Stand Like A Rock

The Entire Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally ~ Video via Cspan
Have some free time on your hands

Geese perform a military fly-over

This was truly awesome. It occurred at 9:59 am. The rally’s intro video had just begun. It felt like it was perfectly planned.

Beck Crowd Leaves Mall Clean; Obama Crowd Not so Much ~ FoxNation
What do these two videos say about this “conventional wisdom,” and will Obama-loving media members in the post-rally coverage of this event point out to readers and viewers just how clean our National Mall was left by these awful, greedy, right-wing extremists?

Restoring Honor 8-28-10 ~ Canada Free Press
To say that climbing on a bus with fifty strangers to join a caravan of hundreds of other buses jostling our way up the yellow-brick road to Oz put this Historian out of his comfort zone would not be an understatement; it would be a gross understatement.

Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Restoring Honor Keynote Speech

Photos from 8/28 Restoring Honor

The Day Beck Shook America ~ New Zeal
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, from Noisy Room has put together some very comprehensive coverage of Glenn Beck’s huge Restoring Honor rally, in Washington D.C.

By Kyle-Anne Shiver
American Thinker, June 18, 2010

We’re at a pivotal moment in American history.  Never in our lifetimes have the consequences of liberal big government been on such ubiquitous display, not only here, but everywhere we look.  The socialist democracies of Western Europe stand at the precipice of complete downfall.  Many of our own liberal states are facing the same bankrupt status.  Our own federal debt is choking the life out of any hope for quick recovery.  A president in so far over his head that he is drowning in his own useless rhetoric has become an embarrassment to the nation.  And plenty of enemy states are just chomping at the bit ready to pounce at our weakness.

Many who stay conscientiously involved in politics on a daily basis seem ready to throw in the proverbial towel on America and go down in ignominious defeat like the Europeans.  Just follow them off the cliff because nothing can be done to stop it.  It’s too late.  The socialists’ march through our institutions has gone too far; it can’t be reversed.  I’ve heard and read this sentiment over and over again of late.  Our grand Republic, say the defeatists, is just one step shy of the historical grave. Continue reading »

The rest of the story…

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

By Dr. Peter A. Lillback
GlennBeck.com, May 25, 2010

Faith mattered greatly to our Founders.  Consider, for example, the words of the First Continental Congress in 1774:

THAT it is an indispensable duty which we owe to God, our country, ourselves and posterity, by all lawful ways and means in our power to maintain, defend and preserve these civil and religious rights and liberties for which many of our father fought, bled and died, and to hand them down entire to future generations.

Many contemporary historians and media figures have trouble, however, speaking of what our Founders called “an indispensable duty which we owe to God”.  The reason is that many of our contemporaries no longer believe what our founders believed.  As a result they usually misunderstand our courageous forbearers.  Or even worse, many modern and post-modern writers and reporters suppress, delete, expunge or outright deny our Founders’ cherished spiritual commitments.  Consequently, some contemporary media communicators, such as Will Bunch with MediaMatters (“Beck pushes distorted view of George Washington’s Christianity to No. 1”) seek to refute those who celebrate, defend and advocate our Founders’ views of faith by ridicule and reductionism. Continue reading »