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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Has al-Masri Been Captured?

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The successor to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is a man named Abu al-Masri. Breitbart has a report that al-M...

The Chicksters

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Paul Nowak puts the Dixie Chicks in perspective and, with a single drawing, manages to make them appear whiny, self-absorbed, and historica...

No Story Here

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It seems now that there has been yet another rape allegation in Durham, North Carolina. A woman alleges that she was assaulted at a house pa...

Atheism, Theism, and Design

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One often hears, despite numerous attempts to disabuse people of the notion, that Intelligent Design is religious because it leads inevitabl...

If I Die

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Here's a great song written and sung, I believe, by a soldier in Iraq. It's titled If I Die Before You Wake . Give it a listen. ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Gettin' Outa' Dodge

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While Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha prophesy that Bush's new policy in Iraq will be a dismal failure and seek to cut off funding for the ...

GOP Straw Poll

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Captain's Quarters offers an opportunity to participate in a GOP straw poll if you wish. Go here and cast your vote for whom you'd ...

Myths About Atheism (Pt. X)

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This is the final post in our series on the Ten Myths About Atheism that atheist Sam Harris seeks to refute in an article he wrote for Edg...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Marcotte Resigns

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The sweet, demure Amanda Marcotte has regrettably resigned her post as blogmaster for the John Edwards campaign. I'm sure the entire ca...

Panning <i>Jesus Camp</i>

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Joe Carter skewers Jesus Camp , a documentary supposedly about Evangelicals but, according to Carter, really about Pentacostals. Jesus Camp...

Is Assassination Moral?

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A week or so ago I invited comment on reports that the Israelis had assassinated a key Iranian physicist working on their nuclear weapons p...

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Torture on 24

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My friend Jason sends along this article in The New Yorker about Joel Surnow, the co-creator of the television hit 24. The article is a li...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Sunday Editorial

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I was invited to join a number of non-journalists in the York area who will be submitting columns to the local Sunday paper over the next ye...

Honoring a Hero

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Those readers of a certain vintage will remember how the left vilified Ronald Reagan as a trigger happy cowboy who was, they insisted, the g...

Unhappy People

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One liberal at Daily Kos comes right out and says what a lot of them seem to think: When pressed, I sometimes reply: "I don't h...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

Hoping for Peace, Preparing for War

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The Guardian thinks that a strike against Iran, administration denials notwithstanding, will come this spring. The ostensible reason is ...

Speaking Their Minds

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This video is a shocker, at least to me. Not because the discussion was particularly compelling - it wasn't, in fact it was disappointi...

Hillary's Nightmare

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This must keep Hillary Clinton awake at night: Veterans of Al Gore's past are quietly assembling a campaign to draft the former vice...
Friday, February 9, 2007

Astonishing Power and Brilliance

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Two galaxies similar to our own Milky Way collide in space. The collision would be catastrophic for any inhabitants of either of these gal...