Another “flat-taxer” has been popping up recently in some conversations I’ve read, and I really want to put this nonsense to bed.  Let’s take a look at some of the things I’ve seen proponents of “flat tax”say repeatedly about it – things which people like Steve Forbes and Rand Paul have been using as bumper-sticker…

Another “flat-taxer” has been popping up recently in some conversations I’ve read, and I really want to put this nonsense to bed.  Let’s take a look at some of the things I’ve seen proponents of “flat tax”say repeatedly about it – things which people like Steve Forbes and Rand Paul have been using as bumper-sticker…

[Context:  This article was written in response to an assertion by a long-time friend that I’ve heard repeated in one way or another many times – that criticism of the tea party and its ideology is no different morally than racial prejudice, homophobia, or sexism.  This is a logical fallacy called “false equivalence,” and it…

[Context:  This article was written in response to an assertion by a long-time friend that I’ve heard repeated in one way or another many times – that criticism of the tea party and its ideology is no different morally than racial prejudice, homophobia, or sexism.  This is a logical fallacy called “false equivalence,” and it…

(This was written by a friend in Belgium.  It is an analysis of the US “Tea Party,” and I found it so insightful that I requested permission from the author to post it here as a guest column.  Thanks, Michael, for an excellent analysis.) “What is the Tea Party? The Tea Party is a grassroots…

(This was written by a friend in Belgium.  It is an analysis of the US “Tea Party,” and I found it so insightful that I requested permission from the author to post it here as a guest column.  Thanks, Michael, for an excellent analysis.) “What is the Tea Party? The Tea Party is a grassroots…

So I’m on facebook and a friend posts a link to a story about a priest in Wisconsin who was arrested for beating on a bunch of children.  My friend made some disgusted noises, I added some disgusted noises and related the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of my niece Angel’s murder at age four my…

So I’m on facebook and a friend posts a link to a story about a priest in Wisconsin who was arrested for beating on a bunch of children.  My friend made some disgusted noises, I added some disgusted noises and related the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of my niece Angel’s murder at age four my…

A recent conversation with my friend Hanna from Finland about differences between our countries in how corporations are held responsible for their actions led to a rather long explanation of how the system is broken and why it’s not going to get fixed quickly here without some radical changes in public thinking. The context was…

A recent conversation with my friend Hanna from Finland about differences between our countries in how corporations are held responsible for their actions led to a rather long explanation of how the system is broken and why it’s not going to get fixed quickly here without some radical changes in public thinking. The context was…