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Monthly Archive for February, 2009

Particularly assault rifles. Why assault rifles? Regular bolt-action hunting rifles are way more high powered. First of all, the technical definition of assault rifle is a weapon with “select fire”, that is, the option of firing fully automatic or semi-automatic. The ban would include, however, rifles that are only semi-automatic.Assault rifles provide the average citizen [...]

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Hope For The Future

Bobby Jindal, the bright star of the Republican party, brought a wonderful rebuttal to Obama’s extremely optimistic state of the Union address. (You can watch it here) Both messages were very clear. Obama, besides stating some erroneous facts, believes that the government is the solution to the problem. Jindal, on the other hand, says that [...]

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Apparently pretty far! (excerpt from article) Alabama mainline Presbyterians meeting today voted 77-75 in favor of dropping long-controversial language requiring clergy to abide by fidelity in marriage and chastity in singleness. The presbytery is one of 173 regional bodies in the 2.3-million-member PC(USA) denomination that will be voting on the issue this year. If passed [...]

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They aren’t banning your guns, but what good is your gun without ammo?LegislationThis legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona,California,Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,Tennessee, and Washington.Basically, this bill requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacture into a data base [...]

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I am so disappointed! Not only did my favorite military organization lose it’s contract in Iraq, they’re changing their name!In the first place, I don’t think we should even be in Iraq, but since we are, there are several things we need to understand. First of all, the middle eastern countries did not sign the [...]

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When most folks talk about Lincoln, they talk about his attempts to bring freedom to the African slaves and the Emancipation Proclamation. While this is probably how he would like to be remembered, it’s not exactly the truth. He once said:“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either [...]

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This is the followup to this post, which I would encourage you to read for the value of the comments. I am by no means an expert on the subject of secession, but here is what I think and why I think it… First of all, and this may surprise some people, but considering our [...]

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Whew! What a great weekend! I am sorry to say I have no pictures from the event.I’m sure many of you have experienced this but when I start visiting with like minded folks, I forget to take pictures! We returned from Columbus refreshed and resolute.It was a wonderful time of encouragment with like minded families [...]

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Many thanks to all who participated in the poll.The question was: Taking all factors into consideration (what the Bible says about this, current political state, etc.) should the South secede from the Union?This is a very weighty question and I was glad to see that the poll was as close as it was. What I [...]

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Taxes have been the cause of more wars than any other issue in history. They caused the war that founded this country and the war that divided it. Many tax revolts have occurred throughout history, but one of the first, after the Revolution, was defeated on this day in 1786. At this time, European investors [...]

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