does reproductive freedom mean a right to free birth control? Nope: Supporters of Obama’s birth control rule conflate liberty with subsidies, insisting that you are not really free to do something (in this case, use contraceptives) unless it’s free. According to this logic, observant Jews do not have religious freedom unless the government pays for…
DetailsWhere feminism teaches that Men and women tend to behave differently because of social conditioning, not because there are innate biological and psychological differences between them. The chief reason women have been less often represented in the first ranks of public achievement in scholarship, the arts, politics, and war, is that in every human society…
DetailsUnless I am discussing a topic with a Catholic, it is not often that I will use religious arguments to prove something I believe. Theology is very important, but if it is unimportant to the party who you are arguing with, there is no point in using that tack. It is important to me that…
DetailsThe Federal Reserve System needs to be dismantled, as it is exploitative corporatism that allows the State to pick winners at the expense of all holders of American dollars. Here are 10 reasons that any beginner can understand about why the Fed should be ended: 1. The Federal Reserve Has Far Too Much Power to…
DetailsSome months back, I thought it would be worth the chuckles to send in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the CIA and FBI. Under the FOIA, every citizen was granted the ability to seek the file which the government held on him or her. Little did most citizens know, myself included, “We…
DetailsI posted a Greenwald column yesterday, but this one is too rich to ignore. Greenwald notes in yesterday’s column that Progressives have mastered hypocrisy and very few have seemed to notice: Indeed: is there even a single liberal pundit, blogger or commentator who would have defended George Bush and Dick Cheney if they (rather than…
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