Friday, May 3, 2024

Spring Has Sprung

There is an old saying… “Spring has sprung, Fall has fell, Summer’s here, And it’s hot as hell”.  That may be where we are headed this year…weather-wise and otherwise.  But for now, we will focus on what is as opposed to what might be.  Given the crazy, mixed-up world that is swirling all around us, who knows what the future holds? 

 

Spring in my part of Kentucky is off to a fine start.  Seed planters are running up and down the road, the first hay crop is off to a very fine start, pastures are thick and healthy, gardens are either well-started or in the ground, and nature in general seems to be a step or two ahead of a normal growing season.  Cattle prices remain at high levels that we have not seen in quite some time, and spring calves are hitting the ground like raindrops in a springtime thunderstorm.  It is a busy time in rural America…and it is a time where you don’t have look far to completely realize the glory of our Lord in the creation of such a wonderful place.  For all the troubles, both real and imagined, that we are dealing with (as linked below)…life remains precious, vital, and full of promise.  If our faith remains constant, there is nothing ahead that we cannot overcome. 

Now…let’s consider some of those things that must be overcome…

 

Our national education system is the ground where the seeds of our future are planted.  Parents nurture those seeds through sprouting and early maturity, and then they turn them over to the tenders that manage their growth through full maturity.  Those tenders are the schools and teachers that comprise our educational institutions and that is where our system has failed us…and is failing us.  No underlying problem in our nation is more critical than the crisis that exists in education.  These kids are literally the hopes and dreams of our nation and a big part of the planet’s future.  What could be more important than raising them with the adequate skills and knowledge to fulfill their coming roles?  Any discussion of education today must be put in the context of the ongoing upheaval on America’s college campuses.  Take note…these are the people for whom the Biden Administration wants YOU, the American taxpayers, to pay off student loans.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/it-didnt-start-in-college.php

 

https://www.jns.org/the-ivory-tower-jihad/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/05/03/irrevocably-shaken-columbia-law-review-editors-ask-for-cancellation-of-exams-due-to-protests/

 

https://reason.com/2024/05/03/equity-grading-is-the-latest-educational-fad-destined-to-fail/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cutting-in-higher-education-act-with-a-purpose/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/biden-administration-seeks-to-destroy-womens-and-girls-sports/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/bidens-attack-on-womens-sports/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2972529/bidens-kangaroo-gender-courts/

 

https://reason.com/2024/04/19/new-title-ix-rules-erase-campus-due-process-protections/

 

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2024/05/which-states-are-enacting-the-best-dei-bans/

 

https://victorhanson.com/can-the-current-universities-be-saved/

 

More observations on those campus protests…

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/biden-harris-a-profile-in-cowardice-on-campus-disorder/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/leadership-from-the-speaker.php

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/ut-austin-students-protest-dissolution-dei-positions-and-firings

 

There was moment during the Trump Administration when our nation was a heartbeat away from enacting sweeping immigration law reform.  The poisonous partisan environment that pervaded that Trump term snatched away that kernel of promise and then Joe Biden was elected president.  Since that time, national immigration policy has become a travesty and…sadly…a tragedy.  It is, quite simply stated…stupid, stupid, stupid.  The seeds and effects of this malfeasance will be with our nation for generations to come…and it continues unabated.

 

https://cis.org/Bensman/Secret-Finally-Revealed-Americans-Can-Know-US-Cities-Receiving-Hundreds-Thousands

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/dont-bring-gaza-to-america/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/opinion/joe-bidens-reckless-plan-to-take-in-gazans-wont-even-satisfy-israel-haters/

 

The Biden Administration is a ship of fools, and many of those fools are running (and ruining) our national economy.  Once again…I make the point that the Democrat Party has one overriding principle for governing: Tax and spend.  For every problem, the solution is to spend money.  The more problems we have, the more money we need to spend.  They therefore find/create more problems.  How do we get more money?  Increase taxes to create more revenue to partially cover that spending.  Increase budget deficits…which they then use to support those tax increases.  Increase the size of government to administer the spending…then keep the whole foolish economic model running by having the economy become anemic due to the medicine.  This is where we are.

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-capital-gains-taxes/2024/04/24/id/1162315/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/24/joe-biden-just-promised-america-a-massive-tax-hike/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/investing/premarket-stocks-trading-consumers-restaurants/index.html

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-to-spend-over-2-million-to-diversify-marine-biology-climate-science?topStoryPosition=1

 

It cannot be repeated often enough that when Joe Biden entered into the presidency, our nation was EXPORTING energy…we were energy independent for the first time in decades.  The Biden Administration has since then sabotaged our nation’s energy industry with their idiotic notions contained in the Green New Deal foolishness.   It is not a stretch to imagine a day in the future when a second Biden Administration is in power and all of us folks in rural America are huddled around our wood stoves in the dead of winter.  What about those folks in urban areas who don’t have wood stoves?

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/intermittency-wind-and-solar-could-be-worse-originally-thought-experts-say

 

Here is the common sense approach to our energy needs: https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/24/the-case-for-an-inclusive-energy-strategy/

 

The first and only solution to any of our problems, real or imagined, by the Biden Administration is more spending, more government, and more regulation.  It is an unabashed pursuit of the ultimate nanny state and oftentimes falls not very short of being outright socialism.  It is a future built on hopes, wishes, rainbows, and unicorns.  It is fraught with peril.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2983501/the-inherently-undemocratic-administrative-state/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2978088/bidens-information-power-grab/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/28/the-gloves-will-come-off-in-a-second-biden-term/

 

With a presidential election rapidly approaching in November, one has to wonder if the American citizenry is sufficiently aware of the consequences contained within their forthcoming vote.  

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/27/the-real-stakes-in-the-2024-election/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/28/shock-and-awe-on-the-campaign-trail/

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/joe-biden-is-2024s-chaos-candidate/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/opinion/joe-biden-is-far-from-decent-despite-what-the-media-and-celebrities-may-claim/

 

Beware this fact: Democrats have nothing positive to run on in the upcoming national elections.  They will shove all of their chips to the center of the table and seek to politicize the issue of abortion to their benefit: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/03/every-state-facing-deceptive-unlimited-abortion-ballot-measures-this-november/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/03/american-elections-for-american-citizens-does-anybody-care/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/our-oblivious-presidential-candidates/

 

The thorough and pervasive politicizing of our government by the Biden Administration is among the most damaging of its actions.  It is an ongoing cancer that will not be solved by flushing out the corrupted officials put in place by Joe Biden.  The seeds of this partisan approach to the administration of our government will be with us for generations and is a curse upon our very society.  The naked abuse of our justice system by the current Department of Justice and other federal agencies threatens not only our government, but also our essential and fundamental liberties bequeathed to us by our Constitution.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/21/biden-weaponizes-the-federal-government-for-his-own-reelection-campaign/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/22/is-bidens-irs-meddling-in-the-ig-investigation-of-hunter-biden-whistleblowers/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/america-in-the-shadow-of-lawfare/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/29/the-travesties-of-the-trump-trials/

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/new-court-docs-show-archives-biden-wh-coordinated-trump-probe

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-unpersoning-of-john-eastman/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hillary-clinton-recidivist-election-theft-conspirator/

 

Is anyone else astounded by the obvious fact that while Donald Trump is being legally (but not necessarily ethically) prosecuted by the Biden Administration DOJ/Democrat Party/Liberal-Progressive Cabal for election interference…that very prosecution is a plain and simple interference in our national election process? 

 

Here are five quick hits on the way out the door…some cherries on top of the sundae.

 

https://fee.org/articles/7-stoic-lessons-that-can-help-heal-our-septic-political-discourse/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6-Km1vTkhQMVyynUAR3qrwrvEAAYASAAEgLud_D_BwE

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-virtues-stoicism-roadmap-meaningful-life-gary-williams#:~:text=Stoicism%2C%20an%20ancient%20philosophy%20founded,Temperance%2C%20Justice%2C%20and%20Wisdom.

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/humans-replacing-machines-rising-retail-theft-prompting-self-checkout-evolve

 

One of my favorite writers: https://lawliberty.org/book-review/orwells-arresting-ambiguities/

 

And finally…a very timely quote from a wise man, John Adams:

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

 

 

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