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Thursday, December 18, 2008

More on the Egnor/Novella Debate

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Michael Egnor, a substance dualist, finds himself in the midst of a fascinating debate with materialist neuroscientist Steven Novella. Su...

Wright Out, Warren In

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Well, this is an interesting development. Barack Obama has selected Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration. I wonder who...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Repeat Offenders

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The same folks who sell Christmas gift certificates that can be used to pay for an abortion have been found in flagrante delicto against I...

Bumble Had it Right

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Kitty Genovese was a 1964 New York City murder victim whose calls for help were heard by dozens of people only a few of whom responded by ca...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Seven Questions

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John Fund suggests that had the media spent only half as much energy and resources looking into Obama's connections to Chicago's pol...

Sounds Like a Plan

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Bankruptcy is the best option for the Big 3 auto manufacturers and law professor Todd Zywicki explains why in a Wall Street Journal column...
Monday, December 15, 2008

The Multiverse and the Razor

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We have from time to time noted that theories of a multiverse suffer from being in stark conflict with the law of parsimony. This is the law...

Plan B

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The U.S. and Britain have urged India not to go to war with Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks so, according to this report at DEBK...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Intellectual Honesty

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Anyone who engages in public commentary and debate is often tempted to color facts to better fit his position, to overstate his case, or to ...

Vindication

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Bill shares this video of economist Peter Schiff being made the object of scorn and derision two years ago by cable talk colleagues for pred...

Obama's Prescription for Nuclear War

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There's not much confidence in this little corner of the blogosphere in Barack Obama's ability to launch a successful foreign policy...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Fantasy World

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The system in this video, passed along by Robert Crowther at Evolution News and Notes , is a good metaphor for the cellular machinery that o...

A Religious Case for Gay Marriage

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The recent issue of Newsweek brings with it a polemic by Lisa Miller urging religious people to drop their opposition to gay marriage. Now...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Softball

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Why Chris Matthews' show on MSNBC isn't laughed to scorn just for the absurdity of its name is one of the peculiar mysteries of this...

Restless Natives

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Jason directs us to Politico where it looks as if liberal discontent with our new President is already stirring, and the man hasn't yet...

The Perfect Gift

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It's long been the case in the U.S. that different groups of people choose to celebrate different aspects of the Christmas story. Mercha...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

President -Elect Gump

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Its fairly well-known that Barack and Mrs. Obama were plagued by numerous unsavory associations throughout the Senator's campaign for th...

For Tanya

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One almost has to chuckle at the spate of anti-theist ads littering this year's Christmas landscape. The anti-theists are evidently not ...

Foreign Competition

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There have been a lot of forecasts in recent years of the coming American economic senescence. We're hearing that the United States is d...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

New York Is Not Mumbai

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The attack that shut down the city of Mumbai would never have succeeded in an American city of comparable size - our cops are too well train...