You look at the old and the new testament there is a consistent and clear teaching the we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion, to defend our rights within that government which of course in the United States means our rights under the constitution and the bill of rights, freedom of speech, to assembly, freedom of religion, all those things that are our birthright and then secondly as a witness of our faith. In the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and prolife and profamily and faithful roman catholics to back trump in 2016 and today my argument in the book is if you look at where he stands on the issues that they would define as moral issues central to their faith, issues like the right to life, the right to religious freedom, defense of the state of israel, moving the court in the direction of respect for the constitution and the bill of rights is not legislating from the bench, treating the courts as a legisla
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Million jobs in may and that the report would show us the abyss. They forecast the Unemployment Rate to rise to a depression era level of 20 . They couldnt have been more wrong. And god help them, many of them seemed shaken to learn that once again the president who has withstood plots to troy his candidacy destroy his candidacy, to then overthrow his presidency and then impeachment and a deadly contagion of the chinese virus that has staggered this incredible economy and the worlds greatest nation. The Labor Department today reporting that employment, stunningly, rose by 25 million in may 2. 5 million in may. The jobless rate instead of 20 declined to 13. 3 . And those incredible, positive numbers serving as a testament to the resiliency of the american worker. As well as the president s push to safely reopen the economy and the nation that had been virtually shut because of the china virus. President trump understandably ecstatic, ebullient about todays news. He held a News Conferenc
Of the coronavirus, the slow sometimes bumpy reopenings across the country, to say nothing of the protest and a lot of people on wall street say hey you arent jiving with whats happening on main street and then low and behold we get this stunning jobs report that changes the equation and has people thinking that you know what . Maybe the markets have been right all along as they again tease record territory, virtual ly all of the s p 500 sectors are advancing right now, and the rate on a long bond here a 10 year note as is better known, man oh, man thats practically hyper inflation. Were just around 1 ,. 93 who would have thought a year ago if i were to give you a quote like that that id say it is rocket ing backwards, but it is, especially from where we were, not too many weeks ago remember we were darn near 0 they were talking about negative rates. Were not out of that mathematical woods here but it does change the overall sense of where were going with this market. Jackie deangelis
Off to grandfathers house we go because that is the best way to avoid the state Police Checkpoints on highway 37. As is traditional President Trump has pardoned the turkey at the white house. Any chance have the governors of maine or michigan or new jersey pardoning their hairdressers or gym owners or restaurant . Not a chance. Those guys have to be stopped and carved up as an example to any others among our rulers subject minded to get a little restless. 400 years after the puritans set sail because they wished to hold open public religious services, open religious services deem nonessential. In the old country, you had to hold them in private houses but dont even think about doing that. If you shake off the coffers and make it to the homestead, what is the maximum number of persons freeborn americans is allowed to have in his home this thanksgiving . In arkansas, colorado, connecticut, delaware on and on commit is ten. In kentucky it is eight people from no more than two cohouseholds