The most precious gift I received for Christmas this year was the family shield. I knew that it existed, and had often thought of having it placed on a large placard I could hang on the front of the house. I had never done so, however, primarily because I could not reconcile my own ethical… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Editorial
DIVINE RIGHTS
I am in process of reading the biographies of our founding fathers, and have found those stories fascinating. Those were such tumultuous times, the outcome variable day to day, and always in doubt. Our revolutionary army was poorly clothed, poorly fed, often without weapons or ammunition, untrained, often undisciplined. Those soldiers consisted of combined… Continue Reading
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION
Last week, CNN reported on the edict just announced by President Joe Biden that schools which received federal funding, and were bound by Title Nine rules to provide equal opportunity for all students with those funds, would be also required to show that those rules of equal opportunity applied equally to gay, lesbian and… Continue Reading
AM I DYING?
My good neighbor from across the street was from West Virginia. He had a bit of a drawl, a country spun humor, and colloquial language: “Ain’t no bad ice cream.” “Now that I am older, my nose and my feet are mixed up; my nose runs and my feet smell.” He loved to tell… Continue Reading
Dealing with psychopaths
The amount of destruction and human suffering that we see pictured every night on our newscasts, in Ukraine, is immense. We suffer inside as we see pictures of blasted apartment buildings, piles of concrete rubble, leveled community centers, fireballs above hospitals, rescuers desperately digging bodies out of collapsed buildings, crying children walking beside mothers… Continue Reading
ABORTION RIGHTS
No, there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States of America about abortion. There is not even the slightest reference to that subject in any way, in the document that guides everything we do in this country. Yes, that same Constitution does have a very specific part of it which relegates all… Continue Reading
GUNS
The second amendment to the constitution of the United States of America, as part of the Bill of Rights, was placed in force on December 15, 1791. A well- regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.… Continue Reading
THE ETHICS WAY
Ethics are those human values and behaviors which best provide the deepest regard for all other humans, and the deepest regard for all other life, recognizing that this deep regard is necessary for the fulfillment, and the survival, of our species. There are several cogent reasons why this is the correct definition of Ethics,… Continue Reading
OUR COCOON HOME, PLANET EARTH
Every gallon of gasoline weighs six pounds. 90% of that gallon is carbon, all of it used in the combustion process. Since an oxygen molecule weighs 1.33 times as much as a carbon molecule, that means each five pounds of carbon in a gallon of gasoline is combined with fourteen pounds of oxygen, to produce… Continue Reading
I BELIEVE
It was impossible for me, throughout most of my life, to reconcile the teachings of my religion and those teachings of my profession. I t was not until after multiple decades of Sunday school urgent discussions, three years of concentrated Bible study, reading some sixty books on religions, and reading through the Koran three… Continue Reading