Memorial Day should be about more than mattress sales and cookouts.

Reflections on Life & Liberty
So much time is spent "in the fight" that it is easy to forget what we are supposed to be fighting for. To answer that, join Michael Quinn Sullivan each week as he puts the continuing fight for life and liberty in historical, biblical, and personal context.
Memorial Day should be about more than mattress sales and cookouts.
As a self-governing nation, each of us are leaders. Do we act like it?
Liberty will die on these shores only after we have killed it in our hearts. And so it is only by turning our hearts back to self-governance that we can save our republic.
As a self-governing people, we must daily work to build a more perfect union.
We need to redefine government waste to be “anything not explicitly authorized by the constitution.”
Liberty isn’t achieved in timid nibbles, but through bold actions.
Confiscatory taxes are what we pay for rejecting the gift of self-governance.
Our system of government requires an informed and engaged citizenry, even when the politicians don’t like it. Especially because they don’t like it.
Socialists, progressives, communists, and Marxists are the flat-earthers of political and economic thought.
What we do as citizens will determine if the Lone Star State stands as a force for good influencing the world.
Restoring our republic begins, quite literally, in the heart of every man and woman.
Republicans must be something more than a speed bump on the road to serfdom.
Most of us aren’t called to man the walls of an old church, outnumbered by superior forces, but all of us are called to face a hostile world.
Two political parties are in a fierce competition, with nothing less than the fate of the Republic riding on the outcome. The two parties aren’t who you think.
Reputation is what people see us do; character is what we do when we think no one is watching. The two almost always converge.
The citizens’ precious liberties are routinely sacrificed by politicians at the altar of contrived congeniality in the crony religion of self-promotion.
Depending on your perspective, campaigns either try to convert political volume into a mass of support through messaging, or use the volume of messaging to conceal their lack of mass.
Whatever bad things, like Mark Twain, one has to say about school boards are more appropriately directed at the citizens who elect them.
The Holocaust was the natural result of the worldview embraced by the Nazis and socialist movements around the world. When one abandons God and His precepts, when one looks to government as the savior, a cult of death and destruction is but a step away.
We safeguard old writings as a way to demonstrate that, yes, we still mean what we said.
We are witnesses to the bounty the blessing of liberty can bring, but in our sloth we risk shrugging it off… and falling away.
As activists, we must be committed to the long fight – to a willingness to fight for a better tomorrow we might not ourselves see.
Christmas doesn’t make sense unless we remember that the baby in the manger is the Savior who conquered sin and death.
Liberty is not an economic tool, but a moral imperative.
Being a cheerful warrior in the case of liberty is more important than ever.
If liberty is to die here, that death will have been preceded by whimpers of ecclesiastical acquiescence.
When others fall under the self-induced spell of a false prophet, we must cause trouble by speaking the truth ever more loudly and boldly.
The establishment media does not sit in the “mainstream” of political or cultural thought, but on the far left bank.
Like Hunter Biden, wealth and political status were intertwined for the rich young man in the often misquoted New Testament story.
With defeat inevitable, the people of Gamla simply decided to go down fighting.
Spoiler: Our walls won’t stop Him.
We cannot delegate the preservation of our republic to someone else.
The issues facing our republic are deadly serious, but that doesn’t mean we always have to be.
Don’t be bullied into silence by our public servants.
It depends on your focus.
Or, will we chose the ease of surrender?