

"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good
resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as
usual." — Mark Twain |
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Abortion
As A Test of Conscience |
Where
Are Pols? Barack Obama and his family are vacationing in his native Hawaii, far from the wintry snows of Chicago — and far from almost every other American politician. There’s a metaphor here for how I think Obama is going to conduct himself as president: He’s going to try to keep his distance from other politicians, including his fellow Democrats. I see him trying to remain aloof from his party, much as Dwight Eisenhower did five decades ago. Like Eisenhower, I think he’s drawn the conclusion that his party needs him more than he needs his party. MORE> |
American
Czars; From Eggs to Automobiles |
The
Net-Zero Gas Tax |
Cheap
advice from a newspaper that supports failed experiments In a recent editorial, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel attributed Milwaukee Public Schools' problems to a "dysfunctional school board" ("Restructuring needed," Dec. 21). It proposed eliminating the elected board and replacing it with an appointed one. This proposal is consistent with the paper's decade-long history of suggesting changes in governance are the key to increased student achievement. The editors are right that MPS faces enormous challenges: • Nearly 80% of our students come from poor, educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. MORE> |
Resolutions ’09 |
The
Unitarian Church and With the media carefully pretending not to notice, Barack Obama's choice to hold a memorial service December 23 for his late grandmother Madelyn "Toot" Dunham at Honolulu's First Unitarian Church underlines one part of the story of Barack Obama's leftist religious upbringing. What is First Unitarian Church? Their website describes counter-recruitment efforts intended for "deconstructing the myth" ... "used in propaganda for the military (as with ads for Marine recruitment)." MORE> |
Another
Great Depression? With both Barack Obama's supporters and the media looking forward to the new administration's policies being similar to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies during the 1930s depression, it may be useful to look at just what those policies were and-- more important-- what their consequences were. The prevailing view in many quarters is that the stock market crash of 1929 was a failure of the free market that led to massive unemployment in the 1930s-- and that it was intervention of Roosevelt's New Deal policies that rescued the economy. MORE> |
My
Triumph Over Kwanzaa! Is it just me, or does Kwanzaa seem to come earlier and earlier each
year? This year, I believe my triumph over this synthetic holiday is
nearly complete. The only mentions of Kwanzaa I've seen are humorous
ones. Most important, for the first time in eight years, President
George Bush appears not to have issued "Kwanzaa greetings" to
honor this phony non-Christian holiday that is younger than I am. It
is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI
stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder
of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers
and a dupe of the FBI. MORE> |
Global
Warming Rope-a-Dope Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy our planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil. The Washington Post asserted on May 28, 2006 that there were only "a handful of skeptics" of manmade climate fears. Bill Blakemore on Aug. 30, 2006 said, "After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such (scientific) debate on global warming." U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said it was "criminally irresponsible" to ignore the urgency of global warming. MORE> |
Will
newspapers deliver? With each passing week, fewer and fewer of you are reading this column the old fashioned way - holding up a newspaper printed on newsprint. In what appears to be a trend with no end, more and more of you are reading this column, and everything else in the "newspaper," online on a computer or other Internet device. This radical change in the delivery of news and information is profound and is the end of centuries of news and information printed on paper and distributed to the masses. MORE> |
2008:
With the bad came some good As the year winds to a close, let’s list the good things that happened in 2008. You might be tempted to ask: What good news? After all, we’ve suffered an economic 9/11. So, let’s deal with the bad news first. We’re giving billions of dollars away in bailouts to companies that won’t reveal what they’re spending it on. The government is taking over the free market (or saving it - depending on how you look at it). People are losing their jobs, house values are plummeting… MORE> |
'Stimulus'
Doesn't Have to Mean Pork |
If
You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going The economic times we are living in are rougher and scarier than Rosie just before getting bikini waxed. With our national cash crisis comes a bazillion other ancillary spiritual and physical spin-off problems. As a columnist, talk show host and minister I’m now getting my inbox inundated with emails asking me how to spiritually field this mucked up mess we’re mired in (that’s how bad it is . . . people are asking me for advice). What follows is my attempt to Dr. Phil you folks thru this crap-laden crunch we’re currently getting crushed by with seven hard learned lessons about God and life from the last 25 years of getting my butt kicked. MORE> |
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