Gods Plans For America

Culture Are You Grieving? The prayerful poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins embraces a saving romance with the eternal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) When the young English Jesuit novitiate Gerard Manley Hopkins submitted his poem The Wreck of the Deutschland to the Jesuit magazine The Month, the editors accepted the unusual thirty-five stanza piece, then reversed their decision. Though Hopkins...

Bill Oxford/iStock/Getty Images Plus A woman accused of threatening members of a California school board who voted to inform parents if their children wish to be transgender was arrested last week. According to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, “Berkeley resident Rebecca Morgan, 52, was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 1, on suspicion of threatening a public official after an investigation identified her...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), America passed a major milestone in July: For 48 straight months, concerned citizens have purchased a million or more firearms, adding an estimated 50 million more to the stockpile over the last four years.   That stockpile is estimated to be between 300 and 400 million, but the real...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Members of the Massachusetts General Court are seeking to enact what would be the most restrictive and tyrannical gun-control law in the United States. House Docket No. 4420 (H.D. 4420) is euphemistically titled “An Act modernizing firearm laws.” However, if enacted, it would severely and unconstitutionally restrict citizens’ God-given right to self-defense. H.D. 4420 is 142 pages...

flickr.com Wayne Allen Root We have this never-ending debate in America and especially in Washington, D.C., about what works: Left or Right, liberalism or conservatism, capitalism or socialism. Well, there’s no need to debate anymore. The answer is in. We won! Yes, the debate is over. All the stats are in from a hundred directions. “The Great American Divorce” I’ve...

In this episode of The Sentinel Report, Alex Newman, co-author of the book “Crimes of the Educators,” interviews Lisa von Geldern, the National Event Coordinator for the JBS, to discuss the upcoming John Birch Society’s Leadership Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, from September 8-9, 2023. You can register and learn more about the conference here. In the news, Alex covers:...

The U.S. president is aging at an accelerated rate. According to the commentator, long-distance trips and related time-zone changes are not good for his health. The U.S. president’s trip to Europe in July revealed his poor health. President Joe Biden has clearly aged, appears disoriented, makes increasingly more factual errors, confuses places and people and has problems with his balance....

AP Images Vivek Ramaswamy Businessman and 2024 GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy is the “number one opponent” of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its Great Reset agenda in the United States, the candidate said in an interview with The New American magazine. He also argued that there were “good reasons to exit” the United Nations. Speaking with this writer...

Culture Of an Age, or for All Time? Two new books about Beethoven and Mozart refer us back to the composers’ works directly—with mixed results.   Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965) Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces, Norman Lebrecht, Pegasus Books, 352 pages. Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution, Oregon has rescinded all its applications for an Article V Constitutional Convention, or Con-Con. On July 18, Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 2625 (H.B. 3625) into law. The bill had previously passed the House by a 33-16 vote, and the Senate by a 25-0 vote. H.B. 3625, once...

gsagi/iStock/Getty Images Plus According to MPR News, results of a recent poll reveal that over half of people who identify as supporters of the Second Amendment and over half of those respondents who claim to be Republicans approve universal background checks and firearm licensing and registration. From May 12-18, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy surveyed 1,000 adults as to their...

Three hundred years ago today, the final installment of Cato’s Letters was published in London. It was Number 138 and was one of the few of that collection co-authored by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.  For those of you unfamiliar with those names, I direct you to this article I wrote regarding their incalculable contribution to the founding of the...

The left wants all future elections to look just like they did in 2020, and we have the blueprints to prove it. Covid-19 was the excuse Democrats used to radically transform our nation’s election systems in ways that make them less secure, less fair, and more vulnerable to mischief. Virtually all of the “temporary” changes introduced—ever-earlier voting, mass mail-in balloting,...

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday hosted a screening of the film “Sound of Freedom” with actor Jim Caviezel, producer Eduardo Verástegui and Operation Underground Railroad’s Tim Ballard, whom the movie about child sex trafficking was based upon. The event, which took place outside his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, had the presidential nominee kicking off the evening in his...

The persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong is still ongoing in China—and with help from corporate America  Commentary In a summer marked by the war ravaging Ukraine, rampant inflation, heat waves, and other global disruptions, one additional dismal human milestone must be acknowledged in all its horrific totality. July 20 marks the 24th year since the beginning of the...

Viorel Poparcea/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s funny how humans will go from one extreme to another. There were reports in recent years of parents taking their children to measles– or chicken-pox “parties” so as to get the kids infected and the disease “over with.” On the other hand, there are people who believed that with Covid-19, they could somehow avoid the...

Arizona’s Peoria Unified School District faces possible legal action over two Christian school board members quoting Bible verses at public meetings. “It would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6,” Rebecca Hill said during a May board meeting, according to news outlet KJZZ....

“The economic growth of China is largely a wealth transfer from the United States,” says Robert Lighthizer. “You’re transferring the wealth of our children and grandchildren and their children overseas.” Mr. Lighthizer served as the U.S. Trade Representative in the Trump administration and also served as deputy trade representative in the Reagan administration. In this episode, we do a deep...

YouTube Baptism at Pirate's Cove July 8 Greg Laurie, Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, gave this message at Pirate’s Cove this weekend: You’re saying goodbye to the old you, buried with Christ in baptism so you might walk in newness of life, that’s what the Bible says, so you’re coming out saying, “I’m making this commitment” and...

St. George Tucker Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Franklin. All of these Founding Fathers are well known and need no first names. Tucker, however, is a surname of a member of the Founding Generation that for many isn’t familiar, and definitely needs a first name. And what a first name it is: St. George! St. George Tucker is a man whose...