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Abortion and Natural Rights
Fri May 4, 2012 4:10 AM EDT
How can one believe in the existence of natural rights while at the same time supporting the right to an abortion? After much thought, it would seem to me that these two positions are mutually exclusive. If natural rights, as opposed to inalienable rights which I sugg …
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The Rights of the Individual in a Societal Context---Part II---Survival
Fri May 4, 2012 12:14 AM EDT
In part I of this series I touched on the notion that individual rights are the first casualty when the survival of any particular society is at stake. In part II I would like to expand just a bit on that thought, thus providing a firm foundation for future articles ad …
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The Rights of the Individual in a Societal Context---Part I
Thu May 3, 2012 3:34 AM EDT
The Rights of the Individual in a Societal Context---Part I The question of how to address the tension between the rights of the individual and the rights of the society has been a focus of Western philosophers almost from the beginning. Socrates eventually provided …
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Who Do You Trust...God or Man? Poll included.
Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:06 PM EDT
It seems to me that the title question is the question we should all be asking ourselves. Who do you trust more...God or Man? Of course one might rightly ask, which God? Which Man? My response is to suggest that I would generally trust any God of whom I a …
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A Balanced Budget Amendment? Why It Will Not Pass
Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:55 PM EDT
This is the first in a projected series of short articles dealing with economic issues with, perhaps, a different perspective. I would suggest that the biggest impediment to any Balanced Budget Amendment is the Federal Reserve System. I would further suggest that if …
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My Question to Black Americans...Want to See Racism?
Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:06 AM EDT
Talk is cheap....and I see a lot of it...but where are you when the truth stares you right full in the face? I refer to the numerous conflicts occurring in Africa, and, in this case, specifically Darfur.
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Who Put the West in Western Civilization
Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:47 AM EDT (Intercollegiate Studies Institute)
"A civilization is not something we simply inherit or ever finally possess. Each generation, individually and collectively, needs to make a continual effort to appropriate it anew because a civilization is not passed along to us at birth.
Ayad Jamal Al-Din in TV Debate About Separation of Religion and State
Seeded on Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:23 AM EST (YouTube)
Extremely interesting debate between a variety of participants representing various Muslim views....From the Muslim Brotherhood to a former Iraqi MP....it's worth the time..
Daled Amos: Even After The Referendum In Sudan, Muslim Slavery Of Blacks Will Remain A Problem
Seeded on Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:59 AM EST ()
The British suppressed black slavery in Sudan in the first half of the 20th century. But the practice was rekindled in the 1980s as part of the surge in Islamism in the region.
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