Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Jose Marti
Earlier One-Off Post: The 2015 RAG Blog Minor Awards
Tweet of the Day
Lindsey Graham's withdrawal is good news to all of us who object to neo-con interventionist foreign policies.However, the rest are neo-cons.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 21, 2015
Trumpillary, from A Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue. https://t.co/3MYHy6CM8m pic.twitter.com/iAJIAPWz3y
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 21, 2015
Hillary Clinton loves those ratings for weekend debates. Actually she wants them at 3AM in the event she has to talk about Barack Obama.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton is going to be a granny again. "Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go." Or is it Grandfather's?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton is wrong about @realDonaldTrump.It's Bill Clinton who appears in an ISIS video.Trump is demanding that Wall Street fire her.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 22, 2015
Where would ISIS be without US intervention during the Arab Spring, resulting in power vacuums in Libya & Syria,or US-paid miliary hardware?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 22, 2015
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - Santayana. After Bush's Pandora's box of Iraq, who pushed Libya and Syria?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 22, 2015
Chart of the Day: Unsustainable Public Pension Benefits
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| Public school outsourcing via mackinac |
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| Trumpillary via Twitter |
Huckabee on the Bill of Rights
Free Speech Includes Toleration of Obnoxious Speech
Fear-Mongers vs. Liberty
Facebook Corner
(Victor Kocher the Libertarian). Graham ends his campaign for the White House. Merry Christmas, Everyone
The problem is that everyone else is also a neo-con except for Rand Paul. I don't think Rand Paul will pick up Graham's 1% of the vote.
I was going to share this article, but this sentence stopped me, "Fortunately, the Protestant Reformation and the Glorious Revolution in sixteenth-century England cut the ties of the Christian church and the government.." As a Catholic, please tell me why this sentence shouldn't stop me from sharing, and I will share it. I read it as, "Thank goodness for Martin Luther". No.
Without reading the post yet, let me remind you that the British crown is tied to the Anglican Church, and there are other countries with an official Christian, not Catholic Church. In fact, there were colonies/early states with an official state religion, e.g., the Baptist protest to Connecticut and Congregationalism, leading to Jefferson's infamous separation of church and state letter. Remember the First Amendment at the time was relevant to the federal, not state government.
Political Cartoon
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| Re: Madigan, IL House Speaker, courtesy of Eric Allie via IPI |
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| Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall |
Bing Crosby & David Bowie, "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth"
