The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.
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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MoreNow and again you’ll hear someone, usually a professing Christian whose politics skew left, try to draw a parallel between what took place in the early church (recorded in Acts 4) and our contemporary welfare state. I find this connection to be utterly untenable, and I thought I’d explain this to my readers by listing…
Read MoreThe sky is falling. Well, at least if the pundits are to be believed. The so-called “SuperCommittee” didn’t turn out to be so super after all, and was unable to agree to budget cuts this week, so according to a previous decision (one now being protested by Republicans and Democrats alike, and one being correctly…
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