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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Confronting the Data

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A Pennsylvania high school has decided that the statistics can no longer be subordinated to ideology. Black students, particularly males, ar...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Good and Evil

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David Kahane diagnoses the real reason why there's so little civility in our politics. Conservative troglodytes simply won't submit...

Inciting Violence

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Liberals are rightly upset by an article in a conservative magazine in which a prominent tea party leader declares that in order to bring a...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Sick Joke

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A gentleman by the name of Richard Belfry has a website called "Jesus Hates Obama". Mr. Belfry had sought to sponsor a 30 second S...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Busy Place

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Jason came across this fascinating video and forwarded it to us. It compresses into one minute 24 hours of global air traffic as viewed from...

Oh, Boy

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Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie promised when he took office last month that he was going to put the "birther" controversy to res...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Moral Abolitionism

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Richard Garner is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He's also a moral abolitionist. To find out precisely what ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Who's Poisoning the Rhetoric?

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In the wake of the Tucson murders we've been subjected to a relentless barrage from the left-leaning media of accusations that conservat...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Academic Charade

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Hot Air tips us to a pretty depressing article in USA Today. At least it'll be depressing if you're shelling out $30,000 to $40,00...

Hundreds of Dead Babies

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Haven't we often been told over the years that we must keep abortion legal because if we don't women will be seriously harmed and ev...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Death of Moderation in Pakistan

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For those who may have missed the story let's recap: Asia Bibi is a Pakistani Christian which, apparently, in some parts of the Muslim ...

Moral Darwinism

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Tom Gilson reviews Benjamin Wiker's excellent book Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists and in the review makes this trenchant obs...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Crosshairs, Truthers and Birthers

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CNN reports that 56% of Democrats believe that Sarah Palin's crosshairs map was at least partly responsible for the Tucson shooting. Th...

Atheism and the Status of Newborns

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Atheist biologist P.Z.Myers is considered one of the top 25 most influential living atheists. Myers has recently stated that he does not reg...

Tinnitus

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Multitudes of Americans suffer from a condition called tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears, or, for some, an unrelenting hissing sound ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

More on King's Letter

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In an earlier post I encouraged readers to spend some time on this Martin Luther King day reading his Letter from a Birmingham Jail , writte...

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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For sheer rhetorical power Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech is hard to beat, but perhaps his best polemical effort was his L...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

American Witch

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Jared Loughner is an atheist, truther, and doper. He liked movies, philosophy, and English class. So what was the influence on him that pus...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Devil Incarnate

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The more the left tries to demonize Sarah Palin the more grotesque they make themselves look. The lefties at at Politico are all aflutter o...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Didn't Take Long

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The President himself hit all the right notes in his speech at Tucson last night, but apparently his call to refrain from using the tragedy...