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Saturday, August 11, 2007

The Wages of Coal

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As we take time out from praying for the Utah miners and their families perhaps we might be reminded that almost 700 coal miners have died...

The Hazards of Extrapolation

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Darwinians have long scoffed at the notion that there are limits to the miracles that natural selection and genetic mutation can perform. Th...

Bush's Immigration Legacy

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Word comes that the Bush administration is going to crack down on illegal immigration. Tragically, the news is a little late for the three ...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Cosmic Catastrophe

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Four far-away galaxies, each the size of the Milky Way, collided five billion years ago, and the light from that cataclysm is just reaching ...

Re: Very Odd

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A recent post here at Viewpoint received some mention at Telic Thoughts and triggered a lively discussion there. Truth to tell, most of t...

Stock Market Jitters

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The stock market has been on a roller coaster the last week or so due to investor jitters over the possibility that a lot of lending institu...

Who Should it Be?

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As the presidential race heats up let's talk a little about which candidates are best qualified for the office they seek. Among the D...
Thursday, August 9, 2007

Sociological Tut-Tutting

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Christopher Hitchens enumerates the many crimes emanating from Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland and wonders why the police have been loa...

Synonym for <i>Bigotry</i>

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All the Democratic candidates for president except Joe Biden made the pilgrimmage last weekend to the YearlyKos conference in order to have ...

OUT

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The militant anti-theists are coming OUT , or at least they want to. Here's part of the rationale for their OUT campaign: Atheists al...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Twilight of Atheism

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Marvin Olasky recites examples of the hyperventilations found in the anti-God books of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens and then notes this: ...

Very Odd

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Something very significant is going on with Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution , and it seems to be going largely unremarked. Virtu...

The Evolving Case for Surrender

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Now that even erstwhile anti-war liberals are conceding that the military is successfully moving toward suppressing the terrorists in Iraq a...
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...