Common Sense Updated 5-1-2025
If it's NOT your DNA, then it's NOT your choice!
Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder
-- George Washington – America’s first president
Lyndon Johnson, who worked to destroy the nuclear black family via welfare incentives, said, “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
-- Lyndon Johnson – Democrat President – 1963 to 1969
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson wrote: “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” Black people are an “ignorant and inferior race,”
-- Woodrow Wilson – Democrat President – 1913 to 1921
Con-men know that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable gullible people to continue to believe what they want to believe.
It’s a New Day in America!
Golden Age of America
GO WOKE!
GO BROKE!
When you go Woke, you go broke!
Woke America: Your delusion is not my reality
A DEI hire refers to an individual who was hired through a process that emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion principles over competency and merit.
Mexico doesn’t have a good Olympic team because everyone who can run, jump, or swim is already in America.
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
-- Dr. Thomas Sowell
We'll destroy America without firing a shot, by infiltrating their education system.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
The Democrat party has and does depend upon the low-information voter.
A significant percentage of Democrat party loyalists do not know that President Lincoln was a Republican.
A significant percentage of Democrat party loyalists do not know that the KKK was a Democrat invention.
A significant percentage of Democrat party loyalists do not know that the Jim Crow laws were Democrat inventions.
A significant percentage of Democrat party loyalists do not know that the Pole Tax was a Democrat invention.
A significant percentage of Democrat party loyalists do not know that a greater percentage of Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than did the percentage of Democrats.
Abolish ALL public sector unions. The asymmetry of power that exists in the private sector between management and unions simply doesn’t exist in the public sector, or, if it does, it grossly favors the unions.
If it’s not your DNA then it’s not your choice.
The Bill of Rights aren’t God-given rights if someone can take them away.
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized that I am somebody.
California is the granola state. When you get rid of the fruits and the nuts, you still have the flakes.
Too big to rig!
Drain The Swamp!
If the recoil is gonna kill ya, there’s no sense flinchin’
The main reason for having to reload is missing your target!
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-- John Wayne
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
-- General Patton
If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always get Paul's vote.
Justice delayed is justice denied
Democracy Dies in Darkness
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
-- John Glenn
A drunk man's actions are a sober man's thoughts
The Constitution is meant to protect the people from the government
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real, but the moon landing was faked.
Every murderer who is not executed causes God's wrath to build up against ourselves and our nation. The Lord demands a reckoning from animals who kill men and from men who kill men.
Genesis 9:5
5. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall (mandatory) be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
The Three Stooges used a law firm named Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.
Judge Joe Black has known Kamala’s father for years, and her father says that he doesn’t have even one drop of Black blood in him. Kamala’s father said that he is Hindu and Irish and that his Irish ancestors owned slaves.
Do you know what Willie Brown and the 2024 election have in common?
Commiela blew both of them!
“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
-- President Ronald Reagan
If Marxist, Komrade Kamala wanted to destroy America, what more could she do now that she isn’t already in favor of doing?
The Jews are God's chosen people!
Genesis 12:3 – I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
BIDEN SUCKS!
Sodomites and Sodomettes aren't gay, they're perverts!
What one person receives without working for… another person must work for without receiving.
A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The American system of Democracy will flourish until the day that the politicians learn that they can bribe the electorate with their own money.
-- French philosopher Alexis De Tocqueville
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C. S. Lewis
LIE big enough
LIE often enough
In time said obvious LIES are taken as TRUTH
-- Dr. Joseph Goebbels
When you're 20, if you're not a Liberal, you have no heart.
When you're 40, if you're not a Conservative, you have no brain.
-- Winston Churchill
Liberals -- More Taxes, More Government, Less Liberty.
Conservatives -- Less Taxes, Less Government, More Liberty.
The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
-- Margaret Thatcher
There is only one way to kill capitalism ... by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.
-- Karl Marx
Totalitarian Principle: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
-- Failed Communist ideology
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
-- Vladimir Lenin
The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
-- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
The greatest thing about Socialism is that there is no need to put a price tag on anything because everything's free.
Socialists are called "caviar left" because they want Socialism for everyone but themselves.
A DEI hire is someone hired through a process that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion principles over skill and merit.
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrats have adopted our platform.
-- Norman Thomas - Six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America – 1944
This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.
-- Hannah Arendt
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.
A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.
There is nothing the government can give you that it first does not take away from you.
Socialism only works in two places: heaven, where they don't need it, and hell, where they already have it.
-- Ronald Reagan
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx.
An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.
-- Ronald Reagan
Question: What is the difference between a Socialist and a Democrat?
Answer: One is for raising your taxes, expanding government programs, expanding regulations, lessening personal freedoms, spreading your money around to people who refuse to work, suppressing achievement, and destroying innovation. The other is a Socialist.
***** The Constitution, Limited Government, and Personal Freedom
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
-- Patrick Henry
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
-- Ronald Reagan
If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
Our legal system is structured to favor private property … If I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land … That's a world I'd love to see.
-- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
She (Democrat-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) represents the future of our party.
-- Democrat National Committee Chairman Tom Perez
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
-- Winston Churchill
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of prosperity: the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
-- Winston Churchill
Islam is more dangerous in a man than rabies in a dog
-- Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-- Winston Churchill
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
-- Winston Churchill
If you cheat trying to get into college, you go to jail, but if you cheat trying to get into America, you get free college.
Making good people helpless will not make bad people harmless.
When I feel the heat, I see the light.
-- Illinois Democrat Senator Everett Dirksen
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
-- Illinois Democrat Senator Everett Dirksen
When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute, and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.
-- Illinois Democrat Senator Everett Dirksen
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
-- Illinois Democrat Senator Everett Dirksen
Our rights come from God and not the government
On the Internet: If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product!
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
First, they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up for me.
-- Pastor Martin Niemoller, January 6, 1946 - speaking about Hitler's Germany
There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people; it impoverishes them.
-- Ronald Reagan
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of 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 democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.
-- Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler -- This was written over 200 years ago, while our 13 original colonies were still a part of Great Britain. In fact, Tytler was at the time writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic over 2,000 years earlier.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
-- James Madison
It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
-- Samuel Adams
The closest thing to immortality on earth is a government program.
-- Ronald Reagan
I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.
-- John Danforth (R-Missouri)
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
-- Milton Friedman
What is a moderate interpretation of the Constitution? Halfway between what it says and … what you want it to say.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia
Freedom means no tolls on Interstate highways and bridges.
There is nothing more expensive than a second-rate air force.
There is nothing more expensive than a second-rate military.
A Pacifist is someone who won't raise a hand to defend themselves.
A Coward is someone who won't raise a hand to defend someone else.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-- John Stuart Mill, English economist and philosopher (1806 - 1873)
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
-- Ronald Reagan
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Winston Churchill
The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.
-- Peter McWilliams
Those who created this country chose freedom, with all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas.
-- Nat Hentoff
***** Welfare and free money
The goal of "entitlement" programs is to create dependency because that translates into votes for politicians who play Santa Claus. We have all heard the old saying about how giving a man a fish feeds him for a day, while teaching him to fish feeds him for a lifetime. Independence makes for a healthier society, but dependency is what gets votes for politicians. For politicians, giving a man a fish every day of his life is the way to keep getting his vote. “Entitlement” is just a fancy word for dependency. As for the scary stories politicians tell, in order to keep the entitlement programs going, as long as we keep buying it, they will keep selling it.
-- Dr. Thomas Sowell
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
-- Dr. Thomas Sowell
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The American system of Democracy will flourish until the day that the politicians learn that they can bribe the electorate with their own money.
-- French philosopher Alexis De Tocqueville
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Bible Welfare System:
2 Thessalonians 3:10
10. If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
1 Timothy 5:8
8. But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
There are too many people in the wagon and not enough people pulling the wagon.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison
***** The economy, taxes, and debt
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
-- Ronald Reagan
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your job.
-- Harry S. Truman
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill
I am for doing good to the poor, but ... I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
-- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
Whenever you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always get Paul's vote.
Equality of opportunity not equality of results.
10% National Retail Sales Tax -- No Deductions, No Exemptions, No Exceptions, No Social Engineering, No IRS, No Complicated Tax Code, No Withholding, No Audits, No Tax Attorneys, No Big Brother. No Taxes on Property. No Taxes on Investments. Only the end user pays the tax. Nobody gets a free ride. Even the drug dealers and the illegal aliens pay. Everyone pays because everyone spends money. The rich will pay more because the rich will spend more. If you spend more, you pay more. If you spend less, you pay less.
***** The Second Amendment, tyranny, and self-reliance
The First Amendment protects offensive speech.
The Second Amendment protects offensive guns.
When the people fear the government - that is tyranny.
When the government fears the people - that is liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C. S. Lewis
We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.
-- George Orwell
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
-- Edmond Burke
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
-- Thomas Jefferson
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
-- Henry David Thoreau
He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
--Leonardo Da Vinci
Fear is the motivator, money is the means, and control is the end. A proper skeptic always keeps these things in mind.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The danger to America is not Bathhouse Barry Obozo, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of Bathhouse Barry Obozo than to restore the common sense and good judgment necessary to elect a competent President.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
Some people who see the fraud in what Bathhouse Barry Obozo is saying are amazed that others do not. But Bathhouse Barry Obozo knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well.
-- Dr. Thomas Sowell
All of the Bill of Rights are God-given, individual rights.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
-- Thomas Jefferson
When you have only seconds, the police are just minutes away. You had better be prepared to be your own first responder.
The two loudest sounds known to man: a gun that goes bang when it’s supposed to go click and a gun that goes click when it’s supposed to go bang.
Why do you have a fire extinguisher in your house? Are you expecting a fire tonight? Why do you have a spare tire in your car? Are you expecting a flat tire today? Why do you have some tools in the trunk of your car? Are you expecting your car to break down today? If you’re prepared for most emergencies, why don’t you have a gun to defend your family and yourself?
America has over 20,000 so-called "reasonable" gun laws already on the books. What part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" don't the unconstitutional gun grabbers understand?" We need to enforce the gun laws already on the books instead of passing more unconstitutional gun laws, and to get rid of the laws we don't use. If you cast a net to catch fish and the fish swim through the holes in the net, you don't need a bigger net; you need tighter holes. In 2010, roughly 80,000 ineligible people committed a felony by trying to buy a gun, but only 44 were prosecuted.
I will support gun control when you can guarantee all guns are removed from this planet. That includes military and law enforcement. When you can accomplish that, I will be the last person to lay down my gun, and then I will carry the weapon that replaces the gun.
Luke 11:21 (Jesus speaking)
21. "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace.
The theory behind gun-free zones is that becoming a victim is somehow morally superior to defending yourself and your family.
We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty, rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is responsible for his actions.
-- Ronald Reagan
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
-- Benjamin Franklin
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries, whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
-- James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The Congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people.
-- Saint George Tucker - 1803
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
-- Patrick Henry
They tell us that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Three million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
-- Patrick Henry
In 2011 in America, 728 people were killed with hands and feet, 496 with hammers and clubs, 356 with shotguns, and 323 with ALL types of rifles including AR-15s.
Self Defense 101: Shoot what's available, for as long as it's available, until something else becomes available.
God grants Liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
-- Daniel Webster
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
-- George Washington
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-- Charles A. Beard
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them … the weak will become prey to the strong.
-- Thomas Paine
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The remedy for evil men is not the abrogation of the rights of law-abiding citizens. The remedy for evil men is the gallows.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
-- Samuel Adams
The same people who believe "gun free zones" actually work are the same people who also believe that "deer crossing" signs are put there so the deer know they have a safe place to cross.
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
-- The Dalai Lama
You have a better chance of winning the lottery than to have a cop show up when you need him.
An armed criminal will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
The truth is that the cops arrive just in time to draw chalk lines around the dead bodies. It is your responsibility to make sure that the cops don't draw their lines around your body.
A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.
-- Thomas Moore
An armed society is a polite society.
-- Robert Heinlein
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.
If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
A gun in the hand is better than a 911 operator on the phone.
A 1911 is for the times when 911 just isn't fast enough.
I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.
It is irresponsible to continue to imagine that police can be everywhere, or that they can respond with sufficient speed to prevent a homicidal rampage.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
-- NRA
Police are second responders. The first responders are always we, the people, on the scene as events unfold.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
-- George Washington
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
-- Adolf Hitler April 11, 1942
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the Party.
-- Mao Tze Tung, Nov 6, 1938
The people who are planning to take our guns away, are planning to keep theirs.
The Brady bill will make the streets of America so safe that our nation's police will not even need to carry guns anymore.
-- Bill Clinton
God made man. Colonel Colt made them equal.
A gun is the only way that a 100-pound woman is equal to a 300-pound man.
“Gun Free Zones" are not "Criminal Free Zones”
A Conservative is a Liberal who just had his brother-in-law move in with his family.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
To every man, there comes, in his lifetime, that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talent; what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.
-- Winston Churchill
***** Race and Protesters
Pastors such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, the Reverend Je$$e Jack$on, and the Reverend Al $harpton have been an embarrassment to God. God’s teachers should not be running all over the country protesting, being arrested, and thrown in jail. They should be at home tending to their church and preaching the gospel.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs---partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
-- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), American educator and author
***** Sodomites and Sodomettes
Sodomites and Sodomettes are not gay, they're perverts.
There is nothing gay, happy, or joyful about being a pervert.
A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.
-- Dr. Ben Carson
***** Abortion and Healthcare
1,000 Vietnam deaths are almost equal to the 63 million innocent babies who have been murdered in the United States at the rate of over 1,500,000 every year for 43 years since the January 22, 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal.
Why does everyone who is pro-choice always choose death?
If the government cannot run the Post Office, DMV, Amtrak, Veteran’s Hospitals, Social Security, Medicare, and our educational system, why put them in charge of our health care?
If you think that healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free!
You won’t believe how expensive something is until it’s free.
Universal healthcare means mandatory healthcare rationing.
***** Truths
Though the mills of God grind slowly;
Yet they grind exceedingly small;
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
Whenever you shoot at a pack of dogs, you can always tell the one you hit by the one that yelps the most.
I once asked a liberal "What is it with you people? Is it ignorance or apathy?"
He said, "I don't know and I don't care."
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do Cubans want to come here?
-- Paul Harvey
Crime is not a skin problem; it's a sin problem
If you don't know where you've come from, it's pretty hard to determine where you're going.
I prefer to stand on principle rather than compromise.
Relativism is a lack of objective truth
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-- This phrase originated in the 1600s and has been attributed to many people.
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
-- Alexander Hamilton
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
-- Turkish Proverb
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-- John Wayne
Never wrestle with a pig: You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
One of the undeniable truths of life is that there is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
There is no logic for not having a last-resort option
If you're going to lie, lie about wrestling a lion to the ground. The lion doesn't generally have access to the Internet and can't deny the truthfulness of your story!
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized that I am somebody.
No business should be too big to fail and no person should be too big to go to jail.
Situational ethics
Bad behavior doesn't justify other bad behavior
Sinners
All of us are sinners to one degree or another. All of us have a daily battle with the temptation to sin. Some people have an almost irresistible desire to steal things. Psychiatrists call these people “kleptomaniacs,” but the Lord still requires that they use their free will to say no to their sin and turn toward the Lord. Some people are genetically or psychologically predisposed to be addicted to alcohol or drugs, and, in order to quit, sometimes they have to be hospitalized and endure terrible withdrawal symptoms. However, the Lord still requires that they use their free will to say no to their sin and turn toward the Lord. Sexual orientation cannot be conflated with a race of people created by the Lord. In Jeremiah 13:23, the question is asked: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?" Of course, the answer is no. Just by an act of their free will, no one can change the color of their skin, but every year, thousands and thousands of homosexuals use their free will to say no to their sin and turn toward the Lord. In short, genetics loads the gun, but free will pulls the trigger. Sodomites, Sodomettes, pedophiles, and bestialists have to continually use their free will to say no to their sins just like everyone else. When you say no to sin—any sin—and keep saying no without giving in to the temptation, you build up spiritual muscle, and the temptation to sin becomes less and less.
1 Corinthians 6:9
9. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators (Greek—pornos—general sexual sin), nor idolaters, nor adulterers (Greek—moichos—any sexual sin that defiles the marital union), nor homosexuals (Greek—malakos—effeminate, a passive partner, a male prostitute, a soft one, a boy or an adult male), nor sodomites (Greek—arsenokoites—males who defile themselves with other men, an active partner, a male who has sex with an effeminate male),
10. nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
18. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Abortion and Murder
In the United States, 3,000 babies are murdered by abortionists every day, which is about the same number of people who were killed on September 11, 2001, by Islamic terrorists in the attack on the Twin Towers. On September 11, 2001, it would have been just as safe for a baby to be in the Twin Towers as to be in a mother's womb. According to the World Health Organization, there are an estimated 40 to 50 million abortions every year in the world. This corresponds to about 125,000 abortions per day.
One out of three preborn babies dies by abortion every day. Less than one percent of all abortions are performed to save the mother's life, and only one percent of all abortions are performed because of rape, incest, or fetal deformity. All other abortions are performed for social reasons (i.e., the child is unwanted or inconvenient). An estimated 43% of all women will have at least one abortion by the time they're 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion. This physician's website provides helpful information on this subject.
If it's NOT your DNA, then it's NOT your choice!
If a mother wants to cut off her finger, her hand, or her entire arm, that’s her decision because she’s just destroying tissue or body parts that belong to her and cells containing her DNA. But, a little baby in the womb is no longer just another part of its mother’s tissue or only contains her DNA. 50% of the new little baby’s DNA is from the father and 50% of the DNA is from the mother. The father should have an equal input in any decisions. At the moment of conception—once an egg is fertilized and it multiplies from one cell to two cells—a new life is begun which contains new, unique human DNA molecules that are different from the mother's DNA molecules. These new DNA molecules are also different from the DNA of the billions and billions of other people who have ever lived since the world was created. From conception to death, a person's DNA remains unique to that person. At conception, that new little person has a God-given, inalienable right to life. The entire DNA of a new little person is present at conception and that new little person just needs time and nourishment to grow. Four weeks after conception, the baby’s heart is already beating.
Jeremiah 1:5
5. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
At conception, a mother’s relationship with that new little person who is growing inside her body must change. A pregnant mother has a stewardship (management of another person’s property entrusted to her care) responsibility to care for and to protect that new little life. It’s the same concept as the fiduciary relationship that your financial adviser has with you. If he acts irresponsibly—if he makes any decisions that are against your best interests—he can be prosecuted. I'm always amazed that the police can arrest a pregnant woman for endangering the life of her baby by drinking a few beers in a bar but won't arrest a pregnant woman who murdered her baby in an abortion clinic. Destroying the egg of a Bald Eagle is illegal and punishable by a fine of $250,000 or up to 2 years in prison. On the other hand, it’s not only legal to destroy a baby in the womb but the baby killers even want the taxpayers to pay for the baby to be killed. On what planet does that make any sense? God knew the name of that new little person before He created the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 139:13
13. For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.
14. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
15. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.
All children are a gift from the Lord.
Psalm 127:3
3. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is His reward.
The Lord allows some babies with birth defects to be born so that we can show mercy and kindness to them. We'll be judged by our actions and attitudes toward these special people. If a fertilized egg somehow does not attach properly or other complications occur, then the new life might be ended through a miscarriage. Even though the Lord ends some lives early, all little unborn babies and children under the age of accountability who die are, by the special grace of God, taken home to be with Jesus.
Matthew 19:13
13. Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.
14. But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.''
15. And He laid His hands on them
In the Old Testament, a baby in the womb was considered to be a person and if a baby in the womb were to be injured and die, the person who caused its death was also put to death—a life for a life.
Exodus 21:22
22. "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no lasting harm follows, he shall (mandatory) surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23. "But if any lasting harm follows, then you shall (mandatory) give life for life,
Every murderer who is not executed causes God's wrath to build up against ourselves and our nation. The Lord demands a reckoning from animals who kill men and from men who kill men.
Genesis 9:5
5. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall (mandatory) be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
Numbers 35:33
33. So you shall (mandatory) not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
God instituted governments to carry out His laws and to protect innocent lives. All governments, the good ones and even the bad ones, are ordained by God and have the right and obligation to bear the sword against those who practice evil.
Romans 13:1
1. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
2. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.
3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
4. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
5. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake.
In the Old Testament, killing a person was not only allowed by God but was instituted and required by God. So, the issue is not; it is wrong to kill, but what are the conditions in which it is wrong? In the King James Version of the Bible, which was written in 1611 A.D., the translation that most people are familiar with, the Sixth Commandment reads:
Exodus 20:13
13. Thou shalt not kill.
The word “kill” was an incorrect translation of the Hebrew word “ratsach," which should have been correctly translated as “murder.” In all modern translations of the Bible, this error has been corrected. The New King James Version (NKJV) was finished in 1982 and the Sixth Commandment now reads:
Exodus 20:13
13. "You shall not murder.
The Sixth Commandment concerns premeditated murder. Ascertaining a person's sanity in no way alleviates the loss to the victim's family or pays the murderer's debt to society. Capital punishment gives a sense of justice done and acts as a deterrent if it’s swiftly administered. In the Old Testament, if the person who committed a premeditated murder tried to hide in a sanctuary city that was reserved for someone who accidentally killed another person, the elders had the obligation to throw him out of that city so that he could no longer be protected and justice could be done.
Deuteronomy 19:11
11. "But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,
12. "then the elders of his city shall (mandatory) send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13. "Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall (mandatory) put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
When a person accidentally kills another person, it's called manslaughter and the Lord does not demand immediate execution for the loss of that life.
Deuteronomy 19:4
4. "And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past
5. "as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies he shall flee to one of these cities and live;
6. "lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.
7. "Therefore I command you, saying, `You shall separate three cities for yourself.'
There’s no place for premeditated murder but Scripture is very clear that there’s a just retribution—a just self-defense. Defending your country is also a form of self-defense.
Exodus 22:2
2. "If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.
A Christian has the right to take a life. A Christian is instructed to turn the other cheek to avoid a fight but when a Christian’s life is threatened or he sees innocent people about to be murdered, he has the right to protect himself and an obligation to protect innocent life. That's the difference between a Christian and a criminal—a Christian protects innocent life but a criminal takes innocent life.
For three years, Jesus knew that Peter carried some form of knife. Jesus never told Peter, or the rest of His disciples, to not carry some form of knife, as was the custom of all men. For most of his life, Peter probably used the same knife to repair fishing nets, to clean fish, and for self-defense. When the Romans came to arrest Jesus the night before He was to be crucified, Peter drew his sword, struck the servant of the high priest, and, even though he had intended to kill him, he was only able to cut off the servant's ear. The Lord didn’t tell Peter to throw away his knife but merely told him to put it back into its sheath. After Jesus supernaturally reattached the servant’s ear, He reminded Peter that deadly force was only to be used in self-defense or in the defense of others if their lives were in imminent danger. If Peter had killed the servant, the law would have required that he be executed because Jesus’ life was not in imminent danger.
Matthew 26:51
51. And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword (Greek—machairan—knife, dagger, or short sword), struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
52. But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Who Would Die For A Lie?
Who would die for a lie? People lie for all sorts of reasons but, nobody will lie so that they can be executed. Many people have died for a lie but they thought it was the truth. People may die defending their beliefs but people will not die for their religious beliefs if they know for sure that their religious beliefs are false. If the resurrection of Jesus didn’t take place—if Jesus hadn't been seen by up to 500 people for 40 days after His resurrection—if the body of Jesus were still rotting in a tomb somewhere, the disciples would have known it. Therefore, if the resurrection never happened, these disciples not only died for a lie but they knew for sure that it was a lie. In all of recorded history, there never has been a group of people who all died for the same lie while knowing for sure that it was a lie. In order to keep from being executed, all that the disciples of Jesus had to do was say that they were mistaken—that Jesus Christ wasn't really God and that He didn’t really rise from the dead. Since the disciples were executed, one by one, in separate places, it would have been safe for them to have taken the easy way out, turned against Jesus, and moved to a different part of the world to hide the fact that they denied seeing the risen Lord. Only eyewitnesses of Christ’s resurrection would have been willing to be executed instead of lying to save their own lives.
2 Peter 1:16
16. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
A classic example of a man convinced against his will was James, the half-brother of Jesus. Although James wasn’t one of the original twelve, he was later recognized as an apostle. While Jesus was growing up, James didn’t believe that his half-brother was the Son of God. No doubt James participated with his other brothers in mocking Jesus, possibly saying things such as: “You want people to believe in you? Why don’t you go up to Jerusalem and put on a big show with all your miracles and healing?” James must have felt humiliated that his half-brother was going around bringing shame and ridicule on the family name with all his wild claims such as: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”
But something happened to James. After Jesus was crucified and buried, James was preaching in Jerusalem. His message was that Jesus died for our sins and was resurrected and is alive. Eventually, James became a leading figure in the Jerusalem church and wrote a book, the Epistle of James. Eventually, James was stoned to death on orders from Ananias the high priest. What could have changed James from an embarrassed scoffer to a man willing to die for his half-brother's deity? Was James deceived? No, the only plausible explanation is what we read in 1 Corinthians 15:7: “After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.”
1 Corinthians 15:3
3. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4. and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
5. and that He was seen by Cephas (Peter), then by the twelve.
6. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
7. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
The men who knew Jesus best were tortured, flogged, and finally executed just because they wouldn't deny that Jesus is the Christ and that He rose from the dead. John the Baptist was the first to be beheaded. Before Peter was executed, he was forced to watch as his wife was executed in front of him. Peter requested to be executed upside down because he wasn't worthy to die as his Master.
1. John the Baptist – Beheaded
2. Peter – Crucified upside down
3. Matthew – The sword
4. Mark – Dragged to death by horses
5. Luke – Hanged
6. John – Boiled in oil, then exiled to an island
7. James, son of Alphaeus – Crucified
8. Philip – Crucified
9. Andrew – Crucified
10. Simon – Crucified
11. Thaddaeus – Killed by arrows
12. James, half-brother of Jesus – Beaten to death by clubs
13. Jude, half-brother of Jesus – Killed with arrows
14. Thomas – Spear thrust
15. Bartholomew – Whipped to death
16. James, son of Zebedee – Beheaded
17. Matthias – Stoned, then beheaded
18. Paul – Beheaded
