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Thursday, January 11, 2007

In Denial

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Robert Samuelson summarizes the ugly facts about the future of social security: It's no secret that the 65-and-over population will ...

The Speech

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The only problem, in my opinion, with the President's speech last night was that it came last night and not last year. Better late than...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Majestic

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Each of these pillars of dust and hydrogen gas are so vast that they would dwarf our sun. It is in the interiors of such enormous concentrat...

Amazing Behavior

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Dave Scot at Uncommon Descent introduces us to the Emerald Cockroach Wasp and tells us how it gets on in life. As you read this, which you ...

Ten Myths About Atheism (Pt. III)

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The third alleged myth in our series (See pt. I and pt. II ) on Sam Harris' Ten Myths About Atheism is, he writes, the incorrect belie...
Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Lost Script

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"The average words heard per hour are 2,150 for a professor's children and 1,250 for working-class children in homes with parents. ...

Civil Debate

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No wonder it's taking so long to get things right in Iraq. This exchange on al-Jazeera is probably being duplicated everyday in the hal...

Fighting al-Qaeda in Somalia

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An AC-130 gunship was called in to put an end (hopefully) to the terrors inflicted on Americans and Africans by some very bad men. CBS News ...
Monday, January 8, 2007

Wallis on Saddam's Execution

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Jim Wallis of Sojourners regrets the execution of Saddam Hussein and argues that it is wrong to resort to capital punishment. He states a n...

Lefty Laugh-fest

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Don Imus and Mike Barnicle yuk it up speculating about the courage/cowardice of Bush administration figures. Unfortunately, their banter is...

Nancy Pearcey

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Byron links us to this excellent interview with Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth and other books. The interviewer questions her on he...
Sunday, January 7, 2007

Should They or Shouldn't They?

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This stunner was in the Times Online : Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical...

Minimum Wage and Moral Grandstanding

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There will be much talk on the news in the weeks ahead on raising the minimum wage. George Will instructs us as to why raising the minimum ...

Ronald Numbers

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Steve Paulson has a very interesting interview with Ronald Numbers at Salon Books . Numbers is a historian of science who has written extens...
Saturday, January 6, 2007

Future Tech

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For a fascinating glimpse into what military combat might look like in the not too distant future go to Hot Air and watch the top video. It...

The Argument From Fine-Tuning

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Joe Carter gives a fine summary of the argument for God's existence based on the fine-tuning of the cosmos. I agree with Carter that th...

Time Has Come

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Michael Ledeen believes that confrontation with Iran can no longer be avoided and, as Machiavelli instructed his Prince, that to delay only...
Friday, January 5, 2007

The Moral Argument

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Joe Carter outlines three arguments for the existence of a transcendent moral lawgiver at his blog The Evangelical Outpost . The three are ...

Ethical Conundrum

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From time to time Christian students express their conviction that the Bible gives answers to all of life's ethical problems. The next t...

Why?

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President Bush has worked out an agreement with Mexico that would allow illegal aliens who work in the United States and who pay into our s...