Tea at Trianon: Why Christians Must Vote

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, November 2, 2026

Why Christians Must Vote

From Tierney's Real News:

Your church is a “political” group. Your city, state, and nation are. Refusing to participate does not keep your hands clean. It hands the pen to those who will write rules that make it harder for the next generation to live quiet, Godly lives.
As the saying goes: “You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”
If that isn’t enough to convince you to get off the couch and vote in this mid-term election, here’s another argument that is even more compelling.
US Senate seats are 6 year terms so your vote on Tuesday will not only help Trump codify his America First agenda for the next two years but influence the NEXT President in his first term in office. Elon is right and I never thought about it this way before. Vote MAGA Republican to keep the borders closed and the atheist Communists and Jihadis out of America for at least the next 6 years. That’s not hyperbole, just fact. (Read more.)