Politics

I Wish This Would Work

Byhenry December 6, 2012

A naive suggestion. Unfortunately, there are enough people out there willing to be manipulated to make all the lying worthwhile.

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

Allies for Evolution, not Everything
Byhenry September 9, 2006
Update: Jack Krebs has now posted a longer summary of the talk and links to audio files. I haven’t listened to the audio yet, but I don’t see anything in the summary that would alter my view on this. I’m glad Jack and Kansas Citizens for Science made sure to get good audio of this….
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AFA Continues Campaign against The Book of Daniel (NBC)
Byhenry January 9, 2006
The American Family Association is continuing its campaign against The Book of Daniel on NBC. I just received another e-mail calling on me not to watch the show, of course, but also to ask my local affiliate to stop airing it, and also to ask the advertisers not to sponsor it. In support of this,…
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Church and State | Military | Politics | Prayer

Persecution Victim as a Profession
Byhenry March 13, 2007
It seems that former Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, who claims to have been dismissed from the Navy for praying in the name of Jesus, is making a career now of being persecuted. The story is being kept alive. I was alerted to the current edition through my Breaking Christian News e-mail alert, a source that…
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2008 U. S. Presidential Election | Asides | Politics

More on Campaign Finance
Byhenry June 20, 2008
While deploring the hypocrisy of Obama’s switch on the issue (though still preferring him to McCain), I will be very happy if his action is the death-knell of public campaign financing as suggested in this NYT article (via MSNBC).
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Congratulations to the British
Byhenry February 16, 2010
According to Newsweek, Britain’s Court of Appeals has ordered the release of information on the torture of a British resident while in U. S. custody (HT: Dispatches). Both the Bush and then the Obama administrations have argued against releasing this information and threatened the British with refusing to share intelligence if it was released. I…
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Detecting Plagiarism in a Fantasy Universe
Byhenry July 22, 2016
In the good old days when I had time to do fantasy role-playing games, stodgy traditionalists would object that it wasn’t real. Why spend your time on something that isn’t real? This was often said by people who would spend hours watching and discussing football games with approximately the same effect on reality. But I…
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