The ACLU Lost Its Way -- And Has Stayed Lost
I've written here about how, as a teen, I took the position in a debate -- which was my sincere position -- that the Nazis should be allowed to march in Skokie. I'm Jewish and my mother told me she thinks we lost family at Babi Yar, because our relatives who lived around there did not emigrate and pretty much disappeared. No more contact with my grandfather or anyone else...
The Sky Is Still Not Falling
Contrary to what many progressives are contending now, democracy is alive and well in America...still...
"Woke" Stupid In Deeming Zoom Meeting Backgrounds Offensive
Does anybody know any straight people who got married not because they are in love but to reinforce "heteronormative" values about who gets married?
David Koch: A Poor Fit For The Pigeonhole They Cut For Him
Understanding a libertarian, and especially an extremely wealthy libertarian,takes a little thought, especially if you're on the left...
The More New Rules We Have, The More Reasons There Are For Someone To Be Offended
The latest is a long-winded edict in op-ed form instructifying us that we need to use the term "partner" instead of "boyfriend" or "girlfriend"...
The Ideological Insulation Of Motivated Ignorance: Or, "La, La, La, La, I'm Not Listening!"
The Ideological Insulation Of Motivated Ignorance: Or, "La, La, La, La, I'm Not Listening!" Social psychologists Jeremy Frimer, Linda Skitka, and Matt Motyl wrote back in 2017 in the LA Times: In the wake of the 2016 election, there's been...
A Forced Speech Case With A Fact Few Are Paying Attention To: Cake For, Say, Gay Tennis Match Or Bingo Night? No Problem!
I'm a gay rights-lovin' and -supportin' atheist...
We Need To Stop Exiling People We Disagree With -- Including Gay People Who Voted For (Ugh) Trump
My mother, who uses logic and reason like Joan of Arc must've used her lance in battle, has the ability to nail and defeat all manner of weak arguments -- or even weakish arguments...
Confused Christians Punish The Girl Who's Keeping Her Baby Instead Of Aborting
A high school girl is getting the "Scarlet Letter" treatment -- not being allowed to "walk" at her graduation and being removed from the student council -- because she is pregnant...
What "Dawa" Is And Why It's A Bigger Threat Than Islamic Terrorism
He rightly calls Dawa "The Islamist mind poison that turns lost souls into 'lone wolves'..."
Intersectionality: The New "Religious" Craze On Campus -- And Beyond
Great piece at NYMag by Andrew Sullivan on the violent heckler's veto of Charles Murray's talk at Middlebury College -- and of the academic fundamentalism that prevented him from speaking and sent the professor who was to injure him to the hospital...
The Intolerance Of The "Tolerant"
But what I try to do is be open to people who don't think exactly the way I do...
Disagreement Isn't Necessarily Hate -- Even If Somebody Disagrees With Gay Marriage (Which I Very Much Support)
I'm an atheist and very pro gay rights, including gay marriage...
Welcome To Realism: Everything That Doesn't Work Out The Way You Want It To Is Not "Hate"
I have a lot of empathy for transgender people. Life can is hard enough in a lot of ways for those of us who grow up feeling we belong in their skin and in the sex we were born as...
Support For Islamic Dissidents And Honesty About Islam: Our Best Hope Against The Deadly Totalitarianism Commanded By Islam
Support For Islamic Dissidents And Honesty About Islam: Our Best Hope Against The Deadly Totalitarianism Commanded By Islam Islam commands the death or conversion of "the infidel" -- and the death of gays and apostates. To be fair, there is...
Progressive Thugitarianism: Shutting Down Conservative Campus Speakers
First, for anyone dropping by here for the first time, I am not a conservative. I'm fiscally conservative...
The Socialization Myth Used To Argue Against Home-Schooling
This reminds me of the screech about gay parenting -- the notion that two mommies can't possibly bring up a boy successfully because he will lack for male role models...
Want Freedom To Live As A Gay Arab? Live In Israel
"Just another example of how Arabs have more freedom in Israel than almost any Arab country..."
I'm An Atheist Who Thinks It's Terrible That The "No Cake" Makers Just Paid Out Over $135K
I am also an atheist who very much supports the freedom from the state forcing us to do work that violates religious beliefs...
"But Christianity Has Been Behind Horrible Things, Too!"
People are desperate to proclaim Islam "a religion of peace"...
