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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Burying the Tree of Life

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Comes word that another one of the pillars of Darwin's theory is being quietly buried by investigators convinced that the evidence is ag...

Cosmic Sucking Sound

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Some NASA scientists studying galactic clusters have come across a very weird phenomenon . The galaxies they're studying appear to be ru...
Monday, January 26, 2009

The Stock Boy and the Checkout Girl

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A friend sent me this story which is evidently making the internet rounds. You may have read it before, but I hadn't, and it's espec...

Sloppy Mistake

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It is almost universally agree that our financial crisis was caused in large part by, in Jonah Goldberg's words , "arrogant and gre...

Profile in Pusillanimity

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It is hard to find the words to describe the travesty of Western civilization that is the Netherlands. A former member of parliament is bein...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Sweatshops

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I have from time to time found myself in conversations with friends who argue that free trade with nations who have no laws protecting labor...

How to Close Down Gitmo

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Steven Hayward at No Left Turns has an idea that would in one stroke solve several problems that vex the left. First, our political port-si...

It's Gillibrand

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New York Governor David Paterson, a liberal Democrat, mind you, has picked Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the Senate seat vacate...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Aftermath

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Strategy Page offers this post-operational assessment of the Israeli incursion into Gaza: Hamas thought they were invulnerable to Israel...

Smoking and Cancer

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Studies in Massachusetts have found that smoking is responsible for more cancers than just cancers of the lung. In fact, according to this a...

Consolation Prize

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Jonah Goldberg observes that just as the demise of communism was a blessing that nevertheless dissolved the glue that had long united conse...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Do Your Job

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Gilbert Meilander at First Things discusses a book by noted academic Stanley Fish titled Save the World on Your Own Time . In the book Fis...

What Will They Think of Next

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The movie The Matrix popularized philosopher George Berkeley's idea that the world is simply a projection of our minds. The universe is...

Why Arabs Lose

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Strategy Page points out that there's a reason why Arabs almost always lose in combat against Western militaries: [T]here have been ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The First Four Minutes

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One reason Hamas was unable to respond to the Israeli attack on Gaza with a massive rocket attack on Israel, as they had threatened, was tha...

Plague Attack

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An al Qaeda affiliate in Algiers has closed down a camp after forty of terrorists in the camp died from what appears to be a highly contag...

If Only Mugabe Were White

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Bob Herbert describes the ghastly conditions that attend everyday life in Zimbabwe - a massive cholera outbreak, few medical facilities, no...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Not Their Finest Hour

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Quick thought for those who watched or listened to the Inauguration coverage today: I can't decide which was most discouraging, the fawn...

Little Arab Sympathy for Hamas

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Strategy Page explains why Muslim criticism of Israel in the latest round of warfare against Hamas was relatively muted. It turns out that ...

Inauguration Day

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Today is certainly an historic day. A milestone in our cultural history has been reached as we inaugurate the first African-American preside...