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January 27, 2017

Politics

New Government Twitter Accounts

The natives are restless. Hello, we are the Alternative National Park Service Twitter Account activated in time of war and censorship to ensure fact-based education. https://t.co/Ez8twyES7p — AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

November 27, 2016

Thinking about #CalExit

There is a secession movement afoot in California. The cynic in me thinks that this issue was settled in 1865, but to many people, things are never settled until they’re settled in the way that they like. What would

November 21, 2016

Speaking Truth to Whom, Exactly?

January 23, 2018

Communion: Reversals

Family·Legal·Politics

For Obamacare, TANSTAAFL

January 16, 2017

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. Wise words, popularized by Robert Heinlein in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. You have to pay for your lunch somehow. Just so, someone

Culture·History

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2017

We don’t think much about our calendar. It’s just there, isn’t it? But how did it get here? The calendar most of us use is called the Gregorian Calendar. It was introduced

History·Politics

On the Senate

December 29, 2016

Why are there two Houses of Congress? The simplest answer is that the House of Representatives was to represent the People, and the Senate was to represent the States. The Connecticut Compromise

Culture·Politics

Musings on the Size of Congress

December 14, 2016

Just how big should the House of Representatives be? In Article I, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution, the Founders wrote, “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every

Culture·Religion

Accommodating the Fall

November 23, 2016

We are more than human. We are fallen humans. The consequences of this go throughout our bodies, our spirits, and through them, the societies that we form. No family is safe from

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