Category Archives: Politics
Tis the Season…
Interesting Point…
People can call me what they want; a leftist, an isolationist, none of the labels are accurate or true. I just want to live in a country that doesn’t actively seek out war, a country that is always running out of its way to sacrifice its best and its resources to solve other people’s problems. 
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Whenever a Politician…
“evolves” in their opinions always look for the money. Case in point.
All I Ask…
is one simple thing. Don’t complain to me about any politician, party, program, government issue, or anything else for that matter unless you also have a solution to the problem. We seem to be a nation where a vast majority of complainers whine about what a minority of doers are about. It doesn’t seem to make much sense to complain about something without having a solution to the problem, there is enough noise in the world already. I hope to follow my own advice.
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Tired of the Two Party System?
Here’s an interesting alternative. What do you think?
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I Think Right Now…
I like Ron Paul. He’s not a messiah but he talks a lot about freedom and I think freedom is empowering. He speaks of non intervention, too, and I think that we’re long past the time where we can meddle in the lives of other nations or give our very best to the ungrateful.
Could this change? Yes. Is he the ultimate hope?. Not even close. But freedom matters and in a country where our politicians seem to be just rearranging the seats at the nanny state table of largesse, he’s speaking a completely different language. For that alone he should be considered.
Just a Thought…
If it’s okay for us to enable the killing of other country’s leaders should we not be surprised if others play by that rule with us? If we intervene in the life of any country that displeases us somehow with military force could those decisions some day come back to haunt us? The rules we apply when we are strong will be the rules in place if we become weak.
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Frank Schaeffer…
Orthodox Christian (?) advocates for protesting, Occupy Wall Street style, at churches. Read more here.
A blogger for The Huffington Post, young Schaeffer is now faulting religious conservatives for facilitating Wall Street greed. He’s imploring the Wall Street Occupiers to “protest the root source of America’s tilt to the far unregulated corporate right.” For Schaeffer, the next logical step is to demonstrate “outside mega churches, Evangelical publishing houses, [and] religious organizations that lead the ‘moral’ crusades against women and gays and all the rest.”
Thoughts on a Killing…
The American Civil Liberties Union has criticized Awlaki’s killing. But so far, the only politician of note to do so is Rep. Ron Paul, the Republican presidential candidate with a touching reverence for the Constitution as written. “Al-Awlaki was born here; he’s an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes,” he exclaimed. Paul, though, gets dismissed as a constitutional kvetch.
I do not share Paul’s indignation, but I do his dismay. Something big and possibly dangerous has happened . . . in secret. Government’s most awesome power — to take a life — has been exercised on one of its own citizens without benefit of trial. A guy named Barron and another named Lederman apparently said it was okay. Maybe it was. But I’d sure like to hear the attorney general or the president explain why.
