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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

They'll Know We Are Muslims By Our .......

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These are the people who can't understand why everyone wouldn't want to embrace their religion and who wish therefore to impose it...

Religious Heritage Resolution

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Atheists have themselves in a fidget over a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognizes America's "rich spirit...
Monday, February 4, 2008

John McCain and Super Tuesday

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John McCain is emotionally volatile , sometimes even ugly. He opposed the Bush tax cuts, he opposes increased oil production in the United S...

The Ribosome

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Casey Luskin finds a bunch of Darwinians, oddly enough, marveling over the irreducible complexity of the ribosome. The ribosome is the stru...

Blue Eyes

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Science Daily reports that new research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenh...

Sub-Prime Greed

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What's fueling the sub-prime mortgage crisis? Apparently, it isn't just that home owners' interest rates were adjusted up, but i...
Saturday, February 2, 2008

Where's the Line?

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My Philosophy of Religion class has been reading an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript , and we had a l...
Friday, February 1, 2008

Hillary's More Conservative Than McCain?

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She's excited and upset and she's not particularly "nice," but Ann does make some sense. She just needs to switch to decaf...

Rope

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My students hear me tell them, some would perhaps say ad nauseum , that ideas have consequences. My friend Byron forwarded me a brief piece ...

No Child Left Behind

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My eldest daughter, who is a public school teacher, sent me this parody of the thinking behind No Child Left Behind. It compares the concept...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Big Brother Will Soon Be Watching

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This story raises some alarms about an emerging technology that most people probably know nothing about, but people who have access to it w...

Giving Away Your Money

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This will toast your muffins: Under the current structure of the stimulus package many illegal immigrants will receive a tax rebate. What a...

Reagan Nostalgia

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William Kristol at The Weekly Standard urges conservatives to get a grip: Conservative editorialists, radio hosts, and bloggers are unha...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Edwards Withdraws

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Democrat John Edwards announces his withdrawal from the presidential race in the Hurricane Katrina stricken Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La....

Brave New World

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Denyse O'Leary ruined my evening the other night with three predictions she offers at Uncommon Descent . O'Leary looks for the follo...

The Evolution of the Surge

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Fred Barnes has written a fine piece in The Weekly Standard that takes us behind the scenes of the decision to implement the surge in Iraq....

Kicking the Addiction

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C. MacLeod Fuller comes to the rescue of those ensnared by the lotus eaters (See The Odyssey ) on the Isle of Liberalism and offers those m...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

State of the Union

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For those who missed it, Ben Johnson at Front Page Mag offers an overview of last night's State of the Union Address. As I listened on ...

Guide for the Perplexed

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Are you puzzled by some gnawing philosophical conundrum? If so, you may wish to seek relief for your curiosity at Ask A Philosopher . Asking...
Monday, January 28, 2008

A Time For Grace

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Madison Trammel at Christianity Today wonders what should be done about ESPN's Dana Jacobson. If you aren't familiar with Jacobson...