Just for fun, I thought Id report on Glenn Becks final performance of his American Revival that hes been doing around the country. Todays version, the last, was in Salt Lake at the Energy Solutions Arena.

BIG crowd. Not a sellout, but pretty close. He said there were some 6,000 there. Big fans of Beck all around. Huge applause, standing ovations, etc.

What gave the event some meat was the attendance of David Barton, an expert on the religious affiliations of the Founders, David Buckner, a former Utahan who is back at Columbia doing fantastic work. Also, the GREAT Judge Napolitano.

As Beck was doing his intros, he pointed out VIPs who were here . First, Senator Hatch. There was polite applause. Then Jason Chaffetz---the place EXPLODED and everybody jumped to their feet and cheered and clapped and cheered some more. The message to Hatch couldnt have been more clear!!! As some of you might know, the big hub-bub around the Republican convention a few months ago was for Chaffetz to challenge Hatch for his Senate seat, an idea that seems more and more appealing as time passes and our incumbents sit on their hands omitting their responsibilities to be a check and balance to the Executives abysmal junking of the Constitution.

After the intros, Beck jumped into his presentation for 15 minutes. He laid a foundation to smash the notion of collective salvation and how this pointed towards Marxist practices of saving everyone in order to save ourselves. The Saviors atonement was for INDIVIDUAL salvation, not this collective junk Obama is preaching it takes a Village, Beck said mockingly to hoots and laughs and groans in the audience It was pretty short. And then turned it over to David Barton.

Barton covered the whole gamut of criticism against the founders as being atheists or deists. He totally SMASHED all the criticism. Even Ben Franklin, the LEAST religious of them all (Barton said), alluded to God and the Father of Lights and other similar references, as having a hand in the raising up of this great nation. It was so refreshing to hear some facts for a change. Some highlights:

·         July 4, 2010 marks a world record for the longest continuous government in the world. Of the 192 nations, he said, America has had the same government for the longest of any of them. During our 225 years of existence under ONE government, France has been through 20 governments, Russia 4, etc.

·         He pointed out that with 4 percent of the worlds population, we produce 25% of the worlds wealth.

·         He listed the things that those in America living BELOW the poverty level (on average) enjoy . Shelter, sewer, clean water, transportation, television, computers, cell phones and this is a higher standard of living than the AVERAGE European.

·         So, is America exception? Absolutely. He said the 45 words of the Declaration of Independence give the core of our exceptionalism: There is a Creator; he gave us our unalienable rights; government exists to secure these rights.

·         He said all the Founders were great note takers. Each of their writings consume VOLUMES of books, and thats why we know so much about them. As a result, they put right into Article 1 Sec 5 Claus 3 a requirement that all proceedings in all branches of government must be written down.

·         As for prayer in Congress, the Continental Congress opened on Sep 6, 1774 with a prayer a written prayer. In fact, such a prayer that it took TWO hours!

·         By 1815, Congress officially and governmentally called on all Americans to fast and pray more than 1,400 times through official proclamations!

·         John Lockes two treatises on Government were essentially copied to create the Declaration of Independence, according to Richard Henry Lee.

·         There are 1,500 references to Biblical verses in the Declaration of Independence.

·         He cited other instances of Congress issuing printings of the Bible for the masses. The King wouldnt let the Bible around much, so the Founders worked to have it printed for everyone, called it a neat edition of Holy Scripture for use in our schools.

·         He recommended we read two books written 150 years ago, Lives of the Signers (1848) and Wives of the Signers (1912).  Also, Chaplains and Clergy of the American Revolution (published in 1864).

Next was David Buckner from Columbia. Hes a numbers guy and wanted to show us all about our desperate financial straits. Glenn Beck warned us saying take away from anybody nearby any sharp implements or rope, we dont want any suicides!!!!

·         US debt in 1990: $3.2 trillion. By 2010, its up to $14.4 trillion.

·         US spending, weve lost money (deficit spending) for 16 of the last 20 years. Weve doubled our tax revenue but weve tripled our spending.

·         US Interest: If the current interest rate on our loans went up just ONE PERCENT from where it is now, wed have to spend $144 Billion MORE in interest alone. In 1980, the interest rate was 16%. If it suddenly jumped back to 16% today, wed be paying $2.3 TRILLION in interest each year, thats the same as all US taxes collected in 2010.

·         US Promises: We owe $14.4 trillion to lenders. We owe $6.7 trillion to social security. We owe $36.3 trillion to Medicare. We owe a total of $57.3 trillion as of TODAY, and its climbing every year. If we add in what the national Health Care monster is going to do, among others, within in 20 years, that debt will climb to over $100 trillion and our nation will have long before that time broken in a heap of financial ruin and all that comes with it.

·         Get rid of minimum as a start. That will get rid of the illegal immigrants.

·         He closed with quote: Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Judge Napolitano was fantastic. Im in big trouble here because I was so fixated by his comments that I didnt take notes!!! But he was pretty funny. He told about the US government seizing The Mustang Ranch for failure to pay taxes, and tried to continue running it. After a while, they ran it right into the ground. The judge said, And that same government that cant even keep up with serving booze and hookers to truckers out in the middle of the desert is also going to run our national health care?  The place ROARED with laughter.

 He recommended for ANY perspective on knowledge for home schooling or just self-teaching to go read anything printed for schools prior to 1900. After that, for the most part, the revisionists had control. But anything---math, spelling, history, politics any prior to 1900.

Glenn Beck finished off with a nice keynote address about the importance of all of us not getting discouraged, becoming educated, staying enthused about the very FACT the God is and always has been in control. Beck begged us all to get on our knees and beg forgiveness for letting this freedom formula slip through our fingers, and then working like the Dickens to get educated, be involved, vote right and share the freedom formula with our families.

After that Beck had his wife and the others with their wives come on stage and with arms around waists for a group hug, Beck asked David Barton, an evangelical Christian, to offer a prayer for all of us. There was a resounding AMEN to a great prayer, and we adjourned.

 It was great!

 Many cheers,