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Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Titanic and the Concordia

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My friend Jason points us to the latest column from Mark Steyn who writes a brilliant essay comparing and contrasting the behavior of passe...

Connections

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Ever wonder why none of the people responsible for the ethically questionable home foreclosures that occurred in the wake of the collapse of...
Friday, January 20, 2012

No Need for Such Friends

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I don't know how accurate this report is, but if it's correct, the man who made these remarks is either an idiot, or he's despi...

Why It's Hard to Take Them Seriously

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There was a day when people actually respected the media and put a lot of faith in what they told them, but that day - at least for the majo...

Why Kill the Pipeline?

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President Obama has for some time been saying that: We need to be energy independent of the Middle East We need to create jobs We need to...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Interview with William Dembski

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A website called The Best Schools conducted a fascinating and wide-ranging interview with William Dembski who is one of the leading lights...

Why Read Good Books?

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Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and a farmer, limns a half dozen or so reasons why people should read great books and why a culture which ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

No Win Situations

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Juan Williams asked Newt Gingrich in Monday night's debate whether his comment that poor children should be given maintenance jobs in th...

If War Comes

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A former agent of the CIA who once infiltrated Iran's Revolutionary Guard talks about some of Iran's plans and capabilities should ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

OOL

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Moshe Averick at Algemeiner.com quotes a number of Origin of Life (OOL) researchers who speak frankly about their complete mystification as...

We Just Don't Know

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We've spoken on occasion here at VP about the fact that we don't really know that global warming, if indeed it eventuates, will be t...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King

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Today is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday and it would be well to focus on why we do. King was a man of great courage ...

Did the Cosmos Have a Beginning?

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When the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe was first proposed it met with a lot of resistance from scientists and others who wer...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

John Rabe

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Ever think you'd watch a movie in which the hero was a member of the German Nazi party? Well, okay, Oscar Schindler in the movie Schindl...

Democrat Difficulties

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National Review's Yuval Levin lays out the difficulties the president faces in coming up with a viable campaign strategy: I know we’re ...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Camp Fire Girls

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Warren Cole Smith shares the improbable story of how a chance encounter with a Camp Fire Girls leader turned him into a fiscal conservative...

Why Do They Dislike Him So?

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Denver quarterback Tim Tebow has become something of a cultural phenomenon in the last couple of months, hated by some, loved by many (He wa...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Snowy Owl

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This winter has seen an influx of one of the largest and most beautiful North American owls into the lower 48. Fans of Harry Potter are fami...

Where Things Stand

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Strategy Page fills us in on the nature and effects of the sanctions imposed against Iran: These sanctions ...prohibited Iran's major c...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Another Iranian Scientist Hit

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You'd never know it from watching the news talk shows, obsessed as they are with Mitt Romney's machinations at Bain Capital, but we ...