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Conservatism

A Biblical Perspective on Helping the Poor

February 16, 2010

My nephew-in-law, Chris Horst works for Hope International, a Christian based micro-finance and micro-lending organization. He lives in Denver, and has a WordPress blog site called Smorgasblurb, and I just noticed this recent post as being particularly good. It’s called Monthly Musings: Cocaine Charity. I encourage you to check it out.

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IndyMac Slap in Your Face!

February 8, 2010

A friend just sent me this link to a video and blog site (Think Big Work Small) that I found very informative. This video explains in plain, simple English how the government (FDIC) gave a sweetheart deal to a bank called OneWest Bank, owned by Steven Munchen and investors George Soros and John Paulson. They [...]

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Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercial

February 8, 2010

Well there it was, aired within the first quarter of the Super Bowl, the much discussed, much criticized and maligned Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad. As I watched it, I kept waiting for the hatred, the insensitivity, the objectionable content that so many said was offensive, outrageous and unacceptable for public viewing… especially during the [...]

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Cast Your Vote

February 2, 2010

I got up and went to my polling place this morning on Oak Park, Illinois, and cast my votes in the Republican Primary. I used one of the newer “computer” voting machines. I was voter #1 on my machine, in my precinct. It felt good.
I urge you to go to your polling place and cast [...]

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Republican Revolution

January 14, 2010

I am thinking that if:

You are a economic and social conservative
You are concerned about the sad shape of politics and the economy in Illinois
You have lost confidence in the Illinois Republican Party to actually be “the party of Lincoln” (which would be very different than being just like the Illinois Democratic Party)
You are fed up [...]

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Cisco is back on WLS

January 13, 2010

Fellow Oak Parker and Calvary Memorial Church attender Cisco Cotto was recently employed at WIND 560 AM Talk Radio, where I would listen to him on the John and Cisco show in the mornings. Now he is back at WLS 890 with Roe Conn in the afternoons from 2-6 PM. He was at WLS in [...]

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Work to End Slavery

January 10, 2010

A group of friends have formed a Local Abolitionists group in Oak Park, Illinois, to fight slavery, human trafficking and the sex trade. More information can be found at LocalAbolitionists.org.
Their next event is the showing of a film called At the End of Slavery – the battle for justice in our time. It is scheduled [...]

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Can Christians be Capitalists?

January 9, 2010

I just listened to Jay W. Richards, author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne, 2009) give a talk at the American Enterprise Institute to a predominantly young evangelical Christian audience, addressing this question (Listen Here).
I would have to agree with Jay that the answers is “Yes” [...]

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American Enterprise Institute

January 8, 2010

I wanted to make a few more resources available if you are interested in conservatism, and conservative economics and politics, especially from an American Evangelical perspective. These resources come to me from my son Marshall, who is currently employed in Washington DC, and is definitely in the “minority” when it comes to public policy in [...]

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Government is not a corrective device

January 7, 2010

Last night riding home on the EL, I read this in Common Sense Economics, on page 83.
Government is not a corrective device.
People have a tendency to think of government, particularly a democratically elected government, as a corrective device. They act as if government is something like a pinch hitter who can always be counted on [...]

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