17. December 2011 by admin.

The other day, I encountered an unusually poignant leftist argument, delivered in picture form.  The top of the picture was a bird’s-eye view of campers outside a theater, their tents disorderly amassed in anticipation of the new Twilight film’s first showing.  Atop the entire scene was a single word: LEGAL, expressing that such an act was permissible and unchallenged by government officials. Read the rest of this entry »

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22. November 2011 by admin.

The other day, a leftist Mormon acquaintance of mine and I had a brief conversation about Mitt Romney’s candidacy for president. I, being staunchly anti-RINO, and refusing to believe for one second that a candidate’s deeply-held religious beliefs are irrelevant (as true religion comprises the very bedrock of unalienable rights), declared my support for several of the more acceptable candidates before Romney, concluding that Romney lost the Las Vegas debate.  But my friend disagreed.  Citing statistical favorability amongst gamblers, he argued that market forces chose Romney, and that I, therefore, according to my own conservative appreciation of market forces, must be wrong, and that Romney was the most viable and acceptable option. Read the rest of this entry »

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31. August 2011 by admin.

One of the most important questions facing civilization, not only in light of the savagery of London’s riots, but in all of history, is how civilization defines barbarism. Read the rest of this entry »

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14. August 2011 by admin.

The other day, as I was on my way to work, I was driving through a relatively empty parking lot.  Being in somewhat of a hurry, I was trying to save as much time as possible, taking the route in which I had expected the least amount of traffic and cruising over speed bumps.  But as I moved quickly to my destination, and a young woman crossed in front of me, a wave of impatience smothered my sensitivity and urged me to continue at my same pace.  Surely she can speed up, I thought.  And she did: I did not slow down. Read the rest of this entry »

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13. August 2011 by admin.

As an increasingly liberal government seeks to import and accommodate not only a greater diversity of peoples, but the greater diversity of lifestyles and doctrines which accompany them, the topic of a national American language has been one of increasing controversy.  But there are certain facts about language and education which belong to all ranges of opinion, and if studied closely, show that the pursuit of linguistic consolidation is not only in the best interest of any nation, but is already morally accepted by nearly every educational institution across the entire globe. Read the rest of this entry »

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7. August 2011 by admin.

In recent years, great controversies have spanned across all news networks, questioning the extent of the teacher’s control over children.  And central to these controversies is the question of whether or not a child should be disciplined by his parents or by his teachers, and whether or not the law should punish teachers who take action or refuse to take action against unruly, harmful student behavior. Fortunately for Americans, the answer lies within the works of a man who greatly influenced our very declaration of independence, John Locke. Read the rest of this entry »

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27. July 2011 by admin.

It has been claimed, by prominent media outlets and even the American government, that right wing movements are comprised of insurrectionary parties, and that many conservatives are inherently opposed to the existence of our current government.  But according to a man who influenced the founding of our country most greatly, it is plain that insurrection has already been underway for quite some time, and that the conservative movement is not its main proponent. Read the rest of this entry »

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18. July 2011 by admin.

To what extent must Americans sacrifice to protect their citizens abroad?  This question was recently raised by the sitting American President, as he sought to avoid the death penalty for a notorious Mexican national who had raped and murdered a young girl on US soil. Obama’s concern, not unconsidered by many other Americans, asserts that if Americans execute foreign nationals, traveling Americans may be subjected to the judicial decisions of far less civilized countries, perhaps unfairly. Read the rest of this entry »

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11. July 2011 by admin.

In John Stuart Mill’s most influential and widely read work, On Liberty, he defended what he considered to be one of the most important pillars of any successful society, liberty of thought, and consequently of speech.  And it is plain from reading On Liberty that Americans have taken his suggestions quite seriously, not only supporting legislation to protect speech from governmental prohibition, but also instituting laws which protect against the so-called tyranny of private opinion.  But has this endeavor actually promoted discussion and rationality, or has it actually suppressed both? Read the rest of this entry »

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25. June 2011 by admin.

It has been said, by persons such as Abraham Lincoln, that the cause of tyranny can oftentimes be mistaken for and promoted as the cause of liberty.  If this is the case, then Americans must concern themselves most seriously with understanding what liberty is, and also what it is not.

John Stuart Mill, in what is perhaps his most famous and influential work, On Liberty, helped build the foundation for a modern understanding of freedom, one which an overwhelming number of Americans support.  In doing so, he argued that for a society to be properly liberated, its citizens must be guaranteed freedom of thought and speech, liberty of tastes and pursuits, and freedom of association.   Yet, expressly recognizing in the first chapter of On Liberty that these liberties were too radical without certain restrictions, he sought the boundaries within which they should exist.  And by setting those particular boundaries, like so many of his followers on both the left and right do today he unwittingly destroyed the foundation for the liberty he sought in the first place. Read the rest of this entry »

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1. June 2011 by admin.

Earlier in the month of February, The Telegraph reported that an English high court judge barred a man from having sex, due to that man’s incredibly low IQ and an inability to properly assess circumstances.  At first, the action seemed bizarre, and brought to mind eugenics programs of the Nazi Party.  But if one looks closely at the matter, this judge ruled far more closely according to the philosophy of John Locke than Adolf Hitler. Read the rest of this entry »

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28. May 2011 by admin.

In recent years, it has been increasingly claimed by the left that the American national media, in its coverage of murder mysteries, ignores the plight of missing black women because of prejudice.  But in their condemnation of what they perceive to be a great racial injustice, leftists oftentimes forget not only about empathy’s selective nature, but also about the reasons why people oppose racial prejudice in the first place. Read the rest of this entry »

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20. May 2011 by admin.

An overwhelming number of conservatives proclaim support for the constitution, and even liberals rally behind the rights they believe the Constitution protects. But is it possible for either side to truly be interested in constitutionalism?

If one considers that our bill of rights guarantees freedom of speech in very broad terms, it is only fair to ask what speech is. To list just a few examples, speech includes giving away military secrets and weapons blueprints, lying under oath, sexually harassing female coworkers (without hands, of course), phoning a bomb threat, engaging in insider trading, threatening to kill one’s neighbors, and conspiring to assassinate people. None of these, at the current moment, are legal, and common sense requires that many of them remain so. Read the rest of this entry »

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2. April 2011 by admin.

Of the many controversial stances I have taken, few have resulted in more opposition than my declaration that God’s Law is eternally applicable to human society.  As such, in the interest of sparing time, I’ve created this primer to explain the necessity of a Biblical foundation for law, and to address the most common objections against one.

Before addressing these objections, it must be known that the greatest reason for promoting Biblical principles within a Christian society is that God has established these principles in the creation of Israel.  As such, it is reasonable to conclude that since He is God, He is righteous, and Israel is His, He would not have dispensed a poorly crafted or quasi-moral legal system.  Rather, it is only sensible to accept that these are the highest legal and moral principles ever drafted, and that we can neither improve nor reject them if we are to live righteously and function optimally. Read the rest of this entry »

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27. March 2011 by admin.

Of the many difficult questions a person can ask about the rights of man, one of the toughest is whether the people of a country are ever their own supreme authority. To err toward an absolute “yes” or “no” seems to lend credibility to a variety of atrocities, and trying to strike a balance between the two extremes can plunge the answer into useless subjectivity. But a good answer is readily available for those who concern themselves with sound principles. Read the rest of this entry »

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15. March 2011 by admin.

Most people in the West agree that a human should not be subject to cruel and unusual punishment, as maintained by our eighth amendment and supported by an overwhelming number of Americans. But is it possible that the process of defining “cruel and unusual” has done Americans more harm than good? To understand whether or not this is the case, it is imperative to consider the concept of war, the purpose of law, and then eventually examine the unalienable rights which all human beings possess.

John Locke once described man’s natural rights as being the right to work for his food, to enjoy the products of his labor, and to live within the positive laws of Scripture (Second Treatise, sects 135 and 136). But since man cannot survive without the right to property and to secure the benefits of his labor, an assault on these rights is an assault on survival, an act Locke recognized as a declaration of war. He wrote of the matter, Read the rest of this entry »

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7. March 2011 by admin.

The other day, I greatly offended an Arabic associate of mine.  During a conversation about the social contract, I tried to use an example of a group forming themselves into a nation, and I had begun the example with the statement, “suppose that a group of people like you were to get together, and decide to build your own country, with your own laws.”

His objection to my statement was that Christians and conservatives oftentimes enjoy separating themselves from everyone else, that we believe that people like him are not part of our group, that we in essence discriminate. In this particular instance, I referred to him as people like you, leading toward an idea and an effect which I had not intended. Why, he asked, could we not just all be considered human, and on the same team? Read the rest of this entry »

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14. February 2011 by admin.

People oftentimes make the case that the God of the Bible, Yahweh, doesn’t act according to His own moral principles.  And I suppose that from an atheist’s perspective, in which Yahweh is actually a figment of the Jewish imagination, they would be correct: in two specific circumstances, one concerning the genocide of the Canaanites, and the other a pardoning of an adultress, He does seem to contradict His laws.  But ironically, this very argument against the Jewish God’s lawful nature further proves His existence. Read the rest of this entry »

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9. February 2011 by admin.

Few can resist the emotional appeal of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech.  Somewhere, deep within the human soul, we long for a time when true equality can be found in human interaction, the day in which people will be judged by one another solely according to character.  And oftentimes, at least in the West, those pursuing this ideal attempt to enforce it through what they define as perfect legal equality.

But if total equality under law were truly sought–meaning that no man would have a governmental privilege or power that another lacked–, what would become of those who administrate law?  Would we strip the policeman of his license to necessary and lawful force?  Would we give our war strategies to every member of the population, instead of only our military officials?  Would the authority to enforce law be taken from the judge?  The right to create law taken from the congressman? Read the rest of this entry »

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30. January 2011 by admin.

The other morning, as I was reading articles in my computer room, I heard a woman scream.   Immediately, my attention was wrested away from my writing, I sat up straight, and waited in silence, listening for any clues that someone was in danger.  My heart began to race. Read the rest of this entry »

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30. January 2011 by admin.

I can still vividly remember walking through run-down Neapolitan suburbs (or, the closest they could get to them, anyway) as a seventeen-year old, firmly within the grasp of an LSD trip.  As I walked through the tall, unkempt grass and weeds, they brushed against my knees as though greeting me with a handshake.  The summer sun was looking down upon me, and the rays felt as though they were shining into my body, as though I was illuminated, and radiating life back into the universe.  Though I usually noticed the garbage on the messy Italian streets, that day it seemed less prominent, if not unnoticeable, and nature’s technicolor vibrance jumped from objects which would have been previously considered not only ordinary, but drab.  I was, at least I felt, as though totally connected with reality, as though something that I had lost along the way had suddenly been found, and I was home. Read the rest of this entry »

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23. January 2011 by admin.

Last year, I learned that the CIA had directly participated in a scheme against Osama Bin Laden, involving the use of fabricated video evidence. Their fake video, consisting of a campfire drinking session, was intended to destroy Bin Laden’s credibility with devout Muslims, by making it appear as though he had been breaking Sharia Law.  And if the drinking wasn’t enough to turn Osama’s followers against him, “Osama” spent his time in the video bragging about homosexual conquests. Read the rest of this entry »

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4. January 2011 by admin.

Must an increase in empathy signal a decrease in law?

Let us consider, for a moment, that someone has wronged you by stealing your car.  When the person is caught by police, you have the option to press charges, but then discover that your neighbor–whose wife is dying from cancer, after they both lost their jobs–stole your car out of desperation to rush to meet her in the hospital, since he thought she was about to die.  Begging your forgiveness with tears in his eyes, the man sinks to his knees in court, clasps his hands together, and looks at you directly.  At this moment, moved with compassion, in an act of mercy you allow the man to walk free.

Compassion, then, is our friend.  A placing of ourselves in the shoes of others, imagining their hardship and deciding–in some particular instance, to side with them, to recognize that had you been in their position, you would have been desperate as well.  And this empathy, in many cases, is noble. Read the rest of this entry »

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1. January 2011 by admin.

It’s not uncommon, these days, to see misinformed Christians parading around in favor of pacifism, as though Christianity demands that Christians can’t defend their families, as though we as a society must abandon moral stances, capital punishment, self-defense, and our right to bear arms. Going even further, some ignorant Christians even seek establishment of hate speech legislation, believing that dangerous ideologies shouldn’t be morally challenged or honestly discussed in public.  As a Christian, few beliefs irk me more than these.

Fortunately, if we take a close look at Jesus’ teachings, quite the opposite can be proven about His commandments.  For instance, one of the most widely-bungled teachings of Christ concerns the concept of forgiveness and non-retaliation, as most clearly stated in Matthew 5:38-42: Read the rest of this entry »

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28. December 2010 by admin.

Imagine, for a moment, that your boss has been treating you poorly (for many of you, this may not be very difficult).  After weeks of abuse, you finally become so frustrated, that you start to wonder whether you should finally quit your job and join the ranks of the unemployed.  Perhaps this might lead to something better, perhaps not.  But there is one thing that you know, and it is that remaining where you are is simply unacceptable.

This freedom to abandon your employer is oftentimes taken for granted, oftentimes forgotten in our modern world of anti-corporate rhetoric.  But while many leftists decry the abuses of the business-owner, they oftentimes forget that the governmental remedy can be more dangerous than the poison. Read the rest of this entry »

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19. December 2010 by admin.

As a Christian who enjoys explaining the historicity and scientific legitimacy of Christianity, sometimes Christians ask me: at which point do we not need factual evidence to believe the story of Jesus Christ? How much science and history can ever convince us that Jesus the Jewish Messiah created the world, is God, and saves us from our sin, and that we’re going to heaven? My answer is none. There’s simply no way that you can solidly prove any of those statements with purely physical fact. Read the rest of this entry »

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13. December 2010 by admin.

The other day, I came across a feminist blog about the movie “Tangled,” a movie I know almost nothing about, other than that it’s racist, sexist, and evil. Girl With Pen writes: “The bad news is that it re-hashes the same old story – that as a woman you can either be a princess awaiting her prince or an evil stepmother/witch, that if you are male, you get all the action (in many senses of the word) and that beauty equals white, blonde, thin, and young.”  Let us all grab our pitchforks.

The first reason we should be at arms is because of the racism.  You see, when we apply positive affirmations of beauty to white people, it logically implies that all the other races cannot possess these traits, and are in fact less beautiful than white people.  Consider also that the princess, in Tangled’s case, is white, blonde, and young.  Solely because of movies such as Tangled, it is entirely likely that an entire generation of American boys will find young blondes to be sexually attractive.  I, as one tragic example, have fallen prey to this most odious of ploys. Read the rest of this entry »

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28. November 2010 by admin.

Is there a moral balance between liberty and security, or are the two mutually exclusive?

Can the rich ever become so rich, that they strangle the poor?  And what qualifies as “strangling”?

Must a capitalist globalization lead toward an impoverishment of the American working class?

Should the poor have a safety net, and if they do, how much of a net should they have?

Do the rich have an obligation to bolster the wealth of society, aside from providing jobs and infrastructure?

Since the dawn of civilization, man has sought timeless principles to address the concepts of wealth and poverty, justice and equality.  Karl Marx was one of these people. Read the rest of this entry »

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5. November 2010 by admin.

Editor’s note: this article is dedicated to my first non-familial fan, Esky.

Why do we belong together?

This should not be an offensive question, yet it cannot seriously be asked in our modern political climate–particularly by conservatives–without expecting angry retribution.  But when John Jay wrote Federalist Paper #2, he did so out of the need to convince the American people that they must cede some of their natural rights for the sake of unity; that, although the states had distinct governments and oftentimes different interests, they would need to sacrifice some of these interests for a greater good.  Jay reasoned that this unity always comes at a price, but he was also able to guarantee that the overwhelming majority of identity and of morality would be preserved despite the institution of an American union.  Indeed, this small price for unity was one of his key arguments in favor of the US Constitution. Read the rest of this entry »

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29. October 2010 by admin.

Is it fair to say that communism is only alive in Cuba and colleges?  Recently, with Castro’s decision to publicly deride communism as a failed system, many are starting to believe that communism has finally kicked the bucket.  But consider these principles from The Communist Manifesto, and how a large portion of Americans–maybe more than half–not only strongly support them, but enforce their belief through governmental intervention.  And then ask yourself: is communism really dead?

Nationhood:  “The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.  The working men have no country.  We cannot take from them what they have not got.  Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.” Read the rest of this entry »

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