Interesting exposition

American Thinker: The Real Meaning of ‘My Brother’s Keeper’.

Hardly the place I would expect a Scriptural exposition, but it is a surprisingly accurate one.  Cain was, in fact, being a “smart-ass” in his response to God’s question about his (dead) brother’s location.  He was trying to shift the focus away from his own responsibility for killing him!

This is interesting in light of our pompous POTUS who so often uses this phrase to try to shame us all into supporting his socialist programs against our better judgment.

Maybe we now know which “smart-ass” to kick? (Tuesday’s coming!!)

Important reminder

The Constitution cannot protect us and our freedoms as a self-governing people unless we protect the Constitution. That means zero tolerance at election time for people who circumvent the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. Freedom is too precious to give it up in exchange for brassy words from arrogant elites.

Forgetting the Constitution – Thomas Sowell – National Review Online.

Quote of the day

It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life, and if it so monopolizes movement and life that when it languishes everything languishes around it, that when it sleeps everything must sleep, and that when it dies the state itself must perish. ~ Alex de Tocqueville

What a clueless twit!

Quote of the day

“What part of broke do you not understand?” ~ Senate candidate Dino Rossi responding to Senator Patty Murray’s continued bragging about bringing Federal “pork” back to the state of Washington.

Interesting take

The recent riots in France provide us with a window into our future.  France and other European countries have gone far down the socialism road in the last 50 years and are now struggling to find their way back to fiscal sanity.

For the “crime” of trying to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, France is facing ongoing riots in the streets from the spoiled brats who refuse to yield an inch on their cushy benefits.

Democrats in the United States must be wishing that their French brothers would pipe down, at least until after November 2, because American voters may notice that everything the Democrats want for America is what France already has.

Years of socialist legislation have shackled France’s economy and depressed growth. Between 1980 and 2000, only Greece and Germany grew more slowly (in Germany’s case, reunification took its toll). French law mandates a “livable” minimum wage, with the result that jobs are comfortable for those who have them but often unobtainable for those who don’t. Because the French also make it extremely difficult to fire people, employers are reluctant to hire. The unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent. But for the young, the rate is closer to 25 percent. And for African and Arab immigrants, 50 percent is the norm….

…But all of those goodies distributed by the state — all those free lunches — have significantly corrupted France’s civic culture to the point where any cut in benefits, even a trifling change in the retirement age, is violently resisted. One protester, Reuters reports, carried a sign reading “To hell with the national debt! We’ll give them nothing and we don’t give a damn about their AAA.” These are socialism’s spoiled brats.  ~ Democrats Are the French Party – Mona Charen – National Review Online.

Exactly…socialism creates spoiled brats who are always taking and feeling they are owed more.

Socialism is nothing more than legalized theft!

The Multiculturalism Myth

The best line is “It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious.”

The Cult of Multiculturalism – Thomas Sowell – National Review Online.

The battle cry going forward

There’s No Avoiding ‘Repeal and Replace’ – James C. Capretta – National Review Online.

Government Greed

Government Greed – Thomas Sowell – National Review Online.

Quote of the day

Every Utopian vision-whether it’s Marx’s workers’ paradise or the modern nanny state-leads to tyranny. This is what happens every time you deny people freedom, even in the name of giving them everything they want. ~ Chuck Colson