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I explained the Korean DMZ and the Joint Security Area in a different (and later) post, " When I visited North Korea ." Just outsi...

In trying to decide what to do about school shootings, especially mass shootings, are we making a fundamental error by considering only the ...

Fermi's Paradox was first posed by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. It goes like this: The universe is many billions of years old. Fermi ...

This 2012, two-minute video is an interview with two Secret Service researchers about school shootings. Main takeway: In almost every case o...

Would love to see a chart like this with the percentages of HS athletes who participate in NCAA athletics on a scholarship. Then let parents...

Introduction I advise readers in advance that parts of this post will be both technical and probably unsettling. I am going to describe th...

  Betting on God Malachi 3.6-11   The fourth chapter of Luke relates how Jesus was tempted by the devil in the wilderness. The final temptat...

Matthew 5:23-24: 23 So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you...

A long essay by Edward T. Oakes, " Atheism and Violence ," discusses and refutes the recent books of Richard Dawkins, Chris Hitche...

Are retirees living too long? Well, no. But are they  planning  to live as long as they are living? Also no. More and more, late-middle-age ...