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January 2019

January 04, 2019
It's cheaper to house people than to let them go homeless.
January 02, 2019
  By James A. Haught While they posed as pillars of piety, some medieval popes...

December 2018

December 31, 2018
The clock hand sweeps toward midnight, and the new year beckons on the horizon. But...
December 28, 2018
The historic presidency of FDR and the New Deal... is completely ignored by this novel.
December 26, 2018
By James A. Haught Easter came on April Fool's Day in 2018. No wisecracks, please....
December 24, 2018
Sometimes the smallest choices present the hardest dilemmas. I've been facing one such this year,...
December 21, 2018
The value of protecting the past.
December 19, 2018
By James A. Haught When I came of age in the 1950s, and slowly began...
December 17, 2018
Even as white evangelical Christians bask in short-term victories, the future is slipping away from...
December 14, 2018
Increasing the freedom of some people might mean decreasing the freedom of others.
December 12, 2018
Rick Warren is absurd to claim that purpose only comes from gods and devils, heavens...
December 10, 2018
It's going to be a gloomy Christmas for a lot of Trump supporters, and not...
December 07, 2018
An easily abused power, but there are times when it's an essential tool in the...
December 05, 2018
By James A. Haught [Note: I picked this column to run today for a reason....
December 03, 2018
With multiple state and federal probes underway, the revelations soon to come may be even...

November 2018

November 30, 2018
If you don't like the same books, music and clothing at sixty that you did...
November 28, 2018
By James A. Haught In the 2018 election, America's shrinking segment of white evangelicals mobilized...
November 26, 2018
Fighting fire with fire could be the key to beating the conservative conspiracy theory mindset.
November 23, 2018
All setup, no payoff.
November 21, 2018
By James A. Haught Are you a religious believer or a doubter? Let's find out....
November 19, 2018
Almost a year ago, in "#MeToo and the Atheist Community", I wrote about creepy atheist...
November 16, 2018
A surprisingly Buddhist moral for an Ayn Rand novel.
November 14, 2018
By James A. Haught If you study history, you'll see episodes that changed civilization. For...
November 12, 2018
If you look closely, you can catch glimpses of a coming new world buried beneath...
November 09, 2018
The benefits of downsizing.
November 07, 2018
In the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterms, I was deliberately avoiding the polls....
November 05, 2018
A moment of silence for the passing of a telescope that changed our view of...
November 02, 2018
The dark side of homeownership.

October 2018

October 31, 2018
By James A. Haught A jobless West Virginian, living on welfare, began preaching in Pentecostal...
October 29, 2018
By now we've all heard of the latest horrible outbreak of slaughter: a shooting at...
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