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Christianity and Pagan Literature It is amazing how often these topics come up, but then again, there are always new people who have not yet read the best sources. That is, of course, Bede's Christian apologetic site, which glosses over the role the Christians played in burning the books of the Ser...

Now, on to why you won't find anywhere better than America. 1. We have every climate know to the planet within the confines of our nation. You can move freely from a tropical island to the frozen tundra while passing over plains, deciduous forrest, desert and everything in between. 2. We have the m...

You know, I've tried to explain this issue several times to people who are way getting the short end of the stick, and they don't get it. Questions like "what %age of disposable income do taxes amount to" and the like simply don't penetrate. The worst part is that a seriously regressive t...

I tried some searches for existing content in the Library of the Secular Web . While I did come up with one paper by Ted Drange, another Drange paper was not indexed, and the book "Old Testament Life and Literature" by Gerald Larue (a piece of the Secular Web that we are very proud of) als...

Are the current administration planning to abolish all federal taxes? Surely not. Are am I missing something? You haven't missed a thing. Bush is promoting the idea of the flat tax again. We eliminate the federal INCOME tax and impose, in its stead, a national SALES tax. No deductions, no exemption...

Well, speaking as a Goldwater-type conservative (small 'C') I find that I am often accused of being a "leftist" or a "socialist" or various things of that nature. Its amazing, but that is about where I came from originally. My first active involvement in politics was in the Gold...

Did you ever notice how many extremely-beautiful and moving statements of belief are actually idiotic from a scientific point of view? Take, for instance, this song lyric: I believe that for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. This is so easy to grasp: it rains in the middle of the ocean w...

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Lamma I agree with you to a degree. The problem is that the bench is real thin for the Dems and getting thinner. If your looking for a Democratic candidate to come out of somewhere other than CA or the Northeast your holding your breath. The Midwest and the South have so few Dems in office that the...

That's interesting. From the numbers on trip's fourth map, it appears that the area of the country has increased (and the population has decreased! ) since 2000. I wonder how that happened. That first map rocks! But that last map... how did the number of square miles in the US jump up 1,000,000 fro...