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There has been a cry for restitution payments to Blacks because neither they nor their ancestors have endured slavery at the hands of white Americans in the distant past, nearly 200 years ago. There are so many problems with this idea it’s hard where to start. First, 200 years is longer than any mortal lifetime. No black has experienced slavery in modern American history. Indeed, no white enslaver or their descendants can be located to pay restitution for their ancestors. Suppose you could provide the link. Suppose you can’t prove all the links between all the blacks and the original enslavers. In that case, white Americans are paying blacks their hard-earned money for no reason..

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The question of whether the death penalty was moral and just, even cruel and inhuman punishment, first came to my attention when I was a kid over fifty years ago and continues to this day. The first death penalty began in 6400 BC. As a kid, I had little experience with life. I believed that if someone took, they deserved to have theirs taken in return. This opinion reversed evolved as a child, so I believed in the possibility of reform, but then I began to experience life, like being shot at and having a gun held to my head by a Mexican policeman. I realized that life and men could be cruel, and my earlier perception was naïve. Maybe murders can't be reformed. And what about justice for the victim's family? Don't they deserve an eye for an eye?

I hadn't thought of the death penalty for years until I heard that Oregon's mayor, Kate Brown, had commuted/deferred seventeen death sentences on death row to life imprisonment without parole, saying the death penalty was immoral.

The first thing I thought of was justice for the victim's families. The second thing I thought of was the cost of imprisonment the taxpayers would bear. At the same time, they have already incurred the price of a trial to convict a guilty murderer. A jury of this murderer's peers convicted this man. What right does this Governor have to reverse the people's legal wishes on seventeen counts, and what does this say to the people of Oregon considering murder?

Whether the death penalty deters murders is too confusing to answer. Some believe that a society that condemns murderers is so brutal that it causes murder. I am not of that belief. Although my faith in Jesus tells me, He forgives all sins. We'll be judged when we go before God. Taking the life of another would be hard to explain, and God has a special place reserved for sinners I wouldn't care to visit.

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Now that the republicans have the numbers in the House of Representatives, they have the brawn to begin effective legislation to take back our country from the Biden Admiration's disasters. To be effective, they will need to use their brains to get things passed the democratically controlled Senate and White House. In addition, they'll want to show the American People that a Republican-controlled government is worth voting into office in 2024.
They're already behind the eight ball. Bypassing the spending bill at year end, the government is funded till September 2023. This means they can't use government funding as leverage to get something passed the way the democrats just did.

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Most people associate the word “faith” with their belief or connection with their deity. One definition of faith is a strong belief in God. Some say faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something. My father held no severe belief in God until his final days when his death was inevitable. True faith lends courage. His religious-like effort centered on his job and the domination of others to elevate his position in life. He mistrusted others and often sabotaged “friends” careers for his betterment. To his credit, his hard work was to make the best life for his family. I can’t complain since I was one of the recipients of his eventual wealth. My most significant complaint was how he treated friends, family, and especially his wife. He cheated on my mother poorly by openly cheating on her. My parents divorced after fifty years of drunken arguments, causing me to learn from their unhappiness or suffer a similar fate in life.

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I'm not a conspiracy advocate but a writer with reasonable observation skills and intelligence. My wife, Monica, and I are similar to many families. We discuss local and world news during dinner. Our son, Mike, lives locally with his Norwegian pet elkhound, Sven. He comes to dinner weekly so we can get in our puppy fix. Mike is the lone liberal Bernie Sanders hold-out in a strongly conservative family. He stays out of our traditional political discussions but keeps us grounded with intelligent input to balance any radicalism.

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In the nearly rabid days since the reversal of Roe versus Wade, the insanely vain crying for women's rights have forgotten the rights of the fully-grown child they wish torn apart by abortion in its last trimester. They have forgotten their creator and the will of God. Those seeking women's rights deny the miracle of billions of years of evolution by denying human beings the right to reproduce and replicate their species. Nature intended our species to produce. The process would have been impossible rather than enjoyable if it hadn't. That is common sense. If God had not wished for the continuation of His creation. He would have forbidden it. He didn't! There is a simple solution to abortion and the death of an innocent child. It is called: ADOPTION! Let the child live and be shared with a loving family that cherishes the gifts and opportunities of that life.

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From my first book “Second Chance” to my monthly blogs, I’ve never hidden my pride in being an American or my love of living in the United States of America. Saying you have pride in America nowadays is akin to claiming you are slaughtering neighborhood strays. Power-hungry liberals would have us all hating each other and our country even if they have to let in a whole new nation to do it through open borders and teaching our most vulnerable children to hate their country and families with CRT. I’m fortunate to have raised my son in the Catholic Church Nuns and priests taught him reading, writing, and math. There were no drag queens teaching gender identity.

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Some fifty-one years ago, our country was in chaos as well. We came out of the turbulent 1960s when drug abuse and political protests were ramped. People were terrified about where the country was headed. There was deep concern about the proper raising of the nation’s children. A movie came out in 1971 to voice the betrayal of our children’s innocence called “Bless the Beasts and Children”. The film is an exciting story starring Billie Mummy (Will Robinson from Lost in space). Still, it has a sad ending when a child is shot to death while committing a crime to save the thinning of a Bison heard by “sport” hunters. Karen Carpenter sang the famous title song, “Bless the Beasts and children.”

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