Kant and a duty to be healthy
Musing about the basis for mandating health insurance.
Continue April 4, 2010
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Mandated Health Insurance
Offering a justification of the insurance mandate as duty regarding the common defense against foreign enemies. Not edited.
Continue April 2, 2010
Health care and national defense
An attempt to justify mandatory insurance as an obligation of the citizen. It’s part of the American “deal” in our common endeavor for liberty.
Continue March 22, 2010
“Restoration” by D. Thomas Lancaster
This book was given to me by Christopher Johnson and has renewed my faith in sanity. It deals with Christians following Jesus in a very literal way and living the life of Jews, but without become Jewish. It has been provocative for me.
Continue February 13, 2010
Rights of Gays and Lefties
Mix of muse and ramble on the value of truth with regard to knowledge and possibilities. Inspired by Murph the Great.
Continue February 11, 2010
Expanding the rights of gays to include the rights of left-handers
By making quirks out of “queers” (by including the quirk of left-handedness), gay rights become part of a broader question
Continue February 8, 2010
Kant and Neighborly Love
Short muse on the difference between the large and the small town, and how this might exemplify to a certain degree the struggle between the good and evil principles that Kant discerned in the human soul.
Continue February 4, 2010
Supreme Court and the Rights of Quirks
Reasoning toward a ruling by the Supreme Court regarding the right to marry.
Continue January 25, 2010
An American Compromise on the rights of gays
Suggestion for ending the strife with regard to the rights of gays to marry, and the desire of the Christians to have marriage mean man and woman.
Continue January 25, 2010
Christianity as a provisional hope for the world.
Musing on the enormous task before the Christian church and why it will not be accomplished by the Americans, but perhaps by the Chinese. Dedicated to Matt the Great of Blairsville
Continue December 22, 2009