What follows is a repost of a response I wrote on DailyPaul.com this morning. Someone had posted a link to this article at Forbes.com: The Grand Shi Strategy of Ron Paul. After having read the article, here is my response:
If we are waxing theoretical about the (Ron Paul) campaign, then let us consider the entire landscape, please. Continue reading
What’s a “drive-by assertion”? It’s my name for an assertion that one makes and thereafter dodges rational debate on the matter.
Here are a few varied scenarios that I believe to be typical of what’s going on in our cavalier hearsay society:
I just finished writing the extremely-abridged version of my book, which I am calling: Character Not Included for Cognitive Misers. The full text is as follows:
America is an awesome idea but the people are messed up. Anybody wanna fix that?
This is the day upon which we celebrate the heroism and vision of our forefathers who, interestingly, thought, believed, spoke, and acted in ways that we would condemn today in our own contemporaries.
On the one hand, many Christians interpret Romans 13 as a command that Christians today are to obey the government. (See the passage below.) On the other hand, these very same Christians live in a nation that was founded by people who rebelled against the government of Britain. And beyond that, America (including these particular Christians) spends about $3Billion each year to celebrate this rebellion-won independence. Continue reading
NOTE: I don’t normally use language like “liberal” and “conservative” because I think there are some substantial problems with it, which I will explain briefly later. But for the moment, let’s just pretend that I have no beef with the terms as I begin the tongue-in-cheek discussion below.
Everybody knows that Hollywood is a bastion for Liberals. If you search [“Liberal Hollywood”] in quotation marks at Google, you get 353,000 returns. (OK, now that I’ve posted this article, it’ll be 353,001, but let’s not get distracted.) And if you remove the quotation marks, you get 47,200,000 returns! So, like I said, everybody knows that Hollywood is liberal. (It makes me cringe to write sentences like that, but remember that this is a tongue-in-cheek article!) Continue reading
I observe in life that some Christians behave as if they have certain unassailable rights. Among them are:
“He’s always late!” complains the boss. It turns out, however, that he’s late 8% of the time over the last year. But the boss doesn’t know the numbers; he’s content just to go with his perception.
“Our church really follows the Biblical principle of tithing,” boasts the member. He has no idea that never once in the Bible is there any record of Jesus or the apostles ever teaching the Christians to tithe. He has never quantified this “principle” in which he so adamantly believes. Continue reading
I witness a lot of people defending Obama’s various positions by use of the argument that those who oppose those positions aren’t really bringing meritorious arguments to the table, but are simply arguing against Obama “because he’s black”.
Interestingly, I also see a lot of people SUPPORTING Obama’s various positions, not because they have painstakingly vetted those positions and proven them to be meritorious, but merely Continue reading
“Constitutional”?
America has lost its mind when it opines that what is “constitutional” or “unconstitutional” is defined by the Supreme Court instead of by the Constitution. And I hear Democrats and Republicans alike spouting this utterly stupid idea.
This is no matter of opinion. Rather, Continue reading
