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Monday, July 20, 2009

With Angela

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The author of Angela's Ashes , one of the best books of the last twenty years, died Sunday of complications from skin cancer. Frank McCo...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Unchristian

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It's the conviction of David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, a religious research organization, and his co-author, Gabe Lyons, t...

Quantum Entanglement

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Denyse O'Leary at Uncommon Descent calls our attention to a Wall Street Journal article by Gautam Naik from last May. Naik was writi...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

What Could Go Wrong?

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Betsy McCaughey's column at the New York Post opens with these disturbing graphs: President Obama promises that "if you like yo...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Worldwide Caliphate by 2020

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From Strategy Page : Al Qaeda has a plan, and it was first published, four years ago, in a book ( Al-Zarqawi: al Qaeda's Second Gener...

Heresy in the Episcopal Church

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Richard Mouw wishes to take polite exception to a rather surprising claim by the presiding bishop of the Episcopal church. In a brief essay ...

Israeli Training Upgrade Needed

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McClatchy has a report by Dion Nussenbaum on investigations into the conduct of the Israeli military forces during their operation last win...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Wise Latina Is Fibbing

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Evidently, even leftist law professionals are disgusted with the prevarications of Sonia Sotomayor in her testimony before the Senate Judici...

Case in Point

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No sooner do I post a meditation on how biologists might profit from a little philosophical training than along comes an article to illustr...

Believing the Impossible

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Bradford at Telic Thoughts discusses atheistic biologist Jerry Coyne's argument against the compatibility of science and religion. In t...

War Whoops

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House Democrats continue to make caricatures of themselves in their Ahab-like obsession with being able to hold aloft at least one Bush admi...

Shut Up and Just Believe

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In the movie Leap of Faith a traveling evangelist played by Steve Martin preys upon and bilks innocent, unsophisticated rural Americans by ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

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Stephen Hayward at No Left Turns notes that when President Obama visited Ghana he told the Ghanian Parliament that: "No business wa...

Skeletons in the Closet

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Progressivism has a long history, steeped in notions of racial superiority, of favoring eugenics and other totalitarian solutions to certain...

Does Philosophy Make Better Scientists?

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A piece at Discover caught my eye recently. It asks whether a more thorough background in philosophy would make scientists better at their ...

Why They Hate Her

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Stuart Schwartz argues that the reason the elites, both liberal and conservative, can't stand Sarah Palin and are obsessed with destroy...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Neo-Nazi?

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You can tell much about a President's frame of mind by looking at the people he appoints to positions of influence and power. In the cas...

The State of Hate

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We often hear that there's too much hatred in America, and indeed there no doubt is, but much of what's sometimes called "hatre...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Common Sense vs. the Ninth Circuit

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The LA Times informs us of yet another assault on common sense by the liberal left. This time it centers around whether a pharmacist has t...

Why?

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Like many other Americans you may have wondered why in the world the Obama administration released back to Iran five terrorist operatives wh...