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Saturday, March 25, 2006

This Land is Your Land

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Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets all across the country yesterday to demand, essentially, that the United States abolish...

More Clever Ads

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No Left Turns , having pointed us to the way-cool beer commercial the other day, links us today to a couple of new car ads that are also cl...

You Are What You Eat

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Here is scientific confirmation of what everybody already knew to be true: Playing violent video games changes brain function and desens...

Is Polyamory in Our Future?

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William Saletan, writing in Slate , doesn't think much of the argument that legalizing gay marriage will make polyamory (polygamy and gr...
Friday, March 24, 2006

In A Box

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The Federal Reserve and its new chairman Mr. Ben Bernanke are in a box. By this I mean there are opposing issues that prevent them from tak...

Bias? What Bias?

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More light is shed on why people are tuning out the MSM: A top producer at ABC News declared "Bush makes me sick" in an email ob...

The Baghdad Documents

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ABC News has examined several documents captured in Baghdad after the invasion and finds evidence that: 1. The Russian ambassador who wa...

Saint Fidel

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In the left's pantheon of saints few rank higher than Fidel Castro. Thus when Delf�n Fern�ndez, a former member of Castro's inner ci...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Tarnished Witness

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Everyone has been commenting on this already, but it bears mentioning that the statement put out by Christian Peacemaker Teams on the occas...

A Meaningful Life

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BeliefNet has an interview with Daniel Dennett, the Tuft's philosopher who has written a book titled Breaking the Spell , by which he m...

The "Manly" Presidency

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Ruth Marcus thinks the problem with the Bush administration is that it's too manly. She'd prefer that the Bushies get in touch with...

Under the Tyrant's Heel

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Jeff Jacoby has an excellent column in the Boston Globe titled The Humanitarian Case for the War . Here's the first half of it: ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Bush Speaks Out on Abdul Rahman

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Some conservative bloggers are dismayed by President Bush's rather pedestrian endorsement of Abdul Rahman's right to embrace whate...

Historical Perspective

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A reader at Andrew Sullivan's blog draws some interesting comparisons between George Bush, Abraham Lincoln, and other war-time presiden...

The Skeptical Evolutionist

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You might think that the following passage appeared in a creationist text like Of Pandas and People . It's certainly very much the same ...

Cobra II

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A friend passes along a link to a fascinating interview at Democracy Now with the authors of Cobra II, a book on the lead-up to the war in ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Big Expensive Ad

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The universe of good beer advertisements is not large, but this one is a hoot. Be sure to turn on the sound. Music lovers will appreciate t...

The White House's Biggest Failure

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Tim Hames of the Times Online has an article which he closes with this trenchant observation: The tragedy of what went wrong in Iraq,...

Balancing the Budget

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Andrew Sullivan has some pretty good ideas about what to do about the budget. Since they are good ideas they'll never be acted upon by ...

Legacy in the Balance

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Like a flock of disoriented geese, President Bush's approval numbers have been heading south this spring, but the Democrats shouldn'...