Category Archives: Ethics

Whose children are they?

A child is dead. Alfie Evans of Liverpool, England passed away last week at age 23 months of an undiagnosed condition that showed up in the first few months of his life and left him in a semi-vegetative state for … Continue reading

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I’ll apologize for my own sins, thank you very much

Note: This is an editorial written for the Valley City Times-Record, in response to an editorial by Lloyd Omdahl, former Lt. Governor of North Dakota (1987-1992), professor of political science at North Dakota university and newspaper columnist. I believe my … Continue reading

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At the Core

Issues of courage and cowardice have been on my mind a lot lately. In my reviews of ‘300’ I mentioned that the disturbing thing about the bad reviews I’ve read isn’t that they didn’t like it, it’s definitely not to … Continue reading

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