Follow your spleen ~ By Patrice Lewis

So what to do when your internal organs conflict with each other?

The early Chinese felt the spleen was the central organ in charge of life-sustaining postnatal energy, directing the critical flow of nutrients to keep the body functioning. So in this absurd metaphor of organ function, I've decided to assign a new responsibility to the spleen: issuing common sense. Common sense, you see, is an intelligent balance between head and heart.

You've heard the phrase "follow your heart" ad nauseum, I am sure. Patrice Lewis expounds on why we shouldn't only "follow our heart" in making critical decisions in life, and how it can lead to bad things. Just think about all the people who followed their hearts when they voted for Barack Hussein Obama, and look how that worked out! (No, Patrice doesn't say that in her column... That was my own editorial example.)

Follow your spleen

PATRICE LEWIS

By Patrice Lewis

January 01, 2011 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2011

Recently, my daughters and I were at a friend's house where a television was on (we don't get TV reception in our home). The girls, instantly mesmerized by the idiot box, stared at whatever dribble was showing. But since my kids have been raised without that questionable medium, they are much more critical of what they see on the screen.

Since it was shortly before Christmas, everything – from advertisements to previews of upcoming shows to the program itself – was Christmas themed. The overall message the TV station attempted to convey was holiday warmth and mushiness mixed with commercialism. "Follow your heart!" gushed an announcer's voice.

At once both my girls started making gagging noises. "I hate that term!" exclaimed my oldest, who just turned 15. "It's because people follow their hearts that they have so many problems!"

Out of the mouth of babes. I realized my sensible teen had nailed it.

I will now embark on a series of mangled metaphors that will make any physician nauseous, but bear with me.

It recent years, feelings – classically described as originating from the heart – have become gods. It's gotten to the point where how you feel supersedes rational thought. These feelings – following your heart – are not always the best guide for proper action and behavior.

When you think about it, how many times has following your heart gotten you into trouble? Your heart might say this is a great guy to marry (he's handsome, sexy and buys you roses) but your head knows he's risky (he's been married four times, had an affair while you were dating and can't keep a job).

Your heart might fall for your brother's latest plea for a loan – after all, isn't he family? – but your head knows darned good and well he's going to fritter the money away and ask for another loan next month.

See my point? Simply put, the heart is seldom a good judge of what should be done.

In the last 40 years, feelings have become supreme. We used to be guided by sensible documents such as the Bible and the Constitution. Now those sources are deemed too pitiless, too much at odds with the warm gushy feelings that rule society. Today we take our guidance from People magazine and Oprah.

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Liberals give till it hurts (you) ~ By Ann Coulter

Let me start you out with the introduction to the column. Ann writes:

Liberals never tire of discussing their own generosity, particularly when demanding that the government take your money by force to fund shiftless government employees overseeing counterproductive government programs.

They seem to have replaced "God" with "Government" in scriptural phrases such as "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37).

This week, we'll take a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the poor.

In her column this week, Ann Coulter explores the charitable giving habits of the very politicians that so compassionately desire your money to help the poor. I've skipped through all of the details of who (Democrats) gave how much money in the paragraphs that I've excerpted, but I promise, it is in her column that you can read in full.

UPDATE, December 30, 2010:

This segment with John Stossel was on Fox & Friends this morning, just hours after I had posted this column.

John Stossel: Who does the charitable giving? It might surprise you!

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Liberals give till it hurts (you)

ANN COULTER

By Ann Coulter

December 29, 2010 ~ 5:58 pm Eastern

© 2010

The only way to pry a liberal from his money is to hold ticker-tape parades for him, allowing him to boast about his charity in magazines and on TV.

Isn't that what Jesus instructed in the Sermon on the Mount?

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do. ... But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you" (Matthew 6:2-4).

In my Bible, that passage is illustrated with a photo of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

At least the hypocrites in the Bible, Redmond, Wash., and Omaha, Neb., who incessantly brag about their charity actually do pony up the money.

Elected Democrats crow about how much they love the poor by demanding overburdened taxpayers fund government redistribution schemes, but can never seem to open their own wallets.

The only evidence we have that Democrats love the poor is that they consistently back policies that will create more of them.

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