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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Tutoring Uppity Negroes

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This is getting a little old now, but it's still worth posting because it illustrates how people who claim to be free of racist assumpti...

Signature in the Cell

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In the controversy between Darwinian materialism and intelligent design there are four main issues over which the battle is joined. These ar...

Keeping the Mo

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One of the dangers of front-loading all of one's major legislative goals into the first six months of a presidency, as Barack Obama has ...
Monday, July 20, 2009

With Angela

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The author of Angela's Ashes , one of the best books of the last twenty years, died Sunday of complications from skin cancer. Frank McCo...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Unchristian

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It's the conviction of David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, a religious research organization, and his co-author, Gabe Lyons, t...

Quantum Entanglement

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Denyse O'Leary at Uncommon Descent calls our attention to a Wall Street Journal article by Gautam Naik from last May. Naik was writi...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

What Could Go Wrong?

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Betsy McCaughey's column at the New York Post opens with these disturbing graphs: President Obama promises that "if you like yo...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Worldwide Caliphate by 2020

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From Strategy Page : Al Qaeda has a plan, and it was first published, four years ago, in a book ( Al-Zarqawi: al Qaeda's Second Gener...

Heresy in the Episcopal Church

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Richard Mouw wishes to take polite exception to a rather surprising claim by the presiding bishop of the Episcopal church. In a brief essay ...

Israeli Training Upgrade Needed

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McClatchy has a report by Dion Nussenbaum on investigations into the conduct of the Israeli military forces during their operation last win...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Wise Latina Is Fibbing

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Evidently, even leftist law professionals are disgusted with the prevarications of Sonia Sotomayor in her testimony before the Senate Judici...

Case in Point

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No sooner do I post a meditation on how biologists might profit from a little philosophical training than along comes an article to illustr...

Believing the Impossible

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Bradford at Telic Thoughts discusses atheistic biologist Jerry Coyne's argument against the compatibility of science and religion. In t...

War Whoops

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House Democrats continue to make caricatures of themselves in their Ahab-like obsession with being able to hold aloft at least one Bush admi...

Shut Up and Just Believe

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In the movie Leap of Faith a traveling evangelist played by Steve Martin preys upon and bilks innocent, unsophisticated rural Americans by ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

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Stephen Hayward at No Left Turns notes that when President Obama visited Ghana he told the Ghanian Parliament that: "No business wa...

Skeletons in the Closet

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Progressivism has a long history, steeped in notions of racial superiority, of favoring eugenics and other totalitarian solutions to certain...

Does Philosophy Make Better Scientists?

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A piece at Discover caught my eye recently. It asks whether a more thorough background in philosophy would make scientists better at their ...

Why They Hate Her

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Stuart Schwartz argues that the reason the elites, both liberal and conservative, can't stand Sarah Palin and are obsessed with destroy...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Neo-Nazi?

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You can tell much about a President's frame of mind by looking at the people he appoints to positions of influence and power. In the cas...