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I ran across this video the other day. Sadly, at the time of this writing, it has over 100,000 views, but we should be thankful that's well below the 3.7 million who subscribe to the channel. Still, even

I don't have a child with Down syndrome. I don't have a family member or friends with Down syndrome. But even though I don't have a close relationship with anyone with Down syndrome, I think a strong case

Jordan Peterson has taught me as much about Christianity as any preacher, author, or theologian ever has. Though a Christian for much of my life, and growing up in the church, it wasn't until coming across

Sometimes it seems that Christians are so focused on getting people to salvation, it seems that they think they are capable of doing it themselves. But when we do this, we lose the example of Jesus. Jesus

We all want people to see the world the way we do. We think it would be a better place if they did. We may try to improve our ideas, but we still think we already have it together more than most. But the

This chapter is about the absurd notion that a nation should desire to have their exports exceed their imports as much as possible. And I really can do anything to clarify it any better than to reiterate

The Patriots have put together an unprecedented run of success in the NFL. They are about to play in their eighth Super Bowl in 16 years. Many say that their incredible run is made even more impressive

Just a few days ago, Burger King released a video of a sorry attempt to explain why they believe we need government to involve themselves in how access to the internet is distributed. They advocate for

A tariff is a tax, and a tax is paid by the consumer. That is the critical point that Bastiat makes in this chapter and one that is worth understanding today as well. And if this reality is recognized,

What I think we can say for sure about Jesus related to the matter is this: he never forced anyone into a situation that they didn't willingly put themselves in. And given that anything government does

In yesterday's post, I mentioned wanting to expand on Bastiat's assertion that the end goal of a horse race is the competition itself but not so with commerce. The end goal of commerce is always to satisfy

I'm back to posting on here regularly (hopefully), and plan to finish up my commentaries on Bastiat's Economic Sophisms with posts on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Bastiat opens this chapter by allowing

Well, I didn't finish the novel in November, but that's okay. (I will finish it over the next couple months but I'm not sure if I'll publish it) My goal was that if I failed to complete the novel, I could

New Moon had been working with his sidekick Eclipse to find any leads on who was behind the protocol theft that The Select had intervened on. The boy, Thomas Robinson, had been working with New Moon for

“The microscopic residue we found on Arthur turned out to be more that we thought initially.” Denton Daniels, possibly the smartest man alive and a member of The Five, was heading up the team of genius

“If our lives are extended by humanity’s faith in us, it is shortened when they lose that faith. We don’t know that any of these heroes have actually died, but they seem to have faded out of existence.

I struggled with that question for a number of years. I was worried that some part of my parents was somewhere deep within me. Eventually, I decided that my upbringing on Earth had been enough to overcome

They were the only parents I ever remember because I was less than one year old when they found me at the crash site of the wreckage of a spacecraft. It was they that taught me how to use my powers once

Little bit of writing. Whole lot of plotting. That really takes some time. Convincing a collection of lawbreakers to turn themselves in ended up being easier than Fire Ant thought it would be. The group’s

Had nothing to post for the prior two days because I was doing plotting on notecards. I'm continuing that process but also got my first draft started. Again, I make no claim on quality. This is just about