The mantra that if you are against Obama’s policies, then you are, ergo, against hope and change has been spouted at the national level and it’s being spouted on the local level as well. I live in the 51st District of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Currently it’s being represented by Uber-Dem, Steve Hilgenberg who wrote a chastisement in the editorial pages of the local paper | Read More »
An alien or a baby? A cruel, ever-present reminder or a treasure? Guilty by association or innocent despite the circumstances? The triumph of love or the victory of victimhood? All of the above questions were faced, with agony and heroic struggle, by Miriam Virgo. At the age of 19, after freshly entering the workforce, Miriam accompanied some co-workers to a bar. There she ran into | Read More »
The most evil ideologies are all finally merging into one axis. And, speaking of ‘one’, it took ‘The One’ to bring those ideologies from the back burner to the front burner and stew them together into one poisonous, anti-human pot. First off, we have the wonderful world of eugenics coming to full fruition in Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. QALY scores and rationing translate practically | Read More »
Most every parent warns their children to be careful about the company they keep. The company you keep, parents know, is a reflection on who you are and what you value. Hang around with riff-raff and odds are you are just as delinquent as your chums . . . or soon will be; after all, birds of a feather do indeed flock together. This piece | Read More »
Most of us, if not all have come across signs posted at Christmas time that read something to the effect, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.” It’s a simple, straightforward reminder of why Christians celebrate and go through all the effort of decorating, hosting dinners, and observing special religious traditions during the Christmas season. Drilling down to each individual, we too have reasons for | Read More »
Some scientific research is stupid and some scientific research is plainly evil. A new study coming out of Oregon State University (OSU) manages to be both stupid and evil. Some statisticians at OSU crunched some numbers and determined that each new bun that comes out of the oven adds 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent. Furthermore (Surprise!), | Read More »
Thanks to Islamofascists, the word, “martyr,” has been much aligned. Like clockwork, every time a terrorist dies, in the name of Allah, while committing some diabolical feat of violence, radical mullahs compete with themselves to be the first to declare the dead terrorist a “martyr.” Many mullahs, of course, consider the murdering hijackers of 911 to be martyrs who are now, according to those same | Read More »
How many lives can but one life impact? In an average lifespan of say 78 years for a male, there are approximately 2,459,808,000 opportunities, which are moments granted to us in the dimension of time. That’s nearly two and a half billion ways in which we can actively or even passively touch another’s life. And, that goes for babies, the elderly, the comatose, and those | Read More »
If you’re a card carrying adherent to one of the Abrahamic faiths, then consider reading on. If you’re not, then please consider reading on anyway, but know that you’ve been warned about this diary’s content. It’s of a spiritual nature, which in my opinion has much to do (if not everything to do) with the culture, which then, in turn, affects the body politic. We | Read More »
Just the other day, I ran across a story that is still giving me shudders and tears, not to mention anger. In Ohio, police investigated an anonymous tip concerning child abuse. They found a 6 week old infant girl, neglected in a filthy crib, with the toes of one foot completely missing. Her toes had been gnawed off by rats. No doubt her cries of loneliness, | Read More »
Sometimes the microcosm of the local perfectly explains the macrocosm at the national level. Such, I believe, is the case with my local township. They are wholeheartedly embracing a mentality that leads inevitably to bigger government, greater taxation, and lesser freedom. The Democrats of Linden Township, Wisconsin are really no different than Obama/Biden and Pelosi and the Gang. They merely operate at different levels of | Read More »
A mask . . . a veneer . . . a veil; all thinly hide something just beneath. A comfort . . . a refuge . . . a sanctuary; all imply a safe and hospitable place. Sometimes a mask and a sanctuary, or a veneer and a comfort, or a veil and a refuge describe exactly the same thing. This is the impression I | Read More »
As a result of personal experiences with local political thuggery, I’ve decided to jump headlong into the political scene in my township. My locale is most decidedly dominated by Democrats, who, as I’ve learned put the “rats” in the word, “Democrats.” They are a nasty bunch who are used to running the show around here like kings rather than elected officials. I among several, as | Read More »
Last night, after the children were all in bed, my wife hit me with a grand slam jackpot. She recounted what my 7 year old son had told her that very day. Out of the clear blue, without provocation or context, he stopped playing with his siblings, approached his mother and said: “Daddy sure does love you.” On face value alone, that kind of a | Read More »
“To live in the world, but not of it” . . . this is a pretty familiar phrase for most Christians. It’s a call to be grounded in our known, material world, while at the same time regarding our true home as Heaven. And, as another old saying goes, “It’s easier said than done.” “To live in the world, but not of it,” is a | Read More »
Obama, the ultimate cult-of-personality empty suit, wins the presidency of the United States in fall 2008. The results thus far? A weakened foreign policy complete with worldwide apology tours A “stimulus” bill Trojan horse to European style socialism Tax payer funded abortions overseas An outright racist selected for the Supreme Court The very real possibility of cap and trade, another Trojan horse delivering sky high | Read More »
The statement, “Government can solve all ills,” rises to the level of a category error. More specific examples are: The government’s war on poverty . . . category error. The government’s attempt to solve all inequities, racial, gender, whatever . . . category error. And nowadays, the government as the means to all Americans (and illegal aliens) being covered by health insurance . . . | Read More »
The indispensable and brave people at Live Action have once again gone undercover in a Planned Parenthood Clinic. By the way, just in case you’re not familiar with the revealing and courageous work of Live Action, then here’s a little mission statement that I pulled from their website: “We are a youth led movement dedicated to advancing life rights and the truth that all men | Read More »
I’ve been blogging at RedState since shortly after the 2008 POTUS election. Although my blogging record is a short one, I’ve had great fun, learned more from RedState as an active participant rather than just a passive reader, and I am as enthusiastic as ever to blog more. I’ve also not gone to great lengths to hide my identity or my background. My username, as | Read More »
If you live in or around liberal areas, then you no doubt have run into the communist chic. These are the folks sporting Che Guevara shirts or hammer & sickle patches, emblems, buttons, etc. A couple of years back, the North Face company even featured a special line of hammer and sickle clothing . . . no better proof that a fool and his money | Read More »
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