Casey's Critical Thinking» Election 2008 http://www.hoshuha.com/blog A blog about current events from a Christian perspective. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Are the fundamentals of the economy sound or not? http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/are-the-fundamentals-of-the-economy-sound-or-not.html http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/are-the-fundamentals-of-the-economy-sound-or-not.html#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:05:41 +0000 casey http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/?p=563 During the campaign, Obama heavily criticized McCain for saying the fundamentals of the economy were sound. Now he’s saying the same thing. What has changed besides the economy getting notably worse?

]]> http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/are-the-fundamentals-of-the-economy-sound-or-not.html/feed 0 Mourning the death of the American idea http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/mourning-the-death-of-the-american-idea.html http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/mourning-the-death-of-the-american-idea.html#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:26:15 +0000 casey http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/?p=415 I’ve been really busy lately with work and probably will be for the next several days, so my posts will be few and far between. I did, however, want to share this article by Mark Steyn.

I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they’ll be routed in two or four years’ time. The President-elect’s so-called “tax cut” will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those that are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on the dole. By 2012, it will be more than half, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism, and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the nanny state. That is the death of the American idea — which, after all, began as an economic argument: “No taxation without representation” is a great rallying cry. “No representation without taxation” has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it’s unsustainable and you’ve got to give some of it back?

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Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson publishing, encourages Christians to make these four commitments to our new president:

  1. I will pray for him and our country.
  2. I will assume his motives are good, giving him the benefit of the doubt.
  3. I will not speak ill of him, even if I don’t always agree with him.
  4. I will cast off the spirit of cynicism, and be a positive force for good.

That last one’s going to be hard, but count me in.

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]]> http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/riots-if-obama-loses.html/feed 2 Would it kill him to be honest? http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/would-it-kill-him-to-be-honest.html http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/would-it-kill-him-to-be-honest.html#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:09:08 +0000 casey http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/?p=397

If this isn’t an example of deliberate fact twisting, I don’t know what is.

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I don’t think someone is a good candidate just because he is prolife. But he cannot be a good candidate unless he is prolife. Personally, if he is committed to legalized child-killing, as a matter of conscience I must vote against him.

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Barack Obama has carried election-year makeovers to a new high, presenting himself as a uniter of people, someone reaching across the partisan divide and the racial divide — after decades of promoting polarization in each of his successive roles and each of his choices of political allies.

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