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Wes Widner on September 7th, 2010

In a recent address to the UN Human Right’s Council, Obama declared that America was guilty of several human rights violations. However these human rights are not the same things we would normally (meaning historically) associate with human rights. Instead, Obama’s list of our violations of human rights is very telling when it comes to [...]

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Wes Widner on March 21st, 2009

When President Obama stands up and tells the nation that we should “focus more on the ‘hard sciences’” and then a few weeks later decries the “immorality” of the executive bonuses taken at AiG, I wonder if he recognizes the contradiction, or at least insufficiency, in his logic. He can’t have his cake and eat [...]

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Wes Widner on October 21st, 2008

A friend of mine recently recounted his disagreement with his son over their political choices, specifically Barak Obama and his struggle to explain to his son why Obama’s plans and ideals are incompatable with their shared Christian faith. The specific problem with Obama’s ideals, and hence their appeal to a wide range of people, is [...]

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