{"id":5212,"date":"2012-06-08T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2014-01-27T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:11:07","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5212","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.\u201d \u2013 Charles Spurgeon. He had quite a bit to say on <a href=\"http:\/\/americanvision.org\/1833\/spurgeon-on-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">economic and political issues of the day<\/a>, applicable to that day and this.<\/p>\n<p>For those still blaming Bush for our economic situation, Paul Mirengoff reminds us that the housing&#160; market collapse was the main cause of it, and the Bush administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/for-obama-what-goes-around-comes-around.php\" target=\"_blank\">tried to keep it from happening<\/a>. Democrats would have none of that.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city\u2019s top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/05\/nyregion\/mayor-supports-plan-to-change-marijuana-arrest-policy.html?_r=2&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana<\/a>&#8230;.&quot; But the <em>real<\/em> scourge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-505269_162-57446436\/foes-hit-nanny-bloomberg-over-sugary-drink-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Gulps<\/a>, will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>A cautionary tale about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/05\/24\/my_break_with_the_extreme_right\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">hyper-partisanship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember those advertisers that left the Limbaugh show after his remarks about Sandra Fluke? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/limbaugh-drops-company-that-suspended-ads-from-show-over-fluke-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">One big one tried to come crawling back<\/a>, and Limbaugh just said No.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is against voter ID laws, but Michelle Obama herself required IDs <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/john-bates\/2012\/06\/06\/first-lady-requires-photo-id-her-book-signings-voter-id-law-hating-media\" target=\"_blank\">to get a book signed<\/a>. Irony. Meter. Pegging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/47691090\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austerity works<\/a>, when it&#8217;s actually implemented. Just ask the European country who&#8217;s economy outpaced the average growth in the euro-zone by 500%, and has the only budget surplus there.<\/p>\n<p>Obama actually was a member of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/302031\/obamas-third-party-history-stanley-kurtz\" target=\"_blank\">socialist political party<\/a> while in Chicago. Stanley Kurtz of National Review has the documentation. Where was the mainstream media on this 4 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>In case you heard otherwise, no, the Boy Scouts are not changing their policy on <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/boy-scouts-not-changing-membership-policy-bans-openly-gay-scouts-and-scout-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">gay scouts and scout leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.\u201d \u2013 Charles Spurgeon. He had quite a bit to say on economic and political issues of the day, applicable to that day and this. For those still blaming Bush for our economic situation, Paul Mirengoff reminds us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27,9,15,18,47,26,29,28,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-democrats","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-homosexuality","category-politics","category-religion","category-republicans","category-voter-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","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=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}