I really get sick and tired of the irrationality and illogic of some people.  This may be especially true of the ultra-far-right Conservatives and Libertarians, the people who keep asserting that there are these magic “rights” that everyone has and they know exactly what they are.  How they know, I’m not quite sure and apparently [...]

Recently, I’ve been involved in a couple of debates over the basics of morality and rights and thought it might make an interesting post.
There are no such things as objective morals.  They are simply a regulation of action advocated by a society, or by a religion, which is just a social construct.  There is no [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay actually have rights and can seek release if charges against them cannot be proven. Imagine that, the Bush administration was wrong!
Or more properly, can we find a case where the Bush administration has ever been right? Taking [...]