Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Obama Gateway Regime: Winning Through Intimidation

So I’m minding my own business cleaning portapotties this morning in the freezing rain, and I decide to listen to 97.1 FM when I’m in the truck.  It was pretty early this morning so I was listening to Randy Tobler.  … Continue reading

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is (in a sense) a Republication of the Covenant of Works

Of course it also surpasses and replaces it.  All I’m about to say below simply boils down the fact that Jesus is the New Adam. When Jesus created Adam and Eve …. (We know from Scripture that the person Adam … Continue reading

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Carefully determining the most prudent plan.

beaten with brains: South Park Reveals True Geithner Plan. My friend Derrick Olliff posts a (an?) hysterical video showing the inner workings of the best and brightest.

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Michael gets the bird from the pseudo-reformed zealots

I have done my best to try to demonstrate that there are aspects of the “New Perspective of Paul” that those of the Reformed faith can appropriate without losing their way. I’ve also been critical of the New Perspective (if … Continue reading

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Economic considerations that Christians should think about.

We are not, we pray, on the verge of another Great Depression. Still, we see signs of economic failure all around us. Stores in the strip malls we drive past every day advertise “going out of business” sales. Those of … Continue reading

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The Telegraph posts an excellent review of and introduction to the great writer of “hard boiled” detective fiction,” Raymond Chandler

When Raymond Chandler began to write for pulp magazines in the Thirties, he planned from the first to smuggle something like literature into them. Most of these magazines hooked their readers with a mixture of sex and violence – “they … Continue reading

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John Donne knew that politicians never wasted emergencies

If, as in water stirr’d more circles be Produced by one, love such additions take, Those like so many spheres but one heaven make, For they are all concentric unto thee; And though each spring do add to love new … Continue reading

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And so the wild reclaims us

City Council President Jim Ananich said the idea has been on his radar for years. The city is getting smaller and should downsize its services accordingly by asking people to leave sparsely populated areas, he said. “It’s going to happen … Continue reading

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The Geithner/Obama Confidence Game

Mish runs one of my favorite economic blogs, but today he actually agree with Paul Krugman three times!  He links a lot of intelligent analysis of Geithner’s plan that you should go read.  Then he concludes. There have been a … Continue reading

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YouTube – Al Gore Debates Global Warming

YouTube – Al Gore Debates Global Warming.

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