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(Cogito ergo Newm.) 

How I Became A Christian
(June 2, 2008)

Was Jesus a libertarian?
The flagship essay of this page
(March 17, 1997)

An Election Day Sermon I Would Like to Preach
(September 26, 2008)

Ten Years On: Some Thoughts on My First Decade in Cyberspace
(March 26, 2007)

My Appearances on the LewRockwell.com Blog

Catch up with me on

All other essays are in reverse chronological order.

• It Is Not Just About "Getting Stoned" (February 20, 2010)
• Yes, the Bill of Rights Applies to Terrorist Suspects (February 19, 2010)
• Bin Laden, Lies and Audiotape (January 26,  2010)
• Should Christians Support Scott Brown? (January 21, 2010)
• If You Liked the Patriot Act, You Ought to Love Airport Body Scanners (January 12, 2010)
• Left-Wing and Right-Wing: It Is All a Big Lie (January 5, 2010)
• In Praise of Tiger Woods (December 14, 2009)
• Obama Is Not the First President to Screw the Troops (December 1, 2009)
• Rambling Thoughts on Sarah Palin (Go Ahead and Hate on Me) (November 20, 2009)
• Letter to the Denver Post: Medical Marijuana (November 7, 2009)
• Jesus Wouldn't Support Your Political Party, My Political Party or Any Political Party At All (October 25, 2009)
• "Shari'a Law Is in Texas Now!!!" (October 10, 2009)
• Is There Something Christian about Sanctions on Iran? (September 29, 2009)
• My Letter to USA Today about Michael Vick (July 16, 2009)
• The Irony - Or Is It Irany? - of It All (June 21, 2009)
• Ignorance of Your Rights Is No Excuse (June 20, 2009)
• Support the Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan: Bring Them Home Now! (June 13, 2009)
• The Obama Deception, The Bush Deception (June 7, 2009)
• "Take My DNA -- I Have Not Committed Any Crimes" (June 6, 2009)
• Why I Oppose the Parental Rights Amendment (May 20, 2009)
• Election 2008: Deja Vu Repeats Itself All Over Again (November 7, 2008)
• Should God Be Arrested for Growing Marijuana? (October 31, 2008)
• Is Obama Even Eligible to Be a Senator? (October 30, 2008)
• Bush Groupies and Obama Groupies Are Equally Deceived (October 27, 2008)
• Is Sarah Palin the Next Oprah? (October 23, 2008)
• Two Wings of the Same Bird of Prey (October 22, 2008)
• Nobel Follies (October 14, 2008)
• George Lilly for Congress (October 8, 2008)
• An Election Day Sermon I Would Like to Preach (September 26, 2008)
• $700,000,000,000 in Perspective (September 23, 2008)
• I Am Stepping Aside for Now (September 13, 2008)
• Sarah Palin Needs to Step Aside ... And James Dobson Is Just a Sorry Religious Hustler (September 6, 2008)
• We Might As Well Face It, We're Addicted to War (August 20, 2008)
• The Power-Driven Church (August 17, 2008)
• Doug Bruce and Bobby Knight (August 14, 2008)
• Don't Blame Global Warming for Denver's Heat Wave (August 2, 2008)
• My Plea to Christians: Don't Vote for John McCain (July 21, 2008)
• War Pansies (July 1, 2008)
• Letter to the Editor: The Waning Political Clout of Evangelicals (June 30, 2008)
• When They Came for the Philadelphia Christians (June 29, 2008)
• Will Churches Be the Next Gun-Free Zones? (June 14, 2008)
• Why Not Invade Burma? (June 4, 2008)
• How I Became a Christian (June 2, 2008)
• The Election of 2008 Won't Matter (May 31, 2008)
• America Has No Duty to Destroy Islam (May 25, 2008)
• A Quick Fix for Judicial Tyranny (May 23, 2008)
• I Am Not Afraid of Radical Islam (May 12, 2008)
• Should Christians Obey the Antichrist? (April 22, 2008)
• The Church of Oprah, The Church of Bush (April 12, 2008)
• The Ultimate Reason Why Government Education Fails (March 29, 2008)
• Biblical Guidance for Voting (March 20, 2008)
• Do Iraqi Puppies Hate Our Freedom and Democracy? (March 8, 2008)
• Jerks for Jesus (March 3, 2008)
• Real ID: Security from What, May I Ask? (February 16, 2008)
• George W. Bush: Flaming Liberal (February 8, 2008)
• Why America Needs to Bring Back Jury Nullification (January 26, 2008)
• The Real Danger of Mitt Romney's Mormonism (January 10, 2008)
• My E-Mail to Jay Leno About Ron Paul (January 8, 2008)
• The Ron Paul Revolution Will Not Be Televised (January 6, 2008)
• My E-Mail to the New Hampshire Republicans (January 6, 2008)
• Spitting on the Troops ... 2007 Style (December 8, 2007) (Warning: graphic, but not gratuitous, image.)
• It Takes a Taser to Raise a Child (November 27, 2007)
• Register Republican to Support Ron Paul (November 20, 2007)
• Was the American Revolution Truly Christian? (November 10, 2007)
• Ron Paul and the Rocky's Sin of Omission (November 7, 2007)
• Give $100 to Ron Paul (November 5, 2007)
• Free Sherry Peel Jackson! (November 2, 2007)
• Apostasy: Is the Church There Already? (October 30, 2007)
• Blowing People Up: The Fun, Cool Christian Thing to Do (October 11, 2007)
• Telemarketers and Tax Collectors: One More Time (October 10, 2007)
• Some Thoughts on Church Music (October 5, 2007)
• Ron Paul for President (September 18, 2007)
• Should Christians Comply with Gun Confiscation? (August 25, 2007)
• Random Musings on Talk Radio (August 22, 2007)
• It Wasn't Just the Catholics Who Supported Hitler (July 17, 2007)
• Is July 4 a Christian Holiday? (July 5, 2007)
• We Are Not Nearly as Free as We Think We Are (June 25, 2007)
• Bush, the Bible and the War on Terror (May 28, 2007)
• Why Is Democracy Such a Bad Thing? (May 22, 2007)
• God, Guns and Virginia Tech (April 19, 2007)
• No, the Terrorists Won't "Follow Us Over Here" (April 12, 2007)
• What Hit the Pentagon on 9/11? (April 3, 2007)
• Ten Years On: Some Thoughts on My First Decade in Cyberspace (March 27, 2007)
• The Terrorist Threat Is Grossly Overblown (February 17, 2007)
• Does Romans 13 Demand That We Pay Income Taxes? (January 28, 2007)
• "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Madness (January 23, 2007)
• This Is Not America (What the Hollis Wayne Fincher Case Means to You.) (January 17, 2007)
• Gang Violence: What Would Libertarians Do? (January 12, 2007)
• The Arab-Muslim World Cannot Afford to Take Over America (January 5, 2007)
• I Was Glad to See the Republicans Lose (January 3, 2007)
• Will America Go the Way of Mongolia? (December 29, 2006)
• Please Show Me the Law Requiring Us to Pay Income Tax (December 27, 2006)
• Never Give Up Your Rights! (December 3, 2006)
• No, We Won't All Be Speaking Arabic Next Year (November 9, 2006)
• It Takes a Police State to Raise a Child (September 27, 2006)
• How to Fight Terrorism (August 31, 2006)
• Feeling a Draft (August 27, 2006)
• Just What Is So Christian About Bush? (August 23, 2006)
• We Have Met the Enemy in the War on Terror ... And He Is Us (August 12, 2006)
• Mental Stealth (April 12, 2006)
• What's Wrong With Education?: It's the Government, Stupid! (March 13, 2006)
• Sinning by Silence: How Churches Aid and Abet Tyranny (February 21, 2006)
• It's Your War! You Go Fight It! (February 3, 2006)
• What If Someone Pre-Empts America? (January 20, 2006)
• Just Ignore the ACLU (December 4, 2005)
• D.C. & Vegas: A Tale of Two Sin Cities (November 23, 2005)
• Response to Former Colorado State Senator John Andrews' Call for a Draft (September 20, 2005)
• No Mas! ... For the Time Being (September 3, 2005)
• Libertarian Thoughts about Roads & Utilities (August 27, 2005)
• The Cure for Judicial Tyranny (August 25, 2005)
• An Understatement: The Founding Fathers Hated Democracy (August 10, 2005)
• The Big Fat Republican Supreme Court Lie (July 30, 2005)
• Civil Disobedience: A Christian Value (June 18, 2005)
• Churches Promote the Worst Forms of Tyranny (June 7, 2005)
• Let's Put Military Recruiters in Churches (June 4, 2005)
• Memorial Day 2005: Are We Even Worthy? (May 30, 2005)
• Seduced by Bush: It Must Be the Church Water (May 23, 2005)
• When It Is Time to Hang the Christians... (May 14, 2005)
• About My "Absolute Rabid Hate" of Bush (May 11, 2005)
• Dignity, Honor and "Da Butt Dance" (April 12, 2005)
• Terri Schiavo: It All Comes Down to This (March 27, 2005)
• Now, About Those NCAA Tournament Brackets (March 13, 2005)
• Jihad for Jesus: Faith-Based Imperialism (March 9, 2005)
• Just What Does "Tyranny's End" Really Mean? (January 27, 2005)
• Dumbing Down the Church (January 19, 2005)
• Is George W. Bush Your Hero? (January 1, 2005)
• They Are Coming for the Christians (December 27, 2004)
• They Slaughter Horses, Don't They? (December 15, 2004)
• Christian Compassion That Kills (December 8, 2004)
• The Drug War Is Unconstitutional (December 3, 2004)
• Election 2004: Who Wins? Who Cares? (October 26, 2004)
• FasTracks to Nowhere (October 6, 2004)
• Babe Ruth: Still the Greatest (September 20, 2004)
• Is America a Sudan Waiting to Happen? (July 24, 2004)
• America is not a Free Country (June 30, 2004)
• Why You Shouldn't Disarm Crazy People (June 20, 2004)
• 1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For? (June 1, 2004)
• Publik Skhoolz (May 21, 2004)
• Bush's Morals in Office (May 19, 2004)
• Not So Wonderful News from Iraq (May 8, 2004)
• Should Christians Always Obey Their Government? (May 8, 2004)
• Democracies and Republics for Dummies (May 2, 2004)
• Pat Tillman: He Lifted a Finger (April 28, 2004)
• Why Are We Even in the U.N.? (April 14, 2004)
• The Marriage Amendment: Both Sides Have It Wrong (March 29, 2004)
• How About a National "Do Not Tax" List? (March 20, 2004)
• Not Having Peace about GWB (March 20, 2004)
• Why Are Our Jobs Going Overseas? (February 14, 2004)
• George W. Bush: Seeing the Big Picture (February 4, 2004)
• Jurors Rights: The Most Forgotten Rights of All (December 28, 2003)
• Does God Want Bush Re-Elected? (December 26, 2003)
• Jesus: The Reason for the Season (December 20, 2003)
• We Got Saddam!!! And...? (December 17, 2003)
• Ending Judicial Tyranny: Don't Count on the Republicans (November 11, 2003)
• Just Answer the Question, Mr. Limbaugh (October 5, 2003)
• Send in the Chicken Hawks! (September 30, 2003)
• God's Laws or Man's Laws? Which Will It Be? (September 14, 2003)
• Clintonism Now! Clintonism Tomorrow! Clintonism Forever! (August 16, 2003)
• Blinded by Dumbo (August 11, 2003)
• We Are All Liberals Now (May 4, 2003)
• Hey Nineteen (Or, America's True Constitution: Where Is It?) (April 27, 2003)
• The Things Which Are Caesar's (April 8, 2003)
• God In Schools: They Just Never Seem to Get It (March 25, 2003)
• Republicans Should be Seen and not Heard (March 23, 2003)
• Famous Preachers or Invertebrate Bootlickers? (February 17, 2003)
• Iraq, Regime Change, and Divine Right (February 3, 2003)
• Oppose Colorado House Bill 1142 (January 25, 2003)
• It's the End of the Church as We Know It. (I Don't Feel Fine.) (December 17, 2002)
• How "Fair" is the Fairness Doctrine? (December 2, 2002)
• W, as in "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" (October 7, 2002)
• No English? No Sympathy. (September 29, 2002)
• No War With Iraq! (September 19, 2002)
• James Dobson: Flaming Liberal? (July 28, 2002)
• We Don't Need a Pledge Amendment (July 15, 2002)
• Semper Fi at Fenway (July 11, 2002)
• One Nation Under God or Under Man? (June 30, 2002)
• The Constitution Then and Now (June 22, 2002)
• Bush's Assault on the Second Amendment (June 1, 2002)
• Addicted to the Drug War (May 19, 2002)
• Guns Prevent Rape (April 30, 2002)
• Whip Me. Beat Me. Tax Me. Enslave Me. (April 9, 2002)
• Oscars, Streets, Hoops and Ping-Pong Balls (March 29, 2002)
• Economics, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (March 20, 2002)
• None Dare Call It Dictatorship (March 17, 2002)
• Judging Our "Need" to Defend Ourselves (January 21, 2002)
• Your Government Is Not Responsible For You (January 12, 2002)
• Jesus Christ: Founding Father (December 25, 2001)
• Ask Not What Your Government Can Do For You. Ask What Your Government Can Do To You (November 2, 2001)
• Socialized Transportation (October 14, 2001)
• Where Not to Find Security (September 30, 2001)
• Because America is Free... (September 16, 2001)
• Evolution in Public Schools: It Makes Perfect Sense (August 22, 2001)
• Are You Sure You Want to Close the Borders? (August 9, 2001)
• Talk Back Media (July 18, 2001)
• Telemarketers or Tax Collectors: Who Annoys You More? (July 4, 2001)
• Putting Independence Back in Independence Day (June 30, 2001)
• A Saturday Sermon: Was Jesus a libertarian? (May 19, 2001)
• Embargoes Don't Work (April 15, 2001)
• The Florida Excuse (February 11, 2001)
• A Faith-Based Recipe for Disaster (January 31, 2001)
• The Wasted Vote Syndrome (October 29, 2000)
• H W J V (October 3, 2000)
• Sprawl is Beautiful (October 1, 2000)
• Plans for W. (September 25, 2000)
• W. and the Courts: Don't Get Too Excited! (September 15, 2000)
• Death by Medical Politics (June 11, 2000)
• Sports and Political Correctness (May 20, 2000)
• Earth Day XXX: Defusing the Population Bomb (April 24, 2000)
• Sprawl Control Equals People Control (April, 2000)
• Rights You Won't Learn about in Public Schools (April 12, 2000)
• The Missing Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Commit Politics (February 20, 2000)
• Commemorating Banned Web Pages (November 19, 1999)
• Macro-Hypocrisy about Microsoft (November 7, 1999)
• What Shall We Now Do? (October, 1999)
• The Cult of the Omnipotent State: Cliche or Reality? (September, 1999)
• Moral Indifference About Waco (September 23, 1999)
• The Greatest Pro-Liberty Book (September 4, 1999)
• My picks for Major League Baseball's All-Century Team (August 31, 1999)
• What Part of "Thou Shalt Not Covet" Don't You Understand? (June, 1999)
• Now About Columbine... (May 15, 1999)
• Government Can Do Certain Things, But It Cannot Make Us Better People (February 28, 1999)
• Now About Clinton... (December 20, 1998)
• Have We No King But Caesar? (November 22, 1998)
• Stadium Tax Mythologies (October 3, 1998)
• A Republic, Not a Democracy (July 4, 1998)
• The Tax Burden: Lift It, Don't Shift It (April 30, 1998)
• Biblical Correctness (February 1, 1998)
• We Don't Need a Religious Freedom Amendment (September 18, 1997)
• Whose Rights Come First, Yours or Mine? (July 12, 1997)
• Speech concerning a proposal to no longer issue permits to storefront churches (June 2, 1997)
• John Elway: Welfare Queen? (May 20, 1997)
• Private Tiger Woods, United States Marine Corps (Or, Let's Separate College and State) (May 20, 1997)
• A Libertarian Tobacco War? (May 14, 1997)
• The Religious Liberties Amendment: Treating the Symptom, Avoiding the Problem (March 30, 1997)
• Limited Terms or Limitless Folly? Reading the Fine Print on Colorado's Amendment 12 (March 30, 1997)
• Anti-Reefer Madness (March 17, 1997)
• Imagine There No Income Tax (March 17, 1997)
• How Many Politicians can Dance on the Head of a Pin? (December 1, 1996)
• Why I Re-Registered as a Libertarian (March 6, 1996)
• My 1996 campaign pamphlet and speech
• Third Party Still a Long Way Off (November 8, 1995)
• U.S. Media Are Actually More Diverse Than Ever (August 13, 1995)
• Rhetoric Has Heated Up Since Oklahoma City Bombing (June 21, 1995)
• The Last 40 Years Have Happened (March 9, 1995)
• Vice is Nice (December 15, 1994)
• Libertarian Sanctuary (October 28, 1994)
• Taxpayers are People, Too! (June 4, 1994)
• Welfare and Morality (April 25, 1994)
• More Regulation by Government Means Fewer Jobs (July 13, 1993)
• AIDS Diatribe Blames Bush (January 25, 1993)
• First Amendment Fascism (January, 1993)
• The Ukrainian Famine: The Holocaust The World Forgot (December 2, 1992)
• America: A Sweden With Missiles (September 16, 1992)
• Please Don't Call Me Anglo (August 4, 1992)
• Minimum Wage Effectively Stifles Job Opportunities (July 28, 1992)
• NFL Curtails Expressions of Faith (August 11, 1991)
• Gun Laws Don't Work (March 29, 1991)

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