In a Bundy Ranch article in The Truth About Guns (an excellent news source for Second Amendment issues),  commenter “doesky2″ left this note on the difference between left-wing and right-wing culture in the US.  (I made only minor edits for punctuation and such:

…and you can be sure that the author firmly believes that there is no such thing as a ( Read more... )

The US is not a Christian nation by official founding proclamation, and religious freedom was wisely important to the founders of the country. In this sense, the US is unlike many countries in the Middle East whose constitutions proclaim them to be Islamic nations bound by strict religious (Sharia’h) law.

Nevertheless, there are countless US ( Read more... )

In Citizen Tom’s blog, he wrote a post entitled “Three Things You Probably Don’t Know about Islam.” In the discussion that followed, Citizen Tom wrote:

What makes the Bible different is that it promotes freedom of religion. Jesus told us to render unto Caesar what Caesar’s and God what is God’s. The Bible says that what we each believe about God is ( Read more... )

A decade ago, the ACLU threatened suit against the county of Los Angeles because they had a tiny crucifix visible on the county’s official seal. That had to go. The county caved in, despite thousands in the street protesting the rewriting of this bit of history.  (By odd circumstance, I was briefly part of that crowd.)


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In the discussion on Ayn Rand’s works, the Lady Rowyn sagely suggests:

There are a lot of authors worth reading whether or not you agree with their conclusions. And whether or not people make fun of them.

Indeed. I’ve read much of Karl Marx, and am amazed that he has any followers at all.  Especially women, but really anyone who thinks the notions ( Read more... )

This is the third in a series of Sunday posts related to the Food for Thought award from Citizen Tom:


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A thoughtful post from a friend of a friend has me thinking about the issue of torture. Is it permissible? Is it moral? Is it right?  Not quite the same questions, and I wrote a sort of a rambling reply to her about a framework for considering this unpleasant topic:( Read the rest of this entry » )

Neil Armstrong, first human to set foot on another world, passed away today.( Read the rest of this entry » )

Memorial Day we gather and pay homage to our fallen
Who gave themselves completely in response to duty’s callin’
Some joined to see the world, some merely thought of education
And some were drawn by kinship with the proud that guard our nation

But trials and training molded them into a joined precision
That holds our cause in high esteem, and ( Read more... )

This article is biased in favor of gun ownership, but is nevertheless interesting:
Myth 1. “VERY FEW PEOPLE IN CANADA OWN FIREARMS”

Exactly the opposite is true: twenty-nine per cent of Canadian homes possess an estimated total of nine million firearms. Other authorities insist that even this figure is too low, and that there [are] at least twenty ( Read more... )