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Dave Merrick

Dave Merrick, Davemerrick.us is an internationally known and published artist whose works reach into the greatest diversity of audiences. Known primarily for his astoundingly lifelike portraiture, Merrick’s drawings and paintings grace the walls of an impressive array of well-known corporate and private clientele. Many of his published wildlife pieces have become some of America’s most popular animal imagery. He has more original work in the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame than any other artist. His wildlife and Southwestern-theme work is distributed internationally through Joan Cawley Galleries of Scottsdale AZ.

Most Recent Articles by Dave Merrick:

If Today You Hear His Voice, Harden Not Your Hearts

For years I have been writing about how television has been reinventing Western civilization. After I pitched the tube out of our house back in 1987, I have been watching people transitioning from human beings into programmed automatons receiving instruction through their 'non-lives' lived vicariously in front of a tv. Folks, we have been mesmerized into believing whatever highly paid, keenly talented studio writers have banged into the brains of television viewers over the past 50-plus years.

- Sunday, April 16, 2023

InsurrectionGate

It's easy to see that something rotten is up in Washington. The REAL domestic terrorists are the leftists and RINOs out to keep the lid on things surfacing subsequent to the massive coverup they've built over the generally exaggerated "insurrection" of January 6, 2021. Tucker Carlson has called out the sniveling swamp-loving babies, in league with one another and the lying news media. They're all hiding inside the Capitol Building while Tucker is, like a 21st century King David standing before Goliath, thunderously bashing his sword on his shield of truth. And the democrats are scrambling, even crying, to convince Fox News owners to quash Carlson altogether.

- Saturday, March 18, 2023

A Little Biology On The Run

When was the last time you thought much about what happens to the food you are eating? At your next meal - or right now, do me a favor and take a bite of whatever it is you are eating, and immediately began to think about what is happening to that chunk of food disappearing into your body. In layman's terms, you chew it with your teeth, get it chewed-up enough to swallow it, and then you send it on down to your stomach. That's 'eating'. We are today just mostly talking about eating. It is something we all take for granted several times daily. But let us take a brief look at some of the processes and things involved with some of the things that are happening when we eat ...

- Thursday, February 23, 2023

Hey, Joe! Didn't You Notice I'd Started Reading The VOMIT BAG??!!

Last night's boring 'State of the Union Address'--presented by 2023 America's alleged chief executive 'leader'—was the most embarrassing hodgepodge of boldfaced lies and pacifying, empty platitudes ever recited by a stooge posing as a president. A government employee like Joe Biden has no place in the White House outside of its janitorial closets. For the past couple of weeks at least, the big news outfits have been planting thinly veiled promotional spots preparing the nation for the SOTU address, which was supposed to have been written by a staff of speech-writers who purportedly rivaled in talent the likes of Ben Stein, Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare. But sadly, about fifteen minutes into the program, it was obvious that the guys running the teleprompter were frantically wondering if they had brought the wrong thumb drive to what was supposed to be their stammering boss' crowning oratory.

- Thursday, February 9, 2023

Democrats' Plan C: Bring in the Brownshirts!

Democrat's Plan C: Bring in the Brownshirts!The Democrats/Marxists/Socialists/Communists are getting desperate. Midterms are looming, Republicans are gaining steam--aided more and more by the careening actions of the Democrats in power--and the Democrats MUST secure their future (not the future of the US, I hasten to add) at any cost to the American Taxpayer. The following are now obviously the democrats' plans to hold the power they have stolen.  Plan A: From bussing their government-sponsored illegals to all points here in our country--to giving loads of our money and our best hotel rooms to vagrants, the left are 'people users,' extraordinaire. Under the guise of being great civil libertarians, the fact is that the left will never stop using our tax dollars to buy votes for themselves. And, in return, these new liberals will never shoot themselves in the foot by ever voting against the ones who give them all the great freebies.
- Saturday, August 13, 2022

Something's Grinding To A Painful Halt. Do You Know What It Is?

Something's Grinding To A Painful Halt. Do You Know What It Is?The answer is hidden somewhere in this article. Well here we are, already approaching the end of 2022, and America ("... land of the free and home of the brave." Remember that?) is pretty well totally flipped upside down. Our alleged president stays in his basement anytime anything is expected from him. And the madness continues because greed knows no sanity or bottom. Not too long ago Biden had gleefully informed his liberal fellows that the day was coming when white people in America would "absolutely" be in the minority. I thought that was a fairly racist remark. Nevertheless, how does he plan to achieve that?
- Sunday, August 7, 2022

Not A New Story But One That Needs Repeating

Take care that the entertaining and informing television/internet don't totally distract and blind you from your ability to see and receive God's offer of salvation.I often hear a lot of people wondering why our world today is so frighteningly sick and generally insane. Well, the explanation of that riddle is very much like that of the true example of a live frog in a pot of water on a lit stove: if the temperature of that burner is increased only a degree or two every few minutes, the frog winds up dead and cooked before he even has an opportunity to sense the water's temperature is rising.
- Friday, May 20, 2022

The Mules Absolutely Won It For The Donkeys

The Mules Absolutely Won It For The DonkeysI just saw one of the most amazing documentaries I've ever laid my eyes on. As much of America as possible absolutely MUST see Dinesh D'Souza's film: "2000 Mules". It certainly appears to me to be the bottom-line truth as to whether America's 2020 election was fixed. See this movie and you will, without equivocation, know that it was.
- Monday, May 16, 2022

Arrogance Does a Faceplant: Or 'There is a God in Heaven'

Arrogance Does a Faceplant: Or 'There is a God in Heaven'I just learned the other day from Gab News that Facebook has been banning groups related to the Canadian peaceful Trucker Convoy. That information was coupled with an observation that Facebook had not blocked any posts from BLM which had encouraged burning down American cities and defunding police, etc. Interesting choice of 'community standards'. Previous to that I was notified by Facebook that I was in 'Facebook Jail' for 90 days. My crime? Posting my uncensored opinion and the opinions of several experts who differed in opinion from Facebook's fact checkers.
- Tuesday, February 8, 2022

This is one Scary Halloween, To Be Sure

This is one Scary Halloween, To Be Surejoe biden (Again I will not capitalize any of the names of the rat squad doing these things to our nation) is beckoning all who will come of illegal trespassers - REQUIRING NO SHOTS OR TESTING - into our southern border. How then dare he impose 'vaccination' mandates/threats or offer incentives toward any unvaccinated worker or employers in this nation? It is obvious that no one in this administration even slightly values our health or truth. Nevertheless, all sorts of perks are being offered to international lawbreakers inviting them to come freely into our nation and start life anew - all at our expense. Meanwhile, nearly 100,000 additional IRS inspectors are being hired to rummage through working-class America's pockets for every dime they can steal. And the only thing America stands to gain from this is more taxes and more democrat voters. [That amounts only to NOTHING other than job security for more bidens and pelosies.]
- Sunday, October 31, 2021

Evil Prevails When Good People Only Phone In Their Parts

Evil Prevails When Good People Only Phone In Their PartsWhat's her face, 'psaki', the woman with the ugly red hair who does much of biden's lying for him, commented that videos of US Border Patrol Agents slapping at illegal aliens trying to get in our country were "horrific." I will respond by saying that I am sure that some of the posthumous photography/videos of the sweet, little American children/victims of the unprecedented glut of sex traffickers and perverts who have illegally gained entrance into America are infinitely more horrific. But I mean she fearlessly stands up in front of journalists inquiring about why the government is mandating vaccinations for Americans while untested and unvaccinated illegals gush into our country like bad toilet drainage. And the best she can come up with is a sarcastic, "that's correct." She has no respect for right or wrong.
- Wednesday, September 29, 2021

How Does Anyone Really Know Whose Side You're On?

Stand up and be counted!I just finished watching a two-and-a-half hour debate on Creationism versus Evolution. And, as usual, the ungodly side successfully lured the Christian into spending the entire time arguing about the age and origin of our Earth and Universe. Both parties stood on stage in front of a camera and jillions of curious people, GUESSING about where space and the planets came from. Did the Darwinists manage to prove it was a tiny little spinning jot of super concentrated matter that blew up? NO. But did the Christians prove it was God who spoke the whole thing into existence over a period of six days? NO. But the 'science' side, hiding behind the misused term 'science,' seemed to come out stronger in the debate because they stayed away from anything that was 'recently observable' or some such nonsense. Of course, the Christian church rarely seems to stay in its own arena (which is unfortunately just as portable as any part of today's slanted science). Historically, though, the Christian Church (Jesus rightly called us 'lambs') is always wandering out beyond its safest place--which is God's unfailing Word.
- Tuesday, September 21, 2021

IS JOE BIDEN'S BOSS THE ENEMY OF ALL GOODNESS?

IS JOE BIDEN'S BOSS THE ENEMY OF ALL GOODNESS?Darwin, evolution, atheism, global warming, gender transitioning, and the list goes on - ad infinitum. And what does it all amount to? Distraction. Nothing more than that. The very real enemy of our souls, satan, knows he has only fleeting moments remaining before his jig is entirely up. He will tell you whatever you want to hear in order to entice you into stupid conversations and keep you from making up your mind regarding the really weighty things of eternal importance. Eternal life. Are you saying to yourself here, "More religious nuttiness coming at us with 'hellfire' in the yawning and confident face of our mountains of digitally available 21st century exacting science! Won't these hicks ever give up?"
- Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Please Set Us Free - from Al Sharpton

Please Set Us Free - from Al SharptonWe finished up the town fireworks last night, and you could hear lots of cars, down in the valley, headed for home. I had our back porch speakers turned up, and was listening to the drum and fife portion of John Williams' musical score for Mel Gibson's "Patriot". As I looked up at the stars above our mountains, it reminded me of the beautiful, crisp drums and fifes in the marching ranks and scattered through the forests. They were playing for our Minutemen when those early battles raged.
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021

The Fourth of July Isn't Just Another Party - IT IS A REMINDER

The Fourth of July Isn't Just Another Party - IT IS A REMINDERLess than a day away from the Fourth of July. And I am just sitting here thinking of what we are dragging into this year's 'Independence Day'. Our 45th president was the absolute best exec this country has seen since Ronald Reagan. As I have said before, if anyone in this nation deserves 'reparations' it is Donald Trump. The rotten, stinking left side of our government, the so-called 'democrats', and their partners the liberal press owe him and us another four years on top of the four they stole from him in the 2020 election.
- Sunday, July 4, 2021

I Never Met A Leftist That Was Not Stupid Or Just Plain Evil

I Never Met A Leftist That Was Not Stupid Or Just Plain Evil35 years ago, when I started raising kids, I made a profound discovery about television which rapidly caused me to turn off the tv entirely. I have told you in past articles, in more detail, why we ultimately stopped allowing television (network, cable, satellite, etc.) in our home. But, in a nutshell, one evening my kids saw some nudity that shouldn't have made its way into public tv.
- Thursday, July 1, 2021

Conspire For a Whole New Kind of Woke

Conspire For a Whole New Kind of WokeWhen Donald Trump was president, the democrat left and their partnering press were constantly comparing him to Hitler. The comparison is a stupid one, to say the least. But it worked nicely in enlisting the support of the crowd of today's uneducated people who mostly 'know' world history through slanted movies and cartoons. It was in the late 60s-early 70s that the liberal entertainment industry began portraying Hitler as a merely aggressive and mysteriously spiritual character whose leadership was loud and lacking any apology. But as I have reminded my good readers on several occasions, there is very little similarity between Trump and Hitler.
- Sunday, June 27, 2021

What Is It Worth To You?

What Is It Worth To You?In 2020 America flipped upside down. It was a perfectly engineered push into darkness. And I don't hesitate for a moment in declaring that I noticed the transformation so much more acutely than did many people. I can say that so confidently, because I have been in a type of lockdown for the past nearly thirty-five years. Many of my regular readers know that I stopped watching tv in 1987. Oh sure, I will occasionally catch a DVD movie or a YouTube clip on a large monitor. Nevertheless, I haven't watched a cable or satellite or open broadcast network program in all that time. And during that self-imposed fast I have watched my fellow Americans become desensitized, like a herd of cattle, to real life. The very real devil has used the tv to perform a kind of lobotomy on people who have truly found their virtual reality in their television programs.
- Monday, March 22, 2021

Death And Taxes Can Be Yours!

Death And Taxes Can Be Yours!I am starting today's piece with a segment from an article I wrote years ago. I am using it here once again in telling my story this morning. It just fits too well! We'll talk after you have read it ....
"Years ago in a Wal-Mart, I was walking past the toy department. A screaming four(?) year-old was demanding that his mom buy him the little car set he had opened and scattered all over the floor. After the young mother had several times declined and asked him to come along with her, the enraged boy threw one of the cars at her, leaving a bloody cut on her forehead.
- Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Yet Another Trek Around Mt. Sinai?

In 2020 America was finally flipped upside downI watched a Tucker Carlson clip on YouTube yesterday. Carlson was speaking with Dr. David Clements, a professor of law at New Mexico State University. Dr. Clements had openly challenged the leadership of that school and other colleges nationally in their total condemnation of the comparatively small outbreak of violence at our DC Capital on January sixth of this year. He was especially bewildered as to why that disturbance garnered such attention from the Dean's office while the destructive and lethal mayhem of the antifa/blm riots of 2020 went unremarked.
- Saturday, January 23, 2021

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