I just purchased two books by Bruce Feiler.  They are Walking the Bible, a Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses  and Abraham, A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths.  Has anyone else read them?  I went berserk at the bookstore today!  LOL Also got one titled The Noticer by Andy Andrews.  Also got one by Anwar Sadat's wife.  That

I just finished reading a pretty amazing book (and found out my sister had read it and loved it too!).  It is titled If I Live to Be 100 and is by Neenah Ellis, formerly a staff producer for NPR's All Things Considered.  It was amazing and also a little terrifying to read these short interviews with people 100 or older.  One of the excerpts from the back of the

Now I am really confused.  Read this article.  Is this the way you guys perceived Paul's stand?

I have been doing a lot of reading about the Federal Reserve (after comments from Ron and Chris made me more curious).  I would like to hear what difference it would make to go back to a gold standard and what are the actual issues with the Federal Reserve.  Most of the interest they make goes back to the Treasury.  A small percentage is left for shares/dividends.  How, exac

Here is a good article.  I like that he starts out quoting Bastiat.  I would rather look at taxation from a perspective of law and justice and common sense than from a religious perspective.  I find it hard to explain why tho.

This is the title of an interesting article I just read.  I am not so much interested in the fortune cookie aspect (which is the lead-in) but more in the meat of the article.  I think that many times people try to take a quote from the Bible and apply it to today when

Check out this site. 

Here is an interesting article (written in 1995!) that might explain a little more of what you are trying to say in your blog.  I still have some reservations about some of it but this might add some meat to your argument. 

I am going to copy a review here that is about a book, The Death of Common Sense.  That book together with The Tyranny of Good Intentions is one of the best I have seen to show why we have such a mess, why individual responsibility has almost completely gone away in this country.  The problem is:  How do we turn this around?  I was looking at a website last nig

Not sure I sent this one.