Whatever Happened to Life, Liberty and Property?
Michelle Malkin documents the latest Supreme Court ruling and what other bloggers have to say about it. In fact, I find this ruling extremely scary.
My father always made the argument that you do not own your own land
since you pay property taxes to the state. His argument is basically
that if the government can take your home away from you because you
don’t pay taxes and sell it at auction, how can the land possibly be
yours– you’re just a renter.
Now we’ve taken the next step.
Not only can they take your house because you didn’t pay taxes, but if
the city decides that a new supermarket would make them more money than
your house (or church!), they can authorized that your place be taken
via emminent domain, and then put up the latest store to get money.
This is especially scary for churches, since the land they sit on is
tax exempt, and is definitely making less money than supermarkets.
Just having read through the Levitical law a few months back, you can
see the importance placed on owning your own land. The Jewish people
were guaranteed their land and that land would be given back to them.
Having purchased a home in the past, you look at the deed and the fact
that you have to do a title search to see if someone has claim through
inheritance to the land you can see that the founders definitely put a
high price on people owning and having their own land.
This ruling is a slap in the face to all of that.
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Married Men Earn more than Bachelors
From Reuters in London, it appears that not only is heterosexual
marriage honoring to God and the best way to raise offspring! A survey
done in England showed that married men whose wife stayed home earned more than singles:
Academics Elena Bardasi and Mark Taylor found that a married man whose
wife does not go out to work but is primarily responsible for the
cooking and cleaning earns about 3 percent more than comparably
employed single men.
But that wage premium disappears if wives go out to work themselves or don’t do most of the housework.
So, there you have it– a study showing that the traditional family
pattern has yet more advantages. Don’t expect the feminists and
liberals to accept this study or advocate this kind of thing any time
soon.
Creationist Research Is Ahead of Evolutionary Ideas
The
Answers in Genesis website has information today regarding the
Evolutionary theory in the cosmology of the universe and how they are
trending toward Dr Russell Humphreys’ creationist cosomolgy.
Basically, to boil it down,
Humphreys’ proposal, which sought to solve the ‘light-travel-time’
problem, is set out in the popular-level (with technical appendix) book
Starlight and Time.
Because it starts with different assumptions from the standard ‘big
bang’ notion, applying the same mathematical ‘machinery’ provides
startlingly different conclusions. Now the establishment seems prepared to consider that the foundational beliefs of big bang thinking may be radically wrong.
This is a great advance for Creationist Scientists and expressing the
validity of their scolarship, and it would seem to be yet another
problem for Evolutionism in that it can’t discredit this research.
More on Social Security Personal Accounts
More stuff is brewing on personal accounts for Social Security.
It seems that there are a few GOP senators that want to pass a bill
protecting the Social Security surplus by putting it into individual
accounts using T-Bills (Treasury Bills). The benefits would be that
T-Bills are secure, and the GOP could tout that personal accounts this
way would give you something that you could pass on to your family as
well as fulfill the orignal marketing on social security. Some good
quotes:
They
want to seize back the moral and political offensive on the issue of
personal accounts. By proposing the creation of personal “lockboxes” to
ensure that the government can’t raid
Social Security taxes for other programs, they would force opponents to
cast a vote against the idea that individuals should have ownership and
control over some of their own retirement funds.
Politically,
their proposal does disarm some of the most oft-used arguments against
reform. It would create no new debt for the government because, unlike
President Bush’s proposal, the personal accounts would use only the
surplus payroll taxes now flowing into the Treasury. … Security
starts running a deficit as baby boomers begin to retire. Preventing
that money from being “raided” by a spendthrift Congress and White
House could be enormously popular with a cynical public.
Abstinence-Only Education
It’s amazing that WebMD is surprised, but in this latest article on FoxNews’ website, the tone is just that.
Students
who participate in one year of “abstinence-only” sex education classes
are significantly more likely than those who don’t to take a negative
view of teen sex, an interim government report concludes.
The article reads like this comes as a great shock. It’s not like
abstinence has put a big dent in the spread of HIV in Africa or
anything. One can only imagine that if more students get a negative
feeling for sex before marriage and want to stay abstinent, that will
have an effect– especially if this is a message they hear from gov’t,
school and home.
Problem is, I can just see Planned
Parenthood going further on the attack because we are potentially
robbing them of cashing in on murdering babies.
Apologizing for the Sins of Our Fathers
Mona Charen discusses, in her latest commentary,
the formal apology the US Senate made to those that were the victims of
lynching two centuries ago. She makes a valid point: Our leaders are
much more ready to apologize for things that they did not do than
things that they did!
How are we at keeping short accounts of
what we’ve done and making sure to apologize for them? Do we take care
of things, or do we let self get in the way?
Where are our Children Safe?
In yet another case of Goverment thinking that they are better care takers of kids than the children’s parents, WorldNetDaily reports of a couple of kids that were strip searched in a private school– without the parent’s knowledge!
This is outrageous! Children are God’s gift to the parents, not the state!![]()
Eating an Unborn Baby?
Jill Stanek writes about how long it took Kansas to strip an abortion provider of his license, but that isn’t the weird part.
It turns out that this doctor kept human fetus in styrofoam cups in a fridge, took them home, and accounts say that he microwaved some and added it to his lunch!
This is truly a calloused individual.
His office was a mess, and yet, the right to abortion trumped the ability to get this man’s licensed removed. What a mess we have become.
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