The Great Smoky Mountain Journal

Staff Reports

Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 07:31 PM

OUR VIEW: Happy New Year From The Great Smoky Mountain Journal!

Our New Years Eve Special Podcast

We want to take this opportunity on this New Year's Eve 2017 to wish everyone a very very Happy New Year 2018!

It's been a fun ride already here at the Great Smoky Mountain Journal. We had originally planned to launch our paper a bit later than we did this past year, but unforeseen circumstances brought about the launch during the late summer instead of launching tonight! Funny how life throws us curves we must adjust to and in all honesty, we are glad it happened the way it did.

We have talked with some great people already in 2017 on our Mc-Files/Great Smoky Mountain You Tube news network and look forward to more riveting interviews in 2018 as our nation continues to forge ahead after President Trump's first year in office.

As we enter 2018 we are still a divided nation. We are all Americans and, if we don't heal as Americans, we will be destroyed! The left in this nation is committed to seeing the foundations of this great democracy crumble under their socialist agendas, but if the Great Smoky Mountain Journal has anything to say about it, we plan to expose that agenda even more this year and make sure that does not happen! This is not the place to come for fake news or Trump bashing dialogue.

We are a right of center newspaper and deal in truth. If President Trump needs to be called out on something we plan to call him out. Having said that let me make it clear. I support this President 1000000% in what he is trying to do to bring America back from the eight year nightmare known as Barrack Obama.

While  95% of most news outlets in this nation have been dedicated to lies, half truths and stories to destroy the President, we have been from day one dedicated to the TRUTH. That will not change in 2018.

It's been a pathetic display of thuggery by the main stream media in America this past year simply because their "hero" Hillary Clinton got her backside handed to her last November 2016, and because they didn't get their way, they have acted like petulant children. It's a given 2018 is not going to be the end of "fake news."

2017 was a historic and prophetic year for America and her relationship with Israel. This was acclimated by President Trump's declaring Jerusalem as her capital on December 20 and promising to move our embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem sometime this year or 2019. Israel herself celebrated the 70th anniversary of both Balfour Declaration proclaiming the land on which Israel exists belonging to the Jews, as well as the 70th anniversary of the UN's official recognition of her as a nation.

It was also the 50th anniversary of the Six Day Way of 1967, a war that liberated Jerusalem for the first time from Arab hands. This coming year we will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel becoming a nation officially on May 14, 2018. All of these celebrations converged this past year paving the way for another historic and prophetic year ahead.

We are glad to be here to chronicle these events as we move ahead into the new year. We thank you as our readers for you input and also for the nameless dozens who have helped us already with the paper in getting it off the ground. To our critics, we say thanks to you as well. We invite you to a front row seat for 2018 because friend, we are here to stay. Enjoy the ride!

As we bring 2017 to an end let us wish each of you reading a powerful, prophetic, and blessed 2018! May it bring you prosperity, blessing, grace and honor from the Lord Himself, the only source of blessing for all mankind.

May God bless you and your family as the hours tick down in 2017 to 2018. And above all things May God bless this great nation of America, President Trump and his family, and every citizen from sea to shining sea. Blessings and Grace to all. Amen. Bring on 2018!

Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge

Great Smoky Mountain Journal