The politics of grievance

Things is messed up. Them [immigrants, people of color, religious minorities] is takin’ my [job, housing, government benefits] using MY tax dollars. And the Democrats want to make it easier for [“those people”] to vote so they can increase their own benefits at MY expense. Now those socialists want the power to stick a needle … Read more

Law creates freedom

When I was young, I thought (like all children) that rules limited my freedom. I was told when and what to eat, when to sleep, what to wear, and how to behave. I was powerless in the world of the tall people and sometimes I rebelled the only way I could — by crying, yelling, … Read more

The straw man

Republicans frequently employ the informal fallacy. This category of faulty reasoning includes such problems as ad hominem (personal) attacks, begging the question, equivocation, false dilemma, faulty analogy, inconsistency and more. (Here is an interesting list). Informal fallacies are not fallacies of logic (those are called formal fallacies). Rather, they are fallacies caused by faulty premises … Read more

Words without meaning

Words are important. They not only record and explain reality, they actually create reality. In fact, words are so important that “the Word” is actually one of the names of Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.The same was in the beginning with … Read more

The Republican War on America

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The First Russian Revolution of 1905 failed (though it did lead to some reform). Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known as Lenin) called it the “The Great Dress Rehearsal.” In 1917 Lenin came back from exile and founded Soviet Russia, which eventually became the Soviet Union in 1922. Adolf Hitler’s 1923 “Beer Hall Putsch,” an attempted … Read more

A consistent standard

In the library (and on the internet) in Heaven, all questions of fact will be answered completely truthfully. Those who write the books and post the data will be Celestial beings who have passed this Earthly test of character and who will never lie or have cause to deceive. When it comes to matters of … Read more

Are the LDS terminally naive?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem....

In Matthew, chapter 10, Jesus gave his Twelve Apostles instructions before sending them out to preach the Gospel. He warned them that they would be made to suffer by other Jews (Matthew 10: 16-18), but that they should continue to speak out. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be … Read more

The counterfeit Iron Rod

Hey! You people over there in the mist of darkness! Can you hear me? I can hear you. You keep bragging about how you are following the true leader to a glorious future after “the storm.” You seem to believe that you are holding on to some infallible guide. Watch out! Whatever you are clinging … Read more