Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

Two Perspectives on J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Like the two images in a stereoscope, the subject is the same person in both views. The source materials are largely the same. American Pro...

Saturday, June 28, 2025

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY

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In my early teens, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, I was a regular reader of Fletcher Knebel’s political humor column, Potomac Fever, which ...

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Where are the Augurs?

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Originally, the Romans were seven hilltop villages under Etruscan domination. The nominally Roman deities Minerva, Mercury, and Vulcan were ...

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Lack of Religion is not the Presence of Science

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Recent polls from the Pew Trust and Gallup assert that 30% of Americans self-identify as Not Religious along the spectrum from Atheist to Do...

Monday, July 4, 2022

You Have No Right ...

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Following the logic of the U.S. Supreme Court in its recent “abortion” decision ( Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ), although y...

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Austin’s Homeless: Laissez Faire in a Mixed Economy

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Here in Austin, Texas, the reductio ad absurdum of the city government’s policies toward the homeless is that you (and all your friends) c...

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