The State of the Union

theychose liberation. For the record, “progressive” President Abraham Lincoln was aRepublican. So was Frederick Douglass, and the first popularly electedAfrican-American US Senator, Edward Brooke. “Progressive trends” did not “giveequal rights” to women either, for…

Strom Thurmond. The centenarian should never have stayed inoffice as long as he did. One good thing that Senator Graham did for us. His record inWashington, however, started to worry some conservatives, and certainly agrowing constituency of South Carolinians who…

He is openly gay. Unlike Seinfeld and friends, I believe that there is “something wrong withthat”. The controversy surrounding James sexuality has deep implications forthe Republican Party, the state, and the country, too. His campaign for LAMayor is being…

National Geographic. Supposedly, archaeologists and Coptic theologians had found a fragment of a “lost gospel” which described Jesus as a married man, and other unseemly ideas which do not run current with the Word of God.I disputed these empty ideas right…

The LA Times described an unexpected contraction of the United States economy as “shrinkage”. I immediately thought of the popular sitcom Seinfeld. Has Elaine Benes or George Costanza­­ joined the newspapers reporting staff, or what? Perhaps they should…

Time Magazine, the last comment from the columnist alleged:“Brown or Whitman — they’re both Arnold’s third term.” Jerry Brown is in Arnold’s third term, then.People still liked Arnold, even though he did very little to fix the partisan…

Paul White was a nationally recognized teacher who had taken charge at West Valley Leadership Academy, where 80 percent of students graduated, a third higher than the average for the Los Angeles area. His credentials impressed Redondo Beach district leadership enough…

italics Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.;s “I have a dream” speech. As a Reverend, it appears all too often that he has neglected, or never even knew about, the New Covenant of grace, in which God promises to be a god to every one of us because in Christ all our…

Congressman Henry Waxman is opening a South Bay office on Rosecrans Ave., between the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach. Will he serve district constituents or himself? Easy Reader News reported that Hermosa Beach veteran Larry Delassus died trying to save…

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has…

“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory: why yet am I judged asa sinner? “And not rather (aswe be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) let us do evil,that good may come? Whose damnation is just.”…

Romney’s melancholy but useful role has been to refute those determinists who insist that economic conditions are almost always decisive. Americans are earning less and worth less than they were four years ago; average household income is down $3,800; under the…

To the voters of the Commonwealth of Virginia: As a resident of the Sunny Golden State California, I envyyour swing-state status. Presidential contenders are crisscrossing your statetrying to get your vote. You also have a contentious senate race, one whichpits two…

“We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery.” – Ann CoulterAnn Coulter cultivates controversy as a rule. That’s all well and good.Most people engage in name-calling and femme-baiting only because she is outspoken without being…

President BarackObama’s “do nothing” foreign policy has been a bust of from the very beginning. From his apologeticstance toward hostile Arab states to his concerted non-support of Israel, his inattention to portentous developments in Latin America…

The Jewish Journalprinted a piece on the unprecedented Congressional campaign in the newly drawn33rd Congressional District. After so much asking, they came throughat least. Thank you! I was not pleased with the mark-up of Independent BillBloomfield. The Manhattan…

http://host. madison. com/wsj/news/opinion/editorial/compromise-was-key-to-crafting-constitution/article_76409866-feb8-11e1-8b04-001a4bcf887a. htmlThe Wisconsin State Journal’s article on the core componentof compromise in creating the Constitution was a welcome…

entire year’s worthof content in a semester. Even though we met with the students for an hour anda half every day. No one in their right mind would be able to get through atextbook in an entire traditional year. But the 4 X 4 block assured that no onereally…

The Way to KnowledgeI have to comment on this title — Jesus is the Way (John 14: 6), and the knowledge that we receive, we receive through the Holy Spirit living in us (1 John2: 20, 27)If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine . . ….

Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart . . . . For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man . . . —Matthew 15:18-20 In Christ, we are…

http://townhall. com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/07/23/hugo_chavez_on_obama_hes_the_good_guyIdeologies from the Same ClothOut of spite or sheer arrogant exuberance, communistic president Hugo Chavez is calling President Obama “the good guy.”The same…

word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God…

Patterson wraps up his final words with a somber note on how his cigarette habit deprived him of more years with his family. But it’s also clear that he loved life while he was here and was determined to go out with one last laugh. And his wife confirmed to…

Diversion Indeed — and it’s not Working. . .President has no record to run on, except the broken one that keeps blaming George W. Bush, the weather, the sun, the moon, the starts for all the troubles besetting our country and economy.This man was a…

Proposition 32 is about more than leveling the playing field of special interests in Sacramento. It’s about protecting the special interest of the individual state worker, whose paycheck gets garnished without his consent and then the money gets spend on causes,…