The mag was politically conservative, openly CHRISTIAN and I had about 11-12 friends who were gifted writers contributing to every issue with me. It was great while it lasted, soaring to about 50,000 readers per month in a short time with virtually NO advertising behind it except word-of-mouth!! But internal problems with some of my staff caused it to fold, much to the delight of many who could not understand or accept our premise...that the new Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama (he was six months into his first term) was an ATTACK ON AMERICA. We were accused of "warring against" America's first black President because we were "racists" when all we were doing was seeking to DEFEND our nation from HIM. And, most of the attacks came from fellow CHRISTIANS who thought WE (not OBAMA, who was ALSO a professing Christian at the time, mind you) were "giving Christianity a bad name."
Below is the cover of the FIRST issue (July 2009, ten years ago today.) I suppose I may have been a BIT pugnacious, using the headline "Remember when America had a REAL President?" (Lol) And yes, all of my writers were white but that was not due to prejudice, it was due to the fact that my many black friends were loathe to criticize Barack. (I don't judge anyone for that, BTW...I actually UNDERSTAND!! I'm just explaining why the allegation that "the writers were all white" as if it's because I'm a racist was unfair to ME.)
(BTW, I was a BIG Reagan fan then, that's why I had this license plate on one of our work vehicles at the time.)
Anyway, ten years later, as I see the SEEDS OBAMA HAS SOWN (by being the first President to openly support abortion and gay marriage and to DELIBERATELY foment racial division between blacks and whites in America), I feel no regrets for opposing him at the OUTSET of his first term. I only hope that somewhere those who opposed US instead of HIM ten years ago certainly DO have regrets, and have seen the light.
Above is the ALTERNATE cover for that first issue (July '09) which was never used.
And this was the LAST cover...my favorite...Spring of 2009, with my late wife BETH. (The first covers were all designed by Amy Rye, the last was by our son, Rob Jelinski.)
So...why did I write this blog today?? Well NOT just to stroll down Memory Lane because it's a painful stroll, but only to say we as Christians in America were in a "daily war" THEN and we are NOW, and it will only get worse if one of the 20 Democrat Socialists we saw last week gets elected in 2020. "We" had better wake up and SPEAK up...because like it or not, we are in a DAILY WAR for our very freedom.
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