Jeff Lukens column
Jeff Lukens is a West Point graduate and U.S. Army veteran. He is also a conservative Christian activist, patriot, rabble-rouser, community organizer, street agitator, freedom warrior, and all-around good guy. He writes from a fresh, conservative point of view.
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April 21, 2024
It has become a speculative game in the blogosphere to predict what black swan calamities could lead to a breakdown in civil order and the imposition of some . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 23, 2024
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the nonsense which has connected them with another, they should speak loudly . . .
Jeff Lukens
September 4, 2023
We live in an age of unbelief. The foundations of American life are eroding. America is entering an uncharted, revolutionary time. We are no longer the . . .
Jeff Lukens
May 19, 2023
When nations die, they do so with surprising speed. Ernest Hemingway made a similar observation when a person in his novel was asked how he went bankrupt, and . . .
Jeff Lukens
April 2, 2023
The American people have worked hard to ensure equality for all citizens. So now science has advanced to where a new hybrid super breed of people can be created . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 4, 2023
Churches have remained publicly quiet for decades on the moral issues of the day so as not to appear too controversial or too political. As a result, public . . .
Jeff Lukens
July 15, 2022
One hundred years from now, historians will be looking back and calling this the Age of Trump, for Donald Trump has as much clout today in America that only the . . .
Jeff Lukens
March 29, 2022
Leave it to the left to come up with a taxpayer-funded election integrity system that is instead a Trojan Horse for election fraud.
ERIC is an organization . . .
Jeff Lukens
October 19, 2021
If voting machines are connected to the internet, they can be hacked. While there is evidence that there were cyber-attacks in all 50 states, the sad truth . . .
Jeff Lukens
August 8, 2021
I always believed there was a God, even as a boy. But I never thought I could have a personal relationship with him or that he would guide me in life choices. I . . .
Jeff Lukens
July 21, 2021
Charged with inciting a fraudulent Red Scare in the nation and soiling the names of many innocent persons, Senator Joseph McCarthy is regarded today as a . . .
Jeff Lukens
June 14, 2021
There are many reasons to doubt the 2020 election results. No question, strange things were happening on election night. Democrats' push for universal mail-in . . .
Jeff Lukens
May 18, 2021
Sweeping political and cultural transformations occur during times of crisis. Our nation is in such a time now, and significant change may soon be coming . . .
Jeff Lukens
March 20, 2021
The People's Republic of China is an existential threat to the national security, health, and prosperity of the United States. Communist China has viewed the U . . .
Jeff Lukens
February 20, 2021
Donald Trump's "America First" platform empowered the nation to some of its most important days in the republic's history. He had a bond with his supporters . . .
Jeff Lukens
November 15, 2020
John F. Kennedy published his famous book Profiles in Courage in 1956 highlighting individuals whose courage and acts of astounding integrity in the face of . . .
Jeff Lukens
August 4, 2020
With the 2020 election only months away, it is reasonable to wonder whether the election could spark widespread violence nationwide. With a probable hung . . .
Jeff Lukens
June 22, 2020
The death of George Floyd set off civil unrest unlike any we have seen in recent years. The protests have placed attention on harsh police tactics and the need . . .
Jeff Lukens
May 18, 2020
The People's Republic of China hides its motives in a cloak of mystery. However, their contempt and disregard of others in the Coronavirus pandemic has now . . .
Jeff Lukens
June 12, 2019
In this great country, it's not a crime to be a Christian – at least not yet. But the left is working on it. Free expression of religion is not just . . .
Jeff Lukens
May 1, 2019
China's meteoric rise from an impoverished country to a global superpower ranks as one of history's most remarkable political and economic achievements. It . . .
Jeff Lukens
February 28, 2019
Civil wars are horrendous and bloody affairs. That's why we should avoid them. They happen when two sides cannot settle on who runs the country. When they can . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 26, 2019
All people may be equal, but all cultures are not. The rise of Western civilization has led to the greatest progress in human history. It has given the world . . .
Jeff Lukens
June 28, 2017
I often think about Bob Seger's song 'Against the Wind.' To be a change agent, we must be running 'against the wind,' both culturally and politically. As . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 30, 2017
For years, grassroots conservatives have been searching for their voice, only to be stymied by Washington Insiders. Conservative anger has risen to the point . . .
Jeff Lukens
April 8, 2015
Deep into a second term, Barack Obama is determined to double down on his failed agenda. Virtually everything he says is designed to mislead, undercut, and harm . . .
Jeff Lukens
March 31, 2014
More than a thousand of books have been written on the John F. Kennedy assassination, yet there remains much controversy as to what happened that day in Dallas. . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 1, 2014
Are you happy with the way the federal government is operating? If not, are you interested in helping us change the way Washington DC operates? These are . . .
Jeff Lukens
December 8, 2013
The United States is the most dynamic and powerful nation in world history. No major issue of global peace or stability can be resolved without involvement by . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 28, 2013
The Obama Administration is forcing the military to assign female soldiers into combat infantry roles. In a future engagement, the result is certain to be . . .
Jeff Lukens
December 18, 2012
We live in and age of unbelief. We live with America in decline. We are no longer the America of our founders, or even the America that existed twenty years ago . . .
Jeff Lukens
November 24, 2012
The unraveling of the American social fabric has now reached critical mass. Barack Obama has succeeded in radically transforming America, and the slide is now . . .
Jeff Lukens
October 29, 2012
Vladimir Lenin once said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." In the electronic age, the left has hammered this theory home harder than 'ol Vlad could . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 27, 2012
Barack Obama has gone from the "one we've been waiting for" to the one we can't wait to kick out. No one ever thought one man could bring the nation to its . . .
Jeff Lukens
August 23, 2011
Hedge fund traders had a great year in 2008. That year, hedge fund short sellers were instrumental in the spike in fuel prices, the bankruptcy of Lehman . . .
Jeff Lukens
June 13, 2011
The U.S. federal debt is our nation's greatest strategic weakness. As the debt continues to grow, our military posture around the globe is threatened. Defense . . .
Jeff Lukens
May 6, 2011
We knew the day Barack Obama announced the release of his Birth Certificate that the document would be checked nine ways to Sunday for authenticity. Well, the . . .
Jeff Lukens
March 2, 2011
Patriots since the founding have always risen to the challenges of their time. Today, we must do the same. As the debt crisis deepens, the time is growing short . . .
Jeff Lukens
December 3, 2010
China's double-digit economic growth over the past thirty years has been breathtaking. Growth has limits, however, and China may soon be reaching them. With . . .
Jeff Lukens
August 16, 2010
If anything good can be said about the progressive left controlling our government, it's that their astonishingly brazen and heavy-handed tactics may have . . .
Jeff Lukens
July 6, 2010
Our worst suspicions about Barack Obama are coming true. He is not a centrist as he claimed to be. He is a leftist, and he is destroying our way of life. Obama . . .
Jeff Lukens
June 6, 2010
Why did building the fence along our southern border stop? Instead of building the fence, Barack Obama would rather build a political party of illegal aliens . . .
Jeff Lukens
May 9, 2010
Rarely does the concern of the middle-class reach a point where they start protesting the government en masse. The passage of ObamaCare and the impending . . .
Jeff Lukens
April 8, 2010
Almost two years after the mortgage crisis and stock market crash, no one seems to wonder about the "September surprise" that shifted the 2008 presidential . . .
Jeff Lukens
February 18, 2010
Many gays and lesbians serve honorably in today's military. That is no secret. It is also no secret that open homosexuality within the ranks could hinder unit . . .
Jeff Lukens
December 28, 2009
This land of a free people and a free-market economy has generated a great wave of innovation that has benefited all of humanity. The essence of freedom and . . .
Jeff Lukens
November 22, 2009
Thanksgiving is a chance to gather with loved ones and share in a time-honored American tradition. For some, it is an excuse to stuff themselves with turkey and . . .
Jeff Lukens
October 11, 2009
Barack Obama portrayed himself as America's first "post-racial" president, yet he and his supporters continue to play the race card against ordinary Americans . . .
Jeff Lukens
July 18, 2009
George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" tells of an advanced world where there are no individual freedoms, and the state uses fear to manipulate and control . . .
Jeff Lukens
July 5, 2009
This summer, Bay Life Church in Brandon, Florida is supporting the Village of Hope in Uganda. Scott Ranck led the "Survivor Uganda" team of 13 men who visited . . .
Jeff Lukens
April 29, 2009
Public opinion can be very fickle. Barack Obama has ridden a positive wave of opinion all the way to the White House. The public has welcomed him into office in . . .
Jeff Lukens
January 21, 2009
So Barack Obama proposes massive government spending like we have never seen before as our way back to economic prosperity. Yet wasn't it a mountain of . . .
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