Secular Perspectives

by Edd Doerr A February poll in Ontario found that Ontarians oppose tax support for Catholic schools by 52% to 38%. Ontario Education ...

Edd's column from the current (April/May) issue of Free Inquiry, “The Importance of This Year’s Elections,”  is featured on the Briti...

Charles Sumner, a church-state separation activist in Tennessee wrote the following for posting on Blogs. On the 230th anniversary...

Edd Doer cites Courtland Milloy’s Jan 20 column in the Washington Post:  “To get approval to build three stores in wealthier parts of...

by Gary Berg-Cross 2015 was a diverse year with many issues, some ups and more seemingly downward trends.  In between, as they say th...

by Edd Doerr This year, 2015, marks 50 years since President Johnson sent the Marines to the Dominican Republic.   The backstory: R...

Edd Doerr Article XI, Section 10 of the Nevada constitution: “No public funds of any kind or character whatever, state, county, or munici...

Edd Doerr focuses on a NY Times story "  Walmart’s Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs, a Study Says " , dated De...

Edd Doerr notes that this excellent  letter by  Martin Brahms  was published in the NY Post on  11/13/15 .  Brahms is a NY writer who...

Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools?, by Mercedes K. Schneider. Teachers College Press, 2015, 245 pp,  $29.95 was  reviewed by Edd ...

Edd Doerr of   Silver Spring, MD  had this letter ( “What not to do”)  published in the  Nov 6/19 , 2015, issue of the rather liberal Nat...

Edd Doerr ( arlinc.org ) thinks that Frank Bruni op ed ( Nov 4 NY Times) “ The Church’s Sins Are Ours,” re sex abuse scandals " is ...

Link provided by Edd Doerr A three-month investigation of data by National Catholic Reporter (NCR) , including a review of more than 7,8...