There is no special icon for Google today! What the hell! Don’t those commies up there in Mountain View know what an important day today is? Well, the fact is that nearly any day you pick will have some event… Continue Reading
I got a Hawaii quarter yesterday during a routine transaction. It occurred to me that the fiftieth state was admitted into the Union in 1959. For more than fifty years, there hasn’t been another new state admitted. Looking back over… Continue Reading
An ongoing subject of some contention here is the recurrent question of the religion of the Founders. I point Readers interested in that discussion to a very interesting piece on George Washington and his manner of expressing religious feelings: Here… Continue Reading
At The Atheist Experience, I find a set of six ‘questions’ from Ravi Zacharias, an evangelical Christian apologist. Matt D. at Atheist Experience does a fine job on his own behalf and I commend his thoughts on the issues Zacharias… Continue Reading
The guy’s a little harsher on former Gov. Palin than I would have been, and there’s nothing particularly new here by way of source material. But I’d point you to look at the larger point rather than the snark: The… Continue Reading
A random thought from a psychologist: If it seems that our country’s political discourse has grown increasingly polarized, intractable, and hostile, blame the Soviet Union for it. Specifically, blame the Soviets for collapsing and depriving us of a meaningful enemy. … Continue Reading
Once again, Americans prove to be remarkably conservative with their money – at least, with the issue of who and what is on their money. A proposal to take Ulysses S. Grant off the $50 bill and replace him with… Continue Reading
I’m a bit tired of the headlines. Today’s Supreme Court case is not about the Supreme Court striking down a law prohibiting animal cruelty. No one on the Court is in favor of animal cruelty. It’s about Congress overreaching and… Continue Reading
Stephen Decatur was, perhaps, the first war hero of an independent United States. He was born in 1779 and when he was 17 he found himself working for a shipbuilder and then serving on board a U.S. navy ship. He… Continue Reading