Author Archive: David Shedlock
God has blessed David and his wife Judy with 5 boys, and 16 wonderful grandchildren. His book entitled "With Christ in the Voting Booth: Casting Down Imaginations" Before Casting Your Vote", with a Foreword by Mike Huckabee, has been released in paperback March 28th. The cheapest price can be seen on www.TurretinPress.com.
David is currently an adjunct instructor of Composition and Speech at Marshalltown Community College in Iowa, and a youth counselor at Woodward Academy. His wife and he have also owned a business selling antique and collectible postcards on eBay since 1999. David was an activist with Operation Rescue in the early 1990s. He has been been a member of Trinity Presbyterian Reformed Church in Johnston, Iowa for over 15 years.
Mitt Romney Coiner of New Words and Phrases
From the Romney Archives: Romney turned out to be a great coiner of new words and phrases. Usually the domain of linguists, the former Governor of Massachusetts created a new phrase to go along with his highly deceptive term, “effectively pro-choice” on abortion (which really means, really pro-choice… really, I’m just sayin’). In 2007, when [...]
The Mitt Romney Death Panel Revealed: Carey’s Horror Story!
When Governor Sarah Palin objected to President Obama’s health care proposal (Obamacare) as containing “death panels” she was simply expressing what should be obvious to all: demands for efficiency and cost-effectiveness lead to widespread rationing of medical care. In all the debates about whether it is right to require people to carry insurance or to [...]
How Do I Get These New-Fangled Voting Machines to Work Again?
We’ve had this problem ever since the 2000 elections when a vote for Pat Buchanan was really a vote for Al Gore. But apparently putting in high-tech voting machines doesn’t seem to be helping. We need someone to put out voter guides telling us how to get our votes to register for the right person, [...]
Fear of Mitt Romney and Obama Sets a Trap For Many Iowa Voters
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe. Suppose your 18-year-old daughter was about to be launched into the world of courtship. You’ve raised her to be the best wife and mother she can be. She is beautiful, wise and loves God [...]
Spy v. Spy: Ron Paul vs Alfred E Neuman
Which makes more sense, Mad Magazine or Ron Paul’s Newsletters? The following quotes come either from Mad Magazine’s Alfred E Neuman or from the newsletters of Ron Paul. Your job is to decide who said what. No googling or cheating now. Get out a piece of paper and number from 1 to 8. Write down [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Newt Gingrich Consults Monsignor, Joins Rick Perry in Renouncing Pro-life Exceptions.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Two candidates trying to woo the pro-life voter have made public statements repudiating their formerly stated positions of accepting abortions in the cases of rape and incest. Five days before the Iowa Caucuses, I asked former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich how allowing abortions in some cases [...]
$30,000 Plus For Sorenson Switch to Ron Paul? Bachmann Apparently Telling the Truth
Channel 13 (WHO-TV) in Des Moines is reporting that current campaign manager for presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, Eric Woolson, confirms her story that state Senator Kent Sorenson left her campaign suddenly and that he and Sorenson had discussed the $30,000 cash payment and an additional $8,000 a month Sorenson had been offered by the Paul [...]
Three Questions Ron Paul Refuses to Answer
At a rally yesterday I asked Ron Paul, “How confident were you at the time, that the Ron Paul newsletters from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s accurately portrayed your views on monetary policy, the 2nd Amendment, the 10th Amendment, personal liberty, limited government, lower taxes, and staying out of needless wars?” He refused [...]
Ron Paul Salutes Newton, Iowa Vietnam Veteran, Bob Colby
Iowa Caucus frontrunner Ron Paul was in Newton, Iowa at noon yesterday for a townhall meeting at the Iowa Speedway. A crowd of about 150-200 came to hear him speak, along with about 50 members of the press. He made little news with the speech, which included most of his standard boilerplate remarks : bring [...]
Are the Wheels Coming Off the Ron Paul Campaign? Or Is He Just Getting Revved Up?
Eric Dondero, a former high-level aide to Ron Paul, has taken a wrecking-ball to Paul’s presidential campaign with accusations that, if true, may leave only Paul and his sycophantic band of anarchists, conspiracy theorists and pacifists left still clinging to the rubble. It should be said at the outset that Dondero challenged Paul for his [...]
