Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Celebrating Nelson Mandela

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By Gary Berg-Cross When I was growing up Martin Luther King was a clear, heroic voice speaking truth to established power.  He seemed...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Ambrose Bierce

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by Edd Doerr There is naught so fierce As the wit of Ambrose Bierce As folly he'd pierce.                 (ED, 2013) Ambrose Bierc...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

The Guardian's atheist defender of ignorance and superstition

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By Mathew Goldstein Andrew Brown of the Guardian newspaper denies that it makes any difference whether most people's beliefs about ho...
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Vouchers vs Public Schools

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In its August issue The Progressive (409 E. Main St., Madison, WI 53703 -- www.progressive.org) announced that it is starting a new web sit...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Church-State Separation Defended

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a review by Edd Doerr In Freedom We Trust, by Edward M. Buckner and Michael E. Buckner, Prometheus Books,  2013, 281 pp, $18. This ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

George Erickson's "Time Traveling"

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a belated review by Edd Doerr In a writing career of over 60-plus years I have published well over a thousand book reviews in a variety of...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

A Letter on Marijuana

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Dear Reader,   Once the power of religion to destroy intelligent thought has been removed, minds become free to use the empirical tools...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Ways of knowing

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By Mathew Goldstein Theists tend to claim that by applying theological principles we can determine not only that a god really exists, but...