January 18, 2009

One Virtuous Man

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In the late 1960's a fellow officer of mine, an African-American, call him Captain Em, was quite upset that Dr. King had come...
Posted by Don Bacon at 12:17 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

July 04, 2007

Just what did "The Declaration" Declare?

Here in the United States, it's July 4th, a day we commemorate with fireworks, cook-outs, concerts, and speeches. So what exactly is it that we celebrate? Nominally, today marks the...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 07:35 PM | Fulltext link (14 comments)

December 03, 2005

On human equality

I've been thinking a little more about what it would really mean if we were all serious about saying (as the Founding Fathers of the US said) that all "men"--...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:34 PM | Fulltext link (25 comments)