When the founding fathers spoke of “militias,” they were not referring to a bunch of yahoos running around in the woods with paint on their faces outside of state control. They were referring to a citizen army under state control. So is “militia” just the old-time word for what our army is today? No. A
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Homicide rates are down in America, but school shootings are up. What’s going on? What’s driving this? Some say it’s guns. I have an hunch that I think deserves some study. Back in the 1970s we had 30 school shootings with a population of about 216 million. Today we have a population of 320 million.
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If you want to understand the secret to Mormonism, something 99.9% of the world does not know, even though many think they do, read on. This last Tuesday I was at dinner with a number of wonderful coworkers. We were talking about religion and listening to the guy who helps set up our training environments
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Do you see this picture? This is Jeff Bezos laughing at John Brown. Because John Brown was a fool. Let me explain. When I sell my ebooks on Amazon for $2.99 to $9.99, Amazon charges me 30% of the price. I keep 70%. That’s a decent deal. I’m happy to do business with them as a
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It’s March. Spring is here in most places. And this is when the house hunting season starts to get rolling. I used to moonlight as a realtor. I started from nothing, ran my own little gig, and did very well. Then I got a book contract, and there was no way I could do three
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