If We Have Another Civil War

These days, it feels like the United States of America is on its way to becoming the Divided States of America in the near-term. Each half of the country possesses a collective distrust and even contempt for the other, and diplomatic negotiations seem to have broken down. I want to lay out a couple of…More

Why They Impeached Trump Twice

The United States House of Representatives voted 232-197 yesterday to impeach President Trump.  The reason why has more to do with deflection and spite than the actions of the president. For one thing, no American president has ever been impeached twice. And the ambition is now for that to be Trump’s legacy. For another thing,…More

The Biblical Case For Free Speech

What is freedom of speech, and is there a biblical principle supporting what we commonly refer to as our right to free speech? Unless we are dumb in the literal sense, we have the ability. We also have the responsibility. Yet freedom is not without reasonable constraint or consequence. And all things being permissible does…More

Buckle Up For Big Tech Censorship

Buckle up, friends. It’s about to get bumpy.  Twitter and Facebook last week permanently banned President Trump from their platforms on the claim he incited protesters to violently assault the Capitol building last week during a joint-session of Congress. Google and Apple have both made moves to remove the free speech social media network Parler…More

Where We Go From Here

President Trump today all but conceded the 2020 election, saying that the objective now is a peaceful transition to a new administration at the end of the month. American conservatives spent the day denouncing and condemning the storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC by protesters. Where do we go from here? The simple…More

10 and 2 on 11 Senators Objecting

The Epoch Times reported today 11 More GOP Senators to Object to Electoral College Votes. I am reminded of Numbers 13-14 in the Old Testament, and that one time 12 spies were sent by Moses to scout out the Promised Land. Israel would have been far better off listening to Joshua son of Nun and…More

Stimulating Pork and Working Vacations

Summary The United States Congress finally passed another COVID stimulus package. Its stated goal is to help the American people negatively impacted by the effects of the novel coronavirus. Yet when a financial aid package totals nearly $1 trillion, we whose families and friends have been hurting financially this year because of the government-mandated throttling…More

Troubleshooting The American Republic

Summary Our social and political systems in the United States of America are faulting and need troubleshooting and repair. From the standpoint of an operator and technician working in the oil and gas industry since 2012, this is how I see it. — This episode is sponsored by ยท Anchor: The easiest way to make…More

The Establishment Throws In The Towel

Summary Mitch McConnell congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for having stolen the 2020 election, urging his fellow Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate to not fight for election integrity in the face of massive evidence of rampant, coordinated, and sufficient voter fraud. What should that mean to us? And how do we…More