March 9, 2000

"Consider what would have happened had congressional Republicans not thwarted much of Clinton's wish list.  Clinton would have:
-- given us socialized medicine, which would have eventually destroyed the greatest health care system in the world and bankrupted the budget Clinton takes credit for balancing;
-- ratcheted-up federal spending for numerous other pet projects;
-- signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would have gravely undermined our national security through unilateral nuclear disarmament;
-- imposed draconian restrictions on gun ownership in contravention of the Second Amendment; and
-- assumed greater federal control over education toward a nationalized, politically correct and anti-Western Civilization curriculum.

A Gore Presidency would:

-- appoint activist judges instead of strict constructionists, which would seal the fate of a million and a half babies a year for at least another generation;
-- continue to play political games with the Social Security problem rather than implementing a plan, like Bush's, that would truly protect workers' retirement security by partially privatizing social security;
-- be beholden to teachers unions and labor unions;
-- preserve the punitive Clinton income tax rates and retain the inheritance-robbing federal estate taxes;
-- refuse to refund revenue surpluses back to their rightful owners--the taxpayers;
-- possibly seek to outlaw the internal combustion engine--as well he should if he actually believes his own propaganda that it is the greatest threat to civilization;
-- further erode the Fifth Amendment by placing at even greater risk the rights of private landowners through government confiscation and choking regulations in the name of benign environmentalism;
-- seek to sponsor legislation to codify his stated belief that 'computer literacy is a fundamental right,'
-- use his bully-pulpit to conduct class-warfare and to urge that we move further toward a race-conscious society rather than striving for color blindness;
-- treat China as his favorite political contributor and strategic partner rather than as a competitor and potential menace to Taiwan and world peace, and;
-- continue to regard the Justice Department as the legal goalie for presidential corruption rather than the nation's highest law enforcement body."
Source:  Limbaugh, David.  Bush or four more of Clinton/Gore? The Conservative Chronicle, Hampton Publishing
Company, March 1, 2000, p. 3.      David Limbaugh (c) 2000 by the Creators Syndicate, Inc.

March 10, 2000

"The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides."   

 G.K. Chesterton [1924]

March 11, 2000

"Why is it that we spend so much money dealing with welfare and illegitimacy?  Why is it that we spend so much money dealing with crime and violence in our streets?  Why is it that we even spend so much money dealing with the problems of irresponsible behaviors that contribute to the decline of the health of this nation?  I think you know in your heart what the real answer is.

We don't have money problems.  We have moral problems.  And it is time we stood up and faced that truth."
Keyes, Alan. Our Character, Our Future; Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan PublishingHouse, , 1996.         (page 11)

March 12, 2000

"God is attracted to weakness.  He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him."
Cymbala, Jim and Dean Merrill.  Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire; What Happens When God's Spirit Invades The Heart Of His People.  Grand Rapids: ZondervanPublishingHouse, 1997.       (page 19)

March 13, 2000

"True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance.  To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness."
Bloom, Allan.  The Closing of the American Mind.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.        (page 40)

March 14, 2000

"Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.  It is the only decent way to live."
Peck, M. Scott.  The Road Less Traveled; A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.              (page 19)

March 15, 2000

Wednesday, Clinton demanded that Congress give the Red Giant permanent normal trade status. "[I]f you believe in a future of greater openness and freedom for the people of China, you ought to be for this agreement," Mr. Clinton said. "It's an historic opportunity and a profound American responsibility." Rather like throwing gasoline on an open flame....

Rep. James Traficant responded, "China sells nuclear weapons to our enemies. China threatened to nuke Taiwan. Once, China even threatened the city of Los Angeles. ... If the White House succeeds in getting China admitted to the World Trade Organization, I say the White House needs a lobotomy performed by a proctologist."

March 16, 2000

"It is commonplace that moral views vary both regionally within the United States and between socio-economic classes.  It is similarly a commonplace that the morality of certain elites may count for more in the operations of government than that morality which might command the allegiance of a majority of the people.  In no part of government is this more true than in the courts.  An elite moral or political view may never be able to win an election or command the votes of a majority of a legislature, but it may nonetheless influence judges and gain the force of law in that way.  That is the reason judicial activism is extremely popular with certain elites and why they encourage judges to think it the highest aspect of their calling.  Legislation is far more likely to reflect majority sentiment while judicial activism is likely to  represent an elite minority's sentiment.  The judge is free to reflect the 'better' opinion because he need not stand for reelection and because he can deflect the majority's anger by claiming merely to have been enforcing the Constitution." [emphasis mine]
Bork, Robert H.  The Tempting of America; The Political Seduction of the Law.  New York: The Free Press, 1990.   (pages 17-18

March 17, 2000

"It is pseudo-rationalism to say that a child or adolescent should follow only such values as he or she can defend intellectually against the cross-examination of an adult trained specifically for such cross-examination -- and for emotional manipulation.  The values which have endured the test of time were not created by children, but evolved out of experiences distilled into a way of life by adults.  Such values are often used precisely for the purpose of guiding people too young to have enough personal experience to grasp fully the implications of the rules they follow -- or the dangers in not following them.  In other words, many values would not be needed if youngsters fully understood why they existed."
Sowell, Thomas.  Inside American Education: the Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas.  New York: The Free Press, 1993.    (page 67)

March 18, 2000

"The timing of God is often a mystery to us, and even sometimes a frustration.  But we must not give up.  We must not try to arrange our own solutions."
Cymbala, Jim, and Dean Merrill. Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People.  Grand Rapids: ZondervanPublishingHouse, 1999.        (Page 112)

March 19, 2000

"We should never make prayer too complicated. . . . Jesus taught us to pray for daily bread; a child asks for breakfast in utter confidence that it will be provided.  He has no need to stash away today's pancakes for fear none will be available tomorrow -- as far as he is concerned, there is an endless supply of pancakes.  A child does not find it difficult or complicated to talk to his father, nor does he feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to his attention."
Foster, Richard J.  Celebration of Discipline, The Path to Spiritual Growth.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.                     (page 36)

March 20\21, 2000

"It has been said that baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community."
Will, George F.  Men at Work, The Craft of Baseball.  New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990.     (page 240)

March 22, 2000

"Changing our schools must begin with changing the men and women who teach in them.  Unless they are held to a high standard of excellence, we will never solve our national apathy."
Colson, Chuck and Jack Eckerd.  Why America Doesn't Work.  Dallas: Word Publishing, 1991.      (page 103)

March 23, 2000

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.'  People say different things: so do instincts.  Our instincts are at war.  If it is held that the instinct for preserving the species should always be obeyed at the expense of other instincts, whence do we derive this rule of precedence? To listen to that instinct speaking in its own cause and deciding in its own favour [sic] would be rather simple minded.  Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of all the rest."
Lewis, C. S. The Abolition of Man.  New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1947.