Source: Americans for Religious Liberty. Scientists for at least 60 years or so have been calling attention to the problem of overpopulation, while world population has grown from 2.5 billion of so after World War II to over 7 billion today. Humanity’s fate hangs on…
Source: VDARE.com. German companies use a practice called “codetermination” which creates shared management of companies by both workers and capital. Workers elect representatives who serve on the board of directors of their company. While we can imagine the U.S. Chamber of Commerce screeching about the…
With the Supreme Court, packed like FDR couldn’t get away with in 1937, now with 6 Catholic justices out of 9 members about to hear arguments which will bear heavily on women’s rights to contraception, I can only cringe at the prospect. However, Walter…
Source: The Guardian. A new study sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. It finds that according to the historical record even…
The dangerous power for religious hatred which leads to violence here and world wide gets daily reported in our main steam media! By simply giving the civil right without prejudice to confessed atheists to be elected to public office, we atheists would then perhaps not…
Source: The Economist. Democracy is going through a difficult time. Where autocrats have been driven out of office, their opponents have mostly failed to create viable democratic regimes. Even in established democracies, flaws in the system have become worryingly visible and disillusion with politics is…
How Long Will Obsolete Religious Fantasies Govern Sensible Secular Governance?
Specific religious beliefs are now truly and obviously obsolete. Particularly the ones with their monotheistic male dominated cultures. In fact, looking outward as our space tools now permit, these religions will shortly seem to…
School Rankings and Vouchers: Connecting the Dots
Source: Free Inquiry. Much has been made of the global school rankings released in December based on the performance of 15-year-olds on math and reading in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), published in…
Religious Liberty for Whom?
Source: Americans for Religious Liberty. A little history is in order, dating to Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) which ruled that contraceptives were a matter of a zone of privacy which cannot be controlled by any…
How a Rural Ophthalmologist’s Vision Changed Our Lives
Source: The Social Contract Press. Let’s understand that being visionary means taking constant rhetorical body blows. The second and really only remaining argument for failing to bring real reform to American immigration policy is now…
Ralph W. Day, MD, PhD: Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages
Robert Fleming: Jimmy Carter warns the Bible is being used to promote the abuse of women and girls
todaywithray: Islamic butchery manifests in America with Muslim immigrants
