The Christmas season will soon be upon us. While celebrating the birth of our savior, we may also use this as an opportunity to reflect on the issue of life and the protection of the preborn. Two thousand plus years later, Christ’s conception, birth, and infancy effectively refute common excuses for abortion. This short essay details how. Jesus is Conceived of the Holy Spirit: The | Read More »
Why are Catholics so hung up on traditionally defined marriage? It’s the theology, good sir (I never liked the crass, Clinton use of “stupid”). The sacrament of marriage between a male and a female has implications beyond just a squishy Hallmark definition of love. Marriage enables a couple to elevate from the natural to the supernatural. It is an opportunity (if both recognized and accepted | Read More »
According to a November 6, 2008 article by the Catholic News Service (http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0805649.htm), Catholics who regularly attended church did indeed vote in the majority for McCain. However, compared to 2004, Obama managed to trim the margin of victory by quite a bit. Bush won regular church attending Catholics in 2004 by a margin of 64% to 35% (for Kerry). In 2008, McCain ended up with | Read More »
Redstaters, I am delighted to announce the birth of a daughter, Kiara (named after an Irish saint). She was born at 4:50 pm, weighed in at 6lbs 11oz, and measured a length of 19.5 inches. We are truly blessed! My wife (janalice) and I are new diarists at Redstate. In our short time as diarists, we have enjoyed engaging discussion and debate. Thanks to all. | Read More »
My wife and I have 4 children. Two of them are currently in home school. The other two will join the class when they reach kindergarten age. I admit that I was originally lukewarm on the idea of home school. It was my wife who sold me on the concept and it is she that gave up her career to become a full-time, home school | Read More »
A funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century. Unfortunately, it wasn’t funny ha ha. It was the kind of funny befitting the genre of black comedy. Specifically, the movie, “War of the Roses,” comes to mind, and for no other reason than it was a black comedy about a particularly ugly divorce. And the thing that happened on the way to the | Read More »
Elections have consequences alright. Democrats in Wisconsin are now fully in control of both the executive and the legislative branches of government, and they are wasting no time in bringing change. On the death row of existing public policy is the “Qualified Economic Offer (QEO),” and the Democrats are poised to flip the switch and start the legislative lethal injection. The QEO is a longstanding | Read More »
If you’re in Memphis, TN, between April 1st and April 4th of 2009, then why not consider attending the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs’ (UCCS) annual “White Privilege Conference”? No, it’s not a joke . . . and yes, I did notice April Fool’s Day marks the start of the conference. If you’re white and you thought such things, then, according to the academics | Read More »
My take on life, and the very nature of reality itself, is firmly grounded in reason. For me, it was reason that made me receptive to faith. And, yes, it is my faith that guides my politics. In the natural, material world, knowledge comes primarily from two venues, philosophy and science. In philosophy, we can use induction and deduction to arrive at truths. In science, | Read More »
Obama’s campaign symbol was the infamous horizon with a mostly exposed sun. Depending on your perspective, that sun was either rising or setting. If you’ve got socialistic inclinations, the sun on Obama’s logo was definitely rising. If you think socialism is bad for humanity, then you are wise to interpret Obama’s logo as a setting sun, ominously foreshadowing the darkness of nationalization. Health care is | Read More »
Jesse Washington, an Associated Press “journalist,” penned a article titled, “Ugly post-election racism surfaces.” The article appeared in the Nation & World section of my local paper, “The Wisconsin State Journal,” on November 16, 2008. As an AP article, I’m sure it also appeared in many other newspapers throughout the nation. In the article, Washington cites several clear cut incidences of post-election racism, such as | Read More »
I work at a public 4 year university. It’s in the Midwest and not in an area known for radical activism. A ranting, mouth-foaming Jeremiah Wright and his ilk would be greeted in this area of the country much the same as would aliens from another planet. Yet, this place is one of the front lines in the culture wars. And, this particular front line | Read More »
” . . . a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama” – Barack Obama, New Hampshire, January 7, 2008. “Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama | Read More »
That Obama won this election was more than disappointing. My angst, however, isn’t just about taxes. It isn’t just that I believe our military stature in the world will diminish. It isn’t just the creeping socialism, or the lunacy of carbon cap and trade. It isn’t just that I’m convinced the pro-life movement will be set back years, if not decades. And, it isn’t just | Read More »
Dear President-elect Obama: During your question and answer session at the Saddleback Church Forum in August, 2008, you were asked, “At what point does a baby get human rights? You answered, “I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.” At the 2008 Democratic Compassion | Read More »
Please indulge me in a somewhat lengthy post that I hope will make a cogent point. This post starts with a fictional account of a young lady, Allison, who brings her fiancé, Allen, home for the first time to meet her parents. The fictional story is then brought to bear upon real life. I can only hope that the story is engaging enough to hold | Read More »
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