by Barry Fagin | Oct 22, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Printed in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-25-08} Liberals know that everyone else is “dogmatic”. Libertarians and free-market conservatives are blinded by the ideology of laissez-faire capitalism. Social conservatives are slaves to the dogma of fundamentalist...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 15, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2012-10-04} “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean …” Humpty Dumpty can afford to think that way; he’s a fictional character. Unfortunately, politicians aren’t. Real politicians pass real laws with real consequences for...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 8, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 11-13-08. Editor’s Note: Barry’s truths are timeless as we are seeing this current election cycle.} If the Republican Party in Colorado learns nothing else from this election, it should learn this: The economy...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 1, 2012 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2012-09-21} The furious protests across the Islamic world over an embarrassingly bad anti-Muslim video show just how enormous the gap between the West and the Middle East truly is. Protesters who demand that the President...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 24, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 10-30-08} In four years of writing this column, I’ve never written about abortion. I hoped that I wouldn’t have to. But next week’s election changes the picture. I urge citizens of Colorado to vote no on Amendment 48. A...
