Reading too much into a gift
Valentine’s Day is approaching, meaning yet another holiday where gifts are mandatory for relationship peace and harmony. So let’s talk about gifts....
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Revisiting Gabrielle Giffords
It has been a little over a year since the tragic attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s life. First we must not forget that a Federal judge was a...
Miracles
The answer you receive to any question regarding miracles will depend greatly on the person you are asking. Some will say that miracles occur all the time while...
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011 I first discovered Christopher Hitchens about 5 years ago when I was browsing YouTube. Someone had poste...
Ron Paul and the Federal courts
I’m surprised that the Republican establishment isn’t more in favor of Ron Paul. He is delivering on a part of the Republican platform that I’...
Dear Mom and Dad
Dear Mom and Dad, I know you are disappointed that I am an atheist. But you do remember that you never actually exposed me to any religion. In fact you made it ...
Public schools and the Ten Commandments
The time has come for another revisit on the First Amendment and public schools, namely the protections of the First Amendment regarding religious freedom. Name...
Trading one religion for another
While it is uplifting to read of more and more teenagers "seeing the light" and leaving Christianity or whatever religion held their mind captive, wha...
Religiously-motivated bullying–with the approval of the State
Recently the Senate for the State of Michigan approved a bill that has been receiving a lot of press and was touted by Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D) as a "Repu...
Revisiting the Constitution and non-citizens
The time has come to once again take on this little nugget: The Constitution applies only to AMERICAN CITIZENS! Recently I got into an online discussion with a ...