Paul Harvey, we hardly knew ye!

WorldNetDaily is running an appropriate piece titled, Where's Paul Harvey when we really need him? Go there and read it. It's more or less a plug for a new book written by Paul Batura titled Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story. I look forward to reading it.

Paul Harvey was one of my boyhood mentors with whom I convened at every available noonday. He was that lone steady rock in the media who you could count on for a welcome shot of Americana so absent in the news business. He was everything to the ear that Norman Rockwell was to the eye and though you would often hear him say with a smile in his voice "there's no need worrying, nothing's going to turn out right," his commentary made you think that things very well may turn out all right.

The above linked WND piece is well worth reading, especially if you were a devotee of Mr. Harvey; check it out.

In 1999, Mr. Harvey wrote a prescient commentary titled, If I were the devil ... It's available at WorldNetDaily and right here:

WND.ARCHIVES, AUG. 16, 1999
If I were the devil ...

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;

I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;

I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;

I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals are valued more than human beings;

I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;

I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;

I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the mind of every family member for my agenda;

I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation.

I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;

I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and I would call it art;

I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically correct;

I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;

I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.

Hmmm...maybe things aren't going to turn out right!