Let us go slowly on the Minnesota shooting
What went wrong in Ferguson?
There was a rush to judgement. A cop was tried by the press for shooting Michael Brown and found guilty.
The president and assorted Democratic politicians were quick to indict the police before an investigation even began.
When the dust had settled, when cooler heads had conducted a detailed investigation, when forensic evidence was analyzed, the officer who shot Michael Brown was exonerated of any wrong doing.
It was determined he shot Brown in self defense.
We have another shooting in Minneapolis that has saturated airwaves…
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The anatomy of class
What a breath of fresh air.
In the midst of national pain, former President George W. Bush rose to the occasion. Speaking in Dallas at a memorial service for cops assassinated by a racist sniper, Mr. Bush calmed our frayed nerves.
He validated the human dignity of each of the fallen policemen, and the dignity of each of us.
He invoked sacred scripture … from a Christian Bible!
There was no moral preening or blaming. Just words of comfort and wisdom from a man of character and stature.
And class…
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The Sierra Club says the earth is “cooking.” Satellites say it’s not.
A religion is being built on climate change that will have an end result of giving more power to Caesar while reducing your lifestyle.
The times call for critical thinking. This video provides relevant data to the conversation.
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Words to live by from Mother Teresa
Don’t get sucked in by climate hysteria
Hillary Clinton said “climate change” is the biggest threat facing the world in an earlier campaign debate.
Bigger than ISIS?
Bigger than an Iran with a nuclear bomb?
Bigger than Putin’s expansion into the Ukraine and the mideast?
Bigger than a belligerent and nuclear North Korea?
Bigger than the systematic erosion of our First Amendment?
I could go on.
Is climate change the biggest threat facing the world? Not according to most scientists. Prager University provides a nice overview in the video above.
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Hallelujah
It’s a simple song.
The refrain uses but two chords, alternating between A minor and F major in 6/8 time.
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is one of those soulful songs that stops you in your tracks. Cohen knows how to tell a story. In other words, his lyrics are wonderful, provocative, soul-searching.
But let’s face it, it is his one-word refrain that makes this song a masterpiece: Hallelujah sung against a minor chord.
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