Politics

With all the debate over health-care, what’s really going on behind the scenes? You sure won’t find out watching CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, or CNN. One of the sticking issues remains abortion — should the Federal government pay for it? The two sides have been arguing back and forth, but recently the mask has come off the pro-abortion side, revealing what they really want.

In Justice by Alan Sears describes a story similar to Orwell’s “1984”, but relating to first amendment freedoms, specifically religious freedoms. This issue remains at the forefront today, whether it’s speaking on your beliefs, religious displays, so-called “hate speech”, and more. The book considers what might happen if today’s politically correct movement continues to grow.

Different news stores which appear unrelated often yield connections when placed next to each other. What do wild rants from a Congressman in Florida have to do with an attack and rape on a high school student across the country?

As huge numbers are thrown around during discussions, just how much are they talking about? More importantly, what advice did Solomon have concerning financial matters we should consider when speaking of trillion dollar deficits.

July 4 isn’t just about NASCAR, hot dogs and soda. How many people take the time to remember those events over 200 years ago? The founding document of the country?

With all the economic uncertainty in the news, many people ask a simple question - how did the country get into this mess? And can $800 billion get us out? Most importantly, what lessons should be learned for the future?

It’s not AIG, Lehman, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. It’s not the national debt or budget deficits. They’re only symptoms of the real disease, the cancer eating away at our society — that cancer is “A Deficit of Decency” — more specifically, a lack of ethics.

All the recent flap over the comments of pastor Jeremiah Wright illustrates an important point. It’s not really about his comments, or if Obama himself supported them (or heard them at all), it’s not even about racism — those are all political issues and have been discussed elsewhere ad nauseum without resolution. But one issue hasn’t been discussed much and missed entirely by the media …

By now, everyone should have heard the story – the up and coming Democrat Governor of New York wasted tens of thousands of dollars on prostitutes and resigned. But beyond the basic case itself (similar stores being repeated among Presidents, Congressmen, and Senators), what does this mean for the Christian? What lessons should (must) we learn from Spitzer’s downfall?