My favorite part about the Obama era...

Gee... you'd think that the Democrats deliberately stir up racial strife to keep their base motivated.

Which is precisely what Democrats did for 150 years before the 1960's, only they motivated a different racial base.

Same tactic, same manufactured racial fear and hate, different races.

Same Democrats.

HT: Instapundit

Issac Newton symposium

A symposium on Newton's less well-known work, which was largely religious. His religious work, even more than his science, was the center of his life.

Like nearly all of the great scientists of the Enlightenment, Newton was a passionate devout (albeit unorthodox) Christian. Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Kepler, Faraday, Pasteur, Maxwell and countless other fathers of modern science saw scientific work as the investigation of God's creation.

Atheists had nothing to do with the rise of science, and atheist scientists today live off the fumes of Christian theology. Nations ruled by State Atheism-- the Soviet Union, Communist China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea-- produce(d) no theoretical science of any value.

Why, if the world is not the product of a Mind and has no purpose and no logic in its creation, should we expect to find consistency and logic in nature?

Atheism is a parasite on science, as it is on every other meaningful endeavor. 

Democrats beat up another black guy

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

Police Union Defends Abusive NYPD Officers Caught on Tape

Yeah I know, that’s a man bites dog headline if ever there was one. The two officers seen on tape beating the crap out of a guy — a black guy, of course — who was cooperating with them, unarmed and with his hands up, have been suspended from street duty. But the union is offering vile and ridiculous arguments to defend them...

What Ed fails to note is that virtually all of the violence and racism happens in municipalities governed and populated by Democrats. Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston-- all wall-to-wall Democrats, governed by liberals, beset with violence and racism and hate.

Democrats have a two-hundred year record of slavery, segregation, bigotry, violence and corruption. That's the real story behind the scandals and crime in our cities, and it's the story libtards like Brayton will never tell the truth about. 

Another corrupt judge--William H Orrick, III-- bundles for Planned Parenthood

It seems the "judge" who imposed prior restraint on the Center for Medical Progress in order to protect Planned Parenthood from public scrutiny has a past:

Judge William H. Orrick, III, granted the injunction just hours after the order was requested by the National Abortion Federation. 

Orrick was nominated to his position by hardline abortion supporter President Barack Obama. He was also a major donor to and bundler for President Obama’s presidential campaign. He raised at least $200,000 for Obama and donated $30,800 to committees supporting him, according to Public Citizen.

Orrick is still bundling for the abortion lobby, running interference to protect PP chop shops from unfavorable revelations. Like so many of our "judges", he's just a gangster hack using his power to violate the Constitution and protect the far left.  

Washington Post lies for Planned Parenthood

Stop the vendetta against Planned Parenthood:

Planned Parenthood is under virulent attack for the role a small portion of its affiliates play in helping women who want to donate fetal tissue for medical research. The antiabortion group Center for Medical Progress has orchestrated a propaganda campaign accusing the nation’s largest provider of abortions of profiting from the illegal sale of fetal tissue, a charge refuted by Planned Parenthood. 

None of the videos released shows anything illegal and, in fact, the full footageof Planned Parenthood executives meeting with people presumed to be buyers for a human biologics company include repeated assertions that clinics are not selling tissue but only seeking permitted reimbursement costs for expenses.

In the videos, Planned Parenthood abortionists negotiate the price at which they will sell parts of the babies they've just killed.  When you negotiate a price, you are selling, not donating. The baby chunks were sold 'with a little extra for the clinic'-- for a profit, which is a federal felony.

The entire WaPo editorial is a lie, including the 'and' and the 'the'.

Laudato Si

My old friend bachfiend asks my opinion on Laudato Si, Pope Francis' recent encyclical on the environment and on economics.

I posted on it at some length at Evolution News and Views, and I'm happy to add a few thoughts here.

I love the encyclical. The Holy Father is right about nearly everything--about our responsibility to care for creation, to love and serve the poor, and to use the proceeds of our labor with God's purposes in mind. Capitalism provides enormous opportunity for all manner of sin--greed, envy, theft, idolatry.

I disagree with Pope Francis on only two points.

1) The Holy Father is mistaken about global warming. AGW is a hoax, just the latest in a 150-year string of fake science apocalypses (Malthusianism, eugenics, DDT hysteria, Global Cooling, heterosexual AIDS,  etc.). The Holy Father needs better science advisors.

2) The Pope didn't stress sufficiently the enormous contribution capitalism has made to bettering the human condition, saving lives, and ending poverty in many nations. Capitalism has many spiritual dangers, but it is unparalleled as an engine of economic prosperity. Socialism is a failure everywhere, and  is closely linked to totalitarianism (ie National Socialism, International Socialism).

Socialism is no less than capitalism a system that promotes sin, and socialism has been a bane to mankind. Socialism has also been a bane to our environment-- National Socialists and International Socialists devastated large swaths of the earth.

But overall Laudato Si is a beautiful encyclical, and its message of stewardship and love for the poor is desperately needed in our time. 

George Will on American barbarism, via Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood and the barbarity of America.

He's right. We don't really fully understand the evil, because we're living in it. 

I had always wondered what the Third Reich looked like to ordinary people in Germany before the war. It probably didn't seem so bad to millions of Germans--there were slogans and rallies and improvements in the economy that helped mask the horror that was growing in their nation. 

We should honestly admit that we are living is a nation similarly engaged in such a horror--60 million children murdered since 1973, a third of them by a politically powerful organization that nets a billion dollars a year, half of it paid for by our tax money. 

Pray for justice, and mercy.