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PESS: Post Election Stress Syndrome

I have been in a mild state of depression since the election. It probably would have been worse except that I spent the first four days drunk and the last three shopping; laying in nonperishable foods and ammunition. Ok, I lied; I didn’t get drunk I gave that nonsense up years ago. What I have been doing this past week is setting up a Ning Community for Conservatives called the “Sons Of Liberty Underground.” I don’t know if it will catch o… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on November 12, 2008 at 3:49pm — 5 Comments

Democrats Defend Fannie/Freddie

In this Blog and elsewhere I have stated my belief that the current economic crisis should be laid firmly at the feet of the Democrat Party. Presented here for your perusal and edification is a video with clips from the 2004 House Committee Investigating illegal bookkeeping at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The video runs 8.5 minutes and demonstrates through numerous clips how Democrats defended GSE's (Freddie Mac & Fannie May) and Franklin Raines, Jamie Gurlic and others. Particular attention… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on October 28, 2008 at 9:22am — 1 Comment

“Capitalism - Whacha think?”

This blog is in response to a topic in the Forum titled “Capitalism - Whacha think?” First of all it is probably impossible to say that Capitalism is or isn’t Biblical. Capitalism did not come into being until formulated by Adam Smith in his magnum opus An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations published ironically in 1776. Before that the economic engine of the w… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on October 24, 2008 at 3:10am — 12 Comments

Corporations, Capitalism and Christians

This blog is primarily in answer to Phil from a discussion thread that apparently no longer exists. I have posted it here because I am way late in responding due to other demands on my time; yet I wanted to respond. As a side note, Phil, I have read The Servile State. Its application in the UK at the time may have been warranted, I don’t believe it has application today. For the majority of my life I was an Objectivists in the Ayn Rand mold. I even adopted the fictional name John Galt as my onl… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on August 24, 2008 at 5:11pm — 2 Comments

Who I am, What I Say Part II

During an exchange with another member on the Forums I evidently stepped over the irenic requirement line in the Forum Rules of Engagement and was admonished by the moderator (ModBot2000) to “cool it.” Not wanting to be anathematized from the site I dutifully ended my participation in that particular topic. I can understand the Mod’s concerns having been on many forums and seen them deteriorate into a morass of name calling and ad hominem rhetoric (and I have to admit that it may have appeared… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on July 11, 2008 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Who I am, what I say - Part I

Who is this guy Art Thompson and why is he saying the thing he says? Although this is Part I it was actually written after Part II which I wrote in response to being admonished by a moderator for my polemic rather than irenic posts in one of the Forums. It was really not a big deal however, I felt inclined to comment on it. As I neared completion of it I realized that there was something missing and that something is manifested in the title of this Blog posting. Background I am… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on July 11, 2008 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

New Survey Maps Americas Religious Bent or Multiculturalism: Learn To Love It

I intended to post this on the forum in reply to Michael’s topic New Survey Maps Americas Religious Bent. However, because it is based on a different line of thought I decided to post it here on my blog. When I looked at those figures in Michael's post my first thought was, “Where did all the Christian’s go? However, after some reflection looking back at some of the numbers the question is “Where did all of these other folks come from?” For example 1990 the Muslim adult population was 5… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on June 30, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Militant Christianity and the Virtues of Conservatism

I do not usually post items from others. My MO is to read as much as I can and then write about it which helps me to distill the information and organize it in my own mind. That being said I will begin by making an exception to that rule. The following article was written by Ed Brown and posted at http://www.renewamerica.us/forum/?date=070218&a=2&message=32 I hope that you find it informative. ------------------------------ Begin------------------------------------ Militant Christia… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on June 26, 2008 at 3:48pm — 8 Comments

Welcome To My Blog

Thanks for stopping by I hope that you will find something of interest here. I do most of my blogging on my web site blog, http://tmblog.truthmagazine.us Articles and commentary are posted on the main site http://www.truthmagazin.us/ and my purely political stuff is on http://www.the-republican-papers.org. In addition my ministry site can be found at http://www.damascusroadministry.org/. And of course no selfrespecting blogger would be without a page on MySpace and I am no exception http://ww… Continue

Added by Arthur Thompson on June 26, 2008 at 3:26pm — 2 Comments