With all the things going on in the emerging political season and growing turmoil between nations in the world, it is easy to miss individual developments ratcheting up authoritarian control. For example, China is preparing to institute a that will be used to determine how qualified a person is to receive government benefits. This citizenship […]

Grade school bullies with sneers on their faces used to ask me (with a fist cocked in front of my face), “Are you sceered now!?” The only person I ever feared was my dad, but he was a big stern Spanish/Irish bruiser. And so it is, “If we fear God we have nothing else to […]