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Let Justice Roll Down

November 01, 2010

Let Justice Roll Down
By Ed Chinn

My wife loves birds. She has feeders all around our deck. So that area is often a blur of flapping wings and choir of bird chirps. What on earth would these creatures do without Joanne?
I recently found out. When she went out of town for a few days, something slowly dawned on me: I did not see or hear birds. My great detection powers soon revealed that the feeders were empty.
And then I noticed something even more significant. No dead birds.
Apparently, they found other sources of food. Maybe Jesus really meant what He said about His heavenly Father feeding the birds of the air (Matthew 6:26). Let's face it: the whole earth is a pantry for birds. Joanne is a miniscule part of that provision. She is not vital to their sustenance. The bird feeders are really for Joanne, not the birds.
In the same sense, most human agencies - governmental, private, religious - exist for themselves, not those they c ...

On the Wrong Side of Political Correctness

June 01, 2010

By Deborah H. Rabern
The philosopher, Diogenes, was famous for his antics in Athens. He carried a lamp in the daytime in his search for an honest man, and skewered those spouting exalted theories about virtue. He was a fan of action, not talk. Like us, he wanted to see peo ...

Join My New Political Party

April 01, 2010

By Joel Engle
It is a new political party. Here are the fundamentals of my ideology.
All corporations that receive our bailout money should pay us back with 20% interest in CASH and give every American home a set of Ginsu knives. Those things are really coo ...