This is from an email exchange I had recently.

Tags: Christianity ∙ Pagan ∙ religious freedom ∙ commenting ∙ tain't mine

Let them be remembeblurb as cowards who only dablurb attack unarmed victims.

Tags: Bill of Rights ∙ Penn Jillette ∙ The Federalist Papers ∙ The Anti-Federalist Papers ∙ Federalist ∙ Anti-Federalist ∙ Founders ∙ We the People ∙ gift of the Founders ∙ freely chosen ∙ Massachusetts Compromise ∙ John Hancock ∙ Samuel Adams ∙ Moses solution ∙ calendars

I stumbled across a very interesting looking website.

No Compulsion. Where Islamic Tyranny Meets Liberty.

Tags: islamist ∙ No Compulsion

I did not humble myself and acknowledge the sins of my skin color.

Tags: San Bernardino ∙ shooting

I realize the man is trying desperately to make his mark.

Tags: shooting ∙ short ∙ San Bernardino ∙ mass shootings ∙ Chattanooga ∙ commenting

It’s the only campaign finance scheme that blurbuces the size of government, returns power to the voters, and keeps local money only in politics.

Tags: reform ∙ election ∙ jury nullification

I did not humble myself and acknowledge the sins of my skin color.

Tags: victimhood ∙ racism ∙ short ∙ celebrate ∙ blame ∙ commenting

I realize the man is trying desperately to make his mark.

Tags: climate change ∙ Prince Charles ∙ parity test ∙ Middle East

This is from an email exchange I had recently.

Tags: Ted Cruz ∙ President

No, I don’t think it’s the best solution.

Tags: Homeland ∙ mission creep ∙ Middle East ∙ islamist ∙ free market ∙ video ∙ guest content

No, I am not exaggerating.

Although the Imperious Leader does.

When he isn’t lying.

Tags: Imperious Leader ∙ impeach ∙ abuse of power

Keep law simple and absolute.

Tags: feminism ∙ victimhood ∙ strong woman ∙ tried again ∙ protesting ∙ discrimination ∙ drek

Keep law simple and absolute.

Tags: technology ∙ John Gruber ∙ Matt Rosoff ∙ cable service ∙ internet services ∙ short ∙ skimmed

We need to test our ideas again and again.

Tags: feminism ∙ dissent ∙ short ∙ video ∙ guest content

John Kerry and the State Department do a semantic shell game to avoid the law.

Tags: Imperious Leader ∙ John Kerry ∙ skimmed ∙ Iran

I wouldn’t want people to think I was hiding something.

Tags: Christianity

Ever wonder why the Imperious Leader doesn’t ask before he commits the country?

Tags: Imperious Leader ∙ short

The green movement and the climate change crowd can’t stand dissent

Tags: Patrick Moore ∙ PragerU ∙ Greenpeace ∙ GMOs ∙ carbon dioxide ∙ trees ∙ climate change ∙ video ∙ guest content

Mind you I still wasn’t getting the service I paid for, but it was so much better than what I’ve had for the last few months. I almost caught myself sending them a thank-you.

Tags: choice ∙ Cable One ∙ net neutrality ∙ Netflix ∙ Apple ∙ last mile problem

❝A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”

Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.❞

❝Now even ZIP codes are racist, and according to this race-obsessed administration, you're racist for living in a suburban area with little public housing. And it plans to change that.

In what may be the most ambitious social-engineering project undertaken by the federal government, the administration is mapping every neighborhood in America by race. The stated purpose is to use the data to compel local officials to loosen zoning laws and build more public housing, thereby offering more poor inner-city minorities better opportunities for housing and education.

But the unstated purpose is forced racial integration. The suburbs are just too white for Obama and his race-mongering social engineers. They think they "geospatially discriminate" against minorities, never mind that more and more middle-class blacks are flocking to them on their own.

The ham-handed government project is led by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Last week it proposed new rules requiring counties and other entities receiving federal grant dollars to "affirmatively further fair housing" in the suburbs for minorities. Grantees who fail to comply will be denied federal funding.

At the same time, HUD is pressuring suburban landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers.❞

Tags: racism ∙ Imperious Leader ∙ race database ∙ victimhood ∙ race housing ∙ clipping

The videos say it better than I can.

Be sure to share with your friends. And maybe some of the enemies you trust.

Tags: Independent Institute ∙ economic freedom ∙ education debt ∙ video ∙ employees ∙ privacy ∙ healthcare ∙ housing ∙ Love Gov ∙ guest content

I am absolutely certain that abortion should not be funded by taxpayers. Nor should organizations or companies providing abortions. Nor should companies that provide birth control.

Tags: abortion ∙ subsidies ∙ Planned Parenthood ∙ consensual ∙ sex

““Race only matters to racists.””
     — Kent McManigal, The lie matters because of politics

Tags: racism ∙ Kent McManigal

““In some ancient polytheistic societies, the worst punishment that could be meted out was to erase a person’s existence by no longer speaking or writing their name and erasing any reference to them. It was thought this also negatively affected them in the afterlife. As a matter of personal policy, follow this concept and this is why I have not named the shooter in this article. However, The Honored Dead do deserve to be known…””
     — Cara Schulz, Facing Violence in Chattanooga: Two Heathens Share their Experience

Tags: cross posted ∙ shooting ∙ The Wild Hunt ∙ mass shootings ∙ Cara Schulz ∙ Chattanooga

Legal does not mean free.

Tags: abortion

Stars above and Earth below, it’s the Faith Triumphant all over again!

Tags: live & let live ∙ Faith Triumphant ∙ marriage

I’m standing against government licensing marriage.

Tags: government screw-up

They attack the person and avoid discussing the ideas.

Tags: George Takei ∙ Justice Thomas ∙ dissent

The question remains, why was the flag acceptable last year but is not acceptable this year?

Tags: Confederate flag ∙ racism ∙ video ∙ CGP Grey ∙ guest content

I do criticize the Christians who constantly take refuge in that tired phrase “Judeo-Christian heritage.”

Tags: Christianity ∙ Judeo-Christian heritage ∙ Pledge of Allegiance ∙ blessings

We’re so conditioned to expect the government to “save us” that we overlook government oppressing us.

Tags: Imperious Leader ∙ marriage ∙ SCOTUS ∙ not your friend ∙ oppress ∙ conditioned

We ceded our right to choose our morality to government functionaries.

Tags: marriage

So maybe it’s time to stop waiting for someone to save us?

After all, the Federal government works for the citizens.

If the citizens don’t want Obamacare and the FedGovs keep forcing it on us, then there is one question left.

Why is there still a Federal government?

Tags: Obamacare ∙ short

routes (through the internet) to the national help line which may or may not connect you to a real person. It’s not until you recite their little checklist before they have a chance to run through it that the service reps start listening.

I’ve replaced all my internal cable and connectors with professional grade, about three or four notches above the junk Cable One uses to connect the outside of the houses to their system. I own my cable modem.

Here’s the scary thing. It’s literally the best available here.

Now in part this happened because the city signed an exclusive deal with a cable company that was bought by another company that was acquired by another that merged with Cable One. Cable One has the coaxial cable monopoly.

Assuming that the “net neutrality” thing is applied, I fully expect the cable bill to at least double.

I’m debating if I want to call and complain again. The service the last few days has been worse. Now that could be because of the solar storm.

But I really want some competition.

Tags: bad choices ∙ cable service ∙ Cable One ∙ last mile problem

Identity politics and power through guilt will ALWAYS demand more no matter what is given…

Tags: victimhood ∙ Farrakhan ∙ Confederate flag ∙ American flag ∙ power through guilt ∙ never enough ∙ identity politics

The free market doesn’t have government regulation.

Tags: uniform rule of law ∙ choice ∙ completion ∙ elites ∙ know best ∙ abundance ∙ meddle ∙ classic

About the South Carolina church shooting. We know enough now.

Tags: tragedy ∙ South Carolina

❝❝You want to impress me, come up with something more than "the Bible told me so.” Don't make threats about judgement and eternal flame. Don't tell me about the changes it's made in your life. Don’t tell me how it’s “saved you.” Don’t tell me how you have the hotline to the “Almighty." 

And don’t tell me “it’s God’s judgement” when you’re the one spouting the words.

Tell me about the changes your faith makes in the world around you. Tell me what you do that makes the world better than when you got here.  Tell me how your faith manifests through you. 

Tell me about how you pass it on.

If that "Living Word" exists, it has to be in the hearts and souls of those people who have really embraced it. It's not in a dusty book. The verses don't matter except to show you the way. Tell me what lives behind those printed words. Tell me how you turned your sacrifice into a blessing.

Tell me about love. Tell me about the love you showed today.

Your actions show that. 

Your next choice starts now.❞❞
     — from the private journal of NeoWayland

Tags: Christianity ∙ wisdom ∙ be careful what you wish for ∙ Bible ∙ love ∙ cross posted ∙ commenting

The “Confederate” flag (actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia) was raised over the capital of South Carolina by a Democrat governor in protest over the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Tags: Confederate flag ∙ South Carolina ∙ quasi-activists ∙ Nikki Haley ∙ Republican

I’ve been asked why I haven’t commented on the South Carolina church massacre.

Tags: church massacre ∙ mass shootings ∙ South Carolina ∙ rumor ∙ activist narrative ∙ pharmaceuticals ∙ tragedy

With one move, the Imperious Leader’s administration tokenizes half the human race.

Tags: token ∙ woman ∙ Alexander Hamilton ∙ qualification ∙ Warren Meyer

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean that it is just.

Tags: jury nullification ∙ justice

The Imperious Leader literally decreed that non-profits must contribute to green technologies.

What happens when they don’t?

Tags: liberty ∙ Imperious Leader ∙ IRS

The Imperious Leader expects the American people to swallow the shit to get the good parts.

Tags: Congress ∙ Imperious Leader ∙ tyranny

“Doctors' Criticism Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats”

“Save the Bees: Eliminate Biofuel Mandates”

“Obama To Circumvent Congress With ‘Gag Order’ On Firearm Coverage”

“You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History”

Tags: Obamacare ∙ bees ∙ biofuels ∙ guns ∙ free speech ∙ Sarbanes-Oxley Act ∙ browser history ∙ FBI ∙ watching the headlines

Give government all the power you think is necessary. Watch as the one person who you think can’t be trusted with that power commands it against everything you hold dear.

Tags: EPA ∙ KYFHO ∙ The Peanut Farmer ∙ Ronny Ray Gun ∙ james Watt ∙ freedom

Nope.

Tags: climate change ∙ Zed Shaw ∙ Twitter ∙ blog by soundbite

Nope.

Tags: victimhood ∙ racism

Rhyd Wildermuth has shown me his character.

Tags: cross posted ∙ division of labor ∙ Rhyd Wildermuth ∙ Watch List

Nope.

Tags: consent ∙ liberty ∙ choice & consequence ∙ humor ∙ picture

❝❝Does that person threaten you or yours?

Does that person take or damage your property?

Then why are you trying to control them?❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: liberty ∙ generalized argument ∙ liberty argument ∙ statist ∙ Doctor Who ∙ secret weapon ∙ quickest way ∙ maxims

Marriage licenses exist so that the licenses can be denied.

Tags: marriage ∙ Utah ∙ American Civil War ∙ alternative marriage ∙ parity test

I won’t celebrate.

Tags: KFHO ∙ accept ∙ celebrate

And it was all based on a lie.

Tags: connections ∙ trade-offs ∙ dropping water tables ∙ Philip Lloyd ∙ waste disposal ∙ technocrats ∙ politicos ∙ pollution ∙ alternate energy ∙ environmental crusade ∙ wildfires ∙ capitalism ∙ anthropogenic climate change ∙ free market ∙ wildlife management

❝❝You can't childproof the world. The best you can do is world proof your children.❞❞
     — anonymous

Tags: hero ∙ victimhood ∙ anonymous ∙ commenting ∙ trigger warnings ∙ safe zones ∙ people claiming offense ∙ L. Neil Smith

Thorium is much, much, much more abundant than uranium.

Tags: Stewart Brand ∙ thorium ∙ molten salt reactors

They’ve forgotten that their power comes from the people.

Tags: election ∙ Imperious Leader ∙ Congress

There are deserts here that have been deserts for ten thousand years.

Tags: anthropogenic global warming ∙ climate change ∙ discredited

Tags: economic freedom ∙ gold ∙ dollar ∙ 1915 ∙ 1940 ∙ 1950 ∙ 1965 ∙ 1980 ∙ 1999 ∙ 2008 ∙ 2011

Tags: ordinary ∙ blessings

❝❝If the choice is between the absolute on the left side or the absolute on the right, I am going to pick freedom despite both❞❞

Tags: right vs. left ∙ commenting ∙ freedom

It’s a scam.

Tags: liberty ∙ all or nothing ∙ parity test

❝❝I'm for live and let live.

I wish more people were.

You should live your life as you choose. Just don't expect me to celebrate it because it is your life after all. And don't go after your neighbor because of the lawn he planted or the socks he wears or where he spends his Tuesday nights.❞❞

Tags: live & let live ∙ commenting ∙ maxims

““In the sixty years since the Civil Rights movement, the Left has entirely perverted the whole notion of civil rights. Civil Rights as the Founders intended meant the right of all citizens, regardless of race, color, religion, sexual, gender, etc., to be free of government constraints (although the government’s police powers certainly required the government to protect citizens when others amongst them worked to injure them or constrain their basic freedoms). Civil Rights as the Left demands it has become an all powerful government that is responsible for redistribution wealth, property, access to government and even happiness, from whites to blacks.””
     — Bookworm, American Christians are the new blacks; and Leftists own the new Jim Crow movement

Tags: Bookworm ∙ skimmed ∙ Jim Crow ∙ civil rights

Over the past few years I’ve been accused of white privilege and male privilege.

I’ve been told that my ideas reveal my unconscious bias.

I’ve been told that simply by living my life as I choose, I force others into a world that isn’t fair.

I’ve been told that I can’t quote people if they don’t match my skin color.

I’ve been told that my ideas of justice are antiquated.

I’ve been told that my words are code words for other ideas.

I’ve been told that I must watch carefully lest I hurt someone.

I think those people lied.

I think that by limiting the topics we discuss, those people seek power.

I think that’s why they choose the words we’re “allowed” to say.

I think that’s why they redefine the words as needed.

I think that’s why they pick the people who are allowed to talk.

I am tired of it.

Chris Hernandez had a great piece at The Federalist.

““Yes, f*** your trauma. My sympathy for your suffering, whether that suffering was real or imaginary, ended when you demanded I change my life to avoid bringing up your bad memories. You don’t seem to have figured this out, but there is no “I must never be reminded of a negative experience” expectation in any culture anywhere on earth.

If your psyche is so fragile you fall apart when someone inadvertently reminds you of “trauma,” especially if that trauma consisted of you overreacting to a self-interpreted racial slur, you need therapy. You belong on a psychiatrist’s couch, not in college dictating what the rest of society can’t do, say, or think. Get your own head right before you try to run other people’s lives. If you expect everyone around you to cater to your neurosis, forever, you’re what I’d call a “failure at life,” doomed to perpetual disappointment.

Oh, I should add: f** my trauma, too. I must be old-fashioned, but I always thought coming to terms with pain was part of growing up. I’ve never expected anyone to not knock on my door because it reminds me of that terrifying morning decades ago. I’ve never blown up at anyone for startling me with a camera flash (I’ve never even mentioned it to anyone who did). I’ve never expected anyone to not talk about Iraq or Afghanistan around me, even though some memories still hurt. I don’t need trigger warnings because a book might remind me of a murder victim I’ve seen.””

So I am going to call those folks on their victimhood. And I am not going to be nice.

I’m not responsible for their trigger moments. I won’t guard their safe spaces.

It’s time for people to grow up and take responsibility.

Or die waiting for someone to take care of them out of pity.

Power by victimhood depends on the other guy’s guilt.

I thought I had a lot more to say on this. But it’s pretty simple really.

I won’t feed the victimhood anymore.

Tags: victimhood ∙ power over ∙ trauma ∙ growing up ∙ privilege ∙ skimmed ∙ Chris Hernandez ∙ The Federalist Papers ∙ speech wars ∙ clipping ∙ white privilege ∙ male privilege ∙ unconscious bias

“CNN ATTACKS Duke basketball coach for NOT speaking out against new Indiana Religious Freedom law”

“Everybody's Lost Their Goddamn Mind Over Religious Freedom”

“The overblown hypocrisy of Tim Cook's business boycott of Indiana”

“Sounds like Apple’s CEO needs to disable the ‘hypocrite’ app on his iPhone”

Tags: parity test ∙ religious freedom ∙ Mike Krzyzewski ∙ Duke ∙ Carol Costello ∙ Jack Phillips ∙ Masterpiece Cakeshop ∙ discriminate ∙ free market ∙ skimmed ∙ Tim Cook ∙ Indiana ∙ Apple ∙ discrimination ∙ watching the headlines

The official titles don’t matter, aunts and grandmothers hold a community together.

Tags: China ∙ community ∙ aunts & grandmothers ∙ dance ∙ skimmed

You should read it all, it’s very good.

Tags: climate change ∙ science ∙ skimmed ∙ Patrick Moore ∙ Greenpeace ∙ Vikings ∙ carbon dioxide ∙ Greenland ∙ Little Ice Age ∙ Medieval Warm Period ∙ Newfoundland ∙ Roman times ∙ fossil fuels ∙ civilization

Tags: discrimination ∙ The Turner Diaries ∙ Drawing Down the Moon

Remember the goal is FREEDOM. If the institutions don’t work towards that goal, we need to get rid of the institutions.

Tags: CGP Grey ∙ 2 party system ∙ none of the above ∙ election ∙ video ∙ guest content

❝❝I’ve long since concluded that no one has all the answers or even most of the questions.❞❞

Tags: answers ∙ questions ∙ commenting

Obama lies. But that’s not the real problem.

Tags: Imperious Leader ∙ lies

Nothing to do with morality and everything to do with vote pandering

Tags: California ∙ water

Sacrificing rationality to sound vaguely important

Tags: Watch List ∙ climate change ∙ jail ∙ Earth Day ∙ FCC ∙ dissent ∙ net neutrality ∙ watching the headlines ∙ Hertz

“You can’t childproof the world. The best you can do is worldproof your children.”

Tags: short ∙ free market rebellion

Today I’ll talk about the Free Market Rebellion.

Tags: free market rebellion ∙ mala prohibita ∙ personal freedom ∙ personal responsiblity

America’s internet doesn’t have the problem you think.

Tags: skimmed ∙ internet ∙ competition ∙ "last mile"

It’s not about Apple, it’s about the free market.

Tags: Apple ∙ Apple Watch ∙ Apple "tax" ∙ USB ∙ Gorilla Glass ∙ Corning ∙ video

Hat tip Cafe Hayek.

Tags: internet ∙ FCC ∙ short ∙ skimmed ∙ video

What changed?

Tags: Constitution ∙ rights ∙ powers ∙ Obamacare ∙ banning bullets ∙ internet ∙ scanners ∙ disrobing ∙ sobriety checkpoint ∙ no knock warrant ∙ SWAT

What changed?

Tags: internet ∙ government screw-up

Our military is mostly honorable people who want to do the right thing.

Tags: honor ∙ short

Cut one fiberoptic line and two-thirds of Arizona is isolated.

Tags: internet ∙ short

I’ve called the internet the last, best hope for humankind.

Yes, I caged the line from Babylon 5. It’s still true though.

Tags: internet ∙ FCC ∙ Obama administration ∙ lies and lies some more ∙ human rights

It’s not a right unless the other guy has it too.

Tags: Crux Files ∙ individual freedom ∙ Tenth Amendment ∙ informed choice ∙ human rights ∙ initiate force ∙ choice & consequence ∙ labels ∙ none of your business ∙ religion ∙ coercive power ∙ moral justification

There’s a secret plan.

Tags: internet ∙ Bruce

I may not have heard it all, but I have heard enough.

Tags: shaming ∙ entitled ∙ victimhood

If the drone flies over your property, can you shoot it down?

Tags: privacy ∙ drones

Follow the money

Tags: taxes

Why don’t liberals get the blame for their words and actions?

Tags: gun control ∙ progressive ∙ racism

“Papers, please”

Tags: Real ID ∙ Obamacare

Fudging the numbers again

Tags: fudging temperatures ∙ moon shot ∙ climate change ∙ food pyramid ∙ global warming ∙ nuclear weapons

It only takes a simple program and a scientific calculator to show the holes in the climate change models

Tags: global warming ∙ climate change ∙ science

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

Tags: taxes ∙ freely chosen ∙ 16th Amendment ∙ Constitution ∙ IRS ∙ White House ∙ Barack Obama ∙ repeal ∙ Richard Nixon ∙ Bill Clinton

In Washington there are no bad ideas, just zombie ideas that keep getting resurrected.

Tags: Real ID

Funny how much politicos want to spend your money.

Tags: Imperious Leader ∙ irresponsible

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

Tags: personal freedom ∙ commenting ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ Bookworm ∙ Christianity ∙ parity test ∙ progressive ∙ goal is freedom ∙ modern liberal ∙ freely chosen

I do dissent

Tags: personal freedom ∙ forbidden ∙ human rights ∙ Christianity

Woodrow Wilson was not right.

Tags: economic freedom ∙ Wilson ∙ War on Drugs ∙ Prohibition

I think that most people make mostly good choices.

Mostly.

Tags: Julian ∙ Constantine ∙ Christianity ∙ truth ∙ practical ∙ freely chosen

I told people that Christianity didn’t mean much unless you were a Christian. It might even drive people away from a good cause.

Tags: Christianity ∙ true believers

More than one stream.

Tags: personal choice ∙ personal freedom ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ RadFem

What’s been missing.

Tags: trust ∙ truth ∙ informed choice ∙ freely chosen ∙ for your own good ∙ Imperious Leader ∙ Bush League ∙ Elder Bust ∙ Billy boy ∙ Ronny Ray Gun ∙ American Dream

The Imperious Leader lied.

Tags: freely chosen ∙ poseur ∙ Imperious Leader

Baubles & distractions

Tags: liberty ∙ victimhood ∙ MLK Day ∙ freely chosen ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ human rights

My goal isn’t winning internet arguments, it’s freedom.

Tags: internet ∙ informed choice ∙ modern liberal ∙ progressive ∙ conservative ∙ personal choice ∙ statist ∙ freely chosen

Very silly.

Tags: global warming ∙ internet ∙ public science ∙ modern liberal ∙ good intentions ∙ religion

Now they are worried.

Tags: War on Terror

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

Tags: mercantilism ∙ freely chosen ∙ personal freedom ∙ personal choice ∙ crony capitalism ∙ private sector

Power to control

Tags: informed choice ∙ public science ∙ good intentions ∙ for your own good ∙ economic freedom ∙ global warming

So no matter what I’ve said before now, no matter what I’ve done before now, if I fail to do this now, I’m racist.

Tags: goal is freedom ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ Arizona ∙ good intentions ∙ criminal foreiture ∙ human rights ∙ reciprocity ∙ progressive ∙ mala prohibita ∙ victimhood ∙ civil forfeiture

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

Tags: conservative ∙ good intentions ∙ parity test ∙ freely chosen ∙ religion