A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics and Religion
by Tom Quiner
A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion
by Tom Quiner
The Des Moines Register publishes Quiner’s Diner essay
Readers of the Des Moines Register reacted sharply to my essay which appeared in the paper this morning. My favorite: “Quiner is a nut.”
The politically incorrect Steve King
“I have watched as streams of undocumented people cross into the U.S. along the Tucson sector, and as it takes an hour or more for the one border patrol agent (one single agent is assigned to a 50-mile stretch of border) to get to the scene of an apprehension and deal with a group of 15 people walking with drug backpacks.”
We miss Tim Russert
“The primary responsibility of the media is accountability OF government.”
A sensible compromise on the minimum wage
I present a modest proposal on how to resolve the minimum wage conflict: simply adhere to the Constitution and abolish it at the federal level. Keep in mind, the minimum wage wouldn’t go away. States would be free to continue setting their own minimum wage at whatever level they thought best for their citizens …
A liberal stands up for free speech
Liberals aren’t comfortable with free speech. They created “political correctness” (PC) as a device to limit improper thought (e.i. conservative free speech).
A look at Detroit from the inside out
“The last thing Detroit needs is a bailout. What it needs is to sweep away a city charter that protects only bureaucrats, civil-service rules that straightjacket municipal departments, and obsolete union contracts. A bailout would just keep the dysfunction in place. Time to start over.”
Detroit: raped by liberalism
It was a perfect summer evening. A few family members, the “conservative wing of the family,” sat on my patio sipping wine. The subject of Detroit came up.
The bread of angels
God IS love. This is how the Catholic Church views God. I think many of our Protestant brothers and sisters have the same view. In other words, love isn’t just a character trait of God, he’s not just a “loving” entity, rather he is the embodiment of love. God IS love …
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