following politics, pursuing holiness
Reason #3,428 why I don’t follow the evolution debate that closely – it’s way too much work when, before you can even get to studying the facts, you have to know who all the players are to know whether they can be believed. For example – Michael Behe is not to be trusted.
I’m just not willing to invest the time to do it. Henry, however, is willing, so I rely on him to do my homework for me because I know he’ll do a good job.
I thought this quote was interesting:
Before launching a panel discussion with some of the nation’s top industry and economic leaders participating in the event, Obama told the invitation-only crowd: “For America to succeed, we’ll have to join together to harness the energy and ingenuity of the American people. “
I was thinking about the nature of a harness, in the context of the 60% tax rate of which Obama approves.
Definitions of harness on the Web:
put a harness; “harness the horse” exploit the power of; “harness natural forces and resources” a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) control and direct with or as if by reins; “rein a horse” rule: keep in check; “rule one’s temper” stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
I suspect that Obama’s version of harness will have a great deal more to do with “rule: keep in check;” than with “exploit the power of.”
Power Line: Our robed masters strike again
Whence comes the Court’s authority to render the judgment in cases such as Kennedy? It is entirely self-created, based on the Court’s ipse dixit. This is not the way it’s supposed to work. As Justice Alito writes in dissent, quoting from Justice Kennedy’s opinion: “The Court is willing to block the potential emergence of a national consensus in favor of permitting the death penalty for child rape because, in the end, what matters is the Court’s ‘own judgment’ regarding ‘the acceptability of the death penalty.’”
On the other hand, at least they’re keeping their hands off our guns.
The Bush Paradox – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
… During that period in 2006 and 2007, Bush stiffed the brass and sided with a band of dissidents: military officers like David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno, senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and outside strategists like Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and Jack Keane, a retired general.
Bush is also a secretive man who listens too much to Dick Cheney. Well, the uncomfortable fact is that Cheney played an essential role in promoting the surge. Many of the people who are dubbed bad guys actually got this one right.
The additional fact is that Bush, who made such bad calls early in the war, made a courageous and astute decision in 2006. More than a year on, the surge has produced large, if tenuous, gains. Violence is down sharply. Daily life has improved. Iraqi security forces have been given time to become a more effective fighting force. The Iraqi government is showing signs of strength and even glimmers of impartiality. Iraq has moved from being a failed state to, as Vali Nasr of the Council on Foreign Relations has put it, merely a fragile one.
h/t Gateway Pundit
And Flopping Aces has MSNBC singing the same song… sorta.
Captured members of Al Queda groups from this same camp claim that they were assisted, trained, supplied, and funded by Saddam’s IIS as well as taking orders from Saddam’s IIS.
Captured documents confirm their claims.
Captured regime members confirm their claims.
Now even highly anti-war/pro-Democrat MSNBC confirms the claim itself. Al Queda leaders confirm the claims (Zawahiri and Zarqawi specifically).
Shocking.
