Once again, there is so much out there that I am somewhat at a loss to focus on a single issue. If you haven’t been hibernating early, the newsworthy items include the refugee problem, the Paris and Mali attacks, the VA travesty regarding its treatment of veterans, the Missouri-inspired (or was it Yale) episode of […]
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Refugees, Religion and Revolution
26 Nov 2015
First, I want to wish a blessed Thanksgiving to all. My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very good blog addressing the response of the West and Christians to refugees in light of the Paris attacks of last week. I would like to extend the discussion to address how the West, including the United States […]
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The Syrian refugee crisis, coupled with the ISIS attacks in Paris, have created a conundrum for political leaders across the Western hemisphere. While some evidence suggests at least one ISIS thug posed as a refugee to get to Greece, and from there traveled to Paris, the links between the refugees who need assistance, and the […]
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Totalitarianism of the Left
14 Nov 2015
Berean Jeff Haymond wrote a blog yesterday which overlapped my blog, but you should read both. His is broader. Mine focuses on the global climate change issue. A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that 27% of Democrats surveyed favor prosecuting those who do not agree with global warming. Here is the question from the Rasmussen Report […]
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My Reaction to the Campus Free Speech Issue
10 Nov 2015
The public university in America and most private universities and colleges are “dead.” By dead I mean that by and large they no longer stand for free inquiry and reasoned discussion and debate. They are being co-opted by various interest groups claiming offenses against them, sometimes by merely being a minority among a white majority. […]
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What is a Conservative?
09 Nov 2015
Is Donald Trump conservative? What about Paul Ryan? What is the “conservative” position on drug legalization? Immigration? Military intervention? Social Security? Do you have to be religious to be conservative? There is, upon reflection, only one argument winding its way through the right side of the political spectrum this year: what does it mean to […]
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Another Modest Proposal: Part 2
03 Nov 2015
In my last post I put forth a proposal for what a new president might do to reduce regulations in the bloated “administrative state.” I will now add more fuel to the fire by suggesting what actions the new president might take to eliminate whole agencies. Yes, I did say entire Federal agencies. I won’t […]
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Another Modest Proposal
02 Nov 2015
As we watched the Democratic and Republican Party presidential debates, I have heard some, but not nearly enough, discussion of the problems of the “regulatory state,” that is, that “Fourth Branch” of government affectionately called bureaucracy. Since this is a national election, I will confine my comments to the Federal agencies such as EPA, FCC, […]
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Reefer Madness in Ohio – Issue 3
28 Oct 2015
As goes Ohio, so goes the nation. On Tuesday November 3, Ohioans will go (hopefully flock in droves) to the polls to vote either for or against ballot initiative Issue 3. Issue 3 is a proposed constitutional amendment calling for the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational use. There are many reasons why you might want […]
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Fellow Berean Mark Caleb Smith continues to write eloquently about the need for improving civil discourse, as in our current featured post, yet I fear he will continue to be a voice in the wilderness. While he and I have some disagreements in this area, certainly he is right that a major problem in our […]