An awesome video by Jared Scheib and one of the finalists in the Richard Dawkins Foundation’s Ten Point Vision of a Secular America contest.You can see the rest at that link and vote for your favorite one.
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Columnist Fareed Zakaria has an excellent article about how we’re doing exactly the wrong things needed for long-term economic growth. We’re cutting investment when we should be increasing it and we’re not touching entitlement programs that could use some reform. But the part that really caught my eye was this bit on the disparity between . . . → Read More: Fareed Zakaria on America’s grim budget outlook. It’s sometimes hard to tell, but America is becoming less religious and more secular as the years progress. It seems every so many months someone writes an article about the declining religiosity of Americans and here’s another one: When you count the people in the pews on Sunday rather than having a pollster ask whether . . . → Read More: Davidson Loehr comments on the “Sad state of religion in the U.S.” You can learn a lot from your elders. Here’s a film clip from 1947 produced by the U.S. War Department that is stunningly apropos to today:
This is how I grew up viewing America. We are a nation of immigrants and minorities of one form or another. It’s what . . . → Read More: “Don’t Be A Sucker” film clip from 1947. I love reading and watching old predictions about what the future will bring. Sometimes they are startlingly close to the mark. However, most are like this excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA:
Detroit wouldn’t be in the dire straights it is . . . → Read More: “Magic Highway USA” from 1958 predicts what the future will bring. Imagine for a moment that you are in a country to provide humanitarian aid. Imagine now that that country is Afghanistan. Imagine that you got caught in a round up of suspected terrorists and carted off to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where you’ll spend the next seven years being tortured into making false confessions with . . . → Read More: Wrongly held at Gitmo for seven years an innocent man is about to be set free. I watched Obama’s inauguration speech being replayed last night after getting home from class and there was a sentence I couldn’t help but notice and feel good about: For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus—and non-believers. Granted it’s . . . → Read More: For the first time I can recall my President acknowledges me. Republican Ronald Reagan ended the 1980 presidential debates by famously asking: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” It’s a fair question to ask at the end of a President’s term so we should stop to considering if we’re better off now after eight years of George W. Bush. The answer . . . → Read More: After eight years of George W. Bush how is the country fairing? Another Harris Poll with more proof that many Americans need a mental enema: These are some of the results of The Harris Poll(R), a new nationwide survey of 2,126 U.S. adults surveyed online between November 10 and 17, 2008 by Harris Interactive(R). Some of the interesting findings in this new Harris Poll include: —80% . . . → Read More: Another survey says more Americans believe in angels and devils than evolution. Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama—as prepared for delivery Election Night Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Chicago, Illinois If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of . . . → Read More: Yes we can! |
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