Thomas Brewton
Thomas Brewton
War No More
While the great wars since the 19th century have had underlying economic causes, those economic causes ironically were the product of liberal-progressive socialism, not of capitalism. Capitalism has never produced a totalitarian state
May 17, 2008 - 8:10:48 AM
Thomas Brewton
Labor-Liberal Incest
The generation who fought the War of Independence and wrote the Constitution understood that all political and economic power resided in the citizenry as individuals and that the people were, with great care and caution, granting certain limited and defined powers to the Federal government.
May 16, 2008 - 12:26:34 AM
Thomas Brewton
Obama's Excremental Economics
As prolongation of the 1930s Depression and stagflation in the 1970s demonstrated, Senator Obama's announced policies are a prescription for economic disaster.
May 14, 2008 - 12:47:28 AM
Thomas Brewton
Slaves to the Welfare State
New Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves. A large number of people, most of whom apparently are residents of New Orleans, have favored me with four-letter-word denunciations.
May 12, 2008 - 1:56:57 AM
Thomas Brewton
Questioning Pagan Gospel
Too few students today, if we are to believe the recent president of Harvard, are inculcated with anything other than anti-Americanism and subjects such as queer studies, Latino studies, black studies, feminist studies, and the various sorts of deconstructionism that permit teachers to interpret the written words of others in any way they please.
May 11, 2008 - 1:35:56 AM
Thomas Brewton
Senator Obama's Friends
Might his friendship with these Weatherman terrorists of the 1960s and 70s be a clue to the voting record that led National Journal to rate Mr. Obama the most liberal member of the Senate?
May 6, 2008 - 1:12:38 AM
Thomas Brewton
Europe: The Dark Continent
Fewer than one percent of Europeans are Christian believers. Elsewhere, especially in Africa and Asia, the percentage is much higher and growing. Europe has become a spiritual wasteland in which people look to the political state for their salvation.
Apr 30, 2008 - 3:45:25 AM
Thomas Brewton
Cheap Grace
Reactions of some nominal Christians to the message of Pope Benedict XVI are nothing more than liberal-progressive-socialistic "toleration." In his April 18th column for the Washington Post, E. J. Dionne, Jr. expresses the misgivings of liberal-progressives who enjoy the ritual of religion, but don't want to be bothered with following the teachings of Jesus.
Apr 28, 2008 - 1:50:26 AM
Thomas Brewton
The god That Failed New Orleans
The old-time social leaders, who also controlled politics and the press, were content to let New Orleans deteriorate into the "city that care forgot," while singing "laissez-rouler les bons temps."
Apr 24, 2008 - 1:34:02 AM
Thomas Brewton
Regulatory Illusion
The one and only really effective thing government can do is to maintain restraint upon expansion of the money supply, which is the fuel that banks use to build the fires of speculative over-expansion.
Apr 22, 2008 - 12:59:25 AM
Thomas Brewton
Counterproductive Liberal-Progressivism
Liberal-progressive environmentalists are starving the world's poor. Liberal-progressives are enthralled with imposing collectivist regulation to satisfy their religion's "feel-good" agendas.
Apr 15, 2008 - 8:31:47 AM
Thomas Brewton
Labor Union Perspective
As the proposed trade agreement with Colombia reveals, labor unions are organizations of self-centered greed, which disingenuously cloak themselves with pretense of God, country, and mom's apple pie.
Apr 9, 2008 - 12:31:09 AM
Thomas Brewton
Slavery, Freedom, and Forgiveness
Paul's letter is a masterly play upon the names Onesimus, which means useful or used, and Philemon, which means loving or affectionate.
Apr 7, 2008 - 5:12:58 AM
Thomas Brewton
Senator Obama and the Transformation of Human Nature
Unfortunately, as all experience with liberal-progressive-socialism has shown since the first two decades of the 19th century, in no society do people willingly give up their hard earned savings for the benefit of an abstraction called "humanity."
Apr 6, 2008 - 4:51:20 AM
Thomas Brewton
Herbert Hoover McCain?
Senator Clinton and the Los Angeles Times need to get their facts straight before making ignorant pronouncements.
Apr 5, 2008 - 10:24:50 PM
Thomas Brewton
Can Government Fix the Over-Built Housing Market?
Why did we get a massive over-building of single family homes and a plethora of bad mortgage loans? Monetary manipulation by the Fed sends misleading signals to the very large part of the economy that is involved in long-cycle production of capital goods.
Mar 29, 2008 - 2:00:58 AM
Thomas Brewton
Senator Obama and Christian Love
Distressing remarks from the Senator's pastor have been hashed and rehashed, but something more needs to be said. In addition to assessing the inflammatory preaching by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in terms of patriotism and decency, let's also examine it from the viewpoint of Christian love. Let's acknowledge at the outset that we in the general public do not know the typical content of Rev. Wright's sermons, whether his condemnation of the United States and of whites was an aberration or the norm.
Mar 25, 2008 - 2:10:26 AM
Thomas Brewton
Good News From the Graveyard!
After the stunning developments leading to Jesus's crucifixion, His disciples were filled with dread, because many people knew that they had been His followers.
Mar 24, 2008 - 1:18:24 AM
Thomas Brewton
Liberals' Wall Street Pirouette
Undeniably, there was gross imprudence in the fantastic degree of leveraging by investment banks to underwrite structured investment vehicles and, in Bear Stearns's case, to carry the riskiest tranches thereof for a seasoning period before dumping them into the secondary market.
Mar 23, 2008 - 6:46:52 PM
Thomas Brewton
Palm Sunday: Following Jesus
As with so much of the Gospel, the point to be emphasized is the paradoxical nature of Jesus's ministry and teachings.
Mar 17, 2008 - 12:45:06 AM
Thomas Brewton
The Seven Lean Years
Note that, before we enact regulations to reduce greenhouse gases that will degrade the world to pre-industrial limits of production, we must be aware that global warming and cooling are regularly repeated cycles having nothing to do with human activity.
Mar 14, 2008 - 5:46:52 PM
Thomas Brewton
Transition in Banking
The main effect of the Fed's current moves is to bail out the financial institutions. That's what opponents of creating the Fed feared in 1913.
Mar 13, 2008 - 5:30:45 AM
Thomas Brewton
A Liberal-Progressive Wrestles with Morality
Choosing human reason alone as the road to understanding means that morality is no more than the result of the latest public opinion poll.
Mar 10, 2008 - 1:26:17 AM
Thomas Brewton
Liberal-Progressive Mind Control
Why the animus of liberal courts and teachers' unions against home schooling? The obvious answer is that home schooling does a better job, revealing the poor quality of public education. Less obvious is the desire of home-schooling parents to teach Judeo-Christian moral principles.
Mar 9, 2008 - 12:10:21 AM
Thomas Brewton
For What Purpose Was the Fed Created?
The Federal Reserve, facing constraints on how much it can accomplish with lower short-term interest rates, is increasingly pressing alternative approaches to restore order to credit markets and combat the risk of recession.
Mar 8, 2008 - 1:10:49 AM
Thomas Brewton
The Sordidness of Liberal-Progressivism
Both are products of the materialistic philosophy of the 19th century that repudiated God and spiritual religion, proclaiming that only the tangible and material elements of everyday life here on earth had any real influence upon human conduct and the course of history.
Mar 4, 2008 - 2:38:24 AM
Thomas Brewton
The Miracle of Restraint
God, Who can impose whatever He wants upon the cosmos, chooses to give us free will.
Mar 3, 2008 - 12:15:49 AM
Thomas Brewton
The Affirmative-Action Campaign
Affirmative action arguably has contributed to the rise of the black middle class. It also has embittered many black students who were placed far out of their league in elite universities and failed to make the academic cut.
Mar 2, 2008 - 11:49:35 PM
Thomas Brewton
God to Gore
Gore, the man who would be God, is unsatisfied with continuing an open scientific investigation of natural phenomena. He has, once and for all time, selected his hypothesis and strives mightily to achieve the earthly power to impose its sanctions upon us all.
Mar 1, 2008 - 7:47:01 PM
Thomas Brewton
How Interest Rate Manipulation Punishes Us
To implement decisions of the Federal Reserve Board to reduce interest rates, the open market desk of the New York Federal Reserve Bank creates money with bookkeeping entries and buys Treasury securities from financial institutions. The result is a net addition to the money supply, which ordinarily will result in lower interest rates and an increased readiness of financial institutions to make more loans.
Feb 28, 2008 - 3:44:39 AM
Thomas Brewton
Education for Slavery
Unthinking voters are led to believe that the essential need in education is spending more money, without regard for the purposes to which the spending is put.
Feb 27, 2008 - 5:28:55 AM
Thomas Brewton
Modern-Day Moloch
Worshipping the ancient Mediterranean god Moloch, and today's liberal -progressivism, both require sacrificing children on the altar of self-centered materialism.
Feb 26, 2008 - 1:30:44 AM
Thomas Brewton
God's Will for Your Future
Grief is inherent in human nature, but followers of Christ have faith and hope of eternal life, when we shall all be rejoined.
Feb 25, 2008 - 11:45:43 PM
Thomas Brewton
Decision Stress
Sometimes what appears to us to be the role we ought to play may not play to our God-given abilities and may thus not maximize our strengths and purpose in life.
Feb 18, 2008 - 1:22:55 AM
Thomas Brewton
Liberal-Progressive Paganism
The only requirement for liberal-progressives is that a shibboleth sound good and make them feel good.
Feb 6, 2008 - 12:40:18 AM
Thomas Brewton
Discovering God's Will For Your Life
If we prayerfully seek God's will for our lives and follow Jesus, no matter what befalls us, we will be most perfectly fulfilled. We must want God's will, not our own.
Feb 5, 2008 - 1:10:04 AM
Thomas Brewton
Stimulus Packages: 1929 to 2008
Stimulus packages first surfaced in this country, under President Herbert Hoover, as a product of the liberal-progressive-socialist doctrine of the early 20th century. They failed miserably throughout the Depression and haven't worked anytime since then.
Feb 4, 2008 - 1:29:35 AM
Thomas Brewton
What Is Worship?
But the danger is that we may come to worship these things and lose sight of God
Jan 28, 2008 - 12:12:43 AM
Thomas Brewton
Private Philanthropy is Bad for Socialism
The New York Times is distressed that private philanthropists can give money to any charity they choose.
Jan 24, 2008 - 1:03:17 AM
Thomas Brewton
Maladjusted Managed Economies
Only the free marketplace, funded by individual and business savings, is capable of allocating scarce economic resources to give us a higher standard of living via increased efficiency and greater productivity.
Jan 22, 2008 - 4:27:22 AM
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