Josef Mengele has resurfaced as Barack Obama’s “Science Czar,” technically his Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Israel continues to kill innocents
Posted on January 7, 2009 by Lance
Israel’s war on Gaza continues to bring innocent lives to an end. The usual American War Party response (as I would have responded even 3 years ago) would be, “well, the Palestinians and insane terrorists are just as happy killing Israeli civilians, they are just getting what they deserve.” That is an immoral and [...]
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John Stuart Mill on nationality and representative government
Posted on January 2, 2009 by Lance
This is a chapter from John Stuart Mill’s Considerations on Representative Government, taken from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection. An interesting read and particularly applicable to today’s America.
Chapter 16
Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government.
A PORTION of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by [...]
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Picking Apart The United States
Posted on January 2, 2009 by Lance
Igor Pararin has been in the news a lot the past two months for his remarks on the breakup of the United States. The recent report in the Wall Street Journal expands on Igor’s previous comments and sets his prediction for 2010 when the USA will finally collapse.
In September 1998, he attended a conference in [...]
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The Round Table
Posted on December 30, 2008 by Lance
“When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle things are gone.”
-C.S. Lewis
A writer at the journal First Things gives an explanation in this article:
“His point was that the time may come when the societal bonds are so ruptured that forceful confrontation will become necessary with those who, until then, [...]
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God in Society Debate: Final Statement: Why I’m a Theist: M
Posted on September 16, 2008 by Brian LePort
Below is the long delayed final statement from “M” of Atheism is Dead. We began this debate asking what the practical implications for belief in God are for society. Now we ask our two contributors why believe or why not believe. Here is M’s response:
First, I would like to thank everyone for their patience in [...]
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The Tyranny of Good Intentions
Posted on August 12, 2008 by Lance
Bill Anderson reviews the former Reagan official Paul Craig Roberts’ The Tyranny of Good Intentions, explaining the legal tradition of America and how the State is always trying to expand its power (both the “conservatives” and “liberals” in Washington are one and the same: statists).
For example, [...]
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Hope for Denmark?
Posted on August 6, 2008 by Lance
Denmark is trying to stick it to the European Union when it comes to immigration policy. Denmark has been at the forefront of the anti-immigration debate in Europe and now most European countries are backing Denmark’s complaints.
Denmark’s problems with the EU regarding immigration laws resulted in an EC ruling last week which stated that [...]
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Chick-fil-A owner punishes vandals the old fashioned way
Posted on August 4, 2008 by Lance
The owner of Chick-fil-A punishes some preteen girls that vandalized his property in a different way than you would expect from people these days. He gave them an old fashioned punishment. I bet they don’t do this again and that they probably learned something.
The 87-year-old Cathy — who founded the fast food restaurant known for [...]
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‘Racially Insensitive’ Remarks = Jailtime and Punishment in Ireland
Posted on July 22, 2008 by Lance
The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is to make an official complaint to the Garda Síochána today about the publication of what it considers to be a racially offensive article that appeared in the Irish Independent last week.
The ICI said it believed the publication of the article, “ [...]
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Why Welfare Doesn’t Work
Posted on July 22, 2008 by Lance
When you subsidize something (laziness), you get more of it. That is the rule.
NPR puts out a sob story about a couple of overweight people who can’t afford enough food stamps to keep up their morbid obesity. Here’s the photo included with the report:
Section 8 housing, food stamps, and a lack of transporation? This is [...]
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God in Society: Round Two
Posted on July 18, 2008 by Brian LePort
Brian: Welcome to the second round of our ‘God in Society’ debate here at PoliticalInquirer.com. We apologize for the delay between rounds but one of our participants had a crisis that he had to attend to before he was able to resume. Now we can pick up where we left off a few weeks ago.
The [...]
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Your Empire Is Crumbling
Posted on July 15, 2008 by jack3566
Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
by David Michael Green
So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh?
Well, bully for you!
What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate!
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The Chinese are ‘moving on up’: The People’s Republic of Capitalism
Posted on July 10, 2008 by Lance
The Chinese, for all their wrongs, are slowly becoming a capitalist nation. They are not yet as economically free as they need to be, nor are property rights properly enforced, but hundreds of millions of Chinese are now able to afford a great lifestyle that no one imagined was possible forty or fifty years ago.
Tim [...]
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Multiculturalism and Diversity
Posted on July 10, 2008 by Lance
Would someone be so kind as to give me the basics of why multiculturalism and diversity is a virtue? While I believe increasing your knowledge about other cultures is a good thing (but definitely not a ‘virtue’), actively encouraging a society to have more and more distinct cultures inside of it seems to lead only [...]
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Will ‘Wanted’ Trigger the Next Columbine?
Posted on July 1, 2008 by Mike O
I did enjoy the movie ‘Wanted’ (even as my son and I laughed at the unending violations in the laws of physics), but it is a concern that this particular movie will trigger other mass killings. It has all the same touchpoints of the ‘Matrix’ (which served as a triggering image for the sick pair [...]
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God in Society: An Atheism-Theism Debate [Round One]
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Brian LePort
ROUND ONE. RESPONSE ONE. FIVE QUESTIONS
Brian: Yesterday, we here at the Political Inquirer began a debate between “M” of the group blog Atheism is Dead and Leo Pardus of the group blog de-conversion. “M” is representing Theism in general, even though he currently is a professing Christian from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Leo is representing Atheism. [...]
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God in Society: An Atheism-Theism Debate
Posted on June 26, 2008 by Brian LePort
Round One. Response One: Introducing the Debaters
The Political Inquirer will be hosting a three round debate between “M” of the group blog ATHEISM IS DEAD and Leo Pardus of DE-CONVERSION. The “thesis questions” of this debate are these, “Is Atheism beneficial or dangerous to society?” and similarly, “Is Theism beneficial or dangerous to society?” The debate is [...]
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Controversial Defamation Bill passes by a single vote
The Irish Government passed by a single vote the Defamation Bill after the Government nearly suffered a defeat on an amendment which would have deleted the offense of blasphemy from the Bill.
The bill introduces a new crime of blasphemous libel which the media industry broadly supports. The new law also enables newspapers to offer [...]
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