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Monday, May 19, 2008

Beautiful Birds III

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Here are a couple more pics of some of the more brilliant examples of our North American avifauna. The first is a Wood duck, one of the most...

The Future of Faith Pt. I

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David Brooks has a column in the New York Times (free subscription may be required) which has already sparked some lively discussion. He ta...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Loser Letters

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A former Christian who has converted to atheism initiates a series of letters to her new colleagues cautioning them about some of their atti...

The Culture War

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The California State Supreme Court has ruled 4-3 that there is in the state's constitution, evidently, a right to marry for same sex cou...
Friday, May 16, 2008

On Dignity

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Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard, has written something of a screed in The New Republic in which he's very critical of...

Happy Birthday to Us

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Today is a special day here at Viewpoint . Four years ago today we put up our first post (on gay marriage). Since then we've tallied 429...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Atheist Delusion

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William Lane Craig is a philosopher in the tradition of the ancient Greek Socrates. He believes that philosophical ideas, particularly relig...

The Winner

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Larry Wright's cartoon tells a strange story. The media which fawned all over Senator Clinton when she first announced her candidacy and...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Beautiful Birds II

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Spring is full of delights to the eye. Flowers and butterflies, for example, are incredibly beautiful when viewed up close. My favorites, th...

Unelectable?

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Is Senator Obama unelectable? I'd feel more confident that he was if it weren't for McCain's propensity for thumbing his nose at...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Time to Invade Burma?

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Gosh. Time magazine, of all people, has an article all but calling for the U.S. to invade Burma in order to rescue the suffering millions ...

Philosophers' Version of Fight Club

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Two prominent philosophers whose specialty is the study of mind have been at each other's throats, as it were, for twenty five years, al...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Unassisted Triple Play

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This has happened only fourteen times in major league history - an unassisted triple play: Triple play by krs601 It happened tonight in ...

Regarding Reagan

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My friend Jason passes along a Newsweek piece in which a liberal, Sean Wilentz, and a conservative, George Will, discuss the legacy of Rona...

Operation Chaos

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There's been a flurry of media attention over the last several days on the matter of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," i....
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Heroes Must Be Punished

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There's a certain type of person, unfortunately all too common, who's like a mechanical device. Whenever input A is received, output...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Re: Bailout

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About a week ago we did a post on an opportunity for readers to express their displeasure with Congress' plans to bail out lenders and ...

Evangelical Manifesto

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The Evangelical Manifesto we wrote about earlier this week has been released, and although I haven't had time to examine it thoroughly i...

Self-Evident Moral Truth

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There's a fascinating discussion going on at Uncommon Descent over the question of whether there are self-evident moral truths. The spr...
Thursday, May 8, 2008

Rosie on Wright

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Forget about Rosie's gaffes in this clip (it's 3/5, not 3/4; the Tuskegee program was reprehensible, but the government did not giv...