Tag Archives: China

God and Guns

Posted on April 15, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

I was, for a short time during college, a volunteer fireman, and my responsibility was to operate the equipment while more experienced firemen entered the burning building. Following a fire at one house, another student who had gone inside told me how he stood in the smoke-filled kitchen spraying water at the flames to no avail. It wasn’t until he realized that he was facing a mirrored wall and that the flames were actually behind him that he turned and was able to extinguish the fire. As long as he was sending water in the wrong direction the fire continued unabated.

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged China, drugs, God and Guns, guns, Humanism, mass shootings, North Korea, Russia, Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution, Venezuela | Comments Off

An Open Letter to American Christians

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I realize that there are many definitions of what a Christian is, but I am writing to those of you who have, like me, trusted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and have been born again. We live in perilous times, and for the first time in hundreds of years on this continent, we face serious opposition and potential persecution.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged China, Jim Elliot, Mark Twain, North Korea, persecution | Comments Off

Green Energy: Greatest Wealth Transfer to the Rich in History

Posted on February 24, 2023 by David E Smith

We are in the midst of history’s greatest wealth transfer. Government subsidized wind systems, solar arrays, and electric vehicles overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy members of society and rich nations. The poor and middle class pay for green energy programs with higher taxes and higher electricity and energy costs. Developing nations suffer environmental damage to deliver mined materials needed for renewables in rich nations.

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged car batteries, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Chile, China, cobalt, copper, Democratic Republic of the Congo, dysprosium, electric vehicles, energy costs, European Union, green energy, Indonesia, International Energy Agency, lithium, neodymium, nickel, solar arrays, subsidies, The Inflation Reduction Act, wind farms, wind systems, wind turbines | Comments Off

Silver Lining: COVID Boosted Idea of Educational Freedom

Posted on September 13, 2022 by David E Smith

As Mao Zedong took over China with his communist revolutionaries, he sparked one of the largest mass migrations of the 20th century. Between 1948 and 1950, an estimated 2 million Chinese refugees fled Mao’s regime and escaped to Taiwan and other countries around the world. While Mao was razing and restructuring Chinese culture and society, these refugees were able to begin new lives in safer and freer countries.

While the Chinese mass migration makes the history books, a similar 2-million-in-2-years migration is currently happening—across educational borders. An analysis published by Harvard’s Education Next Institute (EN) recently announced that, between the …

Posted in Education | Tagged charter schools, China, COVID–19, education choice, Education Next Institute, government schools, Homeschool, homeschool co-op, Mao Zedong, Michael Bloomberg, microschools, private schools, public education, public schools, Taiwan, Terry McAuliffe, u.s. department of education | Comments Off

Donald Trump: The Champion of Religious Freedom

Posted on September 27, 2019 by David E Smith

In June, 2016, when candidate Trump promised a large gathering of evangelical Christian leaders that he was committed to defending our liberties, I was skeptical. Was he just trying to get our votes? Did he really care about our freedoms? Was he truly concerned that our rights were being eroded?

For more than two years, he has answered those questions emphatically. Yes, he is committed to defending our liberties. Yes, he really does care about freedoms. And yes, he is truly concerned that our rights are being eroded.

Now, the president has gone one step further, standing up for religious …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged China, Donald J. Trump, Hindu Party, India, Indian Christians, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Muslims, Narendra Modi, New Zealand, North Korea, Open Doors World Watch List, Religious Freedom, Sri Lanka, Uighur Muslims, United Nation, Xi Jinping, Yael Kushner | Comments Off