Looks like the Obama Administration has responded to objections to it’s anti-religious liberty HHS mandate by expanding its reach: In a move that is likely to reignite the ire of religious leaders, late Friday afternoon the Obama administration announced a proposal that would require universities, including religious universities, to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs …
Hugh Hewitt: Nothing shocks when anything goes
Here is an excellent column from Hugh Hewitt at The Washington Examiner on standards of public discourse. We especially liked this part: There is one standard for all commentary, and it ought to apply to Palin and Ms. Fluke, to President Obama and President Bush, to Justice Thomas and to Justice Kagan. So credit nothing …
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The Church of Obama
Another great read from Mark Steyn today at National Review Online: The bigger the Big Government, the smaller everything else: First, other pillars of civil society are crowded out of the public space; then, the individual gets crowded out, even in his most private, tooth-level space. President Obama, Commissar Sebelius, and many others believe in …
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New York Times applies religious test to Governor Rick Perry of Texas
From The New York Times, “Rally Raises Anew Question of the Boundaries of Perry’s Faith“: Few political figures in America have so consistently and so unabashedly intermingled their personal faith and their public persona, peppering speeches with quotations from Scripture, speaking from the pulpit at churches, regularly meeting and strategizing with evangelical Christians and even, …
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Breaking News from 1517: Lutheran Church “Anti-Catholic”
This story from James Oliphant at the Los Angeles Times is just hilarious. It just shows such a glaring ignorance of basic Christian history and theology he should be embarrassed. But he obviously doesn’t know enough to be embarrassed. Taking a page from President Obama’s political playbook, Michele Bachmann has formally left a church in …
Governor says he’s a Christian, media, activists outraged
Occasionally, some public figure will say something perfectly in line with traditional Christianity, and the forces of “tolerance” in America, in the media, professional grievance groups, bloggers, etc, will react in horror and outrage. By so doing, they merely display their own ignorance and prejudice. The latest example, from the AP, via Yahoo News: BIRMINGHAM, …
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Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Clinton, McCain-Palin: neocon holy warriors all?
Here is a great video in rebuttal to one of the many mischaracterizations of Sarah Palin that have gained traction in the DeMSM effort to discredit her. According to the narrative from the left, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton must all be extremist neocon theocrats akin to the Taliban. The repeated attempts by the …
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Mitt Romney, “Faith in America”
The speech given today by Mitt Romney was pretty good and effective, though we would have left out this section: There is one fundamental question about which I often am asked. What do I believe about Jesus Christ? I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind. My church’s …
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More evidence liberal values harm children
From the AP, of all places, (via Yahoo News): …many scholars and front-line caseworkers interviewed by The Associated Press see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a broader trend that deeply worries them. They note an ever-increasing share of America’s children grow up in homes without both biological parents, and say the risk of child …
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“Not Nobel Winners”
In their editorial “Not Nobel Winners” The Wall Street Journal offers some perspective on what a joke it was to award the “peace” prize to Forest Gore (Mama always said, everybody but me and my jetsetting friends should use less energy). … These men and women put their own lives and livelihoods at risk by …
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Mt. Soledad Cross update
From michellemalkin.com, an update on the Radical Atheists vs. Mt. Soledad Cross case: …a previous order requiring the City of San Diego to remove the Mount Soledad War Memorial Cross has been vacated–by the (extremely liberal) Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The litigation continues, however. Of course the litigation continues. The ACLU never sleeps, to …
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Mass. legislature opposes democracy and marriage
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The state legislature of Massachusetts has decided not only to undermine the institution of marriage, but also to reject their own state constitution and the principle of democracy. Via The Corner at NRO, current Mass. governor Mitt Romney reacts to the opponents of democracy and marriage in the state legislature: One hundred and seventy thousand …
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