By:B.W.Ellis For the purposes of this discussion the personal confessional preferences of the now brutally slaughtered cartoonists, journalists, and staff of the Paris based Charlie Hebdo magazine is irrelevant. For the sake of their profession, these cartoonists and journalists were […]
A Voice for Non-Believers
The Ongoing Separation of the Absurd
By: B.W. Ellis A lively and ever increasingly diverse debate is raging on the connection of ISIS and the whole of Islam. While the President has inferred that no such relationship exists others such as Bill Maher have suggested a […]
Did Hobby Lobby just pierce it’s own corporate veil?
By: B.W. Ellis I love my liberal friends. The really intelligent people too far to the left to be represented by anything close to American political parties yet centrist enough and educated enough to be able to function in our […]
Fighting on the Wrong Field: The Terrible Way We Frame the Gay Marriage Argument
By: B.W. Ellis When structuring the argument around the issue of gay marriage we see an incredible series of events occur in American society. These actions taken by both sides pigeon hole the argument into an endless cycle of repression […]
Why Are We So Silent?
By: BrettEllis When I was growing up in the 1980’s I learned about political action from the campaign to end Apartheid in South Africa. Granted I learned it from the second Lethal Weapon movie, but I learned about […]
Celebrate not the Harvest
By: B.W.Ellis We toil and trouble over the minutia of our day, Spend hours working and striving, making our way. Yet we hold within us a joy that is seldom seen, The moments in our life that live far and […]
Freedom vs Governance and Why Benjamin Franklin Was Wrong!
By: B.W. Ellis “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” –Benjamin Franklin From the first time I read this quote, it has remained a favorite of mine. The subtle […]