July 26, 2015
“By engaging in simplistic and sometimes misleading environmental narratives — by exaggerating the stakes and brushing over the inconvenient facts that stand in the way of foregone conclusions — we do our field, and our subjects, a disservice.” — Hannah Nordhaus, environmental journalist and author of The Beekeeper’s Lament No one likes to get […]
Tags: agriculture, bee-colony losses, beemageddon, beepocalypse, CCD, colony collapse disorder, dire bee shortages, federal task force, Hannah Nordhaus, honey production, importance of bees, National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, neonicotinoid insecticides, pending food crisis, PERC, pollination services, Pollinator Health Task Force, Randal Rucker, Shawn Regan, USDA, varroa mite, Walter Thurman
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
July 19, 2015
“And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward in helping to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible, making sure that our businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow and advance, to […]
Tags: Brookings Institution, bypassing Congress, executive action, executive memo, executive order, executive overreach, hortatory memo, Mercatus Center, Obama Administration, presidential memoranda, presidential proclamation, unilateral acts of Obama, USA Today
Posted in Politics |
July 12, 2015
I published “The Right to Refuse Service” a day earlier than usual this week, so I decided to do a “bonus” post today. Besides, I hadn’t done anything science apologetic-y in a while. This is an excerpt from The God Abduction: How Scientific Discovery Strengthens the Case for a Creator by Ron Londen, writer, photographer, […]
Tags: anthropic principle, cosmological constant, dark energy, Einstein, fine-tuning of the universe, God as Creator, God as Sustainer, ID theory, Intelligent Design, living on a razor's edge, Ron Londen, science apologetics, scientific case for a creator, The God Abduction
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
July 11, 2015
“We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” “No shirt, no shoes, no service.” — signs posted on restaurants nationwide I’m sure you have all heard about the “Sweet Cakes” case, in which Aaron and Melissa Klein were recently ordered to pay $135,000 in emotional damages to a lesbian couple because they refused to […]
Tags: Aaron and Melissa Klein, anti-discrimination, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, discrimination, freedom of association, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, religious liberty, right to refuse service, Sweet Cakes case, wedding cake
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
July 5, 2015
Happy Independence Day, everyone! I hope y’all are enjoying your long holiday weekends! If you have been fortunate enough to have good weather, fantastic! My family didn’t plan any activities, and it’s just as well, because it has been raining on and off here all weekend. Even got a brief thunderstorm Saturday. But, rain or […]
Tags: American exceptionalism, American Experiment, American patriotism, attacked from within and without, Declaration of Independence, Fourth of July, God Bless the U.S.A., Independence Day, Jay Sekulow Band with Lee Greenwood, John Adams quote, July 2nd, July 4 celebration, July 4th, losing our American freedoms, red-white-blue bald eagle, worldview clashes
Posted in Politics |