Jesse Helms, the very name arouses emotions like few others. I was once secretly told in hushed tones by a yellow dog democrat “You know I voted for Jesse, we all did”.

Jesse Helms could “tote the water” for North Carolina in exemplary fashion. Once a missionary friend of mine, frustrated by the Byzantine bureaucracy of Romania in receiving a visa, contacted Sen. Helms office and in a week my friend had not one but two visas.

Jesse Helm’s heroic support for Ronald Reagan to win the 1976 North Carolina primary thus ushering in Reagan’s political future in redeeming this nation from the throes of Jimmy Carter’s malaise and ushering in the end of the Cold War with the fracturing of the now defunct Soviet Union will probably stand as his best lasting legacy. A close second is his opposition to the U.N.

History will show that Jesse Helms had few, if any, moral failings other than telling the truth bluntly with scant regard for the consequences. Opponents of Jesse attacked the very things that Helm’s loved, namely a patriotic, nationalist America undiluted by hedonism, liberalism, or any other vice which would destroy this nation.

Sen. Helms death on July 4^th is fitting. The last time I saw Sen. Helms he was tired and ready to retire. He has run his race and is now resting with two other American heroes who died on July 4^th Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

We’ll miss you Jesse.

 
This is my reply to Joseph Farrah and his column "Is Conservatism dead?"

Normally I like what you write!  But sheeesh!  Let’s be a little more optimistic!! 

The really good thing about being conservative is we are on the right side!  Ultimately all liberals will realize they are wrong and at least when they stand before God they will get what’s coming to them!

And penultimately when Jesus is ruling socialism will be at a stand still.

Unless the spiritual side of liberalism is addressed it will not be defeated.  Also I have always felt that Ronald Reagan’s ascendancy was due to God’s mercy and Bill Clinton’s a form of judgment.

Frankly one would not know due to my involvement as a political activist for over 35 years that I feel that politics is not the ultimate arena, thankfully it isn’t.  Satan WILL be cast into the lake of fire and Jesus will reign and that will be that!

In the meantime as long as I live I fight the battles set before me knowing that I’m generally right.  After all when you boil it down to it’s constituent parts conservatives are fighting big government because the liberals vision of government is treading on God’s territory.

Take the “Four Freedoms” of FDR (Boy the liberals must have been in hog heaven back then with the 91% tax rate—some freedom!)

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. 

The world was already founded by Jan. 1941 when this speech was made, God said go out and rule over the world which is our dictum not re-do humanity’s purpose.

The first is freedom of speech and expression --everywhere in the world. 

Shades of one world government!  One wonders if freedom of speech is really the ultimate right as expressed by one of our fore fathers (I can’t remember which one it may have been Webster) who said "... if I lose all other rights but freedom of speech I will regain what I have lost.  (It may really be the second amendment)
 
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world.

Well Jesus said those who worship God must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.  Not each in his own way.

The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants --everywhere in the world.

The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want, not the Government is my Shepard I shall steal that which is not mine in order to sit on my rear jeering at those who support me.
 
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor --anywhere in the world.

First off how’s this working for you FDR?  We are armed now far more than any could have imagined in 1941!  More likely the truth is in the corruption of Ronald Reagan’s words “Peace through superior firepower”. 

Peace, War, Love, Hatred etc. are really in God’s hands.   Every liberal/hippie/socialist should know this from the song “Turn, turn, turn” by the Byrds.  Except instead of quoting the Bible exactly they waxed melodic on peace instead of a “time for peace, a time for war”.  War and peace are in God’s hand.  Famine and pestilence are in God’s hand.  Health and wealth are in God’s hand.

Anytime men (and women) try to build a tower of Babel it crumbles and comes to naught.  Which is another reason big government is bad government.

Ralph Reagan

 
Well life will continue!  After untold success for many years, now we have to take a step back, analyze what went wrong, what went right and get back in the saddle!

I am thinking of the verse "A crown does not endure to all generations...",  One of the casualties of this election may be my thought "You can tell a liberal what to do to win an election and they still won't do it".

The canary in the coal mine will be two issues abortion, and gun control.  A number of the "victors" say they are pro-life and anti-gun control.  I'm waiting with baited breath!  I cannot see any congressman's personal views not being overridden by the democratic party bosses in Washington.  That's the way democrats work.  The little "d" past the name giving the leadership to those who will increase big government (and higher taxes) will erode individual rights.  Even if no laws eroding protection of the unborn, and no laws eroding the right to keep and bare arms are passed, we will be forced to endure a moderate/liberal judge for the Supreme Court through a much more liberal judicial committee and that judge will erode personal rights or at least not defend them with enough vigor.

President Bush must "dance with the one who brung him" in order to stave off more defeats in the future.

Bush 41's "...read my lips" brought us Bill Clinton.  Is Bush 43 going to have the legacy of bringing us another???

Get the veto pen out President Bush!

There are simply too many good columnists to read them all.  Thanks to Town Hall and other sources on the internet such as The Drudge Report we can enjoy more and other columnists other than what our local liberal fish wrapper proffers.

I found Town Hall originally by clicking on a link in the Drudge report.

I read (in no particular order) David Limbaugh, George Will, William Buckley, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan,Mike Adams(professor at UNCW), Thomas Sowell, and Michelle Malkin regularly. 

I also read a couple of [gasp] liberals frankly to see if they still believe the way they did believe before.  Ellen Goodman is still liberal (she has written two good columns in ten years--one was on homegrown tomatoes and the other on coffee).  Ellen also uses proper english which I guess keeps her from being a total uber-liberal since most liberals have little regard for diction and rules of grammar just like any other rules that exist.

Once or twice a year I read a Molly Ivans column just to see if she is still the shrill voice of hatred that she so often is. (for a liberal she is amazingly consistent)

I used to read William Rasberry occasionally but getting past the Washington post password thing is very tedious to only find the occasional column that resonates.

On the other hand David Limbaugh--less bombastic than his brother is a continual delight.  (Not to say that his brother is less delightful, his brother means radio to me, not the written word),  George Will has an acerbic wit, delightful use of language, and addresses topics with an intellect only superseded by William Buckley just barely.  William Buckley is the class act of columnists.  Thomas Sowell is by far the most prolific writer of columns that I am aware of.  I've had lunch with Mike Adams so I know his columns are tougue-in-cheek mostly and a real hoot!  And lastly I'd like to speak about the femme fatale', the terrifc trifecta of Ann, Michelle, and Peggy.   What can a person say more about these beautiful, intellectual, conservative women?  Ann has class and wit.  Michelle can to my attention only after her column on the Japanese interment (which happened at the insistence of FDR and future liberal cheif justice Earl Warren) Michelle always makes me think, and finally Peggy Noonan, Peggy authored a book on Ronald Reagan which made me a fan. 

Consevatives, we have a wonderful, delightful bunch of folks to enjoy reading!

 

I was challenged last year by a fellow Republican conservative to create a blog after getting a few columns published in the North Carolina Conservative and the Up & Coming Magazine, a local Fayetteville Weekly paper.  At the time I had decided I wouldn't because it was too "trendy" to have a blog.

Well, my father always said "to not be the first in a fad, or the last."

In today's world we can all be thankful that the internet, Fox News, and talk radio exist.  The so called "main stream media" otherwise known as the "Goebbels of the looney left" would have been purveying their brand of "news" unchallenged by rationality, truth, wisdom, or common sense.  The so-called "news" shows haven't been about news since the fifties, if then.  Today news shows are more about the money, ratings, and advocating for the Democratic Party. 

Let's imagine the uproar of the liberals if the "news" shows had Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and Peggy Noonan at CBS, NBC, and ABC.  That would certainly be far more entertaining and they wouldn't throw the troops fighting the war on terror under the truck.

What every liberal needs to think about is even with this constant barrage of propaganda and mindless mental menagerie of misinformation they can't win a presidential election. 

Nor can they secure the hearts and minds of America without the constant shrill carping of the purveyors of atheistic, un-American, "objective" talking heads (news) which only offers them temporary, localized successes when the Republican opposition manages to totally fail in every way.

There is simply no way that anyone can be objective.  Every one has an agenda.  Mine is to make liberals social pariahs.  The current news talking heads should just come out and say "we are dedicated to making America be a stupid feckless country of no values, no heritage, just like some backwater no account country of Europe."  Then that would be truth in advertising!

Almost all bad ideas of world history originated in Europe after 1800.  Hitler, Marxism, et. al.  It is ludicrious to suggest that any culture that is not grounded in "God, guns, and guts" has anything to add to our country.