Letter to the Editor: You, sir, are a loser at life. That’s a fair-minded statement. Mary Mary, you're telling me! Fair-minded? Are you kidding me? If you knew just ...
The Standard Epistolary Business
Can the Two Walk Together?
“I can get gumbo and grits more easily in New Orleans than I can in Manchester, New Hampshire. The same goes for hearing live zydeco. These represent variations in a common culture. A farmer with a pickup truck in Wisconsin listens to music all the time that sings about red Georgia clay, and this despite the fact that he has never seen any. This is part of the texture of a common culture, and a big part of what makes it so enjoyable to live in a country as big as ours. But abortion represents an alien civilization.”
A Field Guide to Conservatives, as Narrated by David Attenborough
Introduction: So this next chapter by Campbell is kind of long, so I am not going to tackle it all in one go. The territory to be covered this time around will simply be pp. 134-152—that should ...
Many Farewells
Acts of the Apostles (46): Introduction: So Paul is resolved to go to Jerusalem, and apparently a sense of destiny rests upon him. He is repeatedly warned what will happen if he goes there, and ...
The Debate Last Night
I would like to thank Jeff Durbin and Bradley Pierce for what I thought was a respectful and fruitful debate. Most of it was ex temp, but my opening statement is below. Opening Statement “Civil magistrates should reject regulatory Pro-Life legislative strategies as biblically forbidden, morally compromised, and practically counterproductive.” I want to begin by …
To State the Obvious
“You cannot build a federal system when the component parts belong to different civilizations.”
How Should Christians Relate to Power | Doug Wilson
Losing the Original American Exceptionalism
“That self-awareness really was exceptional. But we have now lost anything resembling such humility, and have replaced it with Ozymandian pride, and are the laughing stock of the angels crammed into the balcony of the celestial matinee, who have seen then empires rise and fall, and it is not even lunch yet.”‘
Those Leaked Group Chats
Introduction: So a situation was created a short while ago when somebody leaked texts from a group chat of Young Republican up-and-comers from various states around the country, and that chat ...
Exceptional Foresight
“The founding of our nation really was exceptional, because the men who drafted our Constitution knew that American politicians, taking one thing with another, would be every bit as sleazy as the same class of men from any other clime.”