Excerpt: "Aside from reliance on feelings, how else can one explain a person who believes, let alone proudly announces on a bumper sticker, that "War is not the answer"? I know of no comparable conservative bumper sticker that is so demonstrably false and morally ignorant. Almost every great evil has been solved by war -- from slavery in America to the Holocaust in Europe."

I found myself laughing, cringing, and cursing at various points in this article. He chooses examples that touch nearly every hot-button issue in today's political environment and I almost find that unfortunate.

One example I can't, under any circumstance, get my head around is "For liberals, the entire worth of the human fetus is determined by the mother's feelings. If she feels the nascent human life she is carrying is worth nothing, it is worth nothing. If she feels it is infinitely precious, it is infinitely precious."... and Conservatives do what exactly?

At the end of the article he hits on this veryyy lightly with "To be fair, feelings also play a major role in many conservatives' beliefs. Patriotism is largely a feeling; religious faith is filled with emotion, and religion has too often been dictated by emotion. But far more conservative positions are based on "What is right?" rather than on "How do I feel?""

I wish somebody would write something about right/feelings/_REALITY_...

I have no other way to explain this selection other than to say it elicits reaction. ;-) Cheers, -Pk