The Christian Vanguard

I have always been on board with the Never Trump movement. Most of us have been. It doesn't seem to be winning or losing any people, so, it's a pretty solid group. One issue those who want us to violate our conscience and vote against every principle that they themselves preached only two years ago hang above our heads is that of the Supreme Court. If Hillary is elected, we have no chance of getting a justice that will favor anything we stand for. We have a chance if Trump is elected. This is a horrible argument.  Think of it like a game of Russian Roulette. If you choose the gun Hillary hands you, you know that it is completely loaded. If you choose the gun Trump hands you, there is a chance that it isn't completely loaded. The better choice is Trump. Or maybe it is more like numbers. If Hillary is elected, there is a 0% chance that we will have favorable justices. If Trump is elected, there is a >0% chance we will have a favorable justice. So, Trump is the better ...

So I decided to go see Milo Yiannopoulos at UCSB yesterday. I was really hesitant to do so, and decided not to go, but a few of my friends wanted to go, and they're all losers who don't drive, so, I had to take everyone. I didn't know much about Milo, and I still don't, but I did learn some things. In some of the more, ahem, colorfully conservative pages of facebook that I follow, Milo has been something of an iconoclast, destroying the feminist narratives left and right. But I also know that he is an active homosexual and he is a rabid Trump supporter (even calling him "Daddy"). So, for those reasons, I was never interested in what he had to say. He was, to take a phrase from Lenin, a useful idiot. That was my impression. But I was wrong. A few days before the event, I had read somewhere on these pages I follow but wont name, that Milo believed himself to be a Christian, and a Catholic at that. I dismissed this immediately, and my opinion of him stoppe...

Not being in school at the moment, I find myself with a bit more leisure time. I've taken up water coloring. I want to take up sailing again. Having lived in a beach city all my life, I was no stranger to boats. I remember when I was about nine or so, my dad took me on this trip on a replica pirate ship. We went out about a mile from shore, and passed by two other pirate ships filled and manned by actors in pirate costume, with loud but hollow bangs from their canons, and pirates swinging from their mast onto the other ships, and do sword fights. It captured my young minds imagination. I tried reading Treasure Island after that, but didn't get past half way.  For the more adult among us, the late great William F. Buckley Jr. wrote an entertaining trilogy of his sailing adventures.  Something about the sea and being on a ship captures many people's imagination. You don't see many children on sea, but rather grown men, and grown men having fun (although, I was told rece...

Say you are able to vote in a primary for both parties. You have your party, which gives you the choice between some really decent candidates, and the opposing party, which has some really evil people. The winners will face off in the general election. Will you also vote in the primary that is not your party? My hunch is yes, you will, and you will choose the opponent which is easiest to defeat, to better increase the chances of victory, or, in another light, to reduce the chances of you losing. No matter who your guy is, it seems to make sense that you want the easiest opponent.  Now, take a similar scenario except that you can no longer vote within your own party. Would you still vote for the person is who most likely to be an easier opponent? It seems so. If not, what is the difference? There are those who will say that "Voting for the lesser of evils is still voting for evil." This is to refuse to understand strategy. This idiotic slogan claims that the reason you fo...