President Obama asks for God’s Blessing upon Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Industry

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 26th at 07:30 PM  | 

Earlier today President Obama delivered some prepared remarks to the Planned Parenthood Conference meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.  In just under 15 minutes he extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood, declared it essential to the health of women across America, and decried its critics as those who wanted to return the status of women’s health back to the 1950s.  In | Read More »

Obama’s Second Inaugural Address – Annotated for the Real World

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 21st at 06:56 PM  | 

I could not stand to listen to the speech but I did read the transcript.  Here are some of my thoughts and questions as we move “Forward” into our decline as a nation.  Each section begins with a quote from the speech followed by my commentary. THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: | Read More »

Mr. Obama Would Do Well to Learn from FDR About Unconstitutional Power Grabs

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:01 AM  | 

In 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in a landslide against Alfred Landon of Kansas.  The landslide carried over to Congress where Democrats gained a supermajority that dominated the House of Representatives (328 to 107) and the Senate (77 to 19).  The President and the Democratic Party seemed unstoppable.  And then, FDR made a strategic error that brought it all crashing down. In his desire | Read More »

Understanding the Modern Democratic Party

By: kipling (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:24 PM  | 

Franklin Roosevelt forged the modern Democratic Party in the midst of the Great Depression.  Long before Rahm Emanuel spoke of “never letting a crisis go to waste,”  FDR used the economic crisis of the 1930s to bludgeon the Republican Party and unite a governing coalition that made the Democratic Party the dominant political party from 1930 to the present.*  In the process, FDR demonstrated that | Read More »

How About a Little Historical Perspective?

By: kipling (Diary)  |  November 8th at 03:24 AM  | 

Let me begin by saying that I was as devastated by election night as most of you were.  So this post is not an attempt to sugarcoat what happened.  My goal is to put the election in a historical context and point our way ahead. The 2012 election was simply a repeat of the 1936 election.  In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, | Read More »

Evangelicals and Immigration Reform

By: kipling (Diary)  |  June 14th at 03:39 AM  | 

As The New York Times and Big Government reported earlier, the leaders of several evangelical groups have recently called for bipartisan immigration reform.  The call for reform is part of a larger effort known as the Evangelical Immigration Table, which has issued the “Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform.”   The heart of the statement reads as follows: Our national immigration laws have created a moral, | Read More »

Religion and Politics: Why Jeremiah Wright Matters

By: kipling (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 02:29 PM  | 

According to various sources, the Obama administration and its allies in the MSM pressured Mitt Romney into publicly repudiating a potential ad campaign by an independent Super PAC that would have tied Obama to Jeremiah Wright.  Their argument was that religion should be off the table. The decision by Governor Romney was wrong. It is perfectly valid to examine and question the religious beliefs of | Read More »

Why conservatives should not blindly endorse Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee.

By: kipling (Diary)  |  November 11th at 01:40 PM  | 

Why conservatives should not blindly endorse Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee. 1.  Mitt Romney is not a Conservative.  He does not deserve the designation as the conservative candidate. 2.  If conservatives endorse Romney, even reluctantly, he will take the mantle of conservatism and drag it through the mud for his own edification and advancement.  He will propose non-conservative measures in the name of conservatism | Read More »

Rick Perry – Two Foreign Policy Indicators

By: kipling (Diary)  |  July 8th at 11:52 AM  | 

A common question about Governor Rick Perry of Texas is whether or not he is a traditional three-pronged conservative – social, fiscal, and strong on defense.  While much has been said about his social and fiscal credentials, little has been written about his potential foreign policy.  Two recent events give us some insight into what that policy might look like. First, on June 28, 20011, | Read More »