Politics

Corporations are People

Byhenry August 13, 2011

Mitt Romney in 2007 in Washington, DC at the V... — Image via Wikipedia

Mitt Romney is taking a good deal of flack for saying that corporations are people, and there’s even a DNC ad on the topic. Now while the hot place will be frozen over before I vote for Mitt Romney, I have to agree with him on this one. Corporations are one way in which people get together in order to do things they can’t do individually.

Similarly labor unions are a way in which people get together to accomplish things they couldn’t otherwise accomplish. I think it’s debatable just what special privileges we give to particular groups of people, but both are, nonetheless, people. Perhaps if we could recognize that in both cases we might be able to do better legislating for both corporations and unions.

Rand Paul Agrees With Mitt Romney: “All Of Us Are Corporations” (alan.com)
Colbert Defends Mitt Romney’s ‘Corporations Are People’ Statement (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
Actually, Mitt Romney is RIGHT about this… (virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com)

Politics

Military Spending and the Deficit

Byhenry November 4, 2012

We should be considering these numbers when discussing the deficit. Some of these countries, at least, can afford to pay their own way.

Author Related | Diversity | Politics

Rachel Maddow Identifies the Religious Right

Byhenry February 14, 2009

I was watching Rachel Maddow last night and she commented on the “rejection of religious right” candidates during the last election and gave examples: Alan Keyes and Mike Huckabee. Now there are a couple of problems with this, some of which could be identified by right wing opponents of Mike Huckabee who don’t think he’s…

Politics

The Problem with the Drug War

Byhenry December 2, 2006

This story about Afghanistan and the opium harvest, which has reached a record high this year reminded me of one of the problems with reporting the drug war. We tend to report on the huge amounts of drugs that are stopped. What we don’t comment on so much is how many drugs are getting through….

Christianity | Creation and Evolution | Intelligent Design | Politics | Science Education

AAAS on Hana and Francisco Ayala

Byhenry April 1, 2006

The AAAS web site has a wonderful profile of Hana and Francisco Ayala, along with an interview with both on video. Dr. Francisco Ayala states that ID is not science, but it is also very bad theology. He calls evolution the unifying principle of biology, and calls intelligent design “blasphemy.” This is worthwhile listening for…