The United States have never been so disunited as they are today. We have lost the central moral standards that bound us together. At one time, even though various political factions had different ideas about how to accomplish their goals for the country, everyone at least had the same general goal and the same moral framework within which we all could operate. That moral framework was the Word of God as presented through the Judeo-Christian scriptures. Everyone in the country could agree that certain things were good and certain things were bad. Those moral standards were presented in the Bible. We lost our cohesiveness as a nation when our citizens began living like God’s Word was no longer necessary.

From the beginning, people worked hard to get their own favored candidates elected, but if their candidates lost, the citizens still got behind the government that was elected. As a nation, we took to heart the biblical admonition, “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for all people – for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness” (I Timothy 2:1-2). But then we quit praying for and caring for one another. Instead, we get “not my president” and “all Trump supporters are evil” and other assorted hatefulness that does nothing to help build America.

Another scripture that Americans ignore says, “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who stirs up conflict in the community” (Proverbs 6:16-19).

When the country began denigrating and belittling Christian values, we lost our moral compass as a nation. Now we don’t even know what innocence is, what evil is, or even what truth is. And too many people don’t seem to care. Christianity is not a religion based on a bunch of rules that begin with “Thou shalt not….” Christianity is a relationship with the living God that is created for us by Jesus Christ, who by His death, burial, and resurrection from the dead created for us an escape from Hell, an entry into Heaven, and a way to live until we get there. God’s moral compass is not a legalistic set of rules, but rather the results of a new relationship with God.

Pity the people who think that ignoring God’s moral code gives them freedom. It doesn’t. It makes them slaves to the consequences of immoral choices. And those who make those choices do not have any idea what they are missing. Image someone feeling pretty good about himself for finding a really good fast-food joint and eating every meal there. They have no idea what they are missing by not eating at the finest steak restaurant in town – especially since someone else has offered to pick up the tab. It isn’t the best analogy, but it serves a purpose when you think about all the fast-food denizens who attack and belittle the people who are otherwise just like them, except that they have chosen to enjoy steak dinners that someone else has provided.

As a nation, we no longer know what truth is because we have so many different voices shrilling out their own competing, incompatible claims as to what truth actually is. When we were a Christian nation, we knew what truth was. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father [God] except through me” (John 14:6). Jesus is more than a good man who gave us moral codes. He is truth itself. When we reject Him, we reject truth. It is obvious in the news today that America as a nation has rejected genuine truth.

God admonished another delinquent people with these words:

“Has a nation changed [to other] gods, even though they are not gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:11-13)

By rejecting the truth of God, we choose our broken values over the rivers of goodness God offers.

Christians have done a terrible job of helping the nation maintain its moral compass. Many non-Christians have actively worked to subvert that moral compass. And now the nation is suffering for it. Profanity, obscenity, promiscuity, lies, rebellion, theft, murder, and all manner of evil are now not only common occurrences, but apparently accepted parts of our daily lives. This all comes from losing our moral compass as a nation.

We used to be “one nation under God.” When we were, we were great. Now that we are not, we have impoverished ourselves. Unless we return to the God of our forefathers, our nation will wither away into oblivion.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

The media have already crowned Sleepy Joe as the next president. I thank God that media pundits don’t select our president; the voters do. Since final ballot counts have not been certified, we do not yet have a president-elect. The final counts are still in question because of the huge number of irregularities in several states. Writing in the “American Thinker,” Jay Valentine gives a fairly comprehensive list of some of the more noteworthy irregularities. And SkyNews, a major news outlet in Australia, says that voter fraud in the US has been “quite extensive.” The jury is still out on this election and will most likely be for some days to come.

During a Zoom meeting the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) held last week for unit chairs and State Central Committee members, we were given some additional insights.

Nevada was credited during our meeting with having the worst administered election in the country. The state sent actual ballots out to every voter – unrequested, so the voters didn’t even know to be on the lookout for them. Any number of them could have been intercepted and voted illegally. Serious irregularities were reported in Michigan and Wisconsin, and the courts ruled this week that the Pennsylvania Secretary of State lacked the authority to make changes in election procedures that extended the time in which absentee ballots could be accepted. Georgia’s Secretary of State also announced this week that Georgia will hold a complete recount of all five million plus ballots since the difference between the two candidates was only 14,111 votes.

The hypocritical Democrats and their media servants spent four years screaming about Russian collusion tainting the 2016 election, but now with actual evidence in hand of possible fraud, those same people are screaming that all that evidence should be ignored and that we should stop avoiding the “inevitable.” Even some so-called Republicans are joining that litany. May a full-grown elephant sit on their laps.

One thing about which we need to be careful is to not make claims of fraud about things that aren’t fraud. It only makes us lose credibility. For example, a lot has been made of how far ahead Nick Freitas was in the Seventh District congressional race with 95 percent of the precincts reporting compared to the huge shift in the vote that came when the last five percent of the precincts reported. It looks suspicious, but it is explainable. Remember that the percentages were for precincts reporting, not for ballots counted.

At the end of election day, all of the precincts where in-person voting is done run a results tape from their ballot scanners and report those numbers to their registrars. Statewide that is 2,486 precincts. Each city and county also has what is called a CAP or Central Absentee Precinct at which all absentee and early walk-in ballots from the entire city/county are counted. In most elections, this is a relatively small number. However, the huge push for voters to mail in their ballots made these numbers this year incredibly large. Between a third and half of all ballots cast were done through these 133 CAPS (just over five percent of the precincts). So yes, it is possible that the last five percent of the precincts reporting could make a huge difference because the total number of votes in each CAP was so much larger than in any individual precinct.

On the other hand, because so many of the early and mail-in votes were reported to be for one candidate when the election day in-person results overwhelmingly favored the other candidate, we can question why that was. The mere fact of CAP votes changing the outcome is not at issue. However, all other things being equal, the results of absentee/early voting should reflect the same general percentages as the in-person voting does. When it does not, voters want to know why it does not. And that is something that RPV is working on.

RPV is looking into every credible report of voting irregularity. “Credible report” means someone was actually in a situation where they saw something that looked wrong or was known to be wrong, and the responsible election official did not correct it. Additionally, Virginia Republican volunteers have been deployed to other states to help with the massive legwork involved in getting accurate ballot counts in those battleground states.

When the final legitimate ballot is counted – and the illegitimate ones tossed – there is every chance that President Trump will prevail. (May God have mercy on America if he doesn’t.)

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

 

P.S. To see whether a vote was received on your behalf, go to https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation and click on “Apply to Vote Absentee by Mail.” Follow the instructions, and you can see your voting history.

Americans are selling their birthright even though the majority don’t even know what that means.

Back through history, the eldest son’s birthright gave him a double portion of his father’s inheritance along with becoming head of the family in his father’s place, ownership of the family’s property, and both authority over and responsibility for the welfare of the rest of the family.

The Bible (Genesis 27) tells the story of Esau, who sold his birthright to his fraternal twin (and younger brother), Jacob, in return for a bowl of stew. Esau was a rugged man and his father’s favorite; Jacob was a “mama’s boy.” One day, Esau came in from a long hunting trip, and all he could think about was eating. Jacob said he would give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright. Esau was so much more concerned about his stomach than about his heritage and his future that he agreed to the deal. That was a huge mistake that Esau regretted for the rest of his life. Esau had no respect for his birthright, and apparently neither do the majority of Americans.

The American birthright is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Our birthright has given us a double portion of the bounty of this planet. We didn’t steal it. We created it within the framework of the government that God gave us over 230 years ago. We have private ownership of the results of our labor. We rise or fall on our own merits, not the dubious merits of a faceless “collective.”

Our founding fathers gave their blood, fortunes, and personal honor to provide us with freedom from overbearing government intrusion in our lives. When people in our communities were in need – real need, not just the lack of genuine effort – our communities took care of their own. If a man got ahead in life, it was due to his own toil and sweat and risk.

The birthright our founding fathers gave us includes the right to speak as we wish, gather as we wish, publish newspapers and other writings as we wish, and worship as we wish. They limited the scope of a federal government to that of a single face to the outside world, which as a result allowed the people of each state to be in charge of their own lives, families, and businesses. They also gave us the right to defend ourselves from foreign enemies and from an intrusive domestic government.

But we are throwing that precious birthright away for “a bowl of stew.” We want the federal government to feed, house, and clothe us (with food stamps and other entitlements), to keep us from getting sick (national health care), and to let us do whatever we want with no consequences (abortion on demand and defund the police). People do not realize that these are false hopes.

We have a generation of voters who as children were protected from every harm by “helicopter” parents and were provided with every material thing by parents who spent more time making money than raising their children. These children never received their birthright of self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and responsibility. When these parents quit providing the cushioning in life that their children had grown up believing they would always have, these grown children turned to the government for their protection from reality and responsibility.

This same generation were taught by teachers, a majority of whom lied about the American birthright. They taught that America was a colonial power that invented slavery. In reality, America was a group of colonies that banded together to win freedom from the greatest colonial power in history. And slavery has been around a whole lot longer than America. Jacob (in the story above) had nine sons who sold another of their brothers into slavery nearly four thousand years ago. The truth is that slavery in America was an extension of slavery in the colonies of the British Empire. It took Americans less than 90 years – but more than 600,000 lives – to abolish slavery in America once and for all. Freedom is the birthright of all Americans – yet we are throwing it away for a figurative bowl of stew.

Famed radio commentator Paul Harvey wrote in 1952 that “A government that is big enough to supply you with everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.” A poll conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that 70 percent of millennials were likely or extremely likely to vote for a “socialist,” while 50 percent indicated an unfavorable view of capitalism. This misguided and ill-informed generation is throwing away a birthright that they do not value because they do not understand its incredible value. And like Esau in the Bible, they will never be able to regain it once they lose it.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

If this were a totally fair, one-person-one-vote election, President Trump would likely win every state. But it’s not going to be that. Irrefutable evidence of voter fraud keeps coming to light around the country. Certain state legislatures – Virginia comes to mind – and several Obama appointed judges have worked hard to make election rigging even easier. Thankfully, honest people have managed to block many of those efforts.

The U.S. 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals overruled an Obama-appointed federal district judge who told Wisconsin to extend “the deadline for receipt of mailed ballots from November 3 (Election Day) to November 9, provided that the ballots” had been postmarked no later than November 3. The Supreme Court agreed with the Circuit Court on the grounds that state legislatures, not judges, “bear primary responsibility for setting election rules.” Therefore, the district court judge did not have the authority to make those demands.

This differs from the Virginia situation in which the General Assembly passed a law that required absentee ballots to be accepted until noon on Friday, November 6, so long as they had been postmarked no later than November 3. But more on that in a moment.

The U.S. 7^th Circuit Court also overruled a federal judge in Indiana who tried to require the state of Indiana to count all absentee ballots received by November 13, ten days after the election. One important statement in the Indiana decision is that “as long as the state allows voting in person, there is no constitutional right to vote by mail.”

The 11^th Circuit Court has repeatedly overruled a federal district judge who tried to prohibit Alabama from enforcing its law that a photo-ID and a witness signature are required for absentee ballots. The Circuit Court also prevented the district judge from forcing Alabama to allow curbside voting because Alabama law does not allow for it.

The Alabama rulings do not apply in Virginia because the General Assembly passed laws this year doing away with the requirement for photo IDs or of having witnesses sign absentee ballots. And curbside voting has been legal in Virginia for a number of years.

Voter integrity in Virginia did win a big court case just this past week. The General Assembly passed a law this year stating that registrars had to accept absentee ballots up to three days after election day, so long as the envelopes were postmarked by Election Day. The State Board of Elections sent out instructions saying that registrars should count ballots with illegible or missing postmarks that came in prior to noon on November 6. Thomas Reed, the Republican member of the Frederick County Board of Elections, filed suit in Frederick County. The court ruled – in Reed v. Board of Elections – that the law says they can only accept properly postmarked ballots after election day and that the State Board of Elections does not have the right or authority to change the law to suit themselves.

The postmark issue is crucial. All of the in-person results will be made public at the end of Election Day. If a particular candidate or political party did not like the numbers, they might try to slip stolen absentee ballots into the mail the day after Election Day in order to try to change the result. The possibilities are wide open, and certain political interests will do anything to get their candidates elected.

There are still far too many ways for fraudsters to cheat, but we have stopped a number of them. We just cannot relax our vigilance. The Republican Party of Virginia and many of the 131 local Virginia Republican committees have been recruiting and training hundreds of poll watchers to stand inside the precincts to observe what is going on, to make sure everything is going as it should under the law. We also need poll watchers where the absentee ballots are being processed, and we need them when the drop box ballots are being processed, and we need them to observe several other important operations that have been imposed by the General Assembly.

And when I say “them,” I actually mean “you.” We need hundreds more poll watchers to observe the thousands of precincts on election day, the follow-up mail-in ballot processing, the official canvassing, and other important events that will happen over the next several days. We need you to help share the workload, to help provide for an honest election. Go to edo.virginia.gop to volunteer and to find recorded training. Please find time to help. Your future depends on it.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.