How can Christians be Conservative?
As I mentioned last time, the wife of a liberal friend of mine recently asked some sincere questions trying to understand Conservatives. Here I will address the more religiously oriented questions, though they all still have a strong political component. In general she was basically asking, how a sincere Christian could be a Conservative. Before […]
Read More..>>Self-Centered Bias
In an otherwise good article at Politico on How President Obama plays media like a fiddle authors John Harris and Jim Vandehei attempt to refute the notion that “the vast majority of reporters at mainstream news organization are liberals.” After creating a straw man of the conservative belief, they go on to claim that instead […]
Read More..>>Palin and Obama
In a post on why there is so much hatred directed toward Sarah Palin, (Not Hating Sarah Palin) Henry Neufeld make the following comment, “If the left had really wanted to see Palin diminish as an issue, they should have stayed away from exaggerated attacks and rumors. But the right should have done the same […]
Read More..>>Liberal Compassion
For many, it is almost as axiomatic as the sun rises in the east, that Liberals are compassionate, and conservatives are heartless. But like so many self serving clichés frequently cited by liberals, it does not hold up to critical analysis. While a liberal might say “I feel such compassion for …” The first two […]
Read More..>>The Intolerance of Tolerance
One problem I have with many liberal issues is that they are based more on feelings of the moment than on reasoned consideration of principles and their implications, particularly there long term implications. In the real world ideas have consequences and reasoning applied to justified something cannot be artificially restricted just to the subject at […]
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