Ok, I admit it.  I miss Ronald Reagan.  I miss his faith, courage, optimism, hope, and dreams.  Leaders like Reagan filled American's with hope of what we can do together.  Reagan created a common vision that surpassed party lines and made us all Americans and proud to be so!  I am proud to be an American.  Is our nation perfect?  Absolutely not!  Is there any nation that can say that it is perfect?  We have imperfect people that have joined together under the American ideals of freedom, community, duties, love, faith, hope, love, and work-ethic - to name a few.  Do not surrender to the prevalent pessimism in America.  Ronald Reagan gave America back its hope!  That is what America needs - hope for the future!  We don't need government solutions, but we do need hard-working Americans to be liberated from excessive taxes, regulations, and arbitrary power.  Never underestimate the power of a free people to get the job done!  Here is a special Reagan address to the National Association of Evangelicals that is filled with faith and hope!  God Bless, Orrin Woodward

Here is a powerful message by Randy Forbes on the historical foundations of the United States.  Many of the political ideas that formed the U.S. Constitution were captured from European thinkers like Locke, Montesque, Cicero, Plato etc.  Locke's ideas were, in the main, a watered down version of the thoughts flowing from Oliver Cromwell's protectorate.  Ideas of inalienalble rights given by our Creator, that law is from a higher source than man, and even the division of powers because of man's falleness - are all based upon a Biblical understanding of man and God.  We don't have to agree with each other to agree to read the books for ourselves.  The worst thing to do is to take a soundbite and repeat it until you believe it.  That is not education, but propaganda.  Educate yourself by reading the books that formed the ideas used by the Founders of America.  Anything else is just plain mental lazineness.  American's cannot afford to be lazy any longer. God Bless, Orrin Woodward