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Balancing justice and compassion ~ By Dave Welch

Dave Welch brings up some excellent points. This column reminded me of what I wrote just yesterday, "Safety Net: Personal responsibility and charity should matter," where I was talking about charity (compassion) and personal responsibility (living by the rule of law). Dave is well aware that the biggest lack of compassion, by our own government, is by allowing the illegal immigration to take place for decades. And now that the system is broken, because of not abiding by our own laws (both government and businesses), we have a real problem of being able to be compassionate in how we deal with the situation. Great column, Dave!

What I do believe is that immigration reform should be off the table until those clamoring for it the loudest first commit to closing and securing our borders to the fullest extent of our ability. Build fences and/or walls, tear down walk bridges, take down steps, place National Guard – or even better, U.S. Marines – on the border; whatever it takes.

Once that is accomplished, we must deal with the terribly dysfunctional immigration and guest-worker process that once worked but now allows terrorists in and keeps out solid, educated and professional would-be citizens who would be an asset to this nation.

If you have broken the law, it must be made right. If you are working to change or enforce the law, keep mindful of your mind and motives so we can balance justice and compassion.

By Dave Welch

Posted: May 08, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The rising tensions surrounding the immigration crisis are once again placing front and center the issue of just how tenuous is the balance between the principles of justice and compassion. The reality is that one is impossible without the other, yet we constantly try to separate them.

For example, the "law and order" mindset says that if you broke the law to get here and have likely broken numerous laws while here, you have no right to stay, nor any children you brought or bore here.

Contrarily, the "compassionate" mindset says that these are all real humans who deserve to be treated with dignity and that we cannot just lock up or ship out those here illegally.

Some on both sides are right; some on both sides are wrong.

First, it is self-evident that no home, neighborhood, city, society or nation can long survive without operating under the respect for the rule of law that protects the life, liberty and property of every innocent citizen under its jurisdiction. The primary restraint that preserves the greatest freedom for the most people exists in the heart of the individual that is grounded in the acknowledgment of a personal, caring and just God.

If I assume that my every thought, every action and every word are going to be one day replayed before a righteous and holy God to weigh on His scales for my "reward," you can guarantee it will give me pause on all three fronts.

As I explained to my son, who like thousands of others returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is wrestling with the demons of combat trauma and guilt of having had to kill, they have not committed murder. If he took a life in the performance of his duties under legitimate authority in a justified context of war, that is clearly not in violation of either God's or man's laws.

However, the rage and hatred that develops for "the enemy" because of the unthinkable acts and atrocities they witnessed lead them to a condition of murder even without taking life. Are you confused? Listen to the words of Jesus Christ:

You have heard that the ancients were told, ''YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER" and "whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court." But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, "You good-for-nothing," shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, "You fool," shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

– Matthew 5:21, 22 NASB

Similarly, if our frustration with the inaction of our government on immigration turns to anger and even hatred of any who have come here illegally, we are now in danger ourselves.

Our Lord raised the bar beyond our actions to even hold us accountable for the condition of our soul, which, as we are reminded, is the spring out of which our thoughts and actions flow. If our mind, will and emotions are driven by something other than love of and loyalty to God and His commandments, we will ultimately be driven by self-interest.

Both sides of the immigration debate have significant elements of self-interest involved, not all of which is wrong or even unlawful. It is not wrong to desire what is best for my family's care and even survival; it is almost always wrong to break laws to achieve it.

It is also not wrong to want safety, security and blessings for my family that cause me to insist that people be kept out of this country who live outside the laws I must obey and who demand that I surrender property, income and freedom to accommodate them. It is wrong, however to avoid taking responsibility for being apathetic toward the inhumanity of a broken immigration system, unjust and corrupt policies of our government that harm many people, and even for our own love of cheap goods and labor.

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Safety Net: Personal responsibility and charity should matter

Progress and social justice at one time may have been a good thing... That is until politicians that they could use it to expand government, and eliminate the need for personal responsibility and charity. So, on that theme, I ended up writing this column. While I give Glenn Beck the credit for helping me to arrive on these thoughts, it took some effort on my part to arrange it into this conclusion.

So, if people continue to be dependent on government and not learn personal responsibility, those rude awakenings of not having a true “safety net” to protect them will hit ground… I mean, home. And on the other hand, those that are charitable will be ready and willing and able to help those that are unable to help themselves.

Honestly, in my humble opinion, the only true safety net will be when personal responsibility and charity both matter.

By John Kubicek

May 7, 2010

© 2010

There will always be those that fail. It’s a fact of life. I understand it, because I’ve been there, done that. Anyone that has ran GM, Chrysler, Fannie and Freddie, or Goldman-Sachs understands that. Anyone who is a fan, or has who played for the Chicago Cubs, understands that. … but I digress.

But here is the real kicker: Some that fail are bailed out, and some aren’t. That is just SOOO unfair (said in total sarcastic tone)! Is there a way to ever justify that agenda? Obviously not, at least as far as Conservatives are concerned. Because in the case of bail-outs of the failures, responsibility doesn’t seem to count anymore. It seems clear that now, only those that grease the palms and make the largest contributions to politicians can get away with it. And for those that can barely afford a peanut butter sandwich or a small container of Mac & Cheese, how are they going to ever (afford to) make a difference? Financial contributions would not seem to be an option for many people. Are there any other options? We’ll talk about that here, but stick with me for a bit.

Voluntary charity – funds given freely to the institution of choice – should actually be the ONLY kind of bail-out available for individuals. For businesses, let the free market determine whether businesses succeed or fail.

But for now, the safety net depends on an ongoing progressive affair with government assistance. The key word is actually “dependence.” The tendency is to be a big enough part of a “victimhood,” so that if there are enough of you in a voter’s block, and anything you want or need will be taken care of by those wonderful guys and gals representing us in DC. Do the words, “Too big to fail” ring a bell?

There are two words that are the biggest enemies of liberty: “government” and “dependency.” Our Founding Fathers were quite obviously aware of this. They set up the architecture of the government via the Constitution as they did for a reason. Their intention was to make it very difficult to change the form of our government (aka “transformation”). Unfortunately, as technology progressed, so did the knowledge of the one hole in the idea that our founders warned us about. And I am not sure you will be ready or receptive to this information, but it was through the Church. It was a good thing at one time: Social Justice. The very first effort that was mostly GOD-lead was the abolition of slavery in America. The social justice movement kept on rolling along, quite well I might add, to give us the Civil Rights Act. Nothing to be ashamed of, America!

However, there was a dangerous undercurrent to go along with the positive waves of progress. (PS – William Ayers is NOT my ghost writer. Thought I better mention that being that I used an allusion to the murky, oily sea of change…) To accomplish many of these objectives that went along with social change (justice), the progressives learned how to be more aggressive than what we may have really desired. We were being transformed, but it was a very slow process. People that thought of social justice weren’t satisfied with just equal opportunity for all. Now, they insist on equal outcomes. Those are the people that first infested the universities; that lead to the public school institutions where the teachers are unionized and lead by the radicals that were taught by the progressive professors. They used indoctrination. It didn’t take long for the infestation to spread to the entertainment industry. And folks, we are still talking about what happened in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s! From there, it has only gone down hill.

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The United States: An oppressive hellhole? ~ By Patrice Lewis

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By Patrice Lewis Posted: January 09, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 While Americans struggle with their day-to-day activities – working, raising families, coping with a bad economy, worrying about the future – a little-noticed but pervasive influence has invaded our hallowed institutions and poisoned the wells of our future. No, for once I'm not talking about the current administration's lunatic policies. I'm referring to institutes of higher learning. It has recently come to light that the University of Minnesota attempted to pass a policy requiring its teacher applicants to believe in various politically correct doctrines before they are granted admission. Applicants would be screened for their political and ideological views. Those with incorrect values and opinions would be "re-mediated," and degrees would be withheld from those who resist "re-education." And the University of Delaware's Office of Residential Life was caught requiring students to participant in a program that taught "all whites are racist." Graduates from these schools are then unleashed upon society – in the case of the University of Minnesota, into public school classrooms – to spread their message on the evils of "white privilege," the "myth of meritocracy," the "history of white racism" and the dangers of adopting "white, middle-class, Christian meanings and values." It seems that these universities are trying their best to convince students that this country is "an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic," in the words of Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten. Translation: America sucks, and we're going to brainwash students into agreeing that America sucks. Hooray! Welcome to the Oppressive Hellhole of America. This message, naturally, is reinforced by Hollywood, which has teamed up with educators to air a series of History Channel programs that "rail against white oppressors, the free market and the military." In other words, leftists push to re-write history by applying their progressive, politically correct standards to the events of 200 years ago. It baffles me how people can so easily dismiss our history and tradition of opportunity with such contempt. Yes, of course we've had dark spots in our nation's past, but we're one of the few countries that have acknowledged those errors and attempted to correct and rectify them. Don't you find it amazing that those individuals who are the most privileged – educated, intelligent, influential, successful and (in the case of Hollywood) wealthy and famous – are the quickest to criticize the very country that afforded them the opportunities to use their gifts and get where they are today? These are the people that utilized the capitalist system to achieve their success. There is no government mandate that we must buy their product, see their movie, attend their concert or enroll in their universities. These people (who are so disgusted with America) have ironically made their mark in the world using the free-market principles and the constitutional freedoms they are guaranteed – the same principles they denigrate as evil. If we are such an oppressive hellhole, I challenge anyone – anyone at all – to explain to me how it is that penniless immigrants can come to this country with nothing more than the shirts on their backs, and within a decade become citizens, business owners, homeowners and begin putting their children through college without the use of social services or welfare. Opportunities in this country are open to everyone who works hard, lives frugally and puts their priorities in the right place. My immigrant grandparents did this. My three foreign-born sisters-in-law and their families did this. My husband and I did this. My ghetto-born friend in college did this (he's now a brain surgeon). I assume university educators and Hollywood stars have done this, too. People can't do these things in "oppressive hellholes." READ FULL STORY >

The great escape from responsibility ~ By Thomas Sowell

From WorldNetDaily

By Thomas Sowell Posted: August 25, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation – that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly involved. Education is usually discussed in terms of the money spent on it, the teaching methods used, class sizes or the way the whole system is organized. Students are discussed largely as passive recipients of good or bad education. But education is not something that can be given to anybody. It is something that students either acquire or fail to acquire. Personal responsibility may be ignored or downplayed in this "non-judgmental" age, but it remains a major factor, nevertheless. After many students go through a dozen years in the public schools, at a total cost of $100,000 or more per student – and emerge semi-literate and with little understanding of the society in which they live, much less the larger world and its history – most discussions of what is wrong leave out the fact that many such students may have chosen to use school as a place to fool around, act up, organize gangs or even peddle drugs. The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. Differences in infant mortality rates provoke pious editorials on a need for more prenatal care to be provided by the government for those unable to afford it. In other words, the explanation is automatically assumed to be external to the mothers involved, and the solution is assumed to be something that "we" can do for "them." [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif. He is the author of 28 books, including "Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy."

How free Americans became pigs at a trough ~ By Patrice Lewis

From WorldNetDaily

By Patrice Lewis Posted: August 29, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I frequently receive e-mails from readers professing admiration for our (ahem) "simple" life. (For those unfamiliar with our lifestyle, we have a homestead farm, a home business, and we homeschool our kids.) What many people don't understand is the sheer hard work the "simple" life entails. Difficult? Undoubtedly. Worth it? Unquestionably. We live this way because we're big believers in personal responsibility. We try to be responsible for every major aspect of our lives – our jobs, finances, health care, food and children's education. To us, it's simply what grown-ups do. Apparently, that's what makes us different. It's not that we live rural or milk a cow – it's that we're independent. Do you have any idea – any inkling at all – how much more streamlined our nation would be if everyone preferred independence and refused to allow others, especially the government, to be our mommies and daddies? Thomas Sowell had a superb article this week on the issue of personal responsibility. "Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care," he wrote, "the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation – that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly involved." External. That means you've shoved the responsibility for your education, your income or your medical care onto someone else. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN!]

My recommendation: What will it take to restore common sense and rein in out-of-control government? Get Glenn Beck's latest book, inspired by Founding Father Thomas Paine, "Common Sense".

Entitled to be sick, fat and self-destructive ~ By Star Parker

By Star Parker © 2009 Want to know what troubles our American health care system? Consider the thoughts of psychiatrist and Nazi death camp survivor Viktor Frankl. After spending time in our country as a visiting professor, he saw the looming dangers of freedom without responsibility. He observed, "Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast." We as Americans accept that health care is an individual right, even if someone else is paying for it. The truth that every personal right must have an accompanying personal responsibility is now lost in our self-absorbed materialistic culture. We have only rights, entitlements if you will. Few have any idea what the costs are of the health care they receive. Many get it tax-subsidized through their employer, many get it through Medicare in a now bankrupt ponzi scheme in which those working pay taxes to pay for care of those retired, and more than 60 million Americans do not pay at all through Medicaid and SCHIP programs. Hundreds of millions receive health care, the costs of which have little or nothing to do with their own personal realities, and then we wonder why those costs are out of control. Now Ted Kennedy has introduced his solution to all of this, which also captures the thinking of our president. Set up a new government health care plan, subsidized by taxes, and call this "choice" because you are not forced to take it (although you are forced to pay taxes for it). As Senator Kennedy announces more free health care – meaning one group of Americans will get what another group of Americans will pay for – the disconnect between who gets health care services and who pays for them will grow even greater. [Keep reading]

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The Death Of Common Sense - An Obituary

Today. we are mourning the loss of a beloved old friend who recently passed away. His name was Common Sense. Common Sense lived a long life but died in the United States from a vicious contagious disease. read more digg story, submitted by rjwusa