Sign Of The Times

Oh happy day! The Human Rights Campaign has launched an online resource for providing clergy with help in planning gay affirming sermons. I'm sure the angels in heaven are rejoicing (tongue firmly planted in cheek). I don't even know where to begin...

A Real Hero

One last post for the evening. Ben Stein wrote a marvelous article for E! Online about who the real heroes are. Laura Ingraham put the link on her site this week, and so I just now discovered it. I think it's well worth reading.

Water, Water Nowhere

Well if the US going broke isn't enough to depress you (see below), perhaps the impedning water crisis is. Water is becoming more scarce according to the International Water Management Institute's report released this week (it's World Water Week!). Yet another crisis (but an interesting one that deserves not only policymaker attention, but also average citizen attention). However, Americans would rather not think about this (and all of the other dire situations). Is this a problem? Not the water situation, I know it's a problem (although if you'd like to submit that there really is no water crisis, I'd entertain that thought). But is the apathy of the American public toward these very real crises a problem?













Thanks Passport!

Going Bankrupt?

Is the United States going bankrupt? One economics professor thinks so, and he has a strategy to prevent that from happening. Among his proposals: eliminate our current tax system and institute a national retail sales tax, reform Social Security by creating personal retirement accounts and funding Social Security through the retail tax, and by creating a universal health insurance system replacing our current fee-for-service health care system. This article is only 16 pages and is an interesting read.

The professor raises an important question concerning America's fiscal solvency. The government is spending recklessly and is taking a very short-sighted and rosey-lensed view of entitlement programs. All Americans have an obligation to hold our elected officials accountable when it comes to fiscal matters. These entitlement programs directly impact us, it's time to make sure that we as a country remain strong by reigning in our government spending.

What do you think? Should ordinary Americans hold their elected officials accountable with regards to spending and entitlement programs?

Bring Back the Draft

Recently in the Oklahoman, several folks have suggested that the solution to so many problems lies in reinstating the draft. One fellow suggested in a letter today that the draft will combat effeminate households. Of course this idea is absurd. First of all, Pentagon officials do not want a draft because they like a military that is staffed by motivated (ie, people who want to be in the military) and skilled warfighters. An effective American military must have an expert, dedicated, specialized force, not people who are longing to go back to their "real" lives. And the idea that a draft would solve problems like effeminate men (is that really a problem) and renew patriotism is not accurate. Those problems will be solved by a rejecting of our passivist, self-centered culture.

Back

I'm back. Teresa and I are still sorting through wedding gifts and get everything unpacked as we settle into our new apartment. I'm also taking time to get back into the news loop after being out if it for a few weeks.

Hellllllloooooooooo

Have been absent for awhile...and will be absent for a little while longer. But, when I return I'll be tan, rested, and married!!