What about Paul’s Religious Freedom?

A letter from Paul: My religion believes in real ‘pro life’. We do not know when sub-dividing cells become human life but we do...

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole

Rather often I feel like listening to the Republicans is like living in Alice’s wonderland. Here are some examples: Who created more debt Bush...

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Attention Microsoft Software Vendors

To All Software Vendors: Please pass this message around and post it here (or your own custom message)… http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-HK/iewebdevelopment/threads You can also open up...

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Postmodern Rationalism

“Throughout his writings, Foucault valorizes figures such as Hölderlin, Artaud, and others for subverting the hegemony of modern reason and its norms and he...

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Latest Observations on the Housing and Economic Crisis

I have posted much more research data on the housing crisis, the recession and the history of the crisis. I have to admit that...

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The Housing Crisis – Research Revisted

The Housing Crisis – Research Revisted

In my continuing investigation on the economic crisis that started during the last decade I have more results and links to report.  This data...

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The Free Market: Capitalism and Socialism

Adam Smith, an Enlightenment thinker, thought of humans as fundamentally self-interested as contrasted to Thomas Hobbes.  Hobbes thought that selfishness worked as a kind...

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A Rebuttal…

Here is my rebuttal of this, http://critical-thinker.net/?p=1025 First, I would not maintain that idealizing the past is solely a conservative issue. I think you...

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Wealth: Zero Sum or Open Ended?

With regard to the comments on this post… http://critical-thinker.net/?p=989#comments First, I would NEVER advocate or imply violence. I will leave that to gun toting...

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Cool News…

These guys invited me to be an author on this site…. http://critical-thinker.net/?page_id=998 Maybe, I will not be talking to myself anymore (not that there...

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The Question of Conservatism

The Question of Conservatism

Conservatives want to conserve. Certainly this is ostensively true. The question of conservatism comes when the object of conservatism is explicitly posed. For example,...

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Rick Perry stated that the Marines who urinated on dead bodies are ‘kids’.

If Rick Perry really believes that the Marines who urinated on dead bodies are ‘kids’ why are we allowing ‘kids’ to go to war?...

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Rich Envy?

In response to this post about the poor’s rich envy… http://critical-thinker.net/?p=943 I think you may find the Economic Policy Institute has some interesting facts...

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My Presidential Election Prediction

Mitt will win the nomination. There will be more alternatives to the Democrats and Republicans in this election than ever before. Republican libertarians will...

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Behold, the Great Beast has Fallen…

It appears that the Republican Party is close to collapse. I have seen this coming on for years and am happy that it is...

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Language as Power

Postmodernism would argue that language is power. On the surface this is just as ludicrous as suggesting that money is speech. However, what they...

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Money is Free Speech? (update 1/19/12)

The Supreme Court’s decision that makes money speech and therefore protected as free speech under the Constitution is problematic in two areas that I...

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The God of Convenience

I grew up in Louisiana. I was continually around fundamentalist Christians and Republicans. If anyone tells you that Mitt’s Mormonism is not important to...

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The Great Recession: How the Free Market Got Rigged

What happened after 30 trillion dollars of credit default swap derivatives flooded the worldwide market… This is my understanding, based on the data cited...

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The Facts: Deregulation=Republicans=Economic Crisis

The Facts: Deregulation=Republicans=Economic Crisis

Myths about the Mortgage Meltdown Myth 1: Clinton caused the mortgage meltdown Myth 2: Low income lending caused the mortgage meltdown Myth 3: Bush...

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