Response: The So-Called “Right-to-Die”

NeedleSo, I received an email from an attorney friend of mine implicitly endorsing the so-called “right-to-die.”

It contained a statement from Dr. Peter Goodwin, who helped create Oregon’s right-to-die legislation.

Goodwin made the statement before he decided to end his life last year at 83 because of a terminal condition.”Life is unfair,” Goodwin told The Oregonian, but “Be fulfilled . . . be happy with yourself. Recognize achievements and be proud of them then go on to further achievements. Know what you want to do and do it. Be happy. Know good friends. Be in love.”

How Jesus Helped Me See Discrimination

Diversity HandsI am Caucasian.

Growing up Caucasian, I never experienced discrimination because of my race.

I was raised in a fairly conservative home, politically speaking, and by the time I was starting law school I believed race discrimination was a thing of the past in America.

By the end of my first year of law school I had joined the most diverse church I had ever known and made a lot of friends in the church who were not Caucasian.

The year was 1988, an election year, and because Jesse Jackson ran for president, race was part of the discussion during the election. Continue reading “How Jesus Helped Me See Discrimination”

The Secret To Avoiding Debt

calculator-260x183As the so-called “fiscal-cliff” looms, Americans are scratching their heads wondering how we got into this situation.

I’ve offered an answer to that question in another blog post, On The Debt Crises. That post begs the question of how Americans can avoid debt.

I grew up in an upper middle-class family. There were families who had more and those who had less.

Since then I’ve had periods in my life when I didn’t have a lot of money and times when I have.

When I was in law school, I didn’t manage what little money I had very well and as a result brought a lot of credit card debt into our marriage. My wife and I decided to deal with it and our other debts early on.

Continue reading “The Secret To Avoiding Debt”

On The Connecticut Massacre

adamlanzaHow do we stop the violence?

People are already asking this question.

Our secular leaders will come up with an answer, the same answer they always come up with: more laws.

They will ask how this could have been prevented. Perhaps they will require metal detectors at every elementary school, or subject everyone who enters a school to a body cavity search.

More likely, we will see stricter gun laws or laws designed to encourage people to report others they think might walk into an elementary school and murder 20 children.

They will do what they always do, which is deal with the symptoms rather than the cause of the problem because that is all they know how to do. In the meantime, our culture will continue to churn out more Adam Lanzas. Continue reading “On The Connecticut Massacre”

Why Did Manny Pacquiao Lose?

boxing-punchOn Saturday night, with 1 second left in the sixth round, Juan Martinez landed a wicked right that sent Manny Pacquiao face first into the canvas,dealing Pacquiao his second loss in a row. It was one of the biggest shockers in recent sports history,

Prior to his loss on June 9, 2012, against Timothy Bradley, Pacquiao was 54-3-2, and had not lost in more than seven years.

A few months prior to his fight with Bradley, Pacquiao became a Christian. His conversion appears genuine if one is to judge by the fruits of repentance.

But after losing two in a row, some, including Pacquiao’s Catholic mother, questioned whether Pacquiao’s conversion to Christianity (or as his mother said, “since the Protestant pastors came into his life“), contributed to is losses. I think Pacquiao’s mother may be correct, but for the wrong reason. Continue reading “Why Did Manny Pacquiao Lose?”