The government owns part of you

You ask, “Why does the government fine me for not wearing a seatbelt? Isn’t that a personal decision?” Well, it would be if you were injured and paid your own hospital bills. But what if the government pays your hospital bills? Essentially, your health and thus a little part of yourself is owned by the government. Americans voluntarily give that jurisdiction over their freedoms to the state. Read Walter William’s article Americans have given up self-ownership.

Voddie Baucham analyzes Barack Obama

“The Day after the election, I wrote a blog that received a great deal of criticism. It turns out I was supposed to be so happy that black man won the presidency that there was no room for criticism. However, as the current healthcare debate deteriorates into ad hominem attacks and accusations of racism, I just had to reprint the following…” Read the article

Obama in Russia

“ ‘Obama went to Moscow desperate for the appearance of a foreign-policy success. He got that illusion – at a substantial cost to America’s security. … ‘He agreed to trim our nuclear-warhead arsenal by one-third and – even more dangerously – to cut the systems that deliver the nuclear payloads. In fact, the Russians don’t care much about our warhead numbers (which will be chopped to a figure ‘between 1,500 and 1,675’). ‘What they really wanted – and got – was a US cave-in regarding limits on our nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and missiles that could leave us with as few as 500 such systems, if the Russians continue to get their way as the final details are negotiated…” Read Howard Philip's article. Obama is essentially the American people’s ambassador on foreign soil and what an ambassador he is! His damaging policies are not limited to home! Pictured to the left: Obama discusses nuclear missiles with Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev.

Block Sonia

Sonia’s fondness for Foreign Law is a disqualification. Howard Phillips wrote an informative and educational article on the duties of a judge. "When Supreme Court justices take office, they take an oath that includes these words: ‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.’…"It would be worth learning whether Judge Sotomayor believes that adhering to other countries’ laws is an offense for which a justice can be impeached. It also would be invaluable to remind all citizens and officeholders that we owe a moral debt to the Constitution that has made us, in Mr. Sessions’ fine words, ‘the freest nation on Earth.’ "Read the whole article

Voddie Baucham discusses the recent rise of Single Parent adoption

Which stems from the “I can raise a child by myself” philosophy, defying the system God set up where there are two parents with separate essential roles and God-given grace to raise their children. This is not to say that there can never be a child raised by only one parent because of unforeseen circumstances, but it should not be purposed. Read the article

Scott Brown on age-segregation

“A number of secular journalists are now reporting that researchers have discovered that one of the un-foreseen consequences of societal age segregation is prolonged immaturity, a strange brand of socialization dysfunction that creates odd and destructive subcultures, and the neutralization of wisdom from the previous generation. Example: a current problem where most men do not grow up or live like adults until age 30, according to Newsweek Magazine. Newsweek declares, ‘70% of young men are not grown up at 30 years of age (and that's up from 30% in 1970). In 1960, almost 70 percent of men had reached these milestones by the age of 30. Today, less than a third of males that age can say the same.’….” Keep Reading

What do we do with sin?

From the blog of Scott Brown:
"Arraign it, Accuse it, Spit on it - Hatred of Sin
: Scott Brown August 5, 2009

What kind of reactions should we have toward our sin? Thomas Goodwin says this,
Work in your hearts a hatred of sin… If a man had killed your friend, or father, or mother, how would you hate him! You would not endure the sight of him, but follow the law upon him. Send out the avenger of blood with a hue and cry after thy sin; bring it afore God’s judgment seat, arraign it, accuse it, spit on it, condemn it and thyself for it, have it to the cross, nail it there, if it cry I thirst, give it vinegar, stretch the body of sins upon his cross, stretch every vein of it, make the heart strings crack; and then when it hangs there, triumph over the dying of it, show it no pity, laugh at its destruction, say, Thou hast been a bloody sin to me and my husband, hang there and rot. And when thou art tempted to it [sin], and art very thirsty after the pleasure of it, say of that opportunity to enjoy it, It is the price of Christ’s blood, and pour it upon the ground. … Shall I live upon that which was Christ’s death? Shall I please myself in that which was his pain? Shall I be so dishonest, so unkind, as to enjoy the pleasure for which he endured the smart?
—Thomas Goodwin (1600—1679), Christ the Mediator in The Works of Thomas Goodwin (RHB), 5:294.
I found this excellent quote on Miscellanies Blog."