Obama Praises Radical Supreme Court Decision

Ed Morrissey points out that Barack Obama demonstrated his lack of knowledge yet again as he praised the last week’s Boumediene decision by the Supreme Court and claimed that it represented a return to American values as represented by the Nuremberg trials. You must remember that he was a former senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, when you read that he said:

“that principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t just hold you for any reason without charging you and without giving you any kind of due process – that’s the essence of who we are. I mean, you remember during the Nuremberg trials, part of what made us different was even after these Nazis had performed atrocities that no one had ever seen before, we still gave them a day in court and that taught the entire world about who we are but also the basic principles of rule of law. Now the Supreme Court upheld that principle yesterday.”

It should be pointed out to Obama that the Nuremberg trials following World War II did not give Nazi war criminals access to U.S. courts, but to a special international military tribunal created by the Allies. The military tribunals approved by Congress and the Bush administration did not fall below Nuremberg standards. More rights were given to the captured terrorists than the defendants at Nuremberg. The tribunals closely matched what American soldiers currently receive for their own trials.

Barack Obama does not understand his own historical reference to Nuremberg. If he did, he would be criticizing the Supreme Court’s radical and unprecedented decision. He obviously does not understand Nuremberg or the war on terror. His socialist handlers will no doubt say that this criticism of Obama’s knowledge is just another “smear” tactic.

Video Portrays Women Democrats As Sluts

TruthThroughAction.org makes movies to support the Democratic Party. Their latest production title, “Blue Balled,” is as sleazy as its name implies. A young man and woman meet at a bar and end up in his bedroom. While searching for a condom, she sees a photo of John McCain on the guy’s nightstand.

She quickly puts on her clothes and runs. On the sidewalk she spills her bag and a campaign button falls on the sidewalk which says, “I only sleep with Democrats.” She looks up to see a man with a Democratic pin on his lapel. Your guess is as good as mine concerning the outcome.

Democratic women only sleep with Democratic men is hardly setting a high moral standard. But it does not seem that the Democratic Party has cared much about sexual morality or Christian teachings on this subject for many years now. I am not surprised that they would stoop to advertising sexual promiscuity to sell their Presidential Candidate to young voters. It does not matter that it is just one more endorsement of a sexually promiscuous lifestyle among teens and young adults coming from one of our nations top two political parties. The only thing that matters is that sex sells and the Democrats are willing to bet that sex will sell its candidates as well. Never mind the high-minded, moral challenge that Obama delivered in a speech on Father’s Day.

The producers are hoping that the video will go “viral” like the “Obama Girl” video. (Not recommended – but you may choose to see “Blue Balled” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL0aC2nXVSc) Our nation’s government has been taken over by political hacks who would throw their grandmothers under the bus to get elected. Power is the new religion.

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

– George Washington

How Do You Begin Each Day?

With a cup of coffee; right? Personally, I prefer a Pepsi. I suppose that neither might be the healthiest of nutritional habits, but for many caffeine is the preferred means of physically jumpstarting the day. For others it may be jogging or some other form of exercise. Human beings, however, are both physical and spirit. How do you jumpstart your spiritual nature in preparation for each day? I believe it is the more important of the two.

The prophet Jeremiah speaks eloquently of the potential mercies of God awaiting us each day: “Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23) Martin Luther recognized the potential of each day, when he said, “I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.” E. M. Bounds tells us that, “The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.” Henry Ward Beecher writes, “In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God’s mercies and blessings. . . .”

In times of great stress, I have often begun the day by a prayer based on Ephesians 6:10-18. I usually pray about something in each verse asking God to specifically protect me with each piece of His armor. I also love the following prayer of St. Patrick and it is appropriate to begin any day with (perhaps it is my Irish bias):

“I rise today with the power of God to guide me,

The might of God to uphold me,

The wisdom of God to teach me,

The eye of God to watch over me,

The ear of God to hear me,

The word of God to give me speech,

The hand of God to protect me,

The path of God to lie before me,

The shield of God to shelter me,

The host of God to defend me against the snares of the devil and the temptations of the world,

And against every man who meditates injury to me, whether far or near.”

Of course, we do not need someone else’s written prayer to begin our day, but it is a good beginning. Do you have a favorite prayer to begin the day with?