People think that a theocracy is just a democracy with religion. Not so. They also think that there would be a favoring of all religious people in a t...

Now if Dear Leader Rupert was one of the trolls on HuffPo, writing, endlessly about Little Ice Ages, and the lack of Katrinas this season, and cold days in Kansas, that would be one thing.

I say atheism, you say spirituality. It is like being accused of being soft on terrorism when you question Iraq. That is whenever I say the world wo...

The mark of progressive politics has always been to both "see things as they are and say 'Why?'" and "dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

What if there was a new education rule, that in every country in the world children were not permitted to study their own country in school, but had to choose one or more other countries to study?

In a high security prison, where does the real you go to hide, how does your inner self survive? And how far are all of us away from that now in western society?

Let me count the ways - an occasional series, number 87: If you can be made to believe in a god you can be made to believe in anything, and you will ...

Why the extreme hatred of environmentalists in some quarters? Where does that come from? It doesn't happen in discussions about say health or education or the economy.