STILL DEFIANT
Re: Ben Stein’s The
Purpose of Defiance:
I am second to none in my admiration of Ben Stein and he is spot
on regarding our liberties as Americans. It is also proper that
we be often reminded of our debt to those who have fought for
those freedoms. Yet I can not join him in wishing good fortune to
a president who wishes to quiet those who hold different
political views and who advocates more government intrusion into
the lives of citizens. Nor can I wish good fortune to a president
who thinks that terrorists and other mortal enemies of our nation
are best treated in the same fashion as burglars and car thieves.
What I can hope and pray for is that those by whom we have
consented to be governed choose a course that best protects the
rights and individual liberties for which so many have paid a
price.
— Peter F. Killie
Ridgefield, Connecticut
HE SAYS WHAT HE MEANS
Re: Peter Ferrara’s Good Morning,
Suckers:
Mr. Ferrara points out that the voters will pay over $2 billion
for the completely ineffective head start program and will
waste another $2 billion on federally-funded babysitting
services. Considering that a social welfare program, once
funded, never ever goes away under any circumstances, I now
understand what the president means when he says there will
be trillion dollar deficits for years to come.
— Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon
I appreciate Mr. Ferrara’s line by line itemizing of the coming
government malfeasance. We knew this would happen. But this is
change! Ostensibly, the change we need.
Being faithfully married for over 17 years, I can’t wait to reap
the benefits of $300,000,000 for STD research. Too bad about the
prophylactics.
As a 20+ year conservative, I am delighted to see ACORN receiving
over a billion dollars!
I have a soft spot for the article’s icon: Alfred E. Neuman. So I
was delighted to see that MAD Magazine may reap a windfall from
the Nation Endowment for the Arts spending. Hopefully, the MAD
men had their lobbying contingent in place.
If they’re left an increase in funding bovine flatulence research
off the list, we Americans may not see another sunrise.
Let us pray that congress had the foresight to include that as
well.
Crisis? What Crisis? Let’s call it by its real name; ‘Boomerism
on Parade!’
— P. Aaron Jones
Michigan
Democrats, should you plan to allow any of your fetuses to reach
full term, know this: Your children and their children will pay
for the “stimulus package” for decades, while shivering in their
cramped, tumbledown apartment, with an American — gasp! — car
in the carport. Take solace, however, in the knowledge that you
will be able to enthrall them with tales of your spendthrift ways
and days.
— David Govett
Davis, California
PUNISHED WITH BARACK
Re: Lisa Fabrizio’s March Toward
Life:
Lisa Fabrizio quotes President Obama saying that if his daughters
“make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
On the other hand, Stanley Ann Dunham took her punishment, and
named it Barack. A student, unmarried, at 18 years of age, Ms.
Dunham was the perfect candidate to exercise choice. But
Liberation Day, celebrated by feminists each January 22,
was still more than a decade away. So with little hope, and fewer
choices, Ms. Dunham bore the fetus to term, and entered into a
doomed marriage with a polygamist. he polygamist
abandoned Ms. Dunham and her child, so Barack Obama, every day of
his life, was a first-hand witness to the punishment that single
mothers endure.
Lisa Fabrizio prays that President Obama never has to explain to
his girls that their lives were a punishment to their mother.
Miss Fabrizio need not be concerned. Had the girls been viewed as
punishment, all options were open. Not so for Ms. Dunham.
— Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March they did and Thank God. Some read this as a statement of it
being a Religious gathering and while most people there were
people of Faith, it is for LIFE that they gathered, not for their
respective Faiths.
True most people there were Catholic, the organizers were
Catholics, others of Christian denominations, Orthodox Jews, and
believe it or not I am sure atheists were there too. Once John
Cardinal O’Connor reported that he had been told by an atheist
that “of course I am Pro-life, that is all I have.”
It is also true that Catholic Cardinals, Bishops, priests,
Protestant Ministers, and Orthodox Rabbis were there, as citizens
supporting the lay people, their congregants. It is also true
that Faith teaches that abortion is murder.
Some opponents of Life say we force our Religion and or morality
on them. Not so. Neither will we stand by and allow pro-death
people to force their lack of Faith or morals or perhaps I should
say their secular religion upon us. There is a reason.
There is another component to this. Just because most of the
people who are Pro- Life are people of Judeo/Christian Faiths
does not mean it is only about that.
While many do not recognize the fact, Faith and Reason or Faith
and science compliment one another and are never opposed, except
when a miracle occurs. Then it is outside the realm of
science/reason.
It is hard for those pro-death people to realize that those
people of Faith happen to be intelligent enough and open
minded enough to go the extra step and check out the science.
Today we have DNA, we know that a person is a person at the
moment of fertilization/conception. We also know that embryonic
stem cells have not worked and according to some scientists never
will because they promote growth and development, while the adult
and cord blood cells promote health and healing.
It comes down to, if the zygote or embryo has the proper number
of chromosomes, it is a human person, separate from her/his
Mother. Even if those chromosomes are askew. Mothers are only
guardians for God/nature.
Simple as 1 and 1 are two and two and two are four.
But most pro-death people do not want to hear the facts. Just
kill the babies either by abortion or most forms of
contraception. It does not matter as long as we are not “Punished
with a baby”.
Is it known here that some countries are in such bad shape
economically they are paying women to have babies.
Perhaps if the 50,000,000 babies that have been murdered
surgically since 1973 had been allowed to live we might not be in
the economic straits we are in today. Most certainly people would
not have to worry about their Social Security because there would
be the workers there to support it.
One doe not have to be of Faith to be Pro-life and not all people
of Faith are intelligent and open minded, but it sure does not
hurt that most Pro-Lifers are both.
We should also remember an historic fact: our country was founded
on God’s law. Lo and behold science agrees with that law.
Also go into the practice of celibacy or if marriage and it being
the best prevention of disease and death. God told us, science
shows the why. We can go into that more in depth another
day.
— Patricia Tobin Kennedy
Poughkeepsie,
New York
SMOOTH OPERATOR
Re: Matthew Vadum’s ACORN’s Stimulus:
I KNEW this kind of government spending was going to happen. So,
this is “Change we can believe in”? This country is about to be
romanced. Obama will nice enough to give us a kiss too, or
at least sweet talk us, in order to make us feel loved and
appreciated at the same time he is emptying our wallets.
— David Shoup
Dublin, Georgia
The more I read, hear, and research, the more I am willing to
believe this financial crisis, which was birthed in the Clinton
Administration, was possibly orchestrated in order to destroy the
middle class and implement radical, extreme socialism.
Who is the largest employer in America? The answer is small
business. Who runs small businesses? The middle class largely run
small businesses in America. Who supports pro-family, pro-life
organizations like Worldview Weekend, The American Family
Association, Focus on the Family and other groups that oppose the
humanistic, global governance worldview of the cultural elite?
Who is the most politically active for faith, family and
freedoms? Who funds Christian radio, missions, and the spread of
the Gospel? What group of Americans most understands history, has
served in the military, and is opposed to socialism? What group
makes up the largest members of the Reagan Revolution? The answer
to all these questions is the middle class.
The social engineers know that if the middle class is consumed
with food, shelter, clothing and employment; most will not even
notice what is happening in the area of public policy. Those that
do see what is happening will not be able to do anything about it
because as Rangel said, they are overwhelmed with the basics of
life.
Barack Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told
business leaders in a November 2008 meeting that the financial
crisis was “an opportunity to do things you could not do before.”
The goals of Cultural Marxism are primarily the destruction of
Christianity and the creation of chaos. The ultimate goal
is to move from Cultural Marxism to traditional Marxism and that
is what is happening to America today. Obama, the Clintons,
Rangel, Reich, Emanuel and Obama’s entire Administration is
committed to moving from Cultural Marxism to traditional
Marxism To get there they must destroy and distract their
only real obstacle…the middle class.
— John P. Gibson
SCIENTIFIC TRUST
Re: Ron Schoenberg’s letter (under “Fear of God”) in Reader
Mail’s Thrown
Under the Bus:
The theory of evolution is just that, a theory. However,
Newton’s Law of Gravity is in fact a scientific law. To
equate a law of science to a theory shows Mr. Schoenberg’s lack
of scientific understanding and therefore negates his argument.
If individuals would educate themselves before making blanket
statements it might be easier to at least respect their
opinions.
— Jon M. Wade
Ashland, Virginia
