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| |  | | | Restore America | David Crowe | President & CEO | Rlogoaboutestore America was founded in 1999 to mobilize Evangelical and Born Again Christians in America to register and vote in every election.
Millions of evangelical Christians, out of apathy, ignorance, or indifference, choose not to vote in election after election. Our absence from the voting booth has contributed greatly to the moral, spiritual, economic, and political disintegration of America. | | |
| |  | | | API | American Principles Institute | The American Principles Institute was founded as an official college club on the campus of Fresno Pacific University in the Fall of 2008 by students Preston Little and Jake Yeager. The club, known as the Sunbird Conservatives, was formed in response to the growing tide of liberal bias at FPU.
Our mission was clear from the start: To educate as many people as possible with the message of conservatism. This meant standing up for and sharing the core principles of traditional values, individual freedom, free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and the importance of a strong national defense.
9/11 Memorial at FPU
9/11 Memorial at FPU (2008)
The Sunbird Conservatives club quickly earned a reputation of civility in the face of resistance from campus administration. During its very first days in 2008 it was suspended indefinitely by school administrators after a 9/11 Never Forget Memorial event. The Crime? Passing out Senator John McCain Bumper Stickers, among other conservative literature.
The Provost of the University at the time publicly supported President Obama and interrupted school speech codes to shut down “Unbalanced” political speech from students. A month long legal debate ensued, leaving the first major event of the organization, “A Night Out with Victor Davis Hanson”, with no other choice but to be moved off campus to the Fresno Convention Center.
In the end, after legal support from the FPU faculty, Young America’s Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and the Fresno County Republican Party; Fresno Pacific admitted it had violated the free speech rights of the club by censoring conservative ideas. They made this clear when they signed and sent an apology letter to the entire Fresno Pacific University Community. Since then, the Sunbird Conservatives Alumni Association has received widespread support from students, faculty, and administration at FPU, with the current President being an outspoken supporter of the current organization.
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The American Principles Institute has come a long way since its founding as a student club. In 2011, the club established an Alumni Association to ensure its presence on campus and in the community. Over the past seven years the organization has hosted seven consecutive conferences for the community. It has sponsored numerous student scholarships, seminars, trips to the Reagan Library, club retreats, on-campus debates, banquet dinners, and memorials to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
API Unveiling (2011)
API Unveiling (2011)
In 2013, the organization’s leadership started a long conversation with its supporters and launched the American Principles Institute— the educational arm of the Sunbird Conservatives. Formed with wide-spread support, API offered a vision of conservative policy solutions for valley issues, and started programs with the goal of expanding the conservative movement in the area.
On April 3rd, 2015—the night of the 7th Annual Conference with presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, as the Keynote Speaker—the Sunbird Conservatives completed the final step in its strategic plan towards establishing itself as a leading conservative organization in California by formally becoming the American Principles Institute.
API is the Central Valley’s first conservative think-tank, comprised of individuals excited to teach conservative values across the state. As an official 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, its new mission is just as clear as the original: To educate Americans about conservative policies and principles through discussion, literature, and special events.
With its clear mission, exciting programs, and broad support, API continues to be your best investment in the future of conservatism. [More] | | |
| |  | | | American Battleground | Steve Rogers | Houston County’s American Battleground is a community wide event where competitive teams will selected to battle in 10 events for points; each team sponsoring a local disabled veterans organization to raise money and awareness for those agencies while promoting community spirit, patriotism, and teamwork among our businesses, organizations, churches, citizens, and military. Teams will represent Perry, Centerville, Warner Robins and Robins AFB.
Teams will be comprised of members from local gyms, Veterans and active duty members, firefighters, and law enforcement. Sponsorships are vital for the funding of our project so we are offering the following packages to obtain the financial support to meet our start-up and funding costs for advertising and items that we cannot get donated for this event. The packages are as follows: [More] | | |
| |  | | | Inconvenient Observations | Monty Pelerin's World | The Truth | | We live in a crazy world where political correctness rules and critical thinking is taboo. College campuses are overrun by wusses who need protected space from “micro-aggressions.” It was not so in my youth, especially growing up with wise guys in New Jersey. Inconvenient observations were then known as cutting through the BS. Pretensions and stupidity were not tolerated. | | |
| |  | | | The Atlas Network | Antony Fisher | IEA | Friedrich Hayek | | Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a nonprofit organization based in the United States. The group aims to promote free-market economic policies across the world.[5] The stated mission of the Atlas Network is "To strengthen the worldwide freedom movement by identifying, training, and supporting individuals with the potential to found and develop effective independent organizations."[1] The Atlas Network has awarded grants of over $20 million. [More] | | |
| |  | | | House of Wettin | Royal History | Swabians | Alaminni Tribe | The House of Wettin is a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors and kings that once ruled territories of present-day German states of Saxony and Thuringia for 953 years. The royal house is one of the oldest of Europe. Its origins can be traced back to the town of Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt. The Wettins gradually rose to power within the Holy Roman Empire. Members of the royal family became the monarchs of several medieval states, starting with Saxon Eastern March in 1030. Other states they gained were Meissen in 1089, Thuringia in 1263 and Saxony in 1423.
The family divided into two ruling branches in 1485 by Treaty of Leipzig: the Ernestine and Albertine branches. The older Ernestine branch played a key role during the Protestant Reformation. Many ruling monarchs outside Germany were later tied to its cadet branch Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Albertine branch, while less prominent, ruled the most of Saxony and played a part in Polish history.
Agnates of the House of Wettin have, at various times, ascended the thrones of Great Britain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland, Saxony, and Belgium. Only the British and Belgian lines retain their thrones today. [More] | | |
| |  | | | Political Parisitology | Poisonous Political Parasite | Eagle Network | On Thursday, the Dow was off about 500 points in the first hour, presumably based on fears of European bank and sovereign failures.
The talking heads on CNBC were beside themselves, rationalizing what was happening and what should be done -- the Federal Reserve should initiate QE3, more fiscal stimulus should be used, etc. etc. All spoke of the need for government solutions and quick actions.
By 10:30 I could take no more of "the government must do something." Governments cannot solve this problem. They caused it! Intervening will only make the problem worse.
There is an inherent problem in government, all governments. It leads to situations like the current one and then progresses to much worse. This problem, discussed below, eventually leads to the collapse of economies if not civilizations.
Politics As A Form of Parisitism
The definition of a parasite is "an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it." Parisitology is the study of parasites.
The definition of a parasite sounds like a perfect description of what government has become. The political class, its cronies and its dependents are parasites. The host is the productive sector of the economy. One lives at the expense of the other. One is "taking," the other "making."
Parisitology appears to be a subject that should be an added requirement for Political Science (one of my favorite oxymorons). The notion of government preying on the productive is hardly a new concept. Cautions are easily found:
Thomas Jefferson observed:
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. ... I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
More than 150 years ago, Frederic Bastiat commented on what he saw happening in France:
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
Even the fall of Rome, widely attributed to "bread and circuses," attracted Will Rogers' attention:
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"
The parasite-host analogy would seem to be a reasonable basis for a general theory explaining the rise and fall of civilizations. Assuming someone has not already milked it, it could make an interesting dissertation topic. However, in most academic settings implicating the State in the failure of civilizations could jeopardize your career.
The State of the US
In the US, as in Europe, parasites have increasingly drained vitality from the productive class. This process began virtually from inception of the country. Initially the efforts and effects were imperceptible. Over time the boldness and number of parasites increased. Today, under the guise of social welfare and military adventurism, the productive host's survival is in jeopardy. Economic death is looming unless current trends are reversed soon and dramatically.
The recent debt ceiling debacle was an opportunity to address the problem. The effort, instead, became a political charade. Ultimately it strengthened the parasites, again, by further weakening the host. Zerohedge pointed out:
This debate is not about saving our economy or our global credit standing. This debate is about choosing our method of poison, and nothing more. That is to say, the outcome of the current "political clash" is irrelevant. Our economy was set on the final leg of total destabilization back in 2008, and no amount of spending reform, higher taxes, or austerity measures, are going to change that eventuality.
Rejuvenation of the host is possible, but it will not happen. The reasons are not economic but political. Even if control of Congress and the Presidency shifts to the Republicans, it will not matter. Both political parties are parasitic. Only their genus differs, and that is more marketing rather than substantive differences.
One may reasonably infer from the outcome of the debt charade that an implicit decision was made to kill the host. There were no spending cuts. There was hardly a slowdown in the planned rate of spending. Nor was any mechanism put in place to ensure that real cuts, if agreed upon, would be implemented by future Congresses.
Politics and Motivations
Politicians, unlike actual parasites, generally understand the ramifications of decisions. Other than those with IQs below room temperature (make your own estimate [More] | | |
| |  | | | Famed Southern Baptist, George W. Truett - 1801-1900 Church History Timeline | George W. Truett was born on this day, May 6, 1867 on a farm in the mountains of North Carolina. He became one of the most popular boys in the county, equally handy on the farm, at his desk or sighting down a rifle barrel.
Several times as a child and then as a young man, George recognized his need for a savior from his sins. But he was nineteen before he went forward, "confessing Christ before all the people." That very night he began to urge his classmates to turn to Christ. Many did. He was baptized, joined the Baptist church and began to teach Sunday school. Not only that, but, to pay his way through college, the young man opened a school, which soon enrolled 300 students and employed three teachers! He preached. Those who heard him speak called him a second Spurgeon. He was offered a church, but turned it down. He had decided to move with his parents to Texas. And Texas is where he made his mark for Christ.
The local Baptist church at Whitewright Texas decided to ordain him. George protested, but "there I was against a whole church..." He was ordained, but as of yet held no church. Instead, the 23-year-old accepted the position as chief financial officer of Baylor University because, "people do what he asks them to do." The school was deeply in debt by the standards of the day. In 23 months, George eliminated the debt completely. Later he was offered the school's presidency, but he turned it down, preferring to pastor a church.
At 30, George became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. He had wanted to turn it down, but felt God was saying, "take it." During his 47 years of leadership, the church grew from 715 members to over 7,000. Even after it was remodeled, a thousand people might be turned away from the doors on a given Sunday. It was the largest membership in the Southern Baptist denomination, the largest membership in the world (at that time) and highly influential. Other than his excellent speaking, another source of growth was his training program for Sunday school teachers.
People hung on George's words. In one sermon, he said "Our cities saved means the salvation of civilization. Our cities lost means the corruption and destruction of civilization." He then went on to show that the family is the key to the city. "As goes the home, so will go the city. And I pause to say that the home is in peril and endangered now as it has not been in modern times. ...If people trifle with the home they are undermining the foundation of an enduring and worthy civilization...Put crepe on the door of your heart if things are wrong in the family. Put crepe on the door." He always preached for a decision.
George almost left the pulpit once, however. He accidentally shot and killed one of his closest friends, the chief of police, in a hunting accident. Praying and crying, he could not bring himself to preach again, until in a vision he saw Christ saying "You are my man from now on." The night that he returned to the pulpit, other churches closed their doors so that their members could go hear him preach.
On his seventieth birthday he wrote his wife a letter in which he said, "I would this day rededicate my all to Christ..." Although greatly honored in his life, none of it went to his head. He died in 1944 after a painful illness. [More] | | |
| |  | | | Bishop Matthias III | Lithuania | C. Bishop Matthias III Casimir Valancius (al. Wolonczewski, 1801-1875) is one of the most prominent personalities of Lithuania?s past. He distinguished himself by the variety and immensity of activities in his struggle against Russification attempts in Lithuania 100-150 years ago.
The book "Zemaiciu didysis" (author Grigas Valancius). Brooklyn, 1978In a nutshell: ? born 1801 in a 10 children farmer?s family, priest 1828, high school teacher 1828-1840, prof. At Academia Ecclesiastica in Vilnius and St. Petersburg 1840-1845, rector of the diocesan priests? seminary 1845-1849, author of 2 vol. Hist. Work ?The diocese Samogitia?s? 1848, preconuzed by Pope Pius IX to ?Episcopus Ordinarius Samogitae? 1849, consecr. 1850. In 25 yrs. (1850-1875) of his distinguished administration of the diocese (1 mil. people, 700 priests, 529 churches and chapels), besides pastoral duties, he produced: ca. 15.000 letters to officials, teachers, priests a. p., ca. 70 books, incl. Writtings of prose and poetry, founded ca. 200 priv. Par. Schools, promoted massive adult education and achieved ca. 90 % participation of the whole population in his relig. temperance brotherhoods. [More] | | |
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