Cincinnatus BLOG *** Political Commentary - Social Commentary

  Christians must to find a way to justify war because their founder was a pacifist. Muslins have to defend peace because their founder was a warrior. Although I am not a pessimist, who sees the conflict of cultures as inevitable, we ignore this distinction at our own peril. The Obama doctrine of political correctness would have us believe that all religions are inherently peaceful. By turning a blind eye to the fundamental philosophical differences between East and West we only delude ourselves into believing that humanity will not give into to its baser instincts. History has shown this point of view to be naive and dangerous. American foreign policy must never be built on the shifting sands of wishful thinking but rather on the solid bedrock of history and philosophy. Since the… Continue reading | 180 Comments

  Women have the natural, and unalienable right to control their own fecundity. The notion that a woman can be forced to have a child against her will defies the basic precept of an unalienable right. "Unalienable rights" means those rights which belong to individuals as part of nature, and which every person is entitled to enjoy. The rights of personal security, of personal liberty, and private property do not depend upon the U.S. Constitution or any law for their existence. The philosopher John Locke, who provided the intellectual inspiration for Thomas Jefferson's "unalienable rights" assertion in the Declaration of Independence, expressed it this way: "No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." Abortion Admittedly there is a tension created between the "rights" of the mother… Continue reading | 9 Comments