Our Constitution concludes with a Bill of Rights, but these rights are of a particular nature — and are friends of real liberty. But within the last several generations, another set of ostensible rights, with a completely different nature, have crept into our public discourse. These rights, these entitlements, are enemies of liberty. Not only …
What Everybody Says
You May Not Cut Nature
One of the reasons I go on about the regeneration thing is because I believe that many other crucial things ride on it. If we don’t keep the necessity of the new birth in the forefront of our minds, we will in short order find ourselves unable to answer the arguments and demands of those …
Another Brick in the Wall
So then, the problem with ignorance is that when you don’t know, you frequently don’t know what it is you don’t know. A common trope among our leaders and pontificators is found in the phrase “the greatest national security threat we face is . . .” followed whatever it is they want us to be …
American Jesus
So I have written about American exceptionalism before, and so let me begin with a quick review of my take in the first paragraph. Taken one way, the notion is just ten more pounds of idolatrous silliness. Every great nation at the top of its game — and there have been lots — knows how …
Looking Forward to Another Year of Thotwas
Let’s pretend that you guys are stockholders, and I am giving you all a report, an end-of-year round up. How did Mablog do this year? More importantly, how did your stock perform relative to Mablog‘s performance? Well, the good news is that, since your current translucent stock was valued at the beginning of 2015 at …
Getting Off on the Right Foot for the New Year
No Kidding. 40 Years.
So today marks 40 years together with Nancy. It has been entirely a good business, largely owing to her good heart, good work ethic, good humor, good cooking, good sense, and good looks. That’s 14,600 lucky days for me, not factoring in the leap years. That many lucky days in a row. We had a …
7 Tips for Watching This Presidential Campaign
We are now five weeks out from the start of actual voting in Iowa. That being the case, and given that the field has been winnowed to fairly manageable proportions, I thought I should offer a few pointers to those observers who are having trouble tearing their eyes away from this slow-motion car-crash spectacle. 1. …
John Piper’s Saturday Night Special
In my response to John Piper’s post on guns, I alluded to some of the paradigmatic issues underlying the differences we have concerning what we should do with our guns — whether we should have them in the first place, and what direction we get to point them. One of the paradigmatic differences I mentioned …