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Am I supposed to mourn a hateful man when he dies? Certainly Antonin Scalia could be much worse (consider Osama bin Laden or Ronald Reagan), but the negative impact he had on the lives affected by his jurisprudence was not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Digital sketches of some GOP candidates I have been posting to the social media. Ben Carson recently contended that Darwin was influenced by “the Adversary” (i.e., Satan) in theorizing evolution, and religion is a good enough probable cause for searches. Chuck[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Breed if you want to. Don’t breed if you don’t want to. I’m a parent. I love my kids. I wanted to have children, so I did. I know a lot of people who don’t want to have children, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The same day that Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a state law allowing for the discrimination against LGBT workers and customers in the name of religion, he also lifted a ban on needle exchanges in response to a serious HIV[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New York Times recently reported on a new push by gun rights advocates to allow firearms on college campuses. The most recent legislative move is in Nevada, where legislator Michele Fiore, as quoted in the NYT article, said the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As police continue their investigation of the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC, neighbor testimony supports the finding that one of the bugbears working on Craig Hicks’ mind was a fixation with parking space etiquette. So[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The main thrust of President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last week was to separate war from religion. Good luck with that. Simply acknowledging the ways religion and war have been bound up with each other — along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the more ridiculous things said by libertarian extremists this week (who knows what next week might bring?) came from Senator Thom Tillis about government regulation of restaurants: Tillis said he was at a Starbucks in 2010 talking to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Few people are excited by the prospect of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking from the same podium that President Obama used to deliver his State of the Union address, so I predict the event scheduled for March will be canceled.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…