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Monday, January 4, 2010

Standing Against the Utopians

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You may not have ever heard of Jean Francois Revel, but you would do well to make his posthumous acquaintance. Revel was (he died four years...

Good Advice, Mostly

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Brit Hume offers some good advice to Tiger Woods on Fox News Sunday, but I have one reservation: My concern is with Brit's assertion...

Let's All Grow Up

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In the company of friends on New Year's Eve I asked if I was wrong to think that our national media was acting reprehensibly in reportin...

Another Blow to the Global Warmists

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One of the arguments that has been used to support the claim that humans are causing the earth's climate to change goes something like t...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Robin Goes to Mass

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We mentioned in a post the other day the experience of Robin of Berkeley who tried to find a church at which to worship on Christmas eve. W...

How Can This Be?

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One liberal shibboleth often accepted without much analysis is that in order to reduce violent crime we have to limit the sales of firearms ...

A Better Way to Do Health Care Reform

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Ronald Bailey at Reason offers an outline of what market-based health care might look like. Here's part of it: The typical American ...
Friday, January 1, 2010

The New Year

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As 2010 gets under way we urge all of our readers to pray for our country and our leaders throughout the year. Pundits are fond of declari...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009 Booklist

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My reading this year was broadened by my participation in a book club that consists of a group of eight men whose ages range from late twent...

Second-Hand Hate

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It's sometimes hard to avoid thinking that liberals are masters of Freudian projection. They peer into their own minds and project whate...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Films (2009)

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I didn't have much time in 2009 to watch movies, but I did get to squeeze in a few. Some of them were excellent, some were good, some we...

Giving Jobs Away

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Pat Buchanan wonders why, if we're really serious about improving job prospects for the unemployed, we allow immigrants to continue flo...

Best Science Videos of 2009

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New Scientist has a reprise of the best science videos of 2009. They include video of robotic insects and penguins, plasma ejections from t...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Cause and Effect

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Rasmussen shows that President Obama's approval numbers are almost as bad today as they were good eleven months ago: Perhaps the ...

Intoxicating Rhetoric

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All I can say is that it's a good thing for Senator Baucus that they don't administer breathalyzer tests to U.S. senators before the...

The Obsolete Man

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A student recommended this old half hour Twilight Zone episode as having a certain relevance to events we see unfolding today. It's pret...
Monday, December 28, 2009

What Harm Could it Do?

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Megan McCardle writes at Asymmetrical Information under the pseudonym "Jane Galt." She's a libertarian and has posted a marv...

Costs and Benefits

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One of the selling points for the current health care legislation is that it'll reduce the deficit by $132 billion dollars over ten year...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Silver Linings and Pedophilia

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Mary Eberstadt has an article in First Things titled "How Pedophilia Lost its Cool" in which she assesses the increasing intoler...

Kseniya Simonova

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You might have already seen this but if not you can't help being amazed at this girl's artistry. She was the winner of the 2009 Ukra...