Whither the ‘War on Women’?
(I put this together just before Sandy hit the East Coast. Just able to submit it last night.)To defend the indefensible—politically speaking... Of all available partisans, who better suits this...
View ArticleRequiem for a Political Lightweight
The 2012 general election is now a matter of record. Of its winners and losers, we are now, for the most part, sufficiently certain. Few aught in either club—the winners or the losers—have got there in...
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Sandy Hook, the NRA and You...
I link here (www.admala.org/NRA_Political_Contributions.pdf), in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, a list of the NRA's 2012 political contributions. Of note in this table,...
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Included in the Cost of 'Freedom'
Charlotte Bacon Daniel Barden Rachel Davino Olivia Engel Josephine Gay Ana M. Marquez-Greene Dylan Hockley Dawn Hocksprung Madeleine F. Hsu Catherine V. Hubbard Chase Kowalski Jesse Lewis James...
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The Blame Game: Sandy Hook, the Devil and Us
“Were I like thee I'd throw away myself.” --Shakespeare, Timon of Athens(A PDF of this entry may be found here: http://admala.org/...)Never-ending, it seems, is the pundit’s search for the right tone...
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Christ With Me
(I wrote this about this time last year in response to an article by the incomprehensibly silly pundit Tony Perkins. I link a PDF of it here: http://admala.org/...)It’s true, I suspect, that, in...
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The Greatest Purveyor of Violence?
Late in his life, in April of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. once famously or—as the case may be—infamously referred to the Government of the United States as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the...
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TPAJAX in Retrospect
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek is fond of bringing up the following hypothetical situation in his lectures. A man learns his wife has been cheating on him. He has suspected this to be the case for some time,...
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Ken Cuccinelli, Sex Therapist?
By W.H. Gavescon, Saturday, November 2, 2013WOODBRIDGE, VA — Virginia State Attorney General and Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R) has been called a lot of things in his political...
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The Blame Game: Sandy Hook, the Devil and Us (1 Year On)
“Were I like thee I'd throw away myself.”—Shakespeare, Timon of Athens Never-ending, it seems, is the pundit’s search for the right tone when treading on sacred ground, when broaching the difficult...
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Lebensraum in Context
And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian? Is it more afflicting to him to leave the graves of his fathers than it is to...
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Freedom!!!
Freedom (The American Notion of ‘Freedom’ as Evidenced in the Slogan “Live Free or Die”)Let us disambiguate here. In the attempt to define so polysemous and tortured a public abstraction as the...
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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Ou la Mort)
"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Ou la Mort)""Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité", among other things, this is the national motto of France. I list it here as a ‘term to know’. Why? Its relevance would be one...
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Achtung Baby! Wherefore the Hyperbole?
“Credibile est, quia ineptum est.”--Tertullian“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”Since November of 2008, America’s powerful right wing has been obsessed with the notion that, as President,...
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Darren Wilson and the 'Banality of Evil'
It is to 20th Century political philosopher Hannah Arendt that we owe the ironic trope ‘banality of evil’. The expression she coined reporting for The New Yorker on the trial of one Adolph Eichmann, a...
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