Monthly Archives: July 2007

Evil and Conspiring Men

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 27, 2007

Human Events carried an article this week about a new book by Phil Kent called “Foundations of Betrayal: How the Super-Rich Undermine America.” The book is an expose of the donating habits of the very large foundations in America, and why they seem to give vastly more money to the causes of the Left than [...]

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The Next Generation

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 23, 2007

Dean Barnett, a regular at Hugh Hewitt’s blogsite, has written an excellent piece for The Weekly Standard on the newest generation of American soldiers and their peers.
Of course, the expected backlash is both abundant and revealing.
Dean is spot on when he says, “the 2,000 word story was about the 9/11 Generation, not the Baby Boomers. [...]

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Evangelicals for Mitt

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 7, 2007

The good folks over at Evangelicals for Mitt have a great post about the double standard to which Mitt Romney is being held. Glad to see some support for Mitt from the Christian right, as well as some good sense.

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Liberal Apologetics for Hitler, et al.

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 5, 2007

Boy, I thought I had seen it all.
Here’s a post from Peter Mehlman at the Huffington Post called “At least they didn’t mean well…”
It puts everything I have ever suspected about liberals right up front: they think decent people doing their best are intentionally bad, and they find excuses for the truly evil among us. [...]

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Interesting Development: Mormons are Christians

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 5, 2007

I ran across this post tonight concerning the “Are Mormons Christians?” debate. If this is legitimate, then maybe we can finally get on to some real theological discussion.
You see, I believe that Evangelical Christians say that Mormons aren’t Christian to avoid further debate. When someone says Mormons aren’t Christian, the first response from Mormons is [...]

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Andrew Sullivan’s Bigotry

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 5, 2007

Andrew Sullivan, in his post for today, wonders if Orson Scott Card would vote for an Islamist over a liberal Christian because they, too, are serious about their religion.
It’s a nonsensical question.
He misses Card’s point completely. Card says he would NOT vote for a Mormon who is not committed to his faith, and would instead [...]

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News from Iraq

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 1, 2007

Here is an update on the situation in Baghdad. Is anyone really surprised that the New York Times is leaving out crucial bits of information?

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Romney vs. Reid

By Trenton Hansen | Published: July 1, 2007

Isn’t odd how the Religious Conservatives opposed to Mitt Romney as President will so quickly believe that Romney’s Mormonism would be the cause of America’s descent into Hell if Romney were elected. But when it comes to Harry Reid, also a Mormon, it is solely his political stance that is the problem. No mention of [...]

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