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...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
"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 ...
A forgotten case on abortion
Typically when discussing abortion, many in both the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" camps tend to focus on the infamous Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113...
Don’t be narrow focused on health care reform
I work in the health care industry and have worked in the health care industry for the last 4 years, minus a stretch of unemployment. I first worked for a mediu...