Christian conservative.
Mostly Republican w / occasional libertarian leanings.
Returned from exile, now in Minnesota.

Alternative Tagline, not yet adopted: "Digging for Choice Nuggets in the Litterbox of Knowledge"

Please scroll down beneath the picture to see my vanities; and at the bottom of the page are interactive quizzes "Nerd Score", "To Which Race of Middle-Earth Do You Belong?" "Which Sci-Fi Character are You,""What Mythological Character Are You?"and a map "create your own visited states map"

My adopted self-portrait, borrowed from one of the crevo threads.

Some of my articles on Free Republic:

A Modest Proposal on the Ten Commandments

SUVs: The Death of the Dinosaurs (Vanity)

Vanity: In Praise of Internal Combustion

Vanity: Of Mice and Men

(Vanity) Phone Hassle; or, To Serve Man

(Vanity) Another Look at Outsourcing

(Vanity) An Analogy to Taxes

(Vanity) An Ode to September

(Vanity) The Generation Gap

(Vanity) Is Bush Playing Poker with Miers?

Marketing Effluent

The Liars, The Itch, and the War-drone; or, The Dope-A-Rope

(Vanity) Division of Labor, or Why Values Matter

(Vanity) Whither the Economy?

(Vanity) The Digital Convergence and Mass Customization

(Vanity) A Falling Tide Grounds All Boats

(Vanity) Peak Labor

(Vanity) A mythical email response to Senator Frist

(Vanity) The New Colonialism, or, Out of One, Many

(Vanity) Immigration Policies, or, Half-A-Glass

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part I

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part II : The City of Anchorage

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part III: The Road To Denali

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part IV: The Kitty Goes to Kenai

(Vanity) Summer in Alaska, Part V: From Homer to Home

(Vanity) The Passion of the Kos

(Vanity) Asymmetrical Wars and Disproportionate Response

(Vanity) Pride and Prejudice -- or, On Trust of Authors

(Vanity) The HP Way and the NSA; or, Little Sister is Watching You

(Vanity) Confessions of a Crunchy Con, or, You Can't Judge a Conservative by his Birkenstocks

(Vanity) Foley's Follies, or Queen for a Day

(Vanity) Confessions of a Crunchy Con II, or, I Left My Heart in Cans of Crisco

Confessions of a Crunchy Con III, or, Why Don't I Mind *Your* Own Business?

The Lexis-Nexis and the Oligarchy, with Apologies to Thomas Friedman

(Vanity) What Hath Bush Wrought, or, Through a Glass Darkly

(Vanity) The Shell Game, or "Con"-oco Fillups

(Vanity) Why Business is For the Birds,or, All Flocked Up Part I

(Vanity) Why Business is For the Birds,or,All Flocked Up Part II

(Vanity) Campaign for Sustainable Government

(Vanity) A House Divided,or, You Can't Teach a Yellow Dog New Tricks

Note: thanks to RebelBanker for catching an obvious error...I've *got* to stop posting past my bedtime.

(Vanity) It Just Isn't Cricket, or, The Sound of Silence

(Vanity) Monkey See, Much Ado, or, Ann Coulter Ate My Homework

Indulgences, or Divine Secrets of the Yo-Yo Sisterhood

(Vanity) How Many Republicans Does It Take To Screw Up A Campaign, or The War on Error

(Vanity) Are Americans Hobbits?

(Vanity) Al Qaeda in a Quagmire

President Charlie Brown, or The Sins of the Fathers

(Vanity) Big Pharma and the Broken Window, or Look at These Drug Prices, It's a Crime

(Vanity) A Merck-y Decision, or, Is Pfizer Wiser?

(Vanity) As the World Turns, or The Wild, Wild East

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part II, or Back to the Future

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part III, or, The Year of Lipstick on a Pig

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part IV, or The New Dealhi

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part V, or, The Melting Pot

(Vanity) Al Gore and the Kyoto Treaty

(Vanity) Newspeak and the Pipsqueak, or, Light in the Briefs

The Other Face of India, or, The Social Climber

A Republic, If You Can Keep It, or, Go Fly A Kite

(Vanity) Code Punked, or The Laws of the Medeas and Persians

(Vanity) Why Johnny Can't Add, or The Hell of Gates

A Republic If You Can Keep It Part II: The New Feudalism Tweedledum and Tweedledee go to Washington

(Vanity) Hillary meets McCain-Feingold, or, This Runt for Hire

(Vanity) The GE Way, or How to Welch on Your Promises

(Vanity) A Look Back at Immigration, or Fifty Years of Lies

(Vanity) The One-Way Ratchet

Vanity (The Christian Church and Multiculturalism)

(Vanity) The Amnesty Act of 2007 (Discussion of Text from the Bill)

(Vanity) The Era of Cheap Crap, or, You Don't Get What You (Don't) Pay For

(Vanity) Allah and Man at Columbia, or, Say it Ain't So, Mo!

(Vanity) Hillary Loves the Little Children, or This Bun [in the oven] For Hire

(Vanity) The Rush to Judgment, or, Pin the Fail on the Donkey

(Vanity) The Lawyer's Escape Clause, or The Social Uncertainty Principle

(Vanity) The Coulter Affair, or Deutch! Deutsch!

(Vanity) Democrats and Health Care, or the SCHIP hits the fan

China's Fuel Problems, or, A Shortage of Sand

(Vanity) A Nightmare Scenario

The McCain Sieve, or, the SwiftTalk Express

(Vanity) The Stimulus Package, or, The Trojan Burro

(Vanity) Trading Places on the Plantation

Pushing on a String, or, The End of the Rope

(Vanity) The Audacity of Hoax, or, The Religious Wright

(Funny Article, too bad it's not mine): Bud and Lou on Computers

(Saving these for some thread where I need them!)

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