THE POWER OF THE VICE-PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES

A MONOGRAPH

By Rev, Dr. James Broadwater, D.D., M.Div., M.S.S., B.S., A.A.

Our very first-ever Vive President, John Adams, wrongly called the vice presidency " The most insignificant office ever devised by the mind of man." He, no doubt, felt this way because the Senate hogtied him from exercising his just constitutional powers.

However, it is self-evident that there is NOTHING in the Constitution to prevent the Vice-President from making full use of his powers as the Presidency of the U.S. Senate. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin promised that she would use those powers, if elected. She was right.

Cleveland, Mississippi, USA

October 10, 2026

New Walmart Planned for Byram

Byram Mayor Richard White announced recently that we would be getting a Walmart in Byram. I don't mind having a Walmart, but two things bother me about the way it's being done, and I hope that they bother you, too:

1) The location. They want to build it on the southwest corner of the intersection of Siwell Road and Terry Road, where Byram Middle School used to be. There is already far too much traffic in that part of the city, and building a Walmart there would just multiply the problem exponentially. I advocate for smart growth, and that includes spreading the financial success and the traffic out over the entire city, and not concentrating too much in one place. There are better places in Byram to build a Walmart, like the I-55 East Frontage Road, and Byram Parkway.

2) The former board of aldermen said that they would not allow a Walmart to locate in Byram because they believed that a Walmart would kill local mom and pop businesses. Richard White, current mayor, was on the board of aldermen at the time. Before the former board left office earlier this year, they decided that they would allow Walmart in. The new board, who took office at the beginning of July, 2013, could have still said no to Walmart had they wanted to do so, not being bound by what the old board had done, but they did not. I sincerely hope that you have a problem with people breaking their promises, whether you want a Walmart or not.

Richard Cook for Congress

There is again a better alternative to Bennie Thompson for U.S. Congress from Mississippi District Two.

Richard Cook is a Republican running for the seat. Here's what he says about the issues:

Military
Richard is a strong supporter of our military forces around the world. He believes that they should be the best equipped of any military in the world. They put their lives on the line for us every day of their life. They need 100% of our support.


Illegal Immigration
This is a big issue in our country today. It is a matter of security. Richard believes that we need to stop illegal immigration at the border. He will work to help get the wall completed first. Then deal with those already in the country. We need to stop giving benefits, funded by taxpayers to those who come to our country illegally. We need to penalize those who provide the jobs for the illegal immigrates.

Economy
The best way to help stimulate the economy is to let the people keep most of their money and decide how to spend it. We need taxes, but not excessive taxes. The government needs to do like the rest of us, learn how to work within their means. We need to cut taxes and at the same time, cut spending. We need to stop earmark or "pork" spending. Let's spend hard earned taxpayer money on things that are necessary - not spend to just be spending.

Education
As a teacher, Richard has seen how difficult it is in today's schools. We need to encourage more people to become teachers and help our leaders of tomorrow. Teachers also need to be paid a competitive wage. Mississippi needs to stop being at the bottom of the pay scale so that we can recruit and keep the best teachers we can.

Health Care
First and foremost, a nationalized health care system is not the answer. There are issues to be worked out, but let the health care companies, working with the government, come up with a way to ensure that all Americans can have the heath care they require, but not at the expense of the already overburdened taxpayer.

On the other hand, Bennie Thompson is pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, and pro-gun control, and twice he has demanded something be done about LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS carrying guns onto planes. They're not the ones about whom we need to be concerned.

District Two was unconstitutionally and illegally gerrymandered to favor a Black politician, not a statesman who is the best candidate no matter what his or her color. This illegality is the ONLY way that Bennie Thompson can get elected. If the people will vote for the better candidate and not vote based on a racist agenda, then Richard Cook will be elected. If they vote more Black than Christian, then Bennie Thompson will be elected for yet another term of doing disservice to the people.

http://www.richardcookforcongress.com.

Ted Kennedy

The ungodly people who control the mass media in America are again making a big deal over a Kennedy; this time, it's Ted. He has been diagnosed with malignant brain cancer, and they're using it as yet another excuse to promote the Kennedy family and to advance their ungodly agenda.

They say that Ted Kennedy has influenced every single piece of legislation that has come through the U.S. Senate since he was first elected to that body. I don't doubt it. But what they're not telling us is that he has influenced every single piece of legislation in a way that has been extremely bad for our country.

His father was guilty of money laundering, but cut a deal with the federal government and stayed out of jail in exchange for teaching them how it's done and helping them catch others who were involved in it. He paid a ghost writer to write a book titled Profiles in Courage and then put his son John's name on it as the author in order to help get him elected President. John, Bobby, and Ted have all been ungodly and have all been bad for this country. The fact that Ted now has brain cancer won't stop me from talking about it, and shouldn't stop anyone else from talking about it.

President George W. Bush, to his shame, while supposedly trying to prove that he could get along with the Democrats - something for which he was not elected, let Ted Kennedy write the education bill. In doing so, President Bush effectively sacrificed the majority of American children to the Democrats. Jesus says that for whoever causes even one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for him to have a millstone (a huge, very heavy stone) tied around his neck and to be cast into the sea. President Bush and Senator Kennedy are both guilty of causing our nation's children to stumble, and they should be held accountable for it. Neither of them should have ever been elected to office. Bush won't be running for anything else, presumably, and that is a very good thing. The people of Massachusetts should not reelected Ted Kennedy if he runs for reelection, but they've reelected him for so long, I have to ask why. If anyone from Massachusetts reads this, please respond and tell me why in the world y'all vote Ted Kennedy back into office over and over again.

Christian Persecution, Abortion, and Immigration (Both Illegal and Legal)

Every year, 200 million Christians are persecuted for their faith worldwide, and 45,000 are martyred (read murdered) for the same reason every year – because they chose to follow Jesus Christ, the One True God, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

There are at least 12 million illegal aliens in our country right now. We have also murdered right around 50 million of our own unborn children while still inside their mothers’ wombs through “abortion.” “To abort” means “to stop” or “to end.” What is being ended in an “abortion”? What is being ended is an innocent human life. It is being ended wrongly, and their blood is crying out to God for justice.

We can, and we should, repent of our sins of baby murder and of failing to protect our national borders and our national security by bringing in those 200 million brothers and sisters in Christ to live and work here permanently, by deporting those 12 million or so illegal aliens and not allowing them to re-enter our country (or by shooting and killing them), and by kicking all the liberals out of our State Department, because they are largely to blame for a lot of the problems we have with the illegal alien issue.

We were founded as a Christian Nation, and a Federal, Constitutional Republic. It has been said that if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. The world needs for us to be great. We are the last, best hope (in the way of nations) for the world, because we - with all of our problems and all of our faults - come closer to being what a nation should be than any other nation on earth.

I want for America to return to God immediately. Now is always the appointed time to obey God, isn't it? And I want for all of the other formerly Christian nations of the earth to return to God. And we all need to work to evangelize all of the nations of the earth. We are commanded to do so. It will be done before the end will come (Matthew 24:14). Why not in our generation? We are called to be faithful. It is not being faithful to say, "When Jesus returns, He will set everything straight. There's nothing I can do." Jesus has commanded us to occupy until He returns, to take the glorious Gospel to the ends of the earth, and to do all that He has commanded. He has made it clear that the Master of the house will not happy if He finds His servants being disobedient when He returns. Let's make Him proud of us! Let's obey His commands! And let's pile up heavenly rewards for ourselves! He has promised to give them to us for our obedience. It would not be right for us to turn our noses up at what He has offered to us. It is not arrogance to want to be rewarded by God. He wants to reward us! We should want to receive all that He wants to give us!

Blessings,

Rev. James Broadwater, M.Div.
Byram (Metro Jackson), MS