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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Closing in on a Cure

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Here's more marvelous medical news: Researchers have developed a vaccine which apparently prevents an Alzheimer's-like disease in mi...

The Loser Letters II

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Mary Eberstadt sends off another letter to her BRIGHT overlords offering them some sage advice as to how to deal with Christian DULLS. Her ...

The Scientist and the Turtle

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Scientist Sean Carroll responds to an article by physicist Paul Davies who wonders why the laws of nature take the form they do. Carroll wr...
Friday, May 23, 2008

The Conservative Candidate

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The American Conservative Union has issued its annual congressional rankings for 2007. Senator John McCain earned an 80%, Senator Obama sto...

More Cell-Phone Hazards

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Here's yet another report on the hazards of using cell phones, this time to unborn children: Women who use mobile phones when pregnan...

Advice for the Candidate

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The Reverends Al and Jesse give Senator Obama some advice: Doesn't this violate the separation of church and state, or something?...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Defense Spending

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In the following video clip Barack Obama essentially promises to emasculate the American military. All he needs to make his list of promises...

Prince Caspian

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There's a lot of commentary at NRO on the recently released Prince Caspian , a film based on the second installment of C.S. Lewis' ...

Our Prospering Intellectual Culture

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Perhaps we should start a list of public individuals who really need to see the movie Expelled . A worthy candidate for charter membership o...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Sen. Kennedy and Life Eternal

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The news of Senator Ted Kennedy's brain tumor led me along a rabbit trail of reflections to some thoughts on the matter of eternal life...

Off-Limits? Why?

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Barack Obama was indignant on Good Morning America the other day over Republican criticisms of his wife's recent remarks: "But...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Pay Up

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Think about this if you're starting a family - you're already, right now, half a million dollars in debt: The federal government...

Rockumentary

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This video is a pastiche of scenes cut from Unlocking the Mystery of Life , Privileged Planet , and Expelled , with a little Rappin' Wit...

Mixing Science and Philosophy

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One of the arguments against teaching intelligent design in science classes is that ID is a philosophical hypothesis, and only scientific ...
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...