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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

What's to Like?

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A couple of days ago I wrote that a particular column by Jonah Goldberg, "tends to make postmodernism seem arrantly bad. It's not,...

Coin Flips

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One of the cosmic parameters that scientists have determined must have an extremely precise value if the universe is going to exist at all i...
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...