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POPS Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts
But what this means is that even the record-breaking federal deficit understates the government's real financial liabilities, because agencies like FDIC and the Federal Housing Authority are likely to need increased amounts of money to keep going. An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground. I doubt whether the man responsible for the massacre at Fort Hood will pay with his life for the lives that he took. He may well be free again someday. We can only hope that he does not get a hero's welcome when he arrives in some terror-sponsoring country, the way the Lockerbie bomber did. A recent study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights showed that, after the housing boom and bust, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asian Americans and American Indians all reduced their subprime mortgage loans. Only politicians seem not to have learned anything from the economic disaster ...
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POPSCulture of Terror: the Collapse of America ~ I
This great betrayal has taken our “progressive” culture, with “the giant” of applied science lurking over everyone’s sense of the possible and turned it to fatalism. These betrayals have led to “multiculturalism” and the balkanization both of nations, and families, the better to centralize power and to scramble all states into a World “Commonwealth” where power, control and resources are monopolized by an oligarchy; those closer to the labyrinth’s center having greater amounts of all material and social perks and greater immunity from “law.” The dogma of “relativism,” gussied up as “situational ethics” means in effect that the law is the will of those with most power and that reason is an instrument of will and thus of appetites; that the rationales of this new State are thus insane, acts of wanton atrocity, to quote Melville in the epigraph. This deification of the will is a radical subversion of the principles of law, justice and righteousness, as well as charity rooted in Scri
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POPSBenedict's "Charity in Truth" Benedict's "Charity in Truth" emphasizes the importance of a Biblical worldview, which challenges liberal asnosticism and conservative capitalism.
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POPSAbortion debate changing Newsweek, for instance, recently reported that 90 percent of women whose fetuses test positive for Down syndrome choose an abortion...
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POPSYou Can’t Help a Liar Even if you are not religious, at what point does the lying consume you? . . or defines you? What happens to the "bare-bones" of the personality that you were born as? And in the long run, what is the point anyway ? The most important person one cheats when lying is himself. For only you can keep score. Any possible true friends will drop away as the deceit becomes self-evident.
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POPSThe New York Times ~ Call Them “militants” “extremists” or “insurgents" This followed widespread criticism of The Times for initially refusing to call the Mumbai murderers “terrorists.” The word terrorist carries “connotations of opprobrium,” Hoyt wrote. “What you call someone matters. If he is a terrorist, he is an enemy of all civilized people, and less worthy of consideration.” Why, that must mean that those who engage in indiscriminate acts of slaughter in Iraq are more worthy of consideration. Of which civilized people are they not the enemies? The Times might as well admit it — while it may deplore terrorists’ tactics, it frequently sympathizes with their goals. Witness the op-ed forum it gave to unrepentant ex-terrorist William Ayers, on December 6, If someone blew up The New York Times building, would they be “terrorists,” activists militantly opposed to biased news coverage or extremists showing their disdain for the paper’s moral relativism? We certainly wouldn’t want to heap opprobrium on them.
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POPSNo God Condones What? The only way to explain it is to understand the intellectual environment, called postmodernism, in which President Obama and his peers have been raised. Generations of Americans have now been taught that truth is subjective. You have your truth, I have mine. And, even worse, I can’t “inflict” my version of truth on you. The law of non-contradiction has been suspended.
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POPSGeorge W. Bush, Winner "This is a man who endured countless savage attacks on himself and those of his administration, and spoke not one bitter word in return." Probably my last remarks concerning this imperfect but good President and man. I believe he is among the last of his kind who brought dignity and charity to the White House. A good article for those of us who appreciated him.
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POPSLaw Prof: 'No Real Question' Whether Bush Committed Crimes Call this an afterword to my morning post . Turley takes it farther than I did, but that doesn't mean I disagree. Refusing to prosecute a crime or to look the other way is practically to be a partner in crime. If Obama doesn't at least investigate war crimes, he'll be derelict in his duty as POTUS. It'd be worse than Ford pardoning Nixon; it'd be more like Ford pretending Nixon never existed.
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POPSWhen Does Relativism Become OK? I don't know that this is generational. I think it has to do with the challenges of the times. When society stresses instead of supports, individuals find ways to introduce facility into otherwise inappropriate models. Comments invited.
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POPSWhy The Left Can't Get It Right Now: "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you." There is well established pathology which explains why Democrats fuel campaigns with feelings, and if there is one uniformly defining liberal characteristic of Democrat leaders, it would be hypocrisy. Liberals protest economic recession, all the while suppressing economic growth with evermore taxes and regulations. Most of them are card-carrying members of the ignoble ranks of "useful idiots," those Western apologists for Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collectivism. Of course, that card reads: "Member, Democrat National Committee." Liberals advocate diversity, unless your views don't comport with their own doctrines of moral relativism. They want to preserve nature and the natural order but advocate homosexual "marriage." They oppose the death penalty for the most heinous of criminal sociopaths, but they support the execution of unborn children in their mothers' wombs.
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POPSBenedict XVI and the US Model for Religious Liberty Background information: DICI is the press agency of the Mother House of the Priestly Society Saint Pius X (SSPX). The SSPX, a society of Traditionalist (Vaticanum-II-critical) Roman Catholics, was founded in 1970 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (excommunicated in 1988). Scripts by and about Pius X: PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS X ON THE DOCTRINES OF THE MODERNISTS LAMENTABILI SANE (in the spirit of THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS CONDEMNED BY PIUS IX ) Pius X's antimodernism (in German language) Vaticanum II: DECLARATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
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POPSThe Obama Crash and Burn These people really don't want an end to the racial divide. In fact, they fan the flames and hype the senses. I would have had no problem voting for a black person for President; none. However, white America has just been slapped in the face with black America's racial hypocrisy. I think we have been made plainly aware that there's been little progress after all.
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