"Unsustainable" Terror of Hamas

Kudos to Michael Ramirez for illustrating that the terrorism of Hamas just isn't "sustainable," if I may borrow from the United Nations lexicon of over used politically correct terms to define what is and what isn't acceptable in the cacophonous world of global geopolitics.

Here's something to keep your eye on...

It was bound to come to this sooner or later, but according to this WND piece many Christian families are being encouraged to opt out of government education en masse.

I guess it's never too late, but we refused to subject our kids to government education more than 20 years ago. Yup! They were home schooled before home schooling was cool. In fact, it was even against the law in some states.

I can only comment to this latest movement by saying, what the hell took so long?

This story is worthy of your watchful eye for several reasons; the government school system can't handle competition, because they can't compete with any other educating body. Private schools and home schools, in general, greatly excel in educating children.

Secondly, the govt schools need as many kids in the class room on any given day to be able to collect federal funding. Fewer kids; less money.

Do you think govt schools and the influential teacher's unions (who care not a wit about the education of our youngsters) are going to sit back and allow parents to withdraw their children out of govt schools which would result in reduced funding?

To complicate the plight of govt schools is the fact that home schooled children do better on SAT's, do better in college (generally speaking, of course,) and maybe most importantly, aren't subject to govt indoctrination and revisionist history. That's right; home schooled kids, more often than not actually learn about the real history of America and learn that our founding fathers were God fearing men and women who put their lives on the line so that we might be free from intrusive government.

Imagine a life free from intrusive government!

Is it any wonder Big Govt demands control of our schools? How could they have superseded our constitution as far back as FDR without control of academia.

Indeed, what has taken right of center, and Christian parents so long in coming to the realization that the last place their children should be indoctrinated, er, educated, is in the govt schools?

What's Big Govt to do if people yank their kiddos en masse out of the public schools?

What they will do, maybe sooner than later, is what they are doing in Germany, where home schooling is becoming, or has become, illegal and parents are labeled criminals and or mentally unstable if they insist on home schooling their children. Think it can't happen here? Then go to the above linked article and scroll down to the links of previous articles. You may be surprised just how threatened govt is by home education.

If you have children or grandchildren or any interest whatsoever in the quality of education for our next generation, you need to keep an eye on the future of home schooling in this country. It's going to become more and more popular with parents and grandparents and less and less popular with Big Govt.

Much Obliged

That's right, we're all much obliged! Here's how and why:

Our government now owes more money than all of us in the country put together possess.

As of Sep. 30, federal financial statements showed approximately $56.4 trillion in debts, liabilities and unfunded promises for Medicare and Social Security, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation reported. The Federal Reserve estimated total household net worth at that time at $56.5 trillion.

Since then the stock market has crashed, tens of billions of dollars of personal wealth have evaporated and the government has committed $700 million (sic...should be billion with a B, and even $700 Billion is a gross underestimation. In fact, the bail out totals seem to be increasing exponentially each week.) to bail out financial institutions.

A government that long has been morally and intellectually bankrupt is now financially bankrupt too.

All this before the self-admitted, free spending president-elect Obama, who promises national socialized health care and an even larger FDR-styled "New Deal," has even set foot in the White House.

Be sure to read the entire above linked piece by Jack Kelly.

Sarah Palin: HUMAN EVENTS Conservative of the Year

Sarah Palin, who brought life to the McCain campaign and gave conservatives hope when there otherwise was none this past election cycle, was rightly named Conservative of the Year by Human Events Magazine. Good on them!

The lovely and witty Ann Coulter checks in on this one in the above link and you'll be sorry if you don't go there for the entire read; but here's some conservative sugar from the best of them to wet your whistle:

Sarah Palin wins HUMAN EVENTS’ prestigious “Conservative of the Year” Award for 2008 for her genius at annoying all the right people. The last woman to get liberals this hot under the collar would have been … let's see now … oh, yeah: Me!

The entire presidential election year was kind of a downer for conservatives. Once the “maverick” John McCain won the nomination, the rest of the year was like watching a slow motion car crash. Except at least a slow-motion car crash is occasionally entertaining. So it was going to be a long year.

Until Palin.

When McCain chose our beauteous Sarah as his running mate, the maverick was finally acting like a real maverick -- as opposed to the media’s definition of a “maverick” which is: “agreeing with the editorial positions of the New York Times.”

Pre-Palin it had been one race -- boring old “You kids get off my lawn!” John McCain versus the exciting, new politician Barack Obama, who threw caution to the wind and bravely ran as the Pro-Hope candidate. And then our heroic Sarah bounded out of the Alaska tundra and it became a completely different race. This left the press completely discombobulated and upset. They didn't know whether to attack Sarah for not having an abortion or go after her husband for not being a sissy.

You just gotta love that last line!

How could you even think about not reading the rest of Ms. Coulter's column?

Kudos to Human Events for their fine choice; kudos to Ms. Coulter for her wit, charm and writing ability and a very special congratulations and thanks to Sarah Palin for what she has done to energize the conservative movement.

Did U.S. give Saddam WMDs

How long will the dilemma linger? We've been hearing for years now that "there were no WMD's" and "Bush lied and people died" while at the same time, from the same people,the charge was continually being made that the U.S. gave Saddam WMDs. Which was it?

Okay, remember when Russia was losing their war with Afghanistan? At that time Saddam Hussein was one of our allies and as the story goes, we supplied him with chemical weapons (of Mass Destruction.)

Saddam was never one of our "Buds," he was just the enemy of our enemy, which made him our "friend" in military and diplomatic parlance.

Ergo, if we supplied WMD's to the madman, Saddam, wasn't it incumbent upon us to flesh them out and retrieve and/or destroy them?

It peeves me that President Bush never confronted the leftists by putting this matter right back in their faces. No, in an effort to create a new tone, President Bush conceded the matter that there were no WMD's after all, when, in fact, there were.

It's just one of the reasons President Bush lost the conservatives along the way, lo, these past 6 or so years.

Would that he had stood up to the screeching left and upheld the tenants of conservatism instead of graciously paving the way to unprecedented national socialism which now threatens our nation as never before.

What Union Thuggery Hath Wrought

Michael Ramirez draws it as it is.

Colin Powell; an embarrassment.

Hat tip to Newsbusters.org for this video:

Too Little, MUCH Too Late!

Today in a news conference with President-elect Obama, Chicago Tribune reporter, John McCormick, dared to ask the "anointed one" a Blagojevich related question which galled he who shouldn't have to deal with such pettiness. See the testy tete-a-tete right here and now:



As a result, and as if to pull his head out of an imaginable orifice, NBC Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker said, "Our job is to hold him to account, we're going to have to get tougher.'

Mr. Whitaker...the tough questions should have started about two years ago!

It's funny 'cause it's true!

From the good folks at NewsBusters.org.

Job losses that would improve the economy

Contrary to Popular Belief, You're NOT # 1

My advertising exec daughter brought this well produced site to my attention. It's called I Am Second, which begs the question, huh?

I don't know who's behind this site but they're doing the Lord's work. Go there! Listen to a couple of the featured guests. You might come away from there a different person.

This is a really neat website. It's the future! If not, we have none!

Can You Handle the Truth About the Bible?

Joe Kovacs, executive news editor at WorldNetDaily, has been promoting his new book, Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You've Never Been Told in a series of articles. His most recent piece is titled, Yes, the birth of Jesus is biblical. Here's what's not .... His mostly unfamiliar revelations will, in fact, shock many Christians who think they know the Bible.

If you click on the 2nd link, you can hear his 14 minute interview with Rusty Humphries. It's illuminating.

There are two kinds of people; those who have regard for the Bible and those who do not. To those who do have regard for the Bible I heartily recommend reading the above linked articles and listening to the short interview.

There are two more kinds of people, those who respond to the truth once they learn it and those who toss the truth aside.

Where do you fit in?

Disturbing Article of the Year!

If there's a "disturbing article of the year" award out there, this deserves Grand Prize handsdown:

Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security

That's where we are in history folks. It's called liberal fascism, but sadly we can't blame this one on the leftist dems. This one is compliments of President Bush.

Welcome to the 21st Century United States of Amerika where our Divinely inspired Constitution and those pesky Bill of Rights have been relegated to the Archives. However, our beloved founding documents will be in good company. God is there. The Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is there. Our country's great motto is there; E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) has been replaced by "out of one, many."

One of the new "make work" govt programs will probably be the enlargement of the National Archives so it will be able to hold our beloved freedoms which will be stripped away in the name of security and domestic peace.

I'm not sure if Kate Smith's classic "God Bless America" has been sent to the Archives yet, but maybe we should contract a contemporary hymn writer to begin working on a replacement song titled, "God, Be Merciful to America."