'Breaking Bad': A Christian Parable

Ann Coulter

"This [column]'s about AMC's smash TV series "Breaking Bad" -- the most Christian Hollywood production since Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." (Not surprisingly, both were big hits!)

"It may seem counterintuitive that a TV show about a meth cook could have a conservative theme, much less a Christian one, but that's because people think Christian movies are supposed to have camels -- or a "Little House on the Prairie" cast. READ THE BIBLE! It's chockablock with gore, incest, jealousy, murder, love and hate."
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"There's only one thing in the world that ever could have allowed Jesse to forgive himself: The understanding that God sent his only son to die for Jesse's sins, no matter how abominable. To not forgive himself after that would be an insult to God, dismissing what Jesus did on the cross as not such a big deal."

Christianity Today; Why We Need Breaking Bad   "Watching Walt's slow slide off the moral cliff might just inoculate us against what TV usually teaches."

Word On Fire; "Breaking Bad" and the Problem of Sin   "In a way, the treatment of sin in “Breaking Bad” is very similar to John Milton’s in “Paradise Lost,” and Walter White reflects certain aspects of John Milton’s Satan very clearly."

Pure Coincidence – Ben Carson Challenged Obama, Promptly Heard From The IRS

American Glob   "Glenn Reynolds has reminded his readers on many occasions that in 2009 Obama “joked” about using the IRS to audit his enemies and so far it looks like that’s one of the few promises Obama has managed to keep. We all know how challenging Obama worked out for the Tea Party.
"Dr. Ben Carson had the audacity to challenge Obama’s policies at a national prayer breakfast and shortly thereafter, heard from the IRS for the first time in his life.
"The media, which is usually second in line behind the Democratic Party to accuse people of racism, hasn’t said a word about Dr. Carson but he’s a conservative so he’s not really black, right liberals?
The Daily Caller reports…

More on Dr. Carson here.

Obama’s myopic worldview

The Washington Post  “ 'The world is more stable than it was five years ago,” Barack Obama assured the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. This transparently self-serving but otherwise baffling claim came at the beginning of a long and dense address aimed at answering the critique that he lacks a coherent foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East.

"Judging from the widely varying reactions he inspired, Obama didn’t end the confusion about what he stands for. But his boast that his presidency has calmed the globe opened a window on his peculiar outlook on foreign affairs — and why it has led him to mismanage the most important crises on his watch.

"So: Why, according to Obama, is the world better off than in 2008?"... More.

Obama admin. knew about WWII veterans’ request and rejected it

Daily Caller

"The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II memorial in Washington, the Mississippi Republican told The Daily Caller Tuesday.
"Palazzo helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service Tuesday, when the heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial. (Related: WWII vets storm closed memorial as GOP congressman reportedly distracts cops)"  Via Drudge

 

WWII Veterans Plan To Storm Lincoln Memorial Today  "Both memorials are open air memorials. The Lincoln Memorial is open 24 hours a day, normally. If you’ll recall, it was wide open to having someone throw green paint on it in the evening a few months ago.
"So that means the Obama administration is making a conscious effort to spend more in time and money to shut off something which is normally open."

Think about this: why the expense of putting barricades around an open-air memorial? If push comes to shove, I can hear Jay Carney now; "The president first learned of this on the news this morning and took action to see that our honored veterans could tour the memorial."
Obama will say he learned of this the same way we did; on MSNBC this morning.

Too Late Opened, Too Sacred to Be Closed   ..."From that experience I hold a reverence for that memorial and the waning old warriors it honors, which tells me it is totally dishonorable for the Obama administration to deliberately and spitefully use this sacred site of tribute as nothing more than just another pawn in the political chess game it is now playing with the Republicans in Congress."

US government shutdown: Barack Obama is presiding over the end of America's superpower status

UK Telegraph  "Thanks to President Barack Obama obduracy* over his flagship healthcare policy, Democrats and Republicans have failed to reach agreement in Congress on the federal budget, forcing the US Government to close down for the first time in 17 years, with around 700,000 federal workers being placed on indefinite leave.
"While the White House insists that essential areas of the government, such as the military, will continue to function, the shut down represents yet a further blow to the prestige of the Obama administration at a time when it is still reeling from its inept handling of the recent Syrian crisis."

*obduracy; "The state or quality of being intractable or hardened." I had to look it up.