Jim Hollingsworth holds a master’s degree from Pensacola Christian College. He has written four books, two still in print: Climate Change: A Convenient Truth, (now in a Second Edition) and Abortion Compassion. Available where books are sold.
If you paid any attention to what came from COP28, held in Dubai, you conclude that world leaders and intellectuals believe we are facing a major crisis and the world is doomed unless we spend billions, even trillions on climate preventive measures.
In recent months it has become abundantly clear that electric vehicles are no more than rich men’s toys. Sometimes I think I must be having a dream, but I do not seem to be able to awake from this nightmare.
These vehicles are so expensive that only the very rich can afford them. In fact, these are often secondary vehicles. As a vehicle to drive from home to office and back home again, they are reasonably practical.
Without a doubt Christmas is the happiest time of the year. With every package placed under the tree children look forward to Christmas with greater anticipation. Families and friends look forward to a great meal and fellowship around the table.
People who ordinarily would not listen to anything you might care to share often are willing to listen during the Christmas season.
Christmas is important because it commemorates the birth of Christ, over 2,000 years ago. Here are some reasons for Christmas.
Without a doubt Christmas is the happiest time of the year. With every package placed under the tree children look forward to Christmas with greater anticipation. Families and friends look forward to a great meal and fellowship around the table.
People who ordinarily would not listen to anything you might care to share often are willing to listen during the Christmas season.
The Democrats tell us we are facing a climate crisis and we have to stop using fossil fuels immediately or the Earth will be destroyed.
To call climate change a crisis is to radically change the meaning of the word. The climate has always changed and it always will. We call that “weather”. Every year our weather is a little different, yet that is not a crisis. In fact, it has been warmer in recent history, the year 1936 was warmer than today.
The election on November 7 of this year left conservatives in the dark. There were very few success stories. Many blame the chairwoman of the Republican party, who is related to Mitt Romney. I am sure there is plenty of blame to spread around. But in some cases it was difficult to work hard to win, and still lose.
Carbon dioxide has been called a poison, yet it is actually the sustainer of all life on Earth. Plants grow from the carbon in carbon dioxide in the air, and animals grow from the carbon in the plants they eat. So, carbon dioxide cannot be a poison.
Turn on the television any day of the week and there is apt to be some discussion or news about some aspect of energy use.
Several years ago my father, my brother and I were camped along a small stream in the middle of Utah, near to the town of Moab. Not far from us another family was camped. The family was a mother, a father and a pre-teen boy.
One evening about dusk the boy must have done something dreadful and all of a sudden the mother broke out in a tirade of swearing the likes of which I had never heard from a woman before (and have not heard since). I wondered at the time how this boy was going to grow up having a healthy respect for his parents when they treated him so badly.
Not long ago Democrats were generally patriotic Americans who just wanted different things than we wanted, but who would generally do the right thing. I am not sure this is still true.
I worked nine years in a mine in a small town in Idaho, and almost all the men with whom I worked were Democrats. We often disagreed on many philosophical points, but they were all solid family men, who worked hard, and took good care of their families.
I once thought that Democrats were generally patriotic Americans who just wanted different things than I wanted, but who would generally do the right thing.
I worked nine years in a mine in a small town in Idaho, and almost all the men with whom I worked were Democrats. We often disagreed on many philosophical points, but they were all solid family men, who worked hard, and took good care of their families.
There has been a lot of talk in the past few months about holding the Biden Administration accountable. The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the crisis at the border, the inflation with printing of trillions of dollars from thin air, the war on energy, with no more pipelines, no drilling on public lands, and the ending of fossil fuels. These are crimes against America.
Many have said they hope someone with an America First Policy, like President Trump, will be elected in 2024 and we will be able to reverse this madness. But the question has to be asked if we will even survive the next two years.
As soon as Biden was elected, he signed a stack of executive orders to reverse the successful policies of the Trump Administration. That should have been a clue that we were in for serious trouble, but it seems that Americans always hope for something better.
Common terms, like conservative and liberal, with traditional meanings may not mean the same things today. Still, there are definitions of conservative even the liberals have to accept because they are unchanging. Just as some want to abandon the term conservative, many Christians wanted to stop using the term “born again” that was popularized by President Jimmy Carter. It was evident, however, that it was wrong to abandon a term which has clear Biblical meaning (John 3:3, 5). Why would we let the world rob us of our most valuable terms?
Someone has defined education as “that which is done to prepare a child for life”. If that is truly the definition, then our schools are doing a terrible job.
Many kids graduate from school believing somehow that the world owes them a living; that they have a right to a good income, whether they happen to work or not.
The idea that Americans are free to excel and benefit from their hard work seems to be foreign to what they are being taught in school. In fact producing children that believe the world owes them a living represents the future downfall of our great nation.
America has survived as a beacon of light for over two hundred years for two very simple reasons. First we were given a Constitution which protects our God-given rights, especially those listed in The Bill Of Rights, and second we discovered and learned how to use fossil fuels.
Use of fossil fuels had an immediate effect on our environment as the use of kerosene soon took the place of whale oil for lamps and preserved the lives of thousands of whales.
Under our previous administration this long tradition was continued and even added to. The present administration has done much to reverse that trend. It is almost like they have determined that every act that had the President Trump name had to go.
America was founded by religious Christians who believed the Bible and followed it in their daily lives. We have gradually reached the point where Christianity has no place in public discourse.
American culture is gradually being destroyed by left wing socialist ideas, and a foreign invasion that is working against everything that we hold dear.
America was founded by folk who were persecuted because of their religion. They founded the Plymouth Colony. The Mayflower left England on September 6 and arrived in America on November 9, 66 days.
Eighty-one years ago today Japan attacked our navy at Pearl Harbor. Thousands of servicemen lost their lives. Even today there are somewhat wild theories as to why Japan did so.
I just read in the paper that Congress has passed a law that prevents the railroads from striking. A railroad strike would have been devastating especially since the rails haul a large percentage of our needed supplies. This includes much hardware as well as our groceries.
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us it would be good to reflect on the early American colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colony was settled by Separatists who did not support the Church of England. Thus they were persecuted for their faith.
So, a group migrated to Holland (Netherlands) where they had more freedom. Here William Bradford married Dorothy May and they had one son, John. After about ten years they realized they were losing their English heritage and their children were being drawn into some negative customs in the country, so they decided to establish a colony in the New World. Plymouth Colony
Elections have consequences and the election just past is no exception. There have been a few dramatic wins, but also some heartbreaking losses.
America is in serious trouble today, and I believe that was made clear by the recent election. Candidates that should have won by dramatic margins actually lost.
Americans have a tendency to look at the short term and neglect the more difficult long term. As we can see, that is a huge mistake.