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otI have noticed how the South Dakota Democrats have taken offense to the conservative?s position on issues like abortion. Their approach is that politics should be void of moral values. That is probably why they lie so much. Lying is...

From KXAN Austin: Cindy Sheehan continues to camp outside the president's ranch, demanding he tell her what noble cause her son died for. While she has plenty of support, there's also opposition, including the parents of a fallen Central Texas...

From Star Parker: A group of wealthy Democratic Party partisans has announced a new partnership called the Democratic Alliance, through which millions of dollars will be funneled to a network of new and existing liberal think tanks to compete with...

Thanks to all who submitted links in the recent "call for links" posts. I'm working on getting several of the links added to the blogroll, but for some reason Typepad doesn't really want to co-operate with me tonight. But they'll...

The DVD version of To End All Wars includes a making of documentary in which a couple of the Japanese actors explain that the wounds of the Second World War will never truly heal until their country comes to grips...

Fire rages at a chemical plant in suburban Detroit

There have been several of these sorts of fires in the last couple months or so. If the Chief were paranoid, he MIGHT think that someone or some group might be trying to knock back our petrochemical infrastructure to negatively impact the economy, especially with the well documented tight situation with refining capacity.

Naaah. Surely Homeland Security or someone would tell us if something like that were happening. Wouldn't they?

Then again...just because I'm paranoid, doessn't mean somebody isn't REALLY after me!

Mainstreamers have lost their way

A couple of opEds from the RC Journal here and here express some thoughts similar to a comment the Chief posted a while back on the same topic. Akers' double-barrel blast was especially on target in a number of respects.

Moderates accommodate evil (the mainstream coalition advocates "tolerance and compassion for all"). They avoid decisions. Whenever you hear a politician say we have to let the courts decide issues like abortion and gay marriage, you're listening to a moderate. Prior to the Iraq war and World War II, moderates sought to avoid decisions by giving sanctions or diplomacy more time to work.

The Mainstream Coalition was about as bold as you'd expect a bunch of moderates to be in crafting their list their principles. They're for human rights, religious freedom and quality education, against saying mean things about homosexuals and racial minorities, against candidates who lie about their beliefs, and against requiring office-holders to belong to a particular religion. This would only matter if anyone with power or influence were taking the opposite position on these things, and none are.

The Mainstreamers should add a little to their statement that a quality education is the cornerstone of freedom and democracy. Along with quality education, you need guns, a constitution, ammunition, private property, citizens who know how to use guns, judges who follow the constitution, gun factories and a separation of powers. And maybe a few more guns. You need one more thing. A moral population. A religious citizenry.

On target!

As far as the virtues of "moderation" go, two thoughts:
(1) Moderation in defense of freedom is no virtue, extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. (Goldwater)
(2) ref: Revelation 3:16.

Lone Prairie on the virtues and vices of Wal-Mart. Money line: Surviving doesn't include crying about the state of the local business climate because of Wal-Mart. That's prolonging death, not surviving....

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