Remington UMC “Yellow box”
Remington has been distributing bulk ammunition under the UMC label. In gun forums and message boards this distribution has become colloquially known as the ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Responding to a Christian
In the previous article discussing the origin of rights, I mentioned that I was in a conversation with a Christian on the conservative blog "The Right Scoo...
Origin of rights
The question is eventually posited to non-theists by theists: from where do our rights originate? Recently I entered into an argument with several Christian con...
Words of a politician
One thing that I feel is rather telling is how Republicans and social conservatives are reacting in a rather predictable fashion to revelations of things that O...
Birthright citizenship
Let’s talk birthright citizenship. The concept comes from the Fourteenth Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to t...
Legalization = condonation?
There was a point in time wherein the idea of arguing for the repeal of criminal sanctions for actions was laughable. After all, in a free country like the Unit...
Standards of commitment
I have friends who are both married and not. I have a friend who, last year, divorced her husband after he abandoned her. Let me ask this one question of everyo...
Gadgets you can keep
Recently the New York Times ran an article by Sam Grobart called “Gadgets You Can Get Rid Of (or Not)” in which he severely downplays the usefulness...
To all Christians
To all Christians, On March 11, 2011, about a thousand citizens of Japan lost their lives when an earthquake erupted in the floor of the Pacific, sending a tsun...
What’s in a name?
A man marries a woman. Traditionally she takes his last name, but some woman opt against doing this for various reasons. Who knew that the idea of a woman not t...