Since October 20th, when I posted for the first time to this blog, I’ve done almost 500 posts and have now crossed the 3000 hit mark. Vox Popoli, by comparison, started on October 8th and has had over 444,000 hits.…
Notable Quotable
“The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.” John Stuart Mill
What’s the Good of Temptation?
My Utmost for His Highest There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. – 1 Corinthians 10:13 The word ‘temptation’ has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly: Temptation is…
Fast, But Not Fast Enough
One thing in life that I find frustrating is coming up with great ideas just a little too late (or not acting on them fast enough). President Bush was in town today, and I listened to his speech on the…
Cornering a Market
This guy REALLY wants to get his hands on a Barry Bonds home-run baseball. To each his own, I guess.
My Favorite Workday
Today turned into one of those days I put in the category of “Favorite Workdays”. The easiest way for a day to get into that category is to be a “take free stuff home” day. Our main Mac Computer guy…
Notable Quotable
“Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.” Thomas Jefferson – Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
The Divine Region of Religion
My Utmost for His Highest But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. – Matthew 6:6 The main idea in the region of religion…
Iraqi Quagmire?
Leave it to the Israeli’s to get it right on our actions in Iraq. The Jerusalem Post has a pretty good opinion column up about how Bush could handle Iraq better than he is, and compares him to Lyndon Johnson…
Notable Quotable
“You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.” John Adams
What to Renounce
My Utmost for His Highest But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. – 2 Corinthians 4:2 Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonesty”-the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You…
Notable Quotable
“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was…
Imagination v. inspiration
My Utmost for His Highest The simplicity that is in Christ. – 2 Corinthians 11:3 Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly…
Ding-Dong, The Ban is Dead!!
With a lot less hoopla than I expected, the incredibly stupid 1994 “assault weapons ban” was allowed to expire today. It actually banned nothing that it’s supporters claimed it banned. Automatic weapons were banned in 1934. This ban only included…