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Friday, July 22, 2011

Shared Sacrifice

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A group of religious notables went to the White House recently to urge President Obama to be sure that whatever solution to our deficit cris...

Bible Phobia

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The phobic reaction to the Bible of those who call themselves scholars is not infrequently a source of genuine amusement. It's understan...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Big Society, Just Society

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All people of good will, whether liberal or conservative, desire a society which is maximally just. The disputes between liberals and conser...

No Sacred Right

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Victor Stenger is a retired physicist and active atheist who endorses an aggressive assault on all forms of religious faith. In a recent art...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Prize

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Harry Lonsdale is an atheist activist and a very wealthy man. So wealthy that he has offered a prize of $50,000 to anyone who can come up w...

Skin to Brain in One Step

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Developments in the field of tissue regeneration are proceeding apace. Now comes word of yet another major advance in the use of skin cells...

The Thrill Is Gone

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Naomie Emery declares that our 70 year fling with welfare statism is over. It doesn't work, and the evidence is there for all to see. H...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Six in Ten Palestinians

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When people wonder who it is that stands in the way of peace in the Middle East we might point to a recent poll that shows that 60% of Pale...

The Other Hockey Stick

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The Washington Post's Ezra Klein posts a graph that illustrates how the national debt has exploded in the last several years and impres...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Call His Bluff

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Charles Krauthammer puts the dart in the small red circle in his recent column in the Washington Post on President Obama's insincerity ...

Primer on Fine-Tuning

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Readers who've heard of the argument for an intelligent designer based on the fine-tuning of the universe, but aren't sure what, exa...

Slaughtering Wildlife with Green Energy

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Here's a good illustration of the law of unintended consequences: Bats are something of a one-species stimulus program for farmers, eve...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Congressional Buffoonery

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D, TX) continues the tradition of congressional buffoonery, a tradition to which she has herself generousl...

Push/Pull Immigration

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Damien Cave has a very interesting article in the New York Times which states that illegal immigration from Mexico has slowed to a trickle ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Gold Rush

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World economic uncertainty is fueling a flight to gold that shows every sign, experts say, of accelerating. My brother Bill sends along a co...

Drone War

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One of the frequent objections to the use of predator drones and their armaments to dispatch terrorists in Pakistan is that all we're do...

Wimpy's Bargain

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Karl Rove has written a very helpful piece on the debt ceiling crisis for the Wall Street Journal . He clears away a lot of the fog about wh...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

The White Queen and the Evolution of Sex

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'Now I'll give you something to believe,' said the White Queen. 'I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day....
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Ledge

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My friend Matt calls our attention to a film titled The Ledge just released last weekend. The movie explicitly endorses atheism and is an a...

Double Standards

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For those who savor irony: Israel has been roundly condemned by the world community for building a wall to keep Palestinian terrorists from ...