{"id":3975,"date":"2010-12-03T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2010-12-03T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:24:36","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Left considers honest disagreement as &quot;hate&quot;, redefining what should be a rather well-defined term.&#160; This leads <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2010\/11\/to-treat-one-another-as-humans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Gilson at First Things<\/a> to feel compelled to state that he does not hate homosexuals, despite his having signed the Manhattan Declaration.&#160; Apparently, being associated with that stereotypes you as some sort of Westboro Church member.&#160; Love that &quot;tolerant&quot; Left.<\/p>\n<p>That promise from Obama that you could keep your existing plan and not be forced to change under ObamaCare(tm) has already been broken.&#160; But now even unions realize they won&#8217;t be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoptheaclu.com\/2010\/11\/29\/obamacare-forces-union-to-drop-insurance-for-6000-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">afford coverage for children<\/a>, so they&#8217;re dropping it.&#160; (But since they are unions, after all, they have to put forward a good face about this whole government takeover.)<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the War on Poverty, since its inception is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2009\/09\/Obama-to-Spend-103-Trillion-on-Welfare-Uncovering-the-Full-Cost-of-Means-Tested-Welfare-or-Aid-to-the-Poor\" target=\"_blank\">more than the cost of all of the actual wars in US history<\/a>.&#160; Annual spending, in 2008 and adjusted for inflation, was 13 times what it was in 1964.&#160; Imagine if this money were to be given to private charities who waste far less of each dollar than the government does.&#160; Imagine how much less it would cost.&#160; It&#8217;s easy if you try.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I feel a song coming on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left considers honest disagreement as &quot;hate&quot;, redefining what should be a rather well-defined term.&#160; This leads Tom Gilson at First Things to feel compelled to state that he does not hate homosexuals, despite his having signed the Manhattan Declaration.&#160; Apparently, being associated with that stereotypes you as some sort of Westboro Church member.&#160; Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,275,47,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-healthcare","category-homosexuality","category-liberal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}