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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Five Questions

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Here are five questions I hope the Democratic candidates for president, or indeed, candidates for any federal office, get asked over and ove...

Racist, Bigot, Xenophobe

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Ruben Navarrette, evidently unable to engage the arguments for sealing our borders, resorts instead to ad hominem . It's a time-honored ...

Higher Truths

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The New Republic has come in for a lot of criticism for running anonymous reports which eventually turned out to be written by a soldier na...

Neuhaus on Dawkins on Behe

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Richard John Neuhaus has an excellent essay at First Things on the odd decision of the New York Times Book Review to assign Richard Dawkin...
Monday, August 6, 2007

Robo-Soldiers

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The military has now deployed three armed robots to Iraq. These are the first such robots ever designed for actual combat missions. Danger ...

Practicing Their Religion

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An Oakland newspaper editor was shot and killed in the street the other day in what was an apparent assassination. Arrests have been made ...

Syria Postpones

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According to DEBKAFile the Syrians have for some reason postponed the commencement of hostilities against Israel until November: This pie...

The Atheist Manifesto

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Byron sent along a link to a story by Dinesh D'Souza on one of the hottest selling atheist books in Europe. It's titled The Atheist...
Sunday, August 5, 2007

Principled Politicians Retraction

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In yesterday's post titled Principled Politicians it was strongly suggested that the President's senatorial critics of his terroris...
Saturday, August 4, 2007

Principled Politicians

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After all the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the White House spying on innocent Americans, after all the calls for impeachment ...

Barack's Blunder

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Barack Obama is coming in for some criticism from conservative talkers like Sean Hannity for his comment that he'd be willing to invade ...

Reconsidering the Right to Vote

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Jonah Goldberg thinks there should be a test for voting, and there is much merit in his argument. The American public, including large swat...

Birds of a Feather

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Senator Chris Dodd (D, CT) defended his participation in a conference sponsored by The Daily Kos on the O'Reilly show the other night d...
Friday, August 3, 2007

Shooting Themselves in the Foot

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Strategy Page argues that the Taliban's own tactics are working against them in Afghanistan: Kidnapping the 23 South Koreans eleven ...

Comeuppance Therapy

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Another thug receives some much-needed counselling from a kindly shop-owner. There's not much doubt in my mind that the therapy thi...

Just War

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I recently sat down with Darrell Cole's book on Just War theory, When God Says War Is Right: The Christian Perspective on When and How t...
Thursday, August 2, 2007

Dangerous Ideas

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Steven Pinker has a very odd definition of the word "dangerous." He writes an article in The Chicago Sun Times in which he lists ...

Human Consciousness and AI

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David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University and a national fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, has a fascin...

What He No Longer Believes

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Joe Carter responds to Rod Dreher's list of things he used to believe before the Iraq war but which he no longer does by posting his ow...

Hitch Pushes Back

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Christopher Hitchens is at his best in this essay on the student at Pace University who was arrested for the "hate crime" of tos...