F. LaGard Smith

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  Jul 20, 2022

  Has the Webb Telescope found God?

  The working premise is that the farther Webb can look into the universe, the closer in time we get to the origin of the universe. Is that premise actually true?

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  Jul 13, 2022

  Of workers and shirkers

  Perhaps with the coming recession, we’ll finally get the point that is becoming painfully clearer by the day: Not working is not working!

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  Jul 7, 2022

  Whatever happened to law and order?

  Dispense with “the golden rule,” and endless “social justice” rules are required — all sounding like love, but only managing a kind of pious pity for the “oppressed” that makes one feel virtuous while creating more problems than it solves.

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  Jul 2, 2022

  Concurring (in part) with the dissent of the Dobbs decision

  It took judicial courage to overturn Roe. It will require extraordinary courage, not likely found in this Court, to take the next logical step. Maybe in another 50 years … if our morally confused nation still survives.

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  Jun 21, 2022

  Psychotic gender delusions

  Giving new meaning to the familiar lament, “The world’s gone mad!”, our psychotic, brave-new-world generation has literally lost touch with reality, being unable to distinguish what’s objectively real from a subjective figment of “progressive” imagination. 

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  Jun 16, 2022

  Truth is never relative

  Now over a hundred days and counting, Putin’s appalling invasion of Ukraine is still not a war, only a “special military operation” —  complete with troops, tanks, bombs, missiles … and many thousands dead!  In the West, everybody knows it’s a war. But in Russia...

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  Jun 7, 2022

  Abortion: The poster child for moral freedom

  “Pro-choice” is about unrestricted moral choice — particularly when it comes to all things sexual. If you can take life in the womb with impunity, what can you not do?

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  Jun 1, 2022

  Gun control or crime control?

  With each mass shooting by a mentally or socially-disturbed “nutter” using an assault weapon, you can bet the farm that liberal politicians will rush to the scene and piously cover the caskets with a pall of pleas for gun control, as if gun ownership is the problem.

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  May 31, 2022

  The post-Roe train wreck

  Of course, Congress could always preempt all the local legislation by enacting something like Roe into law, but that only raises the prospect of federal abortion statutes swinging back and forth every time Congress changes hands.

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  May 19, 2022

  With Roe v. Wade, abortion isn’t the real issue

  The heated abortion debate overshadows the more fundamental issue, which is all about judicial interpretation. While originalists have no need to indulge in “verbal smokescreens,” those who take a more dynamic approach to constitutional interpretation cannot survive without them.