Understanding Liberal Disillusionment – Part 1
The idea that Judeo-Christian religious morality is the basis of a just society is a foundational concept in the creation of the United States. This once pervasive concept has now fallen from favor within certain loud segments of society regardless of the high esteem in which it was held by the universality of our Founders. Rejection of the religion-based worldview of the Founders is the core around which liberal anger is constructed.
Where matters of morality, religion, history, and ethics are concerned in the United States today, there is now no “middle.” Among people of good will and reasonable intellect there is a fundamental disagreement not about the nature of morality and ethics, but rather about their value and provenance. One side defends the importance of morality and its origins in religion; the other takes an evangelical, rejectionist position.
Our Founders credited the future success of the United States on God’s guidance, adherence to Judeo-Christian religion, and to Christian religion-based morality. The historical record of our foundational documents and the private papers of our Revolutionary leaders show this to be true. Read it all …
Military Voting: More States Out of Compliance; More Inaction by DOJ > Are the Dems purposely doing this? [ Any bets on how unhappy Obama is that our troops aren’t getting their ballots? – JS ]
Obama's Campaign-Season Christianity:
Barack Obama threw his mom under the parish van on Tuesday, describing her as formlessly "spiritual" while casting himself as the self-made convert. "I am a Christian by choice," he said at a campaign event in New Mexico this week. In 2007, he said the opposite: that he became a Christian through his mother. "My mother was a Christian from Kansas…I was raised by my mother. So, I've always been a Christian," he told a voter who had inquired about his Islamic background.
The woman at the campaign stop in New Mexico on Tuesday asked him to explain why he is a Christian and coupled it with another one about his support for abortion rights. The sequence of questions proved awkward, with the answer to the latter question rendering his answer to the first one meaningless.
"[The] precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead—being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating others as they would treat me," he said. He threw in a few more vague-sounding clichés and a paean to religious relativism for good measure, and reassured the lady that "I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith." Read it all …
McDonald's Says It May Drop Health Plan covering nearly 30,000 workers:
The move is one of the clearest indications that new rules may disrupt workers' health plans as the law ripples through the real world.
Trade groups representing restaurants and retailers say low-wage employers might halt their coverage if the government doesn't loosen a requirement for "mini-med" plans, which offer limited benefits to some 1.4 million Americans. [ Wonder why Obama hasn’t mentioned this? Sibelius vs. McDonald’s should be rewarding to watch. – JS ]
Outsourcing and the 21st-Century Economy: Taxing new U.S. corporate investment at 35%, when the world average is just over 18%, pushes companies to invest offshore. Read more…
The Repeal Pledge > Holding politicians to their promise to replace ObamaCare:
Republicans are promising to "repeal and replace" ObamaCare, and more than a few Democrats seem to be running on—or at least from—the same issue. And it's a good campaign platform given the rising unpopularity and toxic side effects of one of the worst pieces of legislation Congress has ever passed.
But with a few notable exceptions, the wider GOP doesn't seem to comprehend how difficult it will be to pursue this agenda in practice, even if the party does return to the majority in the House and Senate. Which is why we want to underscore a new campaign to ensure that "repeal and replace" is something more than a political slogan. Read more…
"The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand." Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all,
but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust." Demosthenes
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