Why should we worry about genetic modification in humans when we already accept enhancement by surgery, drugs and cosmetics?

"Enhancement" of physical and mental abilities is becoming more and more sophisticated, at least for those who can afford it. Golfer Tiger Woods improved his vision to 20/15 with laser eye surgery, and American footballer Terrell Owens sped his recovery from injuries by sleeping in a...

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” – James Madison, Federalist #51

Classical Philosophy

By reading the Greek historians Herodotus (484BC-425BC), Thucydides (460BC-395BC), known as the father of scientific history and political realism, Polybius (203BC-120BC), who wrote about political balance,...

As long as we can keep driving our cars and living in our remote suburban islands, what do we care if the rest of the world starves?

It's not our fault those people weren't born Americans. And as long as we seal our border tight so they can't sneak in here and eat our food, those people can starve to their hearts' content. We aren't taking any food out of their mouths.

We'll just donate a few bucks to Idol Gives Back and then we're shut of the problem.

Ha ha. Joke's on us.

We are...

Barack Obama has a habit of hanging out with flamethrowers who espouse radical causes. There's Obama's long-time associate, former Weatherman William Ayers, who once boasted, "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."

And Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's spiritual mentor, who has defended the notion that Zionism is racism, compared white kids to "rocks," and propounded the theory that the government invented AIDS to kill off Black folks.

Last week Obama finally decided he...

Chinese officials have reported that the country’s fifth outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu this year is killing chickens in poultry markets in the southern city of Guangzhou. Although this particular outbreak is not known to have affected humans, China has already reported three human avian-flu deaths this year. Far more worrisome is the April 3 confirmation by the government of Pakistan and the World Health Organization of three cases in a family cluster in Pakistan’s North West Frontier...

In his book The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality,

“It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins...

Many doctors are now starting to see the negative effects that vaccines have on children and are standing against the dangers associated with vaccines and the vaccination overload and that we are now...

Ever-increasing governmental regulation is in vogue on both sides of the Atlantic these days. Both European and American politicians seem to be embracing the false notions that more regulation is...

“Textbooks today are trapped in an ideological straitjacket that, in contrast to the surrounding popular culture, restricts content and sterilizes social realities.” – ...

"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." — Voltaire

We can reason and rationalize just about anything, including our lack of exercise and bad...