In this election as in past elections many people of principle get into disagreements about whether it is right to vote for the “lesser of two evil” choices for an office like the President. Many Christians will say things like “Pray as if everything depends on God, but act as if everything depends on [...]
Joe Biden wants to take the pensions of failed corporate executives. The idea is that since their companies failed they should be held accountable by government because we don’t believe in a free market (probably because we’ve never seen one). This supposed desire for accountability (or votes) may sound great, but let’s get serious about [...]
Democrats in the house are now talking about socializing 401(k) plans. The plan that is being put forward would stop tax breaks on your 401(k) and would begin “redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.” I assume these guaranteed retirement [...]
The important fact to remember when considering the current economic crisis is to remember that people like Ron Paul, who hold to austrian economics, predicted it. They pointed out years ago that what Greenspan was doing would cause such a crisis eventually.
I just finished reading Douglas Wilson’s new book, A Primer on Worship and Reformation: Recovering the High Church Puritan. It is an excellent little book touching on some of the many errors of the Church today. He seeks to promote a Christianity that is not confined by the bounds of modernity or postmodernity but that [...]
In Acts 5:29 Peter says, “We must obey God rather than men.” This specific instance occurs when the high priest and the “senate of the people of Israel” arrested the apostles after they had been commanded not to teach in the name of Jesus (Acts 5:17-42). Christians today tend to believe that if the government [...]
Lew Rockwell has written a new article, Joe the Outlaw. He points out that in the current presidential campaign:
one interesting point has emerged: the archetype chosen to represent mainstream America turns out to be a thorough-going outlaw in the best sense of that term. In this, he is a symbol of the age. We can [...]
Reuters reports that Hugo Chavez, the socialist president of Venezuela, says that “Bush is to the left of me now.” He gives the reason when he points out that President Bush, “announced he will buy shares in private banks.” Hugo Chavez has been criticized for nationalizing his oil industry and other sectors of the [...]
Ron Paul was on Fox Business on Tuesday after the President explained how the bailout of banks would be done.
