COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (March 16, 2023)

Death taxes are immoral. Even worse, they don’t work

“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared, “which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”But envy, and its sister vice, greed, are very much back in fashion today when it comes to the progressive Left.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: The Masonic Creed, the Wells Fargo collapse, and more who owns what

I ran across what is called the “Masonic Creed,” and people are reading and rereading this in vast numbers lately. Supposedly penned by J.D. Rockefeller back in the 1800s, I am including it below with a bit more information for this week’s column.Whatever you think, let me know.

Bank collapses are a reckoning for Team Biden’s sheer economic incompetence

The failure of three banks in the last two weeks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank just this weekend, is a saga of utter government incompetence.Call these bank collapses Biden’s Banking Busts.The administration has been obsessing on woke causes while banks teeter toward insolvency.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (March 16, 2023)

FOR THE RECORD“Taxpayers may not officially be picking up the tab [for the SVB collapse], but everyone else who uses a bank will pay for this down the road in the form of higher fees with their bank.”  – Jim Geraghty“The only way I know how to improve the president’s budget is with a shredder.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) – part 3

My oldest big brother Tim – five years older than I – had a best friend named Brian Light with whom he went to school.I have often written about Brian in that he is one of those gentlemen who makes an early impression on you because of the way he knows how to carry himself.

OUT TO PASTOR: Nothing like a mystery to calm my nerves

Nothing calms me down more than a mystery when I have a busy week.The other afternoon I got caught up and faced some rather stressful situations.

The dynamics of discipleship (part 46)

“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – MARK 14:38There are many doors that allow the devil entrance into ones life but there are five which brought David down.

CONSTITUTIONAL MINUTE #40

If the American people (and American lawyers) had been properly educated, they would know that “abortion” is not listed among the enumerated powers.Therefore, it is a state matter, not federal.

Now is the time to prep your lawn and garden for warm weather

STATEPOINT – It may feel like warm weather is still a way’s off, but you should already be getting your lawn and garden spring-ready, according to experts.