More Crunchy Con

Chuck Colson also weighs in on this movement with this piece tonight.

If you encountered someone who made his own granola, bought his veggies at a food co-op, wore Birkenstock sandals, and wanted to save the environment, if you’re like me, you’d probably think, well, there goes a lefty, or a liberal, or maybe an aging hippie. But the author of a new book says someone like that is just as likely to be a conservative Republican. In his book, Crunchy Cons, journalist Rod Dreher writes about a group of people he calls “crunchy conservatives,” a group that includes, among others, “hip homeschooling mamas,” “Birkenstocked Burkeans,” “gun-loving organic” farmers, and “right-wing nature lovers.”

George Will extrapolates on the latest court decision on forcing public institutions to allow military recruiters on campus and provides some great quotes from CJ Roberts' clearly written text. To me CJ means a jeep able to move over tough terrain with ease.

The institutional vanity and intellectual slovenliness of America's campus-based intelligentsia have made academia more peripheral to civic life than at any time since the 19th century. On Monday, its place at the periphery was underscored as the Supreme Court unanimously gave short shrift to some law professors who insisted that their First Amendment rights to free speech and association were violated by the law requiring that military recruiters be allowed to speak to the professors' students if the professors' schools receive federal money.

One of america's best economists Dr. Thomas Sowell also has a great piece up on energy and prices, supply and demand.

The Supreme Court's recent 8 to 0 decision (Justice Alito not yet participating) shot down a claim that oil companies were colluding in setting prices. That claim was upheld by the far-left 9th Circuit Court of Appeals but neither liberals nor conservatives on the Supreme Court were buying it.

This unanimous vote should also tell us something about those politicians who are forever blaming rising gasoline prices on oil company collusion and "greed." There is no point exposing a lie unless we learn to be skeptical the next time the liars come out with the same story.

Yes, I am a right wing conservative that loves my guns and my cow dung grown squash and tomatoes, I particularly like the heirloom varities to go with my fresh venison or quail, they simply taste a whole lot better. I am a countryboy and gay sheepherders and ghetto gangbanging pimps simply are sinful fools as a Christian I can forgive sin only if it is nolonger practiced and rejected. Christ said," Go and sin no more" and forgave the thief on the cross but did not commute the sentence by devine means. The Lord expects us to follow His word and to submit to the laws of the land that we live in. This is what the symbol of the fish means, it was traced in the dust as a means of communicating in an oppresive society. The Lord will survive no matter how hard the secularists try to eliminate His followers.