Posts by Bill Wilson
The Farm Chronicles: Calamity Patty
You may or may not remember the name Martha Jane Cannary. Now Martha Cannary was quite a colorful character. She was known in her time as a tobacco-spitting, foul-mouthed, hard drinking woman who held jobs as a dishwasher, cook, waitress, dance hall girl, prostitute, nurse, ox team driver and even a scout. Her wild ways…
Read MoreThe moral responsibility to resist injustice
Christians have long debated whether there is a moral responsibility to resist injustice, largely because the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 13 to “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.” The Bible, however, is full of examples where the higher powers were resisted by men of God. Moses led the Israelites out of…
Read MoreStupidocrisy: Crack pipes and crack pots
Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) have introduced the “Preventing Illicit Paraphernalia for Exchange Systems Act,” also known as the PIPES Act. This legislation is “To prohibit the use of Federal funds for local substance use disorder services for the purchase of sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, or…
Read MoreThe great North American crackdown
North Americans are witnessing a “true color” historical event. For all the pandering to the media about exercising the right to dissent and to peaceably protest; for all the encouragement from politicians to protest for social justice; for all the looking the other way and saying that protests are peaceful amid the obvious evidence of…
Read MoreSowing the seeds of freedom
World governments are using COVID 19 policies to control populations. Draconian measures of quarantining healthy people, locking down entire societies, has given birth to a new form of tyranny based on health and fear. Even now, when many countries and various state and local governments in the US are slithering silently into the night on…
Read MoreThe Farm Chronicles: Super Bowl pre-game show
In 1972, my dad surprised me with tickets to Super Bowl VI at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. The Dallas Cowboys hammered the Miami Dolphins 24-3. That Super Bowl was more like a college championship game than what we have grown to know about modern-era Super Bowls. In 1972, Dad, Mom and I jumped in…
Read MoreSelf-fulfilling policy
Some believe the government has gotten so big and overreaching that it no longer represents the people, but rather its own self-interest. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French philosopher and author of “Democracy in America” in two volumes (1835, and 1840), wrote in Volume II about the vibrance of the American system of government and how…
Read MoreStupidocrisy: Supporting anything China
The display of stupidocrisy this week is off the charts. America sent its athletes to China for the Olympics, but didn’t send its political ambassadors. As if that makes any statement against China. It really just demonstrates the doublemindedness of the Biden Administration and all the politicians that support it. It’s not just the systematic…
Read MoreOppression by censorship
The Founding Fathers of the US knew tyranny. They knew that religion, Judeo-Christianity in particular, instilled the values of God’s liberty. They also knew that suppression of free speech, censorship, and leverage applied to silence dissent was foundational to tyranny. Hence, the First Amendment to the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment…
Read MoreThe prophetic case for freedom of religion and speech
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God (John 1:1). And God said let there be light (Genesis 1:3) The word spoken. A gift given freely that we may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). The Word. Spoken. Free gift of life abundantly.…
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