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News of interest.
- Tort lawyers are about to get another big payoff from Congress and the Obama administration for the hundreds of millions of dollars they contributed to candidates in the last election cycle (over 75% of which went to Democrats). If it reconciles the differing versions of the so-called Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 that the House and Senate passed (which could happen yet today), Congress will finalize amendments to the federal False Claims Act that will hurt our economy but make the trial lawyers very happy indeed. -Heritage
- It’s time to prepare for hard times, my friends. And, if you’re a bible believing, Christ-following Christian, I believe the coming years will be particularly troublesome. I say “bible-believing, Christ-following Christian” because our degenerating culture has all but stripped the biblical definition of the word “Christian” from today’s collective conscience so that it has lost much of it’s scriptural meaning, even among many of today’s attending church members. -Paul Proctor
- Oh, I know that President Obama’s approval ratings are still around 62%. But I also remember that George Bush’s at the end of 2001 got even higher — and stayed at or above 60% through most of 2002, explaining why he increased his congressional majority in the midterm elections. Nevertheless, I think we are beginning — after less than four months — to see fissures in Obama’s Pentelic statuary. And the cracks will widen, because in about six areas he has taken on human nature itself, age-old logic, and common sense-opponents that even a Harvard Law degree and Chicago organizing are no match for. -Victor David Hanson
- Rather than nitpick about Obama’s envisioned brave new world, I think it wiser to see it in the larger context of age-old divides over the nature of Western democratic and liberal society. Nothing that we have seen proposed since January 20 is novel; everything is merely the promise of the past outfitted with a new snazzier veneer of hope and change. -Victor David Hanson
- In every single case before the rise of totalitarian governments there had been a period dominated by economic planners. Each of these nations had an era under starry-eyed men who believed that they could plan and force the economic life of the people. They believed that was the way to correct abuse or to meet emergencies in systems of free enterprise. They exalted the state as the solver of all economic problems. -Herbert Hoover via Heritage
- Today’s adolescents spend an estimated 200 billion dollars a year of their own money – they are the most affluent generation of young people in the history of the world, which also makes them the most marketed to. So fierce is the competition for their cash that modern marketing techniques have become, in many cases, insidiously evil. Today, selling to teens isn’t about finding out what they want – it’s about figuring out how to manipulate their minds. -Rebecca Hagelin via Townhall
- President Obama claims to be a dedicated “Christian” while espousing these views, and seeks to openly engage other Christians to try to persuade them to his methodology and thinking. The part that catches most Christians off guard is that the President presents his views as if his beliefs are normative, and somehow better representative of the true “diversity” and “culture” of both Christianity and American values. The fact is that the President espouses views of religious and social pluralism. -The Dunamis Word
And finally, for our contrary story of the day, consider this:
The Left has made great concessions: abandoning any semblance of seeking abortion on demand, acceding to all sorts of limits on abortion rights in the 37 years since Roe v. Wade became law. Now it’s the Right’s turn: Stop referring to abortion as “baby-killing” and use of Plan B and other contraceptives as “murder.” Maybe then we could see some real progress on this issue. -Bonnie Erb, via US News
My only real question to Bonnie is this: Are you living on the same Earth I’m living on?
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