Recent content by Redwood

I think of Nixon as a man who was very astute in some ways, maybe not so much in others. He knew what was transpiring in the world at large. Even when he was given information as a former president, he could separate fact from fiction in a way that the other former presidents could not. I have...

There have always been “swamps” of one kind or another (slavery, segregation, watergate, etc. ). ...or maybe I should not have used the word “swamp” at all when I composed the OP. Maybe I should have used the word quagmire. Seems that the point I was trying to make is misunderstood, did not...

Seems to me that there are multiple components to the “swamp”. Politics is only one component to a swamp that has been around for thousands of years. That is what I wanted to convey in the OP.

Never intended to start a thread about President Trump.

Who are the “grown ups” that you are referring to? Pelosi and Schumer and their DNC colleagues?

What is "The Great Harlot Mystery Babylon"? Is Babylon a worldwide religious system that wants you to believe in anything and everything except the truth? Is the Beast (who ultimately destroys Mystery Babylon and is destroyed by the Lord in the end) a global political system? I'm no...

The words “drain the swamp” are a part of the current political discussion. We may not all agree on what this proverbial “swamp” is. According to my understanding, it means getting rid of politicians and bureaucrats who are doing more harm than good. A Democrat may think that Republicans are...

Years ago, I became acquainted with a man who had been through some of the worse battles of WW2. He had a great vocabulary; used all 60 of the 26 cuss words in the English language. He was not prejudiced, he talked like he hated everybody equally. In spite of the fact that the man made...

The most fundamental statement that defines the American concept of freedom was signed by 56 men on day one of the United States of America (7-4-1776). "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...

When I was young, the generation of people who had survived the great depression and World War 2 were in charge of everything. The "Greatest Generation" people were the fathers and mothers, the business owners, the skilled workers, the civic leaders, the teachers, the church members, the...

What do you call it when the lyrics of an old gospel tune run through your mind when sitting in church and a message is being preached from the pulpit? Distraction? Epiphany? Revelation? The things that are involved with positioning yourself to receive from the Lord was the subject of...

What is reality? What does it take to deal with reality? Reality consists of the things that we observe every day; the things that we can see, touch, hear, smell, taste and spend money on seem to be all that there is. Is there more to life than those things that are obvious and...