A friend wrote to me last night: I will tell you, Craig, I was so utterly horrified by the dolphin video (that she had shared on Facebook, re: Japan’s considering dolphins pests and slaughtering them wholesale) I doubt I will …
Tag: U.S. Constitution
The Arc of the Moral Universe: What Can We Expect?
Here’s a question posed by a certain Steve Charleston: I have a simple question for people of faith around the world: must it always be so? Must human history always be written as the aftermath of competition between the few …
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: John McCain Vows To Block Any Supreme Court Nominee from Hillary Clinton
(Pictured: retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens) From John McCain (R-AZ), one of America’s most revered leaders: I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put …
Conversation on the U.S. Constitution
I thought readers might enjoy a discussion I’m having with 2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Cameron Atwood. Craig: I’m amused by all these “Constitutionalists.” As distinguished from whom? People who believe the Constitution can be trivialized? How many of them are there? Are …
We Have a Republic, If We Can Keep It
It was an afternoon of ironies. I took a few hours off and helped my daughter study for her poli-sci mid-term, which will cover the formation of the United States, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, …
Denis Diderot's Ideas Lie At the Base of Modern Western Civilization
Last Friday was the birthday of French philosopher Denis Diderot, who said, “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Holy cow, that’s some powerful language. It appears to summarize …
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Celebrating the U.S. Constitution
Here’s a piece I wrote originally in 2009 for another website, but I wanted to make it available to 2GreenEnergy readers as well. 220 years after the birth of our beloved U.S. Constitution we see its basic tenets challenged from …
Clean Energy May Be Right Around the Corner
A number of folks commenting on my piece The New Living Large Is Living Small noted that perhaps we need a precipitating event to pull the world together, and teach us once again how to live with one another. But …
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