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Category Archives: Cultural Commentary
Archbishop: stop teaching creationism
Archbishop of Canterbury argues against teaching creationism in schools. Even schools started by Christians. This seems a bit odd to me because the actual theory being taught is Intelligent Design, not creationism. There seems to be significant confusion here. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, creationism, intelligent design, Rowan Williams
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Update on Blogs For Terri
Dear Friends, One year ago we fought together on behalf of Terri Schiavo at BlogsforTerri as a loose coalition of independent bloggers, commenters and readers. Despite our protests, we watched with sadness and alarm as Terri’s food and water were … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Weblogs
Tagged blogs for terri, blogsforterri
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Why does Hollywood hate Israel?
The new Israel bashing movie "Paradise Now" is another fine example of Hollywood hating Israel. Link: Ynetnews – Culture – Oscar nominee: People hate Israelis for a reason. HOLLYWOOD – Hany Abu-Assad’s film "Paradise Now" left few Israelis indifferent. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Film, Misc, Movies, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged film, nominated, Oscar, Paradise Now, Yedioth Ahronoth
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Conservatives are happier than liberals…
Goerge Will documents again how conservatives (read Republicans) are happier than liberals. Will is using a study by the Pew Research Center which is by no means a conservative think tank to make his point. A survey by the Pew … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary
Tagged center, conservative, conservatives, george will, happier, happy, liberal, liberals, pew, pew research center, research
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Hurricane Katrina Relief: New Orleans Trip Report
By Paul Rivenburg February 4th – February 12th 2006 We left the parking lot of South Suburban on a very chilly Saturday morning. We drove in three different vans. At our lunch stop in Mount Pleasant, Iowa Ken discovered that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Travel
Tagged christian, church, effort, evangelical, faith, french quarter, hurricane, katrina, mission trip, new orleans, Paul Rivenburg, relief, rivenburg, South Suburban, trip, urban impact, yellow house
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SADDAM and the tapes about his WMD Program
You have of course heard about Scott Ritter. You know the guy that was so mad about how the weapons inspections had been cut short before the Iraq war. But have you heard about Bill Tierney? Bill was a weapons … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Misc, Politics
Tagged Bill, Bill Tierney, ingraham, laura ingraham, lauraingraham.com, saddam, saddam secret tapes, saddam unplugged, scott ritter, secret, tapes, Tierney, WMD, WMDS
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Australian Lawmaker’s Abortion Comments Cause Uproar
This is my kind of politician. He knows how to make everyone mad. So he is probably pretty close to being totally correct on this issue. Link: Australian Lawmaker’s Abortion Comments Cause Uproar. SYDNEY, Australia — A lawmaker who said … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary
Tagged abortion, australian, comments, lawmaker, polititian
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Whatever Happened To Masculinity?
Like I have said before, there are many things with which I disagree with Chuck Baldwin. But when I agree, I really agree. This commentary is one in which I agree whole heartedly, so I had to post it. Enjoy … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged boy, chuck baldwin, courage, manhood, masculinity, men, Whatever Happened To Masculinity?, women
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Roe v. Wade anniversary
On this 33rd Roe v. Wade anniversary I would like to do a little math. Abortion has been "legal" for 33 years now. According to the many sources (do your own research if you don’t believe me), in the US … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged 33, abortion, abortions, anniversary, roe v wade
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Interesting thoughts on Happiness
I found this artical interesting How to Boost the Happiness Barometer: Money & Happiness when it comes to true happiness. Living above your means does not bring happiness.
Best Predictor of Success
What is the best predictor of success is life? Is it intelligence? Is it good looks? It appears (as common sense would point to anyway) that self discipline, self sacrifice and hardwork are the number one predictor of success. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Misc, Wisdom
Tagged education, Jay Mathews, kipp, post, results, washington
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New Orleans Mayor: Storms Sign ‘God is Mad At America’
The Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin really seems to be a colorful guy. It is OK for him to say that God is Mad at America and he gets a pass from all the liberal press and all the … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary
Tagged chocolate, god, god mad, mad, Mayor, nagin, new orleans, Ray Nagin
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Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream
On this Martin Luther King holiday I only thought it would be right to post one of the greatest speaches of all time by the great leader Dr Martin Luther King. Keep in mind that this man’s view of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Literature, Misc, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged Dr Martin Luther King, dream, I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, speach
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Fear mongering over Alito
Look at this headline from Yahoo news: Democrats fear Alito may vote to outlaw abortion – Yahoo! News. The headine is just screaming fear mongering. While it is true that Alito is strongly prolife and that he has made statements … Continue reading
Dorm Brothels
Chuch Colson at Break Point has such an important commentary today about what is really going on within our college dorms that I had to pass it on. One student says "Peer pressure and living arrangements on campus make promiscuity … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Health, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, brave new world, brothel, brothels, dorm brothels, promiscuity, sex
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Destroying the Icons of Radical Feminism
This morning Bill Bennett had Kate O’Beirne of National Review Online on his show mostly discussing the Sam Alito Supreme Court Judicial Court confirmation hearings that are getting under way. O’Beirne recently wrote a piece that outlines her dream speech … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Books, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Health, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged amazon, bill bennett, Carrie Bradshaw, Dianne Feinstein, Eleanor Smeal, Feinstein, Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton, Kate, Kate Michelman, Kate O’Beirne, Maureen Dowd, O’Beirne, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sex and the City
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This Man Should Not Be on The Bench!
This is insane to me! Check this out: Judge gives child-rapist 60-day sentence. "No longer believes in punishment: ‘Anger doesn’t solve anything’" Who is talking anger? We are talking justice. The action requires justice! There is no anger involved at … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Wisdom
Tagged Cashman, Edward Cashman, impeach, judge, Judge Edward Cashman, vermont
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American Corporations: Leading the Gay Agenda
Over the Christmas holiday my brother in law (BIL) and I managed to embarrass my wife my sister and my brother by talking openly about the damage homosexuality has done to the Catholic Church. How did this simple little discussion … Continue reading
Listening to our enemies
I don’t get it, why would anyone in their right mind not want our government that is charged with the protection of the citizenry to listen in on our enemies conversations? Ann Coulter discusses this question and more in her … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary
Tagged ann coulter, liberal, liberals, national security, trust, we don't trust you
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Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip
The plan making process continues to progress for my trip to “war torn” New Orleans. If you recall from a previous post, I will be leading a group from my church as we go down to New Orleans to help … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Misc, Religion, Travel
Tagged castle rock, church, community, john gerhardt, katrina, new orleans, urban impact
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Navy Chaplain living by convictions
I would like to point out an interesting article that tells about a Navy Chaplain who is fasting from food in protest to the Military’s ban on praying in Jesus’ name. This man takes his faith and his duty seriously.
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion
Tagged fasting, Gordon James Klingenschmitt, Gordon Klingenschmitt, jesus, Klingenschmitt, navy, navy chaplain, no, no Jesus, pray, prayer, praying, starving
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16 Yr Old Goes to Iraq
Have you heard about the 16 yr old that went to Iraq without telling his parents? We have a 16 yr old and our eyebrows go up when he talks with his friends about a trip down the Mississippi all … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Wisdom
Tagged 16, 16 yr old to iraq, boy, farris hassan, hassan, iraq, old, year
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Is Truth even a concern for the MSM?
David Limbaugh in his recent commentary is asking a question that I ask (in my head)on a very regular basis. My version is, if the MSM would publish an unbiased look at the reasons for the war etc and publish … Continue reading
Black ‘leaders’ caught in Katrina lie
Can you believe it, there really was no racism in the way that the government responded to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophy? In a recent commentary, Black ‘leaders’ caught in Katrina lie Kevin McCollough points how slanted the coverage was about … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics
Tagged Black 'leaders' caught in Katrina lie, Black leaders, katrina, lie
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The Cost of becoming a Christian in Afghanistan
Of course you don’t hear this in the MSM but this is what happens pretty regularly in the Muslim world. Abdul Rahman is facing a death sentence for becoming a Christian. What a heinous crime! One bystander states… "Cut off … Continue reading →