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I wouldn’t mind saying out loud, even though I’ve now given on-the-record testimony during deposition, that Ron Price’s lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore is a steaming pile of horse manure. Except that doing so would be a dire insult to horses everywhere.

(Here is my own report about being deposed and here is Richard’s account, which includes not only my own time on the “witness stand” but his own and that of Debbie and Ron Price… who I especially heard did not do so well.)

In my admittedly non-legally trained estimation, this case is going to be laughed out of court. But that won’t be before Price and his attorney Doug Hux will have (a) wasted a lot of our valuable time and money, (b) wasted a lot of the public’s valuable time and money, and (c) continued to set a horrible example to this county’s young ...

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As was written about here a few days ago, earlier this week Bob Jones III – the head of Bob Jones University – came out in support of Mitt Romney for President. I had a few things to say about it then.

And now Chuck Baldwin has a lot more to say about it and he does it better than I ever could.

In his latest article, “Bob Jones Dances With The Devil”, Baldwin goes at length as to why it is wrong for any sincere Christian to support Romney (and not it has nothing to do with Romney being a Mormon). But here’s where he really nails how bad Jones has become…

Folks, here is the problem: Christian leaders such as Bob Jones III have succumbed to the temptation to become glorified politicians. They surrendered their convictions thirty years ago when the old Moral Majority married the

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“Leaders at all levels seek power ahead of justice”.

I won’t quote the entire letter here but this part of it warrants special mention:

I live in Rockingham County. For months I’ve watched elected officials in my own backyard trample on the Constitution: from a school board member suing citizens for practicing the right to petition, to a city council banning new churches.

I’ll give you three guesses who is being referred to here 😛...

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Earlier tonight on WGSR, Richard Moore appeared with Charles Roark and was (among other things) talking about this week’s meeting of the Reidsville City Council. And Richard reported on something that I couldn’t believe that I was hearing, so I e-mailed Richard and he confirmed it…

Reidsville City Council has voted to ban new churches from the downtown area.

Here is what Richard told me…

“Current churches can continue to operate, but no new churches will be allowed in the Central Business District. It was put into law today with a 5-2 vote. I think John Gentry and George Rucker voted against it.”

Richard also tells me that the Reidsville City Council did not debate whether or not this measure to ban churches was constitutional, but the council did discuss the constitutionality of banning pit bulls.

Only in Reidsville.

Let’s review the First Amendment of the United States Constitution:

“Congress

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220 years ago today, on September 17th, 1787, the Constitution of the United States – the supreme law of this country – was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Although it could be said that the Constitution was only really “enacted” after nine states agreed to ratify it (New Hampshire became that ninth state in late June 1788), today is by and large considered to be the Constitution’s “birthday”.

If you would like to read the Constitution (and you really should), here is the full text – including subsequent amendments – hosted by the National Constitution Center....

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I’m going to start this post with a reference to one of my all-time favorite movies. In The Patriot, right after Gabriel goes to the church to recruit members for the militia, Reverend Oliver (Rene Auberjonois) lays down his clergyman’s wig and takes up the rifle. And this is what he tells his congregation…

“A shepherd must tend his flock.
And at times… fight off the wolves.”

I know: The Patriot is a work of fiction (even though some of its characters were real historical figures). But Reverend Oliver’s sentiment is a real one for a follower of Christ. Especially for a true patriot in every sense of the word. Real Christian patriots are loyal to a law higher than man’s. They will defend it. They will fight for it. If need be, they know that they may even be called upon to die for it. And they can ...

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An item has been placed on the agenda for the August 13th meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education that, if approved, would limit remarks by private citizens to three minutes or less during public comments portions of the monthly meetings.

The Knight Shift blog received this information from a highly trusted source earlier this evening.

I’ve spent the past good bit of evening trying to find out more about this and I’m going to be making further inquiries come tomorrow morning.

As I’ve come to understand it, here’s what’s going down: at least one and possibly two members of the Board of Education placed this item on the agenda for the next meeting, and it’s quite likely that this is coming as a reaction to what happened at the July 9th meeting. That was when the Board voted to rescind it’s decision in April to implement school ...

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Something I haven’t let y’all in on nearly as much as I should have: I am a die-hard Bulldogs fan. When the girl of your dreams is a grad student at the University of Georgia – the school whose motto should be “Play Football or Die” – you tend to get caught up in the spirit of the place very quickly as you start making regular visits to Athens.

Seriously though: it’s a great university. Even though I’ll always be proud of my alma mater Elon, you can often find me wearing a Georgia Bulldogs t-shirt whenever I’m out. So I was especially glad to find that this very good article about presidential candidate Ron Paul was written by J. Patrick Rhamey for The Red and Black, the student newspaper at UGA …

What are our traditional values? Looking across history, they are most certainly not wire-tapping, secret prisons, and

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Fred Reed – master of the blunt truth and art of curmudgeonry – is spot-on as usual with his latest analysis of what is amiss in this country…

Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were…

…The Constitution really is going away, or has gone. It never did work as well as it should have, but few things human ever do. Habeas corpus is dead, right to an attorney, congressional right to declare war—it’s not even worth listing the list. Joe iPod in the burbs doesn’t care because it doesn’t affect him, yet. Git them Hay-rabs, ain’t no draft, plenty sushi. Urg.

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