In The News

Opposing Anarchy, “Defending” Skepticism, and Promoting Life to Liberty-Lovers Gone Wrong

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 3, 2022 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary, Trinity Foundation Reviews

Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: The first set laments how anarchists dominate groups I formerly believed I could endorse. I desire a nation, states, and localities characterized by liberty, not anarchy. One group of liberty advocates who...

Abolishing Abortion: On Role Models, Leaving a Party, and Paying for Emancipation

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 28, 2022 | Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Random Commentary

Introduction and Contents My dissatisfaction with American political options persists. As I continue to reflect on what matters most to me in the political realm, I find I must make adjustments to my affiliations and entertain solutions to problems that I would not...

Culture War: What Is It Good For? (Or, My Sad Farewell to the Culture War)

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 22, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Pet Peeves, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

Introductory Remarks: Culture Peace As Possible God, through the Apostle Paul, urges his people to, “as much as lieth” in them (that is, insofar as doing so lies within their control), “live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18). For a while...

2022 Q3 Correspondence, Part 1: Let Them Live!

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 31, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

Welcome to the latest edition of the series formerly known as “prompted letters,” which chronicles my off-site correspondence with all and sundry. As will be noted in the Pious Eye “About” page when I get around to updating it, all posts on...

Concluding Political Postscript to 2020: My Christian Nationalist Libertarian Platform

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 4, 2021 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News

Image: Christian Nationalist Libertarian © 2021 David M. Hodges, piouseye.com. Created by combining, modifying, and adding to public domain images obtained via goodfreephotos.com and publicdomainpictures.net. Preface ˅ Our nation’s degeneration into tyranny...

Californians for Blankenship: An Update

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 14, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Brief Notices, In The News

Image: Don Blankenship for the Constitution 2020. Copyright © David M. Hodges, piouseye.com, with all rights reserved. Created by combining and modifying two images provided by Wikimedia Commons, which identifies both as being in the public domain. Supporters of the...

Counting Votes, Finding Success, Defining Essentials, and Dealing with Trolls (and a Bit More)

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 2, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

[1] With thanks to Dr. Fauci for helping scare America into its current state, we prepare to move forward. A few items follow. They include: a how-to for those in California who would like to enable supporters of the Constitution Party to vote for their presidential...

Lamenting Lost Liberty, Lame Candidates, and Lunacy on the Left and Right

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 24, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, English Usage, Errata, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

[1] Pandemic-excused infringements of liberty and a looming presidential election with typically nauseating major-party offerings have focused much of my attention on political matters lately. Fox News remains the Trumpian news network, of late choosing to emphasize...

Dark-World Animadversions and Other Remarks

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 9, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

Image: PiousEye Storm Warming. Created by David M. Hodges for the Pious Eye site by combining and modifying a public domain image and an image by Wikimedia Commons user Dudva, the latter of which was used and reworked in accord with its Creative Commons 4.0 CC BY-SA...

Akashic Records Prompt Letters

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 4, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Pet Peeves, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

Since most things that occur to me, and to most people, do turn out to have occurred to someone else before (Ecclesiastes 1:9), I fear I must credit this and all my posts to the mystical Akashic records, that storehouse of all that sentient beings have ever thought or...