Tomorrow, the evening of Friday the 20th of August, I shall leave behind the sweltering swamp that our nation’s capital becomes in summer, to venture into the temperate land of beauty we call California, where I will meet my grandparents for a two week vacation. I spent a week there for Cato University at the [...]
Many people can’t imagine life without God. But I have soundly rejected the concept. In honor of Christmas, here’s why.
The Huffington Post has put up a feature it calls “Fundrace,” which allows users to search by address, city, name, occupation, or employer to find out who has made campaign donations of $200 or more, of which federal law requires public disclosure. On a whim, I did a vanity search for my name, even though [...]
David Hume said humans, in observing pain, experience that pain, too. Therefore, we want to alleviate the pain of other people, to ameliorate the suffering it causes within us. This empathy for our fellow humans constitutes the basis for treating them decently.
Hume’s best friend Adam Smith, in his 1759 work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, [...]
Given the results of the 2006 elections, one could wonder whether scandals actually matter for electoral outcomes. Senator Conrad Burns of Montana, who used a subcommittee chairmanship to fulfill the requests of Jack Abramoff in exchange for cash,1 did lose his seat, but only by such a slim margin several days of vote counting were [...]
An R next to a politician’s name might as well be a scarlet letter in 2006.
Voters have tired of Republican President George W. Bush for his ignorance of reality in Iraq and abuses of power at home. And Americans have soured on Republican custodians of Congress for lining their pockets with lobbyists’ bribes and concealing [...]
In the upcoming elections, Democrats have the strongest chance of seizing control of the House of Representatives since 1994. Perhaps they will take the Senate as well.
Republicans, after all, have left the door open for Democrats: They have pushed an unpopular war in Iraq. They have tainted themselves with the stench of Jack Abramoff. They [...]
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