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Pullman's Atheism in fiction
Pope Calvin & Talking Bears
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Death, Deterrence & Reform:
Saving WHICH Lives?
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and

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Letter to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Letter to The Economist
Letter to The Recorder
(legal newspaper)
Letter:
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OP ED COLUMNS
My Word: DA is sued Discrimination
My Word
: Deterring the Brutal
My Word:
Saving Oakland
My Word:
PC Fog
My Word:
Oakland's Murders, Part 1
My Word: Oakland's Murders, Part 2
My Word:
Oakland Reaping...
My Word:
Iglehart, a Gentle Giant
My Word:
That German Cannibal
My Word:
Martha's Defense
My Word: (3-5-05) Schiavo's Will
S. F. Chron: Jury Profiling Always Bad?
My Word: The Roberts Nomination

Never Again? Not My Problem? HERE

Recovering from PEAS
[
Post Ecclesial Abuse Syndrome]
HERE
Four Graces: HERE
Noticing the Invisible G-d LINK
P O L I T I C S,  P O L I C Y &   All the Rest
What is your tolerance for indifference to the vulnerable unborn?
RE: Barack's Coldness
- HERE
THERAPIST IN CHIEF - VIDEO
&
The Great Meltdown of 2008
HERE
THE
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Will Islam Reform? Here
Guns, Germs & Islam:
Here
Pathogens & Borders
Here
Five Iraq War Lessons Here
Sharia vs. Democracy?
HERE
Fatherless in Oakland by Vernon Foster
HERE
Bumper Sticker Mind
HERE
The Child Who Asks You "WHY" HERE
Watchmaker in Love
HERE
Purpose of the Universe?
HERE
A Free Market in Religion- Implications
HERE
"I2I: The Dialogic Imperative": HERE
Un- INTELLIGENT DESIGN? HERE
Is Science up to
POLITICAL  CLIMATE CONTROL?
HERE
GALLOWS HUMOR: HERE
That German Cannibal HERE and Trial News
The Goth Murder Case - Dyleski's Trial HERE
The Complete Peterson Case Analysis
The Moral Challenge of Radical Islam HERE
Populism 101 - The Recurring Paradigm
HERE
The Restoration of Ethical Boundaries in pdf  HERE


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WESTERN RELIGION
THE NEW COUNTER-CULTURE
> A Physicist & God Here
>A Radical Theology For the 21st Century HERE
>A Divine Data Port? Here
>A Murder Illuminates HERE 
>A Meditation  HERE
> "Nicene in-my-head" HERE
> "Can Religion Survive? HERE
> "The First & Last Messiah - revised - Here           
> "Struggle for Belief"  
Here
>  "Discernment and Belief
Here
>  "One Nation Under God? 
Here
>  "Gay Ordination?" 
Here
>  "A 21st Century Religious Renaissance?
Here
>  "Why Religion?", Here
>  "Not a Dead Universe", Here
>  "Beyond Materialism", Here
>  "The Real Liberation Theology", Here
>  "Seeds of Convergence" HERE
> "Atheism as Disillusionment" HERE
> "Reality of The miraculous"  HERE
> "Recovering From Disbelief" HERE
> "On Approach to G-d" A Method  HERE
> "Lens Choice HERE


The Coming Populist Reformation  HERE
JBG's Personal Guide to  Epic Orchestral Music HERE
and
Part II HERE

GUEST Opinion
by
Vernon Foster

Fatherhood and Oakland's Problems
LIBERALISM IS A SECULAR RELIGION HERE

A Case For Ethical Realism
HERE
4-29-06: The Case for Overcoming Our Partisan Demons
HERE

I returned to the WTC for the Memorial Day weekend 06: What I experienced: HERE






St. GORE & The ICE AGE LINK
Where I was and what I saw
on 9-11-01 in Manhattan:

A Meditation
and Narrative

HERE













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A new liberal pathogen?
Host-Killing Vampirism
ARTICLE
HERE  
also
Liberalism as a Secular Religion, Article
HERE
"Gird Your Loins"
NEW
TERRORIST LOOPHOLES? LINK
Profiles of Jay B. Gaskill:
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PUGNATIOUS POPULISTS ARE WELCOME
CRIME & JUSTICE
Up From the Basement: A History of My Former Office HERE

Turning Around Crime: HERE

My Speech to the Sheriff's Adademy: HERE

Why Narcotics Should Never Be Legalized HERE

Elementary, My Dear Watson
Does Capital Punishment Save lives?  Here & Here
PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEABLY IN THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT ONLY BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND WILLING TO DO VIOLENCE ON THEIR BEHALF. 
...Attributed to
GEORGE ORWELL
TOO MANY LAWYERS?  Read "Lawyers, Fruitflies & Rotting Mangoes" HERE
Project 'LAMB' -
Restoring
Legal And Moral Boundaries
IRAN!  -- UGLY Surprises


A 'Modest' Proposal


INTELLIGENCE?   
Here
THE FORT HOOD
TREASON VIRUS
EXPLORE TRANQUILITY BASE -  C/O NASA --- HERE
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