Once again I have three letters to respond to: Marjie Bartels, Kelly Scoles, and Art Sandford Sr.

Dear Mrs. Bartels, thanks for the letter. I too am sensitive about flags, especially our American flag which is so frequently burned by radical leftist Democrats and their BLM-Antifa-compatriots. May I suggest a good old-fashioned American solution? Why not have the Board members vote on whether to fly that flag? No mail-ins. No adjudications. Paper ballots only!

Just a friendly suggestion. Good luck.

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Thanks again Mr. Sanford.

There is no need for you to fear that your letter would not be published. I have always invited opinions contrary to my own, and (forgive the humorous size comparison) but unlike Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Sundar Pichai, I encourage controversy instead of stifling it, though the audience is much smaller.

To be fair, I think you should check your notes again about Jay Valentine, because I know how scrupulous Democrats are about seeking political truth. Not that I doubt your knowledge of statistical pattern analysis, and forensic audit analysis by data scientists, several of whom on my list, have multiple PhDs, but can you give us your credentials? "...nothing statistically impossible about Biden's win"? let me refer you to just one source among scores of others: American Thought Leaders with @JanJekielek @AmThoughtLeader. I've provided about 10 others in recent weeks, all world-renowned specialists.

Here's a typical pathetic challenge to Jovan Pulitzer's expertise, about his ability to digitally examine millions of ballots to scientifically prove if ballots are authentic or fake. He says we need to access the physical and digital ballots and within seconds can determine authenticity. His technology and approach have nothing to do with accessing the actual Dominion or other vendor machines. He's still waiting to access those ballots (which, by law, are owned by the American people for 22 months following the election). Why are the managers keeping the data from us?

Jovan Pulitzer responds to GA Voting systems manager,Gabriel Sterling, for GA Secty. of State Office, Jan 4, 2021 Full report https://youtu.be/ViJt9gvM1wk.

When you talk of "multiple statistical models predicting Biden victory" those must have come from Biden's basement. A minimum of effort will quickly debunk your false statement. Try it.

As for Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham, they are among the last minute swarms of faint-hearted sunshine soldiers who couldn't take the heat.

One last word about the outrage at the nation's capitol. Hundreds of thousands gathered outside while a few hundred (Antifa-inspired) were actually ushered through the front barriers. They should be severely punished. By the way, evidence of Antifa's presence was found in the feces smeared inside the Capital - DNA would quickly identify the criminals. That's a BLM-Antifa trademark.

Lastly, Art, the ideology you seem to identify with is Marxist, Communist, Socialist -- and profoundly anti-Judeo-Christian. Let's settle for anti-Religion, according to the Founders, the absolute essential foundation of our democratic Republic, and without which our Republic is dissolving.

REQUIEM FOR AMERICA
America was from its beginnings a Christian country - Judeo-Christian by inclusion. Spanish settlers came to St. Augustine, Florida more than 450 years ago, the oldest European settlement, in 1565. Jamestown was settled about 40-years later, the earliest English settlement. In 1604, the first European settlement north of Florida was established by French explorers Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain. So it was that what became America, eventually the United States of America, was sandwiched between the Catholic French in Canada and the Catholic Spanish in St. Agustine, Florida, with Jamestown the oldest Protestant settlement - Plymouth Colony came a little later in September 1620.

Since those difficult early years America has prospered more than any other nation on earth. Blessed with two oceans protecting against foreign invasion before WWII, it also has some of the richest land and industrious people. The greatest blemish in American history was slavery, which was abolished by force during the Civil War, at the cost of 600,000 souls. Slavery exists today in parts of the Middle East, China and elsewhere. Forced labor is a fundamental tenet of Communism.

An essential part of Christian America has always been a democratic-republican form of capitalist government. This has made Americans the freest, most prosperous of countrymen under a solid Constitution - our primary source of law.

But our Founding Fathers agreed from the beginning, to a man, that the heart of this great experiment was religion. Without this requirement the whole thing would fail. Our ingenious Constitution permitted freedom of religion as one of our God-given rights - not merely a privilege. In our time religion has been degraded by foreign influence, namely variants of Communism, an atheistic system which hates God and seeks to replace our Republic. That scheme is working, and our religious values have all but disappeared. This can be clearly seen in the proven fraud which disenfranchised nearly 80-million pro-Trump voters.

I don't intend this to be a geography lesson, but geography is important, it once set us apart from political systems in other places that are not free, which still embrace slavery, such as China. Our downfall began in the 1960s, when the radical left (Democratic Party) preached drugs, abortion on demand, anti-military sentiments, and against traditional American Judeo-Christian culture. Our most deadly national enemies targeted, in particular, the American family. It was encouraged as much by what was not taught as by what was taught in school. Gone were the patriotic Christian truths of my youth, 1940s and '50s, when everyone was proud and thankful to be an American, when it was an acknowledged blessing, brought home by the aftermath of World War II.

In those war years, like today, we faced socialism (National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi) and Communism under Stalin's USSR, though only Churchill understood what lay ahead for the "free world" once Hitler was destroyed. Little has changed for the better. I guess that Frenchman was right - "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Americans are constantly lured to find a replacement for God. Power, through money or politics, is what "leaders" want again today. Since Big Tech has a new game to play with our lives (billionaires seeking to be trillionaires) it seems that, once more, religion doesn't stand a chance. Christians know the truth (final victory) but appear to have to undergo the 20th Century all over again to prove it. Evil exists, and we are in constant war with it. The most evil of men want to become short-term gods, gods with notoriously short shelf-lives - but with horrible, fiery special effects for the rest of us. This time they have become perilously close to achieving their fantasy, by allying with communism, socialism, and globalism.

Barack Obama said he would "fundamentally" change America. Joe Biden repeats the threat. Congress, the Supreme Court, Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Social Media, Deep State, Corrupt State Government, conspired to remove President Donald Trump from office. They are all complicit in the disintegration of our beautiful nation. They are guilty of the greatest crime in American history - but none will be punished. That the Joe Biden crime family will succeed to the presidency is nothing short of macabre.

Today, I see only amber waves of thorns. I think God has heard our prayers, and his answer was "No more. Live with what you have created as you can."

My thanks to Pastor Leslie Lanier, Dave Johnson, and Mary Scoles, for their letters. Also, my thanks to FUTA President Tammy Ferguson for her report on in-person instruction. (I strongly, if respectfully, support immediate opening of normal school activities - studies and sports.)

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I am just starting on my column, and it's 11:15 p.m. I've spent too much time trying to organize the many links to 2020 election fraud evidence. I confess my fixation on these "elections" for the past year. It's the greatest scandal and national civic injury since the Civil War. It is also the greatest fraudulent election in human history. And, what that war won for us by the deaths of 600,000 souls, (liberty, unity, and justice) this universal scandal of the 2020 election is stealing away. I try to avoid sentimentality, but the means with which this election was stolen leaves me deeply saddened - and angry. Joe Biden does not belong in the White House - he belongs in prison. The US Senate, House of Representatives, and entire judicial system have betrayed their Constitutional oaths of office, i.e. “I, ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

The Founding Fathers worried about "factions", today's political parties. Today, the Democratic Party (faction) has shamelessly betrayed our country through a massive, treasonous conspiracy to unseat a duly elected president by means of criminal fraud. If there were such a thing as an Octogenarian Platoon, I'd be in the first squad with my trusty old M1 to secure a fair election. If Republicans lose in Georgia, they might finally understand that naivety and civility don't work in a knife fight with Democrats.

Bottom line: Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election; it was stolen by a sinister criminal conspiracy. President Donald Trump won this election by an historical landslide. The American governmental system abandoned him; no court would hear the evidence of fraud. As Hosea 8:7 states, "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

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As I write, I haven't dared to look at the final tally in the Georgia senatorial run-off election. I value a good night's sleep. But I'll look before leaving the office. I fear another notorious "razor-thin" loss, especially because the same Dominion system was used. How stupid was that?

(Up-date: -- (Checked before leaving the office and discovered that the FIX is in both elections - an extraordinary calamity. Another razor-thin theft.)

Regardless of the winners, the whole structure of my understanding of American national politics and civil society, especially of our law, has completely changed following events since the 2016 election. We are now a different, post Judeo-Christian, atheist nation. Atheistic, Communistic, Socialistic forces (represented by virtually all Media, Big Tech, Big Banks, Billionaire Globalists, Papal Venality, and all of our Communist enemies - especially China), have taken charge. Among the traitorous billionaires endangering our Republic is Mark Zuckerberg, who gave a half-billion dollars to the Communist Left, enough to bribe every Democrat from judge to bag lady (like Stacey Abrams).

Here is evidence of the kind of damage so-called Social Media did to the election process:
"Statistician and Fraud Expert Jay Valentine Weighs In: YouTube just announced that it will remove all videos “alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election”, uploaded on or after December 9, 2020. This is why most of the US heard nothing of the spectacular Hunter Biden criminal activity in China.

From American Thinker: Google/YouTube is erasing all evidence of election fraud - 12/10/20 We have entered a truly Orwellian world, with Google acting the part of Big Brother.

Both elections are invalid due to wholesale fraud across the board. The old legal dictum, "Fraud vitiates consent" applies here. Voters did not consent to subjecting themselves to a fraudulent process. This is the foundation of legitimate demands for an audit of both election outcomes, including details of proven fraudulent activity.

We now know both elections were tabulated by machines designed to cheat. Both elections were run through machines illegally wired to the internet. Both elections were illegally tabulated in Europe. Many forensic inspections show obvious fraud in the vote spikes, and in the shutdown of ballot counting absent required Republican oversight.

Democrat claims that 50-plus courts rejected the evidence of election and voter fraud are untrue. The fact is that NO COURT WOULD CONDESCEND TO EVEN LOOK AT EVIDENCE. Carefully prepared briefs and complaints were denied a hearing on PROCEDURAL grounds, not substantial. They wouldn't look at the facts presented. Cases were deemed either too early or too late -- in this life-and-death Constitutional election! The courts aided and abetted the fraud!

It's hard for me to write when angry, and this column didn't turn out as planned. The distraction of this Georgia election, which gives the nation over to its enemies, has sort of stopped me in my tracks. So much evil will explode in our country if President Trump and Vice President Pence are unable to stop the steal; unprecedented damage will happen quickly.

As they say in dire combat situations, "They're in the wire!" Time to fix bayonets!

It's impossible to fairly summarize the complexity and audacity of the 2020 criminal conspiracy to steal the election. It is truly colossal in scope, implicating enemies foreign and domestic. It is an indictment of the Democratic Party, our most powerful US government departments, financed by virtually all social media, Wall Street, and our most infamous foreign enemies, including communist China. Indeed, it can be seen as a coming-out party for communism. Evidence of this global cabal, from the Pope in Rome to Xi Jinping in China, has been clearly revealed with all its remarkable coordination. The name of the game is "take-out Trump" at all costs. If there is any life left in our subverted Republic, this astonishing evidence should see Trump reelected - by a landslide of historic proportions. Otherwise, this nation has been undone.
This column simply lists a series of indisputable forensic proofs of massive election and voting fraud, produced by engineering and mathematical geniuses, in order to save our Republic. Democratic anti-Trumpers yell for proof -- HERE IT IS, IN SPADES -- A Royal Flush!

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Mr. Somers, I thank you for your letter, also Kelly Scoles, concerning my last REALITIES column. I encourage letters, especially those that strongly disagree with my opinions (otherwise, life is boring) - but not so much those disputing facts. I still welcome them but have no worthwhile response other than to lay-out those facts to review. Here, you question facts, as millions of uninformed American voters continue to do - until (as is happening now) they see what has happened to our election process. I hope I can convince you of the unprecedented criminal conspiracy which robbed 80-million Republicans of their voting rights - and threatens our Republic, so you can join in the rescue effort on January 6.

In 2000, Gore conceded, then soon rescinded his concession, then conceded again after 36 days and a final Supreme Court decision. Today, our Supreme Court has disgraced itself in the eyes of 230-million citizens seeking due process of law and equal protection of the laws, as our 14th Amendment demands - by refusing to even consider the extraordinary (quantitative and qualitative) evidence of election fraud.

The question is: if definitive factual evidence would convince you that a massive criminal conspiracy to rig the 2020 election occurred -- would you still support a Biden win? Would you then understand the righteous outrage being expressed by pro-Trump voters? Would you then demand correction? Well, here's your chance to evaluate the facts and come to a fair and honest conclusion.

The following links present several expert analyses, produced by world-eminent scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and forensic cybersecurity analyst experts, which prove the extent of fraud in the 2020 "election". They challenge skeptics to "Prove us wrong"! This foreign intervention itself amounts to formal acts of war.

This election fraud has to be described in terms of superlatives to be understood - as the Republic's last hope under attack. One example: Joe Biden will soon be shown to be, historically, (with his whole family) America's greatest felon. Wife, son (Hunter), brother, et al, have betrayed this country for decades by selling influence (access) to the President and other high officials, while laundering billions. Most recently: "Ukraine press conference explicitly ties Hunter and Joe Biden to corruption - 12/29/20 A newly released video from Ukraine provides more details about how millions [billions] of dollars from the Ukrainian people ended up in Biden family bank accounts." (see online).

And this utterly compromised man (China, Ukraine, et al.) would be President of the United States?? Now, do we understand the necessity for hyperbolical language?

Here are some of the men and women seeking to save us from a fraudulent election outcome. Among the best and brightest there is complete agreement: Joe Biden succeeded in stealing the election through massive fraud, and is therefore not electable.

JovanHuttonPulitzer ™ #JovanHuttonPulitzer@JovanHPulitzer. A NEW WAY TO DETERMINE FRAUD. Tech expert Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, best known for inventing the QR code, has rattled the Internet with his claim that illegal ballots can easily be identified. In an interview on Economic War Room with Kevin Freeman, Pulitzer, the holder of a number of patents, laments that the presidential election is not subject to even a grocery store standard when it comes to fraud detection and punishment. Pulitzer reminds us that when physical ballots go through the scanning machines, a duplicate copy is created. By law, an American voter owns this copy for 22 months after the election.

Peter Navarro, Dec 17, 2020. ‘The Immaculate Deception’ Report News Conference Transcript. Detailed analysis of the fraud conspiracy - machines, software, ballot manipulation, foreign tabulation, and timing. "White House Advisor Peter Navarro released his own 36-page report alleging election fraud called “The Immaculate Deception.” He presented the contents of the report in a press conference on December 17, 2020. Read the full transcript there".

Russell Ramsland: PDF: Dec 13, 2020. "Antrim Michigan Forensics Report REVISED PRELIMINARY SUMMARY, v2 Report Date 12/13/2020 Allied Security Operations Group. Antrim Michigan Forensics Report REVISED PRELIMINARY SUMMARY, v2 Report Date 12/13/2020A. WHO WE ARE 1. My name is Russell James Ramsland, Jr., and. I hold an MBA from Harvard University, and a political science degree from Duke University. I have worked with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), among other organizations, and have run businesses all over the world, many of which are highly technical in nature. I have served on technical government panels. 2. I am part of the management team of Allied Security Operations Group, LLC, (ASOG). ASOG is a group of globally engaged professionals who come from various disciplines to include Department of Defense, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency. It provides a range of security services, but has a particular emphasis on cybersecurity, open source investigation and penetration testing of networks. We employ a wide variety of cyber and cyber forensic analysts. We have patents pending in a variety of applications from novel network security applications to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) protection and safe browsing solutions for the dark and deep web. For this report, I have relied on these experts and resources. B. PURPOSE AND PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS: Report Date 12/13/2020

The purpose of this forensic audit is to test the integrity of Dominion Voting System in how it performed in Antrim County, Michigan for the 2020 election. 2. We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified." (emphasis mine).

Patrick Byrne, special report. "Despite efforts to block the truth from getting out, concerned citizens are working together to protect our election system and democracy. There is significant evidence that the 2020 election is one of the largest industrial frauds to take place in the history of the world. It is critical that Americans hold the line and ensure a fair election system is in place to protect our democratic republic. This week... Patrick Byrne is in the Economic War Room® to share election fraud insights he has helped uncover and explain the mathematical impossibilities of the vote in these six swing state counties.

Navid Keshavarz-Nia, Phd.: "In my expert judgment, the evidence is widespread and throughout all battleground states I have studied. I conclude the following: a. The vote count distribution in PA, WI, MI, AZ, NV, and GA are not based on normal system operation. Instead, they are caused by fraudulent electronic manipulation of the targeted voting machines. The unanimous decision to intentionally stop counting by all five battleground states is highly unusual, possibly unprecedented and demonstrates prior coordination by election officials in battleground states.

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, PhD: Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the inventor of email, [at age 14] is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and Fulbright Scholar who holds four degrees from MIT including his PhD in Biological Engineering testifies about election fraud to a select committee of Arizona legislators. #everylegalvote. - Exposes how the 2020 election was rigged https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk.

Jay Valentine, The Man That Actually Built EBay’s Fraud Protection Engine Exposes Voter Fraud. Explaining the Voting Switching Voting Hardware and Software: "Step 1 – The Canadian-owned DOMINION vote counting machines are used in 28 states. Step 2 – DOMINION gets its software from SMARTMATIC which is a Delaware company owned by Venezuelans close to the Communist Venezuelan Chavez and Maduro family. Step 3 – Then our votes are stored on a server in Frankfurt Germany. Step 4 – Then our votes actually get counted in Barcelona, Spain and Smartmatic has a special software feature that allows users to change votes."

Sidney Powell, a detailed 104-page complaint, working with attorney Lin Wood, containing sworn affidavits, by the thousands. SCOTUS refused to accept evidence.

It's time for angry, determined, retributive justice.

Merry Christmas everyone. Sorry to publish such a gloomy column but we're dealing with very solemn political realities. The future would be so utterly catastrophic should Joe Biden steal the election that I believe God will spare America one more time. Joe Biden will never set foot into the oval office if he's fended-off with prayer.

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I believe this is the first time in 31 years that I have substituted my REALITIES column for another column. I do this because my "substitute" has earned my respect for boldly and clearly speaking the truth on critical issues concerning politics and religion. In my detailed study of the opinions he has expressed in his Church Militant programs over the years, I have never found an error.

Be forewarned, this is a conservative Catholic website, but non-Catholic American citizens will find his political information consistently accurate and trustworthy - especially in his (justified) contempt for most of today's corrupt Catholic hierarchy. Here he summarizes in particular the truly massive criminal voter and election fraud conspiracy proven to have manufactured the "win" for Joe Biden. Whether you're Catholic, or hate that church, Michael Voris' political commentary is uniquely valuable.

Bottom line: STOP the steal - save our Republic!

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The Vortex, By Michael Voris
Dec. 18, 2020
It’s China
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The Chinese Communist Party got Joe Biden elected. That stunning revelation is coming from those investigating what went wrong on election night and the couple of days following.
It was done through a combination of software and computer hacks in a handful of key counties in the United States, which piled up impossible margins for Biden, which flipped those states, thereby flipping the Electoral College and handing the election to Biden — for now anyway.
The vehicle for doing all of this was a combination of software by a company called Smartmatic and the actual voting machines themselves from Dominion Voting Systems. Of course, both companies deny all the allegations. But their denials do not make the election fraud untrue.
The lead on all this is a man by the name of Patrick Byrne, a billionaire who was asked to assemble a team of leading experts by the state of Texas to investigate claims of voter fraud there after the 2018 midterm elections. Byrne is leading the research efforts for attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell and their lawsuits laying all this out. [Special Report with Patrick Byrne, MASSIVE Electronic anomalies.] He's also working the company that conducted the forensic audit on Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, which discovered fraud and published the finding in a 22-page report earlier this week [Russell James Ramsland, Jr] — a report, by the way, that Michigan's Secretary of State tried unsuccessfully to suppress.
So convincing is all the proof that the GOP in seven states have issued their own competing slates of electors. Tweet
Antrim County was the first domino to fall in this investigation of election night because after the solidly red county went way too much for Biden, a local citizen said, "something's wrong here." His inquiries forced the county to admit that 6,000 votes had flipped from Trump to Biden.
At first it was passed off as a "glitch," but as a Church Militant interview with expert Jay Valentine revealed, that sort of "glitch" is impossible; miscounts perhaps, but actually moving secured, tallied votes from one candidate to another — flipping them — the software doesn't have that capability. Why would it? Who would build that into a program that is designed to do nothing more than tally votes ... unless of course if someone wanted that to happen?
That was the finding of the forensic audit — that the software was not secure, could be hacked and that result could happen.
After news got around that the impossible "glitch" had occurred — which of course revealed the hacking potential — Michigan's Marxist-loving Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued a two-page letter blaming everything on human error by the clerk. That claim was untrue, as the forensic audit later proved.
Likewise, the state of Texas had rejected Dominion's overtures multiple times to buy their machines precisely because of their lack of security — meaning, they could be plugged into the internet and then an outsider could go into the tabulation software and shift votes around.
Likewise, a software update could be downloaded onto the machines — again by an outsider — which would introduce a mathematical equation, an algorithm would ensure a certain outcome.
That algorithm has been discovered by various researchers in the aftermath of the election — an algorithm that weighted Biden [in decimal] votes more heavily than Trump votes.
So for example, every vote received for Biden would count as one and a quarter votes and every vote counted for President Trump would only count as three-quarters of a vote for him.
When hundreds of thousands of votes are finished tabulating, that fractional difference would spell a very large margin. In fact, that was the very discovery revealed by a statistical model analysis, which lines up with multiple other models investigating what happened.
That model shows Trump actually won all the contested states — some by large margins — and here in Michigan gained 48.6% of the vote, enough to have probably won here as well.
Yet another analysis found that when all was said and done, Dominion machines — with their compromised software that was penetrable from the outside and downloaded software updates — added 3% to Biden on election night in key states.
If this is true — and it's all looking more and more likely — then Joe Biden did not win and is not the president. So far, all the Democrats have been able to say is "there's no evidence." But that, as we know by now, is completely false. ...
"... And as to China specifically, he [Byrne] says, "There's a chain of command basically from China through Iran to Cuba and Venezuela. The Chinese are funding Smartmatic through the Panamanian division of Smartmatic, but it bounces through Venezuela. There is code [Smartmatic] buried within the Dominion machines that has been turned up that seems to show Chinese provenance."

See also: Peter Navarro's "Immaculate Deception". December 18, 2020, complete details.

It's my lucky day. I have two letters to respond to, one from Kelly Scoles, and one from Art Sandford Sr. Thank you both. I'll do my best while trying to leave some space for myself.

Mr. Sanford Sr. first.
Hello Art, I've grown old and grey with Pebbles the Wonder Dog since we last spoke in the Gazette. To save space, let me answer your comments bullet-wise.

Trump did not bully his way through the 2016 Republican primaries. He just showed strength in the midst of weakness, and voters were fed-up with weakness.

Is there something wrong with being "primarily high school-educated, white (88%) conservatives"? This is the most blatant racist remark the Gazette has reported in many years. "Unfiltered" or on the rocks, most voters were (are) hungry for traditional American populism - I remember when "Truth, justice, and the American way" was more than a mere comic book slogan.

Thanks for the congratulations on Republican wins. You mock allegations of a rigged election due to "massive fraud", but how can you answer now-emerging, forensic evidence of such massive election fraud? More in my response to Kelly Scoles. However, let it suffice here to refer you to Russell Ramsland, of Allied Security Operations Group, LLC (ASOG), who just completed his forensic analysis of Dominion machines in Antrim County, Michigan. There is no "conjuring" here, just lead-pipe cinch facts. Why not present to court? We are trying on many levels, in several courts. Latest theory on rejections - death threats (and lethal incidents) against judges and families. On all other questions, see Russell Ramsland, or several other expert forensic scientists' analyses proving sophisticated, systemic, election-turning fraud.

Nice talking with you again, Art.

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Hi Kelly (Scoles),
It's always a challenge to respond to your statements and opinions because they are, as here, so numerous. You question sources, statistical anomalies, adequate proof of fraud, court decisions, Gore v. Bush rationale, Republican reaction to fraud, Hillary Clinton's loss, Dems suspicions of (eternal) Russian interference, Hillary's tardy concession, Trump's alleged "emotional problems", the totality of Trump's "grift" and "malignant despotism"! Holy cow! Let's agree to disagree on all of the small stuff and concentrate on the central issue: systemic criminal election and voter fraud sufficient to invalidate the election.

By doing this I agree to avoid unloading that warehouse of conclusive evidence of Biden family crime (i.e. Tony Bobulinski documents.)

The volume of evidence proving election-voter fraud in the 2020 election overwhelms the normal ability to even present it to courts in the short time available. The race is on between frantic cover-up agents and patriotic whistleblowers. The Democrat criminal alliance of Party, media, big tech, Wall Street, state politicians, federal politicians (deep state), government agencies, and revealed foreign players, demands a heavy boot on the brakes to enable a timely, orderly disposition of facts. This evidence of fraud is dispositive. We have till January 20, by Constitutional writ, to implement a cure, and save our Republic. Let's count two basic ways this fraud demands invalidation of this election (Way over my word allotment):

(1) On the issue of voter fraud there are more than 1,000 sworn affidavits from eye-witnesses to illegal ballot processing and denial of Republican observation, etc..

(2) Formally documented fraudulent voting machines and software. Big data mathematical analysis reveals impossible national vote outcomes by unnatural anomalies. See: Russell James Ramsland, Jr.
www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/interesting_nuggets_from_the_antrim.... 1. My name is Russell James Ramsland, Jr., and I am a resident of Dallas County, Texas. I hold an MBA from Harvard University, and a political science degree from Duke University. I have worked with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), among other organizations, and have run businesses all over the world, many of which are highly technical in nature. I have served on technical government panels....

1.The purpose of this forensic audit is to test the integrity of Dominion Voting System in how it performed in Antrim County, Michigan for the 2020 election.

2.We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified.

"Additionally, the software was illegally changed, violating a legally mandated safe harbor period, including changes between tallies. Basic security was ignored. Logs were removed, and someone tried to delete the entire voting record." "This was a preliminary report, so you can expect more information. If what happened in Antrim County was repeated wherever Dominion systems are used, there's no doubt that a huge percentage of write-in votes were rerouted to people (some or all of whom may have been overseas). These people "adjusted" the votes to achieve a desired, Biden-esque outcome."

See also: Election Fraud Evidence - Jovan Hutton Pulitzer - YouTube "Jovan Hutton Pulitzer sets out how he can determine if there was wide scale voter fraud by means of scientific data" - high speed scanning of ballots alone (millions per day). Finding absolute proof quickly and easily without any concern for machine codes or Dominion software. "It is not necessary to establish who committed the fraud for the purposes of obtaining the correct results, his software can identify the exact number of fraudulent ballots and remove them from the count, declaring the true election results." Check his unimpeachable credentials as world renowned expert. This is a new way to determine fraud. This test should be done immediately. "This will determine if our vote will ever count again." Why would anyone object?

It's time to remove this pretender from his self-styled "Office of the President Elect". Our nation has not faced such a critical fight since the Civil War. As many are saying today: this a hill on which to die. The Supreme Court is our last hope. What happens two to four years from now is irrelevant. Our government cannot fall into the hands of two rank grifters. This election steal must be STOPPED - NOW.

So, Let's Roll!

Response to Kelly Scoles’ "Second Opinion" Letter to the Editor

Hi Kelly,
On the Republican side of this election there are no "baseless doubts" concerning election and voter fraud, as never before experienced in America. Their beliefs are based upon hundreds of documented cases. I provided a few links last week. I could provide hundreds more. You won't find them on any TV station, including FOX. A quick way to find these links is to consult the many "new" scrupulously, meticulously, mathematically accurate online blogs. A good start would be American Thinker. All provide solid facts concerning the massive, election-stealing fraud taking place. Check out Jay Valentine, Russell Ramsland, Navid Keshavarz-Nia, or Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD., all noted experts in their fields. You will find no honest examiner of the technical data and eye-witness evidence (sworn affidavits) of election and voter fraud to dispute this conclusion. Those who allege disbelief are either ignorant or dishonest.

Therefore, I have to believe you are ignorant of facts - have not confronted the evidence sufficiently before believing "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history." This statement is the official lie of the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) Executive Committee – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). I guess the biggest lies require the biggest titles. Have you at least read Powell's complaint? The judge didn't either.

Even the most naïve political neophyte anticipated fraudulent activity in this historical election, but not the scope. And the Republican Party was not naïve - just (as usual) not assertive enough. Again, no one anticipated the enormity of this orchestrated fraud. A few, like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Rep. U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, Senator Ted Cruz, and others filing scores of lawsuits seeking hearings in state and federal courts, have fought to be heard. The extent of judicial rejection so far indicates the depth of Judicial-political corruption.

About AG Bill Barr. He remains a mystery, acting like some fifth column ringer. For "Attorney General William Barr [to declare] Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election" appears to be a breathtaking betrayal of Trump and the truth. It is inexplicably stunning. But I'm not omniscient, and evidence is supposed to be examined before judgment can be fairly passed. For some reason Barr ignores manifestly present fraud.

You wonder why the Dominion and Smartmatic voting system could only "negate votes for Trump"? Well, that's the central point of the whole investigation. Again, go back to Jay Valentine for an explanation - and demonstration. These machines are designed and guaranteed to produce a pre-determined winner, regardless of the ballot count. This system is notorious for creating fraudulent results, on command, by way of its Smartmatic software. This is not a "mystery", it's a known fact. So, knowing this, why did the State of Georgia buy Dominion-Smartmatic systems for a cool $100 million dollars? And, by golly, it paid off! Paper ballots would be both cheaper and safer. Computer election systems should be banned because of inherent cheating capabilities.

As for Sydney Powell, she is attempting to find an honest court to take her 200-page complaint for a hearing. So far, no success. She is a bright, gutsy woman, demanding a fair presidential election. Because, as J. Robert Smith has said:
"If the presidential elections fraud succeeds, 74 million citizens will have their votes nullified. What would this act of disenfranchisement be other than war by other means?” And my vote was one of the 74 million.

You mock my statement about evidence of fraud being "too numerous to mention here." I've given you several links. Read them, inform yourself, it's exciting to view the largest election fraud in American history unfold. Learn about the internet connections, foreign ballot tabulation, distribution to communist China, Germany, Spain. Learn about all the ballot printing, dumping, re-scanning, missing thumb drives, etc. Learn of the bullying and exclusion of Republican vote watchers, stopping the ballot count, sending Republican observers home, then continuing the count unobserved for hours. It's all very exciting; issues too numerous to mention here - but easily available for honest inquiry.

Please study the details on election and voter fraud mentioned here. There'll be a quiz on Monday.

In all seriousness, what Jay Valentine discovered as industrial scale fraud in our 2020 presidential election must be acknowledged by our judicial system. It's my prayer that, at least, our Supreme Court is sufficiently bias free to render a verdict of no confidence in this year's election - necessitating either a fresh election or a declaration of Donald Trump's reelection. The civic health of our nation demands this - most Americans will not live under socialism.

American society is staggering under the weight of 40-plus years of political corruption. Cleaning things up will be a Herculean task. But if Hercules could flush-out the Augean stable in a day, Donald Trump can flush-out the deep state swamp - after a new, honest election - with another four years.

Otherwise, our Republic has come to an ignominious end.

The life of our Republic hangs by a thread today, due to an all-embracing election fraud perpetrated by the Democratic Party and its co-conspirators. The American electorate has never before experienced fraud of this magnitude. Besides the DEMs, Trump is facing the media, Big Tech, Wall Street, the education industry, corrupt judges-lawyers, crooked governors, mayors, Members of Congress - and criminal computer companies peddling their fraudware.

The conspirators themselves can best be understood as a group of energized, Trump-hating sociopaths, determined to destroy the President at any cost. Despite this juggernaut of evildoers pursuing him, Trump will finish as conquering hero. There is now an insanely intense race by all Never-Trump conspirators to halt fraud investigations cold, by intimidation, physical attacks, even death threats.

By keeping his promise to drain the DC swamp, the President has disturbed the deep lair of swamp monster, Joe Grendel Biden. It's now the task of Beowulf Trump to cut his head off. Excuse the awkward metaphor, but we are dealing with monsters here and courage is compulsory.

Here are the facts:
President Donald Trump has won the 2020 election by a documented landslide! Documented as well are the facts proving the time, methods and instruments used in the criminal attempt to steal this election. I say "attempt" because I have confidence in the courage and determination of lawyers like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, the large number of expert mathematicians, cyber engineers, acknowledged software and hardware specialists, who have studied the evidence and presented it for court hearings - with the hundreds of eye witnesses having provided sworn affidavits to the courts, of massive election fraud. Read what Russell Ramsland, co-founder of Allied Security Operations Group, has to say about it, as well as many other top experts.

Read the history of Dominion, as I have, and the legal-political confusion will make your head spin. This product was specifically designed by gangsters to cheat, to guarantee a winner - for a high price (paid by Democrats).

Absolute proof of criminal design in the Dominion election computers is provided by indisputable expert testimony, like Ramsland, whose complete demonstration of Dominion's fraud capabilities is shown online. His video is "a primer, not about the 2020 election, but about the way in which Dominion systems (and other voting machines) are structured to allow bad actors to manipulate votes to achieve fraudulent outcomes". See also: "Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern Science," by Jay Valentine. "Here’s the summary: For the election returns in many precincts to happen the way they did, Biden would have to flip a coin 1,000 times and get heads every time. We aren’t done here. He would also have to do it over and over again, in scores, perhaps hundreds of precincts. Welcome to big data analysis." "...Using big data, measuring against historical trends, enables many of the math geeks who inhabit the internet to find these frauds."

See also: Navid Keshavarz-Nia, and Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email, @va_shiva: This count "can only be done by computer algorithm. Is so precise over so many precincts. A computer algorithm was in place to lower Trump's votes as a function of % of Republicans in a precinct. (In this case linearly)."

In Sidney Powell's 104-page complaint detailing everything she asserts took place in Georgia, she also gives a history of the Dominion computers. She quotes a Venezuelan whistleblower's direct testimony about the two systems (Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines) including, "Chávez's requirements that the software would hide vote manipulation from audits. The computers were designed to enable virtually endless vote manipulation throughout the voting process, whether printing ballots, feeding them into the counting machine, or actually counting them. The computers were also connected to the internet, so, when it came to data manipulation, no one had to be physically present with the computers. The systems have been associated with election fraud in various countries."

The 2020 election was rigged, by old-fashioned ballot stuffing, printing, and deletion, but mainly by the systemic use of fraudulent Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines and software, purposefully designed to guarantee one of the candidates will win the election; here, Joe Biden.

Evidence of systemic fraud is more than sufficient proof to invalidate the election. It is simply overwhelming, too voluminous to begin listing here.

The fate of the United States of America lies in the hands of (hopefully) honest state legislatures, District and Circuit Courts, our new Supreme Court - and oceans of prayer. That's it. If the Democratic Party is allowed to steal this election in full view of this massive fraudulent conspiracy, our Republic is lost. The Republican electorate must demand a new, honest election.

NEW ELECTION - PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!

A combination response to Mary Scoles letter to the editor:

Hi Mary,
Some corrections to your conclusions (online Letter to Editor) are in order. First, the election is not over yet. Second, Republicans expect "significant change" in both the vote count and evidence of massive, systemic fraud. (In the law at least, "Fraud vitiates consent.") See the Supreme Court case of UNITED STATES v. THROCKMORTON, (98 US 61), finding that "Fraud vitiates everything." In this case the systemic fraud in voter count would (I believe will) invalidate the entire election. I believe the Supreme Court will decide the winner - Donald Trump. This is a scandal, in the words of attorney Sidney Powell, of "Biblical proportions."

Attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are proceeding with their federal cases based upon this historically pervasive fraud at multiple levels, nationally and internationally. America, in its two hundred forty years of existence, has never before experienced anything close to this massive, obvious cheating, by ballot, machine, software, servers, and hands-on ballot stuffing.

Statistician and fraud expert Jay Valentine ends his American Thinker column, entitled "Why Industrial Scale Fraud Is Just So Hard To Hide" with, "Get some sleep". Valentine led the team that built the eBay fraud detection engine. To affect a successful fraud investigation he says we need the source codes, log and transaction files, and the Dominion voting machines. Reports claim we have all of these materials, despite Dominion's panicked retreat from inquiring experts.

Basic forensics accounting will show sufficient criminal manipulation on a national scale to overturn an election of this magnitude.

If we look at published data pattern analyses, they show the same algorithm is used across 6-7 precincts. Where a greater proportion of straight Republican votes are found, so-called Weighted Race votes moved from Trump to Biden, Biden votes given more weight in the program. This Weighted Race aspect is a special feature which can guarantee the winner in any political race.

Centrally organized fraud was certainly occurring on a national scale. Democrats used the same type of pattern across multiple data stats in multiple states. "The trends, curbs, and algorithms were identical, and this can only happen if a centralized authority is manipulating from multiple locations. It was the pattern in 3-3 states. Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the inventor of Email (at age 14), scientist, engineer, tells by pattern recognition analysis, "there were mathematical impossibilities in the vote count." "We need to get Dominion machines, look at source code, and log files. Then, look at published data pattern analyses, which will show the same algorithm is used across 6-7 precincts, where they voted straight Republican ticket.” As GOP votes grew, a greater proportion of those votes moved from Trump to Biden. Curves and graphs are available that anyone can understand. From [a] layman's point of view, it's the same as flipping a coin 1,000 times and landing heads each time. This happens in not just one precinct, but in all 5-5 precincts, (the equivalent of a mathematical impossibility) and this shows the "fire" in the software for these voting machines. "A change has taken place. Computers don't glitch."

Valentine once again: "Industrial scale fraud is not sustainable because lies that big just cannot be hidden."

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I started out trying to show how the American people have been defrauded of an honest 2020 presidential election. I ended up getting tangled in too many details. But what is shown beyond doubt is that Donald Trump has been reelected to the presidency, by an apparent landslide. Joe Biden and his corrupt Democratic Party minions have instigated this enormous criminal conspiracy to steal the election with their magical Weighted Race software feature, phony hardware, and thousands of corrupt facilitators.

All those clamoring for proof of these facts will soon be satisfied when at least five federal lawsuits will soon be filed.

Of particular interest are lawsuits being filed by attorneys Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and their team. Powell, as above, promises her evidence will be "Biblical." As Jay Valentine tells us: "... One honest person or two, here, are Kryptonite to industrial scale fraud." And, that scale of fraud will overturn this election.

Our hope is in the Name of the Lord - and our new, Constitution-respecting Supreme Court.

I think this will be one of the most difficult columns I've ever written. Not in terms of any great dilemma, because the required action is absolutely certain. And, not because the issue is difficult to understand; it's clear and present. The difficulty is in convincing citizens of good will to act immediately in the very short time left to save our nation - for we are close to losing it.

Though I watched closely as election day approached, and even more closely as it has passed, I only began to understand the urgency of the problem during the past week as startling details of truly massive election fraud have emerged from the confusion. President Donald J. Trump has won reelection by a landslide, though a corrupt media proclaims he has lost the election by that infamous "razor-thin margin".

Here is the truth: "The object here is to dispel this myth that Joe Biden won the presidential election." The urgent message here is for states that used the Dominion Voting Systems in their ballot counting to not certify the final count, because all voting has been infected by systemic, fraudulent software. And no, this is not some hysterical conservative alarm. The information is based entirely on mathematical analysis by eminent mathematicians, such as Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. (@va_shiva) Inventor of Email, (at age 14) and the most highly respected lawyers such as Sidney Powell.

A clear explanation of how the Dominion software is (intentionally) fraudulent can be found on numerous websites today. It was slow in coming in, but as Sidney Powell now says, it's coming in as if "from a fire hose."

Proof of systemic fraud which dramatically changed the election outcome is mathematically solid. Dr. Shiva compares the certainty of the fraud to Joe Biden "flipping a nickel one thousand times and having all flips turning up heads." His conclusions have been validated, and he challenges anyone to "Prove us wrong!"

I'm flooded with election fraud and Dominion machine history. I only have time to provide some links here, but they are all instructive if not electrifying.

Joe Oltmann was interviewed on Machel Malkin's program recently, machelMalkinLive. Oltmann is a highly respected blogger-political activist who has deeply researched the Dominion company, and one Director, Eric Coomer. Coomer is described as both a PhD nuclear physicist, VP for Security and Strategy, major shareholder - and alleged sociopath. His social media shows not only his hatred for Donald Trump, but for America in general; filled with hateful statements, vitriol, hate for police, etc. Apparently, Oltmann has copied much of Coomer's Facebook information, with very scary selfies of Coomer holding weapons, etc. This man is also a salesman for Dominion. See Malkin Live for more info. See also American Thinker for additional info.

For some reason FOX news has been quiet about the details of this astounding, election-invalidating fraud accusation. The rest, the corrupt CNN, etc, are virtually silent on the issue.

In short, our 2020 presidential election has been mathematically proven to have been systemically fraudulent, which should invalidate the outcome entirely.

The incidents of fraud are numerous, from deleting ballot images (violation of USC code 20701-20702), to vote transfers. These fraudulent vote transfers from Trump to Biden were facilitated by a (notorious) computer algorithm, "a Weighted Race Algorithm method, transferring a percent of votes from one candidate to another, a weighted decimal value."

Diebold (voting machines) had original feature which was sold to other companies. Dr. Shiva asks if a coup is underway.

What should cause American citizens to "take arms" (politically) is the fact that the Dominion machines are purposely designed to cheat, to switch votes - that's the only reason a city, state, or country would want to purchase one with this software feature. These machines have been used in Cuba to guarantee victory for Castro's successor; and in Venezuela, to guarantee a dictator's victory. What’s more, our CIA and FBI have known about this for years. The deepest of the Deep State is here exposed.

In conclusion, research these allegations (and proofs) for yourself. This election must be invalidated. President Trump has been reelected in a (covered-up) landslide!

It's possible, now even probable, that this election may prove to be the most stunning embarrassment in American history, for the Democratic Party.

I know the odds are wildly against this happening, just as they were in 2016, when Hillary had ordered the fireworks and the media was drunk with joyful anticipation. But, hey, at my age I can deal with whatever rebuke I may bring upon myself if wrong. After all, I'm among those "deplorable" conservatives.

As I see it, Joe Biden has welcomed accolades from around the world as winner of the race for President of the United States. He has given speeches outlining his new policies and named a few cabinet members. He also failed to thank President Trump for his efforts during the past four years in office. Not very gracious for a self-styled President Elect.

Meanwhile, back in the Oval Office, duly elected President, Donald Trump is busy flushing out unprecedented masses of election fraud, of a criminal and unconstitutional nature. It appears that, despite Democrat denials, the 2020 election is rife with fraud. Trump ballots have been stolen and dumped out. Biden ballots have been manufactured and dumped in. Republican oversight demanded by law has been obviously denied, with counting room windows and doors covered and locked. Sworn affidavits of the above fraudulent activity are coming in by the hundreds.

But the single greatest example of wholesale ballot fraud has been discovered in the manipulated voting machine itself. This appears to be a longstanding, cryptic plan to guarantee a Biden win. I'm surprised and a little troubled that this information has been so slowly released by the media because the problem is so systemic, involving massive numbers of Biden ballots appearing and Trump votes disappearing. This is how hundreds of thousands of Trump votes vanished almost magically overnight.

But Joe Biden moves boldly along. "President-elect" Joe Biden dismissed President Donald Trump's refusal to concede, noting Biden's team has already begun the transition process. This is the nub of what I foresee as one of the most embarrassing events in human history for the proclaimed new "president elect." Just suppose that, after framing his new foreign policies, naming his cabinet, now dressed in his inauguration tux, his Obama-awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom (highest civilian honor in the U.S., festooned upon his chest) - then notice arrives from the Justice Department informing him that he is still only Mr. Sleepy Joe. All fraudulent votes have been struck from the final tally leaving Donald J. Trump in office. At this point "President Elect" Biden is seen on the podium butt naked - the proverbial president has no clothes. But he can keep his medal.

The result here may be more than a dream. The uncovering of the plot to dethrone Trump has just begun. The question is, how fast can the evidence be produced, presented, and judged? Here are some facts:

The voting machines in question are manufactured by a company called Dominion Voting Systems. "Along with controlling roughly one-third of the voting machine market, Dominion has contracts in all of the key swing states where Trump’s campaign team is mounting legal challenges, plus Nevada and Arizona."

"Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell recently raised alarms over Dominion’s ties to the Democratic Party. Powell pointed out that Nadeam Elshami, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) former chief of staff, became a lobbyist for Dominion last year. Richard Blum, Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) husband, is also a significant shareholder in the company. During an interview, Powell said no fewer than 450,000 ballots have been identified in key states with only a mark for Biden and no other down-ballot candidate."

As usual, Republicans are slow to attack this problem. The evidence has to be pried from Democratic Party affiliations and presented to the Justice Department. Time is of the essence. For 172 million conservatives who voted for Trump, there is still hope. Democratic fraud should clearly determine Trump's reelection.

A quick response to a letter from Kelly Scoles:

Thanks for the note, Kelly. I can agree with most of your concerns but disagree with many suggested solutions. I truly hope there is no voter fraud but experience tells me to beware the count in Pennsylvania.

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I'm tired! Stayed up too long last night after I saw FOX call Arizona for Biden, with nearly a million votes as yet uncounted. Then several important states were not called despite the fact they were strongly for Trump. An official working for the company that does the voter computing for FOX came out and provided a complicated (if unsatisfactory) explanation. Things not much better this AM.

Even though Biden has finally come out of his cellar with a big smile, without his usual double mask, his boast of effortlessly winning the election, I hope proves to be delusional. Absent serious cheating President Trump has been reelected. If not, count on quickly experiencing the great American demise.

For starters, all of the traitorous scoundrels who attempted a presidential coup during the past four years will go unpunished. The traitors at the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, will escape justice. Mega liars like little Adam Schiff will also escape the lash he so justly deserves. In short, America's justice system will wear an indelible mark of infamy, never to be trusted again.

The numerous good things that Trump has accomplished during the past four years will be undone, such as the extraordinary treaties of peace in the Middle East between Israel and an increasing number of Arab countries. Also historically deep tax cuts will disappear. Just too many accomplishments to list here.

Above all, America, without a Trump second term, will be severely diminished, morally, and distrusted internationally. Abortion mills will grind away without reserve. China will also dominate us because Joe Biden is so completely compromised by his criminal family financial dealings in that communist country. U.S. business will once again flock to China, creating new American rust belts and destabilizing our economy.

And, the Biden Family Crime syndicate would never see a Grand Jury.

But, I pray we can avoid this threatened disaster. I believe President Trump will be reelected. He is a true patriot with an historically brilliant list of solid accomplishments.

This is the last edition of the Gazette before Election Day. I think it was Mark Twain who said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Polling statistics come quickly to mind today, mostly those telling us that Joe Biden has a 90 percent chance of winning. But I would tell Joe not to order the fireworks just yet.

The embarrassing polls of 2016 also come to mind when I hear these things. and I fear the outcome of another such debacle. The entire Democratic Party apparatus suffered such an apoplectic shock that year from which it has never recovered - even after 4-years! My fears lie in thinking Democratic Party mass hysteria could happen all over again.

It seems like every manifestation of American civilization (except FOX News) has combined to crush President Trump's chances of winning. Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened before. Both national and international forces have combined to destroy the last, best hope of Democracy in America - Donald J. Trump's leadership.

I do not exaggerate; it is easily demonstrated.

At home we see the Democratic Party, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NPR, etc. all attacking Trump with extraordinary bias. Ninety two percent of this "news" has been officially analyzed as negative Trump coverage. Even Matt Drudge, with his popular DRUDGE REPORT, a strong supporter of Trump in the 2016 election, has turned against him.

Communist China is playing a strong part in efforts to defeat Trump with its multi-faceted ownership in the above companies. In fact, all of the communications, except DRUDGE, are compromised by communist Chinese ownership - they are not American companies as historically understood.

Even Catholic Church members (especially the Vatican) are Biden-Harris supporters. This, despite the fact that the Biden-Harris cabal pushes abortion to the limit, while Church teaching condemns abortion as dogma.

To anyone paying attention to the Catholic Church's hierarchy this is not surprising. On the other hand, the vast majority of faithful Catholics are ignorant of this fatal corruption. The Church is now totally compromised by the Chinese Communist Party's $3 billion annual bribe to the present Pope, which has betrayed the Church in China - a complete sellout.

With these poisonous globalist-Marxist groups activated against a Trump reelection, it's no wonder the Never-Trump pollsters are hyperventilating with anticipation. It's like watching the attack of the Dark Lords' Orcs in Lord of the Rings. From fiction to alarming facts, the forces lined up against Trump are pure evil, anti-Christian, anti-democracy, and completely un-American. They are determined to change our country. From the financially corrupt predators, homosexual bishops with their heretical Pope Francis on the take, to corrupt media and BLM anarchists, the stage is designed for election chaos. Whether Biden wins or loses, the dark forces of Marxist globalism have been invited to cause confusion, hatred, and violence. It's what they do and have always done.

So, I am greatly encouraged to see those exuberant crowds standing in line for hours to squeeze into the Trump rallies. This is an election which will either successfully defend traditional American Judeo-Christian mores and values or surrender to the dark side of communism and spiritual subversion, of abortion, same-sex "marriage", and military weakness.

An obvious example of these enemies of freedom and democracy is the blatant cover-up by our news media of outrageous corruption in the Joe Biden family's dealings with China, and a dozen other foreign nations. Here we see one corrupt Never-Trump organization assisting another. With only a week to Election Day, and such early voting, it's too late for Americans to learn of this gigantic, long-running, billion-dollar Biden family conspiracy - which is confirmed!

I've run on too long. My prediction - President Trump will be reelected, impressively - due to a massive prayer tsunami. Unless, of course, Almighty God will call a time-out for un-Christian-like conduct.

You Catholics out there, remember - a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for more abortion.

A response to a letter from Kelly Scoles:

Hi again, Kelly:

I have to say your letter characterizing Judge Amy Coney Barrett as "...a justice who knows '"nuthin' 'bout nuthin." is a little unfair. After all, she graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame, and her dean thinks well of her: "Marcus Cole, the law school’s dean, described Barrett as an “absolutely brilliant legal scholar and jurist. She is also one of the most popular teachers we have ever had here at Notre Dame Law School.”

And on a personal note, Cole said Barrett “is one of the most thoughtful, open-minded, considerate and kind people I have ever met. She lives a life of humility and grace, devoted to her family and community. Judge Barrett has served our nation with true distinction from the bench and would continue to do so if she were confirmed to serve on our nation’s highest court.”

Frankly, after observing the antics of Supreme Court Justices for the last 50 years, Amy Coney Barrett is nothing short of a judicial benediction. (Just a little jolt).

About those questions that she "couldn't answer". She, and every other nominee to the court must follow the "case or controversy rule": The Supreme Court first considered Article III's "case or controversy" limitation on the judicial power when President George Washington forwarded to the Court a request for guidance as to how best to maintain neutrality during an outbreak of hostilities between England and France,... Chief Justice Jay responded by informing the President that the Court was without power to help (the President had said he would be "much relieved" if the Court answered his questions). Jay said that the Constitution authorized the Court to interpret the law only in the context of a real case or controversy--it had no power to render an advisory opinion about the law."

No, I didn't remember this case, had to look it up. (Burned through a lot of words here.)

You mock Judge Barrett's "towering IQ"? But one doesn't come away with a summa by being dumb. One of her deans also commented that Barrett was "...the most brilliant student he had ever taught."

As for "originalism", a great book has just come out: "The Essential Scalia" on the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law." I was stunned to see the foreword was written by Justice Elena Kagan! Oh well, Justice Scalia was also a close personal friend of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I guess opposites can attract each other personally, and repel, professionally.

The word just stands for "original meaning", it's "not an attempt to get inside James Madison's head. Scalia is simply saying that, in a democracy, the standard of interpretation should be what the people who voted for the Constitution and its amendments understood the texts to mean when they voted." The Constitution should not "live" virus-like, to be shaped like nutty putty by liberal Justices to mean whatever they wish it to mean. That makes sense to me, like Scalia himself. And Barrett was Scalia's clerk. But it is really not a "brain-dead view" of interpreting our Constitution. It reins in constitutional cowboys who dream of halting climate change by their judicial fiat.

This issue has prompted a memory from years ago when I was invited to hear Justice Scalia speak at Thomas Aquinas Collage by a dear friend, the late Joseph Kern - may he rest in peace. It was a memorable honor.

As to "Kavanaughing" Barrett, Senator Mazie Hirono came close enough with her swinish sexual interrogation. What a pig she is. How can Hawaii be proud of that? And there was that sensational, washed-out liar, Christine Blasey Ford, who claimed (falsely under oath) a fear of flying, to avoid testifying in D.C. - though she regularly flies all over the world for fun. Like Mazie the Senator, her testimony was scurrilously mendacious, accompanied by that same offensive carnal scent.

You say "...she did not snivel and accuse the Senate Judiciary Committee of malice in their questions." Again, you allude to Justice Kavanaugh's defense of himself as "sniveling", against what is now established defamation per se? It was pure malice indeed that guided the Democratic senators during the Kavanaugh hearings - unprecedented, acidic malice.

God willing, and I think He is, Judge Amy Coney Barrett will soon be Justice Amy Coney Barrett of our Supreme Court. Welcome Justice Barrett, latest survivor of the Democratic Party acid bath confirmations. God bless you and your wonderful family.

Election Day is upon us, and I have neglected to keep up with City Council decisions as I used to before the China virus scattered Gazette production into three departments. I will do my best to summarize the state of the city next week.

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A response to Mary Scoles letter:

Hi Mary, I regret that the Gazette's wheelhouse has notified me that I must keep this response to under 500 words. This challenges me like a three-legged tap dancer on ice.

Today you question President Trump's leadership ability. After watching him for four years, whether you like the results of his decisions or not, objectively, they are most impressive. As a liberal, or progressive, I would think you would find many of Trump's accomplishments praiseworthy (Good grief; I'm already past word 87).

Liberals have always wanted the U.S. to get out of foreign wars. Trump has pulled our troops out of Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, except for a remnant for protecting against a resurgence of terrorist groups. This, often against strong military objection.

He cut through the red tape and confounding regulations which have bedeviled our economy for decades.

He has dealt strongly with China, which habitually lies, steals, and cheats America, threatens us militarily, and has assaulted us with a militarized Covid-19 virus. Joe Biden and family has, instead, been paid billions from China, et al, in dark money deals. How would Biden be expected to behave as president with China?

Trump has led the country in real terms by building a defensive wall on our southern border.

Trump has reacted with great speed in responding to the Chinese virus, providing respirators, masks, gowns, and special emergency facilities.

But I think too many people already forget the financial miracle Trump achieved in the three years before the Chinese virus attack. This was the greatest economic achievement in U.S. history! If reelected, he will do it again.

How about Trump's leadership in fixing prescription drug prices: (Bloomberg) — "President Donald Trump announced new policies Friday aimed at lowering prescription drug prices under Medicare by linking them to rates paid in other countries and allowing Americans to buy prescription medication imported from Canada." Speaking for myself, this has worked dramatically.

How about his leadership in overhauling veteran's care? Again, dramatic success. What about his revolutionary rehab of our military - and pay increases?

How about his decisive action in destroying 50 Syrian military facilities after President Bashar al-Assad murdered thousands of his own men, women, and children with poison gas? Even though Trump had been in office less than two years, our enemies then knew he was a serious leader.

I'm down to word 451. Can't possibly enumerate all of Trump's achievements, appointing outstanding judges and justices, protecting Constitutional rights - being a manly leader guiding an effete Congress.

I predict the wall will be finished before Joe Biden is able to lead Boy Scouts in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Response to Kelly Scoles' letter:
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Sorry for hijacking the Bard's words, but you really are too worked-up over someone else's (President Trump's) honest difference of opinion. He relies upon his best scientists and you think your scientists are better. He respects masks when he thinks they are important and has ignored them when he believes they are unnecessary.

He takes reasonable risks, as true leaders do, but is not intimidated by public criticism. He doesn't sequester in his basement for months on end, refusing to take questions, like Joe Biden. And, Isaac Asimov (brilliant author, but no physician) also said: " People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Just kidding, a little, Kelly. But, from what I've seen these past four years, Trump knows a lot more than anyone else on deck about leadership. I pray for his, and his family's, swift and complete recovery.

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I have to say that watching the American political and social scene these days leaves me depressed. It's not an exaggeration to believe that a national conflagration is facing us. The traditional Constitutional force of our Judeo-Christian culture is defending against the multi-billion-dollar juggernaut of globalist-communist, (and profoundly anti-Judeo-Christian) revolutionaries. We may grow tired of hearing that this election is the most important since the Civil War, but it's true. If Biden and Harris win, the toilets on the ship of state will flood the nation with radical Democratic Party excrement.

Joe Biden is perhaps the most corrupt member in the history of the U.S. Senate - but it has been covered-up by the media for decades, only now being revealed. Kamala Harris, recognized by both parties as the most radically liberal member of the Senate, would prove to be Biden's pet puff adder if he wins, striking at any conservative threat - like the Little Sisters of the Poor.

But I take solace in anticipating the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to our Supreme Court. She is a truly remarkable woman. "Judge Barrett is an originalist in the mold of her late mentor Justice Antonin Scalia." A conservative in temperament, Judge Barrett has distinguished herself as a professor and practitioner of the law, now serving on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals: a Catholic, pro-life, and a mother of 7 children, two adopted. It's no overstatement to say she is a diametric opposite of the late, aggressively pro-abortion, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Judge Barrett is a breath of fresh air. She will assist the Court in construing our Constitution by paying attention to the actual intent of the words, as given us by the Founders - instead of abetting liberal members creating novel concepts and unsupported laws, such as so-called "same-sex marriage", and unlimited abortion.

God bless Judge Barrett and family. Now more babies may be able to take that first breath and enjoy the sunshine with the rest of us!

In Memoriam:

I lost a very good friend on Sunday, September 6th, Norbert (Bert) Castel de Oro. He was husband to an equally good friend, his wife Wanda.

I often think back to the day I suffered a serious injury which left me utterly helpless and remember Bert and Wanda. Both were responsible for my immediate care. I couldn't walk, I couldn't stand; they came to my rescue then and through the following days and months, at great personal inconvenience.

Bert and Wanda were true Good Samaritans (Gospel of Luke) and responsible for sustaining me through a lengthy recovery. At great effort they moved my wheelchair (in the rain), transported me to hospital, and supplied my food. Their efforts on my behalf were far and away beyond the call of duty. It is that assistance, when I was in great need, that I will forever remember.

Bert was an essential part of that mission of mercy and I continue to thank him through a perpetual stream of prayer. For more than twenty years I was privileged to have Bert as my friend and counselor. With his bevy of happy grandchildren, he enriched my life.

Thank you, my friend.

May you rest in peace with all the faithful departed.

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A brief response to Mary Scoles' letter:

Hi Mary,

About the handling of the Breonna Taylor case, and boyfriend Kenneth Walker:

In short, police were attempting to serve a warrant for the arrest of a former Breonna boyfriend, a drug dealer who left his product at this address in the recent past. The facts in this case were erroneously reported by the media long after corrections were available. This was not a no-knock warrant service (as reported)- the police identified themselves, and a witness testified to that fact. The warrant was issued for her prior boyfriend, but unbeknownst to the police, she had switched boyfriends. Boyfriend Walker fired at police, hitting two officers. As standard operating procedures demand, police returned fire, accidently killing Breonna in that dark room.

The Grand Jury indicted, and the DA dropped charges (no doubt in fear of riots). How do you know that the "police did not effectively identify themselves”? one witness heard the demand. I do, however, fault the police in this case for insufficient firearms training; 16 shots into the upper apartments? If so, that's bad. But would you expect the police to run away after being fired upon? The usual rule is for police to fire until the threat is eliminated. In this case I guess the threat ended when Walker finally stopped shooting at the police - too late for Breonna.

Mary, we don't "allow" guns to everybody so they "feel safe"..." Gun ownership is not a privilege to be trifled with - it's a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, God given, which cannot be infringed upon! Big difference. It's your right, why not acknowledge and be thankful for it? Millions continue to sacrifice their lives to assure its preservation.

You say "...violence is almost never the correct response." Well, it certainly wasn't the correct response in boyfriend Walker's case. He was the proximate cause of Breonna's death. Would your assessment apply in a rape threat if the victim could resist, with a firearm?

Takeaway: Had boyfriend Walker not fired those reckless first shots this incident would never have happened. Am I to conclude from your statements that further million-dollar riots and mayhem are justified following Breonna's tragic death?

A response to Kelly Scoles letter:

Hi Kelly,

I have to condense my responses for reasons of time and space. You insist on pouncing on two of my last columns, challenging something like 15 issues. I'll give it a try.

The masks. The whole idea is debated among the world's most eminent experts, some saying they're useless, even harmful, others saying they are essential. Who's right?

Trump "not a politician?" He came into public service intentionally to disrupt the political status quo, not to spend 47-years at the public trough, like Joe Biden.

Doesn't represent "all of the citizens". He does so, by refocusing on Constitutional restraints, to protect our traditional rights and duties (with new court) as that document dictates, and to defeat communist-oriented traitors and anarchists like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and their ilk.

Kelly, you think my reference to Civil War is wild exaggeration, like most liberals. Black Lives Matter, Antifa, et al, are the militant wings of today's Democratic Party, and they brag about destroying democratic America. Have you gone to their websites? Have you been watching the flaming anarchy taking place in so many Democratic-ruled cities and counties throughout our nation? About two billion dollars-worth of destruction is the result so far. This is a professional insurrection - paid for by numerous billionaires (see last week's names) and a long list of non-profit corporations (Ford Foundation gave 100-million dollars to BLM, George Soros, 30-million, Nike promises $40 million... to social justice organizations that support the Black Lives Matter movement.). Fueling this 6-month series of non-stop conflagrations are some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. These BLM groups boldly proclaim their anti-American mission; read about it!

The primary purpose of our Second Amendment (logically coming right after the First) is to enable the people to defend themselves against tyranny, which comes from government.

You are apparently ignorant about the chaos in our streets, the toppling of monuments and statues, the burning of businesses, churches, homes, the shooting of our civilian population, the robbing, raping and looting - and threats of more. You must have been watching CBS, NBC, ABC MSNBC - they don't cover these issues. Switch to FOX, they do. And, since so many District Attorneys have been seated by billionaires like Soros for the purpose of not prosecuting these felons, the fiery circus continues.

If a mob crashes into your property with arson or murder in mind, you have not only the right to shoot those felons, you have a duty to protect family, friends, and property. Check the film of Chicago Mayor Daily during the 1968 riots. Hear him again: "Mayor Daley gave police the authority to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand ... and ... to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city."

Kelly, it's the Democrats and their anarchist friends who are causing this lethal chaos - not Republicans! They proudly admit to supporting BLM and Antifa (contributing financially). Law-abiding Americans have the right to defend themselves: "In the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the "Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home."

Wish I had more time. My advice to law-abiding American citizens, as we encounter the anarchist wing of the Democratic Party, is to be thoroughly knowledgeable about firearms and their safe, proficient and legal use. And if threatened, as is happening in New York, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Birmingham, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Kenosha (could add 50 more), exercise your God-given, inalienable, Constitutional right to keep and bear arms for self defense - unapologetically.

Americans who know their heritage and the bloody price paid for it should react to BLM's treasonous rebellion today as quickly as the Minuteman reached for his flintlock above the cabin hearth at hearing "The British are coming!"

I might as well start with good news since there seems so little going around these days.

President Trump orchestrated the signing of historic diplomatic pacts between "Israel and two Gulf Arab states at a White House ceremony that President Donald Trump declared will mark the “dawn of a new Middle East,” casting himself as an international peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign.” The bilateral agreements "formalize the normalization of Israel's relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in line with their common opposition to Iran."

I'm waiting to see how the American press attempts to diminish Trump's truly historic achievement. It will be hard to do, but our "drive-by" media will find a way. Amongst the staggering number of achievements Trump can claim during the past 4 years, this is certainly the greatest. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for this one. But watch our infamous Democratic media grind their teeth at talk of such a possibility. They already have him "casting himself" as a peacemaker. Let's pray that this is truly "The dawn of a new Middle East" and give credit where it's due.

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Our country is heading for another truly violent Civil War triggered by the planned new massive Universal Mail-In Voting. This is not the same as Absentee Voting, where the voter has requested his ballot because he would otherwise be unable to vote. As the President has warned: this massive, indiscriminate sort of mailing "...will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”

This "Universal mail-In Voting would scatter 80 million ballots like confetti into every address box in the nation, regardless of who might be the resident, real, dead, moved, or vacant. This would promote a massive cloud of confusion, and fraud of every conceivable kind. This is exactly what the Democratic Party admits it intends to do. If this massive confusion can remain beyond election day eventually the House will choose the president, maybe "crazy" Nancy Pelosi with Kamala Harris at her side.

This is a well planned scheme by the Democratic Party and (according to reports by TV commentator Laura Ingraham) hundreds of liberal billionaires are funding the effort. For example: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, Larry Page, George Soros, George Lucas, Jack Dorsey, Howard Schultz, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Steyer, et al. Billionaires are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. Today, they are what I call Deus Ex Machina ("god from the machine" an ancient device for moving things on stage). It works here because these guys are the malignant parts of the Democratic machine. They, with the media, Wall Street, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter, are out to steal the election from Donald Trump and destroy America as we have known her for 244 years. These are the enemies of our nation. These are today's self-styled demigods.

That's a tremendous amount of money for Republicans to fight off. This is why "crazy" Nancy and three-time loser Hillary Clinton command Biden never to concede the election, even after a landslide win for Trump. They count on Massive Universal Mail-In voting to cause such election chaos it could take months to reach an official tally - enough time for the Democratic House of Representatives to vote their favorite into office. That may also be when our Second Amendment might direct some of the 393 million civilian-owned firearms into action - the primary reason for our Second Amendment.

This is a looming reality, never before seen in America. The world watches, uneasily.

An answer to Mary Scoles' letter.

Hello again Mary,
As I read through the first half of your letter I was haunted by the feeling that I had heard the words before. Then you refreshed my memory, always appreciated these days. You were reciting, what should be recognized as the most famous words in American history, Lincoln's Gettysburg address at the (now) Arlington National Cemetery.

Many in the audience that day (especially the press) were disappointed with Lincoln's short address - three minutes - while admiring the two-hour speech by 40-year career professor, diplomat, and statesman, Edward Everette at that same time. Lincoln's speech was composed of only 10 sentences and 272 words. Of course Lincoln is an acknowledged genius. No other politician, or president, since his time can approach his greatness, so attempts at comparison are futile.

Your attempt to do so, therefore, is futile. I fully admit that the statement made by Trump concerning Senator John McCain not being a "war hero" was the worst of several disparaging remarks he has made in the heat of political battle. Trump and McCain hated each other, so lethal sparks often flew.

As for (former Trump chief of staff) Gen. John Kelly's alleged Trump comment while on a visit to the grave of Kelly's son, killed in Afghanistan in 2010, it is so incomprehensibly scurrilous I have to believe it is a lie. Condensed grief can create a lie, even in a hero like Kelly. Several of Trump's former advisors and Cabinet members bear white-hot hostility for the President. That they would turn on their former Commander in Chief speaks of political instability. Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, former NSC aide and impeachment witness, is another impassioned turncoat who savored betrayal. You will not find this sort of villainy in America's past, except for traitors such as Benedict Arnold (erstwhile war hero). True heroes, all.

McCain stands as a singular American military hero, and I greatly admire him for that. Among many heroic American military men captured, tortured, and held under inhumane conditions in Vietnam for years, he endured. Within this list of heroes are Everett Alvarez Jr. USN pilot, "the first American airman shot down over North Vietnam and the second longest held prisoner of war in American history," and Floyd Thompson, USA Special Forces, POW for nearly nine years, and the longest held prisoner of war in American history.

So John McCain was in good company. To search the list of our Vietnam POWs is to be proud and thankful. Those were McCain's most distinguished military years. He returned as a Republican politician, espousing left-leaning ideas. For example, He supported LGBT rights, and gun regulations. McCain's refusal to support Trump's presidency sparked true rancor between them. McCain's rejection of Trump was never forgiven, nor regretted by McCain. They hated each other. As a military man I admired McCain. As a showboating Republican Senator (a RINO) I hated his guts.

Mary, like most liberals, you immediately assume every slander against Trump is truthful, even in the face of the strongest refutation by eye witnesses. The WW1 Belleau Wood trip cancellation is a good example: he didn't go because "He was worried that the wind and rain would ruin his hair."This absurd statement was a fruitless attempt to embarrass the President. This should be ignored as food only for the clucking credulous.

Also, much is always made of comments intended by the President to be humorous or hyperbolic. After all, he is the leader of his party and head cheerleader for democracy and free enterprise. He struggles to advance the security, health, and economic energy of our nation, against the army of lugubrious Democrats.

Bottom line: I dislike in the extreme a few of the President's comments, but understand he is a businessman not a politician, and someone who has suffered 4 years of scathing Leftist defamation - personally, politically, and against his family members. Had Andrew Jackson been in his place the House and Senate would have been busy recovering the bodies. So, I can't fault him for "punching back."

Likewise, I forgive his exaggerations, counter-fire, and occasional ineptitude, while I admire his courage, honesty, and persistence in the pursuit of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. (Plagiarism intended).

My thanks to Pastor Leslie R. Lanier, Wayfarer's Chapel Lutheran Church, for his letter of support for the former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz. Holtz has characterized the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket as "..the most radically pro-abortion campaign in history. They and other politicians are Catholics in name only."

Both Pastor Lanier and Coach Holtz are correct. As a Catholic myself, with 16-years of education in the faith, the Pastor's comments on the Biden-Harris ticket are absolutely correct. Joe Biden is only one of a host of politicians who identify themselves as both Roman Catholics and members of the Democratic Party. A quick online search for Catholics in Congress produced this result: "Of the 96 newly elected members of Congress, 78 are Christian, including 28 who are Catholic. Overall, there are 141 Catholics in the House, or 32 percent of the chamber; 22 of the 100 U.S. senators are Catholic."

As Pastor Lanier points out, however, saying is one thing, doing is another. Saying you're a surgeon does not make you one; and holding yourself out as such without proper authority makes you a fraud. In short, one can be Catholic (or Christian) only to the extent one believes and practices the tenets of the faith. To the extent we disbelieve any of the foundational tenets or teachings of the faith, we become apostates or heretics and are no longer part of that body.

And here is the rub for all Democratic Party "Catholics": the principals of that Party are in absolute contradiction to Roman Catholic articles of faith. One cannot be a member of that Party without offending against the basic commandments of the faith. When Catholic members of the Democrat Party vote, for example, to approve abortions, they (by the Church's commandments) commit what is called a "mortal sin" immediately cutting themselves off by self-excommunication (Latae sententiae - a Latin phrase, meaning "sentence (already) passed"). No formal declaration is needed. Therefore, attempting to cure the problem with novel excuses, without repentance, is futile - regardless of what member of the episcopacy may seek to overrule the result. Catholicism is not a smorgasbord religion where you may take this article of faith and reject another. However, due to the extraordinary corruption in the Catholic hierarchy today, such attempts to ignore even the most blasphemous changes to traditional teachings are frequent.

For those who may be angry about these comments, please remember I'm speaking only about my religious faith, Roman Catholicism. I respect your own views concerning your own religious beliefs.

For corroboration of my conclusions here I strongly recommend Church Militant, The Vortex, by Michael Voris (churchmilitant.com), especially his most recent two short videos (Sept. 1, "Arrest the Democrats", and Sept. 2, "Overthrowing America"). His organization is dedicated to exposing and cleansing the Church of the infestation of homo-predator bishops and their minions. It's a remarkably transparent, no-holds-barred organization created to get to the truth in all matters of sexual predation, financial fraud, and cover-up in the Church. It is utterly factual.

Bottom line: One cannot be both a faithful Catholic and a member of today's Democratic Party, nor support Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, with a clear conscience, because they both approve of abortion. A faithful Catholic is obligated, among other things, to recognize that abortion is murder at any stage of fetal development. Again, one cannot condone abortion and be a Roman Catholic.

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To Kelly Scoles. Sorry again, no time or space. Will try to answer your letter online. May create a new page for this purpose in future.