There is a nine thousand ton gorilla in the room, and nobody appears to be noticing him. I mean, he is the largest gorilla in the room. In fact, he is the ONLY gorilla in the room. Yet I haven’t heard a word about him, nor have I heard any peep from him. It’s as if he is holding his breath in the hopes that nobody sees him standing over there with his big gorilla feet sticking out from underneath the drapes, and the drapes breathing in and out every time he takes a breath. Yes, there is a nine thousand ton gorilla in the room. And that gorilla is the UN.

What has not been mentioned this election cycle are all the UN treaties that are currently before the Senate waiting to be voted on and submitted to the President for signing. Because Bush had already sworn to veto them in their current form, they have simply waited in the wings, languishing until such time as a democrat would be elected President, somebody like Obama, who has already helped sponsor the “Global Poverty Act”, which would implement many of the UN’s Millenium Development Goals, not the least of which is earmarking .7% of our GDP to the UN for disbursement around the world. As one would well imagine, if this treaty is passed, the UN would have a sizable revenue stream to draw from to further implement its own goals, all at taxpayer expense. Modest estimates have the Global Poverty Act costing a whopping 850 billion dollars over ten years. As is the case with most government programs, we should expect it to be much, much more. After all, since when have you ever heard of a government program that actually cost less than originally promised? Read the rest of this entry »

At a McCain-Palin rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Oct. 9th, 2008, one of the town hall participants was given a microphone. With microphone in hand, the man loudly proclaimed: “I am mad!”. He then went on to explain that it was not the economy that was provoking his anger, but rather the socialists such as Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and the other “hooligans” who were taking over our country. He then challenged both Senator McCain and Governor Palin to fight on our behalf and to “go get them!”, essentially urging them to get mad too!

Sometimes it takes simple passionate language to communicate our deepest needs and our most profound desires. What this gentleman in Wisconsin voiced was the collective discontent of millions of Americans who deplore what they are seeing done to her once proud institutions by a ruthless group of socialist politicians, who are intent upon nationalizing our industries, such as banking, housing, health care, transportation, energy, education, ad infinitum and thereby ever expanding and concentrating the power of the federal government to govern our lives down to the minutest detail. And they want to be the ones with total control over all of our lives. Socialists only want socialism when they think they will be the ones in charge, otherwise they prefer democracy. In other words, socialists would prefer to have total control, but absent that, they will settle for partial control, until such time as they can seize and maintain total power. Read the rest of this entry »

Barabbas was a thief, and Barabbas was a murderer. This they knew, yet they still shouted, “Give us Barabbas!” That the man they were condemning in his stead was completely innocent never entered their minds. Yes it is true that Jesus Christ was a great spiritual leader, but Barabbas was a man of action, and that is what they wanted. Someone who would fight to restore their independence from Rome. So what if he was a murderer and a thief?, as long as the Romans were the ones he was murdering or stealing from.

Barabbas was an insurrectionist; he was their Che Guevara, ready to fight the oppressors using any and all means. Some say he was Sicari, and Sicari were dangerous folk. They hated Rome and everything associated with it. Zealots they were called because zealots they were, filled with righteous indignation and carrying long, sharp daggers concealed beneath their clothes. The Sicari were assasins, not to be messed with. For them, the righteousness of their ends justified the brutality of their means. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1988 Bruce Willis played the character of John McClane in the ground breaking movie Die Hard. The premise of the movie involved a group of determined thieves who were masquerading as terrorists in order to loot the Nakitomi Corporation of six billion dollars in bearer bonds. The plan was ingenious in that the thieves intended to blow up the top of the building after herding all the corporate employees onto the roof. As explained by “Hanz Gruber”, ably played by Alan Rickman, the thieves would make their escape in the ensuing chaos, and it would be weeks, if ever, that the authorities would be able to sift through the rubble in order determine who had perished. John McClane, a New York police officer who happened to be in LA visiting his wife who had moved there to pursue her career, consistently thwarted the thieves intended scheme and eventually prevailed against the bad guys, though bloodied and beaten up in the herculean effort.

Now flash forward 20 years to 2008. George Bush announces the need for a seven hundred billion dollar (that’s $700,000,000,000.00) bailout of Wall Street in order to avoid a complete collapse of the banking industry. The Chairman of the Treasury Department, Henry Paulson, and the Democratic led Congress quickly crafted legislation to authorize the bailout which would have bailed out the banking industry (and by extension Wall Street), but which would have also funneled huge amounts of taxpayer money to groups such as ACORN to “help the homeowners”. Read the rest of this entry »

With John McCain potentially dropping out of Friday night’s debate due to the enormity of the current economic crisis, Barack Obama has resolutely declared that the debate will go on as scheduled.  John Lillpop of Canada Free Press has artfully suggested that perhaps Obama could debate Joe Biden, since the two “have been at each other’s throats all week“.  Lillpop goes on to suggest that Obama could even debate himself, since he seems to be on both sides of most issues.

“You know, he could present both sides of his flip flop arguments on abortion, troop withdrawal from Iraq, and a host of other issues in which the Anointed One has made illogical arguments on both sides.”

What makes this a promising debate is that Obama can argue equally well for both sides of an issue, and frequently does.  The advantage of not having a principled stand on an issue is that it is easier to choose either side, neither side, or both sides simultaneously without affecting ones intellectual integrity.  Indeed, integrity only gets in the way of political posturing anyway.  So how might the debate appear if Obama were to challenge himself to this verbal duel?  Foreign policy was to be the topic for discussion, so from that context we will proceed.  Since Jim Lehrer was to be the moderator, we’ll let him ask the questions. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently the Obama campaign and its surrogates have been putting forth the preposterous proposition that Jesus Christ was a “community organizer”, and that Pontius Pilate was a “governor”. The obvious connection they want us to make is that Barack Obama is like Jesus Christ, and Sarah Palin is like Pontius Pilate. I guess one could possibly draw those conclusions if they knew nothing about Jesus Christ or community organizing. However, when one examines the facts, one could very well come up with the exact opposite conclusion. First let us begin with a working definition of “community organizer” and see if Jesus Christ actually was one. Since Obama is the “community organizer” that is being compared to Jesus, perhaps it is best to use his own words in defining the occupation:

“In theory, community organizing provides a way to merge various strategies for neighborhood empowerment. Organizing begins with the premise that (1) the proble ms facing inner-city communities do not result from a lack of effective solutions, but from a lack of power to implement these solutions; (2) that the only way for communities to build long-term power is by organizing people and money around a common vision; and (3) that a viable organization can only be achieved if a broadly based indigenous leadership — and not one or two charismatic leaders — can knit together the diverse interests of their local institutions.

This means bringing together churches, block clubs, parent groups and any other institutions in a given community to pay dues, hire organizers, conduct research, develop leadership, hold rallies and education cam­paigns, and begin drawing up plans on a whole range of issues — jobs, education, crime, etc. Once such a vehicle is formed, it holds the power to make politicians, agencies and corporations more responsive to commu­nity needs. Equally important, it enables people to break their crippling isolat i on from each other, to reshape their mutual values and expectations and rediscover the possibilities of acting collaboratively — the prerequi­sites of any successful self-help initiative.” Barack Obama, After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois (c) 1990 Illinois Issues, University of Illinois at Springfield ISBN: 0-9620873-3-5

Now, the first thing that comes to mind is that Obama specifically states that community organizing cannot be based upon “one or two charismatic leaders”. Ironically Jesus’ entire ministry was based on His uniqueness as a charismatic leader. In fact His ministry was predicated upon His claim to be the “only begotten Son of God” (see. John 3: 18), that He was literally God in the flesh, and that He was the “way, the truth, and the life” (see John 14:6). Hence, the primary focus of Jesus’ ministry was upon Jesus Himself. He did not “bring together churches, block clubs, parent groups, and any other institutions…to pay dues, hire organizers, conduct research, develop leadership, hold rallies and education campaigns, and begin drawing up plans on a whole range of issues - jobs, education, crime, etc .” Read the rest of this entry »