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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“…the West slides into extinction, unwilling and finally incapable of maintaining the core duties of civilization. The ghosts of ancient Rome snicker at us from the mist of centuries gone by.”Many decades ago, still a teenager, I found my way to Santa Monica, California from the high desert of West Texas for a promised job. It was love at first sight.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“..a kid was walking down the road who, unlike the busybody, was minding his own business.” We have way too many people in this great nation loudly telling us how we should live: how to think, how to work, how to love, how to build a family, how to eat, what kind of toilet or stove we can use, and how to raise our children, among many, many other things. The list is longer than an ant’s walk across the Sahara Desert.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“That type of thinking, among other things, sealed my cynicism and tampered down my interest in the Night. But it didn’t extinguish it. I didn’t know it couldn’t.“On the canvas of that matchless Night, all of the history for the rest of the world’s time was drawn. However, as with so much of God’s story, we know what we need to know, not all we want to know.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
History has shown that fiat money’s only real value is camouflaging disastrous political and financial policies and massive graft. Some years ago, I was on a TV panel show that closed out by taking questions from a live studio audience. The first question was from a woman who was irate about her local gas station’s price increase in response to an announced wholesale increase that had not yet gone into effect.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“And our culture – without question – is so much poorer without the robust intellectual heritage of the former.”Thanksgiving is the distinctive American holiday, born out of the triumph of faith over adversity, a day set aside to recall the blessings and bounty from God delivered to His faithful people.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“For all his wealth and power, he is still strikingly a guy from Queens. He speaks in American.“As the great Yogi Berra exclaimed, it’s déjà vu all over again. Demonstrating the enormous depth and breadth of the Trump earthquake is easily observable in the reaction to it by the “ruling class” on the left and right. The road from 2016 to here has been harrowing because the dangers for the elite ruling class in the US and worldwide are immense.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“Will we be more good than evil? Will we still be free, or will that word no longer have a distinct meaning?”Hang around long enough, and you’ll soon recognize that in every generation, there is no shortage of folks who think theirs is the worst and will probably be the last. The end of everything is near. This is why there is an insatiable market for doomsday books and movies about the end of days or post-apocalyptic survival dramas.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
“With a quiet heart, you can hear the last breaths of the dying and the fear of the living.”Several years ago, my wife and I spent Veterans Day at Antietam, the Civil War battlefield folded between the Potomac River and Antietam Creek in the lush vegetation and rugged hills of Western Maryland. The bloodiest day of the Civil War was fought there. I found myself revisiting that terrible battle this Veterans Day.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
stream.org | Shane Idleman |Tom Sileo |Jennifer Hartline |Michael Giere
Congratulations on your incredible win last night, sir. We knew that God was up to something. I have a few thoughts about the mandate on your next term in office. I can relate, to some extent; pastoring a Bible-believing church in California is not easy, but I’m surrounded by many good people. We all understand the enormous value of getting the nation back on track (spiritually speaking). Many are not called to flee, but to fight. California is still a great state and America a great nation.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
thebullelephant.com | Michael Giere
Right now, the only hope for slowing the madness of spending $75 trillion on the climate boondoggle by 2050 is electing Donald Trump – who alone is committed to using America’s traditional energy resources that benefit America, not China. You’ll often hear the Democrat Socialist politicians use a political catchphrase, “We believe in science,” concerning climate change and, a few years ago, the Wuhan coronavirus disaster.
