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Apr 06 2010
The Texas School Board of Education’s efforts to demote and downgrade Thomas Jefferson in terms of his contributing importance to this nation has made me the center of attention in some circles here on the San Francisco Peninsula. Some know that I’m a 6th generation Texan who had an ancestor who died at the Alamo (William Depriest [...]
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 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 [...]
Jan 11 2010
How do we know what isn’t so? I want to recommend two books that address the problem of sorting through things in order to arrive at the truth of something. Thomas Kida has authored “Don’t Believe Everything You Think: the 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking.” Thomas Gilovich has authored “How we Know What [...]
Jan 08 2010
Published on Friday, January 1, 2010 by alternative news website CommonDreams.org The Real Top 10 News Stories of the Past Decade by Robert Freeman The media are awash with talking heads bloviating about the top stories of the last decade. The wired-in society. The growth of organic food. The new frugality. This is the ritual [...]
Sep 14 2009
The Apostle Paul never met, spoke with, or ever heard anything from the mouth of Jesus, yet Paul, on the road to Damascus to round up more followers of Jesus (there was no one at that time called “Christian) for persecution by the Jewish religious officials. On the road to Damascus Paul was blinded by [...]
Jul 23 2009
Hello and welcome to Richard Sutherland’s blog! Richard Sutherland earned his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and has more than 30 years of experience in legal, privacy and asset protection issues. Prior to law school, Richard earned graduate degrees in History and Far Eastern Languages from the University of Southern California and the Harvard [...]