As we approach Christmas, I am reminded of how profoundly we have benefited from a benevolent God who admonishes us to be good people, help our fellow men, and obey the Ten Commandments. Christianity is the basis of Western Civilization and its premier achievement: science. More than 2,000 yearly celebrations of the birth of Jesus […]
Although it may not be appealing to consider kissing a bear goodbye, especially a Russian bear, it is surely necessary now, as Vladimir Putin presses a war of conquest in Ukraine. His full scale attack on a sovereign nation is something we had hoped to avoid after utterly defeating the naked aggression of the Germans […]
If it doesn’t, activists and governing classes will destroy middle class jobs, families and lives COP-26, the twenty-sixth massive climate control “conference of parties,” goes live in Glasgow, Scotland on Halloween. That’s certainly appropriate, since its primary purpose is to further terrify humanity to “take action” to prevent the “existential threat” of “manmade climate cataclysms.” […]
The problem with allowing politicians and other non-scientists to practice science is that they have no idea what they are doing and may get things so dreadfully wrong that vast numbers of people are seriously harmed. To the politically inclined, science is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Real scientists are […]
A growing area of debate in America today centers around the Second Amendment, and more specifically, the ownership of various types of guns by average citizens. Many politicians, pointing to increases in crimes and shootings, have targeted specific firearms and the size and capacity of magazines. President Biden even recently announced executive actions to expand regulation of certain firearms. Many states, seeing this […]
