Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Catholic School giving Muslim Worship Space
Catholic University is being pressured by outside forces to provide a place of worship free from images of Jesus and crucifixes for Muslim students. That’s right, at a privately owned and operated Christian university the worship of a foreign god is being demanded from a professor of another school. The students themselves understand that they…
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Warming Fires
So called scientists are making the claim that the New Mexico fires of this year(2011) were the result of drier conditions brought about by global warming. This tired exercise in junk science has used manipulated data that has been proven inaccurate time and again. New Mexico, Arizona and West Texas have had recorded droughts for…
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The EU and the World Monetary System
With the failure of the Greek and Italian economies looming, the members of the European Union are well, not agreeing on much of anything. The EU members are trying to convince Germany to give up its wealth to bail out the socialist failures of the socialist nations unwilling to require their citizens to work or…
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The Arab Spring Slips to Winter
The Arab spring is quickly becoming winter as the leader of the Libyan transitional government announces changes intended to make that country more Sharia compliant and elections in Tunisia are set bring in a conservative Muslim government. From Egypt to Libya, north Africa is poised to transition from countries at least neutral to Israel to…
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The Blame For Drunk Driving
Self confessed drunk driver James Ruiz pled guilty to several charges including vehicular homicide on Thursday. While driving drunk in 2010 Ruiz killed two sisters in Santa Fe. He also admitted that this was his fifth DUI and had been awaiting trial for his fourth when the accident occurred. During his plea, Mr. Ruiz laid…
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The Death of Gaddafi
It has been reported that former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been killed. In a final push to take the last stronghold of resistance in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, according to Libya’s interim government, he was shot in the legs and finally the head and taken by ambulance to medical facility where he was declared…
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