“If you want to tell whether someone is conservative or liberal, what are a couple of completely nonpolitical questions that will give a good clue?”
“How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his permission, as part of a comedy skit?”
“And, second: Does it disgust you to touch the faucet […]

North Korea tested their 2nd nuclear weapon this weekend and has fired three surface to air missiles off of their coast yesterday.  How does the Obama administration confront North Korea regarding this blatant disregard of a U.N. resolution?  With weak words says Jeffrey Emanuel.
The inexperienced president and his administration appear reluctant to go any […]

I can’t embed videos here, so visit My Three Cents for a clip of SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor sharing her view of the role of the courts in making public policy.

Memorial Day began as a remembrance of the Union dead of the War Between the States. It was not until after World War I that the meaning of the day was expanded to honor all those who died in American Wars. And it was not until 1971 that Congress made the day a national holiday.
Major […]

With all of the debate swirling around recently with the Iowa Gay Marriage Ruling, with my stand on Abortion, and in my work with high-risk kids when sharing the Gospel; I’m often told… “yeah Shane, but God is love.”  “A loving God would never do that.”  “A loving God wouldn’t make me this way and […]

This is a portion of what I have posted on my own blog for this Sunday:
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Abraham Lincoln once told us that the government of this country was a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” But it doesn’t appear to me that we have that sort of government anymore.
In the […]

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has created a real firestorm for herself when it comes to what she knew and approved of in reference to the practice of waterboarding by the CIA. At first she insisted that she did not know it was actually happening, but then briefing documents were released by the CIA […]

Here are my thoughts for the 5th Sunday of Easter.  The Scriptures are Acts 8: 26 – 40, 1 John 4: 7 – 21, and John 15: 1 – 8.
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I was thinking about two different things this week; one which dealt with the lectionary readings for this week and one that didn’t. But in a […]

So Arlen Specter is now a Democrat. Or is he? Is it more that what he believes is more in line with how Democrats are identified than how Republicans are identified? Or perhaps he switched parties in order to stay in the Senate because it appeared that the Republican party of Pennsylvania was looking to […]

Oklahoma looks like it’s about to be the next state to remind the federal government about the 10th Amendment. It sounds great, and I’m sure it’s very cathartic.
Beyond that it’s really quite meaningless.
I think the states should pay attention to Prof. Randy Barnett’s recommendation to “petition Congress for a convention to propose amendments to the […]

Specter hints Hemp died of GOP agenda
“Sen. Arlen Specter … suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.”
“‘If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be […]

The last election saw the Republican party beat down, cussed out, and given a wedgie by the electorate. And it was all well deserved. The party of the Contract with America became just like the party it had deposed. After the election, pundits spent a lot of energy and ink on what they need to […]