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President’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on more than just the role of the leader of our nation. Yes, this person should be an individual of strong character, strength, courage and fidelity to what is best for Americans. However, America also has a long-standing history of that office being carried out by a person of faith. The American project was built on the belief that God is real and that He created us with a dignity that no ruler ought to violate. The summer of 1783 saw much confusion and fear about the future of the country. The War of Independence had been won, but the states were still scrambling to decipher how they would interact with each other and with Congress. Before Gen. George Washington resigned from his command, he wrote a letter to all the governors (it was intended for the entire American community as well). This letter is known as the Circular Letter to the States. Washington begins, “I think it is a duty incumbent on me, to make this my last official communication, to congratulate you on the glorious events which Heaven has been pleased to produce in our favor.” Here, and in other correspondences and speeches, Washington clearly holds that God had a hand in supplying the American project with the strength to be victorious. It was in the hands of Divine Providence that they defeated Great Britain because God favors those who are oppressed. It is that divine help that he concludes his letter with as well: “I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination & obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field.” It is only through the lens of faith that any country can hope to frame the need to care for one’s fellow citizens. The only reason to obey government rule and love our neighbor is because they are all made in God’s image and likeness. If God is not a part of the national discussion on moral action, then we can convince ourselves that it is those in power who decide what is right and wrong. On April 30, 1789, Washington delivered his inaugural address and became the first president of the United States. His words remind us that our country was founded by and fought for by noble, courageous, and faithful men who were grounded in God’s providential care. “It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe … and whose providential aids can supply every human defect.” Washington knew that even as the American experiment was launched into existence, they were only able to arrive at this moment because of God’s hand. Without reference to the need for God and the importance of faith for our country, we risk becoming lost concerning who the human person is and what it means to live as a nation. Washington was our first president but also the first in a long line of leaders of our country who spoke vocally about faith, prayer and the need for God. John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, spoke of his daily commitment to prayer: “My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.” In his remarks to the Baltimore Presbyterian Synod, Oct. 24, 1863, Abraham Lincoln said: “Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.” Ulysses S. Grant had a deep reverence for the Bible and once said: “Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” In his remarks on the National Day of Prayer in 1982, President Ronald Reagan said: “Prayer has sustained our people in crisis, strengthened us in times of challenge, and guided us through our daily lives since the first settlers came to this continent.” All these men, among many others and countless other quotes, reference the fact that God is real and they shine a light on the truth about the American project. We have succeeded and will continue to thrive only insofar as we keep God at the center of what it means to be human, so that we can govern in a way that respects the objective moral order. For our rights as human beings come from God, not the state. Any president or leader of office would do well to reflect on their own faith. It will be the best recipe for the good of the people they lead. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Faith of Our Presidents appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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During their Presidents Day episode on Monday, ABC’s The View made it clear that they believed only some criticisms were worth the breathe used to make them. The cast didn’t really like that some Americans dared to criticize those Olympic athletes who used their opportunity on the world stage to criticize the country they were there to represent. They also suggested that when President Trump left office, citizens would rush out into the streets to tear down his name and statues. After moderator Whoopi Goldberg mocked Vice President V.D. Vance for getting booed at the opening ceremony and suggesting Trump was just the “president of ICE agents,” co-host Ana Navarro spoke up first to lash and suggest something was “wrong with you” if you didn’t hate the Trump administration: And I think, you know, my question is, if you're not having mixed feelings about loving your country and being proud of your country, but disdaining what this government is doing, what the hell is wrong with you? She also noted that those American Olympians who were criticizing their home were saying things that wouldn’t fly in other countries, and that they had the right to do so as Americans: One of the things that distinguishes America is our right to free speech. And that includes athletes, that includes actors, that includes every single American. There's places in the world where if athletes did what these athletes did in Italy, they would be jailed or tortured or killed. But not in the United States. And I think that they -- they are articulating what a lot of Americans are feeling.   The View's Ana Navarro: "If you're not having mixed feelings about loving your country and being proud of your country, but disdaining what this government is doing, what the hell is wrong with you?!" pic.twitter.com/OPvpsWUEE3 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 16, 2026   Near the end of the segment, Goldberg chimed in again to bemoan the criticism of the criticizers. “The problem for me is, people at home who are calling them losers and all these kind of names,” she griped. Seemingly to Goldberg, the only things they could say America were negative: But here's the issue. You know, they are entitled to feel how they feel. That is their right. And they are saying, I don't agree with everything. It's like, when I was a kid, people said, my country, right or wrong. No! If you're wrong, you're wrong! And people are going to say, you're wrong. While Goldberg wanted to stop the criticism of those few athletes, she went off about how they had that right: So, you know, all of these people who are criticizing these folks, saying, stop talking -- because in this country, we are still allowed -- we are still allowed. It has not been outlawed. They can threaten it, but they haven't stopped it. We are allowed to say what we think and what we feel.   Whoopi demands you stop criticizing Olympic athletes who are criticizing American overseas because they have the right to criticize. Are some criticizers better than others? pic.twitter.com/A6S0PBA0FC — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 16, 2026   “Stop calling people losers! And get out and do a little exercising and maybe you can compete with them,” she exclaimed. Later in the show, during their actual Presidents Day discussion, Navarro went off on Trump putting his name on different government buildings and the planning of monuments. “First, why he's doing it. Because he's got a frail little ego. Because he’s a narcissist. Because he's insecure and a narcissist,” she chided. Her comments then shifted into a mixture of a warning to Trump and a prediction of what would happen after her left office. “[A]round the world, anytime in history, when a bad period ends. When an authoritarian leaves, an authoritarian falls, the first thing that happens is that citizens run out and topple the statutes, take the names off the buildings,” she touted.   Ana Navarro says Trump should be careful putting his name on so many things because when he's out of office ("when a bad period ends"), it will be like whenever an "authoritarian falls" and "citizens run out and topple the statutes, take the names off the buildings." pic.twitter.com/I0T6OFmapm — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 16, 2026   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View February 16, 2026 11:03:45 a.m. Eastern (…) ANA NAVARRO: One of the things that distinguishes America is our right to free speech. And that includes athletes, that includes actors, that includes every single American. There's places in the world where if athletes did what these athletes did in Italy, they would be jailed or tortured or killed. But not in the United States. And I think that they -- they are articulating what a lot of Americans are feeling. You know, I'm not an Olympic athlete. I play pickleball, badly. But I think, particularly, when you are outside of the United States, and – we all represent the United States. If you have a U.S. Passport and you are an American citizen, you're representing the United States. And every time you set foot anywhere else on the United States right now, and you know this, because you spent so much time in Italy, they think we've gone insane! And I think, you know, my question is, if you're not having mixed feelings about loving your country and being proud of your country, but disdaining what this government is doing, what the hell is wrong with you? (…) 11:06:59 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: The problem for me is, people at home who are calling them losers and all these kind of names-- SUNNY HOSTIN: The president called him a loser, yeah. GOLDBERG: You know, there -- NAVARRO: I’d like to see him ski down a hill. GOLDBERG: But here's the issue. You know, they are entitled to feel how they feel. That is their right. And they are saying, I don't agree with everything. It's like, when I was a kid, people said, my country, right or wrong. No! If you're wrong, you're wrong! And people are going to say, you're wrong. So, you know, all of these people who are criticizing these folks, saying, stop talking -- because in this country, we are still allowed -- we are still allowed. It has not been outlawed. They can threaten it, but they haven't stopped it. We are allowed to say what we think and what we feel. And when we are across the pond, they did it the right way. They said, I'm not -- with everything that's happening. They didn't say, the country should go to hell. That's not what they said at all. Stop calling people losers! And get out and do a little exercising and maybe you can compete with them! We'll be right back. (…) 11:14:19 a.m. Eastern NAVARRO: First, why he's doing it. Because he's got a frail little ego. Because he’s a narcissist. Because he's insecure and a narcissist. Also look, how does this usually work? It usually works like somebody is president or somebody does something extraordinary in America, serve, and after they're gone, the people have such admiration and respect and fond memories of them, that they want something named for them, right? That's how it's happened until now. What is he trying to do? He is trying to extort states by tying federal funding to them changing the name. But I'll just remind them of this. Anytime -- and anywhere around the world, anytime in history, when a bad period ends. When an authoritarian leaves, an authoritarian falls, the first thing that happens is that citizens run out and topple the statutes, take the names off the buildings. HOSTIN: I think you’re absolutely right. (…)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — whose name has been bandied about as a possible 2028 presidential contender — took issue over the weekend with some of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks at the Munich Security Conference.Rather than successfully critique anything Rubio said on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez instead exposed more of her historical illiteracy.Rubio's speechVice President JD Vance enraged a crowd of European officials last year at the Munich Security Conference by calling out their suppression of popular political movements and ideas, crackdown on religious liberties, and ruinous mass migration policies.While pointed, Vance's criticism of Europe's censorious and self-destructive ways was constructive and imbued with the hope that Western nations across the Atlantic might return to the values they once shared in common with the United States.'Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to "Western culture."'In a less-scathing sequel to Vance's speech, Rubio discussed on Feb. 14 the deep civilizational bonds that he figures the U.S. and Europe still share, the opportunity for concerted renewal, and the way forward to a "new century of prosperity.""We are part of one civilization — Western civilization," said Rubio. "We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir."Rubio noted further that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, has embarked on the "task of renewal and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization's past.""While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe," added the secretary. Whereas Europeans couldn't stomach Vance's speech on-theme last year, the audience gave Rubio a standing ovation following his speech on Saturday.Bucking the revisionismWhile Europeans were receptive to the secretary's discussion of civilizational inheritance and common responsibility, Ocasio-Cortez apparently had trouble with one of Rubio's passing remarks.During a softball interview at the Technical University of Berlin on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez cited Rubio's speech as evidence of the "ascent of the right even in places like Munich.""Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to 'Western culture,'" said the congresswoman, employing scare quotes in reference to Western culture.RELATED: 'Qualm your t*ts': Ocasio-Cortez makes embarrassing mistake while defending Don Lemon — and the ridicule is hilarious Cornado sets out on his expedition for Quivira in 1540. Getty Images. "My favorite part," continued Ocasio-Cortez, "was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain. I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African slaves — enslaved peoples — would like to have a word on that."In his speech, Rubio stated:Our expansion into the interior followed the footsteps of French fur traders and explorers whose names, by the way, still adorn the street signs and towns names all across the Mississippi Valley. Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos — the entire romance of the cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West — these were born in Spain. And our largest and most iconic city was named New Amsterdam before it was named New York.Ocasio-Cortez's critics were quick to point out that horses and cowboy culture were, as Rubio suggested, a European export to North America — including to New Spain, which ultimately became the home of Ocasio-Cortez's would-be fact-checking, Spanish-speaking Mexicans.'Your IQ is lower than the temp in my freezer.'While ancient horses once roamed North America, they apparently went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The species hitherto unknown to the native population was, however, reintroduced to the continent by Spaniards and other Europeans in the 15th and 16th centuries.Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag, imported the first horses the continent had seen in thousands of years on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. Twenty-six years later — and after decades of Europeans breeding horses in the Caribbean, where Ocasio-Cortez's family hails from originally — the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought 16 horses to what is now Mexico.With continued European exploration and expansion, horses were ultimately bred and spread across the continent, and mastered by European settlers and Indians alike. The corresponding horseman culture also didn't appear ex nihilo.Although it also references the Irish "Cau-boys" of the High Middle Ages, Fort Worth's Sid Richardson Museum notes in its relevant overview that "cowboy culture in the American West can be traced to the Spanish tradition of the vaquero.""Derived from the word vaca (Spanish for cow), the vaqueros would become renowned for their skills and adaptability as Spain expanded their North American empire westward from what is now Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to the Franciscan missions in California by the late 1700s," noted History.com.Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck responded to Ocasio-Cortez, writing, "Yeah literally every culture learned the cowboy trade from Spanish vaqueros. I’m sorry that your IQ is lower than the temp in my freezer."John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at the Federalist, quipped, "Just wait till she finds out where Mexicans came from."Like Blaze News? 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The “deep state” — the hidden network of unelected bureaucrats, intelligence officials, military leaders, and other insiders who secretly control government policy regardless of who is elected — has long been written off as a conspiracy theory.But BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says seven recently declassified documents from Richard Nixon's 1975 grand jury testimony are evidence that the deep state doesn’t just exist — it’s been forcefully active for decades.On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz interviews Newsmax chief Washington correspondent James Rosen about the bombshell he helped bring to light. Rosen, author of the 2008 book “The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate,” has been digging into this story for over 30 years. He explains that the seven newly unsealed pages from Nixon’s secret 1975 grand jury testimony finally confirm one of the most explosive (and deliberately buried) scandals of the Nixon era: the Moorer-Radford espionage affair.Back in 1971, top military leaders felt ignored by President Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger. They were upset that big foreign-policy decisions were being made without them.In response, the Joint Chiefs of Staff launched a secret spying operation inside the White House. They used a young Navy yeoman named Charles Radford to steal thousands of top-secret documents.“He took a copy of every document that came across his vision. What he couldn't copy, he memorized. He dove through waste baskets and burn bags. He literally rifled the briefcases of Henry Kissinger while he slept on overnight flights,” says Rosen.“It’s estimated that this yeoman stole 5,000 classified documents from the National Security Council over a year's time, 1970 to '71, in wartime, and delivered those documents to the Joint Chiefs of Staff through the admirals,” he adds.When these ultra-sensitive documents Radford had stolen started appearing in newspaper columns just days after high-level meetings, Nixon’s “plumbers” — which Rosen describes as a White House “special investigative unit” — quickly traced the leaks back to Radford and the Pentagon spy ring.The White House was stunned to discover that the U.S. military had been running an espionage operation against its own commander in chief during wartime.“[The Senate Armed Services Committee] held classified closed-door hearings, but everybody involved had good reason to want to let the matter drop, and ultimately nothing was done,” says Rosen.For starters, Nixon didn't want to publicly "vilify" the military during the Vietnam era, when returning veterans were already facing widespread scorn and being labeled “baby killers," Rosen explains. Further, Attorney General John Mitchell reminded Nixon of his own administration's secret operations, making a full-blown scandal risky for everyone.So the affair was hushed up. Radford and the involved admirals were quietly reassigned to remote posts; the Pentagon liaison office was dissolved; and no charges were filed. Brief classified Senate hearings in 1974 fizzled out amid the Watergate storm.Rosen, who first detailed this from Nixon's 1971 White House tapes in his 2002 Atlantic article “Nixon and the Chiefs,” says these seven newly declassified pages from Nixon’s 1975 grand jury testimony add the former president's own sworn account of the betrayal.It shows unelected military leaders actively undermining an elected president over policy disagreements — proof, he argues, that the deep state isn't a modern myth but a decades-old “beast.”Check out the full eye-opening interview above.Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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