I believe that if we are to restore our country to it’s former greatness, there are five areas in which restoration will need to be made in America.

1. Revive a concrete Faith in God
2. Rebirth Traditional Family Values
3. Renew a national pursuit of truth
4. Reclaim education without government intervention
5. Rebuild a legal system of natural law

Let me explain to you why I picked these five categories as what I am calling: The Five Pillars of American Restoration. I picked them because I truly believe that the problems in our country can all be largely mitigated by the restoration of these ideals. I also hold it to be true that our civil society cannot be restored without the restoration of these five ideals.

While I believe that all of these are essential to America’s recovery, I do hold that our lack of faith in God has been the main reason for our decay over the past century or so. Since I believe that restoring this faith in God is the first thing that we must do to save our country and the principles it was founded on, I have placed it first on the list.

Pillar#1: Restore a concrete faith in God

“A nation without God’s guidance is a nation without order. Happy are those who keep God’s law!” Proverbs 29:18 (Today’s English Version)

The second pillar of restoration will likely hit home for most of you, because it is the Re-birthing of traditional family values in the household. It is plain to me that without such re-birthing, we cannot be the nation of laws that we once were. In our society, the family has been distorted immensely to the point where it no longer resembles that purpose which God ordained for it. This is shown in many popular Hollywood productions. Read a review on The Kids Are All Right and you will see what I am talking about. This distortion has taken away the idea of the man being the head of the household, it has torn down the institution of marriage as being between a man and woman, and has minimized the role of parents to teach and instill values in their children, replacing that with what many call the nanny-state.

Pillar#2: Rebirth traditional family values in the home

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Ephesians 6:1-2 New International Version Bible

The third pillar of restoration is the renewing of a national pursuit of truth. In the midst of all of the name calling and smearing amongst our politicians and often times amongst citizens who disagree politically, as well as the continuous distortion of facts presented to us by media outlets, it is worth emphasizing a need to return to truth seeking. If we do not pursue the truth, we will fall. We must have judges who judge based on objective, factual evidence whether than political opinion. We must be capable as citizens to examine every side of an issue in order to tell what is right and what is wrong. It is critical that as citizens we pursue the truth in regards to our political views, so that we may find out for ourselves what is true, and not blindly follow political icons or parties like sheep.

Pillar#3: Renew a national pursuit of truth

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”-John 8:32 (New International version)

The fourth pillar of restoration is the reclaiming of education without distortion. It is my belief that as a nation we have failed to build an education system that enriches our students with good, well, education. I believe that teaching should be entirely left up to the private sector (private schools), and parents, not the Federal Government. Let me show you a quick example of why this is so. First though, let me tell you that I believe that whenever the Federal Government gets it’s hands on something, it cannot let go, but must (by nature) tighten it’s vice. This is why our Constitutional Republic was designed with checks and balances. That was so that the people can remain in control of their government, and not the other way around. However, in recent decades, the secular progressive movement whose ranks include the likes of Saul Alinsky, John Dewey, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to name a few historic examples, have slowly infiltrated society and are instituting their belief in a big, centralized government on it as a whole.

In this manner, the education sector has been infiltrated by progressives in the Federal Government, and the majority of children are now educated in public schools that are, of course, run by that same government. However, did you know that public schools are funded by taxes on every American citizen? Even for those who do not choose to take part in them. Furthermore, if you compared the cost of taxes on education with private school tuition, then private schools would be found to be cheaper? Public schools are funded by the entire population, rather than the minority who choose to put their kids in a private school. This is what produces the illusion that public schools are “free”. It is my firm belief that if we were to abolish public schools and taxes on education, and then encourage growth of private schools through the free market, then the overall cost would be substantially lower for the American citizen in comparison to today’s system.

Another problem with the public schools is that of the ideals taught therein. I have more to say about this in a future article, but for now we must move on for brevity purposes. For more information regarding the transformation of education in the public school system, you can visit the education page on the Eagle Forum website.

Pillar #4 Reclaim education without government intervention

5. He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,
6. so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Psalms 78:5-6

The fifth and final pillar of restoration is the rebuilding of natural law as a legal system. In case you are not familiar with the term natural law let me explain it to you. First off, It has been brought to my attention that there is a natural law party of the United States. I am not familiar with the party, and I cannot endorse that party as legitimate pursuers of natural law for that reason. Natural law, also known as higher law, is a set of laws that are believed by it’s advocates to be self evident by human nature (not that human nature is inclined naturally to obey them, for we are fallen creatures). Let’s examine the legal and cultural definitions for natural law:

It is important that we restore the principles of natural law in our nation as defined in the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. I want to show you two ways in which natural law no longer governs us as a nation.

Firstly, we have lost respect for the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For example: We have lost our respect for life by allowing abortions nationwide and rationing health care through health care “reform”. I and a friend debated on the subject at the Teens for Liberty forums.

Secondly, I think there has been a shift in the cultural mindset here in America in the past century. This shift has been aided by the progressives who have wormed there way into our legal system. This shift that I am speaking of is the shift from belief in the right to the pursuit of happiness, to the belief in a right to happiness itself. I call people who buy into this mindset: “entitlement seekers”. These are the people, many of whom my father has had to deal with in the past where he works, who would rather not get a job because they would rather sit at home and live off of the unemployment checks that they receive in the mail from the Feds.

Many of the lies that the progressive majority in Congress and especially in the Obama Administration circulate daily revolve around the premise that you are entitled to happiness. In effect they are attempting to replace the entrepreneurial spirit with that of socialism. There is a difference between every citizen having a level playing ground an an equal shot at the pie that the individual next to them has, and every citizen having an equal share of the pie. Of course, a full discourse on the issues with socialism will have to be saved for another posting, so I will go no further.

Those are the five pillars of restoration that I propose we should focus on repairing. A house divided upon itself cannot stand, and neither can a house stand whose pillars have been torn down. More on this to come soon so subscribe and stick around.

-Calvin Lyman

It is important to keep these type of situations in mind when analyzing  the flood of information that reaches us every day. Many times a society dwells on a particular issue until it is blown out of proportions, as was the case with the radio broadcasting of The War of the World’s in 1938.

Instances like these are worth our attention because they remind us to be very careful and open minded with our analysis of today’s news events.

Likewise, we should be equally careful when we consider The Hindenburg Omen, a technical analysis pattern that has been the subject of recent news reports. The Hindenburg Omen is a combination of many technical factors that attempt to measure the health of the stock market, and more specially, the NYSE. The Hindenburg Omen is meant to signal the increased probability of a stock market crash.

The reason why so many have been talking about this indicator is because of two recent confirmed instances of the Hindenburg Omen, both of which happened in the last couple of weeks (August 12th and August 2oth). Another almost appeared on the 23rd, but fell short of the prerequsites. These prerequisites are as follows:

1. The daily number of NYSE new 52 week highs and the daily number of new 52 week lows are both greater than or equal to 2.8 percent (typically, 84) of the sum ofNYSE issues that advance or decline that day (typically, around 3000)^[3]. An older version of the indicator used a threshold of 2.5 percent of total issues traded (approximately 80 of 3200 in today’s market).
2. The NYSE index is greater in value than it was 50 trading days ago. Originally, this was expressed as a rising 10 week moving average, but the new rule is more relevant to the daily data used to look at new highs and lows.
3. The McClellan Oscillator is negative on the same day.
4. New 52 week highs cannot be more than twice the new 52 week lows (though new 52 week lows may be more than double new highs).

Read this from The Wall Street Journal:

The Hindenburg Omen reared its ugly head late last week, signaling more doom and gloom as stocks plod along amid the dog days of summer.

The Omen, a technical indicator which uses a plethora of data to foreshadow a stock-market crash, was tripped again on Friday, marking the second time since Aug. 12 it has occurred. (It also came close on Thursday, but one of its criteria fell short.)

The latest trigger has prompted the Omen’s creator, Jim Miekka, to exit the market. “I’m taking it seriously and I’m fully out of the market now,” Miekka, a blind mathematician, said in a telephone interview from his home in Surry, Maine. “I would’ve probably stayed in until the beginning of September,” depending on how the indicators varied. “That was my basic plan, until the Hindenburg came along.”

The Omen has been behind every market crash since 1987, but significant stock-market declines have followed only 25% of the time. So there’s a high likelihood that the Omen could be nothing more than a false signal.

But that isn’t stopping Miekka from taking any chances, especially as September, typically the market’s worst-performing month, sits only one week away.

“It’s sort of like a funnel cloud,” he said. “It doesn’t mean it’s going to crash, but it’s a high probability. You don’t get a tornado without a funnel cloud.” He added he’s not currently shorting anything, although he may look to short Nasdaq stock index futures in the next few weeks, “depending on how the technicals go.”

Here are the statistics from Wikipedia:

From historical data, the probability of a move greater than 5% to the downside after a confirmed Hindenburg Omen was 77%, and usually takes place within the next forty days. The probability of a panic sellout was 41% and the probability of a major stock market crash was 24%. Though the Omen does not have a 100% success rate, every NYSE crash since 1985 has been preceded by a Hindenburg Omen. Of the previous 25 confirmed signals only two (8%) have failed to predict at least mild (2.0% to 4.9%) declines.

Earlier I said that it is important to analyze the situation before jumping on the band wagon on issues that are causing hysteria in the media and society. However, I believe there is a difference between fallacious hysteria and well founded anxiety based on statistics that are certainly anything but promising.

I hope that you take at least two things away from this article today: First, I have made it my aim to help you to remain on your guard for false information, as much of this is circulated in the media on a daily basis, as well as to develop a fact-based, well measured perspective on politics, so that you may have a better understanding of the truth.

Secondly, I hope that our analysis of the Hindenburg Omen has given you reason to be cautious (as well as diversified), if nothing else, in your investment practices because we are living in perilous times. In this case, the likelihood of The Hindenburg Omen forecasting a major stock market crash does not seem imminent, as it has only produced those results 25% of the time since it’s creation. However, every NYSE crash since 1985 has been predicted by the Hindenburg Omen. Furthermore, Jim Meikka, who invented the Hindenburg Omen, has pulled out of the market following the second occurrence on the 20th. Paul in 1 Corinthians 16:13 warns us to “Remain alert. Keep standing firm in your faith. Keep on being courageous and strong.”.

I as well urge you to remain alert.

In this article you will see how Cap and Trade accomplishes this feat, and who exactly is benefiting from it. It is highly important that we get this information out to as many as possible, so I ask that you click on the “share” button underneath this article and post it to your twitter, facebook, myspace or any other social networking website listed that suits you. Furthermore, I challenge you to look up everything I say and determine for yourself to see if the arguments that I present to you are reliable. After all, if you are debating with a progressive over the effects of Cap and Trade, you need to be able to provide a better defense than “because Glenn Beck or Teens for Liberty said so”.

As I said before, Cap and Trade is disguised as a bill that will reduce carbon output throughout the States. This will supposedly be done by allowing the creation and trading of “carbon credits” between factories in the US. These credits represent carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. Thus, the more credits, the more carbon dioxide you are allowed to put into the atmosphere. However, if this was really about saving the planet then there would be no allowing of the trading of these credits between factories.

Furthermore, the Cap and Trade legislation, if passed, will enforce regulations on gas emissions by forcing companies that emit more gas to give money to companies that emit less gas (Marxism!), all the while providing the Marxists with a get rich quick fix.

In order for this scheme to work, the progressives need a market for their “carbon credits”. Since they are selling imaginary items, they need to set up a market specifically for those items because no existing market will sell them. Enter the Joyce Foundation. The Joyce Foundation, on whose Board of Directors President Barrack Obama served in 2000 and 2001 gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.”

Now that the progressives have set up a market for their invisible products, they are in need of investors who will buy into the CCX. Not surprisingly, Al Gore’s company Generation Investment Management is one of the ones to buy into the CCX. Another company to pitch in is Goldman Sachs with the purchase of 10% of the Exchange.It is my opinion that the public trials of Goldman Sachs are just a distraction from the real deal. Goldman Sachs is posing as a scapegoat for Cap and Trade in order to get a piece of the multi trillion dollar pie as an end result.

So now that they have the market and some people who will buy into it, they are going to need the technology to run their new market.

Not to worry, here comes Franklin Reins, former CEO of Fannie Mae, who purchases the patent on November 7th, 2006. November 7th being the day following the Democrat’s take over of Congress. No doubt Reins waited until then so that he would have the assurance that enough members of Congress would back this bill before patenting it.

Side Note- I wonder, what the BoD over at Fannie thought about their CEO buying this technology? Fannie is a Government Sponsored Enterprise whose purpose, as stated in their mission statement: is to “provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.”

At this point in our investigation, we see that the progressives have pulled together a get rich quick market on which they can, well, get rich quick on. Furthermore, they can promote their socialist agenda all the while by regulating companies that emit more gas to give money to companies that emit less gas (This is where the Cap and Trade legislation comes in. Although it hasn’t passed yet, Republicans and Democrats are both working on it). They have investors who will buy into the CCX, and they have the technology to fuel this market.

They even have a means of escaping the consequences of their actions when they are caught red handed.

Whenever progressive’s are caught in their trickery, they dissolve into a maze of various progressive networks. For example, you may have heard that ACORN recently disbanded due to video evidence of ACORN speaking to two undercover conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute, where the activists ask two employees about how to shield their work from state and federal tax requirements. The supposed pimp also appears to ask the employees how to conceal underage girls from El Salvador brought into the country illegally to work for him.

After this video was produced, we heard of several ACORN chapters disbanding and its Federal funding being revoked. If you were like me, your first reaction was excitement that this shadowy organization that purportedly engaged in voter fraudulence in a close election that ended in favor of a marxist candidate for the Presidency was finally getting what it deserved.

However, after a closer look, it appears that ACORN is not disbanding, but rather transforming. Several chapters have been melting into other progressive groups around the country that share the same goals. Don’t believe me? Hear it from the words of Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN:

“First of all, let me set the record straight. Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We are transforming, of course. I’ve been transforming this organization since June of 2008. And, yes, we’ve had our financial woes, and, yes, we are fighting an unconstitutional ban on any government funding.”

In an interview with Lewis that National Public Radio’s Tell Me More is airing, the ACORN CEO says:

“We’ve gotten leaner and meaner and some of our state chapters have chosen to go their own way. We haven’t been able to maintain the resources, state by state, that we had. So we have gotten a little bit smaller. We’ve had to change some of our programming, but we’re not dead yet.”

I believe that the ability to find information about such things is a skill that we all must have if we are to succeed, so that we are not entirely dependent on media outlets in order to get our information. On that note, I have provided links to several places where you can get more information on this subject. Again I ask that you please click on the “share” button underneath this article and send this to your twitter page, facebook page, myspace or other social network.

Of course, just because we link to the content below, we do not necessarily endorse their views or source of information. I advise you to use the information provided here and elsewhere with caution, continually checking their accuracy. The spreading of misinformation is very dangerous to our cause.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/25/obama-years-ago-helped-fund-carbon-program-pushing-congress/

http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Chicago_Climate_Exchange

http://www.fanniemae.com/kb/index?page=home&c=aboutus

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/03/acorn_not_dead_yet_leader_asse.html

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=958482

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/032509_report00.pdf

In our public school systems, high school student are continuously bombarded with the theory of Evolution. The biggest problem with that is it is not presented as a theory but as fact. Now if it is really a fact then there is no problem with it, but the reason it is called a theory is because there is not sufficient evidence in order for it to be considered a scientific fact. In reality, there is a lot of evidence suggesting it’s falsity. William Demski is one of the scientists leading the charge for Intelligent Design and Creationism in the intellectual realm. I would like to look at some of his works and how they disprove the idea that evolutionary theory is not a theory but a scientific fact.

First, a few definitions might be helpful. Evolution is the theory that all things came about through natural selection, survival of the fittest, and mutations. It states that all matter came about by chance and/or necessity.

Intelligent Design suggests that a designer made the universe. it does not suggest who created it or how. Creationism is a scientific theory based on the Bible. It states that God created the heavens and the earth and that the Fall of Man, as well as the Great Fall, were both factors that have caused it to be in the decaying state that it is in now. Creationism goes one step further than the theory of Intelligent Design in that it attempts to explain both the whom and how of creation.

Demski states that there are only three ways for something to happen: necessity, chance, and design. If there is any design (not put into effect by humans or animals ect.) then there must be a designer and therefore Intelligent Design is correct and Evolution is wrong. So he set out on a way to prove that things on the earth had been designed by an intelligent designer. He uses something called the Explanatory Filter.

The filter works like this: We run something through it like a dog, and then we ask if it can be made by necessity. If there is any other way for it to have been made then it was not made by necessity. If it has specification and complexity, then it is not made by chance. If it is not made by the other two it must be made by design.

But before we use this there is something else we need to keep in mind: Even if the filter says something is made by necessity or chance than it might be made by design. i.e. A person can tip over a water glass just as easily as it happening by chance (in fact it might be more likely).

If if I run my dog, P.J, through the filter,  I first ask: “Did he have to be made exactly as he was in order to function the way in which he does”. the answer to this question is no. Second I  must ask myself: “Does he have specification and complexity”. Evolutionist think that dogs are highly complex (evolved) animals, so they can testify to it’s complexity. Also, I can tell him apart from other dogs, so he has specification from other species as well. So this means he was designed, if he was designed (and he obviously wasn’t designed by humans) there must be a Designer. This means that Intelligent Design is correct.

Scientists have no way of knowing that evolution is true but instead they try to brainwash our generation into believing so without so much as exploring opposing theories.

If this bill is signed into law on Thursday, it will set up a preliminary vote with only two options. The Puerto Rican population will vote on either maintaining the status of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or changing the status of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico to Statehood. If the majority of the population votes to change “to a different political status”, then a second vote would be scheduled in which voters would decide among three choices:

1. “Independence: Puerto Rico should become fully independent from the United States;”
2. “Sovereignty in Association with the United States: Puerto Rico and the United States should form a political association between sovereign nations that will not be subject to the Territorial Clause of the United States Constitution;” and,
3. “Statehood: Puerto Rico should be admitted as a State of the Union.”

This bill would allow a simple plurality of the people to decide in favor of Statehood if they so chose. The majority of voters have voted against such admittance to the Union three times before, making it clear why this legislation calls for only a plurality of votes between three possible choices.

Another serious danger of passing this legislation would be the fact that Puerto Rico would have the equivalent of 25/50 States in regards to Congressional Representation. In this time of crisis in our country, when the national debt is soaring, our President and his constituents are anti-capitalists, and socialism has already been implemented in areas such as health care and car dealerships(Remember GM? I have an update on that story that I will share with you).

The bottom line is that this push for Puerto Rican Statehood would force Puerto Ricans to vote in a biased ballad, allowing a plurality the opportunity to over rule the opinions of the majority. In addition to this, Puerto Rico would then have the same Congressional Representation as twenty five U.S. States. This is not the time for a 51st State, and the Democratic Majority in Congress is pushing this because they stand to gain several seats in both Houses.

The vote is this Thursday, so please call/e-mail your Representatives urging for them to vote “no” on H.R.2499.

-Calvin

These are the lyrics from Mark Lindsay’s 1969, one hit wonder, Arizona. But, I think we need to add some honorary lyrics to this song!  How about: Arizona, land of the illegal immigrants, or even better! How about: Arizona, where the illegal’s run wild and free. It seems to fit the song perfectly!

Living in Arizona, I know first hand the truthfulness of these lyrics!  Our borders are virtually unprotected allowing hundreds of Mexicans to come across the border illegally each year!  Not only does this steal jobs from us legal Americans, it causes a national security threat!

Just this year, Arizona has lost three American life’s to illegal aliens.  They are pouring across the border in hopes for a better life, they are searching after the American dream!  This is one thing I respect.  They see what our country has to offer!  The only thing they seem not to see though are the laws of the land!  Now, do not get me wrong:  I support immigration 100%.  Its what makes our country great!  We are the melting pot!  But I do not support immigration if it means that immigrants will be coming in illegally!!  ITS ILLEGAL!

This week when the story about a new immigration bill in Arizona hit the national news I was thrilled! This bill will crack down on illegal immigrants and will give the police authority to question suspected illegal immigrants.  Although the national news makes this out as if Arizona is split over this issue, here locally we are thrilled!  We are tired of illegal’s taking our jobs and killing our people!

Last week this really hit me hard.  One of my good friends was shot twice ,by an illegal, in an attempted to break into his house.  This is why this bill needs to be passed!  I am not saying that all illegal immigrants are bad people.  All I am saying is that illegals are in fact illegal, and we MUST do something to stop these people from crossing our borders illegally.

-Daniel

We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.

This message is the core of the Tea Party Movement, and we must all grasp it  in order to preserve freedom. Truth always wins in the end, and when we fight for God’s side, peacefully, non-violently and yet boldly, we will be fighting for the truth. I think it would be worth your time to read this inspirational Declaration, and to sign it in order to show where you stand.

-Calvin

Many mistakenly read this speech as a call to return to the early Progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. But the truth is that Congressman Ryan was making the argument that conservatives need to understand the progression of the progressives (pun intended), so that we may be better armed to defeat it.

This story gained national attention when Glenn Beck made the same mistake on his radio program this past week. Glenn later admitted that they had not been thorough in their research. The congressman was invited to be on the program, where he set the record strait. I took a look at his website: AmericanRoadmap.org, and I think that what I found is worth repeating so that there is no doubt in anyone’s mind as to this man’s credibility.

At AmericanRoadmap.org Rep. Ryan lays out the many problems facing America in extensive detail, and then gives his propositions on how to solve them. He obviously understands the progressive movement better than almost any other politician in Washington, and his website is chock full of good information that every American should know.

A politician who understands and opposes Progressivism at the same time is very rare, so I want to ensure that he gets the recognition that he deserves. -Calvin

We cannot allow the Federal Government so much more power that is constitutionally reserved to the state and local governments. With this power the Federal Government could shut down any financial business for any reason. Obama or any other future President could use this power to takeover any financial business that are particularly vocal in their opposition to his policies, or fund political opponents. The checks and balances put on the separate branches of government were put there for a reason, and this bill would tip the scales, giving the Federal Government yet more power that they should not have. Remember, a government that is big enough to give you everything, can take it all away.

For more on the Financial Regulations Bill, visit here.

check out this video by Trent Franks (my local congressman)