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Written By: Josh Kimbrell.

The left’s war on Christmas continues in 2010, as it likely will in 2011. A litany of litigation and public harassment continues to be hurled at millions of folks who prefer to call this season “Christmas,” as opposed to the generic “winter holidays.” For the overwhelming majority of Americans, Christmas represents the coming of Christ and the offer of hope to man. To the hard left, it is a season of selective liberty, wherein all views of the holiday are welcome in the public arena, except for the Christian notion. Make no mistake; an assault on Christmas is an attack on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.

In ancient Rome, it was not uncommon to see garland and greenery adorning homes and public buildings in mid to late December. The festival of Saturnalia, a pagan holiday dedicated to the worship of the Roman god Saturn, is the origin of many traditions still practiced in Western Civilization. As Christianity spread through the late Roman Empire, the celebration of Saturnalia ceded to that of Christmas. Roman Christians celebrated the Nativity on the 25th of December, which coincided with the celebration of Saturnalia. Though Saturnalia was, technically, a “religious” holiday, it was hardly considered sacred. The festival was more of a state-sponsored circus, which closed schools and businesses in from December 17th-23rd each year. It was a publicly celebrated, yet largely purposeless, holiday.

If the American left has their way, we’ll be back to Saturnalia in the short term. The forced secularization of Christmas by liberal elites threatens to rob millions of Americans of their time-honored, and historically recognized, beliefs. For generations, Americans have largely lived by, and the public sector recognized, our Country’s consensus Judeo-Christian Values. In the past, the debate over Christmas was largely regulated to the zealous. Today, however, millions of Americans recognize that Christmas, one of our nation’s most public expressions of timeless principles, is under assault. The left wishes to return to the Roman notion of the holiday: a celebration of nothing in particular, with no principle or purpose.

This is a microcosm of their vision for America. Theirs is a vision wherein our national consciousness, our national soul, is eviscerated and replaced by a soulless sort of determinism. America’s greatness has always been her heart. Alexis De Tocqueville once stated that America is a Country “with the soul of a Church.” Our national consciousness was committed to our founding principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Secular-progressivism seeks to rout these foundations in favor of a radically different nation, which maintains but the veneer of our values.

The assault on Christmas is another shot across the bow. The left, you could say, is “slouching toward Saturnalia,” and they’ll take the nation with them, unless Americans stand strong.

Merry Christmas America!

Joshua B. Kimbrell
President & Chairman
CEO Round Table of South Carolina

Josh Kimbrell is President & Chairman of CEO Round Table of South Carolina. CEO stands for “Christians Empowered & Organized.” Part of the mission of CEO Round Table is “to promote a way of life that embraces faith, family, and freedom.” For more information: http://joshkimbrell.com

Written By: Josh Kimbrell.

Due to a prolonged recession, millions of Americans are tightening their belts this Christmas. Instead of buying bundles of gifts no one will remember by Easter, many folks are opting to reorient their celebration around faith and family. As Americans return to the basics, they may have been handed an early Christmas present today in Virginia.

In their haste to ram-through the Obamacare monstrosity earlier this year, Congressional Democrats omitted a key provision to protect their precious bill. Most pieces of Federal legislation contain a certain section designed to save it from sweeping legal challenges called a “severability clause.” The severability clause functions as it sounds, it allows parts of a particular piece of legislation to be severed from the whole. In other words, if an appellate court determines that a particular provision of a legislative act is unconstitutional, that provision may be removed from the bill without adverse action against the whole. In the case of the socialized healthcare package, no such clause is included.

As a result, a Virginia judge’s decision today that parts of the healthcare bill are unconstitutional jeopardizes the entire act. If the decision is upheld through to the U.S. Supreme Court, the chief legislative initiative of President Obama and Nancy Pelosi will be tossed-out as fast as the people who voted for it. As the overwhelming majority of Americans now oppose Obamacare, this should be welcome news in most corners of the country.

The arrogance of Congressional Democrats has, once again, proven the wisdom of James that “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” In the case of Obamacare, pride just may have gone before the fall.

Merry Christmas America!

Joshua B. Kimbrell
President & Chairman
CEO Round Table of South Carolina

Josh Kimbrell is President & Chairman of CEO Round Table of South Carolina. CEO stands for “Christians Empowered & Organized.” Part of the mission of CEO Round Table is “to promote a way of life that embraces faith, family, and freedom.” http://joshkimbrell.com

Written By: Josh Kimbrell.

It has long been my mantra that social and economic policy are not mutually exclusive, but inextricably linked. Now, thanks to some spot-on economic statistics from Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, I have calculations to back-up my contentions. In their best-selling business book The Coming Generational Storm, these two authors examine how the failure of families, and the corrosion of culture, has led us down a path of economic catastrophe. I only bring it up, because I believe there’s still time to fix our failure.

Proverbs tells us that, “he who troubles his own house will inherit the wind.” In the case of our Country, he who has troubled his own house is getting it taken away. The mountain of debt that encumbers our country is the result of marginal morality, not the culprit of capitalism. Free-markets operate effectively with faith and family, and falter with a philosophical free-for-all that trumpets relativism over Truth. The solution to our economic problems will be found in the depths of our heart, not the halls of congress.

In the book mentioned above, the authors make reference to another work entitled The Lonely Crowd , which was published as early as 1950, to support their assertion that members of society have grown increasingly isolated. As the divorce rate has skyrocketed, children have been left in the wreckage of broken homes. In our day, the physical life expectancy is rising, but the reasons for living have been lost. In the twenty-first century, we have every device at our disposal to communicate, but true community confounds us. We are, as the book suggested, “the lonely crowd.” As families have failed to aide one another, we have ceded that responsibility to government.

Our massive mound of liabilities results from our inability to come-together willingly, with a sense of community and fidelity to family. The longer America careens down the path of self-indulgence, the faster we face the future of financial ruin. I suggest that we stop making the state our surrogate and care for one another. It’s high time that we step in to save each other instead of stepping back and waiting for someone else to provide for our future. I call upon my fellow citizens to reject the lie of liberal policies aimed at growing government, not promoting prosperity.

As we enter in the first session of this new congress, make a stand for one another, make a stand for self-reliance.

May God Bless Our Families, and Our Country. Merry Christmas!

Joshua B. Kimbrell
President & Chairman
CEO Round Table of South Carolina

Josh Kimbrell is President & Chairman of CEO Round Table of South Carolina. CEO stands for “Christians Empowered & Organized.” Part of the mission of CEO Round Table is “to promote a way of life that embraces faith, family, and freedom.” 

Written By: Josh Kimbrell.

Dear Friends,

As we gather this week to celebrate Thanksgiving, the task before us is clear: the restoration of America. In October, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln’s first Thanksgiving Proclamation made continuous reference to God as the Source of our national success. Last year, President Barack Obama managed to issue a Thanksgiving Day proclamation without any reference to our Creator. This is not only insulting to the vast majority of Americans who believe in God and His role in our Nation, but acutely ignorant of history.

While the President’s actions are troubling, they aren’t surprising. President Obama continues to champion a secular-progressive agenda so radical that it omits the word “Creator” from the thesis of the Declaration of Independence. The commander-in-chief almost always omits the source of our rights as found in the following line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” Adherence to Natural, or Revealed, law is the cornerstone of the American experience. Our founders believed that the only One great enough to secure the rights of men was the very Creator of men: God Almighty. Therefore, any effort to undermine His rightful place in our nation’s public life effectively weakens the ideal of inalienable rights.

This Thanksgiving, with thankful hearts and clear minds, let us recommit our Country to her cultural heritage. Ours is a heritage of faith and freedom unparalleled in human history. Freedom has flourished in our land because our fathers appealed to “the Laws of nature and nature’s God” for guidance. We must seek to rediscover God in America, if we are to recover America’s economic, military and cultural clout.

This Thanksgiving, pray for our Country’s future. As my wife and I recently discovered we’ll be parents next summer, this has deeper meaning for us than ever before. Please, join us in the fight for the soul of South Carolina, the future of America.

God Bless America, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Joshua B. Kimbrell
President & Chairman
CEO Round Table of South Carolina

Josh Kimbrell is President & Chairman of CEO Round Table of South Carolina. CEO stands for “Christians Empowered & Organized.” Part of the mission of CEO Round Table is “to promote a way of life that embraces faith, family, and freedom.”

Written By: Josh Kimbrell.

(Dedicated to our veterans)

The greatest monument we could construct to our veterans is that of a free and strong America. Perpetuity is the highest form of compliment to those brave souls who risked everything to ensure that the blessings of liberty. Over the past twenty-four months, America’s leaders have taken us down a careening path of disastrous deficits, expansive government and dwindling opportunities in our Country. This is not only a slap in the face to those who braved death to defeat foes of freedom, but a very present danger to our Nation.

Last week the American people resoundingly rejected this failed notion of national decline. Though our Country is faced with profound challenges, the like of which we’ve not seen in our lifetime, these challenges aren’t insurmountable. We must recommit ourselves to the faith of our fathers, to ensure peace for our posterity. In the book of Deuteronomy, our Lord instructs His people, “you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.” My friends, for the first time in my lifetime, the great economic challenges facing our people have now become one with our spiritual challenge.

In order to overcome our economic woes, we must overcome our apathy to Truth. America, as Alexis De Tocqueville once styled it, “is a nation with the soul of a church.” So fervent was our commitment to freedom, it was nearly a religious conviction. In actuality, America has always been a deeply religious nation. Not religious in some obscurely faithful fashion, but deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian heritage which gave us birth.

This Veterans’ Day, let’s pledge to rebuild America for our children. Let’s fight to leave them a better nation than we inherited. Then, we will have fulfilled the Lord’s command to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and honored the sacrifice of millions who have fought for freedom.

God Bless America,

Joshua B. Kimbrell
President & Chairman
CEO Round Table of South Carolina

Josh Kimbrell is President & Chairman of CEO Round Table of South Carolina. CEO stands for “Christians Empowered & Organized.” Part of the mission of CEO Round Table is “to promote a way of life that embraces faith, family, and freedom.”