A Pioneer's hopes

THE GRASS ROOT FIRE STORM in America is hitting back at the character assassinations of good people and their censorships of conservative views. RECENTLY Kanye West stood up for President Donald Trump because for one he liked him and second because there is too much police thought.Gretchen Smith of CodeofVets was censored by Twitter because of her conservative views and support for President Trump. IN AMERICA when you have free speech,freedom of expression and freedom of choice there should also be freedom from fear in expressing them as well. For our votes is not just our choice,it's our voice.Our support for someone should not be condemned by others.And there should be no hate in a democracy that was built for equal voices,on either side.  AND WE KNOW in a democracy such as ours it's not easy,but the threats inside our country is more than corrupted politicians,it's also corrupted power by those who encourage others to hate,to teach violence,to encourage divisi...

THE EMPTY HOUSE IN SPRINGFIELD-They say the Lincoln's lived in this house the Greek Rival for 17yrs.When President-elect Lincoln left for the White House in 1861 he never returned to it and I'm not sure if Mary Todd and her sons did,but I can only imagine those visiting the home today are thinking of the man this state of Illinois refers itself to as "The Land of Lincoln."But how empty it must be. We honor Lincoln in our words but not enough in our duties.We honor his honesty but yet we live in dishonesty.We never bind up the wounds,we only keep adding to them.We keep dividing the house far enough where fear of it collapsing might be inevitable surrounds us.The taxes always increases but never decreases.Oh yes,how empty it is in that house in Springfield. While some Illinois citizens are packing and leaving,stubborn men in Springfield stay firm to their grasp of power.It reveals their true character.They build a wall around the city and declare it a sanctu...

MARTIN WAS A DRUM MAJOR-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr was a servant who loved humanity,who was a drum major for justice,who beat to the heart of peace for our fellow man and taught us to do the same.He served with righteous cause and God was his light for his path in a valley of darkness of racism and hate.He was a voice shouting in the wilderness preaching love not hate while hate was throwing rocks at him and those that walked with him.They simply kneeled and prayed. But the difference between our civil rights leaders today and then is a political agenda.Not a human one.An agenda to divide and conquer and not a path of love and unity.A drum major is about truth,love and justice not hate,violence and despair as Dr.King was dealing with.Todays leaders have an agenda not a drum beat and the agenda is corrupt and not honest.They are caught up in special interests of money and power.Martin had only one special interest-love and equality for all. It is bad when nations go to war,it...

PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER-who only served one term after losing to Ronald Reagan seemed to be always a man on a mission-Peace.And with all that hes gone through health wise his faith in God and country seems stronger than ever. IN PARADE recently loved reading about his faith in JESUS-The Prince of Peace,credits his mother for a good impression on him in his formative years.Human Rights is something he always worked towards.They say during his presidency he kept the peace and promoted Human Rights. Regardless of how we feel about the policies of our presidents-I do believe they work hard to try and better America.And try to stable peace within the world and it's not always easy.The President and Mrs.Carter always had a purpose and they are fulfilling it with The Carter Center a non-governmental organization and a beacon of hope for many in developing nations whose problems that have not been addressed by other non-governmental organizations,their governments or the United ...

MAKE IT MATTER-Yesterday would have been President Ronald Reagan's 107th birthday.Laura Ingraham who worked in the Reagan White House was told by the president,"Make it matter."On her show last night Laura paid tribute to her former boss who stuck with his guns and sticking to his peace thru strength,but remembered him mostly for his sense of humor. President Reagan was an optimistic,uplifting leader-that while he was strong for freedom,he was also a man for peace.It led the Berlin Wall to fall.Reagan also had faith like a mountain and he carried it with him as he journeyed the miles of a noble profession and kept it through the final journey of life. He believed America's best days were ahead even despite the road of darkness of alzheimer's he was preparing to face.In life Ronald Reagan made America matter,he made faith matter and he made freedom more important the best hope to mankind NOT PEOPLE KIND-MANKIND matter. So to learn Laura worked for Ron...

TAKE TO HEART HIS PEACEFUL MESSAGE-"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.Instead of diminishing evil,it multiplies it.Through violence you may murder the liar,but you cannot murder the lie nor establish the truth.Through violence you murder the hater,but you do not murder hate.In fact violence merely increases hate...Darkness cannot drive out darkness;only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate;only love can do that."-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. I KEPT AN ARTICLE written by a Charles from Lincolnshire,Il who wrote back in 2016 of Dr.King's lasting message on hate and violence and I agree more needs to reread it or read it for the first time and keep reading it until it sinks in. To heal a nation and stop the disease of hate is to live with love and compassion,to spread light throughout our cities and country so the darkness can let go of its stubborn grasp on all likes of people an...

MLK JR WOULD SEE MORE WORK IS NEEDED-People like Dick Durbin who to me purposely in my opinion put out claims of racism by Donald Trump our 45th president who allegedly said racism remarks about other nations was an agenda by Durbin and the Democrats to get a DACA deal.Because Trump refused their offer in the Oval Office and because they did not put a wall in the deal,to which the president said no deal could be made without a wall they started crying racist! NOW FRIDAY is the deadline-before a govt shutdown can happen.President Trump said he never used the shithole remark and I intend to believe him and what annoys me is that the party of JFK keeps lying to the American people.Now I was upset too when I first heard those claims because the president has a habit of tweeting the wrong thing from time to time and hope he learns something from this,but what upsets me more is the left keeps playing the race card,even Martin Luther King Jr would see that. BUT IS TRUMP the only o...