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Friday, February 10, 2006

Two Kinds of Democrats

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This column in the New York Times by Adam Nagourney and Sheryl Stolberg quotes Democratic leaders who lament the missed opportunities and ...

Moral Non-Equivalence

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The local paper had a blurb yesterday on the cartoon wars. I can't link to it because the paper's web site can only be navigated by ...
Thursday, February 9, 2006

Michael Behe's Defense

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In a twelve page tour de force Michael Behe presents his response to Judge Jones' criticisms of him in Kitzmiller . Since Behe was the...

The House of Islam

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A friend forwards us an essay by Sam Harris on the current crisis boiling over in dar al-Islam. I don't agree with Mr. Harris on some v...

The Evolutionary Leap to Sex

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The local paper had an article last Monday about the Avida program run by Robert Pennock at Michigan State. It's a computer simulation o...
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

The Jihad Against Cartoons

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If you haven't yet seen the cartoons that have "precipitated" the spontaneous riots among Muslims offended by depictions of th...

Metaphysics in Science Class

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The morning paper brings word that the Dover School Board has unanimously approved the biology curriculum for next year and that the good p...

Explaining the Left's Incivility

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Michael Novak has a great analysis of the left's tactics in general and those of Senator Kennedy in particular in First Things . They ma...
Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Unconscionable

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President Bush attended the funeral of Coretta Scott King today whereupon he was assaulted by a succession of speakers from Jimmy Carter, w...

The Garden of Eden

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This story is so astonishing it sounds almost like a hoax. A team of scientists have journeyed into a virgin area of New Guinea and discover...

Is Atheism Rationally Superior?

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John Loftus at Debunking Christianity posts an argument against the Christian Illusion of Rational Superiority . He claims that many Chris...
Monday, February 6, 2006

Muslims Behaving Like Muslims

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Whatever is behind the latest episode of Muslims-Behaving-Badly it's not that their outrage results from the fact that Muhammed was repr...

You Better Shop Around

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A former student sends this along after having read our post titled Orwell Warned Us About People Like This : Your recent article entitle...

Kripgenstein

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The New York Times has an interesting profile of perhaps the most prominent of contemporary philosophers, Saul Kripke. Kripke is a true ge...

Living in a Fantasy World

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Amy Goodman, whoever else she is, must be the poster child for left-wing naivete. She thinks the American media are declining in popularity ...
Sunday, February 5, 2006

Orwell Warned Us About People Like This

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Another University instructor is excommunicated for heresy by the Darwinist Inquisition. This time it's Caroline Crocker at George Mason...

Preparing For the War That'll Never Come

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Ralph Peters has an absolute must-read article at The Weekly Standard . His essay ranges over the war against Islamist terror, the looming p...
Saturday, February 4, 2006

More Islamic Lunacy

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All this because of a few sketches of a man that Muslims don't even regard as divine: Mahmoud Zahar, leader of the militant Palestini...

Meanwhile, in News That Matters

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While the news media focusses our attention on such weighty matters as whether or not Samuel Alito belonged to an all-male club two decades ...

Should Blackmail Be Legal?

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Blackmail is illegal and for good reasons, right? Well, you may not have ever thought about it, but actually it seems as if there really are...