OrthodoxNet.com - 2008 Articles Archive

Drill Here, Drill Now
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s petition to Congress demanding the removal of government obstacles to increasing our energy supplies is gathering momentum by the minute, while the Democrats’ do-nothing Congress wants to raise fuel prices. 5/30/08

Liberals and control
For nearly two hundred years liberals have believed that the government can solve complex economic problems like the provision and fair distribution of goods and services. For two hundred years they have tested that belief and for two hundred years they have failed. 5/24/08

Ethicist tells Catholic journalists in Toronto to be ‘word warriors’
Ethicist Margaret Somerville, one of Canada’s leading intellectuals, challenged members of Catholic media to become “word warriors” and ethics agents to give people “the words they need to protect human dignity.” 5/29/08

How crypto-Marxism won the Cold War
The Marxists had seventy years in the Soviet Union, and managed to kill 100 million people according to Marxist historians themselves. But here we are, twenty years later, and all that is deliberated wiped from our minds. 5/23/08

California Decision Will Radically Change Society
Americans seem mesmerized by the word “change.” And, by golly, they sure got it last week from the California Supreme Court. It is difficult to imagine a single social change greater than redefining marriage from opposite sex to include members of the same sex. 5/20/08

The Next Conservatism
Conservatives gave up some of their principles in order to retain power. The public has lost confidence in the conservative movement. 5/12/08

Scientific Dissent from Darwinism
Over 700 scientists since 2001 have stood against the establishment and proclaimed: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.” 5/12/08

A Phony ‘War on Science’
There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.” 5/7/08

Maxine Waters threatens to nationalize U.S. oil industries
Maxine Waters just declared a socialist policy of total confiscation in the House hearing room, and she looks for an exit strategy. 5/24/08

Anglican Church Bishop Working to Create “Gay” Christianity
The Anglican Church is the perfect vehicle for creating a new “gay” Christianity by virtue of the fact that it is the only church that accepts the logical contradiction of asserting both the sanctity of human life and the existence of a right to abortion. 5/16/08

Some Logical Corollaries of California’s Gay Marriage Decision
In order to appease an intransigent minority group, the California Supreme Court has, in the manner of Roe v. Wade, resorted to inventing a new legal principle to justify their predetermined goal. 5/19/08

Crude Mistake
Democrats prove yet again they do not care about the American public or real economics. These statists-socialists are destroying our future and crippling our economy by maintaining our dependance on foreign oil and limiting America’s energy options. 5/16/08

Human Rights Regression
Since the end of the Second World War, much of Western Civilization took it for granted that the progress and triumph of human rights, freedom, and liberal democracy would continue in perpetuity. 5/15/08

The Law of Intended Consequences
Congress is not shocked to discover that an idealistic program has gone awry. Instead, they’re eager to avoid the blame for something that they already knew they were up to. This is not a case of “unintended consequences”; it is a case of intended consequences. 5/8/08

Life Without Edges - The Left’s Seductive Promise
In 1947 the Left discovered the Separation of Church and State in the Constitution. This eventually led the benevolent Left to protect us from too much exposure to religion by prohibiting prayer in public schools. 5/8/08

Ben Stein Provokes the Liberal Wrath
The message of Stein’s critics comes through loud and clear. They don’t want anybody to challenge Darwinian orthodoxy or suggest that intelligent design might be an explanation of the origin of life. 5/5/08

Darwin and Hitler: In Their Own Words
Darwin understood the eugenic implications of his own theory, and warned his readers against imminent evolutionary backsliding. 5/5/08

Be Happy: The American Refusal to Deal with Suffering
What IS unique to modern America is that our hopefulness comes with a price tag that no other culture has ever been willing to pay. It comes at the expense of reality and the medium of exchange is our spirit. 5/3/08

Globe may be cooling on Global Warming
Australia, the land where sinks drain the other way, has alerted Americans that we see Earth’s climate upside down: We’re not warming. We’re cooling. 5/1/08

Darwinism, Bumbleology with a Fake ID
Q: How many materialists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Given time the light bulb will change itself. 4/29/08

America, You Have Been Had
They say that liberals are all prepared for the inevitable “swift-boating” of Barack Obama. Look behind you, liberals. It already happened and, like last time, it was an own-goal scored by liberals. 4/29/08

Passing the Buck has Turned to Passing the Debt
America became a great nation because at key moments in our history our national leaders were willing to make sacrifices to preserve freedom and opportunity for future generations. Yet, that tradition is being abandoned today in Washington. 4/28/08

Reason Permeates the Universe, Logic Must be Valid
To understand that logic must be valid is to see at once that this thing we all know, this thought, this mind, cannot in fact be really alien to the nature of the universe. Or, putting it the other way around, the nature of the universe cannot be really alien to Reason.

We find that matter always obeys the same laws which our logic obeys. When logic says a thing must be so, Nature always agrees. No one can suppose that this can be due to a happy conincidence.

God didn’t create hell for sinners, they did it themselves
God didn’t create hell for sinners, they did it themselves. God doesn’t send sinners to hell, but people who oppose God’s will and revolt against God choose hell themselves. 3/28/08

Sex-change therapies on children 'beyond the pale'
Children's Hospital Boston, a world-renowned center for pediatric healthcare, is being criticized by a Massachusetts-based pro-family group for offering sex-change therapy to patients as young as ten years old. 4/23/08

Earth First! (People Later)
The “science” of global warming is nothing more than a cover for their irrational emotional needs. It’s religion for people who are too cool to go to church. All that yearning, the need for something bigger, transcendent: Hey the planet’s heating up and I’ve been placed here to save it! 4/22/08

Time Magazine Disrespects WWII Veterans
The cover of Time magazine’s latest issue using the famous photo of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima to promote the imagined "War On Global Warming" shouldn’t really be surprising. It is just more of the same that we have come to expect from the MSM (mainstream media) disrespect for the military and the men and women who serve their country. 4/20/08

The Real Agenda Behind Climate Change and Earth Day
In recognition of Earth Day, there is an excellent article in the BBC News today which reveals the real agenda behind the global warming movement, which is the abolishment of capitalism. 4/22/08

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’
On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow.” 4/22/08

Bio-Foolishness
Poverty, famine and violence are among the supposed products of global warming in the future. Yet these calamities are with us today thanks to a key element of “green” policy, biofuels. This feel-good measure is becoming a real-world disaster. 4/21/08

Straight Talk About Casual Sex
Academic institutions, particularly the women's studies programs, promote the idea that marriage is optional and young people are advised to "just do it!" The secular mantra, heard from middle school on up, is that sex will make you popular and happy; it's great recreation that is free and fun. 4/20/08

Imagine a Free Tibet!
I don’t know what the “Free Tibet” bumper sticker crowd must be thinking these days, but I can assure you it most certainly doesn’t involve the 101st Airborne, tanks, guns, or any of that other “culture of violence” stuff. 4/20/08

Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists
Everyone should take the opportunity to see “Expelled” — if nothing else, as a bracing antidote to the atheism-friendly culture of PC liberalism. 4/18/08

For Senior, Abortion a Medium for Art, Political Discourse
The insane actions and delusional rationalizations of this college senior point to what happens when man stops believing in God and the sanctity of human life. 4/17/08

Blessing vs. Damning America
The spiritual mentors of Ronald Reagan shaped his understanding and vision of America’s role in the world. Why would anyone assume the same does not hold true for Barack Obama? 4/11/08

The slick trick behind global frauding
In Stalin’s Russia any dissenter from the Party Line was guilty. Innocence had to be proved. It’s a standard tyrant’s trick. During the reign of Oliver Cromwell in England, witchhunters did not have to prove that their victims were guilty. The accused witches had to prove their innocence. 4/9/08

Cancer-Cure Radio Frequency Machine (John Kanzius)
Major breakthrough in the fight against cancer! One man’s struggle to help himself and others with cancer leads to the greatest hope for destroying cancers in medical history. 4/14/08

The Kanzius Machine, A Cancer Killer
For John Kanzius it began with a simple idea, some pots and pans and even a hot dog! Now, the Kanzius machine, which generates radio waves, has developed into a possible breakthrough in cancer research. 4/13/08

It’s a Bad World
I am convinced that human evil is so great that most people choose either to ignore it or to focus their concerns elsewhere — like those who believe that human-created carbon dioxide emission, not human evil, poses the greatest threat to mankind. 4/8/08

January - March 2008

How the Leftist Churches Set a Time Bomb for the Democrats
Until the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama’s spiritual mentor in Black Liberation Theology, popped out of the woodwork, I didn’t even know about BLT — Black Liberation Theology. 3/26/08

The Clintons’ Truth Deficit Disorder
Seinfeld’s George Costanza famously quipped: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” This is how a Clinton — take your pick, Hillary, Bill or Chelsea — makes it through the day. Better living through self-delusion. 3/26/08

The Religion of Eternal Racism and Eternal Sexism
How many “civil rights” leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? 3/25/08

Global Warming Stopped a Decade Ago
There has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. 3/22/08

Science, Bible agree: Giving is better
The Bible counsels misers that it’s better to give than to receive. Science agrees. People who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than folks who didn’t share, according to a report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science. 3/20/08

Terrorists, Marxists, Leftists and the Democrats
If we let the Democrats undermine our alliance with Colombia to appease the far left, no international agreement is safe. Foreign policy becomes just another political tool and our alliances merely matters of political convenience. 3/10/08

The Second Coming
At the Ascension of Jesus, the angels were head saying: “Why do you stand looking into Heaven? This Jesus will come in the same way as you saw Him go into heaven.” What do the Church Fathers teach us about the “Second Coming?” Mar. 2008

Debate on Euthanasia, Dialogue between Christianity and Secular Humanism
The recent debate on euthanasia is impossible to examine apart from the main problems in the dialogue between the religious world-view and Western secular humanism over the values which should lie at the foundation of the ‘new world order.’. 3/14/08

Homeschooling and Parental Rights Under Attack in California
Declaring that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” the Second District Court of Appeal for the state of California recently issued a ruling that effectively bans families from homeschooling their children and threatens parents with criminal penalties for daring to do so. 3/12/08

Homeschoolers’ setback sends shock waves through state
A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution. 3/7/08

The Liberal Jihad
This jihad has already taken place in the vast majority of mainline Protestant denominations where liberal theology has stripped Jesus Christ of His divinity and unique role in salvation. 3/5/08

Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions
Sen. Obama told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him “less Christian.” 3/3/08

What’s “Just” about Taxes?
Everywhere, it seems, tax is in the news. At least two U.S. presidential candidates have signaled their intention to raise taxes on higher-income earners and specifically target oil companies if they are elected. 3/5/08

The Fallacy of Shared Values
At a time when 40% of young Muslims in the United Kingdom want to impose sharia law on the country and 36% favor executing apostates of Islam, the head of the Church of England called for the selective application of sharia law in Britain in the interest of social cohesion. 3/1/08

Liberty a Gift, Socialism a Disease
Liberty is a gift from God. Socialism is a disease invented by man. 2/22/08

They live out her racist vision
Covert investigation by UCLA students finds Planned Parenthood still wedded to founder’s bigoted views. 3/2/08

Judge orders homeschoolers into government education
A California court has ruled that several children in one homeschool family must be enrolled in a public school or “legally qualified” private school, and must attend, sending ripples of shock into the nation’s homeschooling advocates. 2/29/08

Academic Gibberish And The Hermeneutics Of Mistrust
Overwhelming evidence attests to the liberal tilt on our college campuses. Studies show that the faculty at most mainstream institutions are overwhelmingly registered with the Democratic party and give a disproportionate share of their political donations to left-leaning candidates. 2/21/08

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.” 2/25/08

The Church of Global Warming
The imploding National Council of Churches (NCC) is always flailing about for a new raison d’etre. This month, it took its Global Warming alarmism to Northern Ireland , where it hopes that fears about a climate catastrophe will “inform the peace and reconciliation process.” 2/21/08

National Security At the Border
Three Afghanis were arrested Wednesday at an international airport in India’s Kerala state for flying with forged Mexican passports. 2/19/08

Flat Tax is the Way of the Future
Most formerly communist countries are adopting capitalistic and fair Flat Tax systems, while the US continues with its socialist, unfair, and punitive Tax scheme.

Warming Hysteria is Fake Religion, Not Science
If global cooling is known to be the real and impending danger, why is it that even with the onset of cooling, most climatologists are raising hysterical alarms about global warming? Because they are not actually concerned about global temperature at all. 2/18/08

Kosovo: A New Day of Infamy for a New Century
The grotesque charade in Pristina on Sunday, February 17, crowned a decade and a half of U.S. policy in the former Yugoslavia that has been mendacious and iniquitous in equal measure. 2/18/08

The Fierce Urgency of Lies
Obama, a very junior Senator, will guide us to a Utopia that has yet to be defined, an America that the left envisions but cannot quantify; but rest assured it will be swell. 2/25/08

Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins
An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: “ I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum.” 2/23/08

Obama’s Global Tax
More proof of the communist ideology and anti-capitalist tendencies that drive Barack Obama. 2/19/08

Gun Free Zones Can Be Deadly
Another maniac, with guns bristling all over him, walked into a “gun-free zone” and began picking off human beings as if they were ducks in a shooting gallery. 2/17/2008

The Second Amendment’s Day in Court
When the Washington, D.C. City Council enacted the toughest gun-control law in the nation in 1976, the city fathers believed they were making our nation’s capital a safer place. The measure failed miserably. 2/15/2008

Opposition to DC Hand Gun Ban Moves Forward
The right to keep and bear arms get a boost. 2/15/2008

Some Thoughts on Love
With Valentine’s Day approaching, some thoughts on love. 2/12/2008

Media Spins Success in Afghanistan as Failure
Some suggestions for the next Democratic debate moderator. 2/8/2008

The Sun Also Sets, Global Cooling Potential
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. 2/7/2008

A Few Questions In Search Of A Debate
Some suggestions for the next Democratic debate moderator. 2/8/2008

The Sun Also Sets, Global Cooling Potential
Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles. 2/7/2008

The Abortion Issue: A reasoned pro-life approach
If conception does not create a human being, what a woman does with the product of conception is her own business. But if conception does create a human being, then the debate is over: the government should protect the lives of the unborn by prohibiting abortion.

The Elephant In the Immigration Room
The ignored elephant in the immigration debate is the negative impact of illegal immigration on job opportunities for unskilled, uneducated, native-born U.S. workers. 2/3/2008

Fashion Nonsense
You visit the local mall with your children tagging along, and the biggest worry you should have is where to find the best bargain. The last thing you want to have to worry about is those youngsters seeing images you wouldn’t allow in the privacy of your own home. 1/21/2008

War? What War?
A pertinent question for 2008 might be: How many 9/11’s does it take to wake a sleeping giant and keep him alert at the helm?More than one, it would seem. 1/21/2008

DePaul’s "1984" Moment
If you were to tour DePaul University’s campus asking students about free speech, you would notice the hesitation in their answers. 1/24/2008

Hillary Clinton Confirms She Will Appoint Pro-Abortion Judges
It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton has promoted abortion at every turn as a senator and presidential candidate — forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions and voting against a partial-birth abortion ban repeatedly. 1/23/2008

Abortion Victims Remembered
Every year since the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict in Roe v. Wade, a courageous and dedicated group of individuals have traveled to Washington to remind us of this unfortunate decision. 1/22/2008

Bush Administration Wrong on Guns
A key step in the development of Second Amendment jurisprudence was the Bush Administration’s decision to adopt the “individual rights” theory of the Second Amendment; a position is has since abandoned. 1/22/08

Tax Rebates are Good, But Permanant Tax Cuts are Better
Anytime the government gives money back to the people, it’s a good thing. 1/22/2008

The Elephant in the Room
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic “Independents” who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. 1/16/08

The Race for the American Mind
If political correctness continues to capture minds and hearts, the pressure - both governmental and social - to call truth “hate speech” and censor it will continue to grow. 1/13/08

PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet in Jail for Cannibalism Suspect
According to PETA, humans eating other humans is the same as humans eating steak, fish, or chicken. More lunacy from the radical left. 1/11/2008

UN Gag Order
The Islamic propaganda machine has turned Western democratic values inside out to the Islamists’ advantage. 1/11/2008

What’s the Matter with Socialized Medicine?
Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall for the decadent King Belshazzar. “You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting” (Daniel 5:27). Socialized medicine deserves similar judgment. 1/9/08

Five Characters Reject Abortion in a Cultural Shift in Movies
If art is a reflection of our culture, our culture - and particularly our youth culture - is awaking to the reality of life in the womb. 1/3/2008

Woman loses right to wear cross
A Christian British Airways employee who sued the company after it required her to cover up a cross necklace while on the job has lost her discrimination suit, but she vows to return to work tomorrow wearing the cross. 1/9/2008

Who Will Control Your Thermostat?
There is nothing wrong with your thermostat. Do not attempt to adjust the temperature. We are controlling your power consumption. If we wish to make it hotter, we will turn off your air conditioner. 1/4/2008