tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67785132024-03-07T14:06:18.859-05:00The Secular FoxholeReason Science Liberty CapitalismSecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.comBlogger491125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-43226718354591070932022-08-09T21:27:00.002-05:002022-08-09T21:27:49.730-05:00The Secular Foxhole Podcast and WebsiteNext month marks the start of the third year of my podcast, The Secular Foxhole. Hopefully in the next few days, I will have a website/domain all set up. That also will be announced here, though I may switch my blogging to the new domain site.SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-33677503457091289872021-01-08T12:37:00.001-05:002021-01-08T12:37:42.386-05:00Supersonic Flight comes One Step Closer!FAA issues new rules for supersonic flight Here's an excerpt from the article: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued new final rules to help pave the way for the re-introduction of supersonic commercial flight. The U.S. airspace regulator's rules provide guidance for companies looking to gain approval for flight testing of supersonic aircraft SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-28525774449728564472020-12-26T09:52:00.001-05:002020-12-26T09:52:41.876-05:00Twelve Times the Advocates of Lockdowns Were Wrong Here's an article from AEIR.ORG by Phillip W. MagnessTwelve Times...From the article linked below. "This has been a year of astonishing policy failure. We are surrounded by devastation conceived and cheered by intellectuals and their political handmaidens. The errors number in the thousands so please consider (these 12) to be little more than a first draft - SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-51410765951733861712020-12-01T20:01:00.001-05:002020-12-01T20:01:22.910-05:00Quote of the Week: Daniel Webster "I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give the the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy." (1837)SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-30037754838549205622020-11-25T09:14:00.004-05:002020-11-25T09:14:55.745-05:00WARNING! The Great Reset Is Upon Us.The World Plato Wanted H/T: The Savvy StreetExcerpts:About twenty-four hundred years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato came up with the idea of constructing the state and society according to an elaborate plan. Plato wanted “wise men” (philosophers) at the helm of the government, but he also made it clear that his kind of state would need a transformation of the humans. In modern times, the SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-31207367894705442492020-11-08T00:57:00.004-05:002020-11-08T01:14:24.439-05:00QUOTE OF THE WEEK: AYN RAND "IT IS YOUR MIND THAT THEY WANT YOU TO SURRENDER - ALL THOSE WHO PREACH THE CREED OF SACRIFICE, WHATEVER THEIR TAGS OR THEIR MOTIVES, WHETHER THEY DEMAND IT FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR SOUL OR OF YOUR BODY, WHETHER THEY PROMISE YOU ANOTHER LIFE IN HEAVEN OR A FULL STOMACH ON THIS EARTH. THOSE WHO START BY SAYING:"IT IS SELFISH TO PURSUE YOUR OWN WISHES, YOU MUST SACRIFICE THEM TO THE WISHES OF SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-52825301321557403882020-11-08T00:48:00.001-05:002020-11-08T00:48:26.017-05:00NEW PODCAST AVAILABLE. THE SECULAR FOXHOLE #6HERE'S THE LINK:THE SECULAR FOXHOLE SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-11550752451265078882020-11-01T10:03:00.004-05:002020-11-01T10:03:58.109-05:00WHY TO VOTE AGAINST TRUMP Peter Schwartz has a blistering analysis of why American's should repudiate Trump. Don't Miss It.Why Vote Against TrumpSecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-31604804243050898082020-10-27T06:20:00.002-05:002020-10-27T06:20:44.145-05:00Quote of the Week: Ayn Rand In the absence of - intellectual - polarization, we are witnessing the growth of the ugliest kind of divisiveness or - existential - polarization, if you will; pressure-group warfare. The country is splitting into dozens of blind, deaf, but screaming camps, each drawn together not by loyalty to an idea, but by the accident of race, age, sex, religious creed, or the frantic whim of a given SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-44596056302623772472020-10-21T01:22:00.008-05:002020-10-21T10:37:17.067-05:00EPISODE 5 of The Secular Foxhole PodcastThe Secular Foxhole #5 Our interview with Ayn Rand Institute Fellow, Ben Bayer:SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-44146900079477062622020-10-20T18:07:00.001-05:002020-10-20T18:07:55.824-05:00Quote of the Week: Ayn Rand What objectivity and the study of philosophy require is not an "open mind" but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them critically. An active mind does not grant equal status to truth and falsehood; it does not remain floating forever in a stagnant vacuum of neutrality and uncertainty; by assuming the responsibility of judgement, it reaches firmSecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-8940892214602397182020-10-13T21:25:00.005-05:002020-10-13T21:25:58.770-05:00Take Back Columbus Day Reposting this from the Ayn Rand Institute:Take Back Columbus DayNowadays, however, an embarrassed, guilty silence descends on the nation each Columbus Day. We’ve been taught that Columbus opened the way for rapacious European settlers to unleash a stream of horrors on a virgin continent: slavery, racism, warfare, epidemic, and the cruel oppression of Indians.This modern view of Columbus SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-31397248037212209182020-10-13T16:42:00.001-05:002020-10-13T16:44:16.423-05:00Quote of the Week: Leonard PeikoffThere is no future for the world except through a rebirth of the Aristotelian approach to philosophy. This would require an Aristotelian affirmation of the reality of existence, of the sovereignty of reason, of life on earth - and of the splendor of man.Aristotle and Objectivism agree on fundamentals and, as a result, on this last point, also. Both hold that man can deal with reality, can SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-50659533152786724162020-10-06T16:50:00.001-05:002020-10-06T16:50:38.288-05:00New Feature: Ayn Rand Quote of the WeekI thought of this driving into work today. It'll be a weekly quote from Ayn Rand or one of her associates. Sometimes I'll have where the quote is taken from and sometimes not.Here's the first one:Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-38373986043692298842020-10-03T00:15:00.002-05:002020-10-03T00:18:39.636-05:00Episode #4 of The Secular Foxhole Podcast is now online!The Secular Foxhole 4 Martin and I did a bit of 'housecleaning' in this short episode. Still, we talk about shows to come and ideas we will talk about. Click the link above to listen. Any feedback or comments are welcome.SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-17717435564843259352020-10-01T23:37:00.005-05:002020-10-05T01:14:18.918-05:00Minority View: Confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court UPDATED: 10/5/2020 There are much more serious and freedom affirming issues behind the pathetic circus that's about to descend on us October 12th when the hearings begin to confirm Justice Barrett to the Supreme Court.I've recently been studying the horrifying apparatus known as the Administrative State. Plaguing us here in America. It has grown with unchecked power over all of us, forSecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-12939536070098503162020-08-31T13:14:00.001-05:002020-08-31T13:14:47.216-05:00The Secular Foxhole Podcast is Here!Hello Everyone!
Martin and I have officially started podcasting. We have done a "teaser" episode and just finished an episode about great books.
Find us on Apple Podcasts and many others... ( I will update how else you can find the podcast as soon as I can.)SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-35220265940432280862020-07-29T22:55:00.001-05:002020-07-29T22:55:31.014-05:00Immigrants Are Far More Patriotic Than the Right Fears or the Left Hopes And it's up to American institutions to ensure that their children don't sour on the country.Sometimes I will post an article or editorial I see that needs to be shared on a wider scale. This is one such article.
Immigrants are Far More Patriotic...SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-90278088623983199802020-07-27T01:09:00.000-05:002020-07-28T00:07:17.939-05:00Why The Name Secular Foxhole?Back in 2004, why did I choose The Secular Foxhole as the name for my blog, and possible (2020) future podcast? Actually, I had two names jostling back and forth in my head back in 2004. The 'contest' was between this and Fish Wrap: What else are newspapers good for? Both, I thought, were apropos then, and sadly, even more so today.
I settled on TSF because at the time I felt it had more SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-5745954236154535582020-07-21T00:17:00.000-05:002020-08-28T00:22:28.906-05:00My Journey to ReasonI chose to capitalize the letter R in Reason. Not for any particular philosopher's ideas though. I want to emphasize Reason as man's tool of both survival and of knowledge.
As a boy I loathed going to church. I was around eight or nine years old when, being with both my parents and my older brother, I asked my mom why we had to go. You see, I was pretty put-out about getting up early on Sunday SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-64088310093510819882020-06-23T04:04:00.002-05:002020-06-23T04:04:45.761-05:00MORE BAD NEWS: FAMILY OF GEORGE FLOYD PETITIONS UN TO DISARM AMERICAN POLICE NIHILISM RUNS WILD...
FROM : SOVEREIGN NATIONS VIA BREITBART
KEY PASSAGES:
The group sent a letter on June 3 to one of the international body’s working groups asking for support for the end of the provision of military equipment and military-type training for police, the teaching of deescalation techniques, independent prosecutions and autopsies for “extrajudicial” police killings, and more.SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-3754809227614726962020-06-22T21:14:00.001-05:002020-06-22T21:14:39.495-05:00The Left is Having an Identity Crisis (from December 2019)Just found this over at Areo online magazine. The authors are "leftists" who are battling the demise of their own "side" and calling out Identity politics and elitism.
Here's the link:
The Left is Having an Identity Crisis
Key passage:
Let’s start with what isn’t going to work. It simply will not do to blame these electoral results on the idea that the majority of the population is SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-15231727448985767112020-04-22T07:54:00.001-05:002020-04-22T07:54:51.435-05:00FROM INVESTOR JEFF BROWN'S NEWSLETTER:
4/21/2020
Get ready for immunity passports…
Last Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the federal government is considering immunity passports for people who have recovered from COVID-19.
These are certificates that confirm an individual has tested positive for the COVID-19 antibodies, making that person immune and offering “proof” that they cannot SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-23139723382181618042019-03-29T00:58:00.003-05:002019-03-29T11:46:19.007-05:00AOC's Intellectual Heritage - if you can call it that.Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is perhaps the new darling of the Progressive wing of the Democrat party.
Her rise to "fame" is more or less well-documented, but I find it fascinating that, if the story is true, she won a "popularity contest" of young people to be selected to run for office. If memory serves, she ran unopposed in a small district in NYC.
What is crucial to look at, to SecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778513.post-82524463162636238632018-10-27T01:37:00.000-05:002018-10-27T07:58:03.618-05:00Caravan, or Invasion? That is the question.First, I need to publicly admit I briefly flirted with those who call the mass of people headed toward our border, an Invading force. These people are mainly from Honduras, where, if any information gained on the internet can be trusted at all, there has been political unrest for at least a decade. Maybe longer. The US involvement there has been less than stellar:
"In contrast, then-Secretary ofSecFox HQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196582317495849249noreply@blogger.com0