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First Post on This New Website: Some Good/Shocking Reading!

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Post published:December 29, 2017
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Here is an interesting and persuasive essay on: Why Leftists/Progressives fail to criticize Islam for its many social and moral failings. The main gist, and it’s true, I believe, is that reluctance of the left to critique Islam is actually…

A Good Speech on “Dis-Education”

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Post published:November 15, 2017
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Below is a speech by: J. MacLeod, who is an associate professor of law at Jones School of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. ********** I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been…

More Thoughts on God

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:November 14, 2017
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Below are my thoughts as shared with a few friends in our discussion group, sent when one of them began to talk about how he is sure God loves him, as if God were a bosom buddy. ********** I do…

Hyperdemocracy and the “Anti-Polis”

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Post published:October 28, 2017
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Before you read this essay, check out the rather arresting, if not astonishing map of the 2016 American election, on the link below. The essay was just declined for publication by a rather major Website with which you would all…

An Interview on The Great Divide

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Post published:October 24, 2017
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Just ran a cross this interview with London Ontario journalist, Mary Lou Ambrogio, which I neglected to post when my latest book, The Great Divide, was first published. (Flagrant self-promotion: Visitors to this website could help to stimulate awareness of…

Ten Commandments for Climate Skeptics

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:October 17, 2017
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Here is an excellent summary for those skeptical of the claim of climate scientists that the world is warming due to human causes. It is posted under “Core Principles” on the website of the International Climate Science Coalition. www.climatescienceinternational.org Those…

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:September 29, 2017
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A superb article of this title was published last March in the American journal First Things by Mr. Jeff Shafer, Senior Counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom. It takes serious concentration to get the most out of this piece, and…

On Vacation

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:September 10, 2017
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I will be away on a cycling vacation in the Dordogne region of France for two weeks+, and back home near the end of September. Meanwhile, I hope the world stays in one piece. Until then, visitors to this site…

Feminism, Abortion, and Egalitarian Democracy

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:September 5, 2017
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“All Who Support Slavery Are Free, and All Who Support Abortion Are Alive” Abortion has for so long now been considered a right in the Western world that even millions of ordinary, non-radical women defend it passionately. But that is…

Feminist Mothers: What is Daycare Doing to the Child

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:August 30, 2017
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“Working parents want daycare. What children want… is their parents.” ~ Wendy Dreskin, author of The Daycare Decision: What’s Best For You and Your Children. Now I turn to the second program demanded by feminists. So-called “universal daycare” has been…