November 30, 2014
I make a habit of not drinking anything artificially sweetened with aspartame (aka aminosweet). (In fact, I tend to avoid “diet” drinks in general.) I remember reading or hearing something many years ago that said studies showed aspartame causes serious health issues, when consumed regularly. In fact, if you follow the various “alternative health experts” […]
Tags: alternative health experts, artificial sweeteners, aspartame, clinical neurologist, conspiracy theory, fearmongering, medical industrial complex, reducing caloric intake, review of scientific studies, scientific skepticism, Steven Novella, systematic review vs cherry-picking data
Posted in Science |
November 28, 2014
I recently heard a radio interview with a guy named Joe R. Hicks. I really appreciated what he had to say regarding the situation in Ferguson, MO, and the problems within the Black Community that are denied or left unaddressed in such controversial situations. Hicks is an African-American commentator & activist, former Executive Director of […]
Tags: Al Sharpton, Christopher Arps, conservative black activists, Conservative Blog, Day Gardner, Demetrius Minor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ferguson, incitement to violence, injustice, Joe R. Hicks, lack of respect for others, Michael Brown shooting, National Center for Public Policy Research, Officer Wilson, Project 21, reactions to grand jury decision, riots and looting, Wayne Dupree, where is the justice?
Posted in Politics |
November 24, 2014
“[I]f the Republican Party does not start positively responding to grassroots conservatives, these key activists may bolt the GOP…. If the GOP in Congress will not stand up to Obama, what good is having the leadership positions?” — Jeff Crouere, media host and columnist at Townhall.com The recent midterm elections and discussions of “lame duck” […]
Tags: Congress, GOP, GOP establishment, grassroots conservatives, James Inhofe, Jeff Sessions, Jim Jordan, Jim Risch, John Boehner, Louie Gohmert, Mitch McConnell, recommendations to replace Boehner and McConnell, Republican leaders, RINOs, Senate Majority Leader, Speaker of the House, Tea Party, Trent Franks, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
Posted in Politics |
November 16, 2014
“[W]e can surely find ways to work together on issues where there’s broad agreement among the American people.” — President Barack Obama, post-midterms news conference (11/5/2014) A lot of the news these days is filled with talk about Obamacare (Grubercare?), immigration/amnesty, net neutrality, and climate change. But, I don’t feel like wading into those messes. […]
Tags: advice to Congress, bipartison cooperation, Can Congress work together?, Common Core, common standards, Dodd-Frank, educational reform, financial regulation, Keystone XL pipeline, lame-duck session, Mary Landrieu, Norbert Michel, Paul Kupiec, post-2008, President Obama, presidential veto, too big to fail
Posted in Politics |
November 9, 2014
Though some of you may have already read your fill, I feel obliged to write some commentary on last week’s elections in the U.S. So, I’ll begin with the obligatory summary of election results: o Not only did Republicans maintain their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but they gained at least an additional […]
Tags: 2014 elections, congressional elections, conservative alternatives, Dem vs Rep, Executive usurpation of Legislative authority, GOP majority, gubernatorial elections, Harry Reid, Jim DeMint, John Boehner, lame-duck session, liberal progressive policies, Mercatus Center, midterm elections, Mitch McConnell, President Obama, progressive agenda, red tsunami, Red vs Blue, rejecting Obama, Republican wave, Roy Blunt, shellacking, zombie politicians
Posted in Politics |
November 2, 2014
“With impressive erudition and polemical panache, David Hart smites hip and thigh the peddlers of a ‘new atheism’ that recycles hoary arguments from the past. His grim assessment of our cultural moment challenges the hope that ‘the Christian revolution’ could happen again.” — Richard John Newhaus, former EIC at First Things Continuing from last week, […]
Tags: anti-Christian arguments, atheism, Atheist Delusions, avoiding chronological snobbery, avoiding historical ignorance, Christian apologetics, Christian interruption, Christian revolution, Christianity's transformation of Western civilization, cultural influence of Christianity, David Bentley Hart, defending Christianity, defense of historical Christianity, how Christianity changed the West for the better, importance of history, new atheists, rejecting the ideology of "the modern", rejection the myth of "the Enlightenment", responding to skeptics
Posted in Religion |