For the first time, the citizens of Puerto Ric0 voted to become the 51st state in the United States of America. This can’t happen without Congressional action, but a referendum in the American territory went for statehood after Puerto Ricans voted it down in 1967,
The Republican party and “conservatives” in general are far from monolithic. There are different kinds of Republicans and different kinds of conservatives (social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, evangelicals, libertarians, neo-cons, paleo-cons, crunchy-cons, etc., etc.). The main division in the Grand Old Party is between Republicans motivated
What with the locavore movement, the organic food craze, survivalism, and the need to pinch pennies, lots of people have started raising chickens. Even in big cities and suburbia. Here in the D.C. area, counties and municipalities have revised local ordinances to allow chicken coops
Now that Obamacare has passed the hurdles of the Supreme Court and Obama’s re-election, there is a mad scramble to make the necessary preparations before the health care program goes into effect in 2014. The government is adding more requirements of what health insurance companies
Alvin Plantinga is surely one of the best living philosophers. He is also an evangelical Christian. The New Republic, no less, has printed his review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. Nagel, an eminent
The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein tries to assure businesses that Obamacare won’t be so bad. But in doing so, he makes me wonder whether a program built largely around employer-provided health insurance might have the effect of eliminating many people’s employer-provided health insurance: The health-care
One reason for President Obama’s big re-election victory is that Hispanics turned out for him in record numbers. 71% voted for him, with Mitt Romney getting only 27% of the Hispanic vote. George W. Bush got 44%, so it’s not impossible for Republicans to get
Hamas has been firing rockets and missiles into Israel, sparking Israeli retaliation. The two sides have agreed to a cease fire. Israel managed to shoot down virtually all of rockets thanks to a new anti-missile system called “Iron Dome.” Based on American technology, this is
Bob Dylan came to the nation’s capital earlier this week, and I went to his concert with Pete Muller, frequenter of this blog, who initiated the whole expedition. First he threw a birthday party for his wife with some other quite amiable friends who happened
One of the reasons President Obama was re-elected, according to observers, is the way his campaign made use of data-mining and other on-line resources. This article by Craig Timberg and Amy Gardner in the Washington Post details what the campaign did and says how other
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