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Archive for the ‘History’ Category


Legislating Morality

To turn to my main point, liberty and anarchy are not the same thing. Without a framework of laws, there is no reason my neighbor can’t open a window and shoot me when I come home from shopping at 4 am and start lugging groceries inside because I forgot to turn off the radio that was blasting Vivaldi and then slammed the car doors & woke his wife.

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Mine Rescues

The first miner from the collapsed mine in Chile is up, and the capsule is headed down to get the next miner. I made a snide remark on Twitter, but I’m happy that he’s up. Watching news of mine disasters is something of a family preoccupation. My mother’s family comes from the coal mining region along [...]

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9/11 – A Day That Will Live in Infamy

I was a small boy when JFK was assassinated. The teacher told us the president had been shot, and had been taken to the hospital. We all knew from watching the endless westerns that filled the TV in those days that unless the Good Guy shot the gun out of your hand getting shot meant that [...]

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Will Muslims Permit Jews to Pray in the Dome of the Rock?

It appears that Muslims want Christians to share their holy places.  It sounds so warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? Why can’t we all just get along? From Christianity Today: Mansur Escudero, who is leading the push for Muslims to pray at the Cathedral, said the issue is not only important for Muslims but for humankind. [...]

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Presidential Golfing Takes Your Eye Off the Ball

JammieWeariungFool features a picture of our current president out on the links again in this post. Those who keep track of such things say it’s the 44th time. Assuming I put the numbers in my calculator in the right order that works out to one golf game about every 1.8 weeks since becoming president. Unprecedented, right? Not [...]

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The Right To Feel Offended

There has been a lot of talk in the news and online about something called the “Cordoba Initiative.” If you don’t recognize the name, then you’ve probably heard it called the “Ground Zero Mosque.” Both names are inflammatory, but only one is usually treated that way. Centuries before the Crusades, Muslim forces invaded Europe, conquering [...]

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