Wallace B. Henley

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  Nov 6, 2012

  Election 2012: It's Bigger Than Race

  Dr. Joseph Lowery was one of the people who, decades ago, taught me that there are issues much bigger than one's race and its culture, and there comes a point at which one must rise above his or her provincial and even ethnic preferences. How ironic that it is now Dr. Lowery who seems to be suggesting voters give up that greater vision.

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  Oct 28, 2012

  The Tragedy of Sound Bite Prophecy

  Human life is a gift from God, and even if that person is conceived through the "horrible situation of rape," God "intended it to happen." The response: Frenzy. Establishment banshees wailed, mediadom wrung its hands, all midst much sniffing from the sensitive folk who support President Obama's positions that favor expansion of abortion generally, including partial-birth abortion and pregnancy termination so late it borders on infanticide, all paid for by the taxpayer.

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  Oct 22, 2012

  Benghazi and an Alabama Sawmill

  In our muddled age, narrative is the attempt to cloak crass reality in a filmy haze. Narrative has little taste for the pesky facts, and a dislike for details. Those who search merely for narrative, whether theology, history, or foreign policy, are romanticists. They want Walden Pond without the scum, fairy-populated forests without the poison ivy.

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  Oct 12, 2012

  2012 Election: America Doesn't Need Don Rickles or Dr. Phil as VP

  However, Biden somehow believes babies in the womb, the major class of humans who can't take care of themselves, are not among those to be sheltered by the "social doctrines" shaped by the Roman Catholic Church. Biden personally accepts the Church's tenet that life begins in the womb, but says he will not allow that belief to shape his policy views on abortion.

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  Oct 8, 2012

  Why Would God Give Us Obama or Romney? (Pt. 3 - Final)

  Why would God give us either of these men? Why would he raise up a president from a belief system that, to some, seems a parody and caricature of the Bible and history, or a president who officially endorses a moral code contradictory to Scripture?

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  Oct 4, 2012

  7 Things to Expect in a Second Obama Administration (Pt. 2)

  What can America – and the world – expect from a possible Obama second term? The undisguised party profile gives us clues, in the shape of seven trends.

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  Sep 28, 2012

  Four Advantages Obama Has in 2012 Election

  If the economy is so bad, unemployment so high, foreign relations in such disarray, national security apparently so full of holes, the President's positions on key social issues so opposite traditional values, why is about half the American electorate still supporting Obama?

• Aug 26, 2012

  Texas' 'Crazy County Judge' Similar to Noah and His Ark?

  Lubbock seems as far from the spiritual-moral-social-political-cultural tempest roiling America as that Mesopotamian dry gulch where Noah built his big boat was from the world's seven seas. No wonder Noah was a "national laughingstock."

• Aug 20, 2012

  The Taste of Hate: Chick-Fil-A and the Numbing Down of Culture

  Equating Cathy's position with Page's or Breivik's trivializes the concept of hate, blunts and diffuses its meaning. Put a pinch too much salt on a boiled egg and even the little bit bites. Diffuse the same pinch on the Pacific Ocean and the salt loses its saltiness, to paraphrase Jesus.

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  Jul 30, 2012

  Rahm Emanuel: High Priest of Chicago

  The mayor donned priestly regalia – in spirit if not physically – when he declared his outrage over the support for traditional marriage voiced by Chick-fil-A's president, Dan Cathy. The establishment media choir howled as usual in the same key that Cathy's position is "anti-gay," and the Chicago mayor-high priest rose to the pulpit.