Like people, no country is all good and no country is all bad.  Great heroism can occur in the worst of times and great evils can happen among the most enlightened of peoples.  That said, the impact of some countries has been better than the impact of others.  Genghiz Khan’s empire comes to mind as an…

The “war” between certain kinds of religion and science is continuing unabated.  The village atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris use this kind of thing to lambast religion in general, just as Christian Fundamentalists give all kinds of Christianity a bad name.  In fact the war between religion and science is entirely a…

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, is at it again, using his version of libertarianism to deny global warming.  It is a false crisis that responding to would impoverish and enslave us.  Even a writer who has long defended him before now has finally had it with the guy.  I was going to unload on…

Have long since parted in the mainstream media where DHS head Janet Napolitano is being savaged by all manner of bottom dwellers and stenographers pretending to be journalists for allegedly saying “the system worked” after Abdulmutallab’s failed  Christmas Day attempt to destroy a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants.  The undie-bomber has ‘conservatives’ wetting their…

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