Guilt
Guilt is a friend. Cut your hand with a kitchen knife and it hurts like hell. Good thing. If it didn’t hurt you might not notice the cut until you had bled all over the kitchen. Maybe without the pain you would be cavalier, ignoring the cut until it developed into...
Hallowed Name
Hallowed Name When Jesus gave his disciples instructions on how they were to pray, he provided a model, commonly called, “the Lord’s prayer”. The first two lines in the English Standard Version read, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name”. A footnote for the...
Real Estate Tax
Dear Mayor Kenney; I am writing to express concern about the residential real estate assessment design used by the City of Philadelphia. The current system creates harmful pressures on existing residents whenever concentrated construction and/or rehab drive up...
Family vs. Centralization
“The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes from central control of social processes. Therefore the anointed necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family. It is not a matter of any subjective animus on their part against families. The anointed may in fact be willing to shower government largess upon families, as they do on other social entities. But the preservation of the family as an autonomous decision-making unit is incompatible with the third-party decision making that is at the heart of the vision of the anointed.” – Thomas Sowell
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