“I know in my heart that man is good…and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Epitaph etched on wall at the grave site of Ronald W. Reagan The juxtaposed view of the value of life couldn’t be more glaringly transparent than when we compare Ronald Reagan’s value for all life against the constant complaint of the left… That some | Read More »
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” — William Wilberforce Americans can smell a donkey and see an elephant from a mile away. They don’t need the politics of left or right to clarify the facts speaking for right or wrong. “Benghazi happened a long time ago,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney | Read More »
Americans in the Garden of Good and Evil “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for evil.” –Isaiah 5:20 Words used to have universal meanings. For example, “Woe,” is a biblical term meaning, “uh oh” and “big problems are coming.” I think everyone “gets it” even | Read More »
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.” –George Orwell Perception can be as dangerous as lies. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D LA/CA - Feb 28th) stated with a sober face as she was backed by colleagues, that the US would lose 170 million jobs due to sequestration! Oops… Only 154 million in 2009 census of the civilian workforce and we’ve lost more than 10% of those since | Read More »
“No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln A Moral Nation and a Crossroad In Post #1 , the “Introduction” to RIGHT and WRONG, Not Left and Right, America’s Third Option – a manuscript — opens with these words from Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1831 Democracy in America: “America is great because she is good. When America ceases to be good, America will | Read More »
“No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln A WORLD AT WAR? Hot wars are always preceded by soft wars where values become so polarizing that killing and conquering seems the only recourse. While there will always be militaristic zealots for causes making national self-defense an answer to physical attacks, the answer to all war is founded upon | Read More »
“After we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the 2nd time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin My take on Roe vs Wade 40 years later: I was born “dead.” My mother says the umbilical chord was wrapped around my neck. She | Read More »
Last week I offered Part I to a story not believing there would be a Part II. Read on… TODAY: The Mail Online offers: Romney aides blast ‘hypocrites’ who asked for cabinet jobs just before election and are now trashing him Presidential candidate has come under fire from Republicans after loss But aides say figures like Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich were desperate for positions | Read More »
TO THE PROMISED LAND Thanksgiving celebrations have special significance to Americans. For one day in November family, food, faith, and football bring us together in a spirit of gratitude unlike anywhere else in the world. My ancestry goes back to Mayflower pilgrims and earliest settlers of the Massachusetts and Connecticut where freedom to worship was as important to being American as any other freedom Americans | Read More »
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” ~ Thomas Paine Truth and reason stand the test of time in a cause and effect relationship of applying principle for a reliable outcome. Truth is made of stiff stuff because it is things as they really were, are, and always will be. When truth is inconvenient the troubling temptation for | Read More »
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