Early Voting

Julie and I early voted this afternoon for my boss, Governor Rick Perry. Below is the text of an email that I received from someone else who works for the Governor, explaining why it is important to vote for him in this primary as well as for Justice Eva Guzman. Early voting is underway. You [...]

james cameron’s intent

let’s ask the man what he intended with Avatar. my emphasis added below. the director with his star Zoe Saldana said that  “Avatar” — with its depiction of mineral exploitation on a distant planet and a cadre of trigger-happy mercenaries charged with instituting a scorched earth policy — is very much a political film. But [...]

retrospective on O’s first year

Peggy Noonan and Charles Krauthammer wrote pieces this week about Barack Obama’s first year as president and their view of what went wrong. Why did such a popular president crash so far in the polls so soon? Here is a small part of Ms. Noonan’s article that I think gets to the nub of it: [...]

perfect book at the perfect time

on a secular economic and political note, Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism is celebrating its two year anniversary today. What a perfect book for today’s political climate. A fairly easy to read but still quite serious and unvarnished look at the historical antecedents for the progressives currently empowered in Washington D.C. If you haven’t read [...]

more like this please

Chris Isaak knows his limitations. this is one of the best answers I have heard in a while. Maybe you could draw on your student council experience to help sort out the enormous budget crisis in California. Any remedy for it? I don’t think we want a remedy for it. The less the government has [...]

new polling on abortion

these are some very interesting numbers. A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.” This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995. ….. The May 2009 [...]

“shut up!” they argued

“shut up” is never a good argument.

Roe v. Wade @36 part 2

further to Ed Whelan’s point below regarding the effect of Roe v. Wade in bypassing democratic processes, here is Father Neuhaus’ article regarding this awful anniversary. These are the issues addressed in a remarkable new book out this month from Princeton University Press, The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, by Jon Shields, a political [...]

for political junkies

for political junkies, this website is just too much fun. A great way to waste time on a holiday.

a useful reminder

here is a useful reminder from Stephen Nichols. He is returning to the same theme that I pointed out here. Stephen says in part: Now back to the Red and Blue divide. What will it take? It will take a view of the comprehensiveness of the gospel that keep us from the temptation to hitch [...]

you don’t replace something with nothing

As I have said before several times and as I will keep saying as long as I am allowed, you don’t replace something with nothing. A post-christian, post-modern culture is not one of rational empirical scientific harmony. It is one of superstition, paranoia and worship of men. present case in point Maggie Mertens of Smith [...]

of Palin and Pipelines

The editors of the Washington Post have noticed that Sarah Palin proved palpable political prowess with her work on the natural gas pipeline project. (the Wall Street Journal had already noticed this project.) their conclusion: But it is also a sign that Ms. Palin’s outflanking of the oil companies injected some competition and urgency into [...]

The contrast

By contrast, to the actual reform accomplishments made at great risk by Sarah Palin referenced in the post below, here is what Mr. Obama (in his own words) says about his own accomplishments and experience. transcript courtesy of Hot Air: AC: Some Republican critics say, you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like [...]

Sarah Palin

Tim Challies has a political post up. He is right that this has been the most entertaining political campaign ever. The primaries were awesome and the general election is positioned at this point to go to the wire. Challies focus is on the phenomenon that is Sarah Palin. This sentence crystallizes what we have been [...]

To what have we come?

Joseph Bottum has a sobering post up at the First Things blog. It contains some quite shockingly frank admissions from radical leftist commenters at Daily Kos. Here is one of them, but go read the other one which is even worse as well as Joseph’s conclusion. I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to [...]

what he said

and now for a change of pace. Mark Steyn has nailed the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama in six short parts. this is the one I liked, but go read them all: Third, real people don’t define “experience” as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been [...]

the election

Stephen Nichols has some excellent advice for Christ followers in the United States during this election year. The whole short post is worth your time. His first point is to dial down the rhetoric a notch, here are his last two points: Number two. Let’s not make the presidency, the office, into an idol, thinking [...]

transitions

transitioning a conversation to the gospel requires the intention to do so and the opportunity. Joe Thorn has a list of eight topics from which the gospel is an easy leap. There are more in the comments. Here are the first three to get you started. 1. Corruption, evil and sin. Conversations about corruption and [...]

creepy

A fellow has posted a list of the top ten things that creep him out about Barack Obama. number 8 on the list is the one that has just been amazing to me watching this campaign, it seriously creeps me out: 8. It creeps me out that the press seems hypnotized by this guy. Grown [...]