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In his capacity as a Priest in the Anglican Catholic Church, Michael Erickson will deliver the following Sermon from an excerpt in the Epistle reading designated for that day in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. In brief, the Sermon will contend with the passage, which speaks of Christians speaking “as the oracles of God,” first in the context of what we may discern about oracles in ancient mythologies, and then in the interplay of the freedom of a man with his reliance upon the sovereign will of God.

In his capacity as Chairman of the Sonoma County Republican Party, Michael Erickson comments on the “resounding victory” of the taxpayers in their defeat of Propositions 1A through 1E. He calls attention to the need for “draconian cuts” in spending, since it is the growing reliance of special interests on the public dole which hinders the reforms needed to restore California to her former status as a beacon of prosperity and opportunity; and he blames the voters’ mistrust on “the Democrat and Republican cabal” in Sacramento, that has been out of touch for far too long.

There is a misconception that high tariffs led to the Great Depression and that as such we should oppose tariffs still in light of our present economic doldrums. In order for this view to hold water, it must presuppose that increasing trade deficits, and outsourcing of manufacturing and industrial capabilities to nations with lower labor standards, actually benefit our national prosperity and serve the interests of expanded freedom. Nothing is in fact farther from the truth.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies before a United States Senate Subcommittee that illegal immigration aids our economy by providing for a “safety valve” as demand for workers rises or falls. Contrary to his rosy assertion, in fact illegal immigration imports poverty for the purpose of decreasing wages and then passes on the costs to the American taxpayer – much like the Federal Reserve has been doing to the same taxpayers for years, on behalf of the banking cartel it serves.

Conservative commentator, and American nationalist, Patrick Buchanan offers a most compelling vision of how the Republican Party may make substantial gains in the 2010 midterm elections, if she returns to her historic roots as an advocate of our sovereignty, industrial recovery, energy independence, and personal liberty. This is the game plan as well of Republicans for the National Interest; and while we share the overall confidence of Mr. Buchanan, we stress that there is work to be done in orienting the Republican Party leadership once more into backing these issues in a credible, compelling manner.

In the following Santa Rosa Press Democrat article on the likely defeat of five of the six measures on the California Special Election Ballot, Sonoma County Republican Party Chairman Michael Erickson comments: “We’re on the crest of a tax revolt in this state we haven’t seen since the late 1970s,” when Proposition 13 put a real lid on the property tax increases. Furthermore, rather than be concerned about the prospect of further cuts in state spending, he favors a fiscal strangling of the “bureaucratized, top heavy, socialized state,” that robs California of her prosperity.

The official unemployment rate released monthly through the Department of Labor is routinely so far off the mark from the real number that it is tantamount to propaganda. The reason: in focusing on our façade of “purchasing power” built on an ever increasing government and consumer debt, and in downplaying the real cost in terms of lost job opportunities and reduced real wages, we continue to support a system of international commerce and labor that sells out our own, national heritage to foreign interests; phony unemployment rates are one way of lulling Americans into seeing this as better than it is in reality.

Republicans for the National Interest applauds the following open letter to the President from Kevin Kearns of the U.S. Business and Industry Council. The present focus on ever increasing Wall Street bailouts and fiat money indebtedness serves an intrinsically Keynesian economic view, namely that government and consumer debt provides the fuel for growth in the economy; by contrast, we support the philosophy of Adam Smith, when he remarks in The Wealth of the Nations that real economic prosperity is to be measured by the level of domestic productivity of goods and services. The Republican Party historically has been a champion of such views and should return to that stance.

As the article by Ken Blackwell below well illustrates, the Obama Administration has the eminently clear policy objective of undermining our political, economic, and military sovereignty; it is thus important to view this policy not as a temporary byproduct of some other goal, but rather as an end in itself. The real end is “to undermine our culture and spiritual heritage [since the countries Obama wants the United States to emulate] are largely secular, some militantly so, and ceding such vast power to [them] will lead to the same suppression of religious practice and belief that characterizes many of these countries.”