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Let the government build roads? Are you nuts? That’d be socialized transportation! Let the government raise and army? That’s crazy! That’d b...

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobl...

It’s been a while since I posted a recipe, so I thought that my cold morning breakfast staple was worth a mention with the colder months kno...

I have measured out my life in the etherized words of others. Our language is intentionally flexible. It has grown, evolved, expanded, ...

TV News is split into two basic categories, Hard News and Infotainment. Infotainment refers to a general type of news med...

I would like to take a minute to clear something up: “They” are not out to get you and it is not “their” fault. But let me explain: I have b...

I enjoy good things that last. Unfortunately, those things are becoming harder and harder to find. We are constantly pressed for time, pleas...

I was rereading some older Dawkins this week and wondered why no one ever talked about sex in our evolutionary process. I’m sure that almost...

We live in a time of extreme divisiveness, where individuals feel the need to categorize themselves by a color code and freely allow their v...

I did not see this coming...

Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy; Until I labour, I in labour lie. The foe ofttimes, having the foe in sight, Is tired with standi...

At any given moment you can find fresh breads, smoked meats, fresh vegetables and herbs from the garden, and fruits, and wines all over my k...

A couple things are bothering me this morning: 1. I’ve had it with cowardly Democrats that have earned that title. Most of our Democratic L...

I've been doing a lot of research lately and feel the need to use Freud, which is rarely my first choice, to compare some of the current...

This is by Joe Rao of Space.com: You've probably heard that line before – no doubt fairly recently, thanks to a bogus e-mail that unfort...

Something happened this last week that was both sad and unfortunate. David Petraeus, the four star general and commander of the War in Iraq,...

It be the 19th of September, National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and I’m here to tell the lot of you that you be keelhauled for mutiny if you d...

As someone who teaches for a living at a couple different universities, I have a certain amount of flexibility when it comes to social norms...

I love my country just as much as any person and consider myself a true scholar in American history (not to mention that I am working on a P...

I am by no means an expert at transcendentalism, existentialism, logical positivism, rationalism, or most any other philosophical ism -- alt...