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Marijuana decriminalization: follow the money

By nikflorida on October 27, 2010

There’s an article on NPR this morning about the decriminalization of marijuana and its effect on diminishing the black market for the substance, thus minimizing crime and violence, and perhaps even some international tensions between the US and Mexico. They argue against it, saying that it might indeed cause a domestic dispute because California [...] [...]

An analogy to what’s going on in Arizona

By nikflorida on July 30, 2010

A while back, my friend Kristen was recounting a story about her nephew, who was four at the time. He was upset because he wasn’t allowed to do something that would be expedient for him, but heinously violating to others. Kristen explained to him when he said “why?” that it was “because the [...] [...]

Deliberateness? Or deliberate stubbornness?

By nikflorida on July 10, 2010

Is Hawaii Governor Lingle being careful or obstinate? This week, Hawaii’s governor Linda Lingle vetoed that state’s Civil Unions bill, which had already passed both houses of its legislature, saying that it was “tantamount to same-sex marriage, which she opposes.” But, of course, she claims that her personal opinion should not be the basis for [...] [...]

Observations about ‘birthers,’ BP and primaries…

By nikflorida on June 9, 2010

Rather than just one, in-depth post today, let’s have three different shorter ones: [...]

A Look at SC’s Race to Replace

By nikflorida on May 25, 2010

Despite the ugly blogger affair smear thing, Nikki Haley is the front-runner in SC’s Republican gubernatorial primary on June 8. It’s kind of scary to see the zealous support of folks for a candidate who is running to repeal a health care access expansion that offers insurance coverage to millions previously denied it, and [...] [...]

“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although "they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion." [1 Timothy 1.7]”

~ St. Augustine

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An analogy to what’s going on in Arizona

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