The jury
It’s not often that I respond to a comment with a separate blog post. I’ve done it only a few times here. What prompts it is when I think that merel...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Yes, it is also freedom FROM religion
One phrase that is quite common in the United States is simply this: “It’s freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion”. This is the typica...
Resetting the clock on old debts
This time ABC News correspondent Elisabeth Leamy attempts to tackle the issue of old debts and a concept called “debt re-aging”. Is she spot on or s...
Revisiting Casey Anthony, because some just don’t give up
The search terms keep coming in. People just will not let go of the Casey Anthony trial. There’s even a website called OverturnTheVerdict.com, which allow...
It’s all about the children!
As I mentioned in a previous post, a common argument against same-sex marriage is that the State licenses marriages as part of their interest in promoting procr...
Would you support such a measure?
Quoting a news report: Revocation of all marriage licenses issued in Nebraska in cases where no children are born within two years, making exceptions for physic...
Reading too much into a gift
Valentine’s Day is approaching, meaning yet another holiday where gifts are mandatory for relationship peace and harmony. So let’s talk about gifts....
Revisiting Gabrielle Giffords
It has been a little over a year since the tragic attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s life. First we must not forget that a Federal judge was a...
Miracles
The answer you receive to any question regarding miracles will depend greatly on the person you are asking. Some will say that miracles occur all the time while...
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011 I first discovered Christopher Hitchens about 5 years ago when I was browsing YouTube. Someone had poste...