What drives our debt? Entitlements–83 redundant federal programs designed to redistribute tax dollars to “the least among us,” trapping them in an insidious cycle of dependency. Medicare–a wholly failed government monopoly that pays out 3 dollars for every dollar it takes in. Social Security, which does likewise, a raided fund full of empty IOUs.

What is the deficit-slashing, ultra-cerebral president’s position on entitlements? HANDS OFF. Head-in-Sand. Alfred E. Nueman: Who me? delusion.

This is the default line of a man consumed by rhetoric. The president loves rhetoric. Indeed, he desires all the trappings of power, the Bully Pulpit and the megaphone, the pomp and the primacy, but none of the responsibility or accountability of the job. That he’s achieving this state free of challenge from traditional sources is a tragedy. The media acts as if he took office yesterday, as if the president – glowingly insular – is supremely occupied with solving problems, with deep, existential questions, when in fact he’s disinterested, lazy, and aloof. He doesn’t govern–that would take leadership and engagement… There is no seriousness in Barack Obama–he’s occupied with politics, wedge issues that deflect blame to Republicans, and expanding bureaucracy. He’s occupied with saying one thing and doing another. He’s profoundly unserious.

But he’s trying!

Yes, the new standard among the left, too many hapless moderates, and a jaw-droppingly dumbed-down electorate, is words that “sound good” and reflect non-reality. This week the president is “hitting the road,” traveling the country to sell his new agenda: gun control, green jobs, and tax hikes packaged as a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction.

The American people, meanwhile, suffer Truth Reduction, even as the president claims great success and manipulates words from his high-horse Trojan Mare.

NBC website–NO coverage; headline: Auto bailout comments hurt Romney in car country…. CBS website–NO coverage; headline: Will white men sink Obama? …. ABC website–one obscure mention, softball headline….

Seriously….  It’s as if Watergate has broken open, but, instead of reporting it, the media is conspiring with Nixon…. They are, in FACT, conspiring with Obama to whitewash a blatant cover-up…. The president, in an effort to protect his campaign Talking Point – that he, Superman, has “decimated al Qaida” – forswore his duty to protect Americans, who died as a result…. With resources available, and drones overhead – with clear intelligence stating unequivocally that terrorists were mounting a deadly assault – the president, literally, allowed Ambassador Stevens, Navy SEAL, Tyrone Woods, and 2 other Americans, to perish, and did so, insidiously, for political reasons.

Watergate is considered America’s biggest scandal.  Watergate symbolizes the corrupting influence of unfettered power.  Watergate, however, didn’t bring us body-bags, flag-draped coffins, grieving parents, a ridiculous video, absurd apologies to terrorists by high level officials reminiscent of a Neville Chamberlain grovel, and a media spavined by bias so blatant that it conjures the salad days of Pravda CCCP.

Obama is up 4 coffins on Nixon.  He watched – or was certainly aware that al Qaida wanted him to – Americans die on American territory.  He did nothing.  He flew to Las Vegas…. He attacked Mitt Romney.

The president, from day one, lacked the gravitas necessary to perform the duties of his office.  He has disgraced and embarrassed and divided America like no leader in our lifetimes.  He, if he had honor, would resign–in a just world, he would be impeached.  That he will suffer neither fate is an indictment of our culture.  Journalism schools have churned out sycophantic, unprofessional lapdogs incapable of objectivity.  For it, Americans are worse off.

And, tragically, some are dead.

~Greg Halvorson

UPDATE: In an interview, earlier today (10-26), with KUSA-Denver, the president was asked whether requests for help were denied in real time.  His answer:

“Well, we are finding out exactly what happened… I can tell you as I have said over the last couple of months since this happened, that the minute I found out what was going on, I gave three very clear directives.  Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to.  Number two, we’re going to investigate exactly what happened to make sure it doesn’t happen again.  Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice…  I guarantee you that everybody in the State Department, our military, CIA, you name it, had as the number one priority making sure that people were safe.”

Yet another blatant falsehood from the most dishonest president in modern times.

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Greg-

After all Barack has done in office, and after all you have done to build this campaign, we can’t afford to watch everything slip away on Election Night.

But the other side has out-raised us–our opponents have $45 million more than we do for the Final Stretch….  And none of us has ever seen what a barrage of money like that will do.

That’s why we need to do everything we can in the last days, and why we still need your support.

And, until, tomorrow night, any donation you make will automatically enter you to meet Barack on Election Night!

We can either give it our all in these final days, or wake up on November 7th wishing we’d done a little more.

Don’t wait!

Supporting this campaign once more will move us closer to victory, and enter you to win a trip to join Barack on Election Night.

Thanks, Michelle

~ ~ ~

Contrast that to the Romney e-mail this morning:

Greg-

Tonight, Ann and I are keeping the people in Hurricane Sandy’s path in our thoughts and prayers.

I hope that if you can, you will reach out to your neighbors who may need help getting ready for the storm–especially your elderly neighbors.
And if you can give of your resources or time, please consider supporting your local Red Cross organization – visit www.redcross.org to get involved.

For safety’s sake, as you and your family prepare for the storm, please be sure to bring any yard signs inside. In high winds, they can be dangerous and cause damage to homes and property.

I’m never so proud of Americans as when I see how we pull together in a crisis.  There’s nothing that we can’t handle when we stand together.

Stay safe and God bless,

Mitt Romney

~ ~ ~

Here, in a nutshell, is next Tuesday’s choice….  A man of character or a man of particularly egregious moral failings compounded by the media’s likeminded turpitude in failing, completely, to expound on the egregiousness.  Note how Romney selflessly seeks donations, not for himself, but for hurricane relief; whereas, Obama, via Antoinette, grovels for dimes.

Please, if you live in a swing-state – Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania…. – do not vote alone…. A Zombie Apocalypse can be avoided here, but only if the non-Zombies inundate the polls.

~Greg Halvorson

Now, however, as ObamaCare unfolds – and “we find out what is in it” – we understand two things: 1) that joining “modernity,” as defined by socialists, is regressive; and 2) that Democrats have moved so leftward that they’re now indistinguishable from the dictator of Cuba.

As to lawsuits brought on behalf of Catholic entities, it’s ironic to note that the Archdiocese backed ObamaCare.  Indeed, papal dictates from Rome continue to espouse “universal” health care – socialized medicine – its failures notwithstanding.  Catholic leadership, while angered by mandates which violate moral conscience, is nonetheless empowering men – progressive secularists – who want to strip them of rights.

ObamaCare is force codified within 2700 pages of “mays” and “shalls” leading to debt, lack of choice, and taxation.  Government-centric health care will exacerbate the problems – access and high premiums – it claims to remedy.  For Catholics, the words “social justice” sound good, but the phrase is manipulative.  Social justice is Marxism.  Catholics cannot push for greater government and, in turn, expect Government to promote liberty.

What’s good in ObamaCare?  Nothing.  While you won’t hear it from John Boehner, mandating that companies cover “children” 8 years removed from high school is absurd.  Twenty-six year-olds are not children.  Americans should be offended that adults are being “infantilized” by the State.  The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that “care,” without co-pay, will lower costs, and that it’s somehow “progressive” to have zero responsibility when seeing a doctor.  That there are no market reforms in ObamaCare is lost on liberals who persist in believing that mandates, services, and programs are “free.”

Technocrats cannot add tens of millions of patients to a system, create incentives to abuse it, and pretend doctors won’t suffer.  A recent survey estimates that by 2020, the nation will need 91,000 new physicians, while at the same time doctors may retire en masse.  The law bans physician-owned hospitals, dictates billing, and burdens private practice.  Government-centric health care is one size fits all, my-way-or-the-highway medicine, and the road to rationed care.

Will the Court strike it down?  We’ll know soon.  Prepare to hear the hackneyed line about thirty – no, forty…  – million victims being imperiled by “robed activists,” should they rule Constitutionally.

The figure is rubbish…  Roughly 20 million of the “uninsured” are 20-35 years-old and in generally good health; 9 million have household incomes above $70,000; 30% are temporarily uninsured between jobs; and from 7 to 10 million are here illegally and, therefore, ineligible (ha!) to receive benefits.  Additionally, 12 million people eligible for Medicaid fail to enroll, and among enrollees, 17% claim to be UNINSURED.

None of this will matter.  Despite ObamaCare’s unpopularity, Democrats will howl about Republican hatred of “working families.”  Demagoguery is their ace-in-the-hole.  But social media, the 24/7 news-cycle, and the blogosphere weakens aces.  In Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals, rule #5 states: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.  It is almost impossible to counterattack… It infuriates opponents, who then react to your advantage.

Democrats are being subjected to ridicule.  Radicals aren’t the only ones who can read.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Live with Greg Halvorson on Blog Talk Radio.  Follow him on Twitter at @GHalv.

How is it that, on one hand, the president demonizes “millionaires and billionaires” and, on the other, flies coast-to-coast, in order to fill his coffers with their money?

The Buffett Rule?  The one designed to make millionaires pay-up?  It would double the capital-gains rate on those whose incomes exceed $1 million from 15 to 30%.  Money invested in capital has already been taxed at the prevailing rate of the investor.  And yet, I rarely hear this called a double tax.

Has anyone heard the president explain that the top 1% (which doesn’t pay its “fair share”) contributes 40% of federal income taxes?  The Buffett Rule,  according to CBO, would bring in between $3 and $5 billion annually.  Of course, CBO doesn’t score behavior, which is why its projections predictably fall short.

The United States is deficit spending $4 billion per/day….  And yet the Buffett Rule polls well.  What percentage of the 60% who like it can explain it?  I’ve never understood how people can form opinions without knowing why they’re held.

The gay marriage issue–another distraction from the economy.  Every day a new distraction–the Buffett Rule (Republicans want tax-breaks for millionaires), the War on Women (Republicans are against “women’s health”), the Student Loan Rate Increase (Republicans don’t want Bif to go to college)….  Now Republicans are against “civil rights.”  No matter that these rights are fantastic.  The New Testament is clear: Matthew 19: 4-5….  It is not hateful to defend the definition of marriage as it has stood, effectively, for 5000 years.

As for the student loan kerfuffle… With grads in debt and jobless, the president chose to pander.  Collegians may not question him; yet how many realize, it was Democrats who passed the rate-hike?  How many know that government, and not dreaded Capitalism, is driving up tuition?  Lo, we  discover that, at the end of the day, the average burden, if the rate rises, is $6…  Per/month.

Obama’s strategy is to pander to as many victims as possible, while moving “forward.”  “Forward” being Marxist patios.  Mao’s “Leap Forward” killed tens of millions.  Was it appropriate, in 2009, to hang a Mao ornament on the White House Christmas tree?

America is the greatest country on Earth, and it was great before welfare.  How is it that a nation can wage a War whose goal is to eliminate “poverty,” and fail to gain a yard?  After spending over $10 trillion (some estimates are as high as $14 trillion) on “social programs” are we $10 trillion better off?  Poverty, mind you, is often couched loosely, so as to make it seem urgent, demanding quick funds.

The average “poor” person in America has air-conditioning, a microwave, a personal computer, a dishwasher, a cellphone, a car, and cable television.  In fact, welfare transfers are insulated from income reporting (not counted), leaving the recipient mired in “poverty,” for statistical purposes.

Consider: the Child Care Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF), the Supplemental Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), rental and housing assistance, utility assistance, school lunch assistance….  These weapons in the War make it possible for a household making $14,500 annually to have greater discretionary income ($37,777) than one making $60,000 ($34,366).  This is not “social justice.”  Power is a greater political motivator than compassion.

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”  One cannot turn to the Founders’ wisdom too often.  James Madison is today known to few; thus today’s politicians do “undertake.”

Meanwhile, it’s spring, and the ratio of commencement speakers is glaring: 7-to-1, liberal-to-conservative, among the top 100 schools.  Thirty-four of the top 35 sought out a leftist…  Is it any wonder our children are in debt?

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Live with Greg Halvorson on Blog Talk Radio.  Follow him on Twitter at @GHalv.    

The body was still warm, Andrew Breitbart’s spouse and children in pain, when the Tweets started rolling in.  As anyone who followed Andrew knows, he was famous for retweeting the onslaught against him–every vile, disgusting f-in this or f-you that on his account.  Even in death, the onslaught persisted, and so – to honor him – I seized the mantle, retweeting and recording, on the day he died, the Left’s filth.

It wasn’t difficult–they flooded Twitter.  Most came from anonymous sources, but that’s to be expected.  Courage and leftism divorced long ago.  What follows is malign; but necessary, I think, as a tool of understanding.  This is mainstream.  Andrew himself one said:

“The left has declared war on the Good and the Decent in this country, and it’s not a metaphorical war, the war is real…. If people don’t stand up, we will lose this country.”

And so we print evil.  What follows is lengthy, but I think important, the numbers, because they showcase detachment and obsession in the left.  All day long, all night, the venom spilled, and it’s not enough to look away, any more than it’s sufficient to fight evil with apology.  Know thy enemy, Andrew advised.  So, we look:

-Breaking: CNN is reporting Satan filed a lawsuit against God for sending  Breitbart to Hell.

-What do you call Andrew Breitbart laying on the ground? Dead!  Yes!

-I wonder what would surprise the medical examiner more–the contents of Breitbart’s stomach or his ass?

-My condolences to the mortician who has to clean Breitbart’s junk.

-To be fair, I was hoping they would have found Breitbart dead in the arms of a gay cabana boy.

-The good news; Andrew Breitbart is dead… The bad news; he didn’t die a slow painful death inside the Loch Ness Monster’s stomach.

-I wonder if they know what caused Breitbart’s death? I’m betting he died from blunt trauma to his ass.

-Anthony Weiner just tweeted a picture of himself holding his crotch and a sign that says: SUCK ON THIS, Breitbart!!

-At least Breitbart wasn’t found dead in a hotel room with a sheep next to him and a sign that said: ASSHOLE.

-Dear God, I said Rush Limbaugh, but #AndrewBreitbart will do!

-Memo to Andrew Breitbart: Fat, bigoted and angry is no way to go through life.  Have fun sucking the Devil’s dick.

-If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all. Screw that…. Breitbart was a fuckhead.

-Andrew Breitbart didn’t deserve to die of a heart attack–set on fire, hit by a bus, or torn apart by polar bears sure, but not a heart attack.

-I can’t help but feel that the world is a better place today. #AndrewBreitbart’s death proves that.

-Man, I was so hoping #AndrewBreitbart would’ve been found dead at the hotel, butt greased up and a shoe sticking out from it.

-I wonder if James O’Keefe was filming Breitbart dying in the street? Hey, maybe he can edit it to look like he didn’t die.

-Breaking News: Andrew Breitbart is still dead!  LOL.

-If you think my Breitbart tweets are vile, wait until Rush Limbaugh kicks the bucket.  Those will be…. Legendary!

-Osama bin Laden, Gaddafi and now Breitbart…. Assholes die in threes. True story.

-Andrew Breitbart died on the street, like a homeless man, but to be fair, homeless people have dignity.

-In honor of Andrew Breitbart, the Republican Party will name a gutter after him.

-Andrew Breitbart’s Tombstone: Here Lies a Despicable Hatemonger, Burning in Hell.

-I‘m sad that Andrew Breitbart died so suddenly, I was hoping something like ass herpes would do him in.

-I guess Andrew Breitbart forgot that garbage pick-up in Brentwood is on Wednesday.

-Shhh! You hear that?  Andrew Bretibart is in Hell editing Satan’s movies!

-Mmmm! My lunch tastes so good. I wonder what #AndrewBreitbart is having for lunch? I read in the Bible, Satan can cook!

-I’ll admit it, at times like this, I wish I wasn’t an atheist and believed Andrew Breitbart was getting sodomized for his bigotry.

-Yes, #AndrewBreitbart had a wife and kids, but that didn’t stop him from spewing hateful rhetoric, so, burn in Hell, asshole!

-Oh, here comes my Happy Feet. #AndrewBreitbart is dead, HOORAY! #AndrewBreitbart is dead, HOORAY! #AndrewBreitbart is dead, HOORAY!

And so it went, on and on.  The #AndrewBreitbart hashtag presented 1000s more.  But the hate didn’t limit itself to social media.  At the Daily Kos, MisterOpus1 – doubtless the name on his birth certificate – wrote a piece titled I’ll say it about Breitbart, which began:

He was a piece of shit.  Period.

Just because he is now dead does not change that fact.

I know I’m supposed to be sensitive about the fact that he just died.  There is always a modicum of respect that is given to those who recently pass away.  That respect is accorded anyone, even those whom we do not respect.

But, I’m sorry, Breitbart doesn’t qualify.  He was a complete piece of shit, full of vitriolic hate for anyone who disagreed with his views.  That alone doesn’t disqualify him though.  Because not only did he despise anything progressive or liberal, not only did he deliberately obfuscate and outright lie with both his words and postings, he willingly attempted and successfully destroyed lives and reputations in the process.

And the bastard loved doing it. He deserves no respect.

Matt Tabbai, editor at Rolling Stone, also penned a eulogy full of grace.  The title, Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche, opened with the line:

So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would respect this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.

No wonder Breitbart wrote Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World.  Everyday he saw disease in society, the evil undercarriage that drove him.  That said, he concluded his book in a way that makes me smile:

I love my job, he wrote, I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.  I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and – famously – I enjoy making enemies…. Three years ago, I was a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a popular website…. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in…. I’ve lost friends, sure…. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands – who knows? – of allies.  At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep well at night.

Sleep well, friend.  Conservatives have your back.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Freedom Warrior Radio on Blog Talk Radio.  Follow him on Twitter at @GHalv.

I’m reminded of another Andy– Kaufman.  Both men were controversial.  Both gored the ox, punked paradigms, and “flipped tables.”  But unlike Kaufman, Andrew was serious, his focus keen on the propaganda of the left, the false premises and the lies.  He leaves behind four children, but more than this, Andrew leaves a legacy: the Drudge Report, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism, Big Government….  These scratch the surface.  In parting, he roars.

Jack Kerouac once said of himself:

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time–the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous Roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars.

Mad to live–that was Andrew.  He and Jack would be pals.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Freedom Warrior Radio on Blog Talk Radio.  Follow him on Twitter at @GHalv.

Andrew Breitbart passed away last night.  Breitbart, lightning and lodestar, was activism personified, a raging pioneer in the media revolution.  Courageous, fearless, tireless…. He was these and more, an adjective train–irascible, irreverent, iconic, IN YOUR FACE.

I’m reminded of another Andy– Kaufman.  Both men were controversial.  Both gored the ox, punked paradigms, and “flipped tables.”  But unlike Kaufman, Andrew was serious, his focus keen on the propaganda of the left, the false premises and the lies.  He leaves behind four children, but more than this, Andrew leaves a legacy: the Drudge Report, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism, Big Government….  These scratch the surface.  In parting, he roars.

Jack Kerouac once said of himself:

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time–the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous Roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars.

Mad to live–that was Andrew.  He and Jack would be pals.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Freedom Warrior Radio on Blog Talk Radio.  Follow him on Twitter at @GHalv.

On this, what would have been George Washington’s 279th birthday week, Americans will go about their business, a free people, without acknowledging – nor celebrating – the man whose toil on their behalf was measureless.  I say “free people,” sadly aware that we’re becoming less free, and that diminution of Washington symbolizes the push to “alter” history to make this so.

This, of course, derives from the Left, which spreads tales – false ones – of racism amongst the Founders, and which last year had members of the NAACP hide the General from view.  Indeed, they boxed him in, shielding the Offender, even as they praised the author of the line, “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

And now “President’s Day” disrespects George again.  The equivalent of “every leader gets a prize,” it mocks history, inspires no one, and displays the lengths to which fools go to be foolish.  There is no par between George Washington and James Polk, between Thomas Jefferson and Millard Fillmore, and to assert otherwise says: 1) that no president is different from any other; 2) that individuals must bow to the Collective; and 3) that history is a dull, generic ride.

False on each count.  When you honor everyone, you honor no one, and honor becomes meaningless.  The name of the law which created President’s Day – The Uniform Monday Holiday Act – is absurd, much like the mush it inspired.  Debating the bill, Rep. Dan Kuykendall (R-TN), foresaw the outcome:

“If we do this – change the date of the Washington holiday – ten years from now our children will not know what February 22 means.  They will not know or care when George Washington was born.  They will know only that in the middle of February, they will have a three-day weekend for some reason…. This will come.”

It has.  The progressive effort to rewrite history and to demonize – and erase – the Founders has succeeded.  General Washington is now less revered than Lady GaGa.  Obscurer still is the honor President Coolidge bestowed on him:

“Wherever men love liberty, wherever they believe in patriotism, wherever they exalt high character, by universal consent they invoke the name of George Washington.  No occasion could be conceived more worthy, more comprehensibly American, than that which is chosen to commemorate this divinely appointed captain.”

Divinely appointed captain.

Makes one wish His Excellency were alive.  And that somehow, through Providence, he could lead us again.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Freedom Warrior Radio on Blog Talk Radio.  Follow him on Twitter at @GH

Wow, Jesus just f**ked Tim Tebow!  And on Xmas Eve!  Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing, saying to Hitler “Hey, Buffalo’s killing them.”

Maher was referring to the Buffalo Bills pounding the Denver Broncos, implying that Tebow ascribes touchdowns to God.  He doesn’t, never has, but Bill is creative.  It can be claimed that he was needling, that the controversy was intended, and that he achieved his desire: bluster in his name.  Any publicity – even negative publicity – is good for those who make hay stirring pots.

That said, Maher is atheist, his following, by and large, that portion of the American populace that loathes “piety” because we all know piety – a strong belief in God and observance of religious principles in daily life – is “hypocritical.”  Who needs piety – and virtue, for that matter – when there are better options: food stamps, pot dispensaries, subsidized abortion…. Maher feeds off “hatred of piety,” but as I put on my Psychologist – make that Psychiatrist – hat, the stream of hate is  multi-layered.  Expectedly, the response was quick and, save for comments on his Facebook page, negative.  Declaring that Jesus f***ed a Christian on Christmas Eve brought rebuke, and one could sense him doubling down.  Subsequent tweets were consistent:

-All you J-freaks having a cow re: my Tebow tweet please go back to the longer piece we did on “Real Time” (his show) and have a proper heart attack.

-Overreaction from bible-thumpers re: my Tebow tweet reminds me of North Koreans wailing at the Kim Jung-il funeral: Brainwashing is brainwashing.

Smug?  Maher makes an art of smugness.  Hell hath no fury like a millionaire scorned!  J-freaks, of course, translates to “Jesus Freaks,” meaning that the two billion Christians scattered worldwide are anomalous, and that atheists and agnostics who reject God are “normal.”  If only “bible-thumpers” would stop the God thing, learn the F-bomb, and read Playboy, they’d be fine.

Speaking of which, I went to the Tebow Foundation to see what irks Bill:

-Foundation Quote of the Week: “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.  Let all that you do be done in love.” ~1 Corinthians 16:13-14

-Foundation Quote of the Week: “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ~Aesop

-Foundation Quote of the Week: “Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”  ~T.H. Thompson

Talk about freakish.  That “brainwashing is brainwashing” is clearly evident in these quotes.  Of course, there’s irony, for the Foundation speaks of kindness and love and the brand of “empathy” oft ascribed to J-loathers.  It’s almost as if the Almighty made the quotes, speaking to Bill directly; but let’s not play dumb.

In the end, what Maher seems to hate is Bill Maher.  Christians, he’ll have you know, are “freaks” who project piety they don’t heed onto others.

But what he fails to heed is human nature.  Christians are similar to atheists insofar as temptations and moral challenges affect both.  They aren’t paragons of piety nor sinless robots.

What they are are people who understand that they’re flawed, that they sin, and that two-thousand years ago, Christ was born.  They believe that life is difficult and that Jesus died on the Cross, not to be depicted in vats of urine and howls of mockery, but to give Man redemption.

Atheists recoil.  When someone like Tebow walks the walk, it gets under their skin, reminding them of alternatives; for even in atheists a voice gnaws at Conscience.  In an atheist’s world all is fine to the point that they’re exposed to the antithesis of their spiritual vacuum.

Shame, therefore, weaves Bill’s contumely.  No one likes a pooper at the party.  But parties end in mirrors.

The T.H. Thompson quote – “Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.” – promotes empathy for all.  And the Aesop quote – “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – calls Christians to sympathies lost on Bill.

Maher and Christ-mockers avoid internal audits.  Their assertions, though vile, require love as much as grace.  In Luke, chapter 23, verse 34, as Jesus dies, He cries out.

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” He says.

Tebow knows this passage.  So does Maher.  The difference lies in the means of how they handle it: in Tebow’s case through private charity.  In Maher’s case with mockery substituting for guilt.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of The Conservative Hammer and hosts Freedom Warrior Radio on Blog Talk Radio.