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Monday, August 11, 2008

Another Blow to the Principle of Mediocrity

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There's an assumption made by scientists who study the cosmos that our sun, planet, solar system, galaxy, and our location in these are ...

Bedrock

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Marriage between a man and a woman may have had value fifty years ago, but today it's just one option among several. Children can get al...

Fighting in Georgia

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If trying to figure out what's going on with the current fighting between Russia and Georgia has you puzzled Strategy Page has a succin...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Creeping Tyranny

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I'm occasionally asked if maybe Viewpoint isn't a little too hard on liberalism. Many good people are liberals, I'm reminded, a...

The Postmodern Candidate

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A couple of days ago I mentioned that Senator Obama seems to hold to a postmodern view of truth, i.e. there are no fixed meanings in the te...
Friday, August 8, 2008

Media Bias

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Recall a couple of weeks ago a lunatic walked into a Unitarian church and started shooting people. The media made sure we all understood tha...

The Fruit of Bigotry

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In the course of commenting on an article by Peter Wood on the obstacles confronting those who would like to see an increase in the number ...

For Book Lovers

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My friend Byron passes along a list compiled by Neil Bowers of the 100 best novels ever written. This list is different from others in that...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Whither Natural Selection

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Darwin's theory of natural selection (NS) continues to get dissed by scientists disillusioned by the failure of NS to account for the en...

You May be a Racist If...

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I was watching a cable talk show the other night and one of the interlocutors was struggling mightily to make the point that McCain's ad...

Democracy in America

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi "explains" why she will not allow a vote in the House of Representatives on whether or not oil c...
Monday, August 4, 2008

Crypto-Conservatives

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There's a longish but interesting essay at Bookworm on what it's like to be a conservative in an overwhelmingly liberal community. ...

McCain Edges Ahead

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I don't think there's much point in getting too excited about polls this early in the presidential campaign, but the most recent Ras...

About Face

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In yet another volte face , Senator Obama has pretty much reversed himself on off-shore drilling: The change is dramatic because Obama o...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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One man perhaps more than any other made it impossible in the second half of the 20th century to defend Soviet communism. That man was Alexa...

Please Move Aside

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Quick: What's the most dangerous fuel to use to generate power? Coal, oil, nuclear? How many people have died from accidents in Americ...
Friday, August 1, 2008

No Excuses

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Another young Muslim woman is murdered by a family member, in this case her father, and the cable news outlets which can't give enough c...

Taliban Tactics

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Strategy Page has an interesting piece on how the Taliban are trying to adjust to offset the deadly capabilities of the NATO and Afghan for...

Iran Practices Nuclear Strike

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Kenneth Timmerman at Newsmax.com reports that intelligence agencies believe that Iran is practicing a nuclear strike against the U.S. They...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Bush and the Chronically Homeless

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A New York Times report notes that, due largely to a Bush administration initiative, chronic homelessness in the U.S. has declined by 52,00...