St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated each year on March 17th. This day marks the accepted date in 493 CE of St. Patrick’s death. As St. Patrick is the figure most prominently associated with bringing Christianity to Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church i[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
March 12th, 2013 - 10:54 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Why evolution is wrong
Evolutionary biologists of today are confronted with the problem of explaining how such an enormous amount of information contained in the most basic cell could have been organized into a life form using only chance, material, and time. The historical explanation has been to claim that time on the o[...]
Massachusetts Senator Supports Slavery
On this day 163 years ago, famed orator Daniel Webster delivered one of the most memorable speeches of his remarkable career. Standing to address the Senate in support of the Compromise of 1850, the congressional effort led by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas to resolve the issues propelling the Unite[...]
March 7th, 2013 - 4:57 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
Women’s Rights in Arabia
Saudi- 18 lingerie shops closed for failure to employ women (MENAFN – Arab News) The Labor Ministry in coordination with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs this week closed 18 lingerie shops in shopping centers east of Riyadh after they failed to employ Saudi women. “We’ll[...]
March 4th, 2013 - 11:01 am § in Misc.
Help for the Repricans: How to raise some money without raising taxes
A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny Tax-exempt bonds, targeted for elimination in the 1980s, have not only endured, but grown, in what amounts to a large corporate giveaway costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.[...]
The AVE Challenge: Who said that?
The greatest obstacle that we face in fulfilling the agreements of the Congress is the psychological barrier created by inertia, resistance to change, simulation or double standards, indifference and insensitivity, a barrier which we are obliged to surmount with constancy and firmness [...]
February 27th, 2013 - 11:06 pm § in Politics
PRESIDENT ROMNEY SHOWS CAUTION … Bob Woodward kvetcches
Faced with the sequester by the Democrats, the President has announced that he is trying to conserve precious funds for the military. Two aircraft carriers are now docked because of concerns the Navy can afford nuclear fuel for them. Worse yet, the Department of Defense has decided not to deploy a[...]
February 17th, 2013 - 5:55 am § in Misc.
POC has nothing to do with history of abuse in America. The term is strictly political and arguably racist.
I detest the term “people of color.” At the University of Washington , POC has become a euphemism for a selected set of ethnic groups who are not “white.” It is used as sad substitute for an effort to recruit students and faculty who come from disadvantaged groups. How conv[...]
February 15th, 2013 - 4:43 am § in Misc.
Minting the debt: The Platinum Solution
(this appeared as a letter to the Daily Kos) I’m the former Mint director and Treasury chief of staff who, with Rep. Mike Castle, wrote the platinum coin law and produced the original coin authorized by the law. Therefore, I’m in a unique position to address some confusion I’ve seen in the med[...]
Antisemitism hits Harvard
Jewish Harvard Students Receive Mock Eviction Notices Jewish students at Harvard University receive mock eviction notices in light of “Israel Apartheid Week.” Is this antisemitism? Imagine all Asian students getting this notice next time a Tibetan is immolated. Or imagine all Catholic Studen[...]