Which way do you want your pie served? Are Indian reservations autonomous nations—in which case they need to take responsibility for and clean up their own messes—or are they part of America—in which case they need to start paying taxes and participate in the responsibility for us cleaning up their messes. Either way it’s long past time for them to quit playing the victim game and step up to the plate.
Side note: those wonderful tribal native lands that have 2.5 times the violent crime rate of the rest of America? “Gun free” zones. It’s not a coincidence.
Maybe those Luddite, backwards-thinking right-wing religious freaks were right all along about teaching abstinence. [News flash: even when worn correctly, condoms do not provide complete protection against STDs. Chastity does. How quaint.]
Having apologized for this baptism, the Mormon leadership has highlighted a glaring inconsistency. If proxy baptisms are—as the cult has long taught—an essential part of the LDS beliefs, how can one apologize for them or agree to exclude entire groups based on their ethnic or religious identities? After all, Mormonism is the “correction” to orthodox Christianity and Judaism, right? Either what you are teaching is right, or it has been wrong all along.
“We Catholics will be compelled to either violate our consciences, or to drop health coverage for our employees and suffer the penalties for doing so,” wrote Alexander Sample, the Bishop of Marquette.
Or you could do what you should have done years ago—stop blindly voting “D” at every level. You’ve gone to bed with the pro-abortion party for years. Did you really think they wouldn’t come after you when they had the power and opportunity? If there’s one thing statists cannot abide it’s competition, and through your charitable work you compete directly with them.
Do you notice how there’s not really a story here, only the intimation that Romney has somehow done something wrong? As far as anyone can tell, he’s broken no laws and has simply exercised his legal right to pay as little to a wasteful federal government as possible—exactly as any of us would do given the opportunity. Nothing but a smear, but what more can be expected from the NYT?
What do you call someone who owns at least one vehicle, home entertainment and game systems, a computer, and has cable TV and a cell phone? In much of the world, “wealthy.” In America, apparently, “poor.”
