The Only Orthodoxy is Reason

Rock, Scissors, Paper does not begin to describe the differences between South Korea and the US. The two societies are based on fundamentally different religions and social philosophies – the one Confucian and the other individualist and Christian. It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of that basic divergence, and the countless differences to […]

In 2004, IV drug use was responsible for about 1 in every 5 cases of HIV and hepatitis C. Intravenous exposure to infected blood products in a previously healthy person is just about the surest way we know of to transmit blood-borne illness. Syringe exchange programs (SEPs) were started in the late 1980s in an […]

Today, a special treat. This guest essay was submitted by Dr. John Farnum, Ph.D., a theoretical chemist doing his post-doctoral work at Emory University.
In this essay, Dr. Farnum explains a scientist’s perspective on “the reality of the unseen,” which he describes as equally encompassing electrons and angels. Dr. Farnum makes a compelling argument […]

A letter to the editor, in an edition of the Wisconsin State Journal last week…
Fred Thompson’s run threatens theocracy
“We still get our basic rights from God and not from government.”
Who said that, Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson? Neither. It was presidential candidate Fred Thompson in
Des Moines, Iowa, recently.
It’s frightening. Is  America on the road to […]

The United States of America, we are told, is a “nation of immigrants.” The values of freedom and liberty may form the foundation of America, many people say, but that foundation was built, and is continually changed and renewed, by the immigrants who have come here through the centuries to find Liberty and to […]

A little less than two years ago, I watched my wife give birth to our daughter Jane.  I won’t go into detail; suffice it to say that the process of labor and delivery is in turns anxiety-ridden, horrifying, disgusting, and, ultimately, mind-boggling.  The greatest miracle in the “miracle of life” is that any survivors remain […]

Campaign finance reform is a tricky subject.  Protecting legitimate democracy appears in conflict with free property rights.  Organizational donation is regulated.  Channeling funds through special-interests, PACs, or political parties is discouraged and also highly regulated.
Meanwhile, election spending continues to reach new heights.  Newt Gingrich was recently quoted as saying a middle class president would be impossible, […]