I spent some time over at Focus on the Family, a site that teaches God's own version of morality, to see what they had to say about drug use. As it turned out, the advice depended on whether the drug was illegal, as though God defers to the U.S. Congress…
Here's another obstacle to objectively evaluating a person. There are many aspects of people. If you are attracted to one aspect strongly, you might (subconsciously) allow that characteristic to serve as a token for that person's other personality characteristics. As this article from PsyBlog indicates, this is called the "Halo…
We all knew it, but the details are now pouring in. It's all so very reprehensible . . . This is an excerpt from today's Washington Post: In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and…
Free Press has posted this article, including a take-action link: In 2003, the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, under Chairman Michael Powell, tried to push through a drastic media ownership deregulation package that would have transformed the American media ownership landscape. The proposal triggered one of the largest and broadest…
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is decorating Madison, Wisconsin with "Beware of Dogma" billboards this month. What is the FFRF? The following mission statement is from the FFRF website: The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion.…