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A quieter conversation.Calm Thoughts about Common Interests
Here you’ll confront no alarming requests that the world is soon to end unless you send us money. You’ll hear no name-calling or judgment of the allegedly bad intentions of others. Instead, you’ll find some calm thoughts about interests we all have, and ways to pursue those interests most effectively. Everyone wants better schools, quality health care, good jobs, financial security, a government that’s not suspicious of them, and a host of other political interests. Let’s talk about how we can actually get those things.
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#ABOLISHLICENSES Challenge for State Legislators
Many candidates for state legislatures and governorships across the United States talk about scaling back the size, scope, and power of government. Once in office, however, they find it to be no easy task. So much that was intended to be reserved to state governments,...
Sunday Theology Funday: Philosophic Conversation with the Super Being
SUPER BEING: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me!” NON-SUPER BEING: “Well, ok. But that’s kind of presumptuous. I mean, what if I worship no gods at all because I'm not persuaded there are any or that they deserve worshipping?” SUPER BEING: “But I am the Lord thy...
Writing As Discovering
Writing, for me, is less about "creativity," even though that's the way writing is taught in typical university courses. Then again, academicians might not be the best judges or teachers of writing. How many academics today, after all, could pen something like Hamlet?...
We forget much when we forget the Holocaust
A recent survey shows that many Americans either never learned or have forgotten much about the Holocaust. Many Americans don't know the full extent of the government slaughter, or they cannot say what Auschwitz was, or they don't know that Hitler became Chancellor...