Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Political violence has been going on for decades, including recent history. Kirk’s murder is an outrage and we need to preach peace, love, and free speech, but it’s not unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-c6afDgXRg
Humans have been fighting wars for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSsSbD2jZ0
Was the Bill of Rights a Bad Idea? Some Founding Fathers Thought So.
https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/
Flanking isn’t that easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd0fCuBPlno
Why were the gospels so late? Most early Christians could not write. Some thought that Jesus was coming back very soon, so didn’t see the need to write this down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768D9sqYdE4
“Vladimir Putin’s desire to grab Ukraine’s key defensive lines echoes how Adolf Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications.
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“Ukraine has spent the last 11 years pouring time, money and effort into reinforcing the fortress belt and establishing significant defense industrial and defensive infrastructure in and around these cities,” the institute said.
If that happens, Russia would move its frontline roughly 80 kilometers further west, while Ukraine would be forced to build new defenses on flat and open terrain in neighboring Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk — far harder to hold than the fortified cities it controls now.
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In September 1938, Adolf Hitler argued that handing over the ethnic-German majority Sudetenland region to the Reich would satisfy his ambitions and end the threat of war in Europe. France and Britain agreed, and browbeat Prague into accepting. Hitler — whose word was as reliable as Putin’s — said he had no further territorial ambitions.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-war-in-ukraine-adolf-hitler-czechoslovakia/
Statues of leaders in parks have less to do with history and more to do with celebrating certain ideologies and causes. A statue doesn’t tell you much about history, but it does honor the person in stone, and it honors what they are known for. Confederate leaders and soldiers are known for using deadly force in rebellion against the United States of America for the primary cause of keeping most black people in the south as slaves. These acts were traitorous, anti-freedom, racist, and anti-democratic because the south only seceded because they lost an election to an abolitionist named Lincoln.
Such statues should be removed legally.
“the National Park Service says it’s obligated to restore the Pike statue by executive orders issued by President Donald Trump”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/confederal-statue-reinstated-washington-00493394
The real reason slavery died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY2EVQg3Oc
It’s important to have in-country experts who can see and feel the changes afoot in a foreign country.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/06/washington-ignored-his-warnings-about-iran-then-he-was-taken-hostage-00495072
Paul’s Bizarre Views on Salvation: Exploring the Apostle’s Contradictory Explanations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmelkprM3w8