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

As Long as We Can Keep It

By Byron / June 28, 2012 /

It was the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September, 1787, and expectations were running high. Having worked long and hard at crafting the document, and emerging from the room, Benjamin Franklin was asked by an anxious citizen, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Came the response from…

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The Next Good Argument I Hear for "Gay Marriage"…

By Byron / February 9, 2012 /

Will be the first. Seriously, liberal argumentation generally consists of sloganeering, half-truths, utopian fantasies, and ad hominem attacks. Pretty much every argument that I’ve ever heard advanced to buttress “gay marriage” falls neatly into one or more of these categories. Today, USA Today came out with an editorial piece favoring the decision by the ultra-leftist…

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Justice Roberts Gets it Right

By Paul Oyler / March 12, 2010 /

Scene at State of the Union Very Troubling Barack Obama is the second Democrat president in a row to fail to understand the appropriate dignity and decorum required of the office of the Presidency.  There are things you just don’t do and say, out-of-bounds and inappropriate, and it was altogether wrong for the President to…

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Constitution Schmonstitution

By Paul Oyler / November 9, 2009 /

So the U.S. House passed the monstrous Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 (if that’s not an Orwellian name, there has never been one). Of course it’s an awful bill; of course it places in the hands of our utterly inept federal government and its bureaucratic wonks a level of oversight that is far, far…

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Uganda's Terrible, Deadly War against Homosexuals

By Paul Oyler / November 2, 2009 /

Evangelical Christians have a difficult time, sometimes, knowing where to come down on the subject of homosexuality. When I was back in my old stomping ground of Grove City recently, my successor at Fellowship Community Church, Pastor David Harstine, delivered an exceptional message dealing with the subject, noting correctly that professing Christians typically fall off…

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