I'll Take My Stand

Dangerous Books For Boys

2007-06-27T07:58:00.000-05:00

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/whoosh_boom_splat.html Video!

Good Stuff.

OhGizmo Holiday Giveaway - $1,200 $1,400 $1,500 Worth Of Stuff And Counting [Updated]

2006-12-23T11:22:00.000-06:00

OhGizmo Holiday Giveaway - $1,200 $1,400 $1,500 Worth Of Stuff And Counting [Updated]

mark horne: Wondering out loud

2006-04-25T22:09:00.000-05:00

mark horne: Wondering out loud

L-O-V-E and being Post Reformed

2006-03-12T07:17:00.000-06:00

I am hereby declaring that I'm Post-Reformed. I'm serious. - G.C.

Colonel Thomas William Bouldin Crews Home-2

2006-02-18T13:58:00.000-06:00

Colonel Thomas William Bouldin Crews Home-2
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

Colonel Thomas William Bouldin Crews Home-2 Shot # 2

Split Rail Fence

2006-02-18T12:20:00.000-06:00

Split Rail Fence
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

Split Rail Fence @ Shaw Nature Preserve
Gray Summit, Missouri

Colonel Thomas William Bouldin Crews Home

2006-02-18T10:09:00.000-06:00

Colonel Thomas William Bouldin Crews Home
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

Colonel Thomas William Bouldin Crews Home @ Shaw Nature Preserve,
Gray Summit, Missouri

www.shawnature.org/

India seeking 'closer Iran ties'

2006-02-18T08:24:00.000-06:00

Both India and China need natural gas and oil to support their growing economies, that is a problem for the U.S. as they both seek alliances with Iran for their energy needs. - Rick

"Last month, the US ambassador to Delhi was reported warning that a deal giving India US nuclear technology could collapse if India did not back the motion against Iran, although he later said his comments were taken out of context.
Mr Singh also recommitted his government to building a gas pipeline through Pakistan to Iran - a seven billion dollar project fiercely opposed by Washington.
Our correspondent says the timing of the announcement is also particularly sensitive, given that President Bush is due in Delhi next month."

The Republican Guard Take-a-Bathists

2006-01-09T08:01:00.000-06:00

Most Americans, including most Republicans, want out of Iraq. But President Bush is ignoring this. He continues to rally his supporters around the banner of victory over the Iraqi resistance movement. This, he cannot deliver. This, his supporters will not experience. But they will not go away, either. So, for the Republican Party after 2008, these die-hard Bushites will be electoral poison.

Non-Intervention and Its Discontents by Gary North

2005-04-25T06:55:00.000-05:00

Anyone whose ideological roots are in the Old Right and who goes into print against the latest military crusade starts getting letters from conservatives. These letters begin with some variation of "if liberals like you . . . ." The critics do not have in mind nineteenth-century liberalism. They assume that anyone who opposes war is a pacifist, and that all pacifists except the Amish are leftists.

Why is this? For that matter, why is it that the outraged letters always come from conservatives? Why don't we get letters from outraged liberals? In all of America's military crusades, liberals in Congress and the White House vote for the war. Usually, the Left initiates this country's entry into war: World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. Toss in Somalia and the Balkans as side-shows.

"The war for humanity, so far as its result is concerned, looks distressingly like an old-fashioned land-grab."

2005-04-24T20:24:00.000-05:00

J. Gresham Machen Was Right About the Gulf Crisis

When evangelicals such as Dean Curry (A World Without Tyranny) encourage us simply to absorb a Reagan/Bush-style foreign policy as properly Biblical, the heroic defender of Protestant orthodoxy, J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) highlights our sad captivity to the foreign policy status quo.
Machen is not only known for his passionate and principled defense of Biblical orthodoxy against Protestant apostasy but also for his intense concern for the public issues of his day.
Machen openly interacted with questions regarding state education, freedom of expression, and social progress. He spoke out against the "alarming bureaucratization of the United States" and Christianity's opposition to "soul-killing collectivism." He stridently opposed the proposed Child Labor Amendment -- "a heartless cruelty masquerading under the guise of philanthropy" -- and even testified before Congressional committees against the effort to establish a Federal Department of Education.

- Mothers Against the Draft -

2005-04-24T18:48:00.001-05:00

Thomas Jonathan Jackson Gibbs

2005-04-24T07:38:00.000-05:00

My Son, That The State Will Not Draft Or Ever Have Enlisted In The Empire's Follies Abroad.

Remember The Slaughter Of WWI? Blame Wilson; A Great Article By My Friend Scott Horton!

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=5711

Biblical Aspects of the Question of Faith and Politics

2005-04-20T20:54:00.000-05:00

This is a homily that was delivered on 26 November 1981 in the course of a service for Catholic members of the Bundestag in the church of St. Wynfrith (Boniface) in Bonn. The readings provided for the day by the lectionary were 1 Peter 1:3–7 and John 14:1–6. At first sight they seemed to be out of keeping with the subject, but on closer inspection they showed themselves to be unexpectedly fruitful.]

The epistle and gospel that we have just listened to have their origin in a situation in which Christians were not citizens of a state who were able to shape their own lives but the persecuted victims of a cruel dictatorship. They could not share in responsibility for their state but simply had to endure it. It was not granted to them to shape it as a Christian state; instead their task was to live as Christians despite it. The names of two emperors in whose reigns tradition dates these two passages are enough to cast light on the situation: they were Nero and Domitian. Thus the first letter of Peter describes Christians as strangers within this state (1:1) and the state itself as Babylon (5:13). By doing so it indicates very impressively the political position that Christians were in; it corresponded more or less to that of the Jews living in exile in Babylon who were not responsible citizens of that state but subjects without any rights, and who thus had to learn how they might survive in it, not how they could build it up. Thus the political background of today’s readings is fundamentally different from ours. Nevertheless they contain three important statements which are significant for political activity among Christians.

Karzai wants long-term security ties with U.S. - Rumsfeld in Afghanistan, says U.S. wants to assist nation's own forces

2005-04-14T07:16:00.000-05:00

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his country wants longer, stronger ties with the United States, including a long-term "strategic security relationship."
Karzai, appearing at a news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kabul, Afghanistan, made the remarks when asked about reports of the forging of bilateral security agreements and the establishment of permanent U.S. military troop presence in the country, a reference to bases.

Bush likens Saddam's fall to end of Berlin Wall

2005-04-14T07:15:00.000-05:00

FORT HOOD, Texas -- President Bush yesterday likened the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad two years ago to the fall of the Berlin Wall and called it part of a "global democratic revolution." "Many of you have recently returned from Iraq," Mr. Bush told 25,000 cheering soldiers on a sun-drenched field. "Others are preparing to head out this fall -- some for a second tour of duty." "Whether you're coming or going, you are making an enormous difference for the security of our nation and for the peace of the world," he added. "I came here today to thank you in person for your courageous choice of service." The troops shouted "hooah," their all-purpose expression of approval, and chanted "USA! USA! USA!" They seemed heartened by the president's report that Iraqis are replacing U.S. forces as that country's primary peacekeepers.

Theology, Not Politics

2005-04-12T07:09:00.000-05:00

Just two years ago conservatives were busy scolding the Pope for his refusal to back our invasion of Iraq. One conservative media favorite even made the sickening suggestion that the Pope was the enemy of the United States because he would not support our aggression in the Middle East. The Pontiff would not ignore the inherent contradiction in being pro-life and pro-war, nor distort just war doctrine to endorse attacking a nation that clearly posed no threat to America – and conservatives resented it. September 11th did not change everything, and the Pope understood that killing is still killing. The hypocritical pro-war conservatives lauding him today have very short memories.

by Rep. Ron Paul, MD

How Murray Rothbard Single-Handedly Brought Down the Saigon Government with Malice Aforethought

2005-04-08T20:21:00.000-05:00

I. Deaths of States

Rothbard the “Pro-Communist”

In 1975, Murray Rothbard penned two essays on the fall of the Saigon government, a government largely invented, bankrolled, and sustained by the United States. This invention was part of the American project of incorporating Southeast Asia into a kind of US-directed “Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.” [1] The US had of course objected, in the 1930s, to the Japanese version of such a project.

The two articles on the collapse of the Republic of South Vietnam have caused much angst among those conservatives and libertarians who never managed to question any important assumptions about the Cold War. This angst reverberates down the halls of time. Its echo, for some reason, is with us still.

by Joseph R. Stromberg

Afghanistan likely to have permanent US military

2005-04-06T07:42:00.000-05:00

Afghanistan's defence minister on Tuesday gave one of the clearest signs yet that Kabul is open to permanent basing of US forces in the country, saying his government was in discussions with the US that could include air bases in Afghanistan after the current nation-building process ends.

General Abdul Rahim Wardak said the details of what would constitute a long-term US presence were still under discussion. But he signalled Kabul was eager for “enduring arrangements” that could include permanent air bases or “pre-positioned” military equipment that would be used by rapidly deployed US forces in a crisis.

The Teetering Empire by Scott Horton

2005-04-05T08:50:00.000-05:00

Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, and the guest on my March 26 radio show [stream] [download mp3], spent decades as what he now calls a "spear-carrier for empire." According to Mr. Johnson, we have "[t]o a certain extent … been at war since 1940." When the U.S. government told him that our military dominance of much of the planet was strictly for the purposes of "containing communism," he believed them and presumably taught his University of California students the same. He was even employed for six years as a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bush: U.S. to Bear Burden of Iraq Costs

2005-04-04T21:17:00.000-05:00

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday that seeing Iraq through reconstruction to a stable and secure democracy is a worthy cause that the United States will press regardless of whether its coalition partners remain there.

India rebuffs US jet sale offer

2005-04-01T16:58:00.000-06:00

It's a risky but bold move by the Bush administration, considering India and Pakistan almost engaged in their fourth war - a possible nuclear one - just three years ago over the Kashmir territorial dispute. Both nations are hypersensitive to the US playing favorites and tipping the regional balance of power.

Note: In twenty years or so the U.S. will look back on Pakistan as a terror state and not an ally, just remember we armed them!!! (Rick)

Sign Your Children Up - Uncle Sam Needs Them Now!

2005-03-27T18:56:00.000-06:00

For Army Recruiters, a Hard Toll From a Hard Sell
By DAMIEN CAVE Published: March 27, 2005

The Army's recruiters are being challenged with one of the hardest selling jobs the military has asked of them in American history, and many say the demands are taking a toll.

Lets Just Arm The Entire World! - Rick

2005-03-26T17:23:00.000-06:00

US offers N-tech, missile system

US offers N-tech, missile system Dismissing India’s concerns over the supply of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, US said the efforts to usher in democracy in Pakistan and defence ties are two different issues.

The Very Confusing U.S. Policy -Rick

2005-03-26T10:12:00.000-06:00

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - The United States has unveiled plans to help India become a "major world power in the 21st century" even as it announced moves to beef up the military of New Delhi's nuclear rival, Pakistan.

We Choose Our Friends So Well! - Rick

2005-03-26T08:00:00.000-06:00

From the BBC: Religious extremism in Pakistan 'growing'

'Cold-blooded murder'
The report says the government has in fact been implicitly backing radical Islamists by not taking action.
It has accused clerics of propagating vicious hatred which it says has often resulted in harassment and cold-blooded murder.
According to the report, members of an offshoot Islamic sect, the Ahmadis, who have been declared as non-Muslim by the authorities, are often targeted by radical Muslim leaders.

An independent human rights group in Pakistan has accused the government of being a "silent spectator" to the rise in religious extremism.
In its annual report, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan blamed Islamic extremists for an upsurge in violence against religious minorities and women.
The reports says women in rural Pakistan are often killed by relatives for tarnishing the family name.

Sleeping with the Enemy

2005-03-26T07:54:00.000-06:00

U.S. Moves to Sell F-16's to Pakistan Over Indian Objections
By DAVID STOUT
Published: March 25, 2005

The Bush administration agreed today to sell Pakistan F-16 fighter planes in a major policy shift that was meant to reward Pakistan for its help in combating terrorism but was also certain to deeply antagonize Pakistan's longtime adversary India.
President Bush telephoned Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from his ranch in Crawford, Tex., and "explained his decision to move forward" on the sale, a White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, told reporters in Texas. Mr. Singh expressed "great disappointment," a spokesman in New Delhi told Reuters.

Christians besieged in Pakistan

2005-03-26T07:52:00.000-06:00

The photos from Pakistan were anything but travel brochure material. One showed a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes, large black burns on her legs and a heavily bandaged right arm. Another showed a 14-year-old girl with a face partly melted away like candle wax. The right side was a mass of charred skin after an assailant threw acid into her eyes. Their attackers said the girls' injuries are payback for the American invasion of Iraq. Americans may not have seen much retaliation on their own soil because, several human rights groups say, Christians in Pakistan are taking the brunt of it.

by: Julia Duin

Good Friday

2005-03-26T07:11:00.000-06:00

Good Friday
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

From: http://sacradoctrina.blogspot.com

Terri Schiavo, the State, and the Culture of Death by William L. Anderson

2005-03-26T06:43:00.000-06:00

I write this piece on Good Friday, one of the most important days of the Christian Calendar. Within a few days from now, Terri Schiavo will be dead because the courts have ordered that she be starved to death. Anyone who tries to intervene by giving her even a sip of water is arrested and led off in handcuffs. In the United States, starving a dog to death would result in arrest and imprisonment; starving a human being to death is state policy. (Yes, I know she is brain damaged, but she is not – as ABC News falsely reported in what can only be called a "push poll" – on life support.)

U.S. to sell F-16 jets to Pakistan

2005-03-25T12:28:00.000-06:00

George Bush Arms the Terrorist; Terrorist - noun: a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.
For all of you Rambo fans, and those too young to know who the U.S. supported in the 70's and 80's. The circle continues! We armed them in the 80's and we are arming them in the New Century!
This is one of the many Islamic countries that has trained many terrorist through the years. Blow Back anyone!
Rick

DiLorenzo Is Right About Lincoln by Walter E. Williams

2005-03-22T06:49:00.000-06:00

In 1831, long before the War between the States, South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun said, "Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail." The War between the States answered that question and produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day.

Luther on law and grace

2005-03-21T21:28:00.000-06:00

David Yeago offers a stimulating discussion of Luther’s views on gospel and law in a 1998 article in The Thomist. Yeago challenges modern Luther interpreters who suggest that Luther, in antinomian fashion, separated grace from moral order, arguing instead that Luther completely integrates the two: “The morality that grace terminates, the law that the gospel overcomes, is precisely and specifically a moral order alienated from grace, a morality which is therefore alienated from the true end of human existence and can only issue in the twin evils of presumption and despair. Far from being indifferent to good and evil, order and disorder, the bestowal of God’s grace through the gospel is for Luther the only true formation of the human heart, that which alone sets the heart truly in order.”

Bushmaster Varmint Seeker .223

2005-03-19T18:55:00.000-06:00

Bushmaster Varmint Seeker .223
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

For those is deal in Bullshit and other assorted forms of gossip.

Bullshit

2005-03-19T18:42:00.000-06:00

I caught a few minutes of an interview with Harry Frankfurt on some late night TV show recently. In a venue dominated by stars, the appearance of an Ivy League philosopher was, shall we say, surprising. Less surprising, though, when it became clear that he was speaking on the topic of his recent essay-book, On Bullshit. Jonathan Lear has a fascinating review of the book in the March 21 issue of TNR.

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 08:25 AM

Leave my friend Mark Horne alone!

2005-03-17T20:08:00.000-06:00

"It seems like everybody is talking about Mark, but no one takes the time to talk to him. You know, he's not an alien carcass on some examination table; he's a fellow PCA minister. Everybody has an opinion about what he believes, but very few people seem to take the time to discover what he has actually written. Consequently the gossip spreads and it seems like the rhetoric gets ratcheted up a few notches every week. And as each week passes it gets more and more difficult to expect a sober judgment on these matters. Once issues like this get political, then it becomes very difficult indeed for all parties to maintain objectivity and humility before one another........"

Radical Son

2005-03-03T07:36:00.000-06:00

Radical Son

Bush may not have read Dostoyevsky—but his speechwriters have.

by Justin Raimondo

In a world aflame with war and terrorism, George W. Bush’s second inaugural address was a match flung onto an oil slick. By the time his 17-minute peroration reached midpoint, it was clear that was his intention:

Because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation, tens of millions have achieved their freedom. And as hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts we have lit a fire as well, a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power; it burns those who fight its progress. And one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

“A fire in the mind”—such a felicitous phrase. It aptly and succinctly describes the feverish mental state of our neoconservative policymakers, who set out to build an empire in the Middle East and now, with this speech, clearly envision much more. It also describes the mental state of some of the characters in Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed (or The Devils), from which the fiery metaphor is taken. Michael Barone pointed out the allusion in his U.S. News column, wherein he described Dostoyevsky’s work as “a novel about a provincial town inspired by new revolutionary ideas. After a turbulent literary evening, a fire breaks out, and one townsman says, ‘The fire is in the minds of men, not in the roofs of buildings.’”

Sean Hannity Is a Great American by Paul Servodio

2005-03-03T07:08:00.000-06:00

"Sean Hannity is a great American!" proclaims a deep-voiced, male voice-over on 640 AM WHLO for Sean Hannity’s daily radio program. Actually, the man doing the voice-over shouldn’t announce it with so much gusto. Instead he should speak the sentence in the form of a question: "Sean Hannity is a great American?" Unfortunately, that will never happen, at least not on WHLO, where almost the entire program schedule is completely comprised of staunch George "Stalin" Bush supporters. In fact, WHLO should change their call letters to WGOP.

Once More With Feeling: Translations that won't work

2005-02-21T15:17:00.000-06:00

February 21, 2005
Translations that won't work

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The merit legalists sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach merit legalism, but do not practice it.
Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other merit legalists, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a merit legalist, a son of merit legalist."
If the essential teaching of the Pharisees was works-salvation, or some flavor of semi-pelagianism, then Paul the Apostle could never claim to be such a teacher. (Since the common doctrine of the Pharisees was the resurrection, however, he had no qualms about labeling himself as one.)............

by Pastor Mark Horne

Absorbed By the State by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

2005-02-16T22:48:00.000-06:00

If you have read the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, you know that the Devil is an expert in turning good impulses toward evil ends, and in leading people to misapply virtues in ways that serve the cause of evil......

Once More With Feeling - Blog of the week Mark Horne

2005-02-04T08:46:00.000-06:00

Once More With Feeling

A Growing Hunger for Honesty and Authenticity -from Mark Hornes Blog

2005-02-04T08:42:00.000-06:00

byFaith Online

At the Zoo

2005-02-03T19:16:00.000-06:00

At the Zoo
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

New Years Eve 2004 at the Saint Louis Zoo, on a warm winters day.
Meha,Thomas,Arpana,Reema and Elise.

The Trouble With Conservatism by Gary North - A Must Read Article!

2005-01-31T21:40:00.000-06:00

The Trouble With Conservatism by Gary North

The American Gospel

2005-01-25T09:54:00.000-06:00

BLOG and MABLOG

Quotable

2005-01-23T13:11:00.000-06:00

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
– General Smedley Butler

Bush Pledges to Spread Freedom - The Empire Rolls On

2005-01-21T09:34:00.000-06:00

Bush Pledges to Spread Freedom (washingtonpost.com)

Bush Bad for Global Peace, US Image, World Believes by Jim Lobe

2005-01-21T08:47:00.000-06:00

Bush Bad for Global Peace, US Image, World Believes by Jim Lobe

How Americans Were Seduced by War by Paul Craig Roberts

2005-01-19T07:25:00.000-06:00

How Americans Were Seduced by War by Paul Craig Roberts

Should I Laugh or Cry? by Gordon Prather

2005-01-17T09:49:00.000-06:00

Should I Laugh or Cry? by Gordon Prather

U.S. conducting secret missions inside Iran-report - "We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest" Thomas Jefferson

2005-01-16T14:57:00.000-06:00

Reuters AlertNet - U.S. conducting secret missions inside Iran-report

Yahoo! News - Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy - Don't include me with your blood stained hands-Rick

2005-01-16T07:37:00.000-06:00

Yahoo! News - Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy

Private Help for Tsunami Victims

2005-01-15T09:58:00.000-06:00

Private Help for Tsunami Victims

The Ugly Mutation of American Conservatism by Steven LaTulippe

2005-01-14T08:15:00.000-06:00

The Ugly Mutation of American Conservatism by Steven LaTulippe

Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground - The Blowback Begins (rmg)

2005-01-14T08:12:00.000-06:00

Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground (washingtonpost.com)

MSNBC - Conflict within the Pentagon

2005-01-13T07:14:00.000-06:00

MSNBC - Conflict within the Pentagon

ABC News: Bush: Iraq Invasion Worth It Despite No Trace of WMD - I new it all along Rick

2005-01-13T07:10:00.000-06:00

ABC News: Bush: Iraq Invasion Worth It Despite No Trace of WMD

About That Cakewalk . . . by Paul Craig Roberts

2005-01-12T18:23:00.000-06:00

About That Cakewalk . . . by Paul Craig Roberts: "About That Cakewalk . . ."

Quote of the Day

2005-01-11T08:57:00.000-06:00

“The Christian story is that we live in a world that has become a curse to us because our first representatives, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God. The world ministers this curse to us in many ways, death by old age, and death by tsunamis - some dramatic, some that we have domesticated and made tame. But all death is the enemy. And it is a wonder that the goodness of creation keeps poking through the curse. A sunset here, a breathtaking vista there, a beautiful person or a beautiful rock.” J.Barlow

Baghdad police chief who warned of force's vulnerability is killed

2005-01-11T08:03:00.000-06:00

Times Online - World: "Baghdad police chief who warned of force's vulnerability is killed"

More Dissent in Pentagon Over Iraq War

2005-01-11T08:02:00.000-06:00

Antiwar.com

N. T. Wright at Auburn 2005

2005-01-08T13:46:00.001-06:00

BLOG and MABLOG

Richard Gaffin at Auburn 2005

2005-01-08T13:46:00.000-06:00

BLOG and MABLOG

Auburn 2005

2005-01-08T13:45:00.000-06:00

BLOG and MABLOG

Devastated Iraq by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail

2005-01-08T08:51:00.000-06:00

Devastated Iraq by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail

Gibbs Summer 2004 In Alton Illinois

2005-01-01T11:48:00.000-06:00

Gibbs Summer 2004 In Alton Illinois
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

Left to Right: Elise, Meha, Reema, Arpana, Rick, and Little Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall)

Dixie Beacon Network!

2004-12-30T13:27:00.000-06:00

Dixie Beacon Network!

Google News

2004-12-30T12:54:00.000-06:00

Google News

When the troops stopped the war

2004-12-27T10:28:00.000-06:00

"Reports of the ceasefire did not go down at all well, however, when they reached the generals.British High Command, situated some 27 miles behind the front, issued the directive: "It (fraternisation) discourages initiative in commanders, and destroys the offensive spirit in all ranks." Among some officers, it was the need to follow orders rather than the fraternisation itself which was cause for concern."

The Price of Community

2004-12-27T09:44:00.000-06:00

"The writers who have been most influential in my thinking are R. J. Rushdoony, Murray Rothbard, and Robert Nisbet. The first defended covenant, the second defended contract, and the third defended community. Somewhere in the interaction of these three C’s we seek to resolve the social dilemma of our age: the preservation of covenants – personal faith, church, family, and civil government – and communities in an economy based on contract."

Reconstruction and Nationalism

2004-12-27T09:33:00.000-06:00

"Everyone knows that Reconstruction, in the 1860s and 1870s, recast the political, legal, and economic infrastructure of the South. And everyone knows, or should know, that the project of Reconstruction, given a hiatus for some eighty years, began again in the 1960s. That today there exists a program of systematic cultural subversion in the South is not news to any self-aware Southerner."

'Stay the Course!' – Is Not Enough

2004-12-27T09:06:00.000-06:00

"In the aftermath of the suicide bombing of the Mosul mess hall, we are being admonished anew we must stay the course in Iraq. But "Stay the course!" is no longer enough."

The Christmas Truce

2004-12-25T10:47:00.000-06:00

"Over 1,300 U.S. soldiers won’t be celebrating Christmas this year – or any year. They died in vain for an unconstitutional, immoral, senseless war while in the service of a reckless, imperial presidency. They will forever have a silent night."

Great Radio on The WEB: The Weekend Interview Show

2004-12-13T11:50:00.000-06:00

The Weekend Interview Show with Scott Horton Listen live Saturdays 3-5pm Central time at rbnlive.com

Six Army reservists court-martialed for scrounging equipment in Iraq

2004-12-13T07:40:00.000-06:00

``Nobody ever reported these trucks stolen. The deal was, when you are moving, if it was going to take more than 30 minutes to fix it, you left it,'' said Birt, who was released in November. ``I'm a Christian man and I can't ignore what we did, but it was justified to get us in the fight and to sustain the fight.''

Women Warriors and the American Empire

2004-12-13T07:35:00.000-06:00

Women Warriors and the American Empire
By Steven LaTulippe

Douglas Wilson Audio Sermons

2004-12-12T16:49:00.000-06:00

Click on the link; Sermons/Lectures

We Are The Problem

2004-12-12T16:47:00.000-06:00

We Are the Problem
By Charley Reese

US admits the 'war for hearts and minds' in Iraq is now lost.

2004-12-05T07:55:00.000-06:00

"THE Pentagon has admitted that the war on terror and the invasion and occupation of Iraq have increased support for al-Qaeda, made ordinary Muslims hate the US and caused a global backlash against America because of the “self-serving hypocrisy” of George W Bush’s administration over the Middle East."

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Today on Lewrockwell

2004-12-02T07:16:00.000-06:00

Christian Killers?
by Laurence M. Vance

Site of the Day: Ludwig von Mises Institute

2004-12-01T07:56:00.000-06:00

Ludwig von Mises Institute
518 West Magnolia Avenue
Auburn, Alabama 36832-4528
334.321.2100 · Phone
334.321.2119 · Fax
contact@mises.org

Quotable

2004-11-30T18:36:00.000-06:00

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
– George Washington

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain

The Real Significance of the 'Civil War'

2004-11-30T08:24:00.000-06:00

The best Southern thinkers, though of course they could not have known just how strongly vindicated they would be after the atrocities of the twentieth century, understood this principle. Consider the lament of Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America:

If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Barn @ Marshall Farm

2004-11-29T09:15:00.000-06:00

Barn @ Marshall Farm
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

Morning Light on Thanksgiving Morning 2004 @ The Marshall Farm, In Western Virginia, Cisco.

Rick

Barn From Inside The Marshall Home

2004-11-29T09:12:00.000-06:00

Barn From Inside Marshall Home
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

At My Couisns the Marshall's
Early Thanksgiving Morning in Western Virginia, Cisco at the Marshall Farm. This is where it all started! The Famed Ritchie County.

Rick Nov 2004

On Lewrockwell Today

2004-11-29T07:32:00.000-06:00

An Open Letter to Christian Conservatives
by William L. Anderson

Quote of the Day

2004-11-28T20:24:00.000-06:00

Quotable
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
– George Orwell

Quote of the Day

2004-11-23T18:38:00.000-06:00

If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
– George W. Bush

Henry Jackson Pribble Grave

2004-11-23T13:06:00.000-06:00

Henry Jackson Pribble Grave
Originally uploaded by Rick Gibbs.

This is the Henry Jackson Pribble grave marker that our family put up in the Pribble-Jackson Cemetary in Cisco, Western Virginia (West Virginia, for you yankees), this past August, 2004. Henry's mother, Elizabeth P. Jackson was a 1st cousin of Stonewall Jackson. Much thanks to my cousins Charles Marshall and John Jackson for all their help. Henry is my Great Uncle x 3. Elizabeth is my Great Grandmother x 3.

Deo Vindice

Off to Western Virginia

2004-11-23T09:55:00.000-06:00

We are off to Western Virginia for a true Thanksgiving Holiday!

"What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labour to mar His gifts."- General Robert E. Lee, CSA

Reema-The General-Arpana

2004-11-22T21:32:00.000-06:00

Reema-The General-Arpana
Originally uploaded by dixiebound.

Reema,Thomas and Arpana