They Call Us What They Are

For a long time I have believed that the strategy of the progressive left in this country has been to claim that their opposition is what, in fact, they themselves are. It serves as a brilliant strategy to deflect who they truly are when the spotlight begins to shine on the garbage they profess. It has gotten to a truly sickening level today. In a story on TheResurgent.com, Tim Thomas describes a recent seminar at Notre Dame University, the flagship of Catholic education in this country, on the pro-life movement. Thomas quotes Notre Dame professor Pam Butler as saying, “[Abortion] got politicized in a moment of a white supremacist strategy of the right wing of the Republican party to mobilize a very specific set of evangelical Christians in the United States as a base.” Thank you professor for proving that once again progressives have no concept of history or truth and simply call their adversaries what they themselves truly are. Let me correct you "professor:" Abortion was politicized in this country by a woman named Margaret Sanger, high priestess and founder of your religion's temple, Planned Parenthood. Let me quote Ms. Sanger on the purpose of abortion in America. In a letter to a Dr. C.J. Gamble on December 10, 1939 she tells the doctor, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their rebellious members." (https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf)
But it wasn't just blacks Sanger wanted to get rid of. In an article she wrote in 1921 in Birth Control Review she is quoted, "The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of the mentally and physically defective." (https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=238946.xml)
Margaret Sanger and all of her PP devotees are the true racists and murderers in this country but they are all too happy to take the light that shines on their evil and claim it is their opponents who are the real evil of the day. Sorry professor Butler, there is such a thing as truth and once again, you and your progressive cohort are shown to be the purveyors of evil. Nice try but I will continue to show how your ilk try to deflect your disgusting nature on others.
By the way, Professor Butler is a "professor" of gender studies. I thought gender was simply a construct and not valid. How can you earn a graduate degree in an invalid construct?

Strive For Greater Things!

Chris

Joy and Peace

The message series at our church this December is Make Room For Christmas. I typically try to have one word I focus on for the year and try to do things (write, read, share, etc.) around that word for the year. This year's word has been HOPE; something I think our world could use a lot more of. This was the theme of the first week of the series but it was tied to two other words that often fill the messages of the Christmas season: Joy and Peace. Today's post is simple, I will let Scripture speak for itself and pray that this is your experience in this season.
     "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely because you trust in Him.
     Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."
      - Romans 15:13


Strive for greater things!

Chris

The Fundamental Difference Between Progressivism and Conservatism

I can't claim any originality in this post. I heard this on Steve Deace's show a while back and he received it in a note from a listener. But it was so good I pulled over at a rest stop, backed up the podcast and listened again so I could write it down. Here are three fundamental differences in how Progressives and Conservatives look at the world:

Progressivism:
          LIFE is accidental
          TRUTH is constructed
          POWER is everything

Conservatism:
          LIFE was created
          TRUTH is discoverable
          POWER is dangerous


I will endeavor to dig deeper into these topics in the coming weeks and evidence these comparisons with what I discover. I find these comparisons compelling and I thank whomever that listener was. I will attempt to do your work justice.

Strive for greater things!

Chris

Swampcare Revisited

Republicans in congress are giving further evidence this week why I left the party. Their version of Obamacare, which I unlovingly call Swampcare, does not repeal Obamacare but simply moves some things around and calls it their own. Even the usually strongly conservative Freedom Caucus has given up and decided this bill is "the best we can get." Ten times during the previous Administration Republicans passed a bill that would repeal Obamacare because they knew the President would veto it. When they finally had the chance to show some real leadership and pass it again, knowing the new President would sign it, suddenly they like most of it. Several members have even said as much in the press. It shows once again that what is going on in the Repo party is nothing more than progressive politicking. They are not interested in doing what it right, just in keeping themselves in power.

I read an article in Roll Call today that quoted Barry Goldwater in 1960 saying:

     “I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient,
     for I mean to reduce its size. … My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal
     them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do
     violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that
     impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.”

Where is that kind of Constitutionist leadership today? This is what I am looking for in leadership I can follow. Come on America! Wake up from this progressivist celebrity culture fog and be the people you were meant to be; the last great hope of the world.

Strive for GREATER things my friends!

Qualified?

I read a story on The Resurgent this morning and got a chuckle out of it for professional reasons. A little backstory here: the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR), who is in charge of all things educational in the state of Ohio, has a recent rule that to teach a subject at the college level a college professor or instructor must have 18 graduate hours in the subject. (Does this apply at community colleges?) A Ph.D. is no longer the cover-all, the hours must be specifically "in content." This has become a pejorative in the department I teach in because we have lost a faculty member over this, and I am no longer permitted to teach a non-majors geology (they're not even science majors!) class because I only have 9 graduate hours in geology. Never mind that in my area of research I deal with fossils from time to time and have direct experience with the deep-ocean floor; OBR says no!

The article says that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will be teaching an english class on dystopian literature at George Washington University this fall. I wonder, does Dr. Paul have 18 graduate hours in english? As an ophthalmologist, I doubt it. Does his status as U.S. Senator make him automatically eligible to teach this class? I hope not. In that case why not have President Trump teach Anatomy and Physiology? He apparently has some hands-on experience with the female anatomy right?

My guess is that this is at the invitation of the university's president and I doubt whatever body oversees education in Washington D.C. would step in the way (principles be damned!). I just think it is funny how, once again, the political elite are afforded privileges the rest of America is not. Am I making too much of this? I probably am. It crossed my mind this morning and I wrote about it.

Strive for greater things my friends!

Face Palm!

All I could do was shake my head when I read this. @realDonaldTrump tweeted,

"Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this. Watch!"

So we are not going to stand up to Mexico RE: the border wall but we are going to punish...Canada?

(I don't have words...)


Strive for greater things my friends!

Politics and Religion

I decided if I was going to start blogging again I would have to change the name of the page. Searching the web for the previous name sent readers to too many sites I don't want to be associated with. So for now we will go with: Politics and Religion.

Strive for greater things my friends!