Dr. Oscar Livingstone Simpson, contemporary of my parents, practiced medicine in East Tennessee, mostly Maryville, from the 1950’s to the 1990’s, and he wrote a book…
Author: skepticalobserver
Living in an Imperfect World
Posted in National Defense
An updated 5/21/2011 post. In a perfect world, there wouldn’t be any need for government spending on either national defense or social benefits. Nations would…
There is plenty of evidence that the rich are getting richer but not as much that the poor are getting poorer. The annual Forbes Magazine…
I have clear memories of economics lectures from my paternal grandfather in the 1950’s and 1960’s about what would be the result of what he…
In famously Red South Carolina, voting only 44% for President Obama in 2012, I live in Richland County, home of the University of South Carolina…
It is reported this morning that one of every eight babies born in the USA in 2008 was born to an illegal or undocumented or…
Church and State, Christianity and Islam, Good News, Bad News, and No News (Posted 12/13/2014)
Posted in Church and State, Culture and Diversity, Faith and Church, Freedom, and Terrorism
This week (Daily Mail 7/3/2016) there is a report of the beheading of four teenage Christians in Iraq because of their refusal to convert to…