Justice Robs Mercy in Missouri

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Photo by Missouri Dept. of Corrections

Cornealious Anderson was 24 when he made an incredibly bad decision. He and a cousin used a BB gun to rob a restaurant manager on his way to deposit money at the bank. Anderson was caught, sentenced to 13 years in prison, and sent home to await instructions for reporting to prison. The instructions never came.


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The Honest-to-God Truth About Homosexuality

Contrary to wishful thinking and wild interpretations, Biblical Christianity absolutely does not affirm sinners in their sins.
Jesus proclaimed that he came to call sinners to repentance [Luke 5:32]. He admonished the woman accused of adultery to “go and sin no more” [John 8:11]. He sent forth His Apostles to preach repentance and baptism [Mark 6:12].

“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten,” He said. “Be zealous therefore, and repent” [Revelation 3:19].

What was to be repented of? What was considered sin? Many behaviors, among them lying, stealing, adultery, fornication, and yes, homosexual relations.

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Lord Monckton Responds to Climate Alarmist

On March 13, 2014, an assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology published an opinion piece asserting that imprisonment should be the fate of scientists and organizations that dispute the “scientific consensus” that man-made climate change will lead to catastrophe. [ref]

Lawrence Torcello is typical of desperate climate change alarmists who would rather silence opposition that argue inconvenient facts and defend hopelessly flawed models and wildly inaccurate predictions.

British Lord Monckton of Brenchley wrote a brilliant open letter to officials at the Rochester Institute of Technology, debunking Torcello’s claims and calling Torcello out for conduct contradictory to the ideals of free speech espoused by the US Constitution and the college, and for violations of the college’s academic standards.

Here is Lord Monckton’s letter in its entirety:

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The Homeschoolers Can Stay!

Remember the German family that came to the United States because the German government was punishing them and threatening to take their children from them because they homeschooled them? Things weren’t looking very hopeful for them, after the Obama Administration issued an inexplicable order of removal and the Supreme Court rejected to hear their appeal for asylum.

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Child Killers. Hang ’em.

On February 18th 2013 a 10-year-old little girl was kidnapped as she walked home from a friend’s house in Springfield, Missouri. A couple days later Hailey Owens’ dead body was found across town in the basement of a fiend’s house, with a gunshot to the head and who knows what other injuries inflicted upon her. [ref]

Craig Michael Wood, a 45-year-old middle-school football coach had snatched Hailey from the street in plain view of neighbors, racing her off to her doom, and to what should without question be his own doom.

Who can reasonably say that Wood shouldn’t get the death penalty?

Nobody.

The Peaceful, Silent Majority is Irrelevant

I received this anonymous / unattributed article in my email inbox the other day. I think it makes some excellent points, so I decided to share it on Truth is Reason. I’ve added emphasis to portions of the text that I think are particularly relevant. Following the article are some of my own editorial comments.

 A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
‘Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it,  they owned us, and we had lost control, and  the end of the world had come.  My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.’

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Love, War and Wealth Redistribution

I was sitting on an airline flight the other day, looking at all the empty seats around me, and this wonderfully “progressive” idea radiantly dawned upon my consciousness.

Why waste empty airplane seats??? Give them away to the poor! And save the world! No more half empty fuselages fuming fossil fuels for a fraction of the freight!

After all, it isn’t fair that the poor cannot afford to fly, and it is a travesty that fat cat corporate kingpins can get away with wasting our precious natural resources, including our limited supply of airplane seats.

Right? I mean, Left? I mean, are you with me? You do want to be fair, don’t you?

As the old saying goes, all’s fair in love, war and wealth redistribution. Isn’t it?

I, Pencil

By Leonard E. Read, originally published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman, this essay should be required study material for every freshman in high school.

 I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do.

You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery—more so than a tree or a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background. This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace. This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long persist without peril. For, as a wise man observed, “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”

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