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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The Multiverse's Appeal

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George Johnson in The New York Times reviews a book by physicist Leonard Susskind who is a strong advocate of the idea that there are a ne...

Gibson's Gaffe

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I guess this is getting to be old news, but Charles Krauthammer lays the wood to Charlie Gibson for his disdainful and supercilious treatme...

Who Am I?

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Here's an interesting question which has popped up in my e-mail box: Who Am I? I am under 45 years old, I love the outdoors, I hun...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Voter IQ

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Before and after the 2004 election there were a lot of snarky comments made about the intelligence and sophistication of people who would vo...

Superstition

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An article on superstition in New Scientist has a quote from Wolfgang Forstmeier, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute of ...

On Creation

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Having read the latest attack on Sarah Palin regarding what she believes as it pertains to the Creation, I have grown weary of the Liberal, ...

Sex and Commitment

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With the news of Bristol Palin's pregnancy her mother's advocacy of abstinence education has come under some scrutiny. Those who ...

Al Qaeda Admits Defeat

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Captured documents reveal a level of deep despair among members of al Qaeda in Iraq. The report at Long War Journal reveals a lot of intern...

Jason Bourne Needs to Know

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Anika Smith at Evolution News and Views has a little fun with actor Matt Damon over Damon's semi-coherent criticism of Sarah Palin'...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

With Friends Like These ...

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Some on the left seem determined to remind people every chance they get that nothing is beneath them. Here's Randi Rhodes from Air Ameri...

Will He Stay or Will He Go?

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There's lots of talk around the web about Senator Obama probably regretting his decision to put fellow senator Joe Biden on the ticket r...

The Palin Interview

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Tim e-mails me from Penn State with a couple of questions about the ABC news interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson and asks for my tho...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Let's Mock McCain's Disability

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From the same campaign that gave us Senator Joe Biden urging a wheel-chair bound state legislator to stand up and take a bow, we have this a...

Large Hadron Collider

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No doubt you've heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) went on line this week in Switzerland. Scientists are hoping that the giant p...

Fear and Trembling at the DNC

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Jason sends along an essay from the Politico which reveals a growing discontent in the Democratic party. Here are a couple of excerpts: ...

Stain on the Presidency

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I have occasionally argued on Viewpoint that George Bush might well be regarded by history as an outstanding president. I still believe thi...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Contretemps Over Sex-Ed

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The Obama campaign is upset by a McCain ad that takes the senator to task for favoring sex education for kindergartners. Jim Geraghty at NRO...

The God Gene

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"Professor" John Cleese presents a lecture on the God gene. The lecture, of course, is a spoof of Dawkinsian sociobiology that hol...

Barack's Life as an Organizer

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Since Senator Obama cites his three years as a community organizer as an important element among his qualifications to be President, Byron Y...

The Price of Freedom

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An Iraq war vet shares his thoughts on what the war means and why he thinks Senator Obama is wrong on the war. Watch to the end: RLC