This might not be the best day of the year to write a post about an atheist, but there is never a bad time to note what the late Christopher Hitchens thought about people like Donald Trump. The world isn’t …
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C.S. Lewis Brought Us Great Thoughts, Reading Pleasures
C. S. Lewis is now a subject of discussion primarily by virtue of his adopting Christianity, given his former position as an avowed atheist. But doesn’t this fixation on his religion seem like something of a shame, given that he …
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Planet Earth Isn’t Falling Into Line
I like to think that the blog here at 2GreenEnergy.com is a set of instructions to a world that desperately needs them. I’m not suggesting that anything here is profound, or even that it’s controversial; they are mostly ideas like: …
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It’s The First That Counts Most
When western philosophy was in its infancy during the so-called pre-Socractic days, there were a great number of intellectual triumphs–not the least of which was that of Thales of Miletus (ca. 700 BCE). Thales introduced the idea of the “arche,” …
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Dr. Biden
Am I the only one who has no clue what the rancor with Jill Biden’s PhD is about? We had a science teacher in high school whose doctorate (I’m guessing) wasn’t in medicine. He was Dr. Katman. Had any of …
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In Many Parts of the World, Public Sector Services Drive Happiness
This fellow expresses what most Americans feel. Moreover, it’s what guides entire societies in Europe and Scandinavia. Those folks don’t want to live among the homeless, the hungry, not to mention people who can’t afford an education and those dying …
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Trump’s Acts of Damage To Our Nation May Actually Be a Boon in the Long Term
The reader I mentioned the other day, Tom, says in response to my post outlining the criminal and otherwise despicable acts Trump has performed during his years in office, “I would still be interested in what single item stands out …
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Tagged with: and the bumbling incompetence at what was perhaps the most inopportune moment in our history, the cruelty to children and other innocents, the denigration of the free press, the humiliation of our nation on the world stage, the incitement to violence, the nepotism and the brazen self-enrichment at taxpayers' expense, the plundering of rule of law, the purging of all dissent, the role that evangelicals play in keeping all this alive, the sabotage of our institutions, Trump's Acts of Damage To Our Nation
Court Puts Spear Through Trump’s Arctic Drilling Plans
One of our reading books in second grade featured a drama about a little boy, our age, and the ups and downs he was experiencing in his young life. At one point, he couldn’t go the circus with his grandfather …
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Trump Sabotaging Environment As He Leaves Office
From this piece: With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to …
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Red States Talk of Seceding from the United States
All the talk about the Republican-leaning states’ seceding from the United States gets one thinking: Some say that Lincoln should have simply let the Confederate States of America leave the union, allowing them to wither and die, as the CSA …
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