Dear Judge Jenkins:

Please watch the attached videos. The interview with these 2 doctors is one of the most logical, fact driven, dispassionate, revealing explanations of the data that I’ve seen thus far. The numbers say it all. The lethality of the virus is not what we originally thought. The shutdown doesn’t make sense anymore. Quarantining healthy people does more harm than good. The risks of social isolation are too high.

Destroying Dallas County’s economy is irrational. 
A slow death is still a death.
Dying from joblessness and other secondary effects of the shutdown is still dying.

I don’t want to die.
Protect the vulnerable - Trust the healthy.

#OpenDallasCounty#OpenTexas #OpenAmerica!
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Sincerely,
Beth Biesel

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU&app=desktop
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6j7o1pLBw

While your stay-at-home order is in line with Governor Abbott’s April 30th deadline, I don’t want Dallas County to extend it further. We have to go back to work May 1st.

Keeping everybody home hurts the Dallas Economy and therefore hurts people.

Human suffering from joblessness is as real as getting the flu - people die from both.

Universal quarantine is incredibly costly, not just dollars and sense costly, but also costly  to human life.

A national or even global economic collapse will take the lives of millions of people worldwide from deaths of despair, such as, 
    depression, 
    opioid overdose, 
    loss of identity and purpose, and
    loss of human dignity and comfort. 

In fact, calls to suicide hotlines, as well as, calls to addiction and domestic abuse hotlines have spiked dramatically.

We were created to work; we were given that assignment from God, starting in the Garden of Eden. You really have no right to take that away.

Remember that the worldwide rise of GDP has pulled millions of people out of poverty and raised their life expectancy. Up-ending that would plunge people right back into abject poverty, misery, and shorter life expectancy. On both sides of the aisle.

Declaring some jobs as non-essential is complete nonsense. All jobs are essential, otherwise, they wouldn’t exist. Everybody plays a small part in the national and global economies and everybody plays the entire part in his own economy. Mass unemployment is not the answer! 

I suggest you target and isolate the hotspots and the vulnerable people, bombarding them with medical solutions, and let the rest of us go back to work. We can take personal responsibility for our own hand washing and social distancing.

Testimony on April 7, 2020 to Commissioner's Court - Elizabeth Biesel

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Dallas Area Conservative Leaders,

The so-called Women’s March, which is really the RADICAL LEFTIST WOMEN's march, is coming to Dallas, to push their message that they can turn Texas Blue. Read here about the radical left’s agenda these marchers are pushing.

Let’s show them where Texas stands! 
Send the message in this election year that the Leftist Women’s March does not speak for Texas women or men!! 
Gather your friends, club members, and activists, and join in the effort to tell the Leftist Women’s March: #YouDontSpeakForMe!

 “TEXAS is DEEP RED" Rally
Across the street from the Dallas City Hall Plaza 
In front of the J. Erik Jonsson Library Downtown
​1515 Young Street - see map below
On Sunday January 19th
At 2pm
THIS IS NOT A MARCH - Just a RALLY!
Bring signs, Wear Red, Join the Crowd
Consider Taking Uber &/or Carpooling on Uber

IMPORTANT:

• This note has only been sent to a small number - we are counting on you to forward this email to your club members and political colleagues. We want as big a crowd as possible.
• Please do NOT post this on any social media. We don’t want interlopers!
• Please wear a red shirt. 
• The Dallas Police Department has given permission for this as a First Amendment Activity. They will be there providing security for everyone. 
• We welcome men and women!! The Women’s March ideas are wrong for everyone!
• Let’s stay on our topic - The Women’s March does not speak for us! 
• Bring a sign saying WHY the so-called Women’s March does not speak for you! Below are some ideas you could put on your sign.

#NotMyWomensMarch
#NoPinkHatsInRedTexas
#LeftistWomensMarchNOTRight
#TexansWantBorders
#TexansLOVELife
#TexansSupportTrump
#PinkIsForCommunists
#BlueWaveIsAHoax
#TexasWomenLoveFreedom

American Liberty Forum joins Texas Eagle Forum, & America Can We Talk for this great awakening of standing strong for America!

American Liberty Forum will not meet in December. ALF wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous and successful New Year! The next ALF meeting is on THURSDAY, January 23rd, featuring Dr. Carole Haynes, Co-Founder of American Citizens Matter and Citizens Matter. ALF welcomes and recognizes elected officials and candidates for the 2020 Primary, March 3rd.

American Liberty Forum, Dallas Eagle Forum, and Park Cities Republican Women hosted Katrina Pierson September 12, 2019 at the Museum of Biblical Art.   Katrina was the National Campaign Spokesperson for the 2016 Donald J. Trump for President Campaign. She was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President-elect's transition team and is currently a Senior Advisor for President Trump's re-election campaign after representing America First Policies, the non-profit organization formed by former Trump campaign staff to remain active in legislative efforts outside the White House. Katrina served as a board member for the Dallas Tea Party, founder of the Garland Tea Party, ran a Congressional campaign, and is currently the owner of Pierson Consulting Group. Ms. Pierson is a communications and public relations consultant who has represented political campaigns, multi-million dollar superPACs, and non-profit organizations. She is well known as a political analyst and media contributor on a wide range of issues, including politics, state and federal budgets, civil liberties, community organizing, and health care. Our Associate Sponsors included: Garland Tea Party, Casa Linda Tea Party, Far North Dallas Tea Party, Carrollton Tea Party, Irving Republican Women, Lake Highlands Republican Women, Northwood Republican Women, and Clarion Project. Among the many highlights of the evening was the list of promises made and kept by President Trump. Go to promisesmade.com for details.

The video of her presentation can be watched in three parts by clicking on each separate video:

​On Friday, September 27, 2019, I sat in the Law Office of Attorney Tony McDonald for the express purpose of listening to the audio file of the meeting between Michael Quinn Sullivan, President of Empower Texans, Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, and the former Chairman of the Texas Republican House Caucus Dustin Burrows. Before I heard the audio, I had written the following:

“Recent credible allegations concerning a meeting with Republican Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, Republican Chairman Dustin Burrows, and Empower Texans President Michael Quinn Sullivan leave little room to doubt that an extraordinary level of corruption and subterfuge has infiltrated our Texas state government. Offering press credentials in exchange for certain favors to be performed by Mr. Sullivan, including targeting 10 Republican incumbents running for re-election in 2020 to be taken out, is abhorrent. For more information, go to Empower Texans, Texas Scorcard, and your state representatives.

In light of the serious and credible accusations surrounding the particulars of this meeting, one begins to wonder what else is being done behind our backs in Austin. Could other back room deals by Speaker Bonnen be the reason we suffered enormous legislative losses in the 2019 86th Legislative Session? Does this question begin to explain why no Republican Party of Texas Platform priorities were passed? Do you wonder how Speaker Bonnen will lead us if he follows Governor Abbott down the road of more compromises on stricter and stricter gun control laws?

If your conclusions draw you to a place of doubt and unease about Speaker Bonnen’s and Chairman Burrows’ probity (the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency - from the Apple dictionary) before, during, and after this infamous meeting with Michael Quinn Sullivan, please join American Liberty Forum in signing the Resolution calling for the immediate resignations of Speaker Bonnen and Chairman Burrows from their Texas House seats.

A copy of the Resolution will be sent to Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, Republican Party of Texas State Chairman James Dickey, Texas State Senator Bob Hall, SD 2, Texas State Representative Morgan Meyer, HD108, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, Representative Dustin Burrows, Republican Party Dallas County Chair, Rodney Anderson and SD16 SREC committee members, Susan Fountain and Randy Dunning.  It’s time to make a difference!”
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After I listened to the audio, David Carruth, Forum Chair of American Liberty Forum, and Russ Ramsland, Founder of Park Cities Preston Hollow Leadership Forum (newly named American Liberty Forum) join me in standing by this Resolution calling for the immediate resignations of Speaker Bonnen and Rep. Dustin Burrows. 

While some say that Burrows was caught off guard and did not intend to be a part of this sordid quid pro quo offer from Bonnen, that he got roped in at the last minute, and that he really is a nice guy and votes conservatively (even though his Empower Texans Fiscal Index is an abysmal 47), Burrows still has to go. If Burrows really is a man of integrity, as one man suggested to me after listening to the audio, then Burrows must take one for the team. Do the honorable thing by resigning, admit that he should have never supported a single solitary word that Bonnen uttered in that meeting, and certainly not “expose the dogs” (his words) who voted against taxpayer funded lobbying.

While taxpayer funded lobbying is a terrible thing, an even more terrible thing is the unmitigated, unchecked corrupt wheeling and dealing behind our backs. All for the sake of the Party, not for the sake of we the people. Bonnen’s suggestion that MQS go “pop some guys” and Burrows’ providing the hit list because they didn’t vote for their “benchmark bill” is not surprising in this current dog-eat-dog environment, but to tie their actions to offering a House press pass is whorish. 

Of course I support Burrows’ desire to pass a bill banning taxpayer funded lobbying, but what about life bills, real property tax reform bills, bills to save our historic monuments and protect our election integrity and electric grid?? Not to mention forcing the horrendous mental health bills down our throats and increasing government spending by 12%! Would they “kill off 1 or 2 or 3” as a punishment for not voting for those bills?

I was tempted to provide exact phrases from the audio to leave no doubt in your minds that something either criminal or improper happened in that meeting and that the two perpetrators, Bonnen and Burrows, must resign. I decided against it because the language is so disgusting, I couldn’t bring myself to smear another human being the way Bonnen did.

One final point must be addressed. Some have suggested that MQS was wrong to make the audio file known and available to others. He is not wrong. In light of Bonnen’s initial denial of the contents of the meeting, MQS had an obligation to bring forth the evidence. We the people have a duty to hold our elected officials accountable, and we have a right to know what they are doing. Even if there were some level of expectation of confidentiality, verbal or otherwise, MQS was under no burden or imperative to remain silent. In fact, quite the opposite is the case, lest his silence make him a party to the offense.

While MQS’ remaining silent in the name of honoring the expectation of confidentiality advances his own moral piety, an evil would be allowed to progress unchecked. Because God alone is the supreme sovereign authority, honoring His holiness and righteousness trumps any humanistic notions of absolutism. Our choices never stand alone in a vacuum; they are always interconnected with and subservient to Almighty God and His Law. Bonnen’s reckless and lawless actions deprived him of any claims of confidentiality. He does not have a rightful claim to MQS’ silence at our expense or at the expense of the transcendent purposes of God Almighty.
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Help clean up Austin by signing the Resolution calling for the Immediate Resignations of Speaker Bonnen and Rep. Burrows. For the love of God and Country and even the Grand Old Party!​

June 18, 2019 Editorial, JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director, Grassroots America – We the People, Commentary published in Texas Scorecard

Well, this is tiresome. From the Governor, Lt. Governor and most Republican legislators, it’s as if a collective amnesia has set in or a case of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Speaker Bonnen is the exception. He doesn’t even pretend not to understand. Bonnen declared he doesn’t give a tinker’s about conservatives, warned Republicans not to challenge each other or Democrats for House seats, and openly supports Democrat Joe Moody for Speaker next session should Democrats take the nine seats they need to take control. Meanwhile, Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey has nothing to say about the Republican Speaker’s open support of Democrats.

Governor Abbott and Lt. Dan know exactly why conservative leaders and activists are not happy with the results of the session. They simply do not care. They worked very hard with Speaker Bonnen to make sure Republican legislators stopped caring about the conservatives back home. Getting along with Democrats and divesting themselves of conservative principles were far more important.

There is no Republican Plan for Legislative Success or for Fiscal Sanity. None. As a result, Texas Republicans are following the path of their counterparts in Washington, DC. The only difference is geography. Just like DC Republicans, Texas Republican legislators repeatedly squander legislative sessions, not using their majority to get long-promised reforms passed. Many of these issues have been talked about for at least the last FIVE legislative sessions (and have appeared longer than that as TX GOP Platform planks), which leads us to conclude that Republican leadership no longer values the grassroots or the values they claimed when running for office. They will continue to lose seats because they fail to do what they promise.

We had a purple legislative session because too many Republican elected officials have turned purple. Now, they are putting Texas at risk in 2020.
For those who cannot seem to grasp the reason behind our discontent, conservative grassroots leaders and activists across Texas are not happy because…

• State Government – run by Republicans – is on an unsustainable spending spree. AGAIN – failed to pass spending limits on state government. Republicans grew state spending 12%, spending a $10 billion surplus above and beyond Hurricane Harvey disaster funds. Democrats cheered.
  
  
• State Government – run by Republicans – supports election fraud. AGAIN – failed to pass paper ballot backup audit trails so that electronic voting can be verified in an election contest. Republicans have controlled all branches of state government since 2003; yet, voter rolls have NEVER been verified! According to numerous news reports and AG cases, illegal aliens, felons and dead people can and do vote. 2020 is around the corner. Republican leaders are doing nothing to protect legal voters.
• In a Sunday, June 16 interview with Jason Whitely of WFAA-Dallas, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he does not know why there's criticism coming from some conservative groups in Texas over the results of the 86th regular legislative session. "I don't know why they're disappointed," Patrick said on WFAA's Inside Texas Politics. "That's for them to answer. We consider it a very successful session."
• State Government – run by Republicans – supports public labor unions. AGAIN – failed to stop state assistance in the collection of union dues by automatically deducting them from government employee paychecks. This colossally stupid failure means union dues will once again show up in 2020 campaigns against Republicans.
• State Government – run by Republicans – supports taxpayer-funded lobbying. AGAIN – failed to stop the use of tax dollars to fund lobbyists hired by local governments to fight pro-taxpayer reforms. This failure helps drown out the voice of the people – the unheard little guys.
• State Government – run by Republicans – refuses to recognize the right of law-abiding citizens to carry handguns without a government permission slip. AGAIN – failed to return gun rights that are recognized in 16 other states (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming). This once again proves Texas does not lead on liberty.
• State Government – run by Republicans – failed to advance legislation to save the life of pre- born babies. Meanwhile, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, and Ohio passed heartbeat bills. Kentucky and Mississippi heartbeat laws, temporarily blocked by a federal court injunction, are headed to a US Appeals Court. Protecting lemonade stands is a noble gesture, but how about fighting for human life? It is shameful that Texas does not lead on life.
• State Government – run by Republicans – supports the Left’s attacks on historic monuments. They failed to do anything to protect the Alamo, the Alamo Cenotaph, and other historical monuments from being “reimagined” or removed. We now understand that Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick and Speaker Bonnen – along with 95% of the GOP legislators – do not care one thing about these monuments. They like to invoke the names of our Heroes for Texas Independence as they draw rhetorical lines in the sand, but when it came down to honoring the bravery and sacrifice of our heroes, Republican leaders wouldn’t lift a finger to protect monuments from the rabid Left.
• State Government – run by Republicans – passed a Democratic Party Platform initiative – taxpayer funded, all day pre-K (day care) for low income children, including those here illegally. Never mind that multiple studies show no lasting academic results for such programs. Texas Republicans were always opposed to growing government at the expense of parental responsibility – until they weren’t. Democrats cheered.
• State Government – run by Republicans – passed another Democratic Party Platform item – Big Nanny State Mental Health legislation. A $100 million psychiatric consortium with connections to the pharmaceutical industry deployed to our community schools puts Texas children at risk of dangerous psychotropic drugging, data mining, and profiling based on family values, religious beliefs, and economic circumstances. Perfectly normal children will be at risk for subjective mental health labels or viewed as potential threats, which can destroy their rights and the rights of their parents. Too much liberty is being risked in the name of preventing school shootings. In the hands of Democrats who hate gun rights, we fear this is the camel’s nose under the tent.
• While we wish these legislative results were not true, ignoring the failures changes nothing and endangers Texas. Republicans have energized the Democrats and given them wins to run on!

While Republicans passed some “good intention” bills, far too many bills important to preserving and advancing Texas-style liberty were either killed by Republicans or not filed at all this session. That is how we ended up with a purple session. That is why conservatives are not happy, Lt. Dan and Company.

“What you permit, you promote. What you allow, you encourage. What you condone, you own. What you tolerate, you deserve.”  Michelle Malkin

Grassroots America has never supported purple, progressive Republicans who love Big Government if they can be in charge of it. We don’t intend to start now. Texas is at stake.

JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director, Grassroots America – We the People PAC

ALF Editor’s note: If we are going to get stiffed, then I’d rather be stiffed by an enemy than a friend. So what will you do in November 2020 if Governor Abbott does not give us a Special Session that passes any or all of the 5 priorities of the Republican Party of Texas Platform? This is not a rhetorical question. Write me: americanlibertyforum@gmail.com.

CRITICAL PUBLIC HEARING ON VOTE CENTERS July 9th, 9:00am

Are Vote Centers a good idea or just another way to steal elections? Read my blog post on 5/11/19 at americanlibertyforum.org entitled "The British Are Coming and So Are Voting Centers" for just one person's opinion. Also read about "Remote-Access Software Installed on Voting Machines".

On Tuesday, July 9th at the Commissioners Court located at 411 Elm Street and July 10th at the Addison Conference Center at 15650 Addison Road, there will be a public hearing to discuss Vote Centers here in Dallas County. PLEASE ATTEND AND TESTIFY. If you need help with preparing a statement please call either Aaron Ceder at 347-628-0795 or Chris Davis at +1 (469) 450-4320. Both can help with talking points.

Sign up to testify by calling either 214-653-7945, or 214-653-7327.  They will ask for name, address, phone number and topic.

Dallas County Elections Department PRESS RELEASE:
From: Dallas County Elections Department
Toni Pippins-Poole, Elections Administrator, CERA, CCPA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2019

DALLAS COUNTY ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO PROVIDE COMMENT AND OPINION REGARDING IMPLEMENTING DALLAS COUNTY VOTE CENTERS
Dallas County will hold a specially-called, Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, to inform residents of the County’s proposed transition to using Election Day Countywide Polling Locations (also referred to as “Vote Centers”).  Residents can comment and express their opinions regarding implementing Vote Centers in Dallas County.  Public comments will be recorded and made a part of Dallas County’s request to implement Countywide Polling Places (Vote Centers) for Election Day voting.  Election Day Vote Centers would allow qualified voters to obtain and cast their specific ballot at any of the already established Election Day polling locations. Voters would not be limited to one polling location on Election Day; they can use any of the open polling locations in Dallas County.  The Public Hearing begins at 9:00 AM, at the Dallas County Administration Building, Allen Clemson Courtroom, 411 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas 75202. 
Dallas County is also inviting the public to attend two (2) Vote Center “Information/Town Hall” Meetings as well.  During these informal meetings, the public is able to view a presentation on Vote Centers, ask questions and/or provided their comments regarding countywide voting in Dallas County.  They will also be able to try out the new voting equipment that makes Vote Centers possible, by voting in a mock election.  These “Information/Town Hall” meetings are not like the more formal and official “Public Hearing on Tuesday morning, July 9, 2019; however, attendees will be able to prepare and return a survey with their comments and questions.  The dates, times and locations of the meeting are:
Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the Dallas County Administration Bldg., Allen Clemson Courtroom (1st Floor), 411 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas 75202; and,
Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at the Addison Conference Center, 15650 Addison Road, Addison, Texas 75001.
Dallas County residents can obtain more information about Vote Centers, and provide their feedback at: https://www.dallascountyvotes.org/countywide-polling-places/. 
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Toni Pippins-Poole, CERA, CCPA, Elections Administrator: tpippins@dallascounty.org
Robert Heard, Sr., Assistant Elections Administrator: robert.heard@dallascounty.org

In today’s world, many organizations and people put a high value on diversity. Diversity has become the gold standard, almost out of thin air, with no rational basis for its value. Yet, diversity seems to be a virtue that everyone must have simply because someone decided that it needed to be important and everyone else jumped on the band wagon without giving much in-depth thought to what they were saying. It is an easy sell and it has sort of a feel-good feeling to it.
    However, I disagree with the notion that diversity is a virtue. Virtue means having high moral standards. Virtues are things like honesty, courage, patience, perseverance, kindness, and commitment. Diversity itself is neither good nor bad. Diversity can be beneficial in certain settings, but diversity is not what makes us a great society. Morality and virtue (as listed above) make us a great society. Diversity does not make a great basketball team nor a great ballet company nor a great opera. Diversity does not improve the chances of finding a cure for cancer nor improve the quality of new bridges and aircraft carriers. Diversity does not make my neighborhood safe, and it does not make my church more worshipful. Diversity might make a church choir better because of the need for different parts and different voice qualities, but an all male choir could be just as beautiful.
    When we talk about diversity in the workplace, I’m all for hiring different types of people, but I want to hire people based on what they can offer my company, to make my company better. I don’t care about their outward appearance, like what color their skin is, what their gender is, or what their religion is. What I care about is how well can they do the job and whether or not they are a good fit for my company. Are they smart, are they teachable, are they capable of growing into a leadership position, do they have a track record, are they good communicators? These are some of the questions I would ask before hiring someone. As a leader of an organization, I want to have the very best people on my team. Forcing me to hire based on arbitrary, exterior characteristics robs me of my freedom to choose what is best for my company or my department and it has no historical, objective data to prove that it has made us any better. (One historical data point that most people get wrong: our nation was not created by a melting pot of diverse people. We were mostly a homogenous group of Western Europeans with similar Judeo-Christian values who were not tired and poor, but hardworking, tenacious, and determined to make a successful new life in a new wonderful country.)
    “Variety is the spice of life” for some, but I say, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”, and this new social experiment of forcing diversity into the workplace and the school yard just doesn’t make sense to me. ​

After reading this article on the American Renewal Project website, I cemented my long held belief that the Christians must save America from socialism and godlessness. Read this article by Senator James Lankford (Oklahoma) and tell me what you think. If, indeed, it is our job to save America, then how do we do it? What are you willing to do?

"Senator James Lankford (Oklahoma) once invited an audience to “name one book in the Old Testament that is not written by, to or about political leaders.” He then offered, “I think there are three in total. I’ll make you figure out the three … Job is one.”

And yet, over the last century theological heresy has so adulterated modern Christendom that seminaries appear to be yielding disciples cast in the mould of Epicurus. “We don’t do politics,” they highbrow with a whiff of Epicureanism, an arcane academic approach where the rough and tumble of civic responsibility is shunned for a more peaceful, happy and tranquil life.
In order to juxtapose early American Christianity to the modern version, let’s take two paragraphs from B.F. Morris’ 1864 classic The Christian Life and Character of The Civil Institutions of The United States: “The persecutions of the Puritans in England for non-conformity, and the religious agitations and conflicts in Germany by Luther, in Geneva by Calvin, and in Scotland by Knox, were the preparatory ordeals for qualifying Christian men for the work of establishing the civil institutions on the American continent. ‘God sifted’ in these conflicts ‘a whole nation that He might send choice grain over into the wilderness’; and the blood and persecution of martyrs became the seed of both the church and the state.”
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 “It was in these schools of fiery trial that the founders of the American republic were educated and prepared for their grand Christian mission, and in which their faith and characters became strong and earnest with Christian truth. They were trained in stormy times, in order to prepare them to elaborate and establish the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty and of just systems of civil government.”

There is a staggering lack of Biblically-based knowledge and impact in America’s public square. Secularism, Christianity’s chief competitor, thrives solely in the absence of morality, and Christians have handed over the culture and its mountains of influence to those in rebellion against God. Any casual observer will recognize that secularism’s dominance of academia, newsrooms, sports, the Courts, big business, Hollywood, and medicine is a direct result of Christians ‘not doing politics’. It would seem that modern Christianity is ‘not doing education’ either, given that the secular worldview now is being spoon-fed to 85% of America’s youth. Until Christians step into the public square, reestablishing a Biblically-based culture, the ‘sexualization’ and secularization of youth, allied and abetted by Hollywood and media cliques, will continue to bring the nation to ruin.

 “Politicians are actors performing a script, written by the audience,” Russell Kirk observed. But, since politics is downstream from culture’s upper tributaries, secularists control the source by riding herd on public education, methodologies and teaching strategies through secular power structures.

 In founding America, Christians initiated a Biblically-based culture, which in turn produced outstanding men and women of character, whose customs, traditions and moral laws and standards brought forth an exceptional America. For a nation is not exalted by its military prowess or Gross Domestic Product, but by its righteousness.
The Founders established the Bible as the anchor and cornerstone in order to judge, thereby inducing unity, structure and shape, which in due course joined a people together, and so fashioned a unique culture that came to be known as American Exceptionalism."

Over the years, many people have asked me how I learned about various topics, whether it's about the proper role of government or about the principles of liberty and free markets. I decided to make a short list of my favorite books that have had the most impact on me and my political activism. I offer this list to you with no caveats, but with an exhortation to read everyone of them over and over. And then see what happens! For any given author, you can find multiple books written by that author, but I have listed just one per author. Here ya go:

• The Holy Bible 
• The Westminster Confession, Chapter XXIII
• How Should Christians Vote: Tony Evans
• The Law:  Fredric Bastiat 
• Lex Rex: Based on the Work of Samuel Rutherford: Thomas Adamo
• Making of America: Cleon Skousen and 5000 Year Leap: Cleon Skousen
• US Constitution
• Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx
• Assumptions: Christian Overman
• Two Treatises of Government: John Locke
• Economics in One Lesson: Henry Hazlitt
• Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville
• When a Nation Forgets God: Erwin Lutzer
• Liberty & Tyranny: Mark R. Levin
• Tempest at Dawn: James Best (historical fiction on the Constitutional Convention)
• The Institutes of Biblical Law: RJ Rushdooney

Even though no one has asked me about what music I like to listen to when I get discouraged about the overwhelming evil in this country, I thought you might like to know what lifts my spirits or tickles my funny bone. Some say laughter is the best medicine. I say music is the best. Add music to laughter (a la Ray Stevens' style) and you've really taken me to an all new high. See for yourself:

• Whom Shall I Fear
• With You All Things Are Possible
• Everything is Beautiful
• Grandpa Voted Democrat (aka voter fraud)
• We The People (Don't care for Obamacare)​
• If 10% Is Good Enough For Jesus
• Come to the USA

Reverend Rafael Cruz, father of US Senator Ted Cruz, tells the story of America’s founding, on Judeo-Christian principles, and delivers a stern warning to everyone about the imminent threat from the radical left who want to destroy these guiding principles and this country. Rafael Cruz' clarion call to reclaim America is compelling. Attend Leadership Forum monthly meetings, formerly Park Cities Preston Hollow Leadership Forum, to connect with others who are actively engaged in the political culture at all levels.
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May 9, 2019 2nd Meeting of the Voting Center Advisory Council (VCAC)

As a proxy for Dallas Eagle Forum at the 2nd VCAC's meeting, I got a snoot full of  *&^%$#  from the Dallas County Elections Department's discussion on Voting Centers. Voting Centers are  another top down, central planning solution without sufficient data to support the expense, the upheaval, the manpower, and the security vulnerabilities that will come with VCs. It’s a colossal Power Shift without firing a single shot, tantamount to stuffing the ballot box! VCs target particular voting populations, to the exclusion of others (ours) with the outcome of skewed vote results and increased likelihood of result manipulations. I believe VCs will ultimately eliminate all Election Judge positions for Republicans and effectively silence our voices at the ballot box.  Ushering in the federalization of our election process, we lose local control of our elections with the Voting Centers. They strangely remind me of the UN Regional Center concept. About 98% of the room (50+) was filled with leftists, who were all worried about increasing ballot access for their constituents. About five of us were conservatives. One was Libertarian and he thinks VCs are good. After the 2020 Presidential election, traditional precinct polling places will be consolidated into regional Voting Centers. Less is more. Really?

As far as I can tell no empirical evidence has been shown to justify the $7-10M price tag, nor have cost projections for annual expenses been shown. The Dallas County Elections Department says VCs will improve efficiency and cut costs with no objective measure of what either means. Except for meaning one thing: increasing voter turn out of a certain population. They all but proposed that ballots be available by Uber and Amazon right to your footstool, whether you're in the grocery store, the hospital,  or the Post Office. They were real keen on using every subcategory of Census Data to find as many voters as possible.

Did I mention that the VC's will use wireless networks right inside the polling place? Wait! Whatever happened to no cellphones and laptops?? Beware! Even the DOD cannot secure the air, so do you think Dallas County Elections Department can secure the ballots?

Call Dallas County Elections Department to voice your opinion about Voting Centers. 214.819.6311.