How you can help advance 2006 time zone bills in the Indiana General Assembly.
I was born in Richmond, Indiana (near the Ohio border), first child of George and Jeanne Starr.
Dad worked for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Wayne County before taking over the family farm in 1958.
My grandfather, Edgar Starr, taught mathematics at Carnegie-Mellon (then Carnegie Tech), circa 1920-1960.
Edgar's older brother, Monroe Starr, represented Fayette and Franklin counties in the Indiana General Assembly 1945 and 1947.
I grew up on the family hog and grain farm in Rush County, 9 miles southeast of Rushville, Indiana (50 miles southeast of Indianapolis).
New Salem Elementary School (Grades 1-8).
Rushville Consolidated High School (Grades 9-12).
B.S. Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
(Terre Haute, Indiana)
- Attended Christian Student Fellowship (SCAMPS)
M.S. Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University (New York state)
We lived 8 years in Binghamton, NY (then "GE Flight Control Systems", now "
BAE SYSTEMS Platform Solutions")
and 5 years in South Bend, IN (then "AlliedSignal/Bendix Jet Engine Control Systems";
now part of "Honeywell Aerospace Ground Support Equipment, I think").
We currently reside in south central Indiana.
I am a "web publisher" for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm.
My younger sister, Mary, lives with her husband and four children in Illinois.
Our younger brother, Richard, is managing editor of The Weekly Standard.
Married since August 1978 to my wonderful wife.
One son born April 1989, 2 daughters born December 1990 and July 1993.
My priority is serving Christ. Other interests include spending time with my family, homeschooling, Indiana's time zone (and associated astronomy and celestial mechanics), bluegrass music (see my personal bluegrass station on Pandora, following), reading, politics (generally Constitutionalist / libertarian / Republican), history of the U.S. Founders, First Christian Church, using my Sony CLIé Palm OS PDA (see below), Perl scripting.
Check out my weblog at "bill-starr.blogspot.com".
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- Were you taught the United States is a democracy or a republic?
- Review why The Electoral College is preferable to direct popular vote for electing the president of our
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LewRockwell.com: Great libertarian / paleoconservative / anti-state / anti-war / pro-market commentary on current events.
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Answers in Genesis - Creation, Evolution, Christian Apologetics
Wallbuilders (David Barton) and its statement of purpose (restoring awareness of America's Godly Heritage)
"Wise and learned men who believed in a Creator"
Why the Second Amendment is important ( Fall 1993 Public Interest article.)
Bible Gateway
- My current preferred Bible versions are New King James Version (based on the Byzantine / majority Greek text I prefer), English Standard Version, and Holman Christian Standard Bible (both based on the Alexandrian / Critical Greek text).
AMERICA'S GOD AND COUNTRY Encyclopedia of Quotations (Buy it today!)
The Best Defense : True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves With a Firearm (Buy it today!)
The Law by Frederic Bastiat (Buy it here) (or here)
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"[T]he idea that the only learning respectable enough for economic compensation comes from institutions, which treat it as a scarce resource, is patently absurd." - Autodidactic Profiles: Self-educated People Who've Made a Difference
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that." - Richard Feynman, 1974 Caltech commencement address
"Politics are part of a religion in such a country as this and Christians must do their duty to the country as a part of their duty to God. It seems sometimes as if the foundations of the nation are becoming rotten, and Christians seem to act as if they think God does not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it, and He will bless or curse this nation, according to the course they [Christians] take." - Charles Finney, 1792-1875
"Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God [Exodus 18:21].... [I]f the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted... If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws." - Founding Father Noah Webster, 1832
"Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces." - President James Garfield, 1877
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." - Robert H. Parker, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." - Noah Webster
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." - President Thomas Jefferson
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what section or clause is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battle in any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?" - Daniel Webster, in a speech before the U.S. House of Representatives in 1814
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