Have you heard Burger King’s latest Whopper? They deny climate change.If you follow discussions regarding climate change (or the code word for those who deny the phenomena, “global warming”) you constantly come across those who say that it hasn’t been proven and that there are scientists who dispute the human impact on what is happening.Fair enough. There may be scientists, respected and Read Full Story
Strange creatures, Republicans. Unwilling to see things as they are, they all but pathologically see government through self-serving lenses. At times, government must act more like a business – as when it comes to workers. Now, government must be more like a family – except when the family dictates behavior; then it becomes big brother.Businesses invest for growth; and investments come at a Read Full Story
"It has often been said that the owner of a horse is responsible. If the horse lives, he must feed it. If the horse dies, he must bury it. No such responsibility attaches to a share of stock. The owner is practically powerless through his own efforts to affect the underlying property. The spiritual values that formerly went with ownership have been separated from it…. [T]he responsibility and the Read Full Story
The world we face today results from the rise of religious fundamentalism coinciding with our industrial decline coupled with the departure from the Democratic Party of Southern evangelicals and Northern industrial workers.I think this occurred because of the spread of the ideology of small government. The November election represents a tectonic shift in how we think.The charge that this shift Read Full Story
And if we do - if we come together and lift this nation from the depths of this crisis; if we put our people back to work and restart the engine of our prosperity; if we confront without fear the challenges of our time and summon that enduring spirit of an America that does not quit, then someday years from now our children can tell their children that this was the time when we performed, in the Read Full Story
The Dixie Chicks sang: I’m not ready to make niceI’m not ready to back downI’m still mad as hell andI don’t have time to go round and round and roundIt’s too late to make it rightI probably wouldn’t if I could‘Cause I’m mad as hellCan’t bring myself to do what it is you think I shouldThe Senate should reject the compromises and go back to the original House stimulus package (though I know that is Read Full Story
I am your constituent. I am not happy. The compromise stimulus package spends far, far too much on tax breaks, tax breaks that favor those of us least in need of such breaks. Tax cuts don’t work – just read Paul Krugman.
Too much was removed from the spending portions that would have provided jobs. The money we have given to banks has done nothing to stimulate their part of the economy; and Read Full Story
Since as far back (at least) as W's Daddy, we've heard, when we are compared unfavorably with other countries - "do you want European social democracy?" What a dumb question, I thought: of course. Thomas Friedman in today's New York Times writes:
My fellow Americans, we can’t continue in this mode of “Dumb as we wanna be.” We’ve indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can’t afford Read Full Story
Freedom
Free does not mean without consequences or price. "Free" as in "free market" does not mean the same as "free" as in "free lunch." As there is no free lunch, there is also no free market. Christians are taught man has free will, but that does not mean the freedom comes without a price. The only thing truly given freely is the Grace of God; all else is part of an equation subject to Read Full Story
