http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/culture/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:13:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418530/posts On the last day of December 2009, we end the year with an article based upon Christianity and Culture ... Christianity has permeated our culture in every way conceivable ... everything that happens in our society can be linked to the sovereign will of God and the role that sin is allowed to play in this great cosmic experiment here on earth. America was founded as a Christian nation. Although that premise has been challenged frequently in recent years, a clear look at historical documents and monuments show an overwhelming support for the Bible and the God of the Bible.... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418530/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:13:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417950/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417950/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:51:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417418/posts I got into an argument the other day with someone who was a liberal multiculturalist, they were telling me that the spread of Islam in Europe was just part of the evolution of Europe and that it should be embraced. I was appalled, then I thought for a second what it means to be a believer Multiculturalism. Usually the image that first strikes in my mind is of some white liberal banging on some prayer circle drum singing kumbaya to a bunch of dimwitted followers while prattling on that we must accept and embrace any behavior from anyone else as... From the Mind of GraceG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417418/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:24:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417234/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417234/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416703/posts Computerworld - A New Jersey judge has ordered the shutdown of three H-1B opposition Web sites and seeks information about the identity of anonymous posters. On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register domains and provide hosting services -- GoDaddy Inc., Network Solutions, Comcast Cable Communications Inc. and DiscountASP.Net, to disable the three sites, ITgrunt.com, Endh1b.com, and Guestworkerfraud.com. Facebook Inc. was also ordered to disable ITgrunt's Facebook page. www.computerworld.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416703/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:57:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416565/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416565/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:55:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415287/posts Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as an indictment of nineteenth century industrialization and economic social classes. The following is a modern take on the tale exploring a different issue. Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in! “All of the Bill of Rights shall be sacred to me and I will defend every free man’s right to keep and bear arms!” Scrooge repeated as he scrambled out of bed. “Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven be... Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415287/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414973/posts Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as an indictment of nineteenth century industrialization and economic social classes. The following is a modern take on the tale exploring a different issue. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach... Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414973/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414886/posts The company that celebrates Earth Day, Gay Day, Diversity Day, Muzzie Day and every other made-up liberal crapday, can't even bring themselves to honor Christmas. Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414886/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414770/posts Stefan KanferAll That Jazz Terry Teachout’s luminous biography captures the “sunlit, hopeful art” of Louis Armstrong. 22 December 2009 Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, by Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 474 pages, $30) In the spring of 1998, Time commissioned Al Hirschfeld, the doyen of American caricaturists, to draw an unusual cover. It would celebrate five outstanding “Artists and Entertainers of the Century”—Pablo Picasso, Lucille Ball, Charlie Chaplin, Steven Spielberg, and Louis Armstrong. Much fanfare accompanied the announcement. That illustration was never published. A handful of staffers condemned the portrait of Armstrong as racist and made their feelings... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414770/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414718/posts Perhaps no area of discernment is more difficult and more controversial than the Christian’s engagement with culture. Are we to be cultural gluttons, immersing ourselves in the culture around us so we can speak to it from the perspective of first-hand experience? Are we to be cultural anorexics, avoiding culture altogether lest it corrupt us? Or are we to take some middle ground where we appreciate aspects of it while rejecting others? In Hollywood Worldviews, filmmaker and screenwriter Brian Godawa (To End All Wars) weighs in on the task of “Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment.” While looking at movies... challies.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414718/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:57:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414431/posts Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as an indictment of nineteenth century industrialization and economic social classes. The following is a modern take on the tale exploring a different issue. Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley’s intervention. He... Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414431/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:14:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414217/posts Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolina's attorney general plans to investigate the vote-buying that surrounded the proposal in the Senate majority leader's office. According to AP, South Carolina's Henry McMaster is being joined by the attorneys general of Michigan and Washington state in a suit to determine the constitutionality of the Obamacare proposal. Their initiative was prompted by a request from South Carolina's two senators, Lindsay Graham and Jim DeMint, both Republicans. Attorneys-general in... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414217/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:47:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414072/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414072/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:49:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413341/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413341/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:53:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413340/posts Hostile reviewers ruled him mentally unfit to practice law, he claims. Bryan Brown is a conservative, activist and unapologetic Christian. Of that there is no doubt. But does that mean he is also mentally ill? Too ill even to be a lawyer? The bureaucracy that controls access to Indiana's legal profession believes that very thing, according to a lawsuit in which Brown alleges that he was subjected to a series of hostile religious and political questions during a review of his fitness to practice law - a review that subsequently rejected him on mental-health grounds. The lawsuit, filed by Brown... News-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413340/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412786/posts The Swiss minaret ban and the leaked climate e-mails are really the same story — or, more precisely, are symptoms of the same disease. In the Times of London, Oliver Kamm deplored the results of Switzerland’s referendum, consigned it to the garbage can of right-wing populism, and for good measure dismissed my analysis of Euro-demographics (“This is nonsense,” he pronounced magisterially). Instead, Mr. Kamm called for a “secularist and liberal defense of the principles of a pluralist society.” That’s not the solution to the problem, but one of the causes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for liberalism and pluralism... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412786/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412536/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412536/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:49:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412489/posts Avatarocious Another spectacle hits an iceberg and sinks. by John Podhoretz 12/28/2009, Volume 015, Issue 15 AvatarDirected by James Cameron Avatar, we are told, does things with cameras and computers and actors that have never been done before. Its painstaking combination of real-life action and animation has, we are told, taken cinema to a new level. It cost anywhere from $328 million to $500 million, we are told, and took four years to make. It is a breakthrough, we are told, the boldest step into the future of filmmaking, an unparalleled achievement. What they didn't tell us is that Avatar... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412489/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412404/posts Guy SormanBad Ideas Never Die Jean-Francois Revel’s career-long argument against utopian thinking 18 December 2009 Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era, by Jean-Francois Revel, (Encounter, 300 pp., $23.95) French public intellectuals have a reputation—well-deserved—for being socialists, Marxists, or Trotskyists. One thinks in this regard of popular figures like Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, and Simone de Beauvoir, all with fan clubs on American campuses. Some French thinkers, however, have carried forward another intellectual tradition, that of classical liberalism—pro-democracy and pro-market—and running from the work of Alexis de Tocqueville to Albert Camus to... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412404/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412343/posts Dec 18 2009 10:38 AM EST 'Avatar': Pass The Kool-Aid, By Kurt Loder The greatest movie, uh, ever? James Cameron's "Avatar" is the most amazing ... no, wait: the most staggeringly amazing, jaw-droppingly triple-awesome unbelievable movie ever made. That's the feeling among the reviewers aggregated at Rotten Tomatoes, anyway. I quote: "An overwhelming feast of visual artistry unlike anything you have ever seen before." "Much more than a film. It's a prescribed cinematic experience." "An entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level." "Cameron has achieved no less than a rebirth of cinema." "Make sure you... MTV.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412343/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:56:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410793/posts SAVAGE NATION ON THE AIR! Join us! Michael Savage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410793/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:16:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410508/posts Charter Colleges? Deborah Lambert, December 18, 2009 Amid the heavy-handed bureaucracies that dominate our nation’s colleges and universities, there are seeds of opportunity. Professor Marvin Olasky noted in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education that a move toward Charter Colleges might be the answer. Dr. Olasky, editor-in-chief of the news magazine World and a journalism professor at the U. of Texas, Austin, hails Rob Koons, “the University of Texas professor removed last fall as head of a UT Western Civilization program, who is proposing that Texas legislators back the creation of charter colleges, as they now support... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410508/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409932/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409932/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409099/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409099/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:57:14 GMT