The House of Representatives is railroading through bills that directly affect the extent of your freedoms. I know. You don’t want to hear it. I’m a liberal fruitcake. Cover your ears. Cover your eyes. But you can’t cover your personal life under rules currently being rammed through Congress. Even the House of Representatives agrees with […]

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Well, I finally got taken in by a hoax myself.

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Someone emailed me this image. The caption of this photo, which was apparently published in the 1954 edition of Popular Mechanics, reads: Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the […]

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As often seems the case lately, there’s not much time for full-on and in-depth articles of the sort I prefer to write. I’ve been given another appeal to write (this one goes to the California Supremes) and I’m not liking where it’s going. That makes it all the harder (and more time-consuming) for me. Nevertheless, […]

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Yesterday, I explained the difficulties inherent when a Jew, like me, writes about what’s happening in the New Theocracy that has gripped our country. Søren Kierkegaard’s Attack Upon “Christendom” 1854-1855 was written in a similar spirit. But Kierkegaard was a Christian theologian and philosopher. At any rate, I coined the term “neo-Pharisee,” to describe a […]

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There is a problem in writing about the conservative “Christian” right wingnuts that are encouraged by and collect about George Bush. That problem is with what to call them. Whenever I write about them, I risk stepping on the toes of others who use the term “Christian” to describe themselves. For example, there are people […]

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History furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Alexander von Humboldt (1813), in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson vol. 14, p. […]

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I’ve taken to reading blogs or foreign newspapers, since there’s no news in American “news” anymore. Every large American paper is now The National Enquirer; every televised “news” program is the Fox show. And of late, there’s been talk in those venues about the Tyranny of the Majority. I think I’ve even mistakenly commented on […]

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I feel remiss in that there are so many things happening about which to blog and, as my last post noted, so little time for it. This morning, my wife was telling me that the news is reporting the terrific progress we’re making in Iraq. Let me say right out of the chute that the […]

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Lilith Helps With Remodeling . . . NOT! Apologies in advance for the light reading the last few days. A few things have conspired to keep me from blogging. First, there was the 50-page appeal I was finishing off last week, so that I can join the ranks of the hated liberal criminal defense types […]

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