“We need to be very forceful in clarifying what the words in our political vocabulary really mean. Words are important because they shape our thinking, and our thinking drives our actions. When we subvert the meaning of words like ‘the common good’ or ‘conscience’ or ‘community’ or ‘family,’ we undermine the language that sustains our […]
The post on my own blog with this title (Thoughts From The Heart on The Left) is for this coming Sunday but I think that it needs to be on this blog as well. I have posted a link to the entire piece so that you can continue reading it there (besides, I added a […]
Before the President’s recent address to Congress and certainly after we’ve been hearing that we shouldn’t be too quick to judge Mr. Obama’s ideas, that we should give him a chance to try.
Compromise, these folks point out, is an inevitable part of the politics, and they’re right.
But we can’t be too quick to compromise for […]
Byrd: Obama in power grab
I agree with Senator Byrd on this one.
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Cross-Posted at Allan R.Bevere
Cato will be liveblogging the State of the Union Address. As an organization who is strongly committed to constitutional government they are quick to point out much of the nonsense from the Bush Obama Era. It will be a greatly educational event.
Is this what we’re looking at for the next four years?
During the campaign, people were very quick to interpret any attack on Mr. Obama in racial terms. The trend continues today.
People are calling for a boycott of the New York Post over a cartoon comparing the writers of the stimulus bill with the crazed pet […]
HR 45, the “Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009,” would require a federal license to “possess a qualifying firearm … unless that person has been issued a firearm license” (emphasis added) where a “qualifying firearm” is defined as “(i) any handgun or (ii) any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any […]
In the beginning there was nothing. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. (From The Message, Genesis 1: 1) For cosmologists, in this nothingness before the moment of creation through the Big Bang, there was nothing but chaos. There was […]
There is a movement attempting to convince Western governments to forgive the debts of poor countries, particularly in Africa. Religious supporters of this idea often invoke the biblical Jubilee as an example and also as justification for large-scale debt relief.
I’ll let other people argue the merits of African debt relief. I’m more concerned about the […]
2/5/09 - In Florida, a doctor is investigated in a botched abortion:
Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.
Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready […]
WorldNetDaily reports on an imminent United Nations’ assault on parental rights with Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College weighed in.
The item of concern is the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child:
He told WND that under the U.N. Convention on […]
Providing further evidence that “postpartisan,” much like “bipartisan,” means “agreeing with me,” President Obama tried to rally his Democratic allies by deriding their GOP colleagues.
He apparently thinks that any and all spending qualifies as stimulus. Tax cuts, not so much.
Saying, “If you’re headed for a cliff, you’ve got to change direction,” he expressed his belief […]
David Brody has the video and transcript of President Obama addressing those in attendance at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast so you can watch and read the whole thing there. Some thoughts.
After giving a background of the history of the breakfast… which I wonder why they do that like those in attendance don’t know. […]
President Obama has said of the Senate stimulus package, “Let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the essential.”
This is essential?!
$800 million for Amtrack
$100 million to teach children about green construction
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$1 billion for Head Start
$14 million for travel expenses for a goverment board
$75 million for smoking cessation programs
Much of the nearly […]
In the midst of all the hoopla in Washington in an effort to pass the so-called stimulus package that contains more pork than hog heaven, one business is now hiring.
No, it is not all the banks and the automobile manufacturers that the federal government is “bailing out”; it is the one business that the government […]
On January 9,2009 then President-Elect Obama said, "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy."
Mr. President, what exactly do you call the 323 (give or take a couple) economists who signed the CATO Institute letter/ad (so far)? Economists who just haven’t seen […]
This was first posted back in October, 2005. I have also addressed this issue in my post, "Intelligent Design" (and my apologies for the links in that post that don’t work; I hope to have them up and working this week).
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The following is a copy of a letter that I sent to the Kansas Board […]
