Atheist Ethicist

In the sum of human history, people have had far more reason to fear tyrants than to fear terrorists. I strongly suspect that if President...

NOTE - March 24, 2008: The story in this post is now the first chapter in a new book, A Perspective on the Pledge I tend to think that it ...

I had a special posting planned for today -- my 100th day of blogging. However, world events have transpired to force an important issue to ...

Where does this President think he gets the right to repeal the 4th Amendment to the Constitution by secret executive order? One of the th...

MSNBC News recently uploaded a story that provides yet another example in which many members of the religious right are exhibiting an inabi...

Preliminary Notes on Torture I would like to congratulate Senator John McCain on his victory over the Bush Administration over the issue o...

On Liberty and Theocracy in Ohio I have recently encountered the most Owellian statement I have ever seen in a document called Uncommon S...

Before starting on today's topic, I have a couple of follow-up items to post. First, I want to make a quick comment about the Administ...

The Declaration of Independence states, '…all men are created equal…' The founding fathers said that we were created equal because ...

In a recent blog entry called “ One Dollar, One Vote ”, Martin Mapes brought up the issue of “Money is Speech.” This slogan represents the i...

The Climate Change conference has ended in Canada, and the role that the American deligation played proved to be an embarrassment. It would ...

On the bus ride home from the office Christmas party yesterday, the bus was dark and quiet except for a couple of people sitting on opposite...