The American Revival

Although it was a lovely day here in beautiful downtown Orlando on Saturday, I spent the day with three friends at the UCF Arena in Orlando attending the Glenn Beck American Revival Tour, and it was truly a wonderful experience had by all.

The day focused on becoming reconnected with three distinct values that were integral building blocks of our founding fathers; faith, hope and charity.

David Barton began the day giving us a thorough history on the role faith played in the formation of our country, and how extensively the founding fathers referenced religion in their writings. Unfortunately, many are tyring to diminish the role of faith in the birth of America, and it was great to hear some keen insight on this vitally important subject.

The economics of the day are indeed critical as we are on an unsustainable path and are on the heels of adding a mind boggling entitlement program so expensive we ran out of zeros on the old HP12C. Economist David Buckner, of Columbia University in New York, discussed that in order for there to be hope, there must first be truth and we need to know the cold hard facts about our economic standing to take the correct paths going forward. A real no spin zone!

The Constitution is under attack and who better than Judge Andrew Napolitano of FOX News to offer a rousing perspective on how the intrusive governmental acts over time have eroded our rights as they were outlined in The Constitution. The Judge hit it out of the park and reiterated that our rights are given to us by our Creator and not by government, and free people are notably generous through the goodness of their heart and not by governmental force of hand.

Glenn Beck keynoted the day and was, as usual, tremendous. The day was not spent firebombing those in office, but rather outlining an educational foundation from which a course of action can be taken to regain the values and principles our founding fathers set out for us, which do not include strangling debt, a departure from faith, intrusive government and the erosion of our rights.

Many thanks to Glenn, the panelists and of course, Stu and Pat for a wonderful event.