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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Beautiful Birds II

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Spring is full of delights to the eye. Flowers and butterflies, for example, are incredibly beautiful when viewed up close. My favorites, th...

Unelectable?

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Is Senator Obama unelectable? I'd feel more confident that he was if it weren't for McCain's propensity for thumbing his nose at...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Time to Invade Burma?

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Gosh. Time magazine, of all people, has an article all but calling for the U.S. to invade Burma in order to rescue the suffering millions ...

Philosophers' Version of Fight Club

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Two prominent philosophers whose specialty is the study of mind have been at each other's throats, as it were, for twenty five years, al...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Unassisted Triple Play

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This has happened only fourteen times in major league history - an unassisted triple play: Triple play by krs601 It happened tonight in ...

Regarding Reagan

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My friend Jason passes along a Newsweek piece in which a liberal, Sean Wilentz, and a conservative, George Will, discuss the legacy of Rona...

Operation Chaos

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There's been a flurry of media attention over the last several days on the matter of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," i....
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Heroes Must Be Punished

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There's a certain type of person, unfortunately all too common, who's like a mechanical device. Whenever input A is received, output...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Re: Bailout

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About a week ago we did a post on an opportunity for readers to express their displeasure with Congress' plans to bail out lenders and ...

Evangelical Manifesto

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The Evangelical Manifesto we wrote about earlier this week has been released, and although I haven't had time to examine it thoroughly i...

Self-Evident Moral Truth

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There's a fascinating discussion going on at Uncommon Descent over the question of whether there are self-evident moral truths. The spr...
Thursday, May 8, 2008

Rosie on Wright

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Forget about Rosie's gaffes in this clip (it's 3/5, not 3/4; the Tuskegee program was reprehensible, but the government did not giv...

Beautiful Birds

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I went for a bit of a field trip yesterday to a park near my home and had one of these gorgeous creatures land in a branch just a few feet f...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Out of His Depth

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David Berlinski responds to a scathing review of Expelled by National Review's John Derbyshire. Derbyshire is an intelligent, well-e...

American Jew Hatred

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David Horowitz brings us up to date on the parlous condition freedom of speech finds itself in on American university campuses. According t...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Brother Minister

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Christopher Hitchens wonders whether Michelle Obama is behind her husband's unfortunate association with Jeremiah Wright. This is an in...

Devil's Delusion

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David Berlinski is a charming example of that rare species among our intellectual flora and fauna - a genuine agnostic. Despite his own pers...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Evangelical Manifesto

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Some 80 conservative Christian luminaries have composed a manifesto which, according to this article , says that these leaders: ...believ...

Gambler's Ruin

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I've long wondered why Darwinians place so much confidence in the ability of random mutation and natural selection to evolve the amazing...

Regrets

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Joe Trippi, former adviser to Sen. John Edwards', D-N.C., second presidential bid, http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/tripp...