EcuProphets

Well, the blogs and the DNC are all over Phil Gramm’s interview with the Washington Times yesterday. Will teh nooz pick it up? After all, this would make their favorite candidate barbeque host look, uh, less than in touch: (more…)

Here’s John McCain decrying the way social security has worked since the 1930’s:

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The boy wonder is facing the judge:

Efraim E. Diveroli, the president of AEY Incorporated, who is now 22 — was expected to enter a plea today in federal court in Miami, The Associated Press reports. He faces charges of fraud and making false statements to the United States Army in the course of procuring munitions for the government.  (more…)

Sadly, this is our country –

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Food riots. People eating mud to ward off hunger pangs. Starvation going up. And meanwhile, there’s collusion in starvation, and then there’s collusion in starvation: (more…)

Every baby boomer has to remember this:

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Well, knock us over with a feather.

Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader and New York State’s highest-ranking Republican, said Monday evening that he would not seek re-election in November, after a 32-year career in the Senate. (more…)

Well, what is real? Is there a mandate for a tax cap, or not?

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So what if every day the media reported that, oh, I don’t know, some African American shot some other African Ameican in the inner city. D’ya think white folks might buy into the myth (obviously false) that black folks are more dangerous than white folks are? No need to ponder this too much. It’s been done to death for so many decades that it only needs a dog whistle here and there to get a significant population salivating.

Along these lines, what if the media decided to angle a story on a public policy so that the merits were leached out, and you were left with pro-democracy good guys and gals and anti-democracy “special interests?” (more…)

Time to contrast this Grover Norquist gem:

I want to shrink government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

with this passage from my own denomination’s social statement on economic life:

Government is intended to serve God’s purposes by limiting or countering narrow economic interests and promoting the common good. Paying taxes to enable government to carry out these and other purposes is an appropriate expression of our stewardship in society, rather than something to be avoided. Government often falls short of these responsibilities. Its policies can harm the common good and especially the most vulnerable in society. Governing leaders are to be held accountable to God’s purposes: “May [they] judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. . . . May [they] defend the cause of the poor of the people” (Psalm 72:2).

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