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Thursday, March 19, 2009

A New Counterculture

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When I was coming of age in the sixties there was among the young a movement of estrangement from the established seats of authority in gove...

Leftist Ideology Trumps Competence

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There are dozens of excellent jurists out there that President Obama could nominate to various judgeships. Indeed, President Bush nominated ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Hypocrisy or Buffoonery?

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If the antics of our congressional poobahs were made into a television series it would quickly become a comedy classic. Take the reaction to...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Do Conservatives (Or Liberals) Love People?

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In his much ballyhooed speech before the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) a week or so ago, Rush Limbaugh made the claim that ...

Outrage

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Senator Charles Grassley is so outraged over the AIG bonuses that he wants the execs to either "quit or kill themselves." Represe...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Rand's Villains

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Yaron Brook, the president of the Ayn Rand Institute explains in the Wall Street Journal why he believes the late Ms Rand is as relevant t...

Friendless

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Jason writes to tell me that an essay by Matt Labash in The Weekly Standard reveals much in common between Labash and me. Labash says: ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Good for the Goose

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Michael Egnor corrects the muddled thinking of Timothy Sandefur. Sandefur argues that Darwinism should be taught in schools because it'...

Darwin's Unfortunate Racial Views

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Denyse O'Leary at Uncommon Descent wonders why people hold Charles Darwin in such high esteem. Of course he was hugely influential and ...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Fact-Checking the AG

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Attorney General Eric Holder has taken a lot of heat for his speech in which he called the United States a "nation of cowards" abo...

Card Check

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Jim Wallis at Sojourners draws the astonishing conclusion from the fact that corporate CEOs have obscene incomes, especially relative to th...

Buyer's Remorse

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Another victim of candidate Obama's seductions comes forward to announce her buyer's remorse. Here's Megan McArdle at The Atlan...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Biology 101

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Maybe the reason many Americans support embryonic stem cell research is because they have no more idea what an embryo is than does former pr...

The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design

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Thomas B. Fowler has written an outstanding and disinterested analysis of Intelligent Design theory for Catholic Culture . It is, for the m...

Heads Should Roll

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Camille Paglia is a fiercely independent gadfly - usually . In this piece she gives us an inadvertant glimpse of an interesting phenomenon...

A Trillion Dollars

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Bill sends along a link to a page that helps us grasp the sheer magnitude of the money our government is spending (and the debt it's pi...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Neither Rush Nor Frum

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Patterico, a well-known conservative blogger, explains why neither Rush Limbaugh nor David Frum speak for him. It's a calm, cogent anal...

Unprincipled

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Eight Republicans voted to pass the pork-laden $410 billion spending bill yesterday and seven of them had millions of dollars of earmarks i...

Creeping Secularization

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The American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) results for 2008 have been released and the summary contains some interesting data. Th...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Overwhelmed

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This is not at all reassuring. The Telegraph U.K. ,trying to put the best face on the administration's dissing of British Prime Ministe...