May 11, 2008

New Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves.
A large number of people, most of whom apparently are residents of New Orleans, have favored me with four-letter-word denunciations of The god That Failed New Orleans.
A common allegation was that I had written [...]

May 10, 2008

A few things for the high priests of environmental paganism to ponder when they next forgather to worship their own egos.
Barton Bennett sent me a link for Dr. Walter Williams’s column reminding us how far from the truth is the junk science that flourishes like maggots in today’s cesspool of educational ignorance.
So far [...]

May 5, 2008

How indicative of his character and beliefs is Senator Obama’s having launched one of his political campaigns at the home of his friends Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers?
Who are Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers? And why would Senator Obama wish to associate his political beliefs with those of Dohrn and Ayers?
Might his [...]

April 29, 2008

The light of God’s truth has been snuffed out in Europe, now the least Christian and the most secularized and socialized part of the world.
This week, Black Rock Congregational Church is focusing on worldwide missionary programs and the 20-plus missionaries that the church supports. In that connection, rather than a traditional sermon, we at [...]

April 27, 2008

Reactions of some nominal Christians to the message of Pope Benedict XVI are nothing more than liberal-progressive-socialistic “toleration.”
In his April 18th column for the Washington Post, E. J. Dionne, Jr. expresses the misgivings of liberal-progressives who enjoy the ritual of religion, but don’t want to be bothered with following the teachings of Jesus.
Mr. Dionne writes:

The [...]

April 23, 2008

Why does much of New Orleans still look as if the 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina had occurred just a few weeks ago?
Huge areas of New Orleans still are wastelands. New Orleans’s liberal-progressive-socialist Senator Mary Landrieu has grabbed far more than her share of Congressional pork. Hundreds of millions of Federal dollars spent [...]

April 21, 2008

Today’s clamor for more regulation of financial institutions to prevent another subprime mortgage meltdown is an exercise in self-deception.
Congress, led by Representative Barney Frank, is planning to overhaul regulation of the financial community, and Treasury Secretary Paulson has already proposed a broad program for that purpose.
No doubt, much of what is proposed is [...]

April 14, 2008

Liberal-progressive environmentalists are starving the world’s poor.
Liberal-progressives are enthralled with imposing collectivist regulation to satisfy their religion’s “feel-good” agendas.
But the cost of liberal-progressive worship of collectivist abstractions is great. Diverting limited economic resources into less important or less effective uses, inherent in the straitjacket of government regulation, impoverishes the world with lower [...]

April 8, 2008

As the proposed trade agreement with Colombia reveals, labor unions are organizations of self-centered greed, which disingenuously cloak themselves with pretense of God, country, and mom’s apple pie.
President Bush, by calling for Congressional approval of the trade agreement with Colombia, is compelling liberal-progressives to choose between the high-flown, one-world internationalism to which they give lip [...]

April 6, 2008

Vengeful anger is spiritual slavery from which we are delivered by Christian love and forgiveness.
Sermons this Sunday and last Sunday at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) were based upon Philemon, one of the shortest books in the Bible. These sermons were parts one and two of a three-part series on the [...]

April 5, 2008

Believing apparently that specifics are not necessary, Senator Obama promises us that his election will bring us all together in one happy family via a miraculous transformation of society and its citizens.
Earthly perfection of human nature and human society, here and now, is what Senator Obama is promising us. This is his implicit message [...]

April 4, 2008

Senator Clinton and the Los Angeles Times need to get their facts straight before making ignorant pronouncements.
The Los Angeles Times Blog recently reported:

In the very first words she uttered reacting to John McCain’s speech on the housing market crisis Tuesday, Hillary Clinton evinced part of her appeal to older voters: her frame of reference is [...]

March 29, 2008

Why did we get a massive over-building of single family homes and a plethora of bad mortgage loans?
Responding to Liberals’ Wall Street Pirouette, a reader wrote, among other observations:

I was right with you until…
“the huge overproduction of housing would not have
occurred.”
What “over-production”?
Remember: supply, demand and price balance except where
force or fraud intervene, in a theoretical [...]

March 24, 2008

Distressing remarks from the Senator’s pastor have been hashed and rehashed, but something more needs to be said.
In addition to assessing the inflammatory preaching by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in terms of patriotism and decency, let’s also examine it from the viewpoint of Christian love.
Let’s acknowledge at the outset that we in the general public [...]

March 23, 2008

Jesus is Risen!
Pastor Steve Treash preached the sermon for Easter Sunday at the Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church in North Stamford, Connecticut.
The good news is that death is dead; fear has fled; and new life is ahead.
Jesus came to free us from the fear of death, to unite us with God in eternal life.

Since the [...]

Liberals blaming the takeover of Bear Stearns on capitalism is akin to blaming the homeowner if someone sets fire to his house.
Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. blames capitalism for the Wall Street meltdown that led to the collapse of Bear Stearns and its acquisition by J. P. Morgan Chase with financial support by [...]

March 16, 2008

To follow Jesus and be fruitful in the Judeo-Christian sense, we must be buried in baptism with Him and experience a new birth in His love.
Pastor Steve Treash preached the Palm Sunday sermon at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church in North Stamford, Connecticut. His theme was that, like a seed, if we are to [...]

March 14, 2008

Socialism, of which liberal-progressivism is the American sect, is more than control of the economy. Most importantly it is mind-control through the public education system.
The Washington Times reports the latest liberal-progressive-socialist curtailment of personal freedom.

“California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right [...]

Jan Burr raises the important point that governments should give attention, not only to current effects of global warming, but also to the near certainty of a severe cooling period within the coming decade.
In his comment regarding Global Warming: A Moderate Voice, Mr. Burr notes that global cooling will cause as much, or more, suffering [...]

Choosing human reason alone as the road to understanding means that morality is no more than the result of the latest public opinion poll.
Read Richard John Neuhaus’s commentary on Austin Dacey’s The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life. Mr. Dacey is the editor of Philo, a journal of secularist philosophy.
Despite its [...]