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Just my personal blog.

May 6, 2009

Tempus Really Fugits, and Other Evolutionary Ideas

Religion and evolution aren’t mutually exclusive. #tcot

January 21, 2009

English Only Update

The anti-English folks are being disingenuous in their arguments against the English-only amendment.

January 15, 2009

Judging A Book By It’s Cover

What happens when you hire a functional illiterate? Well, if that functional illiterate sees you reading a book about how Notre Dame handled the Ku Klux Klan and only sees the burning cross on the front, you might get brought up on charges of racial harassment. And if you work for Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, [...]

January 14, 2009

The Shape Of Things To Come?

This article in the Christian Science Monitor is eye opening. Any government that attempts to guarantee healthcare must also control its costs. The inevitable next step will be to seek to control citizens’ health and their behavior. If the US government gets its hands on our health care system (more than it does now anyway), [...]

January 9, 2009

Misdirected Compassion

There’s a saying that goes “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” I think I have a corollary to that: Give a man enough fish, and you make him dependant on you for fish. John Stossel did a [...]

December 10, 2008

Calling In “Gay”

Today was supposed to be the day that supporters of same sex “marriage” took a day off work by calling in “gay.” It’s supposed to show how much of an impact gay folks have on our economy…. or something. If I’m an employer and someone calls in “gay,” I’m not sure what I’d do. At [...]

December 8, 2008

The Tyranny of the Minority

John Stuart Mill was right when talking about the tyranny that can happen in democracies. In his “On Liberty” he states “Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a [...]

December 4, 2008

A “Poor” Standard of Living

It’s been said before that the poor and homeless in America have a better standard of living than the poor and homeless in other countries. How you can be poor and still have two or three TVs, cell phones, and computers beats me. Now the homeless (who used to be called bums in another era) [...]