The Hunt for Bin Laden and Government Propaganda

This is an interesting read, as it sorts fact from fiction about the hunt for Bin Laden. It's titled The Doctor, the CIA, and the Bl...

Glenn Greenwald on Hatred Towards the U.S.

Glenn Greenwald has written a sobering piece today explaining the facts about why so many nations, particularly Muslim ones, harbor suc...

World Bank Publishes Climate Change Warning

The World Bank issued a paper a few days ago titled Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must Be Avoided. The report “spells out...

The Lucifer Effect – December 2012

In August of this year it was reported that 20 year old college student Ronald Weekley was skateboarding outside of his home when several po...

Boy Scouts of America: End Your Discriminatory Practices Against Homosexuals Now!

When I was in elementary school I was in the Cub Scouts. After about a year I got bored with it and quit, but I did have many good time...

The U.N. to Vote on Palestinian Statehood

It's been a long time coming but the U.N. might finally recognize Palestine as a state. This isn't acceptable to Israel or the ...

TAM 2012: "From Particles to People" with Sean Carroll

This is a very interesting talk by cosmologist Sean Carroll.

The Israeli Attack Upon Gaza in Pictures

Courtesy of Glenn Greenwald are two pictures that perfectly sum up the recent attacks by Israel upon Gaza.

Israel's Brutal Attack Upon Gaza

Glenn Greenwald has written a very good piece about the recent attacks upon the Gaza strip by Israeli forces. It mainly focuses on the US...

Google: “Government surveillance is on the rise”

According to a recent Wired article, Google has released “stats showing a rise in the number of U.S. government requests for data on Gmail...

Glenn Greenwald on the Massive Surveillance State

Glenn Greenwald has written a very good article about the sex scandal involving General David Petraeus. He explains how this massive su...

Obama Wins a Second Term: What Will It Mean?

Well, Barack Obama won a victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney yesterday. I do not vote, but if I had, I thought a lot about wh...

The Untold History of the United States

The Untold History of the United States. This is the title to the new 615 page book (not including notes, credits, and index) and the soon t...

The Lucifer Effect – November 2012

This first video is of an event that occurred in Australia in October. Twenty-one year old Laudisio Curti, a Brazilian student who was s...

Are We Really Less Free Today? Sheldon Richman on the State of Liberty

Here is an interesting video I found featuring Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman.

Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons

From Democracy Now: In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and...

The U.S. Moves Ever Closer to a True Totalitarian State

The Washington Post has written a piece outlining the Obama Administration’s normalizing and further legalizing his unconstitutional “ki...

Greg Palast: Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza

Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in Se...

A Free Market is Not Unregulated

It's a common criticism of the “free market” that such a market is “unregulated,” thus, is chaotic. However, this is a complete mis...

“Terrorism:” One of the Most 'Manipulated' Words in Political Discourse

Last month I wrote a piece about the terrorist actions of the U.S. government. Today I found a piece written by Glenn Greenwald discussi...

Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control

Earlier this year Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace activist group called Code Pink, gave a talk about the U.S. government's ...

Q&A with Arizona Atheist

I've given a few interviews over the years. Some of them have even been with hostile interviewers which seemed to turn a bit into a...

Columbus Day: A Day of Shame

Today is Columbus Day. A day that has become a national holiday. Even though it's somewhat well known what Christopher Columbus did to t...

My Reading List

I am a voracious reader. With nearly 1,000 books in my personal library I almost always have something to read. On my lazy days it'...

The Launch of Skeptic Ink Was Successful!

For those who are unaware Skeptic Blogs has morphed into Skeptic Ink Network (SIN). All the same great content and the same great write...

The Lucifer Effect – October 2012

In this month's Lucifer Effect I have some very egregious examples of police misconduct and brutality. First up is a video of a cop...

A Post Update: George W. Bush's Religious Beliefs Inspired Him to Attack Iraq

Every once in a while I learn new information which causes me to go back and revise an older post. This just recently happened with my ...

Glenn Greenwald: “US investigates possible WikiLeaks leaker for 'communicating with the enemy'"

Glenn Greenwald has posted a frightening story today. Apparently, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been deemed “enemies of the state.”...

George Lakoff: Moral Politics

“The United States of ALEC”: Democracy Now Premieres Bill Moyers' Explosive New Documentary

This weekend Bill Moyers' new documentary will be aired. However, Democracy Now was privileged to broadcast it first. And for those...

Glenn Greenwald: “New Stanford/NYU study documents the civilian terror from Obama's drones”

Related to my recent post about U.S. terrorism, a new report has been put out by researchers at NYU School of Law and Stanford Universi...

Bahrain Government Totalitarianism

Glenn Greenwald has written a good piece about the CNN documentary called “iRevolution,” which is about the Arab Spring. CNN International r...

Lysander Spooner: No Treason

Lysander Spooner was an individualist anarchist, a lawyer, an abolitionist, and an entrepreneur in the 19th Century. He is my favorite ...

A Friendly Debate with a Socialist

In the comment section of my post My Deconversion: From Statist to Anarchist I had an interesting conversation with a socialist who went...

Voter ID Laws Threaten the “Democratic” Process

While I do not care for the concept of voting, since it represents a form of coercion, I've highlighted this issue on my blog in th...

The Tyranny of the State, Part 6: Terrorism

Introduction I am well aware that this post will be viewed as inflammatory, and seen as (statist) heresy, but I am confidant that once ...

The Lucifer Effect – September 2012

In this first video that takes place in New York a cop stops an African-American teenager and forces him to submit to the unconstitutio...

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

I've recently been reading a few books about the Arab-Israeli conflict. For a few years I've heard about it on the news but had nev...

“An Anarchist critique of Anarcho-Statism”: A Response

For those who are unaware, there is a rift between the various groups of anarchists, particularly those who believe that capitalism is a...

The Dangers of Blind Obedience to Authority

Glenn Greenwald has written an excellent article about peoples' tendency to acquiesce to authority figures, particularly those who ...

Who Gets Into Heaven?

I came across this excellent video that discusses the logical conclusion of the Christian doctrine of salvation, which is a moral catas...

Dazed and Confused: David Marshall's Irrational Take on Faith and Reason

Introduction The word faith has always been a word in popular culture that has been defined as a “belief that does not rest on logical proof...

Skeptic Blogs Has Officially Launched!

UPDATE – 10-4-12: Skeptic Blogs has since been re-branded as Skeptic Ink! We still have all the same great content and the same great write...

Chris Rodda vs. Rick Green: An Update

Chris Rodda has written a few updates about the shenanigans with David Barton's mouthpiece Rick Green. Green has finally addressed ...

Chris Rodda Accepts Rick Green's Challenge Regarding The Jefferson Lies

At Chris Rodda's blog today she accepted Rick Green's challenge to point out specific errors in David Barton's latest book,...

Huffington Post: Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads

An explosive (but not surprising) piece on the Huffington Post links presidential candidate Mitt Romney to families who had a hand in t...

The Current Prison System Breeds Criminality

It should be no surprise to anyone that the current “justice” system is a broken mess. I've written about this serious issue a few years...

The Lucifer Effect – August 2012: Arizona Edition

This is the second in a two part Lucifer Effect special edition which features cases of police brutality in Arizona. For this first video, Y...

This is How a Real Discussion is Conducted

Thanks to John Loftus at Debunking Christianity for the following Discussion Flowchart! This is how all debates ought to be conducted ...

Appalling Hypocrisy by a Christian Apologist

I apologize to my readers for bringing up this individual but I couldn't help it. I debated back and forth with myself on whether or n...

Police Brutality in Anaheim, California

According to Democracy Now, Police in the California city of Anaheim are facing allegations of murder and brutality after fatally shooting ...

Obama's Record On Gitmo

Here is an excellent article by Glenn Greenwald about Obama and his attempts to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center. It...

Police Murder Another Innocent Man

On June 28th 2012 police shot a “mentally distraught man” named Kyle Miller who police say was waving a gun around. However, Miller'...

Is Anarchy “Natural?”

Some critics of anarchism take the following line of argument. They argue that if anarchism was a viable form of organization we would see d...

Poking Fun at Statism, Its Failures, and Its Puppets III

Here is a joke about government for science lovers: Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science...

A Debate About Richard Dawkins and “Child Abuse”

In April of 2009 I entered a discussion in progress between a few atheists who frequented the Amazon.com Customer Discussion forums and...

How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man, by Clara Gutteridge

In The Nation Clara Gutteridge has written a piece titled ”How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man”. It is about h...

Privatization, Viking Style: Model or Misfortune?

I've been reading a book titled Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, by Jesse L. Byock. It's about the 300 year-long anarchy...

The Lucifer Effect - July 2012: Arizona Edition

This is a special edition of The Lucifer Effect. This month and the next I will put up videos featuring cases of police misconduct and/or br...

Peter Leeson Explains Anarchy

I found this very good video presentation about anarchism by economist Peter Leeson. I'd also recommend his paper titled Anarchy Unbound...

Poking Fun at Statism, Its Failures, and Its Puppets II

Here is another selection of pictures I liked on statism. The picture to the left in case it's not readable for you says: “Go to work. G...

The Leaking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership “Trade” Agreement

It's been reported by Public Citizen that a new so-called “trade agreement” would undermine the laws and courts of various countries and...

Poking Fun at Statism, Its Failures, and Its Puppets

Below are a few pictures that don't need captions. As they say, a picture says a thousand words and each of them is instructive in the w...

Statism Contrasted with Theism

I happened to come across an interesting video that in many ways mirrors my views about the similarities between theism and statism. A few y...

The Obama-Bush Connection

Despite Barack Obama allegedly being a “liberal” and George W. Bush a “republican” many have noted the vast similarities between their milit...

The Lucifer Effect – June 2012

This first video depicts a cop who chokes a teenager for getting a little mouthy with him. Talk about a fragile ego! (What is it with cops a...

American Media Plays Sock Puppet for U.S. Government About Civilian Drone Deaths

I know what you're saying: “What else is new!?” The media has almost always willingly spread government propaganda and supported the par...

The Tyranny of the State, Part 5 - The Constitution Is, Has, and Always Will Be Null and Void

Introduction The original idea for this post was going to be about how, in recent years, the government has steadily been creeping towards t...

Glenn Greenwald: White House Leaks for Propaganda Film

It's been reported by Glenn Greenwald that, while the Obama Administration attempts to prosecute whistle-blowers who report on classifie...

The Inner Contradictions of the State, by Murrary N. Rothbard

The following is excerpted from Rothbard's larger work The Ethics of Liberty. A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH discussions of the necessity of gover...

You May Not Agree with Hitler's Policies, But....

A perfect illustration of the absurdity of this argument. Related Posts: Why I Do Not Support the Troops

The Web's Best Videos on Evolution, Creationism, Atheism and More

Over at the blog Why Evolution is True Jerry Coyne has linked to a vast collection of videos about evolution, creationism, science, and crit...

Welcome to the Surveillance States of America

In Glenn Greenwald's article today he writes about the Obama administration's attempts to get internet service providers to give the...

The Lucifer Effect – May 2012

This first video depicts a cop who puts his gun to an innocent woman's head for apparently no reason at all. The news reporter explains...

Re-Reading a Book That Changed My Views Forever (Or Until New Evidence Comes to Light)

A few days ago I decided to re-read my friend Bob Clapp's book, Every Man and Woman an Island: The Individual Human Being as Prime in th...

Don't Feed the Trolls

Someone named “Emanuel Goldstein” left a few idiotic comments and stupid smears on my blog, which I deleted. After doing a web search of the...

Vatican Scolds Catholic Nuns for Focusing “Too Much” On the Poor

On MSNBC I read the other day that the Vatican sent a very distressing letter to a group of Catholic nuns scolding them for “spending too mu...

The David Marshall Nexus

I've decided to create a new section located on the side of my blog. It's called “The David Marshall Nexus.” Due to David Marshall&#...

Government Propaganda About Iran

An interesting piece by Glenn Greenwald was published today. It can be read here. He relates the fact that high ranking Obama administration...

Bye-Bye Amazon.com

I'm finally saying goodbye to Amazon.com. I've deleted all my reviews and have deleted the content from my Amazon Profile. I will pr...

Every Phone Call, Email, or Web Search Within the U.S. is Being Tracked by the NSA

Below is a chilling exposé about how the NSA is gathering data from and about everyone in the U.S. Everything from telephone calls, emails, ...

The Religious Antagonist: 10 Famous Atheists Trolled

I was sent a new video by YouTuber The Religious Antagonist. This was a pretty funny video. I especially liked his mocking of the uproar a w...

Kudos for My Refutation of The Truth Behind the New Atheism

I've gotten quite a number of kudos on my review of David Marshall's 2007 book The Truth Behind the New Atheism. Here is some of the...

A Debate About Slavery and Christianity

In 2009 I decided to comment on a discussion about the role of Christianity in abolishing slavery. My main opponents were David Marshall and...

Tax Havens and the Cheaters Who Use Them

The creators of the following diagram asked if I'd like to post this. It looks to be very informative. Source: Frugal Dad

An Illustration of the TSA's Wastefulness, Corruption, and Uselessness

I was contacted by the creator of the following diagram illustrating the immense amount of government waste that is the TSA (Transportation ...

Obama Administration Pushes for Unwarranted & Unconstitutional Strip Searches

If being being virtually strip searched before boarding your flight, or if being killed over constitutionally protected speech, or if cops m...

The Lucifer Effect – April 2012

The Lucifer Effect is back! I failed to post one last month but I am starting them back up again. This first video was shot on January 28, 2...

A Discussion About The Delusion of Disbelief

For long time readers of my blog perhaps some of you will remember an earlier book review I had originally written in July of 2008 named The...

A Theist Defends William Lane Craig

In the comments section of my refutation of William Lane Craig's arguments for god a theist objects to my arguments and makes a rather p...

Arizona Atheist vs. David Marshall 2010

In April to June of 2010 I had a discussion with David Marshall on Amazon.com. While Marshall was not as vile as he has been during other di...

Kenneth Chamberlain, 68, Murdered by Police

While watching Democracy Now I learned about a story that really upset me. I have no words to express my sorrow and empathy for Kenneth Cham...

Police Video Contradicts Murderer's Claims of Self-Defense

Today on MSNBC they played video taken by police station surveillance cameras after arresting George Zimmerman after he shot and killed Tray...

Some U.S. Officials Are Supporting a Terrorist Organization

An article at Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald reproduces two articles by Jeremiah Goulka, who exposes the facts that several “Washington offici...

The Trayvon Martin Smear Campaign Hints at a Larger Issue

I first heard about the following allegations the day I posted my thoughts on Trayvon Martin's murder. Several news outlets are reportin...

The Murder of Trayvon Martin

Update – 4-2-12: It's come to light that the screams for help were not those of Zimmerman's as the police claimed in the story below...

Evolution is a FACT, Deal with It

I've been considering writing a series about evolution. I reconsidered doing this, however, because there are several excellent books an...

Kirk Cameron Lies for Jesus in New Film

Chris Rodda has made a very good video exposing a few lies about the founding of the United States in Kirk Cameron's new film called Mon...

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail, by Matt Taibbi

A Rolling Stone article on Bank of America has exposed the incredible immorality and greed of this company. Despite their outrageous crimes ...

The NSA Will Begin Spying On Every Individual in the U.S. On a Grand Scale

If those living in the United States thought their personal privacy was already shot to hell it's going to get even worse. According to ...

The New York Times Op-Ed on Goldman Sachs

The internet was abuzz when on March 14, 2012 Greg Smith wrote a scathing piece about his former employer Goldman Sachs.I've coped it be...

Amy Goodman on Mitt Romney

At Truthdig last month Amy Goodman had written an excellent and poignant critique of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. It is titled “Romney’...

A Debate with an Annoying Christian

I recently had a debate with a pretty annoying Christian not too long ago in the comments section of a post I'd written titled The Bible...

The Existence of an Afterlife: A Debate

An individual, who called themselves Pat, commented on my post telling my deconversion story. This discussion covered religion a bit, but mo...

Terror, Trauma and the Endless Afghan War, by Amy Goodman

At Truthdig.com Amy Goodman has written a piece about the emotional stress on people in the military and how the military fails to give aid ...

Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace, by Neil Shea

I came across an article in The American Scholar, by journalist Neil Shea, called Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace. The article exposes the d...

Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?

In The Nation magazine Jeremy Scahill exposes Obama's role in detaining an innocent journalist named Abdulelah Haider Shaye.Scahill writ...

Kid-Free Restaurants?

There is a new trend occurring in many cities at several movie theaters, airlines, and restaurants: they have banned kids from their establi...

US military and CIA interventions in the world since World War II

And people say the U.S. isn't an imperialist state. Right....Thanks goes to Juan Cole for posting this.

The Republican War on Voting

In December of last year Rolling Stone magazine published a piece by Ari Berman titled GOP War on Voting: AG Holder Joins the Fight. Sadly, ...

The Hectic & Immoral Situation in Afghanistan

Just weeks after U.S. solders burned copies of the Koran, which sparked numerous protests, now another tragedy has befallen the U.S./NATO-oc...

The Irrational Atheist: A Refutation Revisited

Dear Readers, I've decided to repost my review of The Irrational Atheist for those who may have missed it. No changes have been made. It...

The Bible: An Exposé: Biblical Inerrancy

Introduction If you've been paying attention while reading this series it should be clear that the bible gets a lot wrong. From the lack...

Romney's Tax Plan for the Rich

Despite Mitt Romney’s rhetoric about his 20% tax decrease for all what his plan actually entails is George W. Bush's tax breaks for the ...

The Bible: An Exposé: The Bible and Morality

Introduction One of the most common claims about the bible is that it is a moral guide and that within its pages can be found profound knowl...

The Truth Behind the New Atheism: A Refutation Revisited

Dear Readers, I've decided to repost my review of The Truth Behind the New Atheism for those who may have missed it several months ago. ...

You've Got to be Joking!

Revised on February 24, 2012I came across an article titled For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words at The Telegraph. The subtitle is th...

The Nation: Washington's War in Yemen Backfires

An article by Jeremy Scahill exposes how the U.S. backed Saleh regime uses aid from the U.S. government in order to suppress opposition to h...

U.S. Backs Honduras Brutality

Last month Dana Frank exposed the disaster created by the U.S. in Honduras by supporting a coup and the brutal regime that replaced the prev...

A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy and Meaning in a World Without God

A new book about atheists and atheism is currently in the works. Chris Johnson, a New York-based photographer, is going around the world tak...

Rolling Stone Magazine: “The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read”

On February 10th, 2012 Rolling Stone published an 84-page document by Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran who recently returned...

A Review of Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots: A Memoir

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots: A Memoir, by Deborah Feldman Simon & Schuster Hardcover, 254 pages ISBN-10: ...

Carnival of the Godless?

I noticed that the Carnival of the Godless has been discontinued. I had been looking for another series of posts recently and I ended up goi...

The Fallacy of the "Public Sector,” by Murray N. Rothbard

I've been reading a lot of Rothbard's work lately and I am currently reading his massive Man, Economy and State, with Power and Mark...

Obama Lies About Drone Strikes

In a recent virtual interview president Obama claimed that there had been very few civilian casualties due to drone strikes, and that these ...

David Berlinski Supporters Are Delusional

This is a repost of an earlier blog post. I wanted to repost it because as I predicted I've been getting several illogical Christians do...

War on Cameras is a War on You!

Thanks to fr33agents.com for the video.

The Bible: An Exposé: Eyewitness Testimony?

A common argument among Christian apologists is that the gospels are an example of “human testimony,” and can be trusted to be accurate. Thi...

The Lucifer Effect – February 2012

The U.S. isn't the only country where police brutality takes place.... This next video shows a murder by a cop who runs over a “suspicio...

The Bible: An Exposé: The Bible and Science

Introduction Most Christian apologists these days do not commonly argue that the bible is scientifically accurate, however, there are some w...

The Superiority of Empiricism is Not “Begging the Question”

I've become aware of a blog that doesn't like my open challenge and considers my conditions to be an example of question begging. Th...

The Bible: An Exposé: Superstition and Myth in the Bible

Introduction I recall when I read the bible for the very first time I was shocked by what I read. I had always heard that the bible was the ...

The Bible: An Exposé

1. The Bible: An Exposé: Introduction 2. The Bible: An Exposé: A Brief History 3. The Bible: An Exposé: Scriptures Galore 4. The Bible: An E...

The Bible: An Exposé: Myth or History?

Introduction It's a common argument by certain Christians that the bible is an accurate historical record. Some even go so far as to cla...

Cognitive Dissonance: It's an Epidemic

Most people have a set of beliefs they adhere to that helps guide them in their daily lives. Many people gather these beliefs through religi...

Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy

It's actually very simple. Just view the following diagram...(If needed click to enlarge)

Obama's Hypocrisy

Today is a national holiday where we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. On this day we are supposed to honor a man who stood up for equality, fre...

The Bible: An Exposé: Scriptures Galore

In the last piece about the bible's history I alluded to the fact that there were numerous manuscripts. For the first three centuries of...

Video Depicts Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban

Warning: This video is not censored. This is disgusting and aptly demonstrates the immaturity of several of those who seek to join the milit...

The Bible: An Exposé: A Brief History

As Jaroslav Pelikan, the late Professor of History at Yale University, said, the bible, before it was in written form, was most likely trans...

The Bible: An Exposé: Introduction

Several years ago I made an attempt to write an in depth blog post about how reliable the bible is. It was simply titled Is the Bible Reliab...

Government and Police Hypocrisy

I have written a lot about this subject in the past but here is another example of the authoritarianism and hypocrisy of the state.As the ab...

The Lucifer Effect – January 2012

This first video depicts a clear misuse of the taser on an unarmed and non-resisting woman. This second video shows a clear case of excessiv...

Arizona Atheist: A Year in Review

Happy New Year to all!Is it really 2012 already? The last few years have truly flown by. It sure seems true what they say: time goes by fast...