Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Answering A Fool
"Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes." Proverbs 26:5
Even though Ann Coulter is pretty crazy, I like reading her because she sometimes obeys this verse really well.
Especially here.
Excerpt:
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one.
Even though Ann Coulter is pretty crazy, I like reading her because she sometimes obeys this verse really well.
Especially here.
Excerpt:
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
"What does liberty have to do with taxes?"
I'm having a really hard time believing that this lady is legit.
I wonder if she knows where they came up with the name for yesterday's protests...
I wonder if she knows where they came up with the name for yesterday's protests...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The Chains of the Constitution
I'm currently on another (probably short-lived) kick of political contemplation and quandary. A couple of times a day I click on Drudge and other news sources, and after closing up the laptop I experience about an hour of mental sighs and complaints and worries.
I desperately want to be educated, stay informed, and maybe DO SOMETHING (like join a Tea party?), all-the-while maintaining a balanced perspective of the temporal/eternal, and NOT sinning by complaining, worrying, or disrespecting those whom the Lord has ordained to be my leaders. If anyone out there has any pointers, please help me out!
Ben has mentioned that the next time he's desperate, we might try to call up Nancy & Rick Pearcey for some insight. I spent a little time in a car with Nancy a few years ago and I'm pretty certain they're the kind of folks who would take the time to help us out.
In related news, I did just read a short & simple article comparing the way nations transition from having too little government (anarchy) to too much government (tyranny) to the swing of a pendulum. It says:
What the Founders set out to do was find a place between the two ends where there is just enough government control to protect the people’s rights, but not too much control as to oppress the people. A government in this position, the Founders believed, was so perfectly balanced between the two ends that the people would consent to it.
That is what they did when they wrote the Constitution. They found a place that would stop the swing of the pendulum where there was just enough government to protect the peoples’ rights, but not enough to oppress the people.
Jefferson said that in order to prevent a ruler from seizing too much power, we must “bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” The Constitution chained the government down to that balanced place between anarchy and tyranny.
Today we have a pendulum that is back in motion because we have neglected the Constitution. What the Founders wrote in that sacred document was the solution to almost every problem that we face in this nation today, because government not following the Constitution in the first place causes most problems that we have.
We must recapture that pendulum and rewrap the chains of the Constitution around it to ensure that we do not fall like every other great nation in the history of the world has, all due to the people falling victim to the frailty of their rulers.
Beautiful.
I desperately want to be educated, stay informed, and maybe DO SOMETHING (like join a Tea party?), all-the-while maintaining a balanced perspective of the temporal/eternal, and NOT sinning by complaining, worrying, or disrespecting those whom the Lord has ordained to be my leaders. If anyone out there has any pointers, please help me out!
Ben has mentioned that the next time he's desperate, we might try to call up Nancy & Rick Pearcey for some insight. I spent a little time in a car with Nancy a few years ago and I'm pretty certain they're the kind of folks who would take the time to help us out.
In related news, I did just read a short & simple article comparing the way nations transition from having too little government (anarchy) to too much government (tyranny) to the swing of a pendulum. It says:
What the Founders set out to do was find a place between the two ends where there is just enough government control to protect the people’s rights, but not too much control as to oppress the people. A government in this position, the Founders believed, was so perfectly balanced between the two ends that the people would consent to it.
That is what they did when they wrote the Constitution. They found a place that would stop the swing of the pendulum where there was just enough government to protect the peoples’ rights, but not enough to oppress the people.
Jefferson said that in order to prevent a ruler from seizing too much power, we must “bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” The Constitution chained the government down to that balanced place between anarchy and tyranny.
Today we have a pendulum that is back in motion because we have neglected the Constitution. What the Founders wrote in that sacred document was the solution to almost every problem that we face in this nation today, because government not following the Constitution in the first place causes most problems that we have.
We must recapture that pendulum and rewrap the chains of the Constitution around it to ensure that we do not fall like every other great nation in the history of the world has, all due to the people falling victim to the frailty of their rulers.
Beautiful.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I have a new friend from across the pond.
I just saw him interviewed on Fox News (Mary Ellen & I are visiting my parents who have cable television -- which means I flip between HGTV and Fox News), and he caught me off guard by saying he would've voted for Ron Paul.
Friday, March 06, 2009
The Vote of Non-taxpayers
I'm not educated enough to understand every word of this article about how "Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow," but I do know that this paragraph is scary:
New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.
New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.
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