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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Among the Great Unwashed

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George Packer, writing for The New Yorker , is appalled at the new Creation Museum in Kentucky. He can't believe people really believe w...

Artful Insults

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My friend Byron sends along a sampling of historical quotes that raise the act of insult to the level of art. In light of our post the other...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

An Independence Day Meditation

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I thought it would be worthwhile on this July 4th to rerun a post we did last year on this date. It's just as relevant today as it was t...
Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Tall Order

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Newt Gingrich has an excellent piece of analysis in the Washington Times on the challenges that global jihad confront us with and the type ...

Return of the Eagles

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Here's a great news report. The bald eagle, our national bird, is soon to be removed from the endangered species list: In 1967, there...

Human Evolution

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If the conclusions drawn from this research are correct, if Homo erectus was forming settlements 400,000 years ago, then on what basis is H...
Monday, July 2, 2007

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

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Michael Egnor continues his reflections on the problem that consciousness (or mind) poses for materialistic naturalism. The materialist argu...

Et Tu, Richard?

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The pseudonymous Galapagos Finch, founder of the BRITES, worries that some of his most revered Darwinian heroes are losing their faith, or a...

Civil Discourse

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Brian McLaren has a very good post at God's Politics . He writes about the disappointing tone of much of the commentary he finds in the ...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Glasgow Car-Bombing

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I know he's speaking English, but it's a completely different English than what I grew up with. In any event, Hot Air has video of ...

Hammering Moore

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I haven't seen Sicko and probably won't, but it's coming in for some blistering fire from those who are incredulous that Michae...

Just the Facts, Al

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James Taylor of the Heartland Institute has a column in the Chicago Sun-Times which casts grave doubt on the credibility of Al Gore's ...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Semper Fi

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This is certainly one way to take a bite out of crime. A 27 year old pick-pocket tried to pick the pocket of a 72 year old ex-Marine, retire...

Turn Off the Spigot

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Iranians are rioting , sort of, in Tehran over the government's decision to begin rationing gasoline. Iran is awash in oil but because t...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Stake Through the Heart

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The call for cloture failed in the Senate today and the immigration bill, having been revivified earlier this week, is now completely dead....

Hunkering Down

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The research of Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone , has led him to conclude what anyone who has spent any time on a college campus know...

Skeptical Skeptic

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Famous skeptic Dr. Stan Scanton has recently grown skeptical of his skepticism and fellow skeptic Galapagos Finch is outraged at the betraya...

The Shape of Our Future

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True or False: Free speech is a value embraced by all western countries. The answer, you may be amazed to read, is false . Consider Paul Bel...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Dishonest or Incompetent

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You have to wonder why any conservative would go on a network talk show. You know they'll do whatever they can to make you look bad. Tak...

Sicko

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Michael Moore's film on health care in which he endorses the complete eradication of private health insurance and replacing it with a ma...