The reader who sent me the meme at left notes: “Abortion is child sacrifice. Children are blessings, and we must never believe the age‑old lie that their death will somehow secure a better future.” In the United States, a 9-month …
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Ignorance and Vice
Here’s a thought from founding father and political philosopher Samuel Adams. Anyone who can’t see where this country is being led is blind as a bat.
Kindness to Animals
I like to eat no higher on the food chain than seafood. Even fish suffer when they’re killed by deprivation of the dissolved oxygen content in water. That’s why my boyhood bass fisherman friend and I used to shoot the …
The Real World Actually DOES Need Changing
What black conservative/libertarian Thomas Sowell offers here is one theory. Another is even simpler. In this country, people of color face the results of centuries of oppression. Our educational system, funded as it is by property taxes, greatly favors the …
“I’m a Citizen of the World”
As shown at left, this concept has been around a long time. It tends to apply to educated progressives, rather than the MAGA crowd.
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Faith in the Eventual Supremacy of Reason
This from 20th Century American jurist Learned Hand: That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, …
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What Powers Do Billionaires Legitimately Have Over Us?
As we all know, there are greedy and selfish people in this world of ours, and these are certainly not virtuous traits. Yet, trying to be fair, people have the right to live by their own wits. If you’re Ebeneezer …
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Decent (and Younger) People Are Leaving the United States
From a reader: Filmmaker James Cameron says his family has permanently moved to New Zealand because it’s “sane” and “actually believes in science” compared to the US. “They already had a 98% [Covid] vaccination rate. This is why I love …
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Taxing the Rich
IMO, we need a tax on extreme wealth, rather than income. We’re taking about people with hundreds of billions of dollars in net worth. Taking, say, 5% per annum of that wealth and using it to feed and clothe the …
Improving the Planet’s Health
When I was a young boy, my grandfather, who was one of the most politically conservative people I’ve ever known, told me to “make this world a better place than it was when you got here.” Now, that seems like …
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