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How Did I Miss this Great Article?

January 4, 2019September 23, 2016 by debisimons

It’s hard to keep up with things in any news cycle, and especially in this crazy election season. Every day there’s so much going on, so many articles to read, so many podcasts to listen to. Anything more than a week old seems like ancient history. So it may be hard even to remember that three weeks ago an article came out on the Claremont Institute’s website called “”2016 Is the Flight 93 Election.” (Claremont is a conservative think tank based in California.) I have posted on excellent article already on Facebook: “No this is not the ‘Flight 93 Election,’ Rush” by Ben Howe of RedState. The focus of that article, though, was more on Howe’s disillusionment with Rush Limbaugh and less about the article itself. I’d like to point out a couple of things before giving the link to the article below from The Federalist that I ran across by accident last night and decided to post:

Dear Sincere Christian Supporters of Trump:

January 4, 2019September 22, 2016 by debisimons

You are being deceived. You are like the naive girl who believes the promises of a con man and agrees to marry him, only to see clearly, when it is too late, what he really is. Ask Trump’s wives, and business partners, and bankers, and investors. Ask anyone who has had anything to do with him in his checkered career. Now he is perpetrating yet another fraud, this time upon America as a whole, and nowhere is the success of this fraud more apparent than in the ranks of evangelical conservatives. I agree with Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, whose excellent article I posted earlier this week: “You will forgive me if, at least until this crazy campaign year is over, I choose just to say that I’m a gospel Christian.”

How Should You Vote If You’re Pro-Life? Pt. 2

January 4, 2019September 21, 2016 by debisimons

With about seven weeks to go before the election, Donald Trump has formed a new Pro-Life Coalition headed by Marjorie Dannenfelser, the long-time President of the Susan B. Anthony List, a prominent national pro-life organization. He has now outlined policies on abortion that do, indeed, mirror those of the Republican platform. So what are we to make of this? Does this action signal some kind of real commitment to the pro-life cause? Well, in a word, no. Does it not occur to anyone that perhaps it’s a little suspicious that Trump has taken this action so late in the game? As the polls are tightening and he just needs a few more swing states to topple?

How Should You Vote If You’re Pro-Life?

January 4, 2019September 20, 2016 by debisimons

Whenever I say that I am voting for Hillary Clinton in this election I am immediately accused of being pro-abortion. No matter how much I protest that I am nothing of the kind, still the accusation lingers. Let me make my stance clear up front here and then introduce an excellent article that every thoughtful pro-life conservative who thinks he or she “has” to vote for Trump should read.

I believe that abortion is the taking of an innocent human life. I understand the deep feelings of revulsion that a pro-life Christian would feel at the thought of pulling the lever next to Clinton’s name in the voting booth. Believe me, I’ve had my own qualms.

What must be recognized is that there is no pro-life candidate in this election. On the one hand, we have the Democratic platform that enthusiastically endorses abortion without restriction. On the other, we have the Republican platform that sets out a clear mandate for cultural change, for fathers taking responsibility, for the respect and dignity of all human life, for the banning of abortion after 20 weeks. (That last item surprised me a bit; I thought I would see an outright ban.) But here is what you have to keep in mind: Donald Trump had absolutely nothing to do with writing that part of the platform. The platforms for the major parties are written by committees and may or may not reflect the beliefs of the actual candidate. It has been exhaustively documented that when the “Trump people”dropped in on the platform committee’s meeting at the beginning of convention week, they showed interest in only one section of the platform: US aid to Ukraine. They insisted that language that mentioned support with weapons against the depredations of Russia be removed, leaving only generic language. That’s it. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has even read the platform.

Now to the article at hand, from the excellent conservative website RedState. Here is a teaser quotation to get you started. His language is harsh, but the time has come to do a little straight shooting:

If you believe that Trump has actual pro-life principles or that he will honor any sort of pledge to only appoint pro-life justices, then you have to be one of the most monumental suckers who has ever lived. I really and truly mean that.

“The Professional Pro-Life Movement Has a Lot in Common with Donald Trump”

Kellyanne Conway, Please Resign Now!

January 4, 2019September 19, 2016 by debisimons

I had some material to use yesterday but never got it up. There is so much great material out there that it’s hard to pick just one item per day. Some days, as is obvious from my postings on Facebook, I don’t restrain myself. You will see links below that won’t show up on fb; you can follow them or not as you wish. The post that I am featuring today, the one that is a must-read, is by Jennifer Rubin who authors the “Right Turn” blog at the Washington Post. Yes, that’s “right” as in “conservative.” My title above is directed to Trump’s most recent campaign manager hire. Ms. Conway seems to me to be a decent and intelligent person; I have to think that she didn’t know what she was getting into by accepting this position. She is also an extremely attractive woman, and I can’t help but believe that she’s getting at least some unwanted attention on that score from the motley crew surrounding the GOP’s dreadful nominee. Trump has calmed down considerably since she took over, which is one reason why the race is tightening. The bar is so low that a few days without Trump’s embarrassing himself count as a major victory. As I said in an earlier post, I see the iron hand of Kellyanne Conway at work. But she won’t follow him into the White House. And she shouldn’t be helping to get him there. So I repeat my title and beg, “Kellyanne Conway, please resign now!” And also–tell us just how dreadful things really are behind the scenes.

Next Week Trump Will Announce . . .

January 27, 2017September 17, 2016 by debisimons

that the world is round, after all. Breathless TV news coverage to follow.

“Donald Trump: A Con Man Among Heroes”

There Is a Small Remnant of Evangelicals . . .

January 4, 2019September 16, 2016 by debisimons

who have not yet knuckled under to the pressure to vote for Trump. But I am utterly heartsick over what is happening within evangelicalism in general. The Value Voters Summit this past weekend was just a rerun of the no-journalists-allowed-off-the-record-but-it-was-recorded-anyway meeting of prominent evangelical leaders in June. Did you miss that one? Read about it here and here. (This is now the third time I’ve linked to the article by Rebecca Cusey because it is so good.) Honestly, folks, some of the comments made by supposedly mature adults sound like those of teenyboppers raving about the Beatles. I can understand that there are some thoughtfulpeople who have reluctantly come to the conclusion that they’re going to vote for Trump because they honestly think he’s better than Hillary Clinton. I can respect that position, even though I disagree. But what I cannot for the life of me understand is this adoring, uncritical attitude from people who should know better.

The Sheepskin Is Coming Off the Wolf.

January 27, 2017September 15, 2016 by debisimons

Well, folks, who do you want to be President? Your choices have narrowed to a dangerously unstable liberal Democrat and a dangerously steely-eyed one. Take your pick. There is no conservative candidate in this race. I give you two articles, one written yesterday on the conservative website HotAir and one written back in May by David French of National Review.

“Rush on Trump’s Maternity Leave Plan”

“15 Reasons Why Donald Trump Is a Liberal–And a Lunatic Conspiracy Theorist”

How My Health Problems are Like Clinton’s . . .

January 4, 2019September 14, 2016 by debisimons

Not that anyone has asked me! This is a purely self-indulgent post, so I’m not even putting it on Facebook. It just struck me, when reading about the whole Clinton collapse kerfuffle, that I have an extremely similar health profile to hers and really, folks, I’m as healthy as a horse. It may indeed turn out that she has serious issues that haven’t been addressed, so I’m just going on what I know. (“All I know is what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.” Will Rogers)

Here’s what the Democratic nominee and I have in common health-wise:

1) Seasonal allergies. You’d think that the potential Leader of the Free World would be getting better medical treatment than I have, but seemingly no such luck. I have been battling various and sundry symptoms resulting from this condition for decades, and when I hear Clinton’s hoarseness I cringe in sympathy. I don’t have sneezing or itchy eyes; I have exactly what she has: vocal problems and coughing spells. Just this week I almost had to hang up on someone because I was caught unexpectedly by a fit. Thankfully I could stave it off long enough to give a polite good-bye, but then I whooped and hollered until the spell passed, just as she apparently did on the plane with the reporters. Right now as I’m typing this the whole back of my throat is sore and scratchy-feeling. I need to go do the nasal rinse thing and then use my nasal spray. If I do this faithfully my symptoms abate, and then I forget to do those things, and then the symptoms come right back.

False Comparisons Lead to False Conclusions.

January 4, 2019September 11, 2016 by debisimons

I’ve gotten an introduction recently to Laura Ingraham, a right-wing radio talk-show host and commentator. I kept running across references to her in all the reading I’ve been doing about the upcoming election and at first thought she was the same as Dr. Laura, who is, of course, Laura Schlessinger, another talk-show host. So I’ve been doing a little research and ran across this segment from her show in which she makes an equivalent comparison between Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, and Abraham Lincoln. A caller brings up how troubling he finds Trump’s personal life and character. Well, she replies,Ronald Reagan was divorced, wasn’t he? You’re not for divorce, are you? The caller is somewhat taken aback. And what about Abraham Lincoln and his suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War? Hmmm? What about that? (The link above is to the conservative website “Hot Air” by Ed Morrissey and includes some excellent commentary of its own.)