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Exactly ten years ago today, I wrote and posted my take on what six former presidents might wish to say to us on that date.<\/p>\n

Read more The Court\u2019s problem children<\/a><\/p>\n

I feel those sentiments would be even more pertinent \u2014 and urgent \u2014 now, as many of us celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States.<\/p>\n

The country was founded on courage — sheer, almost preposterous — courage.<\/p>\n

The country is being lost through cowardice, indoctrinated ignorance, sloth, entitlement, and sheer evil. The stupidity of open borders, so-called \u201cbirthright\u201d citizenship, and generalized amnesty has led to rapid, massive, and disruptive demographic change.<\/p>\n

And, as Mark Steyn was wont to say, demography is destiny. Period. It should come as no surprise that Jews are being harassed and attacked, and that anti-Christian as well as anti-Jewish violence has skyrocketed in the West. It is no wonder that these new Marxist and Muslim Jacobins hate the United States, its founding, capitalism, Christianity, and its (formerly?) close relations with Israel, God\u2019s chosen people.<\/p>\n

The simultaneous growth in the Muslim population and the belief in socialism-Marxism-communism is a truly existential threat to the continued existence of the United States of America in specific \u2026 and the West in general. Open borders are a recipe for chaos and disaster. And, it turns out, colleges and universities across the fruited plane are naught but domestic \u201csleeper cells\u201d poisoning the minds of our youth by feeding them inanities and untruths — and instructing them to hate their own country.<\/p>\n

Read more Tulsi Gabbard details the dangerous power D.C. bureaucrats hold<\/a><\/p>\n

America was founded by those with no navy or formal military taking on the world\u2019s pre-eminent naval and military power \u2026 because they believed it was better to perish than yield one\u2019s liberty. And yet here we are today, meekly allowing ourselves to be written out of our own story. There can be only one destination at the end of the road on which we are traveling. Tyrannies, whether fascism, communism, Marxism \u2014 or any other \u2014 cannot allow<\/em> the belief in God or higher power, because they will <\/em>not allow the competition. Nothing can be bigger, better, or greater than The State. Their <\/em>state, not yours, despite their promises. And remember, the bigger the state, the smaller must be the people.<\/p>\n

As the six former presidents would say, we better relearn their critical lessons on life and government, and fast, or there will not be a Tricentennial, at least for a country the founders would recognize.<\/p>\n

We all know the sun sets in the west. But if strong action isn’t taken now, the sun will set on<\/em> the West. And hope will disappear with it.<\/p>\n

Happy Fourth of July! But this year, in addition to enjoying our barbecues and our beer, we need to think, truly and deeply think, about what we can do to make future Fourth of July’s better \u2026 rather than unrecognizable or unobserved.<\/p>\n

Read more That pesky 14th Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n

Image: Pixabay \/\/ Pixabay Content License<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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