following politics, pursuing holiness
Most of us are generally law-abiding, taxpaying types, if for no other reason but we don’t want to get into trouble. But would this push you right over the edge into vandalism/destruction of property? Would you flatten these people’s tires if they lived in your neighborhood and you felt sure you could get away with it?
Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury has a good post on style. No, not the amazingly wonderful fantubulous bare arms of Michelle Obama – as if no other First Ladies had exposed skin above the elbow before – but the offense of forcefully expressed opinions.
Mark Steyn wonders if “there is not merely a right but an obligation to “offend the easily offended.” Yes, if we wish to carry on as a free society, we do have that obligation to offend the perpetually, sometimes professionally offended crowd. [Read more...]
And Bob Krumm smacks him around for it. But these days, violating that commandment is a feature, not a bug, to more than half the country.
The very word “entitlement” just feels greasy to me; that’s how much I hate it. And I’m having a hard time separating disgust against the attitude with disgust toward the people who feel it; a clear violation of Jesus’ greatest commandment – Matthew 22:36-40.
Since when did it become taxpayers’ duty to feed people who have more than enough money to feed themselves — even quite well?
