Month: February 2025

Your thoughts, not someone else’s thoughts you have adopted as your own intellectual “magic.”
If I must practice due diligence and research facts, issues, statements and rumors, then so must you.

If I want to know what Flush  Limbaugh, Squawk Hannity and Benny Breitbart have to say I go directly to the source and then maybe read Media Matters   or  a fact-checker site.

When it comes to politics and religion I have little patience for chapter and verse quoters of celebrity political figures or celebrity religious figures – as if their pedigreed source of  pretended wisdom overrules any objection or disbelief on my part.

I want to know what YOU think and how what YOU have learned has impacted YOUR life. Once we get to that place where you know what I think and I have told you why, YOU can return the favor.

An old truth declares that a person convinced against his will remains unconvinced still. That is why parroting what someone else has said as a persuasion against someone’s opposing position is a waste of time.

If you think I am speaking to  you based on someone else’s logic, then you can respond to me as advised in Proverbs. (Warning, quote coming)

Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. Like cutting off one’s feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool. Like a lame man’s legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. Like tying a stone in a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.

When it comes to original thinking, I do want to offer a quotation from a genuine conservative Republican icon as a case in point. I had heard of this quote, but in the interest of following my own advice, I looked it up and found what I wanted on my own bookshelf in a book I actually own.

“Goddamn it, John”, he began with a combination of anger, frustration and sorrow, “the Republicans are selling their soul to win elections.”

He saw trouble coming.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly these people frighten me.”

“Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won’t work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.” – Retired Senator Barry Goldwater as quoted in Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean.”