Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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Where are the stories about Hillary Clinton's childhood? Has it been reported, for example, that she was a Goldwater Girl? Was she never mean to anyone? Did she never lie? How many people has she used and abused during her lifetime? The people who work at CNN are not journalists; they are political operatives whose aim is to destroy conservatives. Thank God most Americans understand this. Go back to covering your airplane stories, CNN. You're not fit to cover politics.

Addendum: This vicious attack on Ben Carson is going to backfire on the mainstream media. Write it down.

Addendum 2: Carson is proving his mettle.

To the editor:

Phil Zuckerman is only half right when he says that religious societies have many social ills. However, it is not societies with religion that have them; it is those with bad religion that do. ("Think religion makes society less violent? Think again," Op-Ed, Nov. 1)

Progress and development in Europe—the shoulders on which secularism stands—is the product of good religion. It is the Christian ethos of Europe (and the United States) that made freedom, liberty, equality, scientific inquiry and other areas of progress possible.

Secularism is not the absence of religion. As a philosophical system, it does not generate the impetus for altruism and peace as good religion does. More often than not, it produces a seductive, self-destructing narcissism that unfortunately dominates the secular world.

Having a society with no violence or other ills is not the point. The broader question is what society does when they are absent. Secularism has no answer. Good religion does. 

The Rev. Vivian Ben Lima, Woodland Hills

Dressed to Kill (1975). Forty years gone.

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I started this blog 12 years ago today, on 5 November 2003. Along the way, I've made the acquaintance of many fine people, and even acquired a few friends, such as John Sullivan. Unfortunately, I've also encountered several Internet bottom-feeders, such as Brian Leiter. I noticed his thuggishness immediately and stood up to him when he tried to destroy me for calling him out on it. He has since been humiliated by being cast out of his own academic-ranking blog. Everyone in law and philosophy now knows the extent of his abusiveness, especially toward women and the untenured. (He loves punching down, which is the mark of a coward.) You can imagine how satisfying it is to me to see him get his comeuppance. See here and here for exposés, one in the popular press and one in an academic publication. By the way, some 4,383 days have elapsed since I began blogging. I'm pretty sure I posted at least one item every day. Here's to the next dozen years!

Addendum: There have been 2,274,813 visits to my blog in 12 years. That's an average of 519 visits per day.

To the Editor:

In Tuesday’s front-page article “U.S. Says Transgender Student Has Rights in the Locker Room,” we were told that a school violated anti-discrimination laws because a transgender student who was originally male was not allowed to shower and change in a locker room with the other students who identified themselves as female.

On Wednesday we heard that Houston had repealed an ordinance banning discrimination against multiple groups including transgender people. Those who championed the repeal denied being discriminatory. They claimed that they did not want males in female public restrooms. Those against repeal called proponents of the repeal bigots, and said those fears were unfounded.

If the next anti-discrimination bill has a clause excluding those with the genitalia of one gender from the restrooms of the other, we may find out if those against such ordinances are bigoted, or if they are trying to protect their 12-year-old daughters.

LAWRENCE HALPERIN

Altamonte Springs, Fla.

Note from KBJ: Thank God not everyone has lost his or her common sense.

How stupid do you have to be to buy into the Global Warming Myth? Nothing counts against global warming. Everything counts in favor of it. That's not science; it's religion.