Okay. Freedom of Religion must have its limits. When a religion comes to have a significant portion of its followers believing garbage that is antithetical to the needs of all people, that religion eventually comes to deserve curbs.
So, the Ground Zero Mosque debate is not a question of human rights, as some very well-meaning intellectuals [...]
There are a large number of US citizens, traditionally referred to as “Middle Americans,” who are engaged in small, private industry-jobs that have an uncertain future and that live and die on the prospects of a marketplace that is unhindered by taxes and government regulation. Even if they live in a rental unit, they live [...]
New Yorker staff writer, Jane Mayer, stated on this week’s edition of On the Media (see “Motormanmark’s Best Free Podcasts,”) that, there have been “persistent rumors” that the Guantanamo photographs the Obama administration seeks to suppress may contain images of cruelty to children and sexual abuse of women in addition to images of torture.
The [...]
At the base of Sarah Palin’s politics is a religious framework that rejects intellectualism. The pride of people who are more interested in, say… sports!, than in reading the international news section must have a way to systematically reject intellect to survive in the political world. Obama has no accomplishments to a person like this. [...]
Or maybe we will start not thinking of ourselves as so almighty. Maybe we’ll start to think that the natural world around us, that we’ve digested and wasted a huge amount of—including all our frontiers—is really something we must immediately begin to nourish back into dominance??
