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Racialized Open-Border Rhetoric Prompts Letters

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 19, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 My trending-left local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune (SDUT), sometimes known in the past as the U-T San Diego, recently made a point of selecting syndicated editorials that...

Just How Evil Is Tucker Carlson?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 18, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary

The mainstream media were briefly abuzz last week over left-liberal Media Matters’ unearthing of some old Tucker Carlson audio. Media Matters’ Madeline Peltz begins her related article (topically organized transcript collection) with a summary of...

Bring on the Green NUKE Deal

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 25, 2019 | Brief Notices, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources

Re Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: socialist fever dreams that can never be realized solve nothing. We need a Green Nuke Deal: “nuclear power is the only carbon-free technology that has proven capability, and which is demonstrably scalable at a...

Shall We Listen to the Peacemakers?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 11, 2019 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 16 February 2019 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Image: “All we are saying is give peace a chance. John Lennon,” photo by Kate Ter Haar via Flicker, cropped, resized, and stretched a bit. Used under the...

E-Letter Prompts E-Letter: “Natural” Law & Rights

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 5, 2019 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 14 March 2019 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Image: based on a Wikimedia Commons photo by Vitold Muratov, used under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Derivative work by David M. Hodges, reusable under the same...

Representative Democracy ≠ Republic

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 3, 2019 | Brief Notices, Pet Peeves, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 The United States was not founded as just a “representative democracy,” nor is “representative democracy” a synonym for “republic.” The point...

Zuhdi Jasser: Is Enlightenment Reason-Worship Cure for Islamism?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 23, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Image: Islamic symbol modified for the Pious Eye site by David M. Hodges. Based upon a work by Wikimedia user DonovanCrow, used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license and available from...

Our Drunken, Suicidal, and Licentious Culture

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 5, 2018 | In The News, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Item 1: Our Drunken Culture While running a few errands on Friday 22 June 2018, I passed by the BevMo! store in Santee, California. (This is in San Diego County, where this...

Erratum: Trampling on TULIP

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 3, 2018 | Errata, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 This is my first entry in the new errata category, which in all likelihood will one day be the category with the most posts. Entries in the category will note instances where I...

Life’s Enemy, The International Super-State

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 23, 2017 | In The News, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Life’s enemy, the international super-state: Worst Moments for Human Life and the Family at the UN in 2017...