Was the Iraq war a "war for oil" as the left kept telling us it was? Â*Iraq wasn't a war for oil, but the oil fields are the nation's best hope for recovery. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

I’d like to begin the process of creating a special written definition of “free will” that I agree with. I call it a special definition because I don’t know what else to call it. It may start out as a stipulative definition, but as I tweak it more and...

Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. KJV This is one of those verses that I struggled with for a while but I am now...

Spinoza by Jorge Luis Borges The Jew's hands, translucent in the dusk, polish the lenses time and again. The dying afternoon is fear, is cold, and all afternoons are the same. The hands and the hyacinth-blue air that whitens at the Ghetto...

A statement implies a speaker. (I mean "speaker" in a general sense not necessarily vocalizing the statement.) Statements do not materialize out of thin air. When making the statement there are a number of possibilities with regards to the...