Why Faith and Evolution are not Incompatible
Senator Marco Rubio stirred up some controversy with his statement to GQ Magazine last month: “I’m not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says. I can tell you what the Bible…
American Politics
The Fiscal Cliff: Stop Playing Budget Chicken!
At the end of this year, 700 billion dollars worth of tax increases and major spending cuts will strike the American economy, thanks to the “fiscal cliff” created by the sequester that failed to force…
You’ve Got Mail- And Senator Leahy wants to read it too!
A major threat to your privacy is sitting in the chamber of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in the form of amendments to HR 2471. Senator Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont made changes to the…
Answering the Call to Arms: A Study of Conscription
Abstract Providing military protection for their citizens is a basic obligation of nation states. How to staff such a military is a choice all states face, and in the modern age, that is generally a…
Democracy leads to Socialism (10/10/2010)
In his work “Capitalism and Democracy,” Gabriel Almond explained that Schumpeter, an academic writing during World War II, “projected a future of declining capitalism, and rising socialism.”1 A look at recent events in America (including…
Noam Chomsky distorts the truth (9/19/2010)
This was a review of a video interview given by Noam Chomsky to Democracy Now! You can see the interview for yourself at http://www.democracynow.org/2006/3/31/stream. After listening to this interview and reading the transcript, I was…
From Washington to Paris
The American Revolution resulted in a stable republic that has lasted more than two hundred years. The French Revolution began in the same time period with similar goals, but quickly degenerated into the Reign of…