This article originally ran on Texas Scorecard on April 29. Diners at Gloria’s Latin Cuisine in Colleyville were the subjects of a photo spread at Dailymail.com after Mayor Richard Newton authorized patio service in area restaurants in a “controversial” proclamation. According to the MailOnline, these patrons engaged in shocking behavior when their “masks … came off once…
Category: Big Government
Governments Slow to Match Sacrifices Texans are Making During the Coronavirus Lockdown
The article originally ran in The Texan on April 29. Café Medici is a locally owned coffee shop operating three cafes in Austin. That number used to be six, though, before the COVID-19 shutdown. “We had to close three of them; one for good,” said owner Michael Vaclav, who founded the company with his wife…
Policymakers’ Guide to Corporate Welfare
Conservatives have long questioned whether welfare is the best way to help the least fortunate among us. More recently, the debate has shifted to a different type of welfare. Conservatives today are challenging whether “corporate welfare” achieves its stated goal of boosting economic growth. And, as in the case of traditional welfare, the debate extends…
Cassidy and Peacock on Capitalism and Socialism
David Cassidy, my church’s former pastor and a godly man, and I had a brief conversation on Facebook a while back. I thought I’d re-post it here: Cassidy: Pastors are not on the job to ‘Save America’. We are here to announce its eventual demise, conquest, redemption, and replacement with something that is already here…
Are Unbiblical Government Activities Theft?
In 1 Samuel 8:10-18, Samuel warns the people of Israel. He is warning them because they sinfully want to replace God with a human king: God says “they have rejected me from being king over them.” One thing to keep in mind is this is really God’s warning to the people; Samuel is just passing…
The Hope of Biblical Compassion: Charity
In my last article, I made the case that the welfare state is unbiblical. I built my argument on three premises: that the welfare state 1) is a form of theft, 2) destroys charity, and 3) harms everyone associated with it–funder, deliverer, and recipient. Let’s take another quick look at this. In 2 Thessalonians 3:10,…
Christian Liberty and Civil Government
Christian Liberty Ever since the fall of man in the garden, natural man has been a slave to sin: None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. (Romans 3:10-12 ESV) Jesus Christ came…
Bringing Sanity to a Fallen World: Idaho Health Care Part 2
In a recent post, I noted how Idaho is “the national leader in bringing sanity to our health care system.” Some conservatives, though, appealing to the rule of law, have objected to Idaho’s efforts because they are illegal under ObamaCare. Best I can tell, though, Idaho has done nothing to violate federal law. They have…
Bringing Sanity to Fallen World: Idaho Health Care Edition
Idaho appears the national leader now in bringing sanity to our health care system. Not that you would know it from the many complaints about what they are doing, as seen in the article in The New York Times: Some groups representing patients, including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the lobbying…
Liberalism’s Assault on Reality
The public outcry over the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London at least equaled that over the more recent cases involving ObamaCare (Sebelius) and gay marriage (Obergefell). In his dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas explained the reason behind the public’s dismay: This deferential shift in phraseology enables the Court to hold, against…