In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
On Memorial Day Weekend, members of Veterans groups distribute red poppies which have come to symbolize sacrifice in battle.
The tradition goes back to World War I and the Battle of Flanders in Belgium where despite, death of 87,000 Allied soldiers, and destruction, the red poppies still bloomed. Canasdian Amry surgeon Colonel John McCrae who was on hand during the battle, wrote the poem. He didn’t survive the war, however. He died of pneumonia in 1918.
On September 27, 1920, the first chapter of The American Legion made the poppy its official flower to memorialize those who fought and died. A few years later, the Veterans of Foreign Wars began national distribution programs around the country to support the cause, and in 1924, the American Legion did as well.
We, at Camp Constitution in keeping with our motto “Honoring the Past…Teaching the Present…Preparing the Future” recite the poem during our evening campfires at our annual family camp.
“In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Tax the Sun? Camp Constitution Instuctor Professor Willie Soon on the Dr. Drew Show to Discuss the Climate Grift
Professor Willie Soon recently appeared as a guest on the “Ask Dr. Drew Show.” Professor Soon, an instructor at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp since 2017 has long been exposing the climate change hustle, and he does it with biting humor.
Remembering America’s Founding Principles: Inside Camp Constitution: An Interview of Hal Shurtleff by Pastor David Whitney
Camp Constitution instructor and host of “Don’t Imbibe the Kool Aid” interviews Camp Constitution co-founder and director Hal Shurtleff.
Pastor Dave’s show originates on America Out Loud News: https://www.americaoutloud.news/
The Weekly Sam: The Gangster Regime in Washington By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
A gangster is a member of a gang of individuals who are guilty of crimes. A crime, as
we all know, is an act violating a law that prohibits it. Most of our prohibitions are
based on the Ten Commandments. But many more prohibitions have been added by our
statist government such as failure to use a seatbelt or talking on a cellphone while
driving. But true gangsters are guilty of major crimes: murder, extortion, kidnapping,
theft, etc.
The problem with the regime in Washington is that the man in the White House refuses to
reveal his birth certificate or education records. Why? What is he hiding? Is he in
violation of the law requiring the a presidential candidate to prove that he is a natural
born American? And is he surrounded by a gang in the White House who are
accomplices in this great deception?
All of these accomplices in the White House and in Congress are clearly violating the
Constitution of the United States, which they have all sworn to uphold. That in itself is a
crime.
Furthermore, there is nothing in the Constitution that permits the gang in
Washington to bail out banks and insurance companies, take ownership of automobile
companies, impose a national health care plan, enact draconian restrictions on commerce
and industry in the name of global warming, or indoctrinate children in the public
schools.
Those who now occupy the White House believe that they are a law unto themselves and
no longer have to uphold the Constitution of the United States, which limits what the
federal government can do. The socialist gang in the White House believes in unlimited
government, capable of doing anything it wants. And those in Congress who agree with
the principle of unlimited government are equally guilty of violating their oaths of office.
And our national media, to its shame, casts a blind eye to all of the criminality now
taking place in Washington in the guise of “government.” That is the most disappointing
aspect in all of this: the news media of a free country which is supposed to be the
citizens’ watchdog, becoming an accomplice in the promotion of unconstitutional
government.
Not a single one of the well-paid talking heads will question the
constitutionality of what the White House is doing.
Because our mechanisms of government are now run by a gang, the entire system has
become corrupt from top to bottom. All of the departments ruled by the executive
branch are now run by Gangster Number One. He calls the tune, whether it be the
department of education, or of defense, commerce, or foreign affairs. The corruption
starts at the top and filters its way down to the bottom.
These are the facts of life that Americans must now confront. The Declaration of
Independence states that “all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed.“ In other words, the present situation, as bad as it is, has not
gotten bad enough to justify physical revolution. There is still the ballot box, and
Americans will be able to get the gangsters out of Washington in the Congressional
election in 2010. It is then we shall know to what the degree the American people have
become as corrupt as their government, or whether they still believe in the Constitution of
the United States.
What is particularly disheartening and somewhat startling is the sight of elected
American lawmakers, so-called Democrats, finally showing their true socialist colors.
These enemies of the American system now occupy the halls of Congress and many state
legislatures, doing all in their power to transform the nation our founding fathers gave us
into one resembling any number of decrepit socialist utopias spreading misery around the
world. Our legislators and leaders have brought us to this precipice, using trillions of
taxpayer’s dollars to finance all of their criminal projects. But only the American people
can set things right again. And let’s pray that they do.
Editor: The above article comes from the Blumenfeld Archives: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Mother’s Day: American Minute with Bill Federer
After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic, led a Mother’s Day for Peace in New York on June 2, 1872, to promote peace, national healing and reconciliation.
She composed a proclamation to “appeal to womanhood throughout the world.”
Julia Ward Howe personally sponsored a Mothers’ Day celebration in Boston for the next ten years till interest faded.
In the following decades, churches and schools observed special days.
Protestant churches had a Decision Day for committing to Christ, a Roll Call Day for church membership, a Missionary Day to raise support, a Children’s Day, and a Temperance Sunday to encourage abstinence from alcohol.
Numerous efforts arose for observing a Mother’s Day.
Taking the day from a suggestion to a reality was Anna Jarvis.
She is the person most responsible for making Mother’s Day a nationally observed event.
Anna was from Grafton, West Virginia, the granddaughter of a Baptist minister.
She was a member of Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, where she taught Sunday school.
In 1876, after one of her Bible lessons, Anna Jarvis closed with a prayer:
“I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mothers day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. She is entitled to it.”
Similar to Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, Anna Jarvis’ mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis, worked during the Civil War to organize Mothers’ Day Work Clubs to care for wounded soldiers, both Union and Confederate.
Anna’s mother raised money for medicine, inspected bottled milk, and improved sanitation.
She arranged in 1868 a “Mother’s Friendship Day” — “to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War.”
She hired women to care for families where mothers suffered from tuberculosis.
Anna Jarvis’ mother died on May 9, 1905.
Inspired by her mother’s self-sacrifice and generosity, Anna Jarvis wanted to honor her and all mothers.
On May 12, 1907, Anna persuaded her church, Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, to have a small Mother’s Day service.
The church then agreed to set aside every year the 2nd Sunday in May, the anniversary of her mother’s death, as a day to show appreciation to all mothers — the makers of the home.
The next year, May 10, 1908, Anna organized a Mother’s Day event in two places:
- Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, where she sent a telegram; and
- in Philadelphia, where she gave a moving speech in the auditorium of the 12-story Wanamaker Department Store.
John Wanamaker was a retail pioneer and founder of one the first department stores.
Wanamaker, who had paintings of Christ throughout his store, stated:
“There is a power in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Keep uppermost the profound conviction that it is the Gospel that is to win the heart and convert the world.
The things that were sweet dreams in our childhood are now being worked out. The procession is being made longer and longer; the letters of Christ’s name are becoming larger and larger.”
With the financial backing of John Wanamaker and H.J. Heinz, maker of “57 varieties” of ketchup, Anna Jarvis began a letter-writing campaign to ministers and politicians to establish a “national” Mothers’ Day.
In support of honoring motherhood was University of Notre Dame’s first athletic director, Frank Hering.
In 1904, Hering observed a Notre Dame professor passing out penny postcards to students, with the instructions to write:
“Anything. Anything at all as long as it’s to their mothers. We do this every month in this class. One day a month is mother’s day.”
Hering proposed “setting aside one day in the year as a nationwide memorial to the memories of mothers and motherhood,” stating:
“Throughout history the great men of the world have given their credit for their achievements to their mothers. The Holy Church recognizes this, as does Notre Dame.”
Due to the overwhelming support of pastors and churches, by 1909, forty-five states observed Mother’s Day.
People wore white and red Carnations on Sunday to pay tribute to their mothers.
On May 8, 1914, Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first National Mothers’ Day as a:
“public expression of … love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”
President Reagan said in his Mother’s Day Proclamation, 1986:
“A Jewish saying sums it up: ‘God could not be everywhere – so He created mothers.'”
English Poet Robert Browning wrote:
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Mothers have the role of imparting values into children, as American poet William Ross Wallace wrote:
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
Dr. James Dobson addressed the National Religious Broadcasters, Feb. 16, 2002:
“If they can get control of children … they can change the whole culture in one generation.”
This was echoed by historians Will and Ariel Durant in The Lessons of History, 1968:
“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew;
if the transmission should be interrupted … civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”
Reagan stated:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy (2 Timothy 1:5):
“I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.”
Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy, died with he was nine years old.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, by J. G. Holland (Springfield, IL, Gurdon Bill, 1866) recorded:
“(Lincoln’s father Thomas) … married Nancy Hanks in 1806 …
He took her to the humble cabin he had prepared for her … and within the first few years of her married life, she bore him three children.
The first was a daughter named Sarah, who … died … the third was a son (Thomas) who died in infancy.
The second was Abraham, who, born into the humblest abode, under the humblest circumstances … under the blessing of a Providence which he always recognized …
Mrs. Lincoln, the mother, was evidently a woman out of place among those primitive surroundings.
She was five feet, five inches high, a slender, pale, sad and sensitive woman, with much in her nature that was truly heroic.”
Holland’s The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) continued:
“Those who knew the tender and reverent spirit of Abraham Lincoln later in life, will not doubt that he returned to his cabin-home deeply impressed by all that he had heard. It was the rounding up for him of the influences of a Christian mother’s life and teachings.
It recalled her sweet and patient example, her assiduous efforts to inspire him with pure and noble motives, her simple instructions in divine truth, her devoted love for him, and the motherly offices she had rendered him during all his tender years.
His character was planted … by this Christian mother’s love.”
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) recounted:
“Providence began at his mother’s knee, and ran like a thread of gold through all the inner experiences of his life ….
A great man never drew his infant life from a purer or more womanly bosom than her own; and Mr. Lincoln always looked back to her with an unspeakable affection.
Long after her sensitive heart and weary hands had crumbled into dust … he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: ‘All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother!'”
Lincoln wrote:
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
On February 3, 1983, at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Ronald Reagan stated:
“I have a very special old Bible.
And alongside a verse in the Second Book of Chronicles there are some words, handwritten, very faded by now.
And believe me, the person who wrote these words was an authority. Her name was Nelle Wilson Reagan. She was my mother.”
Quotes by unknown authors are:
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
“A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”
On Mother’s Day, May 8, 2020, President Donald J. Trump proclaimed:
“We celebrate the exceptional mothers in our lives …
Whether they became mothers through birth, adoption, foster care, or other means, these women are deserving of our unending gratitude and praise this day and every day.
The intuition and wisdom passed from mother to child strengthens the fabric of our Nation and preserves generations of wisdom and familial values.
In our earliest days, our mothers provide us with love and nurturing care.
They often know our talents before we do, and they selflessly encourage us to use these God-given gifts to pursue our biggest dreams …
I encourage all Americans to express their love and respect for their mothers … whether with us in person or in spirit, and to reflect on the importance of motherhood to the prosperity of our families, communities, and Nation.”
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Barbary Pirates, Slave Markets, and Ransomers – American Minute with Bill Federer
For centuries, tens of millions of Africans were sold at Islamic slave markets from Timbuktu on the Niger River, where the canoe meets the caravan, to Khartoum, to the Zanzibar coast on the Indian Ocean.
In addition, over a million Europeans were captured and sold at Muslim slave markets in Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia and Libya.
Catholic Orders, such as the “Trinitarians” or “Mathurins,” would collect alms and ransom slaves.
Notable ransomed were in 1607, St. Vincent DePaul, and in 1580, Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote de La Mancha, 1605, who wrote:
“They put a chain on me … I passed my life in that bano with several other(s) … marked out as held to ransom … We suffered from hunger and scanty clothing …
Nothing distressed us so much as … seeing … unheard of cruelties my master inflicted upon the Christians …
Every day he hanged a man … all with so little provocation … Turks acknowledged he did it merely for the sake of doing it.”
Modern-day charities ransoming Christians from slavery in Africa and South Asia include Exodus 51 and Christian Solidarity International, supported by Eric Metaxas.
In 1588, English and Dutch privateers defeated the invincible Spanish Armada.
Privateers captured Spanish ships of gold and brought their treasures back to Queen Elizabeth’s England.
In 1604, King James I made a peace treaty with Spain banning English piracy, issuing a “Proclamation to Repress All Piracies and Depredations upon the Sea.”
This essentially left privateers unemployed. Some became lawless pirates, finding ports for their stolen goods along the Barbary coast.
A few even became accursed “renegado,” or Christians turned Turk, sharing their superior sailing skills with Muslim maritime marauders and directing ships, called corsairs, to attack North Atlantic trade.
In 1617, 800 corsairs took 1,200 captives from Madeira, Portugal.
In 1625, corsairs sailed up the Thames River and raided England.
Giles Milton wrote White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves, 2004, describing how Pellow was captured at age 11 and escaped 23 years later.
The coast of Cornwall was raided with 60 villagers captured at Mount’s Bay and 80 at Looe.
They attacked Lundy Island in Bristol Channel and raised the standard of Islam.
By the end of 1625, over 1,000 English subjects were taken to the slave markets of Morocco.
That same year, Pilgrims in Massachusetts sent beaver skins and dried fish back to England for trade, but their ship was captured by Turkish pirates.
Governor William Bradford wrote in History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1650:
“They … were well within the English channel, almost in sight of Plymouth. But … there she was unhapply taken by a Turkish man-of-war and carried off to Saller, Morocco, where the captain and crew were made slaves …
Now by the ship taken by the Turks … all trade was dead.”
In 1627, Ottoman Algerian pirate Murat Reis the Younger raided Iceland and carried away 800.
One captured girl was made a concubine in Algeria but was ransomed by Denmark’s King Christian IV.
In 1631, Algerian pirates herded “The Stolen Village” of Baltimore, Ireland, onto ships. Only two ever returned.
Thomas Osborne Davis wrote in “The Sack of Baltimore,” 1895:
“The yell of ‘Allah!’ breaks above the shriek and roar; O’ blessed God! the Algerine is lord of Baltimore.”
Des Ekin wrote in The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates (2008):
“Here was not a single Christian who was not weeping and who was not full of sadness at the sight of so many honest maidens and so many good women abandoned to the brutality of these barbarians.”
The History of Barbary and its Corsairs, 1637, recorded that in 1634, Trinitarian priest Pierre Dan went to Algeria and witnessed “piteous” Irish families split apart at slave markets, never to see one-another again.
Joseph Wheelan wrote in Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror, 2004:
“As soon as Europeans fell into the raiders’ hands, the captives were stripped of their clothes, given rags to wear, and either were put in irons or made to work the ship …
Handsomest male slaves were usually chosen as palace pages, and the prettiest women were sent to Constantinople as gifts to the sultan.
The rest were auctioned in the slave mart … Buyers examined the prisoners … as they would any domestic animal.”
Kidnapped Englishman Francis Knight wrote in A Relation of Seven Years of Slavery under Turks of Algiers, 1640:
“I arrived in Algiers, that city fatal to all Christians and the butchery of mankind.”
The Sultan of Morocco was Moulay Ismail.
He had a harem of 500, mostly captured European women, who bore him a record 1,042 children.
He had 25,000 white slaves build him a palace at Meknes.
Moulay Ismail was described by John Windus in A Journey to Mequinez, 1825:
“His trembling court assemble, which consists of … blacks, whites, tawnies and his favorite Jews, all barefooted … He is … known by … the color of the habit that he wears, yellow being observed to be his killing color; from all of which they calculate whether they may hope to live twenty-four hours longer …
He (rides) out of town … attended by fifteen or twenty thousand blacks … with whom he … diverts himself — by throwing — the lance … knotted cords for whipping.”
Abolitionist Republican Senator Charles Sumner wrote White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1853:
“The Saracens, with the Koran and the sword, potent ministers of conversion, next broke from Arabia, as the messengers of a new religion, and pouring along these shores …
Algiers, for a long time the most obnoxious place in the Barbary States of Africa, the chief seat of Christian slavery … the wall of the barbarian world.”
In November 12, 1644, the Massachusetts General Court, as recorded in The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730, stated:
“Turkish pirates … meaning the Algerines … were a constant danger to shipping trading with Spain.”
In 1669, Captain William Foster sailed the Dolphin out of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and was captured by Barbary pirates.
John Hull, first mint-master of Massachusetts Bay, recorded:
“October 21, 1671. We received intelligence that William Foster, master of a small ship, was taken by the Turks as he was going to Bilboa, Spain, with fish.”
Cotton Mather wrote in Magnalia Christi Americana, 1702:
“There was a Godly gentleman of Charlestown, one Mr. Foster, who with his son, was taken captive by Turkish enemies.”
Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury, “the Apostle to the Indians,” led his congregation in prayer that Moroccan Prince Moulay Rashid would release Foster.
Mather wrote:
“Much prayer was employed, both privately and publicly, by the good people here, for the redemption of that gentleman …
But we were at last informed, that the bloody Prince, in whose dominions he was now a slave, was resolved that in his lifetime no prisoner should be released …
The distressed friends of this prisoner now concluded, our hope is lost! … Upon this, Rev. Eliot, in some of his next prayers, before a very solemn congregation … begged …
“Heavenly Father, work for the redemption of thy poor servant Foster … and if the Prince which detains him will not … dismiss him as long himself lives, Lord, we pray thee to kill that cruel Prince … and glorify thy self upon him.”
Shortly after, April 9, 1672, Prince Moulay Rashid fell from his horse and died in Marrakesh at the age of 42.
Cotton Mather added:
“The poor captive gentleman – Foster — quickly returns to us that had been mourning for him as a lost man, and brings us news, that the Prince which had hitherto held him, was come to an untimely death, by which means he was now set at liberty.”
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The Weekly Sam: HOME SCHOOLING AND THE EDUCATIONAL CRISIS by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Home schooling is now the fastest growing educational phenomenon in the United States. For example, in April of this year, Massachusetts had its first home-school convention and more than 600 registries showed up, many with babes in arms preparing for the future. These are young Christian families who have decided that their children will never see the inside of a public school. No one knows exactly how many children are being educated at home. Estimates vary from 200,000 to a million. What we do know is that there are now home-school associations in every state and more home-school conventions, conferences, seminars, workshops, and book fairs than anyone family can attend.
Why is the home-education movement attracting so many new young families? Much of it has to do with the renewal of the Christian family and the desire to adhere to Biblical principles in child rearing. The growing knowledge among Christians that the public schools are aggressively proselytizing Christian children into humanism via such programs as values clarification, sensitivity training, globalism, multiculturalism, evolution, sex education, and death education is perhaps the most compelling reason why parents are turning to home schooling as the preferred alternative. Also, many families are disappointed in the lukewarm religious content of many Christian schools that seem to adopt too much from the public schools in curriculum and general practice.
What the parents want is a strong, radical shift in orientation toward the Bible. They seek its moral and spiritual security in a world inundated by pornography, drugs, violence, abortion. political corruption and pagan depravity. The home school is being recognized as perhaps the only sure safe haven for children growing up in an increasingly dangerous society. Meanwhile, the education establishment has become quite concerned with the growth of the Horne-education movement, which is contributing to the exodus from the public school. In fact, in its 1988 convention, the National Education Association virtually declared war on home education with its Resolution C-34:
“The National Education Association believes that home-school programs cannot provide the child with a comprehensive education experience. “The Association believes that, if parental preference home-school study occurs, students enrolled must meet all state requirements. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used. The Association further believes that such home-school programs should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents.”
While the NEA deprecates the home school as an educational institution, the home schoolers are proving that their children are indeed getting a “comprehensive education experience” far superior to the academic junk-food that public schoolers are fed for twelve years and result in declining test scores and increased functional illiteracy. All of this has led to an education reform movement which is costing the taxpayers additional billions without any visible improvement to date. In addition, wherever home schoolers have been tested~ they’ve done better than their public-school counterparts. For example, in Tennessee, where about 900 home schoolers were registered with the state in 1989 — even though it is estimated that about 4,000 Tennessee children are being taught at home — home schoolers did quite well. The Chattanooga News-Free Press of Dec. 11, 1989, reported:
“State tests show that second graders are about equal to their classroom-educated counterparts. But by the fifth grade, home schoolers have passed their classroom peers in reading, and by the seventh grade home schoolers excel in both math and language, scores show.”
In 1987, the performance of homeschoolers in Tennessee was equally impressive. Of the 561 homeschoolers tested, 213 outscored 245,000 of their public school counterparts. Fifty-nine homeschool second graders were among the nation’s top 16 percent in reading ability and in the top 10 percentile in math. In the eighth grade, 30 homeschoolers scored 89 percent in reading and 79 percent in math. The 61,518 public school students scored 82 percent in reading and 72 percent in math. (Chattanooga Times, 8/13/87).
The reason why home schoolers do so well is because one-on-one tutoring is far superior to the classroom situation where children who need help get lost in the crowd. In tutoring you get immediate feedback, immediate correction, and thus the child is less likely to develop bad academic habits. Also, home-schooling parents are more apt to teach their children to read by intensive phonics than by the discredited, inefficient look-say or whole-word method. This makes an enormous difference when the goal is academic excellence.
Another reason why home schoolers excel is because home educators are highly motivated, dedicated parents, committed to providing their children with the best education possible. They want their children to become the best that America has to offer. The home-educated youngster represents the finest expression of the American Christian character; moral in behavior, peer independent, self-confident, respectful of elders, self-disciplined, inventive, freedom loving, patriotic, enterprising, God fearing. These are the youngsters who will become the leaders of tomorrow. It is symptomatic of our corrupt, paganized society that it is the finest Christian families, who have accepted their responsibility to educate and rear their children in a Godly manner, who are being , harassed and prosecuted by educational bureaucrats and state attorneys in Iowa, Michigan and elsewhere, determined to impose an atheistic sovereignty over God’s children. There will be many trials and tribulations in the days ahead, but in Christ, victory is ultimately assured.
(The above article is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive:
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
CAMP CONSTITUTION LADIES’ 2026 SPRING FLING/ADVANCE REPORT OF ACTIVITIES by Mrs. Edith Craft
May 1, 2026 – May 3, 2026 – Sixth Annual Spring Fling/Advance – Alton Bay Christian Center, Alton, NH
Camp Constitution Ladies started the weekend on Friday night with a Potluck that was so generously, abundantly supplied with Main Dishes, Salads, Breads, Desserts, and Beverages, etc. There was much more food than our group of Ladies could possibly eat. Special Treat: Ever Sweet Shop (cookie decorating) with Lacey Lounsbury. Here was a ‘craft’ you could eat!! There was great fellowship while eating, getting to know first-timers, greeting returning friends, and enjoying singing at an indoor ‘campfire!’ (Noted: warm and dry!)
We had a full Agenda of speakers, sharing God’s Word, sharing encouraging words with each other, crafts to be assembled, beautiful Camp Constitution shirts to purchase, and an array of books for purchase, just to mention a portion of our continuous activities.
Guests Presenters/Speakers and their topics or gifts were: Pat Palmer, first-time music presenter with piano and songs; Morning Chair Yoga, first-time attendee, Priscilla Feeney; Devotions: “Prayer” Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 with Priscilla Terry; Michelle Gallagher spoke on “The Forefathers Monument” (using a fact-filled PowerPoint presentation and presenting the book she authored); and Deb Roux spoke on the Guide to the Forefathers Book Project and reminded us to join in the celebration of America’s 250 Anniversary, attending activities in Plymouth, MA. Our very own Roberta Stewart spoke on “What to Do When I’m Gone,” complete with guide books to aid the process of connecting with family and loved ones. All of the beautiful, ingenuous crafts were presented by Maura Shurtleff who is uniquely gifted in the area of craft-making. What a line-up of activities!
One great, effective activity was to Pray Every Hour on the Hour which was started years earlier by a precious prayer warrior, Sapphire Giminez. Every Lady was encouraged to participate just by praying whatever was on their heart. What an enriching and emboldening activity!
Every meal from the Dining Hall was delicious, plenteous, and well-presented by a friendly and accommodating staff. No one could leave a meal without being full and satisfied.
CC Ladies’ Sixth Annual Spring Fling/Advance was made possible and successful by hard-working, dedicated organizers: Roberta Stewart, Maura Shurtleff, Kathy Mickle, and Hal Shurtleff. We had our very own RN on site, Kathy Mickle. Special Thanks! To ALL hands-on organizers and sponsors.
Every attendee was abundantly blessed by all the gifts and special treats that were provided and covered in one inclusive fee. The generosity of this group far exceeds most gatherings of ladies’ groups.
As you read the above Blessings experienced this May, 2026, please consider our next Advance!
The Most Honorable Work in the World Culture spent fifty years convincing women it wasn’t. by Alexander J. Destino Jr.
Is there a greater honor or more important job in the world than being a wife and mother?
God designed women for this calling and equipped them for it — nurturing, strength, instinct, and love. No man can replace what they do. It is the foundation of the family — where faith is first formed and where civilization begins.
“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” — Proverbs 31:25
Being a wife and mother — there is nothing more feminine, more powerful, or more purposeful a woman can do. It is exactly what God created her for. But generations of women have been told by the culture that fulfillment is found somewhere else. It never was.
“She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.” — Proverbs 31:27
This is not a small calling. This is world-shaping work. The fruit of a faithful mother lasts forever.
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” — Proverbs 31:28
Convincing women that motherhood is somehow “less than” is one of the greatest lies ever told. The progressive feminist movement promised liberation. What it delivered was a second full-time job — and the American family paid the price.
Most mothers today aren’t choosing between career and home. The choice was made for them. There was a time in this country when a family could have a home, a car, two or three children — and do it on one income. That wasn’t a fairy tale. That was America. When the culture told women the home was beneath them, it also helped engineer an economy that made sure they couldn’t afford to stay there. Then it called that progress.
The women who worked full-time and came home to be mothers anyway — they are not the failure of this story. They are the strength of it. They did what they had to do. The failure belongs to the culture that put them there.
“Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind.” — Titus 2:4–5
This calling was never meant to die with one generation. It was meant to be passed down.
Any political movement that builds a serious economic framework to allow families to thrive on one income again will have the support of the American people for generations. The family vote is the most powerful vote in this country. When families can survive on one income, families will flourish — and this nation will properly raise its children again.
The resources are there. The billions wasted on fraud, bloated bureaucracy, and programs that have done nothing to strengthen the American family could be redirected toward the people doing the most important work in the world — raising the next generation.
God did not make a mistake with His design for marriage and motherhood. The mistake was abandoning His design.
And it is never too late to find our way back.
(Reposted with permission from the author. )
What about Earth’s threatened and endangered PEOPLE?
Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism.
Our public lands, the Endangered Species Act, biodiversity and environmental justice are under threat, they raged. Oceans are filling with plastic waste. Big polluting corporations are getting away with “climate homicide” and “planetary ecocide.” The Arctic is melting, and polar bear cubs are drowning.
The United Nations took a short break from bashing Israel over “Palestinian genocide” and western nations for the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity (trans-Atlantic slavery), to proclaim April 22 “International Mother Earth Day” and call for an end to “crimes” that “disrupt biodiversity.”
Activists held the “first multilateral conference” on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Their “Our Power, Our Planet” theme says further progress will require that communities and individuals pressure governments to accelerate the “clean” energy transition from “dirty” fossil fuels.
Forgive my skepticism. But I was a college organizer for very first Earth Day (1970), back when we had real, highly visible environmental problems: air pollution and toxic smog over cities, industrial water pollution that made it unsafe to swim, leaded gasoline, and more. We largely solved those problems.
Since then, greens have grown in domestic and foreign financing, power and influence, and the ability to conduct ideological campaigns and lawfare on issues of irrelevance to the vast majority of Americans, let alone families in the most energy-deprived, destitute, diseased and malnourished nations on our planet.
Any yet, for days leading up to Earth Day and afterward, virtually nothing was said by the UN, WHO, eco-activists, media screed-meisters or I-care-deeply politicians about these people … or even about people in their own developed countries who bear the brunt of climate-centric, anti-growth, net-zero, de-industrialization, lower-living-standards policies.
It’s as if people don’t exist, and don’t belong, on our planet. The herd must be culled.
In the developed world, most climate-focused countries and states have the most pseudo-clean energy mandates and subsidies … the highest electricity prices … the highest prices for goods and services. They’re destroying entire industries, leaving thousands unemployed. They have the technologies to utilize their abundant carbon and nuclear energy, but ruling elites don’t want citizens to enjoy jobs and living standards based on that energy. Each year thousands die needlessly during frigid winters and summer heatwaves because families cannot afford or obtain proper heating and air conditioning.
The “climate crisis” is s Hollywood special effects disaster movie. The foundation for any “clean” energy transition is imaginary. Utopian energy is simply not clean, green, renewable or sustainable.
When wind turbines, solar panels, transformers, transmission lines and backup batteries or power plants are included, wind and solar energy require dozens of times more raw materials (and thus mining and pollution) and hundreds of times more land than just building a few nuclear or combined-cycle gas plants close to where electricity is needed – and forgetting about any pseudo-renewable systems.
For families in poor nations, the price tag is infinitely higher.
Worldwide, 730 million people still have no access to electricity. Billions more have minimal, sporadic access. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million have no electricity; hundreds of millions more have minimal, unpredictable electricity from small wind turbines and solar panels here and there. The situation in much of rural Asia and Latin America is little better. Ditto for vehicles and gasoline.
The result is entirely predictable. Almost no wage-earning jobs or mechanized farming, but abundant backbreaking work for parents and children in fields – and plenty of malnutrition, disease and death.
Over half the world’s people (more than four billion) still subsist on $10 a day.
More than 260 million suffer from critical food insecurity and malnutrition, and 35 million children are acutely malnourished, including 10 million with childhood wasting disease – leaving them with weak immune systems and vulnerable to developmental delays, disease and death
Malaria still infects 280,000,000 people annually and kills 610,000. Indoor air pollution from wood, dung, coal and kerosene cooking and heating fires kills nearly 3,000,000 people globally every year. Up to 3.5 million – mostly children – die annually due to inadequate safe water, sanitation and hygiene. Diseases modern western societies never even hear about sicken, disable or kill still more millions.
Do you think any of their grieving families gives a spotted owl hoot that your local temperature climbed a degree since the Little Ice Age ended, or a polar bear cub drowned halfway around the world?
A major reason is rampant corruption. The World Bank found that at least 7.5% (and as much as 15% or more) of total assistance to the most aid-dependent nations ends up in ruling elites’ foreign bank accounts. And yet the WB’s International Development Association received $94 billion for the 2022-2025 period. Multilateral development bank financing to top humanitarian recipients was $12 billion in 2020. Total worldwide Official Development Assistance reached a record $161.2 billion in 2020. Do the math.
Far worse, these banks, US and European foundations, and climate, agricultural and other activist groups work tirelessly to prevent these countries from acquiring or developing the electricity and other energy they need to emerge from squalor, starvation and disease. For decades these virtue-signaling banks have provided loans only for wind and solar projects – almost never for coal or gas power plants.
The result? Expensive, limited, unreliable electricity. No modern hospitals, schools, water purification, factories or shops. Continued pollution from wood and dung fuels. No jobs, improved living standards or reductions in killer diseases.
The same institutions – along with UN and other government agencies – oppose pesticides for eradicating locusts and malarial mosquitoes. They wage campaigns against biotech corn, soybeans, canola, and even hybrid seeds and life-saving Golden Rice. They pressure African governments to ban non-organic fertilizers and crop-saving pesticides that have been approved as safe in wealthy countries. Many even oppose tractors and other mechanized equipment.
To them, the only acceptable farming method is “agro-ecology” – la Via Campesina: the Peasant Way – aka, “traditional,” “organic,” backbreaking subsistence farming.
This, corruption, wars and food-deprivation as a weapon of war is why we still have malnutrition, starvation, disease and astronomical death tolls in African and other impoverished countries.
These global zealots want power over poor countries – not power for the countries’ destitute and desperate people. Their morally depraved policies and practices bring death to millions every year.
Developing countries should avoid doing what rich nations are doing now that they are rich. Instead, they should do what rich nations did to become rich. They should remember that wealthy industrialized countries did not have MDBs to help them; they created institutions to finance the power generation and factories that created jobs, middle classes, health, prosperity, new industries … and taxes to pay for more.
They must chart their own destiny – and take their rightful places among Earth’s healthy and prosperous people. Decent, moral Westerners must help them end the corruption and make this happen.
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books, reports and articles on energy, environmental, climate and human rights issues.