Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Friday, August 5th, 2005
As she so often does, Dawn has sparked off a terrific discussion on her blog ("Come for the Dawn Patrol, stay for the comments!"). The topic to jour (or yesterjour, to be strickly picky, is the death penalty. She kicked off the discussion with a comparison/contrast of two ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
The UN is a worldwide democratic body mainly comprised of the most brutal, bloodthirsty, power-grabbing people on the planet. They seldom all agree on anything, but today the general concensus seems to be that the Internet is shiny, and they want it. Please don't take that the wrong ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
"David asked him, 'Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?'" --I Samuel 1:14
I feel I must offer some further clarification in my next retort to Tulsa Blogger Don Singleton. Don's main point (or what I believe to be his main point) is ...
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Tulsa blogger Don Singleton took issue with a couple of points in my Friday post Frist, Do No Harm. First, he disagrees with my statement that IVF involves a lives for money equation:
I agree that life begins at conception, but the problem is not that Frist will support allowing ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Frist (fr[i^]st), v. t. [OE. fristen, firsten, to lend, give respite, postpone, AS. firstan to give respite to; akin to first time, G. frist, Icel. frest delay.] To sell upon credit, as goods. [R.] --Crabb.
"I am pro-life," Mr. Frist says in his speech on Thursday, arguing that he can reconcile ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Evangelium Vitae, by Pope John Paul II
I did it again. I cracked yet another book. Starting books is the new speedreading.
Anyway, this book reminds me of A Christian Manifesto in that John Paul II attempts to paint a broader picture of our culture in the modern age, and ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Are we winning the war of words? Both sides of the abortion issue have a vested interest in what labels are most commonly applied to them. Here is a breakdown of the names we use when we talk about this issue online.
First I Googled six relatively common labels ...
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." --Muhammad Ali
"The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight.
--Robert Graves
A Christian Manifesto by Francis A. Schaeffer
I cannot read just one book at a time. If you'd asked me about my ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Reuters reports the EU is threatening eleven nations with legal action if they do not comply with EU rules concerning noise in urban areas. States are required to draw maps which show noise levels from planes, trains, automobiles and heavy machinery. And then they have to formulate a ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
Nineteen year old Gerardo Flores may not have been the sad patsy in his 16 year old girlfriend's plot to murder her unborn twins which some make him out to be, according to KTRE.com:
"District Attorney Art Bauereiss said Basoria [the girlfriend] was against abortion and got pre-natal care to make ...
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