Jake Rush is a former sheriff’s deputy and an attorney running in the primary against first-term Florida GOP Rep. Ted Yoho. … But in his spare time, Rush also dresses up in costumes and participates in supernatural live-action role-playing games featuring vampires, werewolves, and gothic elements. Actually, I would vote for this guy. Anyone willing […]

Just yesterday, I listed logical fallacies that people can fall into. Some of the fallacies are the result of deliberate action. Many of them are due to inadvertent mistakes. But, the first graph is a deliberate attempt to mislead. Note that in the first graph it visually appears that about three times as many people […]

As you can see, the poster above comes from http://bewareofimages.com. While I do not support some of what is on the site, they are good at pointing out deliberate lies, inadvertent lies, omissions of truth, etc. I find the poster above to be a quite good one. It lists the most common logical fallacies found […]

From the Vatican website, dated three days ago, 26 March 2014: Con riferimento all’amministrazione della diocesi di Limburg, in Germania, la Congregazione per i Vescovi ha studiato attentamente il rapporto della Commissione voluta dal Vescovo e dal Capitolo Cattedrale, per intraprendere approfondite indagini circa le responsabilità coinvolte nella costruzione del Centro Diocesano “St. Nikolaus”. Atteso […]

In an article published today, President Jimmy Carter said: “In the United States for the same exact work for a full-time employee, women get 23 percent less pay than men. And in the Fortune 500, only 21 of those leaders among the 500 are women, and in that high level, they get 42 percent less […]

From Antiochian.org: “The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, with great sadness, announces the passing unto life eternal of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America. May his memory be eternal! Details are forthcoming.”

Notice that back in 1959, before even some of the current arguments about supposedly activists courts, the Virginia State Bar posted the plaque above which lauds the fact that we are a country of common law. They go even farther to say that, “since the Magna Carta the common law has been the cornerstone of […]

There is a person who comments on my blog periodically with whom I disagree various times. But, the highest compliment that I can pay is that he makes me think. He makes sound arguments. He calls me to account. He keeps me from flights of unthinking rapture in my blog posts. Recently, he again challenged […]

On a post yesterday, a contributor wrote of being in favor of the conservative ideal of original intent. As I answered him, I am not in favor of original intent. In fact, I think that any devoted Christian should run far away from original intent. Why do I say that? Well, let’s really look at […]