Politicians and talking heads types have always been celebrities to me. Hollywood had nothing on them.
I looked forward to watching shows like “Meet the Press” and “The McLaughlin Group” on Sunday mornings. I loved listening to politicians and pundits arguing about people and policy.
When I first moved to DC (nine years ago?), I was on the look-out. I spotted people like ABC’s Sam Donaldson walking down the street (for some reason he did a double-take when he saw me), George Will standing near the escalator at a downtown Metro station, and journalist Steve Roberts (husband of ABC’s Cokie) in the elevator of the building where I worked. I was on the look-out.
When I landed a job on Capitol Hill, I was in heaven. Whether I liked them or not, it was thrilling to walk down the halls past men like Orrin Hatch, the late Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms (who smiled at me), Robert Bryd (who smiled and waved when he caught me staring at him), John Ashcroft (who didn’t smile), and even Ted Kennedy. I almost ran over his son, Congressman Patrick Kennedy, at a stop sign. Ah, the memories!
Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are savage wolves. – Matthew 7:15
Wow! I did not intend to focus on child killing the past couple weeks. Opportunities to blog about it kept popping, and I went in that direction. I’m listening, God! If my blog plays a part in stopping just one woman from slaughtering her child, my work here is good.
I have yet another opportunity to tell you about more so-called Christians who believe women have a right to kill their babies. When last I blogged about so-called Reverend Carlton W. Veazey, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (which used to be called the Coalition for Abortion Rights), I named him among others who profess Christ and a woman’s right to kill her baby, in the same breath. See Irreverent Reverends, Part II.
I was sickened by an article I read yesterday about Veazey, and I wanted to bring it to your attention. Every year for the past 12 years, black church members and leaders have gathered at a conference called the National Black Church Summit on Sexuality. At this summit, black ministers speechify on how black churches can be more “inclusive” of homosexuals and how to counsel teenage girls and women about “parenthood, adoption and pregnancy termination.”
That’s not a typo! Pregnancy termination. Churches. Pastors. Ministers.
Leave it up to mainstream media to make an instant tree out of an acorn! (Not quite a play on the old idiom, but you get the point!) Slow news cycle? Hey, I can’t talk. I’m blogging about it!
Unless you were comatose yesterday, you probably heard Jesse Jackson say he wanted to cut out Barack Obama’s “nuts” because Jackson believes Obama was “talking down to black people” when he dared mention the need for morality in the black community. Funny, coming from an infanticide enthusiast like BHO, but…anyway, watch the clip:
Look, we all say things we don’t necessarily mean when we’re upset. Don’t judge Jackson too harshly over that. Judge him over his pro-abortion stance. Judge him over his race-baiting and camera-hogging. Judge this phony “man of God” over his media gluttony and attempts to make headlines at all costs. Judge him over his disingenuous concern about “the poor” and misplaced concern about thugs in prison.
Jackson and Obama are cut from the same cloth. They’re attention-loving, devoid-of-substance liberals who’re taken far too seriously.
Update: Commenter Dianne writes: “I haven’t thought of either Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton as ‘Reverends’ for years. To me they’re both B list actors, bad ones at that.”
Later…There’s more? You’ve got your headlines now, “Reverend.”
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. - Jeremiah 17: 9&10
This is another long one. I hope you keep reading. Another important-question-at-the-end post.
The main reason I stopped blogging about politics was because it seemed in vain. I felt I wasn’t making a difference, merely repeating what everyone else was saying. But God has revealed to me it’s not in vain, if my purpose for blogging about politics edifies Christians and encourages them to adopt and maintain a consistent biblical worldview.
We all know Barack Obama supports infanticide. Nothing new here to see. But I caught him attempting to obscure the real reason he voted against a bill protecting infants born alive during failed infanticide attempts. That tends to happen when you don’t have good moral grounding and a consistent worldview, biblical or otherwise. These days, Obama tries to make it sound as if he’s always cared about these infants and opposes abortion on religious grounds.
I contend that both statements are false. Obama believes women and so-called doctors should be allowed to kill unborn babies, and that babies born alive during these attempts should be allowed to die.
Recently interviewed in Relevant magazine, whose motto is “God. Life. Progressive Culture,” Obama was asked about his stance on child killing. He wanted to clear up “rumors.”
I haven’t had ads on my blog for quite a while. The political season is heating up and I’ve returned to political blogging for the time being, so I’d be foolish not to offer space to organizations and individuals trying to sell stuff to an audience interested in political things.
I get e-mails from political and Christian authors and publicists about reviewing or mentioning books on the blog. Authors, you can reach thousands of like-minded people who may want to buy your book. Place an ad on my blog with a link to your Amazon page.
The ad strip on the left is in a prime location: top left. On any web page, that’s where the eyes wander first. (I read about it in some report). And it’s true. Ads in that location get the most clicks.
You may recall that last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that imposing the death penalty for child rape violates the Eight Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
A blogger who read the brief noticed something was amiss. Col. Dwight H. Sullivan found an error in the court’s 65-page ruling.
When I was going through an existential phase in college many years ago, I used to ask anyone who’d listen, “What’s the meaning of all this? What is the point?” Why was I born in South Carolina, in the United States, in this skin, and with this body?
“I could have been born anywhere,” I’d say. Why here? Why now? Why a woman? Why a black person? What does it all mean? I’m still seeking answers to some of those questions, but I know this: I thank God I was born on American soil, and he must have a good reason for making it so.
My country is a land of the free, home of the brave, but I used to talk trash about it and take for granted its freedom and opportunities. I saw the error of my ways, however. America is my homeland, and I have grown to love it.
Who cares what “they” say? Envy! Let them complain and criticize and demonize. For all its faults (which are legion), America is the freest, the best, the greatest, the most benevolent and charitable country on the planet.
It is my homeland, and I love it. Here’s to another 232 years!
If you believe marriage should be defined as between one man and one woman, you are divisive and discriminatory, said future President Barack Hussein Obama (Source).
But by his own logic, BHO’s also divisive and discriminatory, because he reportedly said he believes marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I don’t get it. Which is it, BHO?
There’s more. Once upon a time, BHO said the issue of homosexual “marriage” should be left to the states. The people should vote yay or nay. He’s apparently changed his mind. Now he believes homosexual “marriage” should be forced on the people by the courts.
You may recall that after the California Supreme Court overturned a law banning homosexual “marriage” last month, the people of California leapt into action, adding over one million signatures to a petition to put the question on the November ballot. Californians will get to decide whether homosexuals can “marry” in their state. But BHO cried foul.
Over the years, through what I’ve seen with my own eyes and heard from others, I’ve come to believe that deliberately depriving a child of a father is a form of child abuse.
That’s not a popular position to hold. What’s doubly sad is that criticizing people who deprive children this way is worse than actually depriving the children. Why? Please explain.
Losing a father through death is awful, but it’s not the same as losing him through divorce or being born into a fatherless home. In whichever case, a child will feel abandoned, but losing a father through divorce and being deprived of one from birth are deliberate acts of abandonment, worse than death in a sense. When a family loses a father through death, they keep his memory alive. His authority lingers. The children grow up knowing he loved them and their mother, made sacrifices for their well being, and did not walk out on them to pursue his own interests.
Three out of four black babies are born in the United States to women who aren’t married to the fathers. Fatherlessness leads to a multitude of problems, the worst of which is the repeated cycle of fatherlessness. You’ve read the studies. Even if you haven’t, you’ve seen firsthand the effects of fatherlessness on children, especially boys.
Politicians and talking heads types have always been celebrities to me. Hollywood had nothing on them.
I haven’t had ads on my blog for quite a while. The political season is heating up and I’ve returned to political blogging for the time being, so I’d be foolish not to offer space to organizations and individuals trying to sell stuff to an audience interested in political things. 
Everybody makes mistakes.
When I was going through an existential phase in college many years ago, I used to ask anyone who’d listen, “What’s the meaning of all this? What is the point?” Why was I born in South Carolina, in the United States, in this skin, and with this body? 
If you believe marriage should be defined as between one man and one woman, you are divisive and discriminatory, said future President Barack Hussein Obama (
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