Senator Ted Cruz gives a compelling address at National Right to Life:Highlights: The Declaration of Independence puts life first for a reason. Led the fight to defend Parental notification in front of the Supreme Court and won unanimously. Basically, he's kicked Planned Parenthood's butt multiple times in Court. Dems Gosnell counter-resolution condemned 'unsanitary health care conditions." "The U.S. Senate under Harry Reid has no interest whatsoever in even knowing what's going on." "The Obama administration with much fanfare repealed the...
Sunday, 30 June 2013
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.Proverbs 29:2 Heading into the second special session of the 83rd Texas Legislature, Cahnman's Musings is thrilled to see how many ideologically sympathetic Christians are paying detailed attention for the first time. This type of civic stewardship has been missing in America for a long time. Welcome.Cahnman's Musings feels led to warn...
Saturday, 29 June 2013
So says Wired Magazine:From the Article:The map above, created by the academic research group Floating Sheep, shows that while the volume of Twitter activity for #StandWithWendy was—naturally—greatest in Texas itself (nearly 29 percent of all tweets), there was also quite a bit of chatter coming out of places like New York state (8 percent), California (12 percent) and even places like Illinois (4 percent). That should tell you everything...
An interesting development:Highlights:On Thursday, AISD announced to staff home on summer break that it would not offer domestic partnership benefits as promised since March. Open enrollment is set for July first. Domestic partnership doesn't just affect those in the LGBT community, but heterosexual couples who live together.In a letter sent to staff, district official sites the Attorney General's opinion issued back on April 29 that "a...
Last night, in an interview with Hot Air, Lt. Governor Dewhurst made the following asinine statement:“We have reports, and I have my staff taking a look at the video,” Dewhurst explained, “and if I find, as I’ve been told, examples of the media waving and trying to inflame the crowd, incite them in the direction of a riot, I’m going to take action against them.” Dewhurst continued, “We take a democratic policy seriously.” I asked whether Dewhurst...
Last Saturday, before the chaos erupted at the Capitol, Cahnman's Musings attended the Our Nation Campaign Prayer and Unity event at the Texas Capitol. JoAnn Fleming was one of the speakers. This is a message every believer needs to hear:Highlights: "As Christians, we have forgotten what stewardship means." God doesn't care how right you are on an issue if you don't speak the truth in the right way at the right time and in the right spirit. "Stewardship is about understanding that everything we have belongs to the Lord; the tax...
Friday, 28 June 2013
'Then she made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.” '1 Samuel 1:11 The other day, we read The People, The Preachers, and the Politicians, by Pastor Dan Cummins. It was a quick and informative...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
"Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displaced by new patterns that provide the opportunities and means for citizen participation. All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new....The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt...
“Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”Matthew 22:21Cahnman's Musings wasn't planning to comment on yesterday's Supreme Court rulings related to homosexual 'marriage.' Spiritual deception runs deep on this topic and it's easy for words to be twisted. We can get in enough trouble warning about the perils of opposite sex promiscuity.Then the Governor called another special session.During...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Last night, during her filibuster, Wendy Davis made all sorts of references to women's health; for example:This is a war on women's health in this state," Davis said. "Partisanship and ambition are not unusual in a state capitol...(but) right here, in Texas, right now, it has risen to a level of profound irresponsibility and the raw abuse of power. The actions intended by our state's leaders hurt Texas. They hurt Texas women and...
"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighborsup class="footnote" value="[a]">[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,sup class="footnote" value="[b]">[b] 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."Joshua 1:9 "But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand."Ezekiel 33:6 "My people are destroyed...
From Konni Burton, Wendy Davis's likely 2014 opponent:Right now on the Senate floor, Wendy Davis is filibustering a bill that, if passed, will protect those among us that cannot speak for themselves. Those that do not have a voice. The innocent. The unborn. Wendy Davis is holding that bill hostage so that it does not pass. She wants the world to think she's doing this to stand for "women" and "families". That, my friends, is the height of...
Wendy Davis has been filibustering for four hours and she's already saying absurd things; from the Facebook page of Concerned Women for America's Associate State Director Michelle Smith:"I use to be so proud to be a Texan, but now if you've got a uterus you've got to leave that state?" This thing still has eight and a half hours to go; pray for Wendy Davis to have a repentant soul and overflowing bladder.And Pray it in Jesus' name.Amen....
Monday, 24 June 2013
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."Joshua 1:9"For You formed my inward parts;You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;sup class="footnote" value="[a]">[a]Marvelous are Your works,And that my soul knows very well."Psalm 139:13-14 "So we may boldly say:“The Lord is my helper;I will not...
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Cahnman's Musings is currently sitting in the gallery of the Texas State House. The House was allegedly supposed to take up pro-life legislation today. At the moment, the House has spent the last hour and a half on a point of order for an unrelated bill. This is an obvious stall tactic designed to kill the pro-life bills. Keep praying for righteousness and truth to sweep this body.1 Peter 5:7Update: House Adjourns until...
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Cahnman's Musings got to see Pastor Broden speak earlier today; the video from that event isn't online yet, so, for now, enjoy this speech he gave last year:Highlights:The seeding ground for what we face today took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. "America is like a healthy body, it's resistence is three-fold: it's patirotism, its morality, and its spiritual life; if we can undermine these three things, America will collapse from within." Joseph Stalin God keeps bringing back 'social' issues; we won't fix the economy until we get 'social'...
Friday, 21 June 2013
Well huzzah: Bipartisan Poll: Texas Voters Oppose Abortion LegislationScreams the headline from Progress Texas; reading further, we learn:“This overwhelming opposition proves that Gov. Perry and the legislature are out of touch and out of control,” said Katrina Mendiola, Executive Director of Engage Texas, a non-partisan organization aimed at increasing civic engagement. And who, pray tell, is Engage Texas?!?Engage Texas is a 501c4 organization...
Weston Hicks has a phenomenal piece (*) at Agendawise. It's about leveraging political inside baseball to drive policy outcomes, but in that process it also contains one of the best analyses of legislative psychology we've ever read. Money quote:Notice that when moral/cultural issues are passing, fiscal discipline is always at its highest ebb. Case in point: the 82nd Legislature.Why? Because fiscal restraint is moral restraint. Moral...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
One of the great frustrations of the ongoing abortion debate in Texas is the callousness with which Democrats throw around the terms like 'women's health':Senator Wendy Davis (D - Trial Lawyers Ft. Worth):Senate leaders “chose to push through their red meat, partisan political agendas, sacrificing women’s options and endangering their health in the process.”Senator Kirk Watson (D - Austin):Many Texans are “afraid, genuinely afraid, of how this...
Cahnman's Musings just had an epiphany about when the GOP descended from the (relatively) principles-based party of the 1980's and 90's to the rudderless mess it is today. We think it came during the midterm election of 2002. In Texas, that was the year John Cornyn replaced Phil Gramm.(Author's note: 2002 was also the year Bob Dole's wife replaced Reaganite Jesse Helms in North Carolina.)First elected to the United States Senate in 1984...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Dear Congressman Williams,It's been an interesting few months. We've had our agreements. We've also had multiple disagreements.I'm writing today on two topics: Immigration and Syria.On immigration, I expect you to vote against ANY bill out of the United States' House. Any bill the House passes will be a Trojan horse for Amnesty in conference committee. Do not vote for ANY bill related to immigration between now and...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
From Konni's Campaign Facebook Page:Kudos to Governor Perry for vetoing HB 950 on Friday. And right on cue came the same old "war on women" rhetoric from Wendy Davis. After the veto, she wrote on FB: "In yet another attack on Texas women, Gov. Perry has officially vetoed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act." Please don't be fooled by her rhetoric! That bill was not about preventing wage discrimination. That's already illegal. HB 950 simply extended...
It's not a secret that Cahnman's Musings would like to see a primary challenge to Senator John Cornyn; the question is who will do it. We've proposed having Senator Ted Cruz's father Rafael and Tea Party Superstar Katrina Pierson take this challenge. Today, we have another idea.How about former Texas State Rep. Wayne Christian?!?The most important thing for grassroots Texans to understand about Wayne Christian is that the leadership...
Monday, 17 June 2013
One-stop shopping from CatholicCulture.org on the great Kinsey fraud; some highlights:Before the push to loosen America's sexual mores really got under way in the 1950s, the only widely reported sexually transmitted diseases in the United States were gonorrhea and syphilis. Today we have more than two dozen varieties, from pelvic inflammatory disease (which renders more than 100,000 American women infertile each year) to AIDS (which presently infects...
This is a bit off topic, but worth discussion. With certain federal subsides for student loans set to expire in July, Senator Warren has proposed an 'interesting' idea. From the Huffington Post:Warren and her co-sponsor John Tierney propose that students be allowed to borrow directly from the government at the same rate that banks get from the Federal Reserve -- 0.75 percent. They argue: Some people say that we can't afford...
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSTED:Highlights:We caught Sam, an activist hired by the Democrats & Barack Obama's Battleground Texas at Houston's Emancipation Park during the Juneteenth Parade & Festival illegally registering voters. Texas law states that Deputy Voter Registrars must be a resident of the state of Texas,must be issued a certificate of appointment and given a receipt book, and must be authorized by the county in which they are registering voters. (http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/...) The problem is that Sam is from Oregon,...
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Yesterday, Governor Rick Perry let loose some awesome vetoes:He vetoed the attempt to make University regents accountable to the permanent University bureaucracy instead of an elected Governor; this had been priority legislation for Cahnman's Musings. He vetoed a separate attempt to gut the authority of the elected State Board of Education. He followed through on his threat and used his line item power to eliminate funding for the so-called 'Public...
Friday, 14 June 2013
This will come as a 'shock,' but the same Obama administration that expanded TARP, re-appointed Bernanke, and gave us the Dodd-Frank big bank protection racket, now wants to tax independent credit unions out of existence: Highlights:96 million Americans use credit unions. 40% of Americans are credit union members. Only 6% of all financial assets in the United States are in credit unions.Take action here....
Thursday, 13 June 2013
And yes, that is Barney Frank doing color commentary:Ron Paul goes 2 for 3 with a double, hit by pitch, reach on catcher's interference, and 2 RBI as the starting right fielder in the 1983 Congressional Baseball Game. Dr. Paul is a legendary player in the annual Congressional Baseball Game, being the only person to ever hit a home run over the fence in the game's 50 year histo...
Cahnman's Musings spent some time around the Capitol this afternoon. A source who was in the room informs us that, during an unrelated bill signing ceremony, the Governor told a reporter "you'll find out when everyone else does" about his plans for the budget. The Governor seems to be enjoying the suspense.-----Personally, Cahnman's Musings doubts the Governor would be stupid enough to build up this decision unless he plans a veto; but...
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
"20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive."Genesis 50:20It's official; the federal government has told West, TX to pound sand: This is disgraceful, but not surprising. Given his track record, it's predictable that FEMA under Barack Obama would do something like this. But there's a bigger lesson.Texans should...
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