• Are We Really Running Out of Diesel Fuel?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I have been reading a very disturbing news story, and every major news outlet is carrying it: Reuters, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, CNBC, CNN, Fox…you name it. The U.S. will completely run out of diesel fuel in 25 days.
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  • Public Education in Illinois
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I hope you have read the recent article by the Wall Street Journal entitled “Illinois’s Shocking Report Card” (October 4). Here is a quote in the opening lines: “Statewide, in 2019, 36% of all third grade students could read at
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  • Is She A Fascist?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the political party “Fratelli d’Italia” (“Brothers of Italy”) is soon to be the new prime minister of Italy. She will be the first ever female prime minister of Italy. She is quite a firebrand, whipping
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  • Where are the Workers?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I know you have noticed it. You cannot NOT notice it. Businesses all over America are crying for people to work…but few are showing up. In my line of work, I talk to company leaders across the Midwest. They are
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  • Baby Shortage
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It’s not in the news that often, but there actually is a baby shortage in many developed nations all over the world. In fact, in some nations the falling birthrate is so critical that in just a generation or two
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  • Elvis
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The recent movie “Elvis” just explodes upon the screen, and I felt like I was in a Formula 1 car racing from one scene to the next, watching Elvis Presley rocket into fame. It is an amazing film using animation
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Gorbachev is dead. He was a household word in the mid to late 1980’s. I remember hearing people swoon over him like he was some sort of savior, and others denouncing him as an Antichrist (“was that mark on his
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  • The March to Tyranny
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It can be real easy to get depressed if you don’t know history. Once again, as we look around our poor old planet, we see tyranny on the march. From Vlad Putin’s legions in Ukraine to Xi Jiping’s threats against
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  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Well, I am late to the party, but my wife and I finally went to see this “Top Gun: Maverick” flick. We usually wait until it’s shown in the cheap theatre (you know, where you have to bring your own
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  • Failed Nation-States
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • We can see many successful nation-states in our world today: France, the United States, and Japan are just a few examples. Sadly our world also shows us quite a few examples of “failed” or even “collapsed” nation-states. According to the
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  • The Rise of the Nation-State (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The Protestant Reformation was certainly fueled in some part by feelings of nationalism (identifying one’s self as a particular people group known for it’s language, religion, and other geographical and cultural distinctions). The new nationalistic feelings of the German-speaking people,
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  • 1883 (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Although this “television” mini series has excellent acting (there are no weak actors on the show), props, scenery, and story line, there are some disturbing messages in the program. It’s not only what is said, but also what is NOT
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  • Roe is Gone. Now What?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • “We end this opinion where we began. Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and
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  • 1883 (Part 1)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • My wife and I just finished watching the show “1883” on the Paramount streaming service. I have always loved westerns. John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were always at their best when doing a western. My favorites are the ones that
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  • The Spanish Civil War (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was really the first proxy war of the 20th century, and the dress rehearsal for World War 2. The Nationalists (led by Francisco Franco) were actually the rebel group, breaking away from the popularly elected
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  • The Spanish Civil War (Part 1)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a choice between two evil sides with an earned reputation for terror and tyranny. It is often portrayed today as a struggle between “leftists” and “rightists” (liberals, socialists, or communists on one side, versus
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  • What is Fascism?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Fascism as a political movement began in Italy during World War 1. The term comes from the Latin “fasces”: an axe surrounded by a bundle of rods. This symbol of authority was carried into the ancient Roman senate to let
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  • Chiang Kai-Shek (Part 3)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Once World War 2 ended in 1945 civil war resumed between the Nationalists and Communists in China. The Soviet Union occupied northern China and northern Korea, arming the Korean communists and installing their puppet government under Kim Il-Sung. The USSR
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  • Chiang Kai-Shek (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Chiang’s rule over China during World War 2 was in many ways disastrous for the Chinese people. The Japanese invaded Manchuria (northern China) in 1931 and set up a puppet government there. In 1937 they invaded the rest of China,
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  • Chiang Kai-Shek (Part 1)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975), was the de facto leader of the Republic of China from 1948-49 on the mainland, then from 1949 until his death in 1975 in Taiwan. Chiang served under Sun Yat Sen in the early years of the
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  • Sun Yat-Sen
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) is the father of modern China, and is much revered by both the free Chinese in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and also by the communists in mainland China. Today we would probably call him an
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  • The Winter War of 1939 and Today
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • On November 30, 1939 Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Army invaded Finland. The Russians had demanded certain tracts of land to be handed over to their control, but the Finns had told them to go pound snow. The Russians responded by invading
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  • How Hope Walks
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • To one who has never seen Augusta National as the late day sun begins to touch the pines, this story will be hard to believe. On Monday, April 4th, a spontaneous crowd gathered at the ninth hole to witness a
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  • Is Ukraine Pro-Nazi?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Vladimir Putin has stated that his “military operation” in Ukraine is to “de-Nazify” and to “demilitarize” that nation. So, he believes that the government of Ukraine is somehow “pro-Nazi” or “neo-Nazi.” Recently I was in a conversation with two gentlemen
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  • Neighbors On Notice
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Now that Vlad Putin’s military has invaded Ukraine, several truths have been confirmed…again. First, nuclear powers are not invaded. Secondly, a nation with a weak military invites aggression from nefarious neighbors. Then, always beware of world leaders who are bent
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  • Ukraine: The Forgotten Superpower
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, they left behind a massive army stationed in Ukraine, as a forward deployed threat against NATO. Overnight the new nation of Ukraine inherited a military consisting of: 780,000 troops, 6500 tanks, 7000
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  • Remember When?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Remember when: –We were all told to give government “15 days to flatten the curve.” How long did it last? Did it work? –State governments shut down selected businesses “to keep us safe”. Going to a gym or nail salon
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  • Lies I’ve Been Told
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Recently I have taken stock of the many statements presented as facts that my government, the media, academia, and the medical community has told me over the course of my lifetime. It took me just five minutes to jot these
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  • Chaplain Courage: Emil Kapaun
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun served the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Regiment, 1st US Cavalry Division in the Korean War. On November 1-2, 1950 in Unsan, Korea, his unit was surrounded by Chinese communist forces. Father Kapaun was frequently seen
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  • Chaplain Courage: John Weir Foote
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • On August 19, 1942 the Allies (Britain, Canada, France, the US, Poland, and Czechoslovakia) launched a raid against the Nazis in northern France. This was to test the German defenses in preparation of an actual invasion (two years later in
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  • The Tuskegee Experiment
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In 1932 the U.S. federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a medical experiment upon 600 black men near Tuskegee, Alabama. Originally, the experiment was to last only six months, but it
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  • The Courage of Poland (Part 4)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Lech Walesa was simply an electrician at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk Poland. The 1970s were an economically crushing time for his people, and Lech decided to speak out against the economic hardships that his Marxist socialist government was bringing
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  • The Courage of Poland (Part 3)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The Ottoman Turkish Empire had been a serious threat to Europe for 300 years. They conquered the last vestige of the eastern Roman Empire when they captured Constantinople in 1453, renaming it Istanbul. In the 16th and 17th centuries they
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  • The Courage of Poland (Part 1)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In listening to our radio interview with Artur Pawlowski and his on-going tribulation with the totalitarian government of Canada, I couldn’t help but think of the courage of the people of his native soil…Poland. Poland was attacked and overrun by
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  • Speed Kills
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • “It is not good for a person to be without knowledge and he who hurries his feet sins.” Proverbs 19:2 We love speed. Go fast or go home. “Move fast and break things” was the motto of Facebook in the
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  • Captain Kangaroo
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • A long time ago, it seems, America had quality children’s television programming. Long before political activism took over the “education” of children, we had Captain Kangaroo. It was one of the longest-running children’s programs, airing from 1955 to 1984. When
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  • A Classical Education
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • A classical education is what our Founding Fathers’ had. It is what equipped them to write with such clarity and power the Declaration of Independence. It is what empowered them with the knowledge and experience to win the war against
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  • The American Socialist Hour©
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • So, how many kids saw “The Lion King” when it re-opened on Broadway last night? According to the new enlightened leaders on Broadway: You may enter the theater only if vaccinated. Those who have survived COVID and have natural immunities
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  • The Rescuers
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Have you ever heard of “The Pineapple Express”? How about retired Army officer Jim Gant? How about former professional fighter and Green Beret Tim Kennedy? Their stories are not headlines in the “official” news, but they are doing superhuman work
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  • How To Be An Antiracist (Part 5)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I am almost finished reading the book, and almost finished with blogging on Dr. Kendi’s thoughts about America. I could write a book as long as his best-seller, analyzing and debunking not only the lies and exaggerations he puts into
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  • How to Be An AntiRacist (Part 3)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • A circle is something that is circular. Space is spacious. Democracy involves a democratic process. Tyranny is a tyrannical thing that we should all fear. Government governs people’s lives. How do you like those “definitions” for a circle, space, democracy,
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  • Mari Matsuda
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Mari Matsuda (born in 1956) is a law professor, legal activist, and leading proponent of Critical Race Theory. She currently teaches at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. She is the first tenured female
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  • Richard Delgado
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Richard Delgado is an American legal scholar who teaches at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is another one of the more famous proponents of Critical Race Theory. Mr. Delgado was born and raised in the United States.
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  • Derrick Bell
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Derrick Bell is often credited as one of the main founders of what is now known as “Critical Race Theory”. He was not alone, of course, being joined by other academicians such as Richard Delgado, Mari Matsuda, Patricia Williams, and
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  • Antonio Gramsci (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In the early 20th century, Antonio Gramsci noted that the West simply was not “buying” Marxism. When World War 1 erupted the proletariat did not rise up and overthrow their oppressors in the industrialized West. (They did to some degree
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  • Antonio Gramsci (Part 1)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • His name is probably not a household name in America today, but legions throughout our society are marching to his ideas and carrying out his designs in virtually every aspect of American culture. You need to know who he was,
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  • Send in the Clowns
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Which is the zanier story: 1) The CDC magically drops masks, or 2) Governor Mike DeWine decides by fiat to establish “Vax-a-Million” a new scheme to give away a one-million dollar prize every week to someone who gets a vaccine
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  • Irena Sendler
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • How could one person save 2,500 children from extermination camps? One determined woman, Irena Sendler of Poland, did just that. She was only 4 feet, 11 inches tall. Yet during the early years of Nazi occupation of Poland she risked
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  • The Homemaker and the Pastor
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In 1943 the German National Socialists that occupied the Netherlands instituted a draft to scoop up as many able-bodied young men as possible, so that they could be carted off as slave-laborers for the German war machine. Thousands of Dutch
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  • Uncle Hannes
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Johannes Bogaard of Niew Vennep, the Netherlands, had only two years of formal education, and that was in elementary school. After the age of eight, he worked full time on his family farm. That was the only life he knew,
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  • Chiune Sugihara
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In the summer of 1940, the little Baltic nation of Lithuania was being flooded by Jewish refugees from Poland. Lithuania had its own considerable Jewish population, and all were concerned not only about the Soviet take-over of the little country,
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  • Good Friday
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • What happened on this day matters and more than any human words can effectively express. What happened on this day on a cross of total injustice is the only prism through which reality can ever be effectively seen. What happened
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  • Ho Feng-Shan
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • You find heroes in the strangest places. They are not always soldiers fighting incredible odds, or people in the medical profession discovering breakthrough cures. Sometimes they are obscure government workers, overlooked by most people, but still there quietly doing the
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  • Washington DC is Back
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • “I’m from Washington and I am here to help”. That was the famous punchline to a host of jokes told by the late President Ronald Reagan. Now, thanks to the Center for American Progress and all their allies, the Progressive Congress
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  • The Katyn Massacre
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Thousands of Polish army officers were captured by the Soviet Red army in 1939 and were sent to prison camps near Smolensk Russia. Once the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 (breaking their “Non-Aggression Pact”), the British and the
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  • Rush Limbaugh is Gone
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • America has lost one of her best friends. So have we and millions more who have counted on a message of hope based in the truth. On to his eternal reward based on his personal trust in Jesus Christ alone.
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  • Holodomor
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From 1932-1933 the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Marxist-socialist dictator Joseph Stalin, orchestrated one of the greatest famines in modern history. Most famines happen due to changing weather or some other natural phenomenon. This famine was created by a
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  • Stalin’s Show Trials
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From 1936-1938 Joseph Stalin arranged to have a whole host of “enemies” brought to trial and executed. The accused were not innocent until proven guilty. They were automatically guilty of whatever the paranoid Stalin accused them of (or rather, whatever
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  • Please Read This TIME Article
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Please read the cover story of TIME Magazine Feb. 15, 2021 edition. The title is: “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election.” Please note that title and keep this blog handy. Chances are very good
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  • Procopius
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Procopius is another one of those little known, but extremely important scholars/historians of long ago to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude. He was a lawyer and legal advisor in the court of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I
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  • The Venerable Bede
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • His name was Bede. I don’t know of any other names he had. It is a simple, almost humorous sounding name for one of the most significant scholars in history. It is because of Bede that historians can “fill in
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  • Is PWS Killing America?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Our problem is not that Joe Biden won the Presidency. Our problem is not that the U.S. Media is lost in the wilderness of corruption. Our problem is that We the People have lost touch with the core responsibilities required
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  • What Does a Second Impeachment Mean?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • What Does a Second Impeachment Mean? Not much, other than to expose the character of those proposing such an action. The current majority in Congress including Democrats and Republicans is now using the Constitution as a selective tool of political
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  • You Can Thank Cassiodorus
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • How is it that we can go to a bookstore today and find great works of antiquity such as the writings of Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Tacitus, Tertullian, Augustine, and Ambrose? How is it that today we have at least 5,800
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  • The Symbols of Christmas
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It’s hard to escape the meaning of Christmas. Even when some people try to substitute “Happy Holidays” for “Merry Christmas” or “Holiday Tree” for “Christmas Tree”, we still have the symbols that decorate homes and businesses across the land. It
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  • The Soros Handoff
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Joe Biden is handing his Administration over to a singular purpose. The White House and the Cabinet will be run by directors of the George Soros regime. This is a conspiracy in plain sight and not a word is being
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  • Wisdom From the Last Roman
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • His full name was Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Some historians have called him “the Last Roman”. He was from an ancient Roman senatorial family. Boethius was a Christian, and a government worker in the service of Theodoric, the Gothic king
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  • COVID Venegance
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The lawlessness inspired by COVID Governors is now running rampant across the country. In Ohio the pro-COVID Governor is claiming a 10pm business curfew. In Pennsylvania the Health Director is banning anyone entering the state without a negative COVID-test. In
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  • A Prayer by Francis
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • A number of years ago a Catholic friend of mine gave me a beautiful bookmark with a prayer by Francis of Assisi. Although I am not Catholic, I appreciate the spirit in which the bookmark was given, and the more
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  • How Long Does it Take?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I think that Americans in general want everything done in a hurry. Maybe that’s why so many of us have cell phones, microwaves, air conditioning, central heating, and fuel-injected engines. We want it done NOW. So, if things don’t always
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  • Year Zero
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In April of 1975 the communist Cambodian army (known as the Khmer Rouge) finally overwhelmed and conquered the pro-Western Cambodian army (ostensibly backed by the United States). The communists entered the capital city and immediately began implementing their concept of
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  • COVID-19 Equals
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • At 10:07 pm EDT during the Vice Presidential Debate, Senator Kamala Harris declared that contracting COVID-19 and recovering will be classified as a pre-existing condition. The legal and health consequences of this dictate have deleterious consequences to any and every
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  • Thank You Chris
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • That appears to be what Joe Biden said from the podium after the first debate. “Thank you Chris, appreciate it.” The mics were off by the time Biden walked over to Wallace and the two exchanged further remarks. The Trump-Biden-Wallace
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  • The Blessings of Capitalism
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • If you live in the United States, Canada, Japan, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Australia, New Zealand, or any Western European nation, then you are living better than any king, emperor, or dictator from the mid-20th century to the dawn
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  • Kulaks
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In 1931 Joseph Stalin ordered that the kulaks “be liquidated as a class.” Over the next three years an estimated six million Soviet subjects who were called “kulaks” were shot, starved to death, or sent off to slave labor camps
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  • Can they win behind a mask?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Disclaimer: Whoever wins the U.S. Presidency, the sun will come up on November 4th and the battle for the Republic will continue. The following is an observation about the 2020 campaign, not to be construed as an endorsement of either
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  • Greyhound
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • You need to see Tom Hanks’ latest film Greyhound. I know all the movie theaters are still closed right now (tragically), but this film will not lose any of its punch while you watch it on a smaller screen at
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  • Failing Success
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Too bad for Florida. The state is doing very well in the battle against COVID. The numbers are better than expected. The theme parks are open and as of yet not a single case has been tracked back to the
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  • The Burning of Books
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The German poet Heinrich Heine wrote in the 19th century: “Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.” Less than 100 years after his death his countrymen led millions of innocent people to gas chambers and
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  • The Blessings of Western Civilization (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Air conditioning, central heat, flush toilets. Refrigeration, penicillin, aspirin, airplanes, x-rays, and ballpoint pens. The telephone, television, movies, paper clips, and Post-it notes. Heart surgery, radio, drive-thru windows at banks and restaurants, photography, the microchip, flea collars, assembly lines, disposable
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  • Turning on Your Neighbors
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • As I read about Europe and Asia’s vast experiments with totalitarian socialism in the 20th century, I am struck by how the various governments of Germany, Italy, China, and the Soviet Union did NOT overtly use their militaries upon their
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  • Masking Anxiety
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Governors and Mayors appear to once again be yielding to panic and junk science. Here are a few sober words about masks from the New England Journal of Medicine (May 21, 2020) “It is also clear that masks serve symbolic
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  • A Reconstructed Rebel
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Can you guess this soldier? Before the war he was a slave trader and invested in real estate. He fought for the Confederacy for the four brief years of its existence (1861-1865). He was considered by friend and foe alike
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  • Struggle Sessions
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • During the Cultural Revolution of Communist China (1966-1976), a favorite tactic of Mao’s fanatical followers was the “struggle session”. If the Red Guard (the youthful fans of Chairman Mao who believed in his infallibility) thought that you were “counterrevolutionary” or
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  • Dr. Acton Fades Away
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • One of the most notorious and powerful players in the COVID-19 crisis has been Dr. Amy Acton, Director of the Ohio Department of Health. It was not Dr. Acton’s expertise at any level that gave her such standing in the
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  • Homeless in Denver
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Just recently I was visiting one of my children in Denver, Colorado. What a beautiful city. Just look to the west and there as far as the eyes can see are the Rocky Mountains (snow capped even in the spring!).
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  • Korematsu and Endo
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • On February 19, 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued his infamous Executive Order 9066 consigning all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps deep in the interior of the US. On March 21st, 1942 Congress enacted legislation giving authority
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  • Executive Order 9066
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It was in my father’s generation that tens of thousands of American citizens were illegally stripped of their constitutional rights to freedom of assembly, free speech, and freedom from illegal search and seizure. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor,
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  • Now We Are All Homeschoolers
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • My wife and I home educated our children for 23 years. For the first ten years at least, we endured the typical questions: “Is that legal?” (America educated its children through home education for hundreds of years before public school
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  • The COVID Brain Trust
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The power behind the curtain of the COVID closing community clearly runs through Johns Hopkins University. This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows the history of this University and their dedication to Progressive Utopianism. Rather than take
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  • Remember the Legislature?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • People are listening across the nation. The call for a return to “ordered liberty” under the rule of law is being heard by people in their homes, people on the streets and now in a few key places, in the
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  • When Models Fail
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Dr. Amy Acton is the Director of the Ohio Health Department. She is the only government agent legally responsible for the Ohio COVID-19 lockdown. She has signed every order closing every business and dictating every lockdown policy. This is the
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  • Look at the Triumphs
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It is easy to forget victories and lose hope in a better tomorrow when all you see and hear is doom and gloom. In my last blog I talked about people of faith who only grew stronger and more hopeful
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  • Faith in the Concentration Camps
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I recently finished reading Elie Wiesel’s book “Night.” It is his first hand account of being sent to Auschwitz and later, other Nazi concentration camps. One reads with horror and compassion for Elie and for all the prisoners as they
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  • Abraham Galloway
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From time to time historians are able to uncover, or recover, true stories that have faded from memory. Fortunately, in the past 20 years ago historians have recovered the story of Abraham Galloway: spy, abolitionist, and legislator. Galloway was born
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  • Given Enough Time
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Given enough time most really bad ideas will manifest themselves as such. Two scoops of ice cream on a 90 degree day starts out like a great idea — but not if the order is to-go. Real space, real time
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  • The Struggle for Rights by W.E.B. DuBois
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • As I am reading both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, I came across this comment from Mr. DuBois regarding the pursuit of constitutional rights. Please note the balance between his support and criticism of Washington’s “Atlanta Exposition Address”: “So
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  • Washington and DuBois
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I am currently reading two books, and both are fascinating. I am reading Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery”, and W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Souls of Black Folk.” Both men wrote in a time when black Americans were enormously oppressed by
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  • Mickey, Minnie and What?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • There are always lots of reflections and opinion about the Super Bowl Halftime show every year. Here is one more, and it is simply an opinion of one viewer. I was confused. In many ways the Super Bowl experience is
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  • Operation Eagle Claw
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I remember waking up the morning of April 25, 1980 to the horrible news that an American special forces rescue team had had a terrible collision in the Iranian desert, and eight U.S. servicemen had been killed. The rescue attempt,
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  • 444
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, the Islamic Republic of Iran held 52 Americans (mostly diplomats) hostage. It lasted 444 days. Islamists who supported the agenda of the Ayatollah Khomeini, attacked the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and captured
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  • Iran 1979
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • How did Iran become a theocratic Islamic republic, governed by their version of Sharia, and the world’s largest exporter of terrorism? Iran for most of the 20th century was a peaceful, yet backwards nation. Persia/Iran was a nation that was
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  • The Eleven Degree Man
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Way back in 1990 I clipped an article from Parade Magazine (the little magazine that was found in many editions of the Sunday paper a long time ago). The article was entitled “It’s Such a Pleasure to Learn” and it
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  • The 1619 Project
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The New York Times has launched their “1619 Project”– an examination and re-evaluation of the legacy of slavery in America. It’s leading proponent is NY Times reporter Hannah Nikole-Jones. A wide variety of historians, journalists, and other writers will contribute
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  • Impeachment Night 2019
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • An American President has been impeached three times since 1787 and many of us have seen two of them. There is so much to consider in the impeachment events of this day and yet so little of what has been
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  • Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Is there no character that Tom Hanks cannot portray in an amazing way? He was a very believable Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks” (a movie I laughed and cried through). He was riveting as Captain Sully. I was scared
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  • Midway: The Movie
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Way back in 1976 I saw the “blockbuster” movie of Midway. It starred Charleton Heston, Henry Fonda, and all the greats. Great actors. Not a great movie. It was riddled with historical inaccuracy and all sorts of fiction. Typical for
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  • The Second Russian Revolution, 1991
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It had been percolating for years. The Soviet Union, with its repressive command and control government, simply could not keep pace with the Free World. In 1989 when communist governments fell in East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, it
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  • Christmas in Romania, 1989
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, and the old Soviet bloc communist nations of eastern Europe soon became history. Most of them peacefully transitioned into western style free republics. Romania was an exception. On December 15 the
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  • It’s Now ALL about Obstruction
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The impeachment process has been fully exposed. The proceedings work like this: the House Democrats will create any set of charges they like based upon any available resource. You can call it a “whistleblower” report — even though it is
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  • The Berlin Wall
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It’s been 30 years since the Berlin Wall came down? Honestly, it seems like yesterday. My wife and I had been married for about a year and a half. We watched on television and were stunned as people smashed and
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  • Leo Tolstoy and the Media
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I love old bookstores and the wonderful old used books I can find there. I just picked up Tolstoy’s “A Confession and Other Religious Writings.” So far, the reflections of this man on the world he lived in and his
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  • The Tiananmen Massacre
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The communist government in China for the past 30 years has denied that it every happened. There was nothing to see. There was no massacre. Except that there was. On the evening of June 3rd, 1989, and on into the
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  • The 2020 Debates – So Far
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • After watching countless hours of the Democrat Presidential Debates there appears to be a similar pattern and tempo in the procedures. Yes, they last forever. Yes, sometimes the commercials are more interesting than the debates, especially Ron Reagan choosing to
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  • Impeachment!
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Many of us have seen this before. Some of us have seen it twice. There have only been two Presidents (Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton) impeached or brought up on charges to the U.S. Senate. Neither one was convicted and
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  • The Red Guard
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From 1958 to 1961, Mao Zedong’s economic marvel known as the “Great Leap Forward” resulted in the deaths of some 45 million Chinese–mostly through starvation or being worked to death in his collectivized farms, mines, and factories. After this disaster
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  • The Great Leap Backward
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Isn’t it fascinating how so many of the great socialist leaders of world history have never owned a business and made it prosper? They have great ideas on how to redistribute other people’s wealth, but have never actually produced any
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  • He Remembers that We Forget
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • God does not forget that we have memory issues. King David said in Psalm 103 that God “rememberers our frame.” He remembers we are eternal souls in temporary packages. And He remembers we are prone to forget. Have we forgotten
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  • The Sayings of Chairman Mao
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I am currently reading the most thorough biography of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (old spelling is Mao Tse-tung). The book is “Mao, The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Chang actually lived through the Cultural Revolution
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  • The Politics of the Prince
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • You cannot tour Florence, Italy without hearing the names of the great celebrities of the past. In one church alone La Chiesa della Santa Croce (Holy Cross Church) three famous people are buried there: Michaelangelo, Galileo, and Niccolo’ Macchiavelli. Macchiavelli
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  • The Failed Revival
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I stood at a certain spot in the Piazza Della Signoria in Florence. It is a large plaza in the heart of the old City, right in front of the Palazzo Vecchio (“Old Palace”). There at my feet was a
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  • Three Strikes on Healthcare
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Watching the Democrats talk about healthcare is proof that they reinvent history at will. In 1994 they tried Hillarycare and Americans said no. Then Democrats lost the House. In 2010 their party controlled the House, the Senate and the White
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  • Il Duomo (Part 2)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The magnificent church towers over all the city. No matter where you are in Florence, all you have to do is look up, spot the dome, and you will know where you are. The Duomo in Florence is one of
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  • Il Duomo (Part 1)
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It is simply massive. I am speaking of “il Duomo” in Florence Italy. Standing next to it, you just feel the immensity of it. This magnificent cathedral that sits in the heart of Florence overwhelms, intimidates, and feels you with
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  • Why so breathless?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Why is it that political candidates for national office are all so breathless in their attempts to impress the national media pundits? Consider the Democrat debates. It just seems like every candidate is trying to outshine the next and to
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  • The Battle of Lepanto
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From the 14th to the 17th century the Ottoman Turks were a serious force to contend with in Europe. In fact, in 1453 the Turks finally captured Constantinople, the last vestige of the Roman Empire. They continued their sweep into
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  • The Church on Prenestina Street
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • One day my wife and I were in a taxi traveling to our Bed and Breakfast in Rome and I saw a sign on Prenestina Street: “Chiesa Cristiana Evangelica” (Evangelical Christian Church). We read enough Italian to say, “Hey! That’s
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  • How Did Venice Begin?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It is a city on water. Whether you are approaching by air or traveling by train across a causeway you are stunned the first time you see Venice. It is a city that should not exist. Majestic cathedrals, palaces, and
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  • Service Men
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • There are many monuments at Normandy. All of them tell an important story that must not be forgotten. One of the most recent is the “Leadership” monument which is a simple portrayal of Dick Winters, a college grad from Pennsylvania
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  • Thank You for Freeing Us
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Last month I was in Italy for the wedding of my son to his lovely bride from Rome. Our whole family was there visiting with our new family and seeing all the sights of “the Eternal City.” We did not
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  • Bistecca and Gelato
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I have just come back from an amazing trip to Italy. I am convinced that Italy is now my second home. The people are wonderful, kind, and gracious. The scenery is stunning. The history is fascinating. The artwork is the
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  • Blind by Choice
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The only way to explain the mindset of many regarding the issue of abortion is to listen to their words and listen to their responses. Such is the case in a recent FOX Town Hall where Mayor Peter Buttigieg endorsed
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  • 1504
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The year 1504 was one of the greatest years in the history of mankind. That year three of the greatest artists of all time converged in one Italian city, Florence, and went to work. First there was Leonardo Da Vinci.
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  • The Day Sports Died
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • On May 14th, 2018 the United States Supreme Court overturned the ban on internet sports betting. On May 14th 2019, the Governor of Tennessee received a bill on his desk legalizing sports betting in the Volunteer state. Will the Governor
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  • Lock Him Up?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • She stood by her man as he lied to federal officers, the Courts, the media and the American public. She stood in his defense through impeachment. As Secretary of State she kept her connections with the Clinton Foundation as her
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  • Would they, could they?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Recently a team member here at APR posed the following question on the issue of abortion: On NPR last week they featured a show about the pro side of abortion. How women need that access in case of life of
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  • Ben Almost Gets It
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • So I’m reading along in Ben Shapiro’s new book and really loving how he takes the complicated and makes it simple. He drops some pretty high powered philosophers’ names in there (Aristotle, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, etc.) and capably boils down
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  • Western Civ is Good
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Ben Shapiro’s recent book The Right Side of History: the Remaking of the World examines the philosophical history of western Europe and its descendents (most notable the United States of America) and why this particular culture and no other created the
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  • If There is No Creator
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • If there is no Creator, does America makes sense? Recently I pulled out an old copy of Ben Stein’s movie Expelled. It had been a long time since I watched it so I watched it again. This movie is a
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  • Freezing the Court
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Twelve Presidential debates are coming from the Democrats. They will begin in June of THIS year. So the Presidential campaign will be in full media swing for 16 months according to the Democrats. Why so early and so many ?
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  • What is less than human?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • When President Trump made a statement about immigrant gang members being “animals” the U.S. Media went wild with criticism. Of course, their rationale was political and their goal was to paint the President as a racist. The President was still
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  • A Tale of Two Albums
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In my research sometimes I discover things on my way to looking up other items. The other day I discovered the stories and photos of two albums. Both contained photographs of people at Auschwitz in 1944. One was an album
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  • The Green Book
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The other day my wife and I went to go see the movie “The Green Book.” It was in the dollar theater by this time (you know, the kind of theater where you bring your own chair..yes we are cheapskates).
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  • Executed Without A Trial
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Recently I came across a horrible story from our nation’s past. At first I wondered if it were really true (so much on the internet is myth, you know). But the more I looked it up, the more the story
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  • Hostless in Hollywood
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • They could not find a host, the Academy Awards that is. And the reason they could not find one was because the standard was “perfect of nothing”. Perhaps to no one’s surprise, Hollywood could not find anyone who was guiltless
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  • The Fifth Column
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In 1936, Spanish Nationalist (fascist) general Emelio Mola said that he had four columns of troops attacking the Spanish Republican (communist) forces trapped inside Madrid. Then he added that there was a “fifth column” within the city, sympathizing with his
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  • Aktion T-4
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • From October of 1939 until the end of the war in Europe in 1945, the National Socialists in Germany enacted a government program called “Aktion T-4”. Medical doctors were used by the national government to quietly dispatch all the people
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  • The Codifying of Child Sacrifice
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The ancient Canaanites practiced child sacrifice. Not only does the Bible record it (Deuteronomy 12:31 for example), but Greek historians record in grisly detail how the Carthaginians (direct descendents of the Canaanites) burned their infants alive in sacrifice to their
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  • Who Ran the Death Camps?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • In his State of the Union address, President Trump called out the Socialist Left in America while Nancy Pelosi and her allies sat and mocked. Amidst all the hatred, disdain and juvenile behavior exhibited by the U.S. Congress perhaps the
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  • Hope for Addicts
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It is a privilege for me to preach once a month at a drug and alcohol treatment center. What a blessing it is to hold a worship service at New Destiny Treatment Center in Clinton Ohio. They have about 60
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  • Dr. King/Dr. Glover
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Our friend Dr. Glover used to teach us several truths he learned while he and his friend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were deeply involved in the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 60s. One major truth he kept
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  • The Wisdom of the Greeks
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I have been a fan of classical literature for a long time. Although I am a Christian, I think that the pagan world before Christ still has much to offer us in their search for beauty, goodness, and truth. After
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  • Time for a Second Statue
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Recently U.S. Senator Charles Schumer attacked the President of the United States regarding the issue of the security of America’s borders. In that attack, Senator Schumer suggested that the Statue of Liberty should be America’s guiding symbol and light. On
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  • IF he disappeared tomorrow…
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The Media in the United States is in a downward spiral. They have magnetized their minds to the elimination of Donald Trump. Their singular focus is well beyond the balance of mental health, they are out of bounds in their
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  • Forgiveness
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It’s the Christmas season, and I would like to focus on just one word: forgiveness. The purpose of Jesus’ mission to earth was to redeem for Himself a people who would be free to serve Him. Through His sacrificial death
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  • I Love Savannah
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • OK, so this blog is just a shameless promotion about my hometown of Savannah Georgia. Last month I went down there for a Young Life reunion (Young Life is a Christian organization for high school kids; I was a student
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  • The Media Mobs
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • It really has not taken long for the hysteria of the cable news Left to result in dangerous mobs on the streets. The recent attack upon the family home of Tucker Carlson is but one example. The goal of Progressive
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  • Are we there yet?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Since 1912 the Progressive movement has been the dominant force of American politics. The Progressives gave us TR, FDR, LBJ, BHO, the Clintons and with them, the administrative, caretaker State. Of course, after 116 years the bills have also come
    Read more ›

  • Make Your House of Worship Secure
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Yet another massacre. Yet another lunatic has invaded a house of worship (a synagogue in Pittsburgh) and mercilessly murdered 11 people, wounding several others (including four police officers). Has your church or synagogue taken precautions to make your place of
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  • Sears Had Everything
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It makes me very sad when I think of the slow demise of Sears. My father was a manager for Sears for almost 20 years. He received his business degree from Auburn University in 1948 and began to work for
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  • Operation Finale
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The other day my wife and I went to go see the movie “Operation Finale.” If the movie “Unbroken” was about forgiveness, then this movie was about justice. It was also about perseverance and dedication. The movie was about the
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  • Unbroken Part 2
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Without a doubt the greatest book I have ever read outside the Bible is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It is the true story of Louie Zamperini and his survival from shipwreck and torture by the Japanese. Angelina Jolie directed the movie
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  • What is Newt Thinking?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Newt Gingrich has joined hands with George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg and Van Jones in calling for a Constitutional Amendment in Ohio to change drug enforcement and sentencing laws. Ohio Issue 1 now facing the voters in the key swing state
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  • Busting Bullies
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I remember well how I was picked on in grade school and in junior high because of my size (I was usually the shortest boy). So, I have a special place in my heart for all the “outcasts” in school
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  • Someone is Lying — But Who?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • In watching the Senate hearings carefully (and painfully) it is clear that both stories being told cannot be true. One person is 100% certain this event has happened. One person denies the event with equal certainty. Emotion demands that we
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  • You Will Fight Like You Train
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • How do you become a Marine? You watch a John Wayne movie and presto!, you are a Marine, right? That’s laughable, isn’t it? But that is almost the attitude some people have about learning self defense. “If I just take
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  • Women’s Self Defense
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Over the past 30 years of pastoral ministry I have counseled victims of sexual assault. I cannot convey the sadness and anger I have felt. Sadness that such a horrible crime has been committed, and anger that in most cases
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  • Responding to Active Shooters
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • America saw yet another mass shooting the other day–this time at a gaming convention in Jacksonville, Florida. David Katz, 24, was apparently distraught over losing in a gaming tournament. So he pulled out a gun and shot 12 people. Two
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  • The Christian Basis for Self Defense
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I do not believe the Bible (in particular the New Testament) teaches a total pacifism. I do not believe that the godly Christian response to Hitler and Stalin’s intentions and invasions is passive non-resistance or appeasement. The gas chambers of
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  • Socialism 2.0
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Please tune in to The Public Square® today and for the next several weeks. We are tackling the hottest fad in Progressive politics: the repackaging of socialism. This is sort of the history seminar your kids never got in school.
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  • Is Self Defense…Godly?
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I just taught my self defense class to several ladies. I teach every Monday night at a gym. We don’t do any fancy, silly “Karate Kid” moves. Instead I teach teenage girls, middle-aged homemakers, and retirees in their sixties simple,
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  • The End of World War II
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • You know it’s a bad century when people start enumerating world wars. World War II was certainly the worst man made disaster to befall the human race. Some 60 million people perished in six years of fighting. The war ended
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  • Something Very Rotten in Ohio
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Why would Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros want to write an entire new section in the Ohio Constitution? Why would they be investing millions of dollars in the creation of a ballot issue for the Ohio November ballot? Clue: this
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  • Richard Nixon’s Resignation
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • This month is the 44th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency. It was the evening of August 8, 1974 when he appeared on television, announcing that he was resigning as President, effective the next day at noon, August
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  • Where is Drudge?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • It is 8 am the morning after the Tennessee primary election. The Nashville USA Today paper called the upset victory of Bill Lee the biggest Cinderella story in decades. FOX News had the headline up by midnight. The AP covered
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  • Justice for All at Ohio State
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • In an editorial for USA Today, sports journalist Christine Brennan boiled down the entire Ohio State Richard Strauss abuse scandal into a single statement. These are the final words of her opinion piece:  “If Jordan is found to have known
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  • Kennedy Gone
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • It makes sense. The Masterpiece Cakes decision was a telling sign. Nobody on the Court wanted to tweak Justice Kennedy on his way out the door. So they punted on Masterpiece Cakes. The Court’s holding was narrow, limited and returned
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  • Join The Revolution
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Recent news reports reveal that about 40% of Americans have dropped out of “social media” in the last year or so. Count us among them. In a recent edition of The Public Square titled, “The Circle -Breaking Free” we announced
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  • General Norman Cota
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The famous generals of World War 2 are Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley, MacArthur and Patton. But one of my favorite ones to study is the American general whose name keeps popping up whenever I read about D-Day: General Norman “Dutch” Cota
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  • My Second Birthday
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Most people celebrate their birthday once a year. I celebrate my birthday twice every year. The first was the day I entered this world in the flesh in 1962. My second birthday was June 7, 1981…the day I was born
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  • Wake up call: For John Morgan
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • As if the TV commercials were not annoying enough, now Mr. John Morgan of “Morgan and Morgan” is taking to bold-face bullying. He recently attacked Florida Governor Rick Scott basically threatening Scott’s electoral future. Morgan threatened that if Scott does
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  • William Pitsenbarger, USAF
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • You have heard of the Army’s Green Berets, and the Navy’s SEALs, but have you ever heard of the Air Force’s Parajumpers? Affectionately known as the “PJs”, these special forces troops drop into the toughest situations to rescue people in
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  • John Basilone, USMC
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • America’s first major offensive against the Japanese was on the small South Pacific island of Guadalcanal. The Marines landed and were eager to engage their fierce and fanatical enemy. Sergeant John Basilone of Raritan New Jersey was in charge of
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  • Shelf Life
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The narrative is getting old. That is the feeling we are getting from key primary states. The identity politics of division plays well on cable news but voters are growing weary of the check list of who is “the bad
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  • Alfie Evans is Gone
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Alfie Evans is gone but he is not forgotten. He is not the first child to face the injustice of the British Nationalized Health Care System. His is not the first family to know the pain of an untimely death
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  • Alfie
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • What should bother us about Alfie Evans is…everything. The incredible sorrow of a sick child and parents struggling to help their beloved. No words can be added here. Unfortunately the sorrow does not end with the pilgrimage of pain and
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  • A Gun and A Badge
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • It’s such a catchy phrase: “If you’re gonna have a gun on our campus, you’re gonna have a badge.” That is the statement of the Leon County School Board in Tallahassee, Florida. They voted to NOT permit teachers or school
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  • My Daughter’s Insight
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The other day I was driving my daughter somewhere and she commented on the recent “March for Our Lives” protest around the country. She actually knows some people who attended the rally in DC. She commented: “You know Daddy, I
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  • The Unmasking
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The New York Times has an op-ed from former Justice John Paul Stevens yesterday. In the article, he clearly states his belief that the Second Amendment was a relic from the eighteenth century, and should be repealed. Interestingly enough, he says
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  • “Righteous?”
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Did you watch the CBS interview on Sunday night? We did. The story is inescapable. But does that make it true? Furthermore, the lawyer for plaintiff Daniels claimed that his motivation in this matter is “righteous”. Here is the quote
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  • Congratulations PA Voters
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The special election for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania District 18 is over, or sort of over. The election results are so close that a recount is likely and it is quite possible that the outcome may
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  • PA 18 Another False Flag
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • We are posting this blog on Sunday March 11, a few days BEFORE the special election for PA House District 18. We are doing this as evidence of our analysis BEFORE the outcome of the special election for a single
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  • Democracy In Action
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The South African parliament recently voted 241 to 83 to seize without compensation all the land owned by white farmers. Whites own about 72% of all farmland in South Africa– in some cases these farms have been in same family
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  • Where Were They?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • President Donald Trump attended the funeral service for Dr. Billy Graham. He was the only living president to attend. Where were the others? Why did the others choose not to be there? This is a much bigger question than at
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  • Recharging My Batteries
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Every so often we just cannot absorb any more of the world’s insanity, right? Well that’s how I feel right now. I know I cannot stop the world and get off. But I have hit my saturation point (for now)
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  • Just As I Am
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Back in 1980 my parents and I went camping. A relative came with us…she was a hardened atheist. An admitted communist, actually. Yes, that did make for an interesting camping trip; so long as we steered clear of politics or
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  • Billy Graham
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I can hardly measure the effect this man has had on my life. I vaguely remember hearing about Billy Graham or seeing just a snippet of his TV special when I was a little boy. I know that whenever the
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  • Not an Easy Message
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Listener response to our recent broadcast on the State of the Union address was…mixed – to say the best. One listener wrote in and blasted us for being racists and in the tank for Donald Trump. Another wrote in accusing
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  • Missing the FISA Point
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • If we could halt the drama queens on cable news just long enough to get a serious question into the “Memo Debate,” the question would be:”What authority does the FBI have to abrogate the rights of a U.S. Citizen and
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  • Long Before Luther
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Were the main ideas of the Protestant Reformation (sola fide and sola scriptura) novel ideas unheard of before Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses in 1517? One Protestant historian, Alistair McGrath claims that the idea of justification by faith alone
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  • Death at the Local School
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • A little over two weeks ago a teenager at Perry High School, near Canton Ohio, committed suicide. That is the SIXTH suicide in that school district in the past five months. Last week at the same school a teenager was
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  • Please Don’t Get Fooled
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The great political shell game is in full swing. Please dear friends, let us all be careful to not get caught in the politics of the hour and miss the point. What is happening on Capitol Hill right now is
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  • Up in Smoke
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • We got a hot one here! Just a few days on the air and the email responses are flying into our studio. We are talking about the legalization of marijuana this week on The Public Square and we have clearly
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  • Do You Know How Important You Are?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Funny, how in an age of over-inflated self-esteem, the acts of kindness that really matter, that are really important are so often overlooked. We somehow look at the “crowd” of mass media and see our reflection as small and unimportant.
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  • Darkest Hour
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • After watching “Darkest Hour” the other day with my family, I am reminded of this quote by Winston Churchill: “…Still, if will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when
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  • December 26
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • What is the day AFTER Christmas like for you? A day to take unwanted presents back to the store? A day to clean up or go back to work or just a day to lazily putz around the house? It
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  • Christmas 1942
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • What a difference a year can make. Only twelve months before the United States and Britain were reeling from massive defeats at the hands of the Japanese. The Pacific was a Japanese lake. The Germans were at the gates of
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  • Coal for Christmas
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The Republican Leadership, the Freedom Caucus, The Republican Study Group and the Trump Adminstration all decided to give non-profits, Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, schools and colleges and thousands of ministries and missions a collective lump of coal this Christmas. Regardless
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  • Where is Franck?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Today the U.S. Supreme Court is arguing about a wedding cake. Is this another sequel in the “Father of the Bride” film series? Where is Franck the wedding planner when we need him? For just a moment let us take
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  • It’s Gonna Get Messier
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Tax reform smax reform… Who cares about tax reform if the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans are destroyed in the process? That unfortunately is what the Establishment Republicans and their Progressive Democrat friends are about to do to
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  • George Washington Banned
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • It has come to this. The historic Christ Church has removed the plaque commemorating the membership of George Washington, the First President of the United States. The sight of his name and the history of his attendance in the Alexandria
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  • The Valley of Vision
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Over 25 years ago a pastor friend of mine introduced me to a book called “The Valley of Vision”. It is a collection of prayers by Puritans from 300-400 years ago. What beautiful expressions of faith to God! The Puritans,
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  • Some Things I am Grateful For
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • My wife and I have just returned from a missions trip with Samaritan’s Purse in Houston. We witnessed first hand some of the devastation in southeast Texas. We went past hundreds of homes and businesses that may have looked fine
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  • On Mandalay Bay
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • We have been talking about this a lot on radio stations across the nation. Something about the behavior of Mandalay Bay and those in charge of the investigation of the horrific shooting there is NOT right. This is a conspiracy
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  • Paper is Back
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Yes, Paper is back and yes we told the world it would happen. In the quest to spend money and look cool politicians all surged to convert voting machines to magical electronic booths. Only problem is, voters only use the
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  • Gettysburg National Park
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I was at Gettysburg the other day. I had not been there in about 20 years. It is an incredibly moving part of the American landscape. Warren Wiersbe told me, “It was the greatest slaughter of teenagers in American history.”
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  • 12 Years A Slave
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I have finally gotten around to reading the book “12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northrup. I have only seen snippets of the movie on YouTube…now I know why it earned an Oscar. The book is mighty compelling. It is
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  • Missing Moore
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Wapo, Huffpo and “the Times” will miss the point and the moment. They have to miss the real story behind Roy Moore’s election win to run for the U.S. Senate in a special December election. The fact that Roy Moore
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  • One Man Stood
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • His coach does not like it. His “owner” does not like it. The US Media does not like it. But what else could Alejandro Villonueva do? After three tours of duty, under fire, in Afghanistan, how could this decorated veteran
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  • ISIS in the Philippines
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The Philippines is the only country in Asia in which the vast majority professes belief in the Christian faith. However, their is a sizable minority of Muslims, living primarily on the southern island of Mindanao. The Muslims there far outnumber
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  • UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Major League Baseball is in an uproar over Apple technology being used to steal signs. The Commissioner of Baseball is reviewing the constitutional requirements to issue rulings and punishments against the Red Sox for an alleged complicated high-tech scheme at
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  • Antifa and Fascism
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • If you could sit down with someone from Antifa and ask them “What is fascism? What, historically speaking, has fascism believed for the last 100 years?”, what would they say? As I have been scanning the videos of the numerous
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  • Who Are The Antifa
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Who are these people? They call themselves “Antifa”, and they seem to have just popped up recently. The media has broadcasted numerous riots across the country, showing black-clad people (usually in their 20s and 30s) brandishing shields, baseball bats, and
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  • Justice from Where?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Wrap up all the protest, the marches, violence, smoke and blood. The people in the streets and their spokespeople on cable news all boil down their mission to a single word: Justice. What a word, what a concept what a
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  • Mayweather vs McGregor
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Well all the hype is over and the dust has settled, and Floyd Mayweather is still undefeated in his twenty year boxing career. He’s still the champ, and Conor McGregor should learn a lesson in humility. (But he probably won’t.)
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  • Flight 93 Memorial
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • My wife and I were recently traveling through the great state of Pennsylvania. While we were there, we noticed that the Flight 93 Memorial was just off the highway. On the spur of the moment, we decided to go. We
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  • Killing Columbus
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • “The problem with the world is America. So the person who ‘discovered’ this place and all the Europeans that followed are really to blame. In other words, the answer for modern man is remove all the white people or at
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  • The Establishment Whine
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • “Donald is not from around here, right.” That sort of sums up the comments of Senate President Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. In a recent speech back home, McConnell lamented that Trump’s expectations of the Legislative process are simply unrealistic and
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  • Dunkirk–the Movie
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I just saw the movie “Dunkirk”. If you have not seen it yet, go. Go now–before it leaves the silver screen and you are forced to watch it on DVD. You need to see it on a very large screen
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  • No, It is NOT Right
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • There is no way to put a pretty picture on this one. There is no hidden, better strategy that can justify the actions of the U.S. Senate on healthcare. We can all see the man behind the curtain so there
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  • Languages
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I guess I am always amazed at how some people (usually those living in Europe) can be fluent in multiple languages. I have studied several ancient and a few modern ones, but I am not “fluent” in any of them.
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  • A Psalm 37/73 Morning
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • We saw what happened in the wee hours of this morning. We saw the Progressives keep Obamacare on the books, led by Senator John McCain. By one vote the law no one ever read stays on the books. That was
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  • Chez Thony
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Sometimes, the happiest events are the ones you don’t expect. Such was our experience in Montreal with a restaurant called “Chez Thony”. Alice and I had walked for miles, uphill from the downtown area to go see a spectacular looking
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  • The Clueless Protest
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The ads are on the radio. “Call your Senator. Tell him/her to oppose the Republican healthcare plan.” But here is the question: have any of these people read the Republican plans in either the House or Senate version? Has a
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  • The Declaration
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • We celebrate this document every year. We can never talk about it too much. Sadly, we have stopped teaching this foundational element to America’s children. The 4th of July comes and goes as a picnic with fireworks but we forget
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  • Tolkien, Lewis, Aeneas, and Paul
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I have recently come across a discussion about the influence of certain ancient and medieval books upon C.S. Lewis…. particularly in relation to his conversion to Christ. Lewis loved reading the classics, whether it was Virgil’s “Aeneid” or Caesar’s “Gallic
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  • Joan of Arc
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • As I am currently reading Helen Castor’s book “Joan of Arc” I am struck by the wide variety of people whom God uses as He orchestrates history. Literary geniuses such as Boethius or Dante, theologians such as Augustine or Aquinas,
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  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • As I am reading more and more in Medieval and Renaissance history, I continue to have my pre-conceived ideas overturned. I am still reading (and re-reading) Thomas Cahill’s “Mysteries of the Middle Ages” (2006). I have been fascinated with some
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  • Sitting Ducks
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • It was a political shooting. A hate crime against Donald Trump and against Republican members of Congress. The Facebook page stated it in print. The shooter specifically asked if the people on the field were Republicans. This cannot be covered
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  • When You are Out of Ideas
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Progressives are out of ammo. Their signature policy of the 20th Century is marooned on the island of misfit toys. The fantasy that centralized government can do much of anything well is now hemmed in by a 20 trillion dollar
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  • Greater Than Less Than
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • We just left The Public Square® studio after a long conversation about the proposed Trump budget. The first question we asked was basic math. Which is bigger: 3.7 Billion or 4.1 billion? The answer does seem pretty obvious, right. Then
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  • Nations That Do Not Fight
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Europe has been invaded, colonized, and attacked by savages who call themselves jihadists. Their goal is the enslavement of the world in submission to Sharia. They immigrate, refuse to assimilate to European custom or laws, intimidate others to “respect” their
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  • Introducing, Dr. Ryan Reeves
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • You know I am a “history-nut”. I read books about Medieval history or the history of World War II or the history of ancient Mesopotamia just for fun. Well, I gotta tell ya…I have just discovered the GREATEST youtube channel
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  • The President Missed It
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • He is a big opportunity, this President. Lots of people can’t get past making him the object of their discontent. Sometimes he makes it easy to criticize. But this conversation is not about all the current hubbub in the world
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  • The Sad Truth
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • There is a lot more work to do. Yes, we tried to remind everyone that Congress governs the nation. We tried to expose the fallacy that a single election of a President would fix it all. The delusion of our
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  • The History Erasers
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I have just read that the city council of New Orleans has finally begun the removal of a memorial and three statues that they deem offensive. The memorial is to the Battle of Liberty Place (a bloody riot between the
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  • Giovanni Francesco Bernardone
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I usually read about six or seven books at once. I can’t help it. So, right now I am also reading Thomas Cahill’s “Mysteries of the Middle Ages” in which he tells several fascinating stories about real people in real
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  • The War Letters
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Here is a great place to start. Gather up your loved ones and friends. Pour a generous serving of your favorite beverage. Turn on your phone app or laptop or tablet or home computer and log onto thepublicsquare.com. Then take
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  • Savonarola and Revival
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I am currently reading some books about the Italian Renaissance. One book is “Death in Florence– the Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City” by Paul Strathern (2015). Much of the book is about the
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  • Who Wants to Live Forever?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Lots of people are asking this question, including a whole host of Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley billionaires, and giants in high tech. They are thinking about living forever – here. They are spending hundreds of millions to develop hardware and
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  • Jordan Versus Trump
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • No contest. I know Jim Jordan. I have known him since before he was in politics, when he was a wrestling coach and a home school dad. Wrestlers around the nation know the Jordan boys. They are more than survivors.
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  • Eichman and the Banality of Evil
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Adolf Eichman was an “Oberstrumbannfuhrer” (Lt. Colonel) in the SS in World War II. He was hand picked by SS General Reinhard Heydrich to manage the logistics of transporting millions and millions of Jews to be murdered in the Nazi
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  • Quit Calling It a Repeal
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • A law is not repealed when it is left on the books and you reserve the right to utilize over 1100 provisions contained within that law. So can we please quit pretending. The current bill on Obamacare in the House
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  • Asking Questions
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • I watched Dr. Tom Price on a CNN “Town Hall” the other night. Who is Tom Price? He is a Physician, former member of Congress and now the Secretary of Health and Human Services in charge of Obamacare. No, Congress
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  • Dealy Plaza
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I just recently came back from a visit to Dallas Texas. An unusual city. . . no shopping area filled with restaurants in the downtown area (unlike New York or Chicago). We wandered into a Western Wear store where I
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  • The Inspiration of Broadway
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Music often notes a change of heart or mind. Music even notes changes in culture. We sing Yankee Doodle and teach it to our children when they learn of the War for Independence. We sing Yankee Doodle Dandy because of
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  • From a Diner in Kentucky?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • So the Democrats had to come up with a response to President Trump’s first address to Congress. How easy should that have been? After eight years of the most elegant rhetoric from President Obama surely the Democrats would have someone
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  • The 442nd RCT
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • They were Americans, willing to fight and die for America. And they were “nisei”– “second generation” Japanese who were born and raised here in the USA. Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had all of the
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  • Wannsee Conference
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • It was a conference of 15 high ranking Nazis, lasting only an hour and a half. But it was a meeting that sealed the fate of millions of Jews in Europe who were enduring Nazi occupation. Reinhard Heydrich, second in
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  • Operation Paperclip
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Many, many years ago as I studied World War II my mind was filled with stories of the Allies valiantly fighting the evil Nazis and Imperial Japanese and in the end we vanquished all the evil empires and brought the
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  • Unit 731
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • Unit 731. Unit 1644. Unit 100. These were the main killing units of the Imperial Japanese military’s experiments in biological and chemical warfare. From 1935 to 1945 Unit 731 and it’s “siblings” murdered an estimated 250,000 human beings in some
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  • The Evidence, Please?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Is it all a distraction designed to destroy a Presidency? It is driven by deep psychological needs and a profound hatred of an individual. If you stare at it or focus upon it you will be wasting a lot of
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  • Mad Judge Disease
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Once again the media, the parties, and the partisans are playing silly games with national defense and serious constitutional questions This time the contest is over the President’s Executive Order calling for vetting for immigrant refugees. Sadly, the federal Court
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  • DeVos – Who Knew?
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Who knew Betsy DeVos was a part of Lucifer’s legion of soul snatchers? Who could have imagined that this women was secretly hiding in the woods stirring a cauldron of potients and spells to destroy public education as we know
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  • The Marine Raiders
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • An elite force within an elite force? It was quite the radical idea over 70 years ago in the early years of World War II. But President Franklin Roosevelt had been captivated by the success of newly formed British commandos
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  • Wishing Will Not Make It So
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • Donald Trump kept his word. He nominated an outstanding candidate for the US Supreme Court. The folks at FOX News are spinning the story as if Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation by the US Senate is inevitable. But wishing does not make
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  • Washington Post Hacks Republicans
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • What would you call publishing a recording of a private meeting where the press and the public were specifically prohibited? Would you call that hacking into the content of a confidential meeting? Those darn Russians. Or not… This time is
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  • Merrill’s Marauders
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • By 1942 the US military saw the need for an elite light infantry unit that could penetrate deep behind enemy lines, destroy supply depots, intercept enemy convoys and communications, and seize key airfields. In 1943 the US Army created the
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  • Mr. Lincoln – Mr. Trump
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • This has to be written for the record. Please listen to this week’s edition of The Public Square®: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Please pay careful attention to the discussion of Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) visiting the Lincoln Memorial. We
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  • The Second Biggest Lie
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • The biggest lie of the past eight years has been the passage of Obamacare because it was a bill that not one of the Democrats read. The bill was passed in the Senate and the House with only the votes
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  • The Schumer Veto
  • By Dave Zanotti
  • For Democrat leaders the election of Donald Trump means war. Listen to their statements. Listen to Jerry Brown, the Governor of California. Listen to the threats and the rage. Listen to Chuck Schumer pledging to stop any and every Trump
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  • Colonel Rex Applegate
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • I love reading and writing about little known heroes who creatively did their job, and whose work had great impact. Rex Applegate is one of the unsung American heroes of World War II. He developed what would become the standard
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  • Philippe Kieffer
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • In the spring of 1940 Nazi Germany burst through the French and British armies and forced them to evacuate at Dunkirk. One French naval officer, Philippe Kieffer, fled to Great Britain in order to carry on the fight against the
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  • The Goumier
  • By Jeff Sanders
  • The government of France was knocked out of World War II in 1940, but not all of its fighting men. Charles De Gaulle (along with a few other French generals) led the charge to keep Frenchmen fighting against the Nazi
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  • CHIP SHOTS
  • By Dr. Charles McGowen
  • Community Health Improvement Project Specializing In Holistic Office Training and Treatment Services Goals: Chipping away at health care costs by improving the health of our local citizens. Methods: – Developing special clinics to deal with the two leading causes of
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  • A Healthier Plan
  • By Dr. Charles McGowen
  • Here are some positive solutions to health care reform. First Principles 1. Abide by the Constitution. 2. Do no harm – especially in the arena of civil rights including the rights of conscience, therapeutics and privacy. 3. Empower doctors and
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