Scalawags Vote, Soldiers Denied
Vote fraud alert!
Even this ABC News reporter gets it -- the Democrats have nothing to run on so they're running away from their record, running scared from the voters and running into the garbage dump for their ad ideas.
For those of you haven't seen these brief inspirational video clips...
Here are 4 important questions for you. They all concern the incredibly important elections coming up this Tuesday.
Listening to the banging drums of French strikers marching at Place des Invalides, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, I knew that I was listening to the death rattle of the welfare state. I and many others had predicted this moment; not an amazing feat if one simply did the math.
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has violated the Code of Conduct for United States judges. She should resign from her position as a roving judge on "senior status." If she doesn't resign, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. - at whose sole discretion she serves as a "pinch hitter" on lower federal courts - should no longer designate her for such duties.
Over at the LA Times' Top of the Ticket, Andrew Malcolm lets us know what's happening at the Obama administration's DOJ.
David Barton of Wallbuilders speaks to Christians about the priority of moral issues above all other political concerns. It makes for a great Christian civics primer, one that would well serve a church congregation or Sunday School class. It's less than 9 minutes so if the pastor can convince the "worship leader" to cut out one song, it could easily fit into the morning service this weekend.
It no longer surprises anyone that those who serve in the Al Gore Is A Clown Watch are burning up their calculators in trying to keep track of his gaffes, over-hyped alarms, self-aggrandizing boasts, outright lies, denials of established scientific fact and acts of over-the-top hypocrisy. Here's a revealing incident in that last category connected to Al Gore's recent visit to Scandanavia.
The most popular name for newborn boys in England last year was not Jack, Harry or Richard. Not Robert, James or John.
Yeah, I've said it before -- I'm not a fan of Glenn Beck. And it's not just his eclectic brew of Mormonism, civic religion, and 12-step help programs that I'm bothered by, it's that Jeffersonian line that he so admires, "If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?"
A Facebook friend asked this morning, "Is positive thinking the same thing as having faith?"
Arshed Masih 38, is still fighting for his life in Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, a city not far from Pakistan’s capital. With the help of police, Muslim extremists last Friday set him on fire for refusing to convert to Islam and raped his wife, local sources told AsiaNews. The incident occurred in front of a local police station.
The Washington Post reports today that the Obama administration is entering “the politically sensitive debate” on sex education by spending $110 million on 115 programs in 38 states and the District of Columbia that “teach about the risks of specific sexual activities and the benefits of contraception and others that focus primarily on encouraging teens to delay sex.”
Before you post that "Commit to Vote" logo on your Facebook page (as untold thousands have already done), you might take the time to find out where that link takes you.
Because we present our "When Swing Was King" programs pretty regularly at several nursing homes, we want to keep the music and photos fresh for our audiences. That means we create for every month a new regimen of 13 big band numbers, a couple hundred photos and a lot of nifty trivia items about the songs, the musicians and the times.
In politics, the cover-up is worse than the crime. Alex Sink may have been easily forgiven if she simply said, "we screwed up, but lying about cheating in the debate is really going to damage her support. She will be seen as a political hack and a dishonest politician.
If you'd like, you can read the news report of the Omaha World-Herald describing the City Council's vote last night on the proposal to grant special protection on the basis of sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identification.
In the prelude to next Tuesday's elections, Joe Biden is proving once again to be a remarkable gaffe machine. And yet, his most boneheaded statements are not merely errors in speech -- any Joe who's undergone hair-plug treatment can make those. No, his most grievous gaffes are when they reflect the errors in his knowledge and political philosophy.
Lucianne Goldberg says that this article by Tara Servatius is the must-read of the day. That's good enough for me.
...My best friend, Debbie, gave her speech next. She was a worthier opponent, and prettier than I was, but still I felt confident, thinking I had a real shot at the power seat at Sharonville Elementary.
Remember when the Democrat's diva, Nancy Pelosi, in giving her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, pledged that there would be “no new deficit spending.”
By now you may have heard about (or even seen a video clip) about an Illinois League of Women Voters representative who tried to stop the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at a debate sponsored by the group.
Yes, you read that right. Not having watched 60 Minutes for a couple of decades, I wasn't aware until yesterday that Sunday night's program included a frightening, heart-rendering segment on the plight of the unemployed in Silicon Valley.
In 1979, politicians in Washington who were eager to placate special interests cast aside the Constitution and created a federal Department of Education as a political favor to the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teacher union. While its existence may seem non-controversial today, the department’s creation was incredibly contentious at the time, and even opposed by publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post.
The morning has been taken up with sidewalk counseling and then taking information packets down to Omaha's Mayor and City Council members relevant to their decision tomorrow on a bizarre sexual orientation proposal. (I've dealt with this matter in previous Vital Signs posts -- like this one.)
Denny & Claire in Columbus
Last night Claire and I had a terrific time as we drove 82 miles west to spend an evening with folks involved with Columbus Right to Life.
Wesley J. Smith has a splendid column today exploring the latest attack of "Green Panic" hitting the United Nations. And when such hysteria takes over, we all know where it leads: an expensive international conference at which there will loads of overheated and wildly exaggerated rhetoric aimed at the United States, capitalism, human exceptionalism and sanctity of life ethics, national sovereignty and, of course, common sense.
Jeffrey Lord, one of the excellent investigative reporters doing service over at American Spectator has a dilly of a story about a bunch of Secret Donor Money influencing U.S. politics.
"Risk avoidance is the only method that works. So, when we talk about drugs or we talk about alcohol, what do we teach our kids? Don't drink. Don't use drugs. But when we come to sex, we say 'use a condom'?!"
William Connolley, arguably the world’s most influential global warming advocate after Al Gore, has lost his bully pulpit. Connolley did not wield his influence by the quality of his research or the force of his argument but through his administrative position at Wikipedia, the most popular reference source on the planet.
Vital Signs: As Busy As Ever
Earlier this week I had the honor of speaking to the congregation of Faith Bible Church on the near south side of town, the radio audience of Kristen Kelly's KCRO program, and the hundreds of web surfers who have stopped by Vital Signs Blog.
I got this from Facebook friend Roy Beaird and had to pass it along. It's a terrific illustration of the unfairness and counter-productive nature of the U.S. tax system.
* You say you can't afford a Wii system to play games on? Too bad for you, Blinky If only you were an illegal immigrant hanging out in one of the increasingly comfy detention centers.
Nancy Pearcey has figured out what everybody's been asking for two years; namely, what is Barack Obama really after? A great column here.
"A mere mistake or something more profound? Either way, Barack Obama's omission of the Creator when quoting from the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence is troubling indeed."
