Gun Control
In the last couple of years I’ve changed my stance on gun control. I don’t like guns. They scare the hell out of me, and I see nothing “sporting” about attacking unarmed animals with them in the...
View ArticleClueless
Not only is he likely to die by the end of his first term in office (see the actuarial tables if you think I’m kidding), he’s clueless. Yes, the wars in central Asia are a problem. But even bigger and...
View ArticleGridlock: The American Way
Often as not, politicians and pundits decry gridlock as something negative. Nothing could be further from the truth, as an OpEd piece in the Wall Street Journal points out today. In my opinion,...
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Breaking Up
It’s all the talk. At cocktail parties and in the small talk before business meetings, we’re all talking about that certain Russian prediction of the breakup of the American union and the new...
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Zionist Fallout and an Independent Press
Anna Baltzer, author, and Haithem El-Zabri, founder of the Palestine Online Store. Austin, TX, November 2008. (Photographer unknown.) I found this photo on Mondoweiss.net, a site devoted to US policy...
View ArticleI Politic
ALEC Rock Produced by Mark Fiore (http://www.markfiore.com), The ALEC Exposed Project (http://www.alecexposed.org) and Alliance for a Better Utah (http://betterutah.org) The post I Politic appeared...
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Because Raped Women are a Series of Tubes…
One of the pleasures of living in a world where anti-intellectualism rules a major political party is that it’s fairly easy to spot the political leanings of the shockingly ignorant. Image courtesy of...
View ArticleUsing Tax Money to Rebuild Churches
On July 10, two senators introduced Senate Bill 1274, which would add religious buildings to the list of nonprofit facilities eligible to receive federal disaster relief aid after catastrophic events...
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Nathan Warren: Free Man, Confectioner, Minister, Civil Rights Advocate
Student portraying Annie, Nathan Warren’s first wife, at 2013′s Tales of the Crypt at the historic Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock The lot of a slave in the American South was not easy, no matter...
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Patriotic Atheist American Heritage
Recently I posted some hate mail on Facebook that the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers received. This email said that atheists have no heritage in the United States, that we aren’t real patriots, and...
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