Monthly Archives: November 2009
People Prove By Their Actions If They’re Worthy Of Trust
According to yesterday’s London Telegraph (a go-to source for Climategate news), “Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data – dubbed Climategate – have agreed to publish their figures in full.” … Continue reading
Filed under Environmentalism
Science And Religion Are, Well, Different
But that simple truth has escaped Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift. From Newsbusters: On the Nov. 29 edition of “The McLaughlin Group,” host John McLaughlin asked about the prospects of a Copenhagen climate change treaty and its possible impact on the U.S. … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Environmentalism
Mike Huckabee’s Having A Dukakis Kind Of Day
I wonder if Mike Huckabee’s conscience is bothering him tonight.*
“Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers this morning, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
“Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.
“‘This is the day I’ve been dreading for a long time,’ Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas’ Pulaski County said Sunday night when informed that Clemmons was being sought in connection to the killings.” Continue reading
Filed under Pierce County, Washington
Holiday Madness
Is it really asking so much to expect that CDs filled with songs such as “Christmas Canon,” “Tennessee Christmas,” “Blue Christmas” or “The Christmas Song” be assigned to the genre “Christmas” rather than “Holiday” music? Honestly, is anyone who would … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity
Is Giving Up Golf On The Table?
President Obama met with his Cabinet yesterday and afterward delivered some remarks. He said, among other things:
Since that time, we’ve passed a Recovery Act that’s put a middle-class tax cut into people’s pockets, that has invested in infrastructure all across this country and put people back to work, and something that isn’t noted often enough, has helped stabilize state budgets at a time in which we could have seen hundreds of thousands of layoffs in teachers and police officers and firefighters.
I suppose that you could say stimulus funds “stabilized the budget” here in Washington if you consider a one-time infusion of funds to be stabilization. Continue reading
Filed under Budget, Washington
Of Bishops and Congressmen
You may have seen news stories over the weekend about the controversy surrounding Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and the Bishop’s request that Kennedy refrain from taking communion because of his publicly stated pro-choice stance.
As a result of the controversy, Bishop Tobin appeared on “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” For those of you who can’t bear to watch Chris Matthews, I sympathize – I couldn’t watch the entire thing myself. Fortunately, the part I found really interesting was right at the beginning. The segment started with a clip of John F. Kennedy speaking to Ministerial Association of Greater Houston on September 12, 1960.
“I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source — where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials.” Continue reading
Filed under Abortion, Christianity, Health Care
Conservative Blogroll Awesomeness
Just in case you have several hours to spare each day, Bombs and Dollars has put together quite a nice list of conservative blogs. Unfortunately, It’s Only Words didn’t make the cut, but I can forgive that. This time.
Filed under Conservatism
If I Wanted To Live Like A European, I’d Move To Europe
How do you suppose it is that European countries can afford to provide health care to their citizens at levels that their governments consider acceptable? Consider this tidbit from “The Threat to Medical Innovation,” appearing in The American Spectator.
“…Between 1969 and 2008, 57 of the 97 Nobel Prizes in medicine and physiology — or nearly 60 percent — were awarded to people who did their research in the U.S., and nine of the top 10 medical innovations between 1975 and 2000 were developed here.”
Aside from rationing care, might it be that they’re taking advantage of U.S. medical innovations while scorning us as heartless and unenlightened for not socializing our health care system? (Much like they rely on a strong US Military in lieu of fielding one themselves, then scorn us as uncivilized brutes?) I wonder how they’ll get along if the U.S. adopts an innovation-killing, European style health care system? Continue reading
Filed under Health Care
Beating the Blue Dog Horse
Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska provides one more example of why it’s important for the GOP to challenge Blue Dog Democrats in every district. (You know, aside from the fact that those are the districts where they’re more likely to win.) Continue reading
Filed under Health Care
It’s Only Words’ Sexiest Man Alive Award, 2009
People Magazine has named Johnny Depp as its “Sexiest Man Alive” for the second time. Are you freaking kidding me? With so many delicious choices, they’re trotting out Depp for a second go-round? Continue reading
Filed under Washington
