Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and several others took a heroic stand, voting No on cloture today, knowing that Senator Harry Reid would follow cloture by stripping the Obamacare-defunding provision from the funding bill sent to the Senate by the House. Roughly half the Republican Senators did not stand with Senators Cruz and Lee, and […]
September 2 is Atlas Shrugged Day, the anniversary of the day (in 1946) on which Ayn Rand began writing the novel. September 2 is also a significant date in the novel, and the date on which the story begins. I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day by reading passages from the novel, often by opening the book […]
Individuals who have read my entire essay, “The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage,” are invited to submit comments here. I will approve comments that I judge to be thoughtful, civil, and of interest to readers. I will reply to comments only time permitting and if I have something to add […]
This is Part 6, the final part of my essay. References can be found at the end of Part 1. On Saturday morning, I will publish a post inviting thoughtful, civil comments from individuals who have read the entire essay. For the reader’s convenience, here are the links to each of the six parts. (On […]
This is Part 5 in a series of six parts. I apologize for the delay in posting this part. References can be found at the end of Part 1. As I mentioned last time, due to constraints on my time, Part 5 is not as complete as the previous parts; it consists of selective notes. […]
This is Part 4 in a series of six parts. References can be found at the end of Part 1. Part 5 is about the philosophy underlying the LGBT movement. Due to constraints on my time, Part 5 will not be nearly as complete as the previous parts; it will consist of selective notes. A […]
This is Part 3 in a series of five or six parts. I plan to post Part 4 about a week from now. References can be found at the end of Part 1. The Role of Volition in Sexual Orientation Love is in part an emotional response; more specifically, love entails one’s ‘sense-of-life’ response to […]
This is the second part of a series of five or six parts, depending on how I decide to divide it. From time to time, I will update the list of references (and note the date) at the end of Part 1. I plan to post Part 3 on Sunday. After I post the final […]
On March 28, I published a blog post entitled “I am Married … to a Woman,” in which I opposed the notion of same-sex marriage. On April 3, in a comment to that blog post, I gave myself the goal of writing a new post that would reply to various comments regarding the broader issue […]
On the two-year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, and in the wake of the murders and maimings by Islamists at the Boston Marathon, this post from two years ago is even more timely now: Osama Bin Laden is Dead, and We Are Still Losing the War.