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"The society which separates its scholars from its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."–Thucydides
So, opponents of Kansas’ RFRA law say that it opens the door for private citizens to sue any government agency for NOT discriminating against people based on “sexual orientation”. Hm. First, that’s not a good use of the word “discrimination”. I’m sure it’s in the dictionary that way now, but what you really mean is …
Continue reading “Religious Freedom, Homosexuality, and Bigotry”
“…Obamacare is the law of the land…” –John Boehner (R), Speaker of the House As we move on to the fourth day of the (partial) shutdown of the United States Federal government imposed by the Democratic Party, I find myself mulling over this particular phrase quite a bit. The Republican-controlled house wants to present itself …
I know I’ve promised several posts which I have not delivered, but I’ve been unbelievably busy lately. As soon as I can get to them, I still think they’re all worthwhile. In the meantime, I wanted to offer a quick thought on the “Invasion of Syria vs. Invasion of Iraq” comparisons which are going through …
I’ve been in an interesting discussion of religion on Twitter today. Since I was already planning a post on “Superstition, Mythology, Faith and Religion”, I’ve also queued up a post on “Religion and Violence”. Another upcoming topic will be an analysis of (or probably, rebuttal to) Wodarz and Komarova’s “Dependence of the Firearm-Related Homicide Rate …
This was the refrain I constantly heard during the lead-up to the SCOTUS’s decision to undermine the bedrock of human civilization (marriage) for the convenience of sexual deviants (“deviant” is not a moral condemnation; it’s a statistical, biological and psychological fact). “Why do you care? It doesn’t affect you!” (The assumption by everyone who disagreed …
So, I’ve seen several protests on Twitter on Facebook recently, that CVS/Pharmacy’s decision not to carry the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine due to the cover story of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev constitutes a “First Amendment problem,” because CVS is “limiting free speech.” Let me begin by posting the text of the First Amendment: …
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”–Attributed to Josef Stalin Sometime around 1991, my freshman year in college, I came across Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail; the first cinematic …
Continue reading “The Power of Myth-Negation: A Tale of Four Movies”
“Why can’t we tell the truth about climate change?” Of course, the intent of John Sauven’s question is that there is a vast, shadowy network of government and corporate entities conspiring to prevent honest scientists from revealing a necessary truth about scientific consensus to the unwashed masses. I’ll examine on how many levels that is …
Continue reading “The Director of Greenpeace Asks a Legitimate Question”
US News has a story today about what’s really happening on the border. While CNN and other sources like to make it sound as though this is an issue of racist local afraid of “those people” moving into their neighborhoods, the truth is that this is an issue of hyper-violent international criminal gangs taking advantage …
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The global trend toward rational skepticism and away from socialist-driven alarmism is now undeniable. Not only have the major scientific academies of Russia and the Czech Republic issued strong statements of dissent against the alarmist opinion, but “Climate Change Reconsidered”, the premier rebuttal to the various IPCC *ahem* “reports”, has now even been translated into …
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