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The student loans that are getting so much attention at present were never legal in the first place. Under our Constitution, the United States Congress never has had authority to initiate such a program. Had the people of the United … Continue reading →

It’s been 21 years now since it happened. Have you paid enough attention yet to figure out that the official 9/11 Commission explanation is bogus? And have you paid enough attention to figure out that one of the most popular … Continue reading →

The one child has learned toExplore what is new,While the other cowers from it. The first learns to manage risk,And the second, to be ruled by it.

Suppose you had to actually Use the mind God gave youIn order to understand God—Just like you have to useThe legs he gave youIn order to stand.

We manage to see much, though not all,Of the harm others do to us.Yet we see much less of the harmThat we do to others. And this raises the questionOf what we want to see.

The blind may manage to see some blurry valueIn someday going to heaven to be with Jesus,But none of them can see value in learningTo act and think like him right now.

The wisdom of the agesHas left its pearls strewnAlong the timeline fromThe Beginning until now. How poor, then, are thoseWho gather only the pearlsOf this present day, forgoing The perspective of whatHad been learned before. “Wisdom of the ages” is … Continue reading →

I do not want to control youAs you are convincedThat I do. I wouldn’t mind, however,If you should take a notionTo control yourself.

“I am not empty man,” he proclaimed.And at that, he was hard-put to explainWhy those words kept echoingInside his soul.

He seemed unconvincedBy their assertion thatHis profusion of imperfect proofsSomehow added up Into a good one.