July 30, 2012
Environmental Atheism
Originally published in The Hill. It was Blaise Pascal who said, “Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you...
July 30, 2012
The Media’s Gun v. Abortion Control Double Standard
It’s a powerful lobby group that has a major political party in a vise grip which has only grown tighter as the years go by. It has opposed every common-sense regulation that has come down the pike since the mid-1970s,...
July 27, 2012
The Olympic Moment
One thing we know for certain is that the British can’t handle the truth, especially coming from an American. Mitt Romney repeated what has been widely reported in the news, even to folks who haven’t been paying much attention, and...
July 26, 2012
What Exactly Has Obama Been Doing?
We know President Obama has been busy. What we don’t know is what he has been busy doing, besides campaigning. Mr. Obama has done more fundraisers that any other President at this point and time in his tenure. He has...
July 25, 2012
Boycott?
Charles C. Boycott probably would have gladly gone to Chick-Fil-A. Boycott was the British land agent who, representing the interests of an absentee English landlord in County Mayo, Ireland in the late 1800’s, found himself at the wrong end of...
July 25, 2012
Are Massacres Inevitable?
The prevailing sentiment seems to be that massacres like what happened in Aurora, Colorado are inevitable. I wonder if that is so. Certainly, evil is an ever-present reality in this world. Bad people will do bad things. And they seem...