Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes' College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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Get it straight. Nancy Pelosi is the true "domestic enemy" who has trampled on her Oath of Office. The current speaker of the House is consistently disregarding the Constitution that she swore to uphold, demanding that it be overridden, overwritten and ignored.
With the executive orders signed by President Trump August 8, 2020, he put into action what Congress was unable to accomplish due to intransigence of House democrats, most still hiding out in their personal, protected compounds.
Superstition has reached new heights reminiscent of the Middle Ages. Showing up as discrimination, it's not only unchecked racism dividing the nation, striking deeper into the culture is the required fashion accessory that serves as much purpose as a tin foil hat or a garlic amulet – the facemask.
Education took a drastic twist with the turn of the century. In the works for decades, the very definition of education underwent major overhaul, completing the transformation of teaching into indoctrination.
Education majors watched how programs that once imparted methods of teaching subject matter to pupils refocused on implementation of redefined language – words and phrases corrupted over time to condition thought processes instead of encouraging an exchange of ideas. Retooled teacher training stressed class management techniques (crowd control) and appeasing students and/or parents to avoid litigation. Teaching straightforward content such as math, history, grammar, spelling, etc. got lost in the shuffle.
As states hunker down once again, forcing citizens to don face coverings in public, it's become clearer with every waking hour that the China Coronavirus emergency is based on skewed and distorted statistics.
Anecdotal stories of false reporting of Covid-19 cases are a dime a dozen. Personally, the incident described in my last column, where a woman with seasonal allergies was reported as a positive case by a doctor who didn't bother to listen to her, turned out to be exactly what has been pooh-poohed by the mainstream press. The patient was forced to undergo testing for the virus which confirmed that she was negative, yet did that change her being tallied as a positive case? No. Once a health professional (and I apply the term loosely) makes a report of a positive case, based on no evidence whatsoever, there is no recanting and subtracting that individual from the compiled statistics.
The line has been crossed. Government guidelines have overtaken and undermined the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm. Medical professionals need to read it again.
We knew it was coming when the institution of the fascist Obamacare – the Affordable Healthcare Act went far beyond its socialist boundaries – compelled medical personnel to make impertinent and unrelated lifestyle queries, gun ownership among them.
If anyone was thinking that the pandemic was a real threat to humanity, the current calculated riot reaction to any spark, which the George Floyd tragedy provided, proves it to be a concocted crisis from the getgo.
Opportunistic anarchist mobs in the streets, half wearing masks, half not, climb over each other to burgle pharmacies for oxycontin and steal merchants blind. Are they concerned about a puny virus with a 99% recovery rate? Hardly. And now the World Health Organization let the cat out the bag that asymptomatic people don't spread the virus.
Legal confusion on the wearing of masks is evident. Eighteen states have laws on the books that forbid face coverings in public for reasons ranging from concealing identities to wearing one with intent to commit a crime, harassment or intimidation.
The secular world is seeing its desire come to fruition--cracks in the fabric of the Church.
Centuries of division among Christians is evidenced in the numerous denominations that have formed around differing doctrines. For some reason, the current pandemic, as labeled by government authorities, has opened another rift that secular society will exploit.
Apathy is prevalent across the land. People are holed-up in their homes waiting for their governor to give them permission to go about their business.
Governor Pete Ricketts (R) of Nebraska used the word "allow" when directing the citizenry about opening their "nonessential" businesses and "nonessential" churches. And this in a conservative state smack in the middle of the heartland. (Listen to the restrictions being imposed for conducting worship services, overstepping the First Amendment by essentially establishing a state religion of COVID-19.)
This is the question in regard to forced lockdowns and shuttering businesses.
Experts quibble over the amount of time it takes for a new habit, good or bad, to be formed. Some say 21 days, some say 30 or 45 days and some say it takes three months to change an individual’s thinking.
The United States has entered the realm of government tyranny, not that enough people have noticed, owing to the hype and computer models based on misrepresented statistics of COVID-19.
News agencies have been tripping over themselves to exaggerate the health crisis they helped create, the latest effort being an attempt to tie heightened numbers of cases to low income (and so, obviously, minority) populations. Not one of the mainstream network or cable news channels is proving to be immune from the liberal virus of identity politics. Dr. Fauci handing them fodder by tying COVID-19 to the Black community, like he did HIV-AIDS decades ago, is a disappointing commentary for the Trump administration allowing identity disease to seep into the COVID-19 narrative.
By whom?
The unexpected answer is, "By the Church itself."
For proof, all one has to do is drive down the road on Sunday morning in the Bible Belt and see how many church parking lots are completely vacant. Why?
Too many Americans can see through the attempted government takeover on all levels that is being ushered in by the coronavirus “crisis.”
As was done under the Obama administration, Congress is using the cover of an emergency to force through unnecessary regulations. The pandemic emergency doesn’t reach a fraction of the annual flu season numbers that has already contributed to the deaths of some 22,000 in the United States alone. And the CDC projects that up to 55,000 could succumb before the year is out.
Spreading alarm has become a sideline for the mainstream press. If it isn't inciting fear of Russians, Ukrainians or other assorted malefactors messing with our elections and supposedly recruiting republicans to carry out their misdeeds (democrats are never under suspicion by virtue of their party affiliation), then it's whipping up dread of disease.
Conservatism is going through throes with a debatable outcome.
Surging among millennials is an interest in politics--but a gap in their education raises the question of how well they understand the ideologies to which they are aligning themselves.
Decades of transforming school curricula has turned out graduates lacking fundamental knowledge of history, enabled by teaching them revamped vocabulary littered with twisted definitions. Engineered education that instituted concepts taken directly from the Communist Manifesto1 has resulted in younger generations unable to identify true conservatism, though a growing number of millennials claim to be believers.
Reaction from the democrat (socialist) left to President Trump’s assertion that the United States is open for business has been strange, to say the least.
As promised, the president has worked diligently to swing wide the doors of commerce for America, renegotiating trade deals and lowering the hurdles for domestic manufacturers, luring them back to native shores.
Out of the gate, President Donald J. Trump's remarks ruffled Democrat feathers. Noting that America is "highly respected again" at his State of the Union address to joint chambers of Congress caused consternation among Democrats who started the evening by keeping their seats, whispering in friendly ears and grimacing at the roving cameras.