by ·Comments Off on Rewriting History to Match our Sins

The recent furor over possible DNA matches between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings have proven to be inconclusive. The author of the original study, Dr. Eugene Foster, agrees, and rejects commentaries that compare the sexual indiscretions of Clinton with the conduct of Jefferson.

But such is the undercurrent of political and historic engineering to reduce the office of presidency to the lowest common denominator. When Nixon left office, historians didn’t come forward and say, Oh who cares, all presidents have lied, what’s the big deal.

There was not a move by the Republican party to disparage the reputations and memories of great men in the past to cover the indiscretions and failings of those holding office. If we discovered that a president was a murderer or a pedofile or a drug addict would the conclusion be that all presidents behaved in a similar manner?

This is a petty attempt to try and diffuse the concern over the actions of one, while destroying the character of others. This only reminds us that great men of honor and integrity have held that office and they should be the standard we aspire to today.

by ·Comments Off on Births After 1972

Every child born, since Roe v. Wade was decided in the Supreme Court… should be thankful their mother chose life. But what about the child whose mother is actively supporting abortion causes?

The mother whose sole purpose is that of insuring that other women can kill their unborn children legally. What does that tell her kids?

Gee, did mom really wish she had chosen abortion for me? Is she mad that I was born? Why does she care so much about making sure these little babies are killed? Aren’t mothers supposed to protect little children? What kind of mother… Or father, will I be? Will I want to kill my baby?

These questions are real, and many go unanswered. Maybe this is why generation Y feels abandoned, lost, with no sense of purpose or being.

Maybe that is why so many young kids turn to drugs and suicide as a way out of the pain.

If pro-abortion mothers cared as much for the live kids as they do about the lives they want to see ended, maybe some of these issues would be solved.

by ·Comments Off on Form Over Substance

Three time Indy 500 winner, Bobby Unser, found himself on the wrong side of the law while trying to survive.

He was snowmobiling in a non-restricted area, got caught in a blizzard, lost his snowmobile and had to walk for 18 hours to find help. He faces a $5000 fine and up to six months in jail for maybe crossing into a wilderness area while trying to get out of the blizzard. No one knows for sure. They still haven’t found the abandoned vehicle.

When we get to the point where the government values land more than the lives of the citizens, then the citizens need to reevaluate their system. When farmers can lose their entire farm and livelihood for filling in a mud puddle, which is determined to be a wetland, then the government agency has outlived its purpose. When people are held hostage by the preservation of such pesky creatures as the kangaroo mouse, then it is time for the human species to stand up and be counted.

Conservation and environmental wisdom are important and necessary, but they should never be at the expense of individual human liberty.

This is Nina May for the Renaissance Women.

by ·Comments Off on Homosexuality . . . Normal or Not?

Either homosexuality is normal behavior or it’s not. Those whose agenda is to teach it in the public schools as a legitimate lifestyle also try and keep another foot in the victim camp.

You can’t say it is normal, acceptable, and equal to heterosexual behavior while claiming that any homosexual who is assaulted was assaulted because they are homosexual. Either assault is illegal or it isn’t. It can’t be more illegal because of a lifestyle, especially if we are all told constantly that that lifestyle is normal.

If the homosexuals want special privileges and special laws to protect them, it must mean they know they are different from the rest of society. They have created a class unto themselves while expecting the rest of society to identify them as normal. If the special class is protected, then it is only logical that that special class be allowed to be identified as different or abnormal from the rest of society.

You can’t have it both ways. And if they continue to want special rights as victims, does that mean their victims have no rights at all? Either justice is blind, or she isn’t.

by ·Comments Off on Men, Women and the Differences

I overheard a couple of men talking about the merits of womanhood. Sadly, other than child-bearing, they could not think of one. To them, women had exchanged their unique qualities for the all too mundane characteristics of men.

This held no attraction for these men. There was no mystique, no mystery, no desire to plumb the depths of a hardened psyche or scale the heights of verbal confrontation. They wanted a woman to take pride in the distinction between the sexes, not try and engineer it into obsolescence. They complained there was no longer a challenge, a surge of energy that comes with knowing a woman is strong enough to say no, yet gentle enough to make you grateful for her response.

It took a handful of vocal people to redefine the role and purpose of women a couple of decades ago. It will take more than that to encourage women to redefine themselves, their purpose in life, and their God-given talents.

Maybe pedestals will be fashionable again one day, and there will be something worthwhile for those two young men to put on them.  They are in search of virtue . . . The Renaissance Women hope they find it.

by ·Comments Off on Revolution in the Pulpit

The Revolutionary war was anything but politically correct. The initial encouragement to fight for independence came from the pulpits in the colonies.

John Craighead led a militia from his parish to join Washington in New Jersey. He fought and preached alternately. There were so many fighting pastors that the Tories referred to them as the black regiment.

And in 1775, in a Lutheran Church in Shenandoah county, a young preacher named Peter Muhlenberg delivered a passionate sermon on Ecclesiastes. At the end of his sermon, he threw off his pulpit robe to reveal a colonel’s uniform in the Continental Army, and said, And now is the time to fight! That same day he recruited 300 men to join him and they later became known as the 8th Virginia. He rose to the rank of brigadier general and was in charge of Washington’s first light infantry brigade.

There was no separation of church and state here. The church was intimately involved in the affairs of the state . . .to the point of the parishioners taking up arms to defend it. History trumps political correctness every time.

by ·Comments Off on Angry Feminist

An angry feminist told me once that I was a feminist whether I admitted it or not. She said I would not be where I am today had she not made it easier for me.

On her list of other ungrateful women were Sandra Day O’Connor, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Dole, and Margaret Thatcher. I was honored to be among such ungrateful women.

But what were we supposed to be grateful for? If her battles had been selflessly fought to liberate women then she would be celebrating the successes of these Renaissance Women instead of calling them ungrateful.

I think of the old soldier sitting quietly in the park, paralyzed from the waist down during battle in World War II. He watches with pride as the children play freely without having to understand the horror of war that secured for them that safe harbor. They are his reward, not a painful reminder that his life was made more difficult so these children would have it easier. He doesn’t make them feel guilty. He smiles knowing his sacrifice was worth their peace and freedom. This man was the true liberator, not the feminist demanding glory.

by ·Comments Off on Gun Control in Historical Perspective

The First Maryland Rifles at Fredericksburg and the Virginia rifles were comprised of backwoods boys who could hit targets the size of a silver dollar at thirty yards. They could hike an average of 29 miles a day, every day, and not lose one man to exhaustion. But for soldiers in the newly formed militia, they were also undisciplined.

General Washington issued an order to these farm boys which forbade profanity and drunkenness. And he required that those not involved in battle to attend services.

When he arrived in Cambridge to address this rag-tag group, Washington noted that it was more like a jamboree than a military establishment. So here we have hundreds of ill-disciplined, hard-drinking, profane men all carrying loaded guns. Isn’t it odd that the founding fathers didn’t fear their owning or bearing arms, in fact they counted on it for the revolution. And they protected that right in the constitution.

It is too bad our current political leaders don’t trust us to own guns. It was that freedom to bear arms, that won us this freedom to talk about it. This is Nina May and the Renaissance Women, honoring the veterans of all battles for freedom and independence.

by ·Comments Off on Internet Underground (Veterans Day)

During World War II it seemed as though the whole world was drawn into the global conflict.

In America we had fuel rationing, victory gardens, and black outs. In Europe, many average citizens became freedom fighters in the underground communications structure.

In most cases, it was this avant garde force that made the difference in strategic battles by getting necessary information to the allies. They saw that the normal forms of communication and mass media had broken down or had been compromised… they knew this was the only way to get the facts to the troops in the field.

There seems to be the same sense of urgency in the world today as new web sites spring up daily, offering alternatives to the mainstream press. These are people who refuse to be voiceless, and disenfranchised. They are not the radicals they are painted to be, they are just average people who see their freedoms eroded and their values ridiculed.

But like the underground 50 years ago they realized there are two choices. Accept fascism and communism, or fight it.

This is Nina May and the Renaissance Women thanking all veterans for their sacrifice for freedom.

by ·Comments Off on If an 18-year-old Can Join the Military and Have a Gun … Why Should He Wait ’Til 21 as a Civillian?

In the political rush to pass even more gun legislation, in the aftermath of the tragic school shootings, one brilliant idea is to raise the age of gun ownership to 21.

Let’s forget the fact that none of the gun-toting kids in the past year actually owned them. But what does that mean for the young 18 year-olds who may be a part of the ground forces sent to Yugoslavia? Will we disarm them? Or is it OK to tell them they can own a gun and even kill an enemy that has never harmed them, invaded their country, or threatened their loved ones?

It’s the blonde defense. Oh, that’s different silly, they are trained to use guns and kill. Well, if it’s OK to train our 18 year-old kids to use a weapon effectively enough to kill strangers half-way around the world.

Why don’t we train their peers to use a weapon effectively to defend themselves from some terrorists gang that might blast into their school? How can you argue one minute to disarm kids while arguing the next, to arm them to fight in someone else’s war in another country?

A little consistency goes a long way toward maintaining a sane society.