 New Testament Myths: The Diary of a Madman Named Saul.
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
The greatest irony in history is that the religion named for Christ is the religion of Paul and of Rome. (Read more...)
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January 11, 2006 |
Indians and Finance Reform
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
By now, it should be apparent, to one and to all, that ‘patching’ Senate rules will not mend the fabric of the republic. Because Senators are elected they advocate, not what is moral or what is best, but for that which will get them elected; and once elected they spend most of their time fund-raising and campaigning to be reelected. (Read more...)
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The Spirits of Christmas: A New Look at "A Christmas Carol"
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
Those of an Objectivist or Libertarian bent usually vilify "A Christmas Carol", his best-known story, as an overly sentimental paean to altruism. But, there may be less to that theory than meets the eye. (Read more...)
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Let Them Melt
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
It is hard get it up for global warming or to mourn the retreat of today’s glaciers. Until science can explain these dramatic events, no one can reasonably put stock in the current, petty statistics tormented into significance by flawed computer models—especially when, just a short thirty years ago, these same sources were warning of an impending ice age.
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Same Old Tune, Second Verse
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
That progressives deny being socialists is a deliberate act of evasion. Predictably, and worst of all, their evasions corrupt their ethics. Their public pronouncements praising altruism are a stark contrast to the pragmatism they practice in their personal lives.
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Mack Sennett (Or Quilting, a Senatorial Pastime)
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
The Founders did not set out to establish a utopia. They were practical men who knew only too well the mischief of which government was capable. They set their backs to thwarting government at every turn, to making it impossible for the Republic to act in haste. Article III, Section 4 of the Constitution “guarantees to every State in this Union a republican form of government''; the 17th Amendment defeated those republican aims. (Read more...)
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In Defense of Dresden
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
Collateral damage has been the subject of much discussion as it relates to the Iraq war. The debate on this topic is certainly not new. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the decision by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to carpet bomb during WWII were highly controversial. But it's important to distinguish between purely personal acts of vengeance and strategic military actions. (Read more...)
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Audubon Wildcatters: Environmental Duplicity
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
It may come as a surprise to many that The Audubon Society has decades of experience in developing oil resources in the midst of their environmental refuges. Despite propaganda flyers like "A Refuge Is No Place for Oil Rigs!” The Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary near Naples, Florida, and the Bernard Baker Sanctuary in southern Michigan all have had active oil production without environmental Armageddon. (Read more...)
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American Education: Roots of the Problem
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
Young minds are taught that firmly held convictions and clear visions of the truth are ‘worthless hallucinations of the mind,’ and that truth and fact are judgmental. Eco delivers the coup de grace with, “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.” (Read more...)
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HAFs, Sovereignty and the UN
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
A UN, a step toward a world collective or one world government, is a romantic notion particularly popular with egalitarians who, by some stretch of the imagination, transmogrify the greatest bastion of freedom in the world into a fascist dictatorship. Their faith in the synergy of collective action makes an independent... (Read more...)
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