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The Wall and the Womb: Two Failures in the Current Spending Bill

September 23, 2018

“I want to know, where is the money for Border Security and the WALL in this ridiculous Spending Bill, and where will it come from after the Midterms? Dems are obstructing Law Enforcement and Border Security. REPUBLICANS MUST FINALLY GET TOUGH!”  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), September 20, 2018 Last week, the U.S. Senate passed […]

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Cops on Mars: Lookin’ for Law in Non-Normal Spaces

September 16, 2018

“If we are going to imagine a Mars P.D., then it is imperative that we also imagine that police department’s potential flaws.” All sorts of people (e.g., Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich) are excited about colonies on the Moon and Mars, planning and talking about the realization of such plans in (possibly) the next few decades, […]

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Censorship of Politically Incorrect Science

September 9, 2018

“In all my years in academia, I have never once seen a comparable reaction from a journal within days of publishing a paper that the journal already had subjected to peer review, accepted and published. One can only assume that the response was in large measure due to the intense lobbying the journal received, and […]

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The Downside of #MeToo Feminism and Reverse Discrimination

September 2, 2018

“Our nation is about to be transformed, thanks to the #MeToo movement…. #MeToo is going to unleash a new torrent of gender and race quotas throughout the economy and culture, [and] the net consequence will be a loss of American competitiveness and scientific achievement.”  — Heather MacDonald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan […]

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Machen on Modern Liberalism and Science

August 26, 2018

“The chief modern rival of Christianity is Liberalism.”  — Rev. J. Gresham Machen As a follow-up of sorts to last week’s post, I decided to share an excerpt from a modern Christian classic, Christianity and Liberalism (1923), by another famous “fundamentalist”* (though he would have identified as a conservative evangelical and Presbyterian), J. Gresham Machen. […]

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A “Fundamentalist” View of Science and Christian Faith

August 19, 2018

“In 1909 God moved two Christian laymen to set aside a large sum of money for issuing twelve volumes that would set forth the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and which were to be sent free to ministers of the gospel, missionaries, Sunday School superintendents, and others engaged in aggressive Christian work throughout the English […]

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Gun Confiscation without Due Process

August 12, 2018

“When a person is stripped of their constitutional rights, albeit temporarily, without being given the chance to make their own case based on what can be entirely arbitrary accusations, this is the removal of due process.”  — Matt Agorist, independent journalist and Editor-at-Large at the Free Thought Project Following the mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas […]

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Rush Misses the Point

August 5, 2018

I’m not a regular listener of Rush Limbaugh. But, on those rare occasions when I’m driving and find him on the air, I often find his monologues interesting and even insightful. He has been around quite awhile and deserves much respect. But, even he can’t recognize everything that’s going on in the socio-cultural politisphere. To […]

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Democratic Socialist Twit

July 29, 2018

I’m a bit pressed for time this week, but I wanted to call your attention to a recent tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old educator/activist/community organizer (for Bernie Sanders) and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who has been endorsed by various progressive and civil rights organizations (e.g., BLM, MoveOn) and individuals. […]

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Superpowers, Supervillains, and Constitutional Law

July 22, 2018

“[E]xplore the hypothetical legal ramifications of comic book tropes, characters, and powers, down to the most deliciously trivial detail.” Don’t worry, you’re on the right blog. Not long ago on my “Heroes and Aliens” pop-culture blog, I shared three posts in which I presented some material from the book The Law of Superheroes (2012) by […]

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