Monthly Archives: October 2015

WP: Donald Trump: No apology for questioning Ben Carson’s Seventh-day Adventist faith

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

As an ex-Seventh-Day Adventist, I’m loving my former religion’s time in the spotlight. In my experience, ex-Seventh-Day Adventists tend to have a visceral hatred for the SDA church, much like ex-Catholics have for the Catholic church. I’d like to think … Continue reading →

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Just For Today

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Al-Anon: Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had … Continue reading →

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Can California Be Saved?

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Victor Davis Hanson strikes me as someone who is stuck in a political no man’s land, somewhere between straight cuckservatism and soft nationalism. This is why his writings about his native and home state are such a maddening mix … Continue reading →

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Everyone is conservative about what he knows best

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

LINK: Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that … Continue reading →

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NYT: Baltimore Struggles To Heal

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

I lived in Baltimore during the summer of 1980. Almost every day, I spent hours in the local public library. A naive Seventh-Day Adventist, I asked to join in various black basketball games in the playground outside and was told … Continue reading →

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