As the United States Constitution was ratified, A “Bill of Rights” was added in the form of the first 10 amendments. The first of these gives protection to the people against the government making any law abridging the freedom of speech and of the press. Along with this is the guaranteed right to address the government with grievances. Continue reading
Category Archives: Polity
The Kingdom of No Borders
Other Passages Sessions Could Have Used to Support Ripping a Refugee’s Child Away From Its Mother
Here are just a few: Continue reading
Threats, Lies, and Backtracking Don’t Lead to Peace
“They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace.”
-Jeremiah 6:14
“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.”
-Luke 19:42 Continue reading
The Syria Strikes were not “Perfectly Executed.” Here’s What Is.
The U.S. Airstrike in Syria wasn’t “Perfect.” Anyone who says so is a liar, and the light of God is not with him.
War is never perfect. Continue reading
Das Vidanya, Ethical Leadership
Last week, Fox News analyst Ralph Peters said goodbye to his news network. In a scalding hot letter of intent, Col. Peters, after a decade of working with Fox, came out as ashamed of the network for having “degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.” Continue reading
A Comprehensive Plan for Reducing Gun-Violence in America
We’re talking about it. Here’s an outline for a comprehensive plan that involves everyone doing their part. Sure, some of it may be naive, and almost none of it was my idea. But hear me out. Here’s what I think everyone can do to reduce gun violence nation-wide. Help me tweak this. Let’s crowdsource it. If the feedback is supportive enough, we just might send this suggestion on to politicians, pundits, preachers, parents, and peew-peew peddlers.
We can call it The Ballistic Pruning Accord
[Note: All listed measures are assumed to be taken voluntarily, except those taken by government authorities. In addition, this list does not include measures already taken in most areas, such as intruder drills and locked-door policies in public schools.] Continue reading
