Month: October 2019

Romney Shows His True Colors

In 2012, Donald Trump considered entering the GOP presidential race. Eventually, he decided to forgo a campaign and endorse Mitt Romney. Undoubtedly, it boosted Romney’s campaign and helped him secure the GOP presidential nomination. In the 2012 general election, Romney…

Science Is Not Infallible

Having read a 2012 article by Shawn Lawrence Otto of Scientific American, Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy, I felt compelled to add my two cents. According to Otto’s article, America is slipping off its science foundation fostered by the political right.  “…Science…

The False Equation of Atheism

“It is a common myth of our day, not surprisingly propagated by atheists, that religious believers are undereducated folk who have abandoned the use of reason in favor of blind faith.” Thomas D. Williams, LC Richard Lynn, professor of psychology at…

What’s it Gonna Take?

.. all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.— Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence” What has to happen before the…

Nothing from Nothing

Science is the process of determining the behavior of matter using observation, testing, and reason. Faith on the other hand is based on that which is unobservable and untestable, any belief beyond the discovery of reason, or as John Locke…

“Government, Keep Out!”

They call us the world’s only superpower. But life feels less “super” every day. Our incomes fall. Our debts rise. Our leaders tell us inflation is low. Yet costs for housing, fuel, and even food balloon beyond our means. Haven’t…

Freedom and Responsibility Go Hand-in-Hand

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”  President Ronald Reagan The left continues its agenda of taking America in a new direction, away from the free association of self-governing individuals envisioned by our founders, toward a…

“The Great American Fraud”

How do you tell when a politician’s lying? You know the punch line: His lips are moving. Unfortunately the old joke is no joke. For the last 100 years, virtually every promise the federal government has ever made has been…

Embracing Satan

If madness is sanctified through a wave of pop-culture affirmation and nature is chased out with a pitchfork, what real argument does society have to declare anything wrong? Throughout most of Western history both philosophy and religion took for granted…

So the UN Doesn’t Want Your Guns?

“Gone long ago is the time when we Europeans could subdue other continents because we had firearms and the local peoples had not. In 1999 it was reported that an AK-47 assault rifle could be bought in Uganda for the…