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Archive for May, 2009

31 May

Report From England- Climate Change And The Sun

Join the forum discussion on this post The webmaster is in England. Currently I am staying at the North London Rifle Club facility at Camp Bisley, Surrey, England. It is one of the parapets in the UK yet to be stormed in the world-wide effort to remove the absolute last resort tools that private citizens [...]

22 May

Institute For Principled Policy Chair on “The State of Ohio” This Week

Join the forum discussion on this post Institute For Principled Policy Chairman Dr. Mark Hamilton will appear on this weeks “The State of Ohio” program.  The program appears on PBS stations throughout Ohio. The topic of the program is on the role of clergy in speaking on public policy. Taking an opposite position from Mark’s [...]

19 May

Your Local Library – Cornerstone of the Community?

Join the forum discussion on this post “The library decades from now will look different, no question.  But it will still be that cornerstone of the community.” So says Pat Losinski, director of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, in the Columbus Dispatch (5/17/09).  The article was about the brave new world of central Ohio libraries as [...]

14 May

Camp American- Class Samples and a Special Offer!

Join the forum discussion on this post It will come as no shock that the Institute For Principled Policy is involved in biblical worldview education for young men and women. You only need to look at our Divisions and About Us pages to see that education in biblical worldview is one of our main functions. [...]

13 May

Prayer: The New Common Denominator?

Do you pray? Have you thought about prayer?  Christians pray.  Muslims pray.  Hindus pray.  Buddhists pray.  Just about everyone prays. And this, says Mark Siljander in his book, A Deadly Misunderstanding– is something that can unite people from different faiths. Especially, he says if they can unite around the person of Jesus.  The Qur’an speaks [...]

11 May

Are Christians, Jews and Muslims all of the one Faith?

Join the forum discussion on this post This perplexing question is answered in a new book by former Michigan Congressman, Mark Siljander.  It’s an interesting proposition. I had the fortune to meet Mr. Siljander in 1991, when he attempted a new run at Congress from the state of Virginia.  He was not successful. But he [...]

06 May

Reclaiming State Sovereignty- How It’s Done!

Join the forum discussion on this post As this article and the attached video (see below) demonstrate, the Oklahoma Legislature continues to run an impromptu class on the “How-To’s” of reclaiming state sovereignty. And while they’re at it, they’re also giving an unsolicited (and probably unwelcome) advanced level seminar on long-term political strategy and tactics. [...]

04 May

Valuing Civil Dissent

Join the forum discussion on this post Dr. Mark Hamilton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ashland University In November 2008 I was attending a conference in downtown San Diego.  As I exited a Saturday session and emerged out of the hotel onto the street for a breath of warm fresh air, I was struck by a [...]

04 May

Tax and Spin- Part 10: Conclusion-Accountability the Key

Join the forum discussion on this post Ohio does combine a “renewal” levy and an ordinary “additional” levy into one single vote, and although renewal-plus-additional-levy issues and ballots are straightforward – unlike replacement levies and ballots – they still deny voters a real choice. In this writer’s opinion, such combination votes ought to be illegal; [...]

04 May

Tax and Spin- Part 9: Some Solutions

Join the forum discussion on this post Ohio law has traditionally given local voters the final say for all property taxes other than those that are levied on the ten inside mills, with a few exceptions. However, that authority is no authority when tax laws are cleverly written to force more taxes on citizens without [...]

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