Taking on the world one post at a time!
Mar 29 2010
There is a movement afoot within and without the ranks of the National Rifle Association that claims that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees each individual the right to bear arms. Does a plain reading of the Second Amendment inescapably lead to this conclusion? The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being [...]
Mar 24 2010
The H1N1 virus has been around since at least 1918. It keeps cropping up from time to time, slightly altered because of evolutionary activity, but basically the same. The present-day activities of The Tea Party movement brings the activities of The Know Nothing Party to mind. Both were/are nativist and a large segment was/is racist [...]
Mar 17 2010
Texas is now entering a new Dark Age, where superstition and religion trump science and rational thought. Is Thomas Jefferson an important American political thinker? How much more of a stupid question can there be? But, in Texas, he isn’t important. Thomas Aquinas is a more important political thinker. Duh? Father help them because they [...]
Mar 16 2010
The article below was written by Tom Blackburn and was posted in today’s (3/16/10) edition of The Daily News (a newspaper serving the San Francisco Peninsula communities.) For those who can fast forward five years or so, the demise of the U.S. planting its flag on foreign soil is approaching. Very soon. This is the very [...]
Mar 12 2010
And, by now you’ve no doubt seen Karl Rove’s pronouncement that he is proud that we waterboarded suspected terrorists. It is this mentality that we now see in Liz Cheney. It is the same mentality that allowed the Southern Christian slave master to torture and kill obstreperous slaves. It is the same mentality that allowed [...]
Mar 11 2010
My wife, daughter and I have just completed a trip to Charleston, South Carolina and nearby Boone Hall Plantation, a plantation that near the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 had as many as 250 slaves working the fields and making bricks. In old Charleston, we visited the site where slaves were auctioned off [...]