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I did not watch President Obama’s inauguration today. There is nothing particularly interesting about a leader with no real vision. Sadly that’s a trait that has been shared by every president since Reagan. But I digress…

It does interest me this afternoon however that President Obama continued the tradition established by former president George W. Bush of having a “free speech zone” marked off for the event…

Freedom Plaza is the site of one of the only authorized demonstration zones, where a strip of the plaza is designated a free speech zone.

The “free speech zones” were a routine and chronic practice of George W. Bush. Nobody who protested his policies was allowed anywhere close to him when he was president and out in public. There were many instances when protestors were limited to an area nearly a mile away from Bush.

The “free speech zones” were wrong then. They ...

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Good friend, Baptist minister and wise Christian brother (he’s certainly wiser than I shall ever be) James Hodges made an observation earlier today. I’m sharing it here, because in so few words it speaks volumes…

Why should we worry about the ‘fiscal cliff’ when we have already fallen over the ‘moral cliff.’

Unfortunately, all too true.

Perhaps there would be no concern of a “fiscal cliff” at all if we had chosen to long ago steer away from the moral cliff....

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Look, I know about the guy’s role in the Saturday Night Massacre. There were a number of beliefs that he held to which I do now and always will vehemently disagree with, particularly with his stance on jury nullification. He also was way off about the Second Amendment, holding to the notion that it was intended for participating in government-sanctioned militias.

But I’ve also long believed that in spite of those and many more qualms about the man, Robert Bork truly – as best he understood – adhered to the highest principles in respect to law and the Constitution.

And claims from petty politicians (like Ted Kennedy) aside, it must be agreed by all: Bork was a brilliant jurist in every sense.

Judge Robert H. Bork passed away this morning at the age of 85.

Thoughts and prayers going out to his family.

And I have to wonder today – ...

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38 children and six adults killed. Several dozen wounded. The assailant killed himself.

That was the toll from the Bath Township Consolidated School Massacre in Bath Township, Michigan. On May 18, 1927…

You can read more about it here.

Incidentally, not a single firearm was used in the worst school massacre in the nation’s history.

It is not what is in the hand so much as what is in the heart.

Thoughts and prayers going out to the people of Newtown, Connecticut this afternoon....

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The government of the United States is not of the people, by the people and for the people. And it has not been for a very long time. Maybe not even in the memory of anyone alive today. We all know it. Unfortunately there seems to be damned little we can do about it. But having spent most of my life as a historian I also know that the established order can and eventually will be overthrown, no matter where or when. Either by outright revolt or crashing down under its own weight.

What is the “established order” controlling America? Steve McCann at American Thinker has a thorough understanding of it: an entrenched system of career politicians, sellout journalists whose lust for limelight eclipses love of truth, elitist academic types depending on the public treasury to justify their inflated sense of self-important, lobbyists and crony capitalists with a vested ...

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…we still woke up. The sun rose again. There was a new morning. Life did go on.

In fact, it couldn’t sincerely be said that much of anything changed at all.

This country, this world even, is not made by the grace of a single man or woman. An individual can render it grievous harm however.

But in the end, America – and every other country for that matter – is the result of the diligence of her entire people. And I tend to believe she is only as good as the lengths her people will go to admit that they are not wise enough to govern this land with mere human reasoning.

Acknowledging that much is the beginning of the enlightenment that the Founders prayed we might have. We’ve lost sight of that, and that has to be said regardless of what “party” we might belong to.

I’m going ...

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You know what’s going to happen to America after Tuesday?

Nothing. Not a damned frazzling thing.

We will still be taxed too much.

Abortion will still go on.

TSA will still be molesting children and elderly people.

We will continue to be
over-extended militarily.

Companies will keep relocating their production
overseas.

Children in our schools will continue to be taught to
obey and not question instead of encouraged to think for themselves.

Government power over us will continue to increase instead of diminishing.

Our economy won’t stop being based around fiat currency.

The Constitution will continue to be ignored by lawmakers and the judiciary and the White House.

NOTHING will change after
Tuesday… except perhaps a different set of faces upon which we’ll blame for the folly that we ourselves allowed to happen. Because we didn’t want to buck the status quo.

Some call that “being comfortable”. I call that ...

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Voting in America has devolved into middle-school immaturity: dominated by petty cliques, peer pressure and lots of masturbation (figuratively, thank goodness…).

Allow me to remark that I know lots of real middle-schoolers, mostly from community theater… and they ALL act more mature than the voting adults are right now!

Then I have to observe that the vast majority of political news, indeed news that passes for “top stories” among the television/print/major online media, are polls. Nothing but polls. Polls, polls, polls…

That’s what American politics has become: a popularity contest. We aren’t even pretending that it’s not anymore.

We’re supposed to be better than this....

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Chuck Baldwin, Christian writer and thinker extraordinaire, is always a treat to read. But his two most recent columns, I found to be especially illuminating.

First there is this one from last week: “They Prefer Caviar, Even If It Comes With Chains”, in which Baldwin articulates why too many Americans… including far too many American Christians… have given up the risks of liberty for the comfort of security and in doing so have ended up as slaves. To amplify the point he uses a story from the Book of Acts…

There is an Old Testament story that parallels with what is going on in America today. The story is found in Numbers chapter 11. God had delivered His people from great bondage. They witnessed His mighty hand of power and deliverance in defeating their oppressors and leading them toward a land of promise and liberty. He

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I haven’t heard Mitt Romney say a single nary thing about eliminating the Department of Homeland Security and completely scrapping the Transportation Security Administration. That he hasn’t and apparently approves of those governmental monstrosities is just one more reason why the Romney/Ryan ticket won’t get my vote next month. Neither will Obama/Biden, but that’s a post for next week.

But just in time for the election, The TSA is removing those cancer machines it euphemistically calls “body scanners” from major airports. The official line is that the cancer machines are being relocated to smaller airports in an effort to “speed things up” across the board.

But there are serious reasons to consider that rather than completely giving up on Nude-o-vision(tm), the TSA may in fact be gearing up to implement even WORSE technology: namely scanners with much finer resolution and stronger abilities at detecting small objects on a person ...

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