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Monday, May 3, 2010

Racist Assumptions

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Justin sends along a link to a site called Philosophical Misadventures which documents the racist assumptions of two giants in Western phil...

Mind/Brain Thought Experiments

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The debate between those who believe that everything is reducible to material substance and those who believe that there's more to reali...
Saturday, May 1, 2010

A Modest Proposal

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Over the next couple of weeks there will be much talk about immigration reform, but the prospects for achieving meaningful reform are muddle...

Pig Latin Epithets

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You recall the allegation made by Representative Andre Carson that he had heard the "N-word" hurled at him and Representative John...
Friday, April 30, 2010

What the Law Actually Says

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Those who find themselves in the position of not knowing what to believe about the Arizona immigration law might want to read a New York Tim...

Re: Nerdiness

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Lest anyone have thought my comments in the Nerdiness post concerning the low priority given to education by the administrators of our pub...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Why Illegal Immigration Is Troubling

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Hispanic groups are forecasting huge rallies across the country this Saturday on behalf of amnesty and in protest of laws like that recently...

How Mexico Treats Aliens

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Michelle Malkin, commenting on the outcry from Mexican authorities over the recently passed Arizona law that empowers local police to enfor...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Death of God, Death of Liberty

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Philosopher Daniel Fernand adumbrates the long war against God waged by materialist philosophers from Thales to Nietzsche and argues that t...

Closer to the Truth

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I've recently come across a great website run by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, an MIT PhD in brain science and author of over 30 books. The site...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Irresponsibility

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This is beyond parody. Weary of the futility of pleading with Washington to do something to get a handle on the tidal wave of human poverty ...

Real Hate

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You may have heard that Lance Baxter, the voice of the Geico gecko was fired by Geico for placing a call to the tea-party group FreedomWork...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Eyjafjallajokull

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The Big Picture has a series of 35 photos taken of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull. Some of them, like the one below, are absolutel...

Golden State No Longer

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City Journal has a fine column by Steven Malanga which explains how California has been brought to the brink of economic collapse. The...

Obama's Boondoggle

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Grace-Marie Turner at National Review Online summarizes a startling report on Obamacare by HHS Chief Actuary Richard Foster and the progn...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Harsh Law?

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Is it immoral to enforce our immigration laws? Sojourners' Jim Wallis thinks so. In the sort of essay that gives liberalism a bad name ...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Why Isn't the Media Interested?

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David Klinghoffer wonders, with more than a little justification, why the major media is so uninterested in the David Coppedge story we wrot...

Selective Courage

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The bold, brash, intrepid souls at Comedy Central frequently, I'm told, exhibit their fearlessness for all to see by mocking Christianit...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Real Enemies

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Who does the president consider the real enemies of our nation to be? To answer that perhaps we should look at whom he directs his harshest ...

Small Minds, Closed Minds

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Why is it, if Darwinians are so confident that they have truth on their side, that they feel the need to censor, stifle, demote and fire any...