Reading Ken Connor’s article “Embryo to Elderly—A Consistent Life Ethic” I was reminded of my great-grandmother. She lived with my grandparents during my early childhood and I recall clearly the summer days when school was out. I’d often get to spend a week or two there and I’d spend most of my time inside playing…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Republicans Fumbling Immigration
Republicans have been whining and dragging their feet on this topic for years. I fail to understand why, unless their support for American businesses extends to providing a free flow of illegal laborers. By failing to enact immigration reform during the first 6 years of the Bush administration, Pubs made a serious mistake. Now, faced…
Why Won’t Congress Do What I Want?
That’s the question that’s burning up, that’s literally on fire at many of the so-called “progressive” – liberal – chatterbox blogs these days. It’s an interesting question, actually, because Democrats were recently elected to a majority in Congress based primarily on the fact that they weren’t Republicans. So why won’t the Dems do the things they said…
Earmarks, the Other Pork Flavor
Speaking of politicians who change their tune as soon as they reach office, what ever happened to Democrats’ promises to run an open and transparent government? CNN says not much: Despite the new Democratic congressional leadership’s promise of “openness and transparency” in the budget process, a CNN survey of the House found it nearly impossible…
Conservatism
Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says that Republicans desperately want to become fiscal conservatives again: In the good old days when Republicans ruled Congress, their instructions for President Bush were: no vetoes, especially of spending bills. Republican leaders — House Speaker Denny Hastert, for one — made it clear a Bush veto would cause…
Stem Cells
It’s not popular to say that Bush’s veto of the recent bill promoting embryonic stell cell research is for the best. But I’ll go on record saying it anyway. Bush said: “If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human…
Liberalism Distilled
It’s humbling to realize that after all of the posts I’ve written in the past few years that I’ve never managed to properly capture the true essence of American liberalism and what is wrong with it. There’s just something elusive about the movement’s illogic that defies description. Just as particle physicists have difficulty tracking the…
Border Security
Charles Krauthammer says that there’s only one thing Americans agree on when it comes to immigration reform: fixing the border. At least that’s one thing that all of our representatives in Washington are saying they support. But do they really? David B. doesn’t think so. Referring to the immigration bill that was recently defeated he…
Obama on Fatherhood
Here’s an example of why it’s great to have Barack Obama in the presidential primaries: “There are a lot of men out there who need to stop acting like boys; who need to realize that responsibility does not end at conception; who need to know that what makes you a man is not the ability…
Donna
This isn’t normally the kind of thing that I write about here, but last night I had the privilege of praying over Donna, the sister of a good friend of mine, with a group of friends from our church. Donna was recently diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing massive chemo treatments even now. It’s become…