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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Informal Logic 101

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In rhetoric or logic when one person responds to a claim or an argument from another by simply insulting the other instead of trying to answ...

A Whiff of Totalitarianism

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The New Republic has an interesting article by Damon Linker titled Atheism's Wrong Turn . There are a few minor matters with which ...

The Road to the Woodshed

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After years of declaring the war in Iraq a failure and months of denying that there was any progress being made there, old John [Offer-Me-t...
Monday, December 3, 2007

Uh Oh

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We've noted that Mike Huckabee's chances of winning the Republican nomination depend largely on his views on illegal immigration. Th...

Failure to Launch

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My final column in the series I've been doing for the local paper was on a book, Boys Adrift , that I posted on about a month ago and ap...
Sunday, December 2, 2007

Thought For A Sunday

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Taken from The Spirit of Prayer by William Law. And all this, to make it known through all the Regions of Eternity, that Pride can degrad...
Saturday, December 1, 2007

The Cost of Immigration

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An article at NewsMax offers up some disturbing statistics about immigration in general and illegal immigration in particular. Here is a co...

Peggy Misfires

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My friend Jason writes to share this column by the often wonderful Peggy Noonan who thinks that the intense interest in our political candi...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Re: Sudanese Orcs

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Kelly asks a good question about Islamic outrage over the Teddy bear named for Mohammed on our Feedback page. Meanwhile, the teacher who all...

Cure For Big Egos

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Stefan links us to this video which takes the viewer through a size comparison of various celestial bodies. It gives a whole different pers...

More Media Bias (Yawn)

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CNN hosted the Republican debate Wednesday evening and, through either incompetence or appallingly bad journalistic ethics, utterly squander...

Morris Defends Huckabee

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Dick Morris was Mike Huckabee's political advisor in the early nineties so he knows him pretty well. He argues that, contrary to a lot o...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Henry Hyde (1924-2007)

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A good man has passed away and we would be remiss if we didn't note his passing. Henry Hyde died today at the age of 83. This column de...

Correction

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Trent Lott is a senator from Mississippi, not Missouri, as we mistakenly had it in our post titled Political Terrorists . We've correc...

Sudanese Orcs

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This is the thanks Gillian Gibbons gets for forsaking a comfortable life in England to go to Sudan, a suburb of Mordor, to work among the p...

Defining Dangerous Down

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Here's a nifty example of solving a problem by defining it away. Some of our nation's schools have been designated "persistent...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Political Terrorists

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Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi is resigning from the Senate and some lefty bloggers are gleefully insinuating that it's be...

Pat's New Book

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The conservative movement in the United States is split between what are called neo-conservatives and paleo-conservatives, and there's n...

The Irrationality of Science

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Paul Davies points out the flaw in any science which claims to be based upon reason rather than faith in an essay in the New York Times . H...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Coming to a Theater Near You

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Here's a seven minute preview of the forthcoming expos� titled Expelled featuring Ben Stein. The film addresses the attempt by Darwinia...