Bruce Eberle's Blog: Recent Comments

Comment on Handicapping the GOP Race

2012-01-15T14:25:17Z

EXCELLENT, RIGHT ON.

Comment on Gingrich vs. Obama Early Thoughts

2011-12-17T05:00:53Z

well written! Bravo!

Comment on Gingrich vs. Obama Early Thoughts

2011-12-16T15:36:04Z

It won't be Newt Gingrich as the Republican nominee. He was a failure as Speaker, and he would have little chance of winning a general election.

His divorces and extramarital affairs are just a minor part of a much bigger character deficit.

Those that know him best like him least.

I agree he is bright, but he does not have the temperment or character to be president.

Comment on Are You Threatened by Exxon?

2011-11-30T19:03:30Z

For far too long liberls have gotten away with the lie that Hoover was a small-government conservative. It's a myth that endures in the popular imagination and in college campuses.

Bravo to Cato for challenging this deceit.

I would recommend the book "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes as an excellent account of how both Hoover and Roosevelt turned the recession into a depression through government action.

Comment on Herman Cain

2011-11-18T14:29:22Z

Hi Bruce,

Appreciate the article. I came across your blog through networking at a conference that your controller recently attended.

Comment on Herman Cain

2011-11-10T01:17:40Z

I guess Herman should take these charges as a sad form of flattery. He has scared the dickens out of the White House and or his GOP opponents. You are correct we need to find out who started this smear tactic and expose it for what it is. Channel 46, the CBS channel here in Atlanta hired a private security firm to run Mr. Cain's press conference thru a state of the art voice stress analysis system. And guess what? NO DECEPTION AT ALL APPEARED. HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH. I proudly supported Herman Cain when he ran for Zell Miller's senate seat. When the rumors started that he might run for the White House, I told you he was a man to watch. This is no Bill Clinton, or Gary Hart. The man has integrity. I listened to his nightly show on WSB and the man cares about America. He has no other agenda but to make this a better place for our children and grand children. That my friends is what scares the White House and the liberal wing of the GOP. No man is infallible or without sin, but the Herman Cain I have watched and admired in the Atlanta area is not the man the accusers have painted.

Comment on Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?

2011-09-16T16:47:08Z

I enjoyed the article and believe the young people need a chance to control their destiny - The government sure doesn't seem to be able to control much -or anything well.
I also learned where the word ponzi came from, often wondered how this work came into existence.

Comment on The End of the Middle Class?

2011-07-28T20:34:43Z

The so-called fallacy of Reaganomics (called trickle down by its uninformed detractors) resulted in the longest period of prosperity in the history of the United States. The jury is in. Low taxes mean more prosperity and freedom. High taxes mean less prosperity and less freedom. It’s on the record for all to see. Today regulations impose the greatest financial burden on the middle class causing the price of everything to go higher and higher. There is no freedom without free markets.

As for hate, it seems to me that the left has a near monopoly on hate. The terrible personal attacks by liberals are never ending. Most of all, they hate the United States and everything it stands for. Hate is a sin and no one can claim to be innocent of sin.

Comment on The End of the Middle Class?

2011-07-07T21:15:57Z

You had me, then you lost me. I agree with the first 1/2 of your post, but then you stopped making sense. The notion that Democrats hate the middle class is simply wrong. The movement of wealth/opportunity out of the middle class aligns with Republican presidents for the last 50 years. Today, the super-rich have taken control of gov't and given themselves breaks and benefits - and used them to buy more control and instill fear. We live in the greatest country ever - but the gov't has been given to the few, the powerful, the super rich. The fallacy of trickle down is just that. The economic calamity we are digging out of is a product of (Republic) financial deregulation, and the Iraq war Bush tricked us into. You can pretend Obama caused this, but you know it's not the case. And you can pretend Michele Bachman and others have 'values', but hate and ignorance aren't values and religion doesn't belong in gov't. Time for you to take a closer look at what will be the right side of history.

Comment on If God Is Good

2011-05-23T20:26:29Z

In 1948 on BBC Radio, Bertrand Russell said, "I feel that some things are good and that other things are bad. I love the things that are good, that I think are good, and I hate the things that I think are bad. I don't say that these things are good because they participate in the Divine goodness." When asked how he distinguished between good and bad things, Russell said "By my feelings." By that standard, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler could have argued that they only did was good.
In the absence of a supreme being, there clearly can be no standard of right and wrong, good and bad. You are correct. However, there is a God. And men are not God. God is not judged by the standards of men, but men are judged by the standards of God. It seems to me that you have decided that there is no God because you cannot comprehend God. But of course, the first sin was man wanting to be like God and to rule over others.
Faith in God is not a matter of reason, although through human reason, as frail and insubstantial as it may be, it is possible to determine that it takes more faith to deny the existence of God than it does to expect His existence. Hundreds of years before Jesus was born his birth and death were forecast in minute detail, so precise that the odds are millions to one that Jesus was indeed the long promised Messiah. When he rose again, more than 500 people at different times served as personal witnesses to his resurrection. Women, who were forbidden to testify in court were the first witnesses. Why, if fabricated, would the writers of the Bible select women as to provide the first witness of his resurrection? Wouldn't they instead select someone, certainly a male, who would automatically be more respected? There are thousands more of similar examples that are very hard to deny, but yes it does take faith to believe in Jesus and in God. Wittaker Chambers said he abandoned atheism when he looked at the intricacy of his baby daughter's ear and realized that something so intricate had to be created by a Creator. God is not only the standard of good, God is love. He epitomizes love in his every action. We may not always understand it, but after more than five decades as a believer I can tell you unequivocally that God exists and that Jesus is the Son of God. As far as irrationality is concerned, how rational is it to believe that something so complex and yet so orderly as the earth exists in the absence of God. It was the orderliness of the world as described in Scripture that enabled the Church to found and encourage the exploration of science. The laws of calculus and and differential equations always existed as representatives of the orderliness of nature. God delighted in letting man discover the extent of his orderliness. He still does.