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Three Thoughts After a Fall

2010-03-07T08:23:00.003-06:00

It's not my fault. Jesus is enough. I'll accept whatever he does.

When Good News Isn't

2010-03-06T10:11:00.002-06:00

The unemployment rate holds steady at 9.7 percent, and the politicians and pundits are calling it good news? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Mayor Obama

2010-03-05T06:00:00.000-06:00

In all his brushing off of the voters and his bribing legislators to get what he wants or, if that doesn't work, running over them, Barack Obama reminds me not so much of FDR but instead of his real role model ... Mayor Daley. Welcome to Chicago-style democracy, writ large.

Guns

2010-03-04T06:00:00.001-06:00

If you're going to stick to your guns, make sure they're loaded.

Nukes

2010-03-03T06:07:00.000-06:00

As Iran continues to defy international opinion with its uranium-enrichment program, the mullahs insist it is for peaceful purposes. And what did you expect them to say? They would claim this whether or not the high-grade nuke program is peaceful. But I don't think it is. Do you?

Marriage Ref?

2010-03-02T06:05:00.001-06:00

Jerry Seinfeld refereeing marriages? What's wrong with this picture? More to the point, what's right?

Wealth

2010-03-01T06:34:00.004-06:00

Clarence was right. True wealth is found not in the bank but in your relationships.

Wake-up Calls

2010-02-28T07:44:00.003-06:00

Christian faith tells us that one day the Creator will return, setting a world spinning out of control back on its axis. With all the snowicanes, earthquakes, and financial and moral catastrophes besetting us these days, it would be hard to argue against the proposition that the Day is near.

I'm not in the business of timing such things, but I think it would be wise to take spiritual stock. "Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep," it says in Rom. 13:11 (ESV). "For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed."

Tissues

2010-02-27T05:36:00.000-06:00

When going to the hospital for surgery, be sure to pack your own tissues. Or you'll be paying through the nose.

Tilly

2010-02-26T06:05:00.001-06:00

Turns out Tilly the killer whale that held a trainer underwater until she died had already killed. Isn't it a basic approach to put down or remove animals that have already killed people because they have already lost their fear of man?

Messiah

2010-02-25T08:29:00.002-06:00

President Obama is going to put his powers as a political powers as messiah to the test, attempting to (1) sway Republicans to support a health care plan voters have already rejected and (2) blame Republicans if they don't. Meanwhile, the national debt and unemployment continue to explode. What part of "no" doesn't Obama understand? The political life Mr. Obama needs to resurrect may be his own.

Discrimination

2010-02-24T06:03:00.000-06:00

Six thousand African Americans who failed a test to join the Chicago police force are suing because of alleged racial discrimination. The discrimination, if I'm not mistaken, is that they were forced to pass the same test as everyone else. Thus, the meaning of discrimination has been turned on its head.

The people they should be suing are those who ran their schools into the ground, the parents who didn't teach them life or academic skills, and themselves for not studying the body of human knowledge that is freely out there for anyone who wants it.

Kid Wisdom

2010-02-23T06:07:00.000-06:00

"Why do atheists swear?"

Character

2010-02-22T06:02:00.001-06:00

I wasn't really thinking I needed more character building at this point, but I'm getting shoulder surgery today anyway. Here's hoping it works-on my shoulder and on my heart.

Tiger

2010-02-20T06:05:00.001-06:00

It's not my business, but I'm willing (with no chips in the game) to give Tiger the benefit of the doubt. Until further notice.

Getting Serious?

2010-02-19T09:15:00.002-06:00

Iran is going nuclear, the national debt is threatening national security, the pace of terrorist attacks is increasing, Washington is shut down by snow, and voters are in revolt. Meanwhile, the president is checking his Blackberry every 30 minutes for ... Olympic results?

Unreal

2010-02-18T09:03:00.006-06:00

Team Obama seems to have settled on 2 million as the number of jobs "saved or created" by the $800 billion "stimulus" bill. I won't deny that perhaps some jobs were "saved or created"; in Illinois, where they poured in $242 million of "stimulus," it was a banner year for people providing "weatherization" services for government housing. But these are not real jobs, and the taxpayer money used to "save or create" them didn't stimulate anything lasting, except more government debt. As Evan Bayh honestly pointed out, government hasn't created even one job over the last six months in the private sector, which is the engine of the real economy.

Going Nuclear

2010-02-17T06:12:00.001-06:00

Barack Obama advocating nuclear power? Maybe he is waking up. Now if he'll only start drilling....

Wrong on Rights

2010-02-16T09:35:00.001-06:00

U.S. forces just captured the No. 2 Taliban leader in Karachi. Quick, somebody interrogate him before Eric Holder shows up and reads him his rights.

Global Cult

2010-02-15T15:12:00.002-06:00

First, too little snow was evidence of global warming. Now, too much is evidence of global warming (er, "climate change"). When everything is evidence for a theory and the theory becomes nonfalsifiable, it ceases to be science and becommes something akin to ... a cult.

Money

2010-02-14T06:04:00.000-06:00

For an author or agent, the money's not in the proposal. It's in the book.

Dancing

2010-02-13T09:02:00.001-06:00

Somewhere in Vancouver, representatives of Canada's First Nations are still dancing ....

Overconfidence

2010-02-12T09:22:00.001-06:00

FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. For conservatives looking for change this November, the only thing we have to fear is overconfidence.

Red Ink

2010-02-11T10:17:00.004-06:00

I heard Gov. Tim Pawlenty yesterday. He said the federal government takes in $2.2 trillion annually and has an annual budget deficit of approximately $1.5 trillion. But he said that's just the beginning. Nancy Pelosi just upped the national debt ceiling from $12 trillion to $14 trillion. Then the taxpayer is also on the hook for $65 trillion in payments for Social Security, Medicare, and so on. Pawlenty said we will have to default, though we won't call it that.

Are you getting fed up with deficit spending yet? More to the point, are you getting scared?