The man of action is essentially conscienceless (Goethe)

Dear Emeritus: When China is mentioned you fall into hushed reverence and unrequited admiration. Yet, where will a country end up which jails its people by multitudes and forces millions to subsist on stinging nettles? China is all about commerce, it is spiritually dead and offers nothing to emulate * Ron Paul is the only candidate who staunchly refuses to be a killer. Which brings me to my consistent, still unanswered, question, why are you, a Lutheran and son of a Lutheran pastor, voting for a mass murderer and serial abortionist? Luther did side with the Fürsten in killing the peasants, thus making himself, a few hundred years ahead of time, a worthy candidate for the United States presidency * Poverty in America is likely to get worse, reports find. An Indiana University study finds that 46 million Americans are living below the poverty line – up 27% since the start of recession. What, besides handing out food stamps and not building pipelines, is Obama doing for America? * Ron Paul is being ignored by the media because he doesn't fit into the pre-manufactured public opinion mold used by the establishment to pigeonhole the electorate and create the so-called narrative that drives media coverage of elections * Why do the morally and ethically challenged gravitate toward Washington, D.C.?  * Lewis Lapham got it about right writing that “both parties are adrift in scandal, discredited by their means of raising campaign money, suspected of crimes against the common good, convicted of neglecting the poor, despoiling the environment, raffling off the prospects of the country’s long-term future for the promise of a short-term vote” *  Searching for God is like having a word on the tip of your tongue, however, unable to speak it. One knows the word, its meaning, but simply can’t remember it. One is close, yet distant.