As Dr. Haymond noted in a previous post, the Supreme Court handed down McCutcheon v. F.E.C. today, which, in spirit, is a companion case to Citizens United v. F.E.C. in 2010. Both cases deal with the conflict between campaign finance reforms and Free Speech. We have a long history of campaign reform, including limits on […]
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Crime and a New Kind of Punishment
17 Mar 2014
Perhaps my mind turns by nature toward the morbid, but I found a recent article in the Daily Mail (UK) to be utterly fascinating. Scientists and ethicists appear to be considering the possibility of using drugs and/or altered states of biological reality to redefine punishment. Dr. Rebecca Roache, who is at the center of this […]
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Mr. Putin’s education of Mr. Obama
11 Mar 2014
The Obama Administration is aghast at Mr. Putin’s brazen entry into the Ukraine. As Secretary of State John Kerry says, this isn’t the way a world power behaves in the 21st Century. Doesn’t Mr. Putin recognize the realities of the world we live in? Yet the problem is not with Mr. Putin not recognizing the […]
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In my last post, I was critical of over-bureaucratization in higher education. In this post I am focusing on government abuses, and I just happen to have examples from the local, state and national levels. Such a fortuitous turn of events—I say that tongue in cheek of course. The local absurdity concerns a high school […]
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If you would like the background information on this post, go to Part 1. If you are more interested in the theological issue, see Part 2.) Though I think the theological difference between Jim Crow discrimination and the same-sex debate is important, the comparison also makes constitutional assumptions that are troubling and misguided. There was, […]
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“Administratium” and the Modern Bureaucracy
28 Feb 2014
I will admit, this blog is a bit of a rant. Sometimes I read articles and studies on a single topic and it resonates with me—perhaps too much. Nevertheless, to begin, I have below reprinted a well-known spoof entitled “New Chemical Element Discovered.” It was first published in 1989 by Physics professor William DeBuvitz. Here […]
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Let Them Bake Cakes (Part 2)?
26 Feb 2014
(In Part 1, I talked a bit about the controversy surrounding gay marriage as it relates to providing public accommodations or services from Christians.) For me at least, there is one other question that few seem willing to address directly. Is the current homosexual rights movement analogous to the civil rights struggle of the 1950s […]
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FCC Wants to Study Editorial Choices?
20 Feb 2014
Ajit Pai, an F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission) commissioner dropped a media bomb in The Wall Street Journal. Pai revealed the F.C.C.’s plans to conduct an intrusive study of broadcast newsrooms throughout the country, primarily by interviewing owners, editors, and reporters about their story choices. The stated purpose is to find out whether or not the stations […]
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Rex Lex: Health Care Provision Delayed Again
11 Feb 2014
This fruit hangs so low you can pick it with your feet. Pardon me while I take off my shoes. The Obama Administration has delayed, once again, the employer mandate for ObamaCare. Under the law’s original provision, companies with between 50 and 99 employees were required to provide coverage for workers or face a fine […]
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The Olympics & Tyranny
07 Feb 2014
If you meander around the internet, the Sochi Winter Olympics are starting to dominate the news cycle–and we haven’t even had the opening ceremonies. Most of the coverage has centered on Russia’s poor preparation for the games. As reporters have flocked to the Russian resort, their stories have tilted toward their own experiences with the […]
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