Tale of Two Altars

American liberals continue to win the fight to make killing babies in the womb as easy as possible.

They opposed a Texas law that required abortion clinics to have admitting rights to area hospitals - ostensibly making abortions safer (you know, avoiding back-alley abortions that Nancy Pelosi is always talking about). 

Why did they oppose the law? Because it reduced the number of abortions! 

Why is reducing the number of abortions a bad thing? Because abortion is the altar at which American liberals worship. What about the baby?????

On the other hand, the Pro-Life camp opposes abortion because the altar at which we worship finds that all life is made in the image of God and, therefore, is valuable and worth saving. 

WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH ET AL. v. HELLERSTEDT

Bloodletting and The Federal Reserve

Credit to Peter Schiff:

Doctors used to think the way to cure someone was to perform a procedure called bloodletting (bleed them out). The problem is no one ever got better because of the procedure and many died.

Similarly, central bankers around the world think they can cure the economy by manipulating interest rates, essentially holding them at zero for years on end. They think Keynesian policies of "stimulating" the economy through money printing will fix the economy. The problem is no economies have ever improved because of these policies and many have collapsed. 

http://www.schiffradio.com/may-jobs-report-takes-june-rate…/

Intellectual Midget Elizabeth Warren Calls Donald Trump a Loser

The intellectual midget Elizabeth Warren called Donald J. Trump a loser primarily based on his handful of bankrupt businesses.

This coming from a woman who has never started a business much less had several fail. She has not created a single job! Ms. Warren does not understand the free market, she wants to kill it. She has no idea what capitalism is. She prefers socialism and crony capitalism!

She goes on to explain what hangs in the balance of this election: affordable college, accountability on Wall Street, the Supreme Court, rich people paying their fair share, expanding Social Security, investments in infrastructure, turn back hatred, sexism, racism, and xenophobia.

#1 - College is not affordable because of the federal government’s meddling.

#2 - Wall Street was heavily regulated before the 2008 crash and yet, not a single federal agency saw the crash coming!

#3 - The Supreme Court: she means no Constitutional originalist judges are allowed because that is where the Left truly advances their agenda. They already got Obamacare, gay marriage, and much of the unconstitutional regulatory state blessed by the Court!

#4 - “Fair share?” OMG! My head is going to explode with this shallow, worthless claim. How much is fair Senator?

#5 - Expand the bankrupt Social Security program. Brilliant!

#6 - More worthless rhetoric about infrastructure spending. The Keynesian-fest we have just lived through did not end the recession but Warren wants more!

#7 - She finishes with the obligatory list of name calling. Anyone who does not agree with the Left’s failed agenda must be slandered with claims of racism, sexism, and xenophobia!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-21/lets-be-honest-trump-loser-elizabeth-warren-loses-it-goes-ballistic-donald

Morally Bankrupt Democrats and Transgender Restrooms in Charlotte

This is how a morally bankrupt political party behaves!

Once upon a time they controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. Then they went along with Obama’s unpopular fundamental transformation agenda. Then they lost the House and several governorships but continued supporting Obama’s agenda. Then they lost the Senate, several state legislatures, and countless local races.

What to do next? They found a politically ambitious mayor (Jennifer Roberts) with a Democratically-controlled city council and got them to pass an unpopular and unnecessary law allowing people to choose which public restroom to use based on their current sexual identification.
Then the state legislature (the one they lost control of after over a hundred years due to their previous behavior) slapped the mayor’s hand and said, “No! You cannot pass laws that address a false grievance of less than 0.5% of the population!”

And now we have the obligatory feigned outrage and name-calling on social media, the New York Times, and Democrats all over the country. This is political theater at its finest from a desperate political party which has nothing to offer its constituents beyond more handouts, more illegal immigrants that take their jobs and drain their tax dollars, more dependency on government, more regulations, more debt, and more grievances based on race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, marital status, creed, ethnicity, age, religion (did I miss any?)!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/transgender-law-makes-north-carolina-pioneer-in-bigotry.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/us/north-carolina-law-antidiscrimination-pat-mccrory.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad

Honest Debate and the Confederate Flag

Every tragedy does not require a knee-jerk public policy response such as further limitations on gun rights or the demonization and banning of a flag. Honest people should have the ability to engage in honest debate. Unfortunately the political environment in which we currently find ourselves pits us against each other rather than encouraging interaction and the sharing of ideas.

The Confederate flag controversy is yet another example of how advocacy in America is now accomplished. There is little or no tolerance for an intellectually honest debate. There is little or no consideration for the other side of an argument as advocates would rather shut down debate through name-calling, smearing, and insults.

Consider the following:

• If you think the Confederate flag controversy is overblown, you are labeled a racist and pro-slavery.
• If you don’t buy into the global warming propaganda, you are a denier, a dissenter, and/or you are pro-pollution.
• If you believe marriage is defined as between one woman and one man, you are intolerant, a homophobe, and/or a Christian zealot.
• If you believe the life of an unborn baby requires some consideration in the abortion debate, you are waging a war on women, telling women what to do with their own bodies, and/or encouraging back-alley abortions. Note: I never hear pro-lifers claim that pro-choicers are waging a war on the unborn!
• If you oppose throwing more good money after bad in our public school system, you are opposed to educating the children and/or a teacher-hater!
• If you want to repeal Obamacare, you want to deny healthcare to others and/or you are an “evil-monger”.
• If you oppose affirmative action, you are a bigot.
• If you want to reform Social Security, you are depicted in television advertisements as pushing grandma over a cliff in a wheelchair.
• If you are opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants or you want the border enforced, you are a racist and/or a xenophobe.
• If you believe in the Second Amendment to the Constitution, you are cold-blooded.
• If you are a member of the Tea Party movement, you are an obstructionist, an anarchist, a radical, and/or a racist. According to Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters, you are also damned to eternal damnation as she once eloquently said, “The Tea Party can go straight to hell!”
• If you are opposed to going to war, you are an isolationist.
• If you are an advocate for going to war, you are a war-monger!
• If you oppose raising the debt ceiling, you hate cops, firefighters, and teachers!
• If you oppose raising the minimum wage, you are heartless!
• If you are an advocate for welfare reform, you are callous and cruel!

Back to the Confederate flag: The flag is known as “the rebel flag” NOT “the pro-slavery flag”! It represents the rebellion of the southern states’ against the northern states which was waging war against the South in order to force them to remain in the union!

I will concede that if you asked 100 people, "what is the first thing that comes to mind when they see the confederate flag?", it is likely that “slavery” ends up as the #1 response. However, I am willing to bet that you would likely see “rebel flag” or "rebellion" as a close #2. Other responses might include “Kid Rock”, “Alabama”, “the Civil War”, “the South”, “pick-up truck with a gun rack”, “redneck”, etc. (Click here to read a recent CNN/ORC poll.)

How about we try taking a breath and starting a dialogue with each other rather than resorting to name-calling reminiscent of the fourth grade playground?

See page 65 of my book Pritical Thinking for more.