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Recommended Reads #6 The Last Lion
Several times in the course of reading these books, the same interaction kept happening. I would be talking with someone and mention that I was reading William Manchester’s epic-length biography of Winston Churchill. Invariably, the person would say something of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Britain, Defender of the Realm, England, Great War, history, military history, Nazi Germany, Neville Chamberlain, Paul Reid, Recommended Reads, Spanish-American War, the Last Lion, Visions of Glory, William Manchester, Winston Churchill, World War 2
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Recommended Reads #5 After America
“…if something can’t go on, you don’t have to figure out a way to stop it, because it’s going to stop anyway. “Eventually. “… If you’re careening along a road toward a collapsed bridge, you’ll certainly stop, one way or … Continue reading
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Tagged After America, America, America Alone, American dream, American spirit, constitution, debt, democrat, demographics, economics, freedom, government, history, humor, liberty, Mark Steyn, mobs, politics, Republican, self-reliance, society
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Infinite Next
Mirror mirror on the wall What do you give someone who has it all More, just to be sure I got what I wanted, so naturally I want more What I paid for, entertain me now All I want is … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Life, Lyrics, Reviews
Tagged America, anthropic principle, Bible, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, Caedmon's Call, carpe diem, Christianity, desire, evolution, existentialism, faith, Fire, God, human condition, human experience, humanism, Lift, love, lyrics, man, materialism, More, philosophy, Poets of the Fall, Ravi Zacharias, risk, romance, satisfaction, secularism, selfish gene, soul, Where I Began
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The Life Despotic
The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, America, benevolence, Bible, big government, capitalism, constitution, fascism, force and fraud, Frédéric Bastiat, freedom, God, government, ideology, justice, law, legality, libertarianism, liberty, limited government, morality, Occupy, Occupy Panem, Panem, Paul Johnson, philosophy, plunder, politics, religion, rights, socialism, state, Suzanne Collins, Ten Commandments, virtue, Walter E. Williams
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Occupy Panem?
[Update: I am mystified why people who promote big government keep trying to do so with stories where the government is the atrocious beast. Check out A Better World.] Yesterday, The Hunger Games released on bluray, which brightened my less-than-encouraging … Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, America, Andrew Klavan, capital, capitalism, college, communism, conservatism, constitution, constitutionalism, degree, democrat, dialectics, Donald Sutherland, economic mobility, economics, economy, education, force, force and fraud, Frédéric Bastiat, free markets, government, Hegelian dialectics, Hunger Games, Hunger Games Movie, Katniss Everdeen, law, Least of These, liberalism, libertarianism, market capitalism, Marxism, Occupy, Occupy protestors, Occupy Wall Street, Panem, policy, race theory, rebels, republic, socialism, Stalin, statism, Suzanne Collins, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Woody Harrelson
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Recommended Reads #4 The Oath
Frank Peretti is one of those authors that astounds everyone who reads his work and yet remains obscure outside the circle of his following. This is truly odd considering his first novel obtained bestseller status and he continues to sell … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, books, christian fiction, Cooper kids, Frank Peretti, God, horror, terror, The Oath
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From Micromachines to Nano-Machines
As a fan of Star Trek, I was always impressed with the replicator. Truth be told, it was a solution to a big problem that can really hamper a science-fiction story. How do you feed people who are on missions … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Fascination, Life, Reviews, Science
Tagged atheism, atheist, Ben Stein, Bible, cellular biology, Crichton, DNA, Einstein, energy and matter, Expelled, faith, Frank Turek, genetics, God, history, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, James Surowieki, nano, nano-technology, NASB, No Intelligence Allowed, Norman Geisler, Peter Atkins, philosophy, photosynthesis, prey, quantum physics, replication, replicator, research, science, Signature in the Cell, Star Trek, Stephen C. Meyer, synthesis, Wisdom of Crowds
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Red Dawn and America’s Greatest Weapon
Just watched Red Dawn and then glanced at a Breitbart rundown of the MSM reviews of the film. No one should be surprised that people on the left call such stories fascist. As Jonah Goldberg made clear almost a decade … Continue reading →