Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Tsar Nicholas II wanted to spring a little surprise on the evangelical Christians. So he did. In 1905.
But he was a weak man who began to take back his concessions almost as soon as he made them. But if he hadn’t… Read it all
I’ve listened to some of your informed, eloquent, impassioned monologues defending and promoting the US Constitution. Though I think they are helpfully enlightening, I’m convinced you’re wasting your time.
For your laudable mission to succeed, the Constitution must be carefully observed and honored. And protected, defended, and enforced, for it can do none of those for itself.
Alas, far too many judicial and political leaders entrusted with such a task have been (and are) derelict in that. Furthermore, far too much of the populace just doesn’t care. And both of those numbers are on the rise, not the wane.
The judicial, political, Constitutional war to preserve this republic as founded is lost. Nothing can be done to rescue the United States of America. Nothing. Do the political and cultural math — the numbers just aren’t there. Read it all
First, from the Times of Israel:
The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza City, killing Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas’s armed wing — the equivalent of an army’s chief of staff — and his son, Mohammed al-Homs. Palestinian sources put the death toll at up to nine by evening.
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Hamas’s armed wing warned that in assassinating Jabari, Israel “had opened the gates of hell on itself.”
Next, from a blog post by Joel C. Rosenberg: Read it all
No, not my ebook; Joel C. Roserberg’s
Here are parts of his introduction to it on his blog: Read it all
Some laws, codes, and ordinances boggle the mind for their brazen assault on freedom.
“It shall be prohibited for any person or group of persons to loiter or congregate on Bourbon Street for the purpose disseminating any social, political, or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise.”
Threatened With Arrest for Preaching on Bourbon Street After Sunset
I remember Yom Kippur 1973. I was 14 years old. I lived in Cd. Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. We “kept up” with the war via CBS as broadcast by KNX out of Los Angeles.
Now it’s Yom Kippur 2012.
Will there be war again at this time? (I have wondered that in previous years.)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! (Psalm 122:6) Read it all
Muslims are feared. Muslims are vilified. Muslims are hated.
Not by everybody, of course, and likely not by a majority either. But the adherents of Islam and Islam itself just don’t get a lot of good press and positive attention.
And speaking of Muslims and Islam, what do you know about Ramadan? Read it all