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Monday, March 12, 2007

Massive Retreat

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Stephen Weinberg, a brilliant cosmologist, makes some very puzzling assertions in his favorable review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delu...

Barking Mad

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You have doubtless heard by now of the unfortunate confrontation between House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) and so...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Environmental Ethics

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The following exchange took place in the course of an interview with Mike Huckabee, formerly Republican Governor of Arkansas and likely Pres...

Sudden Impact

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Those who wish a vivid reminder of how the war against terrorists is being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are invited to watch this video o...

The Good News

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I just finished reading Beginning at Moses by Michael P.V. Barrett several weeks ago. It's about finding Christ in the Old Testament. ...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

What it Would Take

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How can the President get the media to pay attention to all the important things going on in the world? Perhaps the best way, maybe the onl...

Dumb and Dumber

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George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center thinks that the new generation of atheists is angrier and dumber than their intellectu...

Idealism

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The blog Conscious Entities has an interesting post on Idealism and also one on the moral, intellectual, and phenomenal gaps between ani...

Why Are Students Bored?

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So why do American kids find school boring? Is it because of poor teaching as the No Left Turns guys say? Probably to some extent, but ther...
Friday, March 9, 2007

Astonishing Human Being

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This young man is perhaps the most astonishing human being you will ever see. I started watching the documentary about him (at Telic Though...

Easy to Defend

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Rick Pearcey offers a very clever analysis of the Ann Coulter contretemps in light of contemporary thinking and concludes that there's ...

St. Petersburg Declaration

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A number of people whose heritage is Muslim but who may or may not themselves still be Muslim met recently in St. Petersburg to proclaim the...
Thursday, March 8, 2007

Justice For Jessica

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A terrible story nears its end: MIAMI (AP) - A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and bu...

Who Is John Galt?

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Mark Skousen commemorates Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged 50 years later in the Christian Science Monitor . Rand's work is not literature...

If Only Jesus Knew

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John Edwards seeks political traction with Christians by invoking Jesus on behalf of the poor, but either he's tone deaf to how evan...

Iranian Defector

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Here's an interesting development in the deteriorating state of affairs concerning Iran. An Iranian general with much knowledge of h...
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

More on Boring School

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More readers have weighed in on why school is boring on our Feedback page and have between them said much of what I wanted to say, so I'...

Another Difference

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Here's another example of the difference between liberals and conservatives, at least in the media and in the blogosphere. Ann Coulter c...

Sensus Divinitatis

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Sunday's New York Times Magazine has an article by Robin Marantz Henig which explores current scientific thinking on the question of ...

Hammering on the Lunatics

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University of Minnesota biologist P.Z. Myers has gained some reknown and much criticism from both supporters and adversaries alike for his a...