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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Israeli Intelligence Ops

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Strategy Page has an interesting piece on the Israeli intelligence operations in Gaza. The post includes this tidbit: The Israeli attack...

Bad News, Good News

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The bad news is that the Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live, is on a collision course with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Computer m...

Liberating the Palestinian People

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Bernard Henri-Levy has an excellent piece in The New Republic about the need to eliminate Hamas as a functioning political and military en...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Playing the Media?

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CNN has been airing this video of the alleged death of a young Palestinian boy, putatively at the hands of the Israelis, but several blogger...

Atlas Redux

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Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal that current government policy is eerily reminiscent of the disastrous government policies...

Proportionality in War

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Recently we discussed the matter of Just War as it relates to the current conflict in Gaza. During the course of those discussions we had s...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Language of God (II)

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In chapter 10 of The Language of God geneticist Francis Collins lays out for the reader his beliefs about how faith and science are harmoni...
Friday, January 9, 2009

Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009)

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One of America's finest minds and most prodigious writers passed away yesterday morning in his sleep at the age of 72. Fr. Richard John...

Learning Lessons

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One aspect of any modern war that often determines the outcome is how well the Western media can be played by those who oppose Western force...

Qualifications Don't Matter

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Democrats have a funny relationship with the concept of suitability for public office. You'll recall that Sarah Palin, who was actually ...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Who Bears the Blame?

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Question: Thirty civilians are killed by Israeli fire near a school in Gaza and the world is outraged by the tragedy, as well they should be...

The Language of God (I)

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Francis Collins is a world-famous geneticist and medical doctor who headed the team which worked out the sequence of nucleotides that make u...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Valkyrie

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Film buffs may appreciate a review of Tom Cruise's Valkyrie by William Doino at First Things . I know some readers will scoff and snic...

Natural Wonders

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Yet another part of George W. Bush's legacy is his admittedly controversial environmental record. Like much else about the Bush presiden...

Bush Derangement Syndrome

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No matter how old they get some people just never reach maturity. How childish, hateful, and mentally unstable do people have to be to deri...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Just War (II)

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Yesterday I outlined some of the commonly accepted criteria of Just War theory. They included circumstances which must be satisfied before ...

Sit Down and Shut Up, Comrade

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According to this Human Events story Congressional Democrats, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi, are trying to turn the U.S. into a one...
Monday, January 5, 2009

Uncle Jay Delivers the News

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Uncle Jay, still in the Christmas spirit, recaps some of the major news stories of 2008: Thanks to Jeanne for passing this along. RL...

Just War (I)

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Byron has suggested that it might be helpful to look at the current Israeli/Hamas conflict in terms of what philosophers and theologians cal...
Saturday, January 3, 2009

Giving Peace a Chance

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A recent Rasmussen poll shows that: Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel's decision to take military action against th...