You have heard the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000, but perhaps you have not understood what it means. Well, Lars’ posts on liberalism and something my five-year-old said last night has inspired me to think through this story from the perspective of a politically liberal American.

5,000 men (and countless women and children–uncounted because of the deplorable chauvinism in that culture) had followed their teacher around and become hungry. They were natural victims of their devotion to the teacher.

Jesus asked his disciples what food they had brought to feed the masses and found his own disciples hadn’t prepared anything. It was a food shortage. Something must be done about it, or innocent people would suffer. Continue reading A Parable for Liberals →

Oh, I like this one.

From Freedom Dogs: A Tale of Two Houses.

I don’t mention Michael Savage much on this blog, but when I’ve done it, it’s been in a negative way. I don’t like his show (I once called my local station to complain about it), and his on-air personality gives me prickly itch. I share with a few others a not-so-secret suspicion that he’s pure snake oil—not a conservative at all, but a performer who’s found a routine that makes him money, and milks it.

But he’s not a danger to the British Commonwealth.

Here’s Threedonia’s report (featuring a cool picture of the signing of the Magna Carta) on the story of the British Home Office’s decision to list Savage among 16 people banned from their borders. Savage’s response is (for once) entirely appropriate:

“Darn! And I was just planning a trip to England for their superior dental work and cuisine,” he joked….

It’s become increasingly clear that our present educational system has cultivated public ignorance to the extent that liberals nowadays don’t even know what “liberalism” means. Continue reading Lesson in liberalism, for liberals →

From Dan Springer of Fox News: “For decades, environmental groups have talked about ‘big oil,’ painting the petroleum industry as greedy and destructive. Now similar language is being applied to renewables. Instead of eco-friendly green power, increasingly it’s ‘big wind’ and ‘big solar.’ . . . many local activists say we need to slow this rush to renewables or risk trading one power problem for another.”

No joke.

Being a Democrat means never having to say you’re sorry. But everybody else does.

Here’s a Townhall Blog post by Greg Hengler, with a video clip of Harry Reid explaining, among other things, that it would be awful of the Republicans to do the same things Democrats have been doing to them for many years, and plan to do again next time they’re out of power.

It’s perfect Leftist logic—If you act like me, you’re an awful person.

(By the way, this is an argument every victim of abuse is extremely familiar with, which is probably one reason why I react so strongly to it.) Continue reading Don’t do as I say, or as I do →