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Friday, December 13, 2013

Anthill Art

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Who thinks of this stuff? The guy who made the video apparently got the idea of pouring molten aluminum down a fire ant nest, letting it har...

The Millenium Begins in 2030

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Ray Kurzweil is a pretty amazing thinker. He's a well-known futurist and inventor who's convinced that we're poised on the cusp ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Why Is Our Government Doing This to Us?

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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, recently posted on his own very personal experience with Obamacare. He writes this: In August 2013 I became ver...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Minimum Wage

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The minimum wage is back in the news, mostly, one supposes because Mr. Obama and the Democrats are desperate to get people talking about any...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

MSNBC

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This is a bit "inside the beltway," perhaps, but those readers who may be familiar with the exotic cast of characters who come and...

Xmas

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Some people get a little miffed during the Advent season over the use of Xmas rather than Christmas , but perhaps their discomfiture is mis...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Mendacity and Incompetence

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Thomas Edsall, a liberal columnist writing at the New York Times, is dismayed at the mendacity and incompetence of which this administratio...

Your Lying Eyes

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Who's up for a good optical illusion? The Blaze put us on to this one: The two parts of the object in the image are actually the sa...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Which Way Does the Hockey Stick Point?

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The earth is getting warmer, right? That's what's been inculcated into our gullible little brains by scientists, politicians, and a ...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Is it All an Accident?

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Recent studies have confirmed that the cosmos in which we live is in the grip of an accelerating force called dark energy which is causing t...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

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One of the world's great men passed into history today. Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95. Perhaps many who read this will know littl...

Millenials to Mr. Obama: The Love Is Gone

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Ron Fournier a liberal supporter of the President who writes for National Journal has some bad news for the President and his party. It seem...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Saint Nicholas/ Santa Claus

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As we approach the Christmas season I thought it might be worthwhile to rerun a post from last December on the origin of the legend of Santa...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The Loftus Dilemma

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One objection to Divine Command ethics (ethics in which right and wrong are grounded in the will of a deity) is articulated by atheist John ...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Let Death Have Its Day?

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Ethicist Daniel Callahan, now in his eighties, reflects on the wisdom of extending the lives of the elderly in a column at the New York Tim...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Darwinism and Consciousness

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Sal Cordova at Uncommon Descent talks about how reflecting on the phenomenon of human consciousness as a high school student led him to dou...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Shameless Exploitation of Black Friday

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As one who has in the past expressed dismay at the glorification of consumerist excess on Black Friday and the crass commercialization of th...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

A Thanksgiving Proclamation

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I wish all our readers a very meaningful Thanksgiving. I can think of no better way to observe the day on VP than to repeat our annual post ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Sticking Point on Immigration Reform

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President Obama is talking a lot lately about immigration reform, although it's not clear what sorts of reform he has in mind. Neverthel...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The Sgt. Schultz President

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In a recent column on the unraveling of Mr. Obama's presidency, George Will quotes a passage from a book on the life of President Obama...