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I figured this was going to happen if Barack Obama won the presidential election: self-professed “conservatives” would be quick to blast Obama and the Democrats for violating the Constitution… when in fact those same conservatives have turned a blind eye at every opportunity during the past eight years when “their guy” George W. Bush did the same.

That’s the kind of hypocrisy that I cannot forgive. And so far as the “Christian” ones go, it tells me that they are not interested in the truth at all.

Chuck Baldwin agrees, writing in his latest essay. The “Constitutional crisis” that many conservatives claim is there because of the dubious nature of Obama’s birthplace is diminished, because these conservatives refused to condemn their own just as equally…

Many conservatives seem to be obsessed with this controversy, calling it a “constitutional crisis.” The fact is, however, we have been in a “constitutional

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A few weeks ago it occurred to me why this country is presently so screwed-up financially:

From top to bottom, we have been trying to hack it on a Star Trek economy… without the requisite Star Trek technology needed to make it work.

Gene Roddenberry had funny ideas about money in his Star Trek universe. Namely, that the United Federation of Planets, including Earth, didn’t use it. It was an ideal socialist state that based its economy on the pursuit of excellence, for the betterment of self and society. Remember how Kirk and Spock had to sell the spectacles in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ‘cuz they were cash-strapped in San Francisco circa 1986? And then later in the same movie, Kirk admitted to Gillian that they didn’t have money in his own time.

The concept got fleshed-out a bit more (interestingly after Roddenberry’s passing in 1991): the ...

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People keep asking me what do I think of Barack Obama, now that he is going to be President come January 20th, 2009. Which I’ll admit a kind of devious joy in answering them since I didn’t vote for either Obama or John McCain (in keeping with my policy of never voting for anyone who runs a single negative ad, neither one of ’em deserved my vote). Whenever anyone’s asked me that in the past few weeks my answer has been the same: that I can’t see Obama being a good President at all… but as bad as he would have been on his own, he will be even worse because George W. Bush paved the way first.

It will be decades before we fully understand the damage that Bush has done to this country, and consequently to this world. Yet Bush is so self-deluded with grandeur that he seriously ...

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President-Elect Barack Obama is likely going to overturn a lot of Bush’s policies via the use of executive order and “signing statements”.

And here’s why Bush’s most stubborn supporters had darned well better start worrying up a sweat…

George W. Bush set a horrible precedent with his abuse of executive orders and signing statements (which are how he got around the letter of the law a lot of times, by “interpreting” legislation according to his own whims and declaring that it was his executive privilege to do so). And for most of the past decade, the “Bush-bots” have cheered him on… even when he’s grievously violated the Constitution in the process.

And now that very same power is going to land in the hands of Barack Obama.

Can you people who have thought Bush could do no wrong these eight years, possibly be capable of understanding what that means?

I’ve ...

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A few days ago on this blog I wrote about how conservative Christians bore much of the blame for the election of Barack Obama. That they had let their pursuit of power blind them so much that they failed to see Christ and what He stood for anymore.

And now, writing in Jewish World Review (a very good publication, I might add), Cal Thomas doesn’t just echo those same sentiments, he articulates them far better than I could.

From his essay “The Religious Right, R.I.P.”…

Thirty years of trying to use government to stop abortion, preserve opposite-sex marriage, improve television and movie content and transform culture into the conservative Evangelical image has failed. The question now becomes: should conservative Christians redouble their efforts, contributing more millions to radio and TV preachers and activists, or would they be wise to try something else?

I opt for trying something else…

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I originally had much more to say about this, but I’m going to dispense with the flowery rhetoric and cut to the heart of the matter…

The so-called “evangelical conservative Christians” had damned well better look in a mirror if they want to see who is most responsible for Barack Obama winning the race for President on Tuesday.

And now there is no reason to be angry, and no rationale for “blaming God” for Obama’s victory, as I have seen too many Christians seriously doing. God had nothing to do with Obama winning. If anything, He let the people of America have what they wanted… and He absolutely played fair with many of those who profess Him as Lord.

“Christian conservatives” paved the way to Obama’s historic win because they sold out their values for sake of worldly power.

People like James Dobson and the Focus on the Family crowd: ...

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We do not need any more elected officials who believe that God is telling them to change the world.

What we need and cannot get enough of are elected officials who are letting God change them instead.

(And if more common folk would be willing to let God control them instead of trying to control the world for God, this would be a much happier place anyway…)...

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April 4th, 1984, Big Brother on the telescreen at the Ministry of Truth in London, Airstrip One, from the film Nineteen Eighty-Four (the 1984 adaptation of the George Orwell novel)…


September 2nd, 2008, George W. Bush on the telescreen at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, in real life…

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Something I came up with after the idea hit me on the drive back from Atlanta last week.

It could also be argued that Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without really firing a single shot, or inflicting any fatalities. He defeated the Soviet Union in the only way that it could be beaten: by forcing it to bankrupt itself to death.

Not even twenty years later, his legacy is becoming undone before our very eyes. And millions of people who have never had to know such things may soon be hearing quite a bit about bomb shelters and air raid sirens....

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Electronista is reporting about policies with the Department of Homeland Security that now allow its agents to legally detain laptop computers from anyone it wants to who’s crossing the border into the United States… and never return them to their rightful owners. This includes American citizens, also.

As of last month, Homeland Security (still the most Nazi-ish name for an American government agency that has ever been) can seize not just laptops, but iPods, videotapes and DVDs, books, and pretty much anything else it wants, without there being any suspicion of wrongdoing on the part of the person entering the country.

If this does not violate the undue search and seizure clause of the United States Constitution, then I don’t know what does. No doubt that a lot of DHS employees are looking at this as a goldmine of opportunity: “Hey Bob, didn’t your little girl want a new iPod? ...

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