Archive for December 17th, 2012

Searching for Answers at Sandy Hook Elementary

Searching for Answers at Sandy Hook Elementary

Guns have been a part of Western civilization since the fifteenth century and multi-shot handguns became widely available beginning in 1835. Put simply, guns have been a part of American society since its colonization and yet it is only within the last forty years that we have begun to see these despicable acts of mass and random killing of strangers.

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As Society Crumbles, Our Indifference Abounds

As Society Crumbles, Our Indifference Abounds

We are blessed to be in the midst of another Christmas season, filled with hope and joy. Inconceivably and at the same time, this particular year brings an emptiness into the hearts of many. The tragic event which took place this past week, in a Connecticut grade school, produced a heart felt pause upon our Christmas celebrations throughout our entire society.

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Quote of the Day: Benjamin Rush on Crime

Quote of the Day: Benjamin Rush on Crime

As Leftists yet again pimp yet another horrible tragedy in America (i.e. the slaughter in Connecticut) in pursuit of quashing the freedom of the American people, remember that 200 years ago, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, knew what the low-cost, high-freedom solution for crimes like this is.

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Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

Everybody wants an “A” but nobody wants to study. Everybody wants to be rich but nobody wants to save. Everybody wants to lose weight but nobody wants to exercise. Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. No matter how you say it, the desire for something without the willingness to do the hard things required to achieve it, will always lead to disappointment. This is the cadence of the conundrum, the drumbeat of the do-nothing dreamer, the national anthem of the nihilist; the perennial I want but I will not work formula for failure.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Music without Sacred Music

A peer of Mozart and Haydn, he started becoming deaf at age 28, yet incredibly wrote some of the world’s most beautiful symphonies, concertos and sonatas. This was Ludwig van Beethoven, baptized DECEMBER 17, 1770, in Bonn, Germany.

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