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| Paganized Christianity?: The "Mystery" Was Already Solved |
| 2008-07-15 12:00:00 |
Springing up all over the internet today are numerous posts, articles, and video criticisms of Christianity falsely asserting that early Christianity and the New Testament borrowed important beliefs and practices from a number of pagan mystery religions. What is troubling is the way these fringe groups string together false assertions as factual with no regard for the wealth of historical evidence refuting their claims nor the multitude of scholarly debates held on this subject that led to a modern mainstream consensus that these assertions are, in fact, patently false. In their reckless presentations, we see fringe groups putting forth a systematic assortment of false assertions in a very unscholarly attempt to wea...
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| A Modern Liberal Response to Illegal Immigration |
| 2008-07-01 08:00:00 |
Today we examine a typical modern liberal response to illegal immigration. This particular response is from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) when written about the illegal immigration problem facing our country. After thanking the writer for sharing their concerns regarding the impact of illegal immigration on our economy and acknowledging that "the high number of undocumented immigrants contributes to the strains on our schools, medical facilities, and prisons," several arguments are asserted. Let's take them in order. 1. Illegal immigrants "contribute significantly to our economy."Our Response: California’s budget shortage might approximate the cost of illegal...
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| Solving California's Budget Crisis |
| 2008-06-15 07:00:00 |
California has one of the highest state tax rates in the country and is currently facing up to a twenty billion dollar shortfall according to the Governor's office. The best fiscal solution is to 1) adjust spending; 2) resolve the illegal immigration crisis; 3) fix waste. Unfortunately, their solution is to simply raise your taxes.Rather than adjust spending, resolve illegal immigration, and bring an end to government waste which, if done correctly, would put the state in the black and provide a great windfall: they just want to raise your taxes.Let's look at each of the solutions. First, the California Taxpayer's Association asserts that California can resolve its budget crisis by adj...
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| The Revolution March: July 15, 2008 |
| 2008-06-01 10:55:00 |
The Revolution March is a live event advertised to restore the Constitution for freedom, peace, and prosperity. The Paleo Conservatist certainly does not agree with Ron Paul's entire strategy for change, of course, but we are heartened to see independents come forth attempting to bring positive change and we certainly do support many of his ideas.While we get ready for this event, where Ron Paul will be a keynote speaker, please enjoy this introductory video of the Revolution March being held in July 2008. Read Ron Paul's new book 'The Revolution: A Manifesto' The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom) ...
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| Imago Dei: Does It Ultimately Matter? |
| 2008-05-15 09:59:00 |
Do we really matter? Does what we do really matter? Does it ultimately have meaning? Just as a person's beliefs and view of the world guide their behavior and approach to life, an organization, political body, or government's worldview guides why, what, and how they do what they do. The results shape our lives and our world. So yes it matters. But does it ultimately matter? When an atheist dictator like Stalin or Mao implements policies that kill tens of millions upon tens of millions of individuals in the name of a transcendentalized atheistic worldview and to protect their power and position; it matters. But does it ultimately matter? There certainly are worldviews that teach it does not. Atheism is one of them. We at The Paleo Conservatist disagree with those worldviews arguing, in real...
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| The Technology Misconstruct: Saving America's Economy |
| 2008-05-01 23:48:00 |
One of the consistent mantras fed to the American public is that despite our serious mounting social and economic problems, we will be able to innovate our way through them to a happy place. That smart new ways of doing things combined with emerging technologies will restore us to our former prosperity. Conveying a boundless joyous optimism in the face of mounting adversities, elitists have been known to express such sentiments as “Google is like God”, “the next big thing is right around the corner”, “the west must connect their knowledge centers into a single global network”, and “corporations cannot survive as entities bounded by any nation-state” but they omit to mention that authoritarian governments, such as China, are much more selec...
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| China and Democracy? |
| 2008-04-15 12:05:00 |
Despite continued political repression, the stance of US elitists remain unchanged. They dismiss the reality that China, a growing economic powerhouse and our future rival, appears bent on realizing economic growth while maintaining a one party authoritarian Communist system of government. As James Mann points out in The China Fantasy: "For their own different reasons, the U.S. government and American (or multinational) corporations are eager to conduct as much business as possible with China. In order to do this, they have sought to minimize the core issues of repression of dissent and China's one-party political system. Whenever Chinese leadership carries out a new campaign of arresting dissidents or closing down newspapers, both engage in ‘The Soothing...
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| United States Free Trade |
| 2008-04-01 16:49:00 |
Not well understood by most of the populace, unregulated free trade hurts more people than it helps and not only in the United States but throughout the world. But, at least, the American people understand it better than the elitists.Sixty-five percent of Washington journalists believed that NAFTA's impact has been positive for the United States and only 8 percent thought it has had a negative impact. Yet only 32 percent of the public believed NAFTA's impact has been positive, while 42 percent thought its impact has been negative. In the late 1990s, the Washington media supported Fast Track, 71-10 percent. The public opposed it, 35-56 percent. How out of touch are the elitists with t...
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| Curbing Atheism |
| 2008-03-15 23:21:00 |
Back in the 1960s, we were told with great confidence that religion’s death was foretold and to be replaced by a secular world most likely in our lifetimes. But today religion has never been stronger. More people believe in God today than ever before.Orthodox atheists preach that their worldview is the only right one and religiously adhere to an idea that science proves this to be true. Their unbending faith does not permit them to operate outside the "non-God" box.Of course, other atheists such as Harvard University’s Stephen Gould were absolutely clear that the natural sciences, including evolutionary theory, were consistent with both atheism and conventional religious belief. He noted that unless half his scientific colleagues were total fools, a p...
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| The Outcome of Modern Liberalism |
| 2008-03-01 17:24:00 |
Good societies fail when reason, rationality, and logic cease to underpin them. Yet modern liberalism asserts that all realities and meanings are equal within the social construct of modern liberalism; a construct which values the equality of outcomes rather than that of opportunities. As for that which opposes modern liberalism, the aggregate of their benefit is vehemently opposed in a manner obviously not in the best interest. And the reality is that modern liberalism can be decisively altered by social or cultural edict rather than reason, rationality, and logic. This results in a host of self-defeating ideologies and declarations.Modern liberalism seeks to overcome healthy counterbalances. As it tears them down it leaves in its wake cultural and socia...
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| Branding and the American Voter |
| 2008-02-15 20:07:00 |
Brands were originally developed as labels of ownership; however, today it is what they do for people that really matters. So what happens if a brand's benefits cease to be beneficial.The cola wars of the 1980s and 1990s between soft drink manufacturers provide an illustration. Let's say that you have a soft drink that you really like. You believe in the philosophy of the brand and it tastes right to you. Now let's say over time the taste becomes flatter and flatter until it no longer tastes right to you. You still believe in the brand but the quality has degraded to the point where the product no longer truly meets your expectations. Now let's say the other brands have degraded in the same manner. You stay faithful to your brand hoping for a turnaround. But it never comes. In fact, the br...
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| Selling Out America: Broken Pledges and Oaths |
| 2008-02-01 19:46:00 |
It is logical to assume that an informed American public would want to retain American sovereignty, desire fair trade and prosperity for its citizens, and reject the globalist determination to merge the United States with foreign countries.Unfortunately, most are not well informed. Before the United States, governments were created of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite. Today we again face the possibility that the United States, as a free nation, may not endure. There are incremental movements afoot to erode U.S. sovereignty and expend its wealth and culture.The incremental approach is taken because moving too fast might trigger an unwelcome backlash by citizens that don’t want their national sovereignty, culture/way of life, and economy sacrifi...
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| Barack Hussein Obama - What are you going to do and how are you going to do it? |
| 2008-01-15 15:26:00 |
Some of us cared enough to put in the work to actually qualify the ideologies we were programmed with in the modern liberal indoctrination centers (e.g. public schools) we attended growing up. As a result, some of us do not make important voting decisions based on emotions but rather by a logical analysis of the result each voting decision will result in. However, I realize that's just too much sense for others who simply believe whatever ideology they were raised to believe. So I have to cut to the chase and ask simply, "Barack Obama, exactly what is it you are planning to do and specifically how are you going to do it?" Most anyone can go from speaking engagement to speaking engagement engaging in platitudes and promising all sorts of nebulous feel-goods in a hypnotic manner telling peop...
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| Goodbye USA "knowledge economy" and our competitive advantage. |
| 2008-01-01 14:48:00 |
Since the end of the Cold War the USA has made it its business to fill up our best university science, computer science, and business departments with foreign students and it is going to come back and bite us hard one day. And this mantra today that we don't need to have manufacturing and industry jobs for US citizens anymore.. that we are a knowledge economy and every American can be a knowledge worker.. is tiring. I think they are wrong for the following reasons: 1. We are selling off our knowledge to young motivated men and women that go back to their own countries and build infrastructure to compete directly against us. Consider that China now graduates more MBAs than the USA and both China and India are quickly ca...
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| Mexicans deserve our country more than we do? |
| 2007-12-15 17:36:00 |
Even if we pretend that property ownership is solely based on who got here first or one's race: Mexicans do not deserve our country more than us or the Native American tribes in the United States and here are some reasons I think might be why..First, if you check the census http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1931-02.pdf you discover that the total number of Mexicans in the USA in 1930 were 1,422,533 out of a population of 122,775,046 making the percentage of Mexicans here 1.16% of the total US population. This number, though extremely low by today's standards, represented a tremendous growth in the Mexican population in the territory we now call the United States as they had not begun arriving in any number until after the Mexican War of Inde...
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| Outsourcing and Insourcing: Bad for America |
| 2007-12-01 14:34:00 |
You have outsourcing and insourcing. In my understanding, many of today's modern corporations have broken the contract they once had with the United States and the American worker. No longer do they consider themselves American corporations really (despite the marketing and PR aimed at American consumers) but instead act as if they are global trans-national entities and plant their flag wherever and however it is most profitable in the short to medium run. The post WWII business culture and ideology of building a strong America first and foremost may have been sold down the river as shareholder profit became the golden calf of our generation. No longer do these modern trans-national globally concerned corporations ma...
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| Ron Paul's Platform |
| 2007-11-01 17:49:00 |
I am honestly amazed at how many voters are familiar with Ron Paul's campaign for Presidency as a Republican but have little idea what he actually stands for despite his earnest efforts to make that clear. Perhaps it's time to take a look at that and see what his views are.Ron is against intervention believing the USA should avoid entangling alliances with other nations in order to avoid being drawn into wars not related to defense and that war must be declared by Congress and then concluded after victory. Obviously this means ending the Iraq war and not engaging Iran militarily. He also would like to withdraw from the United Nations and NATO. He is opposed to reintroducing the draft. Ron supports free trade and has an above 83% pro fair trade voting rec...
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| What drives an Islamic terrorist? |
| 2007-10-15 16:58:00 |
Given the extreme amount of attention to and the large sums of our tax money which have been spent on Islamic terrorism, the question seems pertinent to us everyday citizens, "What drives an Islamic terrorist? What are the reasons why anyone would engage in that type of behavior?"Typically whenever the subject of religion is brought up we are told most often that all religions are equal or simply not true as in the case of atheism. Yet I did some checking and found that the core theologies (a term first used by Plato in The Republic) of many world religions are often in direct opposition to each other. A very simple contrast would be the assertion by Islam that people are born pure while the Christian assertion is that...
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| The alliance of Western Civilization, Christianity, and Modern Science |
| 2007-10-01 11:35:00 |
By the 6th century, the Franks were Christianised, and the Frankish Empire ruled by the Merovingians had become the most powerful of the kingdoms which succeeded the Western Roman Empire until their decline. In October of 732, the Franks led by Charles Martel stopped the advance of Islam in Europe at the Battle of Tours (1) preserving Civilization">western civilization from Islamization and helping to lay the foundations of what became the Carolingian Empire. Charles grandson Charlemagne expanded the Frankish kingdoms into an Empire that incorporated much of Europe. After conquering Italy, Charlemagne tried to revive the Western Roman Empire and when the Pope crowned him Imperator A...
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| Muslim Immigration |
| 2007-09-15 14:19:00 |
Modern liberals and Neo-conservatives have advocated that engaging Muslims for change is the best strategy. Engaging for positive change certainly is a valuable strategy; however, the methodology employed to implement this strategy is very important when dealing with potentially explosive worldviews. Needless to say appeasement is not a desirable methodology. Many a country has discovered this truth the hard way including those that sought to appease worldviews such as national socialism, communism, and yes.. Islam.In my opinion, conenabling Islam to take root in Western Civilization in an effort to help Muslims reach a goal of a "new interpretation of the Quran where a Muslim can demonstrate faith without destroying society" is a dangerous and foolhardy e...
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| Radical Democrats |
| 2007-09-01 23:30:00 |
Radical Democrats complain about perceived challenges to their patriotism yet oppose and obstruct conservatives, root for their defeat, and downplay their many successes. And they do this regardless of the consequences to the national interest. Radical Democrats believe that anyone who isn't a member of the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, all religions are the same, quasi-religious pantheistic manifestation of the environmental movement (as opposed to more centered environmentalists), and who doesn't join them in singling out Christians for selective persecution has the wrong kind of values.Radical Democrats preach to anyone who will listen that conservative Christians reject science and reality. And they have done so in...
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| Interesting Paleoconservative Discussion |
| 2007-08-15 16:43:00 |
An interesting Paleoconservative discussion titled 'The Basics of PaleoConservatism' at Free Republic:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758302/posts-The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom) ...
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| Political Correctness |
| 2007-08-01 17:07:00 |
The vanishing American takes on the issue of modern PC or political correctness:http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-had-not-realised-how-offensive-plain.html#links-The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom) ...
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| American Politics |
| 2007-07-15 10:43:00 |
As we head into an election year, it seems beneficial to review American politics once more. Wikipedia did a good job of communicating the basics I thought so I share there page on 'Politics of the United States with you here.' "American politics takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of the United States is head of state, head of government, and of a two-party legislative and electoral system. The federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments, with the Supreme Court balancing the rights of each.The executive branch is headed by a president and is independent of the legislature. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Judicial power ...
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| Illegal Immigration explained |
| 2007-07-01 13:17:00 |
Although somewhat a parody, illegal immigration is very simply explained in this video.Illegal immigration itself is not a parody; however, but rather a dangerous break of trust between a person and a country as they illegally cross that country's national border(s).Truthfully there are many dissimilarities between ancient Rome and modern America; however, there are some similarities. For example, both are/were overrun with legal and illegal immigrants.In the case of Rome they consisted of the Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals. These people first appeared to assimilate.. working jobs the freedmen (liberti) and (cives)...
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| Lou Dobbs:Mexican Gang Violence Enters the U.S. |
| 2007-06-15 23:34:00 |
It's important to note that criminal organizations in Mexico attempt to destabilize politics in the areas they operate in and resort to killing police, media people, priests, and entire families for control. Some parts of Mexico are actually under the control of the cartels and nobody can do anything about it.With our sieve-like border, it's only a matter of time before their influence beings to affect local politics on the U.S. side of the border.. and we spend our time worrying about whether a smuggler got shot in the behind.-The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom)...
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| Anchor Babies |
| 2007-06-01 13:20:00 |
Another good video on why chain migration should end.-The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom)...
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| No More Anchor Babies |
| 2007-05-15 22:35:00 |
An illegal and sometimes dangerous practice, anchor baby citizenship is a terms used to refer to a child born in the United States to illegal immigrants or other non-citizens to facilitate chain migration under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.The child becomes the "anchor" of a chain by which its family can receive benefits from social programs, and by which the parents themselves eventually can become lawful permanent residents or citizens of the United States.A related term is "birth tourism", which describes women who travel on temporary visas in order to give their children birthright citizenship.This California politician holds a press release to talk about what he is attempting to do t...
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| Tancredo on the Border Fence |
| 2007-05-01 16:57:00 |
Tom Tancredo speaks on the border fence issue describing why it is necessary.-The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom)...
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