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—Matthew Henry
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The Legacy of the Two Evils
Debt Held by the Public: 16,700,774,934,516.88
Intragovernmental Holdings: 5,856,796,600,797.21
Total Public Debt Outstanding: 22,557,571,535,314.09
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Will, Sensibility, and Tangents
Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that way!” to … Continue reading
Posted in Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources
Tagged bible, book reviews, epistemology, ethics | morality | law, faith and reason, homosexuality, liberty, news | current events, our doomed society, philosophy, pious thinking, social commentary, theology, U.S. Constitution
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Compulsiveness Prompts Letters, Emails, and (So Much) More
(Last updated on 29 May 2019) Welcome to this latest edition in my “…Prompts Letter(s)” series. The materials following should bring you and this site up to date. Not addressed in detail in my various items below, though touched upon … Continue reading
Posted in Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Tagged abortion | right to life, activism, article and blog reviews, bible, ethics | morality | law, news | current events, our doomed society, philosophy, politics, U.S. Constitution
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Random Topics Prompt Letters
I’ve continued to enjoy my new letters-to-the-editor hobby, though none of the letters I sent this past week has made it into print. (Nor has any of them shown up on the paper’s Web site, assuming the site’s search function … Continue reading
Posted in Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Tagged activism, annoyances | pet peeves, article and blog reviews, economics, english usage, ethics | morality | law, movies | television, news | current events, our doomed society, philosophy, politics, social commentary
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I took some time to check the San Diego Union-Tribune (SDUT) site to see if any of my printed, or my unprinted, letters or other submissions had ended up being posted there. It turns out a few of the printed … Continue reading
Racialized Open-Border Rhetoric Prompts Letters
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 insist on interpreting all support for physical barriers at the border, and … Continue reading
Just How Evil Is Tucker Carlson?
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 Carlson’s bad behavior, part of … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
I just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s site concerning a handy resource.If this post is a review, it may also appear, less nicely formatted and typically abridged, on such other sites as Amazon and GoodReads. If this post has … Continue reading
“…the voice of one crying in the wilderness…”: It’s been a year, but the major parties remain as fiscally irresponsible as ever. Rand Paul’s 2018 plea still resonates: http://ow.ly/Le8030nLfUk. If this post is a review, it may also appear, less … Continue reading
Shall We Listen to the Peacemakers?
(Last updated on 16 February 2019) 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 Attribution 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license … Continue reading
E-Letter Prompts E-Letter: “Natural” Law & Rights
(Last updated on 14 March 2019) 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 license terms. On 04 February, I … Continue reading
Our Drunken, Suicidal, and Licentious Culture
(Last updated on 10 February 2019) 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 alcohol-sales chain … Continue reading
Issues from Race and Religion to Burkinis, Empiricism, and Trump Prompt Letters and More
(Last updated on 11 September 2019) Introduction and Contents It’s time for another letter drop and general update. As has been the case in past “X prompts letters” posts, references to the “U-T” are to my local paper, the San … Continue reading →