SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

I engaged in a debate with an old high school friend last night in which we both debated the idea about the means justifying the end. He’s an engineer, and he learned in school that, not only is there a right solution to a problem, there is a right reason for that answer and a wrong reason.  Read More »

As an inner-city, minority, moderate Republican, you can only imagine what kind of flak I endure from my friends (most of whom are fairly devoted to the Chicago Democratic Machine).

Growing up in a gang and drug-infested neighborhood, I came to despise my Democratic precinct because I always felt their support protected the rights of perpetrators instead of victims.  Read More »

As you may have picked up, dear reader, from previous posts, I am a drug and alcohol counselor with homeless addicts in a city setting. One of my clients, during our one on one session a few days ago, came to me with fears that she is going to hell because she is homeless. She informed me that the Vatican recently released a new list of things that are deadly sins, and this was on it.  Read More »

Money has apparently been around in some form or another since conscious man. It’s the grease that lubes the wheels of society. It’s greatly desired and greatly detested. It both promotes virtue and perpetuates vice. Most people know that money is in a sense fake – only a representation of things which hold greater value than itself.  Read More »

There has been talking lately on this forum about the importance of writing and the value of it. There is another group of which I am a part, and we have recently been discussing something very similar. However, instead of discussing the value of writing as a whole, we’ve been discussing individual words and their meaning or power.  Read More »

I cast my vote this morning, and I really struggled with this one, dear reader. I struggled with deciding whether I should vote for the candidate that I thought would be good for my country or the one that would be more beneficial for my family (myself?) and their interests.  Read More »

Disclaimer: I do not mean this as a personal attack to anyone or any group of people. I am just attempting to state my reasoning behind why I would vote for yes for proposition 8. Also, because I am unable to vote, I have not researched both sides throughly or searched for exact scientific articles to back up my claims.  Read More »

Following my previous post, Passports, someone let me know re: a new law/policy that that the ACLU is calling the “Constitution-Free Zone.” It is a 100-mile span around the edge of the United States in which police can pull people over, demand to see ID, citizenship papers, I guess, look at electronic files and make copies of things that people have on them.  Read More »