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Monday, August 27, 2007

Moral Equivalence and Michael Vick

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Forthwith some questions raised by the Michael Vick situation : How does the abhorrent torture of dogs for pleasure differ in any signific...

P.Z. Myers and Academic Fascism

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Atheistic biologist P.Z. Myers is evidently being sued for some unkind reviews of a book on evolutionary biology he posted on his web site....
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Sunday Column

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The fifth in a series of columns I've been invited to do for our local Sunday paper appeared yesterday. I wrote on why many Americans h...

Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith

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When I started reading David Van Biema's essay in Time on Mother Teresa titled "Crisis of Faith" I confess I expected the wo...
Saturday, August 25, 2007

Shut Up and Sing

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Ted Nugent, the libertarian rocker, debases our politics with vile rants like this one . One of our biggest political problems is that peopl...

Sojourners on Iran

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Jessica Wilbanks of Sojourners offers her thoughts on U.S./Iranian relations. She is, like all of us, eager to avoid war with Iran, but he...

Simply Sick

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If we gave out a "scum of the earth" prize this guy would certainly be eligible. He's an American Muslim who considers the be...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Re: Pressing His Luck

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According to Strategy Page the cause of the explosion in the video we linked to a couple of days ago was a premature detonation of the mor...

Lousy Leadership

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John Gibson interviews Pastor Juan Gray of Jacksonville who "argues" that black witnesses to crime should refuse to cooperate wit...

Ben Stein Is Bad to the Bone

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A new movie is coming out in February that promises to toss the Darwinians into a tizzy. Go here to view the trailers for Expelled . HT:...

Standing Tall

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Nicholas Sarkozy is in the process of leading France in an about-face on its relations with the U.S. The administration's critics have ...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

Unspeakable Evil

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Is this the sort of barbaric evil that awaits all the people of Iraq as soon as we pull out? Five-year-old Youssif is scarred for life, h...

Positive Review of <i>The Edge</i>

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The Philadelphia Inquirer has just insured that it will be henceforth the object of much calumny and opprobrium from the Darwinian establis...

An Atheist's Plea to Atheists

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Well-known skeptic writer Michael Shermer has penned an open letter to the more militant of his atheist brethren imploring them to adopt a...

Israeli Missile Defense

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According to Strategy Page , Israel is going ahead with installing the Iron Dome anti-rocket system. This is a defensive system with a un...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Pressing His Luck

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I don't know how this made it onto YouTube, but it's a slow-motion video clip of a jihadi paying the ultimate price for trying to k...

Academic Re-education Camps

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Science welcomes eccentrics and heretics, those whose opinions and theories shake established orthodoxies. Well, at least it used to. That w...

For What It's Worth

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Breitbart has the story of an AP-Ipsos poll which found that 22 percent of liberals and moderates said they had not read a book within the ...

Artificial Life

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So, according to this AP story scientists are within a couple of years of producing a living cell from the chemical constituents of life: ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Why Did They Have to Die?

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The refusal to treat illegal immigrants like they are illegal is putting all Americans at risk says Mark Steyn in this very good column abo...