Remarkably, many news articles are citing confusion in trying to understand why U.S. Undersecretary of War, Elbridge Colby, announced the suspension of U.S. participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense with Canada. However, the announcement comes immediately after his meeting with U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, at the Pentagon and the comment, “we’re […]

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“GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Indeed, I pray that God finds something worthy in us and in our ongoing experiment in self-government. It would be quite a lovely thing if, in many ways, God were on our side.

However, if we were both intellectually and spiritually honest, we should pray for us to be ever more on God’s side. No human being can ever conform ourselves perfectly to any ideal. We always fail to fully live up to our own most cherished ideals.

This is because human beings are not theoretical. We cannot help but be who we genuinely are, warts and all. Inspired by idealism, we might be guided by the better angels of our nature. Or, consumed by self-indulgence, we might not. In any case, our human nature’s conspicuous limitations should keep us humble.

One reason that we humans can never achieve any form of perfection is because “perfection”—as we understand it—is limited to embodying some thinker’s uncompromising ideal. These crystalline constructions can only exist apart from reality’s many exceptions, caveats, corollaries, and nuances.

Because of all of these limitations, utopian conceptions are emotionally safe. By denying the relevance of anything not specifically indicated by their ideology, a true believer hides from reality by deadening their own ability to even recognize anything objectively.

Such zealots willfully refuse to acknowledge even the existence of anything which might call their guiding philosophy into question. Others who live outside of their collective understandings, must be damned as being either mentally incompetent or spiritually malicious. To these impassioned believers, their ideology is all-encompassing and sufficient to explain life, the universe, and everything.

What I have described above is a self-reinforcing delusionary understanding of what human life is and of what human society is for. Unwilling to inhabit a world that operates according to laws and instrumentalities beyond their understanding, the true believer retreats into a secondary creation of his own making.

Sadly, this is what Communists, National Socialists, Woke Progressives, Religious Fundamentalists (Christian, Islamic, Hindu, and otherwise) all do. Here I am not speaking about devout religious believers. I am referring to those few who believe that they possess an unabridged version of God’s rulebook. Such people actually claim to know with certainty who among their fellow men are saved or are damned.

Rejecting a reality that transcends their limited human understanding, these desperate believers stridently demand that their philosophical model of reality IS reality. To them, nothing that is undreamt of in their philosophies can be acknowledged to exist.

This is why our society has fractured. This is why it is impossible to reason with certain people about anything and with many people about some things; because any pretense at being objective has been abandoned by so many of our neighbors. To them, reality beyond their ken is a lie.

A person who rejects humility before an infinite and eternal creation, which dwarfs anyone’s human understanding, cannot even want to be on anyone’s “side” except his own. Such a person certainly cannot be on God’s side, not unless God is in lockstep with his ideology.

An America dominated by such a brittle fanaticism cannot be blessed by God. People of good will and of good sense should stand against the proliferation of such a narrow zealotry anywhere and everywhere it is encountered.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is reportedly warning Senate Republicans that moving ahead this week with a major budget reconciliation package could keep Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in Washington days before his Texas Republican runoff against Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, has been evacuated after the Sandy Fire spread to over 836 acres.

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The United Kingdom’s slide from Great Britain to Great Appeasement keeps picking up steam. Swamped by years of legal and illegal immigration from the Muslim world, the nation that gave […]

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President Donald Trump announced Monday that TrumpRx.gov is expanding the number of drugs it offers nearly sevenfold by adding 600 generics to its website.

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One of the most dramatic characters of the O.J. Simpson trial that captivated the United States three decades ago has died. Mark Furhman, the former Los Angeles police detective who […]

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) recently fell under media scrutiny for praising the American branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), a charity that the U.S. State Department, multiple banking institutions, and several other governments have severed ties with due to concerns of terrorism and antisemitism.

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