The words of George Washington
Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth thereof. In discoursing of things you have heard, name not your author; always a secret discover not. No comment.
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A political hierarchy
The Catholic church’s relationship with the Obama administration reached a new low when the administration ruled that employers had to offer birth control without co-pay as part of the new health reform law. “Obama threatens religious freedom,” thunder the bishops. Religious liberty is under attack at home and abroad, they claim. How does one answer …
A dose of one’s own medicine?
In his book The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt calls the liberal intelligentia WEIRD, that is, Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic. They are universalists, suspicious of nationalist loyalties; individualists, committed to autonomy and self-realisation; derogatory about religion and the way it cements and reinforces groups, regardless of the content of the religion. He says that …
The words of George Washington
“Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none although they give occasion”. US general election. No comment
At last somebody is saying it!
Britain’s Royal Society, one of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world, with Isaac Newton himself as one of the Founders, has issued a report calling for contraception for all women, the stabilisation of the world’s population, and the reduction of high consumption in rich countries to avoid “a downward spiral of economic and …