Archive for June, 2024
“To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.” — tweet from the National Border Patrol Council in response to Biden’s claim I have to say up front that I did not personally sit through the debate on CNN. I had other stuff to work on and, frankly, did not look forward to […]
“If a homicidal, Iranian-funded, terrorism proxy wants to pick up your college education tab, you really, really might want to reevaluate things.” — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on X/Twitter (May 3, 2024) It wasn’t all that long ago that we were all — Left and Right — shaking our heads in wonderment at this big […]
“If you think that not paying someone a living wage is morally equivalent to dismembering a living human being, your moral compass is broken.” — Scott Klusendorf, president of Life Training Institute As with last week’s “8 Things the Abortion Debate Is NOT About”, this post is brought to you via the excellent book, The […]
Allow me to get right to the point. In its essence, the pro-life argument can be summarized with the following syllogism (2 premises and a conclusion): 1) It is morally wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being.2) Abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being.3) Therefore, abortion is morally wrong. Personally, I might tweak it […]
“No other conventional material is this robust.” — Tibi Puiu, ZME Science Materials scientists are always experimenting with metal alloys in order to improve one or more properties. For example, add a little (~1%) carbon to a lot of iron and you get steel, which (among other things) is stronger than iron alone. The resulting […]