Author RSSThe PC Wars of 2010 and Beyond - Spiritual wickedness in high places
For almost an entire generation we have thrust a two pronged socialistic pitch fork at the minds of our youth. One prong is marked ‘disdain of nationalism’ or national pride from which patriotism is fed but not born. The other prong is marked rejectio...
Words: Can America ignore these flags of moral decline?
Republicans repeatedly raised the call to remember that they are representatives of their constituents who clearly are not in acceptance of the proposed bill. Perhaps none were as eloquent and powerful as Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan (R) whose answers to the P...
Prophets are not God's PR men - Evangelism is not cheerleading
If the Christian right has seen its day since the height of the Reagan years then where is it today? Falwell is gone, Dr. James Kennedy is gone, Dobson is retired and John Hagee said he would not endorse another candidate ever after being shunned by McCa...
Dawkins on Haiti - Robertson True to Christian Theology?
Dawkins starts his article by side stepping the usual requirements and protocol for standard article submission. His name appears before and after the title. He follows that with bold article sub headings and bold parenthetical statements made for effect,...
American Style Homeostasis - The Times they are a Changing
Bernard discovered that all living organisms have internal “multiple dynamic equilibria adjustment and regulation mechanisms.” In simple terms, that means we all have an internal clock.
Homeostasis is that inner knowledge of time or our ability to ...
Beck's 'Dumbest Thing' argument is philosophically flawed
Beck’s answer to the birther’s quest is to take up something else like the constitutionality of health care and the legality of Czars. We have to wonder if Beck has forgotten that we have a democratically controlled House and Senate.
If the best m...
2009 the year of the lie - 2010 the year of reckoning
Those who seek only the truth stand in shock when they discover how few people care about the truth altogether. This is what we call a sad truth.
Trying to keep up on current events is hard enough but trying to keep up with the latest fabulous falsehoo...
Old Dogs, Fat Cats and Generational Lies
Old dogs tend to sleep in the middle of the road, move slowly and don’t bark as quickly as they once did at the first sign of danger. As they begin to age it is not their lifetime of loyalty that keeps them alive until the last possible moment, it is ou...
The Manhattan Declaration - To Every Thing there is a Season
When questioned by news commentator Bill O’Reilly on the Factor Nov 24, 2009 about the propriety of the act, Lis Wiehl said that she thought it was all OK as long as it was done between the hours of 10:pm and 6:am. She explained that this was the time f...
The Way That Seems Right: The Social Church in America
All you have to do today to get a crowd in church is announce a study on The Purpose Driven Life. Even Catholics have taken to Warren-izing their congregations. If you want a little more credence then invite U2’s Bono to your conference or Joel Osteen t...
The Quality of Mercy - Soldiers of These United States
Just when we thought there couldn’t be another movie about WW II along comes Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and the ten part miniseries about the 101st Airborne’s Easy Company with the epic and stirring film Band of Brothers.
Most American...
Ft. Hood Massacre - Psychological or Theological Problem?
It might seem a bit like asking a fox why another fox attacked the hen house and to others the question of why the physician could not heal himself is not likely to be answered by his equally bewildered colleagues.
Hasan who immigrated to America from ...
The Three Rs of Prophetic Warning - Old Time Stuff that still Works Today
In the issuance of prophetic utterance there is also a three Rs, spelled correctly they are redemption, renewal and rebuke. It serves well to consider another phrase often used in America usually as a means of expressing some disdain. The phrase ‘organi...
Foxophobia, Triskaidekaphobia - Fickle Phantasms from the White House?
President Obama’s persistence in singling Fox News out for scoffing and scolding has generated more disbelief than relief for most Americans. It is hard for anyone to imagine a President using the advantage of the office of the President to single out a...
Barack Obama versus the Law of Sooner or Later
In spite of living in a land that thinks positive thinking is the only kind of thought that is PC legal, doubt can be and always will be a good thing. It is not only what can free the innocent but it can also keep us from falling headlong to our own demis...