Thursday, May 30, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
What government should do but doesn't
The federal government pokes its nose into all things which are none of its business, such as worrying about whether you are too fat, and ignores the very things it should be concerned with. For example every single developed nation in the world regards safe and comfortable passenger rail travel as one of the signs of a great civilization. The USA is one of the few, if not the only, developed industrialized countries which practically ignores this even though the Constitution specifically makes interstate commerce one domestic responsibility with which the government is expressly charged. All good passenger rail systems require subsidies. Not one in the world is paid for entirely by passengers. Now, with that in mind, try to get a train from St. Louis to Miami or Indianapolis to Houston. Where rail does exist the roadbeds are dangerous and the tracks and railroad bridges are rotting away. Yet you can travel all over Western Europe, Japan and China by rail and enjoy every minute of the trip (except for some trains in France where some cars do not have automatic door openers).
More to the point. We are pro-life. Yet there is a crying need for assistance for teenage girls, sometimes victims of rape or incest and in some cases caught in the bind of violent alcoholic parents, no money, no friends, no place to go and then told to go to term by some pompous busybody who thinks he's an agent for the Lord and will never have to worry about having a baby himself. We need safe houses, protection, counseling, etc. This is one thing the government should do. But the "conservatives" would rather pontificate to get the credit for being righteous and the liberals (and to be honest, a lot of "conservatives") really don't give a damn about anything but reelection so we get nothing but free contraceptives as the answer. (I am for contraceptives, but that's the only answer that the holier-than-thou types ever offer. They would rather have abortions, the more the better). So we get nothing. For all of the "caring" and Kumbayah bull shit in Washington, help for Saudi Arabia, crocodile tears for misunderstood terrorists, Obamacare and all the other nonsensical "solutions" to non-existing problems, the American girl has to shift for herself while being bombarded with lectures about moral behaviour. As St. Paul wrote 2000 years ago "The good that I would I do not. The evil that I would not, that I do".
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Is the United States a Christian Nation?
The United States is a Christian nation. This is not to say that Americans have any official church with powers of taxation or coercion fixed by law as some nations do or have in the past. No one wants that and any claim that anyone does is a red herring designed to obscure the real issue. It simply means that America was founded by Christians for Christian purposes and principles. Americans are always free peacefully to practice any religion or no religion, as the First Amendment makes clear, but the right of the people as a whole to honor God through speeches, monuments, plaques on and within public buildings, and the voluntary practice of prayer in public schools or at public events is inherent in the "free exercise" of religion, understood from the beginning to apply to the people individually and collectively. When George Washington declared the first Thanksgiving on October 3, 1789 he stated: "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God . . . we may . . . unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations". The anti-Christian bigots notwithstanding, that is the core of America's purpose in the world.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
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