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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Wednesday's Speech

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President Obama's speech on health care Wednesday night was disappointing. Once he got past making the case for why we need reform, a ne...
Friday, September 11, 2009

What We Should Remember

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With due respect to the President, I think he's trivializing 9/11 by designating it a national day of service . When I heard that that w...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Scorning Both Sides

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Camille Paglia is one of the most interesting commentators on the contemporary socio-politico landscape. She's a lesbian leftist (maybe ...

Hillary in 2012?

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The Weekly Standard reports that Hillary Clinton is planning to step down as Secretary of State in order to run for the office of Governor...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Hard to Argue with Her

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These people are a chuckle a minute. Lefty blogger Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake offers a fascinating defense of Van Jones by inadvertently a...

The New Scarlet Pimpernel

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If I were a member of the Sierra Club (my environmental contributions go to The Nature Conservancy ) I would withdraw my membership forthwit...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Vicious Smear Campaigns

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This is bizarre. Van Jones , President Obama's recently-resigned Green Jobs czar, claims that health care reform opponents are responsi...

The Evolution of Morality

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Robert Wright is an atheist who argues that there is a moral law that somehow pervades the universe and which obligates us to do "righ...

Why People Think There'll Be Death Panels

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On FOX News Sunday DNC Chairman Howard Dean repeated the charge that opponents of Democratic health care reform proposals are fabricating th...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Rifqa Bary

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You may have heard of Rifqa Bary. She's the young woman who converted from Islam to Christianity and then fled her home in Ohio to find...

School Address

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What lesson is there for the President in the massive public outcry over his plans to address the nations school children on Tuesday? Well,...

So Long, Van

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Perhaps by now you've heard that Van Jones, the President's very controversial Green Jobs czar, has resigned. If you're wonderi...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Isa al Masih

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A number of readers have pointed out to me that Isa al Masih is Arabic for Jesus the Messiah . I should have known but didn't. Don...

Rule #12

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Students sometimes wonder why and how our politics have gotten so nasty. Actually, this is not a recent development. Many conservative comme...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Tough Love

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An unidentified reader, who I infer from the screen name is a Muslim, sent me the following in response to the post on enhanced interrogatio...

Senator Kennedy

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The funeral is over and a decent interval has passed. Perhaps it's not unseemly now to offer a counterpoint to the public canonization t...

Is China Crazy?

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This report is big... A report suggests that the Chinese government is pushing the general public into buying gold and silver bullion, wh...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Company We Keep

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The Obama administration has populated itself with some of the most radical extremists ever to step onto the stage of our political life. We...

Junk DNA Evidently Isn't Junk

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There's a fascinating report in Science Daily . It seems that researchers have discovered that the difference between chimps and humans...

The Hustle

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Well, here we are in the beginning of September, notable for historically being a month in which the price of gold goes up so as we might ex...