For an exceptional archive of political speeches go to Hillsdale College:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive.asp
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
McCain & Obama Capture the Historical Moment with Grace in Defeat, Magnanimity in Victory
John McCain's election capitulation speech deserves to be among the great speeches of the United States.
It should be placed in an anthology of the great world speeches for his gracious words and for his capture of this moment in history.
Both should be remembered for the historical landmarks they will become.
His and Mr. Obama's attitudes were those most becoming of a public servant - grace in defeat and magnanimity in victory.
Watching Reverend Jesse Jackson's tears at this historical juncture brought to all of us the memory of him as a young man on a motel balcony with the gunned-down Dr. Martin Luther King at his feet, bleeding and dying. It was a horrible moment in U.S. history.
And now for Rev. Jackson to be standing at the feet of President-elect Barak Obama, was a moving sight.
For while many do not agree with the Leftist positions of either man, at that moment, after the argument and debate of the past four years, after the belligerance and bickering, Mr Obama became my President!
Yes, young man - Mr. President-elect - you will have to earn my respect.
However, know this, that already in the historical significance of this moment, in the weighted bearing you already had as you walked onstage last night with your beautiful family; that in the noticeable lack of your usual swagger, you showed, to all watching, a humbled, confident bearing of a young man who needed no pretentious gait.
You will now be in all our prayers.
It should be placed in an anthology of the great world speeches for his gracious words and for his capture of this moment in history.
Both should be remembered for the historical landmarks they will become.
His and Mr. Obama's attitudes were those most becoming of a public servant - grace in defeat and magnanimity in victory.
Watching Reverend Jesse Jackson's tears at this historical juncture brought to all of us the memory of him as a young man on a motel balcony with the gunned-down Dr. Martin Luther King at his feet, bleeding and dying. It was a horrible moment in U.S. history.
And now for Rev. Jackson to be standing at the feet of President-elect Barak Obama, was a moving sight.
For while many do not agree with the Leftist positions of either man, at that moment, after the argument and debate of the past four years, after the belligerance and bickering, Mr Obama became my President!
Yes, young man - Mr. President-elect - you will have to earn my respect.
However, know this, that already in the historical significance of this moment, in the weighted bearing you already had as you walked onstage last night with your beautiful family; that in the noticeable lack of your usual swagger, you showed, to all watching, a humbled, confident bearing of a young man who needed no pretentious gait.
You will now be in all our prayers.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Gay Marriage Would Destabilize Institution of Marriage Says Canadian Attorney General
The Canadian Attorney General argued in the Halpern case:
Changing the definition of marriage to incorporate same-sex couples would
profoundly change the very essence of a fundamental societal institution. The
AGC points to no-fault divorce as an example of how changing one of the
essential features of marriage, its permanence, had the unintended result of
destabilizing the instituton with unexpectedly high divorce rates. This, it is
said, has had a destabilizing effect on the family, with adverse effects on men,
women and children. tampering with another of the core features, its opposite-sex
nature, may also have unexpected and unintended results.(see Stewart, Canadian Journal of Family Law, Vol 21, 2004, p. 72 at http://manwomanmarriage.org/ )
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Prop. 8 - Married Mother/father Child Rearing is the Optimal Child-rearing Mode
Voters and politicians can understand that the outcomes and goods that flow from a good setting for child rearing establish the mother/father mode of child rearing as the best and most favorable now known.
For further data, turn to these books:
For further data, turn to these books:
- Amato & Booth, A Generation at Risk (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1997)
- Mayer, What Money Can't Buy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1997)
- Poponoe, Life Without Father (New York; The Free Press. 1997)
- Blakenhorn, Fatherless America (New York: Basic Books 1995)
- Gallagher & Waite, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better off Financially (New York: Doubleday 2000).
These favorable outcomes include academic performance and levels of attainment; physical, mental, and emotional health and development; and avoidance of crime and other forms of self- and other-destructive behavior such as drug abuse and high-risk sexual conduct, according to Monte Stewart in the Canadian Journal of Family Law (Vol. 21, 2004)
Do not be deceived about opposition to Proposition 8 in California. This is not about equality, but is about a redefinition of marriage that will have severe long-term affects on how we define this institution. Once this new definition has the sanction of law, the traditional institution will be deconstructed and significantly changed.
Go to http://www.manwomanmarriage.org/ for more information.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
This Credit Crisis Started in 1970s Under Democrat Carter, Barak Obama will Continue Crisis
Go to URL:http://www.IBDeditorials.com for Investor's Business Daily's interview with
Terry Jones discussing the current crisis.
Democrats started this mess in the 70s with a noble social experiment to extend home ownership to people who were not credit worthy. Republicans could have addressed this problem seriously, but failed to do so over the years.
Obama's party is responsible for the mess and his policies - the failed socialist policies of the 60s generation - will only further the crisis and drive this economy into the ground.
Do not be decieved.
This country needs more than someone who learned to turn a literary phrase in college and while sitting in church listening to black liberation theology.
Terry Jones discussing the current crisis.
Democrats started this mess in the 70s with a noble social experiment to extend home ownership to people who were not credit worthy. Republicans could have addressed this problem seriously, but failed to do so over the years.
Obama's party is responsible for the mess and his policies - the failed socialist policies of the 60s generation - will only further the crisis and drive this economy into the ground.
Do not be decieved.
This country needs more than someone who learned to turn a literary phrase in college and while sitting in church listening to black liberation theology.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Does biology influence our political opinions?
When scientists find that our reactions to politics stem from our reactions to loud obnoxious noises and threatening images, that would explain why I'm so annoyed by Dr. Joseph Cramer's Deseret News column on Saturday, 27 September 2008 entitled "Does biology influence our political opinions?" It's just so much loud noise, ill analyzed.
One need only search history to see the ridiculous claim advanced (by Oxley, et al) in the September 19 issue of Science, and the book The Attachment of Politics by Kraemer and Roberts.
Wonderful people on the Left - liberal, accepting people: Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Che Guevarra, all of whom left thousands and millions in mass graves!
Ah, but they make their surviving cohorts feel so safe and nurtured! In this way, such "liberalism" is self perpetuating. The safe surviving liberals will grow up so accepting of others - ask diehard Soviets and readers of Mao's Little Red book.
Ah, breathe the air of safety - amid the underlying stench of massacred millions.
The researchers are too narrow in their analysis - too North American in their myopia. The world-wide view doesn't bear their premise out.
Far from being calm, nurtured, peaceful individuals, many liberals are angry, reactionary radicals, bent on revolution and slaughter of those they find responsible for their plight.
Oxley and his fellow myopes think with full bellies, safe within their upper middleclass wombs, where they've touched no one and anyone liberal, hungry and insecure have never touched them, or pulled a knife on them or pointed a gun at their heads.
That would skew the results of their research!
On a wider scale, fanatics on the Left and the Right are so far left and right that they start to meet each other on the other side of the circle.
Fear of change can be found on both sides of the aisle. Especially frightening are paranoid liberals who distrust anyone over 30 years old, and who are so dogmatic they can't see any value in holding on to practice and policies that have proven track records over centuries.
These are so radical in their world view, that they kill millions who stand in the way of "human progress."
They did get one thing right.
When the leftist liberals riot in the streets, overthrow govenrments, and kill innocents - that kind of politics affects our biology!
One need only search history to see the ridiculous claim advanced (by Oxley, et al) in the September 19 issue of Science, and the book The Attachment of Politics by Kraemer and Roberts.
Wonderful people on the Left - liberal, accepting people: Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Che Guevarra, all of whom left thousands and millions in mass graves!
Ah, but they make their surviving cohorts feel so safe and nurtured! In this way, such "liberalism" is self perpetuating. The safe surviving liberals will grow up so accepting of others - ask diehard Soviets and readers of Mao's Little Red book.
Ah, breathe the air of safety - amid the underlying stench of massacred millions.
The researchers are too narrow in their analysis - too North American in their myopia. The world-wide view doesn't bear their premise out.
Far from being calm, nurtured, peaceful individuals, many liberals are angry, reactionary radicals, bent on revolution and slaughter of those they find responsible for their plight.
Oxley and his fellow myopes think with full bellies, safe within their upper middleclass wombs, where they've touched no one and anyone liberal, hungry and insecure have never touched them, or pulled a knife on them or pointed a gun at their heads.
That would skew the results of their research!
On a wider scale, fanatics on the Left and the Right are so far left and right that they start to meet each other on the other side of the circle.
Fear of change can be found on both sides of the aisle. Especially frightening are paranoid liberals who distrust anyone over 30 years old, and who are so dogmatic they can't see any value in holding on to practice and policies that have proven track records over centuries.
These are so radical in their world view, that they kill millions who stand in the way of "human progress."
They did get one thing right.
When the leftist liberals riot in the streets, overthrow govenrments, and kill innocents - that kind of politics affects our biology!
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