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Monday, December 10, 2007

Colorado Springs

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Slapstick Politics has a lot of information on the tragic Colorado Springs shooting including some insight into how the shooter was stopped...

Waiting For Godot

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We don't know much about fiscal policy and economics so we're easily led on these matters. In fact we've been wringing our hands...

Broken Compass

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Philip Pullman is an atheist/agnostic who writes children's books with anti-Christian themes. One of his books ( The Northern Lights ) h...
Sunday, December 9, 2007

Religious Candor

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Chip Bok comments on all the scrutiny, superficial as it has been, of our candidates' religious beliefs: Pretty funny. RLC
Saturday, December 8, 2007

Thought For A Sunday

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Taken from An Humble, Affectionate, and Earnest Address to the Clergy by William Law. His intellectual faculties are, by the fall, in a m...

Blair Talks About Faith

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Tony Blair talks about talking about God. In the course of the article on Blair, the writers say: However, Mr Blair, who is now a Middle...

D'Souza vs. Dennett

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Dinesh D'Souza recently debated Daniel Dennett on the topic of whether God is a human artifact. A blogger sympathetic to Dennett'...
Friday, December 7, 2007

The NIE

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The recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) made the claim that Iran gave up its ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon four y...

Let a Thousand Questions Bloom

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So much has been made of Mitt Romney's Mormonism that he felt it necessary yesterday to give a speech about it. Mike Huckabee, too, has ...
Thursday, December 6, 2007

Adam Rutherford: Stazi Agent

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Atheist Adam Rutherford writing in The Guardian comments on the denial of tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez by Iowa State University: Sayi...

Fat and Fit

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Here's good news for all of us who find that our shoes seem to have receded progressively further from our hands, harder to see, and ha...

Evil in Everyday People

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Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters discusses a book by Barbara Oakley in which Oakley tells this story about her sister: My sister s...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Enjoying Better Mental Health

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People who enjoy good mental health tend to gravitate toward the Republican party, or vice versa. That's the finding , anyway, of a rece...

Huckabee's Illegal Immigration Statement

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Regular readers of Viewpoint know that we consider illegal immigration to be among the most critical issues our country faces and that any ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Informal Logic 101

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In rhetoric or logic when one person responds to a claim or an argument from another by simply insulting the other instead of trying to answ...

A Whiff of Totalitarianism

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The New Republic has an interesting article by Damon Linker titled Atheism's Wrong Turn . There are a few minor matters with which ...

The Road to the Woodshed

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After years of declaring the war in Iraq a failure and months of denying that there was any progress being made there, old John [Offer-Me-t...
Monday, December 3, 2007

Uh Oh

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We've noted that Mike Huckabee's chances of winning the Republican nomination depend largely on his views on illegal immigration. Th...

Failure to Launch

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My final column in the series I've been doing for the local paper was on a book, Boys Adrift , that I posted on about a month ago and ap...
Sunday, December 2, 2007

Thought For A Sunday

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Taken from The Spirit of Prayer by William Law. And all this, to make it known through all the Regions of Eternity, that Pride can degrad...