“We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers—the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After 2 days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.

Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your “lives fought for life… and left the vivid air signed with your honor.”

I think I know what you may be thinking right now—thinking “we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day.” Well, everyone was. Do you remember the story of Bill Millin of the 51st Highlanders? Forty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming. Well, they weren’t. They looked up and saw Bill Millin with his bagpipes, leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of the bullets into the ground around him.

Lord Lovat was with him—Lord Lovat of Scotland, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, “Sorry I’m a few minutes late,” as if he’d been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he’d just come from the bloody fighting on Sword Beach, which he and his men had just taken.

There was the impossible valor of the Poles who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold, and the unsurpassed courage of the Canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. They knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. And once they hit Juno Beach, they never looked back.

All of these men were part of a rollcall of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland’s 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England’s armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard’s “Matchbox Fleet” and you, the American Rangers.

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge—and pray God we have not lost it—that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought—or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.

Something else helped the men of D-Day: their rockhard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer he told them: Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do. Also that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

These are the things that impelled them; these are the things that shaped the unity of the Allies.

When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together.

There was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly. The United States did its part, creating the Marshall plan to help rebuild our allies and our former enemies. The Marshall plan led to the Atlantic alliance—a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.

In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and East Berlin. Soviet troops that came to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. They’re still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost 40 years after the war. Because of this, allied forces still stand on this continent. Today, as 40 years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose—to protect and defend democracy. The only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

But we try always to be prepared for peace; prepared to deter aggression; prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms; and, yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together, we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever.

It’s fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the Russian people during World War II: 20 million perished, a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war. I tell you from my heart that we in the United States do not want war. We want to wipe from the face of the Earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. There must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action.

We will pray forever that some day that changing will come. But for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our freedom, and to the alliance that protects it.

We are bound today by what bound us 40 years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. We’re bound by reality. The strength of America’s allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe’s democracies. We were with you then; we are with you now. Your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.

Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their value [valor], and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.

Thank you very much, and God bless you all.”

Al Kaline died last month. He played right field for the Detroit Tigers for 22 years, batted .297 lifetime, had over 3,000 hits and slugged 399 homers. 

A Hall of Famer who was a class act. When the Tig’s offered him a contract for a hundred grand he refused it. He said it was too much money and he didn’t deserve it.

Such humility is rare.

No one patrolled right field at Tiger Stadium like Kaline did. Some called it “Kaline’s Korner.”

Tiger Stadium, like Wrigley, Fenway, and Yankee Stadium, was one of the “Green Cathedrals” of Major League Baseball. 

I enjoyed watching games from the right field corner. Back in the day we paid two bucks for those seats. Some days you slipped the usher a five spot and by the 4th inning and he’d move you over to the box seats. That is, if one was empty.

The “Tig’s” in their pearly white uniforms with the “Old English D” on that green carpet will be forever etched in my memory.

We always thought they’d be there: Kaline, “Stormin Norman” Cash; Gates Brown; Willie (The Wonderful) Horton; Mickey Lolich and Dick MacAuliffe.

Now, many have faded away and they’re just a distant memory.

I can still smell the aroma of steamed hotdogs, beer, roasted peanuts and cigar smoke blended together on a hot, summer night in the Motor City.

It was a wonderful time and I’am fortunate to live in such a city with a rich sports tradition.

A radio was on wherever you went with Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane calling the play-by-play. As kids, we’d fall asleep listening to Ernie’s voice while the Tig’s were on one of their west coast road swings.

I can still see “Grampa Tellarico” sitting on his front porch next door smoking his huge stogie, his transistor and an iced-cold Stroh’s on the porch next to him.

At times, I’d see him lean over while in his chair, puffing on his cigar, to listen to whatever it was Ernie had to say.

Erine’s voice was always blaring throughout the old neighborhood.

The Tigers brought a lot of healing to Detroit in ’68 because the city was almost destroyed during the ’67 riots. They beat the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.

The Pennant Race of 1967 was one of the best in MLB History, going down to the last day of the season. Unfortuantely, the Tigers dropped the second game of a double header to the Angels and finished one game behind the Red Sox.

The riots started in late July after Detroit Po-Leece raided what was called a “Blind Pig” back then.

A “Blind Pig” was an illegal, after hours gambling and drinking joint. The festivities ended in the morning capped with the usual fistfight, stabbing or shooting.

However, on that day the riots began and the city went through a horrific week of violence.

“Grampa Tellarico” was on his front porch in those days listening to Ernie and Ray while the old neighborhood could see the West Side burning from 8 Mile Road (The Tigers had to play most of their games on the road that season).

The violence cost 43 people their lives, injured thousands, and left the city looking like a smoldering war zone after the Wart Hogs had been through on one of their sorties.

Beloved Detroit Free Press columnist Joe Falls, another Detroit icon, summarized the impact of the ’68 Tigers:

“My town, as you know, had the worst riot in our nation’s history in the summer of 1967, and it left scars which may never fully heal. . . . And so, as 1968 dawned and we all started thinking ahead to the hot summer nights in Detroit, the mood of our city was taut. It was apprehensive. But then something started happening in the middle of 1968. You could pull up to a light at the corner of Clairmount and 12th, which was the hub of last year’s riot, and the guy in the next car would have his radio turned up—‘McLain looks in for the sign, he’s set …here’s the pitch…’ It was a year when an entire community, an entire city, was caught up in a wild, wonderful frenzy.” (1)

Curtis made his name while playing for the Colts in Baltimore. 

The best way to describe it was that it looked like a block (See photo below).Anyway in 1970, he made his famous kick and who do you think it was against?

Reverend Jenkins

I grew up in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, which is a suburb of Detroit. It was and still is, a wonderful place to raise a family.

One prominent church, very close to my old home, is Saint Isaac Jogues Catholic Church . Many friends and families I was acquainted with attended there. It was and I’m sure still is, a valuable commodity in that city.

I was humbled to learn the price Isaac Jogues paid for bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Huron Indians.

Isaac Jogues was the companion of Father Jean de Brebeuf who was killed by Iroquois Indians after being brutally tortured.

“In 1642, while returning from a journey to Quebec to secure supplies, Father Jogues and his party were ambushed by Iroquois.

He managed to escape, but when he saw that several of his companions had been taken prisoner, he surrendered himself and joined them.

“Could I indeed abandon them without giving them help which the Church of my God has entrusted me? Flight seemed horrible to me. If it must be, I said in my heart, that my body suffer the fire of earth, in order to deliver these poor souls from the flames of hell, it is but a transient death, in order to procure for them an eternal life.”

The Indians tore out their captives’ fingernails with their teeth, gnawed their fingers, and cut off a thumb or forefinger of each. Father Jogues was not killed outright, but kept as a slave for the purpose of their future enjoyment through torturing him-torture so cruel that he longed for Christ to release him from life and let him be with Him in heaven.” (1)

Men like Isaac Jogues risked everything, including their lives, to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Indians.

Will we now surrender our heritage to a few Leftists who seek to revise our history?

Without a doubt, these savages would have killed each other off if these men didn’t bring “The Message of Hope in Christ” to them.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said; “To destroy a people you must first sever them from their roots.”

Since the end of World War II, we’ve allowed Marxist’s to remove everything associated with our Christian faith. They won’t rest until every vestige of Christianity is erased from American culture.

As one radio talk show host commented; “In order to keep the mob at bay before they really get mad at us, we’re gonna eliminate whatever it is that might upset them. Even though we do not know who they are! We have no idea who this mob is, we don’t know where they live, we don’t know how honest they are. But, boy, can they ruin things! So we’re gonna take preemptive action to make sure that anything that might offend any one of them is covered up.”

By covering the murals of Columbus, you’re allowing a few radicals to strip Notre Dame of its rich history.

As Jedediah Morse warned, “To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. All efforts made to destroy the foundations of our Holy Religion ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation… in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom… Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government – and all the blessings which flow from them – must fall with them.”

We learned a lesson last week from the young man from Covington; If one stands their ground, the opposition goes away.

(1). The Light and The Glory: Did God Have a Plan For America? by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, Copyright by Fleming H. Revell, 1977, pages 77-78

“There are true acts of courage that turn men into heroes.”

On the Eleveneth month, The Eleventh Day at the Eleventh Hour, World War I ended on this day in 1918. Here are some of the men who had a role in bringing America it’s victory over Germany.

General John “Black Jack” Pershing, Commanding Officer of the American Expeditionary Forces

Colonel Charles White Whittlesey, 77th Division, 308 Battalion, Commanded what was called “The Lost Battalion.” A fantastic story of brave leadership and the refusal to surrender under overwhelming odds.

77th Liberty Divison Patch

Captain George McMurtry, Whittlesey’s second in Command

You can also slide down to your local library and check out the movie The Lost Battalion starring Ricky Schroder. He does an excellent job portraying Charles White Whittelsey.

Major Samuel Woodfill

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 sums up the life of Sergeant Alvin York according to Colonel Douglas Mastriano; “But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.”

Mastriano tells us that York was told by many he would never amount to anything and that he was just a drunken bum. By God’s grace, York became a national hero overnight for his exploits during the Argonne Offensive. His actions according to Mastriano “changed history” and the course of the world.

Whittelsey, Woodfill and York were invited by General Pershing to be present when the tomb of the Unknown Soldier was placed in Washington D.C.

These stories of patriotism and courage need to be taught to the next generation. Behind all the glory is the grace of God upon America. Psalm 78:4 tells us that we have a “divine obligation to tell it like it is to the next generation.

“We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD and His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.“

You can start with an excellent movie by the same name, Sergeant York starring Gary Cooper.

Note: The Photo at the top of the page is a statute commemorating the exploits of Sergant Alvin York in Nashville, Tennessee.

“I know their psychology. I know these people in the media, and I know that these democrats, folks, they are just beside themselves that everything they’ve got in their arsenal of weapons hasn’t worked. So given that — this is the sum total of intelligence guided by experience — I don’t believe… I’m not gonna believe just because I’m told than that happened the way it did. And that’s a shame.

It’s a shame that the highest levels of our government have gotten to the point where distrusting them is a common-sensical thing to do. But they’ve brought this on. All of these nameless, faceless, anonymous sources with all of this utter BS. “Every day for two years, New York Times, CNN (impression), “Intelligence community sources and former American intelligence officials tell the New York Times that” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.Every day, sometimes many times a day for a year, two years. Stuff made up out of whole cloth — news stories literally made up — all to advance the agenda of essentially canceling the election results from 2016 and finding a way to get Donald Trump out of office. There’s a list of people — Democrats, Republican, moderates, independents, Never Trumpers on the conservative side — the whole of the Washington establishment.

So here we are two weeks before the midterm elections. The Democrats have to win! They have to win it. They’ve told everybody that the American people are tired of Trump, and they want to get rid of him. They realize their mistake. They’ve been telling everybody there’s gonna be a blue wave. It’s a fait accompli. Nate Silver: 85% chance!

Two weeks out a bunch of bombs start showing up in places that the media can then say that they are being received by “Trump targets”? I’m sorry. I didn’t fall off the turnip truck ever, and certainly not yesterday, and the world of October Surprises coupled with all the other realities I just exposed, and I think it only makes sense to be suspicious and demanding of proof for whatever we’re gonna be told.” (1)

By the way, when you’re on Mackinac Island, stop by the Yankee Rebel Inn and get the Pot Roast Sandwich. Wash it down with a bottle of Vernor’s Ginger Ale (another Michigan made product) – you won’t be disappointed.

(1) The Attempt to Destroy Donald Trump Has Made Us Suspicious of Everything, Rush Limbaugh on The Rush Limbaugh Show, October 26, 2018 on the EIB Network; (2) From the lunch menu at the Yankee Rebel Tavern on Mackinac Island (hosts Patti Ann and Steven Moskwa); (3) Tucker Carlson; (4) From the same article as Footnote 1 above.

Note: I liked the photo of the Dem’s in straight-jackets so much, I used it. It was on Rush’s website last week.

“The rights of the colonists as Christians…may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.

George III despised Samuel Adams, given the chance he would have killed him. His hatred ran so deep his majesty called the Revolution, “Mr. Adams War.”

Sam Adams was a great patriot. A terrible businessman, but a fiery statesman who told us our rights are articulated in Scripture.

Let’s allow Scripture to speak and show how Paul demanded his rights as a Roman citizen.

“But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?” When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.” So the tribune came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” And he said, “Yes.” The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I am a citizen by birth.” So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid,  for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.” Acts 22:25-29

Paul stood up to the rulers in Acts 16 after they had beaten him and Silas and tossed them in the hoosegow. However, the next morning the “powers that be” gave orders to “cut them loose.”

Paul says, Not so fast. If they want to free us, let them do it themselves.

“But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.” And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.” But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out.” The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens. So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city. So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed.” Acts 16:35-40

Due process, folks.

They didn’t die for what our country has become.

( Painting by Don Trioani, Battle of Kings Mountain, October 1780 ).

“My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge…Hosea 4:6″

According to Pollster George Barna 86% of Evangelicals voted the right way on November 8th. (1) If this is true, then the remaining 14% either sat it out or voted for a thug.

What’s troubling is that 48% voted for someone who’s not only corrupt and unfit to hold any office of trust, but they voted for an avowed Communist.

Hey, where’s Jehu?

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of America’s involvement in World War I.

I encourage you to study this very important time in our history while looking at the exploits of some who fought – Men like General John “Black Jack” Pershing, Lieutenant Colonel Charles White Whittlesey, Sergeant Alvin York, Captain George McMurtry and Major Samuel Woodfill.

If Christian’s had a better grasp on “America’s Providential History” (2) it wouldn’t be so challenging to select the right candidate. Pay attention!

(1) David Jeremiah. (2) America’s Providential History by rk A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell (An excellent read!)

David Barton writes, The “Supreme Court’s power must be called into question! We must reclaim from the courts our rights to be a republic, returning the judicial branch to its proper position-the least of three co-sovereign branches. The people of the nation not its courts, must control it destiny. Any national reforms which occur must be guided by the people, not the social engineering of an elite few.” (1)

In the old days, whenever the Court took powers not rightfully theirs, “the Founders quickly rose up and dramatically forced the Court back to its proper constitutional function.” (2)

Our Founders (including James Madison, The Father of the Constitution and Thomas Jefferson) believed that “each branch (of government) not only had the ability, but indeed the sworn responsibility to interpret the Constitution for itself.” (3)

Jefferson and Madison’s “flat refusal to allow the Court to have the final word and to assume a power not rightfully theirs have provided a valuable precedent. In the Cherokee Indian Cases (1831-32) the court ruled (President Andrew) Jackson was to take certain actions.” (4)

Old Hickory refused to be ordered about, and so should we. 

Before a SC decision could be confirmed it needed legislative approval. Without that, there would be no check over the judiciary and “judges would be able to strike down laws or impose their own personal interpretations upon the nation.” (5)

As Mark Levin has schooled us, “Congress has enormous powers” over judicial decisions (see Article III Section 2.2). We have to apply pressure and you can read what that is below.

Even though Congress has this power, “Congress was not supreme over the nation. The check and balance over Congress was the people themselves. If the people felt their representatives were acting improperly they would replace them. As John Randolph of Virginia explained: The proper restraint was in the people themselves, who at the ballot box could “apply the Constitutional corrective.” (6)

So you see, you also have power and don’t have to have to allow this garbage being rammed down our throats.

Do you think the 56 men who placed their signatures on the Declaration did so with the intent to give a small few, including judges, absolute rule over them? Do you think they did this in order to bring a strong central government into being, one that disregarded the will of the people?

They threw off what we’re now living under.

Don’t be a wimp.

God wasn’t sweating it one bit last week, making me wonder if Christ was looking down the corridors of time to this day when he made the statement in Matthew 19:4-6; “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

You have to give credit to the Left, they fight with all their might for temporal causes, while many of us who call ourselves Christians, sit back and do nothing for the “advancement the Christian faith” –  for the eternal causes. (7)

We’re in the same boat the Founder’s we’re when the Declaration came into being, living under now what some call a “soft-tyranny.”

We’re up against “a federal leviathan” to quote Levin, but we still have the same God on our side that our forefathers relied on – The Creator, The Supreme Judge of the World and Divine Providence who we can go to for strength, protection, wisdom and direction.

Question is do we have the will to do it and turn things around for the next  generation?

Our Founders fought at great risk to themseves and we should do the same for the next generation. They didn’t compromise when it came to freedom and neither should we.

Remember, The Lord hasn’t set up His kingdom yet, but He’s coming. We can be confident and move to take our nation back until His return. After all He wins (1 Timothy 6:11-16, look it up yourself)!

Let this motto from the War for Independence be ours; “We fight, we get beat and we rise and fight again.”

“Embrace Liberty!” (8)

There are still many good things about America worth fighting for.

(1-6). The Myth of Separation: A revealing look at what the Founders and early Courts really said, Chapter 16 – When Three Percent was A Majority, pages 237-244,  by David Barton; (7). The Mayflower Compact; (8). Mark Levin, marklevinshow.com, 06-30-15.

Before becoming President, while Teddy Roosevelt “was recruiting Rough Riders in 1898, he went out of his way to select men who had played football.” (1)

In fact, the game is under attack today by Progressives seeking to change the American landscape. (Click on the link below for further insight.)

With all the “straw men” occupying positions of prominence in the realm of politics, entertainment and sports, it’s refreshing to see real leadership on display.

I’m talking about Michigan State University’s head football coach, Mark Dantonio. Days before his team was to face Stanford in the 100th Rose Bowl, Dantonio suspended one of his star players for violating team rules.

The media went nuts and wanted to know the reason why. They demanded that the player step up and offer an explanation and public apology.

The suspended player owed no one an explanation or an apology, except to his teammates and coaches. It was a private matter and somehow Dantonio (and MSU administrators) kept things under wraps and took the team to Pasadena without star linebacker, Max Bullough.

MSU won the game, and the man who replaced Bullough was one of three responsible for stopping the Cardinals on a crucial fourth down situation.

Dantonio put the needs of his team over one individual, something rarely seen today, and something that our leaders from President Obama on down should take note of.

I won’t be surprised if MSU wins a national championship under Coach D’s leadership in the days ahead.

http://www.heymiller.com/2013/10/football-the-american-character/

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