DAVID O. ROMNEY? There is no work more important for our nation's future than the work done in the home. . . . How is the American family made stronger? With marriage before children. With a mother and a father in the life of every child. With healthcare that is affordable and portable. With schools that succeed. With taxes that are lower. And with leaders who strive to demonstrate enduring values and morality. -- Mitt Romney, meridianmagazine.com, 2/14/07

MITT'S PLATFORM:

• I love America and I believe in the people of America.
• I believe in God and I believe that every person in this great country, and every person on this grand planet, is a child of God. We are all sisters and brothers.
• I believe the family is the foundation of America -- and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it.
• I believe in the sanctity of human life.
• I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.
• I believe we are overtaxed and government is overfed. Washington is spending too much money.
• I believe that homeland security begins with securing our borders.
• I believe the best days of this country are ahead of us, because . . . I believe in America!

-- Mitt Romney, meridianmagazine.com, 2/14/07

[ ... and I believe we have some common ground, here! -- KJK ]

HOW 'BOUT AN OUTSIDER WITH A SOLID TRACK RECORD? I do not believe Washington can be transformed from within by a lifelong politician. There have been too many deals, too many favors, too many entanglements -- and too little real world experience managing, guiding, leading. -- Mitt Romney, meridianmagazine.com, 2/14/07

TO GET REAL: The problem comes when we get so obsessed in our desire for [control, ownership, and independence], and our pursuit of them, that we let the obsession take over our lives. It is in the spiritual context that each of the three is a lie. And the spiritual context is the most important one. Reality is best and most accurately understood as a spiritual paradigm. And it is in the eternal, spiritual "things-as-they-really-are" point of view, that control, ownership, and independence do not exist. . . . I have become convinced that real Balance in life (and the peace and fulfillment that comes with it) is an inner thing that is obtained by putting our desires in harmony with reality and with the will of God. -- Richard Eyre, meridianmagazine.com, 2/9/07

AN IMPOSSIBLE PEACE: While secular and traitorous tyrants might come to the conclusion that since they cannot militarily defeat Israel, prudence would dictate entering into a peace treaty with the Zionists, this approach is not Islamic. As [Mary] Habeck tells it, traditional Islam simply does not recognize a permanent treaty with infidels. -- David Yerushalmi, townhall.com, 9/6/06

JOE LIEBERMAN IS DEAD RIGHT!
Thanx to my son-in-law, Nick, for posting an excerpt from the New York Post article about Lieberman's articulate rebuke of the Iraq resolution. Please read it. Those pushing the resolution renouncing Iraq war actions must either be ignorant of history, human psychology, congressional propriety, and patriotic dignity (i.e. fools), or they are acting purposefully in blatant, malicious defiance calculated to demoralize and weaken our forces for no more virtuous end than political currency. The objectives of the latter can only be defeat in Iraq and empowerment of evil. Congressmen, ask yourselves which it is: Are you a fool or a demon? -- kjk.

A CONVENIENT UNTRUTH

[Inciting hysteria] has been the standard approach to building community consensus for federal action on global warming at least since 1989, when Stanford biological sciences professor Stephen Schneider told Discover Magazine that October, "We [scientists] need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have."

Among others, Al Gore agrees with that approach. Last year he told the environmentalist magazine Grist, "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations" – what a euphemism! – "on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."

-- Jon Sanders, townhall.com, 1/31/07

[ "Over-representation" is the same as exaggeration which, any way you cut it, is a CONVENIENT UNTRUTH" -- Kirt]

FOR THE GOOD OF YOUR FAMILY:

1. Give your children two parents who are married to each other and live in the same dwelling, and who are kind to each other and to the children.
2. Don't put your children to work, except for a reasonable number of chores;let them play -- and play with them at their games.
3. Connect your children to the natural world -- get them out of the house,with a rational amount of freedom and a chance to explore.
4. Keep in mind that parents who mean well and try hard generally do OK even if they make mistakes along the way.

-- Orson Scott Card, ornery.org, 1/07/07