Ancient Liberty
As we enter this Fourth of July weekend I thought it might be inspiring and instructive to remember the greatest story of liberty in human experience. Ah – 1620 and the Pilgrims you suppose? Maybe the late 1600’s under Cromwell …
Author: Don Schanzenbach
Suspender Man™, Don Schanzenbach, has long been an outspoken advocate of recapturing culture for Christ. He holds a MA in applied Biblical studies and a doctorate in applied theological studies in the field of political philosophy and government from New Geneva Seminary. He has been thinking, writing and speaking on Christian culture for two decades.
Debt Ceiling Woes
The arguing and posturing are in full prominence in Washington as our legal representatives from both parties plot for advantage over the debt ceiling vote. The public wants the red ink to slow down. This would be the same public …
Libertarian Doesn’t Equal Freedom
I would call myself a Christian Libertarian as opposed to a libertarian with no prefix. That fact alone demonstrates the degree to which the humanist libertarians have captured the philosophical field of liberty. They, after all, do not refer to …
Don’t Vote for a Weiner
Here we are a couple of weeks into the Anthony Weiner quasi – not quite a scandal. The media has had high hopes for a juicy story while at the same time rarely identifying the congressman’s political party (Democratic). The …
Why I Love the Great Freedom Documents
For thousands of years of recorded history prior to the coming of Christ, men typically lived in every state of dire slavery, with despotic rulers the norm rather than the exception. Common men had no rights, the courts were rigged, …
Calamity in the City
The mounting calamities around the nation continue to give us pause to consider exactly, how does God work through the wind and waves? The worst tornado in 60 years has just blown through Joplin, Missouri. Floods are inundating everything that …
Natural Born Citizens
With the latest questions about whether all of the prospective Republican candidates need be natureal born or not it seems to me that the question takes on a different character. Now it is traveling away from being a question used …
Dark Matters
As I write this the space shuttle Endeavor is on its last mission. It is being used to haul 14,000 pounds of gear to the International Space Station. Along with that load of stuff is an interesting contraption called the …
The Judgments of God
Here we are in mid-May, 2011 having broken all records for the costliest floods and costliest tornado damage on record for this nation in all our history for this time of year. The season is still early. A yearly record …
The Government is Your Mother Day
In honor of the largest and most beneficent mother I hereby declare this to be: ‘The Government is Your Mother Day’. Yes, after all why waste time professing and giving ecstatic babbalia over mere human mothers when the goddess …