CommentsDisplaying Steve Neiling's 10 most recent comments.

• NY Prep Schools Ban Students from Announcing Acceptance Into Ivy League Schools… to Protect Other Students

  April 23, 2012 at 9:37am

  This is one of the ways people are indoctrinated into the notion of the necessity of big, paternalistic (or should I say, maternalistic) government. We must never feel nor experience the sting of failure or disappointment. It is the very premise upon which a welfare state is built–our citizens must be protected from their own failures, they must be made comfortable in their poverty. Incentives to improve are taken away. It’s just a sad, pitiful state of affairs.

• Audience Boos Contraception Question — Gingrich Then Slams Media Over Obama and ‘Legalized Infanticide’

  February 23, 2012 at 12:28pm

  The body inside the body? Really? What makes the outside body suddenly superior to the inside body? Couldn’t the same argument be made for the body inside having superiority? What if we used that logic? What if we delivered the “body inside the body” and then destroyed the “outside” one? If someone has to die here, why are we picking on the infant? Abortion kills someone. I think we would reconsider the whole thing if the victim was the “outside body!”

• Want to See Rep. Allen West Rip ‘Think Progress’?

  February 21, 2012 at 3:10pm

  In reply to rambosharley.

  @JROOK
  I have to disagree with your premise. When a candidate runs for office he ought to be perfectly honest regarding his views and opinions. If the majority of the voters in his jurisdiction agree with those views and opinions, he gets elected to the office for which he ran. He then represents the majority view of his constituents. For instance, like it or not, Barack Obama presented himself in such a way as to convince the majority of the electorate that he shared their views. We in the minority are stuck with that until the next election. A democratic republic isn’t always pretty but its worked well enough so far.

• Did Mitt Romney Really Say He‘s ’Not Concerned About the Very Poor’?

  February 1, 2012 at 12:34pm

  In reply to sandrunner.

  @Kegbuna
  The problem, as I see it, is that gov’t assisstance has undermined American charity. I think we are capable of taking care of ourselves and our own. I think removing the tax-funded safety nets would go a long way in incentivizing people to aspire to higher things. If a friend or family member of mine is struggling financially, I try to help out in any I can. And I hope the same from them if I have to struggle. I think the great adventure of being an American is striking out on your own–being independent. That’s the fun and the danger of living in a free land. Your success is entirely your success and your failure is entirely your failure. Tough? You bet it is. But it’s the price we pay to breathe the free air.

• Are Jesus Christ‘s Views ’Liberal‘ or ’Conservative?’

  January 31, 2012 at 2:25pm

  Actually, since Jesus holds the titles Christ (Anointed One), Lord of lords, King of kings, Prince of Peace, etc., it would seem to me that He is a monarchist through and through. The realm over which He rules is a Kingdom, not a republic or any other form of government. I would assume then, that He favors a benevolent monarchy.

• AZ Woman Barred From City Council Race Because She Can’t Speak English Proficiently Files Appeal

  January 31, 2012 at 1:32pm

  Personally, I think two general qualifications for public office are required:
  1. The candidate must be a citizen of his/her jurisdiction.
  2. The candidate should reasonable be able to carry out his duties should he gain office.
  Ms. Cabrera may fulfill the first requirement but does she adequately fulfill the second?

• British Columnist Stunned: Obama‘s SOTU Outlined Ideas ’Based on the Very Model That Is Causing the EU to Implode’

  January 30, 2012 at 2:51pm

  In reply to Baddoggy.

  Did they move American Idol to Tuesday nights?!!

• Beck: ‘Wake Up’ & Join Catholics in Fight Against Contraceptive Mandate

  January 30, 2012 at 2:45pm

  In reply to 4XGrace.

  I think you’re sadly mistaken. Religion is the framework within which any relationship actually works. All of life is filled with rhythm and ritual–mornings and evenings, changing seasons, planting and harvest, heading to work and coming home and on and on. Religious ritual is much the same. In the context of traditions and rituals our relationship with God is nourished and strengthened. It is religion WITHOUT relationship that is the bane of any soul. We have a word for that: hypocrisy. And those who are hypocrites can be found in every walk of life. Religion is not the problem, hypocrisy is. So back off a little bit OK.

• Beck: ‘Wake Up’ & Join Catholics in Fight Against Contraceptive Mandate

  January 30, 2012 at 2:36pm

  In reply to rweallinsane.

  Because some of that money I contributed. That money represents hours of my life, my toil, my sweat. Do you work for something that you are diametrically opposed to? Do you spend one minute of your life working for something that is morally repugnant to you? The communal money has a source you know; it doesn’t appear magically. And in this nation, we do not take money from our citizens and use it to strip them of their basic freedom of conscience. At least that’s the theory. Unfortunately that theory has fallen out of practice and favor over the past fifty or so years.

• Beck: ‘Wake Up’ & Join Catholics in Fight Against Contraceptive Mandate

  January 30, 2012 at 2:29pm

  I guess we‘re finding out what’s in the bill. Isn’t that what Ms. Pelosi said would happen once it passed? It seems as if Obamacare is a great Pandora’s Box or Trojan Horse–filled with surprises yet to come!