Why religion Matters

Featured image by Uttam Sheth. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I’m not an evangelical. I don’t personally believe in going out and spreading the Gospel. I would much rather live a good life and pray that God uses me. Living a good life, treating others with respect, and working on myself […]

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Why Free Speech Matters

Featured image by Michelle Grewe. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I have said before that we must be responsible with our rights. We have the freedoms to speech, assembly, the press, petition, and religion. These freedoms, enshrined in our Constitution, are… or were… meant to be absolute. Congress could not abridge […]

The Shielding Approach

Featured image by Gary Todd. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I generally am skeptical of conspiracy theories. When someone tells me about this thing being connected to some larger group of people that are given near god-like powers, I tend to disbelieve. Real-life tends to be much more boring than the […]

The Illusion of Economic Freedom

Featured image from Business Insider. Follow the link for more info. I love the concept of laissez-faire market capitalism. An individual creates a product or service that they voluntarily exchange with another producer of a product or service for mutual benefit. This benefit creates both wealth and specialization, which allows for larger community groups to […]

Not so different after all

Featured image from Wikipedia. Follow the link for more info. I’ve been listening to the audio books for Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game saga over the last few months as I try and keep what sanity remains from the craziness that was 2020, the elections, pandemic, and all of the general anxiety and discord being […]

Prelude to an inquisition

Featured image from Britannica.com. Follow the link for more information. Historians are going to look back at the early 2020’s with profound amazement, wondering how and why the people living in that time didn’t recognize the rise of new authoritarian, and if things are left unchecked, totalitarian rules and systems. There is historical precedent for […]

A house divided…

Featured image by Alan Levine. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. It feels like we’ve watched a car wreck, a fire, or an explosion over the last week. Attached is the text of the House Divided Speech from the National Park Service, follow the link for the original source material. I am […]

How Dystopia Begins

Featured image by Colton Vond. Follow for more of this artist’s work. For all the flash and flare that a dystopian cyberpunk world seems to get, the reality is that the descent into dystopia is both sudden and subtle. The banning of a president while still in office, the purging of social media accounts for […]

An American Reichstag Fire

Many people believe that these types of things could never happen to this country, that somehow our existence and history transcends the patterns and desires of human nature.