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The Republican Party Has Left Me
011 years
Contemporary conservatism and its influence on the Republican Party was, until recently, a mystery to me. The practitioners’ bludgeoning style of politics, their self-serving manipulation of the political processes, and their policies that focus narrowly on perceived self-interest — none of this struck me as based on anything related to traditional conservatism. Rather, truth be […]
Why Do People Tell Lies That Can Be Easily Checked?
012 years
by Roger Gibby
in Musings
A few weeks back, I couldn’t believe my ears, Glenn Beck and David Barton were saying that former President Ronald Reagan opposed the Brady Bill and the federal assault weapons ban. Here is a partial transcript. Beck: The assault weapons ban and handgun control—that was actually started by James Brady, but, the interesting thing is, […]
Legal Gun Concealment Scares the Hell Out of Me
012 years
by Roger Gibby
in Musings
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is one in a long list of shootings that has prompted discussion on gun control. Some calling for stricter gun control laws. While, others fight hard against any changes to the existing gun laws. Regardless of what changes, if any, to the gun control laws that are currently on […]
Response to Mike Huckabee’s “Where Was God?”
012 years
[Author’s note: Originally, this was a response to Mike Huckabee’s “Where was God?” video he posted on Facebook, but since then many others—James Dobson and Newt Gingrich, for two—have voiced the same remarks, directly or indirectly blaming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on our secular society. Although, it is a response to Mr. Huckabee, […]
No Simple Answers to Shootings
112 years
In the wake of the recent shooting tragedies, there have been a rash of statements by pundits, stating that such-and-such is the cause of the shootings; it is the media’s fault, it is video games, there are too many guns, there are too few guns, it is crazy people that kill and not guns, and […]