If ever a picture is worth a thousand words, it is the painting of George Washington kneeling and praying by his white horse in the snow at Valley Forge. Because of our forefathers’ prayers and sacrifice, our families enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas by warm fires, stuffing our bellies, and watching football.

In spite of the freezing winter of 1777, the divine seeds of liberty were growing in the hearts of our troops. Even while most observers agreed with John Adams’ conclusion: “The prospect is chilling on every side; gloomy; dark, melancholy, and despairing,” Washington’s faith was the Continental Army’s most powerful weapon. Washington sought guidance to overcome previous defeats, retreats, and how his men would survive the freezing winter. Our forefathers paid the price of liberty with their lives, fortunes, and sacred honors. Let us pray to the same God who guided and answered Washington’s prayers.

Imagine the dark outlook endured by soldiers, half-naked, leaving bloody footprints in the snow of 1777. The Continental Army all but beaten after September’s retreat from New York. Suffering defeat at Brandywine: 200 troops killed, 500 wounded and 400 captured. How did the troops endure the dark gloom when Philadelphia fell to the British? They were a destitute army with soaked ammunition as their only weapon. No one today suffers the hunger our soldiers endured at Valley Forge: “One soldier’s meal on Thanksgiving Day declared by Congress was a “half a gill of rice (1/4 of a standard pint, 2 oz of rice), and a tablespoon of vinegar.”

Beaten down with defeat, the count of 4,000 soldiers was incapacitated in January and February of 1778, resulting from exposure, undernourishment, and disease. Historian George Bancroft tells us that “love of country and attachment to General Washington sustained them through these unparalleled hardships, and that without his leadership, the army would have dissolved and vanished.” Tory Quaker Issac Potts, after observing the source of Washington’s power, praying in the snow, related to his wife, “Independence will be established because God in His Providence has willed it so because Washington was the only one on earth the Lord would listen to.”

Prayers were answered that spring, cheering our soldiers as France entered the war as an ally with the promise of French money and troops. The Continental Congress acknowledged this as the hand of God, declaring a National Day of Thanksgiving on May 7th following Washington’s orders issued at Valley Forge on May 5th of 1778. He proclaimed:

“It having pleased the Almighty Ruler of the Universe propitiously to defend the cause of the United American States, and finally by raising up a powerful friend among the Princes of the earth, to establish our Liberty and Independence upon a lasting foundation; it becomes us to set apart a day for gratefully acknowledging the Divine Goodness, and celebrating the event which we owe to his benign interposition.”

Yes, the political climate of our day is gloomy as globalists move to control our lives. Read Psalms 2, where David tells us that “the Lord laughs at the Kings of the earth and the rulers who counsel together against Him.” Pray that our people once again will rise up in a thundering appeal to the same God our fathers relied on for divine protection. Who was, who is, and who will always be, “The great I Am.” Just as at Valley Forge, prayer was the Continental Army’s greatest asset. Today, it still remains our most powerful weapon.

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The fiasco that was the COVID response continues to find new broken ground as the truth seeps like sand between the fingers of a despotic American government.

An institution that was deliberate in its deception, forceful in its demand for compliance, and has yet to be held accountable for the damage it has done.

Lieutenant Ted Macie is an active-duty officer with the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps who serves as a health administrator and medical recruiter. His wife Mara Macie is running for Congress in Florida’s Fifth District. Both have been speaking out against the Pentagon’s COVID jab mandate and its treatment of service members who objected.

In a video uploaded to social media, Lt. Macie cited a July letter from U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness Gilbert Cisneros Jr. acknowledging the authenticity of previously exposed data from the Pentagon’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), which shows that 2021 saw drastic spikes in a variety of diagnoses for serious medical issues over the previous five-year average, including hypertension (2,181%), neurological disorders (1,048%), multiple sclerosis (680%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer, (487%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism (468%), migraines (452%), ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), and tachycardia (302%).

The military vaccine mandates have proven to be one of the most effective attacks on US Military readiness in our lifetime. A chemical injection mandated by our government, justified by a virus if paid to an engineer, is released from a lab in China.

The numbers are staggering, but on the matter of fighter pilots, those people don’t grow on trees, and replacing them doesn’t happen overnight.

If you’d like to talk about an insurrection, perhaps you start with the money and permission trail that led to the virus and then the chain of command for mandating the poisoning of our troops.

“There is a complete lack of trust in the military ‘leadership’ among those who were not only involuntarily separated, but also those who walked away (including just shy of retirement), those who fought from within but were flagged for promotion, those who didn’t want to take the shot but were coerced, and us family members who have been told that our community’s mental and physical health is important to that alleged leadership,” Mara Macie said on X.

“Accountability is the only answer,” she continued. “Every single voice of servicemembers who suffered because of these ILLEGAL mandates should be heard before Congress. Every single military ‘leader’ who was informed by servicemembers presenting them with the law and still did nothing should be investigated until we remove all those who put their careers above the mental and physical safety of our servicemembers and their families.”

Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen who cannot trust the chain of command present a huge problem for the service and the nation. And you’d be right to wonder if that were not the point. And if that is the case who decided what, and when, and what is their endgame?

And if it was just a mistake? What are those people still doing in positions of power?

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Most things in this world change over time. There is an ebb and flow to life, and if we do not think we are heading in the right direction, we can be comforted that the pendulum will eventually swing back. That ball has been swinging to the Left for what seems like years, and it felt like the whole world was embracing Socialism.

We who believe in history know the experiment is not working now, nor did it in the past. It would help if you looked no further than Venezuela and Cuba. A major problem we face, if we hope to change course, is an entire generation of our children have been indoctrinated to believe our country was founded and grew on the backs of Black slaves. These young people have been taught an alternate version of history that our country is evil and only a move towards the Left and a more Socialist form of government will save America. Of course, we on the Right think differently and believe in our history as documented. We recognize that we are not a perfect union, and there are sins in our past. However, we realize those sins must be evaluated and judged in the context of time, and once identified, we take the steps to correct our errors.

A vivid example of this indoctrination is the extremely high number of young people who are turning out to protest against Israel and in favor of Palestinians. They are pulling for the independence of Palestine when there is no such country. They deny the holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Israeli people on October 7. They instead look at the effort to destroy Hamas as an unprovoked attack. These people get a filtered version of history and the news that is created to support the narrative of the elites on the Left. This brainwashing has been done by a complicit group consisting of Academia, elected politicians, and the media. The education system has failed us, the politicians have filled our heads with lies, and the media is willing and able to support them. It is a dangerous cartel, but we on the Right are up for the challenge of righting the ship.

Whenever you discuss trends, there is one factor that is always aligned, and that is the money. Follow the money. In the case of rising conservatism, it is not only money spent on the cause but also money pulled back from the opposing trend line. First, there were the big-money contributors that began notifying their liberal Alma Maters the big checks would no longer be coming. That trend is continuing as donors watching the campus demonstrations calling for the genocide of Israel made some of these individuals tear up their checks. The President of U Penn could not denounce the call for genocide as hate speech when testifying in front of a House Committee. The result was her resignation, but not before $100 Million in potential donations was withdrawn.

Then, the wealthiest man in the world put up a crazy amount of cash to purchase Twitter. Elon Musk saw what bias, censorship, and misinformation were tilting the political landscape unfairly to the Left. His promise was to eliminate censorship and return Twitter, which he renamed “X,” to the Free Speech platform that it had always professed to be. Twitter, like Facebook, had become toxic. Musk stepped up to correct a part of that toxicity. Because of his efforts, X should not have a role in electing our President as it did in 2020.

Tomorrow, in the second installment of this article, I will highlight some of the Conservative candidates worldwide who are surprising the pundits and shocking their Liberal opponents. I hope you will come back and check it out.

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In the Not So Great White North, a 50-year-old York University professor named Nicholas Cepeda was allowed to compete in a swim meet against Tween and Teenage girls. He was also seen sharing their locker and shower room with the permission of the East Bayfield Community Centre and Barrie Trojans Swim Club.

As is often the case, one might ask why a 50-year-old man would want to be in a locker room with girls as young as thirteen. Because he’s a woman, you bigot. “Melody Wiseheart swam against girls as young as 13 during the Trojan Cup swimming competition at the East Bayfield Community Centre in Barrie, Ontario, according to a report by Rebel News.”

As alarming and disturbing as it may appear, I have a different question. Does “Melody” also believe he is a teenager?

To what purpose does an aging adult swimmer compete against pubescent girls? Might he also believe he is black, Hispanic, or Innuit? All of the above? Is there a lazy Susan of demographic characteristics from which to pick, like condiments for today’s #woke sandwich, or does he get up in the morning and take a few throws at the diversity dart board?

Teenage, and Girl. Got it!

This is not the first time Cepeda has competed against young girls. In October, Cepeda swam against children ages 13-14 during the Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre Fall Classic swimming competition.

Event organizers initially denied that Cepeda had participated in the event until confronted with his name on a copy of their schedule. They “eventually” relented, Menzies reported, “but they didn’t want to get into a debate about gender and age.” Representatives for governing bodies Swimming Canada and Swimming Toronto were reportedly “too busy” to answer questions about the incident. 

You are proud to be a partner in the rainbow pride culture, then run away (or, at least, hide) when asked about it. Not so proud, or are you looking for a way to put that back in a closet?

And I don’t care where you think you stand on the issue of the gender spectrum; how is this not creepy, and why isn’t this guy on a sexual predator watchlist?

Because he says he’s a woman, Bigot!

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