Commentary on the right to bear arms
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
How to tell a debt collector to f$&@ off and not get sued
Step 1: Pay off the debt owed to them. Step 2: Tell them to f$&@ off (not literally). Were you expecting me to say something else?
Have you heard of Kent Schaible?
Anyone who has conversed with me in detail knows how I feel about parents substituting prayer or homeopathy for actual medicine in treating their children. In e...
"There should be a law"
"That should be illegal." Typically when someone says something like this, it means one thing: they’ve heard or seen something which has no dire...
What are rights?
Let me lay this idea out there, which I will expand on in a later article: A right is inherent and inalienable, something for which no action is required of any...
Contract from America and conservatives
As of late, there has been a growing movement in the United States calling for a "Contract from America", a play on the 1994 Republican "Contract...
Canceled debts and the IRS
Anyone who has racked up a lot of debt knows that if they go into default, they can be at the mercy, or lack thereof, of their creditors. For example, as a tool...
Cancer vs. abortion
In a conversation regarding the press coverage of March for Life, my cousin’s husband, let’s call him Nathan, made a comparison with the Susan G. Ko...
Scott Phillip Roeder
On May 31, 2009, Scott Roeder walked into the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas, waited for the right opportunity, and shot and killed George Tille...
Commentary on capital punishment
I am in favor of capital punishment. I will say that up front: I’m in favor of the death penalty. I’ve been in favor of it all my life; it’s not something that ...