10 Commandments for Israel
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
~ Numbers 33:55
As I watch the [...]
Israel: Fight like your forefathers
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.~ Sir Edmund Burke
God willing, Hamas will win.
~ Nizar Rayan (a Hamas leader the day before his death)
As I look at tiny Israel finally get the courage to start defending herself decisively against the evil and intractable Hamas, the de facto leadership [...]
Unto us a Son is given
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (740-680 B.C.)
On the eve before the traditionally recognized birth of Christ, I am admittedly in [...]
Egalitarianism and how Sports Reward Failure
SOCIALISM is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” ~ Winston Churchill
Detroit has been in the news as of late for all the wrong reasons, which can be traced to their penchant for rewarding failure. Think: Congress “bailout” [corporate welfare [...]
Goebbels, Patterson, Obama and the Eternal Lie
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
- Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda
Please forgive me if by [...]
War for Oil? I Wish it Had Been
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil.
-Alan Greenspan (from his memoirs, September 2007)
As the president surreptitiously departed off to Iraq and Afghanistan for his final victory tour earlier this week to bask in the two identifiable foreign policy “victories” in an otherwise [...]
Obama, Blago and ‘The Chicago Way’
We were approached “pay to play.” That, you know, he’d raise me 500 grand. An emissary came. Then the other guy would raise a million, if I made him [Senate Candidate 5] a senator.
-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (discussing the Chicago Way on FBI wiretaps)
As Barack Obama, other sundry Democrat politicians and their willing accomplices in [...]
The Bewildering Mind of President Bush
Democrats are liberals first.
-Rush Limbaugh, conservative intellectual
I want to revisit the Kennedy Center Honors held last Saturday. When the media repeatedly looped President Bush giving legendary singer and liberal activist Barbra Streisand a kiss on the right side of her cheek, while for the past eight years giving conservative Republicans the backside of his [...]
Condi Plays Piano While Islam Destroys The West
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
-Anonymous, circa A.D. 64
The headline sounded innocuous enough – “Condoleezza Rice plays piano for Queen Elizabeth II.” My first thought was how nice, how quaint it is for Dr. Rice to play the “Brahms Piano Quintet” with Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s wife, Louise, and three members of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Then [...]
Liberalism Bombs Bombay
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
-Numbers 33:55
The heart is deceitful and [...]