Archive for 'Politics' Category
Some Much Needed Perspective
3 November 2008Two days until election day and both liberals and conservatives alike are worried. Tuesday has the potential to be another razor close election, though some liberals are predicting an Obama landslide. On the other side, Tammy Bruce, filling in on the Laura Ingraham show Friday predicted a McCain win. I don’t know about you but [...]
What Does the GOP, and This Country, Need?
21 May 2008I know I wasn’t going to be posting here but this is just too important. This is cross posted from Ft Hard Knox.
It’s an interesting question. The GOP loses in the ‘06 election were widely attributed, both by GOP leadership and the media, to unhappiness over the Iraq war. While there was certainly unhappiness over [...]
40 Years Later: King’s Legacy
4 April 2008As expected, all three presidential candidates are giving speeches today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. And rightly so. Dr. King’s struggle was a righteous struggle. By the time of King’s rise to leadership, the plight of blacks in much of America was bleak. The south in particular was [...]
UK Independent reports the Mecca orientation of the Flight 93 crescent
3 April 2008 On Saturday, the conflict over Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial got its first international news coverage. One highlight is the conversation that Leonard Doyle, U.S editor of the UK Independent, had with Tom Burnett Sr.:
Tom Burnett, whose son Tom Jnr died in the crash, said of the design that it is “aesthetically [...]
Petition for Congressional Investigation
26 March 2008 A petition to stop the crescent memorial is now being circulated on the ground in western Pennsylvania. As a complement to this old fashioned canvassing effort, an electronic petition has also been created at ipetitions.com. Please circulate far and wide!
The petitions highlight four cases of apparent Islamic symbolism in the memorial design. Here is [...]
Who Wants Theocracy?
22 March 2008Yesterday I wrote about Jefferson and the separation of church and state. Today I want to address the question of theocracy more directly. As I mentioned yesterday, there are many on the left who seem to believe that the religious right really wants to institute a theocracy in America. Nothing could be further from the [...]
American Theocracy?
21 March 2008From time to time you hear from someone or other who claims America is becoming a theocracy. Many believe the religious right controls the Republican Party and wants to institute theocracy in America. I have little patience for such rhetoric simply because it is demonstrably false.
Many of these same accusers love to tout "separation of [...]
Is Obama Wright?
20 March 2008News broke a few minutes ago that a McCain staffer had been suspended for circulating a YouTube video via Twitter. The video was titled, Is Obama Wright? I’ve watched the video and embedded it below. It is spot on! That McCain has a problem illustrates the problem conservatives have with him. Or maybe this was [...]
QiblaLocator confirms Mecca orientation of Flight 93 crescent
19 March 2008Reader Max K. found another Islamic website with a Mecca-direction calculator. It can be used to construct yet another graphical demonstration that the Flight 93 memorial points to Mecca. Muslims face Mecca for prayer, with the direction to Mecca calculated by the great circle method. Enter your street address into the search field at [...]
Where Loyalties Lie
18 March 2008This morning Barack Obama gave his race speech where he dealt with the issue of race and his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. While it was certainly a rousing speech, expertly delivered, it reveals some serious and profound misunderstandings and misconceptions held by Senator Obama.
The largest and most glaring of those misconceptions is his understanding of [...]
