A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics and Religion

by Tom Quiner

A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion

by Tom Quiner

Surely the man who can control the rising of the seas can control a few rascally terrorists

By quinersdiner | June 21, 2014

Iraq post-mortem

By quinersdiner | June 21, 2014

We should not have gone to war in Iraq on March 18, 2003.
Knowing what we know today, few Americans would disagree with that statement.
The Congress at the time disagreed. In bi-partisan votes, both the House and Senate supported the resolution put before them to go to war.
At the time, honorable people did disagree, such as Pope John Paul II:

Obama's IRS gives the American public the finger. Thank-you, Paul Ryan, for standing up for us.

By quinersdiner | June 20, 2014

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How to earn more credit card points

By quinersdiner | June 20, 2014

The way to really get your points up is to sign up for a card that has a good sign-up bonus.
My advice would be to be picky. Never sign up for a card that offers less than 50,000 points. Sometimes you can find ones that offer 100,000. Hotel cards work a little differently. Never use points for merchandise. Its never a good deal …

Can Republicans be trusted?

By quinersdiner | June 20, 2014

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaWBs46USqE] No, Republicans cannot be trusted much more than Democrats. Political parties tend to be about power more than principle. Politicians are willing to fudge (and ‘evolve’) ideology in order to win elections … and reelections. To some extent, this is reasonable. After all, this nation was built by compromise. I recently watched an HBO series, “John Adams,” with the great actor, Paul Giamatti in the role…

How to handle Pelosi

By quinersdiner | June 19, 2014

On Thursday, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco spoke publicly in defense of marriage in Washington, DC in spite of a letter from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi asking him not to. She wrote her archbishop asking him not to show “disdain and hate towards LGBT persons” by speaking at a National Organization for Marriage march to the Supreme Court.
As Catholics of the United States, we have arrived at a moment in our history when the articulated defense, or even explanation, of the sacrament of marriage is called a hate crime by the House Minority Leader and a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, one of the nation’s most prominent “Catholic” politicians …

The decline of integrity accelerates at a breathtaking pace

By quinersdiner | June 19, 2014

Megyn Kelly beats up on Dick Cheney and Barack Obama

By quinersdiner | June 19, 2014

“In your op-ed, you write as follows: ‘Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.’ But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well, sir. You said there were no doubts that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would be greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in its last throes back in 2005. And you said after our intervention, extremists would have to “rethink their strategy of jihad.” Now with almost a trillion dollars spent there with 4,500 American lives lost there, what do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?”

Politically-correct school censors conservative websites

By quinersdiner | June 19, 2014

By Tom Quiner What is political-correctness? Censorship. Thought-control. Coercion. It is a critical weapon used by liberals in shutting down political debate with competing ideologies and theologies. You’ve read a lot about it this Spring on college campuses, where one conservative speaker after another was disinvited from speaking. Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are false platitudes gushed by campus liberals who really want to gut free speech. Political-correctness manifests itself in…

Are high schools in Des Moines racist?

By quinersdiner | June 18, 2014

Black students get suspended from high school disproportionately to white students in Des Moines, Iowa.
Racism?

What is a liberal?

By quinersdiner | June 18, 2014

The racism smear is losing its clout

By quinersdiner | June 17, 2014