Who am I?

Declarations of Truth – who am I
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Hello. My name is Dr. Terry Hurlbut. I am your host for Declarations of Truth, and the owner, editor, and publisher of Conservative News and Views. Today I thought I would share a bit about myself, the site and this channel.
Before I do, I will say that I have left a link in the description to Conservative News and Views. I also want you to check out the awesome CNAV store – scroll down near the bottom for that link. Lots of good merchandise there, especially this Tee shirt I have chosen for today. It shows Plato, one of the greatest philosophers of Western civilization, and one profound thing he said: NO ONE IS MORE HATED THAN HE WHO SPEAKS THE TRUTH. Well, each of you, listening to my autobiography as it were, will have to make your own decision along that line.
And now to begin: I was born in Virginia to a reserve Army engineering officer and an authentic Southern belle; I began my life with one foot on each side of the North-South Divide left over from the War Between the States. In fact, I had ancestors on both sides of that War.
When I was six, my father went to Harvard Business School on a scholarship. So we moved to a suburb of Boston. After he graduated, we moved around a bit as his first job was in Pennsylvania, his next in Tennessee and after that, Dallas, Texas. In Tennessee I joined the Boy Scouts and within three years I made Eagle Scout. I have lots of fond memories from those days and an extra education in civics, You-Ess history, and some survival skills.
Along with Scouting, I discovered a love of history and, among other things, studied the War Between the States. However, given my family dynamics I wound up studying it from both perspectives. I don’t know how many Americans can say that today.
As you might imagine, my study of history, especially the War Between the States, instilled in me a healthy skepticism of government, and a direct appreciation of what road good intentions actually pave. During my schooling I learned about something else: Opportunistic politicians playing on people’s fears.
Here’s an example I personally lived: The policy known as Desegregation Busing was the Reconstruction of my day. I saw ONE city make ANY effort not to have that policy make the segregation permanent: the Magnet School program in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a good idea, but not nearly enough. If the government had improved ALL the schools, then the kind of, for lack of a better term, domestic student exchange program that “Busing” represented, would have worked as advertised. Only they didn’t do anything for the inner-city schools. Result: the whites fled, and they never came back.
And then the same Democrats who invented segregation to begin with – well, some of them started pushing “Busing” to punish whites for voting Republican. While OTHERS didn’t WANT to take part in it themselves. Among them: an up-and-coming politician named Joseph Robinette Biden. Ladies and gentlemen, first you don’t WANT to hear the reasons he gave. Second, please notice how the laws THEY pass THEY somehow never want to have apply to themselves.
While all this was going on, I finished high school and went off to Yale College. This was a step up in a lot of ways. I have not enjoyed much social success. Besides having to move every four or five years I wouldn’t have been able to figure out the “social cues” even if I HADN’T changed communities so often. Back then, no one had ever heard of “The Autism Spectrum,” though the medical establishment DID know what autism was. In fact, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition – or Dee Ess Emm Three – as it read when I would later go to medical school, listed TWO diagnoses on what we call The Spectrum today: “Infantile Autism,” and “Childhood Onset Pervasive Developmental Disorder.”
Those two diagnoses sound dire – and are. They are probably at the max end of The Spectrum, especially the first. So the one counselor who addressed that issue in me, didn’t want to apply either one. So he told me I was right on the borderline. TODAY a knowledgeable psychologist or psychiatrist would say that I had Asperger’s syndrome. Which means I’m a pathological, but very able, nerd. Able to function well at school or work, but LESS able to “win friends or influence people,” to paraphrase Dale Carnegie.
But Yale was so big that being a nerd didn’t matter. Five thousand undergraduates, ten thousand masters’ and Pea Aitch Dee students, to say nothing of the various professional schools, including Medicine, made for a community that almost DID NOT CARE whether someone missed the social cues or not. Nor was I the only one of my “kind” at Yale, either. Bottom line: enough people at Yale could get past the strange ways, and when they heard my take on the things I’d seen, our lessons, and current events, they listened.
Things weren’t as good at Baylor College of Medicine. When I attended, everybody was a Longhorn, an Aggie, a Rice Thresher, or a Baylor Bear. There were other issues, too, namely discovering that CLINICAL medicine – working with patients – just didn’t fit. So, I decided to specialize in LABORATORY medicine – pathology.
Turned out that anatomical pathology didn’t fit either, so I spent five years’ as a clinical pathologist and lab co-director in two-hundred-fifty-bed community hospitals. One of these was the original Paul Kimball Hospital that took in casualties from such famous mass-casualty events as the fire and wreck of the Andrea Doria, and the destruction of the airship Hindenburg. The OTHER was the big hospital in Mount Holly, New Jersey – and while I was working there, I met the lovely lady who would become my wife for eight years and nine months. That ended tragically – in her death from cancer.
Why am I not working that kind of job today? Because only one hospital lab director ever saw the potential of having a dedicated clinical pathologist take away the distraction of having to review and sign off on the laboratory’s “policies” every year, so he and his colleagues could concentrate on “moving the meat.” What ended up happening to him is unimportant, except that it cut my career short. Let that be a lesson to you: when you lead an enterprise, it’s not just about you. It’s about those who work for you. Never forget that.
What you really need to appreciate is that in a typical pathology practice, when it comes time to sign off on “the policies,” the doctors all play a game of Low-ball Poker to select who gets that chore. Or they fob it off on the most junior guy in the outfit – you know the drill: “Let George do it.” Just remember that the next time any doctor stands on his credentials to tell you to take something you know nothing about.
One part of my background I haven’t mentioned yet, is my faith. My father was a Protestant Episcopalian, and that’s what I became. At the time, the Episcopal Church was still serious about the faith. In some of the routines, like the confirmation class, I found structure and at least some respect for the ideals of truth and justice. Justice is my strongest passion, and always has been. I don’t always get it, but I will always try to deal justly with others. But that ALSO means I SEEK justice, and will advocate for systems that do best at ensuring true justice – and NOT the kind of special favors that pass for “social justice” today.
But the Episcopal Church strayed farther and farther from the Faith. I will also say that the Episcopal Church did not impress me with the spiritual guidance it offered, or the quality of its outreach to those within its areas of operation that were either in the helping professions or were studying to join them. They’ll gladly take their money – after all, to be a doctor is to be rich, and that might still be true. In return they’ll put their names on plaques on pews, or on outside walls: “This building was made possible through the generosity of James Kildare, Em Dee.” But as for guiding them to do the right thing? Not so much. I would say that things only galloped downhill beginning shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in Nineteen Seventy-three. Some of those other precedents I’ve mentioned in other videos, like Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing and Lemon v. Kurtzman, cannot have helped, either.
That also explains why no one adequately defended, in my schooling, the proposition that God CREATED the heavens and the Earth, and life on Earth. The same held true at schools like Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, each of which began as seminaries. Why, considering their beginnings, are they teaching a model of the beginning and “change over time” of life, that renders God Unnecessary? (And for every person who denies that, TWO others will BRAZENLY AVOW that it is the case.)
On November Ninth, Nineteen Ninety, a year to the day after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, everything changed. I prayed hard for the first time in my life, for Jesus Christ to come into my life. I felt something—like a gentle electrical current—moving through my body at the time.
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Now about my two guides: they taught me to question many things about the ancient history of the Earth I had always taken for granted. Once I saw through the half-truths, omissions, and errors, I saw the inconsistencies in the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm. That Paradigm is actually a Trident, and here are its teeth: Hyper-uniformitarianism (all processes working today have been working since time immemorial and at the same unchanging rate); Abiogenesis (life began from non-life), and Common descent (everything descends from a common ancestral species or population).
I do not accept any of that anymore. Which is why I defend the science of creation – the active study of findings that tell us that God DID create it all, and in the order in which He said He did. I have also been attending Baptist churches with a conservative bent, and in one case even a fundamentalistic one, run by a pastor who has taught at seminary level and who made his church a layman’s community seminary. While there I even extended my formal schooling, so that I can read the New Testament in its original ancient Greek.
We now come to Conservative News and Views. I founded that, together with a good conservative friend of mine who lived in northern New Jersey, in Twenty Eleven. Before that, I had established myself as a conservative writer on the now-defunct site Examiner Dot Com. That’s when I broke the original Climate-gate story, by unpacking and distilling the infamous Archive from the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, You-Kay. Not only did I get thirty-five THOUSAND page views in the first twenty-four hours, but I was also getting links even in The Wall Street Journal. I began to dig deeper, especially when the Fifteenth Conference of Parties to the You-Enn Framework Convention on Climate Change took place shortly afterward. I wrote about it all—all the hypocrisies, all the double dealing, all the SELF-dealing, and how the deal eventually blew up.
Then I branched out to cover creationism news, including every insight I had into creation science and into Biblical scholarship. I also covered the one time in recent history in which anyone tried to recall a sitting United States Senator, because New Jersey had no Senators up for re-election then. It was then that my friend from northern New Jersey suggested that I start putting things together on a site of my very own.
From the beginning we took on stories no one else was willing to discuss. Obviously it’s been eleven years now. Among the many stories I have concentrated on are:
• Climate-gate, which I’ve already mentioned,
• Obama’s birth certificate, that looks as though someone photostatted it out of a book and printed it on typical birth-certificate paper – and released a Pea Dee Eff with multiple layers, which I teased apart to develop some VERY interesting findings,
• Tea Party organizations and politics,
• The first lawsuits to overturn Obamacare, including one that pointed out a few things everyone else missed (like that Ready Reserve Corps that’s in the bill),
• The Benghazi Incident, including the attempt to blame that on a failed movie trailer,
• The Boston Marathon Bombing, which I practically live-blogged, including when independent Internet observers “made” the Brothers Sar-Nah-Yev INDEPENDENTLY of the Eff Bee Eye,
• Midterms Twenty Fourteen,
• The candidacy, election, and programs of Donald J. Trump,
• Why Trump was right to withdraw from the Paris Agreement,
• The excellent appointments Trump made to the United States Supreme Court,
• What the world’s climate activists really want, as distinct from what they SAY they want (though some of them are just brazen enough to bring the two together),
• Why an Article Five Convention of States is the WORST mistake conservatives could make, because it would run away from them, same as the Constitutional Convention itself did. I include my interview with a nice little old lady who calls herself Publius Huldah and has been campaigning actively against that kind of thing for years.
• Evidence that liberals are, by their nature, a little funny in the head, and
• Every conceivable reason why Donald J. Trump is not President of the United States today.
With regard to that last: even the least honest political machine needs to deliver a solid baseline for victory. The Biden Machine, and the globalists behind it, did that in Twenty Twenty. But one thing we see, going into Midterms Twenty Twenty-two, is that that baseline won’t be there this time. It might be gone already. The REASONS for that are legion. They START with the economy that everybody knows is in the tank, even though Biden’s spokespeople insist it’s the greatest in history. But they CONTINUE with the REMARKABLE term the United States Supreme Court has just had.
I want you to wrap your minds around this. This Court has overturned many, many precedents on which the political, secular, and ATHEISTIC left has relied for years. Most of you, hearing me talk about this now, are going to think: Ah-ha. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Well, that, too. But if you think that’s going to bring The Baseline back out, think again. Whatever is left of The Baseline were ALREADY going to be out in what force they could muster, just because Amy Coney Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
No, the Supreme Court came out with two rulings even more important than that. One of them was Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, that lets even faculty and staff pray silently on school grounds. Actually, if Coach Kennedy hadn’t given so much away, he could have won even more. The OTHER case, most important of all, is Carson v. Makin. That case DIRECTLY says that government policies that deliberately shortchange religious institutions in consideration for any particular government program or programs, are UNCONSTITUTIONAL ON THEIR FACE. The Left has already said that James G. Blaine must be spinning in his grave. GOOD! The Carson case, even more than the other two, tells Christians that the time for being ashamed to follow Christ and obey His commandments is OVER. Now WE will be out in force, in greater numbers than ever.
Declarations of Truth got started toward the end of March of Twenty Twenty-two. As it began, I picked out the hard-news item that was at the top of the trends, and talked about that. But very soon I developed an avid interest in a few things that could have lasting significance, or that said a little something about our culture that most in the Legacy Media don’t want to talk about. Most of you hearing this video now haven’t heard my earlier videos, so I’ll give you a few examples. They include:
The back-and-forth between Elon Musk and the board of Twitter, Incorporated (meaning more than three months ago; the dust-up with Musk finally saying he’s done with Twitter is a lot more recent and I’m still trying to sort that out),
Walt Disney’s company falling on harder times every day, it seems, because they want to support the grooming of the little children who come to their parks (and I also touch on who started that and who MIGHT be trying to put a stop to it),
Some of the Democratic Party’s most reliable demographics suddenly shouting, “¡No mas!” and abandoning the lock-step identity-political voting patterns that have locked GENERATIONS of these groups into voting Democratic, until today,
The spectacular election of Mayra Flores to the House AS A REPUBLICAN FROM SOUTH TEXAS, after she started pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, and getting on the phone. No one in her demographic had ever done that before. She started doing that and IMMEDIATELY found sympathetic voices. That’s how she held Biden’s lead to four points in Twenty Twenty, and then CARRIED THE DISTRICT in a special election held two months ago.
The Big Leak of Sam Alito’s First Draft in Dobbs versus Jackson Women’s Health Organization, including how big a breach of security that was and still is, who might have engineered the leak, how Sam Alito was going to take Roe v. Wade and the Casey decision apart, and how a certain political and spiritual battle would be only just beginning if the opinion held. And:
All the other decisions that started to come out toward the end of the term. The Dobbs opinion held, as we all know. We got some insights into how the Court’s liberal wing thinks, that maybe we didn’t want to know. But the bigger point is: Dobbs was NOT the most important case to come out of this Supreme Court term, not by a LONG shot. I’ve told you what were: Kennedy v. Bremerton School District and Carson v. Makin. So naturally I covered what that means moving forward, and what kinds of things we should fight for, to press the advantage we just gained.
ESPECIALLY the case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruen. As a matter of fact, that case has people ALREADY campaigning to repeal the Second Amendment. Good luck with that, of course. But at least SOMEBODY on that side is honest.
Lots of exciting things coming up, and I intend to be there to cover them. Like: what will Virginia do with Dobbs versus Jackson Women’s, that came down with Republicans in the saddle? (By the way, the “Jackson Women’s” of that decision is already shut down – just saying.) Will Texas enact a referendum on creating a study committee to secede from the Union? Or will they realize that secessionism is OBSOLETE now that they can WIN the Culture War nationwide? What arguments can we expect to hear on a VERY INTERESTING case on which the Court “granted cert” on the last day of its term? A redistricting case – that actually has implications for all federal elections everywhere.
I hope you have enjoyed this video, which certainly should give you plenty of things to think about, and look forward to. In the meantime, check out Conservative News and Views and our awesome CNAV store – and our sponsor, Our Silver Lines Dot Com, THE place to go to start putting your money on a sound commodity basis. This is Terry A. Hurlbut, for Declarations of Truth and for Conservative News and Views. Remember: let the truth set you free.
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