Integrative Conception of Human Being

The deeper problem with religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and  Buddhism is that the spirituality is seen as divorced from physicality, which leads to similar separation in social reality. The people with spiritual inclinations go into monasteries or...

Thinking and Feeling

Here we are seeing a non-valued duality that some people want to proclaim as valued. There are rationalists who see feeling as an inferior function or mental illness; there also are people who equate rationality with coldness, dryness and nastiness that are not necessary...

Petition: End Dedovschina In Russian Military

I've started a petition to Vladimir Putin to end brutal military hazing that kills 5,000 of Russia's best minds a year. If you agree, sign at http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_Dedovschina_in_Russian_Military/?launch

The West's Moral Superiority To Islam

The Muslim jihadists continue to make the claim that they are morally superior to the West. It is time that this claim be addressed, not as part of war between Christianity and Islam, and not as some relativistic doubletalk, but on the basis of values and institutions that...

Muslims Should Stop Blaming Israel

MUSLIMS SHOULD STOP BLAMING ISRAELBy JONATHAN WOLFMAN There will come a time, and that time will arrive sooner than many believe, when Near East Muslims will grasp that Jews are not, that Israel is not, what holds them back. This is a reason I am for (as every United States...

Europe and Israel: Trading Places

The behavior of both Israel and Europe after the Second World War has been the case of people learning their lesson too well. Prior to Second World War, the Jews were liberal pacifist internationalists who believed that if they contribute meaningfully to countries in which...

The Real Gender War

I have known many people, both women and men, who have been abused or are being abused by their partners. Most severe cases have been women at hand of men; but I've also seen enough woman-on-man nastiness. I am not going to accept the Christian explanation that all...

Doing Away With Punk Way Of Life

I say with no hesitation that I hate punks, whatever their race or ethnicity. The reason is that I have known a number of women from the punk side of town, and I have known what the males on the punk side of town like to do to them. I am advocating a three-pronged strategy...

Kevin Federline Syndrome and Brittney Spears Syndrome

There are any number of ways in which one can be a jerk, and some of these have been catalogued and others haven’t. The form of which I am speaking right now has not been catalogued; but it has happened in enough situations that I believe it to be commonplace. I refer to...

Structure of the Universe

The structure of the UniverseContained in human chestThe orderly and mutinousThe motion and the rest From single singularityThat no one can explainCreates the flying galaxiesAnd all that they contain. The magnetism and gravityThe forces weak and strongEternity and...

Suggestions for Obama's Second Term

Now that President Obama has won re-election, it becomes possible to think of what can be accomplished during a second term. These are some suggestions I have as someone who has studied and thought about these issues for a very long time. Taxes - the irresponsible Bush tax...

Electoral Lessons: Statesmanship vs. Jerks

There can be many lessons drawn from this election; but perhaps the most important of these lessons is that, in American politics, it no longer pays to be a jerk. Rick Santorum - one of the biggest jerks in the history of American politics - fell by the wayside in the...

Obama, Clinton and Federal Debt

People are rightfully worried about the federal debt. In recent speeches, President Barack Obama has promised to tackle the debt in his second term in office. When he came into power, America was in the middle of an economic collapse. He stopped that collapse by bailing out...

Checks and Balances vs. Communitarianism

In most of history, most of oppression was done by the governments. In America however that is not the case. The American government (at least under Obama and Clinton) is nowhere close to being a force of oppression. There are however entities in America that are...

Costs and Benefits of Regulations

A lot of candidates in this election are inweighing against the regulatory burden. Being tight with several entrepreneurs, I agree that over-regulation is undesirable. There is however a reason why regulations are in place, and not all of it is government overreach. I think...