Democrats Must Face Truth and Consequences

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Jan 19, 2004

Byline: Douglas Burton, INSIGHT

Tom Adkins, Free Republic Internet Radio Show, Philadelphia, CommonConservative.com

[George] McGovern told us how liberal he was and he lost. [Jimmy] Carter swore he wasn't liberal and he won. Then Carter said he'd support the equal-rights amendment and national health care and he lost. [Walter] Mondale said he was gonna raise taxes and lost. Nobody really knows what [Michael] Dukakis stood for and he lost. [Bill] Clinton promised a middle-class tax cut and won. Al Gore lied about almost everything and he sort of won the popular vote, unless you count write-in ballots. Howard Dean is telling the truth and he's gonna lose.

What does this prove? When Democrats lie, they win. When Democrats tell the truth, they lose.

Politically Correct, Color-Coded Santas? Bah Humbug!

Don Feder, WTTT-AM 1150, Boston, dfeder@wezeradio.com

A story in [a recent] Chicago Tribune says racially diverse Santas are all the rage. Malls across America are offering black Santas along with the Caucasian version because, supposedly, black children can't relate to a honky St. Nick.

This goes beyond absurdity. Santa Claus isn't about race. The jolly old elf is a symbol of the season of good will and giving. What next? Color-coded reindeer pulling Santa's sled?

If black children can't relate to a white St. Nick, what about Hispanic and Asian kids? Do they need their own Santas as well? And how about little girls? How can they possibly identify with a male Santa? Maybe we need ladies with beards in red suits.

If it's impossible to relate to someone of another race, why try to teach white children about Martin Luther King Jr. or have them celebrate his day?

Color-coded Santas? Bah humbug!

Singing the Praises of Christmas Revolution, Estonian Style

Laurie Morrow, True North Radio, Burlington, Vt., TrueNorthRadio.com

Film producers Jim Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty are coexecutive producers of a documentary about the Singing Revolution, in which Estonians defeated their Soviet oppressors through mass demonstrations and in which hundreds of thousands of Estonians lustily sang patriotic songs. During one of these gatherings, 300,000 people one-fifth the total population assembled in Tallinn and loudly sang the Soviets out of power.

Jewish and Christian Americans should consider launching a similar revolution against oppression on American soil the eradication of our country's most widely practiced religions from our public schools.

You know the story. The ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] and the enforcers of their will, the cowardly Grinches of Big Education, have proclaimed sad tidings unto all people that there shall be no tidings of great joy, Jewish or Christian, unto anyone walled up in our public schools.

Suppose American Christians and Jews staged a singing revolution of their own?

Religious leaders could assemble an ecumenical crowd of adults just outside public-school grounds, join hands and sing. Through schools' tightly closed windows and even more tightly closed minds could penetrate "Silent Night," "Mi Y'malel" ("Who Can Retell"), "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem," the Hatikvah, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Then, when the cops came, dispatched by school authorities for "disturbing the peace," the singing revolutionaries would move along to another school or ask the cops to join in the song.

The school authorities would, of course, be right: The intention behind the Singing Revolution would be to "disturb the peace" the false "peace" that comes from pretending that deeply held beliefs should be suppressed in the public square.

God and Man at Jackson's Neverland

Shmuley Boteach, WWRL-AM 1600, Queens, N.Y., www.WWRL1600.com

Recently I read that Michael Jackson had converted into the Nation of Islam. Imagine the magnitude of the tragedy: Michael Jackson, a man who once thrilled us all with his dancing, having now become one of the most discredited men on earth. And what does he do in order to re-establish his credibility? Why he teams up with Louis Farrakhan. He would probably have gotten more credibility had he become a Jedi knight, chosen Obi-Wan Kenobi as his master and paid homage to "The Force."

Douglas Burton is an associate editor for Insight.