... , the very first time our nation has ever engaged in preemptive strikes against an enemy. And post-war Iraq is a tinderbox. All the while, in news that is truly terrifying, North Korea has nuclear warheads that can reach the shores of California. And Kim Jong-il has restarted North Korea's plutonium producing reactor. A friend that I met in Louisville this past weekend told me that in her sixty years of living, both here and in the Middle East, she has never experienced such chronic anxiety, such persistent ...
... . But patriotic feelings are not enough. Loving your country is not enough. It takes more than that to be a good citizen. George Bush loves his country. John McCain loves his country. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton love their country. So do Kim Jong-il and Hugo Chavez. These political leaders all love their countries – I’m convinced of it. But some love their country more helpfully and more healthfully than others. Love of country is good or less than good depending upon the other things we also ...
... as long as God allows it. The state is a divine institution with a divine authority. I want to make sure you understand what I am saying and what I am not saying. Paul is not saying that the Hitlers, the Stalins, the Saddam Husseins and the Kim Jong-Ils of our times have been personally appointed by God and that God is responsible for their behavior and that their authority is never to be resisted. All Paul is simply saying is that no ruler has authority in and of himself. All of his authority comes from ...
