The Cause of Liberty

10. Paris Hilton is more popular than the President.

9. Abortion and pornography are cherished rights, yet homeschooling is a crime.

8. The March Madness brackets receive more news coverage than the President vetoing an anti-torture bill.

7. The economy is held together by bailing wire, duct tape, and the Federal Reserve.

6. Pregnancies among unwed teenagers rise dramatically, but no one minds because they figure we’ll need more people to pay for all the unfunded government entitlement programs.

5. Three words: widespread illiteracy.

4. Citizens spend their “stimulating” $600 tax rebate on their property tax increase.

3. Private virtue means recording American Idol on Tivo to reluctantly drag yourself to church on Easter.

2. Public virtue means wearing a Barack Obama t-shirt at an MTV benefit concert.

And the number one sign America is on the decline is…

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In a world of more than six billion people, it may often seem hard to believe that we can make an impact individually. However, the 20th Century genius Buckminster Fuller sheds some light on what one person can do by becoming what he calls a “trim tab.”

He said, “Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary–the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me a Trim Tab.”

Never underestimate the influence that you as an individual can have. Find what you were born to do, become a “trim tab” in your sphere of influence, and the world will change because of it.

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Written By Stephen Palmer. Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

An Unlikely Combination, Amazing Results

A friend once flattered my brother and me by commenting that we were “salt of the earth” people. When he asked about the environment in which we were raised relative to his compliment, I said the first thing that came to my mind: I told him that we were raised in a salty environment.

It was just a joke at the time, but little did I know how much I would learn about salt and how it relates to families as a result.

The compliment was, of course, referring to the words spoken by the master teacher Jesus Christ who said, “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?” Christ also makes a strange request in the book of Mark, where he directs his disciples to “Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.”

These phrases and the conversation with my friend led me to research salt, with the purpose to answer the following questions: What are the qualities of salt that lend themselves to Christ’s parables? Why should we become like salt? And most importantly, what can… Continue reading »

Are you doing what you were born to do?

Our earliest citizens believed in an ideal that they called Providence, which is something that has been largely forgotten today. To believe in Providence is more than just believing that there is a God, although that is certainly a part of it.

Providence is the belief that every individual has a unique mission that they alone can perform and that the world suffers when they don’t fulfill that unique mission. It’s having a relationship with your God that gives you the faith and motivation to fulfill your unique mission regardless of the consequences.

How do you know if you are doing what you are born to do? A good indication of that is if you can’t wait to jump out of bed and begin every day with excitement and purpose. If you find yourself dreading going to work you know that something must change.

The best thing you can do for yourself and for society is to find and develop your passion–to revive the spirit of Providence in your own life.

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Written By Stephen Palmer. Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

I can’t believe all you homeschoolers out there who think you can just teach your children anything you want. And without official, state-sponsored credentials, as unbelievable as that sounds.

It’s time you all woke up and realized that you’re just a bunch of petty felons, selfish reprobates unwilling to sacrifice your lives and your children to the safekeeping of a benevolent and omniscient government.

Luckily, we have sensible and caring judges to put you in your place. On February 28th of this year, Justice H. Walter Croskey and two of his colleagues thankfully declared homeschooling to be a crime in California.

“Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” wrote Croskey in an opinion signed by two other members of the district court. “Parents who fail to [comply with school enrollment laws] may be subject to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction, and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program.”

The decision quotes this statement from a California court case in 1961:

A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sure heaving a sigh of relief now that that’s taken care of. Frankly, I don’t know how we’ve lasted so long with thousands of homeschoolers running rampant. Maybe that explains the drastic increases in teenage suicide, violence, and drug abuse.

And to think that all this time you thought you were homeschooling to benefit society. Silly homeschooling parents, education is for those with credentials (and lots of big guns).

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Written By Stephen Palmer. Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.