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The Rise and Fall of Niceness
nice (adj.) – late 13c., “foolish, stupid, senseless,” from Old French nice (12c.) “careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish,” from…
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Suing the Government – Who You Gonna Call?
Erick Kaardal has become well-known for filing lawsuits against the federal government, state government and local governments. Hailing from…
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“Science” is Dead
“…the concepts of language are ambiguous in a rather drastic way: one can change them in a manner that violates…
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The Rule of Law, Judicial “Interpretation” & The Use of Language to Destroy the Culture
What if the written law was incoherent? What if statutes used key terms (“right,” “election,” “property,” “religious freedom,” “privacy,” “reasonable,”…
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Post-War Liberalism is now in Fetal Position: Time for an Abortion
The Islamic invasion of the West, which means the insistence by Islamic fundamentalism that it be allowed to insert Islamic…
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There is No Such Thing as Religious Freedom Apart from Liberty as a Whole
Apparently many conservatives and Christians have been outnegotiated, if not intellectually seduced, by the incoherent notion that “religious freedom” can…
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A Brave New World: Christian Sexual Revolution
Contraception as biological technology made it much more convenient to separate sex and love. That is, it removed, for many,…
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Is Religious Knowledge more “Objective” than Scientific Knowledge?
I grew up with a young man who, in turn, grew up with a young lady whom, after all of…
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Will to Power: Rule by Expert, Vaccinations, and Conservatives
Let’s assume, for the moment, what we will question later — namely that an expert can stabilize technical facts. A…
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Why the Academy Awards are so Embarrassingly Maudlin: Art Is Not Really Salvation
The maudlin ecstasy with which Hollywood movie makers accept the awards which they are always giving each other is based…
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The Mosin Nagant: A Gun Review
I have been lusting after the Joshua MK 5 “Homeland, Home, and Liberty Protector,” as I put it, which will…
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The Problem of Boredom and its Resolution
Boredom is a major aspect of the human predicament; a major dimension of what we often label “alienation.” The universal…
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A Defense of Anti-Intellectualism
I spent a lot of my life in school. I went to college, then two graduate schools. I have taught…
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The Rational Depth of Christian Morality
Part of the depth of Christianity can be seen in what philosophers call its “moral psychology.” This is why the…
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