Saturday, September 4. 2010
Here is a really good column by George Will. It is about why the Environmental Movement ("Go Green") is floundering, but has important observations that are really on target about "change" in our Society.
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Wednesday, September 1. 2010
Recently some 450,000 Americans submitted more than 10,000 ideas to a website. These ideas from the public were sorted by popularity and reduced to the top ten. The list with these ideas is now called a "Contract from America". It is being used to qualify candidates for the upcoming Congressional elections. Candidates are being asked to literally sign the Contract and agree to work to actualize the 10 ideas it proposes
In general, the ideas listed offer ways to support individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom. Sounds good to me. Those are the traditional points of conservative Republicans (although this Contract from America is supposed to be from the grass roots and has Tea Party roots. The most popular demand to be expected from our elected officials, the one garnering the most votes, is this-
Protect the Constitution Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03% of the votes from 450,000 citizens)
Continue reading "MAJOR FLAW WITH THE "CONTRACT FROM AMERICA""
Wednesday, September 1. 2010
Now President Obama appears to have "lost" New York Times liberal economic columnist Paul Krugman. Krugman, who enthusiastically supported the president's redistributionist and stimulus plans, has bowed to the reality that they are not working
Writing in U.S. News & World Report, publisher Mort Zuckerman takes the Krugman view a step further by calling the administration he once supported "The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History."
An economy burdened down with debt because of too much government spending, a health care law that will add new and unknown burdens, expiring tax cuts that will take more money from the private sector for government to waste and abuse, and a stock market unsure and thus unable to fuel the economic engine to propel us out of this recession, is not a "summer of recovery," but a winter of discontent.
Wednesday, September 1. 2010
Banner Headline in our local paper this morning: "Home foreclosure woes persist", echoing a similiar headline in the Boston Globe. The local article continues with, "...despite the federal Making Home Affordable program designed to keep them in their homes."
Mona Charen's column in the same paper is titled "Federal mortgage rescue ends up subsidizing failure."
"President Obama has a weakness for thinking in categories. For someone who provokes swoons among liberals for his great intellect, he has repeatedly evidenced an unsophisticated, one might even say simple-minded, view of the world: Workers good; bosses exploitative. Borrowers good; lenders bad. Patients good; insurance companies bad. Again and again, the president and his spokesmen have justified their expansions of government power as efforts to help those who "through no fault of their own" find themselves in difficulties.
Many politicians traffic in this kind rhetoric during campaigns, but Obama has institutionalized it in policy. One of those reifications -- the Home Affordable Modification Program -- now stands revealed as a failure."
Charen's on target analysis can be read here
/MonaCharen/2010/08/27/obamas_manichean_world
Monday, August 30. 2010
First, some Quotes:
Beck had explained why he decided to spearhead what was, in many respects, an ecumenical revival. “My role, as I see it, is to wake America up to the backsliding of principles and values and most of all of God,” he told the assembled conservative activists. “We are a country of God.
“Something that is beyond man is happening,” he said, his voice echoing all the way to the Washington Monument. “America today begins to turn back to God.”
Beck’s opening theme, calling the assembled to embrace God and remember the traditional, foundational values of the country, was carried on by the ensuing speakers.
Ultimately, however, it was Beck’s call for a religious rebirth that dominated. He urged the throngs to “recognize your place to the Creator” and to “realize that He is our king.”
“He is the one who guides and directs our life and protects us,” Beck said, his voice rising. “I ask, not only if you would pray on your knees, but pray on your knees with your door open for your children to see.”
Quotes from National review online Aug 28, 2010
Continue reading "PROBLEMS WITH THE BECK RALLY LAST WEEK, Part 1"
Monday, August 30. 2010
Mr Beck spoke passionately at his rally, calling America back to God. The message resonated well with the thousands gathered before him. Many were probably evangelical Christians and they agreed with what Mr beck was saying. They assumed that what he means by God is the same they mean. However, Mr beck is a Mormon and the Mormon Doctrine of God is not orthodox, Biblical or Christian in the least! So what did Mr Beck really mean?
A visit to a major Mormon website, Mormon.org., is an attractive website that, I am guessing, would belie what I have just written for many. Reading it the "Church of Latter Day Saints" could easily come across as evangelical to many evangelicals. That is because many evangelicals are not well grounded in Doctrine these days, are naive and lack spiritual discernment (very sorry to say!).
Continue reading "PROBLEMS WITH THE BECK RALLY LAST WEEK, Part 2"
Monday, August 30. 2010
The recent rally led by Glen Beck in Washington featured many tributes to our Service men and women. It is necessary and right that we honor those who serve in our Military Forces and we are happy to do so! They have a God-given mission as an instrument of the Government to protect our Country and defeat the armed forces from other Countries who attack us. In doing this they serve the Lord.
Romans 12;3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Continue reading "SUPPORTING THE MILITARY"
Tuesday, August 17. 2010
"Since the 1960s large numbers of Muslims have been migrating to the West. Muslim migration is unusual because of radicals within the community who are deliberately seeking to create dramatic changes in their host societies; they want Islam to gain social, cultural, economic and political power.
What is happening in the West is linked to worldwide developments in Islam. Muslims around the globe are regaining their confidence and promoting a resurgence of Islam. Their aim is to establish Muslim control in politics, economics and culture in every country. In this process the Islamic world is growing more assertive and intolerant towards the West. This resurgence of Islam and the increasing power of Islamism (political Islam) strongly impact Muslim communities in the West. In response, the West is gradually changing its structures, laws and customs to suit its Muslim communities."
Continue reading "MUSLIMS ON THE MOVE"
Sunday, August 15. 2010
The President is free to swim anywhere he wants (unless entering the water is declared illegal or unsafe by the Authorities), but he chose to swim in the Gulf water for one reason- to send a message: "Gulf water is now safe. All you tourists come on down and jump in." He is now going on to swim in Long Island Sound, but that will not be to send a message, just to swim. Florida was political drama. Everyone accepts that. Therefore, no one should have any problem accepting the reality that building an Islamic Center at Ground Zero in NYC could also be political drama, meant to send a message. It is not about swimming in the waters of religious freedom. That could be done in many other places, but that would not send a "Message". The Message it sends to me and millions of other Americans is, at the very least, "we do not care what your feelings are about what happened here or what you feel about the Moslems who did it". The Message could be even more ominous.
Saturday, August 14. 2010
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