Am I happy that Democrats took control of congress? Hell no. Democrat politicians are just as bad as Republican politicians. They’re both owned by special interests. They both support bigger government. Just like the Republicans, the Democrats aren’t going to solve any of our problems; They’ll just make them worse. The Democrats do such things […]
Category Archives: Articles by Scott Hughes
Global Citizenship
Global Citizenship by Scott Hughes My favorite philosopher, Diogenes The Cynic, first said, “I am a citizen of the world.” He wanted people to recognize him as a human being and not by his geographic origins or some other trivial grouping. I like to take that philosophy and apply it to the concerns and problems […]
Welfare Won’t Work
by Scott Hughes Do you remember 9/11? I cried. 2,819 people died in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers [1]. 16,000 children die every day from hunger [2]. That’s about one child every 5 seconds. No doubt we have to end hunger, especially childhood hunger. This terrible horror plagues the whole world, not just […]
The Method To End Hunger
by Scott Hughes Hunger’s a beast of a problem. 15 million children die from it every year. Even in the United States, 14 million children are food insecure. The facts keep going like that. Off the top of my head, I could probably spit out enough facts about hunger to make you cry. I’ve got […]
A Monopoly on Philanthropy
by Scott Hughes I had a friend recently ask me why I called myself an atheist. She said, “you seem to have such a big heart.” Apparently, she thought that there was something oxymoronic about a benevolent atheist. (In her defense, it turned out she thought I was a Satan worshiper, not an atheist. 🙂 […]
The Inherent Link Between War and Hunger
by Scott Hughes Sure, those who want to end world hunger also happen to often want to end war. Sure, sympathetic activists sympathize with both causes – the fight against hunger and the fight for peace. However, the reason war and hunger are linked is not just that these two movements happen to be motivated […]