Why is no one talking about Social Security?

Four Reasons Not to Mess with Payroll Taxes Social Security , individual responsibility, and the common good I am just STUNNED that anyone could think this is a good idea. The amount of money working Americans are going to see is minimal, nowhere near an amount that is going to stimulate any economy and its [...]

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I am a danger to the United States and the free world…

According to Jordan Sekulow, anyway. Any leader who is too scared to proclaim American exceptionalism or who rejects it outright poses a danger to the United States and the free world. Okay, maybe not, since I’m not a ‘leader’, just a tired housewife blogging somewhere in flyover country. I remember a debate from a few [...]

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Christianity and Capitalism? I don’t think so!

I’m still waiting for someone, anyone, to point me to the place in the Bible where capitalism is mentioned as the Godly economy. I see socialism in the Old Testament (Jubilee Years?) and communism in the New Testament (early believers).  Not to mention monarchy after monarchy!  (What kind of economy would a monarchy be considered?) [...]

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Tea Party Christianity – not for me!

How Christian is Tea Party Libertarianism? by Jim Wallis 05-27-2010 The Libertarians’ supreme confidence in the market is not consistent with a biblical view of human nature and sin. The exclusive focus on government as the central problem ignores the problems of other social sectors, and in particular, the market. When government regulation is the [...]

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Christians and Political Caricature

I’ve been meaning to post this since early September.  My friend Kristi posted this on a message board we both belong to and her message deeply resonated with me.  Actually, many of her words deeply resonate with me but these words are so close to my heart that I feel the need to share them [...]

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Powersharing revisited…

I was talking with a friend this week about the situation in Zimbabwe and mentioned how fortunate we are that this wouldn’t happen in the US. As in my previous post I used George Bush as the example. What stunned me, though, was that this person believes that our current president IS capable of disregarding [...]

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Separation of Church and State

This is amazing.  I was just discussing this with Princess yesterday!  Her Sonlight Core 200 (History of God’s Kingdom) reading was about the subjugation of the church by various monarchs during the 1700s. Knowing this tidbit of history is necessary to understand why “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting [...]

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