Saturday, February 27, 2016

Fear of Fascism and Fear of "Fascism"

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I have both a fear of political and social trends reminiscent of fascism in the United States and Europe and a fear of overusing the word t...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

God and the Friendly Universe

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The proposition that the universe is hospitable to human life, potentially supporting a teleological argument for God, is implausible at a ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

The Purpose of the Second Amendment Failed Long Since

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The American colonies and the new United States were deeply distrustful of a standing army , a distrust inherited from their English Whig f...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Nothing is Certain – Cromwell's Rule

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I here defend the proposition that absolutely nothing is absolutely certain, where certainty is understood as a flat 0 or 1 as a Bayes pr...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Pope Francis, Thomas Bayes, and the Existence of God

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Should liberal atheists find their Bayesian level of rational credence in the existence of God to go up because of the election of the po...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Plea Bargaining in Federal Court Is Unonstitutional

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If you are with me that the best reading of Article III, § 2, clause 3 of the US Constitution denies to the federal courts the power to con...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

More on the Waiver of Article III Requirements: Wellness International Network v. Sharif

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My post of   1/11/15. “Are Federal Bench Trials in Criminal Cases Constitutional?”, argued   that the Article III jury trial requirement i...