First, here is the Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement speech that has been much ballyhooed in recent days by TV’s talking heads. It is a very good speech.

I think it goes without saying that Steve Jobs was a pioneer in a league above and beyond all others as a computer communications innovator and marketer. I have admired him from afar for a long time and expect that he and his expertise will be sorely missed for sometime.

Though he made a lot of people happy with his products, I wasn’t one of them. I have yet to buy my first Apple product. Not that I haven’t wanted to buy one or two; I have, but, for a lot of reasons, I could never convince myself to buy even one of his severely overpriced products. One of these days when I have money to burn I will gladly buy an Apple something or other. I’ll have a really big pile of money before it comes to that though.

But, that’s me and then there is the rest of the world and it is the rest of the world Steve Jobs was keen on satisfying and selling, and he did a wonderful job of doing both. Add to that all the jobs he created for people and you have a wonderful force for good.  Most of the good he did came as a result of his creation of economic wealth and enjoyment for many people. He did more to spread the wealth by creating jobs for people willing to work than has been done by all  governments put together since the beginning of time.

Yes, he was a champion of the world in his field of endeavor. I sure hope he worked hard, as well, on securing his place in the sweet by-and-by. What a waste for him it would be if his by-and-by isn’t even better and more comforting than was his life.

Thanks for all the good you did in the brief time you were here, and now, Steven, I pray you will enter and rest in peace where all the saints repose. Amen.

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As some of you already know, Hillsdale College is one of the very few colleges and universities that refuses to accept any funding of any kind from the U.S. Government.

The founding Articles of Association of the Hillsdale College states it is to provide an education of a sort that will perpetuate the blessing of “civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety” of our nation.

This free offer,  which will be available for a limited time only. Styled The Constitution Reader, the  course commences with an in-depth look at the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and continues on by covering such things as the Founders’ understanding of human nature, the rule of law and the distinctions between a tyrannical and the connection between rights and duties. These and other things pertinent to maintaining the freedoms we enjoy are covered by this free course.

The course also covers some of the other primary source documents from the time of the founding of our nation, plus it covers the constitutional crisis caused by the secession of the 1850s leading up to the War Between the States, a.k.a., the Civil War, as well as the departure from constitutional principles and practices of the Progressive Movement and that movement’s modern heirs.

Here is what Hillsdale College says about this course: In short, this Reader is collated to convey the conditions of liberty, the extent to which and manner in which those conditions have been undermined, and how they might be recovered and preserved.

All true American patriots will profit from this course.

Go to http://rushforhillsdale.com to sign up for this free course. Yes, even though I am an Imprimis subscriber, I first heard about this course today on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Please do it now. You will be glad you did.

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The Witch Doctor B. Hussein Obama cometh soon. Be prepared to meet your Maker.

PLEASE CALL THESE SWING CONGRESSMEN TO FIGHT OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE PROGRAM!

But also, pick up the phone and call these swing Congressmen. Let them hear from you! Here’s the list:

Let’s get busy to save health care in America! Thank you.

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We used to rely on the protection of Divine Providence in war; that was before our government decided enhanced interrogation offered better protection

I liked this weekly talk by U.S. Congressman Ron Paul so much that I could not resist posting it here. What the congressman says here certainly fits in with my personal insights into the pursuit of happiness.

There was a time when “In God We Trust” meant something to us

The fact that we have fallen so low as an “In-God-We-Trust” republic as to commit horrible acts of torture on political prisoners—or any kind of prisoners, for that matter, sickens me, while at the same time it inspires our enemy to fight us to the death to overcome our domination of their people.

It is clear to see for all who seek truth in life that such dastardly acts of cowardice by our nation will inevitably lead to our downfall. And so it should! Why will we fail? Because we say that as a nation we believe in God, that’s why.

Torture is always wrong, no matter what

Notice I said we say we believe. I did not say we believe. I didn’t say it that way because our actions show we don’t believe in God very strongly. If we still believed strongly as a nation, we wouldn’t feel a need to torture people to get information. Never mind who they are or why we torture them, and never mind the quality of information torture might yield. Remember what you have been taught all your life: The end does not justify the means.

Has the truth of this adage suddenly changed? Of course not; truth never changes; only people do. So, today, how empty is the phrase, In God We Trust? Apparently for the majority of our people, those words are all but completely empty of meaning.

Yeah, we still believe kinda, but the Moslems believe really

I hear it said that the people we have tortured recently are by and large Moslem terrorists who would like nothing better than to make us their prisoners and slaves or simply kill us to get us out of their lives. I would have to say that I agree with that statement, but, and this is a big BUT, I believe those who say that are right! When those people tell us they will prevail over us because they believe in God, while we only pretend we believe: they are telling us the truth. Kinda believing is what it is.  Really believing is believing in the reality of that which is hoped for. That is a far cry from kinda believing.

The word believe has a strong meaning for a traditional Christian

The M-W Dictionary says it means to have a firm religious faith. It goes on to say a lot more, but for my purpose that is good enough. Faith is the key to believing. Saint Paul writes a lot about faith. His strongest and clearest explanation of faith for my purpose here is in his letter to the Hebrews. There Paul writes: Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 10:38-11:2 KJV).

For our instruction, Saint Paul goes on with a wonderful cataloging of the gifts of faith starting with Genesis down through the ages until his time. Open your Holy Bible and read that list for yourself. See Heb. 11:3-13, 17, 20, 24-31. Matt. 12:38-40 is the clincher, so to speak, but I will leave that to you to discover on your own.

When the Israelites believed and behaved, they always won; when they ceased to believe and turned away from God, they always lost. Will it be more of the same for us?

Their belief in God is so strong for many Moslems that they will willingly lay down their lives for their faith. They will also give up the lives of their women folk, and their children, whom they love every bit as much or more than we love ours.

Here’s a little history for your consideration

Our war fighting history is filled with incidents that prove that we always win when we fight while being mindful of the protection of  Divine Providence.

How many battles and wars have been won by inferior forces solely because they put their trust in the Lord of all? Our War of Independence against the British comes to mind.

Let me see:

• The British soldiers were, by a wide margin, the better trained of the two combatants. It could hardly be said that our soldiers, while trained, were in the same league as the crown’s soldiers. It was assumed the crown would win this war in short order against the ragged army we had assembled on short notice; an army based on the colonies militias.

• The British had warships-of-the-line that had tremendous firepower. We had none. While the war was fought almost wholly on land, ships and ship travel were vitally important in those days. People travel up and down the eastern seaboard by ship when possible.

• The British were well dressed for battle and for the weather in northeastern part of the country where the war was waged. Some of our guys didn’t have coats; some didn’t even have shoes. Can you imagine marching long distances in snow or freezing rain without a coat, much less without shoes?

• The British had the latest armaments. We had whatever our men and young boys brought with them from the farms when they joined up. That’s right; when they joined up. Ours was a volunteer army. And the British? Well, not all of their fighting men were British. A good part of their army was made up of mercenaries. Only the officers were virtually all British subjects.

• • Let me point out here that, since ours was a volunteer army, the men were free to quit the army and go home at the end of their enlistment period. Can you imagine the command skills combined with fatherly persuasion General Washington had to employ to keep his men happy enough to fight on and instead of going home? Not to leave when many of them didn’t have a coat or shoes to ward off the cold in the dead of winter in places like Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware required great sacrifice on their part.

• The British had a wealth of very well trained and tried and true generals, and other command officers. We had few trained line officers. Our army had to rely on the judgment of one man. True, he was a towering man who stood out in any crowd. Still, it really was his integrity that gave him his great charisma, which carried him and the fortunes of America through the unbelievably tough times of America’s war of independence from the British Crown.

My fellow Americans, I have just one thing more to say. A lot of us do believe in God and the invincibility of his power and protection of those whom He calls His Own. We must stop the physical abuse of prisoners in our custody. We must or else all is lost for my homeland. I believe we can and will stop the tide of evil that has been unleashed by our leaders over the last half of the last century and has continued and grown in this century.

Now, read or hear what Congressman Ron Paul has to say about “enhanced interrogation.”

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May 25, 2009: Torturing the Rule of Law

While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain circumstances, or is America better than that? “Enhanced interrogation” as some prefer to call it, has been used throughout history, usually by despotic governments, to cruelly punish or to extract politically useful statements from prisoners. Governments that do these things invariably bring shame on themselves. In addition, information obtained under …Continue reading »

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