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Written by Don B. Kates
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:55 |
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Those who want "In God We Trust" on coins and bills, spending of public monies to erect creches and other religious symbols, etc. argue that the First Amendment only precludes government aiding one denomination against another. This, they say, implicitly does not bar government promoting religious belief in general against non-believers.
If that argument were historically accurate (it is not!) consider some of its further policy implications: It might (or might not) allow the state to expend public funds in supporting Catholic and other parochial schools. But what the state definitely could do under the theory that it can support religion in general, is make all children attend public schools where they would be systematically inculcated to believe in God. There might be an exemption for parents who want to send their children to Catholic or other schools run by specific religions. But there would be none for atheists; they could be required to send their children to religious or public schools to be taught that what their parents believe are lies.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 March 2010 09:01 )
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AIRPORT SEARCHES WITH FULL BODY SCANNERS |
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Monday, 08 March 2010 13:58 |
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Is all the concern about these things just paranoia? Well, it may be instructive to recall something that occurred in N CA a couple of decades ago. Pac Tel employees carrying out routine service checks on phone lines overheard a very intimate conversation. So they recorded it and played it for fellow employees’ amusement. Eventually they were "disciplined" for this but not until the matter became public and recordings had been played numerous times in PacTel offices all over the state.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 March 2010 14:00 )
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:05 |
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Recently a friend wrote me asking about studies suggesting that women "are just as violent as men in domestic situations. I answered:
You are confusing incidents with intensity. It is not even remotely true that "women are just a violent in a domestic setting as men." There is some evidence that women are as or more willing to express themselves in minor violence which might cause a man a little pain but do him no great harm. In every society men are far more willing to engage in serious physical violence and the more aberrant the man the greater the probability.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:07 )
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Monday, 15 February 2010 08:42 |
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Some years ago my wife and I made presentations about the JFK assassination conspiracy nonsense at the national meeting of a group dedicated to exposing widely believed frauds (CSICOPS). Current events forcibly remind me of some material in my wife’s speech. She described and quoted from "the bible of [Kennedy assassination] true believer thought, Jim Marrs' best-selling book.
Crossfire:
Was the Oswald killed in Dallas the same Oswald born in New Orleans in 1939? Bizarre as it may sound, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the man killed by [Jack] Ruby was not the original Lee Harvey Oswald. [P. 546.]
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 February 2010 13:11 )
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 08:56 |
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[This is an excerpt from the biography of the woman who wrote TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – and nothing else the rest of her life. But she did start to write a book on the reverend which was never finished.]
The story revolves around W. M. "Willie Jo" Maxwell, a veteran of WWII, born and raised in east Alabama. During the mid-1970s, in addition to working in the wood pulp business, he did some preaching on the side in black churches in Alexander City and became known as the Reverend Maxwell. One night, Tom Radney, Sr., an attorney and former state senator, received a call from Maxwell. "You've got to come out here to my home," Maxwell pleaded, "the police are saying I killed my wife." Mrs. Maxwell had been found tied to a tree about a mile outside of town and murdered.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 February 2010 09:19 )
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