Christmas Giving

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his
principles unto death."

-- Thomas Paine (The Crisis, no 1, 19 December 1776)

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Buying presents for each other, besides the kids, in this age of having everything seems a bit excessive to me. I suggest the money be spent on a worthy charitable group instead. I personally will be supporting our soldiers in my late Marine father's name. My main gift will go to the Semper Fi Fund, which does a phenomenal job of taking care of wounded veterans and their families, and I will send funds to other smaller groups as well. They all need support and we are that support, lets make them proud of America and do the right thing, Support the Our Patriot Armed Forces!
Without them we would be nothing but another communist country under the USSR and now we face the religious fanaticism of the Islamists. I wish to remind my readers that that problem has been around for almost two millinnia. The end of the "Cold War" brought it back into focus.
Victor Davis Hanson, as always, provides some very critical analysis on our 'war footing', this is a must read from OPJ.
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But isn't that fact precisely the point? It is easy to defend artists when they produce works of genius that do not challenge popular sensibilities--Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" or Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"--but not so when an artist offends with neither the taste of a Michelangelo nor the talent of a Dante. Yes, Pope Benedict is old and scholastic; he lacks both the charisma and tact of the late Pope John Paul II, who surely would not have turned for elucidation to the rigidity of Byzantine scholarship. But isn't that why we must come to the present Pope's defense--if for no reason other than because he has the courage to speak his convictions when others might not?