23 September, 2025 by Eric Dunkelberger

Yesterday evening, as the first stars became visible, the High Holy Days of Judaism began. This is the period between Rosh Hashanah (literally ‘head of the year’), the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in the Jewish faith, commemorating events from Moses’ time. Just months after their leaving Egypt behind, Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the Law from the LORD. The people below got tired of waiting for Moses’ return; they built a golden calf and began worshipping it. Moses was angry, but G-D was more so. Moses ascended the mountain and prayed for 80 day for forgiveness for his people. Moses came down from the mountain with His full favor on this day in history 3,338 years ago. This day in the Jewish faith, the 10th day of the month of Tishrei, would be called the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.

The High Holy Days, the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are meant for forgiveness and repentance. That may be simple enough for sins from yourself, but those against others involves confession and asking for their forgiveness. This takes much reflection on your life and lifestyle and should be completed before Yom Kippur.

You may ask, why am I falling back on my days as a Jew. I must confess that I wasn’t the strongest of the Jewish faith. I was a sinner. As a Christian, I’m still a sinner. The things both religions share are confession, repentance and forgiveness of your sins. I did these things as a Jew, although not as much as I should have. I still do these things as a Christian, though more arduously. Still, I’m a sinner. We all are. There’s only been one with no sin and that was Jesus Christ, my Lord, Savior, my King.

Last Sunday, many of us saw the greatest example of forgiveness we’ve ever seen, live on television. In front of 100,000 people and millions on the TV, Erika Kirk gave her forgiveness to the man who killed her husband. This was just eight days after the assassination. Christianity is strong in this woman. I’ve held grudges for years. I’ve lost contact with many of those. I’ve missed opportunities to seek their forgiveness.

I’ve been a Christian for six years now. The event Sunday made me want to become a stronger Christian, as Erika obviously is. She will be a great role model for the members of Turning Point USA, past, current and future.

I’m over 70 years old now. I have more time to study His Word and live His Word. I want to inspire faith and kindness, embodying Christ’s teachings with every word and deed, so that, through my actions, those around me come to know the profound and transformative love of Jesus Christ in their lives.

11 September, 2025 by Eric Dunkelberger

Today began the way it began the prior 23 years; I lowered the flag to half-staff just before sunrise. Today commemorates the 24th anniversary of Patriot Day, the day terrorists attacked the United States on our own soil on 11 September, 2001. They were able to bring down both towers of the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon. It could have been worse, but the passengers on another skyjacked airliner rebelled against their captors and miraculously were able to crash the plane into the ground in Pennsylvania. The act of terrorism cost the lives of just under 3000 people.

This was one of those events that everyone knows where they were when they first heard what was happening. I was in Wilmington, NC at work for a company that placed construction journeymen on construction jobsites across the US and overseas. I was the Human Resources Manager, getting reports of positions still open ready for placement when I first heard the news. The husband of our Client Assistant called her and told of a large plane that flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. We turned on the television in the break room to see what was happening. The airliner hit at 8:46am. At 9:03, a second airliner hit the South Tower and the realization hit us that this was no accident. We were under attack! Shortly later, the phone calls started. On that day, we had five or six construction sites on military bases. Apparently, the military also thought we were under attack and, in response, closed the bases to authorized personnel only. The workers were being escorted off base with their equipment. They called to find out what was going on. It was a long day, first answering the questions from our workers, then, that afternoon, the calls started coming in asking if we were sending people into the area for the search/recovery and clean-up.

The turning point was when the FDNY raised the American flag amidst the debris. That was a symbol of the durability of the American patriotism. Yes, we had lost almost 3000 people among the towers, the passengers, NYPD and FDNY and military personnel in the Pentagon. The stock market was closed. But, we were still strong and ready to go to work. We vowed that we would never forget, but, now, many of the kids college-aged and younger who weren’t born yet. Many have little idea of what happened that day 24 years ago!

That day, Charlie Kirk would have been seven years old. At 18 years old, he started Turning Point USA, an organization intent on bringing Conservative ideas to college campuses, dispelling the notion that Socialism was the only way. Along the way, he brought to campus his strong Christian faith. Twelve years later, he was credited with bringing a lot of college students to the polls to vote for Republicans and giving a major victory to President Trump in his second term. The youngest voters turned away from the Socialist values of the Democrat Party and away from the anti-Christian values they so fully espoused.

Yesterday, on another college campus, Utah Valley University, he was assassinated. The Utah Governor actually used the phrase, ‘political assassination’. I felt deflated when I heard, much like I felt when I saw the second plane fly into the tower or when Reagan was shot. The same way I felt a little over a year ago when President Trump was shot. I followed the news last night waiting for the investigation to lead to the shooter. I heard the vile rhetoric the Sewer Stream Media used to describe Charlie Kirk. I heard at 5pm when the House of Representatives called for a moment of prayer for him and his family, the Democrats wanted nothing but to jeer. It reminded me of the Democrat National Convention in 2012 when the Democrats actually booed the Lord three different times!

The rhetoric is off the walls! Democrat leaders are calling their constituents to fight. Charlie Kirk wasn’t violent. He won people to his side by listening to a divergent position, then offering the truth to counter their view. That’s what he was doing when he was shot and killed. I prayed for his wife, son and daughter. I prayed that someone at Turning Point would pick up his gauntlet and lead others to rescue students from the clutches of Socialism and evil (perhaps I repeat myself).

This morning, as I lowered my flag to half-staff, I thought of Turning Point also. Then, as I read the news, I saw stories of vigils on college campuses for Charlie and his family. I saw vigils on the campus of Liberty University, the University of Alabama and Notre Dame There were others. Perhaps this is their turning point!

There has been a debate going on: is Christianity on the rise or the decline? I think it’s on the rise! It’s just my personal observation. I’ve seen a lot of mass baptisms. I’ve seen huge alter calls. I think that, as evil reveals itself more and more, the flight to Christianity is obvious. It will rise even more!

23 March, 2025 by Eric Dunkelberger

It’s been 93 days since President Trump took office after four years of destructive force by the Biden Administration against the People of the United States. The complete lack of understanding by the DemCommunist Party regarding what their constituents want runs rampant! I’m not even sure that they realize that they lost the last election. They certainly act as if they still control everything! Despite this, they continue to arrogantly grasp at every losing side of the many 80/20 battles. The DemCommunists just haven’t got a clue!

Last week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) spent part of his Easter time off from Congress to grandstand in front of the cameras of a widely-disregarded and failing state-run propaganda arm of the Party, the Sewer Stream Media, in an effort to “bring back” a deported “Maryland man”. He completely ignored the fact that the terrorist he went to see in El Salvador wasn’t a citizen of Maryland, nor a citizen of the United States. He was a citizen of El Salvador who entered the United States illegally, who was already under two lawful deportation orders. He was a MS-13 member, which he denies, but the gang tattoos on his knuckles speak otherwise. As, more and more often the “Maryland Man” moniker was refuted, the reason DemCommunists wanted his return was for his “due process”.

Really? Due process? He crossed our borders without due process. Why does he get due process to be deported? Speaking of due process, where were the DemCommunists when people were just arrested for being in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. Where were their due process rights when many of them were thrown into prisons without even seeing lawyers or judges. Many of them spent more than two or three years there in squalid conditions without judges, all for being on the wrong side of a political argument! Meanwhile, the one person who actually killed someone that day, as far as I know, still continues to work with the Capitol Police! Due Process!

Now, I believe there are five other DemCommunists visiting El Salvador with the purpose of bringing a terrorist back to the United States. At least one of them says she won’t leave without him! How much of our tax dollars are being spent on this effort. Hollen had to return, untriumphantly! I’m sure the others will also, eventually. Meanwhile, the Republican House and Senate leaders should push through every bill possible to codify all of President Trump’s Executive Orders! And take up Election Integrity!

The other item the DemCommunists are ignoring is the tariff issues. The parroting from the MSM says that it will cost Americans greatly to impost the tariffs. Within just a day of starting the tariffs, they were put on hold after more than fifty countries called for negotiations. And those tariffs were going to match tariffs other countries were charging us. As an example, Canada is fine with charging us 300% for cheese sent into their country, but they object to a start of 25% of imports coming here? Where’s the equity? Here’s an answer: buy AMERICAN! Of course, the Blue States might have a problem with that as more American corporations are moving away from the Communist states and into Free Market states. And Trump is continuing to bring overseas companies here to produce! The sky is not falling!

10 March, 2025 by Eric Dunkelberger

Here we are, just seven weeks into the Trump Presidency and already the DemCommunists are yelling that he hasn’t done anything he has promised to do. Seriously? President Trump has been office a total of 49 days, as of today at noon! It took the Biden Abomination four years to nearly destroy the United States of America and they actually expect Trump to correct everything in just 49 days? In all honesty, he hasn’t completed any of the promises, but he did start a wide spectrum of them in the first few days that he was in office, if not on Day One! In truth, the DemCommunists don’t want Trump to succeed; They’ll be campaigning on it in 2026 and 2028!

So far, about every action taken by Trump is countered by some Soros-funded, America hating federal judge in court. Most of the cases would be tossed immediately after the Trump Administration lawyers read Article Two of the United States Constitution into the record, assuming the judge hadn’t been absent the day his class studied the Constitution! You know, the part of the Constitution that says the President of the United States (Trump) controls the Executive Branch of the Government. In other words, he lays out how the various agencies act. What a novel concept!

The DemCommunists, over the last few months, have shown exactly for what they stand. They hate America, the Judeo-Christian faith, responsibility, morals or Freedom! They prefer foreigners over American citizens. They back the murderous Hamas terrorists and their backers, Iran! They prefer Islam or no religion, but, I’m sure Satanism is fine with them. The Devil would be so proud of them. Come on, what’s wrong with them?

The Joint speech Trump gave to Congress last week revealed where they are as a Party. The DemCommunists are against cutting waste and fraud throughout the government. They are for men masquerading as women competing against women in sporting events, causing great harm physically and mentally. They’re even okay with those same men in the restrooms, changing rooms and showers with your daughters and/or wives! They are pro human trafficking, as well as Fentanyl, pouring across the borders. They have no compassion for a 13 year old kid, who has been fighting cancer for several years being recognized for his fight!

Speaking of fighting, some of the DemCommunist ladies came out with a video showing their “fighting spirit”. I believe it was six of them assuming a fighting stance and bouncing, proving they were willing to fight against Trump’s agenda. It was very cringe-worthy! Also cringy was the videos of 22 DemCommunists uttering the same scripted “policy platform”. It was really interesting when someone put all 22 together during the script-reading in a video of his own. It was a lot like those videos with 10-12 news anchors from as many different networks all reading the same scripted new “analysis”. It’s almost like the entire DemCommunist Party has but one mind capable of thought so he writes scripts to be read by the lemmings. It was probably the same one controlling Biden’s auto-pen for the last few years!

Oh, and before I forget, the only thing the DemCommunists applauded for during Trump’s speech last Tuesday night was to fund the continuation of the war in Ukraine! What’s wrong with these people?

15 February, 2025 by Eric Dunkelberger

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, has just been working around a week and a half and, already, We the People are seeing huge dividends. So far, they have found almost $100 Billion ($100,000,000,000) spent by the government in waste, fraud, error, or just misspent. How much of this is outright corruption is the question that must be asked and answered. I find it interesting that Google searches in Washington, DC for defense attorneys has trended up 300%. That number will rise, if my guess is right.

From the very start, results of audits have surpassed what we believed was being stolen from American taxpayers. The very nature of some of the expenditures is astonishing. Just some of those from USAID are as follows: $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”, $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland, $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam, $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala, $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt, Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab, hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria, and the list goes on.

Immediately after this came out, the Trump Administration ordered USAID to spend no more money. The next day, a check went out for $57,000,000 to a luxury hotel to house illegal immigrants. Apparently, illegal immigrants have a higher priority than Americans in Western North Carolina who lost everything when Hurricane Helene came through leaving massive amounts of rain water that washed homes, cars and other possessions down the mountains. Everything ended up in creeks and rivers and destroying roads and highways and bridges. I’m sure $57M would have come in handy in WNC, an area that the Biden Abomination had completely ignored. Now, to be honest, our Governor and the top positions in the Council of State (DemCommunists) haven’t done much either. The NC Treasurer made public the fact that the NC General Assembly had allocated $100M for aid to those in the mountains of North Carolina. As of two weeks ago, none it had been used for that purpose!

The $57M was quickly “clawed back”. The people in Western NC, who found FEMA completely useless, got a visit from President Trump within days of his taking office, where he promised help in the form of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Engineers arrived with equipment within two days and began work. They have done a phenomenal job!

DOGE has a long way to go, all up hill! The Deep State is working against the American People to protect their graft! Activist judges are using lawfare to delay audits and, it is amazing how many of them have relatives receiving funds from that graft. However, the American People are aware of what has been going on and are getting more aware with each detail revealed. The last detail revealed was that massive amounts of our Medicare and Medicaid have been sent overseas. The Government since 2003 sent $2.700,000,000,000 ($2.7T) to people overseas who didn’t deserve it. They tell us that Medicare and Social Security is running out of money. They are wrong; it’s been stolen!

As the audits continue, the Deep State rats will be running for their lives. There are big audits on the way, like DoD, SSA and the State Department. It will be interesting, or should I say infuriating. One thing is certain. Firing people won’t cut it; there needs to be the sound of handcuffs clicking shut!