This is from an email exchange I had recently.

Tags: Christianity + Pagan + religious freedom + commenting

Today is Bill of Rights Day, the most important American holiday that you’ve never heard of.

Think about it. Without the Bill of Rights, without the fundamental protection of individual liberty, the Constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

Tags: Bill of Rights + Penn Jillette + The Federalist Papers + The Anti-Federalist Papers + Federalist + Anti-Federalist + Founders + We the People + gift of the Founders + freely chosen + Massachusetts Compromise + John Hancock + Samuel Adams + Moses solution + calendars

I stumbled across a very interesting looking website.

No Compulsion. Where Islamic Tyranny Meets Liberty.

Tags: islamist + No Compulsion

I hope their families find peace.

Tags: San Bernardino + shooting

Let them be remembered as cowards who only dared attack unarmed victims.

Tags: shooting + short + San Bernardino + Chattanooga + commenting

It’s the only campaign finance scheme that reduces the size of government, returns power to the voters, and keeps local money only in politics.

Tags: reform + election + jury nullification

I did not humble myself and acknowledge the sins of my skin color.

Tags: victimhood + racism + short + celebrate + blame + commenting

I realize the man is trying desperately to make his mark.

Tags: climate change + Prince Charles + parity test + Middle East

In American politics, one of two things usually happen to politicos who act against the party leadership like Cruz has.

Tags: Ted Cruz + President

No, I don’t think it’s the best solution.

Tags: Homeland + mission creep + Middle East + islamist + free market + video

No, I am not exagerating.

Although the Imperious Leader does.

When he isn’t lying.

Tags: Imperious Leader + impeach + abuse of power

She didn’t do it by being a victim.

She did it by trying again and again until it worked.

Tags: feminism + victimhood + strong woman + tried again + protesting + discrimination + drek

This does show a lack of competition.

Tags: technology + John Gruber + Matt Rosoff + cable service + internet services + short + skimmed

We need to test our ideas again and again.

Tags: feminism + dissent + short + video

John Kerry and the State Department do a semantic shell game to avoid the law.

Tags: Imperious Leader + John Kerry + skimmed + Iran

I wouldn’t want people to think I was hiding something.

Tags: Christianity

Ever wonder why the Imperious Leader doesn’t ask before he commits the country?

Tags: Imperious Leader + short

The green movement and the climate change crowd can’t stand dissent

Tags: Patrick Moore + PragerU + Greenpeace + GMOs + carbon dioxide + trees + climate change + video

Mind you I still wasn’t getting the service I paid for, but it was so much better than what I’ve had for the last few months. I almost caught myself sending them a thank-you.

Tags: choice + Cable One + net neutrality + Netflix + Apple + last mile problem

The Imperious Leader and the Federal government has already decided that no matter what, certain “races” can’t succeed without help from The Man.

Tags: racism + Imperious Leader + race database + victimhood + race housing

The Federal Government as an abusive boyfriend. Be sure to share with your friends.

Tags: Independent Institute + economic freedom + education debt + video + employees + privacy + healthcare + housing + Love Gov

I am absolutely certain that abortion should not be funded by taxpayers. Nor should organizations or companies providing abortions. Nor should companies that provide birth control.

Tags: abortion + subsidies + Planned Parenthood + consensual + sex

❝❝Race only matters to racists.❞❞
     — Kent McManigal, The lie matters because of politics

Tags: racism

❝❝ In some ancient polytheistic societies, the worst punishment that could be meted out was to erase a person’s existence by no longer speaking or writing their name and erasing any reference to them. It was thought this also negatively affected them in the afterlife. As a matter of personal policy, follow this concept and this is why I have not named the shooter in this article. However, The Honored Dead do deserve to be known…❞❞
     — Cara Schulz, Facing Violence in Chattanooga: Two Heathens Share their Experience

Tags: cross posted + shooting + The Wild Hunt + Cara Schulz + Chattanooga

Since I just spent forty-five minutes writing it as a post, you’re damn right I’m going to put it here.

Tags: Christianity + prejudice + Bible + classic + commenting

Legal does not mean free.

Tags: abortion

Stars above and Earth below, it’s the Faith Triumphant all over again!

Tags: live & let live + Faith Triumphant + marriage

I’m standing against government licensing marriage.

Tags: government screw-up

They attack the person and avoid discussing the ideas.

Tags: George Takei + Justice Thomas + dissent

The question remains, why was the flag acceptable last year but is not acceptable this year?

Tags: Confederate flag + racism + video + CGP Grey

I do criticize the Christians who constantly take refuge in that tired phrase “Judeo-Christian heritage.”

Tags: Christianity + Judeo-Christian heritage + Pledge of Allegiance + blessings

We’re so conditioned to expect the government to “save us” that we overlook government oppressing us.

Tags: Imperious Leader + marriage + SCOTUS + not your friend + oppress + conditioned

We ceded our right to choose our morality to government functionaries.

Tags: marriage

Tags: Obamacare + short

Tags: bad choices + cable service + Cable One + last mile problem

Identity politics and power through guilt will ALWAYS demand more no matter what is given…

Tags: victimhood + Farrakhan + Confederate flag + American flag + power through guilt + never enough + identity politics

The free market doesn’t have government regulation.

Tags: uniform rule of law + choice + completion + elites + know best + abundance + meddle + classic

About the South Carolina church shooting. We know enough now.

Tags: tragedy + South Carolina

❝❝You want to impress me, come up with something more than "the Bible told me so.” Don't make threats about judgement and eternal flame. Don't tell me about the changes it's made in your life. Don’t tell me how it’s “saved you.” Don’t tell me how you have the hotline to the “Almighty." 

And don’t tell me “it’s God’s judgement” when you’re the one spouting the words.

Tell me about the changes your faith makes in the world around you. Tell me what you do that makes the world better than when you got here.  Tell me how your faith manifests through you. 

Tell me about how you pass it on.

If that "Living Word" exists, it has to be in the hearts and souls of those people who have really embraced it. It's not in a dusty book. The verses don't matter except to show you the way. Tell me what lives behind those printed words. Tell me how you turned your sacrifice into a blessing.

Tell me about love. Tell me about the love you showed today.

Your actions show that. 

Your next choice starts now.❞❞
     from the private journal of NeoWayland

Tags: Christianity + wisdom + be careful what you wish for + Bible + love + cross posted + commenting

The “Confederate” flag (actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia) was raised over the capital of South Carolina by a Democrat governor in protest over the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Tags: Confederate flag + South Carolina + quasi-activists + Nikki Haley + Republican

I’ve been asked why I haven’t commented on the South Carolina church massacre.

Tags: church massacre + South Carolina + rumor + activist narrative + pharmaceuticals + tragedy

With one move, the Imperious Leader’s administration tokenizes half the human race.

Tags: token + woman + Alexander Hamilton + qualification

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean that it is just.

Tags: jury nullification + justice

The Imperious Leader literally decreed that non-profits must contribute to green technologies.

What happens when they don’t?

Tags: liberty + Imperious Leader + IRS

The Imperious Leader expects the American people to swallow the shit to get the good parts.

Tags: Congress + Imperious Leader + tyranny

“Doctors' Criticism Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats”

“Save the Bees: Eliminate Biofuel Mandates”

“Obama To Circumvent Congress With ‘Gag Order’ On Firearm Coverage”

“You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History”

Tags: Obamacare + bees + biofuels + guns + free speech + Sarbanes-Oxley Act + browser history + FBI + watching the headlines

Give government all the power you think is necessary. Watch as the one person who you think can’t be trusted with that power commands it against everything you hold dear.

Tags: EPA + KYFHO + The Peanut Farmer + Ronny Ray Gun + james Watt + freedom

Then I can just say “№ 4391” and save myself a lot of typing.

Tags: climate change + Zed Shaw + Twitter + blog by soundbite

…it’s about how you advance the cause.

Tags: victimhood + racism

Rhyd Wildermuth has shown me his character.

Tags: cross posted + division of labor + Rhyd Wildermuth + Watch List

Nope.

Tags: consent + liberty + choice & consequence + humor + picture

❝❝Does that person threaten you or yours?

Does that person take or damage your property?

Then why are you trying to control them?❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: liberty + generalized argument + liberty argument + statist + Doctor Who + secret weapon + quickest way

Marriage licenses exist so that the licenses can be denied.

Tags: marriage + Utah + American Civil War + alternative marriage + parity test

I won’t celebrate.

Tags: KFHO + accept + celebrate

And it was all based on a lie.

Tags: connections + trade-offs + dropping water tables + Philip Lloyd + waste disposal + technocrats + politicos + pollution + alternate energy + environmental crusade + wildfires + capitalism + anthropogenic climate change + free market + wildlife management

❝❝You can't childproof the world. The best you can do is world proof your children.❞❞

Tags: hero + victimhood + commenting + trigger warnings + safe zones + people claiming offense + L. Neil Smith

Thorium is much, much, much more abundant than uranium.

Tags: Stewart Brand + thorium + molten salt reactors

They’ve forgotten that their power comes from the people.

Tags: election + Imperious Leader + Congress

There are deserts here that have been deserts for ten thousand years.

Tags: anthropogenic global warming + climate change + discredited

Government rigs these prices so it can draw profit on your loss.

Tags: economic freedom + gold + dollar + 1915 + 1940 + 1950 + 1965 + 1980 + 1999 + 2008 + 2011

No one talks about what really holds our culture together.

Tags: ordinary + blessings

❝❝If the choice is between the absolute on the left side or the absolute on the right, I am going to pick freedom despite both.❞❞

Tags: right vs. left + commenting + freedom

It’s a scam.

Tags: liberty + all or nothing

❝❝I'm for live and let live.

I wish more people were.

You should live your life as you choose. Just don't expect me to celebrate it because it is your life after all. And don't go after your neighbor because of the lawn he planted or the socks he wears or where he spends his Tuesday nights.❞❞

Tags: live & let live + commenting

❝❝In the sixty years since the Civil Rights movement, the Left has entirely perverted the whole notion of civil rights. Civil Rights as the Founders intended meant the right of all citizens, regardless of race, color, religion, sexual, gender, etc., to be free of government constraints (although the government’s police powers certainly required the government to protect citizens when others amongst them worked to injure them or constrain their basic freedoms). Civil Rights as the Left demands it has become an all powerful government that is responsible for redistribution wealth, property, access to government and even happiness, from whites to blacks.❞❞
     — Bookworm, American Christians are the new blacks; and Leftists own the new Jim Crow movement

Tags: Bookworm + skimmed + Jim Crow + civil rights

❝❝Yes, f*** your trauma. My sympathy for your suffering, whether that suffering was real or imaginary, ended when you demanded I change my life to avoid bringing up your bad memories. You don’t seem to have figured this out, but there is no “I must never be reminded of a negative experience” expectation in any culture anywhere on earth.❞❞
     — Chris Hernandez, ‘Microaggressions’ And ‘Trigger Warnings,’ Meet Real Trauma

Tags: victimhood + power over + trauma + growing up + privilege + skimmed

The official titles don’t matter, aunts and grandmothers hold a community together.

Tags: China + community + aunts & grandmothers + dance + skimmed

You should read it all, it’s very good.

Tags: climate change + science + skimmed + Patrick Moore + Greenpeace + Vikings + carbon dioxide + Greenland + Little Ice Age + Medieval Warm Period + Newfoundland + Roman times + fossil fuels + civilization

These are matters of individual choice and they should remain so.

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Tags: discrimination + The Turner Diaries + Drawing Down the Moon

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Remember the goal is FREEDOM. If the institutions don’t work towards that goal, we need to get rid of the institutions.

Tags: CGP Grey + 2 party system + none of the above + election + video

❝❝I’ve long since concluded that no one has all the answers or even most of the questions.❞❞

Tags: answers + questions + commenting

Obama lies. But that’s not the real problem.

Tags: Imperious Leader + lies

Government at both ends squeezes you in the middle

Tags: California + water

“Al Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price”

“Oregon man has spent almost 900 days in jail even though he committed no crime”

“No One Cares How Many Predictions Earth Day Founders Got Wrong”

“The scariest sentence in the FCC net neutrality regulations”

“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the U.S. Crushed Youth Resistance”

“Hertz puts cameras in it’s rental cars, says it has no plans to use them”

Tags: Watch List + climate change + jail + Earth Day + FCC + dissent + net neutrality + watching the headlines + Hertz

“You can’t childproof the world. The best you can do is worldproof your children.”

Tags: short + free market rebellion

Today I’ll talk about the Free Market Rebellion.

Tags: free market rebellion + mala prohibita + personal freedom + personal responsiblity

America’s internet doesn’t have the problem you think.

Tags: skimmed + internet + competition + "last mile"

It’s not about Apple, it’s about the free market.

Tags: Apple + Apple Watch + Apple "tax" + USB + Gorilla Glass + Corning + video

Watch this great video

Tags: internet + FCC + short + skimmed + video

The only reason government has powers is to protect your rights.

Tags: Constitution + rights + powers + Obamacare + banning bullets + internet + scanners + disrobing + sobriety checkpoint + no knock warrant + SWAT

Do you think we would have the smartphones and tablets and laptops we have now if the tech had to be Government Approved?

Tags: internet + government screw-up

Our military is mostly honorable people who want to do the right thing.

Tags: honor + short

Cut one fiberoptic line and two-thirds of Arizona is isolated.

Tags: internet + short

I’ve called the internet the last, best hope for humankind.

Yes, I caged the line from Babylon 5. It’s still true though.

Tags: internet + FCC + Obama administration + lies and lies some more + human rights

It’s not a right unless the other guy has it too.

Tags: Crux Files + individual freedom + Tenth Amendment + informed choice + human rights + initiate force + choice & consequence + labels + none of your business + religion + coercive power + moral justification

There’s a secret plan.

Tags: internet + Bruce

I may not have heard it all, but I have heard enough.

Tags: shaming + entitled + victimhood

If the drone flies over your property, can you shoot it down?

Tags: privacy + drones

Follow the money

Tags: taxes

Why don’t liberals get the blame for their words and actions?

Tags: gun control + progressive + racism

“Papers, please”

Tags: Real ID + Obamacare

Fudging the numbers again

Tags: fudging temperatures + moon shot + climate change + food pyramid + global warming + nuclear weapons

It only takes a simple program and a scientific calculator to show the holes in the climate change models

Tags: global warming + climate change

Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment

Tags: taxes + freely chosen + 16th Amendment + Constitution + IRS + White House + Barack Obama + repeal + Richard Nixon + Bill Clinton

In Washington there are no bad ideas, just zombie ideas that keep getting resurrected.

Tags: Real ID

Funny how much politicos want to spend your money.

Tags: Imperious Leader + irresponsible

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

Tags: personal freedom + commenting + personal responsiblity + Bookworm + Christianity + parity test + progressive + goal is freedom + modern liberal + freely chosen

I do dissent

Tags: personal freedom + forbidden + human rights + Christianity

Woodrow Wilson was not right.

Tags: economic freedom + Wilson + War on Drugs + Prohibition

I think that most people make mostly good choices.

Mostly.

Tags: Julian + Constantine + Christianity + truth + practical + freely chosen

I told people that Christianity didn’t mean much unless you were a Christian. It might even drive people away from a good cause.

Tags: Christianity + true believers

More than one stream.

Tags: personal choice + personal freedom + personal responsiblity + RadFem

What’s been missing.

Tags: trust + truth + informed choice + freely chosen + for your own good + Imperious Leader + Bush League + Elder Bust + Billy boy + Ronny Ray Gun + American Dream

The Imperious Leader lied.

Tags: freely chosen + poseur + Imperious Leader

Baubles & distractions

Tags: liberty + victimhood + MLK Day + freely chosen + personal responsiblity + human rights

My goal isn’t winning internet arguments, it’s freedom.

Tags: internet + informed choice + modern liberal + progressive + conservative + personal choice + statist + freely chosen

Very silly.

Tags: global warming + internet + public science + modern liberal + good intentions + religion

Now they are worried.

Tags: War on Terror

Just in case you were wondering

Tags: mercantilism + freely chosen + personal freedom + personal choice + crony capitalism + private sector

Power to control

Tags: informed choice + public science + good intentions + for your own good + economic freedom + global warming

So no matter what I’ve said before now, no matter what I’ve done before now, if I fail to do this now, I’m racist.

Tags: goal is freedom + personal responsiblity + Arizona + good intentions + criminal foreiture + human rights + reciprocity + progressive + mala prohibita + victimhood + civil forfeiture

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

Tags: conservative + good intentions + parity test + freely chosen + religion