Gods Plans For America

Paul Dragu In the submarine classic The Hunt for Red October there is a scene in which Capt. Vasili Borodin is talking to his superior, played by Sean Connery, about the kind of life he wants once he’s successfully defected to America. Capt. Borodin says he plans to live in Montana. He wants to marry an American woman, have a...

JohnnyGreig/iStock/Getty Images Plus Socialist French President François Hollande once said publicly that he “hated the rich,” but reportedly had a habit of calling the poor “les sans dents” (“the toothless ones”) in private. Hollande was no outlier, either, according to English comedian, actor, and activist Russell Brand. In fact, said Brand in a recent interview with commentator Tucker Carlson, leftists...

courtneyk/iStock/Getty Images Plus As if Harvard’s problem with quota-hire plagiarists, United Airlines’ vow to prioritize “diversity” when retaining pilots, and today’s prevalent affirmative-action mentality aren’t enough, now there’s this: The American Psychological Association (APA) is claiming, based on a study, that merit-based hiring is unfair. Of course, it’s easier making this accusation stick when you confuse merit with credentials —...

AJ_Watt/iStock/Getty Images Plus The National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance that was live-streamed on Wednesday morning from Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible is a reminder of the eternal verities forming the foundation of the American Republic. Co-founded by Dr. Jim Garlow, CEO of Well Versed, a ministry to members of the U.S. Congress, and Tony Perkins of the Family...

Ben Franklin gave an address at the Constitutional Convention, titled “Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy,” June 2, 1787: “Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men … ambition and avarice — the love of power and the love of money … When united … they have … the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a...

agustavop/iStock/Getty Images Plus If a group that murdered 100 million people in less than a century can’t be described as villainous, what can? This question could be asked now that entertainment website ScreenRant has published, and MSN.com has publicized, an article lamenting how “wrong” it was for comic books to have portrayed communists as villains during the 1950s. In fact,...

Sean Pavone/iStock/Getty Images Plus Maine State House A bill that would have turned Maine into a “sanctuary state” for kids who want to change their gender went down to a resounding defeat Thursday at the hands of the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. The majority-Democrat committee voted unanimously to prevent LD1735, which opponents dubbed the “Transgender Trafficking Bill,” from being sent...

Pict Rider/iStock/Getty Images Plus Perhaps he could have known the word would be seized upon. After all, with the term’s opposite, “diversity,” being treated by so many today as a theological principle bestowed from on high, it’s not surprising that using the concept of “conformity” to defend an action would invite scorn. But perhaps this raises the question: Which term...

Paul Dragu We are only one month into 2024, and are already on the verge of civil war.   For three years, since their first day in power, the radicals running the Biden administration have orchestrated a migrant invasion of unprecedented scale. Biden’s puppet masters opened the southern border, invited the world, and with every attempt by Texas to secure...

AP Images Nikki Haley POTUS 45 Donald Trump might have crushed Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, but the former South Carolina governess insists that she hasn’t yet lost the race to become the GOP presidential nominee. The debacles in the Iowa caucuses and now the Granite State primary suggest that Republicans just don’t want Haley, and not just because Trump...

AP Images Javier Milei Argentine self interest or fundamental principles? Having taken the time to research and cover (in this substack essay) the CV and anarcho-capitalist logic of Argentine President (and economist) Javier Milei, I was familiar with most of the points made during his speech at the WEF earlier this week. However, his comments supporting monopolies were new to me,...

Luis Miguel Do defenders of the unborn have cause to fear, as the mainstream media would have them believe, that the abortion debate is all-but over and the only choice is to fold one’s arms and accept widespread abortion legalization as inevitable? Contrary to the prevailing talking point from the Left, the abortion debate is far from over and settled....

LesDaMore/iStock/Getty Images Plus With the latest report from Axios, maybe open borders Republicans such as GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley and former President George W. Bush can dispense with the claim that Hispanic immigrants are, down to a man, “natural conservatives” with “good family values” because so many are pew-warming Catholics. Axios reports that American Hispanics are increasingly embracing the...

AP Images Mike Johnson House Speaker Mike Johnson, confronted with a “gotcha” question, remained calm, cool, and collected. A reporter asked him on Thursday if he believed that “Joe Biden’s presidency is God’s will?” The reporter was referring to Johnson’s forthright claim to be a believer in the Holy Scriptures during his inaugural address in November: I believe that Scripture...

Move over, Claudine Gay, as the next DEI comedy-tragedy is unfolding in Texas. As the competition for the most ludicrous classes and studies at American colleges heats up, Rice University in Houston has a strong new contender: “Afrochemistry.” Yes, seriously. Some black Americans expressed outrage.  According to the university’s description, the course will focus on the “study of black-life matter.”...

Horrific attacks on sleeping villages in Nigeria’s Plateau State starting on December 23 were mounted by more than 3,000 terrorists fanning out to 38 villages for simultaneous attacks or marching from village to village, TruthNigeria reports exclusively. Battalions of armed terrorists shouting “Allahu Akbar ” according to witnesses raided villages for eight days, killing at minimum 295 people, as documented...

DUBAI — World religions and religious leaders will be crucial to achieving the goals of the United Nations and its member governments in what they describe as an existential battle against man-made climate change. That was the message delivered by a growing coalition of priests, prelates, holy men, monks, bishops, imams, rabbis, witch doctors, shamans, ancestor worshippers, and other assorted...

By Richard W Hawkins, Lt Col, USAF (ret) “Biblical methodology with Biblical content results in a Christian worldview and Dialectic methodology, even with Biblical content, leads to good little socialists.”          — Dr Marlene McMillan, whylibertymatters.com Discussions ensue regarding whether conservatives or Christians should run for local school boards with the belief that government-controlled K-12 schooling can be reformed at...

Liudmila_Fadzeyeva/iStock/Getty Images Plus An Oregon mom who was excluded from her state’s adoption program because of her Christian beliefs on gender and sexuality has filed an appeal with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a lower court denied her request for a preliminary injunction. Widowed mother-of-five Jessica Bates is a Christian who, “inspired by the story of a...

2023 This has been the worst year of my life. On July 4, our son, Tommy, died of a sudden and unexpected disease that took his life like a lightning streak. I loved that young man like a hurricane. I am still reeling. I would have done anything to keep him alive and close to his mother and me. I...