Varieties of Statism

A statist is defined as someone who favors the “concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized govern...

Real Men Don't Murder People

Introduction A while back I received a comment on my post titled Why I Do Not Support the Troops by a seemingly illogical, hateful, and sexi...

Arizona Atheist vs. David Marshall

In October of this year I decided to copy a document I'd written titled 10 Errors in the Truth Behind the New Atheism into the Customer ...

Thanksgiving Day: Another Day of Shame

Several years ago I recall watching an episode of Roseanne where Roseanne Barr's character was watching a school play featuring her son,...

A Slave to Incompetence: The Truth Behind David Marshall’s Research on Slavery by Dr. Hector Avalos

This was posted to John Loftus' blog Debunking Christianity on July 15, 2010 by Hector Avalos, author of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the ...

Debating Anarchism: November 2011

I had a discussion about anarchism with Bret who blogs at anythingbuttheist.blogspot.com. This discussion took place on November 13th, 2011 ...

Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship: A Review

The most recent book by noted biblical scholar Hector Avalos is his Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship. In this b...

Illegal and Immoral Eviction Upon Occupy Wall Street

Today in the early morning hours police arrived at Zuccotti Park in New York with dump trucks in their attempts to clear the encampment of t...

Anarchy Unbound, or: Why Self-Governance Works Better than You Think, by Peter T. Leeson

I came upon the work of economist Peter T. Leeson after reading the interesting book The Legal Foundations of Free Markets, edited by Stephe...

My Deconversion: From Statist to Anarchist

IntroductionI have blog posts dedicated to why I became an atheist and an anarchist, but I've never explained in much detail the thought...

Occupy Wall Street: The Sequel

I'd like to begin this piece by quoting a protester:Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the peo...

William Lane Craig's Arguments for God Refuted In Translation

Daniel, who blogs at the Spanish skeptics website called Chile Skeptic, had asked to translate what is probably one of my most viewed posts...

Autism and Atheism

A new study appeared recently that looks to initially show that atheism is linked with Asperger’s syndrome, a type of high-functioning autis...

Why I Do Not Support the Troops

I found this video called Why I Do Not Support the Troops on Youtube today. It was linked to by a family member whose husband is in the mili...

Why the Bible Cannot Be the Word of God: A Review

Why the Bible Cannot Be the Word of God., by Andre JacobsAuthorHouse, 2011Softcover, 107 pagesISBN: 978-1-4567-2276-0At just a little over o...

The Lucifer Effect – November 2011

Dancing is a crime?! Since when?! Here is an example of police misconduct when a cop arrests someone for video taping him. This video showca...