Archive for 'Politics' Category
GOP Race
27 September 2011When Rick Perry got into the presidential race I was excited. To that point i’d held out hoping he’d get in. I liked Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain but did not think either had a chance. Things have, of course, changed in the last few weeks. Perry has performed badly in debates, going so far [...]
My Question for the FOXNews/Google Debate
17 September 2011Repeatedly we hear democrats charge that the collapse of the housing market and subsequent recession was the result of capitalism run amok. Indeed this has become a mantra of the anti-capitalist left. Yet we almost never hear Republicans challenge the left’s assertions and defend capitalism. In fact the housing bubble and subsequent collapse was the [...]
Ballots mean nothing
28 October 2010It seems that ballots are now meaningless, at least in Alaska. Every state has barriers to getting on the ballot. The main way one gets on a ballot is to win their party’s primary. Alternatively there is usually a path through petitions to get on the ballot. But the fact is you can’t get on [...]
Christianity and Politics
2 March 2010For many years I believed that if only we could, as a country, adopt the best political philosophy, we could turn America around and once again become a moral, Christian country. I hope you see the problem with this. I was placing my trust in a philosophy which is the same mistake Utopian thinkers have made throughout history.
A New Direction
18 February 2010It’s been a very long time since I put any effort into this blog. That has bothered me considerably since I put so much into it for several years but I just didn’t have the patience any longer to keep it up. Primarily that was because the main focus of the blog was political and [...]
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 [...]
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 2008On 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 2008A 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 [...]
