Some students at Dartmouth College, an apparently prestigious Ivy League school, decided to harangue visiting Texas governor Rick Perry with juvenile jibes unfit for the stupidest playground altercation. These students were so upset by Rick Perry and his stance on homosexuality, that they planned to spend the entire question and answer time derailing actual political […]
Continue reading →In a recent speech, President Obama laid out his plan for protecting the freedom of the internet. It involved reclassifying the internet as a utility. Regulating internet service under Title II would mean reclassifying it as a utility, like water. This means that internet providers would just be pumping internet back and forth through pipes […]
Continue reading →Civil asset forfeitures are getting a huge amount of press lately, and for good reason. The practice, whereby local and federal law enforcement officers confiscate assets that have even remote connections to crimes, has been on the rise in recent years, and the large majority of civil asset forfeiture cases have corruption written all over […]
Continue reading →If you tuned in to the election results coverage after the midterm elections, you probably heard this quite often: “See how close these races were? Anyone who says your vote doesn’t count really needs to look at this election. Your vote counts. There’s no doubt about that now.” It’s true. If you wanted Republicans in […]
Continue reading →In what should be a bit of good news, the same-sex marriage march has been temporarily halted in four states after a landmark Circuit Court decision upheld same-sex marriage bans in four states. Circuit judge Jeffrey Sutton, who wrote the majority opinion, had this to say about the decision: When the courts do not let […]
Continue reading →Is it possible for art to be unjust? In this installment of our “Whatever” series on aesthetics (drawing from Philippians 4:8), I discuss how to make just art. Because we can’t just make art. We need to make just art. (Groan.) But what does it mean for art to be just or—as most translators put […]
Continue reading →After the decisive victory for Republicans in the midterm elections, Rand Paul declared: “Make no mistake, tonight is a repudiation of Barack Obama’s policies and leadership.” That word, repudiation, seemed to being make the rounds in the wake of last night’s results which left Republicans in control of both the Senate and the House in […]
Continue reading →The GOP is regularly blasted as the racist and anti-woman party. Yet, last night, the GOP accomplished some things for black people and women that have never been accomplished by the Democrats. First, GOP voters elected Tim Scott as a Senator from South Carolina: [Tim] Scott is . . . the first African-American senator from […]
Continue reading →It’s about time. The American Humanist Association thinks it has scored a win for Secular Humanism by having a federal judge declare that Secular Humanism is a religion. They may have won a battle, but they have made it more difficult for them to win the war. “The court finds that Secular Humanism is a […]
Continue reading →A hilarious, though disturbing, exercise is to study how much the unaptly named Democrats flip flop on the subject of democratic rule and majority opinion. When the majority wants something the Democrats also want, they love to talk about how Republicans are a “minority rule” party trying to overturn the will of the people. But […]
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