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More Important Things: Christmas Greetings
A Holiday Tree? It’s Christmas time, or the holidays are upon us, again. And predictably, Christians and traditionalists are duking it out with many in the broader culture regarding whether or not the correct greeting is “Merry Christmas&...
The Manhattan Declaration And The Joker
This is not Hugh O'Shaughnessy Sometimes the cynics are so ludicrous you can’t help but laugh. It’s the only thing you can do in the face of huffy and misguided rants such as this one: No one who surveys the statistics of abortion in ...
Death Of FUD: Swine Flu Not So Bad
The Swine Flu Virus The internet is a great enemy of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), and there have been many things this year about which there is great FUD. FUD is the friend of people who would abuse their power, because there is nothing quit...
Anarchy Commits Suicide
After reading Greg Koukl’s book Tactics, kindly sent by Neil, I’ve been listening to arguments looking for fallacies and inconsistencies which would prove the arguments false or unsustainable. A New York-based sketch comedy group, Whitest...
I Know Who I’d Like To Be
Wealth without context Rich and not working During a conversation the question came up “who am I?” The lady I was talking with gave the above response, half joking yet completely serious. I’ve often thought what I’d do if I we...
Proofs Against Moral Relativism
Some things just fail on their own The best counter to moral relativism is still the quip “is that so?” delivered with the appropriate raised eye-brow. Any sufficient response to that query must consist of a positive statement of an absol...
Today’s Interesting Stuff: 10/12/2009
Where’re the headlines? Interesting Reason.org reports on a study published in October 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association which busts the balloon of “common knowledge” regarding who clogs emergency rooms and doe...
Good Father
Fatherhood is manly I’ve been surprised of late at the sources and volume of negative or, at best, ambivalent feelings towards fathers and fatherhood. My wife is getting involved in the ladies ministry at our church and there was a coffee and t...
Health Care Update
They [members of congress] had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context...
The Only Right
The only right I have is the right to struggle. It is a right to potential, not a promise to payoff. And any government or organization or person who takes away my right to try it denying me the basic dignity of humanity. Obama, his philosophy, and h...
It’s Only Racist When You Make It So
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates is a racist. And an opportunist and publicity hound for the sake of his racist cause. He brings no resolution or improvement to the cause of race relations. The Story Professor Gates had just arrived home with his ...
Wrong Ideas…
…come packaged with so much glitter it’s hard to convince ‘em that other things might be better in the long run. ~Andy Griffith An accurate description of the task of those trying to show the failure of liberal policies as much as t...
Musician Or Pedophile?
Yesterday I gave my thoughts on the death of Michael Jackson. True to form, shortly after posting that article I thought of a simple argument that sums up what I spent paragraphs attempting to explain yesterday. If a pedophile made music, we’d ...
My Thoughts On Michael Jackson
It’s been all over the place and most everybody has the same thoughts: the world has lost wonderful talent as it has lost Michael Jackson. Conservatives, Liberals, Christians, Heathens alike are, for the most part, mourning the loss of this ski...
Walmart And The Healthy Free Market
In case you had trouble guessing: I like businesses. If there weren’t business there wouldn’t be internet, iphones, cars, bicycles, buildings, tents, sleeping bags, fresh produce in the middle of winter, heat and A/C, in cars too, hospita...
You Read It Second Here: H1N1 & Big Brother Medicine
H1N1 (swine) flu isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Gee, it’s just aweful when the bugbear doesn’t live up the trumped up claims the media seems to want us to believe. The Illinois Public Health Director has not drunk the koolai...
What is our problem?
What makes us so special? Rather than embarking on a long dialogue, as is my norm, I want to instead throw some things out on the table for you to think about. First . . . do we really readthe Bible, or do we just preview it through our Americanized ...
Dilbert . . . in this new economy
Here is a priceless article out of the WSJ. There are no real “slick” lines in the article or fancy catchphrases, just sound, well though out reasoning. The article details how the economies woes are no longer the fault of the Bush admini...
“I’m Too Pro-Science…”
“…to be Pro-Choice.” Neil highlighted this fact in his article on why it is abortion supporters who are the ones still stuck in the middle ages of scientific ignorance. It is an incontrovertible fact that life begins at conception a...
In the Name of the Jesus, the Christ (a defence of Propserity Preachers)
Christianity has been recently buzzing with with what some people call a “prosperity” gospel. Over simplified, this gospel refers to a leader (preacher) calling on his people to becomes saved and everything will be taken care of (to the e...
Chipotle And The Beneficent Free Market
This is a slight commentary on Chipotle (the restaurant chain) and how it symbolizes the significant superiority of the free market economy and accompanying extreme wealth and their many benefits to the world at large. Have you eaten at Chipotle? If ...
What I’ve Been Up To
Twitter. Yes, I’m one of “those” people. Texting to the world. I think the moment that most symbolizes the power of twitter was when an average lady sent a direct message to a CNN newsman. No email address, mailing address, or phone...
Why Does It Matter?
Why do I pick on people like the Miss Havisham family? Or excoriate the misinformed lifeform on Medved? Indict the frantic yuppies fearful of every nuts shadow? Or judge the juvenile respondents of the Network World poll? Because every action we take...
Resurrecting Fido: Refusal To Grow
The story about the retirees refusing to allow their pup Lancelot to shuffle off this mortal coil when his natural life ended by ordering Lancelot Encore (cute puppy pictures), the first one-off, made to order, cloned animal, is interesting to me mor...
Obama Hypocrisy: Lobbyist Dream
From CNN and Campbell Brown: …we are again asking the President to explain why, exactly, that he announced, with great fanfare, new ethics rules if he had no intention of abiding by them. Democrat leaders are often the first and loudest claimin...
Obama: The Man And The Idea
(A)s we revel in this gush of happy feelings it is important to recognize that not all change is good. It is important to recognize that we need to pin our hopes on solid ideas or our hopes will be quite hopeless. On that depressing note I beg your p...
An Informed Life
On a recent Michael Medved show a caller, identifying himself as a moderately liberal high school political science teacher, stated that the conservative force he fears most in America is from the Christian conservatives who allow their theology to i...
In Favor Of A Modicum
“(U)nless you’re a character on “Heroes,” genes don’t mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And genes certainly don’t cause 25% of parents to believe t...
The Day The UAW Died - Or Not
And they were singing: Bye, bye miss American pie… Yesterday the US automakers, the UAW, and the US government failed to reach an agreement that could have secured a bailout for the “Big 3″. GM is consulting with bankruptcy lawyers....
Sliding Into Socialism & Smile
Some mornings I wish I didn’t peruse the news. Today was one of those mornings. The stories were thick of people expecting things from the government, wanting the government to reach down and touch them, trying to get things through misuse of g...
