Believer in limited government, individual responsibility, ideas and not ideologies, fact over emotion, the freedom to worship God in peace but that freedom ends where the rights of others to do likewise begins, the Second Amendment has never been needed more than now, homosexuality is a self-destructive behavior that no sane person should be compelled to endorse, abortion is an abhorrent evil, men and women are complementary but still different enough to have their respective sports, there should be equality of opportunity but that does not guarantee equality of outcome, and many other things that may arise as the situation warrants.

My blog is The Knight Shift. I've been maintaining it since early 2004. That's a looooong time! I think you'll find a lot of interesting content: opinion pieces, movie reviews, the occasional recipe, my video production work... a little bit of everything.

My autobiography Keeping the Tryst is available on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle. Many people over the years said they wanted me to share my life story. If you want a book loaded with cross-America journeys, love and loss, swindling operations, manic depression, independent filmmaking, running for office, questing for God and a lot of other stuff, this might be the tome for you!

I've been around Free Republic a LOT longer than I seem. How long? I'm from the class of 1998 that first came to this site during the Lewinsky scandal.

I chose "Ciaphas Cain" as my screen name because I like the Warhammer 40,000 character. But I'm not as lucky with women, unfortunately.

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