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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Nuclear Proliferation

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The predictable seems to be happening in the Middle East. The failure of the world community to dissuade or prevent Iran from developing nuc...

Good News from Afghanistan

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Included in a helpful update on the battle for Afghanistan at Strategy Page was this interesting datum: Meanwhile, the country, overall, p...

Public Employees' Unions

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In light of allegations that supervisors of New York city's municipal workers union ordered that snow removal be slowed down as payback ...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Secular Morality

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Susan Jacoby is an atheist who writes for the Washington Post's On Faith blog. Her year-end offering touts repeal of DADT as the most i...

Seething Hatred

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This news piece surprised me a bit: CBS anchor Katie Couric believes a “Muslim version of ‘The Cosby Show’” could open the eyes of American...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Some Birds of 2010

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Long time readers of Viewpoint know that birding is a hobby of mine and 2010 produced a number of unusual species of birds in and near Penns...
Friday, December 31, 2010

An Atheist's Dilemma

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It's not easy being an intellectually honest atheistic lefty in America. Just ask philosopher Michael Ruse who gets insulted by his left...

What Women Want

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Dennis Prager seems to know his way around both the male and female psyches. In an article at NRO he explains to us what it is that women wa...

More on the Ethics of Abortion

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A few days ago we discussed an exchange between Michael Egnor and John Rosenau on the subject of abortion. Subsequent to Egnor's respo...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

African Genesis

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Back when cosmologists first hypothesized that the universe began in an explosion essentially out of nothing, many scientists scoffed and so...

The Year's Movies

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Continuing our look back at the year just ending I offer here a list of the films I viewed in 2010 with a few comments or descriptions. I di...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Year's Reading

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The end of the December is often a time to take a look back at the year just ending. In my case, I like to look back at the books I've r...

Smarter Than They Think

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On Fox News Sunday the other day Juan Williams, a liberal contributor to Fox News, was assessing the possible GOP presidential candidates, a...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Private and Public Generosity

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This theme has been touched upon before but it's good to remind ourselves from time to time just how mistaken are those who seek to port...

The More Things Change

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Richard Fernandez at The Belmont Club makes the interesting point that there's every bit as much moral judgmentalism infusing the publi...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Remember These During the Christmas Season

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Paul Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom. He studies the persecution of Christians and has a ...

The Cost of Premarital Sex

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The Mail Online has an article which discusses the correlation between premarital sex and the quality of a marriage. The results of the res...

A Comeback?

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Jennifer Rubin is a conservative blogger at the liberal Washington Post which is to be commended for giving her a perch there. Her most rece...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Christmas Wish for You

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I want to take a moment on this Christmas eve to wish all of our readers, including those in Russia, Thailand, India, Africa, Israel, Canada...

He's Kidding, Right?

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Casey Schwartz at The Daily Beast has a piece on teen pregnancy that contains some good news. Apparently teens are continuing a trend that ...