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I haven’t seen the new Superman movie that opens today.  Between one project and obligation after another there hasn’t been much time lately for anything like going to the theater.  I hope to catch it soon though.  For as long as I can remember I’ve been a Superman fan to some degree.  Superman is the superhero.  The prototype by which all others are measured.

In some ways, by which all of us in the real world can be measured, too.

Over the past few days I have heard some bits about Superman as he’s being portrayed in the new film.  Now, the character is almost ninety years old.  There has had to be some growth and acclimation during that time to keep up with the times.  But one thing in particular about this latest incarnation that I’ve been hearing about and… well, it kinda bugs me.  Because there is no ...

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So help me, I’m going to show this cartoon from almost eighty years ago until I’m blue in the face, if that’s what it takes to stop people from drinking Ism!

It was in 2009 when I first came across “Make Mine Freedom”, a 1948 educational film produced by Harding College.  I was immediately struck by how prophetic this animated short was.  How it warned against the dangers of socialism.  “Ism” is a blight that corrupts and destroys everything that it touches.

Not for the first time, not for the last, there are people in this country trying to sell “Ism” to us.  But it is a bitter elixir that will do naught but poison us and rob us and our children of precious liberty.

America
is not perfect.  It never has been.  It never will be.  We have made
mistakes along the way, just as any other nation ...

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I can no longer, in good conscience and in keeping to my faith in God, recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

This is a choice which I have abided for nearly a year.  At various times I have felt led to articulate my reasons for doing so.  Indeed, this past fall a friend helped me to record a video about my decision to never again say the Pledge of Allegiance (we filmed it at Guilford Courthouse Battleground, in front of the statue of General Nathaniel Greene, for what it’s worth).

Recent events have brought me to a place where at last I am compelled to write about why I’m not only refraining from the Pledge of Allegiance, but have come to see it as representing too much of what is wrong with America, and even in dire opposition to the vision of ...

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I have had an idea, which may or may not address a myriad of problems affecting these United States…

We should begin letting all natural-born Americans be citizens.  But only at age
18 can they become full citizens, with all the rights and privileges that comes with such citizenship.


However, for that to happen a person must be made to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that he or she is up to handling the responsibilities that comes with being a fully-functioning member of a democratically-elected republic.

Each individual would have to demonstrate
basic knowledge of the Constitution, some simple geography (i.e. be able
to find the United States in a world map) and basic English.  Perhaps along with some understanding of American history, economics and accounting.  Let the examinations be done in the randomly-applied style of the SAT, the GRE and similar tests.  It shouldn’t be too hard but neither ...

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From August 25th, 2009 at a public meeting between Rep. Jim Moran and his constituents at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia. As is happening a lot lately, the meeting was to discuss President Obama’s health care “reform”.

And outside the school, this exchange was taking place between a private citizen and polie officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. During which Officer Cheeks is told that this is America and replies “It ain’t no more”…

The only comment I’ll make is that I’ve seen this sort of thing happening for a long time already. It certainly didn’t start with Barack Obama (I saw much of the same happening on George W. Bush’s watch). And I like to think that now that the shoe’s on the other foot, that some Americans who had been too dense before will start paying attention.

I like to think that, anyway....

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Oh geez…

Many of you remember a little over a year ago when YouTube yanked the clip I had posted of VH1’s Web Junk 2.0 that made use of my my first school board commercial.

Well, this morning I got another “Video Disabled” e-mail from YouTube.

This time, it’s about Forcery, the parody of Misery – about George Lucas being held captive by an overly-obsessed Star Wars fan – that we shot in 2004. Forcery was released in 2005 and I posted it on YouTube the following year, so it’s already been on YouTube for about three years now.

If you’ve seen Forcery, then you know that when Lucas (played by lifelong friend Chad Austin) is driving back to California after writing the script for Star Wars Episode III, he turns on the radio and finds himself listening to the classic song “A Horse with No ...

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Today U.S. House member Ron Paul, who has been a candidate in this year’s presidential election, called on voters to end the “charade” of the two party system and look to traditionally third parties for leadership, citing that there was no fundamental difference between Democrat candidate Barack Obama and Republican contestant John MCcain. Paul also announced that he had refused to endorse McCain, a fellow Republican.

From the CNN story…

Instead, Paul will give his seal of approval to four candidates: Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney, Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr, independent candidate Ralph Nader and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin.

Paul said he’s supporting the third-party candidates because the two major parties and media had “colluded” to avoid discussing issues and falsely presenting the difference between McCain and Obama as real.

“I’ve come to the conclusion, after having spent many years in politics, is that our presidential elections

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I’ll admit, it’s so ironic you have to wonder if there’s some karma at work here.

A few weeks ago one of James Dobson’s cronies made a video and posted it on the Focus on the Family website. In the clip Stuart Shepard, who does a lot of multimedia production for the “ministry”, asks Christians to pray for “abundant rain, torrential rain… flood-advisory rain” in the Denver area on the night of Barack Obama’s open-air acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention.

Here’s Shepard’s video, which he claimed was done for humor (but I can’t find anything funny about it at all)…

As anyone who caught his speech will know, Obama enjoyed terrific weather for his address, which aired to what some are saying is one of the record highs for political speeches before a televised audience.

But if Shepard’s cry to Heaven was echoed by his fellow evangelicals, they’re ...

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Something I came up with after the idea hit me on the drive back from Atlanta last week.

It could also be argued that Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without really firing a single shot, or inflicting any fatalities. He defeated the Soviet Union in the only way that it could be beaten: by forcing it to bankrupt itself to death.

Not even twenty years later, his legacy is becoming undone before our very eyes. And millions of people who have never had to know such things may soon be hearing quite a bit about bomb shelters and air raid sirens....

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In his latest essay, Chuck Baldwin – pastor and the Constitution Party’s candidate for President – presents a very strong case that in spite of their words, most of today’s Christians… do not truly place their faith in God at all, but rather put their faith in their own understanding and the schemes of this world.

Writes Baldwin…

Most everyone, including Christian people, realize that our country is in a mess. They readily agree that a divine healing is needed. They even use the great stories and examples of the Bible to teach our boys and girls how to obey and trust God. They extol the examples of Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Simon Peter and the Apostles, etc. They use these stories to illustrate the importance of putting obedience to God and God’s principles above the machinations and demands of men.

When it comes to voting for and

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