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    ‘Breadcrumbs Lead to Speaker’s Office,’ Rep. Jim Banks Warns as
    GOP Slams Capitol Police Leadership Over Capitol Riot
    Mary Margaret Olohan / @MaryMargOlohan / February 07, 2022

    Rep. Jim Banks heavily criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for
her failure to hand over key documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol
riot, saying in a Monday interview that Republican lawmakers believe
the severity of the riot was due to a “systemic breakdown and failure
at the highest levels of the Capitol Police.” 
    The Indiana Republican, who is on a panel of GOP lawmakers that
is unofficially investigating the riot, spoke with The Daily Signal
following an Axios report headlined “GOP’s shadow Jan. 6 committee
targets Capitol Police ‘negligence.’”
    Banks criticized the article and strongly disputed any implica-
tion that Republicans are focusing negative attention on Capitol 
Police officers themselves, noting that Republicans believe it is the
leadership of the police force that was at fault. 
    “We’re not attacking the Capitol Police, but we do believe
strongly that there was negligence and a breakdown of leadership at
the highest levels of the Capitol Police,” Banks told The Daily
Signal. 
    Banks characterized the investigation by House Democrats’ Jan. 6
select committee as a “political witch hunt.” Banks said that both
he and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, were “denied the opportunity to serve
on the committee” because they questioned why Pelosi refused to turn
over documents related to decisions made on the day of the riot. 

    “The breadcrumbs lead to the speaker’s office,” he told The Daily
Signal, adding: 

    She’s covering something up, and the American people deserve to
know what those documents say, but so far she’s refused to hand them
over. The buck stops with her, and the question that deserves to be
answered is why the National Guard wasn’t called to help protect the
Capitol. Somebody made that decision. 
    And I suspect that those documents in some way, shape, or form
implicate the speaker of the house. She doesn’t want to release them
because at the end of the day, no matter what those documents say, I
imagine they deviate from the political witch-hunt narrative that
Nancy Pelosi and [Rep.] Liz Cheney [R-Wyo.] have painted about Jan 6.
    Members of the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee continue to ignore 
vital questions related to Capitol security, Banks said, noting that
Republicans have interviewed dozens of Capitol Police officers and
others on this topic.
    “We’ve learned a lot and we’re nearing the end of our interview
process,” the Indiana congressman said, promising that Republicans
will publish a report containing key findings of their interviews and
make recommendations for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of
California, whom Republicans hope will be the next House Speaker. 
    “We’ve found that we’ve had broad support from the United States
Capitol Police officers, the rank-and-file officers who know that
they deserve more and better from their leadership and who know that
leading up to Jan. 6 and on Jan. 6, there were systemic breakdowns
and failure at the highest levels of the Capitol Police that led to
what happened,” Banks said, adding:
    And if we’re serious about preventing something like Jan. 6 from
ever happening again, we need to look at what happened there and make
those changes so that we can prevent it. Unfortunately, the Pelosi/
Liz Cheney effort has no interest in pursuing those angles. Instead,
they’re just out to get their political opponents and weaponizing
their power to go after those who they disagree with.
    Banks, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, emphasized
that he and fellow Republicans support the Capitol Police and the
rank-and-file officers. 
    “The bottom line there is that the head of the Capitol Police
union has told us and said very publicly that they weren’t prepared
for what happened on Jan. 6 because of a breakdown in the intelli-
gence gathering and dissemination process,” Banks told The Daily
Signal. 
    “And even though they had intelligence that something was going
to happen on Jan. 6 for weeks beforehand, the Capitol Police officers
were never made aware of that,” he continued. “They weren’t equipped
for what happened on Jan. 6. They had outdated and in some cases
expired equipment.” 
    It is “incredibly” baffling that the officers were not trained
for “a riot or a large, violent crowd at the United States Capitol,
” Banks said, particularly in light of the rioting and protesting
that had taken place previously in both the nation’s capital and
across the country. 
    The congressman said that he has heard this same sentiment ex-
pressed “over and over” by both the head of the Capitol Police union
and by individual officers on the force. 
    Republicans repeatedly have asked that information shared by fed-
eral agencies with the “sham” Jan. 6 committee also be shared with
the minority party, Banks said. 
    But, he told The Daily Signal, there has been “no transparency.”
    “They will only give it to the committee,” Banks said of federal
agencies and their relevant information. “And as the public trust in
this sham committee is diminished so substantially, it’s unfortunate
that agencies like the FBI won’t share that information with members
of the minority party.”

    He added: 

    The way they’ve conducted this Jan. 6 commission clearly violates
House rules. Without minority participation, without providing these
records to the minority party, it’s a bad precedent for the future of
the institution, but it is pretty clear that Nancy Pelosi and Liz
Cheney aren’t interested in precedent or rule of law. They’re only
interested in attacking and abusing their power to send their poli-
tical opponents to jail.

    Questions about FBI involvement, both before and after Jan. 6,
are serious questions that need to be answered, Banks said, but Demo-
crats are not willing to share that information with the minority
party. 
    “That doesn’t mean that we’re not trying,” he said. 
    “When Jim Jordan is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and
has oversight of the FBI, it’ll be important that he and others in
our party continue to ask these important questions and demand
answers from this administration, who’s clearly not willing to pro-
vide information to members of Congress of both parties,” Banks said.

    I find these articles shed a lot of light on the corruption that
exists withing the Democratic party but we are all at fault because
conservative Americans didn't want to believe it. Now we are paying
for our naivity.
    Time to pray to God for another chance.
    I continue to ask, "What are they hiding?"

Conservatively,
John

    My sister passed away last week and I thought this was what she
 believed and fought for her whole life. RIP Donnie.

    *God is real, the Bible is True, and Jesus Christ is King of
Kings.
    These are the fundamental truths on which we must stand if we are
going to do what must be done in order to reclaim what is rightfully
ours. 
    America is a Christian nation, but somewhere along the way our
tolerance for evil allowed subversive agents of Satan to invade every
facet of our country and culture. 
    Our worldly institutions may have been conquered by secular
humanists who hate God, but we worship a God who overcomes all world-
ly institutions. 
    The good news is that public trust and faith in these institu-
tions is waning. For the first time in one hundred years we have an
opportunity to rebuild and restore our once great society. 
    The people in power want a Great Reset, but what we are going to
give them instead is a Great Restoration.
    Buckminister Fuller once said that “You never change things by
fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    If we are going to win—and we are going to win—we must work to-
gether towards the common goal of building parallel Christian systems
that are beyond the influence and control of existing demonic ones. 
    Parallel systems can only work if they are built on the firm
foundation of our faith in Jesus Christ and the Truth of God’s Word,
the very same foundation that the United States of America itself was
founded upon. 
    The challenge before us is to build these new systems and models
based on the traditional and Biblical values given to us by God. 
    It’s a synthesis of new tools combined with the sturdy tradition
of order.
    It’s a revolt against modernity through the embrace of our rich
traditions and through the wisdom of the Word of God. 
    David Chilton once said that “Freedom cannot be exported to a
nation that has no marketplace for the Gospel” and of course he was
echoing 2 Corinthians 3:17 which tells us that “where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is Liberty.”
    Our dissent against the ruling Regime must be rooted in the
desire to preserve liberty and live authentically according to God’s
Word. 
    *Dissent is impossible without the freedom of speech.
    *It’s the ability to say “no” in the face of evil. 
    Our participation in communion with God means that we are di-
vinely endowed with the gift of restoring order, guided by His hand,
in a chaotic and broken world. 
    The reason that I started Gab almost six years ago is because I
saw dissenters being silenced.
    American citizens are being banned from the internet, frozen by
banks, blacklisted from flying on airplanes, and labeled terrorists
for daring to have a political opinion that dissents from the ruling
Regime’s. 
    By refusing to bend to the demands of the Regime I myself became
a dissenter.
    My family has been doxed, harassed, stalked, swatted, and regu-
larly faces death threats from people all over the world. Gab has
been banned from dozens of service providers including App Stores,
payment processors, multiple banks, email services, and so much more. 
    This is the cross I will gladly pick up and carry if it means
that my children will grow up in a world where they can speak freely
and worship God Almighty.
    I may be a dissident in my own country, but I am a happy liber-
ated warrior for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. 
    *What we are facing is so much more than just censorship.
    We are facing the total replacement of good and Holy things with
filth and decay.
    We can no longer overlook social issues in favor of economic
ones.
    We can no longer ignore the depravity and degeneracy that is
perverting and destroying our minds.
    We must never allow the demonization and destruction of the nu-
clear family and the corruption of our children to happen.
    We must stare into the face of Silicon Valley, the mainstream
media, and the political establishment on both sides of the isle and
dare to say: “no.” 
    Jesus did not command us to sit around getting crushed by Satan
waiting to die. He commanded us to make disciples of all nations and
we need to take dominion in His name.
    His Kingdom may be in Heaven, but He Himself told us in Matthew
28:18 that He has ALL authority on Earth as well. 
    *It’s time to start acting like it. 
    So often we are called hateful by people who hate our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, so to them I say: yes I am hateful. I hate sin.
    I hate evil. I hate Satan and I hate the Antichrist.
    They will call our speech “hate speech” because we dare to speak
the Truth of God’s Word. 
    You’re a racist if you don’t hate yourself for the color of your
skin. 
    You’re a bigot if you don’t want men in dresses walking into the
bathroom with your daughter.
    You’re an antisemite if you question sending Israel American tax-
payer money to build their wall, while our own border is being
invaded. 
    Their shame words no longer hold any power over me and they
should never again hold any power over you.
    *Tolerance is NOT a Christian virtue.
God has zero tolerance when it comes to sin, which corrupts our
bodies, hearts, and minds. We are commanded to hate that which is
evil. Without hatred we can’t understand love, but we must be careful
to not aim our hatred at one another. Instead we must unite and aim
our hatred at the sin and evil in our own hearts. 
    What is at stake is not only the future of our country, but the
future of Christendom as a whole.
    Christians are being demonized, dehumanized, discriminated
against, demographically replaced, and disenfranchised. We are being
attacked, harassed, fired, and banned from the internet and financial
systems for our political and religious beliefs.
    *None of this is okay.
    Christians should be boldly denouncing these things, but we look
to our churches, our so-called Christian leaders, and even our poli-
ticians and we are met with a deafening silence–or worse a proud en-
dorsement of this madness. 
    *Christians are no strangers to persecution.
    We have always and will continue to overcome the advances of the
Enemy.
    Imagine being among the first group of Christians after Christ’s
resurrection who spent forty years preaching the Gospel waiting while
those practicing the Old Covenant law mocked them.  We can’t even
comprehend the persecution they faced in order to defend and spread
the Gospel. Many ended up giving their lives for it.
    This group of Christians is the most inspiring to me because they
had to have the most faith of all. In Luke 21:6 Jesus prophesied
about the Temple that “not one stone would be left on another, every
one of them will be thrown down.”
    For forty years that didn’t happen and a generation of Christians
had to patiently wait and have faith that what Christ said would come
true. Then in 70 AD, it did happen, just as he said it would, and
that Temple was absolutely annihilated. Almost 2,000 years later it’s
still not standing despite multiple attempts throughout history to
rebuild it. 1 Corinthians 3:16 tells us that WE are the Temple of God
and that the Spirit of God dwells within us.
    This is the enormous amount of faith that we need to have today.
We need to be in this for the long haul. We need to be willing, like
the very first followers of Christ, to have an entire lifetime of
faith.
    *Christians are not revolutionaries.
    We are reformers. We do not destroy things, we build and create
them, mirroring our Creator. God will handle the destruction of our
wicked and corrupt global regime, in fact I think He’s already
started.
    If we are going to save our country we must adopt a mindset of
seven generations thinking.
    Previous generations, including my own, have lived in the moment
for themselves.
    We must learn from this mistake.
    Short term pleasure at the expense of longterm pain for our kin
is unsustainable. We must be the ones who are willing to put in the
work to build a Christian future not only for our children and our
children’s children, but for Christendom as a whole. Now is the time
for us to build.
    *This is a spiritual war.
    They are targeting our very humanity. This is evidenced by every-
thing that our enemies promote.
    *Their “values” are inherently anti-human.
    Abortion. Moral decay. Sexual degeneracy. The destruction of
sovereign nations and the ethnic cleansing of people. The persecution
of everything and anything related to God Almighty our Creator.
    We must realize that King Jesus is not some hippie Mr. Rogers
that our culture makes Him out to be. He is King of Kings. He reigns.
    He rules. He flips over tables in the temple. He scorns the Den of
Vipers. He rebukes the Synagogue of Satan. This is the Jesus I know
and worship. This is the Jesus of Scripture. This is the Jesus that
will lead us out of this mess.
    *We must strive to be more like Him. 
    All great civilizations are built on the back of strong nuclear
families because strong nuclear families are God’s design. Strong men
lead strong women. Strong women support strong men and they raise
strong children together. This leads to strong families and strong
families lead to strong nations. 
    *Where are our Christian men today?
    Unfortunately many American Christians have adopted a secular
human worldview. Instead of worshipping God, they worship idols in
the form of celebrities, sports players, and even politicians. They
are “Christian” in name only. 
    They value material “stuff” over the fruits of the Spirit. They
seek comfort and fleeting pleasure over the suffering and courage it
takes to live an unapologetic and authentic Christian life. They are
lukewarm Christians.
    *I’m here to tell you today that lukewarm Christianity is over.
Christians need to rise up and proclaim the name of Jesus Christ
the King of Kings to the world.
    We are the ones establishing nuclear families. We are the ones
bringing up our children to know and love the Lord. We are the ones
building sovereign businesses and infrastructure. We are the ones
with a future worth fighting for and we are the ones who will restore
order.
    *We are reformers, builders, and pioneers.
    We need to go all in, take a leap of faith, and live fully for
Christ at every moment of our lives.
    We must prepare ourselves for what is coming by exiting their
entire system and raising up our children to be builders for the
Kingdom of God. We need to build our economy, our own technology,
our own education systems and our own political movements. This re-
quires a multi-generational effort. 
    The tolerance of the generations before us has led to the subver-
sive takeover of every facet of society and even our churches by the
global elite. That does not mean that they cannot be defeated. 
    *I believe that God has a plan to do so, but it will take the
organized and longterm commitment and effort of His people to accomp-
lish this. We must never again tolerate evil and the spirit of the
antichrist in our culture, governments, education systems, homes,
churches, and most importantly our own hearts.
    *So if you don’t have a sword, then sell your cloak and buy one
because we have a lot of work to do.

GAB: Go and Build. 
    To God Be The Glory,

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com
Jesus Christ is King of Kings

   Amen!

Conservatively,
John

    Financial Freefall

    Financial Strategist: Federal Reserve Is In ‘Deep Trouble’ As It
Tries To Handle Inflation
By  Ben Zeisloft
•
Jan 18, 2022   DailyWire.com
•
    Odeon Capital Group chief financial strategist Dick Bove is warn-
ing that the Federal Reserve is in “deep trouble” as it attempts to
battle inflation.
    Consumer prices rose by 7% between December 2020 and December of
2021 — the highest rate in roughly 40 years. In response, the central
bank is expected to hike interest rates three times in 2022 — and at
the end of last year, the Federal Reserve announced that it will
pursue a more rapid conclusion to their quantitative easing program
by slashing its monthly bond purchases.
    During an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo,
however, Bove warned that “if the Federal Reserve was a private bank,
you would say this company is insolvent.”
    “The reason why you would say that is because the Federal Re-
serve’s source of money — which comes from printing, it comes from
collecting money from the banks, you know, in reserves, comes from
a couple of other places — is in deep trouble,” he explained. “If you
would look at that balance sheet, you would realize that more than
100% of the increase in the Federal Reserve balance sheet, in the
last 12 months, has come from borrowing money in the reverse repo
market.”
    “In other words,” he continued, “the Fed is sitting at borrowing
money at the shortest end of the curve in order to fund the purchase
of long-term Treasuries. The balance sheet is a disaster.”
    Meanwhile, inflation continues to erode Americans’ purchasing
power. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “real average
hourly earnings” decreased by 2.4% between Dec 2020 and Dec 2021.
    Expressing concern over this reality, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) re-
leased a new report on Tuesday that details inflation’s impact on
American consumers and small businesses.
    “$4.9 trillion in COVID-19 stimulus spending has led to one of
the highest and most sustained levels of inflation in U.S. history,”
the lawmaker said in a press release. “While government stimulus
spending was intended as a form of relief, and low and middle-income
families as well as small business owners were promised that their
taxes would not increase, Americans everywhere are now paying a hid-
den tax called inflation.”
    Paul’s report said that inflation is primarily harming low-income
households:
    71 percent of households making under $40,000 annually have in-
dicated economic hardships from rising prices, as opposed to just 29
percent of households making $100,000 or more.
    Low and middle-income families spend a larger portion of their
income on high-inflation items, like gasoline, used cars, and food.
    Families in the lowest income quartile spend nearly 40 percent of
their annual income on these three categories. As a means of compar-
ison, families in the top quartile spend only 10 percent of their
annual income on these categories.
    The report added that small businesses are at a considerable
disadvantage in comparison to larger companies:
    82 percent of small businesses reported raising prices in the
last several months, 42 percent reported raising prices by 20 per-
cent or more. 45 percent of small businesses reported taking out a
loan to cope with the pressures of inflation in this last year.
    Large corporations have reported consistent profit margins.
    Paul also pointed to Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses
project, which found that 86% of surveyed small business owners
“are concerned about inflation.”

    *You know it is bad when the Dollar Store after decades doing
a thriving business announced that they will be setting their prices
at $1.25.
    The Federal Reserve has now purchased $9T in securities that are
virtually worthless. 
    What have these people done to America?
    Remember to pray for God to restore our land and have mercy and
grace on our people.

Conservatively,
John

    I found this nailed the problem with a politician being our
President.
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi / January 14, 2022

President Joe Biden finally delivered his “voting rights” speech
in Atlanta, telling a crowd:
    “The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a
turning point in this nation’s history. Will we choose democracy over
autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice? I know where
I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend your
right to vote, and our democracy against all enemies foreign and dom-
estic. And the question is: Where will the institution of the United
States Senate stand?”
    These were little more than the mendacious ravings of a demagogue.

    Biden’s argument is predicated on the idea that anyone who con-
tinues to support the legislative filibuster—a Senate rule the pres-
ident defended for nearly 50 years—or voter ID laws, or time restric-
tions on mail-in ballots, or consistent hours for early voting, or
bans on ballot harvesting, is no better than Bull Connor. “Do you
want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” was the false
choice offered by a man who repeatedly praised Wallace, and other
segregationists, early in his career.
    The president suggested that anyone opposing the Democrats’
voting rights bill was not only a bigot but a seditious “domestic”
enemy of the United States—a designation that now probably includes
six Democratic senators, if not more. The president pronounced the
Senate a “shell of its former self,” lamenting that the GOP had used
the filibuster over 100 times in the past year, skipping the incon-
venient fact that Democrats had done so over 300 times the preceding
four years. Biden, “the institutionalist,” then unloaded a litany of
completely misleading contentions about voting laws to justify his
abandonment of principle.
    And the reason Biden is compelled to lie about virtually every
aspect of the Georgia voting law is that the specifics are actually
quite popular and do not inhibit a citizen from casting a ballot.
Most of the requirements Biden contends are now compulsory for demo-
cracy to properly function had only been instituted in the past few
years — many of them only during the last election. Biden’s comparing
Jim Crow to contemporary voter integrity laws is detestable. One was
a violent suppression of the minority vote; the other was giving vo-
ters only 11 weeks before an election to request a ballot and declin-
ing to keep expanding voting into the weekend.
    At this pace, Democrats will be arguing that disenfranchisement
of illegal immigrants is the manifestation of the Dixiecrat agenda
by 2024.
    ID requirements are what the left detests most, yet this is the
provision they talk about least. Why? Most polls find overwhelming
majority support for limiting early voting hours and requiring photo
IDs to vote. Fascists in Colorado and Connecticut and most other
states, not only Georgia, still demand a person provide government
issued ID to vote. They, just like Georgia, allow voters without ID
to provide the last four digits of their Social Security number, a
bank statement or utility bill, a paycheck or any other government
document with their name and address. (Maybe if states allowed vac-
cine passports to suffice, Democrats would be up for it.)
    But most Americans—most people in the free world—have believed
it eminently reasonable to expect voters to identify themselves
before participating in democracy. If Democrats believed the vote
was sacred, so would they. It’s the Democrats who are advocating
overturning the will of voters in Georgia and elsewhere. Let’s re-
member that H.R. 1 “voting rights” bill would have compelled states
to allow ballot harvesting, to ban voter ID laws, to allow felons to
vote and to count mail-in votes that arrive up to 10 days after
Election Day.
    The president sprinkled his speech with feigned indignation and
lots of podium pounding. Unable to contain his penchant for fabulism,
he seemed to joke about being arrested (“the first time”) during a
civil rights march. Maybe Biden was confusing that incident with the
time he wasn’t arrested in South Africa for trying to see Nelson
Mandela or didn’t defend the Black Panthers in court or never par-
ticipated in a sit-in.
    But one can suspect most Democrats understand well that this is
all a nasty bit of cynical political theater since there is little
chance of nuking the filibuster. Biden’s attempt to launch his entire
agenda in a single reconciliation moonshot stuffed with progressive
extravagances failed to get a simple majority. Stymied, the president
has decided to preemptively undermine confidence in the 2022 and 2024
elections, smearing half the country as racists while cosplaying as a
civil rights hero. “The Big Lie,” indeed. The consequences of this
will be the further deterioration of trust in elections. 
More division. More anger.

David Harsanyi

    *Seems that Joe only knows how to lie every time he walks in
front of ANY group of people. For some reason he thinks everyone
must believe him because he said so. That is the perfect example of
a person who places himself above the law and beyond reproach.
    Sadly, for him, there are too many videos and too much proof that
he is incapable of effectively leading anything besides his pets.
   It is time for America to remove him and Harris and the cabal
that is leading him around from photo-op to photo-op.
    Again, continue to pray for America and ask God to remove all
this evil that has stollen their way into our lives, hopefully before
he destroys what is left of Trump's America.

Conservatively,
John

    Build Back Makes Bankruptcy

    CONGRESS
   CBO: Fully extended reconciliation bill could cost $3 trillion
   Dems have proposed many programs to be temporary, but costs would
   soar if they became permanent, according to the budget agency.

   Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, who requested the CBO analysis, says
the agency “has provided a true cost of the bill over ten years,”
but Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer says Graham's request
was "nothing more than a partisan attempt to mislead the public."
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

By David Lerman
    Posted December 10, 2021 at 12:46pm, Updated at 2:19pm
    The Democratic tax and spending package to expand the social
safety net and combat climate change would increase federal deficits
by $3 trillion over 10 years if most programs were made permanent,
the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.
    Republicans seized on the new cost estimate to argue that the
Democrats’ reconciliation measure is unaffordable and would only
accelerate rising inflation.
    “I am urging the Democratic party to stop the madness,” said
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Senate Budget Committee’s
ranking Republican, who requested the cost estimate from the non-
partisan budget agency along with his House counterpart, Rep. Jason
Smith, R-Mo.
    Graham and Smith, using CBO figures, estimated the gross cost
of the package would come to $4.9 trillion over a decade, assuming
all programs were made permanent without additional revenue or sav-
ings. That price tag would be more than double the roughly $2.2
trillion estimate of costs for new spending and tax breaks in the
House-passed bill, before offsets.
    The Democratic reconciliation bill, as passed by the House,
would increase deficits by $231 billion over 10 years, after ac-
counting for spending for increased tax enforcement and interest
costs on the debt, the nonpartisan budget agency said. To keep costs
down, Democrats called for many of their programs to be temporary
— particularly the child tax credit, which would expire in a year.
And some programs would take years to get started.
    But if those programs were made permanent, the CBO said, costs
would soar, increasing deficits in the first decade by more than $3
trillion, under a set of assumptions requested by Republican law-
makers.
    Much of the cost increase comes from extending the expanded
child tax credit, which provides most families with up to $3,600 per
child annually, which households can opt to receive in monthly in-
stallments.
    As passed by the House, the one-year expanded credit would cost
$185 billion. But if extended over the decade, as Democrats say they
want to do eventually, the cost jumps to nearly $1.6 trillion.
Similarly, child care subsidies and universal preschool programs,
which would expire after 2027 in the House bill, would cost $381
billion over 10 years. But if they are made permanent, the cost
jumps to $752 billion, the CBO said.
    “Nobody believes these programs were going to end,” Graham said
at a news conference he held to call attention to the CBO report.
“They'll never go away if you leave it up to the Democratic Party.”
    The estimate from the nonpartisan budget agency came on the same
day the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose
by 6.8 percent over the 12 months ending in November, the highest
increase since June 1982.
    “It is unthinkable that Senate Democrats would try to respond to
this inflation report by ramming through another massive socialist
spending package in a matter of days,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell said in a statement Friday.
    Democrats have denied that their reconciliation bill would spur
inflation, saying the programs in it are fully paid for with tax
increases on corporations and upper-income households, along with
increased tax enforcement and prescription drug cost savings. And
they said it would actually reduce deficits by $2 trillion in the
second decade since many programs would expire but the tax increases
and drug savings would remain in place.
    They have acknowledged wanting to extend the life of many pro-
grams, particularly the expanded child tax credit, but have said the
costs of any future spending would be offset with new revenue or
savings, as President Joe Biden has promised.
    In a statement Friday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer
called the new analysis a “fake CBO score” that doesn’t take into
account Democratic commitments to offset any costs of future exten-
sions. He said Graham’s request was “nothing more than a partisan
attempt to mislead the public.”
    Graham, at his news conference, trained his focus on the one
Senate Democrat considered most likely to block the reconciliation
package from passing: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, who has
called for a “pause” and expressed concerns about spurring more
inflation. Graham said he talked with Manchin Friday morning to
discuss the new CBO report.
    “Joe Manchin, I believe, will listen to the facts,” Graham said.
    Jennifer Shutt contributed to this report.
    We have had the worst administration in history working to 
destroy our nation.
    Time for prayer and unity within the more moral and ethical
part of our country.

Conservatively,
John

    Truths, Ideals of MLK’s Message Have Been Lost to 'Wokeism'
    Star Parker / @StarParker / January 14, 2022

    We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday 
of January. This year, that’s Jan. 17.
On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in
American history, popularly known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. It
is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because
it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear
and digest now.
    It’s a message that has been tragically lost and buried and re-
placed with great and destructive distortions.
    Two things jump out when reading through that speech: One is how
this black preacher captured in his words that day the heart and soul
of America. Second, how King’s great message that day stands in total
contrast to the rhetoric peddled by today’s progressives as the
remedy to our racial strife.
    The indictment of the woke movement is that America is the pro-
blem. King offered up America as the solution. He talked about the
“magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.”
    “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created equal.'”
    The problem, as King explained, is not America or the eternal
truths that were brought to bear in its founding. The problem was
the failure of the nation to live up to the challenges of its great
founding principles.
    That was the heart of King’s message that day. He appealed to
the nation to realize the dream of its Founding Fathers, not to crush
it and bury it, as we hear today.
    The problem is not white people. “The marvelous new militancy …
must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,” he said. And, of
course, the most memorable and oft-quoted line of the speech, “I have
a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character.”
    What has happened instead? Where has this great message of King
gotten lost? In the name of racial justice, our race campaigns today
are defined by selection and placement based on race, based on the
color of skin, and not based on the content of character, as King
implored the nation to do.
    King’s speech is divided into three parts. Part one is an appeal
to the nation to live up to its great founding principles. Part two
is an appeal to black Americans to rise up and act accordingly in the
noble cause of the pursuit of liberty and justice. Let’s not drink
“from the cup of bitterness.” Part three is an appeal to the ideals
of the Christian soul of the nation.
    He quoted the prophet Isaiah that “the crooked places will be
made straight … and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall see it together.”
    Biblical truths and ideals have been sadly lost to wokeism, which
has for all practical purposes become a religion in itself.
    Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now, as we come out of
COVID-19 and enter 2022, by revisiting and taking to heart the great
truths he spoke on that summer day in Washington, D.C., in 1963. They
are great truths that have very sadly been cast to the side and re-
placed with the religion of politics and power.
    Let us honor King by seeing America as he presented it then, as
embodying the ideals of a free nation under God. And then we can join
hands and sing, as King appealed, “the words of the old Negro spiri-
tual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last.'”

    *There is not much to add to this, except to say that we should 
strive to live by King's words Every day.
    The Bible tells us that He will heal our land but we have to be
willing to embrace God first.*

Conservatively,
John

    Critical things to think about

    *A friend of mine forwarded this anonymous opinion piece to me
and I was so impressed at this viewpoint that I just wanted to share
it with everyone who is willing to take the time to REALLY read it.*

    Critical Things to Think About in 2022.

    I never dreamed that I would have to face the prospect of not
living in the United States of America, at least not the one I have
known all my life. I have never wished to live anywhere else. This
is my home and I was privileged to be born here. I am proud to have
served in the Armed Forces protecting our freedom and way of life.
But today I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I believe every-
thing seems to be changing for the worse. No matter how I vote, no
matter what I say, no matter how much I pray, something evil has
invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I
have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at
people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with
opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may
well have entered the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has
lost its collective mind!

    You can't justify this insanity:
    If a guy pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with
him.
    Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count how many Ameri-
cans are in America.
    Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting
in our elections are good.
    It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of the
Ukraine.
    Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough
to vote.
    People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations
to people who have never been slaves.
    People who have never been to college should pay the debts of
college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
    Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d
better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
    Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the
US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate
gang member or terrorist who jumps the southern fence is welcome.
    $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 tril-
lion for “free” health care is not.
    If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you
cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
    If you cheat in an election nothing happens to you, but if you
point out the mathematical errors of that election you are a "con-
spiracy theorist" & disdained.
    People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a
female President.
    We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it
seems like a great plan for us.
    Some people are held responsible for things that happened before
they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what
they are doing right now.
    Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people but stop-
ping them is bad because it's a violation of their rights.
    And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
    Nothing makes sense anymore - no values, no morals, and no civ-
ility. People are dying of a Chinese virus, but it's racist to refer
to it as Chinese even though it began in China.
    We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is
wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is
moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers
is wrong but killing unborn babies is okay!
    Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has
hit an iceberg, it's taking on water, and is sinking fast. We Amer-
icans are drowning. Speak up while you still have breath and a voice
for soon you will have neither if you don't!
    This needs to be sent on to a lot of people. Please do it.
Thank you
    “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its
government.” – Edward Abbey
    2 Chronicles 7:14 Lord, heal our land. Pray

Conservatively,
John

    Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
    Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / January 06, 2022

    Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe
Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy,
foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority
support.
    As a result, the left now variously alleges that either in 2022,
when it expects to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when it fears los-
ing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a
coup.
    A cynic might suggest that those on the left praise democracy
when they get elected, only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or
they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate.
Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them
onto their opponents.
    After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national
elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to
repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the
more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine
justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old 50-state union?
    Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators
per state?
    The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of
the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” Who
slammed through the impeachment of former President Donald Trump
without a presiding chief justice?
    Never had a president been either impeached twice or tried in the
Senate as a private citizen. Who did both?
    The left further broke prior precedent by impeaching Trump with-
out a special counsel’s report, formal hearings, witnesses, and cross
examinations.
    Who exactly is violating federal civil rights legislation?
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in December
decided to ration new potentially lifesaving COVID-19 medicines,
partially on the basis of race, in the name of “equity.”
    The agency also allegedly used racial preferences to determine
who would be first tested for COVID-19. Yet such racial discrimina-
tion seems in direct violation of various title clauses of the 1964
Civil Rights Act.
    That law makes it clear that no public agency can use race to
deny “equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, oper-
ated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision there-
of.” Who is behind the new racial discrimination?
    In summer 2020, many local- and state-mandated quarantines and
bans on public assemblies were simply ignored with impunity—if
demonstrators were associated with Black Lives Matter or protesting
the police.
    Currently, the Biden administration is also flagrantly embracing
the neo-Confederate idea of nullifying federal law.
    The Biden administration has allowed nearly 2 million foreign
nationals to enter the United States illegally across the southern
border—in hopes they will soon be loyal constituents.
    The administration has not asked illegal entrants either to be
tested for or vaccinated against COVID-19. Yet all U.S. citizens in
the military and employed by the federal government are threatened
with dismissal if they fail to become vaccinated.
    Such selective exemption of lawbreaking non-U.S. citizens, but
not millions of U.S. citizens, seems in conflict with the equal pro-
tection clause of the 14th Amendment.
    After entering the United States illegally, millions of immi-
grants are protected by some 550 “sanctuary city” jurisdictions.
These revolutionary areas all brazenly nullify immigration law by
refusing to allow federal immigration authorities to deport illegal
immigrant lawbreakers.
    At various times in our nation’s history—1832, 1861-65, and
1961-63—America was either racked by internal violence or fought a
civil war over similar state nullification of federal laws.
    In the last five years, we have indeed seen many internal
threats to democracy.
    Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to concoct a dossier of
dirt against her presidential opponent. She disguised her own role
by projecting her efforts to use Russian sources onto Trump.
She used her contacts in government and media to seed the dossier to
create a national hysteria about “Russian collusion.” Clinton urged
Biden not to accept the 2020 result if he lost, and herself claimed
Trump was not a legitimately elected president.
    The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has violated laws
governing the chain of command. Some retired officers violated Arti-
cle 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by slandering their
commander in chief. Others publicly were on record calling for the
military to intervene to remove an elected president.
    Some of the nation’s top officials in the FBI and intelligence
committee have misled or lied under oath either to federal investi-
gators or the U.S. Congress, again, mostly with impunity.
    All these sustained revolutionary activities were justified as
necessary to achieve the supposedly noble ends of removing Trump.
    The result is Third World-like jurisprudence in America aimed
at rewarding friends and punishing enemies, masked by service to
social justice.
    We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is
not so much from loud, buffoonish, one-day rioters on Jan. 6. Such
clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack court-
houses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000
policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property—all under
the banner of revolutionary justice.
    Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically
waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to disman-
tle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known
them.

    This was so well written and factual, I had to share.
    Pray for the US and for the strength of those holding back the
evil that is trying to destroy our nation.

Conservatively,
John

Another great day to be an American. #7

    This follows Nov 30, 2021, Enter Bill and Hillary #6. I wrote
this in April 2020. Maybe I can finish this whole series in a few
weeks. #1 - #5 were published in Feb and Mar 2020.

    So, Bill and Hillary spread their propaganda but still need more
control with the media. I don't know what was used for leverage but
after that secret media meeting in the 1980s, things began to change.
    Cable news came on the scene and people got sucked in by their
constant unregulated lies they kept repeating. 
    With few controls, restrictions and heavily financed, they began 
to overwhelm the people. From the beginning it was biased and almost
immediately they destroyed journalistic ethics. All they had to do
was repeat their version of truth and fact 24 hours a day fulfilling
one of Alinsky's most important rules. Control the Media.
    CNN was the first Cable channel that began nearly 40 years ago
by Ted Turner. 
    It didn't take long to weed out the most gullible of their audi-
ence and pander to their weaknesses. 
    It was virtually impossible to know what was truth or outright
lies. They rarely apologize or retracted their lies, half-truths, or
fake news.
    As the internet grew, they were able to reach more people who had
still not seen through the attempts to push the socialistic agenda.
    Wreckless sites often use satirical, biased sources spreading 
unverifiable fake news. They just want to be first to post a story
and worry about the truth if they get fact checked.
    The repercussions for these shortcomings no longer even caused
embarrassment because their journalistic ethics had ceased to exist.
    Today, nearly all media is liberal and somewhat less than truth-
ful. But I am getting ahead of the progression.
    It was convenient in squelching their efforts to somewhat keep
a little control on things. Whitewater, Travelgate, numerous deaths
like Vince Foster, Filegate and, of course, Bill's antics in the 
Oval Office were somehow mostly kept out of the news. Then the vic-
tims began to complain. There are many more situations than just
these five.
    Things like Benghazi, Hillary's server, and the infamous Clinton
Foundation I plan to address later.
    So, with so much going on they still managed to continue pushing
their socialistic ideas.
    In 1920 the ACLU started admirably defending native Americans, 
racism, and police misconduct cases. Then they morphed into taking
on the government defending anti-war protesters and activists in the
1960s like Kerry.
    Then the Miranda case and today, they interfere in constitutional 
cases. They often overstep their boundaries in order to take on the
government from a liberal perspective and have disrupted American
traditions on several occasions. They have become a tool for trying
to overpower the rights of average Americans running their own small
businesses who can't afford to fight so they bully them into sub-
mission. I am sure that is far away from the reasons the founders
like Helen Keller, Arthur Garfield and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn had
intended. A sad chapter in American history. They are still very
much involved today. 
    Mixed in with all of this deception, Liberalism started raising
its ugly head with people like Bernie Sanders and 74 others elected
in our government today in the CFC. We are in a deep hole people.
    It has to stop.
    Again I got off track, so back to Clinton.
    In 1992 Clinton signed The Housing and Urban Development Act of
1992 that laid the groundwork of the housing bubble of 2008. It al-
lowed Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac to approve home loans with little or
no money down.
    In 1998, Bill passed a public housing reform that allowed Fanny
Mae and Freddie Mac to approve and back loans through the banking
industry. 
    These loans went to poor families they knew could not afford to
buy a home even with little or nothing down.
    Meanwhile Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and the C/P Strategy are
slowly getting embedded deeper and deeper into American culture and
weakening the fabric of the Constitution.
    In 2006 Democrats somehow managed to gain control of both houses
of Congress. This placed G.W. Bush in the position of a lame duck
president.
    Reid and Pelosi were passing anything and everything so loaded
with pork that they started overtaxing the stability of the nation's
economy.
    Now they needed to create a financial crisis in order to take
back the White House. 
    Let me tell you now, they created a big one. In 2008 dropped a
bomb on the American people that we're still digging out from under.
    Next week Obama enters stage Left and the push for, in his own
words, to "Fundamentally Transform America". That was his way of
saying 'socialize'.
    It's been a long slow process, but I promise it will all fit
together.
    Until next week. Love America while we can still recognize her.
    With God's grace we will again get past this.

Conservatively,
John

    Surprise! Biden didn't fix the country. Now what?

    The following was written by Convention of States Action
President Mark Meckler and originally published on SelfGovern.com.

    Americans are depressed.

    The New Year is usually a time of hope and expectation. No matter
how bad the last year has been, the New Year offers a chance to start
afresh.

    In 2021, many Americans pinned their hopes on Joe Biden. The new
president had vowed to end COVID, get our economy back on track, and
“unite” the nation around moderation and a “return to normalcy.”
Instead, we got two new COVID waves, skyrocketing murder rates,
a slumping economy, international embarrassments, and more division
than ever before.

    Is it any wonder that more than half of Americans are “fearful"?
for what the year 2022 holds in store for the U.S.”? According to a
new Axios poll, 54% of Americans are fearful about the upcoming year,
an 18% rise since last year. Twenty-six percent more Democrats are
more fearful than last year, and 11% more Republicans say the same.

    Turns out, President Biden failed to deliver on his promise to
fix the country. But here’s the honest truth that the partisans on
the left and the right won’t tell you: no president, no matter the
party, has the ability to get our nation back on track.

    Sure, we’d be in better shape if Donald Trump had won the elec-
tion. A block of cheese would have done a better job than Joe Biden
over the last 12 months.

    But the vaccine that can cure our national malaise won’t come
from Washington. It will come from the people, the states, and the
values and virtues that have made our nation great.

    The federal government is both too powerful and not nearly
powerful enough. It has far too much control over the daily lives of
the American people. Politicians like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi can
dramatically change the face of our country with a single piece of
legislation or a single executive order. They can influence what we
buy, where we live, who we work for, and how many kids we have.

    Because they have this awesome power, they’ve succeeded in con-
vincing the American people that they can fix our every problem. But
they’re not nearly powerful enough to do that. No matter how hard
they try, they’re incapable of fixing the economy, uniting the coun-
try, or stopping a highly transmissible disease.
There is no magic button in the White House. If the latest poll-
ing is any indication, Americans are starting to realize that.

    But that shouldn’t mean we lose hope. Everyday Americans built
the strongest, freest, most prosperous nation in the history of the
world, and they have the power to do that again. How? By reclaiming
their rightful authority in our system of governance.

    We must limit the power and size of the federal government and
unleash the industry, ingenuity, and compassion of the American peo-
ple. We must stop looking to the president and start looking to our
neighbors, our school board, and our state legislature. We must re-
claim the freedom that has made our nation great, and we must use
the power the Founders gave us in Article V of the Constitution.

    An Article V Convention of States is called and controlled by
the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments
that shrink Washington’s power and put We the People back in the
driver’s seat. These amendments can limit the terms of office for
dinosaurs like Joe Biden and force Congress to spend our money
responsibly.

    This year can be one of hope and new possibilities, but that
hope won’t come from Joe Biden. It will come for you, me, and every
American patriot brave enough to stand up to Washington’s tyranny
and fight back with a Convention of States.
    ** I don't think anyone is really surprised but We the people,
can't afford to let this inept administration do any more damage
before only God can rescue us.
    Pray a lot and put your faith in the Lord.

Conservatively,
John