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Gov. Mike Pence vs. the Shadow Constitution

| April 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
Gov. Mike Pence vs. the Shadow Constitution

There are no crimes only criminals ~ Robespierre No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of civil authority. ~ Jefferson Prologue: Are some religions more protected than others? Can the government force Christian business owners to cater to gay customers […]

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On Hegel: Using Dialectic to pervert truth and history

| March 29, 2015 | 0 Comments
On Hegel: Using Dialectic to pervert truth and history

Reality is a historical process. ~ Hegel Like other historical theories, it required, if it was to be made plausible, some distortion of facts and considerable ignorance. ~ Bertrand Russell Biography of Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was a German philosopher and a central figure in German idealism movement. His radical conceptions of reality […]

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Salt and Light Global targeted for defending woman expelled from Planet Fitness

| March 25, 2015 | 0 Comments
Salt and Light Global targeted for defending woman expelled from Planet Fitness

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. ~ Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (Rule 12) Do Christians have religious rights? Last Tuesday a DailyKos blogger whose penname is “Eclectablog” wrote an incendiary rant titled, Anti-trans* woman uses Michigan civil rights act to sue Planet Fitness for cancelling her membership. In this anti-Christian […]

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Is Hillary too big to fail?

| March 23, 2015 | 0 Comments
Is Hillary too big to fail?

Prologue to the Wicked Witch of the Upper West Side After reading a Breitbart article with the controversial title, “Is Hillary too big to fail”? I made the following comments on my Facebook page: “Is anyone in America too big to fail? This silly worldview got us into the Wall Street Collapse of 2008 by […]

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On Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday and the ambition of science

| March 21, 2015 | 0 Comments
On Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday and the ambition of science

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kids of composition and decompositions are formed. ~ Lavoisier Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries. ~ Fourier Within the laws of Nature, nothing is too wonderful to be true. ~ Faraday Biography of Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794) was […]

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On James Boswell and the life of Samuel Johnson

| March 14, 2015 | 0 Comments
On James Boswell and the life of Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~ Boswell Biography of Boswell James Boswell (1740–1795), was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, biographer and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is celebrated for the classic biography he wrote on Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), a contemporary […]

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Netanyahu vs. Neville Chamberlain

| March 12, 2015 | 0 Comments
Netanyahu vs. Neville Chamberlain

When it comes to Iran and ISIS the enemy of your enemy – is your enemy! ~ Netanyahu Prologue to a Statesman Like many Americans who love the Nation of Israel, I sat with eager anticipation watching the truly historic speech by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before both Houses of Congress last week. On […]

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Symposium – federalists, anti-federalists and utilitarianism

| March 7, 2015 | 0 Comments
Symposium – federalists, anti-federalists and utilitarianism

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, piercing questions. The Greeks called this form “dialectic” – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and […]

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Welcome to the Progressive Revolution, Byron!

| March 5, 2015 | 3 Comments
Welcome to the Progressive Revolution, Byron!

…Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – Because I was not a Jew / Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me. ~ Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), Holocaust survivor Prologue to a typical uninformed Black Democrat Socialist Byron Allen, a Black […]

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ISIS rising

| March 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
ISIS rising

We are coming to Rome. We will conquer and establish the justice of Shariah. We will use your Leaning Tower of pizza [sic] Pisa to throw off homosexuals. ~ Abu Abdullah Britani, ISIS jihadist I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. ~ Barack Obama, The Audacity of […]

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