Sunday, October 21, 2012

Conservative Musings: Times Five?!

Yes, that's right, times five.

Honestly, every week, there are enough good articles and columns that I could make a blog post many pages long to showcase all of them.  However, for reasons of both practicality and wanting people to read my writing, I tend to select what I think are the best few and run with them.

However, due to a lack of updates for this (well, last) week, I figured I would instead treat you to columns from some of the best minds conservatism has to offer and save myself mentally for the coming week.


First off we have a column by Dennis Prager.  I value his opinion highly, particularly when it comes to discerning the difference between leftist and Christian doctrine.  For those of you who wish better understand how Biblical faith differs from modern liberalism/progressivism and how the former is corrupted by the latter, I point you to this man for enlightenment and understanding.

This week, his column delves into Vice President "Laughin' Joe" Biden's answer to the abortion question at the VP debate.  In particular, he explains just how his answer is self-contradictory and reveals how his answer is evidence of leftist hypocrisy when it comes to the treatment of Christian faith in America.  Part of me wants to just take the article and analyze it right here and now, but as that is not my purpose, I'll leave it to you to click through and read it for yourself.

You can read Dennis Prager's article, "Joe Biden's Religion: Catholicism or Leftism?" here.


I'd kill for context right now.  Then again, it's just funnier without.
Next up we have Jonah Goldberg.  Columnist, Editor-at-Large of National Review Online and occasional Fox News contributor, Goldberg is many things.  Normal is not one of them, which also qualifies him as one of my favorite conservative columnists, whose name isn't Sowell, Williams, Coulter, Limbaugh...you know, I think you get my point.  For anyone who wants a little humor with their political commentary, make sure to give Goldberg a read and never stop.

In this column, Goldberg discusses how the spin of the Obama administration really obfuscates just how poor the nation is doing economically.  Indeed, he manages to explain it all using a bit of allegorical story that involves manure.  Believe it or not, it's not as crass as it sounds.  If you don't believe me, click through and learn a little about just how poor the economy is right now, without the administration spin.

You can read Jonah Goldberg's column, "Obama's Economic Spin: A New Pony or Manure?" here.


Next up we have David Limbaugh.  Again.  It seems I just can't post this man's columns enough.

This week, he delves into questions that just aren't asked of the president.  At all.  Often when President Obama is asked questions, they are either softballs or "in the moment."  By the latter, I mean that the questions deal with only the situation that is occurring at that particular moment, like Benghazi.  Such questions are never contextualized to previous events in the president's tenure.  Limbaugh does a little of that and so much more in this article.  If you think this president is hard to question or criticize, perhaps this article will open your eyes.

You can read David Limbaugh's article, "A Few Questions I'd Like to See President Obama Answer" here.


Our next article is one by Walter E. Williams, whom you may remember from the first "Musings" post.

This time around, he discusses poverty and its causes.  Is it caused by society or is it caused by a variety of factors?  And is blaming society a) accurate and b) the correct focus?  There's a lot to be said, but I'll save my personal arguments for another day.

For now, you can read Walter E. Williams' column, "Poverty Nonsense" here.




Finally, we have Thomas Sowell.

This week, he merely wrote some random thoughts on the passing scene.  So enjoy comments on everything from entitlement to Joe Biden to baseball.  There's really nothing to say here.  But maybe you'll run into a thought-provoking question or two.


Read Thomas Sowell's "Random Thoughts" here.


 
And that is that!

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