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• Finance Minister’s Plan to Save U.K. Economy: Undercut Everyone With a Rock Bottom Corporate Tax Rate

  March 23, 2012 at 7:02pm

  In reply to Micmac.

  U.K. politics is as cryptic and sneaky as American politics. When one tax gets cut, another goes up unannounced. Businessmen in the UK are crying foul over this story. George Osborne wasn’t totally honest about the coming changes to the corporate tax landscape:

  http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2118631/BUDGET-2012-Businesses-save-2m-day-corporation-tax-cut–face-1-3bn-raid-door.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

• Alleged Anonymous Member Hacks Abortion Clinic 26,000 Times in Six Hours to Expose ‘Murder’

  March 12, 2012 at 5:06pm

  In reply to bornagaincowgirl.

  As a fellow christian, I partially disagree with you. When Paul preached the gospel, what he was doing was against the law… or at least the law as dictated by the government of that day. He argued that he had a greater responsibility to God than to men.

  In keeping with that sentiment, I do not think we should ever do anything that violates God’s law in any respect… but sometimes following God’s law means breaking human law.

  So I would oppose any effort to harm or attack someone who does abortions… but if there was a way to non-violently stop them from murdering anymore babies, I would pursue that with a clean conscience… even if it were illegal. There is nothing that I know of that would accomplish this. But if you really believe that babies are being slaughtered by the thousands, how could you stand by and not do whatever you could to save them?

  I respect what this hacker tried to do. He broke the law, but he did it while trying to uphold a higher law. He saw something that he could do to save lives, and went for it. That is admirable.

• Too ‘Provocative?’ See the Outfit One BYU Student Got So Upset About He Wrote a Letter

  February 17, 2012 at 1:33pm

  In reply to Cavallo.

  I know a lot of Mormons, and a few of my close friends are Mormons. None of them would find anything wrong with this attire. In fact, I’ve met a number of Mormons who dressed much more provocatively then this. A couple of local Mormon churches even put on teenage dance events. It was never super risque or anything, but many of those Mormon girls were dressed to kill.

• Did Actor Denzel Washington Really Call Atheists ‘Sociopaths?’

  February 15, 2012 at 5:37pm

  In reply to GoodStuff.

  If Denzel had sociopaths were usually Christians, he would have been hailed by Hollywood as one the enlightened elites.

• Romney’s dog-lovers problem

  February 14, 2012 at 2:17pm

  I think it was idiotic of Romney to do that to his dog. He clearly didn’t think about how unpleasant it would be for the dog, or how ridiculous it would make him look as a public figure. He should have known better on several levels.

  That said. If this was the only blemish on Romney’s reputation, it wouldn’t matter to me all that much. We all have the occasional lapse in judgement… and sometimes really bad ones like this. But this slip up is nothing compared to Romney’s record of support for liberal policies. That’s the real kicker for me.

• Blaze Readers: Tell Us About Your Faith

  February 13, 2012 at 7:30pm

  In reply to SGT Rock.

  @SGT ROCK,

  Be careful not to get too puffed up in your pursuit of holiness. It is good be ardent in your pursuit of holiness and truth, but not if it causes you to hold other believers at arms length. I would generally agree that the word of God is not being accurately taught throughout much of the “church.” But there is always a remnant of real believers everywhere you go.

  I live in Oregon, a state that is overrun with liberals and liberal churches, but I still have many brothers and sisters in Christ here. And though no two of us would agree in every detail about the interpretation of God’s Word, we are united by our common love for Christ and our hearts desire to follow him and spread his gospel.

  A demand for biblical accuracy is good. But if your passion causes you to divide from your brother over minutia, you are doing a dangerous dance with pride. It is better unite under Christ than to divide over secondary or tertiary doctrine.

• ‘State Religion’: Bloomberg Defends NYC Policy Evicting Dozens of Churches From Public School Buildings

  February 13, 2012 at 11:46am

  In reply to wvernon1981.

  God is gracious enough to let Mayor Bloomberg keep his free will even when he’s going to do something stupid…

  It‘s a simple mind that looks at an event like this and draws the conclusion that God either doesn’t care or doesn’t exist. God’s word promises us that we would be ridiculed, hated, and even persecuted for following Jesus. Mayor Bloomberg’s actions (and your smarmy comment) only fulfill that prediction.

• Herman Cain Announces ‘9-9-9‘ is Actually a ’9-0-9′ Plan for those at Poverty Level

  October 21, 2011 at 10:56pm

  In reply to c0mm0nsense.

  @CommonSense,

  This wasn’t a change in his 999 proposal, this was included all along. Personally, I have nothing against poverty-stricken Americans being exempt from the income tax portion of the code… They’re in poverty, for crying out loud!… And you‘re crying foul as though it’s unfair?!? C’mon…

  The truth is that americans in poverty will still have to pay more in taxes under the Cain plan than they do right now, because of the 9% sales tax. And the other truth is that none of the other republican candidates hold as much promise as Herman Cain does… so don’t throw him out just yet.

• Report: Michele Bachmann’s Entire New Hampshire Staff Quits

  October 21, 2011 at 2:38pm

  In reply to mazakman.

  @The10thAmendment,

  I don’t see Paul having a chance in hell. He does well in the polls, but he’d perform against Obama about as well as Sarah Palin would. He just too polarizing a figure. We need somebody in there that moderates haven’t already made their minds up about. That doesn’t mean putting a moderate on the republican ticket, but it means putting somebody up there that isn’t going to draw a knee-jerk reaction from those of us that aren’t die-hard conservatives.

  Herman Cain is new enough that moderates and on-the-fence independents will be intrigued enough to consider him. But Paul has been around too long. Everybody already knows what he’s about, and has had plenty of time to find something they don’t like about his ideas.

  Ron Paul is the book everybody has already read, didn’t care for that much, and would prefer to leave on the shelf. Herman Cain is an intriguing new novel with a teaser on the back that’s good enough to make folks want to read. The way I see the current field of candidates, it’s Cain or bust.

• Report: Michele Bachmann’s Entire New Hampshire Staff Quits

  October 21, 2011 at 2:25pm

  In reply to moxjet1.

  @JZS,

  Trump didn’t know a darn thing about any of the stupid stuff he was saying. He never was a candidate, or a tea party icon. Perry only started off well because people thought he might be a Reagan republican, but then we all found out he’s further left than Bush, which is too far left.

  I don‘t know what’s happened to Bachmann, but she’s changed. Nobody did this to her. She did it to herself. Her message and her delivery have changed and it wasn’t for the better. She’s become cynical, and we need somebody who can keep pointing us toward a brighter tomorrow, not the bleak today.

  If Cain keeps doing what he‘s doing and doesn’t bend to the media or the threats of the left, I think he’s in it for the long haul. He won’t be going away any time soon, so long as he just stays on this course.