Tom Hoefling: A few late night stray thoughts before I pack it in for the day: When I think of America, I think of our brave pioneer forebears. I think of fire and brimstone, Holy Ghost Bible preachers, who tell the Truth without fear, or favor, or a single care whether or not that Truth produces some empty pews next week. I think of spiritual revivals sweeping the land that change people, and then change nations, and the world. I think of folks who consistently model honor, dignity, honesty, and Christian charity. I think of fathers and mothers loving each other and building the future together, as one. I think of midwives and other experienced women helping mothers to have their babies at home, in the normal course of affairs, without breaking the family bank doing it. I think of children who are taught, with a solid biblical basis, by their parents, their pastors, and trusted fellow citizens in the old hometown, or in the neighborhood - and not by far off (spiritually/philosophically hostile) bureaucrats or hired hands. I think of folks who care for and love the elderly and sick as if they were Jesus Himself and don't leave that important task solely to "professionals." I think of regular folks who have always answered the call and became fierce warriors, when necessary to defend their families, their people, and their country. I think of gospel, blues, and mountain music. I think of big families, working together, working hard, working in the family business, or working the land. I think of homesteaders, home builders, and homemakers. I think of neighbors coming for a quilting bee, or a barn-raising, or to take out a crop because someone is hurt, or ill. That's a partial representation of what I guess is sort of my own idealized view of what I think America was, is, and should be. Some, or maybe even most, of those things are long-gone, probably, and it's truly a shame. They were valuable beyond price. Irreplaceable, in fact. I look at the politicians the "two parties" continue to push forward and I don't see much of a relationship between them and most of the things I just listed. Sorry, but that's just my opinion, based in my own experience and long-time observations. I don't see these people as representing the real America, or living in what most of the people I know consider to be the real world. Have Trump or Biden ever done a real day's work, the kind that means they drop into bed when the sun goes down because of exhaustion? Seriously? I mean, maybe they have - I'm willing to be corrected - but I just can't picture them doing it. The people I hang out with sure don't sit around arguing over who can hit a golf ball further than the other guy. Especially when they're both octogenarians. Good night. PS...this is no way denigrates those who continue to keep the good things about America alive. They are still many. They inspire me. They are our hope, in the Lord. Tom Hoefling
As a general rule, I'm not much of a fan of sports metaphors, because they always seem to fall short. However, once in awhile I will indulge in the practice. My apologies ahead of time. For half a century, pro-life elected officials across the land have been running bad plays. Instead of simply invoking the self-evident humanity of the unborn child, and the Constitution's explicit requirement that they be equally-protected, in every state, they have come up with a dizzying array of immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive regulatory gimmicks that are really nothing more than bad substitutes for doing the right thing. Here in my home state, a decade ago, with the help of my friend Tom Shaw, we offered those pro-lifers a moral, constitutional, clean equal protection bill to end abortion in Iowa once and for all. They buried that bill before it could even be considered in committee, or have a single public hearing. Five years ago, with full control of the Iowa legislature and the Governor's office, they passed an immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive "heartbeat" bill, which was, predictably shot down immediately by the liberal state supreme court. Then, Dobbs came down from the US Supreme Court, and the pro-lifers thought that they would simply begin to enforce their "six week" "heartbeat" bill. Again, predictably, the state's highest court said "no." And so, how do the pro-lifers who completely control the law-making process respond? Tomorrow, in special session, they're going to make the exact same immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive, oath-breaking error that they've been making for fifty years. They're going to meet in special session and pass another awful "heartbeat" bill. It's overtime. The other team is ahead. It's fourth down, and the ball is on the two yard line. The ball has been snapped. The pro-lifers are rolling out to the right, with not a single defender between them and the goal line and the win. And what are they determined to do? Spike the ball and lose again. Except, this isn't a game. Thousands, nay millions, of innocent lives are on the line. The very basis of our form of government and our claim to liberty is at stake. Why do they refuse to stop this holocaust when they have the governmental power to do so? If it really was a sports team, you'd think they'd been paid off by the bookies, and they would be forever banned from playing the game. Seriously. Tom Hoefling
I have been faithful to real conservative principles in the public arena for decades. I've told the truth, as I know it, without fear or favor, consistently. I've offered the people the only true roadmap for saving America, which is individual and national repentance, and a return to true moral and political principles. I've run for president three times, governor of my state once, and served in the leadership of two political parties. How much support have I received from conservatives and Christians during that time? Very little. How much coverage have I received from the media? Almost none. At the same time we've seen a string of completely unprincipled candidates lifted up within the GOP, the supposedly conservative party, culminating in the ascension of a complete moral reprobate named Donald J. Trump. How much support has this craven individual received from folks who call themselves "conservative"? Overwhelming support, to the point of cult-life devotion. How much media coverage has this dangerous, craven, crackpot received from the media? Literally hundreds of billions of dollars worth of free advertising. It's no fun being the canary in the coalmine, believe me, but at least my experience can be an object lesson to you about the true state of America, and the American church. I hope and pray that you draw the right conclusions from it all. The earthly fate of our children and grandchildren depends on somebody doing so. Tom Hoefling
After the birth of her second child, in the wake of severe post partum depression, a young woman in her twenties was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She spent most the next decade in the mental institution, but two years into her commitment, on a short visit home, she and her husband conceived another child. Since there was no way that she or her husband was going to be able to care for this child, should he have been aborted? That woman was my mother. The child was me. Seven years into her commitment, my mom was raped in the hospital and conceived child number four. Should that child have been aborted? That child was my half-sister. If my sister and I had been aborted, our 25 amazing, wonderful children and grandchildren would not exist. You see, when you exterminate a helpless child, for any reason at all, you exterminate posterity too. Tom Hoefling
Civil government is of God. He instituted it as a force for the restraining and punishment of evil in a fallen world, one which will be needed until He comes again and destroys evil. The scriptures are quite clear about this. You can read Genesis chapter 9 and Romans chapter 13 for yourself. Americans were, at the beginning of this republic, almost entirely professing Christians who understood all of this quite well. For all their faults, they did set up functioning civil governments that more or less reflected a moral, biblical model. All officers of that government were, and are, required constitutionally to swear a sacred, solemn oath before God to uphold moral, constitutional, republican self-government. Why is the great American experiment in self-government beginning to fail? It's so simple. It's because the people, including the professing Christians, have lost their fear of God. They have abandoned basic morality. They have become corrupt oath-breakers. They put other corrupt oath-breakers into public office. They reject the Lord's sovereignty over all things, and sneer at those who continue to advocate for just, righteous, decent politics. Without repentance, there is no hope for our country, or for our children and grandchildren. And that repentance, not just in words, but in deeds, must start with those who name the Name of Christ. My rose-colored glasses have been shattered,
Turns out the world has always been black and white, you see, Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are, With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between. Don’t sell your immortal soul to the red, white and blue, Don’t give it to the Reds, or to the Greens. Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are, With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between. “It’s fine, it’s lawful, it’s a good thing, to kill the babies,” they say “The blood of the multitude of the innocents that is on our hands, it will wash clean. God is far too loving to punish us, things will remain the way they’ve always been.” But, sorry, man, good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are, With no sophisticated, political, bloody shades in between. Someday very soon, no matter who you are, No matter what else, in your own own righteousness, in your own power, you try to do, You’ll run smack into black and white reality, And your rose-colored glasses will shatter too. Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are, With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between. God is a God of mercy, But, you know quite well He’s a righteous God of judgment too. The whole world, for its sin, stands judged. No matter the shape or the shade of your banner, We’re all going to be called to account, except we truly repent, Even here, in the land of the free and the brave In the land we love, the home of the red, white and blue, Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are, With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between. (c) Tom Hoefling, Nov. 7, 2022 More of Justice Alito's Gross Hypocrisy in Dobbs v. Jackson
Tom Hoefling June 27, 2022 Our natural rights adhere to us because of who and what we are, not because of our location. We are, each of us, made in the image and likeness of God. (See Genesis 1:26). Our value derives from that fact, from that reality, not from where we might happen to be today. When God said, "You shall not murder," He meant that you shall not murder anyone, obviously. When He said, "You shall not steal," He meant that you shall not steal from anyone, obviously. These are the simple moral premises of decent, just human government. I have a right, granted by God, not to be murdered or stolen from. And you have an equal right not to be murdered or stolen from. It's simple. This is American Civics 101. He never said, "You shall not murder or steal, unless your victim is over there rather than over here." No. Everyone has an intrinsic God-given, unalienable right to not be murdered or stolen from, no matter where they are. These rights precede and supersede all manmade laws and constitutions. They apply to all human beings, all persons, everywhere, in all ages. We are ALL supposed to be protected by our laws, not by our location. These natural law principles were the very foundation stones of the American republic. In Dobbs v. Jackson, "Justice" Samuel Alito rightly points out the arbitrary nature of Roe v. Wade, and how foolish it was for the Blackmun court to determine whether a child would be protected based on their location in relation to a hospital. But, then, hypocritically, he and his colleagues ruled that innocent babies would henceforth be protected based SOLELY on their location, i.e., what state they happen to be in today. And, very poor protection that is, in light of the fact that any murder-minded mother can still simply change her location in order to slaughter her offspring, at any time, under the color of "law." The phrase "overturning Roe" is utterly meaningless when any and all unborn children can still be murdered in our country, as long as they are murdered in the government-approved place. It's not supposed to be that way in America. Our republic was founded and established on the principle that government - all government, at all levels - exists to provide equal protection for the God-given, unalienable, individual right to life. Our Constitution's ultimate stated purpose is "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity." And that Constitution, which every officer of government in this country is required to swear an oath to support and defend, absolutely requires equal protection under the law for every innocent person, in every state. It's not optional. It's not "up to the states to decide." Please, America, stop pretending that it is. And, stop doing the wicked things that these foolish, hypocritical judges tell you to do. Tom Hoefling
Deep down in their hearts, both the radical American Left and the Trumpish so-called "Right," very much want to appease the dictator of Russia, war criminal Vladimir Putin. They're hedging their words very carefully at the moment, but it's right there between the lines of everything they say, if you know how to listen. They're just waiting for their opportunity to once again gain the political ascendency. As costly as it is to them and their country, the Ukrainians should thank God that they're forced to fight their own war, without NATO or American boots on the ground. Because, depending on the United States to fight your battles for you, long-term, has been, for many throughout the history of the last century, a losing proposition. Ask the Poles, or the South Vietnamese, or the Afghans, or the Iraqis, or the Kurds. They'll tell you. Swings in American public opinion and politics make it an unreliable ally in long wars, in far too many instances: especially for those in the most dangerous circumstances, militarily, geographically, and geopolitically. If I was advising the Ukrainians, I would tell them to get everything they can out of the West. But, don't put all your precious eggs in that basket. Technology can only get you so far. In the end, all you can truly depend upon is yourselves, and, more importantly, upon Almighty God. "Slava Ukraini," they say with justifiable patriotic pride. But, the only way that real glory, and security, can come to Ukraine is for Ukrainians to give the glory to God, and to rely entirely upon Him to defend their land and people. The West is not your savior. Only Jesus is. Depend upon Him, and continue your glorious fight, against the invaders from the east, and against the appeasers, in faith. Tom Hoefling
The natural moral law is the basis for republican self-government, the rule of law, and justice, in America. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men." The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of our land. "No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." "No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Both explicitly require equal protection under the law for the right to life of every innocent person, in every jurisdiction. It's not optional. It is imperative. No additional laws or court opinions are needed to provide equal protection under the law for the innocent unborn child and thereby end this bloody holocaust that has claimed the lives of so many tens of millions of helpless, defenseless, innocent boys and girls. All that is needed is enforcement of the law by the executive branch of government, at both the federal and state levels. Nothing more, nothing less. But first, you, Christian, must make the demand that it be so. "The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever . It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78 By Tom Hoefling
Abortion costs a helpless, defenseless, innocent little boy or girl their life. But it is also a dagger in the heart of American republican, constitutional self-government in liberty. Abortion utterly destroys the natural law moral principles spelled out in our national charter, the Declaration of Independence. It represents the total denial of our Creator, of the concept of God-ordained equality and God-given unalienable rights, and of the very raison d'etre of human government, which is to secure that equality and those rights to every person. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men." Abortion destroys every stated principle of our Constitution. Our national Union is attacked by abortion at the most fundamental level: the natural bond between the mother and her child, which is the essential first building block of our entire civilization and society. Instead of establishing Justice, abortion establishes the worst kind of injustice. What greater wrong can be committed in the physical sense against the individual person than that you murder them? How can you have any sort of true domestic Tranquility, i.e. peace at home, when you have entered into the very heart of that home and annihilated the children? Our society is supposed to assure the common Defense, or the defense of all. How can anybody consider themselves to be safe when certain disfavored classes of human beings are declared to be the "legal" prey of hired mass murderers? How can you claim to be defending the Welfare of all, when you are sacrificing the most innocent and helpless among us on the altar of ease and convenience? How can a nation possibly claim to be securing the Blessings of Liberty to a Posterity that they are slaughtering by the tens of millions? "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The Democrats and the Republicans both claim to stand for the Constitution. When elected, they all swear the Article VI oath, as they are required to do, to support and defend that Constitution. How many of them are actually doing it? None. Not as long as a single innocent child is being destroyed under the color of "law" in this country. "No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." "No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Here is the stark truth: unless and until equal protection is restored to the little children, in compliance with the explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution, all hope is gone for this country's survival. Union, Justice, Tranquility, our national security, the good of the entire nation, Posterity itself, is gone, trampled into the dust because the people were too immoral, and too stupid to understand what it was that they inherited from their much wiser forefathers. Obey the Lord, and live. Disobey the Lord, and keep destroying the innocents He made in His image, and you will be destroyed. It's as certain as the sun rising. That's your choice, America. "You shall not murder." "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson Tom Hoefling
I'm gobsmacked every time I see abolitionists continue to use language that cedes legality to abortion. They simply don't listen, no matter how many times it is patiently explained to them that this is a destructive fallacy, one that digs a deep hole for our side that cannot be overcome as long as it is continued. Abortion violates the law of God. It violates the laws of nature that God ordained. It violates every stated purpose, and the explicit equal protection requirements, of the supreme law of our land. It is not, and cannot, be legal in America. Laws or court opinions that violate the laws of nature and/or the Constitution are, by every principle this free republic was founded upon, absolutely null and void. That means that, legally, we are to act as if they do NOT exist. Please, please, please, get this vital, fundamental lesson through your head, because as long as you refuse to do so, you are, whether you know it or not, or whether you will admit it or not, continuing to give (im)moral, legal, and political strength to those who are perpetrating this bloody holocaust. "When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void." -- Alexander Hamilton "[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and [...] courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument." -- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803 Tom Hoefling
I am an abortion abolitionist, in spite of all of those who are compromising the basic principles of abolitionism in the way they do their politics. Why? Because conscience dictates that abortion must be abolished. I am against socialism, in spite of all of those who also say they're against socialism while supporting every unconstitutional socialist government program under the sun. Why? Because socialism is theft, writ large, and it destroys nations and peoples. I love my children and grandchildren, and I don't want to see them destroyed, economically and politically. I'm a conservative, in spite of all of those who have made a mockery out of that title. Why? Because the American system of republican, constitutional self-government built on the natural, God-ordained moral law is worth preserving and conserving. I'm a republican, small "r," in spite of the political party that continues to dishonor that honorable title. Why? Because the American system of republican, constitutional self-government built on the natural, God-ordained moral law is the best form of human government there is in this fallen, sinful world, and it's worth fighting for. I'm a Christian, in spite of the large percentage of Americans who have taken that label upon themselves while putting the lie to it in the way they act in their civic life. I'm a Christian, in spite of my own terrible failures to live up to that most honorable of titles. Because, Christianity is all about repentance, and mercy, and grace, and perseverance. Figure out who you are, and what you stand for, folks. And then stand, without wavering. Otherwise, moral compromise is going to be the death of us all. Ignore the hypocrites and the liars, and simply resolve to do what is right, no matter what anyone else may or may not do. ![]() Tom Hoefling At the conclusion of the American Revolution, when King George III of Great Britain heard that General George Washington would resign his commission to a powerless Congress, he reportedly told the American painter Benjamin West: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." Years later, Washington willingly gave up power again when he left the presidency after only two terms, even though there was at that time no constitutional barrier to him serving as many terms as he wanted, or, more properly, as many terms as the people would be willing to give him. In his case, of course, that probably would have been as many terms as he wanted. George Washington set the example for the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America, an example that has been followed perfectly for more than two centuries. Until Donald Trump. Donald Trump is nothing like George Washington. In fact, he is the exact opposite of George Washington. It's crystal clear that Donald Trump was willing to do literally anything, up to and including the unleashing of a violent insurrectionist mob on the Congress of the United States during the conclusion of the presidential electoral process, to prevent the peaceful transfer of the power of the presidency to the candidate who clearly defeated him in the 2020 election, Joseph Biden. Donald Trump is not the greatest man in the world. In fact, he is the worst man in the world. He is the worst man, by far, to ever step foot onto the public stage in America. No one else is even close. The Senate must convict Donald Trump and block him from ever holding any public office ever again. It's absolutely necessary. If the Republicans refuse once again to uphold their oaths and convict Trump, they will go down in history as feckless, unprincipled, oath-breaking fools - like Trump, utterly unworthy of their high offices. ### "For the record - just so there is no mistake by anyone - I stand foursquare against Trump and his violent insurrectionist mobs.
I also support his immediate impeachment and removal from the office of the president." -- Tom Hoefling Tom Hoefling
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The debacle in the committee hearing room in Austin, Texas last week exposed the core of the problem with abortion. It all comes down to the humanity, and the God-given, unalienable, equal rights of the individual child, and whether or not the perpetrators who seek to slaughter them will be punished in the same way other murderers are dealt with under the law. In other words, it all came down to the same things it came down to in front of the Supreme Court in 1973. Prior to Roe vs. Wade, Texas had unjust, immoral, unconstitutional laws on the books that deprived the unborn child of their equal rights, and punished their murderers differently, and much more leniently, than the murderers of those fortunate enough to have passed through a birth canal. Which, of course, provided the pretext the wicked Blackmun court needed to dehumanize, to depersonify, the unborn child. Which, of course, then led to the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of more then sixty million innocent, helpless, defenseless children. And what was the response of Pro-Life, Inc., and their faithful minions in the Texas legislature when presented with a just, constitutional bill that would criminalize all abortions in their state? They were steadfast in their determination to make the exact same moral, constitutional, and legal error that led to Roe in the first place, even though more than 98% of the more than three hundred citizens who testified in front of their committee spent more than eight hours, late into the night, explaining to them in great depth, in exquisite detail, why doing this would be a gross violation of the most sacred obligations of their solemn oaths. And the innocent blood continues to flow. Tom Hoefling
Please hold me up in prayer this week as I prepare for Saturday's abolition vs. regulation debate with Scott Mahurin. If you're near Des Moines, come join us at 2 pm at 315 SW 14th St, Des Moines, IA 50309-4311. If you're not able to come, the live stream will be on the Des Moines Patriots for Christ page, starting at 2 pm Central time. You have to go hit like on their page here if you want to see the event live: https://www.facebook.com/PatriotsForChristDSM/ The event page on Facebook is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/418818738660911/ Tom Hoefling
The fear of God is the missing ingredient in our politics today - on the part of the people themselves, and on the part of those they elect to public office who are required to take the oath. Our system presupposes a just and perfect judgment on our words and actions in the hereafter, as the mainstay against abuses and usurpations in the civic here and now. Without that healthy dread in our hearts and minds, and in the hearts and minds of our chosen representatives, the whole edifice of constitutional republicanism falls apart. "Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?" -- George Washington "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." -- Proverbs 9:10 Tom Hoefling
So, on January 7th of this year the Communist Party USA began touting what they called a "Green New Deal." One month later, on February 7th, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released her "Green New Deal." Now, you can try if you will to track the timeline of just exactly who was cribbing whose notes, but the simple fact is, the whole thing is thoroughly communistic in nature. Its obvious predicate is the notion that all things belong to the state. If they want to tear down all the buildings, including those buildings you own, their assumption is that they have the right and authority to do so. If they want to kill all your cows, they can. If they want to ground all your airplanes, there is nothing to prevent them from doing so. If they want to force you to live in an undefended, unheated shack, shivering in the dark, and only give you a little rice to eat each day, they can. Make no mistake: If these people are not stopped, and soon, that is exactly what they will do, too. Sure, their ideas are stupid and off-the-wall. But communist ideas have always been stupid and off-the-wall. That didn't stop them from murdering and enslaving a large part of the population of the world in the last century though. Don't simply laugh this stuff off, folks. It's deadly serious business. |
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