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I'm From the Government and I'm Here For Your Insurance Premium
As you’re filing your “what portion of my income will the state let me keep” tax forms this year, you may notice an extra box filled in on your W-2. It’s box 12, and if you work for a company … Continue reading
A Simple Donation
Steve Inskeep and Shankar Vedantam discussed political language and charities on NPR recently. In particular, they covered some new research about political identity and charitable giving from Karen Winterich at Penn State. Vedantam gave Winterich an assignment: create two pitches … Continue reading
No More Egregious
One part of the fight against Obamacare worthy of note this week is the judgement against and the statement from Hobby Lobby concerning the mandate to provide contraceptives to its employees. Being a Christian-owned company, Hobby Lobby filed an appeal … Continue reading
Posted in Government overreach, Legal, Libertarianism, Taxes, Tyranny of the Majority
Tagged authority, freedom, government, obamacare, state, tyranny
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NYPD Throws The Best Parties
A police state lover’s dream: Times Square on New Year’s Eve. You couldn’t pay me to be there most of the time, let alone tonight. I heard on the TV this morning that there will be thousands more cops than … Continue reading
Swearing Off Newspeak
I frequently beat up Doug Wilson, and will continue to do so, but in a recent post he is spot on with regards to the Newspeak. Because of this, I am simply going to state my bottom line conclusion now, … Continue reading
Posted in Government overreach, Newspeak
Tagged Doug Wilson, free market, guns, state
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On the other hand…
In response to Andy’s post on government schools and Christianity, I felt something needed to be said regarding the similarities of many churches to the government and its educational goals. Andy said: But the government’s goal is to make sure … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Church and State, Democrats, Republicans, The Bible
Tagged abortion, church, God, politics, state
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Smoke and Mirrors
The title of this article in the Washington Post is “Obama urges public to pressure Congress on extending tax cuts for the middle class”. Notice the wording. It’s referred to as “extending” tax cuts. Oh how benevolent Obama and all … Continue reading
Posted in I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means, Taxes
Tagged obama, state, taxes, the rich, theft
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Withdraw, And Teach Your Kids Heresy
Yesterday on Al Mohler’s “The Briefing“, he talked about an article in The Telegraph detailing how government schools in England are ‘struggling’ to teach about Christianity as part of their religious education curriculum. I always find it amusing when people … Continue reading
Not so fast, Karen.
I have been a follower of the LRC blog for quite a while now. I have never been so disgusted with a post as I am with Karen De Coster’s condom post. Never have I seen something so absolutely disgusting. … Continue reading
Government Safety
Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting in a government run class on hunter safety for a mind-numbing 6 hours. I signed in and presented the appropriate papers. They asked if I had the legal release form with me. The … Continue reading
