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(Cogito ergo Newm.) 

How I Became A Christian
(June 2, 2008)

Jesus: The Reason for the Season
(December 20, 2003)

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

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All other essays are in reverse chronological order.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Starting 12/22/10, I will be posting my full blog pieces at a new blog place called Food for the Thinkers.
You can still find links here, but all they will do is redirect you to the new blog page.
Thanks for reading, supporting and encouraging me over the years.

• "I'm Not Going to Plead Guilty to Using My Medicine." (January 27, 2012)
• Just What Kind of People Support Ron Paul? (January 15, 2012)
• What Would Tim Tebow Do? (January 11, 2012)
• Banning Books, Banning Web Sites (January 5, 2012)
• Why Iran Doesn't Scare Me (December 29, 2011)
• They Won't Let Ron Paul Win This (December 28, 2011)
• Exactly When Was Jesus Born? Not on December 25 (December 25, 2011)
• My Email to Newt Gingrich about His Claim of Being the "Longest-Serving Teacher in the Senior Military” (December 22, 2011)
• My Email to Dick Morris about His “No True Patriot Could Be for Ron Paul” Comment (December 21, 2011)
• Three Reasons Why Ron Paul Appeals to Young People (December 1, 2011)
• Which Occupiers Scare You More? (November 19, 2011)
• Paterno, Clinton and Gingrich: Why Personal Morals Matter (November 13, 2011)
• Jesus: Prince of Peace or God of War? (November 6, 2011)
• They Don't Know Anything More About Real Battle Than They Do About Fornicating (October 21, 2011)
If You Truly Support Freedom, Then Support Ron Paul (October 15, 2011)
My Email to Ron Paul Urging the Start of Impeachment Proceedings Against Obama (October 8, 2011)
• 9/11: Even if the Official Story Is Totally True, the Official Response Is Still Wrong (October 1, 2011)
• My Email to the NFL about Why I Am Boycotting Them This Year (September 20, 2011)
Freedom before Football: Boycott the NFL (September 18, 2011)
9/11: Yes I Do Buy the Official Story (September 13, 2011)
9/11: Why I Don't Buy the Official Story (September 11, 2011)
Elect Ron Paul President and Bring the NFL Back to Los Angeles (August 31, 2011)
• Why Is Marijuana Illegal? (August 23, 2011)
• Ron Paul: The REAL Anti-Obama (Letter to the Denver Post) (August 16, 2011)
• TSA Does Not Protect You. Period. (July 15, 2011)
• America Is Not a Free Country - 2011 Edition (July 4, 2011)
• Why Very Little Surprises Me Anymore (June 19, 2011)
• Jesus Was Not a Right-Winger, Part 317 (June 10, 2011)
• To the Veterans: We Don't Deserve You (2011 Edition) (May 28, 2011)
• Had I Been President on 9/11 (May 7, 2011)
• God or Country? Whom Will You Serve? (April 11, 2011)
• Yes, the Bill of Rights Applies to Terror Suspects (March 9, 2011)
Free-Market Zionism: Three Simple Steps (February 19, 2011)
Will America Ever Subdue the Middle East? (February 12, 2011)
• Did Bush Really Kiss the Saudi King? (February 11, 2011)
• This Proves That Obama Really Is a Christian (February 8, 2011)
• "Only the Police and the Military Should Have Guns" (February 4, 2011)
• Stop Trying to Fit Jesus Into Your Partisan Political Box (January 31, 2011)
• North Korea - Be Careful What You Ask For (January 30, 2011)
• Changing Hearts, Changing Minds - Thoughts on Roe v. Wade (January 22, 2011)
• Why We Shouldn't Disarm Crazy People (January 11, 2011)
• TSA: I Just Don't Think Most People Get It (December 22, 2010)
• Don't Vote for Tom Tancredo (October 15, 2010)
• You Asked for It, You Got It: Obamacare (August 27, 2010)
• Why God Has Allowed an Obama Presidency (August 17, 2010)
• The Ground Zero Mosque Doesn't Scare Me (July 25, 2010)
• Gary Faulkner: We Need More Like Him (Letter to the editor) (June 19, 2010)
• To the Veterans: We Don't Deserve You (May 31, 2010)
• Honest Money, The Bible & the Constitution (May 12, 2010)
• It Is Not Just About "Getting Stoned" (February 20, 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ted Williams: 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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