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A Reply to a Fellow WordPress Member
I just saw this post, accusing the New York Times of fear mongering by posting opinion pieces arguing that John McCain wants to end abortion and prosecute women who obtain abortions. The poster states...
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Had It Up To Here: Arguing Against Evolution by Invoking Hitler
I’ve had it up to here with this crap. I try to restrict my use of profanity on this site, but this argument is batshit insane, and it’s time for it to die. I want to save you from viewing the idiocy...
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Democracy in America: Mitt Romney’s Speech on Freedom & Religion
Religion has always been an integral part of American culture, but to argue that it is an integral part of American democracy is to vastly overstate the point. I cannot stand to see politicians arguing...
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Bob Barr on Gay Rights: Once Yes, a Thousand Times No
Somewhat surprisingly, Bob Barr, arch-conservative and architect of the ridiculously-titled Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA), thinks California’s decision to allow gay marriage is an example of the...
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The Meaning of Free Speech
A disturbing trend in the media and political discourse, lately, is the conflation of disagreement with censorship. Free speech protects the right to disagreement and dissent, but to equate dissent...
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People on the left, like myself, often argue that fundamentalist religion is at its base irrational. After all, it’s pretty hard to read things like this and this without cracking a smile. What’s odd,...
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Contra Human Events (#1)
To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than “Human Events,” a website which gains its conservative street cred by mixing ads depicting lusty women...
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Bill Kristol on Motherhood: Missing the Point of MoveOn.org’s “Alex” Ad
As often happens when we over-construct the evil of our enemies, Bill Kristol in his latest op-ed for the New York Times approaches his subject (MoveOn.org) at the wrong level of abstraction,...
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Mount Soledad’s Cross: Religious Monuments Revisited
California courts have been nothing but trouble lately: this time, they’re playing with the first amendment’s establishment clause, and the intersection between religion and public monuments. Last...
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Real & Imagined Religious Persecution: How the Religious Right Trivializes...
Can it be really? As the world stands poised to watch China pretend to be a peaceful-freedom loving “citizen of the world” during the Olympics, Judge Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama...
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