http://hushbeck.com/blog Comments on Politics and Religion Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was a lot of discussion over, and distortion of, Rush Limbaugh’s statement at the beginning of President Obama’s term that “I hope he fails.”   Fast forward to today and it is hard to find anything that is going right. The economy is trying to bounce back but is weighted down ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=502 It will open your eyes and quicken your heartbeat...I am learning things that make my jaw drop. Entire Review http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=500 Tom’s father had died a couple of years earlier in an accident, leaving a wife and four children. It was the middle of the depression and times were tough. Tom, being the oldest, worked while finishing High School, to help make ends meet. After he graduated, he joined the military, ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=498 The following is an email I sent to my Congressman, and the 58 Blue dogs democrats, you can do the same Here. I write to ask that you stand for the constitution and vote against Obama-care.  You may think that if the bill passes, the issue will fade away, but if ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=496 I have no idea whether the Obama care will pass, but either way I am sure that it will not stand. Of course, if it goes down to defeat, it will be dead, and the political costs of pushing it will be so great that no rational politician will attempt ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=494 Obama has announced his budget for 2011 and he is proposing to spend $3.83 Trillion.  To many this is a meaningless number, but to put this in some sort of context consider that the 2008 budget was a mere $2.9 Trillion.  The intervening years had TARP and the bailouts, but ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=492 President Obama and the Democrats may be setting the nation up to accomplish something conservatives have been advocating for decades, the scaling back of the federal bureaucracy, and on a scale more massive than conservatives may have even wished.  This is not, of course, Obama's intention. Far from it.  Nor will ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=490 Henry Neufeld’s post today touched on Health care and spurred me to write something I have been thinking about for several days.  While it is true that so much of the Democratic health care plan is based on guesses, as serious a flaw as that is, that is not the ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=484 There is a direct correlation between spirituality and religious behavior and how we see and feel and react to the world around us.  Those who pray on a daily basis, and attend religious intuitions on a weekly basis,  are happier,  healthier,  more content, more satisfied in their job,  closer to ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=482 Henry Neufeld's recent post has a common but fundamental misunderstanding of the reaction to 9/11 and the subsequent actions, which included Afghanistan and Iraq.  Revenge had little to do with it. As one who has support both actions, and continue to do so, revenge has never entered into my thinking, ... http://hushbeck.com/blog/?p=479