Category: General

Oklahoma State Representative Mike O’Neal (author of that state’s Defense of Marriage Act) – just charged with felony charges of sexual batteryFormer Senator Bob Dole divorced the mother of his child, a woman who nursed him through a long recovery from war wounds.Newt "Family Values" Gingrich divorced his wife as she lay dying of cancer. …

The states can retain powers, though not rights.  So "states’ rights" is something of a misnomer, no matter how common its use.  The states have no natural rights.  Their powers are artificial, not natural—they are things made by contract.  The equation "states are to the federal government as people are to the states" mixes apples…

As certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a Constitutional Amendment codifying all marriages entirely on Biblical principles.  After all, God wouldn’t want us to "pick and choose" which of the Scriptures we elevate to civil law and which we choose…

"Jumping the shark" is a phrase coined on a Web site about TV shows; it’s a moment when a good TV show goes bad. It takes its name from an episode of "Happy Days" where Fonzie, wearing swim trunks and his trademark motorcycle jacket, jumped over a pool of sharks on water-skis.Wagners Weblog at Information…

I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear.  I will permit it to pass over me and through me.  And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will…

Daniel made the "A" honor roll in his first semester at Highland Park Sr. High.  At dinner to celebrate I got the following fortune cookie: "Youth is a gift of nature.  Middle age is a work of art."  I am definately feeling middle-aged with a son who will be fifteen on March 6th.  We can’t…

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.Ralph Waldo Emerson