• All life is sacred, except for poor people.

    Statistically speaking, the uninsured live shorter, unhealthier lives than those with access to health care.

  • Judge not, lest ye be judged.

    We have a long tradition of trying to legislate morality in this country, which makes it all the more earth shattering when political leaders like Mark Sanford fess up to sexual indiscretions.

  • Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Dr. George Tiller? I don't think so.

    Now, I don’t agree with my friend, but I think the argument he and many others on his side of the issue are trying to make is that by equating an unborn fetus to a viable human life (and this is the crux of the issue for many, many people,) those who take those lives away by performing abortions are no better than Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, et al.

    It’s a hell of a way to think about it. I don’t agree with it, necessarily, but it at least gets me to a place where I can see where they’re coming from.

  • That pretty much sums it up.

    From a message board, via Reddit.
    No, Moslems don’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
    Think of it like a movie. The Torah was the first one, the New Testament was the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character [...]

  • This post sponsored by God.

    Yet the cohesiveness we feel in spite of our differences isn’t good enough for people like Ms. Malda. She has no idea what Captain Sullenberger and his crew — whom Ms. Malda references in her letter — believe. And yet, she wants them to get up in front of a national television audience and make proclomations of faith based on what she believes is a realistic view of the world around her.

  • The Word of God? Like, did he actually say that?

    Image by Daniel Greene via Flickr
    The Bible — the Word of God itself — says we are right in this cause. These people are not equal, nor shall they ever be.
    This was the argument James Jackson, a representative from Georgia to the 1st Congress in 1790 and Revolutionary War hero, used in defending slavery. The [...]

  • I wish more people were like Hamilton and Madison…dead.

    Image via WikipediaIn the early days of the American republic, the fate of this new experiment in republican government stood on a precipice. How would the new country survive if it couldn’t pay off its foreign debts and get its economy jump started?
    Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton had a plan. James Madison opposed it, [...]

  • In defense of gay marriage.

    The best argument for gay marriage and against Prop 8 I’ve ever heard. No using the Bible to throw it back in Christians’ faces, no arguments about legality, just pure, heartfelt emotion.
    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCBczUzEb1A&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1]

  • Why I'm voting for Obama

    As the clock ticks down to election day, if you’re still on the fence even just a little bit, allow me to tell you why I’m voting for Barack Obama and I think why you should as well.
    Taxes
    While both candidates have proposed tax plans that would give cuts to large groups of Americans, according to [...]