Four steps back to The Path

Well it’s production week, folks, and I’m just getting home at 11:00 PM and guess what I didn’t do today? But never fear, because I’m reblogging my good friend and social media pastor Jon Swanson, one of my favorite bloggers. I hope you’ll find this post to be a blessing and a challenge, and that you’ll read more of his work.

–Godsbooklover

300 words a day

Many of my friends are making changes in their lives right now. That might include you. The change may have started because of Lent or wanting to learn a new routine, or may be the remnants of a New Year’s resolution. You may be in your last semester of college or finishing your first year on a new job. You may have made a major change in your family or in the spiritual part of your life.

And now, a week or a year or a decade in, you are wondering whether it’s working. And you are feeling, some of you anyway, like you are failing.

I know that feeling. To be a bit vulnerable, I know that feeling many days. Having made a commitment, taken a step, said “But this one thing I do“, I find my steps wandering, my plans for good being forgotten.

So here are…

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One of my favorites: “Let’s Make a Date” on Whose Line Is It Anyway? (VIDEO)

I needed a chuckle, and I can almost always count on these guys to give me more than just one.

How they managed to do this every week, off the cuff, is beyond me…but they were great at it.

Enjoy:

The New York Times Calls (again) for Higher Taxes on Middle-Class Americans

A solid post highlighting one of the MSM’s most ubiquitous narratives:

“there’s nothing wrong with our country that Taxing-The-Rich can’t cure”.

International Liberty

All statists want much bigger government, but not all of them are honest about how to finance a Greek-sized welfare state.

The President, for instance, wants us to believe that the rich are some sort of fiscal pinata, capable of generating endless amounts of tax revenue.

Using IRS tax data, I’ve shown that this is a very inaccurate assumption. And I’ve also used IRS data to show the President that there are big Laffer-Curve effects when you try to rape and pillage high-income Americans.

Heck, even the Europeans have realized that you can only squeeze so much blood from that stone.

Notwithstanding the misleading rhetoric from the Obama Administration, there are some honest folks on the left who understand and acknowledge that you can’t have bigger government unless you put ordinary people on the chopping block.

• The New York Times endorsed higher taxes on the middle class

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Ann Coulter vs. John Stossel and a room full of Libertarians (VIDEO)

This just showed up on HotAir, and Erika is right: this is like a cage match where you want to root for both combatants.

I come down more on the Coulter side of things, but I need to highlight one important point about the Libertarian youngsters in attendance. They are vastly different from your usual college-aged attendees in such a setting, in that for the most part they are very polite. Compare that to the majority of Planned Parenthood or Global Warming confabs at your local University, where the sights and sounds are NSFW, …at best.

Even though she’s outnumbered approximately 1,000-to-1, Coulter responds extremely well throughout (no surprise there). She’s a bomb-thrower, and doesn’t disappoint here; heck, that’s her career. However, she seems to relish these opportunities, and it would behoove the Republican Party to engage with Libertarians more often in this manner. At their heart, there are more similarities than differences between the two camps, and the sooner they both recognize that, the better.

The fall of Jesse Jackson Jr: yet another lesson in Media Bias

Put. Your coffee. Down. 

Trust me.

‘Cause if you haven’t had a chance to see this yet, at least now you won’t ruin your computer screen.

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While you watch (it’s only 2 minutes), test yourself and see if you can see both ways that THIS story is handled differently than reports  about Republican/Conservative/Tea Party politicians. 

(*Video*): “The SECOND AMENDMENT is there to protect the American people from US…”

This is the 2nd in a series of short video addresses from the man who never seems to sleep, Bill Whittle, as he steps back into his role of “Mr. Virtual President”.

The previous one mirrored January’s Inaugural Address, and the clip below is fashioned after the State Of The Union speech. But just like the 1st installment, it’s presented as if we had a President who cared more about truth, than politics or raw power.

The quickest seven minutes you’ll spend today:

Don’t Worry…?

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Monique David: There will be much to miss about Pope Benedict

A beautiful post on our soon-to-be former Pope, courtesy of Monique David in Canada’s ‘National Post‘.