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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Iraq Strategy

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Cox and Forkum wonder what the Democrats' strategy for winning in Iraq might be: This isn't quite fair. They actually do have a ...

The Mystery of Consciousness

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Steven Pinker has written an interesting, if rather lengthy, essay on the nature of consciousness and the problems researchers in the field...

On Christian Ethics

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One of the books listed by George Weigel as among the five best books for understanding Christianity was The Sources of Christian Ethics b...

Transitioning to the White House

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Could this be the portrait of our next president? RLC
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Political Complexion

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College freshman are becoming slightly more ideological according to this study which finds that conservatism, while still not the majority...

The Second Holocaust

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Benny Morris tells us what he believes the intermediate future will be for Jews in Israel: The second Holocaust will not be like the fir...

On Love

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Gideon Strauss has a lovely little meditation on love at Comment . For those who enjoy reading love stories will also enjoy reading Anne Day...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Hillary and Hardball on SNL

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Saturday Night Live spoofs Hillary Clinton and Hardball's Chris Matthews. It's a funny and revealing bit since it captures so well ...

Ten Myths About Atheism (Pt. VII)

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Sam Harris' seventh of what he considers to be myths about atheism is the belief that: Atheists are closed to spiritual experience. ...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Sandy Berger, Secret Agent Man

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This'll make you laugh. PowerLine has the winner of Bill Bennett's "Sandy Berger Lies" song parody contest. Go here , scro...

Trashing Dawkins

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H. Allen Orr has a lengthy and very thorough review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion in the New York Review of Books . Like every ...

Whatever Works

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Philosopher Philip Quinn of Notre Dame argues that it's morally permissable to lie to defeat the creationists as long as one feels a twi...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Making Iraq Work

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There is no more fertile a mind in politics than Newt Gingrich's and no politician with a more scintillating record for achieving succes...

Ten Myths About Atheism (Pt. V and VI)

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We continue our critique of Sam Harris' Ten Myths About Atheism with a look today at numbers 5 and 6. Harris claims that the following ...

Knowing God

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I came across this interesting and challenging observation in Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament by Christopher J.H. Wright. The...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

M100

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This is a Hubble photo of spiral galaxy M100 which is similar in form to our Milky Way. Our sun, and hence our earth, are located in one...

Journalistic Malfeasance?

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You've no doubt heard the news that for the first time ever the majority of women are living without husbands. Pundits reflecting on the...

Stifling Scientific Literacy

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The ever-skeptical folks at Uncommon Descent cite an article which, contrary to all the fretting by Darwinians over how intelligent design ...

Hoping We Fail

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A recent Fox News Poll asked 900 people a series of questions about Iraq. The replies to question #19 were particularly disturbing. The qu...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Nuclear Gateway

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Telic Thoughts has a neat computer sim of the nuclear pore complex. These pores are the gateways through which materials pass into the nucl...