Tag: Politics
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Science Must Destroy Religion
A reader sent me a link from this article published on the Huffington Post. The author is hostile towards religion (Huffington Post writers tend to be) but it is an interesting read nevertheless. Positing science versus religion is a false dichtomy of course since it really draws from the conflict between the philosophical materialism of…
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Thomas Sowell: Arrogance costly for Iowa judges
The removal of the Iowa judges by Iowa voters for overturning the voters’ plebiscite on gay marriage is an important shift in electoral attitudes. Here Thomas Sowell, one of America’s clearest social commentators, makes the case. Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with “public servants” who act…
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Iowans dismiss three judges
This is the story Harry Coin mentioned in a comment a few days ago. The story is huge, not only for the political implications — the removal of activist judges, but that gay marriage, a moral question with the deepest cultural implications, was the driver leading to their removal. America values the public square, which…
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The Conservative Moment
The irony is isn’t lost on me as as I read the Arizona Republic in and Arizona Starbucks this morning (free wi-fi), ground zero for many of the issues Americans are deciding on today. Thinking back I remember see Jimmy Carter in Eugene, Oregon on afternoon quite by accident (my last vote as a Democrat)…
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Patsourakos: Islamophobia will end in the US when terrorism ends
Over at his Theology and Society blog, George Patsourakos, an occasional commentator on the AOI blog writes on the effort by the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR – apologists for jihad actually) to combat “Islamophobia,” a term they borrowed and adapted from the homosexual rights movement that is used to silence the criticism of…