NOAA’s Climate Change Science Fiction

NOAA appears to pick and choose only data that confirms their bias. NOAA then disseminates this incomplete data to the media who manufacture alarming headlines but ignore the uncertainty of the conclusions.

Earlier this year, NASA issued a news release stating that 2014 was the warmest year on record. Few media acknowledged the footnote: Scientists were only 38 percent sure this was actually correct. That is less than 50-50.

NOAA fully understands margins of error and works with them on a daily basis. But where are these details in their news releases? While NOAA’s monthly projections usually warn of increased warming, they ignore satellite data that refutes their alarmist statements.

The ability to remain independent of political consideration seems like a minimum requirement for an agency that should provide unbiased scientific information. But NOAA’s habit of picking and choosing data raises serious questions about the agency’s independence. In fact, it shreds NOAA’s credibility.

As a self-proclaimed “environmental intelligence agency,” NOAA’s reports should be based only on the best available science that takes into account all sources of data. Unfortunately, NOAA continues to rely upon biased science in pursuit of a predetermined outcome. That’s not good science, it’s science fiction.

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Scientists: High-Potency Marijuana Damages Brain

High-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres that handle the flow of messages across the two halves of the brain, scientists claim. Brain scans of people who regularly smoked strong skunk-like cannabis revealed subtle differences in the white matter that connects the left and right hemispheres and carries signals from one side of the brain to the other.

The changes were not seen in those who never used cannabis or smoked only the less potent forms of the drug, the researchers found.

The study is thought to be the first to look at the effects of cannabis potency on brain structure, and suggests that greater use of skunk may cause more damage to the corpus callosum, making communications across the brain’s hemispheres less efficient.

Paola Dazzan, a neurobiologist at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, said the effects appeared to be linked to the level of active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), in cannabis. While traditional forms of cannabis contain 2 to 4 % THC, the more potent varieties (of which there are about 100), can contain 10 to 14% THC, according to the DrugScope charity. (Read more from this story concluding that marijuana damages brain HERE)

NSA: China, Other Countries ALREADY Can Shutdown US Grid; Congress Unable to Deal With Threat

By Cory Bennett. Policymakers are searching for ways to defend the nation’s power grid from a major cyberattack, amid concerns the industry’s digital defenses are dangerously lagging and underfunded.

Security experts warn that energy companies, while attuned to the threat, are scrambling to play catch-up, leaving the all-important power grid exposed to hackers.

On Capitol Hill, the threat of a major power grid hack has mostly gone with little notice, sidelined by the bold cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, a series of hacks across the health insurance industry and the devastating intrusions at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), thought to be the largest ever digital theft of government data. . .

National Security Agency (NSA) Director Adm. Michael Rogers acknowledged in a congressional hearing that China and likely “one or two” other countries are currently sitting on the grid, with the ability to literally turn out the lights if they wanted to.

Rogers said these states, which likely include Russia and possibly Iran, “are deterred only by the fear of U.S. retaliation.” (Read more from this story about how Congress has failed to respond to other countries being able to shutdown US grid HERE)

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State Department: 80% of Attacks from China, Hacking Will Continue

By Bill Gertz. American companies doing business in China will face a continuing threat to their intellectual property under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s security policies, according to a State Department security report.

China’s large-scale information hacking is not limited to recent incidents like the theft of Office of Personnel Management records on 2.1 million federal workers, according to the report by department’s diplomatic security office produced for the Overseas Security Advisory Council.

Hacking is part of a much broader trend with an estimated 80 percent of all cyberattacks against Americans coming from China, the report says, noting that, despite the recent agreement by Mr. Xi to curb intellectual property theft, “threats to [intellectual property] are unlikely to disappear soon.”

The report adds, “Visitors to China should have no expectations of privacy. Taxis, hotel rooms, and meeting spaces are all subject to on-site and remote technical monitoring. Furthermore, the Chinese government’s access to infrastructure means that all forms of communication, including phone calls, faxes, emails and text messages, as well as Internet browsing history, are likely monitored.” (Read more from this story HERE)

Google Deems Bernie Sanders’ Economic Plan a ‘Phishing Scam’

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernard Sanders’ economic plan triggered Gmail’s “phishing scam” antenna, with the mail system saying the senator’s liberal campaign promises — including lower prescription drug prices and free college for all — sound like frauds.

“Be careful with this message. It contains content that’s typically used to steal personal information,” Gmail said in a bright red warning box that appeared at the top of a message sent by Mr. Sanders’ campaign Friday, laying out his “Agenda for Working Families.”

“This message could be a scam,” Gmail says in its page explaining why it flagged the message as a “phishing scam.” Phishing is a specific type of spam email that scammers use to try to entice users to disclose bank accounts or other sensitive information.

The Sanders campaign declined to comment for this article, but a representative for Google, the Internet giant that runs Gmail, said the company thinks it has figured out the problem.

“A regression in the spam filter’s machine learning framework was determined to be the root cause. The issue affected only a very small percentage of the overall email received by Gmail and it has now been resolved,” the representative said. (Read more from “Google Deems Bernie Sanders’ Economic Plan a ‘Phishing Scam'” HERE)

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Sheriff Posts This Controversial Warning Sign To Everyone Entering His Town

A sign a Georgia county sheriff erected earlier this week is generating a strong response, nationwide.

Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley placed a sign in front of the sheriff’s office on Tuesday morning, which reads:

WARNING: Harris County is politically incorrect. We say: Merry Christmas, God Bless America, and In God We Trust. We salute our troops and our flag. If this offends you…LEAVE!

The sheriff got the idea from the picture of a similar sign he saw posted in another part of the country. “I’m humbled by the attention the sign has received,” Jolley told WTVM. “Over the years, I’ve witnessed the silent majority grow and as a true patriot and a Christian, I felt it was time for the silent majority to speak up. I truly believe what’s on the sign.”

Since putting up the sign up, the sheriff has received hundreds of emails and Facebook comments in support of its message, according to WRBL.

Not everyone is pleased with the sheriff’s sign. The atheist group, the American Humanist Association sent him a lengthy letter on Wednesday, saying that a “concerned citizen” had contacted their office. The letter demands the sign be removed immediately, charging it violates the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. (Read more from “Sheriff Posts This Controversial Warning Sign to Everyone Entering His Town” HERE)

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The Visa Waiver Program Bluff

Democrats love to employ an adroit Alinsky-style tactic to deflect attention away from their unpopular stance on a prominent issue: play bait-and-switch by ignoring the issue at hand and parlaying focus to a new proposition they previously opposed.

Over the past week, in order to distract from the dangerous and costly Islamic refugee issue, liberals have sought to shift focus to the vulnerability of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). Unfortunately, they have never felt concerned about this issue before and are unlikely to seriously pursue meaningful reforms to the program outside of distracting from the broader Islamic immigration issue. But since they’re putting the offer on the table, Republicans who have argued for years that the waiver program needs to be addressed, will gladly forgive their past neglect of the issue and give them the chance to carry out meaningful reform.

Under the Visa Waiver Program, foreign nationals from 38 countries, mainly from Europe, are allowed to enter the U.S. temporarily without obtaining a visa and undergoing the extra scrutiny. The premise for the VWP is that nationals of countries that do not pose a security risk or have a history of illegal immigration should be able to travel more freely to foster a better business and tourist climate. Ideally, we should have an easy travel policy between western nations because it’s mutually beneficial for our economies. However, the growth in Islamic terrorism over the past few decades has made this program extremely vulnerable.

Ahmed Ajaj and Ramzi Yousef, two Islamic terrorists involved in planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, came here from European countries under the VWP. Zacarias Moussaoui, who was involved in the 9/11 plot, came here with a French passport and Richard Reid, the notorious shoe-bomber, came to the U.S. with an English passport. There is now a well-founded concern that with the growing Islamic make-up of Europe, millions of potential security risks could travel freely from Europe to the U.S. Remember, as we are now seeing in the aftermath of the Paris attack, most of the Islamic terrorists living in Europe were not on any no-fly lists. The problem of VWP is exacerbated by the fact that we still don’t have an Exit-Entry system on the back-end to ensure that temporary visitors leave after 90 days, making the need for better screening on the front-end even more important.

It’s for this reason I’ve been promoting legislation to shut down the VWP and audit the system for a number of years. Democrats have been nowhere to be seen on this issue. Now that they are in hot water over the broader Islamic immigration issue, they want to shift the focus to temporary visas. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, and liberal commentators, are now expressing concern over the program. Liberal Sens. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have introduced an extremely narrow bill to merely bar individuals who travelled to Syria and Iraq over the past 5 years from entering the U.S. without obtaining a visa from the State Department.

The Democrats’ faux focus on the VWP is transparently deceptive for a number of reasons:

These same politicians evidently trust the vetting of permeant immigrants from failed states like Syria and Somalia, yet they now have problems with the information sharing between first-world countries under the VWP with regards to temporary visitors?!

These same Democrats are completely silent as we admit 60,000 Saudi nationals every year on student visas.

These same Democrats oppose Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) plan to subject visas from Islamic countries to a higher degree of scrutiny.

These same Democrats opposed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) bill to strip citizenship, through due process, of those caught fighting for ISIS. Last week, Sens. Durbin (D-IL) and Leahy (D-VT) objected to Sen. Cruz’s request for unanimous consent to pass his bill.

Finally, liberals are trying to obfuscate the more foundational threat: a growing population of homegrown Islamists. The entire city of Brussels has been on lockdown, not just because of a handful of fugitive terrorists but because of the massive homegrown problem that is plaguing the city. Over 20 individuals were arrested in Belgium, of which most were likely homegrown, not infiltrators from Syria.

This growing trend in Europe has already come to America. We have had dozens of attempted terror plots and a number of small scale homegrown Islamic attacks since 9/11 – long before ISIS became the cool kid on the block. The growing trend of second generation Muslims in western countries becoming more radicalized, thanks in large part, to the proliferation of cyber jihad, has created an existential threat to this nation. That is the threat the political class seeks to ignore. It is a lot easier for them to discuss temporary visas from Europe as a shiny object.

Conservatives would be wise to call their bluff and pass a moratorium on the VWP to prove their dishonesty, and immediately return to focusing on the broader threat unbridled Islamic immigration poses to western civilization. (For more from the author of “The Visa Waiver Program Bluff” please click HERE)

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FBI Using Elite Surveillance Teams to Track at Least 48 High Risk ISIS Suspects

With as many as 1000 active cases, Fox News has learned at least 48 ISIS suspects are considered so high risk that the FBI is using its elite tracking squads known as the mobile surveillance teams or MST to track them domestically.

“There is a very significant number of people that are on suspicious watch lists, under surveillance,” Republican Senator Dan Coats said.

Coats, who sits on the Select Committee on Intelligence, would not comment on specifics, but said the around the clock surveillance is a major commitment for the bureau. “The FBI together with law enforcement agencies across the country are engaged in this. It takes enormous amount of manpower to do this on a 24-7 basis. It takes enormous amount of money to do this,” Coats explained.

These elite FBI teams are reserved for espionage, mob violence and high priority terrorism cases, like a joint terrorism task force case last June, where a 26 year old suspect Usaama Rahim, was killed outside a Massachusetts CVS. When a police officer and FBI agent tried to question him, the Boston Police Commissioner said Rahim threatened them with a knife, and was shot dead.

With at least a dozen agents assigned to each case, providing 24/7 coverage, this high level of surveillance reflects the severe risk associated with suspects most likely to attempt copycat attacks after Paris. (Read more from “FBI Using Elite Surveillance Teams to Track at Least 48 High Risk ISIS Suspects” HERE)

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DNC Deep in Debt as RNC Builds up $20 Million War Chest

The Republican National Committee keeps building its cash advantage over its Democratic rivals, strengthening the party’s position going into the election year – with the latest monthly reports showing the DNC with a major debt, while the RNC has accrued a $20M war chest.

The Republicans announced last week that they had raised $8.7 million in October, which they say broke a record for presidential off-year fundraising record.

“With just under a year until Election Day 2016 we’re seeing great enthusiasm for the GOP,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a press release.

Figures show the Republicans now have over $20 million cash on hand, with only $1.8 million in debts owed. The RNC has raised a total of $89.3 million to date in the current election cycle.

The figures stand in stark contrast to the DNC, that has only $4.7 million cash in hand, with $6.9 million in debts owed, putting the DNC in the red, according to FEC figures. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Democrats have so far raised $53.2 million this election cycle, significantly less than their Republican counterparts. (Read more from “DNC Deep in Debt as RNC Builds up $20 Million War Chest” HERE)

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Giving Thanks for the Republican Establishment

Today I give thanks for my family, my friends, my colleagues and our great country, especially those who serve in our military, intelligence, law enforcement and first responder communities to protect us. I give thanks that I was fortunate enough to be born in this wonderful nation, the most magnificent society on the face of the Earth.

Today I also give thanks to the Republican Party, its leaders, and its media. I give thanks to the party’s agenda — in the wake of the Mississippi Senate primary and numerous derogatory remarks — as it made clear it sought to wage war against us. It is a fact that the Republican establishment seeks to expel conservatives from the party.

Did you drop your Republican registration to express your disgust? Awesome — you did exactly what the establishment wanted, so you couldn’t vote for an insurgent candidate like Donald Trump in your state primary.

Are you a ‘Cruz Birther’? Super, you’re burning calories on an issue that no legal expert — on the left or the right — believes has any validity.

Do you think a President Rubio would lift a finger to seal the border? Pretty cool; but may I suggest that you lay off the psychedelic mushrooms?

Do you believe a President Fiorina, Christie, Kasich or Paul would be any different than Jeb! when it comes to illegal immigration or reducing the size of government? Excellent: I have some land in Whitewater, Arkansas I’d like to sell you — it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

My friends, there are only three candidates left in the race who operate outside of the GOP establishment: they are Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump.

It’s important to understand one, simple fact: should one of these three outsiders become President, they will also become the de facto head of the Republican Party.

That’s right: in one fell swoop, an anti-establishment candidate could take over and control the GOP leadership structure, by dint of the bully pulpit and a massive fundraising capability.

As the leader of the party, an outsider President could eviscerate the leadership structure and reorganize the entire, defective mess that is the GOP establishment.

That is what they fear most — losing their cushy jobs and consultancies and actually having to work for a living. Oh, the humanity!

That’s why I’m staying a registered Republican and supporting Cruz, Trump or Carson — who ever I deem most likely to win at the time.

It’s not just to save the Republic from the fiscal and national security timebombs that Obama has bequeathed to us. It’s also to shred the entire GOP establishment and lay the foundation for a new Republican Party. A conservative Republican Party that can restore the rule of law, honor the Constitution, and begin flaying the lard off the federal leviathan.

I give thanks to the Republican establishment for declaring war on us. It makes our mission all the more clear; they must be removed from the halls of power.

President Carson, President Cruz, or President Trump could make that appealing vision a reality.

Make sure your Republican registration is up-to-date, so you can support an insurgent candidate. It’s the only way to stop these corrupt and feckless boobs who today falsely claim the mantle of “Republicans”.

All the best to you and yours on this wonderful holiday. Thank you for patronizing my humble journal and may this season be a blessed one for all of us. (For more from the author of “Giving Thanks for the Republican Establishment” please click HERE)

The True Meaning of Thanksgiving

There was a time when Thanksgiving was about more than human stampedes in pursuit of cheap electronics.

There was even a time when it was about more than football and turkey.

Now, more than ever before, we are in need of a great awakening to bring us back to the roots of Thanksgiving and what it represented to the civil society.

At its core, Thanksgiving has always embodied faith, family, and country.

Long before Thanksgiving became associated with one particular event in history to be celebrated at the end of November, it was more of a concept – a call to fasting and prayer to beseech the Lord to continue protecting us, our families, and our nation from all calamities and to shower us with his blessings. Individual colonies and states observed floating days of thanksgiving, prayer and fasting for many years before it became an official national holiday.

THE FOUNDATION OF THANKSGIVING

The first national thanksgiving proclamation was declared by the Continental Congress in 1777 and drafted by Samuel Adams. On December 17, 1777, the colonists marked a day of thanksgiving “to acknowledge with Gratitude their Obligation to him for Benefits received, and to implore such farther Blessings as they stand in Need of.” They recognized God’s providence as the guiding force in establishing their independence and securing their unalienable rights. They further prayed that God may nurture the “Schools and Seminaries of Education, so necessary for cultivating the Principles of true Liberty, Virtue and Piety.”

On November 26, 1789, the nation marked its first Thanksgiving under the new Constitution following a proclamation issued by George Washington seven weeks earlier. Washington called for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer that, among other things, would beseech God “to pardon our national and other transgressions” and “to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue.”

Throughout the early years of our country, various presidents established public days of prayer, thanksgiving, and fasting on random days throughout the year. With the breakout of the “Quasi War” with France in 1798, John Adams called for a national day of “solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer.” Adams wrote in his proclamation that a “national acknowledgement” of God’s providence was not only an “indispensable duty” of the nation, “but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that morality and piety without which social happiness can not exist nor the blessings of a free government be enjoyed.”

The following year, on April 25, Adams called for another “thanksgiving.” What did John Adams have in mind for such a day? “[T]hat the citizens on that day abstain as far as may be from their secular occupations, devote the time to the sacred duties of religion in public and in private; that they call to mind our numerous offenses against the Most High God, confess them before Him with the sincerest penitence.”

Indeed, the concept of Thanksgiving was always rooted in the notion that, as a nation, our entire prosperity, security, and liberty is completely dependent upon God’s providence. It also reflected the character of a nation that, far from banishing God from the public square, believed public service of God, and even the promotion of religious values thereof, so long as it was not compelled by the force of law, was indispensable to the survival of the nation.

It wasn’t until 1863 that Thanksgiving became a national holiday tied specifically to the end of November. At the persistent lobbying of Sarah Josepha Hale, “The Godmother of Thanksgiving,” President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation on October 3, 1863 establishing the last Thursday in November as the fixed national date for thanksgiving. Hale had long advocated a national thanksgiving out of a sense of patriotism, religious observance, and appreciation of American history – but also for the purpose of unity and family time. Lincoln noted in the proclamation the purpose of a single day reflecting “one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.”

The connection between a national day of thanksgiving and the original thanksgiving of the pilgrims was popularized by Hale in the mid-19th century. She spoke of a fixed date at the end of November because, among other reasons, “harvests of all kinds are gathered in” and the blessings of God are most evident.

Sadly, as this nation became less attuned to the agriculture seasons and annual harvests, Thanksgiving had already become increasingly less focused on the original intent of the holiday, even before the modern era of pagan hedonism and Black Friday. Calvin Coolidge observed the changes in technology (1923 proclamation) but noted that the purpose of thanksgiving was everlasting. “It is altogether a good custom,” he wrote in his 1924 proclamation. “It has the sanction of antiquity and the approbation of our religious convictions. In acknowledging the receipt of divine favor, in contemplating the blessings which have been bestowed upon us, we shall reveal the spiritual strength of the nation.”

However, as we step back and examine the character of this nation at present, it is truly breathtaking how we now celebrate Thanksgiving with a national character that is antithetical to the values championed by those who initiated such a day of prayer, fasting, and repentance.

MODERN-AMERICA: “THE ANTI-THANKSGIVING”

Thanksgiving 2015 is particularly marred by grim milestones we have incurred this year.

We now have a Supreme Court that can countermand the laws of the Supreme God our Founders beseeched on Thanksgiving, and redefine the institution of marriage – the core of civilization and family itself – from the federal bench.

We’ve gone from promoting the virtues of public and private devotion of religion to eradicating God from the public square entirely. Just this year, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered a replica of the Ten Commandments to be removed from the State Capitol.

Whereas our Founders viewed the promotion of religious virtue as the indispensable means of securing liberty and prosperity, our existing state and federal governments are embarking on a pagan inquisition and harness secularism as a means of violating the most sacred liberties – freedom of conscience and private property.

This was the year when a Christian was thrown in jail for peacefully abstaining from signing a marriage license for something that has never been regarded as a marriage until this generation and is an anathema to the God we once beseeched on Thanksgiving.

This was a year when individuals were fined and had their livelihood confiscated for declining to violate their religious principles with their own private property. As we commemorate the pilgrims who became pioneers for a new country founded upon religious freedom, that same nation has been transformed, at an elite level, into a society that is intolerant of religion – except Sharia law, which ironically, encourages religious intolerance towards others.

It was the year where we have seen the breakdown of the family, of civil order, of borders, and the culmination of years’ worth of growing dependency on government, instead of God.

At its heart, the breakdown of family and faith has led to all the other social and fiscal problems we are witnessing. This is why Sarah Hale felt Thanksgiving should be on par with Independence Day in terms of a foundational national holiday.

The recognition of God’s providence, the importance of religious observance, and the vitality of family always stood as the pillars of this American civil society through which we’ve been able to secure the most liberty and prosperity of any other civilization over the past two centuries. The liberties secured by our Independence could only be preserved by a virtuous civil society rooted in faith and family, a society we once celebrated on Thanksgiving.

As Robert Winthrop, former Speaker of the House, warned in 1849, “Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.”

Now that we have repudiated the Bible and defiled the Constitution, we have embraced the bayonet. We have embraced the bayonet of a large and overbearing government that is now the steward of liberty rather than its protector. In addition, we have embraced the bayonet of radical Islam. Europe’s impending conquest at the hands of the Islamists was rooted in its own rotting social and moral values that has weakened the core of its civilization and made it susceptible to outside invaders who are all too eager to fill that religious vacuum. America has held onto its core values for longer than Europe, but predictably, the rise of Islamic influence in America is occurring commensurately to the erosion of its own Judeo-Christian values.

The decline of faith and family in this country has led to the decline of American values and that lack of appreciation for our own history and virtue. The misunderstanding of what is so great about America, or indeed if it is great or exceptional at all, is what is driving the elites to fundamentally transform America through a pagan inquisition and through unbridled and imprudent immigration. The misunderstanding of what George Washington desired – a nation united behind a “common cause” encountering “common dangers, sufferings, and successes” – has been supplanted by the religion of multiculturalism.

As early as 1989, at the end of his farewell address, Ronald Reagan warned about the ill effects of the loss of American patriotism and appreciation for our heritage on the future generation – the one that is today leading our society. He noted that our history, such as the reason “why the pilgrims came here” had been distorted based on what is in fashion, not what’s important. Contrasting the growing movement of moral relativism, multiculturalism, and post-Americanism to the America he grew up in, Reagan observed the following:

Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn’t get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.

What better time to return to our roots and recommit to transmitting our history and values to our children than on Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving was intended to serve as the epitome of the common cause are Founders longed for. The coalescences of faith, family, patriotism, and appreciation for America’s history and values – all in a universal day of prayer and thanksgiving – embodied the Founding vision, the vision that has been so corrupted in our generation.

In his 1986 thanksgiving proclamation, Reagan wrote that “no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day,” as it is “Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage” and “underscores our unshakeable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation.”

As constitutional conservatives, we must lead by example and live by our founding principles in a way that will be emulated by others. That is why it behooves all of us who still appreciate America’s founding, history, religious virtue, and political values to reflect upon this time and recommit to spreading these values far and wide in the hopes of restoring what Thanksgiving represents and reflects upon our nation.

It is a time for all of us to first look inward and return to God so that we will be worthy of his blessings and divine providence. Although our social, fiscal, and security ails appear insurmountable, nothing is insurmountable for God and it’s never too late to turn to him for his providence. That we have a supreme leader we can turn to in a time of great peril is, at its foundation, why we are so thankful and why our forefathers were as well.

“Give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good.” [Psalms, 107:1]

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