Wow! Scary.
(thanks Greg Mankiw)
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Although the below video is geared toward Catholics (from CatholicVote.com), I think it is very relevant to all of us. It’s only 3 1/2 minutes long so watch it.
Remember if you can’t see the video, view the full post here.
Happy Halloween!
A little political humor to scare you (not literally of course).
If only all politics could be like this
Wouldn’t it be great if all politics could be this light-hearted.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Bad Patriotism
Just a few days after my recent post on True Patriotism, I found this article from The Philadelphia Inquirer. This guy is a prime example of “Bad Patriotism.”
He claims that because America has “sinned,” we shouldn’t celebrate Independence Day.
Put the fireworks in storage.
Cancel the parade.
Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time.
This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement.
For we have sinned.
Wow… talk about overreaction as well as bad patriotism. This is the negativity that The Centrist mentioned in this article.
Balance is what this country needs. Not polarization.
True Patriotism
The Centrist recently sent me an article from Time Magazine titled “The State of Patriotism” by Peter Beinart. The article details the differences between the conservative style of patriotism and the liberal philosophy.
Beinart did a good job of keeping to the issue and not leaning to one side or the other. As he indicates, there is a place for both types of patriotism, but he needed to go one step further. The true patriot is one who embodies both styles of patriotism, not one or the other. For some reason, each side feels their style is exclusively correct and cannot include portions (or the whole) of the other.
$112 billion for single parents
A recent study indicates that American taxpayers spend $112 billion a year on assistance to single parents and divorces. Wow! That’s a lot of money. Should we eliminate assistance for single mothers? No, that would be seriously stupid. But the assistance needs to be much better managed. Some responsibility needs to go along with it.
The single parents need to show that they are trying to do something with their lives. That they are taking care of their families properly. Perhaps that their children are actually improving in school, etc. I know this is a complicated issue, but it seems that the politicians won’t touch it with a ten foot poll because of the fear of seeming uncompassionate.
It’s time for this country (as a society) to accept responsibility.
Ode on Hillary in Bosnia
A humorous poem by Orson Scott Card (I got a kick out of it):
Ode on Hillary in Bosnia
by Orson Scott Card
“We landed under sniper fire!
We ran for cover, terrified!
The bullets flew around my head!
I thought for sure that I was dead!”
Card supports….
Orson Scott Card (who, if you count the number of blog postings I have on an individual, one might assume is my hero) has published an article indicating his support for Barack Obama… in the Democratic nomination.
Ok, so he doesn’t really say that he supports Obama. However, he very much defends Obama’s handling of the recent “scandal” with Reverand Wright. Card made a very poignant argument for how Obama separated himself from Wright’s comments, but not the person.
Do you want as President the kind of person who would deny and abandon his closest friends in order to win that political office?
Very well said, Mr. Card.
Further down the article, he analyzes the senior theses of both Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. A very interesting read with solid insight into who these two ladies are. One a former First Lady. The other hoping to be the next First Lady.
I highly recommend reading the article.