John Locke reminds us that the Latin rebellare means to “bring back again the state of war.” War, as Locke usefully defines it, is a state that ensues “when someone declares by word or action,” “as a matter of calm settled design,” “that he intends to end another man’s life,” or to “get another manContinue reading “The Real Rebels”
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Badges of Shame, and of Honor
Decades ago, a six-year sojourn in Canada acquainted me with the awe in which the denizens of that snowy realm hold the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Many a northern lad could dream no grander dream than growing up to join the ranks of these bravest of all servants of Queen and Country. In one fatefulContinue reading “Badges of Shame, and of Honor”
Out of Season
Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. 2 Timothy 4:2 To be out of season, in these days of darkness, means among other things to get on the wrong side of YouTube. What that takes, in the present moment, is to speak the truthContinue reading “Out of Season”
It Takes a (Certain Kind of) Village
One of the advantages socialists have these days is the poverty of our political culture, especially as it pertains to our (lack of) understanding of the rights they are in the process of stripping from us. Those nobly seeking to escape the servitude into which we are rapidly slipping, drawing from a conceptual toolbox withinContinue reading “It Takes a (Certain Kind of) Village”
Rescuing our Rights
As previously noted, theories of “systemic racism” currently in fashion constitute the latest leftist ruse to rob citizens of our most cherished rights. Once we concede that anyone can be treated as guilty, or awarded the equivalent of damages, and all without a trial, then the rule of law is abolished, and we have theContinue reading “Rescuing our Rights”
Without a Shepherd
Shortly after escaping from slavery, Frederick Douglass found himself in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a “lukewarm” Methodist, he felt it his duty to seek the “spiritual advantage of public worship,” and “therefore resolved to join” the local congregation. Though Massachusetts was a free state, Douglass was denied a “seat in the body of the house”Continue reading “Without a Shepherd”
No Children
God has no children whose rights may be safely trampled upon. Frederick Douglass What do you think? Please comment, subscribe, & forward to friends!
Scientific Moonshine
In 1854, Frederick Douglass addressed the Philozetian Society of Western Reserve College, Ohio on the then-contentious question of whether “negroes” are human beings. As those denying the “claims of the negro” readily admitted, humanity is accompanied by certain inalienable rights and liberties, the denial of which constitutes “the greatest wrong and robbery” on the partContinue reading “Scientific Moonshine”
An Overabundance of Caution
History furnishes us with many examples of catastrophes brought about, intentionally or otherwise, by the intervention of human beings, whose malice or arrogance prevented them from seeing or caring about the horrors they were committing. Though the sudden and systematic suspension of our natural and constitutional rights that has been perpetrated in the past yearContinue reading “An Overabundance of Caution”
Withstanding Cephas, Standing With Peter
When Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Galatians 2:11 “The Great Reset” is the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, “a German economist and founder of the [World Economic Forum], an annual gathering of high-level business and political leaders that since 1971 has usually met inContinue reading “Withstanding Cephas, Standing With Peter”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 