The fine folks over at Uncorrelated have a couple of good points about Sen. Reid’s visit to BYU. Harry Reid tried to pass himself off as a moderate Democrat to remain in good standing with the BYU crowd, but according to a fellow DCS member who was in attendance at the program, several points were made by Sen. Reid which do not square with revealed truth. Not having heard the speech myself, I am unable to verify the charge. Prior knowledge of Sen. Reid’s public statements, however, does tend to cause me to give credence to the accusation.
Club Holds Anti-porn Rally at UVSC
The Davy Crockett Society got some needed publicity this week when they held a rally at UVSC in support of an initiative which would force internet porn producers to register their websites on an alternate network port.
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Fred Thompson’s Strategy for Winning
Here are my thoughts
on Fred’s announced intentions.
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Elder James E. Faust Passes Away
Elder James E. Faust, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church passed away on August 10, 2007. He was 87 years old. Elder Faust has become somewhat of an icon in my personal experience with the Church, having been in the First Presidency for almost as long as I can remember. It will certainly be strange not hearing his familiar voice come October.
Section134.com has found a fitting tribute to Elder Faust in the form of a speech given in 1992 in Ogden at a Pioneer Day celebration. Despite it’s age, the speech addresses topics that more germane today than they were in 1992. I’ve always said that the true leaders of the Church were ahead of their times. The speech is entitled “A New Civil Religion.”
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The Latest Attempt to Ambush Romney
Several bloggers have posted their responses to Romney’s answer to an anti-war activist asking a ridiculous, illogical question (did we expect anything else?) They can be found here, here, here, and here.
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Evil and Conspiring Men
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 to those of the Right.
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The Next Generation
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. But rather than wanting to talk about Joe Moseley, they wanted to talk about themselves.”
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Evangelicals for Mitt
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.
Liberal Apologetics for Hitler, et al.
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. For example:
“You could argue that even the world’s worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc.â€
Straight from the horse’s mouth, that is. Any questions?
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Interesting Development: Mormons are Christians
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 to prove them wrong. The debate goes nowhere because the evangelicals claim the right to decide who is a Christian and who is not. Or when the Mormon lays out all the evidence for Mormons being Christian, the evangelicals will say “but you believe in a different Jesus.” At that point the debate ends for one of two reasons. Either the Mormon acknowledges that we technically don’t believe in the Jesus of the Creeds, or they realize that it is futile to argue with someone who changes the rules of debate midstream.
Why would evangelical Christians pass up the chance to debate with Mormons over theology? Don’t they engage them all the time? Yes, they do. But, not with anything new. No critic of the Church has come up with any new criticism for a hundred years (figuratively). They have run out of things to say that haven’t already been debunked. So in the official circles, the word is just that Mormons aren’t Christians and leave it at that. Those who continue to argue other points are just behind schedule, uninformed, or new to the scene.
I mean really, there is little difference between saying Mormons aren’t Christian, which has the effect of shutting down debate, and Al Gore saying “the debate is over” regarding global warming. In both cases, one side is afraid to acknowledge that the other side might have a valid argument. If we can get beyond the question of whether or not Mormons are Christians, then maybe we can move forward with all those debates again.
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