Commentary: The Boredom Machine

Ruins of the Capitolfrom the video game Fallout 3It's been several hours since some semblance of a historical event transpired here in America: Kevin McCarthy was ousted from being Speaker of the House in the House of Representatives.  It's the first time that's ever happened.  McCarthy is now third place in being shortest term of office for a speaker.I've taken...

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It's not the zombie apocalypse...

...but it's close enough: Going out on the night of the holiday when we give thanks for what we've been blessed with, and then to stomp and trample on others to get things we don't have and don't need, with money we can't really afford to spend. It's worse than anything George Romero envisioned. Thanks to Drew McOmber for finding that graph...

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Danny de Gracia: more laws do not equal greater morality

Friend, fellow writer and fighter-in-the-good-fight Danny de Gracia has published some well-recommended thoughts this week about the correlation between the quantity of legislation and the resulting amount of public morality.  It has been the conventional wisdom throughout history that more laws equals a more perfect society. But does it really?  De Gracia doesn't...

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Government-supplied consumers now outnumber private producers in America

Jobs are evaporating.  Manufacturing is disappearing from our shores.  Millions upon millions of undocumented immigrants are flooding across our borders. And now, at long last, the population of Americans on government food assistance outnumbers that of private sector employees. This is not sustainable. From the story at CNS News... The number of Americans receiving...

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Lois Lerner of the IRS: Fifth Amendment for me but not for thee!

This is Lois Lerner, who headed the Internal Revenue Service's exempt organizations division during the time that the IRS was singling out "tea party"-affiliated groups and other politically conservative people with audits and intimidation... Where do these people keep coming from? Lois Lerner of the IRS invoked the Fifth Amendment so as not to potentially perjure herself...

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Kermit Gosnell has chosen life

And by that I mean, Kermit Gosnell has chosen life in prison. He could have chosen death.  Gosnell dropped his appeals in exchange for life, not death. I'm not the first to note the irony that given a choice, Gosnell chose life. If only his victims had been given the same choice... Kermit Gosnell: He chose life for himself, death for babies. Kermit Gosnell, abortion...

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Lovecraft the prophet

"That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and...

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And the band played on: Obama's House party at taxpayer expense

One of the classic signs of imminent collapse of a culture is the brazen decadence that its leaders and elites start to exhibit.  Nero and Commodus magnified lavishness to scales unprecedented even as the Roman Empire was rotting from the inside and slowly collapsing.  The nigh-invincible Babylonians were in a drunken stupor of self-edification until Cyrus invaded...

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Planned Parenthood official sez: there is a right to POST-BIRTH abortion

God have mercy on us. Alisa LaPolt Snow, a lobbyist representing Planned Parenthood in Florida ("Planned Parenthood"?  Now there's a contradiction in terms...) testified before that state's legislators this week that babies who are born after an attempted abortion should be killed at the discretion of the mother and her doctor. Killing a baby.  After it has been born. Back in the old days, we used to call that "infanticide".  Something...

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Out-of-whack priorities

Good friend, Baptist minister and wise Christian brother (he's certainly wiser than I shall ever be) James Hodges made an observation earlier today. I'm sharing it here, because in so few words it speaks volumes...Why should we worry about the 'fiscal cliff' when we have already fallen over the 'moral cliff.'Unfortunately, all too true.Perhaps there would be no concern of a "fiscal cliff" at all if we had chosen to long ago steer away from the moral...

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EVERYONE in U.S. under virtual surveillance by federal government (and why)

The government of the United States is not of the people, by the people and for the people. And it has not been for a very long time. Maybe not even in the memory of anyone alive today. We all know it. Unfortunately there seems to be damned little we can do about it. But having spent most of my life as a historian I also know that the established order can and eventually...

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U.S. Government spent $100,000 determining if Jesus died for the Klingons

Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma has been digging into the details of the federal budget. Among the things our government is spending our money upon: inventing roll-up beef jerky, the study of goldfish swimming patterns and an iPhone app for scheduling coffee breaks.And then there's this: $100,000 of taxpayer money to look into the question of whether Jesus Christ died for...

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Stop Christmas, I want to get off

Let's dispense with the floridity and get to the point:The holiday season has been damn near ruined by commercial madness.I'm hearing that some families are having their Thanksgiving gatherings destroyed by Wal-Mart and other retailers mandating their employees be working on Thursday morning. Yeah you read that right: a number of stores are opening at noon on Thanksgiving when everyone else will be gorging on turkey and watching football.I got a...

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No more Twinkies: Labor union destroys Hostess

I hope the idiots in the photo on the right are happy.  Those are some of the members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union who went on strike against their employer: Hostess Brands, Inc.The union has about 5,000 people working at Hostess. As of this morning, their months-long strike has put themselves and thirteen thousand...

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Bold prophecy about Election Day

You know what's going to happen to America after Tuesday?Nothing. Not a damned frazzling thing.We will still be taxed too much.Abortion will still go on.TSA will still be molesting children and elderly people.We will continue to be over-extended militarily.Companies will keep relocating their production overseas.Children in our schools will continue to be taught to obey and not question instead of encouraged to think for themselves.Government...

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Two small musings on politics

Voting in America has devolved into middle-school immaturity: dominated by petty cliques, peer pressure and lots of masturbation (figuratively, thank goodness...).Allow me to remark that I know lots of real middle-schoolers, mostly from community theater... and they ALL act more mature than the voting adults are right now!Then I have to observe that the vast majority of political news, indeed news that passes for "top stories" among the television/print/major...

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And pray at the Republican convention too, right? Right? Hello...?

A few weeks from now, on the eve of the Democrat National Convention starts in Charlotte, an event called Charlotte714 will be held at the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre.Here is how it's being described by USNews.com...On the night before the Democratic convention in Charlotte, at the tip of America's bible belt, more than 40 evangelical, Baptist and other Christian churches will host a massive church service in the 20,000 seat Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre."Charlotte714,"...

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Obama's recess appointments: I smell hypocrisy

So it's coming out that a bunch of Republicans, including senators Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell, are expressing concern about President Obama making recess appointments when the Senate was not in session. Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese is saying that Obama is committing "a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers."Oh please...The Justice Department headed by Eric Holder is defending the appointments as legal. Y'know, just like...

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See BS: Tiffany Network caught discriminating against Paul, Bachmann

If CBS or any other "major media outlet" alleges that this is a matter of time constraint, then I'm gonna have to call it that I see B.S.Look, five years ago I was one of sixteen candidates for school board in my home county, and in the final week before the election we all took part (well, one of us declined to participate, but that's another story) in a public candidates forum. A "debate", if you will. And each of us got ample time to state our...

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Les Misérables: Women steal 75 deodorant sticks, as pet cemeteries ordered to stop burying humans

In the state of New York a government agency is ordering pet cemeteries to cease and desist with interring the cremated remains of human pet owners with their beloved dogs and cats.Meanwhile in Fort Pierce, Florida (I happen to have lots of family there) two women were taped by video surveillance at a Winn Dixie supermarket stealing seventy-five sticks of deodorant. Police figure the ladies will try to sell the deodorant to convenience stores.Not...

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