We lack leadership today in just about every area of our society. I have followed politics for a long time. Admittedly most of that time I was clueless but there is some discernment to be had if discernment is truly what one desires. So I have formed some strong opinions on who is available today for wise leadership in America and I'll give you two names here. The first I have written about often in these posts. Some very influential Conservatives wanted him to run for president in this last general election cycle but he chose not to. At the time he was in the United States Senate. Today he is the president of the Heritage Foundation. His name is Jim DeMint. I've written before and will repeat it here, he's not only another Reagan...he's a better than Reagan... and maybe Republicans will become aware of this some day. The second was a one-term Congressman from Florida before every piece of artillery the Democrat Party had was aimed at him in the last election. His name is Allen West. Both men have recently authored books and I highly recommend them to you. Jim DeMint's is titled Falling In Love With America, Again while Allen West's is Guardian Of The Republic. The following post is from earlier this year:
I Will Restore Judges
Federal judges are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. They wield considerable power not only in the lives of the trial participants but into every area that their decisions effect. There are less than 1000 federal judges in the United States, the top ring of which is our Supreme Court.
A decision rendered in a U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is in the news because of its subject matter and more. The Virginia same-sex marriage ban has been struck down in it, and this on Valentine's Day....how quaint, or more accurately....how Barack Obama, for the judge is an Obama appointee, and it was only a few days ago that Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice will expand efforts towards recognition of same-sex marriage in all states. But this is not the news that I'm writing about in this post.
This federal judge delivered an opinion with an error that is mind-boggling. How did it get by the law clerks? How does a federal judge make such a mistake? Written in the opinion was this "Our Constitution declares that 'all men' are created equal'." How much time has this judge spent reading the Constitution? I can only imagine how a One L would be excoriated by making a mistake such as this. John J. Osborn Jr., author of the 1970 novel The Paper Chase, would have had fun with Professor's Kingsfield's abusing one of his One Ls for such a blunder.
A federal judge might conceivably speak this error for about a moment, but for it to be written down and pass muster before being added to the Federal Record is another thing. Filling judgeships is just one avenue being used to circumvent our Constitution. That line added to the judge's opinion is from our Declaration of Independence. Marvelous as it is, and as influential as it is, it is not law.
In one of Abraham Lincoln's earliest speeches (1838) he said this "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
We have rejected God. The book of Isaiah begins as Judah is likened to Sodom and Gomorrah.... but forgiveness and mercy are offered via repentance... "And I will restore judges as at the first, and your councilors as at the beginning." (1:26)
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