RSSEntries from June 2008
Right to Bear Arms an Individual Right
The SC just released its opinion on the District of Columbia v. Heller on the question of whether the right to bear arms is an individual right within the context of the 2nd Amendment.
Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion. This is a truly exciting and historic day. I am waiting for [...]
Our Globalist Agenda!
Don’t call ‘em foreigners, aliens, or outsiders. The committee formerly known as the Foreign Mission Board will now be titled RP Global Missions… at least until we prove life on Mars. RP Intergalactic Missions is not far off.
BTW does anyone vet this stuff based on appeal to RP demographics? When [...]
What Will the Justification Resolution Mean in the RPCNA?
The Synod adopted the 2008 Report of the RPCNA’s Synod Study Committee to Read and Evaluate Reports and Response of Fraternal (and other) Reformed Denominations and Institutions Concerning the “Justification Controversy.” What a handle!
I am wondering what it will mean for the RPCNA? What exactly are the “theological views that are generally associated [...]
RP Declaration on Justification
Rev. David Reese shepherded a committee report on the “Justification Controversy” through the Synod.
Here are the recommendations as adopted by the Synod:
1. That Synod DECLARE that we stand in solidarity with our Reformed and Presbyterian brethren in rejecting as contrary to the Scriptures as summarized by our confessional standards the theological views that are [...]
Suburbia, American Democracy, and the Price of Gas?
Last night my family and I were out and about getting Conservative Party candidate designating petitions signed in the Town of Walworth. We do it as a family affair with hopes that we are teaching our children about civic duty and American democracy. It is the second year we have done the work [...]
Kansas Abortion Battle
Here’s a news report on the hearing, in which Caleb Stegall was involved, yesterday before the Kansas Supreme Court.
Not An End But A Beginning
Ron Paul’s presidential campaign has come to an end but the Revolution moves forward. Paul has founded a new organization called Campaign For Liberty.
From the website:
The mission of the Campaign for Liberty is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a [...]
The New York Conservative Party on Drilling
These are amazing statistics- 400 billion barrels! Oil may not be the future but the future is not yet. Responsible drilling with proper care for environmental considerations is a must. Now!!!
Conservative Party of New York State
Press Release ~ June 12, 2008
corrected version: (400 Billion Barrels)
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For Immediate Release [...]
DGH Vindicated? Does Christ Command Leviathan?
Michael Gerson, guru of evangelical compassionate conservatism, argues against Christian libertarianism. Gerson concludes that “For millennia, artists, thinkers and politicians have shaped their image of Jesus, often into a mirror image of themselves. But the goal of Christianity is to allow Him to shape us, not the other way around. And just as Jesus [...]
Food, Folly, and the Future
Modernity is catching up with us. With the 20th Century’s source of cheap energy no longer cheap someone got the bright idea of looking to the products of mechanized mass industrial farming to feed our insatiable hunger for cheap energy.
What men must put in their belly would now be used to feed [...]