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* The Holy Bible
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* 10 Books that Screwed Up the World by Benjamin Wiker
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* Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
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* Epicenter by Joel Rosenberg
* Inside the Revolution by Joel Rosenberg
* The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen
* The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
* The Founders' Second Amendment by Stephen Halbrook
* Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
* New Deal or Raw Deal by Burton Folsom Jr.
* The Real Benjamin Franklin by Andrew M. Allison
* The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry
* The Real Thomas Jefferson by Andrew M. Allison
* The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood
* Target : Patton by Robert K. Wilcox (The important part of this book is insight into the Soviet infiltration of the FDR administration.)
* Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure by Glenn Beck
The Blaze News
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- White House reporters object to CNN preventing presidential pool from attending debate
- US surgeon general declares new BOGUS public health crisis
- CNN denies rumor that it extended delay for debate to 1-2 mins to help hide Biden gaffes
- HOT TAKE: Travis Kelce’s appearance at Taylor Swift’s London concert emasculated him
- Other than using great drugs, how can Biden cheat at the debate?
- Illegal alien accused of kidnapping, raping 15-year-old girl. Albany officials accused of keeping crime quiet.
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The Foundry News
- DeSantis: Sneaky Ballot Measure Would Transform Florida Into ‘One of the Most Liberal Abortion Regimes Anywhere in the World’
- Hungary’s ‘Pride’ Parade Diverges From Humble Christian Heritage
- Evening in America: Times Are So Bad, All the Old Campaign Slogans Still Fit
- Bans on Smartphones in the Classroom Gain Favor Across Political Spectrum
- Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to the Administrative State
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- 3 Questions CNN Hosts Should Ask Biden at Debate
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- Top 5 Things the Left Gets Wrong About Project 2025
- American Parents Coalition Chief Counsels Moms, Dads on Explaining Culture Wars to Children
Hot Air » Top Picks
- White House: Here come the tax hikes
- Alleged Cuomo groping victim: 'all I remember is seeing his hand, his big hand'
- Report: MLB commissioner yanked All-Star Game after speaking with Stacey Abrams
- Haley: Why is Harris "missing in action" on the border crisis?
- Gillibrand: Paid leave, child care, and caregiving are all "infrastructure"
- UK coronavirus variant is now dominant in the U.S.
- "Morning Joe": Let's face it, it's impossible to square Biden's positions on the All-Star Game and the Masters
- Biden admin releases next step in how they will undermine sexual assault victims in schools
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- Eric Holder: Texas GOP lawmakers are finding "diabolical ways" to deny voting access to minorities
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Catholic World News
- Eternal life at stake in environment crisis, Pope says (Vatican News)
- Supreme Court says Idaho courts must do 'emergency' abortions (CNA)
- Belgian bishops ordered to pay damages to woman denied deacon training (Pillar)
- Eastern churches 'suffering and bleeding' through Mideast violence, Pope says (Vatican News)
- Lebanon must remain a model of coexistence, Cardinal Parolin tells Christian, Muslim leaders (Fides)
- 400,000 German Catholics left Church in 2023 (AP)
- Holy See deplores use of land mines, calls for attentiveness to victims (Holy See Mission)
- Synod leaders discuss draft of working document for October session (General Secretariat of the Synod)
- Islamic militants attack churches, synagogues in Russian region (AP)
- Vatican makes fundraising pitch for Peter's Pence (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
Wind the Clock
Wind the Clock
When I went through pilot training, there were still a few “old heads” around who taught an important and valuable lesson which remains applicable today. They consistently said the first thing to do in an emergency is “wind the clock.” The expression refers back to the days when aircraft clocks, like old watches, required winding in order to operate. In this context it means when something bad happens, “doing something” immediately is almost never the correct solution. Instead, before rushing to “do something,” you need to pause, analyze the situation and then take the correct action based on the situation at hand.
What do we hear today? With ever increasing rapidity, particularly since Bush’s progressive “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system” Stimulus I, we’re told we must “do something” immediately or everything will collapse.
The economy is in trouble, so we must do something immediately and pass the stimulus bill (read by no one except the special interest group who wrote). The car companies are in trouble, so we must do something immediately and put them under government control (while violating the rule of law to “bailout” bloated union pension plans). The medical system is failing, so we must do something immediately and pass Obama care (yet another bill read only by the progressive special interest group which wrote it). Do you see any pattern here yet?
Now we’re told the evil, capitalist oil companies (despite following laws established by the federal government and being forced to drill not where they wanted to, but where to government forced them to) are destroying the environment and needlessly stringing us out on oil dependence. So…wait for it…we must do something immediately and pass cap and trade (amazingly yet another bill read only by the special interests who wrote it).
Gang, sit down, take a breath and stop allowing these people to lead you wherever they want merely by playing with your emotions. Honestly, do you ever make really good decisions when you’re operating only off pure emotion or panic mode, believing you must “do something” immediately?
You’re not supposed to think. They want you to only react. Why do you think it’s become one thing after another, after another, all thrown on top of each other. The game is to completely overwhelm you. They want you operating in the realm of pure emotion, in the realm of panic. It’s a very effective technique to keep you completely off balance and to keep you from thinking.
They don’t want you to think, because calm, rational thought is their enemy. They know you’d never accept their agenda if you actually took the time to think it through and follow it to its logical conclusions.
The “dirty little secret” is you don’t have to play their game. You don’t have to allow them to drag you to the realm of pure emotion and panic. Instead of buying into the lie we must “do something” immediately, you have another option. It begins with remembering to first wind the clock.