Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.
Monday, June 24, 2024
Constitutional Originalism Debunked
Friday, April 5, 2024
The 2nd Amendment To The US Constitution: Conservatives Are Lying
Click on the link below for a 10-minute video debunking everything conservatives believe about the 2nd Amendment:
This Maga DUMMY Just Failed The Easiest TESTFriday, March 8, 2024
Free Speech: IT IS NOT ABSOLUTE
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
The US Supreme Court: It's Worse Than You Thought
"In this episode, Jim Underdown speaks to Nick Little, former Director of CFI’s Legal department, and Eddie Tabash, Chair of the CFI Board of Directors. The two lawyers talk about the state of the court, recent decisions, and the problematic future for secular Americans."
Sunday, August 20, 2023
"Effective Altruism": Is It Against The "Common Good"?
"Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall — and the disconnect between his ends and the means — raises two questions at the heart of our quest to understand what has happened to the common good: What is the role and meaning of civic virtue? And is it possible to be virtuous if our goals are virtuous but the means we choose to achieve them harm others?"
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Who Should Control Books In Libraries?
Click on the link below for an analysis regarding what organization(s) should be controlling what you can or cannot read in public sources:
Let's talk about the Illinois book ban ban....Sunday, March 5, 2023
The Conservative Position On Firearms SHATTERED!!
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Two Opinions On The US Constitution
Republicans persist in defending their view of the US Constitution by claiming that THEY hold to the "Original Intent" of such. Click on the link below for a rebuttal to this view:
Let's talk about original intent and the Constitution
Republicans and Democrats disagree regarding the intent of the Amendments to the US Constitution. Click on the link below for the progressive view of them:
Thursday, January 26, 2023
"Human Rights" Vs "States' Rights"
Since at least the onset of the US Civil War, groups of people within individual states have used parts of the US Constitution to support nefarious anti-democratic activity under the banner of "States' Rights." Below are some reasons why states' rights do not trump human rights and why the federal government is the final arbiter in protecting both human rights and democracy:
"The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago." (link)Human rights are embedded within the US Constitution and its Amendments. (link)
Thursday, November 10, 2022
THE Major Danger Of Christianity In The USA?
Friday, July 29, 2022
Bastardization Of The 1st Amendment
The 1st Amendment to the US Constitution's "religion clauses" have traditionally been in tension. With the Trump era and the hijacking of the Republican Party by conservative Christians, there has been a dangerous movement toward religious interference with the rights of us all under the mantra of "Religious Freedom" by abusing the "free exercise" clause:
- "- - -well-funded, right-wing religious legal advocacy groups have promoted a very different and quite false concept of religious freedom. To distinguish it from the idea it traduces, I will call it “religious liberty” here. It has little to do with the traditional idea that all people should be free to worship or not worship without interference or coercion from law or government. It is instead the idea that (certain) religious groups and perspectives have a right to trump those civil laws of which they disapprove on religious grounds. The idea is invariably accompanied with either implicit or explicit favoring of certain religious groups and perspectives over others, and it involves granting special privileges, and indeed public funds, to such favored groups."
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Who Owns Our Rights?
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
The 2nd Amendment Is Bogus
"What are the origins of the Second Amendment? And what can America’s painful racial history illuminate about our national relationship to guns?
"On this special Live Taping of Now & Then, Heather and Joanne talk to Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.
"The trio discuss how the recent spate of mass shootings — and Supreme Court decisions striking down gun control measures in liberal-leaning cities and states — echo the longstanding inequalities embedded in American gun ownership."
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
The History Of Free Speech In The USA (Episode 2)
In this second episode in a three-part series on free speech, Heather and Joanne discuss the 1837 murder of abolitionist journalist Elijah P. Lovejoy, the role of Joseph Pulitzer in the creation of the independent press, and the rise and fall of the Fairness Doctrine."
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The History Of Free Speech In The USA (Episode 1)
"In this first installment of a three-episode series on free speech, censorship, and so-called cancel culture, Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman explore the Alien & Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids, the post-WWI rise of the ACLU, and the 1980s debate over burning the American flag."
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Abortion And The US Constitution
"Nearly 200 years after the Constitution was drafted, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, women across America pushed to liberalize restrictive abortion laws. These advocates were coming into their own as professionals, and they realized that reproductive autonomy was essential for them to live full lives."
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Government And Mandates
The SCOTUS is about to paralyze any Federal government action during any crisis that affects its constitutional mandate to "promote the general Welfare." The Founding Fathers thought that this mandate was so important that they included it in the first sentence of the US Constitution. In addition, there are solid precedents in US law in support of science-based government action when health and safety are threatened. Click on the link below for a deeper understanding of why these cases are so important to the welfare of us all:
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Healthcare: Individual Rights Vs The General Welfare
Points to ponder:
- Individual rights are not absolute
- Libertarianism is a marginal idea and not a universal value
- Humans have evolved as social animals and have thrived from such
- The Preamble to the US Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
- The First Amendment to the US Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
- Morality comes from biology and socialization, not from an unevidenced God
Thursday, April 29, 2021
The Elephant In The Room Last Night
Joe Biden spoke to Congress last night, outlining his plan for the USA. I thought it was very good, emphasizing progressive policies that have been needed for decades. However, as you can see from the image above, the unconstitutional Motto of "In God We Trust" was literally hanging over his head and the nation as a whole. Also, there’s NO reason to mention God in a speech as a government representative. Stop “officially” marginalizing the non-religious. The USA is officially a constitutional secular democratic republic.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Originalism's Racist Roots
Conservatives/Republicans like to talk about the need to interpret the US Constitution according to its "original" intent. Click on the link below to see how such a view obfuscates the truth: