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The Nuclear Family

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  Representative Byron Donalds speaks to the black Nuclear Family/ Rep. Byron Donalds, a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently made controversial remarks comparing today’s Black culture with that of the Jim Crow era . During a June 4 event in Philadelphia, Donalds stated, “You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together.” He also claimed that more Black people were conservative during that time and voted conservatively. However, his comments drew criticism from Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus. They argued that lionizing the Jim Crow era was factually inaccurate and outrageous. Vice President Kamala Harris also weighed in, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging true history rather than rewriting it 1 . Donalds later defended his comments on MSNBC, clarifying that he was not being nostalgic about Jim Crow. Instead, he was trying to highlight the higher marriage rates of Black Americans during that period compared to today, which have sin

Looking Away

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 Verbatim:  https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/edmund-burkeon-in-action.html “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” It’s a quote routinely attributed to  Edmund Burke . But it turns out falsely so. Apparently, he  never uttered these words . At best, the essence of the quote can be traced back to the utilitarian philosopher  John Stuart Mill , who delivered an 1867 inaugural address at the  University of St. Andrews  and stated: “ Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion . Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who , without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”   Jef 4 Revival      This post is NOT my creation.  I give full credit to OpenCulture . I’m not se

Preamble Party

 “Preamble” of the Declaration of Independence.  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are

Republican Fallacies

False The internet is replete with erroneous claims of Republicans that Democrats are responsible for KKK and Jim Crow laws. It is true that is under the Party Names that this occurred.  But when you look at individuals you can readily see that is not true. I'm tired of supporting a party that allows a libelous mud-slinger like Trump to win the nomination.   James Worcester  - former Young Republican - admirer of Bob Doyle, Jack Kemp, and John McCain - voted for Ronald Reagan and both George Bush's - and voted in 2020 with  https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/republicans-supporting-biden/index.html BTW - for all the Republican boasting and false pride; abortion is still legal in the US!  Rand Paul has been supporting a piece of legislation that would answer the Supreme Court's suggestion (when Roe v. Wade became law) that the Congress define​   ​when life begins.​  You all purposely skipped over the possibility, leaving the door open for people with wealth to avoid havi

John Adams on virtue

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Including the citizens - not just the politicians, Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious

Divine Intervention in 1774 through 1815

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There is a well-documented sequence of actions, documentary, and resolutions that ?  appears  to be anything but well-documented.   ‘Delivered by the Power of God’: The American Revolution www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1987/10/deliv… Did God's Providence win the American Revolution? Printed in Practical Homeschooling #54, 2003.  Some of the events in the American Revolution which resulted in America's ultimate victory were downright miraculous. It can hardly be doubted that God's Providence had a lot to do with the victory of the American colonists in their war of independence against Great Britain, the world's mightiest power. God's Providence in the American Revolution - Practical www.home-school.com/Articles/gods-providence-in-the-a… How did God help George Washington win the Revolutionary War? God had protected him, and he became the military leader of the greatest war for independence ever fought in all of history. On June 1, 1774, when the Colonies

John Adams warnings

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very f