integrity: Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

If there is one thing that is most egregious all of the things I’ve discussed this week show, it’s a loss of integrity on the part of our elected officials. When leaders in Washington feel fit to dismiss cases for political reasons, that certainly shows a lack of moral character.

When our elected officials make sweetheart deals to get VIP  mortgages or falsifying their home address to pay less taxes, that shows a lack of ethics.

And I could probably spend all day just on honesty.

However, while our elected officials must establish their integrity, so do we. Glenn Beck might say that this involves restoring our faith in God, but I think it just means we need to respect our fellow person, be charitable, and be willing to sacrifice a little.

Only after we restore integrity for ourselves can we expect our government to find its own sense of integrity.

The Restoring Honor Rally yesterday brought thousands of people out to the Lincoln Memorial. I know that by the time I got there, there were people filling out the area beyond the treeline, and all the way up to the road. And if they weren’t all the way up to the Washington Monument, it was a close thing.| MORE ›

If there is anything that most represents what Restoring Honor is tomorrow, it is the two acts listed in the title: speech and prayer.| MORE ›

Restoring Honor. What does that mean? Ask many different people and you’ll likely get many different answers. Perhaps somebody wants to restore their own honor after committing a blunder of some sort. Or perhaps that person would like to restore someone else’s honor that was undeservedly taken away.| MORE ›

Hey everybody!  Just a quick reminder for today that we’ll be covering the Restoring Honor Rally LIVE from Twitter, and then right back here afterward.

• Join me on Twitter at @MikeWMerritt. I’ll officially start Tweeting at 10am, but depending on when I’m able to get to the Lincoln Memorial, I may start earlier.
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This article will no doubt generate some disagreements, simply because people don’t share all the same exact values. In short, I do not share a belief in a god of any sort. Thus, I’ll refrain from discussing that religion-related hot button issues here, namely abortion and gay rights.| MORE ›