( My feelings on guns )

This was the lead to a story on the AP wire today:
What if Southern Baptists were no longer called Southern Baptists? Would more people walk through church doors? Some leaders in the nation's largest Protestant denomination say it's an idea that needs to be considered for an evangelistic faith with declining membership.

As I quipped on Facebook, I ( Read more... )

I can't help but take some interest in the Supreme Court case that opened today regarding the D.C. gun ban. It seems this will be a test to see if the Court will state that the Second Amendment protects private gun ownership.

In my opinion, it does, and it should.

I think it does, because of the context of its drafting. To read it otherwise, that it ( Read more... )

Everyone has an opinion on the “inconvenient truths” of global climate, and here’s mine:

I’m not sure about “global warming” per se, but global climate change has been around as long as the globe we stand on. Planet Earth has been much colder and much warmer at various times in the past, and is likely to keep cycling for eons to come. It makes ( Read more... )