WorldoReason

This blog has come to an end. I will be posting on my new Blog Nexus of Thought.

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2018/07/ending-this-blog.html

We all have one in our pantheon of friends and family. Many of us have several. You know the type - Homo trumpus erraticus better known as the Anti-Trump Grandstander (ATG). While appearing n...

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There is a certain urgency about the Trump Presidency that has forced many a denizen of the West to question the direction that the civilization has been moving. As a classical liberal I have en...

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Its a version of the Strawman argument. Define your opponent’s position in the worst possible light, frame it as such and then attack the frame. The frame will crack creating the false illusion...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2017/01/why-do-so-many-us-political-arguments.html

African-Americans, who could only join the Democratic Party from 1924 onward, started leaving the Republican Party as early as 1936 not 1960 as is often believed. In fact in the election that ye...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2017/01/was-gop-popular-choice-for-african.html

I generally like Quora but I do find that it has a number of irritations Here are a few Many Writers are condescending and rude when there is no reason to be so. I suspect that a great deal of...

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Neoliberalism is more of an economic philosophy driven by laissez-faire economics, deregulation, free trade and a reduction in government spending. Neoconservativism often include neoliberal p...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2017/01/are-neoconservatism-and-neoliberalism.html

Still looking for better stats but the American Jewish Party Identification study undertaken by Gallup in 2014 may be a start. Here are some of the findings. Key findings 29% of American Jews ...

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This is an excellent question and one that teachers have been wrestling with for some time. In fact I will be giving a presentation along these lines to a group of teachers in February of this y...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2017/01/why-is-physics-so-badly-taught.html

Liverpool can win the title but they have to keep their focus and momentum. They have arguably the finest striking force in the English game as is evident by their lead in the goals ‘for’ ca...

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Posted to Quora and a few other sites The problem with partisan politics – and we have seen on more than our fair share of it in this particular election cycle – is that we often herald th...

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As a Physics teacher I never feel truly comfortable that I have figured it all out and that (for want of better words) is a good thing. If I did I would be tempted to sit back and relax which ma...

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Definition time Liberal Privilege - The gift of being able to fully express your liberal viewpoint in virtually any urban bubble city setting in the Western World knowing full well that: a) ...

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CAN DEMOCRATS OVERCOME ELECTORAL COLLEGE OUTCOMES BY A POLICY OF RELOCATING LIBERALS TO NON-LIBERAL STATES? I think Sarah Silverman tried to do this with a tongue-in-cheek invitation to Jewis...

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I often wonder about people who hold the identical political beliefs at fifty as they did at seventeen.Did they figure it all out at the young age or are they simply immune from self-reflection? ...

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Its still not easy to draw the fine line between some religious denominations and cults other than numbers, historical acceptance and longevity. However there seems as though there should be more...

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Chomsky is a serial liar so I wouldn't take what he says with much credence. However for a man who has made a career of knocking US interventionism you would think that he would least admit that ...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2016/11/chomskyvote-for-hillarywhatever-dude.html

There are many reasons to attack Trump politically (as the case of any politician) but calling him a Nazi/Neo-Nazi or a future Adolf Hitler is ridiculous....No better then the Obama is a secret M...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2016/11/trump-nazi-comparisonsmore-nonsense.html

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE PHYSICS THAT WE WILL NEVER DISCOVER BECAUSE OUR LIMITED BIOLOGICAL SENSES? Answer - Not so much biological senses as we can build better equipment to increase t...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2016/09/quora-questions-1.html

The banter around the political grouping Alt-Right seems to be trending lately largely as a result of its association with Trumpism and more recently Hillary Clinton’s reference to this linkag...

http://worldoreason.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-alt-right.html

I am working on a website that should be up and running by month's end. It will include a substantial amount of my writings on History, Philosophy and Science.

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The EU in itself is not an economic success at all and the fact that certain areas have been successful (parts of England) and the turn-of-the millennium Irish Celtic Tiger (in the past not as m...

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This is my reply to an Irish Nationalist who pretty much damned the English to hell over the Brexit result and then called for union of the various Celtic Nations.... The EU is far from the succ...

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I think that one of the most important realizations one has to make as a parent is that your kids are not, nor ought they to be, a replica of yourself.

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I think its too early to judge what the long term ramifications of the exit will be. Economists have a poor track record in long term forecasting and markets have a tendency to readjust rapidly (...

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