Biblical Chronologist is also a great Bible history site.
From the monthly archives:
November 2003
I was trawling the web and found this story about a conduit built by Jerusalem’s King Hezekiah (mentioned in II Kings 20:20).
It seems that new research has confirmed the conduit was almost certainly built during Hezekiah’s reign around 700 B.C., confirming biblical accounts. Much to the chagrin of the liberal media! Notice the bias in the lead of the story:
In a rare success by scholars attempting to match existing archaeological structures with events in the Bible…
Rare indeed! Check out this site about biblical archaeology.
Mona Charen has a great column about the degradation of American culture.
And what of Al Sharpton? The scandal there is that there is no scandal. Here is a man who rose to fame on the strength of a racially motivated smear of a group of perfectly innocent police officers. The good Reverend has never acknowledged wrongdoing nor apologized. As if that were not enough, he was the provocateur who incited a race riot in Harlem that led to the torching of a clothing store and the deaths of seven people. Again, no apology.
The real problem is that we’ve removed reverence for the Almighty from our lives. I blame Christians for abdicating and acquiescing in the face of secularist onslaughts. More on that later.
JFK: Breaking the News is a really good article on revisionist history about race relations, “right wingers” and the JFK assassination.
From Oregon Magazine Larry Leonard writes:
The 14th Amendment was opposed by Democrats. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was opposed by Democrats. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was opposed by Democrats — that opposition in the end taking the form of a 52 (one source says more than 90) day filibuster in the Senate. The last Democrat to participate in that filibuster was Senator Robert Byrd of Virginia, a former member of the K.K.K.Every single advance by black Americans from the end of slavery to the end of Jim Crow to calling out the National Guard to protect Rosa Parks was the direct result of actions by Republicans. The designation “radical” Republican originated in the U.S. Congress, and was the label attached to those men who ended slavery in the northern states, and eventually throughout the United States…
I wrote an article about the subject last year titled “The New Black Codes.”
My latest book review has been posted on Townhall.com.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy — son of Ted Kennedy — once bragged (while drunk) that he’s never had to work a day in his life. Now the boy Congressman, speaking before a “crowd” of 200 people at a yacht and country club, said that in the Democratic Party, “every single person is important.”
[Kennedy] blamed President Bush for creating a greater divide between the haves and the have-nots. He said the administration has not put money into the No Child Left Behind education legislation, has cut taxes for the very rich, and is calling for deep cuts in veterans’ health care and the homeless veterans program.
I wonder how many of the “disenfranchised” were in attendance as he gave his country club speech. Unbelievable. I’ll just bet he found a lot of poor and disadvantaged people sitting around there! I almost ran him over a few years ago, too. It was an accident! Such hypocrites.
I’ve been trying to figure out why Europeans organize protests against President Bush and none against murderous dictators like Saddam Hussien. Retired army officer Ralph Peters offers a great analysis:
Bush is worse than Saddam, you see, because he refused to look the other way. His resolve is an embarrassment.American wars of liberation humiliate the complainers on the left. We’ve seized their professed ideals and made them a reality. We fought for freedom, while they only chattered. Their protests are the result of wounded egos.
During the Cold War, America was mocked for its ill-judged support of dictators because they were “our dictators.” Now our government has left the distortions of the past behind and returned to America’s traditional role of championing freedom. And look how the tables have turned.
Peters argues that it would have been much harder for the left to oppose the war in Iraq had the U.S. stressed the “human rights” rationale for war rather than the hunt for WMD. Great read.
Human nature is something else. Here we have President Bush offering to the nation’s capital an experimental voucher plan for about 1,700 students trapped in terrible, low-performing, bureaucratic schools.
Instead of embracing the experiment, liberals in Congress are fighting it. Why? Because if conservatives are proved right–that injecting competition into the educational system will provide incentive for improvements–liberals will be shame-faced. I believe many Democrats agree that something drastic needs to be done in D.C. but will not give an inch to help children, especially if that assistance comes from Republicans. Read the latest.
An excerpt:
House and Senate Republicans have revived a controversial school-voucher plan for the District and are aiming for final passage of the program this week.The Senate has never voted on the plan, which would provide several hundred low-income D.C. public school students with federal tuition grants to attend private or religious schools. After the House narrowly passed the measure, Senate Democrats filibustered it last month.
GOP House and Senate negotiators have decided to put the vouchers provision — and the $5.6 billion 2004 District budget to which it is attached — into a larger federal budget bill that cannot be amended. That has set up a showdown in which the only way Democrats can block vouchers, or other controversial items in the broader spending bill, is to force a shutdown of many federal government operations….
Voucher critic Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said that opponents would continue the fight using all means available. “We are working with senators to take full advantage of Senate rules in order to take vouchers out of our appropriation,” Norton said in a statement relayed by her chief of staff, Julia Hudson.
Good example of the corrupted nature of Man: Eleanor Holmes “No Vote” Norton viciously opposes choice for students. Why? One of her statements on vouchers:
“Our public schools will lose a combination of $12,557 per pupil in both DC and federal funds because every school system must be funded on a per pupil basis. That would be a blow DC public school funding cannot afford today.”
There you have it. Cash! The teachers unions give Democrats millions of dollars in contributions. If students flee, teachers unions lose money. If teachers unions lose money, they will be a tad upset. Donors don’t support politicians who upset them. Poor kids.
For the past 18 years, I’ve kept a personal journal. I have 14 black and white composition notebooks stacked in a drawer. Every now and then, I’ll open one and flipped through pages filled with memories of adolescent angst, joy, sadness, regrets, etc.
While some weblogs are strictly logs of the web, opinion sites or personal journals, many are a combination of all three. I intend for this blog to be such a combination. In fact, this entry is the sort of thing I’d record in my personal journal, but I decided to record it here.
I dropped the ball on my last column, “‘Christians’ Oppose Partial Birth Abortion Ban.” I wrote that Tom Daschle, Mary Landrieu and Robert Byrd voted against the ban on partial birth abortion. In fact, they had not. Additionally, John Edwards, Joe Biden and Dick Gephardt didn’t even vote this time around.
I discovered that, in addition to making assumptions, I was looking at an out-dated or incorrect roll call list. I’d like to apologize to readers for the sloppy research. My column on the partial birth abortion ban appears in edited form in the post below this one.
The ghastly image of partial birth abortion brings tears to my eyes.
Nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer felt the same way. Ms. Shafer, a witness to the unspeakable procedure, testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution Committee on the Judiciary in 1996. She recalled the “doctor” telling a woman who was six months pregnant that her baby had Down Syndrome. She chose death for her child. Ms. Shafer testified that she saw the baby’s beating heart on the ultrasound monitor.
She noticed the baby’s fingers clasping and unclasping and feet kicking as the abortionist pulled his feet and legs out of the womb. He inserted scissors into the baby’s head, and his little arms jerked out in a flinch.
“The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I was really completely unprepared for what I was seeing. I almost threw up as I watched the doctor do these things,” she recalled.
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What a shame. I used to really like this woman.
I started writing seriously in July 2002 and “went national” and sold this story to Today’s Christian Woman a few months later. As a former alcoholic, I want to share my testimony of faith in Christ and how He delivered me from addiction.
My heart cried out for this woman when I heard on the radio that she’d reported her car stolen and her 3 month-old baby was still in it. For a brief moment I thought about Susan Smith, but I put it out of my mind. Guess what really happened. The Washington Post reports: “The woman’s heart-rending story apparently was a hoax, aimed at duping the police into finding her car. The infant was with a neighbor the entire time and never in any danger.”
What sort of mind could even conceive such a scheme? More to come…
Infanticidal maniacs didn’t waste time challenging the law banning partial birth abortion. The Washington Times reports that less than an hour after President Bush signed the bill, the liberals sprang into action, citing that there is no exception for the “mother’s health.” Would you believe some of these same “pro-choice” people consider themselves Christians?
While it’s great to have a Christian president in the White House, we need a bold Christian president in the White House. Seven in ten people — state citizens — support the ban on partial birth abortion. President Bush needs to come out strong and support his judicial nominees. A conservative Supreme Court may get the notion to overturn Roe vs. Wade and give back to the people their right to make laws declaring abortion illegal or not. I don’t know why Bush remains silent while liberal politicians and the media attack his nominees. But I pray that he does have a strategy even if it must, for a time, remain hidden.
Check out this story. A 12 year-old child is raped by her cousin and aborts the child. Conception by rape, particularly the rape of a child, is a “hard case” in the abortion debate. Even in so-called hard cases, why does the unborn child deserve death?
