What happens when people – who have rejected God – demand strong leaders? Spoiler: it doesn’t work so well.
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You’re A Ruler… But What Kind?
The Old Testament’s Gideon provides a cautionary tale.
It’s A Heart Issue
If it feels like liberty is dying, and our republic is waning, it is because we’ve stopped caring about either.
Now, But Not Yet
As a self-governing people, our job is not to curse the surrounding darkness but to build a better and brighter light for the future.
Reject Waste? Look In The Mirror!
It’s not over-priced hammers or frivolous trips that drive government spending; bad ideas about government is the problem.
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Ammon Blair: Unwavering Warrior
“I feel that by defending our rights, our God-given rights through the Constitution, doing that is one of the greatest single efforts that we can do.”
It’s All A Joke
Socialists, progressives, communists, and Marxists are the flat-earthers of political and economic thought. They are not intellectuals sincerely seeking truth; they are the fall-guys in a long, deadly, sick joke.
Seizing Opportunities… Or Squandering Them
You and I must decide what we will do to make Texas count, and ensure the Lone Star State continues as a force for good influencing the world.
Self-Governance Starts With Governing Ourselves
Restoring our republic begins, quite literally, in the heart of every man and woman. And we shrug off tyranny by embracing God.
Promise Keepers
Republicans must be something more than a speed bump on the road to serfdom.
The Alamo Fell, and Texas Rose
Most of us aren’t called to man the walls of an old church, outnumbered by superior forces, but all of us are called to face a hostile world.
Sorry, But There Are Only Two Political Parties
Two political parties are in a fierce competition, with nothing less than the fate of the republic riding on the outcome. They aren’t who you think.
Private Morality, Public Morals
A man cannot be publicly virtuous and privately scandalous.
Volume and Mass
Depending on your perspective, campaigns either try to convert political volume into a mass of support through messaging, or use the volume of messaging to conceal their lack of mass.
Who Are The Idiots?
Whatever bad things one has to say about school boards are more appropriately directed at the citizens who elect them… or ignore them.
Only Fighters Win Fights
Backing down from a principled fight is the quickest way to lose.
Serving Two Masters
For our system of government to work, for liberty to be preserved, politicians must remember they are the citizens’ servants.
Two-Card Monte?
In politics, we’re encouraged to be distracted by the “game” between the Elephants and the Donkeys – even as the Republic is stolen from us.
Fighting Honorably, In Context
Righteous ends don’t justify dishonorable acts.
Choosing Sides
We must spend less time worrying about what side other people are on… and be sure we’re on the right side for the right reasons.
Stepping Forward In Faith
Faith is easy when it leads to a safe place. But what if the next step is dangerous?
Cindi Castilla: Preserving the Gift of Liberty
“I would like to preserve what we were given. It’s a gift that really hasn’t been recreated anywhere in the same way.”
Stop Being Nice
We can either be nice serfs, or driven citizen-leaders.
Why Is The 4th of July So Special?
We celebrate not the end of the war of Independence, but its beginning – because that when liberty was made real.
America the Exceptional
The left wants to destroy America by convincing us we’re common. We’re not. And we never have been.