http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/ Commentary and Opinions en-us 2006-10-16T09:33:46-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000849.html President George W. Bush and the religious fundamentalists are sylleptically syllogistically challenged. As an example - God speaks to man or not, I am a man, so God speaks to me. They can't conceive of the "or not". The reason... Politics Clifton 2006-10-16T09:33:46-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000848.html Book Review Busting Vegas by Ben Mezrich Harper Perennial Press, 2005, 289 pages, $14.95 Page turner as the MIT crew breaks the bank playing blackjack. The main thing you learn from this book is to stay out of casinos. cd-editor... Book Reviews Clifton 2006-10-13T18:26:40-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000847.html Book Review Joseph Smith - Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman Alfred A. Knopf Publ. 2006 740 pages, $35.00 I find it very sad that Dr. Bushman spent I am sure thousands of hours compiling this "cultural biography", as... Book Reviews Clifton 2006-10-12T14:03:41-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000846.html Religion - Truth Relationship The idea that religion is truth, truth religion may be a beautiful one, but is there any reason to think it is true? Truth is a relationship between a theory and the world. Religion is a... Religion Clifton 2006-10-10T10:43:40-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000844.html Wow! The recent work of David Reich of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass. on the relationships of the primate genomes and the possibility that humans and chimpanees "knew" each other in a Biblical sense for a couple of million... Science Clifton 2006-10-05T05:42:29-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000843.html I am sending this information to alert you to the possible danger of using the sugar substitute Xylitol. Xylitol is a 5-carbon sugar alcohol (a pentitol). It has recently been introduced into the United States and is most commonly found... Science Clifton 2006-10-04T16:53:16-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000842.html Ad from September 23, 2006 Atlanta Citizens Journal Free To Loving Home Mail Man Coon Cat, 9 years old, neutered & front paws declawed. Call (903) xxx-xxxx cd-editor (but not of the Citizens Journal)... Current Events Clifton 2006-10-02T06:07:50-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000841.html Book Review Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Knopf publ. 96 pages, $16.95 I guess this title could be The Ten Commandments of Rationalism Written To The Irrational. Mr. Harris does not mince words in this little short... Book Reviews Clifton 2006-09-28T08:31:14-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000840.html The hiring of an Austin, Texas law firm to collect delinquent taxes for the IRS is disingenuous at best and possibly criminal at worst. In the last four years this law firm has contributed about $1 million to Texas statewide... Politics Clifton 2006-09-25T09:08:54-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000839.html Over the last thirty-five years, the rise in wages and salaries in the middle income group was 11%. The rise in wages and salaries in the top 1% income was 617%. Low income individuals wages actually was a negative figure.... Current Events Clifton 2006-09-24T13:08:29-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000838.html Senator George Allen (R-Virginia) was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer today on CNN. I won't call him a liar, but I suspect that he is either a moron or a fibber. When Wolf asked him where he got the word "Macaca"... Politics Clifton 2006-09-21T16:27:51-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000837.html Say folks, this is not rocket science. Your spinach has do-do on it. How did this happen? Some animal pooped on your spinach. What animal? Well, how many cows or deer have you seen in the thousands of acres of... Science Clifton 2006-09-21T07:04:14-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000836.html As if the Bush Administration hasn't already shot itself in the foot, it decided to shoot the other foot . The Department to Interior has squelched its own audit of fraud concering the payment of royalties by some of the... Politics Clifton 2006-09-21T06:38:20-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000835.html Making Scripture Conform To Doctrine I attended ward conference yesterday and had planned on going to all the meetings. As I glanced over the church bulletin, I saw that the SS lesson was to be Isaiah 22, with the... Religion Clifton 2006-09-18T19:04:33-06:00 http://www.bloomburgdemocrat.com/oldsite/archives/000834.html If you are a religious person that supports the Republican Party, I think the action taken this past week by the IRS should be a wake-up call for you. The IRS is examining the tax-exempt status of the All Saints... Religion Clifton 2006-09-16T10:04:16-06:00