Archive for the 'Ideology' Category

What Next for the Nanny State?

Here in California, the hands-free cell phone law went into effect July 1. (By the way, does anyone know whether there was an actual increase in traffic accidents after cell phones became popular?) This morning, I heard a story that said that 1,800 fires and dozens of injuries resulted from fireworks last year. [...]

Democrats Brazenly Move Toward Socialism

It is no secret among thinking people that the Democratic Party is a socialist group. Most of them mask their Socialistic or Communistic tendencies but they are moving closer and closer to everything being run by the government and redistribution of all wealth except for the wealth of the ruling class. They will remain rich [...]

Gay Marriage is Legal in California

California joins Massachusetts.
I’ll be interested to read the decision when I get the chance.
As for me, let me reiterate my usual point. I am not categorically opposed to gay marriage. However, I think we’re rushing too fast to change human relationships that have been fixed across all human cultures for thousands of years: [...]

“I Don’t Want To Blow You Up”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball sensation who converted to Islam and assumed an Arabic name, does not want to blow you up.
Neither do Iranian-American space tourist Anousheh Ansari or Swiss Muslim theologian Tariq Ramadan.
Such is the message of a new children’s colouring book, provocatively titled I Don’t Want to Blow You Up, that aims to teach [...]

Do Muslims See Hope in Obama?

There has been a lot of talk about Barack Obama and his supposedly being a Muslim. This has been debunked and Obama claims to be a practicing Christian (though his church is certainly questionable at best). There are stories that Obama was a Muslim as a child and that his Muslim father took him to [...]