Outrageous Public Meeting #1
Over the next three days I will post three (one each day) outrageous public meetings. This one is supposed to be held pursuant to Roberts Rules of Order. The third one I have planned ends with a bang...
View ArticleOutrageous Public Meeting #2
I don’t think Robert’s Rules of Order controlled this meeting of local officials at West New York, New Jersey. “Mistake were made,” as they say. And in bureaucracies, the rule of survival is CYA (cover...
View ArticleOutrageous Public Meeting #3
We all have our pet issues about which we are “passionate” (and there is a fine line between passion and obsession). Mike Skidmore of Photography Is Not a Crime is passionate that police officers and...
View ArticleIs this acceptable?
I came across this through Mike Skidmore’s Photography is Not a Crime weblinks. 61 year old James Ochse is eccentric. He reminds me of a homeless person who tend to suffer from “mental illness.” But...
View ArticleNo, it’s not possible to follow all the rules
So I created a bit of controversy with a series of posts, the last of which was here. It started with potential serious legal trouble I face from something I did not do (I did not 1. drive the car in...
View ArticleDon’t Trust, But Do Verify
You may have heard it said, “trust, but verify.” When it comes to government bureaucracies especially (and to be fair, private corporate ones as well) the maxim should be “don’t trust, but do verify.”...
View ArticleRuss Limbo at his worst
I think I posted this to Positive Liberty years ago. For those folks who don’t like him, this surely will entertain.
View ArticleJohn Silber Flunks an Interview
Interview is a word that has different “contexts.” It’s one thing when you are being interviewed for a job and the goal is to get the committee to hire you. It’s another when you are being interviewed...
View ArticleI’m not an Atheist or a Religious Rationalist
But I have a hard time making a firm commitment on “religion.” I know I’ll disappoint some of my skeptically minded friends by noting my hopeful agnosticism weighs in the direction of theism and...
View ArticleThe Kind of Religion/Christianity I Do Endorse
My last post may have left the impression that I am a simple agnostic. I don’t define myself that way; in fact, I have a hard time defining my faith. But I thought I’d elaborate a bit more here. In...
View ArticleTrying to Make Sense of David Barton’s Word Salad
I’m going to try and do a more serious analysis of David Barton’s observations of the Kim Davis issue. Below is my more glib analysis: [America is] a democracy and a republic. Revolutionary France...
View ArticleReason & Revelation (and Something Else)
See this article by Hadley Arkes celebrating the life of Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. wherein he notes: But the deepest question for Fr. Schall, and political philosophy, is that question of reason versus...
View ArticleThe Bible Can Be Hard to Interpret
Because often the principles deduced from it involve more than just one “proof text” but synthesizing a number of different texts to produce a harmonious result. See here for Joseph Farah’s article...
View ArticleAFA’s Rusty Benson on “What Is a Christian?”
See here. His answer: I Peter 1:23 – “having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,” A Christian is a person who has been...
View ArticleHistoric Traditional Christianity and Dueling
I mentioned this topic in my last post where I discussed Alexander Hamilton’s death. As most readers know, I endorse the scholarly consensus holding that though Hamilton always seemed to have believed...
View ArticleThe Enemy of My Enemy is often My Despicable Friend
That title is one reason why I am very jaded on American foreign policy (and no, I’m still not with Noam Chomsky, quite yet). Bashar al-Assad like Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi seems a despicable human...
View ArticleUFOs: The Atlantis Hypothetical
There’s a lot of interesting sightings and anecdotal accounts of UFOs. I’m a Gemini which means I have a split personality. Part of me wants to believe, the other part is a hard nosed skeptic (which...
View ArticleReally Professor George, et al.?
I have to make a confession: I like Robert P. George as a person and respect him as a scholar. I live close enough to Princeton and work even closer that I can attend the public lectures there. While I...
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