Should there be a right to privately discriminate? Does a restaurant owner have the right to serve only whites, or only men? Is a segregated lunch counter (like at Woolworth in 1960’s North Carolina) okay, as GOP U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul was asked?
The Catholic child sex abuse scandal has hit Kirkland and the Seattle Archdiocese is being sued (April 14 issue of the Reporter).
The Catholic child sex abuse scandal has hit Kirkland and the Seattle Archdiocese is being sued
Who are more victimized in America, women or men? It’s the quintessential question to keep the conversation lively.
I admit, I may seem like a party pooper. After America did so well at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, I now have the temerity… Continue reading
Did you know that there are 40,000 underground polygamists in the U.S.? And a world religion, Islam, allows plural marriage, plus multiple spouses have been… Continue reading
I’d propose that the mark of a civilized society is how much of life is in the private sector. I’d submit that the more society… Continue reading
I think I’m gaga over Lady Gaga, the next American pop musical phenom. She may be the next Madonna, even with recent revelations she’s gay… Continue reading
King County should privatize the 39 parks it’s considering closing (“39 King County parks could shut down,” Aug. 26, by Jacinda Howard & Matt Phelps),… Continue reading
As a libertarian, I must admit government does a few things well, or fairly well. The best government program ever may be Thomas Jefferson’s Lewis… Continue reading
If a public option brings health costs down, then why don’t we have a national auto insurance public option? Why not a public option grocery… Continue reading
I must confess and come out of the closet.
The Republican alternative to Obama-care should be deregulating the health insurance market by legalizing interstate health insurance, ending mandates so a bare-bones health insurance could… Continue reading
Pres. Obama is overexposed.
Many think America was founded on Judeo-Christian values. I hear this often from my Christian friends,
It seems there are four main ways to handle drugs.First, there’s prohibition – what we do now. It’s not working, just like alcohol prohibition didn’t… Continue reading
“Bad clause, bad clause.” No, I’m not scolding a dog, but the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution (1789) that the U.S. Supreme Court… Continue reading
A Kirkland house was busted for prostitution (“Police raid suspected Kirkland brothel,” by Matt Phelps, Kirkland Reporter, May 22) and a massage parlor on Kirkland’s… Continue reading
