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 Something extraordinary happened to me today. Somebody actually asked me
for my opinion.
You have to understand how rare this is. Because I have so many chances to
sound off about -- well, about everything -- it's not as if there's an opinion
shortage anywhere near me.
As I write this column, Americans are voting.
In Greensboro, the kids are out of school because so many of their buildings
are being used as polling places.
My wife canceled the tomorrow's session of the six a.m. New Testament class
she teaches in our home, so that her high-school-age students could stay up
late tonight to watch election returns.
I thought of my good friend who until 2008 lived in a country where elections
are meaningless, because brutal intimidation and institutionalized voter fraud
guarantee that the ruling party is reelected every time. Soon his family will join
him here in the United States (legally, in case you wonder). He loves his native
country -- but he loves freedom more.
And that's what it's about when we vote.
Obama's "ideological" energy plan would cripple U.S. economy
Obama isn't cutting taxes for the poor, because they don't pay any.
Instead, he's planning to make it so expensive to generate electricity that only
the rich can afford to use their appliances whenever they want.
Why? It's all in the name of Obama's True Belief in Global Warming. He says
it himself -- he'll take coal off the table as an "ideological matter." Even if
technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, he's opposed to pursuing it.
He wants to put a huge penalty on companies that emit carbon -- which
means that starting up new coal-powered electrical plants will be prohibitively
expensive. In Obama's own words, "It will bankrupt them."
Sometimes it seems like this election is one big pillow fight. The air is now so
full of floating feathers that it's hard to see the furniture, and the media isn't
helping, as they blow the fluff around.
But there are solid issues in this election, and how we vote will have lasting
effect on our future.
On one extreme, we have the idea that the Constitution is a written document that can only be altered by a deliberately time-consuming process of amendment.
On the other extreme, we have the idea that the Constitution means whatever a group of judges says it means.
The Constitution itself belongs to the first group -- it declares that it can only be changed through the amendment process.
An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
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Mini-WorldWatch - December 21, 2008
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