Ideally Better

Guns in Conservative vs Liberal States

Data and thoughts about conservative American’s love of guns.

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How Blue States and Red States Compare on Income, Poverty, Obesity, and Crime

How blue and red states compare on key demographics, including poverty rates, obesity, crime, murder, and suicide rates.

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Why Atheism?

There are many contributing factors to my atheism, but they have always been a disorganized cloud of thoughts buzzing around my head. I’ve always wanted to take the time to really examine and organize these thoughts. Some are small, some large, but all contributing to this overall view that religion (and Christianity specifically) is completely […]

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Self Taxing and the Society Investment Fund

My news feeds are inundated by news of Trump slashing government investment in numerous programs and organizations. Things like 5.8 billion from the National Institues of Health, and cuts to the EPA, education, the sciences and anything else that may actually help propel us forward as a civilization. But this stuff is important. These things […]

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Election 2016 in Graphs

I don’t think there is anything really shocking or new with the graphs below, but it is always interesting to see our political views correlated with where we live, levels of education, and even things like obesity.  

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Why a Flat Tax is Bad

A flat taxes is one of those things that sounds good and from a common sense perspective, it’s obvious that we should enact one.  However, that “obvious” nature of it masks what is really a flawed idea that would likely have a pretty negative impact on society. Fairness A fair tax system is one in […]

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Honest Atheist

I stumbled upon a web comic, that I felt needed to be addressed.  I can’t speak for all atheists, but I felt the need to offer my views, which may be helpful for all of those looking to understand us better.  My point-by-point responses are included to the right of each comic window. Since the […]

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