Samson's Jawbone

People of faith can be comfortable with Newt Gingrich for President. Evangelicals are people of principle, rightly so, as people whose world view is based on the scripture we are seeking a candidate for President who will help to rebuild the country's Judaeo-Chritian heritage. There is a movement to marginalize the influence of the church. In a post modern world many Christians have become the pariah' of the media and the left. Due to a misunderstanding of our heritage and our Constitution our courts have interpreted a principle of separation of church and state to mean anything government touches must be secular. The government is to have nothing to do with us, and we are to have nothing to do with it. We are to keep our opinions about alternative lifestyle or abortion we to ourselves. Many of us have no desire to be politicians or to control government, but we witness daily the destruction secularism has brought to families, we think he have a healthy redemptive message that...

Former Speaker of the House and Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is getting criticism from lawyers over his views of judicial accountability, specifically his call to subpoena justices before Congress who abuse their authority. Some are arguing that this is an imbalance of power. Gingrich, ever the historian, understands that the Court has become unaccountable. He is merely trying to rebuild a government based on separation of powers. The current debate centers over what the founding fathers intended: did they intend for the Judiciary to be the final say in our government? I have been taught that through the secular liberal American education system that our government consists of three branches the legislative, which writes, the law, the executive, which enforces the law and the judiciary which interprets it. Further the judiciary is appointed by the executive, so the argument goes, and confirmed, by the legislative branch for life terms so they can be "non-politi...

Four years ago before there was an Iowa caucus I was openly laughed at by friends at work when I predicted the Republican ticket would be Mc Cain/Palin. This was before Palin had even been considered by Mc Cain. Well it is time for another laughable prediction we will see who gets the last laugh. I believe the Republican nominee will be Newt Gingrich. Historically defeating an incumbent President is difficult. Since Civil War of the incumbent Presidents who have been defeated only two-- Rutherford B. Hayes, and Herbert Hoover-- have been defeated out right. The others -- Taft, Carter, Ford, Bush-- all faced opposition either from within their own party or a viable third party candidate. The Bully Pulpit and constant news cycle surrounding the White House give the President a formidable advantage. Barak Obama is vulnerable though because of a terrible record. It will take a certain kind of person to defeat him. It must be more than someone who can point out his failures. It must be some...

A sidebar running below a cable news show recently asked "Would Jesus Be an Occupier?" Anyone who understands Jesus teaching understands that he did not share the values of the Occupiers. Let's compare what the occupiers are advocating with Jesus' teaching and that of his earliest followers. It is hard to determine exactly what the Occupiers are advocating, except they are against Wall Street "greed." Which they believe was represented by AIG and Morgan Stern and other companies that got bailouts as a result of the housing market collapse of 2007. What they do not understand is that Congress created organizations like Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac and required banks to make bad loans. The reason the companies asked for Federal money was that they were implementing Federal banking policy and believed the tax payers should bail them out. This is not to say I agree the bailouts were appropriate see AIG It May Be Time for a Tea Party . I advocated that the economy...

Does it strike you at all strange that those who excoriated the Tea Party movement are embracing the Wall Street protestors, while comparing them to each other? Rest assured there is no comparison between the movements: There is no comparison in the reaction of one group to the other. Many of those who embrace the wall street Protestors question the motivation and patriotism and values of the Tea Party. While the Tea-partiers and their ilk recognize and advocate public protest and the right to peacefully assembly. It is as American as "apple pie and fourth of July." Some even are in jobs that defend and protect those rights, such as people in the Armed Forces. They make no attempt to deny the protestors their right to protest or stage alternate protests as liberal groups do. There is no comparison between the events themselves. Tea-partiers are known for getting permits keeping rally areas clean, supporting businesses and people's life style in the area. Whereas the Wall...

Last May when our Navy seals killed Ben Laden I got quite a bit of negative reaction and even some Christian admonition to my open celebration on Facebook. People were not as upset with the fact that I celebrated as they were with the fact that I declared it an act of Christian Worship. How could I celebrate that someone was in hell they said? Some people never learn. Here I go again. Last night AL Alwaki and several terrorist leaders were killed in Yemen, and I am rejoicing. I am sure that is going to make many of you uncomfortable and cause you to question my Christian-world view. Am I mixing patriotism with worship and does it show that I place my country above my God,which would be idolatry,and make my worship hypocritical? Well I do not think it does, nor do I think I need to defend my self, but I am going to any way. The gospel is much bigger than the issue of who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. I do not make a judgement about Al-Alwaki's eternal destiny. I leave him the...

The company I work for does most of its charitable giving through March of Dimes. There is all most constant encouragement to contribute. I do not. I silently protest; occasionally' someone asks me why I do not attend one of the company sponsored fund raisers. When I explain that as a pro-life Christian I cannot support the charity, which is the largest single completely privately funded supporter of abortion at all stages of pregnancy, they stare at me like I am some "wild-eye" fanatic. March of Dimes does everything in their power to disguise their true agenda. To the point where their advertising is deceptive. Now let's be clear March of Dimes has a magnanimous history. At the encouragement of President Franklin Roosevelt, who was disabled by polio, a group of philanthropist formed the charity to fight the epidemic that was killing millions and had even paralyzed him. They were an important support and funding channel for Dr. Jonas Salk who eventually developed a ...