Archive for the ‘Political’ Category

The Death Penalty (2011-3-3)

I just finished reading John Grisham’s latest book, The Confession.  It is a fictional story of a young man coerced into a confession and then wrongly executed. (I just could not resist a book that involved a Pastor Keith up to his neck in a death penalty case! )
Grisham opposes the death penalty.  This came out [...]

The Modern Concept of the Census (2010-3-17)

I had the following editorial letter published last week:
Editor,
I’ve received a letter from the Census Bureau just to tell me that I would soon receive my Census form.  After a four month, $133 million ad campaign, including a $2.5 million Super Bowl spot, is anyone left who doesn’t know it’s a census year?
While that bureaucratic [...]

Our National Ponzi Scheme (2009-10-2)

Recently, our local newspaper ran a lead article entitled: “Early retirements hurt Social Secutiry.”  The story explained that the so-called Social Security Trust Fund will run a deficit for this year and next, due to a loss of jobs in the present economy.  I responded with the following editorial, which they printed yesterday:
When Bernie Madoff [...]

Respect the President (2009-9-23)

I am a conservative. Just ask anyone who knows me. I’m not somewhere right of center, I’m somewhere right of Ronald Reagan.
So it may surprise you that I am dismayed by two recent events: the outburst of Rep. Joe Wilson, who yelled “You lie!” as President Obama addressed Congress concerning his health care plan, and [...]

And No Religion, Too? (2009-8-24)

When I was a child, John Lennon’s song “Imagine” was very popular.  He is asking people to imagine Utopia, a world in which all is well with everyone, a planet engulfed in world peace. It’s the kind of world that Christian’s anticipate in the restored earth—only without Christians.
            Imagine there’s no Heaven.
            It’s easy if you [...]

Dual Citizenship (2009-7-4)

“I am a Christian first, an American second.”