Sad Investment

What could have been accomplished with that money had it been put to a better use?

Taking Care Of Business

 

Progressives can take comfort in the fact that the Court's ruling on corporate cash in elections is nothing compared to the peoples' resolve to push back against what it represented. The American people did not vote for cuts in programs, they voted for higher taxes on the very wealthy.

 The Electoral College that actually decides presidential elections makes President Obama's win look like a landslide. But it also makes networks trying to keep viewers tuning in so they can sell air space look desperate. The Presidents performance over the next four years, without the worry of re-election, will determine the chances of a Democrat getting in the White House in 2016. Who's going to replace Obama? Now is the time to start grooming a successor either within the administration or in Congress.

This election also marks a cultural shift. Ballot measures that had failed for years, allowing the marriage of two men or two women in Maine and Maryland and legalizing marijuana in Washington State and Colorado, were voted into law.  Change is the one constant.

Like it or not, the reality is that after two victories by a person of color, the Republican Party stands on the brink of being irrelevant. How can or will the Republicans make themselves relevant as a national political party?The day of the angry white male voter rule is over. Of course, in some states, especially the South, it will linger for a long time.

Care and Care Alike

Disasters such as Hurricane Isaac reminds us to consider whether we should be a country that comes to the rescue when people are in trouble, or if this should be a place where the rule is the survival of the fittest and those who suffer are on their own.

National Day Of Intolerance

It’s not easy to get behind the so-called “Chick-fil-A National Day Of Intolerance.” The response to Dan Cathy’s statement is confusing to me. Whether or not you agree with them, how are his conservative Christian views news?

Dedicating a day to shove a chicken sandwich in the face of your enemies doesn’t seem like a very Jesus-like thing to do.

If love for Jesus is at the heart of this “appreciation day”, which I think is the case, then the church’s response to their perceived persecution should be more like Jesus’ responses when he was persecuted or when he saw others persecuted.

He ate with them, talked with them, healed them, defended them, and when that didn’t work, he died for them.

Shoving it in their face just doesn’t seem like the response of the Jesus who said “turn the other cheek.” Even if you strongly disagree with gay marriage, the response Jesus expects from you is clear: love them.

Frankly, Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day just doesn’t seem very loving to me. It seems a lot more like a battle to prove who’s right and who’s wrong.

For Christian, the battle over truth has already been fought and won in the death and resurrection of Jesus. He doesn’t need you to refight that battle. He needs you to love your enemies and pray for those who you perceive to be wrong.