President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn. This is one agency that Trump shouldn’t nominate anyone to lead. The selection of Florida Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister was opposed...
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We Still Need Marijuana Freedom
by Laurence M. Vance | Nov 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Although all eyes during the recent election were primarily on the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and secondarily on the contests between the blue team and the red team for control of the U.S. House and Senate, ballots in many states also contained...
Why Conservative Christians Oppose Marijuana Ballot Initiatives
by Laurence M. Vance | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist churches in Florida are rejoicing and thanking God that Amendment 3 on the Florida ballot to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was rejected by Florida voters. Although a majority of people in Florida did vote in...
No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again
by Laurence M. Vance | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Writing for The Atlantic, Charles Fain Lehman claims that legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake. “If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere. Ads for it are all over broadcasts; more than one in three Americans now bets on sports,” he laments. Lehman, a...
Raw Milk, Marijuana, Tobacco, and Alcohol
by Laurence M. Vance | Jan 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
The year 2023 was a good year for proponents of legalized raw milk and legalized marijuana. Forty-six states now allow the sale of raw milk, that is, unpasteurized milk, for human consumption, for pet consumption (there is no law against consuming pet food), or...
The Korean War Was a Senseless Waste of American Lives
by Laurence M. Vance | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
The remains of an American soldier were laid to rest on Memorial Day at the Andersonville National Cemetery in Georgia after a police car with lights flashing escorted the casket to the cemetery. What made this funeral service so unique and so tragic is that...
Pray for Ukraine?
by Laurence M. Vance | Sep 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
The latest empty cliché that one hears out of the mouth of Christians is “Pray for Ukraine.” But do Christians who utter this pious platitude even know what they mean when they say it?I suppose that it is supposed to mean that we should pray for the people of Ukraine...
The Problem with Marijuana Legalization
by Laurence M. Vance | Aug 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Although the medical use of marijuana has been legalized in 37 states, its recreational use is legal only in 19 states. (South Dakota voters approved a recreational marijuana initiative in the 2020 election, but it was overturned by a state circuit judge and upheld by...
Why Not Abandon All Foreign Bases?
by Laurence M. Vance | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Neoconservatives—like Michael Rubin at the American Enterprise Institute (“The One Foreign Base Biden Should Abandon”)—haven’t gotten over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. But Rubin is also upset that “the Biden administration is...
Should Christians Just Shut Up When the Government Speaks?
by Laurence M. Vance | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured Articles
I am not on Twitter for the same reason I am not on Facebook: I have too little free time to waste it. However, I do occasionally receive examples of some of the more ridiculous things on Twitter and Facebook from friends and acquaintances who do have more free time...
A Senseless Sacrifice
by Laurence M. Vance | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins last month posthumously became the fifth US service member to receive the Medal of Honor (the nation’s highest award for combat valor) for his actions during the Iraq War—in 2007. According to an article in the Washington Post (“Soldier’s...
Conservatives, China, and the USA
by Laurence M. Vance | Feb 22, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A usually good conservative magazine has an article titled: “China’s New Aggression on the World Stage.” The text under the title reads: “China has long used Western capital to challenge the might of the West. Now it is moving forcefully, making demands of companies...
Why Not Execute Alcohol and Tobacco Dealers?
by Laurence M. Vance | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Although about thirty countries have the death penalty for drug trafficking, only in China, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam are drug offenders routinely executed. Yet, the worst place to be caught drug trafficking is in the Philippines,...
Are Republicans Libertarians?
by Laurence M. Vance | Oct 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Our two-party system makes it almost impossible for libertarians to get elected to office, especially on the national level. In order for libertarians to get elected to Congress, their best bet is to run as a Republican. Ron Paul is a perfect example of this. But...
We Should Thank Those Who Torture
by Laurence M. Vance | Dec 27, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Says Michael Reagan, the son of conservative god Ronald Reagan. “We shouldn’t be second-guessing and beating up on the CIA, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and all the other men and women who’ve helped to keep us safe for the last 14 years. We should be thanking them.” He...
Patriotic Blasphemy
by Laurence M. Vance | May 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A relative of mine attended the church of another relative of mine on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Here is the patriotic blasphemy he reports that he observed: Battle Hymn of the Republic sung to open the service, some kind of WWII memorial at the front of the...
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