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Socialism Vs. Capitalism . . . Really?
So, It seems that the common political theme of the day is a Socialism Vs. Capitalism debate. We are all familiar with both sides of the debate from a general perspective . . . but there is another perspective that is often overlooked, subsidies. Whi...
Welcome to the Club!
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. She considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, but her father was a staunch Conservative. One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his opposition to high taxes and w...
The Insane Materialist
The Maniac by Charles Bell The materialist mentioned below is the equivalent of the evolutionary scientist or any who believe that the physical world is all there is. While the determinism is naturalistic determinism which has enjoyed a rebirth of in...
Brief Respite
Grandfather's Love I’ll be away from computers most of the rest of this week. My grandfather died last Saturday. He will be missed. A veteran of the Korean War, father to a large family, including my mother, and kindly grandfather who made ...
Would You?
Answer this question first, would you vote to support a bill that legalizes and confers all the rights of marriage on a homosexual relationship? Now consider this: 1) In Christian circles, the spending of millions of dollars for a new gymnasium is of...
Book Covers
Paul Potts - just another human He looked like he may not be running on all cylinders. His appearance said he may be a few fries short of a happy meal. Harmless, but hardly someone worthwhile, much less, important. How sad that I could dismiss a huma...
Boeing And The Pro-Business Government
787 Dreamliner Conservatives are often accused of being pro-business while Liberals consider themselves more pro-people and therefore the better of the two. As a conservative, I accept that accusation and wear it proudly. I am pro-business. Liberals,...
Net Neutrality: Taken For Fools
I, Pandora has had a mixed history on Network Neutrality. Network what? Network Neutrality is one response to fears that infrastructure and service companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, spell doom for the freedom of the internet as they ...
Today’s Interesting Stuff: October 23rd, 2009
Sexual Shamelessness Andrew Klavan on PJTV has an excellent video skewering our culture’s libertine sexual shamelessness. Klavan tends to fall on the libertarian side of things, but I have to agree with the gist of his arguments here. After suc...
If . . . Then . . .
If one does not choose to worship God while they are on Earth, how does one expect to be able to worship God when they reach Heaven? Christianity is a choice. The choice to accept God’s gift. The evidence of that is a worship of God. If people ...
Book Review: Love & Respect
Love & Respect, by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, attempts to address the imbalance in communication between married men and women. Starting with Paul’s admonition that men are to love their wives and women are to respect their husbands, Dr. Eggeri...
The Fall
Death The days dim and shorten. The winds build and sharpen. Death is everywhere about me as trees bid farewell to leaves that sheltered and fed them and grasses brown and say adieu to the mites who played about them. Fields dim and then burn with ra...
I Looked Outsite My Window West
Looking through the eastern window I looked outside my window west, across the broad horizon. My dreams and hopes from years gone by glowed golden in the light. The setting sun of all my past fell surely to the lip of the hills, shedding the last lig...
So many Christians, so little Christianity
As I was walking on the campus of my north Florida college, something struck me. A thought that is. As on most college campuses, UNF is littered with signs advertising clubs and events. Living so close to UCD, it was common to see fraternity and soro...
Max Lucado’s Fearless
I watched the Jet Li movie Fearless twice in the theatre, and again recently with my wife. The film follows the true story of a martial arts master Huo Yan Jia, who through many twists and turns, ends up fighting for the respect of the world. At a ti...
The Predestination Paradox
This is a repost from June 4th, 2008. A friend of mine and I were discussing this tonight and I was trying to recall where I’d read this reconciliation of the two viewpoints. Funny I should find myself the author. This is only the lightest of t...
A very short Must Read
I really want to recommend this column/blog on The American Vision by Gary DeMar. This article is a very clear, concise, unapologetic but very respectful perspective on power and purpose in general and our government in specific. Again, it is very s...
A New Father’s Prayer
I pray for you my son tonight that you always walk in God’s light That your young ears will listen well as of Christ’s blessed hope I tell and weave His story through all life to you, young son of my dear wife. I pray for you my son tonig...
Kennedy To His Last Breath
Read Shattered China’s obituary to the man, the icon, here. I heard of Senator Kennedy’s death this morning, not from the news, but from a good friend I was sharing breakfast with. And he said he wished he could be as Kennedy was, To his ...
Elitist Watch
A couple things to update everyone one . . . First, from the this article and video, a congressman (Rep. David Scott), holds a town hall meeting on a local highway that will be installed. Two points on that . . . 1) What is a congressman worried ab...
Almost Nearly Perfect
It made me laugh, my wife cried. Rick and Bubba’s Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect Marriage is a gem of a book for all people who want a healthy and balanced marriage built to last. Rick and Bubba, for those who, like me, don’t recogniz...
Deal Or No Deal
Pulling up to a gas pump on my way home from an interview with a job agency this morning a black gentleman was in the car on the other side of the pump. Wearing my cap, dressed well for the interview, and driving Svetta, my sweet Mazda3 I apparently ...
Matthew William Kelly Bedford
After 14 hours in labor, my wife Grace gave birth to the most beautiful baby boy. Matthew William Kelly Bedford is named after a dear friend of ours who was called home to be with our Lord not quite 1 year ago. I only hope that this little man will g...
The Golden Age
In every generation there is a Golden Age. A time where the generation is most passionate about its beliefs, best equipped to achieve its goals, and most free to do the impossible. Unfortunately, very few generations ever achieve their cause or are a...
God’s Commands Turn Out…
…to be doorways to intimacy with Him. And the best kept secret about obedience in the face of hard temptation is that there is a blessing waiting on the other side. Satan doesn’t want us to know that. He would prefer the usual succumb-and...
I’ve Been Let Go
On Wednesday afternoon I was laid off from my job, along with two others from the Service Desk. ACS Inc is going through a belt-tightening and they cut the McDonalds IT Service Desk US Crew from 8 to 5. We were a good team and I had good times with a...
Review: American Patriot’s Almanac
Words mean things, and ideas have consequences. If you don’t agree with the above statement, The American Patriot’s Almanac will be just one more collection of quaint sayings by old and dead men. Euripides is said to have said “The ...
Wrong Ideas…
…come packaged with so much glitter it’s hard to convince ‘em that other things might be better in the long run. ~Andy Griffith An accurate description of the task of those trying to show the failure of liberal policies as much as t...
What is the matter?
Many of you have heard of the Rebelution . . . but how many of you are really part of it? In the rebellion against rebellion, who is really doing “hard things”? As a youth, I was taught one thing by my parents . . . In fact, it was instil...
If You Can…
…start the day without caffeine, If you can get going without pep pills, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day...
