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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Intellectual Honesty

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Anyone who engages in public commentary and debate is often tempted to color facts to better fit his position, to overstate his case, or to ...

Vindication

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Bill shares this video of economist Peter Schiff being made the object of scorn and derision two years ago by cable talk colleagues for pred...

Obama's Prescription for Nuclear War

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There's not much confidence in this little corner of the blogosphere in Barack Obama's ability to launch a successful foreign policy...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Fantasy World

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The system in this video, passed along by Robert Crowther at Evolution News and Notes , is a good metaphor for the cellular machinery that o...

A Religious Case for Gay Marriage

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The recent issue of Newsweek brings with it a polemic by Lisa Miller urging religious people to drop their opposition to gay marriage. Now...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Softball

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Why Chris Matthews' show on MSNBC isn't laughed to scorn just for the absurdity of its name is one of the peculiar mysteries of this...

Restless Natives

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Jason directs us to Politico where it looks as if liberal discontent with our new President is already stirring, and the man hasn't yet...

The Perfect Gift

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It's long been the case in the U.S. that different groups of people choose to celebrate different aspects of the Christmas story. Mercha...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

President -Elect Gump

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Its fairly well-known that Barack and Mrs. Obama were plagued by numerous unsavory associations throughout the Senator's campaign for th...

For Tanya

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One almost has to chuckle at the spate of anti-theist ads littering this year's Christmas landscape. The anti-theists are evidently not ...

Foreign Competition

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There have been a lot of forecasts in recent years of the coming American economic senescence. We're hearing that the United States is d...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

New York Is Not Mumbai

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The attack that shut down the city of Mumbai would never have succeeded in an American city of comparable size - our cops are too well train...

Let it Rest

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The Supreme Court has refused to hear the latest challenge to President-elect Obama's constitutional right to be president of the Unite...

Black Women and Gay Marriage

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Charles M. Blow lays out a strategy in the New York Times by which gays might win the support of African American women, a demographic whic...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Whither Genius?

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Quick. Name at least three geniuses in the history of science - three people whose ideas changed the world. If you tried you probably cam...

Paper Dragon

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The conventional wisdom is that China is an economic juggernaut that'll overtake the United States by mid-century as not only the world...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

Ending the Search for the Real Killer

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O. J. Simpson has been sentenced to nine to thirty three years in jail for armed robbery. It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy, ...

Fading Away

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Materialists appear to be genuinely worried that confidence in their model of mind and brain - i.e. that mind is simply a word we use to des...

Why Johnny Doesn't Know Politics

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A couple of weeks ago a man named John Ziegler commissioned a Zogby poll of Obama voters which revealed that many of them didn't have a...
Friday, December 5, 2008

Proposition 8

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You're aware, perhaps, of the virulent reaction by the left, particularly the gay left, to the passage in California of Proposition 8 w...