I have a confession to make. I love pumpkin pie. I don’t mean in the sense of the juvenile film American Pie; and no I wouldn’t marry one. I just mean I really, really enjoy pumpkin pie. The problem with pumpkin pie is you can’t find it outside the United…

Tonight the evidence I’ve seen over the last few years compels me to do something I never imagined would happen — at the next opportunity I have I will change my voter’s registration to Democrat from independent. It’s a small gesture at best but the Republican party has become so…

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive he was widely despised by evangelicals and attacked. Prominent Baptist preacher Tim LaHaye King an “out-right theological liberal heretic.” (They hadn’t yet invented the “woke” insult.) It was common for evangelical churches to teach God demanded segregation and mandated the separation of the…

I see a new moral panic evolving all over something we all knew anyway! There is a report out saying the obvious: teens watch porn. As they put in the panic: teens are exposed to erotica. Well, by exposed they mean actively go looking for it! This panic is so…

Libertarians can tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and still have been better off saying nothing. By this I mean how you say something is often more important than what you say. …

I saw a writer, with whom I generally agree, making the claim that religious attendance increases income. The brief argument given was social interaction raises income. Social interaction is generally a good thing economically but not all social interaction is equal. …

Because of its illiberal and authoritarian policies the choice of Qatar for the World Cup created a lot of controversy. A repressive dictatorship itself, Qatari police had their hands full going after people from countries who actually believed they had a right to freedom of speech. On one hand the…

Russia’s birth rate is below replacement levels at 1.5. It’s total fertility rate is lower than almost all Western nations but Putin wants to be the New Stalin with a revived Soviet Empire under his control — something an awful lot of Republicans in Congress seem to want as well. …

This is the time of year when many people talk about charity and kindness. Of course, talk is cheap. I take the position that while kindness is a virtue, charity is not. But my reasoning for this is simple: virtues are open to all people equally. The ability to be…