Reading the Identity Cards Bill, as it pinged between the House of Commons and the Lords last week, you may wonder about the type of campaign that will be used to persuade us to comply with the new ID card law.~Henry Porter~
This is from a British newspaper, but it could soon be asked here.
This […]

Catholic Bishops Want Catholic Charities to Stop Gay Adoptions
Bostonist was worried for a minute that gay marriage and related issues might stay out of the headlines for too long, but the good folks at the Catholic Church seldom let us down. The bishops of Massachusetts’s four archdioceses have announced their plan to seek an exemption […]

When did we become a country which arrests you for Thought Crimes? A country which arrests you for Potential Crimes?
George Orwell must be rolling over in his grave. He warned us! We did not believe him. His book,“1984” was listed as fiction. But it seems that he was writing about our future. Warning us.
We […]

“….Destroy life to save lives is one of those ethical problems….”. So said Mr. Bush at one of the debates between Senator Kerry and President Bush.
This seems like such an easy one to agree with. “Destroy life to save lives” must be wrong in all circumstances just as Mr. Bush said. He believes that when […]

The despotism of custom is
everywhere the standing hindrance
to human advancement.~John Stuart Mill~ philosopher (1806-1873)
In the arguments against advancing human rights, when all other reasons have been shown to have no merit, the last positions taken are: “It has always been this way” or “The Bible tells me so”. Neither has merit for the basis […]

There was a time, when we were all reading the Comics and Science Fiction books about the future and many of us were excited by the wonderful gadgets which would make our lives so much easier or at least more fun, i.e. Dick Tracy’s wrist ‘phone. But there were the parts of these fantasies which […]