The Prospect of National Suicide and Covid-19

Over the past twenty years, at least, our top leadership has imposed on the American people and the American economy a succession of harmful measures now culminating in the extreme reaction to the Covid 19 virus.  Following the second world war, we had secured ourselves a place at the top of the heap of nations.  Who should we credit for that?  It was the outworking of two centuries of manifest destiny ridden home by Franklin Roosevelt, the filling of an empty continent, the Indian nations notwithstanding.  Once secured and no longer having a vision of further conquest, we began to spin down our power unnecessarily.  For me, it started with the shots that took out John Kennedy.  He was a man with a vision for the world, but he was not able to stand up to the vision of the deep state which had to get him out of the way.  Vietnam followed, a war that did nothing for our security and cost billions of dollars and millions of lives.  Shots took out more leaders through the decade of the sixties.  The Reagan years seemed to get us somewhat back on track but industry began moving overseas,  the very industry that had given us our strength.  It was said that we would keep the brain work here and outsource only the repetitive mindles tasks of manufacturing.  The Chinese now have what we gave away and they are taking the brainwork with it.  The AIDS crisis was a looting of the treasury excused by panic over a wasting virus that today virtually does not exist. The savings and loan crisis was a giant giveaway to banks that had run themselves into the ground.  Then came September 11, 2001.  We followed this exactly how Bin Laden would have planned it.  We expanded the inept bureaucracies that had failed to protect us and proceeded to have a series of recreational wars in the Middle East sucking trillions of dollars out of our economy and shattering nation after nation, increasing instability and chaos.  Then we have another bank bailout in 2008 to the tune of billions of dollars going to save financial institutions which should have gone out of business for ineptitude and greed.  In now what appears to be the coup de gras to the entire nation we have voluntarily shut down all the finely tuned engines of commerce and industry, outlawed free assembly, closed off the natural world and gushed unfathomable amounts of dollars, half of which again are going to the banks. The end  of this can only be a setback to our standard of living, sure we will have government dollars, but a bag of groceries is going to cost 500.

A Reasonable Faith

My  friend America, Rick, Tulipano has published his second book called A Reasonable Faith, Copyright 2019, Page Publishing New York, NY

To those searching for a middle ground between the rigid dogmatism of institutional religion and anything-goes liberalism this book is one you must read.  Americo Tulipano has meticulously worked out his unique and insightful personal perspective intended to answer the strongest challenges to faith in God.  His book addresses the most difficult questions of Christianity and the bible referencing the bible itself. It is well documented and thoroughly researched.  He brings his deep knowledge of history, theology and philosophy to bear against the ascendant atheism of the day.  There is perhaps no other Christian author today who has a greater knowledge of atheism, nor one with a better rebuttal to what is ultimately itself a faith-based world view.  And, in spite of covering a vast territory of time and ideas, it is eminently readable.  I would highly recommend this book to anyone, believer, agnostic or unbeliever.