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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Emperor of Ocean Park

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At the recommendation of a former student I picked up The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter and found it a delightful read. Carter is...

The Dover Decision V: Final Thoughts

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In this our last installment in our series on the opinion of Judge John Jones in Kitzmiller v. Dover we'll follow the Judge as he moves...

Death With Dignity

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Even though most conservatives are deploring the Supreme Court's decision on the Oregon Death With Dignity Act , and even though three v...

Teddy the Ent

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Remember the Ents in Lord of the Rings ? They were sentient tree creatures which did everything so slowly that it seemed to take days for th...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Maverick Democrat

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Reuters informs us that Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a moderate voice in the U.S. Congress, on Tuesday became the first Senate Democrat to annou...

Chocolate Racism

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"New Orleans should be a chocolate New Orleans." "This city will be chocolate at the end of the day." "This cit...

The Liberal Mind

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Julie Ponzi at No Left Turns writes a pair of posts in the wake of the Alito hearings that offer some interesting insight into the liberal ...

Al-Qaeda Membership Application

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Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters has come into possession of an al Qaeda membership application which he has posted for our conside...

Who Said That?

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Quick, who said this: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black commu...
Monday, January 16, 2006

The NYT Gets it Wrong Again

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The New York Times ran a picture on their website Saturday purporting to be a photo of the remains of a missile fired by a predator drone ...

Was al-Zawahiri There?

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Bill Roggio has some good analysis of the attack on al-Zawahiri and al Qaeda's strategy at ThreatsWatch.Org : The fate of Ayman al-Za...

The Worsening Crisis In Iran

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Belmont Club posts an interesting discussion on the brewing crisis over Iran and what people who contemplate such matters are thinking abou...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

Responding to a Friend's Challenge

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A deistic friend recently sent me an essay by a religious skeptic by the name of Samuel Harris and asked me to respond to this paragraph fro...

Great Cloud of Witnesses

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I just finished a challenging and inspirational book, Great Cloud of Witnesses by E.W. Bullinger. It is a compilation of expositional and ...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

The Hazards of Being Al-Qaeda

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Der Spiegel has an interesting article on the growing conflict between Sunni insurgents and al Qaeda forces in Iraq. It appears that the h...

Kudos

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Kudos to Senators Mikulski and DeMint for their letter to Secretary of State Rice on behalf of Robert Stethem: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator...

Is ID Really Not Science?

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Philosopher of science professor Bradley Monton of the University of Kentucky has written an excellent analysis of Judge Jones' (the pr...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Another One Bites the Dust (Maybe)

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ABC News has a report that Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant may be, even as you read this, cavorting with his 72 virgins in Allah's...

Just Plain Dumb

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One wonders what goes through the minds of some teachers. How could anyone who works with kids be so morally tone-deaf as to not realize the...

Pandas

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Throughout the Dover ID case the book Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins by Percival Davis and Dean Kenyon ca...