Sat, 02 Feb 2008
Prime Example of why you should vote for Ron Paul
If you can find a politician who is running for president that will
be honest and frank with the chairman of the Federal Reserve like Ron
Paul is here, than for sure, go vote for them.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2008
Ron Paul on Health Care
As I mentioned before, it's in the area of health that I first became aware
of Ron Paul. Yet, his thoughts on how government is ruining health care
has not been prominent in the campaign up to this point. I just
found this lecture that he gave to the World Health organization.
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Mon, 14 Jan 2008
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Sun, 13 Jan 2008
Why Ron Paul?
Some of you probably see me as a staunch conservative Bush supporter. It is
true that I voted for Bush in both 2000 and 2004. When it comes to social issues
I am quite pleased with what President Bush has accomplished. This is mostly
due to the Supreme Court nominations which have turned the court into a strict
constructionist court in terms of it's views of the constitution. But in many other
areas I think it is fair to say that Bush has been a disappointment.
Consider foreign policy for example. I have always thought that the concept of a pre-emptive strike in order to defend ourselves was in theory justifiable. But still I have felt reservations about the war in Iraq. The question which always surfaces in my mind is one of cost. Cost in lives and money. Is the action worth this cost? I haven't come up with a positive answer to this even after several years if the conflict and the surge in troops implemented recently. There is also the question of purpose in Iraq. Are we there to defend ourselves or to Nation Build? Nation building in the name of democracy is certainly a positive idea but the question of cost in this is also a highly worthy question as well. How much are we willing to pay in lives and financially to accomplish this? Again, I am not coming up with a highly affirmative answer. But on the other hand, the liberal side has seemed overly pacifist and lacking in understanding the importance of religious world view as it relates to the world of Islam.
I have been aware of Ron Paul for a couple of years now. Mostly his work in defending dietary supplements has been most encouraging to those of us who take supplements. But as this election process has starting winding up, I have increasingly started reading and listening to Ron Paul's ideas in other areas. I think Ron Paul's ideas on foreign policy are misunderstood by my conservative friends. His main thrust as I understand it is to emphasize making war in a constitutional manner. That is, getting a declaration of war from the congress. Consider if we had a declaration of war against Iraq for the purpose of deposing Sadam Husan and establishing a democracy. If such a declaration were made and passed by congress, the military would have a full mandate from the American people to prosecute such a war to the fullest. It would be over quickly and done. So that's the main thing that resonates with me. Let's real in these actions initiated by presidents and get back to the way our constitution was designed. I encourage all my readers to consider voting for Ron Paul in the upcoming primaries.
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Mon, 07 Jan 2008
Legos Now Supporting Ron Paul?
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Fri, 19 Jan 2007
Early Obama Observations
Barack Obama is an interesting character and it will be interesting
to see how he fares with Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination
for President in 2008. A few things that I see as real problems for
me ever voting for him:
- He has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood.
- He is in favor of HIV testing for all persons.
- He smokes. Although this article speculates that this is not necessarily a liability. Still, can you see a guy propose universal health care who smokes? Seems strange to me.
- Supports Universal Health care. Don't get me started on this one. Can you say good by to health freedom?
- He's from Chicago, a place well known for corrupt politicians.
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Mon, 02 Oct 2006
Amendment 2 Info
This is an amendment to the Missouri constitution which will
be on the November voting ballot. We were fortunate to have
a doctor from Washington University speak at our church last
night about this amendment. There is about 15 million dollars
being devoted to getting this amendment passed and most of
it is coming from one wealthy family located in the Kansas City area.
This is more money that what both of the major candidates
from Missouri for the US Senate are spending on their campaign's.
This family is attempting to build a world class research center which
will be mostly devoted to stem cell research. There are both
ethical and financial problems with this bill if it is passed.
The public is being bombarded by massive commercial campaign's
in the media including spots by Sheryl Crow. I encourage
everyone to read the web site by Missourians Against Cloning
to get the point of view from the opposing side:
www.nocloning.org
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Fri, 25 Feb 2005
Income Tax?
Is it against the law to not pay your income tax?
You might be surprised...
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Wed, 10 Nov 2004
Understanding the Red States
Well, there's lot's of talk about the red states since
the election. Mostly very negative stuff coming from
the Hollywood and left leaning types. But it is worth
trying to understand. I have been toying around with
trying to blog some on why I take the positions I do.
I don't want to be inflammatory any more than I have. Just
the little bit I got here on my blog entry from last week as well
as an e-mail conversation I had has been enough to make me more
cautious. Not that I am ashamed of what I believe, it's just
that I want to be thoughtful and not reactionary. A little
bit of objective analysis and introspection might be useful
for our liberal friends to see.
My friend Jon Barlow posted this excellent blog on the whole values voting thing and the morality of the left last weekend. Also pointed out this good article by David Brooks today (use newspaperreader, 123456 to log in) about his book on exurbs. Stay tuned, I might have more to blog soon...
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Thu, 04 Nov 2004
Post Election Thoughts
Yes, I got up several times during the night Tuesday to see
how things were going. I was watching PBS for a bit but all
I saw was a couple of guys looking at computer screens, watching
the Internet and relaying the info. Maybe they were looking
at something in house though but still, it seems that the
Internet was the place to find the latest info.
A couple of things were interesting that I heard or read. First, there was a significant amount of women who voted for Bush compared to the 2000 race. And it appears to be mostly married women. Why is this? Is it the safety factor? Do these women feel more secure with the way Bush is going about dealing with the terrorists? Maybe, but I'm wondering if there's a Laura Bush factor here. She just exudes character just standing there. Are married women attracted to her? She is also obviously not Pro Life. But she supports her husband. Maybe women who are Pro Choice feel that there are too many abortions and Bush is the best way to do something about this even though they don't want to overturn Roe V. Wade.
Also, even this morning on the radio, there appears to be some discussion from the press and even within the Democratic party concerning why they can't seem to attract voters who site moral values as a big concern. Well, it's not your fathers democratic party anymore. It's run by social radicals and that's pretty obvious. Then you field a guy who is to the left of Ted Kennedy. Don't you think it's obvious why you can't attract religious people? But anyway, it's good that the press are taking note of this.
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Fri, 08 Oct 2004
Kerry's Faith and the Role of Morality in Democracy
Here's a fantastic article
by Marvin Olasky. Never even
knew who Marvin was until I read the article yesterday while
I was looking around Townhall.com. The important point
he makes here when he quotes Catholic scholar George Weigel,
that public moral culture is one of the prime foundations
of democracy and that this is merely an echo of Patrick Henry
and Samuel Adams cannot be diminished. In view of this,
the discussion of Kerry's faith (or his confusion of faith) is
essential for me. In fact, Kerry's faith as discussed is par
for the course with liberal democrats and is the reason why
I can never vote for one with a clear conscience. But will there
ever be a republican candidate who will stand up and say something
like, "The liberal democrats have largely abandoned the Judeo Christain
moral culture of the United States. They would have us
get lost in the relativistic bog of Pantheism or Atheism and the
resulting moral confusion. Do Americans want this to happen?" George
Bush clearly has a real and sincere faith in Christ and the bible.
But it's not clear if he really grasps what is at stake here.
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Wed, 06 Oct 2004
VP Debate Notes
I only caught the first 50 minutes of the VP debate. Here's some
gut level reactions:
- Edwards came out hard and did a good job reiterating the points made in the first debate.
- Cheney seemed ready to respond and did an excellent job of brining up Kerry's record and other problems with inconsistency in his voting record.
- Too bad the President couldn't do half of the counter punching that Cheney displayed.
- I thought the point where Cheney said that tonight was the first night he had met the senator was very good. Also mentioning the "Mr. Gone" headline from Edwards home town newspaper was a very good piece of info to bring up.
- Edwards constantly bringing up dirt from the past seemed to run long at some point. Excessive detail in this way I don't think is as effective as just driving home a point repeatedly.
- But I also wish that Cheney would just say something like, "Look, they are just digging for dirt all the time but have no compelling plan. Here's what we have done and what we are planning on doing..."
- I think this debate was more of a draw and neither person did anything to lose or gain undecided votes. But a draw tends to benefit the President as the inconsistencies of Kerry's record and statements can be analyzed and tend to take more post debate attention. At least, that's what I hope!
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Fri, 01 Oct 2004
Debate 1 Notes
A few of my reactions after watching the whole thing and a
bit of analysis afterwords:
- Kerry put himself back into the game. He did a good job of answering the flip flop objections. He was clearly in his element.
- Unlike many of Bushes opponents of the past (like Al Gore), Kerry did not belittle his intelligence but treated him like a genuine opponent.
- Behind the podium debating is Kerry's strength but clearly it is Bush's weakness.
- Kerry's campaign team should be fired. They are obviously running one of the worst campaigns in history but Kerry on his own in the debates was much better than his campaign has presented him up to this point.
- Bush clearly had passion and there is no doubt that he believes in what he is doing and that it is best for the country.
- Rudi Guiliani pointed out after the debate (on NBC) that Kerry said Sadam was not a threat at the beginning, then at the end said he agreed with the President that Sadam was a threat. Too bad Bush didn't catch this. I didn't either though.
- As the two families were standing together at the end, I couldn't help but think that one of these is a real genuine family but the other appears strange and contrived along the lines of the Clinton family.
- Many of Kerry's actions were scripted and were unnecessary from what I could see. Like the hurried attempt to kiss the wife in front of the camera at the end.
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004
Rather Gate
This whole 60 minutes thing is getting to be quite humorous.
I didn't see his rebuttal last night but heard some discussion
of it this morning on the radio. One listener had an
interesting parallel. That is, if Bush who took the advice
of multiple intelligence agencies and agreed with multiple
countries that Iraq had WMD's but now that we haven't found
any, he is a liar, then Dan Rather must also be a liar since
he used false documents to beef up his case against Bush's
time in the National Guard.
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