February 15, 2014
Years ago, former Reagan official Frank Gaffney (now founder and president of the Center for Security Policy) charged conservative activist/strategist Grover Norquist with having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The charges were “investigated” by the American Conservative Union and Norquist was finally cleared in 2011. Now, it appears that Gaffney is being vindicated. A 45-page […]
Tags: ACU, American Conservative Union, Frank Gaffney, Grover Norquist, Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates American Right, new charges of ties to Muslim Brotherhood, Suhail Khan
Posted in Politics |
February 9, 2014
We all know about the Boston Marathon terror attack on April 15, 2013. Two Chechen brothers with Islamist beliefs set off two bombs near the finish line, killing 3 people and wounding at least another 264. What most people don’t realize (and I didn’t until recently) is that that wasn’t the only attack. Less than […]
Tags: armed assault on electrical substation, cyberattacks, EMP attack, hacking the power grid, national security, possible terrorist attack on power station, power grid vulnerabilities, terrorist attack
Posted in Politics |
February 6, 2014
The debate is over, and the contestants and their audience have all gone home. But, of course, the debate still rages on, especially on the “interwebs”. I have been reading various comments by people who watched it. There are the devoted naturalists/evolutionists who are sure that Bill Nye “won”, maybe even kicked butt. There are […]
Tags: Answers in Genesis, Bill Nye, Bill Nye the Science Guy vs. Creationist Ken Ham, Biologos, Casey Luskin, Creation Museum, creationism vs evolutionism, debate about creation, debate postmortem, Discovery Institute, Ham on Nye, Ken Ham, Melissa Cain Travis, Nye vs Ham debate, Reasons to Believe, recap of creationism debate, reviews of Ham vs Nye, RTB, YEC vs evolution, young-Earth Ken Ham
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
February 2, 2014
Evidently, there seems to be a lack of evidence for the supposed evidence proving New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s guilt in the Bridgegate scandal. (Note: For purposes of this article, I am lumping all recent Christie-related allegations under the “Bridgegate” banner.) I have been disappointed in Gov. Christie for awhile, now. I was warming up […]
Tags: alleged traffic study on George Washington Bridge, Bridgegate, Chris Christie, Christie is a bully, David Wildstein of the Port Authority, Fort Lee, Hoboken, Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Mayor Mark Sokolich, NJ Gov. Christie, NJ politics, political retribution in NJ, scandal in New Jersey
Posted in Politics |
January 29, 2014
Announcement! Announcement! Announcement! OK, the news isn’t really all that fantastic, nor is it super or amazing. It certainly isn’t incredible or even uncanny. Some of you may think it’s just ho-hum. But, I have decided to occasionally post about something totally unrelated to the major subjects of this blog — namely, sci-fi/fantasy and action/adventure. […]
Tags: action, adventure, books, comic books, entertainment, fantasy, movies, pop culture, sci-fi, science fiction, superheroes, TV
Posted in S-F/F AA Entertainment, Uncategorized |
January 26, 2014
Ain’t nothin’ like a good debate about a controversial issue! In case it has not already come to your attention, Bill Nye “the Science Guy” and Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis (a young-Earth creationist ministry) will be having a public debate this February 4th, just a few days from now. According to the press […]
Tags: Answers in Genesis, Bill Nye, Bill Nye the Science Guy vs. Creationist Ken Ham, Creation Museum, creationism vs evolutionism, debate about creation, Ham on Nye, Ken Ham, Nye vs Ham debate, YEC vs evolution
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
January 19, 2014
Part 10: Scarecrows, Decoys, and Invisible Elephants We get three lessons today, boys and girls, as we head into the home stretch for this series (sort of)! Straw Man Everyone has heard of this one. You don’t have to be involved in debates and discussions on controversial topics for long before someone accuses someone else […]
Tags: critical thinking, diversionary tactics, genetic fallacy, good arguments, good logic, how to argue better, how to think better, informal logic, intellectual golden rule, intellectual honesty, logic primer, logical argumentation, logical fallacies, logical thinking, making an argument, misrepresentation, poor logic, rational thought, reasoning skills, red herring, straw man, suppressed evidence
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science, Uncategorized |
January 15, 2014
Those of us interested in such things sometimes talk about the negative consequences of allowing illegal immigration, but it isn’t always easy to articulate the problem. People need to understand how it might affect them directly. If they can understand how the system currently gives unfair advantages to the illegal immigrant over the legal resident […]
Tags: illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers money, immigration, Joe Legal vs Jose Illegal, unfair advantages of illegals
Posted in Politics |
January 12, 2014
“Water is the driving force in nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci We often hear claims that the human body is “mostly water”, even as high as 90%. But the truth is a bit more modest. According to Dr. Anne Marie Helmenstine, “The average adult human body is 50-65% water, averaging around 57-60%. The percentage of […]
Tags: abundance of water throughout universe, APM 08279+5255, feeding black hole, how much water in universe, importance of fine-tuned water cycle for life on Earth, largest water source in universe, Matt Bradford, quasar, stars from water, water vapor around black hole, what percentage of Earth is water, what percentage of human body is water
Posted in Science |
January 5, 2014
Did you see this? Even if you read the same stuff I do, you may have missed it last month amongst all the holiday prep and the Obamacare/Healthcare.gov mess. It seems the anti-religionists at the ACLU have found another target for their “righteous” wrath: a church-run archery class. The controversy began when a reporter for […]
Tags: ACLU vs Lebanon City School District, creationist archery, Grace Chapel's Kevin Schwieger, His Pins, proselytization in public schools, youth archery program
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |