Pueblo County, Colorado, Craver Middle School sent a group of students on a field trip to a firing range. Good for them. Hopefully the students saw the destructive power of a gun and noticed that it takes a person to fire it. I wonder, however, if the field trip included

I’m always skeptical when a group of scientists claim that they found the pin-point of the cosmos that they say happened 13.8 billion years ago. Scientists still don’t know how the Pyramids were built and we still have the Pyramids to study. But scientists know what happened 13.8 billion years

A political tidal wave just hit in Pennsylvania. When’s the last time a write-in candidate won an election? It doesn’t happen very often. But it happened in the Keystone State – for the first time. Will the establishment Republicans in other states take notice? Tea Party candidate Scott Wagner won a

Whatever happened to “freedom OF religion”? According to the Freedom FROM Religion Foundation (FFRF), it does not exist. The latest anti-God tyranny concerns a Twitter post by Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Here it is. Get ready. It’s ominous. It’s devastating. — “Philippians 4:13.” That’s it. Gov. Walker didn’t even

You know when a person is losing the debate when he goes postal on you. I’ve seen it happen many times. When an argument can’t be made based on the facts, the personal attacks begin. It’s the adult version of school-yard bullying. “Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) in an appearance on

In a 1978 speech, Zoltan Merszei, who served as President and CEO of Dow Chemical Co. until his retirement in 1979, said the following in a speech to the Empire Club of Canada: “A fact of life is that money is a coward. Money crosses national boundaries freely. Investment capital

At first I thought the story was a joke. After reading that the death of Chumlee from Pawn Stars was a hoax (last year the hoax was that the “Old Man” had died), I was skeptical when I saw a news story that TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was going to

Martin Luther King, Jr. is an icon of the Left. He led a successful civil disobedience campaign. He made this often repeated statement: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Here’s another one: “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly

How many times have we read in textbooks and popular historical accounts of how the Roman Catholic Church jailed and even executed people who denied the church’s scientific views? Most if not all of these claims are fiction, but they are used nevertheless. Lawrence Torcello, assistant professor of philosophy at

When soldiers fought in Afghanistan, they were told to keep their religious views hidden so as not to offend Muslims. Consider this incident from 2009 that got very little media attention compared to the treatment of a Koran by soldiers: “Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that

Chris O’Dowd is an actor who made some comments about religion in Britain’s GQ magazine. Being an actor doesn’t make him any smarter or dumber than anybody else. His opinions are one in around 7 billion at any given time. Opinions are free, and he’s free to espouse them, even

The most frustrating thing about the GOP is that its spokesmen can’t put up a good defense for their views. Part of the problem is that they’re not fully committed to their principles. In some cases, they don’t have any real principles. So when I saw the video of Mateo,

I’m not much of a beer drinker. If the beer is really cold and I’m really thirsty, I might drink half a bottle. I have friends who like to drink beer. I even have a son who actually makes his own beer. I haven’t heard many of my beer drinking

The Washington Post is reporting that Rand Paul is calling for conservatives to compromise on moral issues: “I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul told vocativ.com. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on

For the past several weeks Senate majority leader “Dirty” Harry Reid has been trying to tell the “truth” about the Unaffordable Care Act, or Obamacare. I say trying because Reid wouldn’t know the truth if he passed it on the street. Of course we’ve now heard his truth telling on

It’s been said that all of life’s questions can be found in the Godfather. The Joe Fox character in You’ve Got Mail made that point several times. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. “It’s not personal; it’s business.” “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “Go to the mattresses.”

The Eighth of the Ten Commandments is, “Thou shalt not steal” (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev. 9:13; Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9). The law regarding stealing in Leviticus 19:11 is interesting: “You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.” The “deal falsely” prohibition caught my attention since our

President Obama has done more damage to the Constitution than any president in history. It’s not that other presidents haven’t tried to subvert the Constitution. In fact, a case could be made that nearly every president has in some way violated his oath of office. But Obama’s presidency is different.