The Best … For Now …

I’m not sure when or in what form I will begin blogging again.  It may be here, or it may be at one or two new blogs I am considering starting, instead.  And who knows when I will have the a) time, b) interest, and c) energy to do so.

So, in the meantime, I post here below the contents of “The Best of the Borg Blog,” as found also in the link above.  And be sure to check out my articles and speeches linked in the same bar. I recommend these to your reading pleasure, as well as the many blogs, websites, and resources I have chosen to link (and to frequent myself) in the sidebars to the right. 

But without further ado, here’s my “best,” organized by topic:

SPOTLIGHT

• Blogs & the Practical Application of Sola Scriptura: By What Authority Do You Teach?
• The Coffee Never Runs Out at Starbus
• How Recent and Would-Be American Presidents Would Deal With a Hornet Nest
• In Response to Jonah Goldberg: On Ron Paul and His Foreign Policy
• Is the Iraq War Constitutional?
• Predestination and the Liberty of God (series)
• The Fact of Spiritual Headship: Defending Biblical Patriarchy

FAMILY NEWS

• Advent: Building (On) Tradition
• An Intruder on Our Doorstep — Attacks!!!
• A Weekend with Family and In Memory of Granddad
• Blessed Memories from Easter 2006
• “Growing” Our Standards of Living
• My First Date With Maggie
• The Ferris Wheel!
• Peekaboo!
• Sans Samuel
• On Tending Our Gardens
• Our Children are Now Expecting with Us!
• Samuel’s Surgery
• Reassuring Maggie. Reassuring Myself. Reassuring My Loved Ones
• You Had Me at Merlot  

BASEBALL

• Bonds’s 73 HR Season in Historical Context
• On Barry Bonds: “Sympathy for the ‘Devil’?”
• No Asterisk Needed

CULTURE

• A Case for Not Protecting the Flag
• America ≠ The Christian Church
• America Was Always Exceptional Because We Knew We Weren’t
• Assassinating the Dead
• Blogs & the Practical Application of Sola Scriptura: By What Authority Do You Teach?
• “Go Forth and Multiply”: Japan and the Persistence of the Population Bomb Myth
• In Defense of Discrimination and Freedom of Association
• The Shame of the West: Women in Combat
• On the Gay Agenda and its Suppression of the Politically Incorrect

POLITICS

• Do We Have a Patriotic Duty to Vote?
• Global Warming: The House of Cards Is Beginning to Fall
• In Defense of Judge Southwick: An Open Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Open Up the Debates!
• Veto? A Tale of Two Georges
• Who Christians (and All True Conservatives) Should Support for President

RELIGION

• Encouraged to Doubt, Young Adults Leave Church in Droves
• Epidemics, Tragedy, and the Rise of Christianity
• Finding Assurance in Baptism
• Finding the Truth of Easter in the Disciples’ “Good Fridays”
• John 17 and The Essence of Sectarianism
• My Reasons for Embracing Paedobaptism
• On The Necessity and Distinctives of a Biblical Church
• Predestination and the Liberty of God (series)
• Saving Protestantism from the Puritan/Anabaptist View of Church History
• Should We Celebrate the Lord’s Day or the Jewish Sabbath?
• The Bishop May Be “Tiny,” But His Embrace of “Tashlan” is a Big Deal
• The Coffee Never Runs Out at Starbus
• The Fact of Spiritual Headship: Defending Biblical Patriarchy  

TAXES AND THE STATE

• Is Rebellion Always Sin?
• Property Taxes: The Road to American Serfdom
• The Chicken or the Egg: The Leviathan State and the Moral Failing of Man
• Taxes: To Kill or Not to Kill the Goose, That is the Question

WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION

• How Recent and Would-Be American Presidents Would Deal With a Hornet Nest
• In Response to Jonah Goldberg: On Ron Paul and His Foreign Policy
• Is the Iraq War Constitutional?
• Iraq: Are “We” Now Morally Compelled to Stay?
• On the War on Terror, Imperialism, and American Monarchy
• The Path To 9/11 or The Path Since 9/11: Which is Worse?
• Terrorism and Bin Laden Expert Has a Lesson for Giuliani

School Choice? A Humorous British Take

I’ve now seen this numerous places, so I won’t bother with the hat tip. But it is so good I had to post it here:

“The One”

Here’s a great ad - all of it, except for the closing screen shot:

“St. Peter at the Gate” or, “Thirty Years With a Shrew”

Or another possible title to the following poem, “The Fate of the Christian Pharisee”:

St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate,
With solemn mien and air sedate,
When up to the top of the golden stair,
A man and a woman ascending there,

Applied for admission. They came and stood
Before St. Peter, so great and good,
In hopes the City of Peace to win,
And asked St. Peter to let them in.

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The Home of the Free: Switzerland

I couldn’t come up for a better title to this post than that of the article I take this opportunity to link to by John Zmirak.  Published at FrontPageMag back in 2002, “The Home of the Free: Switzerland”is a must-read still today.  (I found this article linked in a recent Zmirak articleat Taki’s Magazine.

As Zmirak explains, America’s Founders looked to the Swiss - and specifically “the Helvetic Republic” - as the best example in setting up our own republic.  But it was the Swiss, and not the Americans, who have since best followed the precepts of the U.S. Constitution, and self-consciously so.  We’d do here in America to now follow the Swiss model — and our own Constitution.

Building Bridges of Forgiveness

“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”

~Thomas Fuller

I stumbled upon the foregoing quote this morning and found it profound and edifying.  Here are some other quotes from Dr. Fuller that I like:

• “Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer’s stomach rise.”
• “Enquire not what boils in another’s pot.”
• “If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.”
• “If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.”
• “Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.”
• “Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
• “The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.”
• “He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.”

Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal

Click the video below and just listen, and be blessed.  :)

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The Choice The Establishment Would Have Us Make

Bob Barr on Overcoming Status Quo Statism and the “McBama Ticket”

Every day it becomes more and more clear why the Libertarian Party picked Bob Barr as their standard-bearer for the presidential election.  He is on major television news shows now on nearly a daily basis.  Zogby has him polling at 6% nationally - one poll has him as high as 8% - and he is pulling double-digits in several states. 

Meanwhile, McCain puts everyone to sleep (while giving nightmares to true limited government conservatives) and Obama scares the heck out of anyone who looks closely enough at his past affiliations and current policy proposals. 

IOW, Barr may win me over yet.  And performances like this one yesterday in an interview on America’s Nightly Scorecard on the Fox Business Channel are why:

The Holocaust No One Talks About

Rev. Lane Keister today brings to our attention a startling but little known fact: 45 million Christians were martyred during that the bloodiest century of state worship, the 1900s. 

Since most were martyred by atheistic communist regimes, may I also recommend my post - and the video therein - “Remembering the Victims of Communism, and a Caution for Our Own Future.”

May we never forget our brothers, persecuted for their faith even today.