Suppose We Followed the Golden Rule
“My point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we’re not going to like it …
Tag: interventionism
Korea Shows All That Is Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy
The tension on the Korean peninsula escalated late last year when South Korea began live-firing drills off its coastline. That …
Is Ron Paul an Isolationist?
The word isolationist is a pejorative term used to ridicule advocates of U.S. nonintervention in foreign affairs, intimidate their supporters, …
Statist Baggage on the Airlines
First it was the TSA; now it’s the airlines. In addition to getting their bodies squeezed by the TSA, airline …
A Christian Voter’s Guide
This guest post is by Craig White. America is at war, in many faraway lands. By normal definitions, we are …
Are You an Imperial Christian?
The tenets of imperial Christianity include things like blind nationalism, belief in American exceptionalism, willful ignorance of U.S. foreign policy, …
Cursed Be Unconditional Obedience
“Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental …
Christianity, War, and Ron Paul
This talk was given on August 20 at the Florida Liberty Summit 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Thank you Campaign for …
The Warmonger’s Lexicon
Defenders of U.S. wars and military interventions look like the majority of Americans. They also dress like them, eat like …
Sinful Behavior, Government Force, and the Church
A post I wrote about two years ago for the Western Standard: —- My wife and I were visiting a …
Should I be thanking God that Bin Laden is dead?
After a brutal week of nature-induced devastation in the deep South and continuation of military-induced devastation in Libya, America began …
Another war?
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.
The Greatest Christian Warmonger of All Time
I had never heard of Ellis Washington until I saw his recent WorldNetDaily article titled “Nation-building? No, Christian-building” and did …
Gay Rights, Marriage, and Government Intervention
I recently received an email from David Lampo, Publications Director of the Cato Institute, regarding a Christian libertarian’s viewpoint on …
Libertarian Overtones in Iron Man 2
I had the great opportunity to see Iron Man 2 at the IMAX in Austin on opening day last Friday. …
Progressives Against Progress
“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, support government intervention through intervention in the market, minimum or living wages, and universal healthcare. We find neither progress nor justice in government actions that advance one group at the expense of another.
Freedom: My Anti-Gov
Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the consequences for their actions, good outcomes will be reinforce correct behavior and bad outcomes will provide a learning experience. When government gets in the way of this feedback loop, it prevents the development of virtue and merely subjects the individual to the will of the State.
Dick Cheney Admits He is a War Criminal
In this exclusive ABC interview (transcript) Cheney does not outright say “I am a war criminal, please put cuffs on …
Bush REGRETS the war now?
So, I have had an very taxing weekend and was unable to put up a new article. Hopefully I’ll get …
The War Prayer
Mark Twain wrote a short work in 1905 called The War Prayer in response to the American military intervention in …