The Anti-Manichaeist

I decided to post a link to my How to be Pragmatically Prolife post over at TPMCafe.  I did this at a liberal blog, because I knew that it was critical to see how the approach would fair with prochoicers.  It is critical that their opposition be reduced for the idea’s success.  I have had a good deal […]

I don’t think people appreciate Warren Buffett, multi-billionaire who became the world’s greatest philanthropist recently, as much as they should. I just read a Business Week article from seven years ago on him that was quite impressive and followed it up by reading the Wikipedia entry that had some particularly impressive descriptions of his […]

Nathan Newman at TPMCafe posts about the liberal reaction in the blogosphere to a recent speech made by Barack Obama on the failure of progressives to connect with many religious voters.  If you read the comment section and look at the extent of the ratings, you can see the fireworks.  It’s definitely a touchy issue […]

Note: I had this at the end of my Pragmatic prolife post, but decided to make it a separate post.
I was at the Independence Party convention this past saturday to support my friend Pam Ellison who is running for gov’r of MN. She was seeking the endorsement of the party and the funds it […]

This is a very well done article at Alternet that gets into the lessons we gringos can learn from Mexico’s presidential election.  Go Obrador!!!! 
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There’s going to be a presidential election in Mexico soon.  The two main candidates are conservative Felipe Calderon of PAN and liberal Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of PRD. 
According to the BBC, Calderon ended his campaign saying his opponent would push Mexico into crisis, a “horror movie” of debt and division. 
I fear this sort of prophecy might […]

I wrote an alternative prolife platform position for the Christian Democratic Union(CDU), a party I was considering joining. Unfortunately, they have an uncompromisingly prolife position. However, I do believe that my alternative is a superior strategy for dealing with the politics of abortion and could enable a third party to gain a serious foot hold […]

Warren Buffett, 2nd richest man in the world, is donating 85% of his fortune to charity, an amount valued at 37 Billion dollars, 30 Billion of which is going to the Gates Foundation. 
This is unprecedented and will have huge implications for the future.  It may stave off world wars and save lives.  On the other […]

I just found out from a comment that
The Magdalene Gospel by Mary Ellen Ashcroft is currently being made into a movie. It is in the Development stage now with a production company in NYC.
This is good news.  The Magdalene Gospels will put the pseudo-history of the Da Vinci Code to shame and hopefully raise more […]

Well, it was bound to happen eventually, but I finally got the big thumbs down from Alan Avans of the CDU for my idea to depoliticize abortion as a watered down version of RoeVWade that could never be part of their platform.  I kind of thought already this would happen, but it still stings some.