As I contemplate the means to securing freedom once more, searching for the strategic lynch pins necessary for success, I keep returning to the same key components. Few revolutions were concerned with freedom. Most seem to have been about revenge (e.g., class warfare), regime change, and pretenses for even greater tyranny. Two obvious examples of the former come to mind, but only one succeeded. I've written before about the ingredients necessary for success in the American Revolution. What now might we have and what is still missing? » read more »

Jon Langford asks:

Do you remember when UFO sightings and Big Foot stories were questioned due to their obvious lack of facts and truth value? Well times are changing. It seems to me that communications today, no matter how bizarre or lacking in evidence, are pretty much being accepted at face value. Few people if any are checking the facts and it truly is troubling. Doesn't the truth matter anymore? » read more »

Citizens provided crucial evidence (via YouTube) to convict their own burglar. This is the new era of justice, I think. Because LEOs are becoming more storm troopers than officers of justice, real justice will be found when citizens take personal responsibility for it. The evolution of this will include more than detective work. » read more »

Does knowing the outcome alleviate our responsibility? No. As Adams said, "Duty is ours; results are God's." I have long espoused the deontological point of view that we must do the right thing and let God worry about the outcome. In voting, this means voting not for the lesser of two, electable evils but voting for the best, Godly candidate, even if unelectable. What about when it comes to prescience (foreknowledge)? » read more »

Wikipedia defines integrity thus:

[O]thers "have integrity" to the extent that one judges whether they behave according to the values, beliefs and principles they claim to hold.

In my vocation, one such measure of integrity is ISO9001, informally defined as:

Say what you do. Do what you say.

These ridiculously simple definitions should be easy to fulfill. » read more »

Just curious... do you "celebrate" Halloween?

When I first gave my life back over to Christ, I was in a church where Halloween was preached as evil. At that time of year, our church offered an alternative for the children, a fall festival. » read more »

Dave Welch writes:

The American Christian church is largely an embarrassment to 2,000 years of our forebears not because we have stood too strongly but because we have not lived and practiced "holy living" as described by Dr. Moeller as the primary reason Chinese Christians explain the revival there under Communist tyranny. » read more »

Liberty Counsel has a great new program: Adopt a Liberal.

Liberty Counsel is proud to introduce -- and invite you to participate in -- a vital new prayer program solidly built upon St. Paul's admonition to pray for our national leaders: » read more »

Vox is right:

It's increasingly obvious that the label "conservative" has been hijacked in a manner similar to the way that "liberal" was captured decades ago. » read more »

From Answers In Genesis, sage advice to parents, especially fathers: