UA Wastes More Arizona Tax Dollars

No, it's worse than that parents. Your tax dollars are not just being wasted they are now working against you thanks to University of Arizona President Shelton's appointment of Cathy Busha to lead the new office for gay and lesbian affairs. Hooray! Your values and principles will now be actively challenged by one more University administrator who will attempt to indoctrinate your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to the ways of extreme political correctness. Oh, and that will not be the end of it. No doubt the new director will be charged with finding new and creative ways to use your future tax dollars against you.

Carrot? Stick? Or Just More Carrot Sticks?

If you didn’t catch this an interesting new study has demonstrated that people are motivated to lose weight by financial rewards. And a paltry reward at that! Paying participants $7 to $14 per 1% of body weight lost apparently was enough to encourage people to lose significantly more weight than those in the study who were not reimbursed. Let me see ....a 250 lb man is asked by his doctor to lose 15 lbs (6%) which will almost certainly reduce his risk of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer. Visit after visit he makes no progress and may even continue to pack on the pounds. Yet, offer him a sum less than $100 and it makes all the difference. Miraculous. If this is reproducible and maintainable (presumably by continuing very modest financial incentives) the health care crisis is over!

Bear Down on Campus Christians

It seems that the University of Arizona Student Government (ASUA) is living up to its leftist heritage by defunding those dangerous Christians again. Hiding behind the typical gobbledygook about newly revised school bylaws excluding funding for events that are "deliberately political or religious" they continue a selective execution of policy that undermines any credibility. You see the same ASUA that denied concert funding for Christians, approved funding a gay-rights organization during “Coming Out Week.” At the same meeting!

Columbia, Why Not Gitmo?

There is nothing original in blogging about Ahmandinejad’s visit to the United States, but I'll join the bandwagon anyway. This is just the most recent of many outrages perpetrated by American Universities over the past few decades. Having nearly daily contact with University elites it is clear to me that these are some of the nuttiest people around. They should not be supported by our tax dollars let alone be given access to our children. As for Ahmadinejad, how is it that he can leave UN grounds for Columbia University without being taken into custody? I would think that an intimate and extended tour of the Guantanamo would be more appropriate than a visit to an American University. How long would Hitler have lasted in the United States in 1942?

Hope in the Christian Family

Chuck Colson reminds us that family oriented cultures survive.

"We see parallels today between the modern West and ancient Rome. The low pagan fertility rate meant that Rome needed to import workers—and soldiers—from the farthest reaches of the empire and beyond. Rome lost its social cohesion. So, Rome fell. The Christian Church survived because believers had been multiplying. And what is going to cause Christianity to recover in the modern West may be precisely the same phenomenon."

It shouldn't be all that amazing that when a society follows God's plan it is sustained. It is also quite clear through history that an obedient remnant can sustain the hope of an entire people. However, what is astounding is that the most valuable service we can provide to mankind is also the most enjoyable and fulfilling of pursuits. “Be fruitful and increase in number”, “love your wives”, and “let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them” are all familiar exhortations to Christians. Which leads me to wonder, why do the non-believer's insist on making life so difficult or is this a sort of purging that needs to take place every millennium of so?

When all the seemingly important issues of the day are long forgotten what will remain is what we invested in our children. But first there needs to be children to invest in.

Doctors causing the "Healthcare Crisis"?

"It's only a matter of time before the best and brightest students forget about medical school and go to law school instead. How long can a society based on suing the productive last?"

Ann Coulter's response to the New York Times' incredible proposition that U.S. doctors get paid too much.

Henry vs. Vick?

DeWayne Wickham dares to ask the question...why is one idiot suspended by the NFL for "reprehensible" acts against dogs while another is allowed to continue his privileged position with the Denver Broncos after fathering multiple children out of wedlock?

Believe it or not some people actually deplore the comparison insisting that sentencing children to a fatherless existence is not nearly as concerning as dog fighting.

Victory Against Leftist Scare Tactics

The attempt by radical leftist groups to bully Christians was slowed as Focus on the Family was completely exonerated of any wrongdoing, or of even any hint of wrong doing. Of course the groups that called on the IRS to investigate Focus; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Americans United for Separation of Church and State knew all along there was nothing to their charges. Rather, the intended to intimidate all Christians from participating in the public discourse for fear of prosectuion. Hopefully, pastors and other Christians will be heartened by this decision and remain strong in advocating Godly principles in American life.

Down a Rat Hole?

According to reports at European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007 this week patients with a history of coronary artery disease are not meeting blood pressure targets despite the ever increasing use of medications. This according to the large, multi-country EUROASPIRE survey. The poor outcomes are likely due to the dramatic increases in obesity and diabetes in recent years, as well as a lack of improvement in smoking rates. As we often rediscover in medicine unless people also commit to changing their lifestyles drugs are next to futile.

Hypocrisy is Necessary to Avoid Complete Depravity

I don't care to discuss the Larry Craig Story. It has already been covered well beyond my tolerance for nausea. What I do find fascinating is the liberal howls of hypocrisy that arise whenever leaders who have previously supported pro-family, pro-decency policies do not live up to the standards that they or their constituents have set. These lefties would have you believe that because someone slips down the slimy slope, that somehow the slime is validated.

Mark Steyn addresses this interesting phenomenon in a recent NRO piece by asserting that some level of hypocrisy is necessary if society is to survive.

"It’s quite possible, on the one hand, to be opposed to the legalization of prostitution yet, on the other, to pull your hat down over your brow every other Tuesday and sneak off to the cat house on the other side of town. Your inability to live up to your own standards does not, in and of itself, nullify them. The Left gives the impression that a Republican senator caught in a whorehouse ought immediately to say, “You’re right. I should have supported earmarks for hookers in the 2005 appropriations bill.”