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from Forbes
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
“Is it OK to still have children?” That’s a question that bothers the environmental consciousness of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Comedian Bill Maher thinks that he has the answer. “The great under-discussed factor in the climate crisis is there are just too many of us and we use too much s*#t. Climate deniers like to say, ‘There’s no population problem, just look out the window of an airplane. So much open space down there.’ But it’s not about space, it’s about resources. Humans are already using 1.7 times the resources the planet can support,” he recently noted. There are plenty of legitimate topics in the debate about the health of the planet, but overuse of resources is not one of them.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Every Law "Legislates Morality" — From Abortion to Minimum Wage
With the heating up of the abortion debate, the phrase "legislate morality" has come back into more frequent use. This week, the Washington Post printed a letter to the editor with the headline "Anti-abortion legislation is Prohibition all over again." The author complains: "Prohibition was an attempt by government to legislate morality." Similarly, state legislator Kirk Hatcher of Montgomery, Alabama, who opposed the state's legislation that nearly bans abortion, states "We can’t legislate morality ... We can’t legislate hearts." And last week, DNC activist Marisa Richmond declared the problem with the GOP these days is it's "trying to legislate morality ... That’s not the role of government." When used, the general formula is this: "that law I don't like amounts to legislating morality! And we all know you shouldn't do that." The problem with this inane line of argument, of course, is that nearly every law involves legislating morality of some sort.
Government Laws Are Not Contracts
Despite what you were taught in school, governance is ugly; in all forms, and at all times. Don't believe me? Attend a meeting of a local governing entity. You will find the council — omnipotent by vote, omniscient by delusion — seated before you at the table. All night long, they'll bicker and battle all the while proposing and dissecting plans and schemes with shouts and pounding shoes; Khrushchev moments indeed. There is no "social contract" and government laws are not contracts. They are unilateral diktats imposed through threat of violence. The sooner we stop pretending laws are voluntary agreements, the better.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
If the new authorities of Ukraine under President Vladimir Zelensky do not put an end to the persecutions against the canonical Church, the international community should impose sanctions against the country, said His Grace Bishop Qais (Sadiq) of Erzurum, vicar to Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East, at the international “Violation of the Rights of the Faithful in Ukraine” conference currently being held in Moscow. The Antiochian hierarch also urged the conference participants to appeal to the world with a demand to start a dialogue with the new Kiev authorities on the return of the properties illegally seized from the canonical Ukrainian Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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