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CNSnews.com: “Congress Must Re-Assume War Powers”

Important article today at CNSnews.com, quoting Ron Paul and others, re: a new resolution being put forward in Congress:

Congress Must Re-Assume War Powers, Lawmakers Say

See also my The Founders on the Power to Declare War and Is the Iraq War Constitutional?

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Something BIG is happening, no matter how much the establishment tries to ignore it.  Please check this out!

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Silent Owls (Signing off… sort of)

Go ahead and nix what I said here.  I’m jumping back out of the saddle — and this time, basically for good.

Any regular visitor to the Borg Blog is probably already aware of the fact that I terminated the “Borg Blog News Service” last week.  Long story short (since I am tired of long stories, as you will see), I am no longer interested in enslaving myself to a regular blogging schedule.  And the BBNS could be especially burdensome, with very little evident bang for the buck, so to speak.

My whole original purpose in setting up and keeping a blog was as a repository for my own thoughts and observations, much like a journal, though certainly not a diary. The secondary reason was to communicate things with those I am most close to: family and friends. “Cyberfriends” made and other incidental traffic gained from the World Wide Web in the process was to be a merely icing, esp. as I helped influence people to embrace the Lord Jesus as their savior and to reaffirm liberty and the Constitution in their political views.

My score on building traffic to this blog has been fairly successful, as this graph of last year’s visits versus this year’s demonstrates.  And some new “cyberfriends” have provided anecdotal evidence of at least minor Borg Blog influence in spreading the Gospel and the prudence of a robust constitutionalism in our body politic.

But the key thing has become increasingly clear:  For the most part, those closest to me — parents, brothers, in-laws, flesh-and-blood friends (both past and present), etc. - couldn’t really give a hoot about what I write here.  I don’t say that with bitterness; just as a factual observation.  As well, partly as a consequence and partly as a coincidence, I don’t really give a hoot anymore, either.  It just ain’t worth the stress and effort, to be frank.  Hence, the days of my intentional blogging here at Borg Blog — for the long foreseeable future, at least — are over. 

This blog will remain up on the web, and I am sure I will post things on irregular occasions for my own benefit.  But I have removed my stat counter, as  I will no longer give a hoot about my traffic, either.

For those actually interested in what my point of view on things might be, I recommend the many linked blogs and webpages at the bottom of this page.  None of these sites and people do I agree with 100%.  But taken as a whole, I will land somewhere along that spectrum of perspectives on any given issue. 

The archives will remain open for those looking for things I’ve written in the past.  But future comments, including to this here post, are henceforth closed.

So long.

Who Christians (and All True Conservatives) Should Support for President

This morning I received an email from a friend at church asking for my opinion re: the race for the White House.  The genesis of this question came from an email he received from a mutual friend who has decided to support Mike Huckabee.

For me, the only other potentially viable option for a conservative Christian to vote for, other than the man I support — Ron Paul — is Mike Huckabee.  (Other than sitting out the election or voting third party, that is.)  The Dems are obviously non-starters.  Voting for Rudy Giuliani is nearly akin to selling one’s soul to the Devil.  Fred Thompson is an empty suit.  John McCain’s campaign is deep in debt and going nowhere fast. Mitt Romney is a fraud.  And they all would do nothing to reverse the growth of government.  So it comes down to these two.

Here, then, was my response: Read the rest of this entry »

Ron Paul: In His Own Words

Here’s a couple “must reads” — and one “must listen” — for those interested in learning more about Ron Paul, Republican candidate for President:

• Georgetown Public Policy Review Online: “Interview with Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Candidate for the Republican Nomination for US President”
• Grist: ”An interview with Ron Paul about his presidential platform on energy and the environment”
• First Ron Paul 2008 radio ad in New Hampshire: “The Real Republican“

Finally, here’s an intersting Grand Rapids Press Story that out of an interview with Pastor David Paul, Ron’s brother:  “One Brother in Pulpit, Another Seeks White House.”

Please join me in support of Ron Paul for President.

How Christians Should Regard Magic in Literature

I consider the appropriate role of magic in kid lit to be the same as the appropriate role of magic in reality—though it will look different. This is, after all, an extraordinarily magical place. Sunlight makes trees out of thin air (literally), tadpoles turn into frogs, human love turns into children, and you can trick the air into lifting an enormous steel bus full of people up to thirty thousand feet if you know how to curve a wing and harness explosions. And it’s not all cheerful, happy, kittens-in-baskets magic either.What happens if one of our wizards splits an atom? I think magic in children’s books is at its best when it wakes kids up to the mind-blowing magic all around us—when it overcomes the numbness of modernity and makes them watch an ant war on the sidewalk with all the wonder it deserves. Ironically, Christians, who profess outright to believe in magic (what else is water into wine, resurrection from the dead, calming storms, etc?) are the most upset when you put it into a book, while authors like Pullman (a materialistic atheist who believes reality to be all mechanism as far as I can tell) works with it comfortably and well. It really should be the other way around.

~Author N.D. Wilson, from interview at Novel Journey.
(Buy Wilson’s fantastic new book, Leepike Ridge, here)

Change the Channel in 2008

Short and to the point; watch this!

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Ron Paul on the Military and Foreign Policy

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Message from Ron Paul

The other day, my old sparring partner in so many Congressional committee hearings, Alan Greenspan, was on the Fox Business Channel. After Alan promoted his new book, the reporter asked if we really needed a central bank. Greenspan looked stunned, and then said that was a good question; he actually talked about fiat money vs. a gold standard. Now, the ex-Fed chairman is not about to endorse our sound monetary policy, but you know our Revolution is working when such a question is asked in the mainstream media, and this powerful man gives such an answer.  You and I are reopening a whole host of questions that the establishment thought it had closed off forever: on war, on taxes and spending, on inflation and gold, and on the rule of law and our Constitution.

A few years ago, I asked a famous conservative columnist a question. What did he think about the prospects for a restored Robert Taft wing of the Republican party? He thought I was joking. As you know, I was not.

After all the aggressive wars, the assaults on our privacy and civil liberties, the oppressive taxation, and the crazed spending and deficits, I believe that many Republican voters are ready to return to our roots. And the big boys feel it too. It is no coincidence that the Republican National Committee invited me to a fundraising dinner involving only “top-tier candidates.” Read the rest of this entry »