2009 Articles

April - Dec
- Napolitano’s Take On The Death Of Lincoln… IN AN EXCLUSIVE interview Department of Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano told us: “Yes, absolutely! I also believe that once Lincoln was shot and killed, the security system worked well. First, the President was not shot again, after he died. In addition… 12/31/09
- No, “KoKo,” I Will NOT Send You Money! Stop Begging! Get A Job! Happy New Year! And Are You Sure That “Sign” You’re Giving Me Says “Polite”?… 12/31/09
- Pollster George Barna’s Autopsy Report On The “Church” In America Explains A Lot About Why Our Country Is Sliding Into Hell (Psalm 9:17) }Based on his company’s interviews with thousands of people during the year, researcher George Barna synthesized the findings across numerous studies and summarized four themes that emerged from his research regarding religion in 2009. 12/23/09
- My Extremely Private, Subjective Interpretation Of This Revelation: Only Women Are To Do Laundry, Ironing…. Putting away laundry was the last place a Methuen woman thought she’d have a spiritual moment. But there it was: an image she saw as a manifestation of Jesus Christ on the bottom of her iron.”I wouldn’t say it’s a miracle, but it made me say ‘Wow!’ ” said Mary Jo Coady, who was “uplifted” after first noticing the scorched image Sunday. 12/16/09
- Huckabee’s “Willie Horton”? — But Worse…. 12/08/09
- No Ambiguity In This Editorial It’s about time for Leonard Edwards to take the Hot Squat. Edwards, for those who haven’t been following his worthless career, has been convicted of two murders. He’s awaiting trial on another murder and the rape of a 14-year old girl. 12/08/09
- “Nashville American” Spoke No Ill Of Dead “Butcher Of New Orleans” — Just Told The Truth Old Ben Butler is dead! Early yesterday morning the angel of death acting under the devil’s orders took him from earth and landed him in hell. In all this Southern country there are no tears, no sighs, and no regrets. He lived only too long. We are glad he has at last been removed from earth and even pity the devil the possession he has secured…. 12/08/09
- Madison vs. Snotty Prof Well, now. As Steve Martin used to say, “Excuuuuuuuse me!” All I did was ask University of Maryland political-science teacher Thomas F. Schaller a simple question: “Where in the Constitution, sir, do you see it authorized that Congress can be involved with ‘health care,’ or fund ‘health care’?” I added: “I am asking here about the Constitution, not any court rulings.” And the guy went bananas. 12/03/09
- Health Care “Debate” A Total Scam, Phony War, As Demicans, Republicrats Ignore Most Important Questions Re: Godly, Constitutional Government The most important questions (in this order) re: any proposed government program are: (1) Is it Godly, which is to say does the program fit within the limits God has set for civil government (see, among other Scriptures, Romans, chapter 13.) (2) Is the program Constitutional within the limits set by Article I, Section 8 which lists the categories where Congress may spend money. 11/21/09
- A Faith For This One World? Lesslie Newbigin (December 8, 1909 - January 30, 1998), among other things a Church of Scotland missionary, is one of my favorite Christian writers. To read anything he wrote will profit you. In these excerpts from “A Faith For This One World?” (SCM Press Ltd., 1961), he deftly demolishes some things said by historians Arnold Toynbee and W.E. Hocking 11/17/09
- Witches Not Funny — Were And Are Murderers Of Both The Born And The Unborn By Abortion On Halloween young girls all across our country go out dressed as witches. In our public libraries there are numerous books for young people portraying witches as cute, comical characters. And we all remember the “good witch” in “The Wizard Of Oz” movie. But, witches are neither funny nor good. In his book “Witchcraft” (Penguin, 1952), Penethorne Hughes writes: 10/29/09
- Weikart Darwin-Hitler Talk Most Informative, One Of Best “First Fridays” We’ve Ever Had It was a full-house that heard California State University (at Stanislaus) modern European history Prof. Richard Weikart deliver the October 2009 “First Friday” address titled “From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany.” He discussed, among other things: His own interest in this subject which began when he noticed how many 19th century socialists/Darwinists were determined to get rid Judaeo-Christian ethics. 10/12/09
- An Honest Man! Sen. Thomas Carper Says He Will Not Read Health Care Bill Because It’s “Gibberish,” “Arcane,” “Confusing,” “Incomprehensible” (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people. 10/08/09
- Not A “Religious” War? 09/28/09
- Abolish The Census! It Has No Real Meaning; No, Seriously, It Doesn’t — Read On… The death of a part-time Census Bureau field worker in Kentucky has the Census back in the news, which reminded me of an interview I did years ago with a Census Bureau official re: a story I had read in the “Washington Post.” The “Post” story said, in part, this: 09/25/09
- Speaking Of “Education”…. SOMEONE NEEDS TO “educate” Bill Cosby and tell him that “education” is not “free” and has cost trillions of tax dollars over the decades. This picture is from an “ABC World News Tonight” report about Cosby being in Detroit to promote education.” 09/21/09
- Teaching God’s Word Is “Illegal” In A Public, Government-Run School But…. 09/21/09
- Another Favorite Cartoon……* 09/08/09
- What He Was Thinking At The Funeral….. 09/05/09
- I Return To My Hometown Orlando For My 50th High School Class Reunion; Yikes! Am I That Old?! Yes, I Am… 09/01/09
- Unedited Memo To Self Re: Town Hall Meeting With Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) At Hagerstown Community College In Maryland / 8-11-2009 - J.L. 08/29/09
- In All Of History, It Is Christ And Christianity Which Has Most Exalted The Status Of Women I recently interviewed Pastor James Bordwine re: his excellent book “The Pauline Doctrine Of Male Headship: The Apostle Vs. The Biblical Feminists.” And in our discussion I mentioned another book book titled “Christ And Womankind” (Newman Press, 1952) by Peter Ketter, then a Professor of New Testament Exegetics at the Diocesan Seminary, Treves, Germany. 08/28/09
- Joan Kennedy, Teddy’s First Wife Of 25 Years, A Non-Person, Only An Alcoholic, In Network Reports On Kennedy Death The network news programs I saw shortly after Kennedy’s death mentioned his first wife Joan only as an alcoholic or one suffering from alcoholism. That’s it. Not a word about the possibility that her whoremongering husband may have driven her to drink… 08/28/09
- No!, What Is Actually A Shame Is The Unmerciful (Pardon The Expression) Hounding Of Michael Vick…. 08/20/09
- PET PEEVES…. 08/08/09
- “RESPECTABLE GROWLING”: An, Alas, Continuing Series That Never Ends Because “Conservatives” Conserve Only Liberalism… REP. MIKE PENCE on “Fox News Sunday” recently opposed not the entire Federal bail-out idea - which is unGodly and unConstitutional - but rather the fact that not enough of the money went to infrastructure, roads, bridges, blah, blah 08/07/09
- Another Favorite Cartoon….* 07/30/09
- Hypocrite Watch: ‘Focus On Family” Magazine Complains Press Idolizes Obama — You Know, Like They Did Re: President Bush, Republican Party 07/30/09
- Oh, Yuck! — Guns…. In any event, on ABC’s “World New Tonight,” Jones said: “To have someone bring a gun into that kind of space and to lift it up as if it were a symbol of goodness is horrific.” 07/22/09
- Wow! Now Here’s A Courageous Publisher! Because you know that any day now such a book, with photos like this, will be declared some kind of “sexist hate-crime.” And, believe it or not, this book was published by MQ Publications Ltd. in 2004 and is offered exclusively as a “Gift Book” by Hallmark Cards Inc! Amazing! 07/22/09
- Cronkite A Great Reporter? NOT! Said Communist North Vietnamese Doing “Good Job” On “Education” Of Children The way Newsweek magazine tells it, Walter Cronkite has sort of come out of the closet, revealing himself to be (surprise!) a liberal in an address at a dinner sponsored by People For The American (sic) Way.
  
  But what Newsweek wants us to believe is absurd. For years Mr. Cronkite has been a liberal, and an extremely mush-headed liberal at that. The only thing new here is that Newsweek has now ended its cover- up of the former CBS anchorman’s far-left views. 07/22/09
- Another of my favorite cartoons 07/21/09
- Text Of “Washington Times” Cronkite Column NEW YORK, N.Y. — I’m early, sitting all alone in the middle of the second row of the 63-seat auditorium of The Museum of Broadcasting where Walter Cronkite will soon conduct the first of four seminars about television news. Suddenly, Mr. C. and his host, the president of the museum, enter the room to check out the setting. Mr. C. says something about how questions may have to be repeated because his hearing is “starting to go.” He looks at me and smiles. Noting I am an early arrival, Mr. C. wonders aloud if I have been in my seat since the previous day? I say “no.” He laughs. I smile. 07/21/09
- Regardless Of What You Have Heard Lower Court Judges Do NOT Have To Follow Own Court, Supreme Court During the Sotomayor hearings the subject of stare decisis — following precedents — has come up. It will come up in future Supreme Court nominee hearings. So, you should… 07/17/09
- Need Some Help With This One, Senator McCain - How Does Investigating, Punishing Our Law-Breakers Hurt America’s Image Abroad, Sir? MCCAIN: No. Look, I fought against waterboarding. I said waterboarding was torture. We passed the Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibited cruel and inhumane treatment. I have spoken out as forcefully as possible everywhere against what went on and that we need — it harms our image so much around the world when photographs come out and — we all know that bad things were done. 07/16/09
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex) Worries That Investigating Possibility Of War Crimes Might “Chill The Ability” Of Torturers In The Future! ALLACE: … because we are running out of time, and I have one other issue I want to discuss with you — and along those lines, there’s another story in the paper today, Senator Cornyn, that Attorney General Holder is leaning towards appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate whether or not CIA personnel tortured terror detainees after 9/11. Good idea? 07/16/09
- Calvin And “George”…. HEY! NOT BAD. His second day on the job helping me with our radio show, and my grandson Calvin Michael Lofton gets to meet “George Washington” who allows Calvin to wear his hat! But, we cannot tell a lie. “GW” here is James Renwick Manship, Sr. of the “God and Country Foundation” who is available to channel George Washington at your event. 07/16/09
- Wow! I Scare Even Me… ORGANIZING OUR PHOTOS, I ran across this one: My wife Barbara and I at a Halloween Party of ours in 1966 when we lived in Burlington, Vermont, where I had my first newspaper job as Editor of “The Vermont Sunday” news owned by William Loeb. I think we were supposed to be “Bonnie & Clyde.” 07/10/09
- Famous People I Allowed to Meet Me… 07/10/09
- Hey! What About The “Rights” Of Cross-Dressers Who Were NOT Invited To White House? Why Is This Kind Of “Discrimination” OK? Mr. President - Hello? Michelle - Hello? 07/09/09
- What’s REALLY Going On Here? 07/09/09
- What’s REALLY Going On Here? 07/09/09
- Who would ever guess this was Jackson and his (?) kids if they saw this? 07/09/09
- What’s REALLY Going On Here? 07/09/09
- What’s REALLY Going On Here? 07/09/09
- Sotomayor Says She’s For “Fidelity To The Law” But What Is Law? What/Who Is The Source Of Law? The question, What is law?, can be answered, first, by stating that the definition of law varies from one culture to another in terms of the religious faith of each society. There is a difference between Soviet law and Biblical law, to cite two extremes. Since law is the will of the sovereign, what or who the sovereign is will deter mine what the nature of the law will be, and how it can be defined. Second, apart from Biblical faith, law sooner or later evaporates into nothing. 07/08/09
- Fake Fight: House GOP “Leader” Bonehead Boehner No Different, In Principle, From Dems On Un-Constitutional Big Government “Stimulus” Scam; Both Believe Government-Creates-Jobs Fairy Tale BOEHNER: This was supposed to be about jobs, jobs, and jobs. And the fact is it turned into nothing more than spending, spending, and more spending on a lot of big government bureaucracy. In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago — there hasn’t been a contract let, to my knowledge. And the fact is — is I don’t believe it will create jobs….the real question is where are the jobs. You can’t spend $800 billion of taxpayer money and not create jobs when you say that’s what the goal was. We haven’t seen the jobs yet…. 07/08/09
- “King Of Pop” And “King Over Nothing” “Popular culture” is a sewer. We have been told, ad nauseam, that the late MJ was the “King Of Pop.” Thus, he was “King Of The Sewer.” All of which reminds me of an episode of “The Honeymooners.” At one point, “Ralph Kramden,” thumping the center of his chest with his right hand middle and index finger, says, to “Alice,” something close to: “And don’t ever forget, Alice — 07/08/09
- Thoughts Re: The Death Of Michael Jackson: Only Christianity Rescues Us From The “Fame” Trap, Teaches Us To Live For Christ, Not According To The Adulation Of Others* Ah, yes, fame. On a story in the “USA Today” newspaper (2/27/2000) about the woman who “married” the stranger on national TV, one headline reads: “Nothing’s too outrageous when fame is at stake.” This story quotes a teenager in New York City standing outside the NBC “Today” show as saying she would indeed gladly wear a whipped cream bikini if she thought this would get her on TV. Why? “Because it would be so cool to be on national TV and have two seconds of fame.” 06/30/09
- The Camel-Swallowers: No “Junk Food” More Important Than The Soul-Murder Of Her Children - Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!! I call them camel-swallowers (Matthew 23:24), people who major in minors. An example: this morally dyslexic lady on ABC’s “Good Morning America” recently. She’s outraged because, among other things, her kids in the government-run public school have been given (without her permission) cup cakes by classmates celebrating birthdays. 06/25/09
- A Neutral Observation (not). 06/25/09
- Moral Idiots O’Reilly, Beck Joke About Waterboarding, Torture, Release From Gitmo Of Uighurs Bush Administration Said Not “Enemy Combatants” BECK: I say put me in Gitmo if I end up on the beach in Bermuda with a job. They’re going to open up a restaurant. This is ridiculous. I mean, they don’t look that unhealthy here. Doesn’t look like they’ve really been tortured. Looks like they are pretty healthy. Free health care. 06/25/09
- Bill O’Reilly Wrong; Murdering The Unborn By Abortion, At Any Stage of Development, Is Never “Legal” Because Such Murder Violates The Law of God 06/18/09
- Another Contest! 05/20/09
- And You Think You Got Problems….. 05/20/09
- Howard Phillips Right On Souter; Pat Robertson Fooled Because He Was And Is Republican Party Cheerleader Twice on national TV (“Hannity & Colmes”), Pat Robertson has complained about how he was fooled when President George H.W. Bush nominated David Souter to the Supreme Court. Says Robertson: “[White House Chief of Staff John] Sununu pulled a fast one on me on Souter. I said to him, ‘I trust you. I trust you as a conservative.’ And it turned out that he, in turn, had been snookered by one of the Republicans from the big state of New Hampshire. And he’s been a disaster, Souter has….It’s amazing how many of those really horrible judges have been put in by Republicans. [Souter] has been the worst, in my opinion, of any judge on the court and we knew nothing about him.” 05/07/09
- The Obama Girls, “Bo,” Ted Kennedy And What Might Have Been… 04/15/09
- ABC’s “20/20” Show On Guns One Of Most Dishonest Programs Ever Broadcast On American TV 04/15/09
- I DON’T CARE… If our First Lady may have breached protocol by some of the ways in which she made physical contact with Queen Elizabeth. And I do not care despite the fact that, as I have read, “media outlets” covering this event were “abuzz” re: this very topic. In fact, part of the reason I do not care about this topic is precisely because “media outlets” are “abuzz” with this topic. I mean, it’s not like our First Lady grabbed the Queen, put her in a headlock and gave her multiple noogies a la Bill Murray and Gilda Radner in that skit on the old “Saturday Night Live” show. 04/02/09
January - March
- Sorry, But Joe Biden As Watchdog Over Trillions Of Federal Tax Dollars Seems Somehow Inadequate 03/25/09
- IF THE TRUTH HAD BEEN TOLD… 03/23/09
- The Protestant Indulgence I have been teaching Church History for 20 years. One of the highlights of my year is showing the great Martin Luther film from the 1950s starring Niall MacGinnis. It might be in black and white but I still think it is the best of the Luther films that I have seen. In that film, Luther finds one of his parishioners publicly drunk in the middle of the day. When Luther chastises him, the man produces an indulgence that he bought from Tetzel, the monk who largely raised the funds for St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. 03/18/09
- INTERVIEW: Pastor Robert Fugate Re: The Lordship Of Christ Over The Nations — And, Of Course, Politics, Too 03/12/09
- Is It Not True That Those Yankees Invading Maryland Were, In Fact, “Northern Scum,” As Our State Song Says? Yes…So Why… Change the lyrics?, as some Maryland Legislators are suggesting? That’s the topic of this radio program and: How Mr. Lincoln was a murderous tyrant and the Maryland State song honestly reflects this truth. 03/12/09
- Republican Party Cheerleader Laura Ingraham Hates It When Truth Told About Bush Administration Laura Ingraham was ticked off by a number of things President Obama said in his address recently to Congress. For example, “problem number two” with his talk was this: “The immature and rather unbecoming Bush bashing, even if he didn’t mention President Bush by name. But this - oh, well, I inherited these deficits. And we’re not going to be a nation of torturers, you know, after he talked about Gitmo . He suddenly went to nation of torturers.” 03/04/09
- GOP Opposed Big Spending When FDR Budget Was $9 Billion; And Why We Need To Shut Up About Race On this program, you’ll hear several sound bites from a 1940 Republican National Committee film made to help the Presidential candidacy of Wendell Willkie against FDR - a time when the Federal Budget was about $9 billion and gas was 14 cents a gallon, 5 cents of which was tax. And John will analyze a recent speech about race by Attorney General Eric Holder, at the Justice Department, marking Black History Month - a racist event, and a stupid one, because nobody ever achieved anything because of his race. 02/23/09
- Oh, Yeah — The Constitution — Of Course… I had an interesting, but somewhat depressing, conversation recently with a nice young man at a major conservative Washington DC “think tank” who had written a paper giving 10 reasons why President Obama’s “stimulus” boondoggle should not include any Federal spending on education. All 10 reasons were very good ones. But, BUT, missing from the list was the fact that any Federal spending on education is un-Constitutional. Here’s our exchange: 02/20/09
- OK, So When Can We Expect Attack Of Giant Grasshoppers? And Will A-Bomb Be Dropped On Chicago? At the recent signing ceremony in Denver, Colorado, for his “stimulus” boondoggle, President Obama admitted his scam won’t solve all our economic problems instantly. But, he said, his plan “does mark the beginning of the end….,” blah, blah, blah. 02/19/09
- GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF GREAT MOMENTS 02/19/09
- Roberts, Donaldson Aghast At Mere Thought That “Doing Nothing” Better Than Having Passed Obama “Stimulus” Plan 02/19/09
- Interview: Jane Weaver, Maryland Coordinator, Second Amendment Sisters 02/19/09
- The “Southern Avenger” On Lincoln 02/18/09
- The Cause Of Our Current Economic Crisis Is That Our People — Including Most “Christians” — Have Trusted In Caesar And Not The God Of The Bible 02/12/09
- George Orwell, Call Your Office Right. And as the slogans of the ruling party said in George Orwell’s “1984”: “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is shown here at a recent news conference where, as “TIME” magazine put it, he was outlining “a major overhaul of the government TARP program to rescue banks.” 02/10/09
- A Very Encouraging Letter This recent letter from a supporter in Wray, Colorado… 02/10/09
- Unbelievable! “New York Times” Obit Ignores “Them” — Yes, “Them,” One Of The Greatest Movies Ever About Giant Insects The “NY Times” obituary re: the death of actor James Whitmore (2/7/09) mentions, of course, as it should have, his one-man shows as Harry Truman, Will Rogers, TR. Also mentioned some TV shows he was in: “Playhouse 90,” “Studio One,” “The Twilight Zone,”“Gunsmoke.” Some of his movies are mentioned: “Asphalt Jungle,” “Kiss Me Kate”“Tora!Tora!Tora!,”“The Shawshank Redemption.” 02/09/09
- Interview: Mickey Edwards Re: His New Book “Reclaiming Conservatism: How A Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back” 01/29/09
- Analysis And Commentary: President Obama’s Inaugural Address And How That Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off Bit Sounded Soooooo Familiar… At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. 01/21/09
- Rohrbough Rejects All Laws As Evil And Wicked Which Allow “And Then You Can Kill The Baby” In his “Institute On The Constitution” January “First Friday” address, Brian Rohrbough, President of the Colorado-based “American Right To Life,” told an attentive packed house about the important differences between those who see the pro-life cause as a business and those who see the pro-life cause as a Godly calling. Emphatically rejecting the regulation of murder-by-abortion, he characterized as evil and wicked any law which says, in effect, after being complied with - “and then you can kill the baby” - a phrase first used by Bob Enyart, pastor of the Denver Bible Church. 01/20/09
- Walk-By-Sight False Prophet Pat Robertson Sees, Again, Russia Attacking Israel, As He Previously Predicted - Falsely Like Energizer Bunnies From Hell, the False Prophets (FPs) who walk by sight and not by faith, when things flare up in the Middle East, begin to babble, again, about “The End Times,” Ezekiel 38, and the coming attack by Russia on Israel. So, it was no surprise to see on Pat Robertson’s “700 Club” recently FPs Robertson and Benny Hinn discussing, one more time, The End Times, Ezekiel 38 and the supposed coming attack on Israel by Russia. 01/15/09
- Christ’s Kingdom Here NOW, And Growing, As He Reigns And Rules NOW Until All Enemies Put Beneath His Blessed Feet In the 1971 book by Dr. John Wesley White titled “Re-Entry: Striking Parallels Between Today’s News Events And Christ’s Second Coming” (Worldwide Publications), White says: “From time immemorial, man has longed for a combination on this earth of law and order; peace and prosperity; freedom and fulfillment; health and happiness; godliness and longevity of life. It will happen when Christ comes again to this earth to set up His Kingdom.” 01/15/09
- Schaeffer Wrong About God Authorizing Fathers To Execute Stubborn And Rebellious Sons The consequences of failing to obey God — warned about and reiterated, repeatedly and patiently by God, in Scripture — are horrible. And I believe, because we are coming under God’s wrath, that things will get a lot worse in this country before (if?), by His grace, they get better. Take, for example, the so-called “Super Predators.” According to a report on the “CBS Evening News” (4/9/96), the “SPs” are part of a “tidal wave of juvenile crime right over the horizon” that will make today look like the good old days. Because of a huge increase coming in 14-to-17-year-old boys, “the mother of all crime waves” is approaching and these young barbarians will be “more dangerous and more violent than anything we’ve ever seen in this country.” 01/08/09