What atheists refuse to believe in is making themselves, or attempting to make themselves, better than they were created. I think this is the ultimate point of religion.

Love not hate, opposing our nature. Give not take, opposing our nature. Restrain our urges, opposing our nature. Don't fear death, opposing our nature. They simply can't handle ( Read more... )

Are high gas prices only a problem when a Republican is president?  Below is a graph of crude oil and gas prices from GasBuddy.com next to a Google News report on "gas prices", representing how much news was made on the issue.

As always, causation does not imply correlation. However, it is arguable that the baseline of news articles is lower during ( Read more... )

A bone of contention I've had recently with liberals turns out to be no contention after all.  Human rights and freedoms are not exclusive to the United States; these rights and freedoms are to be enjoyed by all humans everywhere.  Just because a bunch of wigged, White men in Philadelphia wrote them down doesn't make them exclusive to the USA.
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• DHS granted waivers to 111 companies (over 10% unions) including McDonalds and Jack in the Box. The health care insurance waivers relate to organizations that provide their own plans with low annual limits, or “mini-med” insurance plans to employees. The plans typically require employees to pay for their own health care once they hit a pre-set cap ( Read more... )

 "'Ethnicity' is an anti-concept, used as a disguise for the word 'racism'--and it has no clearly definable meaning. . . . The term 'ethnicity' stresses the traditional, rather than the physiological characteristics of a group, such as language--but physiology, i.e., race, is involved . . . . So the advocacy of 'ethnicity,' means racism plus ( Read more... )

 I get the DCCC newsletters, just because I love reading Democrat propaganda. Every time, you can decipher what the Democrats are up to by what they accuse the other side of doing.

Here's what the DCCC attributes to AlGore:

"Back in Tennessee there's an old saying: When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your ( Read more... )

Greenspan’s Warning About Gold Echoes After Fed Speaks


Regular readers of these columns know that we prefer not to speak of the “price of gold” but rather of the “value of the dollar.” Kitco’s reporter quoted the managing director of Trend/Max Futures, Zachary Oxman, as saying the Fed “all but confirmed” quantitative easing and predicting that the ( Read more... )

If you look at this site and set the date range from January 2000 to January 2006 (when the Democrats took over Congress), real GDP growth had a mean of 2.48%, meaning that half the time GDP growth was above that and half below that mark.  There was a 9/11-induced recession during that time too.

Now, change the date range to January 2006 - current ( Read more... )

 There are three types of people in this country ( Read more... )

This is what's great about liberals and their grievance mentality that's tied to social justice.

When the individual groups start to lose faith in the leadership, when their particular grievance isn't being resolved, then you start to get the death of a thousand cuts.

It's a beautiful thing to watch.