Republican have always been angry at President Obama for trying to go around Congress, extending the authority granted to the Executive Branch under various immigration legislation (or granted under the Constitution generally) to the limit and as they often suggest,…
Loving Your Neighbor: The Full Context
Everyone knows that the second great commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said it and that’s all there is to it, right? Sometimes we forget that Jesus was quoting from the Old Testament. He was quoting it…
Why I’m Fed Up With Christian Politicians
Somehow Facebook has decided that at least once a day I need to see Texas Senator Dan Patrick’s video about how he is a Christian first, a Conservative second and a Republican third. This is supposed to convince me to…
Heaping Hurt on the Hurting
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently made headlines again (and Sheriff Joe loves a headline) by reducing meals to bread and water for any inmate who showed disrespect to the American flags that are hung in each cell of…
Why I’m Not a Person of Faith
Estimates vary from 2% to 14%. That’s the percentage of the world’s population that is atheist or unaffiliated with any religion. That means that between 86% and 98% of mankind are “people of faith”. I do not identify as…
The Tyranny of the Minority Lives On
Every politically aware American has probably become familiar with the Hastert Rule. Even though Dennis Hastert has not been Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives for six years, he is still associated with the unwritten rule that a…
I’ve Experienced Where Obamacare is Headed
Surprise! Single-payer healthcare is here. No, no, you say, it’s just a really badly run government insurance system which no one can join that has forced the cancellation thousands of existing policies. But I assure you, this is just a…
Why I’m Giving Up My American Citizenship
Originally published July 2010. This might have been a better post for the Fourth of July, but most readers were probably out watching the fireworks and wouldn’t have seen it. So perhaps it is better to write it and post…
Challenging Assumptions
Originally published April 2011. I was recently removed from a Facebook discussion after I challenged a cherished axiom of social/political/theological juncture. (And no, it wasn’t about immigration.) I have also noticed that when I blog about anything that hints at…
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back
There is nothing in the Bible about abortion. That may surprise some pro-lifers, but it is true. To be anti-abortion, you have to go through a two-step reasoning process. First, you have to look at what the Bible says about unborn…