{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 20, 2010} Is Pat Robertson insane, or simply mean and deluded? It’s a question people should no longer be afraid to ask. On a recent episode of the 700 Club, Robertson implied that…
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Tension Builds Between Two Main Conservative Varieties
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{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 6, 2010} The conservative movement, to the extent there is such a thing, moved two steps forward and one step back this week. Two steps forward because the Conservative Political Action Committee accepted a conference…
Right vs. Left Stereotypes Do Not Work in Modern Politics
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{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-12-14} I must be the only writer in town who gets accused of both “liberal media bias” and “right wing dogma.” That’s fine by me, I get more readers that way. But I’d like to take…
When High Gas Prices Return, Suck It Up
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{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-11-25} Guess what’s not in the news? Gas prices. Gas does not cost $4 a gallon, and hasn’t for a while. Anybody remember when this was a big deal? In 2006, before Republicans lost control…
Take Radical Steps to Stop Losing Ground
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{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2013-01-24} The growing disparity between Colorado’s whites and nonwhites in virtually every important statistic of social well-being is a national disgrace. As the recent I-News series “Losing Ground” documents (full disclosure: I was a contributor), things have…
Mandate to Buy Health Insurance an Assault on Freedom
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{Publsihed in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 11, 2009} The House of Representatives has passed a bill which, if it became law tomorrow, would require every American to purchase a certain product in order to remain a legal resident of the…
This Year, a Passover to Remember
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{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-04-15} Today marks the last day of Passover, when Jews all over the world gather over a meal whose traditions go back to pre-biblical times. No matter what your level of observance, every one…
Fairness Impulse Outlives Usefulness
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{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2013-01-14 18:52:46} What if we don’t need fairness anymore? Any parent has heard one of the first sentences out a child’s mouth: “That’s not fair!”. Fairness seems to be inherent in our psychological and emotional makeup. We…
Exit Strategy Needed for Costly, Unnecessary War on Poppies
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{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-29} Ten more Americans died this week in a senseless and pointless war in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy with allegedly supernatural powers that is impossible to kill. I’m talking about the opium poppy. Three DEA…
Controversy Around Cloth Symptomatic of American Problem
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{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-14} The “Cloth of Turin” is once again in the news. (It’s not intellectually honest to say “Shroud of Turin”, since there is no evidence it ever held a body). Yet another claim of Cloth believers…