Okay, let’s get this out of the way. I love taxing rich people. I believe if you’ve benefited directly from this great nation of ours and the tremendous opportunity that it provides and have as a result gotten fabulously wealthy you need to pay some of that back/forward. Somehow in this country this has come [...]

Freedom of Choice – I was looking for a part two to this series of posts and it was handed to me on a silver platter by a commenter in part one. Abortion and homosexuality are hot button issues when it comes to politics and religion. When it come to the moral/religious side on both [...]

This is a re-post from a few years back. I now plan on writing a part two (and getting back on the blgging train) so here you go: In this post (and perhaps subsequent posts as this one is getting long already) I will outline some of the reasoning behind why I’m still a Democrat [...]

Sid asked that I drop a post on Dominionism and never one to turn down a reasonable request I figured I’d take a stab. I started out by taking a look in every blogger’s best friend, Wikipedia. According to that vast treasure trove of interesting (and occasionally accurate) information, this particular worldview derives its name [...]

Never one to shy away from crossing blades with those I disagree with or expose myself to alternate ideas, I have begun listening to the Redshift podcast put on by Kij and Aetherswift (great names!). They are fellow members of My Life Ministries a diverse group of Christian podcasts/blogs. And allow me to take a [...]

This is a clusterf- a big mess.  Our president has won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Now we could sit here and argue about whether or not it is premature (it likely is, depending on how you look at it).  We could even argue about whether or not he could do anything to deserve it ever.  [...]

There seems to be a trend on the rise in America. If you don’t like something or you disagree with it then you paint it as evil. I know that this is certainly nothing new. It just strikes me as being more pervasive now than at any other time in my life. For instance, if [...]

One thing I’ve noticed about human nature is that the more convinced one is of one’s correctness, the more strident one typically becomes. This seems particularly true when it comes to people on the extreme ends of the political and religious spectrum, though it’s not limited to those topics. I recognize that this level of [...]

So I heard on the radio this morning that Scotland is releasing Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi, the man held responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. For those that don’t remember, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members in addition to people on the ground who were [...]