Here is a Top 10 List for the Best of BeeLine for 2024. The first five are the most popular posts I wrote during the year based on the number of views. The second five are a few of my personal favorites out of the 143 blog posts I wrote during the year.
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The Best of BeeLine-2024 list is below with pull quotes from each of the posts to give you a better idea about what is contained therein.
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The Best of BeeLine---2024
The Most Popular Based on Views
(January 26, 2024)
The problem for Fauci and the NIH was they had been funding the gain of function research at Wuhan but had purposely not sent the funding request for the required exception to the gain of function ban that was in place.
All of this explains a lot of what followed.
Fauci and the NIH were living in fear of it being found out they were funding the work on the coronaviruses at Wuhan.
They also knew that the purpose of the work was to create a virus that was more contagious and deadly than was currently in place in nature.
Knowing all of this, it undoubtedly caused Fauci and the NIH to overreact and recommend the draconian response to the virus they did knowing that it was totally at odds with established protocols in dealing with a pandemic.
Fear and guilt had to be enormous motivating factors in what Fauci and his brethren did next.
They could not leave any stone unturned in the Covid response knowing what they appeared to have unleashed.
( January 29, 2024)
It is hard not to conclude that all of this borrowing and government spending is just providing an illusion of prosperity in the GDP numbers.
Everyone in the mainstream media and the D.C. bureaucracy thinks everything is great.
It seems that only everyday Americans realize that something is seriously amiss.
Beware the illusion of prosperity.
( August 5, 2024)
(Ed. note---this was written over a month before Springfield, Ohio made headlines in the Trump/Harris debate)
In the last five years an estimated 15,000-20,000 Haitian migrants have settled in Springfield, Ohio.
Over 15,000 Haitians move into a city of 58,000 within a few years time?
I was shocked recently when I heard this fact about what has happened to Springfield.
I don't know how any city could absorb the influx of an increase in its population by almost one-third within five years without causing major disruptions to the quality of life of its citizens.
It is even worse when the influx involves people with no shared language, culture or values.
How is any city supposed to deal with this?
( July 17, 2024)
We hear a lot that the deck is stacked against many people in this country.
There is absolutely no doubt that some people have head starts in life and others have to overcome some significant disadvantages. That has been true for time immemorial.
J.D. Vance was not someone who had a head start in life. His family situation placed him at a significant disadvantage to many others.
However, his life story shows that the American Dream is still alive for those who are not willing to accept their situation and are able to receive a helping hand from others along the way.
( April 1, 2024)
Do you get the sense that the liberals want to rid Easter of Christ as much as they have been trying to do for years with Christmas? Happy Holidays!!!
The calendar has gotten very crowded.
However, it is also clear that there are way too many who are attempting to crowd Christianity out of America.
It is happening every day and in every way.
What is really sad is that a lot of those who are leading the charge are our elected leaders.
Five of My Personal Favorites
( January 31, 2024)
The data also seems to suggest that as the young women in a society move to the left politically the young men are moving to the right.
What is also interesting is that this ideological gap has almost totally come about within the last 10-15 years.
This divergence in views based on gender is something we have never seen before. Shifts in political ideology have historically moved generationally as all members of a generation share the same general formative experiences and reach significant milestones at the same stages of life.
John Gray did not know how right he was when he wrote his best selling book over 20 years ago.
Young men and women truly seem as if they are living on different planets today.
(April 26, 2024)
In ten years since first getting involved in politics Trump has seen his net worth almost cut in half.
Over those same ten years Nancy Pelosi has increased her net worth 8 times and Mitch McConnell has doubled his.
The final scorecard on wealth over the last 10 years or so.
Pelosi up 700%
McConnell up 100%
Trump down 50%
Who has enriched themselves in public office and who has not?
You may or may not like Donald Trump, but the fact is that it is likely that no man who has been President has ever sacrificed so much, for so so little personal benefit, than Donald Trump.
(July 8, 2024)
(Ed. Note---this was written five days before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA and two weeks before Joe Biden stepped aside for Kamala Harris).
"After the Fourth Turning arrives, however, a Lincoln-like leader will be more likely to seek office, and a Lincoln-like leader could be exactly what America needs, wants and gets."
Can Trump be that leader if given another chance?
I don't know.
I am not saying Trump is another Lincoln or even FDR.
However, I do know that the above description does not in any way describe Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg or Gretchen Whitmer nor does it describe what we saw from Barack Obama in eight years.
Like it or not, Donald Trump may be our only chance to survive The Fourth Turning.
(August 23, 2024)
There is supposed to be nothing more sacrosanct in our constitutional system than private property rights.
Yet Kamala Harris believes the government should have the power to confiscate private property if someone does not do what the government wants?
I don't think I have ever seen a scarier view of a politician's core values and true beliefs than in that clip
Isn't this what the communists did in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and Venezuela once they took power?
How clear does all of this have to be to understand what is at stake in this election?
(October 14, 2024)
It is not often that a Superman comes along to save the day.
It is even rarer to have two Supermen on the same team that are dedicated to making America and the world greater.
Forget about the politics.
The 2024 vote is most assuredly about our future.
All men are created equal.
However, some just get far more done than others.
You might not choose either of these men to be your pastor or have them marry your daughter.
However, when it comes to your future and that of your children and grandchildren, is there any better choice before you?
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