Sonia Sotomayor is President Obama’s pick for the court. From the point of view of conservatives, she is probably as good a pick as President Obama was going to make. Something new may come out about her, but if not conservatives should give the reasons they think her judicial philosophy is mistaken and then move on.
She is a mainstream liberal and President Obama was not...
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California voted "no" to more taxes. Hopefully Jerry Brown will not take us to court for voting, again, against the will of the state establishment. We can assume the LA Times will call us names for it.
Only an elite already at war with their own voters would be surprised to discover that raising taxes is rarely popular in California. The problem as Sacramento sees it? Voter...
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When I was a young man working for a home electronics firm, a pro-life commercial suddenly appeared on the televisions that formed one wall of the store.
The manger, who was white, began to swear. After so many years, I am still sickened by the ugliness of what he said. He was angry at those pro-life and religious fanatics making him pay for more welfare minority babies.
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When a few protesters interrupted President Obama’s speech at the Notre Dame graduation by shouting, “Stop killing our children!” the student body replied by chanting, “Yes, we can.”
This inadvertent juxtaposition of messages was, perhaps, not the best way to placate traditional Catholics.
President Obama gave a good speech at the University of Notre Dame gradua...
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I moved to California fifteen years ago and fell in love with the state.
There is so much to see and do that one could easily vacation here forever without exhausting the wonders, natural and man made. One a single day, one can look at world class art at the Getty and party in Mr. Disney's park at night. Our university system makes innovation a daily affair. Students have l...
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A small piece of rotten wood falls from house siding, suggesting the termites that are consuming the structure. A popular ruler decides not to go out to war with his troops and King David's reign is never the same again.
Noah's neighbors should have worried more when the old patriarch started building the ark. The first nail to go into the gopher wood had the ring of doom t...
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A government decided to execute a prisoner who threatened its control of a region. It did not just kill the man, but selected, as usual, a means calculated to do the most pain and prolong the suffering. His torturous death is recorded in the Gospels and should give every Christian pause in supporting any form of torture. Torturing any man, even the most base, may not elevate th...
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Recently President Obama made a series of important speeches in Western Europe and in Turkey. He said that "the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam" and that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” He is right on both counts. These passages must be understood in the context of his sophisticated view of the role of religion and government.
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Mr. Robert Thomas Llizo
Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History
Professor at the Torrey Honors Institute
March 25 is a significant day for many Greek Orthodox Christians, since on this date two big events are remembered, one which has universal significance for all of Christendom, and the other which more specifically has an impact on the Greek nation and people. On ...
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I am watching much of the Frank Capra collection for a class I am teaching this term. Was there ever a better time to watch the best film maker of the Depression and World War II era?
His movies portray honest bums (!), politicians (!!), and even bankers (!!!) facing down the graft that comes with a combination of Big Money and Big Government.
His best known film today i...
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In an attempt to clarify the government’s detention authority over some 200+ current Guantanamo Bay detainees, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has distanced itself from the politically loaded term “enemy combatant.” Headlines on Friday (the 13th) trumpeted that the Obama administration had eliminated and retired the term “enemy combatant,” that the term was bein...
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President Obama, through presidential fiat, decided experimenting on potential human beings will expand. Without study and by proclamation, the President has created a monstrous policy that has no precedent in American history.
It is more radical than what was allowed under Bill Clinton or George Bush. President Obama has given no reasons why such a new course is reasonable ...
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I have underestimated President Obama.
Today he announced that we can experiment on human beings and even create new humans for our experimentation.
The good news is that he made this decision based only on science. Politics, vile nasty politics, had nothing to do with his decision.
Evidently President Obama has discovered a way to derive ethics from science! This is ...
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