I’ve never agreed with those who have a problem with God assigning Nephi to be Laban’s executioner. God has the power to give life, and to take life. Why should we have a problem with the method by which God chooses to take a life? (One can easily infer a couple of good purposes or reasons for having Nephi be the one to shed Laban’s blood, but that’s another topic.)

Or, as the Stoic philosopher Epictetus said in his Enchiridion section XI, to someone who lost some property to a thief, “But what is it to you, by whose hands the giver demanded it back?”

Mentally unstable guard begins to identify with his prisoners.

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Exhibit A.

Won’t include Politico, the Washington Post, and ABC News.

Not that I was going to trust the New York Times, either, but you have to give credit where it’s due.

Here’s a gory description of abortion by a doctor who performed them, plus a rebuttal of the idea that killing the 2nd or third trimester baby is sometimes needed to save the mother

Video of the first ten minutes of the Moore F5 tornado.  (more…)

**WARNING** **WARNING** **WARNING** VERY NAUGHTY LANGUAGE **WARNING** **WARNING** **WARNING**      (more…)

Lois Lerner.     (more…)

Judge urges plaintiffs in IUD class action to include women among their attorneys.       (more…)

Boruch Spiegel, who somehow survived to raise a family and become a factory foreman.

“May He who makes peace in His high places grant in His mercy peace upon us and upon all His nation Israel; and say Amen”

Via satellite.      (more…)

Chess, chocolate, and human rights.      (more…)

Is not quite dead yet.      (more…)

But Drudge is a genius when it comes to juxtaposition.     (more…)

“Man found to not be dead at his Zimbabwe funeral”