Natural Law Repealed?!

                The socialists/progressives that are increasingly in control of the united States summarily dismiss God. The Ten commandments? Out. School prayer? Out. “Under God” out- if the Pledge of Allegiance is even said at all anymore. Christian symbols of any type in the public square? See ya’! Christmas tree? No. “Holiday Tree.” Merry Christmas? No, we say “Happy Holidays” in enlightened society.

                Marriage should be between two people whom God made capable of reproducing the species by blessing them with perfectly complimentary parts? Laughable. Born male or female and don’t like it? No problem, we can make you whatever sex gender (of the Heinz 57 or so varieties currently listed on Face-book, etc.) you prefer at the moment.

                We can do this because we want to take the place of the God we dismiss as inflexible, sexist and ‘old school’. We are progressive. We know better. We know what is best for everyone.

 The United States was uniquely founded on the recognition of “nature and nature’s God.” Natural Law. Natural Law has done more for the advancement of mankind’s freedom than any and all other concepts put together.

                 And now, progressives want to repeal this sacred and most transcendent of all Laws.

They can mock or imprison us. They can audit us and call us names (“Tea-baggers” comes to mind for some reason), they can stop us from speaking to the people, but it is not in their power to repeal this  Law.

                Claiming to have  God-like powers doesn’t make you God.

                Maybe you should  try “banning” climate change first.

        

Historical Revelations

                A couple years ago, while having a brief discussion about history with one of my son’s junior high school teachers, the topic of America came up. I asked him why he thought America had been, historically, so successful. He said it was simply because we were a big country with friends on two borders and vast oceans  on our other two. Oh, and we had a lot of natural resources. That was it.

                Dude, that’s like, you know, deep!

                I suggested to him that Natural Law was at the base, the heart, the core, the foundation of our success. It led directly and indirectly to an intellectual and moral climate that brought forth limited government by, of and for the people, republicanism, the free market and the rule of law, all of which in turn were responsible for the freest, most successful country in the history of the world.

                He looked at me as if I just told him I thought the Earth was flat.

                Sadly, this is a common, almost obligatory belief amongst educators and elites today, albeit comically easy to refute. The Soviet Union was the largest country in the world and that didn’t stop its citizens from having to wait in lines for potatoes, toilet paper and, hopefully, a glimpse of some poor quality meat product every now and again. And it has oceans, seas and the Arctic on its borders. We don’t even have to recount the histories of India, Mexico, et. al., to discount the theory that size means economic bounty.

                On the other hand, we have Hong Kong and Taiwan as examples of tiny countries with almost no resources that have been economic powerhouses. New Zealand, Ireland at times, Luxemburg, Switzerland? Perhaps political and economic systems are a better determinant of success?

                Box.

                Let’s return to the left’s dismissal of American greatness and general dislike for countries and people with inherent advantages. Everyone loves the underdog. I get that. I do too. But I also like logic and consistency.

                Let’s look at another successful country, a really, really small one. One whose peoples have been persecuted more so than any other. Millions upon millions murdered, many in the most barbaric manner. It is history’s biggest underdog. It is still targeted today. Rockets are fired into it on an almost daily basis. Iran has vowed to wipe it off the face of the Earth. Several of its  neighbors would be fine with that.

                It is a democracy with citizens who are free.

                And, incredibly, many on the left in the West- and throngs around the world- actively despise it. Biblical prophesy, anyone? A potentially nuclear Iran and a newly belligerent Russia, Israel not truly supported and defended by the U.S. for the first time in modern history?

                President Obama authorizes airstrikes against ISIS and he is generally cheered and supported, yet when Israel retaliates (defends itself) for  Hamas attacks (these are attacks killing Israelis on Israeli soil!) they are roundly criticized. Hamas was using U.N. facilities to stash away rockets and other munitions, knowing that Israel would be condemned by the “world community” if they struck these sites!

                Fortunately, Israelis have a man of courage and honesty,  a sober, intelligent adult with a knowledge of history for their leader. Some are born to lead. Washington, Disraeli, Churchill, Thatcher,  Reagan, etc. Benjamin Netanyahu is of that ilk. Throughout history, great leaders have appeared, it seems, when they were needed most. Unfortunately, I don’t see  the next great American President on the horizon. If such an individual exists, the mainstream press, Hollywood, Big Academia, Big labor and even many in Big Business would huff and puff and arrange billions of dollars in such a way as to preclude that person from becoming President. And the incredibly intolerant, stifling,  politically- correct dogma that pervades our culture in general today would make it nearly impossible for that person to govern effectively anyway.

                 Yet Netanyahu, in a speech given at the United Nations this week, rightly criticized the efforts of several world powers to reach a nuclear “deal” with Iran, saying: “To defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war.”

                He also accurately accused the U.N. Human Rights Council of singling out Israel for criticism when other parts of the world are awash in atrocities. He called the Human Rights Council’s name “an oxymoron” and stated that the body has become “a terrorist rights council.” He further pointed out that the council’s treatment of Israel reflects “the return of one of the world’s oldest prejudices.”

                Would that Benjamin Netanyahu, or one like him, were leading America today.

               

            

The U.S.A.? R.I.P.

                Ironically, the '8th- grade' educated Americans of our past were more mature and self-disciplined- and possessed of more common sense- than the '18th- grade' educated and hyper-credentialed Americans of today, who have been both feminized and infantilized. It shows in the inane actions of 'our' government today as well as those of some of 'its' citizens, as opposed to the remarkable achievements of both in our past. We’re not going to the moon anymore, nor are we winning any wars…or even declaring them, no matter the barbarism and existential threat we face. And natural law, the founding bedrock of our nation, our uniqueness, is either unknown, ignored or mocked.  Those who have jobs requiring highly specific skills and/or  an extensive education toss away the ladder after they've climbed to the top. They protect and isolate themselves by unionizing and requiring more and more degrees, certificates and the like for anybody to follow them into their chosen field. Then, the unions take their money and use it to fund only one political party. America as it was founded-and intended to be- is dead. The victim, in part, of a “community organizer’s” jealousy and hatred-spawned plea for “hope and change”. And of American’s naivete’ and tolerance, lack of historical knowledge and understandable desire for a black president to get a chance to do great things.

                We literally possess all the energy needed to insure a stout economy indefinitely, but not the will or mental acuity and toughness to do so. We don’t make much anymore, or invent as many things as we used to. Although we have helped invent the “global warming/climate change” fallacy and are the home of many- if not most- of its besotted “true believers”.

                The rest of the world will have to deal with our demise, and the resulting ramifications on hope, faith and especially freedom. (Some of you should have been more careful what you wished for).

                The “shining city on a hill” has slid into the abyss.

                The U.S.A.? R.I.P.

                Notice what’s happening around the world lately?

                Welcome to a thousand years of darkness.

              

Natural Law: The Defining Difference

              The uniqueness and greatness of the United States stems directly from the founder’s  belief in Natural Law and how it defines the relationship between the government and its people. (Natural Law states that each individual has certain unalienable rights granted by the Creator such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness).  All other aspects of our founding sprang from this. The rule of law, limited government of, by and for the people. Republicanism.  The Constitution. Checks and balances.

             This led eventually to the United States, with approximately 5% of the world’s population, creating nearly as much  new wealth as the rest of the world combined. We have been the world’s ‘bread-basket’. American’s have been responsible for more discoveries and inventions in science and elsewhere than any nation on earth. The United States is nearly always the first nation to provide relief and aid to other nations that have had natural-or other- calamities, sometimes even providing aid to our enemies.  We have given more dollars in aid and relief than most-if not all- of the world’s other nations…combined.

            (Yet in spite of this-or perhaps because of this-we are often the target of the hate and envy of much of the world).

           Our success stems directly from our founder’s vision and understanding of Natural Law. If our rights don’t come from God, either we don’t have any…or they are bestowed on us by other men. If they can be granted by man, whether one person or a group of people (government, say), they can be denied or taken away by man as well. These ‘rights’ will be arbitrary and capricious. By definition then there is  no reason why imprisoning or killing Jews…or gays…or liberals…or Tea Partiers… is wrong. Can’t be wrong if the men responsible for granting rights or denying them deem this so.  Stalin didn’t like a lot of people…millions dead. Hitler…millions dead. Pol-Pot…millions dead. Etc., etc., etc. That is what governments do. Historically.  Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And governmental power corrupts the people, too. The more powerful the government, the more corrupt it-and the people- become. The bigger the government, the smaller the people and vice-versa. The Founder’s genius and the basis for the United States’ unprecedented success was  the restraint of government.

           These critical ‘negative’ rights would finally protect the people from an overreaching government. That was our genius. Most of the people who settled this country were fleeing direct  persecution from government or fleeing the results of a non-representative, authoritarian state. Therefore our founders wanted to guard against abusive government. Government couldn’t take your property or your person.

           Government was to be of laws, not men and wasn’t to grant ‘rights’, but was instituted to secure each person’s Creator-endowed rights to life, liberty and property.

           If it weren’t for Natural Law, some of us could decide, for example, that unborn (or ‘slightly born’) babies had no rights and could just be killed outright by the millions.

           Oh.

           Things changed. Did they ever.

           Now the government can tell us what size soft-drinks we can buy.

           Restraint of government? Laughable.     

          In the Obama era, government aims to restrain the people.