Archive for February, 2009
A Major Milestone?
The Stimulus bill passed and it is being called “a major milestone” for President Obama. But I do not see this as any significant effort. The simple fact was that a stimulus bill was going to pass as Republicans could not have stopped it. The best they could have done was influence it, but the […]
Read More..>>Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXXI
Listen to the MP3 In my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” I have come to chapter 18, A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational. The chapter struck me as a very strange chapter, for it left me with the feeling that Hitchens lives in somewhat of a fantasy world, […]
Read More..>>Does a Tree That Fall In the Forest…
There is the old question that asks does a tree that falls in the forest make a sound if no one is there. However fascinating that question may be, there is a similar, and much more relevant version: Is a problem that goes unreported really a problem? President Obama’s inexperience is already showing as he […]
Read More..>>Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXX
Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and his defense of atheism in chapter 17. Last time, I looked at how Hitchens deftly attempted to shift the blame for the secular evils of the twentieth century onto religion effectively arguing that Christians are […]
Read More..>>Stimulus Plan?
As Obama puts his mark onto the presidency he continues to enjoy high approval ratings, but cracks are beginning to appear. That the stakes are very high as can been seen in an article in the Christian Science Monitor. The headline warned of “risks to opponents” of the stimulus plan, and most of the article […]
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