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Welcome to Part 2. After posting Part 1, I received and read a book I’d requested through interlibrary loan. As it happens, that book, M.E. Bradford’s Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution[1], may have answered some of the questions I posed to Brion McClanahan which said historian chose not to answer (or, at least, had not answered as of my most recent visit to his Teachable…

In this series of posts, which (with my apologies) interrupts other series of posts already in progress and overdue for completion, I’m going to reproduce and comment on the comments I posted to each lesson in Brion McClanahan’s five-lesson course on the American Declaration of Independence, offered through his Teachable classroom, McClanahan Academy. Had my request to participate in his affiliate program been granted, I would provide the link here. I’ll also…

On 14 November 2025, I responded to an All Israel News video entitled Inside the Middle East: Dr. Kedar on Hamas, Clans, and the Future of Gaza (posted 12 November 2025) as follows: “Thank you for an enlightening discussion. My main takeaway from it is that my country, the United States of America, should tend to its own affairs and stop interfering in a region it doesn’t understand.” One person liked the…

In a recent and much-discussed debate, comedian Dave Smith, who’s become an influential and prominent spokesman for the most anarchistic and “anti-war” faction of libertarianism, likened Israel’s war against Hamas to a police department bombing a school whose students have been taken hostage by an on-the-run murderer. This terrible analogy has been persuasively refuted by many of the reliably pro-Israel voices out there, but I’ve yet to hear any of them suggest…

In this post, we take a break from the “I Still Have Issues: Further Remarks on Established Themes” series (parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 done; concluding part 5 pending) to explore different matters, videlicet: Let us begin, then. During my years of agnostic confusion — which followed my loss of a fundamental Baptist belief that presupposed the sovereignty of individual free will in salvation and saw evidentialism as the proper method…

I apologize for my long procrastination in finalizing this post. Though I wrote most of it weeks ago, I set it aside to focus on other matters — then lost track of time. In this fourth part of the series (post 1, post 2, post 3), I cover materials under the following headings: Thinking in a consistently Christian manner, in a manner wholly compliant with all that Scripture teaches, is no easy…

In this third installment, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or in some way related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: In part of a prior post, I noted that A video I recently discovered from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion provides an excellent summary of why hormonal contraception taken by women (aka “birth-control pills”…

In this second installment, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or somehow related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: As we saw in part 1, Southern partisan Brion McClanahan fails to take full advantage of the explanatory power of our founders’ pragmatic realism. Claiming, as McClanahan does, that these men didn’t believe the propositions they…

In this first installment of a new series, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or in some way related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: In my last post, I attempted to make productive use of the common political spectrum by creatively redefining some terms. In the standard spectrum you will have run across, the…

In this second of two posts, I continue grappling with such complex and interconnected issues as preborn humans’ right to life, federalism, the Fourteenth Amendment and its incorporationist interpretation, and use of government power to redefine “marriage.” Unable to simply join and comply with a tribe, I’m stuck having to work through and fit together the opinions I hold, or tend toward, on my own. In this second post, I think through…

In this pair of posts, I grapple with some complex, interconnected issues, such as the right to life of unborn humans, federalism and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and use of government power to redefine “marriage.” Many people seem content to find a tribe they largely agree with then, over time and under the tutelage of tribal leaders, bring their thinking into conformity with tribal norms. They might join Theonomists,…

As you know if you’ve read my more recent posts, I think that, all other government policies being equal, tariffs are a bad idea. But I think that replacing the income tax with revenue-focused tariffs (not to be confused with protective tariffs) could be a good thing — if only government didn’t spend so much. Well, on the subject of tariffs, I saw an interesting video commentary recently. I think it worth…