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I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.

If I Were a Racist…

By Byron / August 13, 2013 /

And I thus wanted to do whatever I could to harm minorities, the first thing I would do would be to advocate for raising the minimum wage. Yes, you heard me correctly. We have an epidemic of teen unemployment today, but it is far, far worse among black teens than it is white. White teen…

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Faith and Politics: A Beginning Salvo

By Byron / November 28, 2012 /

I have been challenged by a friend to be a bit clearer in the linkage between my faith and what may be called, for lack of a better term, my political convictions. Whether or not my friend’s criticisms are all valid, it remains a productive line of thinking for me to sketch out the basics…

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In Defense of One-Issue Voters

By Byron / October 2, 2012 /

A friend of mine who blogs recently wrote a post in which he asked if being “pro-life” entailed more than a simple opposition to abortion (he implied that it does); I suggested in my response that to add a lot of other issues (environment, military buildup, gun control, etc.) to the meaning of “pro-life” is…

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What Do You Get…

By Byron / August 11, 2012 /

When you think with your heart instead of with your brain? California. Ed. note: I have decided–and I’m serious here–that if I ever had to live in California (imagine saying that in the 1960s, when “California is the place you oughta be”), I would say to myself, “it’s not America, Byron, and in a lot…

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Wouldn't It Be Fun to be a Liberal?

By Byron / August 4, 2012 /

You know, sometimes I just think about how easy, and how much fun, it must be to be a liberal. Witness this tremendous article, The Tolerance Enforcers, by Mark Steyn–excuse the redundancy there; as best I can tell, everything the man writes is tremendous–as a great example of the fact that, if you are a…

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