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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Principled Politicians Retraction

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In yesterday's post titled Principled Politicians it was strongly suggested that the President's senatorial critics of his terroris...
Saturday, August 4, 2007

Principled Politicians

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After all the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the White House spying on innocent Americans, after all the calls for impeachment ...

Barack's Blunder

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Barack Obama is coming in for some criticism from conservative talkers like Sean Hannity for his comment that he'd be willing to invade ...

Reconsidering the Right to Vote

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Jonah Goldberg thinks there should be a test for voting, and there is much merit in his argument. The American public, including large swat...

Birds of a Feather

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Senator Chris Dodd (D, CT) defended his participation in a conference sponsored by The Daily Kos on the O'Reilly show the other night d...
Friday, August 3, 2007

Shooting Themselves in the Foot

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Strategy Page argues that the Taliban's own tactics are working against them in Afghanistan: Kidnapping the 23 South Koreans eleven ...

Comeuppance Therapy

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Another thug receives some much-needed counselling from a kindly shop-owner. There's not much doubt in my mind that the therapy thi...

Just War

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I recently sat down with Darrell Cole's book on Just War theory, When God Says War Is Right: The Christian Perspective on When and How t...
Thursday, August 2, 2007

Dangerous Ideas

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Steven Pinker has a very odd definition of the word "dangerous." He writes an article in The Chicago Sun Times in which he lists ...

Human Consciousness and AI

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David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University and a national fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, has a fascin...

What He No Longer Believes

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Joe Carter responds to Rod Dreher's list of things he used to believe before the Iraq war but which he no longer does by posting his ow...

Hitch Pushes Back

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Christopher Hitchens is at his best in this essay on the student at Pace University who was arrested for the "hate crime" of tos...
Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Loury's Lament

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Glenn Loury's recent article in the Boston Review of Books surpasses even his own past writings in its racial silliness. Indeed, he sa...

Spoofing American Consumerism

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The New York Times did a good spoof of the i-phone craze earlier this month that serves just as well as a parody of our entire consumerist...

Young Korean Hostages Update

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The fate of the kidnapped South Korean Christians in Afghanistan is as yet unknown, but there have apparently been rescue operations launc...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Re: Absolute Evil

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Byron offers some comments on our post titled Absolute Evil . You can read his thoughts on our Feedback page. RLC

Paging Ray Bradbury

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Of course not all Darwinians are childish, ignorant and officious, but this one , and a bunch of her commenters, sure are. The woman, who...

The Skunk at the Garden Party

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The first thing to understand is that this article was written by two members of the Brookings Institution (Michael O'Hanlon and Kennet...

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)

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Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman , one of the greatest artists in cinema history, died yesterday at his home on an island off the coast of Sw...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Olby's on the Case

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Left-wing media icon Keith Olberman offers some possible reasons why the administration hasn't been completely forthcoming on the death...