So you don’t like atheists taking out advertisements proclaiming their existence? Your only resort is to take out ads of your own. And that is exactly what someone is doing. A Christian woman in the DC area, unhappy with the… Continue Reading
Today, the Supreme Court contemplated something about a petition that includes a claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is unable to assume the office of President — but please note, that does not… Continue Reading
Reason’s Greetings, everyone. Remember that sign at the state capitol in Olympia, Washington that had Bill O’Reilly all in a huff?* Well, someone — I’m not going to immediately offer a conjecture about of what faith they might have been… Continue Reading
No torture. Ever. That’s an issue that the Democrats had been pushing the White House on for a long time before the election, after Abu Ghraib came to light and accusations of torture in the Guantánamo Bay terrorist prison began… Continue Reading
If you do, your vote for other candidates may not count. So says an op-ed in today’s Gray Lady. The real point of the article, however, is that the process of physically counting votes in a tight election like Coleman-Franken… Continue Reading
An online acquaintance from Canada has alerted me to the fact that, while we US Americans are all wringing our hands about our economic collapse and atwitter about the upcoming change in government, countries in the rest of the world… Continue Reading
The latest billboard controversy is in Colorado. A fairly standard atheist billboard has gone up, the one with the puffy Simpsons clouds that reads “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.” and that’s all. It looked like this: The… Continue Reading
Yesterday’s post about the Emoluments Clause and its effect on eligibility for Executive office, turns out to have had its roots in an article written by a then-law student. The author is now a USMC JAG based at Camp Pendelton.… Continue Reading
Hillary Clinton cannot be Secretary of State. Why? Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution, sometimes called the Enoluments Clause, reads as follows: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any… Continue Reading
From the Really Bad Ideas Department: the city of Rancho Cucamonga pressuring a billboard company to remove a sign paid for by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Of course, in Rancho Cucamonga you can see billboards for strip clubs, casinos,… Continue Reading