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Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Judge Jones, Call Your Office

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This article at Science and Theology News caught our eye for two reasons. First the article, then the reasons: For Einstein, as for many...

From Dove to Hawk

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Spiegel Online has an op-ed written by a former Israeli peace activist who has been on the road to Damascus, so to speak, and has had th...

So Many Books, So Little Time

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I thought it might be fun to compose a list of two dozen or so of the best books I've read on topics which lie at an intersection which ...
Tuesday, August 1, 2006

CT Interviews Michael Gerson

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Michael Gerson, former speech writer for George W. Bush, has some advice for both parties and both ideologies in this interview at Christia...

Absolutely Essential?

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We've all heard that the theory of evolution is absolutely essential to understanding all of biology, if not all of science. Indeed, it...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Leaving Church

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This story by Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times is perplexing, not least because it's hard to tell how accurately it's being ...

Ambassador Gillerman

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In case you missed it yesterday it would really be worth your while to go here and read the transcript of Meet the Press featuring Tim Rus...

<i>Suicide Killers</i>

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The Counterterrorism Blog has a disturbing interview with Pierre Rehov a French documentary filmmaker, who is completing a film titled Sui...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Five Questions About Qana

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The bombing of the building in Qana has had a tragic result and, if it turns world opinion against Israel, it will be many times more tragic...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Mel Gibson

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Mel Gibson has made some good movies and his The Passion of the Christ was, in my opinion, excellent. Nevertheless, he has essentially und...

Sounds Like a Trend to Us

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Michelle lists eight or nine examples of Muslims who've initiated deadly or near deadly attacks on innocent bystanders in this country ...

The Current Crisis

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More incisive analysis of the current war in Lebanon from Victor Davis Hanson: We can answer these absurdities by summing up the war very...

Re: A Little Humility Please

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In a recent post I chided political scientist Larry Arnhart for what I took to be a bit of over-reaching in describing his new book Darwini...

Good Teaching

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Cornell Professor Allen MacNeill has set an example of what a college education should look like. Professor MacNeill offered a seminar this ...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Colbert and Norton

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Andrew Sullivan has a funny video clip of a Stephen Colbert interview with Eleanor Holmes Norton. Go here and click on the screen.

Just War in Lebanon

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The New Republic inexplicably touts Michael Walzer as the "great political philosopher who developed the theory of 'just war'....

Funny Stunt

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Jodi Applegate wanted to film a couple of guys demonstrating how easy it is to steal a bike for her Good Day, New York tv show. Unfortunate...

With Friends Like This...

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Robert Casey, the Democratic candidate for the senate from Pennsylvania, just received a rousing endorsement from, of all people, al Jazeera...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Moral Equivalency

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Gary Varvel illustrates the witlessness of trying to equate the deaths of civilians at the hands of the Israelis with the deaths of civilian...

The Silence of the Blogs

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Andrew Sullivan notes the stunning silence on left wing blogs over the war in Lebanon and speculates about the reasons for it. For my p...