Separation of Church & State & Guns
Today was 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday'. Nearly 100 American pastors were to intentionally violate U.S. law which serves to implement Amendment I of the Constitution. They seek a lawsuit and potential change...
View ArticleQuestions & Abortion
During this election cycle, it is a more prominent position for candidates to advocate the outright ban, without exception, of abortions. Exceptions which are currently legal include the cases of...
View ArticleFree Market Fallacy
One of the candidates for Roy Blunt's Congressional seat, in Missouri's 7th District, is Kevin Craig. Craig is a Libertarian. He expressed his Free Market attitudes in the recent candidate debate in...
View ArticleI Knew That It Was Reprehensible
A criminal on trial for a postal crime (circa 1965) gave the following testimony, as quoted by a St. Louis Division Postal Inspector who attended the trial. The Prosecutor asked the defendant, 'Did you...
View ArticleFounded Upon Christian Principles
Some folks assert that the United States of America was founded upon Christian Principles, and that the Founding Fathers relied upon Christian Principles {or here or here} in formulating the guiding...
View ArticleLibertarianism vs. Man-Made Disaster
Libertarians, in a panoply of forms, emphasize individual liberty over group control. Even I, your favorite blogger (right?), am somewhat Libertarian, leaning in the direction of Egalitarianism and...
View ArticleI Am Thankful This Christmas
I am thankful this Christmas that science and humanitarians have allied to improve the lives of countless people.I hadn't recently read of the Carter Center's progress in combatting guinea worm, and...
View ArticleThe Republican-Lysenko Party
The modern GOP is irresponsible and dangerous.The operative phrase {link above} is that legislators seek "... to reverse the agency's scientific finding ..." regarding the EPA & AGW. Imagine seeing...
View ArticleSomebody Was Having a Bad Day
I have a mix of friends on a social networking site. There are a quite a variety of styles, beliefs, attitudes, and talents. Straight, Gay, Christian, atheist, Moslem, undecided, conservatives of...
View ArticleDirty Laundry
You don't really need to find out what's going on You don't really want to know just how far it's gone Just leave well enough alone, keep your dirty laundry 'Dirty Laundry' - Don Henley Many readers...
View ArticleKinetic and Potential Life
One of the early lessons in Physics is the Conservation of Energy. Energy comes in two broad categories (forms), kinetic and potential. Energy can be in either form, and the form can even be changed....
View ArticleOccupy the Bible
I am often motivated by scripture readings in Sunday service to write about them from a different perspective than is customary. Recently, the Gospel Reading in our little ELCA Lutheran Church was the...
View ArticleConservative Rules of Acquisition
It has always been common for scientific fields to complement each other. A recent archeological discovery has revealed intact documents from the 20th and 21st centuries which were produced by the...
View ArticleRon Paul's Chip Off the Old Block
Today's post is an encore for last year's Dr. Rand Paul, Civil Rights Patriot. The changing flux of the Republican primaries & caucuses has renewed its relevance this Christmas, 2011. The ensuing...
View ArticlePhony '-ologies'
Rick Santorum, the William Jennings Bryan Memorial Presidential Candidate, says of his opposition to Obama, It's about...some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible... . I say that...
View ArticleFraming the Romney Question
Enough has been said about Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's religion. Yes, as a Latter Day Saint (Mormon), Romney adheres to beliefs that are ludicrous. Almost anything conceived by an...
View ArticleThe Heresy of 'Pro-Life' Christians
Our scripture readings in ELCA Sunday service often provoke my thoughts. My thoughts are never aligned with the Pastor's sermon, for sermons are typically generalized and oriented toward a certain...
View ArticleLibertarianism vs. Man-Made Disaster
Libertarians, in a panoply of forms, emphasize individual liberty over group control. Even I, your favorite blogger (right?), am somewhat Libertarian, leaning in the direction of Egalitarianism and...
View ArticleI Am Thankful This Christmas
I am thankful this Christmas that science and humanitarians have allied to improve the lives of countless people.I hadn't recently read of the Carter Center's progress in combatting guinea worm, and...
View ArticleThe Republican-Lysenko Party
The modern GOP is irresponsible and dangerous.The operative phrase {link above} is that legislators seek "... to reverse the agency's scientific finding ..." regarding the EPA& AGW. Imagine seeing...
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