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What Do You Get…

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…

Go, Kerri, Go!

August 7, 2012

A couple weeks back, I posted about my friend, Kerri Linto Smith, and the hassle she was getting to simply sell pillows on the internet (the cost to do so, simply to comply with the bureaucratic nonsense, is well over $4000). What’s cool is that…

Wouldn't It Be Fun to be a Liberal?

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…

Councilman Jim Kenney: Politically-Correct Person of the Month

August 1, 2012

Chick-fil-A has made national news for the last week-and-a-half, following the remarks of President Dan Cathy. This is not news; unless you live under a rock somewhere, you not only are aware of the things that Dan said, but also of the vitriolic response of…

What I Had to Say Last Time I Preached

July 23, 2012

This is a message I delivered on Sunday, July 8 at Grace Community Church in Marietta, GA (now our home church). It is taken from the last part of Matthew 13 and the first half or so of Matthew 14, and it is entitled, “The…

The State of Penn State…

July 23, 2012

…is a pretty sorry one right now. OK, let’s get this out of the way: what happened in Happy Valley is inexcusable. There is no legal punishment available to the state to deal true justice to that scum named Jerry Sandusky. Further, it is clear…