It’s been another eye-opening, shocking week in Oregon. From a 48-hour, record-setting drag queen marathon, to Governor Kotek’s signing one of the most controversial bills ever into law. Oregon is another example of government gone wild. Give ‘em an inch and they think they are rulers! It’s gotta STOP! The American culture is under attack. […]
Two weeks ago, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced plans to give a 2.6% tax break to businesses threatening to leave Portland. This is a win for businesses and could encourage some to stay. But it may be too little, too late. Even after the worst of the pandemic, hundreds of businesses moved their headquarters out […]
Just four days before legislative adjournment, House Bill 3409 passed the Oregon House and has moved to the Senate in a race to the finish by June 25. HB 3409 establishes a state goal of installing 500,000 electric heat pumps in Oregon homes or commercial buildings by 2030. The bill was never heard in a […]
“3000 SE Powell Boulevard” is the name of Home Forward’s 6-year-old low-income housing development with a massive expenditure: $87 million, $75 million of which came from government tax credits and bond monies. Burdened by building height and design constraints, soil contamination worries, and delayed materials delivery, the expected opening date has been pushed back to […]
Western Culture has a long history of a genuine appreciation for the value of open, rational discourse. True leaders value dissent among their ranks as a source of invaluable insight of many flavors. “There are times in the experience of almost every community, when even the humblest member thereof may properly presume to teach — […]
Essential to Totalitarian take-over and rule, the manipulation of the minds of millions is necessary, but is never sufficient. People always eventually see through the lies. Or do they? This is the fourth in a series of five Popular Rationalism Articles in the Open Society Series. The next article will be “The Wisdom of the […]
Just like an Authoritarian scientific dictator who held power in the United States, the mob mentality can hold new hypotheses at bay – sometimes critical hypotheses that can harm hundreds of millions. During COVID-19, the public had the chance to see authoritarian Faucian Science displayed in full view. Numerous times when being questioned by Senator […]
It’s not difficult to understand that limited viewpoints yield limited understanding. Here’s an analysis that with a little effort will show us why Faucian science leads to relative impoverishment. When Karl Popper created his formal calculus to describe how science works, he refused to include the subjective scientist in the equation. For many, this was […]
Modern “Big Science” has rendered dangerous tendencies toward totalitarianism. It is time for a return to Popperian views on Science to protect Democracies around the world. Sir Karl Popper, arguably the world’s most influential Philosopher of Science, wrote extensively in defense of ways that scientists and those concerned with scientific endeavors should interact. As a […]
Over the next four weeks, the Oregon legislature will decide whether to make a down payment of $1 billion to replace the I-5 Interstate Bridge connecting Portland with Vancouver. The total cost of the bridge is unknown, but is estimated to be around $6 billion. The legislature should reject this allocation, and shut down planning […]