
For the first time in its history the Boy Scouts of America is considering allowing gay scout masters and members. This comes on...

For the first time in its history the Boy Scouts of America is considering allowing gay scout masters and members. This comes on...

Newsnippets, January 26, 2013 From Reuters: Obama appointments unconstitutional, Executive recess appointment power limited In a surprisingly broad ruling, the three-judge panel rejected...

Captain Katie Petronio is a Marine Corps officer with years of experience including tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is against...

It seems all the government has to do to make some people happy is ensure that more women will be given better chances...
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Remember the recent dust-up over the news outlet posting gun-owner names and addresses online? They took the map offline. Here’s a summary from...
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I’m still looking for the one that calls for the confiscation of all legal weapons. (See a brief explanation on the purpose and...

Folks on one side of the aisle have been off the rails about the possibility of President Obama’s executive orders in the gun...

Newsnippets, January 12, 2013 From Women Under Siege Syria: Member of opposition group confesses to rape on state TV Syria Online TV, a...
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The real story of the Syrian civil war We watched the TV, fascinated. We had been in Maraa for days, waiting for a...

The Daily Beast thinks so. The well known site asked its readers to weigh-in on the issue. Gun owners and non-owners alike responded...
I’m Marty Duren, a freelance writer, content creator, podcaster, and publisher in Nashville, TN. I guess that makes me an entrepreneur-of-all-trades. Formerly a social media strategist at a larger publisher, comms director at a religious nonprofit, and a pastor, Marty Duren Freelance Writing is the new business iteration of a decade-long side-hustle.
I host the Uncommontary Podcast which publishes weekly. Guests range from academics to authors to theologians to activists on subjects related to history, current events, and the impact of evangelicalism on American life. My voice is deep-fried giving rise to being labeled “a country Batman.” Find Uncommontary in your favorite podcast app.
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