Erosophia

Category: Politics

  • Sex Workers to Gain Rights in US?

    by Jason Stotts Apparently last week the US delegation to the UN affirmed a commitment (political speech for: promising, in a non-binding way, of, perhaps, at some point in the future, if things work out, and people remember and hold them to it) that sex workers in the US will receive some legal protection (link).…

  • Fetuses and Personhood

    by Jason Stotts While driving home today on the freeway, I was thinking about an essay I’m working on about abortion.  I was driving in the carpool lane and the sign said that in order to drive in the carpool lane, the car must be occupied by “two or more persons.”  This got me to…

  • Assorted Links

    by Jason Stotts 1. 14-year-old Killed for Refusing to Marry Father’s Cousin The victim’s mother, nominally the complainant, told The Express Tribune that she did not want her husband to be jailed. “My daughter was a disgrace to the family. We can’t tolerate our children disrespecting their elders’ wishes so we killed her,” Mukhtar Mai…

  • Himalayan Glaciers Not Melting

    by Jason Stotts The Telegraph has a new story with a new report from the journal Nature Geoscience says that not only are the Himalayan Glaciers not melting, they are actually advancing. Dr Bodo Bookhagen, Dirk Scherler and Manfred Strecker studied 286 glaciers between the Hindu Kush on the Afghan-Pakistan border to Bhutan, taking in…

  • Christianity Killing Gays Again, This Time in Uganda

    by Jason Stotts As the result of the effort of christian evangelicals spreading their anti-gay nonsense, Uganda is becoming an even less hospitable place for gays.  Last week, gays rights activist David Kato was killed in order to silence his message that homosexuality is not an abomination. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Kato was beaten to…

  • The Republicans are Still Our Enemies

    by Jason Stotts With all of the congratulations and celebrations yesterday that the Republicans managed to get the socialist healthcare monstrosity ruled unconstitutional, paving the way for it to go to the Supreme Court, we need to remember that although we share a common enemy in the Democrats, the Republicans are our enemy as well.…

  • Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional in Federal Court

    by Jason Stotts Today is a wonderful day and a cause for celebration.  U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson sided with 26 states in their argument that Obama’s socialistic push for control of healthcare was unconstitutional.  He agreed that the “invidual mandate,” aka the government’s right to coerce it’s citizens to buy the things it wants…

  • House Votes to Repeal Obamacare

    by Jason Stotts In a welcome, but mostly symbolic, move, the US House has passed a measure repealing Obamacare.  I am certainly pleased that this happened, since Obamacare is the biggest push towards socialism since the New Deal and the most radical denial of individual rights yet, but I can’t help but to be somewhat…