The latest victim of political correctness
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFOza0N-qbw] Juan Williams has been fired by National Public Radio for being politically incorrect. Wikipedia defines political correctness as … “a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, disability, and age-related contexts.” A simpler definition…
Read MoreWho suffers most from hate crimes in the USA: Muslims or Jews?
By Tom Quiner It was just a one paragraph blurb in yesterday’s Des Moines Register: four men in New York City were convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues in New York. I read the paragraph searching for a key piece of information. Can you guess what it was? What would you like to know…
Read MoreShould we take secret ballots away from employees?
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjU8psjeHIQ] My next door neighbor, Bill, is about the nicest guy you’d ever want to know. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better neighbor. He was a lifelong union member, which colors his politics. We got into our usual pre-election dust -up last Sunday. After viewing the plethora of Republican signs in…
Read MoreThe largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade takes place this Friday. Maybe.
By Tom Quiner Cardinal Francis Arinze spoke in Des Moines this past weekend. He said something amazing. He talked about the sanctity of human life. He compared us pro-lifers to Saint Peter and the other disciples, but he didn’t mean it favorably. He said while the disciples were sleeping in the Garden of Gethsemane, Judas…
Read MoreVote NO on Iowa Supreme Court Justices
By Tom Quiner The Des Moines Register came out with a forceful defense of retaining Supreme Court Justices who support gay marriage. The Register called it the most important vote we’ll make this election. They may be right in one way, this is the most item on the ballot for Iowa voters. All of the…
Read MoreThe Pope of the People
By Tom Quiner Regular readers of this blog may have detected my affection for the late Pope John Paul II. I have posted seven different commentaries on JPII over the past several months. What is there about John Paul II that so inspires the young and the old? For me, his trips to Poland and…
Read MoreIs it wrong to deliberately kill an innocent person?
By Tom Quiner I’m bothered by two conversations I’ve had. One took place years ago at Fridays Restaurant. I can’t remember when. Perhaps the late eighties. Over a festive dinner on a Friday night, politics were the subject. The good Republican with whom I was talking said something to the effect, “we’ve got to move…
Read MoreMore fallout from Obamacare
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR81QAOOHWU] “When people better understand the Affordable Care Act, they’ll understand, I think, that this isn’t something being done to them but is something that’s really going to be valuable to them.’’ This was the President’s recent defense of the Affordable Care Act, also know as ObamaCare. The law mandates elimination of…
Read MoreIs government corrupting our national character?
By Tom Quiner America is exceptional because our character is exceptional. Our national attitude and philosophy of life were set out eloquently by our Founding Fathers, first in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable…
Read MoreHere’s what happened at Planned Parenthood yesterday
By Tom Quiner The weather was perfect. We prayed. We held up signs promoting life and discouraging abortion. As a marketing guy, I counted the number of cars going by at certain times so I could extrapolate the number of cars that saw our pro-life message. I’d guess we reached about 3500 cars in our…
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