KEEPING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS: SACRED CAROLS

KEEPING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS: SACRED CAROLS 

BY WILLIAM F. JASPER

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/14024-keeping-christ-in-christmas-sacred-carols;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay,

Remember, Christ, our Savior, was born on Christmas Day;

To save us all from Satan's power 
when we were gone astray.


O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;

O tidings of comfort and joy.


Yes, it is easy to forget, in our hyper-commercialized, secularized, paganized world, that the real basis for our celebration of  “Happy Holidays” is two Christian “Holy Days”: Christmas (December 25, the Nativity of Jesus Christ, the Lord) and Epiphany (the “Revelation of Christ to the Gentiles,” characterized by the worship of the Magi, or Wise Men, celebrated either on January 1, or, more traditionally, January 6).

“Jingle Bells,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” and similar traditional secular fare may be fine, fun winter songs, but we should not allow them to displace “the real Reason for the season.” Of course, many of the popular “holiday” songs are not merely innocent paeans to hearth, home, and the wonders of nature, but celebrations of the opportunity for revelry and debauchery, the complete antithesis of the Christmas message.

In our deeply troubled world, where there seems abundant cause for dismay, we can indeed take comfort and joy from the knowledge that “Christ, our Savior, was born on Christmas Day, to save us all from Satan's power 
when we were gone astray.”

Many beautiful renditions of  “God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen” have been recorded and can be viewed and heard on YouTube: The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Nat King Cole; Roger Whittaker‪, the British-Kenyan baritone singer-songwriter-whistler; Libera, an angelic boys choir from St. Paul’s parish in London; and Bing Crosby, to name but a very few.

And behold the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. —  The Gospel according to St. Matthew, 2: 9-11.

Numerous artists have made wonderful vocal and instrumental interpretations of “We Three Kings,” a favorite Christmas telling of the pilgrimage of the Magi. Mario Lanza, the great Italian-American opera tenor and movie star of the 1940s and 50s, provides a version here. And here are some additional very different, delightful versions:Mannheim Steamroller (instrumental); John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers; and Kenny G (instrumental); 

As we have noted above, the Holiday (Holy Day) Season extends officially from December 25 to January 6, the Twelve Days of Christmas (hence the carol of the twelve lords a-leaping and the partridge in the pear tree), so there should be no rush to dispense with the carols on December 26, even though the major retailers will be urging us to move on and start following their marketing ploys for (Saint) Valentine’s Day. Here, then are twelve sacred carols by consummate artists for your holiday enjoyment and inspiration. (YouTube videos of the first three suggestions are embedded below.) Of course, there is no need to cease singing our glorious Christmas hymns after Epiphany. These and the thousands of other recordings of sacred carols can help us to “Keep Christ in Christmas” in the most important way — by keeping Him in our hearts every day of the year.

Some Favorite Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas:

1) Bing Crosby‪ — “O Holy Night”

2) Nat King Cole‪ — “Silent Night”

3) Anthony Way — “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”

4) Roberto Alagna‪  — “Il est né le devin enfant” (Born Today is the Divine Infant." A translation from the French is available here.)

5) Kathleen Battle — “Ave Maria”

6) Choir of King's College, Cambridge — "Myn Lyking" ("My Dear Heart." A translation from the Middle English lyrics is available here.)

7) Luciano Pavarotti & Joan Osborne — “Gesu Bambino”  (a translation from Italian is available here.)

8) Enya — "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

9) Andrea Bocelli‪ and David Foster — “Angels We Have Heard on High”

10) Charlotte Church — "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful"

11) St. John's College Choir — “Suo Gân” (“Holy Saviour, yet so tiny,” translated from Welsh here)

12) Natalie Cole LIVE — “The First Noel”











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Tabor College's "Messiah" 2015

Published on Dec 15, 2015


Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas







Carson-Newman University Fall Oratorio 2015 Messiah


Published on Nov 24, 2015


Carson-Newman Music Department presents G.F. Handel's Messiah. 
Nov. 21, 2015; 7:30pm 
First Baptist Church of Jefferson City
Conductor, Dr. Eric Thorson
The concert featured C-NU's Oratorio Chorus, orchestra members of C-NU and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and members from Asbury United Methodist Church, Ball Camp Baptist Church, First Baptist Church of Jefferson City, First Baptist Church of Knoxville, First Presbyterian Church of Jefferson City, First United Methodist Church of Morristown, Fountain City United Methodist Church, and West Hills Baptist Church. 
Program: 
No. 1: Sinfonia
No. 2: Recitative, "Comfort Ye"; solo: Andrew Campbell
No. 3: Air, "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted"; solo: Augusto Gil
No. 4: Chorus, "And the Glory of the Lord"
No. 5: Recitative, "Thus Saith the Lord"; solo: John Davis
No. 7: Chorus, "And He Shall Purify"
No. 8: Recitative, "Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive"; solo:Madie Shehan
No. 9: Air and Chorus, "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion", solo: Madie Shehan
No. 10: Recitative, "For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth"; solo: Mark Isaacs
No. 11: Air, "The People That Walked in Darkness"; solo: Ben Archer
No. 13: Pifa, "Pastoral Symphony"
No. 12: Chorus, "For Unto Us a Child is Born"; conductor: Augusto Gil
No. 14a: Recitative, "There were Shepherds Abiding in the Fields", solo: Laura Frhame
No. 14b: Recitative, "And Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them"; solo: Laura Frahme
No. 15: Recitative, "And the Angel Said Unto Them"; solo:Laura Frahme
No. 16: Recitatve, "And Suddenly There Was With the Angel"; solo, Laura Frahme
No. 17: Chorus, "Glory to God"
No. 18: Air, "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion"; solo: Marissa Myers
No. 19: Recitative, "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind"; solo: Tara Lynn 
Hutson
No. 20: Air, "He Shall Feed His Flock like a Shepherd"; solo: Tara Lynn Hutson
Air: "Come Unto Him"; solo: Paige Holt
No. 44: Chorus, "Hallelujah"

"IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE" (NOT LIFE)~100 YEARS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S MANIPULATION OF MONEY SUPPLY~GLOBALISTS AIM TO DESTROY CHRISTMAS

It's A Wonderful Lie-100 Years of the Federal Reserve

Published on Dec 23, 2013

As we look back over the past hundred years, America has experienced the Great Depression, multiple recessions, stagflation and the loss of 99% of the dollarʼs purchasing power - none of it wouldʼve been possible without the Federal Reserve, creating bubbles and bursting them, enslaving us with debt and destroying our purchasing power through inflation

Yes, itʼs been a wonderful lie — for the banksters

And many Americans are left like George Bailey. Facing the collapse of their dreams and financial ruin.

There are striking parallels in Frank Capraʼs Itʼs a Wonderful Life to lies and tricks of the modern banker elite. Human nature doesnʼt change and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look much like Potter.

GOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL

ALEX JONES/DAVID KNIGHT VIDEO CENSORED BY YOUTUBE IN 2013, UNTIL CHALLENGED IN COURT UNDER FAIR USE LAWS

Why they Must Destroy Christmas

Published on Dec 23, 2015

Alex Jones goes in-depth on the war on Christmas and why the globalists are trying so hard to destroy it.

"SESAME CREDIT": CHINA INTRODUCES "CREDIT SCORE" FOR OBEDIENT CITIZENS~AMERICAN VERSION "CREDIT SESAME" ALREADY FUNCTIONAL

COMING SOON TO A NEW WORLD ORDER NEAR YOU:

"PLANNING OUTLINE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM"

SOCIAL CREDIT! 

Earn points by behaving like the government wants you to behave! Get penalized if you don't act like a double plus good citizen!
What could be more fun?

COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE PARTY LINE INCREASES YOUR SCORE & APPROVAL

MIRRORS THE CHINESE VERSION "SESAME CREDIT"

SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Sesame 

ALSO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Credit

ALSO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Financial_Services_Group

COMING TO AMERICA? CHINA INTRODUCES ‘CREDIT SCORE’ FOR OBEDIENT CITIZENS

Social isolation for people who express controversial opinions or dissent

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/coming-to-america-china-introduces-credit-score-for-obedient-citizens/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

China’s largest social networks have partnered with the country’s Communist government to create a credit score system that will measure how obedient its citizens are, a chilling prospect that could one day arrive in America if social justice warriors get their way.

VIDEO:

Entitled ‘Sesame Credit’, the program, “Aims to create a docile, compliant citizenry who are fiscally and morally responsible by employing a game-like format to create self-imposed, group social control. In other words, China gamified (made like a game) peer pressure to control its citizenry; and, though the scheme hasn’t been fully implemented yet, it’s already working — insidiously well,”reports Zero Hedge.

Sesame Credit is operated by Alibaba and Tencent, two companies that run all the top social networks in China, including Weibo, which has over 200 million users. It works by measuring not only purchase and bill paying history but also “political compliance.”

“Among the things that will hurt a citizen’s score are posting political opinions without prior permission, or posting information that the regime does not like, such as about the Tiananmen Square massacre that the government carried out to hold on to power, or the Shanghai stock market collapse. It will hurt your score not only if you do these things, but if any of your friends do them,” warns the ACLU.

In other words, people will face the threat of not only becoming a target of state surveillance, but also losing their friends if they express political views frowned upon by the state. This social pressure would obviously make individuals far less likely to criticize the government or to counter a dominant social narrative. The credit scores can also be seen by anyone, adding the further burden of potential public shaming for controversial opinions.

The idea is ripped straight from the script of The Prisoner – a cult 1960’s TV show in which the authorities in control of ‘The Village’ attempt to break Number 6 and strip him of his individuality. In one episode, Number 6 is declared “un-mutual” and faces ostracization from the rest of the community.

VIDEO:

Rick Falkvinge compared this new method of molding the ‘good citizen’ to how the KGB and the Stasi would neutralize dissent.

“The KGB and the Stasi’s method of preventing dissent from taking hold was to plant so-called agents provocateurs in the general population, people who tried to make people agree with dissent, but who actually were arresting them as soon as they agreed with such dissent, he writes. “As a result, nobody would dare agree that the government did anything bad, and this was very effective in preventing any large-scale resistance from taking hold. The Chinese way here is much more subtle, but probably more effective still.”

Johan Lagerkvist also warns that the program will scrutinize what books people read, labeling it akin to “Amazon’s consumer tracking with an Orwellian political twist.”

Sesame Credit is currently opt-in only but is set to become mandatory by 2020.

Could such a system ever take off in America? For years, the Obama White House has been pushing cyber security initiatives that would mandate de facto government permission to use the Internet. Since web access would be linked with an individual user’s identify, it could easily be restricted if that individual dares to dissent against the state.

A credit score for expressing politically correct opinions also sounds like a utopian wet dream for social justice warriors, who utilize the power of mob outrage to pester governments and corporations into publicly shaming people who challenge their narratives.

Indeed, prominent feminists are already calling on the United Nations to pressure ISPs and governments to cut off web access for those who dare to disagree with feminists and leftists online.

If we continue to treat the feelings of perpetually offended outrage mobs with more importance than free speech – particularly controversial and unpopular free speech – there’ll be no need for governments to impose a social credit score to control citizens – we’re already imposing it on ourselves by default.

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Sesame Credit: China's Creepy New
Social Engineering ExperimentComing soon to a New World Order near you: social credit! Earn points by behaving like the government wants you to behave! Get penalized if you don't act like a doubleplusgood citizen! What could be more fun? Join me for today's Thought For The Day as we discuss China's new Sesame Credit system and the gamification of your enslavement.

New Game Rates Obedience of Citizens

Published on Dec 24, 2015

China’s largest social networks have partnered with the country’s Communist government to create a credit score system that will measure how obedient its citizens are, a chilling prospect that could one day arrive in America if social justice warriors get their way.

CyberTyranny The Social Credit System

Published on Dec 23, 2015

Now that the Omnibus bill has firmly planted its clutches on the internet via the CISA legislation Obama signed into law. We can now focus in the microscope on a specimen of a totalitarian example seeping into our previously protected online identities.

China’s largest social networks have partnered with the country’s Communist government to create a credit score system that will measure how obedient its citizens are. Entitled ‘Sesame Credit’, the program, “Aims to create a docile, compliant citizenry who are fiscally and morally responsible by employing a game-like format to create self-imposed, group social control. In other words, China gamified peer pressure to control its citizenry; and, though the scheme hasn’t been fully implemented yet, it’s already working — insidiously well,” reports Zero Hedge.

If we continue to treat the feelings of perpetually offended outrage mobs with more importance than free speech – particularly controversial and unpopular free speech – there’ll be no need for governments to impose a social credit score to control citizens – we’re already imposing it on ourselves by default. As Obama’s NWO agenda gains strength while we sit and watch.

LAWMAKERS SLAM WHITE HOUSE ATTEMPTS TO SKIRT COUNTER TERROR LAWS FOR IRAN

Lawmakers Slam White House Attempts to Skirt Counter-Terror Laws for Iran

Leading state sponsor of terror opposes 

counter-terrorism measure

BY ADAM KREDO

SEE: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/lawmakers-slam-white-house-attempts-skirt-counter-terror-laws-iran/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

More than 20 lawmakers have penned letters to the Obama administration expressing anger over its recent decision to waive certain counter-terrorism measures aimed at preventing potential terrorists from easily entering the United States in order to assuage Iran.

The letters from members of Congress come days after the Obama administration promised Iranian leaders it would veto newly passed initiatives tightening the U.S. visa waiver program to close loopholes that have enabled a number of terrorists to enter the country legally.

The new measures would bar individuals who have recently traveled to Iran—the leading state sponsor of terrorism—from participating in the visa waiver program, which eases travel for those from 38 member countries.

Iran expressed anger over the laws, claiming that they violate the recent nuclear accord and could force Iran to abandon the deal before it is even enacted.

Secretary of State John Kerry said in a recent letter to Javad Zarif, the country’s foreign minister, that the administration would ignore the enhanced counter-terrorism measures.

In two separate letters sent Tuesday to the Departments of State and Homeland Security, lawmakers described this action as unconscionable and noted that Iranian actions have been responsible for killing a number of Americans.


“While we understand that Iranian officials have expressed their anxieties to you that this new provision could undermine business opportunities in Iran by international investors, it is beyond belief that those concerns would supersede a newly-enacted U.S. law designed to protect the American people from terrorism,” wrote 20 members of Congress, including Republican Reps. Bob Dold (Ill.), David Joyce (Ohio), Ron DeSantis (Fla.), and Mark Walker (N.C.).

The law, which the president has already signed but has threatened to waive in order to calm Iran, “clearly denies eligibility for the visa waiver program to individuals who have traveled to a country that is ‘designated by the Secretary of State’” as a top global sponsor of terrorism, they wrote.

The lawmakers maintain that “there is no legitimate justification to create a special exemption for Iran from an anti-terrorism an security law that was specifically designed to include Iran,” they wrote. “Iran does not get to veto U.S. security measures.”

Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) independently sent his own letter to Kerry on Tuesday, warning that the administration’s actions “would put U.S. citizens at risk.”

Responding to a comment by Zarif calling the new laws “absurd” and questioning whether “anybody in the West [has] been targeted by any Iranian nation,” Pompeo included a partial list of Iranian-sponsored terror attacks that have killed Americans.

At least 500 U.S. troops were killed by Iranian explosive devices in Iraq between 2005 and 2011, Pompeo wrote. Another 19 U.S. service members were “murdered and hundreds of others injured” in a 1996 terror attack in Saudi Arabia that was sponsored by Iran.

Iran also continues to imprison at least five American citizens.

“Waiving these visa requirements is not in our country’s national security interests,” Pompeo wrote. “The administration cannot allow individuals who are not American citizens, and who have connection to, or have traveled to designated state sponsors of terrorism, such as Iran, to come to our country without doing something as simple as applying for a visa.”

Pompeo, in a statement issued after he sent the letter, called the administration’s actions “wrong and dangerous.”

“Terrorists including Zacarias Moussaoui, the twentieth 9/11 hijacker, and Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, both took advantage of the U.S. visa waiver program to enter our country,” he said.  “For Secretary Kerry to pander to Iran’s Foreign Minister, as it appears he did when he promised to waive U.S. visa restrictions regarding Iran, is wrong and dangerous. The largest state sponsor of terrorism shouldn’t get to dictate U.S. visa policy.”

BLESSED PATRIOTIC CHRISTMAS: 2015 GUN SALES ON PACE TO SET NEW RECORD~TOP ON AMERICAN CHRISTMAS GIFT LISTS

JESUS WOULD APPROVE DEFENDING 

YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY AGAINST ISHMAEL'S DESCENDANTS, OBAMA'S BLOOD THIRSTY SURROGATES FOR AMERICA'S DESTRUCTION

TIME TO GET PROFICIENT IN GUN USE 

FOR THE NEW YEAR

FIREARMS TOP AMERICAN CHRISTMAS LISTS

'Dear Santa, please bring me a gun'

BY STEVE WATSON

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/firearms-top-american-christmas-lists/

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Gun sales are soaring once again in the US, with shoppers taking advantage of the holiday season to allay their fears of terrorism and potential gun control measures.

Figures for November show that the FBI carried out some 2.2 million background checks on potential sales of guns.

The figure constitutes a 24 percent increase on figures recorded this time last year, and is the seventh consecutive month to see a record number of checks.

As we previously noted, on Black Friday, a record 185,345 background checks were processed by the FBI.

In October, the FBI carried out1,976,759 Instant Background Checks.

While the figures do not represent a one to one calculation for gun sales, they are considered a reliable indicator of overall gun sales. Sales between private parties are not subject to background checks.

FBI stats also show that almost 20 million firearms related checks have been carried out in 2015, with one month still to be calculated, the overall figure should surpass 2013’s record of 21,09,273 checks.

Gun sales and concealed carry permit applications in the US have continued to spike in the days following the terror attacks in Paris, and San Bernardino, according to gun store owners.

“Ever since the Paris attacks, we’ve had a lot of customers coming in,” Eric Wallace, manager of Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Georgia told TODAY.

“Buying first guns, buying guns to protect their homes, their families, and themselves.”

“Like any good husband, I asked for the list of Christmas items that you’d like to have and one of the items was a firearm,” gun owner Louis Cole told reporters, adding “Above jewelry was a firearm.”

In addition to the terrorist threat, President Obama has not tried to hide the fact that he intends to introduce gun control legislation via executive fiat. There can be no doubt that this is driving higher gun sales.

Last week, White House communications director Jen Psaki told Bloomberg that within a matter of “weeks, not months” Obama will review recommendations for executive orders provide to him at request by the Department of Justice.

The DOJ continues to work on options to allow Obama skirt around Congress on the issue and effectively counter lawsuits that pro-Second Amendment rights groups have prepared.

According to Psaki, Obama is planning a “range of steps that can be taken as it relates to the people who have access to guns [and] how people gain access to guns,” and that he “will not be satisfied” unless some kind of action is taken on firearms before the end of his term.

In an effort to protect Second Amendment rights, GOP presidential hopeful Rand Paul has introduced legislation intended to block any effort by the incumbent president to enforce gun control by executive action.

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NEW RECORD FOR 2015 GUN SALES

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/22193-2015-gun-sales-on-pace-to-set-new-record; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

On Black Friday the FBI processed 185,345 gun background checks, the most ever recorded in a single day. In November there were 2,243,030 background checks, one of the highest on record. For the first 11 months of the year, the FBI processed nearly 20 million gun background checks, and that was before the San Bernardino massacre.

Now it’s winter, and Christmastime, one of the periods of highest demand for guns and their accessories. With momentum growing to own and carry a gun continuing through the end of the year, 2015 is likely to set a new record in background checks.

For the record, the NICS (the National Instant Criminal Background Check System) has processed more than 222 million background checks since 1998.

Those checks are only a vague approximation of the number of guns sold, as many are still purchased and sold privately, and others are often purchased in multiples by existing gun owners. But it is proxy for the gun ownership revolution that continues under Obama’s watch.

That revolution is now reflected in data showing that more than half of all homes in America have a gun, estimated to be between 100 million and 160 million homes. The best estimate of the actual number of firearms owned comes in at about 250 million.

It’s also reflected in the stock performance of Sturm Ruger and Smith & Wesson during the year, with their stock prices rising by 77 percent and 134 percent respectively.

It’s also reflected by the increasing number of women owning firearms, forcing even the anti-gun New York Timesto comment on their “rising voice” in the movement last year. According to the Times from February, 2013:

A growing number of women are learning to use firearms and hone their skills.

Women’s participation in the shooting sports has surged over the last decade, increasing by 51.5 percent in target shooting from 2001 to 2011, to just over five million women, and by 41.8 percent for hunting, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.

Gun manufacturers are marketing their wares toward that increasingly important segment, offering smaller frames, custom colors (with pink often a favorite), and accessories such as the high-end concealed carry Salmon Kiss leather handbag offered by Cobra Firearms for $350.

There are many reasons to explain the continuing surge in enjoying Second Amendment rights, including the desire for self-protection in an increasingly violent society, the fear of stricter gun laws as promised by President Obama in his last year of his second term, and just the general feeling of uncertainty that is increasingly pervasive as society continues to move away from its permanent foundations.

For some women, however, ownership of a firearm is a statement of independence and personal power, as expressed by Tina Wilson-Cohen, a former Secret Service agent who founded She Can Shoot in Virginia. With women-only chapters spreading across the country, she says that most of them have joined because “they’ve been a victim at one point of their life, of stalking or date rape or domestic violence, or they have just felt so vulnerable, and they want to feel competent and [that] they can protect themselves.”

According to Women and Guns magazine, an arm of the Second Amendment Foundation, there are at least 12 million women gun owners in the country, with other estimates approaching 20 million.

The momentum is spawning new avenues of marketing as well, including GunTV, the late-night home shopping channel starting in January, which will offer firearms and accessories to gun enthusiasts seeking detailed information before making a purchase without having to visit a gun store.

The momentum is also being driven by attacks on guns and gun owners by anti-gun media, especially including the New York Times. The establishment’s voice broke a 95-year tradition in early December by removing all doubt in its front-page editorial about what the anti-gun movement is trying to accomplish:

It is a moral outrage and national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency....

It is past time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition....

Certain kinds of weapons ... and certain kinds of ammunition, just be outlawed for civilian ownership ... it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

Not only do an increasing number of Americans not trust the New York Times or its opinions, those Americans increasingly don’t trust their government either. The latest poll from Pew Research Center shows that less than 25 percent of Americans trust the government always or most of the time, with 75 percent saying they trust the government only some of the time, or never.

With the president promising additional restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms during his lame duck year in office, with the anti-gun media now making it abundantly clear what their objective is, and with states increasingly allowing their citizens to obtain concealed carry permits, these are all the incentives needed to continue to drive the ownership of firearms by private citizens. That momentum will likely accelerate as long as the attacks on freedom — both personal and political — continue.

Related articles:

GunTV to Mimic Home Shopping Networks by Offering Firearms for Sale on Late-night TV

New York Times: More Kinds of Guns and Ammo “Must be Outlawed”

The Gray Lady’s Slip Is Showing, Again
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Guns Top Santa's List

Published on Dec 25, 2015

It is that time of year again. The time of year when the Department of Homeland Security and the Fear Factory in Washington D.C. doles out things like “credible threats” and a tweaking of the terror alert system. Most American’s are taking it very seriously this year as President Obama and the traitors occupying the nation’s capitol have doubled down on the infusion of potential jihadi terrorists flowing into the United States. And while Obama and his family vacation far away from the maddening crowd.

In addition to the terrorist threat, President Obama has not tried to hide the fact that he intends to introduce gun control legislation via executive fiat. There can be no doubt that this is driving higher gun sales. Last week, White House communications director Jen Psaki told Bloomberg that within a matter of “weeks, not months” Obama will review recommendations for executive orders provide to him at request by the Department of Justice.

According to Psaki, Obama is planning a “range of steps that can be taken as it relates to the people who have access to guns [and] how people gain access to guns,” and that he “will not be satisfied” unless some kind of action is taken on firearms before the end of his term.

In an effort to protect Second Amendment rights, GOP presidential hopeful Rand Paul has introduced legislation intended to block any effort by the incumbent president to enforce gun control by executive action. Relegating the President’s potential action to an advisory position. Stock up folks. “Interesting times” are upon us.