WORLD: Fauxcahontas*

by La Shawn on 05.15.12

in Columns

Elizabeth Warren

Did Harvard University hire the blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts, because she claimed to be an American Indian?

That’s what members of the Massachusetts Republican Party want to know. They’ve called for Harvard to investigate whether Warren’s supposed racial minority status played a role in her recruitment. Warren, who is challenging Sen. Scott Brown for his seat, listed herself as Native American in legal directories but said she was hired on merit. Columnist Michael Barone said Warren identified as an Indian at previous schools where she taught.

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*Wish I’d come up with that name, but Mark Steyn beat me to it.

[Note: The point I tried to make in the column was how ridiculous it is for the blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren to list herself as a racial minority, an American Indian, not that the descendants of American Indians cannot be blond and blue-eyed.]

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Update (5/8): North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

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North Carolina already has a law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Why do legislators want another? Read on, and if you’re a registered voter in North Carolina, please vote.

[On Tuesday, May 8], North Carolina voters will decide for or against the following language:

“Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.”

If the voters who choose to protect marriage outnumber those who don’t, the following will appear in the state constitution:

“Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.”

At least 41 states have laws banning homosexual “marriage” by amendment or statute, including North Carolina. In 1996, the state legislature passed a law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. But the political landscape has changed in 16 years. Homosexual activists have become much more determined to redefine marriage and render it meaningless. North Carolina lawmakers decided to let the people vote directly and make the ban part of the state constitution, so only the voters—not courts or lawmakers—can change it, according to state law.

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That Time Again?

by La Shawn on 05.05.12

in Me, Me, Me

In case you haven’t figured it out, today’s my birthday. :D

Time…it flies, no?

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How should Christians respond in the so-called illegal immigration debate? Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, opposes laws like SB 1070. In fact, he favors immigration reform, a euphemism for amnesty. “Hospitality is not at the margins of Scripture,” he said earlier this year at the G92 South Immigration Conference at Samford University. “Jesus wasn’t kidding around when He said, ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’”

Scripture misapplication notwithstanding, Christians certainly are called to be compassionate, but are we called to welcome lawbreakers? In light of such questions, Professor James K. Hoffmeier, author of The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible (Crossway, 2009), investigated what the Bible has to say about foreigners/strangers/visitors in a host country. The relevant terms he found are ger,zar, and nekharZar and nekhar refer to people passing through, but only ger refers to foreigners who live in the land with the host’s permission.

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WORLD: Shacking Up

April 23, 2012
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The web is buzzing about an opinion article published by The New York Times last Saturday. “The Downside to Cohabitating Before Marriage” has been one of the most emailed and among the most viewed articles on the Times’ website this week, although it contains nothing new or groundbreaking. It merely confirms what most know or suspect: Living together before [...]

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WORLD: Voter ID ‘Controversy’

April 16, 2012
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One side of the political aisle claims that requiring American citizens to show a photo ID to elect other Americans to positions of power presents a hardship to “the poor,” blacks, and Hispanics. The claim is absurd on its face and even more so when you consider that people have to show photo ID throughout [...]

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WORLD: He is not here

April 6, 2012
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This Sunday we commemorate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, the One we call the Christ. The resurrection is the foundation of our faith, and Christianity itself rests on the truth of the claim that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. His physical resurrection is a sign pointing to our own physical resurrection, but [...]

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WORLD: Christian Tebow and Atheist Dawkins

March 29, 2012
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Tim Tebow knows his future Doctors thought Timothy Richard Tebow, the youngest of five homeshooled children, would be stillborn. While doing missions work in the Philippines, his pregnant mother contracted a bacterial infection. The medication she took caused placental disruption. Doctors recommended abortion, but his mother refused. In his memoir, Through My Eyes, Tebow said [...]

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‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler…’

March 21, 2012
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Last March 18 I forgot it was the 14th anniversary of my sobriety. I usually talk about it and mention it on my blog. But I didn’t think about it until two months later. I never imagined I’d ever overlook such an important date. For over a decade, I consumed alcohol in large quantities whenever [...]

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WORLD: ‘Failure of Leadership’ at Penn State

March 15, 2012
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On Monday, the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees released a report explaining why they “removed” the late head football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier last November. Penn State alumni, students, and others complained about the firings and asked the trustees to “state clearly” why they did so. The report is their response. [...]

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WORLD: Kirk Cameron and Romans 1:27 – UPDATED

March 8, 2012
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Kirk Cameron, former teen star of Growing Pains, a sitcom that ran from 1985 to 1992, became a Christian while on the show. In 2002, he co-founded a ministry called The Way of the Master (the on-the-street witnessing is instructional), and in 2008, he played the leading man in the Christian movie Fireproof, a surprise hit. Promoting his new [...]

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Maryland’s Gun Law Unconstitutional

March 5, 2012
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Under Maryland law, a resident must show a “good and substantial reason” to obtain a permit to carry a handgun. But the state has it exactly backward. The [...]

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Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012

March 1, 2012
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A few years ago, I e-mailed Andrew Breitbart on Facebook to ask about writing for one of his sites. Rather than e-mail me back to discuss it, he gave me his number and asked me to call him. The man who helped create the Drudge Report and ran a news aggregation service and other sites [...]

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WORLD: Atheists, Christians, and Censorship

March 1, 2012
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Last week, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Lenoir City High School in Tennessee denied an atheist student permission to publish an editorial accusing school administrators and faculty of violating her rights as an atheist. Krystal Myers, editor of the school newspaper, wrote that the school allows prayer at football games “via the public address system,” which [...]

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WORLD: Marriage and Fathers

February 28, 2012
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“Marriage Redefined: Implications” An excerpt: “Marriage is a relationship of opposites. In redefining it to include people of the same sex, marriage is rendered meaningless, and children are deprived of a normal family. Children from same-sex unions, begat through a known or unknown sperm donor or womb, are deprived of what they long for, even [...]

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