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Friday, February 1, 2008

Hillary's More Conservative Than McCain?

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She's excited and upset and she's not particularly "nice," but Ann does make some sense. She just needs to switch to decaf...

Rope

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My students hear me tell them, some would perhaps say ad nauseum , that ideas have consequences. My friend Byron forwarded me a brief piece ...

No Child Left Behind

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My eldest daughter, who is a public school teacher, sent me this parody of the thinking behind No Child Left Behind. It compares the concept...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Big Brother Will Soon Be Watching

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This story raises some alarms about an emerging technology that most people probably know nothing about, but people who have access to it w...

Giving Away Your Money

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This will toast your muffins: Under the current structure of the stimulus package many illegal immigrants will receive a tax rebate. What a...

Reagan Nostalgia

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William Kristol at The Weekly Standard urges conservatives to get a grip: Conservative editorialists, radio hosts, and bloggers are unha...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Edwards Withdraws

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Democrat John Edwards announces his withdrawal from the presidential race in the Hurricane Katrina stricken Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La....

Brave New World

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Denyse O'Leary ruined my evening the other night with three predictions she offers at Uncommon Descent . O'Leary looks for the follo...

The Evolution of the Surge

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Fred Barnes has written a fine piece in The Weekly Standard that takes us behind the scenes of the decision to implement the surge in Iraq....

Kicking the Addiction

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C. MacLeod Fuller comes to the rescue of those ensnared by the lotus eaters (See The Odyssey ) on the Isle of Liberalism and offers those m...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

State of the Union

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For those who missed it, Ben Johnson at Front Page Mag offers an overview of last night's State of the Union Address. As I listened on ...

Guide for the Perplexed

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Are you puzzled by some gnawing philosophical conundrum? If so, you may wish to seek relief for your curiosity at Ask A Philosopher . Asking...
Monday, January 28, 2008

A Time For Grace

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Madison Trammel at Christianity Today wonders what should be done about ESPN's Dana Jacobson. If you aren't familiar with Jacobson...

Rooting For Obama

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Barack Obama won big in South Carolina on Saturday, and this will be seen as good news by Republicans who should be cheering for an Obama w...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Perspective

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Ramirez puts the media fixation on actor Heath Ledger's death into perspective: Sometimes it seems that in order to work for a cable...

McCain's Open Borders Guy

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Senator McCain has yet again thumbed his nose at Republican voters. It is remarkable that he manages to get any votes at all in GOP primari...

A Brief History of ID

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James Kushiner offers a brief and useful history of the Intelligent Design movement. His essay is the forward to a series of articles appear...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Panic on the Right

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Peggy Noonan, in a Wall Street Journal Online essay, seems to lament the fratricide taking place among pundits in the Republican Party: A...

Autumn's Onset

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I commented to several friends last Fall that I thought autumn came late this year. It seemed that in my part of the country (south-central ...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Should You Buy a Hybrid?

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If you're thinking of making your next car a hybrid there are some things you need to ask yourself. One is whether your primary motive i...