Archive for December 23rd, 2012

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Violent Children: What Do You Expect?

Maybe I shouldn’t make too much of this. After all, if liberals catch wind of what’s happening in Great Britain, they’ll be yowling for knife control, scissor bans, stable gun restrictions, tennis racket control, metal stool bans, and the like. In Great Britain, a socialist country that’s several years farther down the road of socialist decay than the United States, their schools are imploding with violence. With the lessons we’re teaching people, what else do we expect?

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Guns, Mental Health And Our Children

Guns, Mental Health And Our Children

Whenever we experience a disaster or a tragedy, our emotions impel us to look for a quick fix; an immediate and even drastic action that will make everything better. But wisdom tells us to be calm, fully assess the situation first, and only then, take action. I am not convinced that the answers to what caused the Sandy Hook massacre or how we may avert another such event will be found by exploring either the mental health issue or the gun issue.

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American Clarion Week in Review, Ending Dec. 22, 2012

American Clarion Week in Review, Ending Dec. 22, 2012

These are the top articles at American Clarion over the past week, including: Behind Those Tears; How About You Turn In Your Resignation, Sheila Jackson Lee; A Christian Historian’s Open Letter to President Obama; Hold Republicans Accountable for Acting Like Republicans; The Golem on the Coffee Table – The Truth Anti-gun Hypocrites Won’t Face; Why Did the Republican Party Lose Again?; A Prayer for Sandy Hook; and more.

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Thomas Paine

These are the Times That Try Men’s Souls

After the Continental Army was driven out of New Jersey, an article titled “The American Crisis” was published in the Pennsylvania Journal, DECEMBER 23, 1776. It began: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country…Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered…”

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