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• What Would Jesus Do?–Apply Only When Convenient

  
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  I try not to go all Jesus on you, at least on this blog. And truthfully, I’m not really. I’m just trying to illustrate a point. Today’s discussion revolves around the death penalty. The reason it came to mind today for me, is that Maryland’s governor, Martin O’Malley, recently signed a repeal of the death ...
  1 week ago

• My Problem With Benghazi...

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 622
  ... was not the crisis management but Obamas throwing free speech under the bus. I can live with poor crisis management.  I have been a part of enough to understand that things are different in real time than they look when monday-morning quarterbacking the events.  In particular, it can be very hard to get ...
  1 week ago

• Question: What to do with those who ask what to do about the parents? Common Core State Standards pt. 5

  
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  Question: What to do with those who ask what to do about the parents? These posts have not been about the material that makes up the Common Core Curriculum itself[...]
  1 week ago

• Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote Address At NRA Convention

  
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  In case you missed it over the week-end, Glen Beck gave the keynote speech at the NRA Convention in Houston, Texas. Here is the video of the speech, courtesy of[...]
  1 week ago

• Just One of Those Crazy Accidents

  
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  So said the local county coroner, Gary White, declaring the shooting of a two-year-old by her five-year-old brother, just one of those things. Crazy things happen when guns and kids are mixed. The parents are just really feeling stupid for leaving the boy’s “first rifle” propped in the corner and left loaded. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two words…

  
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  Matthew Yglesias says : What’s needed is a much more forceful, much more statist approach to forced savings, whether that’s quasi-savings in the form of higher taxes and more Social Security benefits or something like a Singapore-style system where “private” savings are pooled into a state-run investment ...
  2 weeks ago

• Because it’s the Right Thing… and Because it’s Tactically Sound

  
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  A few days ago, an NBA player of no particular note came out as gay… Which, really, should also be of no particular note. But then ESPN decided to put a moronic bigot (whose name I won’t mention and whose video I won’t bother linking to here… why publicize idiots like this) to discuss the issue… and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama’s Abuse Of Sequester Cuts Are Proof We Need Smaller Government

  
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  President Obama has done his best to try and make sure that everyday Americans ‘feel the pain’ when it comes to sequester cuts. From closing the White House to public[...]
  2 weeks ago

• The Best Defense Against Terrorism

  
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  The specter of terrorism, especially on the American homeland is very frightening. These fears are especially acute in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack such as the bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday. More recently and prior to this latest attack, however; according to a recent ...
  3 weeks ago

• And yes, I do have a dog in this fight ;)

  
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  It has long been my view that Gerard Henderson and Michael Danby and Colin Rubinstein do not actually accept the logic behind having freedom of speech. Instead, they have jumped on the fashionable bandwagon that seeks to control how one’s ‘group’ is portrayed, hence their support for legislative piffle like s 18 ...
  3 weeks ago

• We Will Not Let Exam Results Decide Our Fate

  
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  Whoa! That young man is worth any ten education profiteers.
  3 weeks ago

• Fences…

  
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  …freedom is not just a dream, it’s there, beyond those fences that we build all by ourselves. -Quote from the movie Instinct The quote above I think expresses exactly the[...]
  3 weeks ago

• The Road to Totalitarianism is Paved with Good Intentions

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 622
  The first three times I read this, I was sure it was supposed to be ironic and sarcastic.   I am increasingly convinced that this was written for real Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on  sugary drinks  is good for you, New York, and for the rest of the country, too. And here’s something else, a guaranteed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shredding the Fourth Amendment to Protect Little Mermaid Royalties

  
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  CISPA passes the House.  Heres hoping for gridlock in the Senate because, whatever he might promise, there is no way Obama is going to veto legislation that helps Hollywood while simultaneously expanding the Administrations warrant-less search power.
  4 weeks ago

• Battle Lines Are Drawn

  
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  As I write this, the votes have not yet been cast. It’s scheduled for a bit later in the day. It doesn’t look good. According to Senator Manchin, they don’t have the sixty votes that are now per-requisite for getting anything passed in the Senate. And Harry was so sure that the Republicans would be reasonable. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Another Visit to the Liberty vs. Security Debate

  
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  No article on this subject can avoid quoting one of the numerous variations on the Benjamin Franklin quote where he said something close to these reputed words, “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” Often simply quoting Ben Franklin is enough to consider ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Common Core Curriculum: The Royal Lie pt.4

  
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  How is the Common Core Curriculum put across with a straight face? Even disconnected as most people are from the doings of their school boards (by the structure of their[...]
  4 weeks ago

• ALERT: Obama Planning To Create ‘Astro-Turf’ Support For His Gun Control Bill

  
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  President Obama appears to have the abilities of a Magician.  With his slight of hand, he is able to conjour things out of mid-air, such as support for a piece[...]
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• The Common Core Curriculum: Popular new answers to the same old question pt.3

  
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  So over the last two posts (here and here) we’ve seen that our current Common Core Curriculum efforts share in a 2,500 year history of ideas and events that demonstrate[...]
  4 weeks ago

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