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 […]
Tags: avoid government shutdown, concerns over midterm elections, Congressional spending, Continuing Resolution, David Perdue, defund Planned Parenthood, fund the border wall, Mike Lee, President Trump comments, short-term bill, spending bill, Washington Post
Posted in Politics |
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, […]
Tags: Charles Cockell, Christyann Darwent, crime on Mars, crime-scene analysis, Extraterrestrial Containment Facility, forensics, Geoff Manaugh, Josh Gold, jurisdictional issues, law enforcement, lethal environment, life-support, Mars colony, Mars Police Department, martial arts in space, Martian prison, Martian settlements, possibility of tyranny, research base, sabotage, The Atlantic, U.S. Marshals
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, 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 […]
Tags: academic freedom, Bess Marcus, Brown University, David Klinghoffer, intimidation, LGBT activism, Lisa Littman, methodological concerns, PLos ONE, postpublication investigation, rapid onset gender dysphoria, ROGD, School of Public Health, scientific censorship, social contagion, transgenderism
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
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 […]
Tags: #MeToo, academic victimology, differences between men and women, discrimination, diversity mandates, feminism, feminist narrative, Google, Heather MacDonald, hiring quotas, ideology over truth, Imprimis, James Damore, Leftist intolerance, loss of American competitiveness, loss of scientific achievement, motivations when choosing a career, NLRB, sexual harassment, statistics, STEM, women in math and science
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, 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. […]
Tags: Bible and science, Christian doctrine, Christianity in a scientific age, conservative evangelical, fundamentalism, J. Gresham Machen, liberal Christianity, maintaining orthodoxy, modern liberalism, Modernism, Presbyterian controversies, pros and cons of scientific advances, science and religion, un-Christian
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
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 […]
Tags: anti-science, Christian fundamentalism, Christian orthodoxy, countering liberal Christianity, essentials of the Christian faith, fundamentalist, fundie stereotype, geology and the creation days, James Orr, natural law and miracles, R.A. Torrey, science and the Bible, science vs. Christian faith, The Fundamentals
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
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 […]
Tags: 14th Amendment, 2nd Amendment, 5th Amendment, bipartisan support, bypassing constitutional rights, due process, ERPO, Florida, gun control, gun rights, Indiana, irresponsible journalism, Matt Agorist, NRA, Parkland shooting, PolitiFact, President Trump comments, red flag laws, right-wing alarmism, Risk Protection Orders, Seattle, Washington
Posted in Politics |
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 […]
Tags: creeping socialism, disrupt and destabilize, ends justify the means, historical ignorance, ignorance and stupidity of journalists, Joel Goodman, Karl Marx, leftist agenda, Leftist outrage, march toward communism in America, radio commentary, Rush Limbaugh, Saul Alinsky, violence and incivility
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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. […]
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, anti-GOP, Cillian Zeal, Democratic Socialist, ignorant tweet, mid-term upset, NY Democrat, progressive, Ryan Saavedra, socialist, young Leftist politician
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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 […]
Tags: applying law to superpowers, Bill of Rights, concealed carry, constitutional law, Eighth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, incarceration, James Daily, rules of evidence, Ryan Davidson, Second Amendment, superheroes, supervillains, telepathy, The Law of Superheroes, U.S. Constitution
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized |