad was a 21-year Marine who landed at Iwo Jima. My brother
 spent 27 years in the Army, some of it in Vietnam, and I spent 21
 years in the Army and know what duty, honor, country, and God mean
 to a true patriot. God is in charge as He blesses our nation.
	Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
 Conservatively,
 John

Crime with NO Punishment

	Crime, No Punishment
 By: Bill O'Reilly September 18, 2022
	It has all become very dark for the designer sunglasses guy.
 Joe Biden cannot, as the biblical creator did, command "let there
 be light." No, Joe is governing in darkness.
	The hits to the American people are certified: inflation, open
 border, record high narcotics on the streets, collapsing airline
 industry, declining test scores for students, woke, racial tension,
 breakdown of civility, and due process.
	We the people are getting battered. Especially the urban poor.
	FBI stats say violent crime is accelerating at a record pace.
 New Orleans is one of the most violent cities in the world. Every
 weekend thousands of Americans are shot nationwide. Many of these
 crimes are so-called "mass shootings" where more than five indivi-
 duals take a bullet. Most of the victims are African American, but
 the press says little. Why? Because most of the perpetrators are
 young black males, which is now a protected class in the American
 media.
	In Chicago, which has record violence, the Bears football team
 is moving to the suburbs, and the McDonald's corporation may leave
 as well. Other businesses have already departed. But many of the
 poor cannot afford to do that.
	President Biden has not addressed this brutal reality in any
 meaningful way. He does not have a solution to inner city violence
 and knows most chaotic towns are run by Democrats. So, exactly like
 the border, Biden sees no evil. He lives in luxury. He doesn't have
 to cower in fear as drug gangs run wild. He doesn't care.
	Think about it. The President of the United States has done ab-
 solutely nothing about violent crime. No meetings with local police
 and prosecutors. No strategy from the Justice Department. Few
 public statements.
	The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund reports at least 75 pro-
 gressive prosecutors are currently in office, all of them backed by
 George Soros, who has donated more than $40 million to elect "anti-
 incarceration" administrators.
	Soros believes the U.S. justice system is racist and that minor-
 ity criminals should not be held to account because of historical
 injustice. So, he funds the campaigns of people who see the world
 as he does.
	Meanwhile, powerless Americans are being brutalized by violent
 thugs who avoid prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Iron-
 ically, the cities that refuse to hold criminals responsible are
 absolutely practicing racism against the hundreds of thousands of 
 minority victims.
	Joe Biden could not possibly understand that in his diminished
 state. But even if I sat with him in front of a giant blackboard
 filled with stats and talked very slowly, he would not react.
	That's because Mr. Biden could not care less. He lives in a
 dark, protected world where problems, even life/death ones, are
 to be avoided. His eyes are shielded by designer lenses, his sen-
 sibilities limited to his own immediate needs.
	This is the state of the most powerful man in the world. It is
 pitiful.
	But the real pity should be directed toward the poor who are
 truly defenseless. Before the month of September is out, there will
 be hundreds more harmed.
 *by Bill O'Reilly*
	Biden is the perfect patsy. He will say whatever he is told. He
 will go wherever he is led and he has no clue as to the damage he
 is doing to the US because if it comes out of his mouth, at least
 to him it must be true.
	His entire life has been a string of lies that he doesn't know
 what is true and what is not. He would speak to ten people in a day
 and tell every one a different version of the same lie if he thinks
 it is what HE THINKS they want to hear.
	Ukraine knows the truth about him so when they ask for money,
 they get it. 
	He has drug us into this cabol called ESG that will destroy what
 remains of our economy, or at least, the part that he has managed
 to hide. 
	Like Obama, he has added more to the national debt in 2 years
 than Trump did in 4 years. The worst part is that they can't
 explain where $6-7 trillion of it went.
	When Trump left office the debt was about $23T even after the
 start of the pandemic. It is now almost $32 trillion.
	Obama went from $9T to almost $20T. They can't explain over $6T
 of what he was giving away to over 50 nations.
	I am not sure who is dumber, Democrats or Republicans.
	I think the RINOs also have a lot to do with where this money
 is going but with the aid of the corrupt DOJ and the corrupt media,
 the American people remain in the dark.
	We have reached the point that requires us to take matters into
 our hands and finally DRAIN THE SWAMP before we become another
 broken nation with no way to recover.
	Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, nor a 'so-called' pure
 democracy have NO place in our hard-earned REPUBLIC.
	Pray that we get a new beginning in 2023.
 Conservatively,
 John

	No Country for Old Men (Or Women, For That Matter)
	Growing old in a country you no longer recognize.
	Wed Mar 9, 2022
	*Don Feder
	Those of us who were part of the WW II & Baby Boom generation,
 now in our 60s, 70s and 80s, no longer recognize the nation in which
 we grew up. We're strangers in a land that gets stranger by the day.
	We believed in the American dream. We worked hard, paid our
 taxes and obeyed the law —even laws we thought were idiotic.
	We married and had children. Today’s young adults cohabit and
 have pets.
	We struggled to raise families. Some of us went to war, like our
 fathers and grandfathers before us. We thought that when we grew
 old, there would be more for us – more than alienation.
	Most of us don’t recognize Biden’s America. Patriotism has become
 passe. Our military is led by men who are social workers and poli-
 tically correct hacks.  They can’t fight, but they’re great at get-
 ting soldiers to use preferred pronouns and combating imaginary
 racism in the ranks.
	Giant corporations have replaced individual enterprise, which –
 in many cases – has been taxed and regulated out of existence. Gov-
 ernment bureaucrats and corporate executives are like the pigs and
 men at the end of Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
	We look in vain for a Ronald Reagan, a Lincoln or Teddy Roose-
 velt. Instead, we find corrupt clowns like wizened Nancy Pelosi,
 Commissar Ocasio-Cortez (the Cuban pinup girl selling socialist
 snake oil) and our president – a cranky septuagenarian slipping
 noisily into senility.
	If we’re white, we’re told that we are responsible for every pro-
 blem that plagues people of color. That’s right, we’re to blame for
 the roughly 70% of black children born out of wedlock (we forced
 their parents to behave irresponsibly), just as cops are to blame
 for the deaths of thugs who threaten their lives.
	Savages who burn down cities are hailed as heroes and celebrated
 as warriors for social justice. But misguided middle-class citizens,
 among them veterans, who trespassed in the Capitol 14 months ago are
 branded as traitors and insurgents.
	Mayors take down statues of Washington and Columbus and commis-
 sion murals of George Floyd.
	If you’re white, you’re also responsible for slavery, segrega-
 tion, the Wounded Knee massacre and Japanese Americans interned
 during World War II. Racism is in our blood, they tell us. Remember,
 throughout the course of human history, racism has never existed
 anywhere but here.
	By “despoiling the earth,” we’re also responsible for climate
 change. If we end up paying $7-a-gallon for gas – well, it’s our
 own damned fault.
	Forget racial minorities. Now, we’re told that there are “sexual
 minorities” -- that people who used to be considered odd are in fact
 oppressed. And that a man who thinks he’s a woman in fact is a woman
 – and is entitled to use the ladies’ room with our granddaughters.
 And if we refuse to accept this bizarre fantasy, we are hateful!
	What passes for entertainment is sickening – all blood and gore,
 sadistic killers, aliens popping out of people’s stomachs and
 monsters in various guises. We search in vain for contemporary
 movies with characters we can admire or at least care about. So we
 retreat to cinema of the 40s and 50s on TCM.
	On top of living in a country that’s unrecognizable, we can’t
 even afford to live here anymore. You need a second mortgage to buy
 a steak.  A hamburger and fries at McDonald’s is a gourmet feast.
	Filling up the tank is agonizing. Paying confiscatory taxes
 marks us as serfs. Inflation is at a 40-year high, and politicians
 tell us it’s because government isn’t spending enough.
	Our parents could retire at 65, in the mortgage-free home they
 bought in their 30s. We’re still working at 75. Retirement is a
 distant dream. We’re working to provide benefits for illegal aliens,
 addicts and loons who camp out and defecate on the streets.
	Many of us are the grandchildren of immigrants, a fact of which
 we are proud. Our people helped to build this country. But we wit-
 ness with unalloyed horror the tide flowing across our southern
 border unimpeded. The middle class view them as criminals, gang
 members and mooches. The Democratic party sees them as voters. We
 can't defend our own borders, but are expected to defend those of
 distant lands.
	This used to be an English-speaking country. Now it’s ballots in
 20 languages, court interpreters and press one for Serbo-Croatian.
	Our feeble president (who’s been sucking on the federal teat for
 half-a-century) is unable to perform his Constitutional duties, but
 has successfully waged war on domestic energy production. We went
 from energy independence to beggars with a gas can in a matter of
 months.  The corpse that walks says climate change is the biggest
 threat to our national security – along with transphobia.
	Washington sputters about Putin’s war on Ukraine, but imports
 670,000 barrels of Russian oil a day. While he lets pipelines rust
 and our oil, coal and natural gas remain in the ground, Biden
 pleads with the Saudis to pump more – and is thinking about im-
 ports from the Marxists of Venezuela and the jihadists of Iran,
 both Russian allies. Apparently, oil from anywhere outside the
 U.S. doesn’t pollute.
	Officeholders for life treat us like mentally-challenged chil-
 dren. They snicker at those who pay their exorbitant salaries.
	So we limp along into old age, too proud to go on the dole and
 too stubborn to just give up.
	Besides, surrender now would be a betrayal of the America that
 once was.
   *Don Feder*
	Don nailed this. He, like many of us, have watched Biden and
 his band of misfits are clueless to the damage they are doing.
 They seem to think we are stupid and whatever they say has to be
 fact.
	It is truly heartbreaking to leave our children and grand-
 children in the disaster the corrupt have made of this world.
	We must ALL pray that with God's help we will get our nation
 back in His good graces.

 Conservatively,
 John

    
    I failed to mention that I was sick last week and shortly after
  having heart surgery. All is well now, God willing.

    Wal-Mart Versus Morons
    Anonymous Author

	1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every
 day.
	2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
	3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day
 (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
	4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears
 + Costco + K-Mart combined.
	5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest
 private employer, and most speak English.
	6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
	7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway com-
 bined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
	8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought
 bankruptcy.
	9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the
 world.
	10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906
 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
	11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will
 occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5
 Billion.)
	12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
	You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the
 ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who
 run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

	This should be read and understood by all Americans¦ Democrats,
 Republicans, EVERYONE!!

	To President Biden and all 535 voting members of the Legislature
	It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
   a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775.You have had
   246 years to get it right and it is broken.
   b.. Social Security was established in 1935.You have had 86 years
 to get it right and it is broken.
   c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938.You have had 71 years to
 get it right and it is broken.
   d.. War on Poverty started in 1964.You have had 57 years to get it
 right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and trans-
 ferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
   e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.You have had 56
 years to get it right and they are broke.
   f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970.You have had 51 years to
 get it right and it is broken.
   g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our
 dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees
 with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than
 ever before.
 You had 44 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
	You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved
 down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.

	AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED
	WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??

	Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it
 will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected' (they
 never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how
 Americans feel.

    AND

	I know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Cor-
 rectness" !!!!!!
	Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the peo-
 ple that run this country!!!!!!
 	We're "broken" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans,
 Homeless etc.,???????????
	In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and
 Turkey ..
	And now Pakistan ........previous home of bin Laden. Literally,
 BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
	Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid
 nor do they get any breaks.
	AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter,
 children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds,
 and mentally ill without treatment -etc., etc. However. Illegals
 get free everything!!!
	Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they
 give to other countries. Sad isn't it?
	99% of people won't have the guts to share this.
	I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did
	Welcome to Biden's America
	We were taught in the military. Family, Duty, Honor, Country,
 and above ALL God.

  Conservatively,
  John

	Dangers of Democracy Part 2.
	by Thinking West

	To continue the damage done by Democrats I will continue to try
 to shoe you Part 2, that takes us through several more Dangers to
 our Republic by those who are working for themselves not their
 citizens.

	3.) Democracies Incur Great Opportunity Costs
	Another drawback of modern democracy is the immense opportunity
 cost incurred by political campaigns. Time, money, energy, and at-
 tention are all consumed by political parties vying to ensure that
 their candidate is elected. Dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even
 thousands of people are employed for hours, days, and weeks to as-
 sist with a campaign on behalf of a candidate. And consider the fact
 that in a two-party system, one of these parties’ efforts will ef-
 fectively be for nothing if it loses. Not only are political cam-
 paigns expensive, but they are also getting increasingly MORE ex-
 pensive. In 2016 the total cost for presidential and congressional
 races was $7 billion. By 2020 that number doubled to more than
 $14.4 billion.
	Let’s consider what alternative investments could be made with
 $14.4 billion. For $400,000 each, $14.4 billion could buy 36,000
 homes. Researchers from 23 countries suggest that $14 billion is the
 additional expenditure needed each year to eradicate world hunger by
 2030. The National Cancer Institute estimates that the average cost
 of first-year cancer treatment is $42,000 4. At this price tag, $14
 billion is enough to purchase a year’s worth of cancer treatment for
 over 330,000 people. Clearly, the extraordinary sums of money spent
 on political campaigns could be used for a variety of beneficial en-
 deavors. These endeavors could have lasting, meaningful effects on
 the lives of countless people.
	In addition to the monetary cost of campaigning, political in-
 volvement incurs a devastating mental toll on losers of election
 races. Regarding the 2016 presidential election, analysis suggests
 that in states that voted for Hillary Clinton in November 2016,
 there were a total of 54.6 million more days of poor mental health
 than in October 2016 5. Poor mental health leads to lower quality of
 life and lower productivity. Though poor mental health isn’t exclu-
 sive to democracies, it is a heavy opportunity cause to risk the
 mental health of half the country each election cycle. This problem
 is particularly strong in winner-take-all elections as in presi-
 dential races. 
	Another significant cost in democracies is the time and energy
 the politicians spent on campaigning and fundraising for the next
 election cycle. Not only must politicians work to enact new legis-
 lation, but they must also devote considerable resources to ensur
 ing they maintain popular public opinion and are prepared finan-
 cially for their upcoming reelection campaign. This diverts time,
 energy, and attention from passing legislation to lobbying voters
 and campaign donors. According to Rep. Rick Nolan in “60 Minutes”
 expose from CBS, members of Congress are encouraged to spend thirty
 hours per week in call centers for their respective parties asking
 for donations:
	Rep. Rick Nolan: “Thirty hours is what they tell you you should
 spend. And it’s discouraging good people from running for public
 office. I could give you names of people who’ve said, “You know,
 I’d like to go to Washington and help fix problems, but I don’t want
 to go to Washington and become a mid-level telemarketer, dialing for
 dollars, for crying out loud.”
	Interviewer: “You’re saying members of Congress are becoming
 like telemarketers?”
	Rep. Rick Nolan: “Well, 30 hours a week, that’s a lot of tele-
 marketing. Probably more than most telemarketers do.”
	This emphasis on fundraising also results in fewer good people
 running for office according to Nolan – another opportunity cost
 of the current democratic process.
	While political engagement is necessary for a functioning
 democracy, this engagement can incur a heavy cost on the people it
 purportedly serves. Current democracies risk turning politics into
 an industry unto itself. When the democratic process becomes an in-
 dustry unto itself, it ceases to act on behalf of the people and
 instead serves the political actors.
    4) Democracy is Expensive and Politicians Push Costs to Future
 Generations
	The fourth flaw of democracy is the tendency for democracies
 to become more expensive over time as citizens vote for additional
 benefits from the government. Once a benefit is provided to citi-
 zens they will rarely vote to remove this benefit, especially when
 it is financed through tax dollars. This is particularly true when
 the benefit has been provided for several generations. Over time,
 this leads wealthy societies to become more dependent on the gov-
 ernment to provide for the citizenry. Alexander Fraser Tytler, an
 influential professor of universal history in the 18th century and
 an expert on the rise and fall of civilizations summarized this
 tendency:
	“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
 It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
 themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on,
 the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
 benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy
 always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a
 dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations
 has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this
 sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to
 great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance;
 From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From
 apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
 -Alexander Fraser Tytler
	Tytler suggests that civilizations emerge out of hardship
 through great faith and courage. This struggle ultimately leads to
 liberty and abundance in which citizens are largely free to act as
 they see fit. But while desirable in their own right, liberty and
 abundance lead to selfishness and apathy when not tempered by
 discipline. Finally, when in a state of material wealth, a civili-
 zation returns to a state of dependence in which the citizenry
 chooses welfare and handouts over personal responsibility. This
 allows tyrants to exploit complacent citizens through false pro-
 mises which leads to the final stage, the stage that defines most
 of human political history: bondage. Aristotle formulates Tytler’s
 cycle succinctly:
	“Inevitably, masculine republics give way to feminine demo-
 cracies, and feminine democracies invariably give way to tyranny.”
 -Aristotle
	And the prolific historian Will Durant summarized this
 phenomenon even more simply:
	“A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.”
	-Will Durant
	This trend toward dependence is evident in the amount of debt
 a democratic nation accrues. Consider that nine of the ten most in-
 debted nations are considered democracies by the World Population
 Review 8,9. Only the tiny Asian nation of Bhutan (considered a
 “hybrid regime”) is not considered either a flawed or full demo-
 cracy. The graph below demonstrates that democracies are particu-
 larly prone to spending beyond their means. Debt is money borrowed
 from future generations to pay for the expenses of the current gen-
 eration. By voting themselves benefit after benefit, citizens vote
 themselves into being financial liabilities. These liabilities are
 expected to be paid for by future generations, creating an unsus-
 tainable financial trajectory. As we have seen from Tytler’s cycle
 of civilizations, this unstable financial path can then be
 exploited by opportunists willing to bribe citizens with additional
 benefits in exchange for their freedom. This results in a reduction
 of liberty and prosperity in society.
	The politicians who make grand promises to their constituents
 rarely pay the cost incurred by said promises. Instead, future gen-
 erations foot the bill for policies that were often passed simply
 to gain temporary public approval. Sly politicians prey upon the
 shortsightedness and emotionality of voting citizens, ultimately
 buying votes with hard-earned capital from future generations.
 *Conclusion
	In conclusion, democracies come with flaws like all forms of
 government. Democracy’s tendency to reflect the vices of their citi-
 zenry and pit citizens against each other means that democratic
 nations should focus on the education and ethics of their populaces.
 Consequently, their voters can make informed and moral choices when
 selecting elected leaders. The high opportunity cost of political
 campaigns and the propensity for democracies to accrue large amounts
 of debt is also a serious flaw in democratic governments. Laws that
 limit campaign contributions and government spending constraints
 could mitigate these issues, though this is easier said than done.
 Voters and representatives alike will need to be cognizant of future
 generations when considering any increase in government benefits.
	Overall, no form of government is perfect. It can be trendy to
 ridicule democratic government given the current state of the
 western world. However, let us refrain from unreflective and reck-
 less criticism. Perhaps Winston Churchill’s wise assessment of the
 system is most appropriate:
	“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the
 others.”
 -Winston Churchill
	We must pray for our land and press hard to Make America Great
 Again.
 Conservatively,
 John

	Dangers of Democracy Pt. 1
	OCTOBER 19, 2022
	by ThinkingWest

     The word “democracy” appears exactly zero times in the United
 States Constitution. And yet, no form of government is celebrated
 with the same fervency as democracy. Recently, the phrase “Our
 Democracy” has been co-opted by nearly every politician as an
 attempt to appeal to the populace’s supposedly unshakeable faith
 in the voting process. Appeals to the fragility of “Our Democracy”
 are commonly made by political figures hoping to discredit rivals; 
 rivals they unhesitatingly accuse of threatening that ancient 
 Athenians inheritance. A keen extraterrestrial might conclude that
 conclude that many of the developed nations of the world embrace
 democracy as religion.
	But is this unquestioning reverence for a form of political
 governance healthy, reasonable, desirable? Does such reverence 
 blind us to the shortcomings that democracy may possess relative
 to other political arrangements and lure us into complacent, even 
 dangerous, self-satisfaction?
	Let’s review a few of the major issues that beset democracies.
 The aim is not to condemn democracy as a form of governance, but
 to critique it such that we may be better informed of its imper-
 fections. After all, politics of any form must involve human 
 beings and human beings, despite their best intentions, are far 
 from perfect.

    1.) Democracy is only as Noble and Reasonable as its Voting
  Citizens
	The first critique of democracy concerns the responsibility
 that citizens have to exhibit character in daily life and to stay
 well informed about the issues for which they vote. It does not
 matter how passionately a citizen may feel about a particular
 issue; if that passion is not tempered by objective investigation
 and the application of
 reason to the issue at hand,  the voter abdicates a central re-
 sponsibility as a citizen. No degree of passion is a substitute
 for clear-headed thinking. Understanding well the tendency that
 democratic citizens have towards this failure, Winston Churchill 
 once quipped,
 “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
 with the average voter.” Unfortunately, many citizens of modern
 democracies fall prey to emotional pleas and assume that heartfelt
 emotion is sufficient to guide ones voting decisions.  The media,
 with that oh-so-dangerous self-satisfaction, appeals to the smug
 assuredness of over-confident voters through emotionally manipu-
 lative means.
 The voters are constantly reassured that their viewpoint is the
 only reasonable one.
	Democracy has yet to find a solution to the Dunning-Kruger ef-
 fect, the phenomenon where the less a person knows about an issue,
 the more confident a person is in their knowledge about the issue.
 A 2018 study by Ian G Anson published in the journal Political
 Psychology investigated how the Dunning-Kruger effect affects citi-
 zens’ perceptions of their political knowledge. Anson examined over
 two thousand American adults via two online surveys which quizzed
 the participants on basic political knowledge. Most participants
 of the study performed poorly and those who performed poorest
 were more likely to be confident in their knowledge of politics 
 than those that performed well.
	The Dunning-Kruger effect, combined with patronizing and pander-
 ing from politicians and the press, results in a poorly informed,
 but highly opinionated public. A hyper-emotional public is incap-
 able of cool-headed, rational debate and is, instead, prone to 
 political provocation and manipulation by media and power-hungry 
 politicians.
	A successful democracy requires citizens to continuously revisit
 and revise their understanding of core issues in a level-headed man-
 ner. Such revision is best embarked upon with temperance and reason.
	Source: Wikipedia

    2.) Democracy Makes Neighbors Political Adversaries and Makes All
 Issues Political
	A less considered shortcoming is the tendency for democracies to
 create adversity between citizens who hold differing political opin-
 ions. In the United States, this adversity has become so intense be-
 tween Republicans and Democrats that distrust between members of op-
 posing parties extends far beyond just political issues. Nearly
 every issue brought to the public eye, whether science, sports,
 movies, or music becomes irreversibly burdened with political 
 interpretation, intention, and influence. Ideas and concerns sub-
 mitted by one side of the political aisle are a priority rejected
 and condemned by the other
 side before the slightest consideration of the idea’s merits. This
 effect may be particularly amplified in a democratic political
 system where there are only two major parties. Then, nearly every
 political issue inherits a kind of adversity that is more likely
 to be absent when the number of available choices exceeds two.
	The recent COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the need to be aware of
 the tendency people have to view apolitical issues through partisan
 lenses. As thoughtful citizens we should be cognizant of this ten-
 dency when evaluating actions to take to solve these issues. A June
 2020 article from FiveThirtyEight detailed the divergence of exper-
 iences between Republicans and Democrats during that time. Republi-
 cans generally exhibited less concern about the pandemic while Demo-
 crats exhibited greater concern about it. The intent of this article
 is not to determine which political party was correct or incorrect
 about the pandemic, but to demonstrate how partisan politics played
 a crucial role in shaping people’s viewpoints about a major issue.
 One would presume that the pandemic should never have been a poli-
 tical issue. Instead, the pandemic and its mitigation efforts should
 have been matters of public health and science.
	Source: FiveThirtyEight.com

	Ideally, an open scientific investigation and discussion should
 have been facilitated to find the best solutions to counter the pan-
 demic while maintaining the minimum possible obstruction of freedoms
 upon citizens. Instead, political parties championed separate causes
 and blamed the opposition for any and all Covid-19 deaths. This
 turned the opposing party into literal “murderers” while one’s own
 party used these deaths to lobby for votes.
	This is not to say that there were no valid issues that were
 brought up during the political chaos. Examples of valid points of
 disagreement included masking policies, vaccination mandates, lock-
 downs, and experimental drug treatments. However, actual open scien-
 tific debate on these issues was rarely carried out.
    The COVID-19 pandemic response is just one example of where the
 political divide contaminates problem-solving and leads to further
 distrust between those that share different political opinions. As
 the political divide in America (and across the West) widens, more
 and more aspects of society become political, from sports to music
 to education. Nearly every aspect of life now contains political
 undertones, which only divides us further and makes cordial politi-
 cal dialogue near impossible. The U.S.’s current circumstance stands
 as an example of the tendency for democracies to politicize every-
 thing and divide its citizenry.	
	I will continue this in Part 2 to further explain how we as a
 nation seem to lack the ability to separate current events from our
 political views.
	May God save our nation.

   Conservatively,
   John

Inconvenient Facts About Electric Cars
	John Stossel / November 02, 2022

	Electric cars sales are up 66% this year.
	President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, “The
great American road trip is going to be fully electrified,” and,
"There's no turning back.”
 	To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left leaning
states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether.
	California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning
them by 2035. Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York copied California.
Washington state’s politicians said they’d make it happen even
faster, by 2030.
	Thirty countries also say they’ll phase out gas-powered cars.
	But this is just dumb. It won't happen. It’s magical thinking.
	In my new video, I point out some “inconvenient” facts about 
electric cars, simple truths that politicians and green activists
just don’t seem to understand.
	“Electric cars are amazing,” says physicist Mark Mills of the 
Manhattan Institute. “But they won’t change the future in any signi-
ficant way (as far as) oil use or carbon dioxide emissions.”
	Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won’t reduce oil
use very much.
   “The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now,” says Mills.
“If we [somehow] get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil
consumption by about 10%. That’s not nothing, but it doesn’t end the
use of oil.”
	Most of the world’s oil is used by things like “airplanes,
buses, big trucks, and the mining equipment that gets the copper to
build the electric cars.”
	Even if all vehicles somehow did switch to electricity, there’s
another problem: Electricity isn’t very green.
	I laugh talking to friends who are all excited about their elec-
tric car, assuming it doesn’t pollute. They go silent when I ask,
“Where does your car’s electricity come from?”
	They don’t know. They haven’t even thought about it.
	Inconvenient fact 2: Although driving an electric car puts lit-
tle additional carbon into the air, producing the electricity to
charge its battery adds plenty. Most of America’s electricity is
produced by burning natural gas and coal. Just 12% comes from wind
or solar power.
	Auto companies don’t advertise that. “Electric vehicles in gen-
eral are better and more sustainable for the environment,” says
Ford’s Linda Zhang in a BBC interview.   
	“She’s a Ford engineer,” I say to Mills. “She’s not ignorant.”
	“She’s not stupid,” he replies. “But ignorance speaks to what
you know. You have to mine, somewhere on Earth, 500,000 pounds of
minerals and rock to make one battery.”
	American regulations make mining difficult, so most of it is
done elsewhere, polluting those countries. Some mining is done by
children. Some is done in places that use slave labor.
	Even if those horrors didn’t exist, mining itself adds lots of
carbon to the air.
	“If you’re worried about carbon dioxide,” says Mills, “the elec-
tric vehicle has emitted 10 to 20 tons of carbon dioxide (from the
mining, manufacturing, and shipping) before it even gets to your
driveway.”
	“Volkswagen published an honest study [in which they] point out
that the first 60,000 miles or so you’re driving an electric
vehicle, that electric vehicle will have emitted more carbon
dioxide than if you just drove a conventional vehicle.”
	You would have to drive an electric car “100,000 miles” to re-
duce emissions by just “20 or 30%, which is not nothing, but it’s
not zero.”
	No, it’s not.
	If you live in New Zealand, where there’s lots of hydro and
geothermal power, electric cars pollute less. But in America, your
“zero-emission vehicle” adds lots of greenhouse gasses to the
atmosphere.
	Politicians and electric car sellers don’t mention that. Most
probably don’t even know.
  *John Stossel*
	Now for my two cents worth. 
	It basically impossible for a country that gets 88% of its
energy from gas and oil, to reduce the carbon dioxide to even a
noticeable level.
	Like the article says, to make one battery, it will take a half
million pounds of minerals and rock. To make that one battery, 10
to 20 tons of carbon dioxide will be emitted.
	Imagine this scenario. A hurricane or severe storm with feet
of rain would require people to evacuate. When to lead vehicle's
batteries die, what will the thousands of other do? Nowhere to get
a charge, no time to wait, and no way for an electric tow truck to
get to you and the thousands of others.
	The making of a catastrophic disaster never seen before.
	People on a fixed income can't afford to even buy the car.
	This could be the dumbest plan ever fabricated and the least
affordable for the country as well as the people.
	The climate and green people border on suicidal.
	Take a minute and pray that this foolishness stop and ask God
intervene.
  Conservatively,
  John

	State of America Makes Midterm Choices Clear.
	Adriana Cohen

	During a debate with Jimmy Carter in 1980, Ronald Reagan famously
  asked, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Which
  is a sensible and basic question that's been asked in political races
  ever since — and next week's midterm elections are no different.
	As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, one ought to consider
  if you, your family or your business is better off today under Demo-
  crat control of one's state and one-party rule in Washington, or not.
  Unless you like paying significantly higher prices for essential items
  like food, gas, rent, heating bills and just about everything else,
  I suspect the answer is no.
	When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the average national
  gas prices were $2.33 per gallon, according to the Energy Information
  Association. As of today, Nov. 2, the national average is $3.765, per
  AAA. And no one will forget that gas prices surged to an astronomical
  $5.02 per gallon last June, or even worse if you were in Nantucket,
  Massachusetts, where Biden will be spending Thanksgiving again this
  year, gas prices surged over $6.08 per gallon. I experienced that
  firsthand, as I was there last summer, cringing every time I filled
  my tank.
	Soaring gas prices shouldn't have come as a surprise, as Biden
  campaigned in 2020 promising "we are going to get rid of fossil
  fuels." Voters now need to ask how the president's kowtowing to spe-
  cial interest groups, campaign donors and climate fanatics — many
  who live in big houses, own gas-guzzling yachts and fly private
  jets — affect your family's budget.
	Same with sky-high inflation, which was 1.4% when Sleepy Joe took
  office in January 2021. Today, inflation is a whopping 8.3% — a
  40-year high — with elevated food prices hurting working families.
  "Grocery prices are up 13.5% compared with a year earlier, the big-
  gest 12-month jump since March 1979," reports The Wall Street Jour-
  nal. "With no relief in sight, many consumers say they are strug-
  gling to keep up."
	And for those who want a more left-leaning perspective, CNN re-
  ported in September, "Americans browsing the supermarket aisle will
  notice most food items are far more expensive than they were a year
  ago. Egg prices soared 39.8%, while flour got 23.3% more expensive.
  Milk rose 17% and the price of bread jumped 16.2%."
	These are basic necessities Americans need to survive. But sad-
  ly, under one-party Democrat rule in Washington over the past nearly
  two years, millions of Americans are being forced to choose between
  filling their gas tank to get to work, paying their rent or feeding
  their families — not a choice anyone should have to make living in
  the richest country in the world.
	Nor should parents have to scramble to find baby formula in Amer-
  ica due to the Biden administration's embarrassing failure to re-
  solve manufacturing and supply chain snafus that continue to threat-
  en the health and well-being of our nation's precious infants.
	When it comes to public safety, crime is soaring nationwide. Many
  living in major cities like New York are rightfully afraid the ride
  the subway, walk the street at night or even wear nice clothes to
  work without worrying about being assaulted. New York's Democrat Gov.
  Kathy Hochul's willful blindness that there's a palpable crime pro-
  blem in her state, as well as other soft-on-crime liberal officials
  nationwide who support cashless bail for violent criminals, make us
  less safe, diminishing our quality of life.
	And with Democrats' failed immigration policies and open borders
  controlled by dangerous drug cartels, fentanyl and other deadly
  drugs are pouring into our communities killing scores of Americans.
  Over 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, the Centers
  for Disease Control and Prevention reported last spring.
	At that rate, a vote for a Democrat means a vote for the status
  quo. That translates to thousands more Americans dying of drug over-
  doses each year — the number one killer of 18 to 45-year-olds in
  America today. If all that's acceptable to you, vote Democrat next
  week. However, if you believe that America's not on the right track
  and that we're certainly not better off than we were two years ago,
  vote for Republican candidates across the board.
	The choice is clear.
  *Adriana Cohen*

	Tomorrow we vote. Are we going to survive this disaster of the
  last nearly 2 years or are we too blind to use this opportunity to
  save America.
	Biden said at a gathering (too small to be a rally) that there
  would be NO MORE drilling in the country and he aims to shut down
  the remainder of the coal fired electricity plants.
	It has been proven that we cannot come close to supporting our
  needs using wind and solar energy. The brownouts and rolling black-
  outs are killing Americans in the heat and many places have been
  told that people who depend upon diesel will not have fuel avail-
  able to heat their homes this winter. 
	On top of that there will be no fuel for the trucking industry
  or many parts of manufacturing.
	It becomes more and more how incompetent the entire Biden ad-
  ministration are and have been since its inception.
	Please get everyone you know to get out and vote to end the
  disaster created by the evil, amoral, unethical people in our
  nation's capital.
	Pray about it and do your part. God will prevail.
  Conservatively,
  John

    Constitution Deep Dive pt. 3 - The Father of the Constitution
	September 21, 2022 by Jakob Fay

	“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” James
 Madison famously posited in Federalist No. 51. “If angels were to
 govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government
 would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be adminis-
 tered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must
 first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next
 place oblige it to control itself.”
	In these three sentences, the Father of the Constitution encap-
 sulated the fundamental tension at the heart of any government and
 also why, to him and his fellow founders, a Constitutional Republic
 seemed to be the preferable form of government.
	By the time James Madison participated in the 1787 Constitutional
 Convention, the 36-year-old delegate from Virginia already had many
 years of political experience, having helped draft Virginia's state
 constitution in 1776 and served as the youngest member of the Conti-
 nental Congress during the Revolutionary War and a leader in the Vir-
 ginia Assembly where he often championed religious liberty.
	His frustrating years in the Assembly in particular taught Madison
 to be deeply distrustful of government–but for a different reason than
 his friend Thomas Jefferson distrusted government. Jefferson feared,
 rightfully, that the government might become unrepresentative of the
 people. Madison, on the other hand, feared the government would be too
 representative of the people.
	He knew the madness of mobs, the irrationality of a passionate
 majority, and sought to protect ideological minorities from being
 trampled by a government that became too reflective of populist poli-
 tics. “In Republics,” he warned, “the great danger is that the major-
 ity may not sufficiently respect the rights of the Minority.” In the
 Constitution, he hoped to prop up safeguards against this.
	Madison supported a relatively strong federal government. His
 Virginia Plan, presented to the Constitutional Convention by Edmund
 Randolph, proposed giving the federal government a national veto over
 state laws, an idea that (thankfully) did not make it into the final
 document. As already explained, Madison had helped draft the hugely
 influential Virginia Constitution, and many of the ideas contained in
 that document, however, found their way into the U.S. Constitution.
	Despite favoring a strong national government, the future presi-
 dent, as Federalist 51 would indicate, understood the importance of
 compelling government to “control itself.” His now-famous “ambition
 must be made to counteract ambition” quote clarified that the unheal-
 thy human drive for power should be used against itself; basically, if
 politicians in different branches were all vying for power, they
 would, theoretically, cancel each other out (ie. checks and balances).
	Although Madison’s Virginia Plan was not accepted in its entirety
 by the Convention, he embraced the new constitution and became an im-
 portant voice urging the states to ratify the document, contributing
 29 essays to the pro-constitution Federalist Papers.
	Additionally, although initially opposed to a bill of rights
 (believing it would be unnecessary), he drafted and proposed the
 amendments that would become the Bill of Rights.
	Interestingly, this was not the only thing the Father of the
 Constitution seemingly changed his mind about.
	The Madison of the 1790s was far warier of national power than
 the Madison who had called for a sweeping federal government during
 the Constitutional Convention. He had always been less of a national-
 ist than his Federalist co-author Alexander Hamilton was, but even
 Hamilton was shocked and confused when Madison vehemently opposed his
 economic proposals for building a strong central government.
	The Virginian gradually developed into an outspoken states’
 rights advocate who co-founded the Jeffersonian-Republican Party,
 which was characterized by its opposition to Hamilton’s “loose inter-
 pretation of the Constitution.” He even supported the right of states
 to stand against unconstitutional federal actions, a far cry from his
 call for a national veto over state laws.
	It may seem like James Madison radically shifted his political
 views in a relatively short span of time, and in many ways, this is
 true. But it’s better to view his evolution in light of a fierce loy-
 alty to the Constitution. Our governing document gave the national
 government an enumerated handful of powers… and nothing more. To do
 anything beyond what the federal government expressly had permission
 to do, was, in Madison’s mind, a deep betrayal of the Constitution.
	If Madison was frustrated by Hamilton’s disregard for the Con-
 stitution, we can only imagine what he would think of our government
 today. We have expanded so far beyond the original intent of the Con-
 stitution, that to say we are governed by it would almost be an insult
 to the man who fathered that blessed document.
	Nonetheless, we can thank James Madison for his extraordinary
 contributions to American history and profound political insight. Per-
 haps ambition failed to counteract ambition as he thought it would,
 but thanks to Article V of the Constitution, we don’t have to wait
 for the federal government to control itself.
	To join the Article V movement and take action to save the Con-
 stitution, sign the petition on the Constitution of States site.
  *Jakob Fay*

	For those of you that are not familiar with Article V, I would
 suggest you read it and explore the power it gives back to the people.
	Simple things like term limits are reachable by expanding the
 use of Article V.
	Maybe it is time for us ALL to wake up and take back our nation
 that God blessed us with.

 Conservatively,
 John