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Speed limit

22-Aug-10

In Florida there is no messing around with speed.  The limit is 13, not 14.
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The Ground Zero mosque, or why we need a Savior

14-Aug-10

Doug Wilson does a superb job of explaining why America needs a living Savior instead of the menagerie of gods offered by the prevailing secularism.  Islam, in contrast to secularism, makes transcendent claims about its deity.  It does not matter that no actual Allah exists, says Wilson, because secularism’s response is to walk away from [...]

Israel

13-Aug-10

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It’s increasingly popular among non-evangelical Christians to say that Zionism equals racism and is therefore just another form of organized evil.  On that basis, they would categorize Israel as an apartheid state to be punished into conformity with the pluralistic West.  If I were to judge Israel on Gospel principles alone, I could almost see [...]

The borrower becomes servant to the lender

12-Aug-10

While we’re talking about the debt crisis, I thought you might like to know what our principal creditors are saying about us.  And that would be the Chinese.  They seem to be expecting an equity swap to settle our debts.  The American federal government came into possession of a gigantic pile of stocks with the [...]

You owe me…

11-Aug-10

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the federal deficit grew last month by $165 billion.  That’s billion with a ‘b.’  Dividing the amount by 300 million Americans, give or take, that comes to about $550 for every man, woman, boy, and girl in this U.S. of A.
If the Democrat nightmare of borrowing on your [...]

A guy you might wish to learn more about

11-Aug-10

Jason Sager is running for Congress as a conservative GOP candidate.  His candidacy interests me because of what he professes was his motivation for getting involved in politics.  He spent time learning about the law and the Constitution, he said in an interview on WSKY 97.3.  He now does something I find rare and refreshing.  [...]

Hypothetical case

08-Aug-10

Suppose a string of terror incidents were committed by the Right Wing Christian Fundamentalist Liberation Front.  Do you think it would take leftists this long to start noticing the identities of the perps?  If the Fundies had bombed a big Planned Parenthood clinic, boasted about it on the internet, and then tried to plant a [...]

Every now and then…

04-Aug-10

Every now and then, take a moment to thank God for something.
If you can smell your dinner, and if it smells good, yeah… that.  Thank him for that.
I knew a kid who got a brain tumor, and it ruined her sense of smell.  The most delicious things stank to her, made her gag.  Thank God [...]

Send General Joab to Afghanistan

30-Jul-10

The Bible tells the story of a man named Sheba and his confederates who rebelled against King David (2 Sam 20:1-22).  David’s forces under Joab defeated the rebellion, then Joab went after Sheba personally.  Sheba fled to a distant city called Abel of Beth-maachah with Joab in hot pursuit.  Upon arriving, Joab’s army began battering [...]

Did anyone… ANYONE doubt this would happen?

28-Jul-10

No matter what a law says, no matter what its basis, liberals can always shop a federal judge somewhere who will decree the leftist viewpoint.  That’s what has happened to the Arizona law that makes it illegal to be an illegal alien in Arizona.
This judge was first recommended to the feddle bench by Republican John [...]

0110 – 0110 – 0110, RFID of the Beast

25-Jul-10

The Bible makes a remarkable prediction about the shape of political and economic matters at the end of the age.  Rev 13:16-18 foretells a time when a government will seek to control all economic activity in the world by setting a mark on each individual.  Participation in commerce of any kind will require having the [...]

Civilization without God is unworthy of the name

24-Jul-10

Peter Hitchens gives an account of what people become when God is expunged from their lives.  Visiting two cities, Moscow under the Soviets and Mogadishu under the Moslems, made him realize the surpassing value of Christianity’s influence on civil society in the West, an influence we are in jeopardy of losing.  Read his excellent article [...]

Moratorium

22-Jul-10

The Obama administration has halted oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for several months, long enough to financially destroy many whose livings depend on it.  Now they’re talking about a similar moratorium on lobster fishing, this one for several years, plenty long enough to financially destroy another whole class of Americans.  This comes on [...]

Cocaine story

18-Jul-10

Frank* was divorced and a deputy in a Southern, rural county.  His marital status occasioned an interest in meeting women, and his occupation occasioned the occasion of meeting women.  Not all the women he met were good ones.  By and by he selected Delores from his informal harem of sleazy redneck women, and Frank and [...]

State-run media

13-Jul-10

Rush Limbaugh has been effectively lampooning the mainstream media for quite a while by referring to them as the “state-run media.”  Now the venerable Wall Street Journal has published a piece from Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University,  advocating government subsidies for mainstream media. Full disclosure: Bollinger’s bio says he’s a director of the Washington [...]