My Own Thoughts

Friends of mine have spent the last four years turning an idea into a reality and that reality is a 24-hour house of prayer in Austin. Ultimately, they would like to see the prayer room occupied 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The city of Austin, they believe, is broken and longing for [...]

It’s a word cloud of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, chapter one.

“The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles which inhabited the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared on earth. Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every country had them in its mythology.” (Knox, Wilson, “Dragon,” The World Book [...]

A student lent me three books to read. One I was not too impressed with. Be More Chill was a cross between The Game and Animorphs, but for teenagers. There was a little too much sexual stuff in it for me to enjoy it, because it was teenagers and because one of my students lent [...]

from a petition from a British man who has been held up at gun point twice. England Murder Rate 1987 – 1.19 per 100,000 people. 2002 – 2.03 per 100,000 people. (70.5 percent increase) United States Murder Rate 1991 – 9.80 per 100,000 people 2006 – 5.70 per 100,000 people (41.8 percent decrease ) England [...]

I love the stories about stupid criminals. It’s funny, in a way that shouldn’t be, but is. However, Redstate has a story about a criminal who broke into a van to steal from it… but when he found it had what appeared to be a bomb, he drove it away- putting it safely where fewer [...]

Obama says he agrees with the majority in Heller v. DC, but his actions don’t match his present rhetoric. There’s even a video of him giving different opinions on the same topic. Obama changes his mind on gay marriage. Obama on abortion. Or you can read another view on it. Or, go to Betsy’s Page. [...]

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