United States of Amnesia

  Is it possible, a major segment of the American electorate has contracted Alzheimer’s disease? Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the private sector created another 161,000 jobs in October.  And the unemployment rate dropped to 4.9 percent. Equally important, average wages rose 2.8 percent compared to October 2015, the highest annual increase in more … Read more

Radical Atheists

  On July 29, 2014, American Atheists, “a non-profit activist organization in the United States dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocating for the complete separation of church and state (Source: Wikipedia),” launched AtheistTV. I went to the AtheistTV site and listened to the introduction by Dave Silverman, President of American Atheists. … Read more

My Rejected Screenplay

  The “butterfly effect” is defined as the scientific theory a single event, regardless of size, can change the course of the universe.  The concept has been used in many contexts.  For example, environmentalist have warned extinction of the most seemingly insignificant species might be the trigger that unleashes a  catastrophic ecological disaster.  And as … Read more

How Trump Could Close the Deal, But Can’t

  For most voters, the question of Barack Obama’s nation of birth was no longer an issue during his 2012 re-election campaign.  When he finally released the original, long-form birth certificate on April 28, 2011, many people, myself included, wondered why he waited so long to debunk the conspiracy theories about his citizenship. The answer … Read more

Show Me the Body

  Article One, Section 9, clause 2 of the United States Constitution decrees, “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.”  This protection against unlawful arrest and detention is derived from English common law first documented in … Read more