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I apologize for my long procrastination in finalizing this post. Though I wrote most of it weeks ago, I set it aside to focus on other matters — then lost track of time. In this fourth part of the series (post 1, post 2, post 3), I cover materials under the following headings: Thinking in a consistently Christian manner, in a manner wholly compliant with all that Scripture teaches, is no easy…

In this third installment, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or in some way related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: In part of a prior post, I noted that A video I recently discovered from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion provides an excellent summary of why hormonal contraception taken by women (aka “birth-control pills”…

In this second installment, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or somehow related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: As we saw in part 1, Southern partisan Brion McClanahan fails to take full advantage of the explanatory power of our founders’ pragmatic realism. Claiming, as McClanahan does, that these men didn’t believe the propositions they…

In this first installment of a new series, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or in some way related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: In my last post, I attempted to make productive use of the common political spectrum by creatively redefining some terms. In the standard spectrum you will have run across, the…

In this second of two posts, I continue grappling with such complex and interconnected issues as preborn humans’ right to life, federalism, the Fourteenth Amendment and its incorporationist interpretation, and use of government power to redefine “marriage.” Unable to simply join and comply with a tribe, I’m stuck having to work through and fit together the opinions I hold, or tend toward, on my own. In this second post, I think through…

In this pair of posts, I grapple with some complex, interconnected issues, such as the right to life of unborn humans, federalism and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and use of government power to redefine “marriage.” Many people seem content to find a tribe they largely agree with then, over time and under the tutelage of tribal leaders, bring their thinking into conformity with tribal norms. They might join Theonomists,…

As you know if you’ve read my more recent posts, I think that, all other government policies being equal, tariffs are a bad idea. But I think that replacing the income tax with revenue-focused tariffs (not to be confused with protective tariffs) could be a good thing — if only government didn’t spend so much. Well, on the subject of tariffs, I saw an interesting video commentary recently. I think it worth…

In this post, I opine on certain matters economic and political, in fine: When a bad candidate runs against an even worse candidate, the bad candidate becomes a good candidate, relatively speaking. Hence my “endorsement” of Trump. In much the same way, proposals that are bad ideas in themselves transform into good ideas when they’ll replace existing policies that are worse. One example is Universal Basic Income (UBI): as an adjunct to…

Professing Christians who consider Donald J. Trump, not just the lesser evil of two lamentable major-party candidates, but a national savior with the stamp of divine approval, continue to use their ostensible Lord’s name in vain to promote Trump (Exodus 20:7, Deuteronomy 5:11). It seems two of the sort of big-government, “national conservative” types who now dominate the political Right have even written a whole book inspired by the “miracle” of Trump’s…

In my last post, I discussed some beliefs and behaviors of my fellow Christians that I just can’t make sense of. Staying with that theme, I now ask: what’s with the professing believers who treat Donald Trump as though he were a divinely chosen prophet or something? This past couple of weeks, I’ve seen all of the following: Now, I know America is in dire straits under the rule of reality-denying woke…

Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. It’s been several months since my last post. This post discusses a suggestion that Reformed or Calvinist theology could be to blame for the moral failings of some Christians, under the following headings: In this age of social media, countless professing Christians who think themselves theologians believe they can and should refute Scripture’s doctrine of God’s comprehensive (exhaustive, all-encompassing) sovereignty. To them, the idea that…

Murray N. Rothbard. What Has Government Done to Our Money?, 6th edition. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2024, softcover, 138 pages. (1st edition was in 1963.) In my last post, I noted how “I’m ill at ease with the emphasis on anarchism and preference for Hoppe and Rothbard in the [Mises] caucus” because “anarchism strikes me as unrealistic and Utopian, the same sort of ideology-driven fantasizing that created and sustains Marxism.”…