It may not be overstating things to say that Thomas Jefferson’s contradictions, and his existential conflict with Alexander Hamilton, set the mold for the United States. Now their America is…
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thoughts on life
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Since the US Supreme Court ruling making gay marriage the law of the land, many social conservatives are arguing that it’s time for Christians to strategically retreat into their own…
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In astrophysics, as in life, there are generally three views of where things are headed. Let’s call them evolution, entropy or enervation. In other words, better, worse or the same.
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Attesting that being a liberal or a conservative has become a distinction without a difference, ‘progressive’ mouthpieces for the corporate media have taken to comparing and defending Western ideas and…
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On a warm, hazy afternoon, people cross the iron footbridge on bikes, foot or horseback. I sit about 75 meters upstream from the bridge. And though I’m in the open,…
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“The greatest triumph of Satan is convincing people in the modern age it doesn’t exist.” Anonymous
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Thoughts and emotions arise and pass by like leaves and twigs on the water. Watching them without interference, without trying to do anything about them, the mind quiets and the…
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On one of the hottest days of the year, a mother and her young son walk downstream in the shallow creek at midday.