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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Vice President Pence Is Right

Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
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Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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Reviewing Vice President Pence’s brief remarks at the 2020 National Prayer Breakfast, I was caught up short by the phrase he always uses. It was a phrase I heard him use in a large non-denominational church in Mesa, AZ, when he was the VP candidate in 2016. It was fitting then but, oh, how much more fitting today.

Here it is in the context of remarks by Vice President Pence at the 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast, emphasis added:

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 I received an interesting email from Ron Susek Ministries this morning. I was introduced to Mr. Susek by my sister who shared his outstanding book with me in 2012 called God Will Answer – 52 Meditations (one for each week). I bought dozens of copies and shared them with people who were experiencing difficult times. […]
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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. A Moment of Prayer

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I see understandable outrage, I read some decently made intellectual arguments, but one thing that is not mentioned is prayer. The power of prayer.

Historically speaking, a third-trimester abortion is something that is usually brought about due to a doctor insisting to his patient that her soon-to-be-born baby is severely deformed and that the baby will not live for long after its birth.

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I found this story extraordinary, given today’s squeamishness of political correctness. The world has gotten so distressing that Poland is dialing up the heavenly hosts for help. The Poles are scattered to every part of their country’s borders to pray for protection for their country, and the whole world. Christians, mainly Catholics, took to the […]
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Congressman Steve Scalise returned to work today – barely a headline. He was injured on a ball field over three months ago, part of a heinous act of hate, toward the Republican team. Miracles happen. His speech today was a testimony to all that makes America the magnificent country it is, especially his last comment: […]
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