Tag: Freedom

Righteous Defiance Is Dead

Today the vast majority of ministers are success oriented.  Success means church growth, larger congregations, bigger buildings, bigger offerings, burgeoning statistics, greater notoriety, praise, invitations to speak at conferences, not to mention the financial perks and benefits that come with…

Some are Born Blind, Others Choose to Be Blind

An individual commented on an article I posted saying that in order to truly fight the demagogues, our website must be bipartisan.  He then accused me in particular of being a “poser, propagating an agenda, the pot calling the kettle black.”  I prefer to…

What Makes an American?

The problem of immigration isn’t that some in-comers don’t have government paperwork. Most of our ancestors didn’t. The problem is that too many migrants, and too many native-born Americans don’t have a clue. What are the qualities of an American,…

Hatred for the Second Amendment

Nothing raises the hackles of dictators, tyrants, and oligarchs more than the idea of a substantially armed citizenry. Disarming present or potential opposition has been the fundamental game plan of murderous rulers since Ancient Egypt and Rome. From the more…

Why Do We Tolerate the Left?

If freedom is right and just for men to possess, why on earth are we tolerating a government that will not allow us to be free?  Why are we enduring a bloated and arrogant bureaucracy that takes over half our…

Falling Out of Love With Free Speech

Free speech is dying in the Western world.  While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views.  The…

Freedom’s Requirements

The foundations of freedom are complex; this is why freedom is hard to win and easily lost.   America is a nation founded on the principle of liberty. However, it is vitally important that modern Americans come to grips with a…

Freedom is Failing

What characterizes government today is not so much dysfunction as it is ruthless contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater.  And what political theater it is – full of sound and fury, signifying…

The Cowboy Spirit

There are two Americas.  And yes, it is possible to live in one and not even know the other exists thanks to the plethora of niche media.  Since the middle of the last century, from both  domestic and international perspectives, there…

The Age of Mass Delusion

Delusion is an important element in the destruction of our nation.  Tyrants cannot stand up to logic or the free exercise of expression and association. It is important to the left that they organize isolate, and manipulate with talking points,…

Liberty Requires Resistance to Tyranny

The modern roots of individual rights and freedoms are founded in Biblical Christianity which has been historically recognized as the foundation for the development of both the rule of law and democratic institutions in the Western world.    A visible…

Silencing the Lambs

“Civil societies are necessarily tolerant to a degree, and intolerant to a degree; they punish what they cannot afford to tolerate and tolerate what they cannot afford to punish.” Oliver O’Donovan The mark of a good citizen at one time…

Remembering Those Who Have Sacrificed

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”  John 15:13 Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was  created as an occasion to honor those who have paid the  ultimate price to ensure…

A Natural Defense of Freedom

Gary Gutting is reputedly a philosopher, of the “I’ll just make things up as I go along” school of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. In 2013, in a citizen op-ed published in the New York Times, Gutting wrote…