Birthright citizenship
Let’s talk birthright citizenship. The concept comes from the Fourteenth Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to t...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Legalization = condonation?
There was a point in time wherein the idea of arguing for the repeal of criminal sanctions for actions was laughable. After all, in a free country like the Unit...
Standards of commitment
I have friends who are both married and not. I have a friend who, last year, divorced her husband after he abandoned her. Let me ask this one question of everyo...
Gadgets you can keep
Recently the New York Times ran an article by Sam Grobart called “Gadgets You Can Get Rid Of (or Not)” in which he severely downplays the usefulness...
To all Christians
To all Christians, On March 11, 2011, about a thousand citizens of Japan lost their lives when an earthquake erupted in the floor of the Pacific, sending a tsun...
What’s in a name?
A man marries a woman. Traditionally she takes his last name, but some woman opt against doing this for various reasons. Who knew that the idea of a woman not t...
Aiming at the wrong target
Imagine this scenario: you own a restaurant a couple blocks from the police station. It proves popular with the police department as well, and officers are freq...
Are you really pro-life?
A friend of mine from my youth provided a link to an interesting, and somewhat refreshing, blog post by a pro-life Christian: Link — In Faith and In Purit...
Self regulation
One of the primary principles of libertarianism, and also capitalism, is the idea of self regulation: people will naturally want to find a way to co-exist that ...
Praying for me
Anyone who’s read a bit of this blog knows how I feel about prayer. Several who know me know that I’ve used words more harsh than I’ve publish...