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Thursday, November 3, 2005

Winning Through Weakness

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Among the long list of faults the critics of the President find in him are two that seem especially odd. On the one hand, Bush is periodical...

Singing Out of Harmony

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Mike Gene at Telic Thoughts posts the following set of quotes: "Evolutionary theory says nothing about the existence or the non-exis...

Blowin' in the Wind

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Hadley Arkes does a masterful job in the Claremont Review of Books of taking apart Alan Dershowitz's argument in his Rights From Wrong...
Wednesday, November 2, 2005

CBS Poll

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A newly released CBS Poll shows President Bush's approval rating at an all-time low of 35%. What the reader might not realize is that t...

Hide Your Daughters

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John Hinderaker, a lawyer who writes for PowerLine.com, takes a look at Judge Alito's decision in the strip-search case ( Doe v. Groody...

CBS' Foul-Mouthed Reporter

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First Howard Dean suggests that the White House is playing "Hide the Salami" with Harriet Miers' qualifications and now CBS...

Good News in Iraq

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W. Thomas Smith has an article at National Review Online which should be required reading for anyone who has an opinion on the American eff...
Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Bono On Religion

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Rolling Stone has excerpts of an interview Jann Wenner did with Bono. In the course of a ten hour discussion at Bono's vacation house ...

Small is Better

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This article in the Christian Science Monitor gives us a peek at what's happening in the Afghanistan front of the GWOT. The article giv...
Monday, October 31, 2005

Sam Alito

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The conservative blogosphere is elated and reinvigorated by the president's pick of Sam Alito for associate justice of the Supreme Court...

Understanding Our Moment

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Gideon Strauss has an essay at Comment wherein he discerns four challenges facing contemporary Christianity. The four he identifies are th...

Reformation Sunday

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Yesterday was Reformation Sunday in the Lutheran Church and my thoughts turned this weekend to the endpoint the present trajectory of the Ev...
Sunday, October 30, 2005

All A-twitter on the Left

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It is a measure of the desperation of the Left that they are enormously excited about the indictment of a minor administration figure, of wh...
Saturday, October 29, 2005

A Glimpse at the Future

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Let's grab a glimpse of the future that the Islamists envision for our children: Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a f...

1776

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I recently finished David McCullough's wonderful, if slightly mistitled, 1776 . I say wonderful because once I got about a third of the ...
Friday, October 28, 2005

Make No Mistake

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Lest anyone be uncertain concerning the aspirations of the radical Islamists, President Ahmadinejad of Iran dispels any misunderstanding. Th...

The Left Shouldn't Celebrate Yet

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The media have been busy this week gleefully writing George Bush's political epitaph (see here , for example), but as Mark Twain might h...
Thursday, October 27, 2005

Monkeying With Probability

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No doubt you've heard the venerable Darwinian dogma that given enough time and enough monkeys banging away randomly on a typewriter keyb...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Lawyers

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Pete Schramm, who is himself a lawyer, posts a joke at No Left Turns that some of you will think funny: One afternoon a wealthy lawyer w...

A Virtual Shoo-In

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Here's John Fund's take on the Miers' imbroglio: I believe it is almost inevitable that Ms. Miers will withdraw or be defeate...