Vote Constitution, Freedom First
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Corrupt government, corrupt media threaten America
The marriage of a corrupt government with a corrupt media means the most dangerous enemy the American people have ever faced is at the door.
Should we be surprised? According to the Center for Public Integrity, professional journalists originally born to protect our nation from a tyrannical and corrupt government donated $382,000 to the Clinton campaign, or 94 percent of total donations, with $14,000 designated to Donald Trump. That 27-to-1 disparity mirrors the print space and airtime ratio the media devotes to alleged Trump inappropriate conduct toward women …. and an open but seldom covered pipeline of governmental misconduct.
Because you won’t read it in the New York Times or hear former Bill Clinton Communication Director George Stephanopoulos ponder it in his established role as ABC News anchor, web-search “Clinton WikiLeaks,” “Administration bribes FBI,” “DOJ scandals,” “IRS targets conservatives,” “Vets care poor, delayed at VA,” “Obamacare on brink of collapse,” “Whitehouse intimidates Chief Justice John Roberts in Obamacare ruling, “E-mails bleached, 30,000 missing,” “100 agents outraged at FBI decision to not charge Clinton with felony,” “Clinton campaign and media collusion,” “Clinton argues for common market, open borders,” “Clinton spokesman mocks Catholics and evangelicals as severely backwards,” or Hillary’s War Room assault on women Bill assaulted.” And now you’ve scratched the surface of news not reported.
No worries, though. The same networks that bring your 10 year-old son the filthiest assaults on women 24/7, in full color yet, stand ready to bring you the “Donald Gropes Marathon.” There is, after all, a queen to coronate.
Instead of relying on a selectively blind watchdog stuck on one issue, vote on just one issue yourself November 8. The United States, the Constitution and your freedoms guaranteed by it will live or forever perish with the presidential nominations of three to five lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.
Trump recently released a highly praised and expanded list of 21candidates from which he will nominate to the Supreme Court. Each was selected, first and foremost, based on constitutional principles, with input from respected conservative leaders. Clinton’s list remains as lost as an e-mail … or 30,000.
“We have a very clear choice in this election,” Trump said. “The freedoms we cherish and the constitutional values and principles our country was founded on are in jeopardy. The responsibility is greater than ever to protect and uphold these freedoms, and I will appoint justices, who, like Justice Scalia will protect our liberty with the highest regard for the Constitution. This list is definitive and I will choose only from it in picking future Justices of the United States Supreme Court. I would like to thank the Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation and many other individuals who helped in composing this list of twenty-one highly respected people who are the kind of scholars that we need to preserve the very core of our country and make it greater than ever before.”
But your presidential choice goes so much deeper than the Supreme Court, which hears fewer than 100 cases a year. The 13 federal courts of appeals handle 35,000 cases. More than one-third of the 179 judges on federal appeals courts were appointed quietly by Obama, who also successfully appointed 268 judges to the U.S. District Courts, which are the lower federal courts.
“It’s hands-down the most fateful issue of the election,” said Texas State Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, who is on Trump’s short list. “When Americans vote in November, they’re choosing not just a president but thousands of presidential appointees, including hundreds of life-tenured judges.”
Obama’s promise to fundamentally transform the United States of America by reshaping the federal judiciary has been comprehensive, dramatic and under the radar. When Obama entered the Oval Office, liberal judges controlled just one of the 13 circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Fifty-five successful presidential nominations later, liberal majorities now control nine of those appeals benches, or 70 percent. And the transformation will continue with Clinton.
Knowing that we can remove Trump in four years if warranted, but an obese and tyrannical government lead by the radical courts appointed for life will still be our great-grandchildren’s enemy, the real question for the American voter is, why not stop Clinton now with the ballot? Our country depends on it.
When Our Country Hangs in the Balance….
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” ─George Washington
Arnold Friberg painted “The Prayer at Valley Forge” to celebrate our country’s bicentennial in 1976. His now famous painting has been an important part of American history, reminding us of the days our country hung in the balance.
It was during the cold, long winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge that General Washington sought God’s help, in the woods, alone and on his knees, a story well documented in the historical records. Isaac Potts, 26 years old, was a resident of Valley Forge and a Quaker opposed to the war. He supervised the grinding of the grain that Washington ordered the neighboring farmers to bring to his army and came upon the scene never to be forgotten.
“I tied my horse to a sapling and went quietly into the woods, and to my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other,” said Potts. "Such a prayer I never heard from the lips of man. I left him alone praying. I went home and told my wife, 'I saw a sight and heard today what I never saw or heard before.’ We never thought a man could be a soldier and a Christian, but if there is one in the world, it is Washington. We thought it was the cause of God and America could prevail."
To the best of my ability, I will follow God’s Commandments. To the best of my ability, I will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Dick Ellis, Publisher
The Constitution offers the greatest gift we have as Americans, the ability to remove or elect leadership non-violently, with the ballot.
Before you vote, ask for help.
Information on judiciary appointments provided courtesy of the Heritage Foundation.