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Friday, December 7, 2007

The NIE

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The recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) made the claim that Iran gave up its ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon four y...

Let a Thousand Questions Bloom

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So much has been made of Mitt Romney's Mormonism that he felt it necessary yesterday to give a speech about it. Mike Huckabee, too, has ...
Thursday, December 6, 2007

Adam Rutherford: Stazi Agent

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Atheist Adam Rutherford writing in The Guardian comments on the denial of tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez by Iowa State University: Sayi...

Fat and Fit

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Here's good news for all of us who find that our shoes seem to have receded progressively further from our hands, harder to see, and ha...

Evil in Everyday People

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Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters discusses a book by Barbara Oakley in which Oakley tells this story about her sister: My sister s...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Enjoying Better Mental Health

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People who enjoy good mental health tend to gravitate toward the Republican party, or vice versa. That's the finding , anyway, of a rece...

Huckabee's Illegal Immigration Statement

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Regular readers of Viewpoint know that we consider illegal immigration to be among the most critical issues our country faces and that any ...
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...