Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Bring them home

The sooner we get out of Afghanistan, the better. When we have to pay the Taliban a billion dollars a year to protect our supply convoys, it’s time to leave.

Wait–what?

Rick Warren tweets: /If you only preach salvation from hell but not from sin u fill a church with those who want heaven but arent holy. Heb12:14/

He’s got it backwards.

Some libs still don’t get it

It’s with great amusement that I read complaints from progressives about the pace of “progress” from the Democratically controlled government. Why, they sound just like the Republicans of six years ago.

Best team name ever

From the NBA Development League, I give you: the Fort Wayne Mad Ants!

Unpacking today

Looks like we won’t be moving anything from the old house today:

VFTB 033: King Wells, Jr. — Ancient Myths and the Bible

THE MYTHS of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Babylonians can help our understanding of the Bible. We discuss this idea with King Wells, Jr., author of the new book Ancient Myths and the Bible.

 
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Via Wesley J. Smith’s Secondhand Smoke: former Treasury Secretary Robert Reich spoke at UC-Berkeley in 2007 about how an honest candidate for president would describe health care reform. Note that the audience applauds in appreciation — especially when Reich says we’ll have to withhold expensive treatment from the elderly so they’ll die faster.

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Medieval whup-ass!