Creation
The View from the Middle
To my faithful readers, I have been in Hawaii for the last eight days and have thus been negligent in my writing. I will be home soon and back to the political grind, but as I sit here on our balcony and enjoy the view of the mountains on Maui and the ocean surrounding us and the birds and the beautiful vegetation, it reminded me of a theme that is made clear throughout the bible. It is impossible to view creation and not recognize the Creator.
Psalms 19:1
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
God bless you all. Enjoy his creation. Read His word.
Kevin C
Monday, April 29, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Candace Owens, Nazi Sympathizer?
Is Candace Owens Really a Nazi Sympathizer?
The View from the Middle
Is there any possibility for compromise in our government today? Are our elected officials in Washington even capable of coming up with solutions to the many problems facing our country? If you are skeptical about our politicians' ability to come together, you’re not alone. According to KRC Research, 70% of Americans believe that our representatives in government lack the basic civility to collaborate on just about anything. And it’s not just the differences in policies or direction that keep us apart, it’s the fact that we have begun to impugn the motives of everyone who disagrees with us i.e. – “if you disagree with me on the abortion issue, you must hate women”. If you disagree with me on the balance between private/public education, you must hate children.” Where did all this malicious, disparaging vitriol come from? I believe it started with a reprobate named Saul Alinsky, who wrote a book called Rules for Radicals, and dedicated it to Satan, yes Lucifer, Beelzebub.
Saul’s fourth rule for radicals is, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” He continued, “It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.” He doesn’t, even for a minute, suggest that this is good for the country or that it will unite us toward achieving some higher, common purpose. In fact, he implies that it will do just the opposite. But, of course, unity was never his goal. He was a “win at all costs” guy, and could have cared less if the country thrived or not, as long as his side was in power. He even admitted in his book that he had no idea how to run things, he only professed to know how to acquire power.
According to Ellis Washington, Constitutional professor and author, “truth was not only relative (to Saul Alinsky), it was irrelevant” Saul admitted in his book that, “an organizer does not have a fixed truth…truth to him is relative and changing.” It is his dedication to disparagement (ridicule) and his tepid relationship with the truth that makes Saul Alinsky such a dangerous and even destructive influence on anything he touched. Unfortunately, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were protégés of Alinsky, and it appears that many in the Democrat party and the mainstream media are disciples.
Again, it is this willingness to ignore the truth and the overwhelming desire to demean opponents that led to the absolutely absurd suggestion by Democratic Representative from California, Ted Lieu, that Candace Owens, a brilliant, young, black woman and political activist, was a Nazi sympathizer. He did this in a House Judiciary hearing on online hate speech. What’s even worse is that, after playing a tape of Ms. Owens out of context, he didn’t even have the decency to ask her a question or allow her to respond. He was actually using hate speech in a hearing to contain hate speech. If you ask me, that was devious, disgusting, cowardly and hateful.
We, as Americans, must demand more and better from our politicians and the media. Whether it is calling tens of millions of Americans racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic or the constant comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler, they have become totally irresponsible. The word “hyperbole” is inadequate to describe the duplicity of these accusations. Do they even know who Adolf Hitler was? Read a book for goodness sakes.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” The opposite is also true. We’ll never come together as a people and resolve our critical common problems until we start looking for the good in each other, expecting to find it. Reject the hyperbolic accusations and name-calling and demand cooperation, consensus and progress. That will insure our country’s position as the greatest country in the world for all of us and for our children’s children!!
The View from the Middle
Is there any possibility for compromise in our government today? Are our elected officials in Washington even capable of coming up with solutions to the many problems facing our country? If you are skeptical about our politicians' ability to come together, you’re not alone. According to KRC Research, 70% of Americans believe that our representatives in government lack the basic civility to collaborate on just about anything. And it’s not just the differences in policies or direction that keep us apart, it’s the fact that we have begun to impugn the motives of everyone who disagrees with us i.e. – “if you disagree with me on the abortion issue, you must hate women”. If you disagree with me on the balance between private/public education, you must hate children.” Where did all this malicious, disparaging vitriol come from? I believe it started with a reprobate named Saul Alinsky, who wrote a book called Rules for Radicals, and dedicated it to Satan, yes Lucifer, Beelzebub.
Saul’s fourth rule for radicals is, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” He continued, “It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.” He doesn’t, even for a minute, suggest that this is good for the country or that it will unite us toward achieving some higher, common purpose. In fact, he implies that it will do just the opposite. But, of course, unity was never his goal. He was a “win at all costs” guy, and could have cared less if the country thrived or not, as long as his side was in power. He even admitted in his book that he had no idea how to run things, he only professed to know how to acquire power.
According to Ellis Washington, Constitutional professor and author, “truth was not only relative (to Saul Alinsky), it was irrelevant” Saul admitted in his book that, “an organizer does not have a fixed truth…truth to him is relative and changing.” It is his dedication to disparagement (ridicule) and his tepid relationship with the truth that makes Saul Alinsky such a dangerous and even destructive influence on anything he touched. Unfortunately, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were protégés of Alinsky, and it appears that many in the Democrat party and the mainstream media are disciples.
Again, it is this willingness to ignore the truth and the overwhelming desire to demean opponents that led to the absolutely absurd suggestion by Democratic Representative from California, Ted Lieu, that Candace Owens, a brilliant, young, black woman and political activist, was a Nazi sympathizer. He did this in a House Judiciary hearing on online hate speech. What’s even worse is that, after playing a tape of Ms. Owens out of context, he didn’t even have the decency to ask her a question or allow her to respond. He was actually using hate speech in a hearing to contain hate speech. If you ask me, that was devious, disgusting, cowardly and hateful.
We, as Americans, must demand more and better from our politicians and the media. Whether it is calling tens of millions of Americans racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic or the constant comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler, they have become totally irresponsible. The word “hyperbole” is inadequate to describe the duplicity of these accusations. Do they even know who Adolf Hitler was? Read a book for goodness sakes.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” The opposite is also true. We’ll never come together as a people and resolve our critical common problems until we start looking for the good in each other, expecting to find it. Reject the hyperbolic accusations and name-calling and demand cooperation, consensus and progress. That will insure our country’s position as the greatest country in the world for all of us and for our children’s children!!
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