Posts Tagged ‘democracy’
April 29, 2008
This blows my mind. Instead of blogging about it like I normally do, I just wanted to present the article in it’s entirety here. So direct from the London times…
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to [...]
Posted in Government, Politics, Religion, skepticism |
Tags: abortion, America, amoral, amorality, atheism, belief, democracy, evangelicals, evolution, God, gonorrhoea, healthy, muder, pregnancy, problems, promiscuity, Religion, secular, skepticism, social, STD, suicide, teen, US
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April 28, 2008
You might be aware of the impending world food crisis. People in the less affluent world are going to start dropping dead like flies, apparently, because food is too hard to get or too expensive.
There are a number of micro-explanations for this, but pretty much everyone agrees that the macro-explanation is a causal chain [...]
Posted in Ecology, Government, Politics, skepticism |
Tags: Africa, Aid, biofuel, capitalism, change, China, climate, consumption, crisis, democracy, economic, failure, famine, food, Food Crisis, fossil, free, freedom, fuel, global, Holodomor, liberty, Mao, market, Marxism, Nations, overconsumption, price, regulated, rising, self-determinism, shortage, Soviet, States, surplus, United, warming, world
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March 17, 2008
I realized something today.
Americans hate freedom.
Now, this statement will offend some. They will cry out, “We are the freest nation on earth,” “Americans love freedom,” and “Americans love freedom so much they will fight for the freedom of others.” I say, bologna.
As to the first: “We are the freest nation on earth.” [...]
Posted in Government, Politics, skepticism |
Tags: afraid, amendment, America, American, anarchy, Bill of Rights, Bush, coercion, constitution, constitutional rights, democracy, fear, federal, free speech, freedom, freedom and democracy, Government, Iraq, justice, lazy, liberty, ponzi, prison, reform, retirement, search warrant, social security, spending, subsidy, taxes, US code, welfare
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